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Functional annotation of the 2q35 breast cancer risk locus implicates a structural variant in influencing activity of a long-range enhancer element.

Joseph S Baxter ,
Nichola Johnson ,
Katarzyna Tomczyk ,
Andrea Gillespie ,
Sarah Maguire ,
Rachel Brough ,
Laura Fachal ,
Kyriaki Michailidou ,
Manjeet K Bolla ,
Qin Wang ,
Joe Dennis ,
Thomas U Ahearn ,
Irene L Andrulis ,
Hoda Anton-Culver ,
Natalia N Antonenkova ,
Volker Arndt ,
Kristan J Aronson ,
Annelie Augustinsson ,
Heiko Becher ,
Matthias W Beckmann ,
Sabine Behrens ,
Javier Benitez ,
Marina Bermisheva ,
Natalia V Bogdanova ,
Stig E Bojesen ,
Hermann Brenner ,
Sara Y Brucker ,
Qiuyin Cai ,
Daniele Campa ,
Federico Canzian ,
Jose E Castelao ,
Tsun L Chan ,
Jenny Chang-Claude ,
Stephen J Chanock ,
Georgia Chenevix-Trench ,
Ji-Yeob Choi ,
Christine L Clarke ,
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Sarah Colonna ,
Don M Conroy ,
Fergus J Couch ,
Angela Cox ,
Simon S Cross ,
Kamila Czene ,
Mary B Daly ,
Peter Devilee ,
Thilo Dörk ,
Laure Dossus ,
Miriam Dwek ,
Diana M Eccles ,
Arif B Ekici ,
A Heather Eliassen ,
Christoph Engel ,
Peter A Fasching ,
Jonine Figueroa ,
Henrik Flyger ,
Manuela Gago-Dominguez ,
Chi Gao ,
Montserrat García-Closas ,
José A García-Sáenz ,
Maya Ghoussaini ,
Graham G Giles ,
Mark S Goldberg ,
Anna González-Neira ,
Pascal Guénel ,
Melanie Gündert ,
Lothar Haeberle ,
Eric Hahnen ,
Christopher A Haiman ,
Per Hall ,
Ute Hamann ,
Mikael Hartman ,
Sigrid Hatse ,
Jan Hauke ,
Antoinette Hollestelle ,
Reiner Hoppe ,
John L Hopper ,
Ming-Feng Hou ,
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Hidemi Ito ,
Motoki Iwasaki ,
Agnes Jager ,
Anna Jakubowska ,
Wolfgang Janni ,
Esther M John ,
Vijai Joseph ,
Audrey Jung ,
Rudolf Kaaks ,
Daehee Kang ,
Renske Keeman ,
Elza Khusnutdinova ,
Sung-Won Kim ,
Veli-Matti Kosma ,
Peter Kraft ,
Vessela N Kristensen ,
Katerina Kubelka-Sabit ,
Allison W Kurian ,
Ava Kwong ,
James V Lacey ,
Diether Lambrechts ,
Nicole L Larson ,
Susanna C Larsson ,
Loic Le Marchand ,
Flavio Lejbkowicz ,
Jingmei Li ,
Jirong Long ,
Artitaya Lophatananon ,
Jan Lubiński ,
Arto Mannermaa ,
Mehdi Manoochehri ,
Siranoush Manoukian ,
Sara Margolin ,
Keitaro Matsuo ,
Dimitrios Mavroudis ,
Rebecca Mayes ,
Usha Menon ,
Roger L Milne ,
Nur Aishah Mohd Taib ,
Kenneth Muir ,
Taru A Muranen ,
Rachel A Murphy ,
Heli Nevanlinna ,
Katie M O'Brien ,
Kenneth Offit ,
Janet E Olson ,
Håkan Olsson ,
Sue K Park ,
Tjoung-Won Park-Simon ,
Alpa V Patel ,
Paolo Peterlongo ,
Julian Peto ,
Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska ,
Nadege Presneau ,
Katri Pylkäs ,
Brigitte Rack ,
Gad Rennert ,
Atocha Romero ,
Matthias Ruebner ,
Thomas Rüdiger ,
Emmanouil Saloustros ,
Dale P Sandler ,
Elinor J Sawyer ,
Marjanka K Schmidt ,
Rita K Schmutzler ,
Andreas Schneeweiss ,
Minouk J Schoemaker ,
Mitul Shah ,
Chen-Yang Shen ,
Xiao-Ou Shu ,
Jacques Simard ,
Melissa C Southey ,
Jennifer Stone ,
Harald Surowy ,
Anthony J Swerdlow ,
Rulla M Tamimi ,
William J Tapper ,
Jack A Taylor ,
Soo Hwang Teo ,
Lauren R Teras ,
Mary Beth Terry ,
Amanda E Toland ,
Ian Tomlinson ,
Thérèse Truong ,
Chiu-Chen Tseng ,
Michael Untch ,
Celine M Vachon ,
Ans M W van den Ouweland ,
Sophia S Wang ,
Clarice R Weinberg ,
Camilla Wendt ,
Stacey J Winham ,
Robert Winqvist ,
Alicja Wolk ,
Anna H Wu ,
Taiki Yamaji ,
Wei Zheng ,
Argyrios Ziogas ,
Paul D P Pharoah ,
Alison M Dunning ,
Douglas F Easton ,
Stephen J Pettitt ,
Christopher J Lord ,
Syed Haider ,
Nick Orr ,
Olivia Fletcher

Abstract

A combination of genetic and functional approaches has identified three independent breast cancer risk loci at 2q35. A recent fine-scale mapping analysis to refine these associations resulted in 1 (signal 1), 5 (signal 2), and 42 (signal 3) credible causal variants at these loci. We used publicly available in silico DNase I and ChIP-seq data with in vitro reporter gene and CRISPR assays to annotate signals 2 and 3. We identified putative regulatory elements that enhanced cell-type-specific transcription from the IGFBP5 promoter at both signals (30- to 40-fold increased expression by the putative regulatory element at signal 2, 2- to 3-fold by the putative regulatory element at signal 3). We further identified one of the five credible causal variants at signal 2, a 1.4 kb deletion (esv3594306), as the likely causal variant; the deletion allele of this variant was associated with an average additional increase in IGFBP5 expression of 1.3-fold (MCF-7) and 2.2-fold (T-47D). We propose a model in which the deletion allele of esv3594306 juxtaposes two transcription factor binding regions (annotated by estrogen receptor alpha ChIP-seq peaks) to generate a single extended regulatory element. This regulatory element increases cell-type-specific expression of the tumor suppressor gene IGFBP5 and, thereby, reduces risk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (odds ratio = 0.77, 95% CI 0.74-0.81, p = 3.1 × 10-31).

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American journal of human genetics

Volume 108
Issue nr. 7
Pages 1190-1203
Publication date 01-07-2021

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Publisher website (DOI) 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.05.013
Europe PubMed Central 34146516
Pubmed 34146516

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