Using genome and transcriptome data from African-ancestry female participants to identify putative breast cancer susceptibility genes

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ² Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ³ Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁶ Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center of Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ⁷ Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁸ Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁹ Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
• ¹² Departments of Epidemiology & Population Health and of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ¹³ Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ¹⁴ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ¹⁵ Basser Center for BRCA, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ¹⁶ Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
• ¹⁷ Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ¹⁸ Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ¹⁹ Department of Pathology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ²⁰ Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ²¹ Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
• ²² Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
• ²³ Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
• ²⁴ George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados.
• ²⁵ Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
• ²⁶ Department of Surgery, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
• ²⁷ Yaounde General Hospital, Yaounde, Cameroon.
• ²⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• ²⁹ Department of Health Promotion and Education, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
• ³⁰ Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ³¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
• ³² Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
• ³³ Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ³⁴ Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. [email protected].