You may have heard of genomewide association studies (GWAS), which discover genetic variants associated with disease. Phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) flip the analysis and discover diseases or traits (i.e. phenotypes)…
Cancer registry data makes clear that children of different ancestries can have different risks of ALL. How much of this risk is due to genetics versus environment? CLIC researchers from…
Folate is an important micronutrient for a mother and baby’s health during pregnancy. CLIC studies show that the risk of childhood leukemia is reduced for children if their mothers took…
Recently, CLIC partners, Drs. Jeremy Schraw and Philip Lupo, studied the relationship between missing teeth from birth (congenital tooth agenesis) and risk of cancer diagnosis before 40 years old (early-onset…
Hypertension during pregnancy and preeclampsia can be harmful to both the mother and the unborn child. The impact of using antihypertensive medication to control these conditions during pregnancy on childhood…
Concerns about electromagnetic fields (EMF) causing childhood leukemia have been investigated since the 1980’s. Two of our CLIC partners from Italy recently published articles examining the effects of exposure to…
Is there a link between mothers with an autoimmune disease and cancer in their children? A recent study from our CLIC partners, Drs. Johnni Hansen and Julia Heck, says yes….
Recently, a team of five CLIC researchers published a study using genomic data to evaluate the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) among Latino children in California. Drs. Libby Morimoto,…
Two of our CLIC investigators from the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) in France, Drs. Stéphanie Goujon and Jacqueline Clavel, recently published two analyses…
Over the last 16 years since its founding, CLIC has brought together researchers from around the world to pool data from case-control studies of childhood leukemia and, since 2019, childhood…
