Following a replicated genome-wide association study for basal cell carcinoma, Thorunn Rafnar and Patrick Sulem and colleagues have identified a locus associated with multiple cancers that contains the telomerase reverse transcriptase gene TERT and the CLPTM1L gene implicated in cisplatin-induced apoptosis.
- Thorunn Rafnar
- Patrick Sulem
- Kari Stefansson