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Multicenter Study
. 2010 Jan 19;102(2):447-54.
doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605338. Epub 2009 Nov 17.

COGENT (COlorectal cancer GENeTics): an international consortium to study the role of polymorphic variation on the risk of colorectal cancer

I P M Tomlinson  1 , M Dunlop, H Campbell, B Zanke, S Gallinger, T Hudson, T Koessler, P D Pharoah, I Niittymäki, S Tuupanen, L A Aaltonen, K Hemminki, A Lindblom, A Försti, O Sieber, L Lipton, T van Wezel, H Morreau, J T Wijnen, P Devilee, K Matsuda, Y Nakamura, S Castellví-Bel, C Ruiz-Ponte, A Castells, A Carracedo, J W C Ho, P Sham, R M W Hofstra, P Vodicka, H Brenner, J Hampe, C Schafmayer, J Tepel, S Schreiber, H Völzke, M M Lerch, C A Schmidt, S Buch, V Moreno, C M Villanueva, P Peterlongo, P Radice, M M Echeverry, A Velez, L Carvajal-Carmona, R Scott, S Penegar, P Broderick, A Tenesa, R S Houlston
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Multicenter Study

COGENT (COlorectal cancer GENeTics): an international consortium to study the role of polymorphic variation on the risk of colorectal cancer

I P M Tomlinson et al. Br J Cancer. .

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  • Br J Cancer. 2010 Jan 19;102(2):455. Niittymäkix, I [corrected to Niittymäki, I]; Tuupanenx, S [corrected to Tuupanen, S]

Abstract

It is now recognised that a part of the inherited risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) can be explained by the co-inheritance of low-penetrance genetic variants. The accumulated experience to date in identifying these variants has served to highlight difficulties in conducting statistically and methodologically rigorous studies and follow-up analyses. The COGENT (COlorectal cancer GENeTics) consortium includes 20 research groups in Europe, Australia, the Americas, China and Japan. The overarching goal of COGENT is to identify and characterise low-penetrance susceptibility variants for CRC through association-based analyses. In this study, we review the rationale for identifying low-penetrance variants for CRC and our proposed strategy for establishing COGENT.

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Figure 1
Polygenic model of colorectal cancer susceptibility. (A) Distribution of risk alleles for CRC, cases (black bars) and controls (grey bars); (B) Plot of the increasing ORs for CRC with increasing number of risk alleles. The ORs are relative to the median number of risk alleles; Vertical bars correspond to 95% confidence intervals. Data from Houlston et al (2008).
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