RESEARCH PROJECTS

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EPIDEMIOLOGIC RISK FACTOR STUDIES

• Risk factors in never-smokers
• Diabetes and Pancreatitis
• Diet: vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy, sweets, beverages
• Medical and drug-use history
• Anthropometric analyses
• Allergies
• Dietary nitrite intake
• Early onset (<50)
• Non-cigarette tobacco
• Family history and pancreatic cancer
• Reproductive factors
• Statins
• Analyses by tumor site
• Risk prediction model

DATA POOLING REQUIREMENTS

• Formats, requirements, minimum set of variables
• Responsibility for dataset formation, pooled variable creation
• Data set server host
• IARC, Mayo, others

GENOME-WIDE SCAN OPTIONS WITH PANC4

• PanScan Replication studies (PanScan II & PanScan III) - design and genotyping considerations
• GWAS with 317K SNPs: CNG Paris/IARC
• Other potential GWAS
• Genotypes in allergy-related genes with custom array
• Candidate genes and pathways - carbohydrate