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Coetzee SG, Hazelett DJ. MotifbreakR v2: extended capability and database integration. ARXIV 2024:arXiv:2407.03441v1. [PMID: 39010878 PMCID: PMC11247919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/17/2024]
Abstract
MotifbreakR is a software tool that scans genetic variants against position weight matrices of transcription factors (TF) to determine the potential for the disruption of TF binding at the site of the variant. It leverages the Bioconductor suite of software packages and annotations to operate across a diverse array of genomes and motif databases. Initially developed to interrogate the effect of single nucleotide variants (common and rare SNVs) on potential TF binding sites, in motifbreakR v2, we have updated the functionality. New features include the ability to query other types of more complex genetic variants, such as short insertions and deletions (indels). This function allows modeling a more extensive array of variants that may have more significant effects on TF binding. Additionally, while TF binding is based partly on sequence preference, predictions of TF binding based on sequence preference alone can indicate many more potential binding events than observed. Adding information from DNA-binding sequencing datasets lends confidence to motif disruption prediction by demonstrating TF binding in cell lines and tissue types. Therefore, motifbreakR implements querying the ReMap2022 database for evidence that a TF matching the disrupted motif binds over the disrupting variant. Finally, in motifbreakR, in addition to the existing interface, we have implemented an R/Shiny graphical user interface to simplify and enhance access to researchers with different skill sets.
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- Simon G Coetzee
- Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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- Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Cancer Prevention and Control - Samuel Oschin Cancer Center, Cedars-Sinai
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Ochs-Balcom HM, Preus L, Du Z, Elston RC, Teerlink CC, Jia G, Guo X, Cai Q, Long J, Ping J, Li B, Stram DO, Shu XO, Sanderson M, Gao G, Ahearn T, Lunetta KL, Zirpoli G, Troester MA, Ruiz-Narváez EA, Haddad SA, Figueroa J, John EM, Bernstein L, Hu JJ, Ziegler RG, Nyante S, Bandera EV, Ingles SA, Mancuso N, Press MF, Deming SL, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Yao S, Ogundiran TO, Ojengbede O, Bolla MK, Dennis J, Dunning AM, Easton DF, Michailidou K, Pharoah PDP, Sandler DP, Taylor JA, Wang Q, O’Brien KM, Weinberg CR, Kitahara CM, Blot W, Nathanson KL, Hennis A, Nemesure B, Ambs S, Sucheston-Campbell LE, Bensen JT, Chanock SJ, Olshan AF, Ambrosone CB, Olopade OI, the Ghana Breast Health Study Team, Conti DV, Palmer J, García-Closas M, Huo D, Zheng W, Haiman C. Novel breast cancer susceptibility loci under linkage peaks identified in African ancestry consortia. Hum Mol Genet 2024; 33:687-697. [PMID: 38263910 PMCID: PMC11000665 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddae002] [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: 09/14/2023] [Revised: 01/02/2024] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 01/25/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Expansion of genome-wide association studies across population groups is needed to improve our understanding of shared and unique genetic contributions to breast cancer. We performed association and replication studies guided by a priori linkage findings from African ancestry (AA) relative pairs. METHODS We performed fixed-effect inverse-variance weighted meta-analysis under three significant AA breast cancer linkage peaks (3q26-27, 12q22-23, and 16q21-22) in 9241 AA cases and 10 193 AA controls. We examined associations with overall breast cancer as well as estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and negative subtypes (193,132 SNPs). We replicated associations in the African-ancestry Breast Cancer Genetic Consortium (AABCG). RESULTS In AA women, we identified two associations on chr12q for overall breast cancer (rs1420647, OR = 1.15, p = 2.50×10-6; rs12322371, OR = 1.14, p = 3.15×10-6), and one for ER-negative breast cancer (rs77006600, OR = 1.67, p = 3.51×10-6). On chr3, we identified two associations with ER-negative disease (rs184090918, OR = 3.70, p = 1.23×10-5; rs76959804, OR = 3.57, p = 1.77×10-5) and on chr16q we identified an association with ER-negative disease (rs34147411, OR = 1.62, p = 8.82×10-6). In the replication study, the chr3 associations were significant and effect sizes were larger (rs184090918, OR: 6.66, 95% CI: 1.43, 31.01; rs76959804, OR: 5.24, 95% CI: 1.70, 16.16). CONCLUSION The two chr3 SNPs are upstream to open chromatin ENSR00000710716, a regulatory feature that is actively regulated in mammary tissues, providing evidence that variants in this chr3 region may have a regulatory role in our target organ. Our study provides support for breast cancer variant discovery using prioritization based on linkage evidence.
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- Heather M Ochs-Balcom
- Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, 270 Farber Hall, Buffalo, NY 14214, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, 270 Farber Hall, Buffalo, NY 14214, United States
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- Department of Preventive Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
- Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave, N. Seattle, WA 98109, United States
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, 30 North Mario Capecchi Dr, 3rd Floor North, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, 707 Light Hall 2215 Garland Avenue, Nashville, TN 37232, United States
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- Department of Preventive Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, 1005 Dr. DB Todd Jr, Blvd. Nashville, TN 37208, United States
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, United States
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, 715 Albany St, Boston, MA 02118, United States
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, L-7, 72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, CB 7435, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1860 SPH I, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, L-7, 72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, United States
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, 9 Little France Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4UX, United Kingdom
- Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Crewe Rd S, Edinburgh, EH4 2XR, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, 3145 Porter Dr, Suite E223, MC 5393, Palo Alto, CA 94304, United States
- Department of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford University School of Medicine, 291 Campus Drive Li Ka Shing Building, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
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- Division of Biomarkers of Early Detection and Prevention Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, United States
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- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1120 NW 14th St, CRB 1511, Miami, FL 33136, United States
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 130 Mason Farm Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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- Cancer Epidemiology and Health Outcomes, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 120 Albany Street, Tower 2, 8th Floor, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, United States
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- Department of Preventive Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
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- Department of Preventive Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, 1441 Eastlake Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
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- Genomics, Development and Disease Section, Genetic Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Dr, Bethesda, MD 20894, United States
- Medical Scientist Training Program, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 750 Highland Ave., Madison, WI 53705, United States
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, United States
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Queen Elizabeth II Road, Ibadan, 200285, Nigeria
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- Center for Population and Reproductive Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, UCH, Queen Elizabeth II Road, Ibadan, 200285, Nigeria
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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- Biostatistics Unit, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics, Iroon Avenue 6, 2371 Ayius Dometios, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, PO Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, PO Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, PO Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States
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- Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, PO Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, United States
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- Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
- International Epidemiology Institute, 1455 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, United States
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- Chronic Disease Research Centre and Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Jemmotts Lane, Avalon, Bridgetown, Barbados
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- Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States
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- Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, 217 Lloyd M. Parks Hall, 500 West 12th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, United States
- College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, 1900 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, CB 7435, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, 170 Rosenau Hall, CB #7400, 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263, United States
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- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
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- Department of Preventive Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, L-7, 72 East Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, United States
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, United States
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
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- Department of Preventive Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
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Jia Z, Huang Y, Liu J, Liu G, Li J, Xu H, Jiang Y, Zhang S, Wang Y, Chen G, Qiao G, Li Y. Single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with female breast cancer susceptibility in Chinese population. Gene 2023; 884:147676. [PMID: 37524136 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2023.147676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Revised: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
Abstract
Breast cancer is a complex disease influenced by both external and internal factors, among which genetic factors play a critical role. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are major contributors to the heritability of breast cancer, and their frequencies vary across ethnic groups. In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between 34 SNPs identified in previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and overall breast cancer risk, as well as breast cancer subtypes, in the Chinese female population. To accomplish this, we conducted an extensive association analysis using the high-throughput Sequenom MassARRAY® platform in a case-control study comprising 1848 breast cancer patients and 709 healthy controls. Our analysis, which utilized the SNPassoc package in R based on chi-squared (χ2) test and genetic model analysis, identified significant associations between breast cancer risk and SNP rs12493607 (TGFBR2, risk allele C, OR = 1.28 [1.11-1.47], P = 0.0005), as well as a less conservatively significant association with rs4784227 (CASC16, risk allele T, OR = 1.24 [1.08-1.42], P = 0.0017) and rs2046210 (ESR1, risk allele A, OR = 1.50 [1.16-1.95], P = 0.0016). Furthermore, our stratified analyses revealed that rs12493607 was significantly associated with invasive carcinoma, estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, progesterone receptor (PR)-positive, HER2-negative, and young (aged younger than 45) breast cancer. SNP rs4784227 and rs3803662 (CASC16) were associated with invasive carcinoma and ER-positive breast cancer, while rs2046210 was linked to ductal carcinoma in situ, ER-negative, PR-negative, HER2-positive, and elder (aged more than 45) breast cancers. SNPs rs10484919 (ESR1) and rs1038304 (CCDC170) showed links to HER2-positive breast cancer, and rs616488 (PEX14) with premenopausal breast cancer. In summary, our study shed light on the relationship between SNPs and breast cancer susceptibility within a vast Chinese cohort, supporting the development of polygenetic risk scores for the Chinese population. These findings provide valuable insights into the genetic basis of breast cancer and have important implications for risk prediction, early detection, and personalized treatment of this disease.
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- Ziqi Jia
- Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China
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- Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China; School of Clinical Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China
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- Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China
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- Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China; School of Clinical Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China; School of Clinical Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Breast Surgical Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China; School of Clinical Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China
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- Department of Breast Surgery, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Yantai 264000, China.
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Raz A, Minari J. AI-driven risk scores: should social scoring and polygenic scores based on ethnicity be equally prohibited? Front Genet 2023; 14:1169580. [PMID: 37323663 PMCID: PMC10267818 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1169580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023] Open
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- Aviad Raz
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba, Israel
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- Uehiro Research Division for iPS Cell Ethics, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Petri BJ, Klinge CM. m6A readers, writers, erasers, and the m6A epitranscriptome in breast cancer. J Mol Endocrinol 2023; 70:JME-22-0110. [PMID: 36367225 PMCID: PMC9790079 DOI: 10.1530/jme-22-0110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Epitranscriptomic modification of RNA regulates human development, health, and disease. The true diversity of the transcriptome in breast cancer including chemical modification of transcribed RNA (epitranscriptomics) is not well understood due to limitations of technology and bioinformatic analysis. N-6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant epitranscriptomic modification of mRNA and regulates splicing, stability, translation, and intracellular localization of transcripts depending on m6A association with reader RNA-binding proteins. m6A methylation is catalyzed by the METTL3 complex and removed by specific m6A demethylase ALKBH5, with the role of FTO as an 'eraser' uncertain. In this review, we provide an overview of epitranscriptomics related to mRNA and focus on m6A in mRNA and its detection. We summarize current knowledge on altered levels of writers, readers, and erasers of m6A and their roles in breast cancer and their association with prognosis. We summarize studies identifying m6A peaks and sites in genes in breast cancer cells.
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- Belinda J. Petri
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville School of Medicine; Louisville, KY 40292 USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville School of Medicine; Louisville, KY 40292 USA
- University of Louisville Center for Integrative Environmental Health Sciences (CIEHS)
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Hughes E, Wagner S, Pruss D, Bernhisel R, Probst B, Abkevich V, Simmons T, Hullinger B, Judkins T, Rosenthal E, Roa B, Domchek SM, Eng C, Garber J, Gary M, Klemp J, Mukherjee S, Offit K, Olopade OI, Vijai J, Weitzel JN, Whitworth P, Yehia L, Gordon O, Pederson H, Kurian A, Slavin TP, Gutin A, Lanchbury JS. Development and Validation of a Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Score on the Basis of Genetic Ancestry Composition. JCO Precis Oncol 2022; 6:e2200084. [PMID: 36331239 PMCID: PMC9666117 DOI: 10.1200/po.22.00084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Revised: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 08/12/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for breast cancer (BC) risk stratification have been developed primarily in women of European ancestry. Their application to women of non-European ancestry has lagged because of the lack of a formal approach to incorporate genetic ancestry and ancestry-dependent variant frequencies and effect sizes. Here, we propose a multiple-ancestry PRS (MA-PRS) that addresses these issues and may be useful in the development of equitable PRSs across other cancers and common diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS Women referred for hereditary cancer testing were divided into consecutive cohorts for development (n = 189,230) and for independent validation (n = 89,126). Individual genetic composition as fractions of three reference ancestries (African, East Asian, and European) was determined from ancestry-informative single-nucleotide polymorphisms. The MA-PRS is a combination of three ancestry-specific PRSs on the basis of genetic ancestral composition. Stratification of risk was evaluated by multivariable logistic regression models controlling for family cancer history. Goodness-of-fit analysis compared expected with observed relative risks by quantiles of the MA-PRS distribution. RESULTS In independent validation, the MA-PRS was significantly associated with BC risk in the full cohort (odds ratio, 1.43; 95% CI, 1.40 to 1.46; P = 8.6 × 10-308) and within each major ancestry. The top decile of the MA-PRS consistently identified patients with two-fold increased risk of developing BC. Goodness-of-fit tests showed that the MA-PRS was well calibrated and predicted BC risk accurately in the tails of the distribution for both European and non-European women. CONCLUSION The MA-PRS uses genetic ancestral composition to expand the utility of polygenic risk prediction to non-European women. Inclusion of genetic ancestry in polygenic risk prediction presents an opportunity for more personalized treatment decisions for women of varying and mixed ancestries.
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- Basser Center for BRCA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- The University of Kansas Cancer Center, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Providence Health and Services, Renton, WA
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- Medical Breast Services, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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Gao G, Zhao F, Ahearn TU, Lunetta KL, Troester MA, Du Z, Ogundiran TO, Ojengbede O, Blot W, Nathanson KL, Domchek SM, Nemesure B, Hennis A, Ambs S, McClellan J, Nie M, Bertrand K, Zirpoli G, Yao S, Olshan AF, Bensen JT, Bandera EV, Nyante S, Conti DV, Press MF, Ingles SA, John EM, Bernstein L, Hu JJ, Deming-Halverson SL, Chanock SJ, Ziegler RG, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Sucheston-Campbell LE, Sandler DP, Taylor JA, Kitahara CM, O’Brien KM, Bolla MK, Dennis J, Dunning AM, Easton DF, Michailidou K, Pharoah PDP, Wang Q, Figueroa J, Biritwum R, Adjei E, Wiafe S, Ambrosone CB, Zheng W, Olopade OI, García-Closas M, Palmer JR, Haiman CA, Huo D. Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer risk in women of African ancestry: a cross-ancestry approach. Hum Mol Genet 2022; 31:3133-3143. [PMID: 35554533 PMCID: PMC9476624 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddac102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 04/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are useful for predicting breast cancer risk, but the prediction accuracy of existing PRSs in women of African ancestry (AA) remains relatively low. We aim to develop optimal PRSs for the prediction of overall and estrogen receptor (ER) subtype-specific breast cancer risk in AA women. The AA dataset comprised 9235 cases and 10 184 controls from four genome-wide association study (GWAS) consortia and a GWAS study in Ghana. We randomly divided samples into training and validation sets. We built PRSs using individual-level AA data by a forward stepwise logistic regression and then developed joint PRSs that combined (1) the PRSs built in the AA training dataset and (2) a 313-variant PRS previously developed in women of European ancestry. PRSs were evaluated in the AA validation set. For overall breast cancer, the odds ratio per standard deviation of the joint PRS in the validation set was 1.34 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.27-1.42] with the area under receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.581. Compared with women with average risk (40th-60th PRS percentile), women in the top decile of the PRS had a 1.98-fold increased risk (95% CI: 1.63-2.39). For PRSs of ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancer, the AUCs were 0.608 and 0.576, respectively. Compared with existing methods, the proposed joint PRSs can improve prediction of breast cancer risk in AA women.
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- Guimin Gao
- Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20850, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Centre for Population & Reproductive Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
- University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Bardados
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- Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Departments of Epidemiology & Population Health and of Medicine (Oncology) and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA
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- Biomarkers of Early Detection and Prevention, Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20850, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20850, USA
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- Genomics, Development and Disease Section, Genetic Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Biostatistics Unit, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics, Nicosia 2371, Cyprus
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh EH16 5TJ, UK
- Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK
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- School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics & Global Health, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20850, USA
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics & Global Health, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Montazeri F, Hatami A, Fathi S, Hassanpour N, Bourbour F, Rastgoo S, Shafiee F, Akbari ME, Gholamalizadeh M, Mosavi Jarrahi SA, Doaei S. FTO genotype was associated with breast cancer in HER2 negative patients. Clin Nutr ESPEN 2022; 49:495-498. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2022.02.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2021] [Revised: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Osman N, Shawky AEM, Brylinski M. Exploring the effects of genetic variation on gene regulation in cancer in the context of 3D genome structure. BMC Genom Data 2022; 23:13. [PMID: 35176995 PMCID: PMC8851830 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-021-01021-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Numerous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) conducted to date revealed genetic variants associated with various diseases, including breast and prostate cancers. Despite the availability of these large-scale data, relatively few variants have been functionally characterized, mainly because the majority of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) map to the non-coding regions of the human genome. The functional characterization of these non-coding variants and the identification of their target genes remain challenging. Results In this communication, we explore the potential functional mechanisms of non-coding SNPs by integrating GWAS with the high-resolution chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) data for breast and prostate cancers. We show that more genetic variants map to regulatory elements through the 3D genome structure than the 1D linear genome lacking physical chromatin interactions. Importantly, the association of enhancers, transcription factors, and their target genes with breast and prostate cancers tends to be higher when these regulatory elements are mapped to high-risk SNPs through spatial interactions compared to simply using a linear proximity. Finally, we demonstrate that topologically associating domains (TADs) carrying high-risk SNPs also contain gene regulatory elements whose association with cancer is generally higher than those belonging to control TADs containing no high-risk variants. Conclusions Our results suggest that many SNPs may contribute to the cancer development by affecting the expression of certain tumor-related genes through long-range chromatin interactions with gene regulatory elements. Integrating large-scale genetic datasets with the 3D genome structure offers an attractive and unique approach to systematically investigate the functional mechanisms of genetic variants in disease risk and progression. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12863-021-01021-x.
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- Noha Osman
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA.,Department of Cell Biology, National Research Centre, Giza, 12622, Egypt.,Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA. .,Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA.
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Lelièvre SA. Can the epigenome contribute to risk stratification for cancer onset? NAR Cancer 2021; 3:zcab043. [PMID: 34734185 PMCID: PMC8559165 DOI: 10.1093/narcan/zcab043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Revised: 10/10/2021] [Accepted: 10/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
The increasing burden of cancer requires identifying and protecting individuals at highest risk. The epigenome provides an indispensable complement to genetic alterations for a risk stratification approach for the following reasons: gene transcription necessary for cancer onset is directed by epigenetic modifications and many risk factors studied so far have been associated with alterations related to the epigenome. The risk level depends on the plasticity of the epigenome during phases of life particularly sensitive to environmental and dietary impacts. Modifications in the activity of DNA regulatory regions and altered chromatin compaction may accumulate, hence leading to the increase of cancer risk. Moreover, tissue architecture directs the unique organization of the epigenome for each tissue and cell type, which allows the epigenome to control cancer risk in specific organs. Investigations of epigenetic signatures of risk should help identify a continuum of alterations leading to a threshold beyond which the epigenome cannot maintain homeostasis. We propose that this threshold may be similar in the population for a given tissue, but the pace to reach this threshold will depend on the combination of germline inheritance and the risk and protective factors encountered, particularly during windows of epigenetic susceptibility, by individuals.
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- Sophie A Lelièvre
- Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest (ICO)-Western Cancer Institute, Scientific Direction for Translational Research, Angers, France
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Polemi KM, Nguyen VK, Heidt J, Kahana A, Jolliet O, Colacino JA. Identifying the link between chemical exposures and breast cancer in African American women via integrated in vitro and exposure biomarker data. Toxicology 2021; 463:152964. [PMID: 34600088 PMCID: PMC8593892 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2021.152964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Revised: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Among women, breast cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer worldwide and has the second highest mortality rate of any cancer in the United States. The breast cancer related death rate is 40 % higher in non-Hispanic Black women compared to non-Hispanic White women. The incidence of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), an aggressive subtype of breast cancer for which there is no targeted therapy, is also approximately three times higher for Black, relative to, White women. The drivers of these differences are poorly understood. Here, we aimed to identify chemical exposures which play a role in breast cancer disparities. Using chemical biomonitoring data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and biological activity data from the EPA's ToxCast program, we assessed the toxicological profiles of chemicals to which US Black women are disproportionately exposed. We conducted a literature search to identify breast cancer targets in ToxCast to analyze the response of chemicals with exposure disparities in these assays. Forty-three chemical biomarkers are significantly higher in Black women. Investigation of these chemicals in ToxCast resulted in 32,683 assays for analysis, 5172 of which contained nonzero values for the concentration at which the dose-response fitted model reaches the cutoff considered "active". Of these chemicals BPA, PFOS, and thiram are most comprehensively assayed. 2,5-dichlorophenol, 1,4-dichlorobenzene, and methyl and propyl parabens had higher biomarker concentrations in Black women and moderate testing and activity in ToxCast. The distribution of active concentrations for these chemicals in ToxCast assays are comparable to biomarker concentrations in Black women NHANES participants. Through this integrated analysis, we identify that multiple chemicals, including thiram, propylparaben, and p,p' DDE, have disproportionate exposures in Black women and have breast cancer associated biological activity at human exposure relevant doses.
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- Katelyn M Polemi
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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Hayat M, Chen WC, Brandenburg JT, Babb de Villiers C, Ramsay M, Mathew CG. Genetic Susceptibility to Breast Cancer in Sub-Saharan African Populations. JCO Glob Oncol 2021; 7:1462-1471. [PMID: 34623906 PMCID: PMC8509920 DOI: 10.1200/go.21.00089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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- Mahtaab Hayat
- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,National Cancer Registry, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.,Non-communicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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Du Z, Gao G, Adedokun B, Ahearn T, Lunetta KL, Zirpoli G, Troester MA, Ruiz-Narváez EA, Haddad SA, PalChoudhury P, Figueroa J, John EM, Bernstein L, Zheng W, Hu JJ, Ziegler RG, Nyante S, Bandera EV, Ingles SA, Mancuso N, Press MF, Deming SL, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Yao S, Ogundiran TO, Ojengbe O, Bolla MK, Dennis J, Dunning AM, Easton DF, Michailidou K, Pharoah PDP, Sandler DP, Taylor JA, Wang Q, Weinberg CR, Kitahara CM, Blot W, Nathanson KL, Hennis A, Nemesure B, Ambs S, Sucheston-Campbell LE, Bensen JT, Chanock SJ, Olshan AF, Ambrosone CB, Olopade OI, Yarney J, Awuah B, Wiafe-Addai B, Conti DV, Palmer JR, Garcia-Closas M, Huo D, Haiman CA. Evaluating Polygenic Risk Scores for Breast Cancer in Women of African Ancestry. J Natl Cancer Inst 2021; 113:1168-1176. [PMID: 33769540 PMCID: PMC8418423 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djab050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been demonstrated to identify women of European, Asian, and Latino ancestry at elevated risk of developing breast cancer (BC). We evaluated the performance of existing PRSs trained in European ancestry populations among women of African ancestry. METHODS We assembled genotype data for women of African ancestry, including 9241 case subjects and 10 193 control subjects. We evaluated associations of 179- and 313-variant PRSs with overall and subtype-specific BC risk. PRS discriminatory accuracy was assessed using area under the receiver operating characteristic curve. We also evaluated a recalibrated PRS, replacing the index variant with variants in each region that better captured risk in women of African ancestry and estimated lifetime absolute risk of BC in African Americans by PRS category. RESULTS For overall BC, the odds ratio per SD of the 313-variant PRS (PRS313) was 1.27 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.23 to 1.31), with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.571 (95% CI = 0.562 to 0.579). Compared with women with average risk (40th-60th PRS percentile), women in the top decile of PRS313 had a 1.54-fold increased risk (95% CI = 1.38-fold to 1.72-fold). By age 85 years, the absolute risk of overall BC was 19.6% for African American women in the top 1% of PRS313 and 6.7% for those in the lowest 1%. The recalibrated PRS did not improve BC risk prediction. CONCLUSION The PRSs stratify BC risk in women of African ancestry, with attenuated performance compared with that reported in European, Asian, and Latina populations. Future work is needed to improve BC risk stratification for women of African ancestry.
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- Zhaohui Du
- Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
- Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Biomarkers of Early Detection and Prevention Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Population Science, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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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, USA
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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, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Genomics, Development and Disease Section, Genetic Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Medical Scientist Training Program, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Center for Population and Reproductive Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Biostatistics Unit, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
- International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Chronic Disease Research Centre and Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados
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- Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- College of Veterinary Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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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, USA
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Bliton JN, Parides M, Muscarella P, Papalezova KT, In H. Understanding Racial Disparities in Gastrointestinal Cancer Outcomes: Lack of Surgery Contributes to Lower Survival in African American Patients. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2021; 30:529-538. [PMID: 33303644 PMCID: PMC8049948 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-20-0950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Race/ethnicity-related differences in rates of cancer surgery and cancer mortality have been observed for gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. This study aims to estimate the extent to which differences in receipt of surgery explain racial/ethnic disparities in cancer survival. METHODS The National Cancer Database was used to obtain data for patients diagnosed with stage I-III mid-esophageal, distal esophagus/gastric cardia (DEGC), noncardia gastric, pancreatic, and colorectal cancer in years 2004-2015. Mediation analysis was used to identify variables influencing the relationship between race/ethnicity and mortality, including surgery. RESULTS A total of 600,063 patients were included in the study: 3.5% mid-esophageal, 12.4% DEGC, 4.9% noncardia gastric, 17.0% pancreatic, 40.1% colon, and 22.0% rectal cancers. The operative rates for Black patients were low relative to White patients, with absolute differences of 21.0%, 19.9%, 2.3%, 8.3%, 1.6%, and 7.7%. Adjustment for age, stage, and comorbidities revealed even lower odds of receiving surgery for Black patients compared with White patients. The observed HRs for Black patients compared with White patients ranged from 1.01 to 1.42. Mediation analysis showed that receipt of surgery and socioeconomic factors had greatest influence on the survival disparity. CONCLUSIONS The results of this study indicate that Black patients appear to be undertreated compared with White patients for GI cancers. The disproportionately low operative rates contribute to the known survival disparity between Black and White patients. IMPACT Interventions to reduce barriers to surgery for Black patients should be promoted to reduce disparities in GI cancer outcomes.See related commentary by Hébert, p. 438.
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- John N Bliton
- Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
- Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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- Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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Osman N, Shawky A, Brylinski M. Exploring the effects of genetic variation on gene regulation in cancer in the context of 3D genome structure.. [DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.06.328567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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AbstractNumerous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) conducted to date revealed genetic variants associated with various diseases, including breast and prostate cancers. Despite the availability of these large-scale data, relatively few variants have been functionally characterized, mainly because the majority of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) map to the non-coding regions of the human genome. The functional characterization of these non-coding variants and the identification of their target genes remain challenging. In this communication, we explore the potential functional mechanisms of non-coding SNPs by integrating GWAS with the high-resolution chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) data for breast and prostate cancers. We show that more genetic variants map to regulatory elements through the 3D genome structure than the 1D linear genome lacking physical chromatin interactions. Importantly, the association of enhancers, transcription factors, and their target genes with breast and prostate cancers tends to be higher when these regulatory elements are mapped to high-risk SNPs through spatial interactions compared to simply using a linear proximity. Finally, we demonstrate that topologically associating domains (TADs) carrying high-risk SNPs also contain gene regulatory elements whose association with cancer is generally higher than those belonging to control TADs containing no high-risk variants. Our results suggest that many SNPs may contribute to the cancer development by affecting the expression of certain tumor-related genes through long-range chromatin interactions with gene regulatory elements. Integrating large-scale genetic datasets with the 3D genome structure offers an attractive and unique approach to systematically investigate the functional mechanisms of genetic variants in disease risk and progression.
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Manichaikul A, Peres LC, Wang XQ, Barnard ME, Chyn D, Sheng X, Du Z, Tyrer J, Dennis J, Schwartz AG, Cote ML, Peters E, Moorman PG, Bondy M, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Terry P, Alberg AJ, Bandera EV, Funkhouser E, Wu AH, Pearce CL, Pike M, Setiawan VW, Haiman CA, Palmer JR, LeMarchand L, Wilkens LR, Berchuck A, Doherty JA, Modugno F, Ness R, Moysich K, Karlan BY, Whittemore AS, McGuire V, Sieh W, Lawrenson K, Gayther S, Sellers TA, Pharoah P, Schildkraut JM. Identification of novel epithelial ovarian cancer loci in women of African ancestry. Int J Cancer 2020; 146:2987-2998. [PMID: 31469419 PMCID: PMC7523187 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.32653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2019] [Revised: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 08/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Women of African ancestry have lower incidence of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) yet worse survival compared to women of European ancestry. We conducted a genome-wide association study in African ancestry women with 755 EOC cases, including 537 high-grade serous ovarian carcinomas (HGSOC) and 1,235 controls. We identified four novel loci with suggestive evidence of association with EOC (p < 1 × 10-6 ), including rs4525119 (intronic to AKR1C3), rs7643459 (intronic to LOC101927394), rs4286604 (12 kb 3' of UGT2A2) and rs142091544 (5 kb 5' of WWC1). For HGSOC, we identified six loci with suggestive evidence of association including rs37792 (132 kb 5' of follistatin [FST]), rs57403204 (81 kb 3' of MAGEC1), rs79079890 (LOC105376360 intronic), rs66459581 (5 kb 5' of PRPSAP1), rs116046250 (GABRG3 intronic) and rs192876988 (32 kb 3' of GK2). Among the identified variants, two are near genes known to regulate hormones and diseases of the ovary (AKR1C3 and FST), and two are linked to cancer (AKR1C3 and MAGEC1). In follow-up studies of the 10 identified variants, the GK2 region SNP, rs192876988, showed an inverse association with EOC in European ancestry women (p = 0.002), increased risk of ER positive breast cancer in African ancestry women (p = 0.027) and decreased expression of GK2 in HGSOC tissue from African ancestry women (p = 0.004). A European ancestry-derived polygenic risk score showed positive associations with EOC and HGSOC in women of African ancestry suggesting shared genetic architecture. Our investigation presents evidence of variants for EOC shared among European and African ancestry women and identifies novel EOC risk loci in women of African ancestry.
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- Ani Manichaikul
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA
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- Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI
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- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI
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- Epidemiology Program, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Medical Center – Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
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- Department of Population Science, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA
- Ovarian Cancer Center of Excellence, Womens Cancer Research Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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- The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, New York
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, New York
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics and the Cedars-Sinai Genomics Core, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Palmer JR. Polygenic Risk Scores for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities. J Natl Cancer Inst 2020; 112:555-556. [PMID: 31553456 PMCID: PMC7301152 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djz176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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- Julie R Palmer
- Correspondence to: Julie R. Palmer, ScD, MPH, Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, 72 E Concord St, L-7, Boston, MA 02118 (e-mail: )
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Rhie SK, Schreiner S, Witt H, Armoskus C, Lay FD, Camarena A, Spitsyna VN, Guo Y, Berman BP, Evgrafov OV, Knowles JA, Farnham PJ. Using 3D epigenomic maps of primary olfactory neuronal cells from living individuals to understand gene regulation. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2018; 4:eaav8550. [PMID: 30555922 PMCID: PMC6292713 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav8550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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As part of PsychENCODE, we developed a three-dimensional (3D) epigenomic map of primary cultured neuronal cells derived from olfactory neuroepithelium (CNON). We mapped topologically associating domains and high-resolution chromatin interactions using Hi-C and identified regulatory elements using chromatin immunoprecipitation and nucleosome positioning assays. Using epigenomic datasets from biopsies of 63 living individuals, we found that epigenetic marks at distal regulatory elements are more variable than marks at proximal regulatory elements. By integrating genotype and metadata, we identified enhancers that have different levels corresponding to differences in genetic variation, gender, smoking, and schizophrenia. Motif searches revealed that many CNON enhancers are bound by neuronal-related transcription factors. Last, we combined 3D epigenomic maps and gene expression profiles to predict enhancer-target gene interactions on a genome-wide scale. This study not only provides a framework for understanding individual epigenetic variation using a primary cell model system but also contributes valuable data resources for epigenomic studies of neuronal epithelium.
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- Suhn K. Rhie
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 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, Los Angeles, CA, 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, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 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, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 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, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 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, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Starlard-Davenport A, Allman R, Dite GS, Hopper JL, Spaeth Tuff E, Macleod S, Kadlubar S, Preston M, Henry-Tillman R. Validation of a genetic risk score for Arkansas women of color. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0204834. [PMID: 30281645 PMCID: PMC6169938 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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African American women in the state of Arkansas have high breast cancer mortality rates. Breast cancer risk assessment tools developed for African American underestimate breast cancer risk. Combining African American breast cancer associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) into breast cancer risk algorithms may improve individualized estimates of a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and enable improved recommendation of screening and chemoprevention for women at high risk. The goal of this study was to confirm with an independent dataset consisting of Arkansas women of color, whether a genetic risk score derived from common breast cancer susceptibility SNPs can be combined with a clinical risk estimate provided by the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (BCRAT) to produce a more accurate individualized breast cancer risk estimate. A population-based cohort of African American women representative of Arkansas consisted of 319 cases and 559 controls for this study. Five-year and lifetime risks from the BCRAT were measured and combined with a risk score based on 75 independent susceptibility SNPs in African American women. We used the odds ratio (OR) per adjusted standard deviation to evaluate the improvement in risk estimates produced by combining the polygenic risk score (PRS) with 5-year and lifetime risk scores estimated using BCRAT. For 5-year risk OR per standard deviation increased from 1.84 to 2.08 with the addition of the polygenic risk score and from 1.79 to 2.07 for the lifetime risk score. Reclassification analysis indicated that 13% of cases had their 5-year risk increased above the 1.66% guideline threshold (NRI = 0.020 (95% CI -0.040, 0.080)) and 6.3% of cases had their lifetime risk increased above the 20% guideline threshold by the addition of the polygenic risk score (NRI = 0.034 (95% CI 0.000, 0.070)). Our data confirmed that discriminatory accuracy of BCRAT is improved for African American women in Arkansas with the inclusion of specific SNP breast cancer risk alleles.
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- Athena Starlard-Davenport
- Department of Genetics, Genomics & Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Phenogen Sciences Inc, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Genomics Core, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
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- Division of Medical Genetics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
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- Center for Diversity Affairs and Inclusion, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America
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Wang S, Huo D, Ogundiran TO, Ojengbede O, Zheng W, Nathanson KL, Nemesure B, Ambs S, Olopade OI, Zheng Y. Genetic variation in the Hippo pathway and breast cancer risk in women of African ancestry. Mol Carcinog 2018; 57:1311-1318. [PMID: 29873413 PMCID: PMC6662580 DOI: 10.1002/mc.22845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Revised: 05/18/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Gene expression changes within the Hippo pathway were found to be associated with large tumor size and metastasis in breast cancer. The combined effect of genetic variants in genes of this pathway may have a causal role in breast cancer development. We examined 7086 SNPs that were not highly correlated (r2 < 0.8) in 35 Hippo pathway genes using data from the genome-wide association study of breast cancer from the Root Consortium, which includes 3686 participants of African ancestry from Nigeria, United States of America, and Barbados: 1657 cases (403 estrogen receptor-positive [ER+], 374 ER-) and 2029 controls. Gene-level analyses were conducted using improved AdaJoint test for large-scale genetic association studies adjusting for age, study site and the first four eigenvectors from the principal component analysis. SNP-level analyses were conducted with logistic regression. The Hippo pathway was significantly associated with risk of ER+ breast cancer (pathway-level P = 0.019), with WWC1 (Padj = 0.04) being the leading gene. The pathway-level significance was lost without WWC1 (P = 0.12). rs147106204 in the WWC1 gene was the most statistically significant SNP after gene-level adjustment for multiple comparisons (OR = 0.53, 95%CI = 0.41-0.70, Padj = 0.025). We found evidence of an association between genetic variations in the Hippo pathway and ER+ breast cancer. Moreover, WWC1 was identified as the most important genetic susceptibility locus highlighting the importance of genetic epidemiology studies of breast cancer in understudied populations.
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- Shengfeng Wang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Center for Population and Reproductive Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; USA
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- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; USA
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Spaeth E, Starlard-Davenport A, Allman R. Bridging the Data Gap in Breast Cancer Risk Assessment to Enable Widespread Clinical Implementation across the Multiethnic Landscape of the US. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 2:1-6. [PMID: 30662981 PMCID: PMC6334765 DOI: 10.29245/2578-2967/2018/4.1137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Breast cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death among women and is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. Breast cancer risk assessment has been clinically available for nearly 30 years yet is under-utilized in practice for multiple reasons. Incorporation of polygenic risk as well as breast density measurements, promise to increase the accuracy of risk assessment. With that comes the hope that both prevention and screening become more personalized and thus more effective. Incidence rates have been static over the past 15 years and have even increased slightly in African American and Asian/Pacific Islander populations despite the robust data on breast cancer risk reduction measures that exist. Current challenges in reducing breast cancer incidence begin with robust data curation that allows for appropriate risk stratification across our multiethnic population and conclude with the implementation of prevention strategies within our fractured healthcare system.
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- Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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