Genetic architecture of alcohol consumption identified by a genotype-stratified GWAS and impact on esophageal cancer risk in Japanese people science.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from science.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
1. The following genes had statistically significant increased odds ratio of gastric cancer; BRCA2, ATM, BRCA1, MLH1, PALB2, APC, MSH6, MSH2, CDH1. 2. Patients with H. pylori infection and a pathogenic variant had a higher cumulative risk of gastric cancer than noncarriers infected with H. pylori (45.5% vs. 14.4%) at 85 years of age. Evidence
Individuals with certain germline pathogenic variants had a substantially higher risk for developing gastric cancer after Helicobacter pylori infection, results of a Japan-based case-control study showed.The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, suggest risk for gastric cancer is more heavily related to hereditary factors than previously thought, the investigators noted.