Up For A Challenge (U4C): Stimulating innovation in breast cancer genetic epidemiology

Leah E Mechanic; Sara Lindström; Kenneth M Daily; Solveig K Sieberts; Christopher I Amos; Huann-Sheng Chen; Nancy J Cox; Marina Dathe; Eric J Feuer; Michael J Guertin; Joshua Hoffman; Yunxian Liu; Jason H Moore; Chad L Myers; Marylyn D Ritchie; Joellen Schildkraut; Fredrick Schumacher; John S Witte; Wen Wang; Scott M Williams; U4C Challenge Participants; U4C Challenge Data Contributors; Elizabeth M Gillanders

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006945

Up For A Challenge (U4C): Stimulating innovation in breast cancer genetic epidemiology

PLoS Genet. 2017 Sep 28;13(9):e1006945. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006945. eCollection 2017 Sep.

Authors

Leah E Mechanic¹, Sara Lindström², Kenneth M Daily³, Solveig K Sieberts³, Christopher I Amos⁴, Huann-Sheng Chen⁵, Nancy J Cox⁶, Marina Dathe¹, Eric J Feuer⁵, Michael J Guertin⁷, Joshua Hoffman⁸, Yunxian Liu⁷, Jason H Moore⁹, Chad L Myers¹⁰, Marylyn D Ritchie^{11

12}, Joellen Schildkraut¹³, Fredrick Schumacher¹⁴, John S Witte⁸, Wen Wang¹⁰, Scott M Williams¹⁴; U4C Challenge Participants; U4C Challenge Data Contributors; Elizabeth M Gillanders¹

Affiliations

¹ Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
² Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
³ Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America.
⁵ Surveillance Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
⁶ Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America.
⁷ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
⁹ Division of Informatics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
¹⁰ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
¹¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Systems Genomics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
¹² Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
¹³ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America.
¹⁴ Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.

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Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Breast Neoplasms / epidemiology
Breast Neoplasms / genetics*
Female
Genome-Wide Association Study / methods*
Genome-Wide Association Study / statistics & numerical data
Genome-Wide Association Study / trends
Humans
Inventions
Research Report

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MeSH terms

Grants and funding