COGENT (COlorectal cancer GENeTics) revisited

Houlston, Richard S., Cheadle, Jeremy Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9453-8458 and Maughan, Timothy Stanley 2012. COGENT (COlorectal cancer GENeTics) revisited. Mutagenesis 27 (2) , pp. 143-151. 10.1093/mutage/ger059

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Abstract

Many colorectal cancers (CRCs) develop in genetically susceptible individuals most of whom are not carriers of germ line mismatch repair or APC gene mutations and much of the heritable risk of CRC appears to be attributable to the co-inheritance of multiple low-risk variants. The accumulated experience to date in identifying this class of susceptibility allele has highlighted the need to conduct statistically and methodologically rigorous studies and the need for the multi-centre collaboration. This has been the motivation for establishing the COGENT (COlorectal cancer GENeTics) consortium which now includes over 20 research groups in Europe, Australia, the Americas, China and Japan actively working on CRC genetics. Here, we review the rationale for identifying low-penetrance variants for CRC and the current and future challenges for COGENT.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0267-8357
Date of Acceptance:	5 July 2011
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 11:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/95359

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