Lung Cancer

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, the CEPH and the CNG, in collaboration with many other groups from countries around the world, have conducted the largest study of the genetics of lung cancer to date (see Hung et al., A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25. Nature, 452:633-637.). In order to facilitate the identification of additional loci predisposing to lung cancer, the results and data from the genome-wide phase of this study (310,023 SNPs genotyped on up to 1926 cases and 2522 controls from five eastern European countries) are being made available to other groups for meta-analyses and other studies.

The genotype counts for selected SNP according to case/control status, and the analysis results can be obtained using the Operon interface.