Identification of 22 susceptibility loci associated with testicular germ cell tumors

Testicular germ cell tumors are highly heritable, and the authors present the largest genome association study, identifying 22 novel loci, which account for a third of those identified to date. Implicated pathways include male germ cell development and differentiation, and chromosomal segregation.

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Main Authors: John Pluta, Louise C. Pyle, Kevin T. Nead, Rona Wilf, Mingyao Li, Nandita Mitra, Benita Weathers, Kurt D’Andrea, Kristian Almstrup, Lynn Anson-Cartwright, Javier Benitez, Christopher D. Brown, Stephen Chanock, Chu Chen, Victoria K. Cortessis, Alberto Ferlin, Carlo Foresta, Marija Gamulin, Jourik A. Gietema, Chiara Grasso, Mark H. Greene, Tom Grotmol, Robert J. Hamilton, Trine B. Haugen, Russ Hauser, Michelle A. T. Hildebrandt, Matthew E. Johnson, Robert Karlsson, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Davor Lessel, Ragnhild A. Lothe, Jennifer T. Loud, Chey Loveday, Paloma Martin-Gimeno, Coby Meijer, Jérémie Nsengimana, David I. Quinn, Thorunn Rafnar, Shweta Ramdas, Lorenzo Richiardi, Rolf I. Skotheim, Kari Stefansson, Clare Turnbull, David J. Vaughn, Fredrik Wiklund, Xifeng Wu, Daphne Yang, Tongzhang Zheng, Andrew D. Wells, Struan F. A. Grant, Ewa Rajpert-De Meyts, Stephen M. Schwartz, D. Timothy Bishop, Katherine A. McGlynn, Peter A. Kanetsky, Katherine L. Nathanson, The Testicular Cancer Consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24334-y