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Chen Y, Yu XY, Xu SJ, Shi XQ, Zhang XX, Sun C. An indel introduced by Neanderthal introgression, rs3835124:ATTTATT > ATT, might contribute to prostate cancer risk by regulating PDK1 expression. Ann Hum Genet 2024; 88:126-137. [PMID: 37846608 DOI: 10.1111/ahg.12533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Revised: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancer types in males and rs12621278:A > G has been suggested to be associated with this disease by previous genome-wide association studies. One thousand genomes project data analysis indicated that rs12621278:A > G is within two long-core haplotypes. However, the origin, causal variant(s), and molecular function of these haplotypes were remaining unclear. MATERIALS AND METHODS Population genetics analysis and functional genomics work was performed for this locus. RESULTS Phylogeny analysis verified that the rare haplotype is derived from Neanderthal introgression. Genome annotation suggested that three genetic variants in the core haplotypes, rs116108611:G > A, rs139972066:AAAAAAAA > AAAAAAAAA, and rs3835124:ATTTATT > ATT, are located in functional regions. Luciferase assay indicated that rs139972066:AAAAAAAA > AAAAAAAAA and rs116108611:G > A are not able to alter ITGA6 (integrin alpha 6) and ITGA6 antisense RNA 1 expression, respectively. In contrast, rs3835124:ATTTATT > ATT can significantly influence PDK1 (pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1) expression, which was verified by expression quantitative trait locus analysis. This genetic variant can alter transcription factor cut like homeobox 1 interaction efficiency. The introgressed haplotype was observed to be subject to positive selection in East Asian populations. The molecular function of the haplotype suggested that Neanderthal should be with lower PDK1 expression and further different energy homeostasis from modern human. CONCLUSION This study provided new insight into the contribution of Neanderthal introgression to human phenotypes.
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- Ying Chen
- College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, P. R. China
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Kurup JT, Kim S, Kidder BL. Identifying Cancer Type-Specific Transcriptional Programs through Network Analysis. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:4167. [PMID: 37627195 PMCID: PMC10453000 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15164167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Revised: 08/11/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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Identifying cancer type-specific genes that define cell states is important to develop effective therapies for patients and methods for detection, early diagnosis, and prevention. While molecular mechanisms that drive malignancy have been identified for various cancers, the identification of cell-type defining transcription factors (TFs) that distinguish normal cells from cancer cells has not been fully elucidated. Here, we utilized a network biology framework, which assesses the fidelity of cell fate conversions, to identify cancer type-specific gene regulatory networks (GRN) for 17 types of cancer. Through an integrative analysis of a compendium of expression data, we elucidated core TFs and GRNs for multiple cancer types. Moreover, by comparing normal tissues and cells to cancer type-specific GRNs, we found that the expression of key network-influencing TFs can be utilized as a survival prognostic indicator for a diverse cohort of cancer patients. These findings offer a valuable resource for exploring cancer type-specific networks across a broad range of cancer types.
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- Jiji T. Kurup
- Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; (J.T.K.); (S.K.)
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; (J.T.K.); (S.K.)
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA; (J.T.K.); (S.K.)
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Giannareas N, Zhang Q, Yang X, Na R, Tian Y, Yang Y, Ruan X, Huang D, Yang X, Wang C, Zhang P, Manninen A, Wang L, Wei GH. Extensive germline-somatic interplay contributes to prostate cancer progression through HNF1B co-option of TMPRSS2-ERG. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7320. [PMID: 36443337 PMCID: PMC9705428 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34994-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies have identified 270 loci conferring risk for prostate cancer (PCa), yet the underlying biology and clinical impact remain to be investigated. Here we observe an enrichment of transcription factor genes including HNF1B within PCa risk-associated regions. While focused on the 17q12/HNF1B locus, we find a strong eQTL for HNF1B and multiple potential causal variants involved in the regulation of HNF1B expression in PCa. An unbiased genome-wide co-expression analysis reveals PCa-specific somatic TMPRSS2-ERG fusion as a transcriptional mediator of this locus and the HNF1B eQTL signal is ERG fusion status dependent. We investigate the role of HNF1B and find its involvement in several pathways related to cell cycle progression and PCa severity. Furthermore, HNF1B interacts with TMPRSS2-ERG to co-occupy large proportion of genomic regions with a remarkable enrichment of additional PCa risk alleles. We finally show that HNF1B co-opts ERG fusion to mediate mechanistic and biological effects of the PCa risk-associated locus 17p13.3/VPS53/FAM57A/GEMIN4. Taken together, we report an extensive germline-somatic interaction between TMPRSS2-ERG fusion and genetic variations underpinning PCa risk association and progression.
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- Nikolaos Giannareas
- Disease Networks Research Unit, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine & Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Disease Networks Research Unit, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine & Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Disease Networks Research Unit, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine & Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Tumour Biology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Disease Networks Research Unit, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine & Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Pathology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Pathology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center & MOE Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Molecular Medicine and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Disease Networks Research Unit, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine & Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Tumour Biology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Disease Networks Research Unit, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine & Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
- Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center & MOE Key Laboratory of Metabolism and Molecular Medicine and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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Samtal C, El Jaddaoui I, Hamdi S, Bouguenouch L, Ouldim K, Nejjari C, Ghazal H, Bekkari H. Review of prostate cancer genomic studies in Africa. Front Genet 2022; 13:911101. [DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.911101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most commonly diagnosed in men worldwide and one of the most frequent cancers in men in Africa. The heterogeneity of this cancer fosters the need to identify potential genetic risk factors/biomarkers. Omics variations may significantly contribute to early diagnosis and personalized treatment. However, there are few genomic studies of this disease in African populations. This review sheds light on the status of genomics research on PCa in Africa and outlines the common variants identified thus far. The allele frequencies of the most significant SNPs in Afro-native, Afro-descendants, and European populations were compared. We advocate how these few but promising data will aid in understanding, better diagnosing, and precisely treating this cancer and the need for further collaborative research on the genomics of PCa in the African continent.
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Inherited risk assessment and its clinical utility for predicting prostate cancer from diagnostic prostate biopsies. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 2022; 25:422-430. [PMID: 35347252 DOI: 10.1038/s41391-021-00458-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2021] [Revised: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Many studies on prostate cancer (PCa) germline variants have been published in the last 15 years. This review critically assesses their clinical validity and explores their utility in prediction of PCa detection rates from prostate biopsy. METHODS An integrative review was performed to (1) critically synthesize findings on PCa germline studies from published papers since 2016, including risk-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), polygenic risk score methods such as genetic risk score (GRS), and rare pathogenic mutations (RPMs); (2) exemplify the findings in a large population-based cohort from the UK Biobank (UKB); (3) identify gaps for implementing inherited risk assessment in clinic based on experience from a healthcare system; (4) evaluate available GRS data on their clinical utility in predicting PCa detection rates from prostate biopsies; and (5) describe a prospective germline-based biopsy trial to address existing gaps. RESULTS SNP-based GRS and RPMs in four genes (HOXB13, BRCA2, ATM, and CHEK2) were significantly and consistently associated with PCa risk in large well-designed studies. In the UKB, positive family history, RPMs in the four implicated genes, and a high GRS (>1.5) identified 8.12%, 1.61%, and 17.38% of men to be at elevated PCa risk, respectively, with hazard ratios of 1.84, 2.74, and 2.39, respectively. Additionally, the performance of GRS for predicting PCa detection rate on prostate biopsy was consistently supported in several retrospective analyses of transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-biopsy cohorts. Prospective studies evaluating the performance of all three inherited measures in predicting PCa detection rate from contemporary multiparametric MRI (mpMRI)-based biopsy are lacking. A multicenter germline-based biopsy trial to address these gaps is warranted. CONCLUSIONS The complementary performance of three inherited risk measures in PCa risk stratification is consistently supported. Their clinical utility in predicting PCa detection rate, if confirmed in prospective clinical trials, may improve current decision-making for prostate biopsy.
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Dean M, Moitra K, Allikmets R. The human ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily. Hum Mutat 2022; 43:1162-1182. [PMID: 35642569 PMCID: PMC9357071 DOI: 10.1002/humu.24418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Revised: 05/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily comprises membrane proteins that efflux various substrates across extra- and intracellular membranes. Mutations in ABC genes cause 21 human disorders or phenotypes with Mendelian inheritance, including cystic fibrosis, adrenoleukodystrophy, retinal degeneration, cholesterol, and bile transport defects. To provide tools to study the function of human ABC transporters we compiled data from multiple genomics databases. We analyzed ABC gene conservation within human populations and across vertebrates and surveyed phenotypes of ABC gene mutations in mice. Most mouse ABC gene disruption mutations have a phenotype that mimics human disease, indicating they are applicable models. Interestingly, several ABCA family genes, whose human function is unknown, have cholesterol level phenotypes in the mouse. Genome-wide association studies confirm and extend ABC traits and suggest several new functions to investigate. Whole-exome sequencing of tumors from diverse cancer types demonstrates that mutations in ABC genes are not common in cancer, but specific genes are overexpressed in select tumor types. Finally, an analysis of the frequency of loss-of-function mutations demonstrates that many human ABC genes are essential with a low level of variants, while others have a higher level of genetic diversity.
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- Michael Dean
- Laboratory of Translational Genomics, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, Maryland 21702
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10032
- Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10032
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Fibromodulin Gene Variants (FMOD) as Potential Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. DISEASE MARKERS 2022; 2022:5215247. [PMID: 35686032 PMCID: PMC9173908 DOI: 10.1155/2022/5215247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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By the year 2050, the world's elderly population may increase exponentially, raising the rate of disease characteristic of this group, such as prostate cancer (PCa) and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Prostate disorders have a multifactorial etiology, especially age and genetic factors. Currently, PCa is the second most frequent neoplasm in the male population worldwide. The fibromodulin gene encodes a small leucine-rich proteoglycan (SLRP) which acts in the collagen fibrillogenesis pathway, cell adhesion, and modulation of TGF-β signaling pathways, which has been recently associated with PCa. The present study sequenced the coding region of the FMOD in a sample of 44 PCa, 90 BPH, and 82 controls from a Brazilian population, and the results identified 6 variants: 2 missenses (p.(Tyr42Ser) and p.(Pro24Ala)); 3 synonymous (p.(His253=), p.(Asn353=), and p.(Glu79=)); and 1 intronic (c.980-114A>G). Of these, p.(Tyr42Ser), p.(Pro24Ala), and p.(Asn353=) are rare variants, and p.(Tyr42Ser) was predicted as potential pathogenic by the algorithms used here, in addition to not being observed in controls, suggesting that may be a potential biomarker for development of PCa and BPH. In conclusion, we identified for the first time, in Brazilian individuals with PCa and BPH, a potentially pathogenic variant in the analysis of FMOD gene. Further studies are needed to investigate the deleterious effect of this variant on the structure and/or function of the FMOD protein.
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Liu JX, Gao MM, Cui Z, Gao YL, Li F. DSCMF: prediction of LncRNA-disease associations based on dual sparse collaborative matrix factorization. BMC Bioinformatics 2021; 22:241. [PMID: 33980147 PMCID: PMC8114493 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-020-03868-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In the development of science and technology, there are increasing evidences that there are some associations between lncRNAs and human diseases. Therefore, finding these associations between them will have a huge impact on our treatment and prevention of some diseases. However, the process of finding the associations between them is very difficult and requires a lot of time and effort. Therefore, it is particularly important to find some good methods for predicting lncRNA-disease associations (LDAs). RESULTS In this paper, we propose a method based on dual sparse collaborative matrix factorization (DSCMF) to predict LDAs. The DSCMF method is improved on the traditional collaborative matrix factorization method. To increase the sparsity, the L2,1-norm is added in our method. At the same time, Gaussian interaction profile kernel is added to our method, which increase the network similarity between lncRNA and disease. Finally, the AUC value obtained by the experiment is used to evaluate the quality of our method, and the AUC value is obtained by the ten-fold cross-validation method. CONCLUSIONS The AUC value obtained by the DSCMF method is 0.8523. At the end of the paper, simulation experiment is carried out, and the experimental results of prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and colorectal cancer are analyzed in detail. The DSCMF method is expected to bring some help to lncRNA-disease associations research. The code can access the https://github.com/Ming-0113/DSCMF website.
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- Jin-Xing Liu
- School of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, China
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- School of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, China
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- School of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, China
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- Qufu Normal University Library, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, China
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- School of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, China
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Saunders EJ, Kote-Jarai Z, Eeles RA. Identification of Germline Genetic Variants that Increase Prostate Cancer Risk and Influence Development of Aggressive Disease. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:760. [PMID: 33673083 PMCID: PMC7917798 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13040760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Prostate cancer (PrCa) is a heterogeneous disease, which presents in individual patients across a diverse phenotypic spectrum ranging from indolent to fatal forms. No robust biomarkers are currently available to enable routine screening for PrCa or to distinguish clinically significant forms, therefore late stage identification of advanced disease and overdiagnosis plus overtreatment of insignificant disease both remain areas of concern in healthcare provision. PrCa has a substantial heritable component, and technological advances since the completion of the Human Genome Project have facilitated improved identification of inherited genetic factors influencing susceptibility to development of the disease within families and populations. These genetic markers hold promise to enable improved understanding of the biological mechanisms underpinning PrCa development, facilitate genetically informed PrCa screening programmes and guide appropriate treatment provision. However, insight remains largely lacking regarding many aspects of their manifestation; especially in relation to genes associated with aggressive phenotypes, risk factors in non-European populations and appropriate approaches to enable accurate stratification of higher and lower risk individuals. This review discusses the methodology used in the elucidation of genetic loci, genes and individual causal variants responsible for modulating PrCa susceptibility; the current state of understanding of the allelic spectrum contributing to PrCa risk; and prospective future translational applications of these discoveries in the developing eras of genomics and personalised medicine.
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- Edward J. Saunders
- The Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, UK; (Z.K.-J.); (R.A.E.)
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, UK; (Z.K.-J.); (R.A.E.)
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, UK; (Z.K.-J.); (R.A.E.)
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London SW3 6JJ, UK
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Dannemann M. The Population-Specific Impact of Neandertal Introgression on Human Disease. Genome Biol Evol 2021; 13:6008690. [PMID: 33247712 PMCID: PMC7851588 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Since the discovery of admixture between modern humans and Neandertals, multiple studies investigated the effect of Neandertal-derived DNA on human disease and nondisease phenotypes. These studies have linked Neandertal ancestry to skin- and hair-related phenotypes, immunity, neurological, and behavioral traits. However, these inferences have so far been limited to cohorts with participants of European ancestry. Here, I analyze summary statistics from 40 disease GWAS (genome-wide association study) cohorts of ∼212,000 individuals provided by the Biobank Japan Project for phenotypic effects of Neandertal DNA. I show that Neandertal DNA is associated with autoimmune diseases, prostate cancer and type 2 diabetes. Many of these disease associations are linked to population-specific Neandertal DNA, highlighting the importance of studying a wider range of ancestries to characterize the phenotypic legacy of Neandertals in people today.
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Novel prostate cancer susceptibility gene SP6 predisposes patients to aggressive disease. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 2021; 24:1158-1166. [PMID: 34012061 PMCID: PMC8616752 DOI: 10.1038/s41391-021-00378-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Prostate cancer (PrCa) is one of the most common cancers in men, but little is known about factors affecting its clinical outcomes. Genome-wide association studies have identified more than 170 germline susceptibility loci, but most of them are not associated with aggressive disease. We performed a genome-wide analysis of 185,478 SNPs in Finnish samples (2738 cases, 2400 controls) from the international Collaborative Oncological Gene-Environment Study (iCOGS) to find underlying PrCa risk variants. We identified a total of 21 common, low-penetrance susceptibility loci, including 10 novel variants independently associated with PrCa risk. Novel risk loci were located in the 8q24 (CASC8 rs16902147, OR 1.86, padj = 3.53 × 10-8 and rs58809953, OR 1.71, padj = 4.00 × 10-6; intergenic rs79012498, OR 1.81, padj = 4.26 × 10-8), 17q21 (SP6 rs2074187, OR 1.66, padj = 3.75 × 10-5), 11q13 (rs12795301, OR 1.42, padj = 2.89 × 10-5) and 8p21 (rs995432, OR 1.38, padj = 3.00 × 10-11) regions. Here, we describe SP6, a transcription factor gene, as a new, potentially high-risk gene for PrCa. The intronic variant rs2074187 in SP6 was associated not only with overall susceptibility to PrCa (OR 1.66) but also with a higher odds ratio for aggressive PrCa (OR 1.89) and lower odds for non-aggressive PrCa (OR 1.43). Furthermore, the new intergenic variant rs79012498 at 8q24 conferred risk for aggressive PrCa. Our findings highlighted the power of a population-stratified approach to identify novel, clinically actionable germline PrCa risk loci and strongly suggested SP6 as a new PrCa candidate gene that may be involved in the pathogenesis of PrCa.
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Global Autozygosity Is Associated with Cancer Risk, Mutational Signature and Prognosis. Cancers (Basel) 2020; 12:cancers12123646. [PMID: 33291726 PMCID: PMC7761949 DOI: 10.3390/cancers12123646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2020] [Revised: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Global autozygosity in the form of runs of homozygosity is associated with various diseases. Heterozygosity ratio, an alternative measure of global autozygosity, is used to assess cancer risk in this study. Our analysis shows strong and consistent associations between heterozygosity ratios and various cancer types. Further analysis reveals the heterozygosity ratio’s potential connections to mutational signatures and cancer prognosis. Abstract Global autozygosity quantifies the genome-wide levels of homozygous and heterozygous variants. It is the signature of non-random reproduction, though it can also be driven by other factors, and has been used to assess risk in various diseases. However, the association between global autozygosity and cancer risk has not been studied. From 4057 cancer subjects and 1668 healthy controls, we found strong associations between global autozygosity and risk in ten different cancer types. For example, the heterozygosity ratio was found to be significantly associated with breast invasive carcinoma in Blacks and with male skin cutaneous melanoma in Caucasians. We also discovered eleven associations between global autozygosity and mutational signatures which can explain a portion of the etiology. Furthermore, four significant associations for heterozygosity ratio were revealed in disease-specific survival analyses. This study demonstrates that global autozygosity is effective for cancer risk assessment.
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Brandão A, Paulo P, Maia S, Pinheiro M, Peixoto A, Cardoso M, Silva MP, Santos C, Eeles RA, Kote-Jarai Z, Muir K, Schleutker J, Wang Y, Pashayan N, Batra J, Grönberg H, Neal DE, Nordestgaard BG, Tangen CM, Southey MC, Wolk A, Albanes D, Haiman CA, Travis RC, Stanford JL, Mucci LA, West CML, Nielsen SF, Kibel AS, Cussenot O, Berndt SI, Koutros S, Sørensen KD, Cybulski C, Grindedal EM, Park JY, Ingles SA, Maier C, Hamilton RJ, Rosenstein BS, Vega A, Kogevinas M, Wiklund F, Penney KL, Brenner H, John EM, Kaneva R, Logothetis CJ, Neuhausen SL, Ruyck KD, Razack A, Newcomb LF, Lessel D, Usmani N, Claessens F, Gago-Dominguez M, Townsend PA, Roobol MJ, Teixeira MR. The CHEK2 Variant C.349A>G Is Associated with Prostate Cancer Risk and Carriers Share a Common Ancestor. Cancers (Basel) 2020; 12:E3254. [PMID: 33158149 PMCID: PMC7694218 DOI: 10.3390/cancers12113254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The identification of recurrent founder variants in cancer predisposing genes may have important implications for implementing cost-effective targeted genetic screening strategies. In this study, we evaluated the prevalence and relative risk of the CHEK2 recurrent variant c.349A>G in a series of 462 Portuguese patients with early-onset and/or familial/hereditary prostate cancer (PrCa), as well as in the large multicentre PRACTICAL case-control study comprising 55,162 prostate cancer cases and 36,147 controls. Additionally, we investigated the potential shared ancestry of the carriers by performing identity-by-descent, haplotype and age estimation analyses using high-density SNP data from 70 variant carriers belonging to 11 different populations included in the PRACTICAL consortium. The CHEK2 missense variant c.349A>G was found significantly associated with an increased risk for PrCa (OR 1.9; 95% CI: 1.1-3.2). A shared haplotype flanking the variant in all carriers was identified, strongly suggesting a common founder of European origin. Additionally, using two independent statistical algorithms, implemented by DMLE+2.3 and ESTIAGE, we were able to estimate the age of the variant between 2300 and 3125 years. By extending the haplotype analysis to 14 additional carrier families, a shared core haplotype was revealed among all carriers matching the conserved region previously identified in the high-density SNP analysis. These findings are consistent with CHEK2 c.349A>G being a founder variant associated with increased PrCa risk, suggesting its potential usefulness for cost-effective targeted genetic screening in PrCa families.
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- Andreia Brandão
- Cancer Genetics Group, IPO Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal; (A.B.); (P.P.); (S.M.); (M.P.); (M.C.); (M.P.S.)
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- Cancer Genetics Group, IPO Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal; (A.B.); (P.P.); (S.M.); (M.P.); (M.C.); (M.P.S.)
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- Cancer Genetics Group, IPO Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal; (A.B.); (P.P.); (S.M.); (M.P.); (M.C.); (M.P.S.)
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- Cancer Genetics Group, IPO Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal; (A.B.); (P.P.); (S.M.); (M.P.); (M.C.); (M.P.S.)
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal; (A.P.); (C.S.)
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- Cancer Genetics Group, IPO Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal; (A.B.); (P.P.); (S.M.); (M.P.); (M.C.); (M.P.S.)
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- Cancer Genetics Group, IPO Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal; (A.B.); (P.P.); (S.M.); (M.P.); (M.C.); (M.P.S.)
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal; (A.P.); (C.S.)
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, UK; (R.A.E.); (Z.K.-J.)
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London SW3 6JJ, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, UK; (R.A.E.); (Z.K.-J.)
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- Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;
- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London SW7 3RP, UK; (UKGPCS Collaborators); (The IMPACT Study Steering Committee and Collaborators)
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turun Yliopisto, 20050 Turku, Finland;
- Department of Medical Genetics, Genomics, Laboratory Division, Turku University Hospital, P.O. Box 52, 20521 Turku, Finland
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- Department of Population Science, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA;
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- Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK;
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia; (J.B.); (APCB BioResource)
- Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4102, Australia
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- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4059, Australia; (J.B.); (APCB BioResource)
- Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD 4102, Australia
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; (H.G.); (F.W.)
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- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Room 6603, Level 6, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK;
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark; (B.G.N.); (S.F.N.)
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, M3-C102, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA;
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- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia;
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
- Department of Clinical Pathology, The Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia
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- Unit of Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden;
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, 75185 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, ML 20892, USA; (D.A.); (S.I.B.); (S.K.)
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- Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA;
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK;
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, DC 98109-1024, USA; (J.L.S.); (L.F.N.); (Canary PASS Investigators)
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, DC 98195, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Radiotherapy Related Research, The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark; (B.G.N.); (S.F.N.)
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Urologic Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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- Sorbonne Universite, GRC n 5, AP-HP, Tenon Hospital, 4 rue de la Chine, F-75020 Paris, France;
- CeRePP, Tenon Hospital, F-75020 Paris, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, ML 20892, USA; (D.A.); (S.I.B.); (S.K.)
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, ML 20892, USA; (D.A.); (S.I.B.); (S.K.)
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Palle Juul-Jensen Boulevard 99, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark;
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, 70-115 Szczecin, Poland;
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, 0424 Oslo, Norway;
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612, USA;
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA;
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- Humangenetik Tuebingen, Paul-Ehrlich-Str 23, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany;
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada;
- Department of Surgery (Urology), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1P5, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Box 1236, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA;
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029-5674, USA
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- Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain;
- Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), 15706 Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- CIBER of Rare Diseases (CIBERER), 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- ISGlobal, 08036 Barcelona, Spain;
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), 08003 Barcelona, Spain
- Campus del Mar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08003 Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; (H.G.); (F.W.)
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02184, USA;
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany;
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Departments of Epidemiology & Population Health and of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA;
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- Molecular Medicine Center, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, 2 Zdrave Str., 1431 Sofia, Bulgaria;
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- Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030, USA;
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- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA;
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences, Ghent University, Proeftuinstraat 86, 9000 Gent, Belgium;
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, DC 98109-1024, USA; (J.L.S.); (L.F.N.); (Canary PASS Investigators)
- Department of Urology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Box 356510, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, DC 98109-1024, USA; (J.L.S.); (L.F.N.); (Canary PASS Investigators)
- Department of Urology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Box 356510, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany;
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- Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, 11560 University Avenue, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada;
- Division of Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, 11560 University Avenue, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
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- Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Campus Gasthuisberg, University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, P.O. Box 901, 3000 Leuven, Belgium;
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- Group of Genomic Medicine, Galician Public Foundation of Genomic Medicine, Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Galician Healthcare Service (SERGAS) University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain;
- Moores Cancer Center, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0012, USA
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Health Innovation Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;
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- Department of Urology, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
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- Cancer Genetics Group, IPO Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal; (A.B.); (P.P.); (S.M.); (M.P.); (M.C.); (M.P.S.)
- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal; (A.P.); (C.S.)
- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
- Biomedical Sciences Institute Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
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Black MH, Li S, LaDuca H, Lo M, Chen J, Hoiness R, Gutierrez S, Tippin‐Davis B, Lu H, Gielzak M, Wiley K, Shi Z, Wei J, Zheng SL, Helfand BT, Isaacs W, Xu J. Validation of a prostate cancer polygenic risk score. Prostate 2020; 80:1314-1321. [PMID: 33258481 PMCID: PMC7590110 DOI: 10.1002/pros.24058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Genome-wide association studies have identified over 100 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with prostate cancer (PrCa), and polygenic risk scores (PRS) based on their combined genotypes have been developed for risk stratification. We aimed to assess the contribution of PRS to PrCa risk in a large multisite study. METHODS The sample included 1972 PrCa cases and 1919 unaffected controls. Next-generation sequencing was used to assess pathogenic variants in 14 PrCa-susceptibility genes and 72 validated PrCa-associated SNPs. We constructed a population-standardized PRS and tested its association with PrCa using logistic regression adjusted for age and family history of PrCa. RESULTS The mean age of PrCa cases at diagnosis and age of controls at testing/last clinic visit was 59.5 ± 7.2 and 57.2 ± 13.0 years, respectively. Among 1740 cases with pathology data, 57.4% had Gleason score ≤ 6, while 42.6% had Gleason score ≥ 8. In addition, 39.6% cases and 20.1% controls had a family history of PrCa. The PRS was significantly higher in cases than controls (mean ± SD: 1.42 ± 1.11 vs 1.02 ± 0.76; P < .0001). Compared with men in the 1st quartile of age-adjusted PRS, those in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quartile were 1.58 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.31-1.90), 2.36 (95% CI: 1.96-2.84), and 3.98 (95% CI: 3.29-4.82) times as likely to have PrCa (all P < .0001). Adjustment for family history yielded similar results. PRS predictive performance was consistent with prior literature (area under the receiver operating curve = 0.64; 95% CI: 0.62-0.66). CONCLUSIONS These data suggest that a 72-SNP PRS is predictive of PrCa, supporting its potential use in clinical risk assessment.
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- Department of Urology, The James Buchanan Brady Urologic InstituteJohns Hopkins University School of MedicineBaltimoreMaryland
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- Department of Urology, The James Buchanan Brady Urologic InstituteJohns Hopkins University School of MedicineBaltimoreMaryland
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- Program for Personalized Cancer CareNorthShore University Health SystemEvanstonIllinois
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- Program for Personalized Cancer CareNorthShore University Health SystemEvanstonIllinois
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- Program for Personalized Cancer CareNorthShore University Health SystemEvanstonIllinois
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- Program for Personalized Cancer CareNorthShore University Health SystemEvanstonIllinois
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- Department of Urology, The James Buchanan Brady Urologic InstituteJohns Hopkins University School of MedicineBaltimoreMaryland
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- Program for Personalized Cancer CareNorthShore University Health SystemEvanstonIllinois
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Fiorica PN, Schubert R, Morris JD, Abdul Sami M, Wheeler HE. Multi-ethnic transcriptome-wide association study of prostate cancer. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0236209. [PMID: 32986714 PMCID: PMC7521738 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 09/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The genetic risk for prostate cancer has been governed by a few rare variants with high penetrance and over 150 commonly occurring variants with lower impact on risk; however, most of these variants have been identified in studies containing exclusively European individuals. People of non-European ancestries make up less than 15% of prostate cancer GWAS subjects. Across the globe, incidence of prostate cancer varies with population due to environmental and genetic factors. The discrepancy between disease incidence and representation in genetics highlights the need for more studies of the genetic risk for prostate cancer across diverse populations. To better understand the genetic risk for prostate cancer across diverse populations, we performed PrediXcan and GWAS in a case-control study of 4,769 self-identified African American (2,463 cases and 2,306 controls), 2,199 Japanese American (1,106 cases and 1,093 controls), and 2,147 Latin American (1,081 cases and 1,066 controls) individuals from the Multiethnic Genome-wide Scan of Prostate Cancer. We used prediction models from 46 tissues in GTEx version 8 and five models from monocyte transcriptomes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Across the three populations, we predicted 19 gene-tissue pairs, including five unique genes, to be significantly (lfsr < 0.05) associated with prostate cancer. One of these genes, NKX3-1, replicated in a larger European study. At the SNP level, 110 SNPs met genome-wide significance in the African American study while 123 SNPs met significance in the Japanese American study. Fine mapping revealed three significant independent loci in the African American study and two significant independent loci in the Japanese American study. These identified loci confirm findings from previous GWAS of prostate cancer in diverse populations while PrediXcan-identified genes suggest potential new directions for prostate cancer research in populations across the globe.
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- Peter N. Fiorica
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
- Program in Bioinformatics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
- Department of Statistics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
- Program in Bioinformatics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
- Program in Bioinformatics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
- Department of Public Health, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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Zhang E, Zhang M, Shi C, Sun L, Shan L, Zhang H, Song Y. An overview of advances in multi-omics analysis in prostate cancer. Life Sci 2020; 260:118376. [PMID: 32898525 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2020.118376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
Abstract
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a deadly disease for men, and studies of all types of omics data are necessary to promote precision medicine. The maturity of sequencing technology, the improvements of computer processing power, and the progress achieved in omics analysis methods have improved research efficiency and saved research costs. The occurrence and development of PCa is due to multisystem and multilevel pathological changes. Although omics research at a single level is important, this approach often has limitations. In contrast, the combined analysis of multiple types of omics data can better analyze PCa changes as a whole, thus ensuring the validity of research results to the greatest extent. This paper introduces the applications of single omics in PCa and then summarizes research progress in the combined analysis of two or more types of omics data, so as to systematically and comprehensively analyze the necessity of combined analysis of multiple omics data in PCa.
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- Enchong Zhang
- Department of Urology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110004, Liaoning, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110004, Liaoning, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110004, Liaoning, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110004, Liaoning, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110004, Liaoning, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110004, Liaoning, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Urology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110004, Liaoning, People's Republic of China.
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Rashkin SR, Graff RE, Kachuri L, Thai KK, Alexeeff SE, Blatchins MA, Cavazos TB, Corley DA, Emami NC, Hoffman JD, Jorgenson E, Kushi LH, Meyers TJ, Van Den Eeden SK, Ziv E, Habel LA, Hoffmann TJ, Sakoda LC, Witte JS. Pan-cancer study detects genetic risk variants and shared genetic basis in two large cohorts. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4423. [PMID: 32887889 PMCID: PMC7473862 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18246-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Deciphering the shared genetic basis of distinct cancers has the potential to elucidate carcinogenic mechanisms and inform broadly applicable risk assessment efforts. Here, we undertake genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and comprehensive evaluations of heritability and pleiotropy across 18 cancer types in two large, population-based cohorts: the UK Biobank (408,786 European ancestry individuals; 48,961 cancer cases) and the Kaiser Permanente Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging cohorts (66,526 European ancestry individuals; 16,001 cancer cases). The GWAS detect 21 genome-wide significant associations independent of previously reported results. Investigations of pleiotropy identify 12 cancer pairs exhibiting either positive or negative genetic correlations; 25 pleiotropic loci; and 100 independent pleiotropic variants, many of which are regulatory elements and/or influence cross-tissue gene expression. Our findings demonstrate widespread pleiotropy and offer further insight into the complex genetic architecture of cross-cancer susceptibility.
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- Sara R Rashkin
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Program in Biological and Medical Informatics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Program in Biological and Medical Informatics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA.,Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA.,Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. .,Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. .,Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. .,Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Ethnic variation in prostate cancer detection: a feasibility study for use of the Stockholm3 test in a multiethnic U.S. cohort. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 2020; 24:120-127. [PMID: 32641739 DOI: 10.1038/s41391-020-0250-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2020] [Revised: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The Stockholm3 test improves Gleason Grade Group ≥2 (GG ≥ 2) prostate cancer (PC) detection, however it has not been evaluated in an American cohort where clinical practice patterns and ethnicity differ. We aimed to identify subgroups within a Stockholm population with PC risk profiles matching American ethnicity-specific subgroups and compare the detection of PC and describe Stockholm3 performance within these subgroups. METHODS All men age 49-70 years presenting for prostate biopsies were evaluated at UIC from 2016 to 2019, as well as men in Stockholm from 2012 to 2014 in the STHLM3 study. Propensity scores (PS) were estimated for each person using logistic regression for age, PSA, prostate volume, family history of PC, 5-alpha reductase inhibitor use, and prior biopsy. 3:1 PS matching was performed for Stockholm to Chicago ethnicity-specific cohorts and odds ratios (OR) were computed to compare detection of GG ≥ 2 PC between groups. RESULTS 504 Chicago men and 6980 Stockholm men were included. In African American (AA) men, 51% had GG ≥ 2 PC detected, while in risk-matched Stockholm men, 34% had GG ≥ 2 PC detected (OR: 2.1, p < 0.001). There was no statistical difference in GG ≥ 2 PC detected when matching Stockholm men to non-Hispanic Caucasian men (31% vs. 24%, OR: 0.7, p = 0.30) or Hispanic Caucasian men (31% vs. 27%, OR: 1.2, p = 0.42). The AUC for the Stockholm3 test of the matched Stockholm cohorts for AA, non-Hispanic Caucasian, and Hispanic Caucasian men was 0.85, 0.89, and 0.90, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Using statistical techniques to simulate a multi-ethnic Chicago cohort within the STHLM3 population, we found an excess risk of GG ≥ 2 PC among AA men. Our hypothesis that the Stockholm3 may have good predictive value in a multiethnic cohort is strengthened, and that recalibration to at least AA men seems likely to be needed to obtain well-calibrated predictions.
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Suvanto M, Beesley J, Blomqvist C, Chenevix-Trench G, Khan S, Nevanlinna H. SNPs in lncRNA Regions and Breast Cancer Risk. Front Genet 2020; 11:550. [PMID: 32714364 PMCID: PMC7340126 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.00550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Accepted: 05/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play crucial roles in human physiology, and have been found to be associated with various cancers. Transcribed ultraconserved regions (T-UCRs) are a subgroup of lncRNAs conserved in several species, and are often located in cancer-related regions. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the leading cause of female cancer deaths. We investigated the association of genetic variants in lncRNA and T-UCR regions with breast cancer risk to uncover candidate loci for further analysis. Our focus was on low-penetrance variants that can be discovered in a large dataset. We selected 565 regions of lncRNAs and T-UCRs that are expressed in breast or breast cancer tissue, or show expression correlation to major breast cancer associated genes. We studied the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in these regions with breast cancer risk in the 122970 case samples and 105974 controls of the Breast Cancer Association Consortium's genome-wide data, and also by in silico functional analyses using Integrated Expression Quantitative trait and in silico prediction of GWAS targets (INQUISIT) and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analysis. The eQTL analysis was carried out using the METABRIC dataset and analyses from GTEx and ncRNA eQTL databases. We found putative breast cancer risk variants (p < 1 × 10-5) targeting the lncRNA GABPB1-AS1 in INQUISIT and eQTL analysis. In addition, putative breast cancer risk associated SNPs (p < 1 × 10-5) in the region of two T-UCRs, uc.184 and uc.313, located in protein coding genes CPEB4 and TIAL1, respectively, targeted these genes in INQUISIT and in eQTL analysis. Other non-coding regions containing SNPs with the defined p-value and highly significant false discovery rate (FDR) for breast cancer risk association were discovered that may warrant further studies. These results suggest candidate lncRNA loci for further research on breast cancer risk and the molecular mechanisms.
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- Maija Suvanto
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QL, Australia
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- Department of Oncology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QL, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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Dai JY, Wang X, Wang B, Sun W, Jordahl KM, Kolb S, Nyame YA, Wright JL, Ostrander EA, Feng Z, Stanford JL. DNA methylation and cis-regulation of gene expression by prostate cancer risk SNPs. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008667. [PMID: 32226005 PMCID: PMC7145271 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 02/13/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Genome-wide association studies have identified more than 100 SNPs that increase the risk of prostate cancer (PrCa). We identify and compare expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) and CpG methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) among 147 established PrCa risk SNPs in primary prostate tumors (n = 355 from a Seattle-based study and n = 495 from The Cancer Genome Atlas, TCGA) and tumor-adjacent, histologically benign samples (n = 471 from a Mayo Clinic study). The role of DNA methylation in eQTL regulation of gene expression was investigated by data triangulation using several causal inference approaches, including a proposed adaptation of the Causal Inference Test (CIT) for causal direction. Comparing eQTLs between tumors and benign samples, we show that 98 of the 147 risk SNPs were identified as eQTLs in the tumor-adjacent benign samples, and almost all 34 eQTL identified in tumor sets were also eQTLs in the benign samples. Three lines of results support the causal role of DNA methylation. First, nearly 100 of the 147 risk SNPs were identified as meQTLs in one tumor set, and almost all eQTLs in tumors were meQTLs. Second, the loss of eQTLs in tumors relative to benign samples was associated with altered DNA methylation. Third, among risk SNPs identified as both eQTLs and meQTLs, mediation analyses suggest that over two-thirds have evidence of a causal role for DNA methylation, mostly mediating genetic influence on gene expression. In summary, we provide a comprehensive catalog of eQTLs, meQTLs and putative cancer genes for known PrCa risk SNPs. We observe that a substantial portion of germline eQTL regulatory mechanisms are maintained in the tumor development, despite somatic alterations in tumor genome. Finally, our mediation analyses illuminate the likely intermediary role of CpG methylation in eQTL regulation of gene expression.
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- James Y. Dai
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Urology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Urology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Lynch SM, Sorice K, Tagai EK, Handorf EA. Use of empiric methods to inform prostate cancer health disparities: Comparison of neighborhood-wide association study "hits" in black and white men. Cancer 2020; 126:1949-1957. [PMID: 32012234 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.32734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2019] [Revised: 12/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Black men are more likely to die of prostate cancer (PCa) compared with white men. Factors ranging from genetics to neighborhood environment contribute to these disparities. However, unlike genetics, agnostic investigations that identify candidate variables from large-scale data, and that allow for empiric investigations into differential associations between neighborhood and PCa by race/ethnicity, to the authors' knowledge have not been well explored. Thus, herein, the authors built on their previously developed, empiric neighborhood-wide association study (NWAS) in white men and conducted a NWAS in black men to determine whether findings differed by race. METHODS Pennsylvania Cancer Registry data were linked to US Census data. For the NWAS in non-Hispanic black men, the authors evaluated the association between 14,663 neighborhood census variables and advanced PCa (11 high-stage and/or high-grade cases and 8632 low-stage and/or low-grade cases), adjusting for age, diagnosis year, spatial correlation, and multiple testing. Odds ratios and 95% credible intervals were reported. Replication of NWAS findings across black and white races was assessed using Bayesian mixed effects models. RESULTS Five variables related to housing (3 variables), education (1 variable), and employment and/or transportation (1 variable) were found to be significantly associated with advanced PCa in black men compared with 17 socioeconomic variables (mostly related to poverty and/or income) in white men. The top hit in black men was related to crowding in renter-occupied housing (odds ratio, 1.10; 95% credible interval, 1.001-1.12). Nine of 22 NWAS hits (4 of 5 hits in black men) were replicated across racial/ethnic groups. CONCLUSIONS Different neighborhood variables, or "candidates," were identified across race-specific NWASs. These findings and empiric approaches warrant additional study and may inform PCa racial disparities, particularly future gene-environment studies aimed at identifying patients and/or communities at risk of advanced PCa.
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- Shannon M Lynch
- Cancer Prevention and Control, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Cancer Prevention and Control, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Cancer Prevention and Control, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Population Studies Facility, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Lu Y, Kweon SS, Cai Q, Tanikawa C, Shu XO, Jia WH, Xiang YB, Huyghe JR, Harrison TA, Kim J, Shin A, Kim DH, Matsuo K, Jee SH, Guo X, Wen W, Shi J, Li B, Wang N, Shin MH, Li HL, Ren Z, Oh JH, Oze I, Ahn YO, Jung KJ, Gao J, Gao YT, Pan ZZ, Kamatani Y, Chan AT, Gsur A, Hampe J, Le Marchand L, Li L, Lindblom A, Moreno V, Newcomb PA, Offit K, Pharoah PDP, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, Vodicka P, Weinstein SJ, Wolk A, Wu AH, Hsu L, Zeng YX, Long J, Peters U, Matsuda K, Zheng W. Identification of Novel Loci and New Risk Variant in Known Loci for Colorectal Cancer Risk in East Asians. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020; 29:477-486. [PMID: 31826910 PMCID: PMC7571256 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-19-0755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2019] [Revised: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 12/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Risk variants identified so far for colorectal cancer explain only a small proportion of familial risk of this cancer, particularly in Asians. METHODS We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of colorectal cancer in East Asians, including 23,572 colorectal cancer cases and 48,700 controls. To identify novel risk loci, we selected 60 promising risk variants for replication using data from 58,131 colorectal cancer cases and 67,347 controls of European descent. To identify additional risk variants in known colorectal cancer loci, we performed conditional analyses in East Asians. RESULTS An indel variant, rs67052019 at 1p13.3, was found to be associated with colorectal cancer risk at P = 3.9 × 10-8 in Asians (OR per allele deletion = 1.13, 95% confidence interval = 1.08-1.18). This association was replicated in European descendants using a variant (rs2938616) in complete linkage disequilibrium with rs67052019 (P = 7.7 × 10-3). Of the remaining 59 variants, 12 showed an association at P < 0.05 in the European-ancestry study, including rs11108175 and rs9634162 at P < 5 × 10-8 and two variants with an association near the genome-wide significance level (rs60911071, P = 5.8 × 10-8; rs62558833, P = 7.5 × 10-8) in the combined analyses of Asian- and European-ancestry data. In addition, using data from East Asians, we identified 13 new risk variants at 11 loci reported from previous GWAS. CONCLUSIONS In this large GWAS, we identified three novel risk loci and two highly suggestive loci for colorectal cancer risk and provided evidence for potential roles of multiple genes and pathways in the etiology of colorectal cancer. In addition, we showed that additional risk variants exist in many colorectal cancer risk loci identified previously. IMPACT Our study provides novel data to improve the understanding of the genetic basis for colorectal cancer risk.
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- Yingchang Lu
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea
- Jeonnam Regional Cancer Center, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, South Korea
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Laboratory of Genome Technology, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes & Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Cancer Biomedical Science, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Cancer Research Institute, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Okcheon-dong, Korea
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- Division of Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
- Department of Epidemiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- General Surgery Department, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes & Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Center for Colorectal Cancer, National Cancer Center Hospital, National Cancer Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
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- Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Okcheon-dong, Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Institute for Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes & Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes & Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan
- Kyoto-McGill International Collaborative School in Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Division of Gastroenterology, and Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, and Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Dresden, Germany
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Southern California, Preventative Medicine, Los Angeles, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Laboratory of Clinical Genome Sequencing, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.
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Houlahan KE, Shiah YJ, Gusev A, Yuan J, Ahmed M, Shetty A, Ramanand SG, Yao CQ, Bell C, O'Connor E, Huang V, Fraser M, Heisler LE, Livingstone J, Yamaguchi TN, Rouette A, Foucal A, Espiritu SMG, Sinha A, Sam M, Timms L, Johns J, Wong A, Murison A, Orain M, Picard V, Hovington H, Bergeron A, Lacombe L, Lupien M, Fradet Y, Têtu B, McPherson JD, Pasaniuc B, Kislinger T, Chua MLK, Pomerantz MM, van der Kwast T, Freedman ML, Mani RS, He HH, Bristow RG, Boutros PC. Genome-wide germline correlates of the epigenetic landscape of prostate cancer. Nat Med 2019; 25:1615-1626. [PMID: 31591588 PMCID: PMC7418214 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0579-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Oncogenesis is driven by germline, environmental and stochastic factors. It is unknown how these interact to produce the molecular phenotypes of tumors. We therefore quantified the influence of germline polymorphisms on the somatic epigenome of 589 localized prostate tumors. Predisposition risk loci influence a tumor's epigenome, uncovering a mechanism for cancer susceptibility. We identified and validated 1,178 loci associated with altered methylation in tumoral but not nonmalignant tissue. These tumor methylation quantitative trait loci influence chromatin structure, as well as RNA and protein abundance. One prominent tumor methylation quantitative trait locus is associated with AKT1 expression and is predictive of relapse after definitive local therapy in both discovery and validation cohorts. These data reveal intricate crosstalk between the germ line and the epigenome of primary tumors, which may help identify germline biomarkers of aggressive disease to aid patient triage and optimize the use of more invasive or expensive diagnostic assays.
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- Kathleen E Houlahan
- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Vector Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Centre de recheche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
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- Division of Urology, Centre de recheche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
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- Division of Urology, Centre de recheche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
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- Division of Urology, Centre de recheche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
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- Division of Urology, Centre de recheche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Urology, Centre de recheche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Centre de recheche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Computational Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Division of Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Health and Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
- Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, Manchester, UK.
- Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Manchester, UK.
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Vector Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Institute for Precision Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Ren ZJ, Cao DH, Zhang Q, Ren PW, Liu LR, Wei Q, Wei WR, Dong Q. First-degree family history of breast cancer is associated with prostate cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Cancer 2019; 19:871. [PMID: 31477094 PMCID: PMC6720429 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-019-6055-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Background The relationship between first-degree family history of female breast cancer and prostate cancer risk in the general population remains unclear. We performed a meta-analysis to determine the association between first-degree family history of female breast cancer and prostate cancer risk. Methods Databases, including MEDLINE, Embase, and Web of Science, were searched for all associated studies that evaluated associations between first-degree family history of female breast cancer and prostate cancer risk up to December 31, 2018. Information on study characteristics and outcomes were extracted based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) statement and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) guidelines. The quality of evidence was assessed using the GRADE approach. Results Eighteen studies involving 17,004,892 individuals were included in the meta-analysis. Compared with no family history of female breast cancer, history of female breast cancer in first-degree relatives was associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer [relative risk (RR) 1.18, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.12–1.25] with moderate-quality evidence. A history of breast cancer in mothers only (RR 1.19, 95% CI 1.10–1.28) and sisters only (RR 1.71, 95% CI 1.43–2.04) was associated with increased prostate cancer risk with moderate-quality evidence. However, a family history of breast cancer in daughters only was not associated with prostate cancer incidence (RR 1.74, 95% CI 0.74–4.12) with moderate-quality evidence. A family history of female breast cancer in first-degree relatives was associated with an 18% increased risk of lethal prostate cancer (95% CI 1.04–1.34) with low-quality evidence. Conclusions This review demonstrates that men with a family history of female breast cancer in first-degree relatives had an increased risk of prostate cancer, including risk of lethal prostate cancer. These findings may guide screening, earlier detection, and treatment of men with a family history of female breast cancer in first-degree relatives.
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- Zheng-Ju Ren
- Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, China.,State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Radiology, Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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Pooley KA, Dunning AM. DNA damage and hormone-related cancer: a repair pathway view. Hum Mol Genet 2019; 28:R180-R186. [DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddz206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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In this short review, we examine the overlap between genes known to be mutated in the germlines of individuals at risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancers, and their positions in DNA damage repair pathways. Cancer risk mutations have been consistently reported in certain genes at the top of these pathways, but none have been reported in others. We consider whether some of these gene products are too crucial to life for mutations to be tolerated, whilst others, further down the pathways, are less essential.
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- Karen A Pooley
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Departments of Public Health and Primary Care, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Oncology and Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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Lou H, Li H, Ho KJ, Cai LL, Huang AS, Shank TR, Verneris MR, Nickerson ML, Dean M, Anderson SK. The Human TET2 Gene Contains Three Distinct Promoter Regions With Differing Tissue and Developmental Specificities. Front Cell Dev Biol 2019; 7:99. [PMID: 31231651 PMCID: PMC6566030 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2019.00099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Tet methylcytosine dioxygenase 2 (TET2) is a tumor suppressor gene that is inactivated in a wide range of hematological cancers. TET2 enzymatic activity converts 5-methylcytosine (5-mC) into 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC), an essential step in DNA demethylation. Human TET2 is highly expressed in pluripotent cells and down-regulated in differentiated cells: however, transcriptional regulation of the human TET2 gene has not been investigated in detail. Here we define three promoters within a 2.5 kb region located ∼ 87 kb upstream of the first TET2 coding exon. The three promoters, designated as Pro1, Pro2, and Pro3, generate three alternative first exons, and their presence in TET2 mRNAs varies with cell type and developmental stage. In general, all three TET2 transcripts are more highly expressed in human tissues rich in hematopoietic stem cells, such as spleen and bone marrow, compared to other tissues, such as brain and kidney. Transcripts from Pro2 are expressed by a broad range of tissues and at a significantly higher level than Pro1 or Pro3 transcripts. Pro3 transcripts were highly expressed by embryoid bodies generated from the H9 ES cell line, and the major Pro3 transcript is an alternatively spliced mRNA isoform that produces a truncated TET2 protein lacking the catalytic domain. Our study demonstrates distinct tissue-specific mechanisms of TET2 transcriptional regulation during early pluripotent states and in differentiated cell types.
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- Hong Lou
- Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Basic Science Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States
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- Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Basic Science Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, United States.,Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, United States
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Ostrom QT, Egan KM, Nabors LB, Gerke T, Thompson RC, Olson JJ, LaRocca R, Chowdhary S, Eckel-Passow JE, Armstrong G, Wiencke JK, Bernstein JL, Claus EB, Il'yasova D, Johansen C, Lachance DH, Lai RK, Merrell RT, Olson SH, Sadetzki S, Schildkraut JM, Shete S, Houlston RS, Jenkins RB, Wrensch MR, Melin B, Amos CI, Huse JT, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Bondy ML. Glioma risk associated with extent of estimated European genetic ancestry in African Americans and Hispanics. Int J Cancer 2019; 146:739-748. [PMID: 30963577 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.32318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2018] [Revised: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 02/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Glioma incidence is highest in non-Hispanic Whites, and to date, glioma genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to date have only included European ancestry (EA) populations. African Americans and Hispanics in the US have varying proportions of EA, African (AA) and Native American ancestries (NAA). It is unknown if identified GWAS loci or increased EA is associated with increased glioma risk. We assessed whether EA was associated with glioma in African Americans and Hispanics. Data were obtained for 832 cases and 675 controls from the Glioma International Case-Control Study and GliomaSE Case-Control Study previously estimated to have <80% EA, or self-identify as non-White. We estimated global and local ancestry using fastStructure and RFMix, respectively, using 1,000 genomes project reference populations. Within groups with ≥40% AA (AFR≥0.4 ), and ≥15% NAA (AMR≥0.15 ), genome-wide association between local EA and glioma was evaluated using logistic regression conditioned on global EA for all gliomas. We identified two regions (7q21.11, p = 6.36 × 10-4 ; 11p11.12, p = 7.0 × 10-4 ) associated with increased EA, and one associated with decreased EA (20p12.13, p = 0.0026) in AFR≥0.4 . In addition, we identified a peak at rs1620291 (p = 4.36 × 10-6 ) in 7q21.3. Among AMR≥0.15 , we found an association between increased EA in one region (12q24.21, p = 8.38 × 10-4 ), and decreased EA in two regions (8q24.21, p = 0. 0010; 20q13.33, p = 6.36 × 10-4 ). No other significant associations were identified. This analysis identified an association between glioma and two regions previously identified in EA populations (8q24.21, 20q13.33) and four novel regions (7q21.11, 11p11.12, 12q24.21 and 20p12.13). The identifications of novel association with EA suggest regions to target for future genetic association studies.
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- Quinn T Ostrom
- Department of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Division of Population Sciences, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Neuro-Oncology Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Division of Population Sciences, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Hematology-Oncology, Norton Cancer Institute, Louisville, KY
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- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, New York
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- School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT.,Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.,Cancer Control and Prevention Program, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.,Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- Oncology Clinic, Finsen Center, Rigshospitalet and Survivorship Research Unit, The Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Neurology and Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, CA, Los Angeles
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- Department of Neurology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, New York
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- Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Unit, Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.,Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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DeRycke MS, Larson MC, Nair AA, McDonnell SK, French AJ, Tillmans LS, Riska SM, Baheti S, Fogarty ZC, Larson NB, O’Brien DR, Cheville JC, Wang L, Schaid DJ, Thibodeau SN. An expanded variant list and assembly annotation identifies multiple novel coding and noncoding genes for prostate cancer risk using a normal prostate tissue eQTL data set. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0214588. [PMID: 30958860 PMCID: PMC6453468 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2018] [Accepted: 03/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Prostate cancer (PrCa) is highly heritable; 284 variants have been identified to date that are associated with increased prostate cancer risk, yet few genes contributing to its development are known. Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies link variants with affected genes, helping to determine how these variants might regulate gene expression and may influence prostate cancer risk. In the current study, we performed eQTL analysis on 471 normal prostate epithelium samples and 249 PrCa-risk variants in 196 risk loci, utilizing RNA sequencing transcriptome data based on ENSEMBL gene definition and genome-wide variant data. We identified a total of 213 genes associated with known PrCa-risk variants, including 141 protein-coding genes, 16 lncRNAs, and 56 other non-coding RNA species with differential expression. Compared to our previous analysis, where RefSeq was used for gene annotation, we identified an additional 130 expressed genes associated with known PrCa-risk variants. We detected an eQTL signal for more than half (n = 102, 52%) of the 196 loci tested; 52 (51%) of which were a Group 1 signal, indicating high linkage disequilibrium (LD) between the peak eQTL variant and the PrCa-risk variant (r2>0.5) and may help explain how risk variants influence the development of prostate cancer.
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- Melissa S. DeRycke
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
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Jones CC, Bradford Y, Amos CI, Blot WJ, Chanock SJ, Harris CC, Schwartz AG, Spitz MR, Wiencke JK, Wrensch MR, Wu X, Aldrich MC. Cross-Cancer Pleiotropic Associations with Lung Cancer Risk in African Americans. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2019; 28:715-723. [PMID: 30894353 PMCID: PMC6449205 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-18-0935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 12/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Identifying genetic variants with pleiotropic associations across multiple cancers can reveal shared biologic pathways. Prior pleiotropic studies have primarily focused on European-descent individuals. Yet population-specific genetic variation can occur, and potential pleiotropic associations among diverse racial/ethnic populations could be missed. We examined cross-cancer pleiotropic associations with lung cancer risk in African Americans. METHODS We conducted a pleiotropic analysis among 1,410 African American lung cancer cases and 2,843 controls. We examined 36,958 variants previously associated (or in linkage disequilibrium) with cancer in prior genome-wide association studies. Logistic regression analyses were conducted, adjusting for age, sex, global ancestry, study site, and smoking status. RESULTS We identified three novel genomic regions significantly associated (FDR-corrected P <0.10) with lung cancer risk (rs336958 on 5q14.3, rs7186207 on 16q22.2, and rs11658063 on 17q12). On chromosome16q22.2, rs7186207 was significantly associated with reduced risk [OR = 0.43; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.73-0.89], and functional annotation using GTEx showed rs7186207 modifies DHODH gene expression. The minor allele at rs336958 on 5q14.3 was associated with increased lung cancer risk (OR = 1.47; 95% CI, 1.22-1.78), whereas the minor allele at rs11658063 on 17q12 was associated with reduced risk (OR = 0.80; 95% CI, 0.72-0.90). CONCLUSIONS We identified novel associations on chromosomes 5q14.3, 16q22.2, and 17q12, which contain HNF1B, DHODH, and HAPLN1 genes, respectively. SNPs within these regions have been previously associated with multiple cancers. This is the first study to examine cross-cancer pleiotropic associations for lung cancer in African Americans. IMPACT Our findings demonstrate novel cross-cancer pleiotropic associations with lung cancer risk in African Americans.
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- Carissa C Jones
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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Muflih S, Bleidt BA, Lafferty L, Shawaqfeh MS, Alvarez G. Measuring knowledge and attitudes towards the utilization of pharmacogenetic testing among physicians. JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/jphs.12289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Suhaib Muflih
- College of Pharmacy Nova Southeastern UniversityDavie Florida USA
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- College of Pharmacy Nova Southeastern UniversityDavie Florida USA
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- Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale Florida USA
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- College of Pharmacy King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU‐HS) Riyadh Saudi Arabia
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- College of Pharmacy Nova Southeastern UniversityDavie Florida USA
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Adams CD, Richmond R, Ferreira DLS, Spiller W, Tan V, Zheng J, Würtz P, Donovan J, Hamdy F, Neal D, Lane JA, Smith GD, Relton C, Eeles RA, Haiman CA, Kote-Jarai ZS, Schumacher FR, Olama AAA, Benlloch S, Muir K, Berndt SI, Conti DV, Wiklund F, Chanock SJ, Gapstur S, Stevens VL, Tangen CM, Batra J, Clements JA, Gronberg H, Pashayan N, Schleutker J, Albanes D, Wolk A, West CML, Mucci LA, Cancel-Tassin G, Koutros S, Sorensen KD, Maehle L, Travis RC, Hamilton RJ, Ingles SA, Rosenstein BS, Lu YJ, Giles GG, Kibel AS, Vega A, Kogevinas M, Penney KL, Park JY, Stanford JL, Cybulski C, Nordestgaard BG, Brenner H, Maier C, Kim J, John EM, Teixeira MR, Neuhausen SL, De Ruyck K, Razack A, Newcomb LF, Lessel D, Kaneva RP, Usmani N, Claessens F, Townsend PA, Dominguez MG, Roobol MJ, Menegaux F, Khaw KT, Cannon-Albright LA, Pandha H, Thibodeau SN, Martin RM. Circulating Metabolic Biomarkers of Screen-Detected Prostate Cancer in the ProtecT Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2019; 28:208-216. [PMID: 30352818 PMCID: PMC6746173 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-18-0079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Revised: 03/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Whether associations between circulating metabolites and prostate cancer are causal is unknown. We report on the largest study of metabolites and prostate cancer (2,291 cases and 2,661 controls) and appraise causality for a subset of the prostate cancer-metabolite associations using two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR). METHODS The case-control portion of the study was conducted in nine UK centers with men ages 50-69 years who underwent prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer within the Prostate Testing for Cancer and Treatment (ProtecT) trial. Two data sources were used to appraise causality: a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of metabolites in 24,925 participants and a GWAS of prostate cancer in 44,825 cases and 27,904 controls within the Association Group to Investigate Cancer Associated Alterations in the Genome (PRACTICAL) consortium. RESULTS Thirty-five metabolites were strongly associated with prostate cancer (P < 0.0014, multiple-testing threshold). These fell into four classes: (i) lipids and lipoprotein subclass characteristics (total cholesterol and ratios, cholesterol esters and ratios, free cholesterol and ratios, phospholipids and ratios, and triglyceride ratios); (ii) fatty acids and ratios; (iii) amino acids; (iv) and fluid balance. Fourteen top metabolites were proxied by genetic variables, but MR indicated these were not causal. CONCLUSIONS We identified 35 circulating metabolites associated with prostate cancer presence, but found no evidence of causality for those 14 testable with MR. Thus, the 14 MR-tested metabolites are unlikely to be mechanistically important in prostate cancer risk. IMPACT The metabolome provides a promising set of biomarkers that may aid prostate cancer classification.
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- Charleen D Adams
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Research Programs Unit, Diabetes and Obesity, University of Helsinki and Nightingale Health Ltd., Helsinki, Finland
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- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford and Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford and Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Bristol National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Bristol National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Bristol National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
- Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- University of Cambridge, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University College London, Department of Applied Health Research, London, United Kingdom
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Tyks Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Radiotherapy Related Research, Manchester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- CeRePP, Tenon Hospital, Paris, France
- UPMC Sorbonne Universités, GRC N°5 ONCOTYPE-URO, Tenon Hospital, Paris, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
| | - Robert J Hamilton
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Centre for Molecular Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, John Vane Science Centre, London, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Division of Urologic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica-SERGAS, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, CIBERER, IDIS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Jong Y Park
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
| | - Janet L Stanford
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
| | - Esther M John
- Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California
- Department of Health Research & Policy (Epidemiology) and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
| | - Manuel R Teixeira
- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California
| | - Kim De Ruyck
- Ghent University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences, Gent, Belgium
| | - Azad Razack
- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
| | - Lisa F Newcomb
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Radka P Kaneva
- Molecular Medicine Center, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
| | - Nawaid Usmani
- Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Division of Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Institute of Cancer Sciences, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom
| | - Manuela Gago Dominguez
- Genomic Medicine Group, Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Servicio Galego de Saúde, SERGAS, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Urology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Clinical Gerontology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Lisa A Cannon-Albright
- Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
- George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- The University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Bristol National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Huyghe JR, Bien SA, Harrison TA, Kang HM, Chen S, Schmit SL, Conti DV, Qu C, Jeon J, Edlund CK, Greenside P, Wainberg M, Schumacher FR, Smith JD, Levine DM, Nelson SC, Sinnott-Armstrong NA, Albanes D, Alonso MH, Anderson K, Arnau-Collell C, Arndt V, Bamia C, Banbury BL, Baron JA, Berndt SI, Bézieau S, Bishop DT, Boehm J, Boeing H, Brenner H, Brezina S, Buch S, Buchanan DD, Burnett-Hartman A, Butterbach K, Caan BJ, Campbell PT, Carlson CS, Castellví-Bel S, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chirlaque MD, Cho SH, Connolly CM, Cross AJ, Cuk K, Curtis KR, de la Chapelle A, Doheny KF, Duggan D, Easton DF, Elias SG, Elliott F, English DR, Feskens EJM, Figueiredo JC, Fischer R, FitzGerald LM, Forman D, Gala M, Gallinger S, Gauderman WJ, Giles GG, Gillanders E, Gong J, Goodman PJ, Grady WM, Grove JS, Gsur A, Gunter MJ, Haile RW, Hampe J, Hampel H, Harlid S, Hayes RB, Hofer P, Hoffmeister M, Hopper JL, Hsu WL, Huang WY, Hudson TJ, Hunter DJ, Ibañez-Sanz G, Idos GE, Ingersoll R, Jackson RD, Jacobs EJ, Jenkins MA, Joshi AD, Joshu CE, Keku TO, Key TJ, Kim HR, Kobayashi E, Kolonel LN, Kooperberg C, Kühn T, Küry S, Kweon SS, Larsson SC, Laurie CA, Le Marchand L, Leal SM, Lee SC, Lejbkowicz F, Lemire M, Li CI, Li L, Lieb W, Lin Y, Lindblom A, Lindor NM, Ling H, Louie TL, Männistö S, Markowitz SD, Martín V, Masala G, McNeil CE, Melas M, Milne RL, Moreno L, Murphy N, Myte R, Naccarati A, Newcomb PA, Offit K, Ogino S, Onland-Moret NC, Pardini B, Parfrey PS, Pearlman R, Perduca V, Pharoah PDP, Pinchev M, Platz EA, Prentice RL, Pugh E, Raskin L, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Riboli E, Rodríguez-Barranco M, Romm J, Sakoda LC, Schafmayer C, Schoen RE, Seminara D, Shah M, Shelford T, Shin MH, Shulman K, Sieri S, Slattery ML, Southey MC, Stadler ZK, Stegmaier C, Su YR, Tangen CM, Thibodeau SN, Thomas DC, Thomas SS, Toland AE, Trichopoulou A, Ulrich CM, Van Den Berg DJ, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, van Kranen H, Vijai J, Visvanathan K, Vodicka P, Vodickova L, Vymetalkova V, Weigl K, Weinstein SJ, White E, Win AK, Wolf CR, Wolk A, Woods MO, Wu AH, Zaidi SH, Zanke BW, Zhang Q, Zheng W, Scacheri PC, Potter JD, Bassik MC, Kundaje A, Casey G, Moreno V, Abecasis GR, Nickerson DA, Gruber SB, Hsu L, Peters U. Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer. Nat Genet 2019; 51:76-87. [PMID: 30510241 PMCID: PMC6358437 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0286-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 326] [Impact Index Per Article: 65.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
To further dissect the genetic architecture of colorectal cancer (CRC), we performed whole-genome sequencing of 1,439 cases and 720 controls, imputed discovered sequence variants and Haplotype Reference Consortium panel variants into genome-wide association study data, and tested for association in 34,869 cases and 29,051 controls. Findings were followed up in an additional 23,262 cases and 38,296 controls. We discovered a strongly protective 0.3% frequency variant signal at CHD1. In a combined meta-analysis of 125,478 individuals, we identified 40 new independent signals at P < 5 × 10-8, bringing the number of known independent signals for CRC to ~100. New signals implicate lower-frequency variants, Krüppel-like factors, Hedgehog signaling, Hippo-YAP signaling, long noncoding RNAs and somatic drivers, and support a role for immune function. Heritability analyses suggest that CRC risk is highly polygenic, and larger, more comprehensive studies enabling rare variant analysis will improve understanding of biology underlying this risk and influence personalized screening strategies and drug development.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jeroen R Huyghe
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Stephanie A Bien
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Tabitha A Harrison
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Hyun Min Kang
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Sai Chen
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Stephanie L Schmit
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
| | - David V Conti
- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Conghui Qu
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Jihyoun Jeon
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Christopher K Edlund
- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Peyton Greenside
- Biomedical Informatics Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Michael Wainberg
- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Fredrick R Schumacher
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
| | - Joshua D Smith
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - David M Levine
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Sarah C Nelson
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - M Henar Alonso
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Kristin Anderson
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Volker Arndt
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Christina Bamia
- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Stefanie Brezina
- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Stephan Buch
- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Dresden, Germany
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- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Bette J Caan
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA, USA
| | - Peter T Campbell
- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Christopher S Carlson
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Sergi Castellví-Bel
- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Andrew T Chan
- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Jenny Chang-Claude
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Cancer Centre Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
| | - Stephen J Chanock
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Maria-Dolores Chirlaque
- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia University, Murcia, Spain
| | - Sang Hee Cho
- Department of Hematology-Oncology, Chonnam National University Hospital, Hwasun, South Korea
| | - Charles M Connolly
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Amanda J Cross
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Katarina Cuk
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Keith R Curtis
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Albert de la Chapelle
- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
| | - Kimberly F Doheny
- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - David Duggan
- Translational Genomics Research Institute - An Affiliate of City of Hope, Phoenix, AZ, USA
| | - Douglas F Easton
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Sjoerd G Elias
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
| | - Faye Elliott
- Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
| | - Dallas R English
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Edith J M Feskens
- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
| | - Jane C Figueiredo
- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Rocky Fischer
- University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Liesel M FitzGerald
- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
| | - David Forman
- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
| | - Manish Gala
- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Steven Gallinger
- Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - W James Gauderman
- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Graham G Giles
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Elizabeth Gillanders
- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Jian Gong
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Phyllis J Goodman
- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - William M Grady
- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - John S Grove
- University of Hawaii Cancer Research Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
| | - Andrea Gsur
- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Marc J Gunter
- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
| | - Robert W Haile
- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Jochen Hampe
- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Dresden, Germany
| | - Heather Hampel
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
| | - Sophia Harlid
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Richard B Hayes
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
| | - Philipp Hofer
- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
| | - Michael Hoffmeister
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
| | - John L Hopper
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - Wan-Ling Hsu
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Wen-Yi Huang
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Thomas J Hudson
- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - David J Hunter
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Gemma Ibañez-Sanz
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Gastroenterology Department, Bellvitge University Hospital, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Gregory E Idos
- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Roxann Ingersoll
- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Rebecca D Jackson
- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
| | - Eric J Jacobs
- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Mark A Jenkins
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Amit D Joshi
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Corinne E Joshu
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Temitope O Keku
- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Timothy J Key
- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Hyeong Rok Kim
- Department of Surgery, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital and Medical School, Hwasun, Korea
| | - Emiko Kobayashi
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Laurence N Kolonel
- Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
- Jeonnam Regional Cancer Center, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Korea
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Haematology-Oncology, National University Cancer Institute, Singapore, Singapore
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- The Clalit Health Services, Personalized Genomic Service, Carmel, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Community Health Integration and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Institute of Epidemiology, PopGen Biobank, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Biomedicine Institute (IBIOMED), University of León, León, Spain
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- Cancer Risk Factors and Life-Style Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network - ISPRO, Florence, Italy
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Turin, Italy
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Turin, Italy
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- The Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Memorial University Medical School, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées MAP5 (UMR CNRS 8145), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- CESP (Inserm U1018), Facultés de Medicine Université Paris-Sud, UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública. Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Hospitales Universitarios de Granada, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
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- Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Laboratory Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Internal Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Memorial University of Newfoundland, Discipline of Genetics, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Hematology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genomics Shared Resource, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Milne RL, Fletcher AS, MacInnis RJ, Hodge AM, Hopkins AH, Bassett JK, Bruinsma FJ, Lynch BM, Dugué PA, Jayasekara H, Brinkman MT, Popowski LV, Baglietto L, Severi G, O'Dea K, Hopper JL, Southey MC, English DR, Giles GG. Cohort Profile: The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (Health 2020). Int J Epidemiol 2018. [PMID: 28641380 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- R L Milne
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.,Physical Activity Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.,Centre de Recherche en Épidémiologie et Santé des Populations, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France.,Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.,Centre de Recherche en Épidémiologie et Santé des Populations, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France.,Human Genetics Foundation (HuGeF), Turin, Italy
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre of Population Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) gene three prime untranslated region (3'-UTR) polymorphisms have been reported to be associated with cancer risk. However, the conclusions of the relevant studies are not consistent. The present meta-analysis evaluates the relationship between IGF1 gene 3'-UTR polymorphisms (rs5742714, rs6214, and rs6220) and cancer risk. METHODS Articles regarding the relationship between IGF1 rs5742714, rs6214, and rs6220 polymorphisms and cancer risk were selected by searching the PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science databases before April 30, 2018. Altogether, we obtained 34 case-controlled studies from 20 articles, including 21,568 cases and 31,199 controls. The strength of associations was quantified using odds ratios (ORs) and the corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs). RESULTS In the present meta-analysis, no significant associations were detected between rs5742714, rs6214, and rs6220 and overall cancer risk. Thus, in stratified analyses, we found that rs6214 was associated with a significantly reduced risk of breast cancer under the allele, heterozygote, and dominant models (A vs G: OR, 0.94, 95% CI,0.88-1.00, P = .044; GA vs GG: OR, 0.88, 95% CI, 0.80-0.97, P = .012; AA + GA vs GG: OR, 0.89, 95% CI, 0.81-0.97, P = .011), as well as pancreatic cancer under the recessive model (AA vs GA + GG: OR, 0.68, 95% CI,0.53-0.87, P = .003). Also, rs6220 was associated with a significantly increased risk of breast cancer under the homozygote model (GG vs AA: OR, 1.23, 95% CI, 1.02-1.48, P = .031). In addition, rs6220 was found to increase overall cancer risk among Caucasians under the allele model (G vs A: OR, 1.06, 95% CI, 1.00-1.13, P = .043). CONCLUSIONS In this meta-analysis, we investigated and reviewed the relationship between IGF1 gene 3'-UTR polymorphisms (rs5742714, rs6214, and rs6220) and cancer risk based on present epidemiological studies. Further studies are needed to draw more precise conclusions in the future.
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- Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Majerska J, Feretzaki M, Glousker G, Lingner J. Transformation-induced stress at telomeres is counteracted through changes in the telomeric proteome including SAMHD1. Life Sci Alliance 2018; 1:e201800121. [PMID: 30456372 PMCID: PMC6238619 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.201800121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Revised: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The authors apply telomeric chromatin analysis to identify factors that accumulate at telomeres during cellular transformation, promoting telomere replication and repair and counteracting oncogene-borne telomere replication stress. Telomeres play crucial roles during tumorigenesis, inducing cellular senescence upon telomere shortening and extensive chromosome instability during telomere crisis. However, it has not been investigated if and how cellular transformation and oncogenic stress alter telomeric chromatin composition and function. Here, we transform human fibroblasts by consecutive transduction with vectors expressing hTERT, the SV40 early region, and activated H-RasV12. Pairwise comparisons of the telomeric proteome during different stages of transformation reveal up-regulation of proteins involved in chromatin remodeling, DNA repair, and replication at chromosome ends. Depletion of several of these proteins induces telomere fragility, indicating their roles in replication of telomeric DNA. Depletion of SAMHD1, which has reported roles in DNA resection and homology-directed repair, leads to telomere breakage events in cells deprived of the shelterin component TRF1. Thus, our analysis identifies factors, which accumulate at telomeres during cellular transformation to promote telomere replication and repair, resisting oncogene-borne telomere replication stress.
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- Jana Majerska
- School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Prostate cancer development involves corruption of the normal prostate transcriptional network, following deregulated expression or mutation of key transcription factors. Here, we provide an overview of the transcription factors that are important in normal prostate homeostasis (NKX3-1, p63, androgen receptor [AR]), primary prostate cancer (ETS family members, c-MYC), castration-resistant prostate cancer (AR, FOXA1), and AR-independent castration-resistant neuroendocrine prostate cancer (RB1, p53, N-MYC). We use functional (in vitro and in vivo) as well as clinical data to discuss evidence that unveils their roles in the initiation and progression of prostate cancer, with an emphasis on results of chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq).
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- David P Labbé
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School and Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School and Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215
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Udager AM, Tomlins SA. Molecular Biomarkers in the Clinical Management of Prostate Cancer. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med 2018; 8:a030601. [PMID: 29311125 PMCID: PMC6211380 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a030601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Prostate cancer, one of the most common noncutaneous malignancies in men, is a heterogeneous disease with variable clinical outcome. Although the majority of patients harbor indolent tumors that are essentially cured by local therapy, subsets of patients present with aggressive disease or recur/progress after primary treatment. With this in mind, modern clinical approaches to prostate cancer emphasize the need to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment via personalized medicine. Advances in our understanding of prostate cancer pathogenesis, coupled with recent technologic innovations, have facilitated the development and validation of numerous molecular biomarkers, representing a range of macromolecules assayed from a variety of patient sample types, to help guide the clinical management of prostate cancer, including early detection, diagnosis, prognostication, and targeted therapeutic selection. Herein, we review the current state of the art regarding prostate cancer molecular biomarkers, emphasizing those with demonstrated utility in clinical practice.
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- Aaron M Udager
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5054
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- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5054
- Department of Urology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5948
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0944
- Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5940
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Guo Y, Perez AA, Hazelett DJ, Coetzee GA, Rhie SK, Farnham PJ. CRISPR-mediated deletion of prostate cancer risk-associated CTCF loop anchors identifies repressive chromatin loops. Genome Biol 2018; 19:160. [PMID: 30296942 PMCID: PMC6176514 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-018-1531-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2018] [Accepted: 09/09/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 loci associated with increased risk of prostate cancer, most of which are in non-coding regions of the genome. Understanding the function of these non-coding risk loci is critical to elucidate the genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer. RESULTS We generate genome-wide regulatory element maps and performed genome-wide chromosome confirmation capture assays (in situ Hi-C) in normal and tumorigenic prostate cells. Using this information, we annotate the regulatory potential of 2,181 fine-mapped prostate cancer risk-associated SNPs and predict a set of target genes that are regulated by prostate cancer risk-related H3K27Ac-mediated loops. We next identify prostate cancer risk-associated CTCF sites involved in long-range chromatin loops. We use CRISPR-mediated deletion to remove prostate cancer risk-associated CTCF anchor regions and the CTCF anchor regions looped to the prostate cancer risk-associated CTCF sites, and we observe up to 100-fold increases in expression of genes within the loops when the prostate cancer risk-associated CTCF anchor regions are deleted. CONCLUSIONS We identify GWAS risk loci involved in long-range loops that function to repress gene expression within chromatin loops. Our studies provide new insights into the genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer.
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- Yu Guo
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, NRT 6503, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9601 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, NRT 6503, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9601 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, NRT 6503, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9601 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, NRT 6503, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9601 USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, NRT G511B, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9601 USA
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Dias A, Kote-Jarai Z, Mikropoulos C, Eeles R. Prostate Cancer Germline Variations and Implications for Screening and Treatment. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med 2018; 8:a030379. [PMID: 29101112 PMCID: PMC6120689 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a030379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Prostate cancer (PCa) is a highly heritable disease, and rapid evolution of sequencing technologies has enabled marked progression of our understanding of its genetic inheritance. A complex polygenic model that involves common low-penetrance susceptibility alleles causing individually small but cumulatively significant risk and rarer genetic variants causing greater risk represent the current most accepted model. Through genome-wide association studies, more than 100 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with PCa risk have been identified. Consistent reports have identified germline mutations in the genes BRCA1, BRCA2, MMR, HOXB13, CHEK2, and NBS1 as conferring moderate risks, with some leading to a more aggressive disease behavior. Considering this knowledge, several research strategies have been developed to determine whether targeted prostate screening using genetic information can overcome the limitations of population-based prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. Germline DNA-repair mutations are more frequent in men with metastatic disease than previously thought, and these patients have a more favorable response to therapy with poly(adenosine diphosphate [ADP]-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. Genomic information is a practical tool that has the potential to enable the concept of precision medicine to become a reality in all steps of PCa patient care.
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- Alexander Dias
- The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, United Kingdom
- The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, Academic Urology Unit and The Oncogenetics Team, London SW3 6JJ, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, United Kingdom
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, United Kingdom
- The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, Academic Urology Unit and The Oncogenetics Team, London SW3 6JJ, United Kingdom
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Sipeky C, Gao P, Zhang Q, Wang L, Ettala O, Talala KM, Tammela TLJ, Auvinen A, Wiklund F, Wei GH, Schleutker J. Synergistic Interaction of HOXB13 and CIP2A Predisposes to Aggressive Prostate Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2018; 24:6265-6276. [PMID: 30181389 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-18-0444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2018] [Revised: 06/09/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Distinguishing aggressive prostate cancer from indolent disease improves personalized treatment. Although only few genetic variants are known to predispose to aggressive prostate cancer, synergistic interactions of HOXB13 G84E high-risk prostate cancer susceptibility mutation with other genetic loci remain unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine the interplay of HOXB13 rs138213197 (G84E) and CIP2A rs2278911 (R229Q) germline variants on prostate cancer risk. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Genotyping was done in Finnish discovery cohort (n = 2,738) and validated in Swedish (n = 3,132) and independent Finnish (n = 1,155) prostate cancer cohorts. Expression pattern analysis was followed by functional studies in prostate cancer cell models. RESULTS Interplay of HOXB13 (G84E) and CIP2A (R229Q) variants results in highest observed inherited prostate cancer risk (OR, 21.1; P = 0.000024). In addition, this synergism indicates a significant association of HOXB13 T and CIP2A T dual carriers with elevated risk for high Gleason score (OR, 2.3; P = 0.025) and worse prostate cancer-specific life expectancy (HR, 3.9; P = 0.048), and it is linked with high PSA at diagnosis (OR, 3.30; P = 0.028). Furthermore, combined high expression of HOXB13-CIP2A correlates with earlier biochemical recurrence. Finally, functional experiments showed that ectopic expression of variants stimulates prostate cancer cell growth and migration. In addition, we observed strong chromatin binding of HOXB13 at CIP2A locus and revealed that HOXB13 functionally promotes CIP2A transcription. The study is limited to retrospective Nordic cohorts. CONCLUSIONS Simultaneous presence of HOXB13 T and CIP2A T alleles confers for high prostate cancer risk and aggressiveness of disease, earlier biochemical relapse, and lower disease-specific life expectancy. HOXB13 protein binds to CIP2A gene and functionally promotes CIP2A transcription.
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- Csilla Sipeky
- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Biocenter Oulu, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Biocenter Oulu, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Pathology, MCW Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Urology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Finnish Cancer Registry, Mass Screening Registry, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Urology, Tampere University Hospital and Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biocenter Oulu, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. .,Tyks Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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Angeles AK, Bauer S, Ratz L, Klauck SM, Sültmann H. Genome-Based Classification and Therapy of Prostate Cancer. Diagnostics (Basel) 2018; 8:E62. [PMID: 30200539 PMCID: PMC6164491 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics8030062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Revised: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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In the past decade, multi-national and multi-center efforts were launched to sequence prostate cancer genomes, transcriptomes, and epigenomes with the aim of discovering the molecular underpinnings of tumorigenesis, cancer progression, and therapy resistance. Multiple biological markers and pathways have been discovered to be tumor drivers, and a molecular classification of prostate cancer is emerging. Here, we highlight crucial findings of these genome-sequencing projects in localized and advanced disease. We recapitulate the utility and limitations of current clinical practices to diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy, and we provide examples of insights generated by the molecular profiling of tumors. Novel treatment concepts based on these molecular alterations are currently being addressed in clinical trials and will lead to an enhanced implementation of precision medicine strategies.
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- Arlou Kristina Angeles
- Division of Cancer Genome Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany.
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- Division of Cancer Genome Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany.
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- Division of Cancer Genome Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany.
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- Division of Cancer Genome Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany.
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- Division of Cancer Genome Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 460, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany.
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Despite the high long-term survival in localized prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer remains largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. The lethality of advanced disease is driven by the lack of therapeutic regimens capable of generating durable responses in the setting of extreme tumor heterogeneity on the genetic and cell biological levels. Here, we review available prostate cancer model systems, the prostate cancer genome atlas, cellular and functional heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment, tumor-intrinsic and tumor-extrinsic mechanisms underlying therapeutic resistance, and technological advances focused on disease detection and management. These advances, along with an improved understanding of the adaptive responses to conventional cancer therapies, anti-androgen therapy, and immunotherapy, are catalyzing development of more effective therapeutic strategies for advanced disease. In particular, knowledge of the heterotypic interactions between and coevolution of cancer and host cells in the tumor microenvironment has illuminated novel therapeutic combinations with a strong potential for more durable therapeutic responses and eventual cures for advanced disease. Improved disease management will also benefit from artificial intelligence-based expert decision support systems for proper standard of care, prognostic determinant biomarkers to minimize overtreatment of localized disease, and new standards of care accelerated by next-generation adaptive clinical trials.
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- Guocan Wang
- Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Schumacher FR, Al Olama AA, Berndt SI, Benlloch S, Ahmed M, Saunders EJ, Dadaev T, Leongamornlert D, Anokian E, Cieza-Borrella C, Goh C, Brook MN, Sheng X, Fachal L, Dennis J, Tyrer J, Muir K, Lophatananon A, Stevens VL, Gapstur SM, Carter BD, Tangen CM, Goodman PJ, Thompson IM, Batra J, Chambers S, Moya L, Clements J, Horvath L, Tilley W, Risbridger GP, Gronberg H, Aly M, Nordström T, Pharoah P, Pashayan N, Schleutker J, Tammela TLJ, Sipeky C, Auvinen A, Albanes D, Weinstein S, Wolk A, Håkansson N, West CML, Dunning AM, Burnet N, Mucci LA, Giovannucci E, Andriole GL, Cussenot O, Cancel-Tassin G, Koutros S, Beane Freeman LE, Sorensen KD, Orntoft TF, Borre M, Maehle L, Grindedal EM, Neal DE, Donovan JL, Hamdy FC, Martin RM, Travis RC, Key TJ, Hamilton RJ, Fleshner NE, Finelli A, Ingles SA, Stern MC, Rosenstein BS, Kerns SL, Ostrer H, Lu YJ, Zhang HW, Feng N, Mao X, Guo X, Wang G, Sun Z, Giles GG, Southey MC, MacInnis RJ, FitzGerald LM, Kibel AS, Drake BF, Vega A, Gómez-Caamaño A, Szulkin R, Eklund M, Kogevinas M, Llorca J, Castaño-Vinyals G, Penney KL, Stampfer M, Park JY, Sellers TA, Lin HY, Stanford JL, Cybulski C, Wokolorczyk D, Lubinski J, Ostrander EA, Geybels MS, Nordestgaard BG, Nielsen SF, Weischer M, Bisbjerg R, Røder MA, Iversen P, Brenner H, Cuk K, Holleczek B, Maier C, Luedeke M, Schnoeller T, Kim J, Logothetis CJ, John EM, Teixeira MR, Paulo P, Cardoso M, Neuhausen SL, Steele L, Ding YC, De Ruyck K, De Meerleer G, Ost P, Razack A, Lim J, Teo SH, Lin DW, Newcomb LF, Lessel D, Gamulin M, Kulis T, Kaneva R, Usmani N, Singhal S, Slavov C, Mitev V, Parliament M, Claessens F, Joniau S, Van den Broeck T, Larkin S, Townsend PA, Aukim-Hastie C, Gago-Dominguez M, Castelao JE, Martinez ME, Roobol MJ, Jenster G, van Schaik RHN, Menegaux F, Truong T, Koudou YA, Xu J, Khaw KT, Cannon-Albright L, Pandha H, Michael A, Thibodeau SN, McDonnell SK, Schaid DJ, Lindstrom S, Turman C, Ma J, Hunter DJ, Riboli E, Siddiq A, Canzian F, Kolonel LN, Le Marchand L, Hoover RN, Machiela MJ, Cui Z, Kraft P, Amos CI, Conti DV, Easton DF, Wiklund F, Chanock SJ, Henderson BE, Kote-Jarai Z, Haiman CA, Eeles RA. Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci. Nat Genet 2018; 50:928-936. [PMID: 29892016 PMCID: PMC6568012 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0142-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 522] [Impact Index Per Article: 87.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and fine-mapping efforts to date have identified more than 100 prostate cancer (PrCa)-susceptibility loci. We meta-analyzed genotype data from a custom high-density array of 46,939 PrCa cases and 27,910 controls of European ancestry with previously genotyped data of 32,255 PrCa cases and 33,202 controls of European ancestry. Our analysis identified 62 novel loci associated (P < 5.0 × 10-8) with PrCa and one locus significantly associated with early-onset PrCa (≤55 years). Our findings include missense variants rs1800057 (odds ratio (OR) = 1.16; P = 8.2 × 10-9; G>C, p.Pro1054Arg) in ATM and rs2066827 (OR = 1.06; P = 2.3 × 10-9; T>G, p.Val109Gly) in CDKN1B. The combination of all loci captured 28.4% of the PrCa familial relative risk, and a polygenic risk score conferred an elevated PrCa risk for men in the ninetieth to ninety-ninth percentiles (relative risk = 2.69; 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.55-2.82) and first percentile (relative risk = 5.71; 95% CI: 5.04-6.48) risk stratum compared with the population average. These findings improve risk prediction, enhance fine-mapping, and provide insight into the underlying biology of PrCa1.
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- Fredrick R Schumacher
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
- Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
- Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica-SERGAS, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, CIBERER, IDIS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Strangeways Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Menzies Health Institute of Queensland, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia
- Cancer Council Queensland, Fortitude Valley, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Chris O'Brien Lifehouse (COBLH), Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Cancer Program, Prostate Cancer Research Program, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Urology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Sciences at Danderyds Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Strangeways Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Strangeways Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Tyks Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Medical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Urology, Tampere University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre and Christie NHS Foundation Trust, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Strangeways Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Oncology Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- UPMC Sorbonne Universités, GRC no. 5 ONCOTYPE-URO, Tenon Hospital, Paris, France
- CeRePP, Tenon Hospital, Paris, France
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- UPMC Sorbonne Universités, GRC no. 5 ONCOTYPE-URO, Tenon Hospital, Paris, France
- CeRePP, Tenon Hospital, Paris, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Urology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Oncology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Cambridge, UK
- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Urology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Centre for Molecular Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Wuxi Second Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, China
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- Centre for Molecular Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Urology, First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Urology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University Medical College, Shanghai, China
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- People's Hospital of Liaoning Province, People's Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Division of Urologic Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica-SERGAS, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, CIBERER, IDIS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Division of Family Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Karolinska, Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
- Scandinavian Development Services, Danderyd, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- University of Cantabria-IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
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- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Biostatistics Program, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Department of Urology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Prostate Cancer Center, Department of Urology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Prostate Cancer Center, Department of Urology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute for Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, CA, USA
- Department of Health Research & Policy (Epidemiology) and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Cancer Research Malaysia (CRM), Outpatient Centre, Subang Jaya Medical Centre, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Oncology, Division of Medical Oncology, Urogenital Unit, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Urology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Molecular Medicine Center, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Division of Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Division of Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Urology and Alexandrovska University Hospital, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Molecular Medicine Center, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Division of Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Urology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Center, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Health Innovation Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Genomic Medicine Group, Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Servicio Galego de Saúde, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Genetic Oncology Unit, CHUVI Hospital, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Galicia Sur (IISGS), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
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- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Urology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Urology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Program for Personalized Cancer Care, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Clinical Gerontology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Genomics England, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA
- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
- Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Strangeways Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK.
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
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Gu Y, Zhang CWH, Wang L, Zhao Y, Wang H, Ye Q, Gao S. Association Analysis between Body Mass Index and Genomic DNA Methylation across 15 Major Cancer Types. J Cancer 2018; 9:2532-2542. [PMID: 30026852 PMCID: PMC6036895 DOI: 10.7150/jca.23535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2017] [Accepted: 05/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Cancer incidence and mortality increase with increasing body mass index (BMI), but BMI-associated epigenetic alterations in cancer remain elusive. We hypothesized that BMI would be associated with DNA methylation alterations in cancers. To test this hypothesis, here, we estimated the associations between DNA methylation and BMI through two different methods across 15 cancer types, at approximately 485,000 CpG sites and 2415 samples using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas. After comparing the DNA methylation levels in control BMI and high BMI individuals, we found differentially methylated CpG sites (DMSs) in cholangiocarcinoma (CHOL), colon adenocarcinoma (COAD), and uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC) (False Discovery Rate < 0.05). The DMSs of COAD or UCEC were enriched in several obesity-induced and cancer-related pathways. Next, when BMI was used as a continuous variable, we identified BMI-associated methylated CpG sites (BMS) (P (Bonferroni) < 0.05) in CHOL (BMS = 1), COAD (BMS = 1), and UCEC (BMS = 4) using multivariable linear regression. In UCEC, three of the BMSs can predict the clinical outcomes and survival of patients with the tumors. Overall, we observed associations between DNA methylation and high BMI in CHOL, COAD, and UCEC. Furthermore, three BMI-associated CpGs were identified as potential biomarkers for UCEC prognosis.
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- Yinmin Gu
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.,CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-medical Diagnostics, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215163, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-medical Diagnostics, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215163, China.,Medical College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
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Prostate Cancer Genomics: Recent Advances and the Prevailing Underrepresentation from Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19041255. [PMID: 29690565 PMCID: PMC5979433 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19041255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2018] [Revised: 04/15/2018] [Accepted: 04/15/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Prostate cancer (CaP) is the most commonly diagnosed non-cutaneous cancer and the second leading cause of male cancer deaths in the United States. Among African American (AA) men, CaP is the most prevalent malignancy, with disproportionately higher incidence and mortality rates. Even after discounting the influence of socioeconomic factors, the effect of molecular and genetic factors on racial disparity of CaP is evident. Earlier studies on the molecular basis for CaP disparity have focused on the influence of heritable mutations and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Most CaP susceptibility alleles identified based on genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were common, low-penetrance variants. Germline CaP-associated mutations that are highly penetrant, such as those found in HOXB13 and BRCA2, are usually rare. More recently, genomic studies enabled by Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) technologies have focused on the identification of somatic mutations that contribute to CaP tumorigenesis. These studies confirmed the high prevalence of ERG gene fusions and PTEN deletions among Caucasian Americans and identified novel somatic alterations in SPOP and FOXA1 genes in early stages of CaP. Individuals with African ancestry and other minorities are often underrepresented in these large-scale genomic studies, which are performed primarily using tumors from men of European ancestry. The insufficient number of specimens from AA men and other minority populations, together with the heterogeneity in the molecular etiology of CaP across populations, challenge the generalizability of findings from these projects. Efforts to close this gap by sequencing larger numbers of tumor specimens from more diverse populations, although still at an early stage, have discovered distinct genomic alterations. These research findings can have a direct impact on the diagnosis of CaP, the stratification of patients for treatment, and can help to address the disparity in incidence and mortality of CaP. This review examines the progress of understanding in CaP genetics and genomics and highlight the need to increase the representation from minority populations.
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FitzGerald LM, Jung CH, Wong EM, Joo JE, Gould JA, Vasic V, Bassett JK, O'Callaghan N, Nottle T, Pedersen J, Giles GG, Southey MC. Obtaining high quality transcriptome data from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded diagnostic prostate tumor specimens. J Transl Med 2018; 98:537-550. [PMID: 29339835 DOI: 10.1038/s41374-017-0001-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2017] [Revised: 10/23/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Prognostic genomic biomarkers that can be measured at diagnosis to aid choice of treatment options are unavailable for most common cancers. This is due in part to the poor quality and quantity of available diagnostic specimens for discovery research and to limitations in genomic technologies. Recent technical advances now enable high-density molecular analyses using suboptimal biological specimens. Here we describe the optimization of a transcriptome-specific protocol for use with formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) diagnostic prostate cancer (PrCa) specimens. We applied the Ion AmpliSeq Transcriptome Human Gene Expression Kit (AmpliSeq Kit) to RNA samples extracted from 36 tumor-enriched and 16 adjacent normal tissues (ADJNT) from 37 FFPE PrCa specimens over a series of eight pilot studies, incorporating protocol modifications from Pilots 2 to 5. Data quality were measured by (1) the total number of mapped reads; (2) the percentage of reads that mapped to AmpliSeq target regions (OnTarget%); (3) the percentage of genes on the AmpliSeq panel with a read count ≥10 (TargetsDetected%); and (4) comparing the gene read-count distribution of the prostate tissue samples with the median gene read-count distribution of cell line-derived RNA samples. Modifications incorporated into Pilot study 5 provided gene expression data equivalent to cell line-derived RNA samples. These modifications included the use of freshly cut slides for macrodissection; increased tissue section thickness (8 µm); RNA extraction using the RecoverAll Total Nucleic Acid Isolation Kit for FFPE (ThermoFisher); 18 target amplification cycles; and processing six samples per Ion PI chip. This protocol will facilitate the discovery of prognostic biomarkers for cancer by allowing researchers to exploit previously underutilized diagnostic FFPE specimens.
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- Liesel M FitzGerald
- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Melbourne Bioinformatics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.,Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.,Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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- Monash Health Translation Precinct, Medical Genomics Facility, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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- Monash Health Translation Precinct, Medical Genomics Facility, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- TissuPath Specialist Pathology, Mount Waverley, VIC, Australia
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- TissuPath Specialist Pathology, Mount Waverley, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Global and Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. .,Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia. .,Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
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Eeles R, Ni Raghallaigh H. Men with a susceptibility to prostate cancer and the role of genetic based screening. Transl Androl Urol 2018; 7:61-69. [PMID: 29594021 PMCID: PMC5861282 DOI: 10.21037/tau.2017.12.30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Prostate cancer is the second most common malignancy affecting men worldwide, and the commonest affecting men of African descent. Significant diagnostic and therapeutic advances have been made in the past decade. Improvements in the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnosis include the uptake of multi-parametric MRI and a shift towards targeted biopsy. We also now have more life-prolonging systemic and hormonal therapies for men with advanced disease at our disposal than ever before. However, the development of robust screening tools and targeted screening programs has not followed at the same pace. Evidence to support population-based screening remains unclear, with the use of PSA as a screening test limiting our ability to discriminate between clinically significant and insignificant disease. Prostate cancer has a large heritable component. Given that most men without risk factors have a low lifetime risk of developing lethal prostate cancer, much work is being done to further our knowledge of how we can best screen men in higher risk categories, such as those with a family history (FH) of the disease or those of African ancestry. These men have been reported to carry upwards of a two-fold increased risk of developing the disease at an earlier age, with evidence suggesting poorer survival outcomes. In men with a FH of prostate cancer, this is felt to be due to rare, high-penetrance mutations and the presence of multiple, common low penetrance alleles, with men carrying specific germline mutations in the BRCA and other DNA repair genes at particularly high risk. To date, large scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have led to the discovery of approximately 170 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with prostate cancer risk, allowing over 30% of prostate cancer risk to be explained. Genomic tests, utilising somatic (prostate biopsy) tissue can also predict the risk of unfavourable pathology, biochemical recurrence and the likelihood of metastatic disease using gene expression. Targeted screening studies are currently under way in men with DNA repair mutations, men with a FH and those of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity which will greater inform our understanding of disease incidence and behaviour in these men, treatment outcomes and developing the most appropriate screening regime for such men. Incorporating a patient's genetic mutation status into risk algorithms allows us an opportunity to develop targeted screening programs for men in whom early cancer detection and treatment will positively influence survival, and in the process offer male family members of affected men the chance to be counselled and screened accordingly.
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- Rosalind Eeles
- Division of Genetics & Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics & Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, London, UK
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Pi L, Halabi S. Combined Performance of Screening and Variable Selection Methods in Ultra-High Dimensional Data in Predicting Time-To-Event Outcomes. Diagn Progn Res 2018; 2:21. [PMID: 30393771 PMCID: PMC6214199 DOI: 10.1186/s41512-018-0043-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Building prognostic models of clinical outcomes is an increasingly important research task and will remain a vital area in genomic medicine. Prognostic models of clinical outcomes are usually built and validated utilizing variable selection methods and machine learning tools. The challenges, however, in ultra-high dimensional space are not only to reduce the dimensionality of the data, but also to retain the important variables which predict the outcome. Screening approaches, such as the sure independence screening (SIS), iterative SIS (ISIS) and principled SIS (PSIS) have been developed to overcome the challenge of high dimensionality. We are interested in identifying important single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and integrating them into a validated prognostic model of overall survival in patients with metastatic prostate cancer. While the abovementioned variable selection approaches have theoretical justification in selecting SNPs, the comparison and the performance of these combined methods in predicting time-to-event outcomes have not been previously studied in ultra-high dimensional space with hundreds of thousands of variables. METHODS We conducted a series of simulations to compare the performance of different combinations of variable selection approaches and classification trees, such as the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), adaptive least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (ALASSO) and random survival forest (RSF), in ultra-high dimensional setting data for the purpose of developing prognostic models for a time-to-event outcome that is subject to censoring. The variable selection methods were evaluated for discrimination (Harrell's concordance statistic), calibration and overall performance. In addition, we applied these approaches to 498,081 SNPs from 623 Caucasian patients with prostate cancer. RESULTS When n=300, ISIS-LASSO and ISIS-ALASSO chose all the informative variables which resulted in the highest Harrell's c-index (>0.80). On the other hand, with a small sample size (n=150), ALASSO performed better than any other combinations as demonstrated by the highest c-index and/or overall performance, although there was evidence of overfitting. In analyzing the prostate cancer data, ISIS-ALASSO, SIS-LASSO, and SIS-ALASSO combinations achieved the highest discrimination with c-index of 0.67. CONCLUSIONS Choosing the appropriate variable selection method for training a model is a critical step in developing a robust prognostic model. Based on the simulation studies, the effective use of ALASSO or a combination of methods, such as ISIS-LASSO and ISIS-ALASSO, allows both for the development of prognostic models with high predictive accuracy and a low risk of overfitting assuming moderate sample sizes.
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- Lira Pi
- 0000000100241216grid.189509.cDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 USA
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- 0000000100241216grid.189509.cDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 USA
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Johnson SC. Nutrient Sensing, Signaling and Ageing: The Role of IGF-1 and mTOR in Ageing and Age-Related Disease. Subcell Biochem 2018; 90:49-97. [PMID: 30779006 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2835-0_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Nutrient signaling through insulin/IGF-1 was the first pathway demonstrated to regulate ageing and age-related disease in model organisms. Pharmacological or dietary interventions targeting nutrient signaling pathways have been shown to robustly attenuate ageing in many organisms. Caloric restriction, the most widely studied longevity promoting intervention, works through multiple nutrient signaling pathways, while inhibition of mTOR through treatment with rapamycin reproducibly delays ageing and disease through specific inhibition of the mTOR complexes. Although the benefits of reduced insulin/IGF-1 in lifespan and health are well documented in model organisms, defining the precise role of the IGF-1 in human ageing and age-related disease has proven more difficult. Association studies provide some insight but also reveal paradoxes. Low serum IGF-1 predicts longevity, but IGF-1 decreases with age and IGF-1 therapy benefits some of age-related pathologies. Circulating IGF-1 has been associated both positively and negatively with risk of age-related diseases in humans, and in some cases both activation and inhibition of IGF-1 signaling have provided benefit in animal models of the same diseases. Interventions designed modulate the nutrient sensing signaling pathways positively or negatively are already available for clinical use, highlighting the need for a clear understanding of the role of nutrient signaling in ageing and age-related disease. This chapter examines data from model organisms and human genetic association studies, with a special emphasis on IGF-1 and mTOR, and discusses potential models for resolving the paradoxes surrounding IGF-1 data.
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- Simon C Johnson
- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
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The molecular biology of prostate cancer: current understanding and clinical implications. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 2017; 21:22-36. [PMID: 29282359 DOI: 10.1038/s41391-017-0023-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 10/11/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND With continuous progress over the past few decades in understanding diagnosis, treatment, and genetics, much has been learned about the prostate cancer-diagnosed genome. METHODS A comprehensive MEDLINE® and Google scholar literature search was conducted using keyword variations relating to the genetics of prostate cancer such as chromosomal alterations, androgen receptor, castration-resistant, inheritance, polymorphisms, oncogenes, metastasis, biomarkers, and immunotherapy. RESULTS Traditionally, androgen receptors (AR) have been the focus of research. Recently, identification of recurrent chromosomal alterations that lead to either multiplication of regions (gain-of-function) or deletion of regions (loss-of-function) has opened the door to greater genetic accessibility. These chromosomal aberrations lead to variation in copy number and gene expression. Some of these chromosomal alterations are inherited, while others undergo somatic mutations during disease progression. Inherited gene mutations that make one susceptible to prostate cancer have been identified with familial-linked studies. Somatic genes that progress tumorigenesis have also been identified. Research on the molecular biology of prostate cancer has characterized these genes into tumor suppressor genes or oncogenes. Additionally, genome-wide assay studies have identified many high-risk single-nucleotide polymorphisms recurrent throughout the prostate cancer-diagnosed genome. Castration-resistant prostate cancer is the most aggressive form of prostate cancer, and its research has elucidated many types of mutations associated with AR itself, including enhanced expression and amplification, point mutations, and alternative splicing. Understanding the molecular biology of prostate cancer has permitted more accurate identification using advanced biomarkers and therapy for aggressive forms using immunotherapy. CONCLUSIONS An age-related disease, prostate cancer commands profound attention. With increasing life expectancy and the continuous pursuit of it, prostate cancer is a powerful obstacle best defeated using targeted therapies specifically designed for the unique molecular profile of the malignancy.
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