@article {1084,
	title = {C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and prostate cancer risk in men aged 65 years and older.},
	journal = {Cancer Causes Control},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2009},
	month = {2009 Sep},
	pages = {1193-203},
	abstract = {<p>Inflammation is believed to play a role in prostate cancer (PCa) etiology, but it is unclear whether inflammatory markers C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) associate with PCa risk in older men. Using Cox regression, we assessed the relationship between baseline concentrations of CRP and IL-6 and the subsequent PCa risk in the Cardiovascular Health Study, a population-based cohort study of mostly European American men of ages >64 years (n = 2,234; mean follow-up = 8.7 years; 215 incident PCa cases). We also tested associations between CRP and IL-6 tagSNPs and PCa risk, focusing on SNPs that are known to associate with circulating CRP and/or IL-6. Neither CRP nor IL-6 blood concentrations was associated with PCa risk. The C allele of IL-6 SNP rs1800795 (-174), a known functional variant, was associated with increased risk in a dominant model (HR = 1.44; 95\% CI = 1.03-2.01; p = 0.03), but was not statistically significant after accounting for multiple tests (permutation p = 0.21). Our results suggest that circulating CRP and IL-6 do not influence PCa risk. SNPs at the CRP locus are not associated with PCa risk in this cohort, while the association between rs1800795 and PCa risk warrants further investigation.</p>},
	keywords = {African Americans, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Biomarkers, C-Reactive Protein, European Continental Ancestry Group, Humans, Inflammation, Interleukin-6, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prospective Studies, Prostatic Neoplasms, Risk Factors},
	issn = {1573-7225},
	doi = {10.1007/s10552-009-9320-4},
	author = {Pierce, Brandon L and Biggs, Mary L and DeCambre, Marvalyn and Reiner, Alexander P and Li, Christopher and Fitzpatrick, Annette and Carlson, Christopher S and Stanford, Janet L and Austin, Melissa A}
}
@article {7847,
	title = {Rare loss of function variants in candidate genes and risk of colorectal cancer.},
	journal = {Hum Genet},
	year = {2018},
	month = {2018 Sep 28},
	abstract = {<p>Although ~ 25\% of colorectal cancer or polyp (CRC/P) cases show familial aggregation, current germline genetic testing identifies a causal genotype in the 16 major genes associated with high penetrance CRC/P in only 20\% of these cases. As there are likely other genes underlying heritable CRC/P, we evaluated the association of variation at novel loci with CRC/P. We evaluated 158 a priori selected candidate genes by comparing the number of rare potentially disruptive variants (PDVs) found in 84 CRC/P cases without an identified CRC/P risk-associated variant and 2440 controls. We repeated this analysis using an additional 73 CRC/P cases. We also compared the frequency of PDVs in select genes among CRC/P cases with two publicly available data sets. We found a significant enrichment of PDVs in cases vs. controls: 20\% of cases vs. 11.5\% of controls with >= 1 PDV (OR = 1.9, p = 0.01) in the original set of cases. Among the second cohort of CRC/P cases, 18\% had a PDV, significantly different from 11.5\% (p = 0.02). Logistic regression, adjusting for ancestry and multiple testing, indicated association between CRC/P and PDVs in NTHL1 (p = 0.0001), BRCA2 (p = 0.01) and BRIP1 (p = 0.04). However, there was no significant difference in the frequency of PDVs at each of these genes between all 157 CRC/P cases and two publicly available data sets. These results suggest an increased presence of PDVs in CRC/P cases and support further investigation of the association of NTHL1, BRCA2 and BRIP1 variation with CRC/P.</p>},
	issn = {1432-1203},
	doi = {10.1007/s00439-018-1938-4},
	author = {Rosenthal, Elisabeth A and Shirts, Brian H and Amendola, Laura M and Horike-Pyne, Martha and Robertson, Peggy D and Hisama, Fuki M and Bennett, Robin L and Dorschner, Michael O and Nickerson, Deborah A and Stanaway, Ian B and Nassir, Rami and Vickers, Kathy T and Li, Christopher and Grady, William M and Peters, Ulrike and Jarvik, Gail P}
}
