Wilson MA

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

2010

Association between DNA damage response and repair genes and risk of invasive serous ovarian cancer.

PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010061

BackgroundWe analyzed the association between 53 genes related to DNA repair and p53-mediated damage response and serous ovarian cancer risk using case-control data from the North Carolina Ovarian Cancer Study (NCOCS), a population-based, c…

2008

Polymorphism in the IL18 gene and epithelial ovarian cancer in non-Hispanic white women.

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology ·doi:10.1158/1055-9965.epi-08-0548

Over 22,000 cases of ovarian cancer were diagnosed in 2007 in the United States, but only a fraction of them can be attributed to mutations in highly penetrant genes such as BRCA1. To determine whether low-penetrance genetic variants contri…