Dashti, S. Ghazaleh
Li, Wing Yan
Buchanan, Daniel D. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2225-6675
Clendenning, Mark
Rosty, Christophe
Winship, Ingrid M.
Macrae, Finlay A.
Giles, Graham G.
Hardikar, Sheetal
Hua, Xinwei
Thibodeau, Stephen N.
Figueiredo, Jane C.
Casey, Graham
Haile, Robert W.
Gallinger, Steven
Le Marchand, Loïc
Newcomb, Polly A.
Potter, John D.
Lindor, Noralane M.
Hopper, John L.
Jenkins, Mark A.
Win, Aung Ko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2794-5261
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (U01 CA167551)
Article History
Received: 3 May 2019
Revised: 26 August 2019
Accepted: 30 August 2019
First Online: 25 September 2019
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Informed consent was obtained from all study participants and the study protocol was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committees from each recruitment site of the Colon Cancer Family Registry. The study was approved by the Colon Cancer Family Registry Steering Committee (ID C-AU-0208-01). The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: This work was supported by supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Number U01 CA167551 and through NCI/NIH cooperative agreements with the following Colon Cancer Family Registry (CCFR) sites: Australasian Colorectal Cancer Family Registry (U01 CA074778 and U01/U24 CA097735), Mayo Colon Cancer Family Registry (U01/U24 CA074800), Ontario Familial Colorectal Cancer Registry (U01/U24 CA074783), Seattle Familial Colorectal Cancer Registry (U01/U24 CA074794), Hawaii Family Registry of Colon Cancer (U01/U24 CA074806 and R01 CA104132 to L LeMarchand), and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Consortium (U01/U24 CA074799). Additional support for case ascertainment was provided from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Control Nos. N01-CN-67009 and N01-PC-35142, and Contract No. HHSN2612013000121), the Hawaii Department of Health (Control Nos. N01-PC-67001 and N01-PC-35137, and Contract No. HHSN26120100037C), and the California Department of Public Health (contracts HHSN261201000035C awarded to the University of Southern California and HHSN261201000140C awarded to the Cancer Prevention Institute of California), the following U.S. state cancer registries: AZ, CO, MN, NC, NH, and by the Victorian Cancer Registry, Australia and the Ontario Cancer Registry, Canada. This study was also supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Fellowships awarded to AKW, DDB (Career Development Fellowships), MAJ (Senior Research Fellowship) and JLH (Senior Principal Research Fellowship). DDB is also funded by a University of Melbourne Research at Melbourne Accelerator Program (R@MAP).
: Not applicable.
: The data supporting the results reported in this article are available from the Colon Cancer Family Registry (https://www.coloncfr.org/). The data are not publicly available and are subject to data use agreement.
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