TY - JOUR
T1 - Inherited Syndromes Predisposing to Inflammation and GI Cancer.
AU - Duggan, Shane
AU - Prichard, David
AU - Kirca, Murat
AU - Kelleher, Dermot
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Cancers arising within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are commonly associated with an immune component at their inception and later in their maintenance. While many of the immune factors and immune cell types surrounding these lesions have been highlighted, the underlying pre-dispositions in immunesupported carcinogenesis are not well characterised. Inherited Mendelian GI disorders such as polyposis syndromes, while classically due to germline mutations in non-immune genes, commonly demonstrate alterations in key immune and inflammatory genes. In some cases immune based therapies have been shown to provide at least some benefit in animal models of these syndromes. The advent of genome wide association studies has begun to powerfully examine the genetic nature of complex non-Mendelian GI diseases highlighting polymorphisms within immune related genes and their potential to provide the niche in which GI cancers may originate. Here in the role in which Mendelian and non-Mendelian genetics of immune related factors supporting GI malignancy will be presented and discussed.
AB - Cancers arising within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are commonly associated with an immune component at their inception and later in their maintenance. While many of the immune factors and immune cell types surrounding these lesions have been highlighted, the underlying pre-dispositions in immunesupported carcinogenesis are not well characterised. Inherited Mendelian GI disorders such as polyposis syndromes, while classically due to germline mutations in non-immune genes, commonly demonstrate alterations in key immune and inflammatory genes. In some cases immune based therapies have been shown to provide at least some benefit in animal models of these syndromes. The advent of genome wide association studies has begun to powerfully examine the genetic nature of complex non-Mendelian GI diseases highlighting polymorphisms within immune related genes and their potential to provide the niche in which GI cancers may originate. Here in the role in which Mendelian and non-Mendelian genetics of immune related factors supporting GI malignancy will be presented and discussed.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-03503-6_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-03503-6_2
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21822818
AN - SCOPUS:84856380118
SN - 0080-0015
VL - 185
SP - 35
EP - 50
JO - Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte der Krebsforschung. Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer
JF - Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte der Krebsforschung. Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer
ER -