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Pharmacogenomics J. 2021 Aug;21(4):446-457. doi: 10.1038/s41397-021-00221-z. Epub 2021 Mar 01.

Genetic meta-analysis of cancer diagnosis following statin use identifies new associations and implicates human leukocyte antigen (HLA) in women.

The pharmacogenomics journal

Maxine Sun, Audrey Lemaçon, Marc-André Legault, Géraldine Asselin, Sylvie Provost, Hugues Aschard, Amina Barhdadi, Yassamin Feroz Zada, Diane Valois, Ian Mongrain, Jean-Claude Tardif, Marie-Pierre Dubé

Affiliations

  1. Université de Montréal Beaulieu-Saucier Pharmacogenomics Center, Montreal, QC, Canada.
  2. Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada.
  3. Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
  4. Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative (C3BI), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
  5. Université de Montréal Beaulieu-Saucier Pharmacogenomics Center, Montreal, QC, Canada. [email protected].
  6. Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada. [email protected].
  7. Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada. [email protected].

PMID: 33649522 DOI: 10.1038/s41397-021-00221-z

Abstract

We sought to perform a genomic evaluation of the risk of incident cancer in statin users, free of cancer at study entry. Patients who previously participated in two phase IV trials (TNT and IDEAL) with genetic data were used (n

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