Browsing by Author "Malats i Riera, Núria"

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  • A degradation-sensitive anionic trypsinogen (PRSS2) variant protects against chronic pancreatitis
    Witt, Heiko; Malats i Riera, Núria; Real, Francisco X.; Férec, Claude (Nature Research, 2006)
    Chronic pancreatitis is a common inflammatory disease of the pancreas. Mutations in the genes encoding cationic trypsinogen (PRSS1) and the pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor (SPINK1) are associated with chronic ...
  • A Multicenter Trial Defining a Serum Protein Signature Associated with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.
    Gerdtsson, Anna S.; Malats i Riera, Núria; Säll, Anna; Real, Francisco X.; Porta Serra, Miquel; Skoog, Petter; Persson, Helena; Wingren, Christer; Borrebaeck, Carl A. K. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)
    Background. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive disease with rapid tumor progression and poor prognosis. This study was motivated by the lack of sensitive and specific PDAC biomarkers and aimed to ...
  • A multilayered post-GWAS assessment on genetic susceptibility to pancreatic cancer
    López De Maturana, Evangelina; Rodríguez, Juan Antonio; Lao Grueso, Oscar, 1976-; Iglesias Coma, Mar; Cecchini Rosell, Lluís; Ilzarbe Sánchez, Lucas; Real, Francisco X.; Malats i Riera, Núria (BioMed Central, 2021)
    Background: Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a complex disease in which both non-genetic and genetic factors interplay. To date, 40 GWAS hits have been associated with PC risk in individuals of European descent, explaining 4.1% ...
  • A single nucleotide polymorphism tags variation in the arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 phenotype in populations of European background
    García Closas, Montserrat; Hein, David W.; Silverman, Debra T.; Malats i Riera, Núria; Yeager, Meredith; Jacobs, Kevin; Doll, Mark A.; Figueroa, Jonine D.; Baris, Dalsu; Schwenn, Molly; Kogevinas, Manolis; Johnson, Alison; Chatterjee, Nilanjan; Moore, Lee E.; Moeller, Timothy; Real, Francisco X.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Rothman, Nathaniel (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011)
    The arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) slow acetylation phenotype is an established risk factor for urinary bladder cancer. We reported earlier on this risk association using NAT2 phenotypic categories inferred from ...
  • Analysis of molecular intra-patient variation and delineation of a prognostic 12-gene signature in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer; technology transfer from microarrays to PCR
    Dyrskjøt, Lars; Reinert, Thomas; Novoradovsky, Alexey; Zuiverloon, Tahlita CM; Beukers, Willemien; Zwarthoff, Ellen; Malats i Riera, Núria; Real, Francisco X.; Segersten, Ulrika; Malmström, Per-Uno; Knowles, Megan; Hurst, Carolyn; Sorge, Joseph; Borre, Michael (Cancer Research UK, 2012)
    Background: Multiple clinical risk factors and genetic profiles have been demonstrated to predict progression of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer; however, no easily clinical applicable gene signature has been developed ...
  • Application of multi-SNP approaches Bayesian LASSO and AUC-RF to detect main effects of inflammatory-gene variants associated with bladder cancer risk
    López De Maturana, Evangelina; Ye, Yuanqing; Calle, M. Luz; Rothman, Nathaniel; Urrea, Víctor; Kogevinas, Manolis; Petrus, Sandra; Chanock, Stephen J.; Tardón, Adonina; García Closas, Montserrat; González Neira, Anna; Vellalta, Gemma; Carrato, Alfredo; Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi, 1969-; Lorente-Galdós, Belén, 1981-; Silverman, Debra T.; Real, Francisco X.; Wu, Xifeng; Malats i Riera, Núria (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013)
    The relationship between inflammation and cancer is well established in several tumor types, including bladder cancer. We performed an association study between 886 inflammatory-gene variants and bladder cancer risk in ...
  • ARID1A alterations are associated with FGFR3-wild type, poor-prognosis, urothelial bladder tumors
    Balbás Martínez, Cristina; Rodríguez Pinilla, María; Casanova, Ariel; Domínguez, Orlando; Pisano, David G.; Gómez López, Gonzalo; Lloreta Trull, Josep, 1958-; Lorente Garin, José Antonio; Malats i Riera, Núria; Real, Francisco X. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013)
    Urothelial bladder cancer (UBC) is heterogeneous at the clinical, pathological, genetic, and epigenetic levels. Exome sequencing has identified ARID1A as a novel tumor suppressor gene coding for a chromatin remodeling ...
  • Bladder cancer and reproductive factors among women in Spain
    Huang, An-Tsun; Kogevinas, Manolis; Silverman, Debra T.; Malats i Riera, Núria; Rothman, Nathaniel; Tardón, Adonina; Serra, Consol; García Closas, Reina; Carrato, Alfredo; Cantor, Kenneth P (Springer, 2009)
    Hormonal factors, possibly related to reproductive characteristics, may play a role in the risk of bladder cancer among women. To study this, we investigated the effects of reproductive factors on female bladder cancer ...
  • Coffee consumption, genetic susceptibility and bladder cancer risk
    Villanueva, Cristina M.; Silverman, Debra T.; Murta-Nascimento, Cristiane; Malats i Riera, Núria; García Closas, Montserrat; Castro Domínguez, Francisco; Tardón, Adonina; García Closas, Reina; Serra, Consol; Carrato, Alfredo; Rothman, Nathaniel; Real, Francisco X.; Dosemeci, Mustafa; Kogevinas, Manolis (Springer, 2009)
    Objective: We evaluated the bladder cancer risk associated with coffee consumption in a case–control study in Spain and examined the gene–environment interactions for genetic variants of caffeine-metabolizing enzymes. ...
  • Cyclooxygenase-2 expression in bladder cancer and patient prognosis: results from a large clinical cohort and meta-analysis
    Czachorowski, Maciej J; Amaral, André F.S.; Montes-Moreno, Santiago; Lloreta Trull, Josep, 1958-; Carrato, Alfredo; Tardón, Adonina; Morente, Manuel M; Kogevinas, Manolis; Real, Francisco X.; Malats i Riera, Núria (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012)
    Aberrant overexpression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2) is observed in urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (UCB). Studies evaluating COX2 as a prognostic marker in UCB report contradictory results. We determined the prognostic ...
  • Diferències entre dones i homes en el càncer de bufeta urinària: etiologia, clínica i pronòstic
    Puente Baliarda, Diana (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2005-12-21)
    La present tesi avalua les diferències entre homes i dones quant a les característiques sociodemogràfiques i clínicopatològiques, procés diagnòstic, tractament i pronòstic en una sèrie de casos diagnosticats de novo de ...
  • GATA6 regulates EMT and tumour dissemination, and is a marker of response to adjuvant chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer
    Martinelli, Paola; Carrillo, Enrique; Cox, Trevor; Sainz, Bruno Jr; Dusetti, Nelson; Greenhalf, William; Rinaldi, Lorenzo, 1986-; Costello, Eithne; Ghaneh, Paula; Malats i Riera, Núria; Büchler, Markus; Pajic, Marina; Biankin, Andrew V.; Iovanna, Juan; Neoptolemos, John; Real, Francisco X. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)
    BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The role of GATA factors in cancer has gained increasing attention recently, but the function of GATA6 in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is controversial. GATA6 is amplified in a subset of ...
  • Genetic and non-genetic predictors of LINE-1 methylation in leukocyte DNA
    Tajuddin, Salman Muhammad; Amaral, André F.S.; Fernández, Agustín F.; Rodriguez Rodero, Sandra; Rodríguez, Ramón María; Moore, Lee E.; Tardón, Adonina; Carrato, Alfredo; García Closas, Montserrat; Silverman, Debra T.; Jackson, Brian P.; García Closas, Reina; Cook, Ashley L.; Cantor, Kenneth P; Chanock, Stephen J.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Rothman, Nathaniel; Real, Francisco X.; Malats i Riera, Núria (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2013)
    Background: Altered DNA methylation has been associated with various diseases. Objective: We evaluated the association between levels of methylation in leukocyte DNA at long interspersed nuclear element 1 (LINE-1) and ...
  • Genetic variation in the TP53 pathway and bladder cancer risk: a comprehensive analysis
    Pineda, Silvia; Milne, Roger L.; Calle, M. Luz; Rothman, Nathaniel; López De Maturana, Evangelina; Herranz, Jesús; Kogevinas, Manolis; Chanock, Stephen J.; Tardón, Adonina; Márquez, Mirari; Guey, Lin T.; García Closas, Montserrat; Lloreta Trull, Josep, 1958-; Baum, Erin; González Neira, Anna; Carrato, Alfredo; Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi, 1969-; Silverman, Debra T.; Real, Francisco X.; Malats i Riera, Núria (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014)
    Introduction: Germline variants in TP63 have been consistently associated with several tumors, including bladder cancer, indicating the importance of TP53 pathway in cancer genetic susceptibility. However, variants in other ...
  • Genome-wide CNV analysis replicates the association between GSTM1 deletion and bladder cancer: a support for using continuous measurement from SNP-array data
    Marenne, Gaëlle; Real, Francisco X.; Rothman, Nathaniel; Rodríguez Santiago, Benjamín; Pérez Jurado, Luis Alberto; Kogevinas, Manolis; García Closas, Montserrat; Silverman, Debra T.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Génin, Emmanuelle; Malats i Riera, Núria (BioMed Central, 2012)
    BACKGROUND: Structural variations such as copy number variants (CNV) influence the expression of different phenotypic traits. Algorithms to identify CNVs through SNP-array platforms are available. The ability to evaluate ...
  • Genomic DNA hypomethylation as a biomarker for bladder cancer susceptibility in the Spanish Bladder Cancer Study: a case-control study
    Moore, Lee E.; Pfeiffer, Ruth M.; Poscablo, Cristina; Real, Francisco X.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Silverman, Debra T.; García Closas, Reina; Chanock, Stephen J.; Tardón, Adonina; Serra, Consol; Carrato, Alfredo; Dosemeci, Mustafa; García Closas, Montserrat; Esteller, Manel; Fraga, Mario F.; Rothman, Nathaniel; Malats i Riera, Núria (Elsevier, 2008)
    BACKGROUND: DNA hypomethylation has been suggested to cause genomic instability and increase cancer risk. We aimed to test the hypothesis that DNA hypomethylation is associated with increased risk of bladder cancer. METHODS: ...
  • Immunohistochemistry-based taxonomical classification of bladder cancer predicts response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy
    Font, Albert; Doménech, Montserrat; Benítez, Raquel; Rava, Marta; Marqués, Miriam; Ramírez, José L.; Pineda, Silvia; Domínguez Rodríguez, Miriam; Gago, José L.; Badal, Josep; Carrato, Cristina; López, Héctor; Quer, Ariadna; Castellano, Daniel; Malats i Riera, Núria; Real, Francisco X. (MDPI, 2020)
    Background: Platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) increases the survival of patients with organ-confined urothelial bladder cancer (UBC). In retrospective studies, patients with basal/squamous (BASQ)-like tumors ...
  • Integration Analysis of Three Omics Data Using Penalized Regression Methods: An Application to Bladder Cancer.
    Pineda, Silvia; Real, Francisco X.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Carrato, Alfredo; Chanock, Stephen J.; Malats i Riera, Núria; Van Steen, Kristel (Public Library of Science, 2015)
    Omics data integration is becoming necessary to investigate the genomic mechanisms involved in complex diseases. During the integration process, many challenges arise such as data heterogeneity, the smaller number of ...
  • LINE-1 methylation in granulocyte DNA and trihalomethane exposure is associated with bladder cancer risk
    Salas, Lucas A.; Villanueva Belmonte, Cristina; Tajuddin, Salman Muhammad; Amaral, André F.S.; Fernández, Agustín F.; Moore, Lee E.; Carrato, Alfredo; Tardón, Adonina; Serra, Consol; García Closas, Reina; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Rothman, Nathaniel; Silverman, Debra T.; Cantor, Kenneth P; Kogevinas, Manolis; Real, Francisco X.; Fraga, Mario F.; Malats i Riera, Núria (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014)
    DNA methylation changes contribute to bladder carcinogenesis. Trihalomethanes (THM), a class of disinfection by-products, are associated with increased urothelial bladder cancer (UBC) risk. THM exposure in animal models ...
  • LINE-1 methylation in leukocyte DNA, interaction with phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase variants and bladder cancer risk
    Amaral, André F.S.; Tajuddin, Salman Muhammad; Fernández, Agustín F.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Silverman, Debra T.; Tardón, Adonina; Carrato, Alfredo; García Closas, Montserrat; Jackson, Brian P.; Toraño, Estela; Márquez, Miriam; González Urdinguio, Rocío; García Closas, Reina; Rothman, Nathaniel; Kogevinas, Manolis; Real, Francisco X.; Fernández Fraga, Mario; Malats i Riera, Núria (Cancer Research UK, 2014)
    Background: Aberrant global DNA methylation is shown to increase cancer risk. LINE-1 has been proven a measure of global DNA methylation. The objectives of this study were to assess the association between LINE-1 methylation ...