UCSF Adult Glioma Study

The UCSF Adult Glioma Study is a case-control study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco. The goals of the study were to discover inherited (genetic), developmental, immunologic and other risk factors for glioma and to determine molecular level tumor markers that would be helpful in classifying glioma into more homogeneous groups.]]>
Cases included adults histologically diagnosed between 1991 and 2013 with glioma who either lived in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1997 and 2010 or were patients of the UCSF neuro-oncology clinic between 2001 and 2013. Controls included people not diagnosed with glioma who were either residents of the San Francisco Bay Area from 1997-2010 or patients seen at the UCSF phlebotomy clinic between 2010 and 2012. Controls were frequency matched to cases by age, race and gender. Some people were excluded due to in ability to speak English or Spanish.]]>
The UCSF Adult Glioma Study recruited glioma cases and controls from 1991 through 2013, including five separate recruitment series. Series 1 through 4 included population based cases and controls who resided in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Series 3 through 5, clinic based cases were also recruited. Data for a majority of the cases and controls who were part of Series 5 are available through the Glioma International Case Control Study (dbGaP Study Accession: phs001319.v1.p1), therefore, the data for those subjects are not included in this study. ]]>