New genetic variant discovered, associated with bladder cancer
I just saw this press release: deCODE and Radboud University Discover Common Variants in the Human Genome Conferring Risk of Bladder Cancer
We, here at BiRC, actually collaborate with both deCODE and Radboud Uni in the EU PolyGene project. The bladder cancer analysis is not part of PolyGene, but through the collaboration we have access to it, and we have just started analysing it.
We weren’t in on the initial analysis, though, so we are not part of this discovery. We only get access to data after they have already mined what they can find themselves. A bit annoying, but perfectly reasonable. Our contribution to the collaboration is methods development, and anything they can find with the methods they already have, they do not really need us for.
Still, it would have been nice to be in on the analysis from the beginning. Whenever we get our hands on the data, we always get excited about hits only to discover that they are already submitted for publication.
Anyway, nice to see that they get something out of the data.