Recently, a Japanese research group, “The Study Group of Millenium Genome Project for Cancer,” reported in Nature Genetics (abstract available here) the results of a new study demonstrating the involvement of the PSCA gene in risk for diffuse type gastric cancer.
Stomach Cancer and Your Genes: New Evidence for a Common Gene Variant Influencing Risk for Diffuse Gastric Cancer
Posted on June 2, 2008 Written by 1 Comment
Colon Cancer Risk: More Evidence for Common Disease, Common Gene Hypothesis
Posted on November 20, 2007 Written by 1 Comment
We know from both population-based epidemiologic studies and from twin studies that our genes make a substantial contribution to risk for colorectal (aka colon) cancer. Although there are several relatively uncommon familial colon cancer predisposition syndromes (which account for <5% of all colon cancer) with known genes involved, progress towards unraveling genomic variants involved in [...]