nstd104 (Dumanski et al. 2014)
- Organism:
- Human
- Study Type:
- Control Set
- Submitter:
- Chiara Rasi
- Description:
- We analyzed the possible causes of loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in blood cells of adult men by studying 6014 men from three independent prospective cohorts: TwinGene (n=4373) in this study, and ULSAM (n=1153) and PIVUS (n=488), both in study nstd92. We demonstrated that smoking is associated with LOY in the three cohorts (odds ratios 2.4 –4.3), LOY being the most common acquired human mutation in the studied subjects. Our data also suggests that smoking has a transient and dose-dependent mutagenic effect on LOY-status. See Variant Summary counts for nstd104 in dbVar Variant Summary.
- Publication(s):
- Dumanski et al. 2014