Great work led by Emilio Ugalde-Morales, K. Almstrup, P. Kanetsky, K. Nathanson and F. Wiklund (Testicular Cancer Consortium).

Chipping away at the genetic factors associated with cancer!

Read listening (loudly) to Os Alquimistas estão chegando with Jorge Ben Jor

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y1k...

4/4
👉Read while listening (loud) to Blue Oyster Cult’s Veteran of the Psychic Wars: youtube.com/watch?v=jGKN...
👉Points to a scaffold/matrix attachment region (S/MAR) as a risk associated regulatory element and implicates BNC2 in ovarian cancer risk.
11:19 PM · Dec 2, 2018

3/4 Great work by graduate student Melissa Buckley (now PhD!) with an amazing group including
@paulpharoah.bsky.social
@lawrensonlab.bsky.social
Simon_Gayther, Tom Sellers,
@vigocarpathian.bsky.social
@hsnajafabadi.bsky.social
and the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium.

2/4 Our paper 'from association to function' (or as I call it, Road to Perdition): Functional analysis and fine mapping of the 9p22.2 ovarian cancer susceptibility locus is out:
cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/earl...
Special thanks to over 45,000 women who generously provided their DNA!

Would love to be added! Thanks so much for putting this together.