• ABCB1/4 gallbladder cancer risk variants identified in India also show strong effects in Chileans 

    Boekstegers, Felix; Marcelain, Katherine; Barahona-Ponce, Carol; Baez Benavides, Pablo F.; Müller, Bettina; De Toro, Gonzalo; Retamales, Javier; Barajas, Olga; Ahumada, Monica; Morales, Erik; Rojas, Armando ORCID; Sanhueza, Verónica; Loader, Denisse; Rivera, María T.; Gutiérrez, Lorena; Bernal, Giuliano; Ortega, Alejandro; Montalvo, Domingo; Portiño, Sergio; Bertrán, María E.; Gabler, F.; Spencer, Loreto; Olloquequi, Jordi; González-Silos, Rosa; Fischer, Christine; Scherer, Dominique; Jenab, Mazda; Aleksandrova, Krasimira; Katzke, Verena; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Moradi, Tahereh; Fischer, Krista; Bossers, Willem; Brenner, Hermann; Hveem, Kristian; Eklund, Niina; Völker, Uwe; Waldenberger, Melanie; Fuentes-Guajardo, Macarena; González-José, Rolando; Bedoya, Gabriel; Bortolini, María C.; Canizales, Samuel; Gallo, Carla; Ruiz-Linares, Andres; Rothhammer, Francisco; Lorenzo-Bermejo, Justo (2020)
    Background: The first large-scale genome-wide association study of gallbladder cancer (GBC) recently identified and validated three susceptibility variants in the ABCB1 and ABCB4 genes for individuals of Indian descent. ...

  • Gallbladder cancer risk and indigenous south american mapuche ancestry: instrumental variable analysis using ancestry-informative markers 

    Zollner, Linda; Boekstegers, Felix; Barahona-Ponce, Carol; Scherer, Dominique; Marcelain, Katherine; Gárate-Calderón, Valentina; Waldenberger, Melanie; Morales-Mejías, Erik; Rojas, Armando ORCID; Munoz, César; Retamales, Javier; De Toro, Gonzalo; Vera Kortmann, Allan; Barajas, Olga; Rivera, María Teresa; Cortés, Analía; Loader, Denisse; Saavedra, Javiera; Gutiérrez, Lorena; Ortega, Alejandro; Bertrán, María E.; Bartolotti, Leonardo; Gabler, F.; Campos, Mónica; Alvarado, Juan; Moisán, Fabricio; Spencer, Loreto; Nervi, Bruno; Carvajal, Daniel; Losada, Héctor; Almau, Mauricio; Fernández, Plinio; Olloquequi, Jordi; Carter, Alice R.; Miquel Poblete, Juan Francisco; Bustos, Bernabe Ignacio; Fuentes-Guajardo, Macarena; González-José, Rolando; Bortolini, María C.; Acuña-Alonzo, Victor; Gallo, Carla; Ruiz-Linares, Andres; Rothhammer, Francisco; Lorenzo-Bermejo, Justo (2023)
    A strong association between the proportion of indigenous South American Mapuche ancestry and the risk of gallbladder cancer (GBC) has been reported in observational studies. Chileans show the highest incidence of GBC ...

  • Identification of altered genes in gallbladder cancer as potential driver mutations for diagnostic and prognostic purposes: a computational approach 

    D'Afonseca, Vívian; Arencibia-Rodríguez, Ariel; Echeverría-Vega, Alex; Cerpa, Leslie; Cayún, Juan P.; Varela, Nelson M.; Salazar, Marcela; Quiñones, Luis A. (2020)
    Prognostic markers for cancer can assist in the evaluation of survival probability of patients and help clinicians to assess the available treatment modalities. Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a rare tumor that causes 165 087 ...

  • Validation of an NGS panel designed for detection of actionable mutations in tumors common in Latin America 

    Salvo, Mauricio; González-Feliú, Evelin; Toro, Jessica; Gallegos, Ivan; Maureira, Ignacio; Miranda-González, Nicolás; Barajas, Olga; Bustamante, Eva; Ahumada, Monica; Colombo, Alicia; Armisén, Ricardo; Villamán, Camilo; Ibañez, Carolina; Bravo, María L.; Sanhueza, Verónica; Spencer, Loreto; De Toro, Gonzalo; Morales, Erik; Bizama, Carolina; García, Patricia (2021)
    Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is progressively being used in clinical practice. However, several barriers preclude using this technology for precision oncology in most Latin American countries. To overcome some of these ...