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Familial risk for lung cancer by histology and age of onset : evidence for recessive inheritance

Hemminki, Kari LU and Li, Xinjun LU (2005) In Experimental Lung Research 31(2). p.15-205
Abstract

The authors used the Swedish Family-Cancer Database to search for evidence for a genetic predisposition in lung cancer. Familial risks in offspring were increased for all lung cancer to 1.77 when a parent was affected with any lung cancers; the comparable risk among siblings was 2.15. At young age, risks between siblings were higher than those between offspring and parents for all histological types of lung cancer. The present data suggest that 1.7% of lung cancers up to age 68 years are heritable and probably due to a high-penetrant recessive gene or genes that predispose to tobacco carcinogens.

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Adolescent, Adult, Age of Onset, Aged, Child, Child, Preschool, Databases, Factual, Female, Genes, Recessive, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Incidence, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Lung Neoplasms/epidemiology, Male, Middle Aged, Nuclear Family, Parents, Siblings, Sweden/epidemiology
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Experimental Lung Research
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31
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2
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11 pages
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Taylor & Francis
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  • pmid:15824021
  • scopus:14644434427
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0190-2148
DOI
10.1080/01902140490495606
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English
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  author       = {{Hemminki, Kari and Li, Xinjun}},
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  number       = {{2}},
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  publisher    = {{Taylor & Francis}},
  series       = {{Experimental Lung Research}},
  title        = {{Familial risk for lung cancer by histology and age of onset : evidence for recessive inheritance}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01902140490495606}},
  doi          = {{10.1080/01902140490495606}},
  volume       = {{31}},
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