Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve scanning the DNA of a large cohort to identify any genetic variants associated with the disease in question. Previous GWAS of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) and Barrett\u2019s esophagus (BE) have identified 15 genetic risk loci and determined them to be associated with EAC, BE, or both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This meta-analysis used 6 GWAS cohorts, totaling 16,790 patients (11,208 with BE and 5582 with EAC) and 32,476 controls. When analyzed together, 27 risk loci were identified. Of these, 16 are new BE and\/or EAC risk loci, and 11 are entirely novel. A cross-trait linkage disequilibrium score regression was used to observe the genetic correlation of BE\/EAC with lifestyle risk factors, including GERD, hiatal hernia, obesity, educational attainment, alcohol intake, and smoking. There was a significantly higher genetic correlation between GERD and BE than between GERD and EAC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve scanning the DNA of a large cohort to identify any genetic variants associated with the disease in question. Previous GWAS of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) and Barrett\u2019s esophagus (BE) have identified 15 genetic risk loci and determined them to be associated with EAC, BE, or both. This meta-analysis used 6 GWAS … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1791],"tags":[1944,1929,2138,2975,2098,3527,3528],"class_list":["post-13433","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-esophagus","tag-barretts-esophagus-2","tag-be","tag-eac","tag-esophageal-adenocarcinoma","tag-esophagus-2","tag-genome-wide-association-studies","tag-gwas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/13433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}