Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 3 , Pages 877-885 , March 2010

Population-Based Family History–Specific Risks for Colorectal Cancer: A Constellation Approach

  • David P. Taylor

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: David P. Taylor, MS, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Health Sciences Education Building, 26 South 2000 East, Suite 5700, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5750. fax: (801) 581-4297
    • ,
  • Randall W. Burt

      Affiliations

    • Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
    • ,
  • Marc S. Williams

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
    • Clinical Genetics Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
    • ,
  • Peter J. Haug

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
    • Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research, Intermountain Healthcare, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
    • ,
  • Lisa A. Cannon–Albright

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Received 27 July 2009 ,Accepted 6 November 2009.

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 Conflicts of interest Randall Burt is a consultant for Myriad Genetics, but has no conflict. The remaining authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding Research was supported by the Utah Cancer Registry, which is funded by contract N01-PC-35141 from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program with additional support from the Utah State Department of Health and the University of Utah. Partial support for all data sets within the Utah Population Database was provided by the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute. Additional support was from R01, National Library of Medicine grant LM009331 (L.A.C.-A.), National Cancer Institute grants R01-CA40641 and PO1-CA73992 (R.W.B.), and an Intermountain Healthcare Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research Fellowship (D.P.T.).

PII: S0016-5085(09)02061-7

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.11.044

Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 3 , Pages 877-885 , March 2010

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