Pleiotropic effects of genetic risk variants for other cancers on colorectal cancer risk: PAGE, GECCO and CCFR consortia

Conclusions
This is the first study to clearly demonstrate Region 1 of chromosome 8q24 as a susceptibility locus for colorectal cancer; thus, adding colorectal cancer to the list of cancer sites linked to this particular multicancer risk region at 8q24.

Source: Gut - April 7, 2014 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Cheng, I., Kocarnik, J. M., Dumitrescu, L., Lindor, N. M., Chang-Claude, J., Avery, C. L., Caberto, C. P., Love, S.-A., Slattery, M. L., Chan, A. T., Baron, J. A., Hindorff, L. A., Park, S. L., Schumacher, F. R., Hoffmeister, M., Kraft, P., Butler, A. M., Tags: Colon cancer Source Type: research