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The 19p13.1 breast cancer susceptibility locus is a modifier of breast cancer risk in BRCA1 mutation carriers and is also associated with the risk of ovarian cancer. Here, we investigated 19p13.1 variation and risk of breast cancer subtypes, defined by estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) status, using 48,869 breast cancer cases and 49,787 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). Variants from 19p13.1 were not associated with breast cancer overall or with ER-positive breast cancer but were significantly associated with ER-negative breast cancer risk [rs8170 OR, 1.10; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.05-1.15; P = 3.49 \times 10(-5)] and triple-negative (ER-, PR-, and HER2-negative) breast cancer (rs8170: OR, 1.22; 95% CI, 1.13-1.31; P = 2.22 \times 10(-7)). However, rs8170 was no longer associated with ER-negative breast cancer risk when triple-negative cases were excluded (OR, 0.98; 95% CI, 0.89-1.07; P = 0.62). In addition, a combined analysis of triple-negative cases from BCAC and the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Consortium (TNBCC; N = 3,566) identified a genome-wide significant association between rs8170 and triple-negative breast cancer risk (OR, 1.25; 95% CI, 1.18-1.33; P = 3.31 \times 10(-13)]. Thus, 19p13.1 is the first triple-negative-specific breast cancer risk locus and the first locus specific to a histologic subtype defined by ER, PR, and HER2 to be identified. These findings provide convincing evidence that genetic susceptibility to breast cancer varies by tumor subtype and that triple-negative tumors and other subtypes likely arise through distinct etiologic pathways.

Authors: Kristen N. Stevens, Zachary Fredericksen, Celine M. Vachon, Xianshu Wang, Sara Margolin, Annika Lindblom, Heli Nevanlinna, Dario Greco, Kristiina Aittomäki, Carl Blomqvist, Jenny Chang-Claude, Alina Vrieling, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Hans-Peter Sinn, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Stefan Nickels, Hiltrud Brauch, Yon-Dschun Ko, Hans-Peter Fischer, Rita K. Schmutzler, Alfons Meindl, Claus R. Bartram, Sarah Schott, Christoph Engel, Andrew K. Godwin, JoEllen Weaver, Harsh B. Pathak, Priyanka Sharma, Hermann Brenner, Heiko Müller, Volker Arndt, Christa Stegmaier, Penelope Miron, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Alexandra Stavropoulou, George Fountzilas, Helen J. Gogas, Ruth Swann, Miriam Dwek, Annie Perkins, Roger L. Milne, Javier Benítez, María Pilar Zamora, José Ignacio Arias Pérez, Stig E. Bojesen, Sune F. Nielsen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Henrik Flyger, Pascal Guénel, Thérèse Truong, Florence Menegaux, Emilie Cordina-Duverger, Barbara Burwinkel, Frederick Marmé, Andreas Schneeweiss, Christof Sohn, Elinor Sawyer, Ian Tomlinson, Michael J. Kerin, Julian Peto, Nichola Johnson, Olivia Fletcher, Isabel Dos Santos Silva, Peter A. Fasching, Matthias W. Beckmann, Arndt Hartmann, Arif B. Ekici, Artitaya Lophatananon, Kenneth Muir, Puttisak Puttawibul, Surapon Wiangnon, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Annegien Broeks, Linde M. Braaf, Efraim H. Rosenberg, John L. Hopper, Carmel Apicella, Daniel J. Park, Melissa C. Southey, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Alan Ashworth, Nicholas Orr, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Hoda Anton-Culver, Argyrios Ziogas, Leslie Bernstein, Christina Clarke Dur, Chen-Yang Shen, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Huan-Ming Hsu, Chia-Ni Hsiung, Ute Hamann, Thomas Dünnebier, Thomas Rüdiger, Hans Ulrich Ulmer, Paul P. Pharoah, Alison M. Dunning, Manjeet K. Humphreys, Qin Wang, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Malcom W. Reed, Per Hall, Kamila Czene, Christine B. Ambrosone, Foluso Ademuyiwa, Helena Hwang, Diana M. Eccles, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Jonine D. Figueroa, Mark E. Sherman, Jolanta Lissowska, Peter Devilee, Caroline Seynaeve, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Maartje J. Hooning, Irene L. Andrulis, Julia A. Knight, Gord Glendon, Anna Marie Mulligan, Robert Winqvist, Katri Pylkäs, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Mervi Grip, Esther M. John, Alexander Miron, Grethe Grenaker Alnæs, Vessela Kristensen, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Graham G. Giles, Laura Baglietto, Catriona A. McLean, Gianluca Severi, Matthew L. Kosel, V. S. Pankratz, Susan Slager, Janet E. Olson, Paolo Radice, Paolo Peterlongo, Siranoush Manoukian, Monica Barile, Diether Lambrechts, Sigrid Hatse, Anne-Sophie Dieudonne, Marie-Rose Christiaens, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Arto Mannermaa, Veli-Matti Kosma, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Ylermi Soini, Douglas F. Easton, Fergus J. Couch

Date Published: 1st Apr 2012

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome

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We introduce 3000PA, a clinical document corpus composed of 3,000 EPRs from three different clinical sites, which will serve as the backbone of a national reference language resource for German clinical NLP. We outline its design principles, results from a medication annotation campaign and the evaluation of a first medication information extraction prototype using a subset of 3000PA.

Authors: U. Hahn, F. Matthies, C. Lohr, Markus Löffler

Date Published: 24th Apr 2018

Publication Type: InProceedings

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate spatial tumor invasion using ex vivo specimens and pursue a new morphometric approach for a quantitative assessment of the invasion front. STUDY DESIGN: Based on histologic serial sections with up to 500 slices stained with hematoxylin-eosin, volumes of interest of the tumor invasion front were 3-D reconstructed for 13 specimens from patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the uterine cervix. Starting from very sensitive automatic tumor segmentation, 404 presumptive loci of isolated tumor islets were detected within the reconstructed volume data sets. These loci were microscopically inspected on the slides utilizing the volume date set's coordinates. RESULTS: A single detached tumor cell cluster within the stroma could be verified and, additionally, 4 tumor emboli within lymph vessels. The main cause of all other suspect islets (false positive segmentations) was peritumoral inflammatory response. Spatial invasion front quantification was done using discrete compactness (3-D C(D)). A comparison with 2-D C(D) values from single slides yielded strong correlation (correlation coefficient: r = 0.94; p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Collective migration in SCC of the cervix mainly occurs per continuitatem. 2-D C(D) appears adequate and applicable for the morphometry of tumor invasion front phenotypes.

Authors: J. Einenkel, U. D. Braumann, L. C. Horn, J. P. Kuska, M. Hockel

Date Published: 9th Nov 2007

Publication Type: Not specified

Human Diseases: cervical cancer

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OBJECTIVE: Both regional health information systems (rHIS) and hospital information systems (HIS) need systematic information management. Due to their complexity information management needs a thorough description or model of the managed information system. METHODS: The three layer graph-based meta-model (3LGM(2)) and the 3LGM(2) tool provide means for effectively describing and modeling HIS by hospital functions, application systems and physical data processing components. The 3LGM(2) tool has been used to model parts of the information system of the health care system of the German federal state Saxony and of the Leipzig University Medical Centre. RESULTS: Experiences showed, that 3LGM(2) is suitable for supporting information management even in rHIS. We explain some benefits for information management in regional as well as local settings. CONCLUSIONS: Acceptance of the 3LGM(2) depends strictly on its integration in management structures on the institutional, regional, and even national or European level.

Authors: Alfred Winter, Birgit Brigl, Gert Funkat, Anke Häber, Oliver Heller, Thomas Wendt

Date Published: 2007

Publication Type: Journal article

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Both regional health information systems and hospital information systems need systematic information management. Due to their complexity information management needs a thorough description or model of the managed HIS. The three layer graph based meta model (3LGM(2)) and the 3LGM(2) tool provide means for effectively modeling HIS. The 3LGM(2) tool has been used to build a model of the health information system of the German federal state Saxony. The model is not only used to support the further development of the Saxonian health information system but also for supporting strategic information management planning in the medical center of Leipzig University. Acceptance of the method depends strictly on its integration in management structures on the institutional, regional, national or even European level.

Authors: Alfred Winter, B. Brigl, G. Funkat, A. Haber, O. Heller, T. Wendt

Date Published: 2005

Publication Type: Journal article

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Authors: Franziska Jahn, Alfred Winter, A. Strübing, L. Ißler, T. Wendt

Date Published: 2010

Publication Type: InCollection

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Authors: Holger Kirsten, Jana Burkhardt, Helene Hantmann, Nico Hunzelmann, Peter Vaith, Peter Ahnert, Inga Melchers

Date Published: 2009

Publication Type: Journal article

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BACKGROUND: The growing interest in the secondary use of electronic health record (EHR) data has increased the number of new data integration and data sharing infrastructures. The present work has been developed in the context of the German Medical Informatics Initiative, where 29 university hospitals agreed to the usage of the Health Level Seven Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for their newly established data integration centers. This standard is optimized to describe and exchange medical data but less suitable for standard statistical analysis which mostly requires tabular data formats. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this work is to establish a tool that makes FHIR data accessible for standard statistical analysis by providing means to retrieve and transform data from a FHIR server. The tool should be implemented in a programming environment known to most data analysts and offer functions with variable degrees of flexibility and automation catering to users with different levels of FHIR expertise. METHODS: We propose the fhircrackr framework, which allows downloading and flattening FHIR resources for data analysis. The framework supports different download and authentication protocols and gives the user full control over the data that is extracted from the FHIR resources and transformed into tables. We implemented it using the programming language R [1] and published it under the GPL-3 open source license. RESULTS: The framework was successfully applied to both publicly available test data and real-world data from several ongoing studies. While the processing of larger real-world data sets puts a considerable burden on computation time and memory consumption, those challenges can be attenuated with a number of suitable measures like parallelization and temporary storage mechanisms. CONCLUSION: The fhircrackr R package provides an open source solution within an environment that is familiar to most data scientists and helps overcome the practical challenges that still hamper the usage of EHR data for research.

Authors: Julia Palm, Frank A Meineke, Jens Przybilla, Thomas Peschel

Date Published: 2023

Publication Type: Journal article

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BACKGROUND: The growing interest in the secondary use of electronic health record (EHR) data has increased the number of new data integration and data sharing infrastructures. The present work has been developed in the context of the German Medical Informatics Initiative, where 29 university hospitals agreed to the usage of the Health Level Seven Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for their newly established data integration centers. This standard is optimized to describe and exchange medical data but less suitable for standard statistical analysis which mostly requires tabular data formats. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this work is to establish a tool that makes FHIR data accessible for standard statistical analysis by providing means to retrieve and transform data from a FHIR server. The tool should be implemented in a programming environment known to most data analysts and offer functions with variable degrees of flexibility and automation catering to users with different levels of FHIR expertise. METHODS: We propose the fhircrackr framework, which allows downloading and flattening FHIR resources for data analysis. The framework supports different download and authentication protocols and gives the user full control over the data that is extracted from the FHIR resources and transformed into tables. We implemented it using the programming language R [1] and published it under the GPL-3 open source license. RESULTS: The framework was successfully applied to both publicly available test data and real-world data from several ongoing studies. While the processing of larger real-world data sets puts a considerable burden on computation time and memory consumption, those challenges can be attenuated with a number of suitable measures like parallelization and temporary storage mechanisms. CONCLUSION: The fhircrackr R package provides an open source solution within an environment that is familiar to most data scientists and helps overcome the practical challenges that still hamper the usage of EHR data for research.

Authors: J. Palm, F. A. Meineke, J. Przybilla, T. Peschel

Date Published: 25th Jan 2023

Publication Type: Journal article

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BACKGROUND\backslashr\backslashnComprehensive intraoperative transesophageal echcardiography (TEE) includes various measurements for quantification of cardiac chambers and valves based on multiple two dimensional (2D) standard views. Due to shortness of time during cardiac surgery most centres in Germany only carry out problem focussed intraoperative examinations which does not allow the complete repertoire of measurements to be exhausted. The aim of this study was to investigate which measurements for cardiac chamber and valve quantification can be performed with the acquisition of a real-time 3D full volume (RT-3D-FV) data set and to compare these measurements with those based on standard 2D views.\backslashr\backslashnMATERIALS AND METHODS\backslashr\backslashnIn patients undergoing elective surgical mitral valve repair a comprehensive 2D TEE examination according to the guidelines of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) was performed after induction of anesthesia. Additionally, a RT-3D-FV TEE data set based on the midesophageal four chamber view was recorded (iE 33, Philips, Netherlands). All measurements of the 2D TEE and the RT-3D-FV dataset (Qlab) were performed offline by two independent examiners.\backslashr\backslashnRESULTS\backslashr\backslashnAfter approval by the local ethic committee and obtaining written informed consent 50 patients (31 male and 19 female) with a mean age of 59.4 \pm 11.5 years were enrolled in this study. All measurements recommended for chamber and valve quantification could be performed on the basis of the RT-3D-FV data set except for measurements of the sinus of Valsalva and the sinotubular junction. There was good correlation between the results of the two methods.\backslashr\backslashnCONCLUSIONS\backslashr\backslashnFor intraoperative problem focussed TEE examinations the acquisition of an additional RT-3D-FV TEE data set allows accurate measurement of most of the recommended chamber and valve quantification parameters.

Authors: A. Ender, S. Eibel, E. Hasheminejad, Markus Scholz, Udo X. Kaisers, Chirojit Mukherjee, Joerg Ender

Date Published: 1st Oct 2012

Publication Type: Journal article

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Authors: Alfred Winter, Reinhold Haux, H. Bickeboller

Date Published: 2013

Publication Type: Journal article

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