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Genome-Wide Meta-Analyses of Breast, Ovarian, and Prostate Cancer Association Studies Identify Multiple New Susceptibility Loci Shared by at Least Two Cancer Types.

Siddhartha P Kar ,
Jonathan Beesley ,
Ali Amin Al Olama ,
Kyriaki Michailidou ,
Jonathan Tyrer ,
ZSofia Kote-Jarai ,
Kate Lawrenson ,
Sara Lindstrom ,
Susan J Ramus ,
Deborah J Thompson ,
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Adam S Kibel ,
Agnieszka Dansonka-Mieszkowska ,
Agnieszka Michael ,
Aida K Dieffenbach ,
Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj ,
Alice S Whittemore ,
Alicja Wolk ,
Alvaro Monteiro ,
Ana Peixoto ,
Andrzej Kierzek ,
Angela Cox ,
Anja Rudolph ,
Anna Gonzalez-Neira ,
Anna H Wu ,
Annika Lindblom ,
Anthony Swerdlow ,
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Argyrios Ziogas ,
Arif B Ekici ,
Barbara Burwinkel ,
Beth Y Karlan ,
Børge G Nordestgaard ,
Carl Blomqvist ,
Catherine Phelan ,
Catriona McLean ,
Celeste Leigh Pearce ,
Celine Vachon ,
Cezary Cybulski ,
Chavdar Slavov ,
Christa Stegmaier ,
Christiane Maier ,
Christine B Ambrosone ,
Claus K Høgdall ,
Craig C Teerlink ,
Daehee Kang ,
Daniel C Tessier ,
Daniel J Schaid ,
Daniel O Stram ,
Daniel W Cramer ,
David E Neal ,
Diana Eccles ,
Dieter Flesch-Janys ,
Digna R Velez Edwards ,
Dominika Wokozorczyk ,
Douglas A Levine ,
Drakoulis Yannoukakos ,
Elinor J Sawyer ,
Elisa V Bandera ,
Elizabeth M Poole ,
Ellen L Goode ,
Elza Khusnutdinova ,
Estrid Høgdall ,
Fengju Song ,
Fiona Bruinsma ,
Florian Heitz ,
Francesmary Modugno ,
Freddie C Hamdy ,
Fredrik Wiklund ,
Graham G Giles ,
Håkan Olsson ,
Hans Wildiers ,
Hans-Ulrich Ulmer ,
Hardev Pandha ,
Harvey A Risch ,
Hatef Darabi ,
Helga B Salvesen ,
Heli Nevanlinna ,
Henrik Gronberg ,
Hermann Brenner ,
Hiltrud Brauch ,
Hoda Anton-Culver ,
Honglin Song ,
Hui-Yi Lim ,
Iain McNeish ,
Ian Campbell ,
Ignace Vergote ,
Jacek Gronwald ,
Jan Lubiński ,
Janet L Stanford ,
Javier Benítez ,
Jennifer A Doherty ,
Jennifer B Permuth ,
Jenny Chang-Claude ,
Jenny L Donovan ,
Joe Dennis ,
Joellen M Schildkraut ,
Johanna Schleutker ,
John L Hopper ,
Jolanta Kupryjanczyk ,
Jong Y Park ,
Jonine Figueroa ,
Judith A Clements ,
Julia A Knight ,
Julian Peto ,
Julie M Cunningham ,
Julio Pow-Sang ,
Jyotsna Batra ,
Kamila Czene ,
Karen H Lu ,
Kathleen Herkommer ,
Kay-Tee Khaw ,
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Keitaro Matsuo ,
Kenneth Muir ,
Kenneth Offitt ,
Kexin Chen ,
Kirsten B Moysich ,
Kristiina Aittomäki ,
Kunle Odunsi ,
Lambertus A Kiemeney ,
Leon F A G Massuger ,
Liesel M Fitzgerald ,
Linda S Cook ,
Lisa Cannon-Albright ,
Maartje J Hooning ,
Malcolm C Pike ,
Manjeet K Bolla ,
Manuel Luedeke ,
Manuel R Teixeira ,
Marc T Goodman ,
Marjanka K Schmidt ,
Marjorie Riggan ,
Markus Aly ,
Mary Anne Rossing ,
Matthias W Beckmann ,
Matthieu Moisse ,
Maureen Sanderson ,
Melissa C Southey ,
Michael Jones ,
Michael Lush ,
Michelle A T Hildebrandt ,
Ming-Feng Hou ,
Minouk J Schoemaker ,
Montserrat Garcia-Closas ,
Natalia Bogdanova ,
Nazneen Rahman ,
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Nhu D Le ,
Nick Orr ,
Nicolas Wentzensen ,
Nora Pashayan ,
Paolo Peterlongo ,
Pascal Guénel ,
Paul Brennan ,
Paula Paulo ,
Penelope M Webb ,
Per Broberg ,
Peter A Fasching ,
Peter Devilee ,
Qin Wang ,
Qiuyin Cai ,
Qiyuan Li ,
Radka Kaneva ,
Ralf Butzow ,
Reidun Kristin Kopperud ,
Rita K Schmutzler ,
Robert A Stephenson ,
Robert J MacInnis ,
Robert N Hoover ,
Robert Winqvist ,
Roberta Ness ,
Roger L Milne ,
Ruth C Travis ,
Sara Benlloch ,
Sara H Olson ,
Shannon K McDonnell ,
Shelley S Tworoger ,
Sofia Maia ,
Sonja Berndt ,
Soo Chin Lee ,
Soo-Hwang Teo ,
Stephen N Thibodeau ,
Stig E Bojesen ,
Susan M Gapstur ,
Susanne Krüger Kjær ,
Tanja Pejovic ,
Teuvo L J Tammela ,
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Thilo Dörk ,
Thomas Brüning ,
Tiina Wahlfors ,
Tim J Key ,
Todd L Edwards ,
Usha Menon ,
Ute Hamann ,
Vanio Mitev ,
Veli-Matti Kosma ,
Veronica Wendy Setiawan ,
Vessela Kristensen ,
Volker Arndt ,
Walther Vogel ,
Wei Zheng ,
Weiva Sieh ,
William J Blot ,
Wojciech Kluzniak ,
Xiao-Ou Shu ,
Yu-Tang Gao ,
Fredrick Schumacher ,
Matthew L Freedman ,
Andrew Berchuck ,
Alison M Dunning ,
Jacques Simard ,
Christopher A Haiman ,
Amanda Spurdle ,
Thomas A Sellers ,
David J Hunter ,
Brian E Henderson ,
Peter Kraft ,
Stephen J Chanock ,
Fergus J Couch ,
Per Hall ,
Simon A Gayther ,
Douglas F Easton ,
Georgia Chenevix-Trench ,
Rosalind Eeles ,
Paul D P Pharoah ,
Diether Lambrechts

Abstract

SIGNIFICANCE

We demonstrate that combining large-scale GWA meta-analysis findings across cancer types can identify completely new risk loci common to breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers. We show that the identification of such cross-cancer risk loci has the potential to shed new light on the shared biology underlying these hormone-related cancers. Cancer Discov; 6(9); 1052-67. ©2016 AACR.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 932.

UNLABELLED

Breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers are hormone-related and may have a shared genetic basis, but this has not been investigated systematically by genome-wide association (GWA) studies. Meta-analyses combining the largest GWA meta-analysis data sets for these cancers totaling 112,349 cases and 116,421 controls of European ancestry, all together and in pairs, identified at P < 10(-8) seven new cross-cancer loci: three associated with susceptibility to all three cancers (rs17041869/2q13/BCL2L11; rs7937840/11q12/INCENP; rs1469713/19p13/GATAD2A), two breast and ovarian cancer risk loci (rs200182588/9q31/SMC2; rs8037137/15q26/RCCD1), and two breast and prostate cancer risk loci (rs5013329/1p34/NSUN4; rs9375701/6q23/L3MBTL3). Index variants in five additional regions previously associated with only one cancer also showed clear association with a second cancer type. Cell-type-specific expression quantitative trait locus and enhancer-gene interaction annotations suggested target genes with potential cross-cancer roles at the new loci. Pathway analysis revealed significant enrichment of death receptor signaling genes near loci with P < 10(-5) in the three-cancer meta-analysis.

More about this publication

Cancer discovery

Volume 6
Issue nr. 9
Pages 1052-67
Publication date 01-09-2016

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Publisher website (DOI) 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-15-1227
Europe PubMed Central 27432226
Pubmed 27432226

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