Pan-cancer 2020 GWAS: European ancestry

Summary statistics are available for download from the GWAS Catalog.

Publications

Pan-cancer study detects genetic risk variants and shared genetic basis in two large cohorts.
Rashkin SR, et al.
Nat Commun. 2020 Sep 4;11(1):4423. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18246-6.
PMID: 32887889

Phenotypes

  • Bladder cancer
  • Breast cancer
  • Cervical cancer
  • Colon cancer
  • Endometrial cancer
  • Esophageal or stomach cancer
  • Kidney cancer
  • Lung cancer
  • Lymphocytic leukemia
  • Melanoma
  • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer
  • Ovarian cancer
  • Pancreatic cancer
  • Prostate cancer
  • Rectal cancer
  • Thyroid cancer

Experiment summary

This study analyzed genetic associations for different cancer types in up to 17,881 cancer cases and 410,350 controls of European ancestry from the UK Biobank and Kaiser Permanente Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging cohorts.

Dataset ID
Rashkin2020_Cancers_EU