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Zhao X, Yang M, Fan J, Wang M, Wang Y, Qin N, Zhu M, Jiang Y, Gorlova OY, Gorlov IP, Albanes D, Lam S, Tardón A, Chen C, Goodman GE, Bojesen SE, Landi MT, Johansson M, Risch A, Wichmann HE, Bickeböller H, Christiani DC, Rennert G, Arnold SM, Brennan P, Field JK, Shete S, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Hung RJ, Andrew AS, Kiemeney LA, Zienolddiny S, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Caporaso NE, Woll PJ, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Patel AV, Davies MPA, Ma H, Jin G, Hu Z, Amos CI, Shen H, Dai J. Identification of genetically predicted DNA methylation markers associated with non-small cell lung cancer risk among 34,964 cases and 448,579 controls. Cancer 2024; 130:913-926. [PMID: 38055287 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.35130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Although the associations between genetic variations and lung cancer risk have been explored, the epigenetic consequences of DNA methylation in lung cancer development are largely unknown. Here, the genetically predicted DNA methylation markers associated with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) risk by a two-stage case-control design were investigated. METHODS The genetic prediction models for methylation levels based on genetic and methylation data of 1595 subjects from the Framingham Heart Study were established. The prediction models were applied to a fixed-effect meta-analysis of screening data sets with 27,120 NSCLC cases and 27,355 controls to identify the methylation markers, which were then replicated in independent data sets with 7844 lung cancer cases and 421,224 controls. Also performed was a multi-omics functional annotation for the identified CpGs by integrating genomics, epigenomics, and transcriptomics and investigation of the potential regulation pathways. RESULTS Of the 29,894 CpG sites passing the quality control, 39 CpGs associated with NSCLC risk (Bonferroni-corrected p ≤ 1.67 × 10-6 ) were originally identified. Of these, 16 CpGs remained significant in the validation stage (Bonferroni-corrected p ≤ 1.28 × 10-3 ), including four novel CpGs. Multi-omics functional annotation showed nine of 16 CpGs were potentially functional biomarkers for NSCLC risk. Thirty-five genes within a 1-Mb window of 12 CpGs that might be involved in regulatory pathways of NSCLC risk were identified. CONCLUSIONS Sixteen promising DNA methylation markers associated with NSCLC were identified. Changes of the methylation level at these CpGs might influence the development of NSCLC by regulating the expression of genes nearby. PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY The epigenetic consequences of DNA methylation in lung cancer development are still largely unknown. This study used summary data of large-scale genome-wide association studies to investigate the associations between genetically predicted levels of methylation biomarkers and non-small cell lung cancer risk at the first time. This study looked at how well larotrectinib worked in adult patients with sarcomas caused by TRK fusion proteins. These findings will provide a unique insight into the epigenetic susceptibility mechanisms of lung cancer.
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- Xiaoyu Zhao
- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Department of Statistics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine and China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Health Management Center, Gusu School, The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine and China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine and China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular and Translational Cancer Research, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine and China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
- Department of Medicine, Epidemiology Section, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
- Department of Medicine, Epidemiology Section, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Public Health IUOPA, University of Oviedo, ISPA and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Biosciences, Allergy-Cancer-BioNano Research Centre, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, DKFZ-German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Technion Faculty of Medicine, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Prosseman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
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- Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umea, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA
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- Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Medicine (Division of Genetic Medicine), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine and China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine and China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine and China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine and China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine and China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Li Y, Xiao X, Li J, Han Y, Cheng C, Fernandes GF, Slewitzke SE, Rosenberg SM, Zhu M, Byun J, Bossé Y, McKay JD, Albanes D, Lam S, Tardon A, Chen C, Bojesen SE, Landi MT, Johansson M, Risch A, Bickeböller H, Wichmann HE, Christiani DC, Rennert G, Arnold SM, Goodman GE, Field JK, Davies MP, Shete S, Marchand LL, Liu G, Hung RJ, Andrew AS, Kiemeney LA, Sun R, Zienolddiny S, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Caporaso NE, Cox A, Hong YC, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Schwartz AG, Gorlov I, Purrington KS, Yang P, Liu Y, Bailey-Wilson JE, Pinney SM, Mandal D, Willey JC, Gaba C, Brennan P, Xia J, Shen H, Amos CI. Lung Cancer in Ever- and Never-Smokers: Findings from Multi-Population GWAS Studies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2024; 33:389-399. [PMID: 38180474 PMCID: PMC10905670 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-23-0613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 01/06/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Clinical, molecular, and genetic epidemiology studies displayed remarkable differences between ever- and never-smoking lung cancer. METHODS We conducted a stratified multi-population (European, East Asian, and African descent) association study on 44,823 ever-smokers and 20,074 never-smokers to identify novel variants that were missed in the non-stratified analysis. Functional analysis including expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) colocalization and DNA damage assays, and annotation studies were conducted to evaluate the functional roles of the variants. We further evaluated the impact of smoking quantity on lung cancer risk for the variants associated with ever-smoking lung cancer. RESULTS Five novel independent loci, GABRA4, intergenic region 12q24.33, LRRC4C, LINC01088, and LCNL1 were identified with the association at two or three populations (P < 5 × 10-8). Further functional analysis provided multiple lines of evidence suggesting the variants affect lung cancer risk through excessive DNA damage (GABRA4) or cis-regulation of gene expression (LCNL1). The risk of variants from 12 independent regions, including the well-known CHRNA5, associated with ever-smoking lung cancer was evaluated for never-smokers, light-smokers (packyear ≤ 20), and moderate-to-heavy-smokers (packyear > 20). Different risk patterns were observed for the variants among the different groups by smoking behavior. CONCLUSIONS We identified novel variants associated with lung cancer in only ever- or never-smoking groups that were missed by prior main-effect association studies. IMPACT Our study highlights the genetic heterogeneity between ever- and never-smoking lung cancer and provides etiologic insights into the complicated genetic architecture of this deadly cancer.
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- Yafang Li
- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Public Health Department, University of Oviedo, ISPA and CIBERESP, Asturias, Spain
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- Program in Epidemiology, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- University Health Network- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, California
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- Luenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Departments of Epidemiology and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of South Korea
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
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- The University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, Ohio
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
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- Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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Du M, Xin J, Zheng R, Yuan Q, Wang Z, Liu H, Liu H, Cai G, Albanes D, Lam S, Tardon A, Chen C, Bojesen SE, Landi MT, Johansson M, Risch A, Bickeböller H, Wichmann HE, Rennert G, Arnold S, Brennan P, Field JK, Shete SS, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Andrew AS, Kiemeney LA, Zienolddiny S, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Caporaso NE, Cox A, Hong YC, Yuan JM, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Wang M, Shen H, Chen F, Zhang Z, Hung RJ, Amos CI, Wei Q, Lazarus P, Christiani DC. CYP2A6 Activity and Cigarette Consumption Interact in Smoking-Related Lung Cancer Susceptibility. Cancer Res 2024; 84:616-625. [PMID: 38117513 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-23-0900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
Abstract
Cigarette smoke, containing both nicotine and carcinogens, causes lung cancer. However, not all smokers develop lung cancer, highlighting the importance of the interaction between host susceptibility and environmental exposure in tumorigenesis. Here, we aimed to delineate the interaction between metabolizing ability of tobacco carcinogens and smoking intensity in mediating genetic susceptibility to smoking-related lung tumorigenesis. Single-variant and gene-based associations of 43 tobacco carcinogen-metabolizing genes with lung cancer were analyzed using summary statistics and individual-level genetic data, followed by causal inference of Mendelian randomization, mediation analysis, and structural equation modeling. Cigarette smoke-exposed cell models were used to detect gene expression patterns in relation to specific alleles. Data from the International Lung Cancer Consortium (29,266 cases and 56,450 controls) and UK Biobank (2,155 cases and 376,329 controls) indicated that the genetic variant rs56113850 C>T located in intron 4 of CYP2A6 was significantly associated with decreased lung cancer risk among smokers (OR = 0.88, 95% confidence interval = 0.85-0.91, P = 2.18 × 10-16), which might interact (Pinteraction = 0.028) with and partially be mediated (ORindirect = 0.987) by smoking status. Smoking intensity accounted for 82.3% of the effect of CYP2A6 activity on lung cancer risk but entirely mediated the genetic effect of rs56113850. Mechanistically, the rs56113850 T allele rescued the downregulation of CYP2A6 caused by cigarette smoke exposure, potentially through preferential recruitment of transcription factor helicase-like transcription factor. Together, this study provides additional insights into the interplay between host susceptibility and carcinogen exposure in smoking-related lung tumorigenesis. SIGNIFICANCE The causal pathway connecting CYP2A6 genetic variability and activity, cigarette consumption, and lung cancer susceptibility in smokers highlights the need for behavior modification interventions based on host susceptibility for cancer prevention.
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- Mulong Du
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Biostatistics, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, School of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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- Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
- Department of Genetic Toxicology, The Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
- Department of Genetic Toxicology, The Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, US NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, ISPA and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, US NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Science, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, US NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of South Korea
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
- Department of Genetic Toxicology, The Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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- Department of Biostatistics, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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- Department of Environmental Genomics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
- Department of Genetic Toxicology, The Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R. China
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbuaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, Houston, Texas
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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Wang X, Zhang Z, Ding Y, Chen T, Mucci L, Albanes D, Landi MT, Caporaso NE, Lam S, Tardon A, Chen C, Bojesen SE, Johansson M, Risch A, Bickeböller H, Wichmann HE, Rennert G, Arnold S, Brennan P, McKay JD, Field JK, Shete SS, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Andrew AS, Kiemeney LA, Zienolddiny-Narui S, Behndig A, Johansson M, Cox A, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Hung RJ, Amos CI, Lin X, Christiani DC. Impact of individual level uncertainty of lung cancer polygenic risk score (PRS) on risk stratification. Genome Med 2024; 16:22. [PMID: 38317189 PMCID: PMC10840262 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-024-01298-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2024] [Indexed: 02/07/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Although polygenic risk score (PRS) has emerged as a promising tool for predicting cancer risk from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), the individual-level accuracy of lung cancer PRS and the extent to which its impact on subsequent clinical applications remains largely unexplored. METHODS Lung cancer PRSs and confidence/credible interval (CI) were constructed using two statistical approaches for each individual: (1) the weighted sum of 16 GWAS-derived significant SNP loci and the CI through the bootstrapping method (PRS-16-CV) and (2) LDpred2 and the CI through posteriors sampling (PRS-Bayes), among 17,166 lung cancer cases and 12,894 controls with European ancestry from the International Lung Cancer Consortium. Individuals were classified into different genetic risk subgroups based on the relationship between their own PRS mean/PRS CI and the population level threshold. RESULTS Considerable variances in PRS point estimates at the individual level were observed for both methods, with an average standard deviation (s.d.) of 0.12 for PRS-16-CV and a much larger s.d. of 0.88 for PRS-Bayes. Using PRS-16-CV, only 25.0% of individuals with PRS point estimates in the lowest decile of PRS and 16.8% in the highest decile have their entire 95% CI fully contained in the lowest and highest decile, respectively, while PRS-Bayes was unable to find any eligible individuals. Only 19% of the individuals were concordantly identified as having high genetic risk (> 90th percentile) using the two PRS estimators. An increased relative risk of lung cancer comparing the highest PRS percentile to the lowest was observed when taking the CI into account (OR = 2.73, 95% CI: 2.12-3.50, P-value = 4.13 × 10-15) compared to using PRS-16-CV mean (OR = 2.23, 95% CI: 1.99-2.49, P-value = 5.70 × 10-46). Improved risk prediction performance with higher AUC was consistently observed in individuals identified by PRS-16-CV CI, and the best performance was achieved by incorporating age, gender, and detailed smoking pack-years (AUC: 0.73, 95% CI = 0.72-0.74). CONCLUSIONS Lung cancer PRS estimates using different methods have modest correlations at the individual level, highlighting the importance of considering individual-level uncertainty when evaluating the practical utility of PRS.
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- Xinan Wang
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, 667 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, British Columbia Cancer Agency, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Genomic Epidemiology Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO), Lyon, France
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- Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Allergy-Cancer-BioNano Research Centre, University of Salzburg, and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Carmel, Haifa, Israel
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Genomic Epidemiology Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO), Lyon, France
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- Genomic Epidemiology Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO), Lyon, France
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department for Health Evidence, Department of Urology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Department of Medicine, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, 667 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
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Lahnsteiner A, Craig SJC, Kamali K, Weissensteiner B, McGrath B, Risch A, Makova KD. In vivo detection of DNA secondary structures using permanganate/S1 footprinting with direct adapter ligation and sequencing (PDAL-Seq). Methods Enzymol 2024; 695:159-191. [PMID: 38521584 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2023.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/25/2024]
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DNA secondary structures are essential elements of the genomic landscape, playing a critical role in regulating various cellular processes. These structures refer to G-quadruplexes, cruciforms, Z-DNA or H-DNA structures, amongst others (collectively called 'non-B DNA'), which DNA molecules can adopt beyond the B conformation. DNA secondary structures have significant biological roles, and their landscape is dynamic and can rearrange due to various factors, including changes in cellular conditions, temperature, and DNA-binding proteins. Understanding this dynamic nature is crucial for unraveling their functions in cellular processes. Detecting DNA secondary structures remains a challenge. Conventional methods, such as gel electrophoresis and chemical probing, have limitations in terms of sensitivity and specificity. Emerging techniques, including next-generation sequencing and single-molecule approaches, offer promise but face challenges since these techniques are mostly limited to only one type of secondary structure. Here we describe an updated version of a technique permanganate/S1 nuclease footprinting, which uses potassium permanganate to trap single-stranded DNA regions as found in many non-B structures, in combination with S1 nuclease digest and adapter ligation to detect genome-wide non-B formation. To overcome technical hurdles, we combined this method with direct adapter ligation and sequencing (PDAL-Seq). Furthermore, we established a user-friendly pipeline available on Galaxy to standardize PDAL-Seq data analysis. This optimized method allows the analysis of many types of DNA secondary structures that form in a living cell and will advance our knowledge of their roles in health and disease.
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- Angelika Lahnsteiner
- Division of Cancer (Epi-)Genetics, Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Center for Tumor Biology and Immunology (CTBI), University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
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- Department of Biology, Penn State University, Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA, United States
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- Department of Biology, Penn State University, Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA, United States
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- Department of Biology, Penn State University, Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA, United States
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- Division of Cancer (Epi-)Genetics, Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Center for Tumor Biology and Immunology (CTBI), University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biology, Penn State University, Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA, United States.
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Cheng C, Hong W, Li Y, Xiao X, McKay J, Han Y, Byun J, Peng B, Albanes D, Lam S, Tardon A, Chen C, Bojesen SE, Landi MT, Johansson M, Risch A, Bickeböller H, Wichmann HE, Christiani DC, Rennert G, Arnold S, Goodman G, Field JK, Davies MPA, Shete SS, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Hung RJ, Andrew AS, Kiemeney LA, Zhu M, Shen H, Zienolddiny S, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Cox A, Hong YC, Yuan JM, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Brennan P, Li Y, Gorlova O, Gorlov I, Amos CI. Mosaic Chromosomal Alterations Are Associated With Increased Lung Cancer Risk: Insight From the INTEGRAL-ILCCO Cohort Analysis. J Thorac Oncol 2023; 18:1003-1016. [PMID: 37150255 PMCID: PMC10435278 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2023.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 05/01/2023] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) detected in white blood cells represent a type of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) that is understudied compared with CH-related somatic mutations. A few recent studies indicated their potential link with nonhematological cancers, especially lung cancer. METHODS In this study, we investigated the association between mCAs and lung cancer using the high-density genotyping data from the OncoArray study of INTEGRAL-ILCCO, the largest single genetic study of lung cancer with 18,221 lung cancer cases and 14,825 cancer-free controls. RESULTS We identified a comprehensive list of autosomal mCAs, ChrX mCAs, and mosaic ChrY (mChrY) losses from these samples. Autosomal mCAs were detected in 4.3% of subjects, in addition to ChrX mCAs in 3.6% of females and mChrY losses in 9.6% of males. Multivariable logistic regression analysis indicated that the presence of autosomal mCAs in white blood cells was associated with an increased lung cancer risk after adjusting for key confounding factors, including age, sex, smoking status, and race. This association was mainly driven by a specific type of mCAs: copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity on autosomal chromosomes. The association between autosome copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity and increased risk of lung cancer was further confirmed in two major histologic subtypes, lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. In addition, we observed a significant increase of ChrX mCAs and mChrY losses in smokers compared with nonsmokers and racial differences in certain types of mCA events. CONCLUSIONS Our study established a link between mCAs in white blood cells and increased risk of lung cancer.
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- Chao Cheng
- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, WHO, Lyon, France
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Public Health Department, University of Oviedo, ISPA and CIBERESP, Asturias, Spain
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- Program in Epidemiology, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, WHO, Lyon, France
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- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany; University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- University of Kentucky, Markey Cancer Center, Lexington, Kentucky
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- University Health Network- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, California
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- Luenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada; Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology University of Sheffield, Weston Park Hospital, Whitham Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, WHO, Lyon, France
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
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Chung FFL, Maldonado SG, Nemc A, Bouaoun L, Cahais V, Cuenin C, Salle A, Johnson T, Ergüner B, Laplana M, Datlinger P, Jeschke J, Weiderpass E, Kristensen V, Delaloge S, Fuks F, Risch A, Ghantous A, Plass C, Bock C, Kaaks R, Herceg Z. Buffy coat signatures of breast cancer risk in a prospective cohort study. Clin Epigenetics 2023; 15:102. [PMID: 37309009 PMCID: PMC10262593 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-023-01509-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 05/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Epigenetic alterations are a near-universal feature of human malignancy and have been detected in malignant cells as well as in easily accessible specimens such as blood and urine. These findings offer promising applications in cancer detection, subtyping, and treatment monitoring. However, much of the current evidence is based on findings in retrospective studies and may reflect epigenetic patterns that have already been influenced by the onset of the disease. METHODS Studying breast cancer, we established genome-scale DNA methylation profiles of prospectively collected buffy coat samples (n = 702) from a case-control study nested within the EPIC-Heidelberg cohort using reduced representation bisulphite sequencing (RRBS). RESULTS We observed cancer-specific DNA methylation events in buffy coat samples. Increased DNA methylation in genomic regions associated with SURF6 and REXO1/CTB31O20.3 was linked to the length of time to diagnosis in the prospectively collected buffy coat DNA from individuals who subsequently developed breast cancer. Using machine learning methods, we piloted a DNA methylation-based classifier that predicted case-control status in a held-out validation set with 76.5% accuracy, in some cases up to 15 years before clinical diagnosis of the disease. CONCLUSIONS Taken together, our findings suggest a model of gradual accumulation of cancer-associated DNA methylation patterns in peripheral blood, which may be detected long before clinical manifestation of cancer. Such changes may provide useful markers for risk stratification and, ultimately, personalized cancer prevention.
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- Felicia Fei-Lei Chung
- International Agency for Research On Cancer (IARC), 25 avenue Tony Garnier, CS 90627, 69366, Lyon, France.
- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University, 5, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, 47500, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- International Agency for Research On Cancer (IARC), 25 avenue Tony Garnier, CS 90627, 69366, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research On Cancer (IARC), 25 avenue Tony Garnier, CS 90627, 69366, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research On Cancer (IARC), 25 avenue Tony Garnier, CS 90627, 69366, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research On Cancer (IARC), 25 avenue Tony Garnier, CS 90627, 69366, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Lleida, IRBLleida, 25198, Lleida, Spain
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- CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- International Agency for Research On Cancer (IARC), 25 avenue Tony Garnier, CS 90627, 69366, Lyon, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Molecular Biology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Cancer Medicine, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Allergy-Cancer-BioNano Research Centre, University of Salzburg, 5020, Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- International Agency for Research On Cancer (IARC), 25 avenue Tony Garnier, CS 90627, 69366, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- Medical University of Vienna, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Center for Medical Data Science, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- International Agency for Research On Cancer (IARC), 25 avenue Tony Garnier, CS 90627, 69366, Lyon, France.
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Shi J, Shiraishi K, Choi J, Matsuo K, Chen TY, Dai J, Hung RJ, Chen K, Shu XO, Kim YT, Landi MT, Lin D, Zheng W, Yin Z, Zhou B, Song B, Wang J, Seow WJ, Song L, Chang IS, Hu W, Chien LH, Cai Q, Hong YC, Kim HN, Wu YL, Wong MP, Richardson BD, Funderburk KM, Li S, Zhang T, Breeze C, Wang Z, Blechter B, Bassig BA, Kim JH, Albanes D, Wong JYY, Shin MH, Chung LP, Yang Y, An SJ, Zheng H, Yatabe Y, Zhang XC, Kim YC, Caporaso NE, Chang J, Ho JCM, Kubo M, Daigo Y, Song M, Momozawa Y, Kamatani Y, Kobayashi M, Okubo K, Honda T, Hosgood DH, Kunitoh H, Patel H, Watanabe SI, Miyagi Y, Nakayama H, Matsumoto S, Horinouchi H, Tsuboi M, Hamamoto R, Goto K, Ohe Y, Takahashi A, Goto A, Minamiya Y, Hara M, Nishida Y, Takeuchi K, Wakai K, Matsuda K, Murakami Y, Shimizu K, Suzuki H, Saito M, Ohtaki Y, Tanaka K, Wu T, Wei F, Dai H, Machiela MJ, Su J, Kim YH, Oh IJ, Lee VHF, Chang GC, Tsai YH, Chen KY, Huang MS, Su WC, Chen YM, Seow A, Park JY, Kweon SS, Chen KC, Gao YT, Qian B, Wu C, Lu D, Liu J, Schwartz AG, Houlston R, Spitz MR, Gorlov IP, Wu X, Yang P, Lam S, Tardon A, Chen C, Bojesen SE, Johansson M, Risch A, Bickeböller H, Ji BT, Wichmann HE, Christiani DC, Rennert G, Arnold S, Brennan P, McKay J, Field JK, Shete SS, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Andrew A, Kiemeney LA, Zienolddiny-Narui S, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Cox A, Taylor F, Yuan JM, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Jeon HS, Jiang SS, Sung JS, Chen CH, Hsiao CF, Jung YJ, Guo H, Hu Z, Burdett L, Yeager M, Hutchinson A, Hicks B, Liu J, Zhu B, Berndt SI, Wu W, Wang J, Li Y, Choi JE, Park KH, Sung SW, Liu L, Kang CH, Wang WC, Xu J, Guan P, Tan W, Yu CJ, Yang G, Sihoe ADL, Chen Y, Choi YY, Kim JS, Yoon HI, Park IK, Xu P, He Q, Wang CL, Hung HH, Vermeulen RCH, Cheng I, Wu J, Lim WY, Tsai FY, Chan JKC, Li J, Chen H, Lin HC, Jin L, Liu J, Sawada N, Yamaji T, Wyatt K, Li SA, Ma H, Zhu M, Wang Z, Cheng S, Li X, Ren Y, Chao A, Iwasaki M, Zhu J, Jiang G, Fei K, Wu G, Chen CY, Chen CJ, Yang PC, Yu J, Stevens VL, Fraumeni JF, Chatterjee N, Gorlova OY, Hsiung CA, Amos CI, Shen H, Chanock SJ, Rothman N, Kohno T, Lan Q. Genome-wide association study of lung adenocarcinoma in East Asia and comparison with a European population. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3043. [PMID: 37236969 PMCID: PMC10220065 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38196-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer. Known risk variants explain only a small fraction of lung adenocarcinoma heritability. Here, we conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study of lung adenocarcinoma of East Asian ancestry (21,658 cases and 150,676 controls; 54.5% never-smokers) and identified 12 novel susceptibility variants, bringing the total number to 28 at 25 independent loci. Transcriptome-wide association analyses together with colocalization studies using a Taiwanese lung expression quantitative trait loci dataset (n = 115) identified novel candidate genes, including FADS1 at 11q12 and ELF5 at 11p13. In a multi-ancestry meta-analysis of East Asian and European studies, four loci were identified at 2p11, 4q32, 16q23, and 18q12. At the same time, most of our findings in East Asian populations showed no evidence of association in European populations. In our studies drawn from East Asian populations, a polygenic risk score based on the 25 loci had a stronger association in never-smokers vs. individuals with a history of smoking (Pinteraction = 0.0058). These findings provide new insights into the etiology of lung adenocarcinoma in individuals from East Asian populations, which could be important in developing translational applications.
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- Jianxin Shi
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
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- Division of Genome Biology, National Cancer Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Epidemiology of Tianjin, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Etiology & Carcinogenesis and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Center of Evidence Based Medicine, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute, Medical Research Center and Cancer Center of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute, Medical Research Center and Cancer Center of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Epidemiology of Tianjin, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute, Medical Research Center and Cancer Center of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Lung and Esophageal Cancer Clinic, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasuneup, Republic of Korea
- Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National Univerisity Medical School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Etiology & Carcinogenesis, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Center for Antibody and Vaccine Therapy, Research Hospital, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Medical Oncology and Cancer Center, and Center for Advanced Medicine against Cancer, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Japan
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- Department of Statistics & Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Molecular Pathology and Genetics Division, Kanagawa Cancer Center Research Institute, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan
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- Division of Medical AI Research and Development, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Cellular and Organ Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Laboratory of Clinical Genome Sequencing, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine Asahi, Nagano, Japan
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- Department of Chest Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan
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- Department of Integrative center of General Surgery, Gunma University Hospital, Gunma, Japan
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- Department of Integrative center of General Surgery, Gunma University Hospital, Gunma, Japan
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- Institute of Occupational Medicine and Ministry of Education Key Lab for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- China National Environmental Monitoring Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Epidemiology of Tianjin, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute, Medical Research Center and Cancer Center of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology/Hematology, College of Medicine, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Lung and Esophageal Cancer Clinic, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasuneup, Republic of Korea
- Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National Univerisity Medical School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Clinical Oncology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- School of Medicine and Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Chest Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Respiratory Therapy, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Xiamen Chang Gung Hospital, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Cancer Hospital, I-Shou University and Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Oncology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and school of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Lung Cancer Center, Kyungpook National University Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
- Jeonnam Regional Cancer Center, Chonnam National University, Hwasun, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Epidemiology of Tianjin, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Etiology & Carcinogenesis and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency of Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology and Population Science, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology and Population Science, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Houston, TX, USA
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- School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO), Lyon, France
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Epidemiology, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO), Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO), Lyon, France
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Washington State University College of Pharmacy, Spokane, WA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Cancer Research Center, Kyungpook National University Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology/Hematology, College of Medicine, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Ministry of Education Key Lab for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Biochemistry, Li Ka Shing (LKS) Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Centre for Genomic Sciences, Li Ka Shing (LKS) Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Cancer Research Center, Kyungpook National University Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology/Hematology, College of Medicine, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Oncology, Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- The Ph.D. Program for Translational Medicine, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing (LKS) Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
- Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Intervention, University of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Etiology & Carcinogenesis and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Cancer Research Center, Kyungpook National University Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, College of Medicine, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Oncology, Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corporation Staff-Worker Hospital, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Department of Pathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China
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- Qujing Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Qujing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Division of Cohort Research, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Epidemiology, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Department of Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
- Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Intervention, University of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
- Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology and Intervention, University of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China
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- Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cohort Research, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
- Division of Epidemiology, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- China National Environmental Monitoring Center, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Genomic Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
- Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology and Population Science, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Houston, TX, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Epidemiology and Population Science, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Houston, TX, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Division of Genome Biology, National Cancer Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
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Jansko-Gadermeir B, Leisch M, Gassner FJ, Zaborsky N, Dillinger T, Hutter S, Risch A, Melchardt T, Egle A, Drost M, Larcher-Senn J, Greil R, Pleyer L. Myeloid NGS Analyses of Paired Samples from Bone Marrow and Peripheral Blood Yield Concordant Results: A Prospective Cohort Analysis of the AGMT Study Group. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:cancers15082305. [PMID: 37190237 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15082305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Revised: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Background: Next generation sequencing (NGS) has become indispensable for diagnosis, risk stratification, prognostication, and monitoring of response in patients with myeloid neoplasias. Guidelines require bone marrow evaluations for the above, which are often not performed outside of clinical trials, indicating a need for surrogate samples. Methods: Myeloid NGS analyses (40 genes and 29 fusion drivers) of 240 consecutive, non-selected, prospectively collected, paired bone marrow/peripheral blood samples were compared. Findings: Very strong correlation (r = 0.91, p < 0.0001), high concordance (99.6%), sensitivity (98.8%), specificity (99.9%), positive predictive value (99.8%), and negative predictive value (99.6%) between NGS analyses of paired samples was observed. A total of 9/1321 (0.68%) detected mutations were discordant, 8 of which had a variant allele frequency (VAF) ≤ 3.7%. VAFs between peripheral blood and bone marrow samples were very strongly correlated in the total cohort (r = 0.93, p = 0.0001) and in subgroups without circulating blasts (r = 0.92, p < 0.0001) or with neutropenia (r = 0.88, p < 0.0001). There was a weak correlation between the VAF of a detected mutation and the blast count in either the peripheral blood (r = 0.19) or the bone marrow (r = 0.11). Interpretation: Peripheral blood samples can be used to molecularly classify and monitor myeloid neoplasms via NGS without loss of sensitivity/specificity, even in the absence of circulating blasts or in neutropenic patients.
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- Bettina Jansko-Gadermeir
- Salzburg Cancer Research Institute (SCRI), Center for Clinical Cancer and Immunology Trials (CCCIT), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- 3rd Medical Department with Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hemostaseology, Rheumatology and Infectiology, Oncologic Center, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg (CCS), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory of Immunological and Molecular Cancer Research (LIMCR), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory for Molecular Cytology (MZL), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Allergy-Cancer-BioNano Research Centre, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Salzburg Cancer Research Institute (SCRI), Center for Clinical Cancer and Immunology Trials (CCCIT), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- 3rd Medical Department with Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hemostaseology, Rheumatology and Infectiology, Oncologic Center, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg (CCS), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Austrian Group for Medical Tumor Therapy (AGMT) Study Group, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- Salzburg Cancer Research Institute (SCRI), Center for Clinical Cancer and Immunology Trials (CCCIT), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- 3rd Medical Department with Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hemostaseology, Rheumatology and Infectiology, Oncologic Center, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg (CCS), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory of Immunological and Molecular Cancer Research (LIMCR), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Salzburg Cancer Research Institute (SCRI), Center for Clinical Cancer and Immunology Trials (CCCIT), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- 3rd Medical Department with Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hemostaseology, Rheumatology and Infectiology, Oncologic Center, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg (CCS), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory of Immunological and Molecular Cancer Research (LIMCR), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- 3rd Medical Department with Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hemostaseology, Rheumatology and Infectiology, Oncologic Center, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory for Molecular Cytology (MZL), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- 3rd Medical Department with Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hemostaseology, Rheumatology and Infectiology, Oncologic Center, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory for Molecular Cytology (MZL), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Cancer Cluster Salzburg (CCS), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Allergy-Cancer-BioNano Research Centre, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Salzburg Cancer Research Institute (SCRI), Center for Clinical Cancer and Immunology Trials (CCCIT), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- 3rd Medical Department with Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hemostaseology, Rheumatology and Infectiology, Oncologic Center, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg (CCS), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Austrian Group for Medical Tumor Therapy (AGMT) Study Group, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- Salzburg Cancer Research Institute (SCRI), Center for Clinical Cancer and Immunology Trials (CCCIT), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- 3rd Medical Department with Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hemostaseology, Rheumatology and Infectiology, Oncologic Center, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg (CCS), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory of Immunological and Molecular Cancer Research (LIMCR), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Austrian Group for Medical Tumor Therapy (AGMT) Study Group, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- Assign Data Management and Biostatistics GmbH, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Salzburg Cancer Research Institute (SCRI), Center for Clinical Cancer and Immunology Trials (CCCIT), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- 3rd Medical Department with Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hemostaseology, Rheumatology and Infectiology, Oncologic Center, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg (CCS), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory of Immunological and Molecular Cancer Research (LIMCR), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory for Molecular Cytology (MZL), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Austrian Group for Medical Tumor Therapy (AGMT) Study Group, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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- Salzburg Cancer Research Institute (SCRI), Center for Clinical Cancer and Immunology Trials (CCCIT), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- 3rd Medical Department with Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hemostaseology, Rheumatology and Infectiology, Oncologic Center, Paracelsus Medical University, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg (CCS), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory of Immunological and Molecular Cancer Research (LIMCR), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Laboratory for Molecular Cytology (MZL), 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Austrian Group for Medical Tumor Therapy (AGMT) Study Group, 1180 Vienna, Austria
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Faltus C, Lahnsteiner A, Barrdahl M, Assenov Y, Hüsing A, Bogatyrova O, Laplana M, Johnson T, Muley T, Meister M, Warth A, Thomas M, Plass C, Kaaks R, Risch A. Identification of NHLRC1 as a Novel AKT Activator from a Lung Cancer Epigenome-Wide Association Study (EWAS). Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231810699. [PMID: 36142605 PMCID: PMC9505874 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231810699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Revised: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Changes in DNA methylation identified by epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) have been recently linked to increased lung cancer risk. However, the cellular effects of these differentially methylated positions (DMPs) are often unclear. Therefore, we investigated top differentially methylated positions identified from an EWAS study. This included a putative regulatory region of NHLRC1. Hypomethylation of this gene was recently linked with decreased survival rates in lung cancer patients. HumanMethylation450 BeadChip array (450K) analysis was performed on 66 lung cancer case-control pairs from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Heidelberg lung cancer EWAS (EPIC HD) cohort. DMPs identified in these pre-diagnostic blood samples were then investigated for differential DNA methylation in lung tumor versus adjacent normal lung tissue from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and replicated in two independent lung tumor versus adjacent normal tissue replication sets with MassARRAY. The EPIC HD top hypermethylated DMP cg06646708 was found to be a hypomethylated region in multiple data sets of lung tumor versus adjacent normal tissue. Hypomethylation within this region caused increased mRNA transcription of the closest gene NHLRC1 in lung tumors. In functional assays, we demonstrate attenuated proliferation, viability, migration, and invasion upon NHLRC1 knock-down in lung cancer cells. Furthermore, diminished AKT phosphorylation at serine 473 causing expression of pro-apoptotic AKT-repressed genes was detected in these knock-down experiments. In conclusion, this study demonstrates the powerful potential for discovery of novel functional mechanisms in oncogenesis based on EWAS DNA methylation data. NHLRC1 holds promise as a new prognostic biomarker for lung cancer survival and prognosis, as well as a target for novel treatment strategies in lung cancer patients.
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- Christian Faltus
- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, DKFZ–German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Cancer (Epi-)Genetics, Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Division of Cancer (Epi-)Genetics, Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, DKFZ-German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, DKFZ–German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, DKFZ-German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, DKFZ–German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, DKFZ–German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Departament de Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, DKFZ-German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, DKFZ–German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, DKFZ-German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, DKFZ–German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Cancer (Epi-)Genetics, Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +43-662-8044-7220
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Li Y, Xiao X, Li J, Byun J, Cheng C, Bossé Y, McKay J, Albanes D, Lam S, Tardon A, Chen C, Bojesen SE, Landi MT, Johansson M, Risch A, Bickeböller H, Wichmann HE, Christiani DC, Rennert G, Arnold S, Goodman G, Field JK, Davies MPA, Shete SS, Le Marchand L, Melander O, Brunnström H, Liu G, Hung RJ, Andrew AS, Kiemeney LA, Shen H, Sun R, Zienolddiny S, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Caporaso N, Teare DM, Hong YC, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Schwartz AG, Gorlov I, Purrington K, Yang P, Liu Y, Han Y, Bailey-Wilson JE, Pinney SM, Mandal D, Willey JC, Gaba C, Brennan P, Amos CI. Genome-wide interaction analysis identified low-frequency variants with sex disparity in lung cancer risk. Hum Mol Genet 2022; 31:2831-2843. [PMID: 35138370 PMCID: PMC9402242 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddac030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Revised: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Differences by sex in lung cancer incidence and mortality have been reported which cannot be fully explained by sex differences in smoking behavior, implying existence of genetic and molecular basis for sex disparity in lung cancer development. However, the information about sex dimorphism in lung cancer risk is quite limited despite the great success in lung cancer association studies. By adopting a stringent two-stage analysis strategy, we performed a genome-wide gene-sex interaction analysis using genotypes from a lung cancer cohort including ~ 47 000 individuals with European ancestry. Three low-frequency variants (minor allele frequency < 0.05), rs17662871 [odds ratio (OR) = 0.71, P = 4.29×10-8); rs79942605 (OR = 2.17, P = 2.81×10-8) and rs208908 (OR = 0.70, P = 4.54×10-8) were identified with different risk effect of lung cancer between men and women. Further expression quantitative trait loci and functional annotation analysis suggested rs208908 affects lung cancer risk through differential regulation of Coxsackie virus and adenovirus receptor gene expression in lung tissues between men and women. Our study is one of the first studies to provide novel insights about the genetic and molecular basis for sex disparity in lung cancer development.
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- Yafang Li
- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City G1V 4G5, Canada
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon 69372, France
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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 Integrative Oncology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L3, Canada
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- Public Health Department, University of Oviedo, ISPA and CIBERESP, Asturias 33003, Spain
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- Program in Epidemiology, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen 2600, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2177, Denmark
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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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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon 69372, France
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- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69126, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg 69120, Germany
- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, 5020, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37099, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, 80333, Germany
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- Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa 3436212, Israel
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- University of Kentucky, Markey Cancer Center, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA
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- Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7BE, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7BE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund 22184, Sweden
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- University Health Network- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, CA ON, M5G 2C1, Canada
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- Luenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto ON, M5G 1X5, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, M5T 3M7, Canada
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- Departments of Epidemiology and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, P.R. China
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
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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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- Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AX, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 03080, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington 99202, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinics Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
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- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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- College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43614, USA
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- The University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, OH 43614, USA
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon 69372, France
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Byun J, Han Y, Li Y, Xia J, Long E, Choi J, Xiao X, Zhu M, Zhou W, Sun R, Bossé Y, Song Z, Schwartz A, Lusk C, Rafnar T, Stefansson K, Zhang T, Zhao W, Pettit RW, Liu Y, Li X, Zhou H, Walsh KM, Gorlov I, Gorlova O, Zhu D, Rosenberg SM, Pinney S, Bailey-Wilson JE, Mandal D, de Andrade M, Gaba C, Willey JC, You M, Anderson M, Wiencke JK, Albanes D, Lam S, Tardon A, Chen C, Goodman G, Bojeson S, Brenner H, Landi MT, Chanock SJ, Johansson M, Muley T, Risch A, Wichmann HE, Bickeböller H, Christiani DC, Rennert G, Arnold S, Field JK, Shete S, Le Marchand L, Melander O, Brunnstrom H, Liu G, Andrew AS, Kiemeney LA, Shen H, Zienolddiny S, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Caporaso N, Cox A, Hong YC, Yuan JM, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Patel A, Lan Q, Rothman N, Taylor F, Kachuri L, Witte JS, Sakoda LC, Spitz M, Brennan P, Lin X, McKay J, Hung RJ, Amos CI. Cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 61,047 cases and 947,237 controls identifies new susceptibility loci contributing to lung cancer. Nat Genet 2022; 54:1167-1177. [PMID: 35915169 PMCID: PMC9373844 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01115-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Abstract
To identify new susceptibility loci to lung cancer among diverse populations, we performed cross-ancestry genome-wide association studies in European, East Asian and African populations and discovered five loci that have not been previously reported. We replicated 26 signals and identified 10 new lead associations from previously reported loci. Rare-variant associations tended to be specific to populations, but even common-variant associations influencing smoking behavior, such as those with CHRNA5 and CYP2A6, showed population specificity. Fine-mapping and expression quantitative trait locus colocalization nominated several candidate variants and susceptibility genes such as IRF4 and FUBP1. DNA damage assays of prioritized genes in lung fibroblasts indicated that a subset of these genes, including the pleiotropic gene IRF4, potentially exert effects by promoting endogenous DNA damage.
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- Jinyoung Byun
- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec - Université Laval, Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
- Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
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- The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
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- Center for Cancer Prevention, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Public Health Department, University of Oviedo, ISPA and CIBERESP, Asturias, Spain
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- Program in Epidemiology, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Allergy-Cancer-BioNano Research Centre, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- University of Kentucky, Markey Cancer Center, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- University Health Network- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Departments of Epidemiology and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P. R. China
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
- Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
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Zhang R, Shen S, Wei Y, Zhu Y, Li Y, Chen J, Guan J, Pan Z, Wang Y, Zhu M, Xie J, Xiao X, Zhu D, Li Y, Albanes D, Landi MT, Caporaso NE, Lam S, Tardon A, Chen C, Bojesen SE, Johansson M, Risch A, Bickeböller H, Wichmann HE, Rennert G, Arnold S, Brennan P, McKay JD, Field JK, Shete SS, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Andrew AS, Kiemeney LA, Zienolddiny-Narui S, Behndig A, Johansson M, Cox A, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Dai J, Ma H, Zhao Y, Hu Z, Hung RJ, Amos CI, Shen H, Chen F, Christiani DC. A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Gene-Gene Interaction Study of Lung Cancer Susceptibility in Europeans With a Trans-Ethnic Validation in Asians. J Thorac Oncol 2022; 17:974-990. [PMID: 35500836 PMCID: PMC9512697 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2021] [Revised: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Although genome-wide association studies have been conducted to investigate genetic variation of lung tumorigenesis, little is known about gene-gene (G × G) interactions that may influence the risk of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS Leveraging a total of 445,221 European-descent participants from the International Lung Cancer Consortium OncoArray project, Transdisciplinary Research in Cancer of the Lung and UK Biobank, we performed a large-scale genome-wide G × G interaction study on European NSCLC risk by a series of analyses. First, we used BiForce to evaluate and rank more than 58 billion G × G interactions from 340,958 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Then, the top interactions were further tested by demographically adjusted logistic regression models. Finally, we used the selected interactions to build lung cancer screening models of NSCLC, separately, for never and ever smokers. RESULTS With the Bonferroni correction, we identified eight statistically significant pairs of SNPs, which predominantly appeared in the 6p21.32 and 5p15.33 regions (e.g., rs521828C6orf10 and rs204999PRRT1, ORinteraction = 1.17, p = 6.57 × 10-13; rs3135369BTNL2 and rs2858859HLA-DQA1, ORinteraction = 1.17, p = 2.43 × 10-13; rs2858859HLA-DQA1 and rs9275572HLA-DQA2, ORinteraction = 1.15, p = 2.84 × 10-13; rs2853668TERT and rs62329694CLPTM1L, ORinteraction = 0.73, p = 2.70 × 10-13). Notably, even with much genetic heterogeneity across ethnicities, three pairs of SNPs in the 6p21.32 region identified from the European-ancestry population remained significant among an Asian population from the Nanjing Medical University Global Screening Array project (rs521828C6orf10 and rs204999PRRT1, ORinteraction = 1.13, p = 0.008; rs3135369BTNL2 and rs2858859HLA-DQA1, ORinteraction = 1.11, p = 5.23 × 10-4; rs3135369BTNL2 and rs9271300HLA-DQA1, ORinteraction = 0.89, p = 0.006). The interaction-empowered polygenetic risk score that integrated classical polygenetic risk score and G × G information score was remarkable in lung cancer risk stratification. CONCLUSIONS Important G × G interactions were identified and enriched in the 5p15.33 and 6p21.32 regions, which may enhance lung cancer screening models.
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- Ruyang Zhang
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Medicine, British Columbia Cancer Agency, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Biosciences and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Carmel, Haifa, Israel
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Department for Health Evidence, Department of Urology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery and Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China; Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Yang W, Liu H, Zhang R, Freedman JA, Han Y, Hung RJ, Brhane Y, McLaughlin J, Brennan P, Bickeboeller H, Rosenberger A, Houlston RS, Caporaso NE, Landi MT, Brueske I, Risch A, Christiani DC, Amos CI, Chen X, Patierno SR, Wei Q. Deciphering associations between three RNA splicing-related genetic variants and lung cancer risk. NPJ Precis Oncol 2022; 6:48. [PMID: 35773316 PMCID: PMC9247007 DOI: 10.1038/s41698-022-00281-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Limited efforts have been made in assessing the effect of genome-wide profiling of RNA splicing-related variation on lung cancer risk. In the present study, we first identified RNA splicing-related genetic variants linked to lung cancer in a genome-wide profiling analysis and then conducted a two-stage (discovery and replication) association study in populations of European ancestry. Discovery and validation were conducted sequentially with a total of 29,266 cases and 56,450 controls from both the Transdisciplinary Research in Cancer of the Lung and the International Lung Cancer Consortium as well as the OncoArray database. For those variants identified as significant in the two datasets, we further performed stratified analyses by smoking status and histological type and investigated their effects on gene expression and potential regulatory mechanisms. We identified three genetic variants significantly associated with lung cancer risk: rs329118 in JADE2 (P = 8.80E-09), rs2285521 in GGA2 (P = 4.43E-08), and rs198459 in MYRF (P = 1.60E-06). The combined effects of all three SNPs were more evident in lung squamous cell carcinomas (P = 1.81E-08, P = 6.21E-08, and P = 7.93E-04, respectively) than in lung adenocarcinomas and in ever smokers (P = 9.80E-05, P = 2.70E-04, and P = 2.90E-05, respectively) than in never smokers. Gene expression quantitative trait analysis suggested a role for the SNPs in regulating transcriptional expression of the corresponding target genes. In conclusion, we report that three RNA splicing-related genetic variants contribute to lung cancer susceptibility in European populations. However, additional validation is needed, and specific splicing mechanisms of the target genes underlying the observed associations also warrants further exploration.
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- Wenjun Yang
- International Center for Aging and Cancer, Pathology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199, China
- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
- Ningxia Human Stem Cell Research Institute, the General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, 750004, China
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
- School of Public Health, Fudan University; Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, 200032, China
- Yiwu Research Institute of Fudan University, Yiwu, Zhejiang, 322000, China
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372, France
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, the Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Helmholtz Centre Munich, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Cancer Research Program, Julius L. Chambers Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, 27707, USA
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
- Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
- Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
- Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
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Rosenberger A, Muttray N, Hung RJ, Christiani DC, Caporaso NE, Liu G, Bojesen SE, Le Marchand L, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Tardon A, Fernández-Tardón G, Rennert G, Field JK, Davies MPA, Liloglou T, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Wendel B, Haugen A, Zienolddiny S, Lam S, Schabath MB, Andrew AS, Duell EJ, Arnold SM, Goodman GE, Chen C, Doherty JA, Taylor F, Cox A, Woll PJ, Risch A, Muley TR, Johansson M, Brennan P, Landi MT, Shete SS, Amos CI, Bickeböller H. Gene-gene interaction of AhRwith and within the Wntcascade affects susceptibility to lung cancer. Eur J Med Res 2022; 27:14. [PMID: 35101137 PMCID: PMC8805279 DOI: 10.1186/s40001-022-00638-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Aberrant Wnt signalling, regulating cell development and stemness, influences the development of many cancer types. The Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) mediates tumorigenesis of environmental pollutants. Complex interaction patterns of genes assigned to AhR/Wnt-signalling were recently associated with lung cancer susceptibility. AIM To assess the association and predictive ability of AhR/Wnt-genes with lung cancer in cases and controls of European descent. METHODS Odds ratios (OR) were estimated for genomic variants assigned to the Wnt agonist and the antagonistic genes DKK2, DKK3, DKK4, FRZB, SFRP4 and Axin2. Logistic regression models with variable selection were trained, validated and tested to predict lung cancer, at which other previously identified SNPs that have been robustly associated with lung cancer risk could also enter the model. Furthermore, decision trees were created to investigate variant × variant interaction. All analyses were performed for overall lung cancer and for subgroups. RESULTS No genome-wide significant association of AhR/Wnt-genes with overall lung cancer was observed, but within the subgroups of ever smokers (e.g., maker rs2722278 SFRP4; OR = 1.20; 95% CI 1.13-1.27; p = 5.6 × 10-10) and never smokers (e.g., maker rs1133683 Axin2; OR = 1.27; 95% CI 1.19-1.35; p = 1.0 × 10-12). Although predictability is poor, AhR/Wnt-variants are unexpectedly overrepresented in optimized prediction scores for overall lung cancer and for small cell lung cancer. Remarkably, the score for never-smokers contained solely two AhR/Wnt-variants. The optimal decision tree for never smokers consists of 7 AhR/Wnt-variants and only two lung cancer variants. CONCLUSIONS The role of variants belonging to Wnt/AhR-pathways in lung cancer susceptibility may be underrated in main-effects association analysis. Complex interaction patterns in individuals of European descent have moderate predictive capacity for lung cancer or subgroups thereof, especially in never smokers.
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- Albert Rosenberger
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
- Institut Für Genetische Epidemiologie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Humboldtallee 32, 37073, Göttingen, Germany.
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Medical Oncology and Medical Biophysics, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Medicine and Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, ISPA and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Departments of Health Evidence and Urology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Unit of Biomarkers and Susceptibility, Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Research Unit, Thoraxklinik, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Division of Basic Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Rosenberger A, Tozzi V, Bickeböller H, Christiani DC, Caporaso NE, Liu G, Bojesen SE, Le Marchand L, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Tardon A, Fernández-Tardón G, Rennert G, Field JK, Davies M, Liloglou T, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Haugen A, Zienolddiny S, Lam S, Schabath MB, Andrew AS, Duell EJ, Arnold SM, Brunnström H, Melander O, Goodman GE, Chen C, Doherty JA, Teare MD, Cox A, Woll PJ, Risch A, Muley TR, Johansson M, Brennan P, Landi MT, Shete SS, Amos CI. Iam hiQ-a novel pair of accuracy indices for imputed genotypes. BMC Bioinformatics 2022; 23:50. [PMID: 35073846 PMCID: PMC8785528 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-022-04568-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Imputation of untyped markers is a standard tool in genome-wide association studies to close the gap between directly genotyped and other known DNA variants. However, high accuracy with which genotypes are imputed is fundamental. Several accuracy measures have been proposed and some are implemented in imputation software, unfortunately diversely across platforms. In the present paper, we introduce Iam hiQ, an independent pair of accuracy measures that can be applied to dosage files, the output of all imputation software. Iam (imputation accuracy measure) quantifies the average amount of individual-specific versus population-specific genotype information in a linear manner. hiQ (heterogeneity in quantities of dosages) addresses the inter-individual heterogeneity between dosages of a marker across the sample at hand. RESULTS Applying both measures to a large case-control sample of the International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO), comprising 27,065 individuals, we found meaningful thresholds for Iam and hiQ suitable to classify markers of poor accuracy. We demonstrate how Manhattan-like plots and moving averages of Iam and hiQ can be useful to identify regions enriched with less accurate imputed markers, whereas these regions would by missed when applying the accuracy measure info (implemented in IMPUTE2). CONCLUSION We recommend using Iam hiQ additional to other accuracy scores for variant filtering before stepping into the analysis of imputed GWAS data.
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- Albert Rosenberger
- grid.411984.10000 0001 0482 5331Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany ,grid.411984.10000 0001 0482 5331Institut für Genetische Epidemiologie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Humboldtallee 32, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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- grid.411984.10000 0001 0482 5331Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- grid.411984.10000 0001 0482 5331Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Schamschula E, Lahnsteiner A, Assenov Y, Hagmann W, Zaborsky N, Wiederstein M, Strobl A, Stanke F, Muley T, Plass C, Tümmler B, Risch A. Disease-related blood-based differential methylation in cystic fibrosis and its representation in lung cancer revealed a regulatory locus in PKP3 in lung epithelial cells. Epigenetics 2021; 17:837-860. [PMID: 34415821 PMCID: PMC9423854 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2021.1959976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a monogenic disease, characterized by massive chronic lung inflammation. The observed variability in clinical phenotypes in monozygotic CF twins is likely associated with the extent of inflammation. This study sought to investigate inflammation-related aberrant DNA methylation in CF twins and to determine to what extent acquired methylation changes may be associated with lung cancer. Blood-based genome-wide DNA methylation analysis was performed to compare the DNA methylomes of monozygotic twins, from the European CF Twin and Sibling Study with various degrees of disease severity. Putatively inflammation-related and differentially methylated positions were selected from a large lung cancer case-control study and investigated in blood by targeted bisulphite next-generation-sequencing. An inflammation-related locus located in the Plakophilin-3 (PKP3) gene was functionally analysed regarding promoter and enhancer activity in presence and absence of methylation using luciferase reporter assays. We confirmed in a unique cohort that monozygotic twins, even if clinically discordant, have only minor differences in global DNA methylation patterns and blood cell composition. Further, we determined the most differentially methylated positions, a high proportion of which are blood cell-type-specific, whereas others may be acquired and thus have potential relevance in the context of inflammation as lung cancer risk factors. We identified a sequence in the gene body of PKP3 which is hypermethylated in blood from CF twins with severe phenotype and highly variably methylated in lung cancer patients and controls, independent of known clinical parameters, and showed that this region exhibits methylation-dependent promoter activity in lung epithelial cells.
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine III with Haematology, Medical Oncology, Haemostaseology, Infectiology and Rheumatology, Oncologic Center, Salzburg Cancer Research Institute - Laboratory for Immunological and Molecular Cancer Research (SCRI-LIMCR), Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.,Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Clinical Research Group, Clinic for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and NeonatologyClinic for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover, Germany.,Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), German Center for Lung Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Translational Research Unit, Thoraxklinik Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Germany.,Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.,Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Clinical Research Group, Clinic for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and NeonatologyClinic for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover, Germany.,Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), German Center for Lung Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.,Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.,Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.,Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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Cerritelli F, Lunghi C, Esteves J, Vaucher P, van Dun P, Alvarez G, Biberschick M, Wagner A, Merdy O, Menard M, Tavernier P, Clouzeau C, Risch A, Ruffini N, Nunes A, Santiago R, Marett P, Grech R, Thomson O. Osteopathy: Italian professional profile. A professional commentary by a group of experts of the European community of practice. INT J OSTEOPATH MED 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijosm.2021.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Qin N, Li Y, Wang C, Zhu M, Dai J, Hong T, Albanes D, Lam S, Tardon A, Chen C, Goodman G, Bojesen SE, Landi MT, Johansson M, Risch A, Wichmann HE, Bickeboller H, Rennert G, Arnold S, Brennan P, Field JK, Shete S, Le Marchand L, Melander O, Brunnstrom H, Liu G, Hung RJ, Andrew A, Kiemeney LA, Zienolddiny S, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Caporaso N, Woll P, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Stevens VL, Jin G, Christiani DC, Hu Z, Amos CI, Ma H, Shen H. Comprehensive functional annotation of susceptibility variants identifies genetic heterogeneity between lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Front Med 2021; 15:275-291. [PMID: 32889700 PMCID: PMC8374896 DOI: 10.1007/s11684-020-0779-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Although genome-wide association studies have identified more than eighty genetic variants associated with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) risk, biological mechanisms of these variants remain largely unknown. By integrating a large-scale genotype data of 15 581 lung adenocarcinoma (AD) cases, 8350 squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) cases, and 27 355 controls, as well as multiple transcriptome and epigenomic databases, we conducted histology-specific meta-analyses and functional annotations of both reported and novel susceptibility variants. We identified 3064 credible risk variants for NSCLC, which were overrepresented in enhancer-like and promoter-like histone modification peaks as well as DNase I hypersensitive sites. Transcription factor enrichment analysis revealed that USF1 was AD-specific while CREB1 was SqCC-specific. Functional annotation and gene-based analysis implicated 894 target genes, including 274 specifics for AD and 123 for SqCC, which were overrepresented in somatic driver genes (ER = 1.95, P = 0.005). Pathway enrichment analysis and Gene-Set Enrichment Analysis revealed that AD genes were primarily involved in immune-related pathways, while SqCC genes were homologous recombination deficiency related. Our results illustrate the molecular basis of both well-studied and new susceptibility loci of NSCLC, providing not only novel insights into the genetic heterogeneity between AD and SqCC but also a set of plausible gene targets for post-GWAS functional experiments.
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- Na Qin
- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Center for Global Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- Department of Bioinformatics, School of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Center for Global Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892-9304, USA
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1L3, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Oviedo, 33006, Spain
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- Program in Epidemiology, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA, 98026, USA
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, DK-1017, Denmark
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, 69372, France
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- Cancer Center Cluster Salzburg at PLUS, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Heidelberg, 5020, Austria
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Bavaria, 80539, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, 37075, Germany
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- Technion Faculty of Medicine, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, 3448516, Israel
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506-0054, USA
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, 69372, France
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool, L69 7ZX, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77079, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, BMC F12, 221 84, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, BMC F12, 221 84, Lund, Sweden
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- Epidemiology Division, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, ON, M4Y 2H8, Canada
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- Epidemiology Division, Lunenfeld-Tanenbuaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
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- Department of Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, 9101 6500, HB, Germany
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- National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Oslo, Pb 5330, Norway
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umea, 901 87, Sweden
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umea, 901 87, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, 99210, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, 12902, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Center for Global Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Center for Global Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
- China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Houston, TX, 21202, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Center for Global Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.
- China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Center for Global Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.
- China International Cooperation Center for Environment and Human Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.
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Hung RJ, Warkentin MT, Brhane Y, Chatterjee N, Christiani DC, Landi MT, Caporaso NE, Liu G, Johansson M, Albanes D, Marchand LL, Tardon A, Rennert G, Bojesen SE, Chen C, Field JK, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Zienolddiny S, Lam S, Andrew AS, Arnold SM, Aldrich MC, Bickeböller H, Risch A, Schabath MB, McKay JD, Brennan P, Amos CI. Assessing Lung Cancer Absolute Risk Trajectory Based on a Polygenic Risk Model. Cancer Res 2021; 81:1607-1615. [PMID: 33472890 PMCID: PMC7969419 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-20-1237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death globally. An improved risk stratification strategy can increase efficiency of low-dose CT (LDCT) screening. Here we assessed whether individual's genetic background has clinical utility for risk stratification in the context of LDCT screening. On the basis of 13,119 patients with lung cancer and 10,008 controls with European ancestry in the International Lung Cancer Consortium, we constructed a polygenic risk score (PRS) via 10-fold cross-validation with regularized penalized regression. The performance of risk model integrating PRS, including calibration and ability to discriminate, was assessed using UK Biobank data (N = 335,931). Absolute risk was estimated on the basis of age-specific lung cancer incidence and all-cause mortality as competing risk. To evaluate its potential clinical utility, the PRS distribution was simulated in the National Lung Screening Trial (N = 50,772 participants). The lung cancer ORs for individuals at the top decile of the PRS distribution versus those at bottom 10% was 2.39 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.92-3.00; P = 1.80 × 10-14] in the validation set (P trend = 5.26 × 10-20). The OR per SD of PRS increase was 1.26 (95% CI = 1.20-1.32; P = 9.69 × 10-23) for overall lung cancer risk in the validation set. When considering absolute risks, individuals at different PRS deciles showed differential trajectories of 5-year and cumulative absolute risk. The age reaching the LDCT screening recommendation threshold can vary by 4 to 8 years, depending on the individual's genetic background, smoking status, and family history. Collectively, these results suggest that individual's genetic background may inform the optimal lung cancer LDCT screening strategy. SIGNIFICANCE: Three large-scale datasets reveal that, after accounting for risk factors, an individual's genetics can affect their lung cancer risk trajectory, thus may inform the optimal timing for LDCT screening.
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- Rayjean J Hung
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada.
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Canada
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, Houston, Texas
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Zhou W, Liu G, Hung RJ, Haycock PC, Aldrich MC, Andrew AS, Arnold SM, Bickeböller H, Bojesen SE, Brennan P, Brunnström H, Melander O, Caporaso NE, Landi MT, Chen C, Goodman GE, Christiani DC, Cox A, Field JK, Johansson M, Kiemeney LA, Lam S, Lazarus P, Marchand LL, Rennert G, Risch A, Schabath MB, Shete SS, Tardón A, Zienolddiny S, Shen H, Amos CI. Causal relationships between body mass index, smoking and lung cancer: Univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization. Int J Cancer 2021; 148:1077-1086. [PMID: 32914876 PMCID: PMC7845289 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.33292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Revised: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 07/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
At the time of cancer diagnosis, body mass index (BMI) is inversely correlated with lung cancer risk, which may reflect reverse causality and confounding due to smoking behavior. We used two-sample univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization (MR) to estimate causal relationships of BMI and smoking behaviors on lung cancer and histological subtypes based on an aggregated genome-wide association studies (GWASs) analysis of lung cancer in 29 266 cases and 56 450 controls. We observed a positive causal effect for high BMI on occurrence of small-cell lung cancer (odds ratio (OR) = 1.60, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.24-2.06, P = 2.70 × 10-4 ). After adjustment of smoking behaviors using multivariable Mendelian randomization (MVMR), a direct causal effect on small cell lung cancer (ORMVMR = 1.28, 95% CI = 1.06-1.55, PMVMR = .011), and an inverse effect on lung adenocarcinoma (ORMVMR = 0.86, 95% CI = 0.77-0.96, PMVMR = .008) were observed. A weak increased risk of lung squamous cell carcinoma was observed for higher BMI in univariable Mendelian randomization (UVMR) analysis (ORUVMR = 1.19, 95% CI = 1.01-1.40, PUVMR = .036), but this effect disappeared after adjustment of smoking (ORMVMR = 1.02, 95% CI = 0.90-1.16, PMVMR = .746). These results highlight the histology-specific impact of BMI on lung carcinogenesis and imply mediator role of smoking behaviors in the association between BMI and lung cancer.
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- Wen Zhou
- Department of Epidemiology, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Epidemiology Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Bristol Medical School, Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery and Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Genetic Epidemology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre, Liverpool, UK
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- Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Biosciences, Allergy-Cancer-BioNano Research Centre, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, DKFZ – German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Biostatistics, Division of Basic Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and ISPA and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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Lesseur C, Ferreiro-Iglesias A, McKay JD, Bossé Y, Johansson M, Gaborieau V, Landi MT, Christiani DC, Caporaso NC, Bojesen SE, Amos CI, Shete S, Liu G, Rennert G, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Tardon A, Chen C, Triantafillos L, Field JK, Teare MD, Kiemeney LA, Diergaarde B, Ferris RL, Zienolddiny S, Lam S, Olshan AF, Weissler MC, Lacko M, Risch A, Bickeböller H, Ness AR, Thomas S, Le Marchand L, Schabath MB, Wünsch-Filho V, Tajara EH, Andrew AS, Clifford GM, Lazarus P, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Arnold S, Melander O, Brunnström H, Boccia S, Cadoni G, Timens W, Obeidat M, Xiao X, Houlston RS, Hung RJ, Brennan P. Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies pleiotropic risk loci for aerodigestive squamous cell cancers. PLoS Genet 2021; 17:e1009254. [PMID: 33667223 PMCID: PMC7968735 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Revised: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Squamous cell carcinomas (SqCC) of the aerodigestive tract have similar etiological risk factors. Although genetic risk variants for individual cancers have been identified, an agnostic, genome-wide search for shared genetic susceptibility has not been performed. To identify novel and pleotropic SqCC risk variants, we performed a meta-analysis of GWAS data on lung SqCC (LuSqCC), oro/pharyngeal SqCC (OSqCC), laryngeal SqCC (LaSqCC) and esophageal SqCC (ESqCC) cancers, totaling 13,887 cases and 61,961 controls of European ancestry. We identified one novel genome-wide significant (Pmeta<5x10-8) aerodigestive SqCC susceptibility loci in the 2q33.1 region (rs56321285, TMEM273). Additionally, three previously unknown loci reached suggestive significance (Pmeta<5x10-7): 1q32.1 (rs12133735, near MDM4), 5q31.2 (rs13181561, TMEM173) and 19p13.11 (rs61494113, ABHD8). Multiple previously identified loci for aerodigestive SqCC also showed evidence of pleiotropy in at least another SqCC site, these include: 4q23 (ADH1B), 6p21.33 (STK19), 6p21.32 (HLA-DQB1), 9p21.33 (CDKN2B-AS1) and 13q13.1(BRCA2). Gene-based association and gene set enrichment identified a set of 48 SqCC-related genes rel to DNA damage and epigenetic regulation pathways. Our study highlights the importance of cross-cancer analyses to identify pleiotropic risk loci of histology-related cancers arising at distinct anatomical sites.
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- Corina Lesseur
- Section of Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Section of Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Section of Genetics, Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
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- Section of Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Section of Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor college of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- School of Health and Related Research, University Of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- University of Salzburg, Department of Biosciences and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Division of Epigenomics, DKFZ – German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
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- Infections Section, Infections and Cancer Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Section of Hygiene, University Department of Life Sciences and Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia
- Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health - Public Health Area, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia
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- Dipartimento Patologia Testa Collo e Organi di Senso, Istituto di Clinica Otorinolaringoiatrica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia
- Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Invecchiamento, Neurologiche, Ortopediche e della Testa-Collo, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia
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- Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul’s Hospital, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor college of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada
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- Section of Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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Laplana M, Bieg M, Faltus C, Melnik S, Bogatyrova O, Gu Z, Muley T, Meister M, Dienemann H, Herpel E, Amos CI, Schlesner M, Eils R, Plass C, Risch A. Differentially methylated regions within lung cancer risk loci are enriched in deregulated enhancers. Epigenetics 2021; 17:117-132. [PMID: 33595421 PMCID: PMC8865272 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2021.1878723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified SNPs linked with lung cancer risk. Our aim was to discover the genes, non-coding RNAs, and regulatory elements within GWAS-identified risk regions that are deregulated in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) to identify novel, clinically targetable genes and mechanisms in carcinogenesis. A targeted bisulphite-sequencing approach was used to comprehensively investigate DNA methylation changes occurring within lung cancer risk regions in 17 NSCLC and adjacent normal tissue pairs. We report differences in differentially methylated regions between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. Among the minimal regions found to be differentially methylated in at least 50% of the patients, 7 candidates were replicated in 2 independent cohorts (n = 27 and n = 87) and the potential of 6 as methylation-dependent regulatory elements was confirmed by functional assays. This study contributes to understanding the pathways implicated in lung cancer initiation and progression, and provides new potential targets for cancer treatment.
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- Marina Laplana
- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center for Digital Health, Berlin Institute of Health and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology (DKFZ-HIPO), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Biosciences, Allergy-Cancer-BioNano Research Centre, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology (DKFZ-HIPO), Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Translational Research Unit, Thoraxklinik-Heidelberg gGmbH, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.,Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Translational Research Unit, Thoraxklinik-Heidelberg gGmbH, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.,Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Tissue Bank of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
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- Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.,Bioinformatics and Omics Data Analytics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center for Digital Health, Berlin Institute of Health and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology (DKFZ-HIPO), Heidelberg, Germany.,Health Data Science Unit, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epigenomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Biosciences, Allergy-Cancer-BioNano Research Centre, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.,Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.,Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Austria
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Sun R, Xu M, Li X, Gaynor S, Zhou H, Li Z, Bossé Y, Lam S, Tsao MS, Tardon A, Chen C, Doherty J, Goodman G, Bojesen SE, Landi MT, Johansson M, Field JK, Bickeböller H, Wichmann HE, Risch A, Rennert G, Arnold S, Wu X, Melander O, Brunnström H, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Andrew A, Duell E, Kiemeney LA, Shen H, Haugen A, Johansson M, Grankvist K, Caporaso N, Woll P, Teare MD, Scelo G, Hong YC, Yuan JM, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Albanes D, Mak R, Barbie D, Brennan P, Hung RJ, Amos CI, Christiani DC, Lin X. Integration of multiomic annotation data to prioritize and characterize inflammation and immune-related risk variants in squamous cell lung cancer. Genet Epidemiol 2021; 45:99-114. [PMID: 32924180 PMCID: PMC7855632 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Revised: 08/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/27/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
Clinical trial results have recently demonstrated that inhibiting inflammation by targeting the interleukin-1β pathway can offer a significant reduction in lung cancer incidence and mortality, highlighting a pressing and unmet need to understand the benefits of inflammation-focused lung cancer therapies at the genetic level. While numerous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have explored the genetic etiology of lung cancer, there remains a large gap between the type of information that may be gleaned from an association study and the depth of understanding necessary to explain and drive translational findings. Thus, in this study we jointly model and integrate extensive multiomics data sources, utilizing a total of 40 genome-wide functional annotations that augment previously published results from the International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO) GWAS, to prioritize and characterize single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that increase risk of squamous cell lung cancer through the inflammatory and immune responses. Our work bridges the gap between correlative analysis and translational follow-up research, refining GWAS association measures in an interpretable and systematic manner. In particular, reanalysis of the ILCCO data highlights the impact of highly associated SNPs from nuclear factor-κB signaling pathway genes as well as major histocompatibility complex mediated variation in immune responses. One consequence of prioritizing likely functional SNPs is the pruning of variants that might be selected for follow-up work by over an order of magnitude, from potentially tens of thousands to hundreds. The strategies we introduce provide informative and interpretable approaches for incorporating extensive genome-wide annotation data in analysis of genetic association studies.
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- Ryan Sun
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Quebec, Quebec, Canada
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Swedish Medical Group, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Cancer Cluster Salzburg, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center, German Center for Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Laboratory Medicine Region, Skäne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology Barcelona, Spain
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- Faculty of Medical Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeä University, Umeä, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada
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- Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Grund-Gröschke S, Ortner D, Szenes-Nagy AB, Zaborsky N, Weiss R, Neureiter D, Wipplinger M, Risch A, Hammerl P, Greil R, Sibilia M, Gratz IK, Stoitzner P, Aberger F. Epidermal activation of Hedgehog signaling establishes an immunosuppressive microenvironment in basal cell carcinoma by modulating skin immunity. Mol Oncol 2020; 14:1930-1946. [PMID: 32615027 PMCID: PMC7463314 DOI: 10.1002/1878-0261.12758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 05/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Genetic activation of hedgehog/glioma‐associated oncogene homolog (HH/GLI) signaling causes basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a very frequent nonmelanoma skin cancer. Small molecule targeting of the essential HH effector Smoothened (SMO) has proven an effective therapy of BCC, though the frequent development of drug resistance poses major challenges to anti‐HH treatments. In light of recent breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy, we analyzed the possible immunosuppressive mechanisms in HH/GLI‐induced BCC in detail. Using a genetic mouse model of BCC, we identified profound differences in the infiltration of BCC lesions with cells of the adaptive and innate immune system. Epidermal activation of Hh/Gli signaling led to an accumulation of immunosuppressive regulatory T cells, and to an increased expression of immune checkpoint molecules including programmed death (PD)‐1/PD‐ligand 1. Anti‐PD‐1 monotherapy, however, did not reduce tumor growth, presumably due to the lack of immunogenic mutations in common BCC mouse models, as shown by whole‐exome sequencing. BCC lesions also displayed a marked infiltration with neutrophils, the depletion of which unexpectedly promoted BCC growth. The study provides a comprehensive survey of and novel insights into the immune status of murine BCC and serves as a basis for the design of efficacious rational combination treatments. This study also underlines the need for predictive immunogenic mouse models of BCC to evaluate the efficacy of immunotherapeutic strategies in vivo.
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- Sandra Grund-Gröschke
- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology & Allergology, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
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- IIIrd Medical Department, Salzburg Cancer Research Institute - Laboratory for Immunological and Molecular Cancer Research (SCRI-LIMCR), Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
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- Institute of Pathology, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
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- IIIrd Medical Department, Salzburg Cancer Research Institute - Laboratory for Immunological and Molecular Cancer Research (SCRI-LIMCR), Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Austria
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology & Allergology, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria
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Wang Y, Gorlova OY, Gorlov IP, Zhu M, Dai J, Albanes D, Lam S, Tardon A, Chen C, Goodman GE, Bojesen SE, Landi MT, Johansson M, Risch A, Wichmann HE, Bickeboller H, Christiani DC, Rennert G, Arnold SM, Brennan P, Field JK, Shete S, Le Marchand L, Melander O, Brunnstrom H, Liu G, Hung RJ, Andrew AS, Kiemeney LA, Zienolddiny S, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Caporaso NE, Woll PJ, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Stevens VL, Ma H, Jin G, Hu Z, Amos CI, Shen H. Association Analysis of Driver Gene-Related Genetic Variants Identified Novel Lung Cancer Susceptibility Loci with 20,871 Lung Cancer Cases and 15,971 Controls. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020; 29:1423-1429. [PMID: 32277007 PMCID: PMC8120681 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-19-1085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Revised: 11/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND A substantial proportion of cancer driver genes (CDG) are also cancer predisposition genes. However, the associations between genetic variants in lung CDGs and the susceptibility to lung cancer have rarely been investigated. METHODS We selected expression-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms (eSNP) and nonsynonymous variants of lung CDGs, and tested their associations with lung cancer risk in two large-scale genome-wide association studies (20,871 cases and 15,971 controls of European descent). Conditional and joint association analysis was performed to identify independent risk variants. The associations of independent risk variants with somatic alterations in lung CDGs or recurrently altered pathways were investigated using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. RESULTS We identified seven independent SNPs in five lung CDGs that were consistently associated with lung cancer risk in discovery (P < 0.001) and validation (P < 0.05) stages. Among these loci, rs78062588 in TPM3 (1q21.3) was a new lung cancer susceptibility locus (OR = 0.86, P = 1.65 × 10-6). Subgroup analysis by histologic types further identified nine lung CDGs. Analysis of somatic alterations found that in lung adenocarcinomas, rs78062588[C] allele (TPM3 in 1q21.3) was associated with elevated somatic copy number of TPM3 (OR = 1.16, P = 0.02). In lung adenocarcinomas, rs1611182 (HLA-A in 6p22.1) was associated with truncation mutations of the transcriptional misregulation in cancer pathway (OR = 0.66, P = 1.76 × 10-3). CONCLUSIONS Genetic variants can regulate functions of lung CDGs and influence lung cancer susceptibility. IMPACT Our findings might help unravel biological mechanisms underlying lung cancer susceptibility.
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- Yuzhuo Wang
- Department of Epidemiology, International Joint Research Center on Environment and Human Health, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular and Translational Cancer Research, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital & Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research & Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire
- Department of Medicine, Epidemiology Section, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire
- Department of Medicine, Epidemiology Section, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Epidemiology, International Joint Research Center on Environment and Human Health, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular and Translational Cancer Research, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital & Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research & Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Cancer Hospital, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, International Joint Research Center on Environment and Human Health, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Public Health IUOPA, University of Oviedo, ISPA and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- University of Salzburg, Department of Biosciences, Allergy-Cancer-BioNano Research Centre, Salzburg, Austria
- Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, DKFZ-German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Technion Faculty of Medicine, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i
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- Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Prosseman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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- Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umea, Sweden
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland
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- Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Medicine (Division of Genetic Medicine), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Epidemiology, International Joint Research Center on Environment and Human Health, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, International Joint Research Center on Environment and Human Health, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, International Joint Research Center on Environment and Human Health, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Medicine, Epidemiology Section, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, Houston, Texas.
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- Department of Epidemiology, International Joint Research Center on Environment and Human Health, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Schamschula E, Hagmann W, Assenov Y, Hedtfeld S, Farag AK, Roesner LM, Wiehlmann L, Stanke F, Fischer S, Risch A, Tümmler B. Immunotyping of clinically divergent p.Phe508del homozygous monozygous cystic fibrosis twins. J Cyst Fibros 2020; 20:149-153. [PMID: 32540173 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2020.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2020] [Revised: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Blood of the three clinically most concordant and most discordant p.Phe508del homozygous monozygous twin pairs of the European Cystic Fibrosis Twin and Sibling Study was examined in two postzygotic attributes that generate diversity between monozygous twins, i.e. the repertoire of the CDR3 region of the T-cell receptor ß chains and the DNA methylation at 450,000 genomic CpG sites. Methylation patterns in peripheral blood of twins changed at selected cell-type-independent positions and the immune cells of the twins showed individual profiles of the T cell receptor repertoire reflecting the plasticity of the immune system of genetically identical humans with cystic fibrosis to cope with the environment.
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- Esther Schamschula
- Department of Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Division of Epigenomics, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Epigenomics, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Clinic for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Division of Immunodermatology and Allergy Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Division of Immunodermatology and Allergy Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Clinic for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Research Core Unit Genomics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Clinic for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), German Center for Lung Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Clinic for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Division of Epigenomics, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Clinic for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), German Center for Lung Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
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Dai J, Huang M, Amos CI, Hung RJ, Tardon A, Andrew A, Chen C, Christiani DC, Albanes D, Rennert G, Fan J, Goodman G, Liu G, Field JK, Grankvist K, Kiemeney LA, Le Marchand L, Schabath MB, Johansson M, Aldrich MC, Johansson M, Caporaso N, Lazarus P, Lam S, Bojesen SE, Arnold S, Landi MT, Risch A, Wichmann HE, Bickeboller H, Brennan P, Shete S, Melander O, Brunnstrom H, Zienolddiny S, Woll P, Stevens V, Hu Z, Shen H. Genome-wide association study of INDELs identified four novel susceptibility loci associated with lung cancer risk. Int J Cancer 2020; 146:2855-2864. [PMID: 31577861 PMCID: PMC7101262 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.32698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2019] [Revised: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 45 susceptibility loci associated with lung cancer. Only less than SNPs, small insertions and deletions (INDELs) are the second most abundant genetic polymorphisms in the human genome. INDELs are highly associated with multiple human diseases, including lung cancer. However, limited studies with large-scale samples have been available to systematically evaluate the effects of INDELs on lung cancer risk. Here, we performed a large-scale meta-analysis to evaluate INDELs and their risk for lung cancer in 23,202 cases and 19,048 controls. Functional annotations were performed to further explore the potential function of lung cancer risk INDELs. Conditional analysis was used to clarify the relationship between INDELs and SNPs. Four new risk loci were identified in genome-wide INDEL analysis (1p13.2: rs5777156, Insertion, OR = 0.92, p = 9.10 × 10-8 ; 4q28.2: rs58404727, Deletion, OR = 1.19, p = 5.25 × 10-7 ; 12p13.31: rs71450133, Deletion, OR = 1.09, p = 8.83 × 10-7 ; and 14q22.3: rs34057993, Deletion, OR = 0.90, p = 7.64 × 10-8 ). The eQTL analysis and functional annotation suggested that INDELs might affect lung cancer susceptibility by regulating the expression of target genes. After conducting conditional analysis on potential causal SNPs, the INDELs in the new loci were still nominally significant. Our findings indicate that INDELs could be potentially functional genetic variants for lung cancer risk. Further functional experiments are needed to better understand INDEL mechanisms in carcinogenesis.
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- Juncheng Dai
- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Medicine, Epidemiology Section, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, Houston, TX
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- Epidemiology Division, Lunenfeld-Tanenbuaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Technion Faculty of Medicine, Carmel Medical Center, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA
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- Epidemiology Division, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Department of Molecular & Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Unit of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Washington State University College of Pharmacy, Spokane, WA
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Cancer Center Cluster Salzburg at PLUS, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Heidelberg, Austria
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Ji X, Mukherjee S, Landi MT, Bosse Y, Joubert P, Zhu D, Gorlov I, Xiao X, Han Y, Gorlova O, Hung RJ, Brhane Y, Carreras-Torres R, Christiani DC, Caporaso N, Johansson M, Liu G, Bojesen SE, Le Marchand L, Albanes D, Bickeböller H, Aldrich MC, Bush WS, Tardon A, Rennert G, Chen C, Byun J, Dragnev KH, Field JK, Kiemeney LF, Lazarus P, Zienolddiny S, Lam S, Schabath MB, Andrew AS, Bertazzi PA, Pesatori AC, Diao N, Su L, Song L, Zhang R, Leighl N, Johansen JS, Mellemgaard A, Saliba W, Haiman C, Wilkens L, Fernandez-Somoano A, Fernandez-Tardon G, Heijden EHFMVD, Kim JH, Davies MPA, Marcus MW, Brunnström H, Manjer J, Melander O, Muller DC, Overvad K, Trichopoulou A, Tumino R, Goodman GE, Cox A, Taylor F, Woll P, Wichmann E, Muley T, Risch A, Rosenberger A, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Shepherd F, Tsao MS, Arnold SM, Haura EB, Bolca C, Holcatova I, Janout V, Kontic M, Lissowska J, Mukeria A, Ognjanovic S, Orlowski TM, Scelo G, Swiatkowska B, Zaridze D, Bakke P, Skaug V, Butler LM, Offit K, Srinivasan P, Bandlamudi C, Hellmann MD, Solit DB, Robson ME, Rudin CM, Stadler ZK, Taylor BS, Berger MF, Houlston R, McLaughlin J, Stevens V, Nickle DC, Obeidat M, Timens W, Artigas MS, Shete S, Brenner H, Chanock S, Brennan P, McKay JD, Amos CI. Protein-altering germline mutations implicate novel genes related to lung cancer development. Nat Commun 2020; 11:2220. [PMID: 32393777 PMCID: PMC7214407 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15905-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
Abstract
Few germline mutations are known to affect lung cancer risk. We performed analyses of rare variants from 39,146 individuals of European ancestry and investigated gene expression levels in 7,773 samples. We find a large-effect association with an ATM L2307F (rs56009889) mutation in adenocarcinoma for discovery (adjusted Odds Ratio = 8.82, P = 1.18 × 10-15) and replication (adjusted OR = 2.93, P = 2.22 × 10-3) that is more pronounced in females (adjusted OR = 6.81 and 3.19 and for discovery and replication). We observe an excess loss of heterozygosity in lung tumors among ATM L2307F allele carriers. L2307F is more frequent (4%) among Ashkenazi Jewish populations. We also observe an association in discovery (adjusted OR = 2.61, P = 7.98 × 10-22) and replication datasets (adjusted OR = 1.55, P = 0.06) with a loss-of-function mutation, Q4X (rs150665432) of an uncharacterized gene, KIAA0930. Our findings implicate germline genetic variants in ATM with lung cancer susceptibility and suggest KIAA0930 as a novel candidate gene for lung cancer risk.
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- Xuemei Ji
- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Québec, Canada
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Québec, Canada
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- IUOPA. University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Faculty of Medicine, Campus del Cristo s/n, Oviedo, Spain
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- The Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
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- Roy Castle lung Cancer Research Programme, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, USA
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, IRCCS Foundation Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- University Health Network- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, CA, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Oncology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- IUOPA. University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Faculty of Medicine, Campus del Cristo s/n, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Integrative Bioscience & Biotechnology, Sejong University, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Roy Castle lung Cancer Research Programme, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Roy Castle lung Cancer Research Programme, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- School of Public Health, St Mary's Campus, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Cancer Registry and Histopathology Department, "Civic - M.P. Arezzo" Hospital, Asp Ragusa, Italy
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Swedish Medical Group, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- University of Kentucky, Markey Cancer Center, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Institute of Pneumology "Marius Nasta", Bucharest, Romania
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- Charles University, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Pulmonology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N.Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- International Organization for Cancer Prevention and Research, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Surgery, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N.Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Marie-Josée and Henry R. KravisCenter for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Marie-Josée and Henry R. KravisCenter for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Marie-Josée and Henry R. KravisCenter for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
- Marie-Josée and Henry R. KravisCenter for Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Merck Research Laboratories, Genetics and Pharmacogenomics, Boston, MA, USA
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- The University of British Columbia Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, GRIAC research institute, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, 7200 Cambridge St., 7th Floor, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
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Bossé Y, Li Z, Xia J, Manem V, Carreras-Torres R, Gabriel A, Gaudreault N, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Andrew A, Arnold S, Bickeböller H, Bojesen SE, Brennan P, Brunnstrom H, Caporaso N, Chen C, Christiani DC, Field JK, Goodman G, Grankvist K, Houlston R, Johansson M, Johansson M, Kiemeney LA, Lam S, Landi MT, Lazarus P, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Melander O, Rennert G, Risch A, Rosenberg SM, Schabath MB, Shete S, Song Z, Stevens VL, Tardon A, Wichmann HE, Woll P, Zienolddiny S, Obeidat M, Timens W, Hung RJ, Joubert P, Amos CI, McKay JD. Transcriptome-wide association study reveals candidate causal genes for lung cancer. Int J Cancer 2020; 146:1862-1878. [PMID: 31696517 PMCID: PMC7008463 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.32771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2019] [Revised: 10/09/2019] [Accepted: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
We have recently completed the largest GWAS on lung cancer including 29,266 cases and 56,450 controls of European descent. The goal of our study has been to integrate the complete GWAS results with a large-scale expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping study in human lung tissues (n = 1,038) to identify candidate causal genes for lung cancer. We performed transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) for lung cancer overall, by histology (adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and small cell lung cancer) and smoking subgroups (never- and ever-smokers). We performed replication analysis using lung data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. DNA damage assays were performed in human lung fibroblasts for selected TWAS genes. As expected, the main TWAS signal for all histological subtypes and ever-smokers was on chromosome 15q25. The gene most strongly associated with lung cancer at this locus using the TWAS approach was IREB2 (pTWAS = 1.09E-99), where lower predicted expression increased lung cancer risk. A new lung adenocarcinoma susceptibility locus was revealed on 9p13.3 and associated with higher predicted expression of AQP3 (pTWAS = 3.72E-6). Among the 45 previously described lung cancer GWAS loci, we mapped candidate target gene for 17 of them. The association AQP3-adenocarcinoma on 9p13.3 was replicated using GTEx (pTWAS = 6.55E-5). Consistent with the effect of risk alleles on gene expression levels, IREB2 knockdown and AQP3 overproduction promote endogenous DNA damage. These findings indicate genes whose expression in lung tissue directly influences lung cancer risk.
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- Yohan Bossé
- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
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- Baylor College of Medicine, The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Houston, TX
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umea, Sweden
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- German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute for Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI
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- Epidemiology Division, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Technion Faculty of Medicine, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Cancer Center Cluster Salzburg at PLUS, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Epidemiology, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Oberschleißheim, Germany
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- Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- The University of British Columbia Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, GRIAC Research Institute, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
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- Baylor College of Medicine, The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Houston, TX
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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Affiliation(s)
- Xia Jiang
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels vagen 13, 17177, Stockholm, Sweden.
| | - Hilary K Finucane
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
| | - Fredrick R Schumacher
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Eucid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
| | - Stephanie L Schmit
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Dr. MRC-CANCONT, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
- Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Dr. MRC-CANCONT, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
| | - Jonathan P Tyrer
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Younghun Han
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
| | - Kyriaki Michailidou
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Electron Microscopy/Molecular Pathology, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, 1683, Nicosia, Cyprus
| | - Corina Lesseur
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
| | - Karoline B Kuchenbaecker
- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, Maple House, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
| | - Joe Dennis
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - David V Conti
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
| | - Graham Casey
- Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 800717, Charlottesville, VI, 22908, USA
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 800717, Charlottesville, VI, 22908, USA
| | - Mia M Gaudet
- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
| | - Jeroen R Huyghe
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
| | - Demetrius Albanes
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
| | - Melinda C Aldrich
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 609 Oxford House, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
| | - Angeline S Andrew
- Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 7927 Rubin Building, Room 860, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 3756, USA
| | - Irene L Andrulis
- Fred ALitwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G1X5, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S1A8, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, 224 Irvine Hall, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Natalia N Antonenkova
- NNAlexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Settlement of Lesnoy-2, 223040, Minsk, Belarus
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, 800 Rose Street, cc445, Lexington, KY, 40508, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, and Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, 10 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1155 Pressler St, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
| | - Elisa V Bandera
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, Room 5568, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903, USA
| | - Rosa B Barkardottir
- Department of Pathology, Landspitali University Hospital, Hringbraut, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
- BMC (Biomedical Centre), Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Vatnsmyrarvegi 16, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Translational Research Institute, 37 Kent St, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Science, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, QLD, 4059, Australia
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Universitaetsstrasse 21-23, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Calle de Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, 25171 Morris Bldg, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Humboldtallee 32, 37073, Goettingen, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- School of Public Health, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Health Science Buidling, F-350, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 4, 00290, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Oncology, Örebro University Hospital, 70185, Örebro, Sweden
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Roma, Italy
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168, Roma, Italy
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- NNAlexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Settlement of Lesnoy-2, 223040, Minsk, Belarus
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- DrMargarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Auerbachstr112, 70376, Stuttgart, Germany
- University of Tübingen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Genetic Counseling Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, IDIBGI (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona), Catalan Institute of Oncology, CIBERONC, AvFrança s/n, 17007, Girona, Spain
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- Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Box 117, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
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- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 440, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Biomedicum Helsinki 4th Floor, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00029, Helsinki, Finland
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Roma, Italy
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168, Roma, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Calle del Prof Martín Lagos, 28040, Madrid, Spain
| | - Maria A Caligo
- Section of Genetic Oncology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University and University Hospital of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
| | - Ian Campbell
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
| | - Géraldine Cancel-Tassin
- Sorbonne Université, GRC N°5 ONCOTYPE-URO, Tenon Hospital, 75020, Paris, France
- CeRePP, Tenon Hospital, 75020, Paris, France
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- Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
- George EWahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
| | - Daniele Campa
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy
| | - Neil Caporaso
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
| | - André L Carvalho
- Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Rua Antenor Duarte Villela, 1331, Barretos, SP, 784-400, Brazil
- Head and Neck Surgery Department, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Pio XII, 1331, Antenor Duarte Villela St, Barretos, SP, 14784-400, Brazil
| | - Andrew T Chan
- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Jenny Chang-Claude
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Stephen J Chanock
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
| | - Chu Chen
- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
| | - David C Christiani
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Kathleen B M Claes
- Centre for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Gent, Belgium
| | - Frank Claessens
- Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
| | - Judith Clements
- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Translational Research Institute, 37 Kent St, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Science, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, QLD, 4059, Australia
| | - J Margriet Collée
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, 3015, Rotterdam, CN, The Netherlands
| | - Marcia Cruz Correa
- University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus and Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Juan, PR, 00936, USA
| | - Fergus J Couch
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
| | - Angela Cox
- Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids (SInFoNiA), Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
| | - Julie M Cunningham
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
| | - Cezary Cybulski
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Kamila Czene
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19111, USA
| | - Anna deFazio
- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, 176 Hawkesbury Rd, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia
- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Hawkesbury Rd & Darcy Rd, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Oncogenetics Group, Clinical and Molecular Genetics Area, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron 119-129, 08035, Barcelona, Spain
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- Genomic Medicine Group, Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS, Travesía da Choupana S/N, 15706, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK
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- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), AvGran Via 199-203, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2HW, UK
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 600, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Barngatan 4, Skånes universitetssjukhus, 222 42, Lund, Sweden
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- Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, University of Manchester, St Mary's Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Universitaetsstrasse 21-23, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Cancer Pavilion, University of Pittsburgh, Suite 500, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, USA
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- Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, The Wiliam Duncan Building, 6 West Derby Street, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
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- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, 123 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Neapoleos 10, AgParaskevi, Athens, 15310, Greece
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- Section of Infections, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
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- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Emek HaEla St 1, 52621, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Haim Levanon 30, 69978, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada
- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada
- University Health Network Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
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- Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre, UCLA, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-6900, USA
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- Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Calle del Prof Martín Lagos, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
- Center for Cancer Prevention and Translational Genomics, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Spielberg Building, 8725 Alden Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Spielberg Building, 8725 Alden Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
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- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
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- Department of Medicine, McGill University, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montréal, QC, H4A3J1, Canada
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montréal, QC, H4A3J1, Canada
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- Department of Dermatology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Room 1S37, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
- Community and Population Health Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Room 1S37, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Gary Goodman
- Public Health Sciences Division, Swedish Cancer Institute, 1221 Madison StSte 300, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
| | - Kjell Grankvist
- Unit of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, By 6M van 2, Sjukhusomradet, Umea universitet, 901 85, Umea, Sweden
| | - Mark H Greene
- Clinical Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, DCEG, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Bethesda, MD, 20850-9772, USA
| | - Henrik Gronberg
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Jacek Gronwald
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Pascal Guénel
- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, 94805, Villejuif, France
| | - Niclas Håkansson
- Department of Environmental Medicine, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 13, SE-171 77, SE-171, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Per Hall
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Oncology, Södersjukhuset, Sjukhusbacken 10, 118 83, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Ute Hamann
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Freddie C Hamdy
- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2JD, UK
| | - Robert J Hamilton
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G2M9, Canada
| | - Jochen Hampe
- Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), 01307, Dresden, Germany
| | - Aage Haugen
- National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Gydas vei 8, 0033, Oslo, Norway
| | - Florian Heitz
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, DrHorst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 100, 65199, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte/EvangHuyssens-Stiftung/Knappschaft GmbH, Henricistrasse 92, 45136, Essen, Germany
| | - Rolando Herrero
- Early Detection and Prevention Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
| | - Peter Hillemanns
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
| | - Michael Hoffmeister
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Estrid Høgdall
- Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Herlev Ringvej 75, DK-2730, Herlev, Denmark
| | - Yun-Chul Hong
- Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151 742, Korea
| | - John L Hopper
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Richard Houlston
- German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute for Cancer Research, Ingolstadter Landstr1, London, SM2 5NG, UK
| | - Peter J Hulick
- Center for Medical Genetics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, 1000 Central St, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
- The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 924 E 57th St, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
| | - David J Hunter
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - David G Huntsman
- British Columbia's Ovarian Cancer Research (OVCARE) Program, Vancouver General Hospital, BC Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia, #3427-600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E6, Canada
- Department of Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Agency Research Centre, #3427-600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E6, Canada
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, #3427-600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E6, Canada
| | - Gregory Idos
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
| | - Evgeny N Imyanitov
- NNPetrov Institute of Oncology, Leningradskaya ul, 68, StPetersburg, Russia, 197758
| | - Sue Ann Ingles
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
| | - Claudine Isaacs
- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, 3800 Reservoir Road, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
| | - Anna Jakubowska
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
- Independent Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Diagnostics, Pomeranian Medical University, Rybacka 1, 70-204, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Paul James
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
- Parkville Familial Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
| | - Mark A Jenkins
- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Mattias Johansson
- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
| | - Mikael Johansson
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, By 6M van 2, Sjukhusomradet, Umea universitet, 901 85, Umea, Sweden
| | - Esther M John
- Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, 780 Welch Rd, Stanford, CA, 94304, USA
| | - Amit D Joshi
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Radka Kaneva
- Molecular Medicine Center, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, 1504, Bulgaria
| | - Beth Y Karlan
- Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Linda E Kelemen
- Hollings Cancer Center and Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 68 President Street Bioengineering Building, MSC955, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA
| | - Tabea Kühl
- Cancer Epidemiology, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Kay-Tee Khaw
- Clinical Gerontology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Elza Khusnutdinova
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, ulZaki Validi 32, Ufa, Russia, 450076
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, 71 prosp Oktyabrya, Ufa, Russia, 450054
| | - Adam S Kibel
- Division of Urologic Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusettes, 02115, USA
| | - Lambertus A Kiemeney
- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein 21, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
| | - Jeri Kim
- Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1155 Pressler St, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
| | - Susanne K Kjaer
- Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Gynaecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Julia A Knight
- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, 60 Murray Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3L9, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T3M7, Canada
| | - Manolis Kogevinas
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), ISGlobal, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, 08003, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, 08002, Spain
| | - Zsofia Kote-Jarai
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
| | - Stella Koutros
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
| | - Vessela N Kristensen
- Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Ullernchausseen 70, 0379, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway
| | - Jolanta Kupryjanczyk
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Diagnostics, the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center, Roentgena 5, 02-781, Warsaw, Poland
| | - Martin Lacko
- Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Maastricht University Medical Center, PDebyelaan 25, POBox 5800, 6202 AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands
| | - Stephan Lam
- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Room 10-111 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1L3, Canada
| | - Diether Lambrechts
- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Herestraat 49, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Oude Markt 13, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Maria Teresa Landi
- Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch, DCEG, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room SG/7E106, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
| | - Philip Lazarus
- College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, PBS 431 PO Box 1495, Spokane, WA, 99210-1495, USA
| | - Nhu D Le
- Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1L3, Canada
| | - Eunjung Lee
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
| | - Flavio Lejbkowicz
- Clalit Health Services, Clalit National Israeli Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center, 2 Horev Street, 3436212, Haifa, Israel
| | - Heinz-Josef Lenz
- Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
| | - Goska Leslie
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Davor Lessel
- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Jenny Lester
- Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Douglas A Levine
- Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Gynecologic Oncology, Laura and Isaac Pearlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, 240 East 38th Street 19th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA
| | - Li Li
- Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Servicio Galego de Saude (SERGAS), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), 15706, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
| | - Christopher I Li
- Translational Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
| | - Annika Lindblom
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Noralane M Lindor
- Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Arizona, 13400 EShea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ, 85259, USA
| | - Geoffrey Liu
- Epidemiology Division, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G2M9, Canada
| | - Fotios Loupakis
- Unit of Oncology 1, Department of Clinical and Experimental Oncology, Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS, 35122, Padua, Italy
| | - Jan Lubiński
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Lovise Maehle
- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway
| | - Christiane Maier
- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Prittwitzstrasse 43, 89075, Ulm, Germany
| | - Arto Mannermaa
- Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistonranta 1, 70210, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Yliopistonranta 1, 70210, Finland
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Puijonlaaksontie 2, 70210, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Loic Le Marchand
- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, 701 Ilalo St, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA
| | - Sara Margolin
- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
| | - Taymaa May
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University Health Network, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, OPG Wing, 6-811, Toronto, ON, M5G 2M9, Canada
| | - Lesley McGuffog
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Alfons Meindl
- Division of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, , Technische Universität München, Arcisstraße 21, 80333, Munich, Germany
| | - Pooja Middha
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, In Neuenheimer Feld 672, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Austin Miller
- NRG Oncology, Statistics and Data Management Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
| | - Roger L Milne
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Robert J MacInnis
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Francesmary Modugno
- Womens Cancer Research Center, Magee-Womens Research Institute and Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
| | - Marco Montagna
- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Via Gattamelata 64, Padua, 35128, Italy
| | - Victor Moreno
- Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) and University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
| | - Kirsten B Moysich
- Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
| | - Lorelei Mucci
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Kenneth Muir
- Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
- Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
| | - Anna Marie Mulligan
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S1A8, Canada
- Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, ON, M5G2C4, Canada
| | - Katherine L Nathanson
- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
| | - David E Neal
- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge, UK
- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2JD, UK
- Department of Oncology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Andrew R Ness
- NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre Nutrition Theme, University of Bristol, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS2 8AE, UK
| | - Susan L Neuhausen
- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, 1500 E Duarte, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
| | - Heli Nevanlinna
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00290, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Polly A Newcomb
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- School of Public Health, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Health Science Buidling, F-350, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
| | - Lisa F Newcomb
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA
| | - Finn Cilius Nielsen
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Liene Nikitina-Zake
- Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Ratsupites str 1, Riga, LV-1067, Latvia
| | - Børge G Nordestgaard
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Robert L Nussbaum
- Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program, University of California San Francisco, 1600 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA, 94143-1714, USA
| | - Kenneth Offit
- Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
| | - Edith Olah
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Ráth György u7-9, 1122, Budapest, Hungary
| | - Ali Amin Al Olama
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Olufunmilayo I Olopade
- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, The University of Chicago, 5841S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
| | - Andrew F Olshan
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, 135 Dauer Dr, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7435, USA
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, 450 West Dr, Chapell Hill, NC, 27599, USA
| | - Håkan Olsson
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Barngatan 4, Skånes universitetssjukhus, 222 42, Lund, Sweden
| | - Ana Osorio
- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Calle de Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
| | - Hardev Pandha
- The University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
| | - Jong Y Park
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
| | - Nora Pashayan
- Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Michael T Parsons
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
| | - Tanja Pejovic
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L-466, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L-466, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
| | - Kathryn L Penney
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Wilbert H M Peters
- Department of Gastroenterology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 10, Internal BOBox 433, 6525 GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
| | - Catherine M Phelan
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
| | - Amanda I Phipps
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
| | - Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska
- Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 'Georgi DEfremov', Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Boulevard Krste Petkov Misirkov, 1000, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
| | - Miranda Pring
- Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS1 2LY, UK
| | - Darya Prokofyeva
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, ulZaki Validi 32, Ufa, Russia, 450076
| | - Paolo Radice
- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Via Giacomo Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy
| | - Kari Stefansson
- Decode genetics, Sturlugata 8, IS-101 Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland, Iceland
| | - Susan J Ramus
- School of Women's and Children's Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of NSW Sydney, 18 High St, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia
| | - Leon Raskin
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1161 21st Ave S # D3300, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
| | - Gad Rennert
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, 7 Michal Street, 34362, Haifa, Israel
| | - Hedy S Rennert
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, 7 Michal Street, 34362, Haifa, Israel
| | | | - Marjorie J Riggan
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, 25171 Morris Bldg, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
| | - Harvey A Risch
- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College St, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
| | - Angela Risch
- Cancer Center Cluster Salzburg at PLUS, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Billrothstr11, 5020, Salzburg, Austria
- Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Monique J Roobol
- Department of Urology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Barry S Rosenstein
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA
| | - Mary Anne Rossing
- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, M4 C308, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
| | - Kim De Ruyck
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Gent, Belgium
| | - Emmanouil Saloustros
- Hereditary Cancer Clinic, University Hospital of Heraklion, Voutes, 711 10, Heraklion, Greece
| | - Dale P Sandler
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
| | - Elinor J Sawyer
- Research Oncology, Guy's Hospital, King's College London, Guy's Hospital Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, UK
| | - Matthew B Schabath
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
| | - Johanna Schleutker
- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland
- Division of Laboratory, Department of Medical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, 20014, Turku, Finland
- Prostate Cancer Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences and BioMediTech Institute, University of Tampere, 33014, Tampere, Finland
| | - Marjanka K Schmidt
- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - V Wendy Setiawan
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
| | - Hongbing Shen
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, 101 Longmian Ave, Jiangning District, 211166, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
| | - Erin M Siegel
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Dr. MRC-CANCONT, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, 2nd floor, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, DK-8200, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, DK-8200, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, 246 Clayton Road, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
- Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Cnr Grattan Street and Royal Parade, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Department of Medicine III, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Marchioninistr15, 81377, Munich, Germany
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
- The Curtin UWA Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Curtin University and University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, Inst Clinical Scienses, University of Gothenburg, Blå stråket 6, 41345, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Epidemiology Center, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 3650 Spectrum Blvd, Suite 100, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
- Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto, Av Brig Faria Lima 5416 Vila São Pedro, São José do Rio Preto, SP, 15090-000, Brazil
- Department of Genetics and Evolutive Biology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 321, São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, 98109, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Campus del Cristo s/n, 33006, Oviedo, Spain
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
- Epigenetic and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Medical Statistics Group, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Rua DrAntónio Bernardino de Almeida 62, 4220-072, Porto, Portugal
- Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, RJorge de Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-013, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue RFB 368, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Harvard THChan School of Public Health, 221 Longwood Avenue RFB 368, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Sonder Boulevard 29, 5000, Odence C, Denmark
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021, Bergen, Norway
- Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, 5021, Bergen, Norway
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, McGill University, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montréal, QC, H4A3J1, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge University, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, The Ohio State University, 460W12th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Carrera 7 No40-90, Bogota, Colombia
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Health Innovation Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, M20 4GJ, UK
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, 2000 Circle of Hope, Rm 4125, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, 116 St & 85 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
- Division of Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, 116 St & 85 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica & Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, calle Choupana s/n, 15706, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
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- Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica & Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, calle Choupana s/n, 15706, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27514, NC, USA
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- City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genomics Community Research Network, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre,, The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Neuherberg D-85764, Munich, 803539, Bavaria, Germany
- Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstadter Landstr1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, 80333, Germany
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Aapistie 5A, 90220, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Aapistie 5A, 90220, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Environmental Medicine, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 13, SE-171 77, SE-171, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield, Weston Park Hospital, Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2SJ, UK
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- Discipline of Genetics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, StJohn's, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Neapoleos 10, AgParaskevi, Athens, 15310, Greece
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1161 21st Ave S # D3300, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Gydas vei 8, 0033, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, 224 Irvine Hall, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA
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- Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 300 Halket St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anasthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anasthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, 60 Murray Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3L9, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T3M7, Canada
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- Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Suite 4C, Office # 467, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, USA
- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, 15232, PA, USA
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- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
- Oncogenetics Team, The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Downs Road, Sutton, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
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- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec - Université Laval Research Center, 2705 Laurier Boulevard, Québec City, QC, G1V4G2, Canada
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- UCLA Path and Lab Med, University of California, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 190095, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Epidemiology Section, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, One Baylor Plaza, MS: BCM451, Suite 100D, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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Hung RJ, Spitz MR, Houlston RS, Schwartz AG, Field JK, Ying J, Li Y, Han Y, Ji X, Chen W, Wu X, Gorlov IP, Na J, de Andrade M, Liu G, Brhane Y, Diao N, Wenzlaff A, Davies MPA, Liloglou T, Timofeeva M, Muley T, Rennert H, Saliba W, Ryan BM, Bowman E, Barros-Dios JM, Pérez-Ríos M, Morgenstern H, Zienolddiny S, Skaug V, Ugolini D, Bonassi S, van der Heijden EHFM, Tardon A, Bojesen SE, Landi MT, Johansson M, Bickeböller H, Arnold S, Le Marchand L, Melander O, Andrew A, Grankvist K, Caporaso N, Teare MD, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Kiemeney LA, Wichmann HE, Lazarus P, Mayordomo J, Neri M, Haugen A, Zhang ZF, Ruano-Raviña A, Brenner H, Harris CC, Orlow I, Rennert G, Risch A, Brennan P, Christiani DC, Amos CI, Yang P, Gorlova OY. Lung Cancer Risk in Never-Smokers of European Descent is Associated With Genetic Variation in the 5 p15.33 TERT-CLPTM1Ll Region. J Thorac Oncol 2019; 14:1360-1369. [PMID: 31009812 PMCID: PMC6833942 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2019.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Revised: 03/30/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Inherited susceptibility to lung cancer risk in never-smokers is poorly understood. The major reason for this gap in knowledge is that this disease is relatively uncommon (except in Asians), making it difficult to assemble an adequate study sample. In this study we conducted a genome-wide association study on the largest, to date, set of European-descent never-smokers with lung cancer. METHODS We conducted a two-phase (discovery and replication) genome-wide association study in never-smokers of European descent. We further augmented the sample by performing a meta-analysis with never-smokers from the recent OncoArray study, which resulted in a total of 3636 cases and 6295 controls. We also compare our findings with those in smokers with lung cancer. RESULTS We detected three genome-wide statistically significant single nucleotide polymorphisms rs31490 (odds ratio [OR]: 0.769, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.722-0.820; p value 5.31 × 10-16), rs380286 (OR: 0.770, 95% CI: 0.723-0.820; p value 4.32 × 10-16), and rs4975616 (OR: 0.778, 95% CI: 0.730-0.829; p value 1.04 × 10-14). All three mapped to Chromosome 5 CLPTM1L-TERT region, previously shown to be associated with lung cancer risk in smokers and in never-smoker Asian women, and risk of other cancers including breast, ovarian, colorectal, and prostate. CONCLUSIONS We found that genetic susceptibility to lung cancer in never-smokers is associated to genetic variants with pan-cancer risk effects. The comparison with smokers shows that top variants previously shown to be associated with lung cancer risk only confer risk in the presence of tobacco exposure, underscoring the importance of gene-environment interactions in the etiology of this disease.
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- Rayjean J Hung
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- University of Texas McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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- The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- German Center for Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany; University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- University of Santiago de Compostela, Praza do Obradoiro, Coruña, Spain
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- National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Oslo, Norway
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- San Raffaele University, Rome, Italy; San Raffaele Pisana - Scientific Hospitalization and Care Insitution, Rome, Italy
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- University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Bavaria, Germany
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- San Raffaele Pisana - Scientific Hospitalization and Care Insitution, Rome, Italy
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- National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Oslo, Norway
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- University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
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Kachuri L, Saarela O, Bojesen SE, Davey Smith G, Liu G, Landi MT, Caporaso NE, Christiani DC, Johansson M, Panico S, Overvad K, Trichopoulou A, Vineis P, Scelo G, Zaridze D, Wu X, Albanes D, Diergaarde B, Lagiou P, Macfarlane GJ, Aldrich MC, Tardón A, Rennert G, Olshan AF, Weissler MC, Chen C, Goodman GE, Doherty JA, Ness AR, Bickeböller H, Wichmann HE, Risch A, Field JK, Teare MD, Kiemeney LA, van der Heijden EHFM, Carroll JC, Haugen A, Zienolddiny S, Skaug V, Wünsch-Filho V, Tajara EH, Ayoub Moysés R, Daumas Nunes F, Lam S, Eluf-Neto J, Lacko M, Peters WHM, Le Marchand L, Duell EJ, Andrew AS, Franceschi S, Schabath MB, Manjer J, Arnold S, Lazarus P, Mukeriya A, Swiatkowska B, Janout V, Holcatova I, Stojsic J, Mates D, Lissowska J, Boccia S, Lesseur C, Zong X, McKay JD, Brennan P, Amos CI, Hung RJ. Mendelian Randomization and mediation analysis of leukocyte telomere length and risk of lung and head and neck cancers. Int J Epidemiol 2019; 48:751-766. [PMID: 30059977 PMCID: PMC6659464 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyy140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Evidence from observational studies of telomere length (TL) has been conflicting regarding its direction of association with cancer risk. We investigated the causal relevance of TL for lung and head and neck cancers using Mendelian Randomization (MR) and mediation analyses. METHODS We developed a novel genetic instrument for TL in chromosome 5p15.33, using variants identified through deep-sequencing, that were genotyped in 2051 cancer-free subjects. Next, we conducted an MR analysis of lung (16 396 cases, 13 013 controls) and head and neck cancer (4415 cases, 5013 controls) using eight genetic instruments for TL. Lastly, the 5p15.33 instrument and distinct 5p15.33 lung cancer risk loci were evaluated using two-sample mediation analysis, to quantify their direct and indirect, telomere-mediated, effects. RESULTS The multi-allelic 5p15.33 instrument explained 1.49-2.00% of TL variation in our data (p = 2.6 × 10-9). The MR analysis estimated that a 1000 base-pair increase in TL increases risk of lung cancer [odds ratio (OR) = 1.41, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.20-1.65] and lung adenocarcinoma (OR = 1.92, 95% CI: 1.51-2.22), but not squamous lung carcinoma (OR = 1.04, 95% CI: 0.83-1.29) or head and neck cancers (OR = 0.90, 95% CI: 0.70-1.05). Mediation analysis of the 5p15.33 instrument indicated an absence of direct effects on lung cancer risk (OR = 1.00, 95% CI: 0.95-1.04). Analysis of distinct 5p15.33 susceptibility variants estimated that TL mediates up to 40% of the observed associations with lung cancer risk. CONCLUSIONS Our findings support a causal role for long telomeres in lung cancer aetiology, particularly for adenocarcinoma, and demonstrate that telomere maintenance partially mediates the lung cancer susceptibility conferred by 5p15.33 loci.
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- Linda Kachuri
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Public Health, Section for Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, and WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Athens, Greece
- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- MRC/PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N.Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- The Institute of Applied Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery and Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Campus del Cristo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University, Munich, Germany
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- Division of Epigenomics & Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- The National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil
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- Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Disciplina de Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço (LIM28), São Paulo, Brasil
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- Department of Oral Pathology, School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N.Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Thoracopulmonary Pathology, Service of Pathology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
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- National Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Cancer Center Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italia
- Section of Hygiene, Institute of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Rouschop SH, Karl T, Risch A, van Ewijk PA, Schrauwen-Hinderling VB, Opperhuizen A, van Schooten FJ, Godschalk RW. Gene expression and DNA methylation as mechanisms of disturbed metabolism in offspring after exposure to a prenatal HF diet. J Lipid Res 2019; 60:1250-1259. [PMID: 31064776 PMCID: PMC6602131 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m092593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2019] [Revised: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Exposure to a prenatal high-fat (HF) diet leads to an impaired metabolic phenotype in mouse offspring. The underlying mechanisms, however, are not yet fully understood. Therefore, this study investigated whether the impaired metabolic phenotype may be mediated through altered hepatic DNA methylation and gene expression. We showed that exposure to a prenatal HF diet altered the offspring’s hepatic gene expression of pathways involved in lipid synthesis and uptake (SREBP), oxidative stress response [nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2)], and cell proliferation. The downregulation of the SREBP pathway related to previously reported decreased hepatic lipid uptake and postprandial hypertriglyceridemia in the offspring exposed to the prenatal HF diet. The upregulation of the Nrf2 pathway was associated with increased oxidative stress levels in offspring livers. The prenatal HF diet also induced hypermethylation of transcription factor (TF) binding sites upstream of lipin 1 (Lpin1), a gene involved in lipid metabolism. Furthermore, DNA methylation of Lpin1 TF binding sites correlated with mRNA expression of Lpin1. These findings suggest that the effect of a prenatal HF diet on the adult offspring’s metabolic phenotype are regulated by changes in hepatic gene expression and DNA methylation.
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- Sven H Rouschop
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.,Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA), Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Li Y, Xiao X, Bossé Y, Gorlova O, Gorlov I, Han Y, Byun J, Leighl N, Johansen JS, Barnett M, Chen C, Goodman G, Cox A, Taylor F, Woll P, Wichmann HE, Manz J, Muley T, Risch A, Rosenberger A, Han J, Siminovitch K, Arnold SM, Haura EB, Bolca C, Holcatova I, Janout V, Kontic M, Lissowska J, Mukeria A, Ognjanovic S, Orlowski TM, Scelo G, Swiatkowska B, Zaridze D, Bakke P, Skaug V, Zienolddiny S, Duell EJ, Butler LM, Houlston R, Artigas MS, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Shepherd FA, Marcus MW, Brunnström H, Manjer J, Melander O, Muller DC, Overvad K, Trichopoulou A, Tumino R, Liu G, Bojesen SE, Wu X, Le Marchand L, Albanes D, Bickeböller H, Aldrich MC, Bush WS, Tardon A, Rennert G, Teare MD, Field JK, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Haugen A, Lam S, Schabath MB, Andrew AS, Bertazzi PA, Pesatori AC, Christiani DC, Caporaso N, Johansson M, McKay JD, Brennan P, Hung RJ, Amos CI. Genetic interaction analysis among oncogenesis-related genes revealed novel genes and networks in lung cancer development. Oncotarget 2019; 10:1760-1774. [PMID: 30956756 PMCID: PMC6442994 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.26678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2018] [Accepted: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
The development of cancer is driven by the accumulation of many oncogenesis-related genetic alterations and tumorigenesis is triggered by complex networks of involved genes rather than independent actions. To explore the epistasis existing among oncogenesis-related genes in lung cancer development, we conducted pairwise genetic interaction analyses among 35,031 SNPs from 2027 oncogenesis-related genes. The genotypes from three independent genome-wide association studies including a total of 24,037 lung cancer patients and 20,401 healthy controls with Caucasian ancestry were analyzed in the study. Using a two-stage study design including discovery and replication studies, and stringent Bonferroni correction for multiple statistical analysis, we identified significant genetic interactions between SNPs in RGL1:RAD51B (OR=0.44, p value=3.27x10-11 in overall lung cancer and OR=0.41, p value=9.71x10-11 in non-small cell lung cancer), SYNE1:RNF43 (OR=0.73, p value=1.01x10-12 in adenocarcinoma) and FHIT:TSPAN8 (OR=1.82, p value=7.62x10-11 in squamous cell carcinoma) in our analysis. None of these genes have been identified from previous main effect association studies in lung cancer. Further eQTL gene expression analysis in lung tissues provided information supporting the functional role of the identified epistasis in lung tumorigenesis. Gene set enrichment analysis revealed potential pathways and gene networks underlying molecular mechanisms in overall lung cancer as well as histology subtypes development. Our results provide evidence that genetic interactions between oncogenesis-related genes play an important role in lung tumorigenesis and epistasis analysis, combined with functional annotation, provides a valuable tool for uncovering functional novel susceptibility genes that contribute to lung cancer development by interacting with other modifier genes.
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- Yafang Li
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- University Health Network, The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, CA, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Center for Lung Research (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Institute of Pneumology “Marius Nasta”, Bucharest, Romania
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Clinical Center of Serbia, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center, Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- International Organization for Cancer Prevention and Research, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Surgery, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Health Sciences, Genetic Epidemiology Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- School of Public Health, St. Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit CSPO (Cancer Research and Prevention Centre), Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- IUOPA, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Faculty of Medicine, Campus del Cristo s/n, Oviedo, Spain
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, USA
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, IRCCS Foundation Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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Zhu Y, Wei Y, Zhang R, Dong X, Shen S, Zhao Y, Bai J, Albanes D, Caporaso NE, Landi MT, Zhu B, Chanock SJ, Gu F, Lam S, Tsao MS, Shepherd FA, Tardon A, Fernández-Somoano A, Fernandez-Tardon G, Chen C, Barnett MJ, Doherty J, Bojesen SE, Johansson M, Brennan P, McKay JD, Carreras-Torres R, Muley T, Risch A, Wichmann HE, Bickeboeller H, Rosenberger A, Rennert G, Saliba W, Arnold SM, Field JK, Davies MPA, Marcus MW, Wu X, Ye Y, Le Marchand L, Wilkens LR, Melander O, Manjer J, Brunnström H, Hung RJ, Liu G, Brhane Y, Kachuri L, Andrew AS, Duell EJ, Kiemeney LA, van der Heijden EH, Haugen A, Zienolddiny S, Skaug V, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Woll PJ, Cox A, Taylor F, Teare DM, Lazarus P, Schabath MB, Aldrich MC, Houlston RS, McLaughlin J, Stevens VL, Shen H, Hu Z, Dai J, Amos CI, Han Y, Zhu D, Goodman GE, Chen F, Christiani DC. Elevated Platelet Count Appears to Be Causally Associated with Increased Risk of Lung Cancer: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2019; 28:935-942. [PMID: 30700444 PMCID: PMC7075698 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-18-0356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2018] [Revised: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 01/17/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Platelets are a critical element in coagulation and inflammation, and activated platelets are linked to cancer risk through diverse mechanisms. However, a causal relationship between platelets and risk of lung cancer remains unclear. METHODS We performed single and combined multiple instrumental variable Mendelian randomization analysis by an inverse-weighted method, in addition to a series of sensitivity analyses. Summary data for associations between SNPs and platelet count are from a recent publication that included 48,666 Caucasian Europeans, and the International Lung Cancer Consortium and Transdisciplinary Research in Cancer of the Lung data consisting of 29,266 cases and 56,450 controls to analyze associations between candidate SNPs and lung cancer risk. RESULTS Multiple instrumental variable analysis incorporating six SNPs showed a 62% increased risk of overall non-small cell lung cancer [NSCLC; OR, 1.62; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.15-2.27; P = 0.005] and a 200% increased risk for small-cell lung cancer (OR, 3.00; 95% CI, 1.27-7.06; P = 0.01). Results showed only a trending association with NSCLC histologic subtypes, which may be due to insufficient sample size and/or weak effect size. A series of sensitivity analysis retained these findings. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest a causal relationship between elevated platelet count and increased risk of lung cancer and provide evidence of possible antiplatelet interventions for lung cancer prevention. IMPACT These findings provide a better understanding of lung cancer etiology and potential evidence for antiplatelet interventions for lung cancer prevention.
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- Ying Zhu
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.,Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.,China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.,Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.,China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.,China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- University Health Network, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- University Health Network, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Faculty of Medicine, Oviedo, Spain
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.,Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany.,German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.,University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China. .,China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China. .,Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.,China International Cooperation Center (CICC) for Environment and Human Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Jiang X, Finucane HK, Schumacher FR, Schmit SL, Tyrer JP, Han Y, Michailidou K, Lesseur C, Kuchenbaecker KB, Dennis J, Conti DV, Casey G, Gaudet MM, Huyghe JR, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Andrew AS, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antoniou AC, Antonenkova NN, Arnold SM, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Bandera EV, Barkardottir RB, Barnes DR, Batra J, Beckmann MW, Benitez J, Benlloch S, Berchuck A, Berndt SI, Bickeböller H, Bien SA, Blomqvist C, Boccia S, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Brauch H, Brenner H, Brenton JD, Brook MN, Brunet J, Brunnström H, Buchanan DD, Burwinkel B, Butzow R, Cadoni G, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Campbell PT, Cancel-Tassin G, Cannon-Albright L, Campa D, Caporaso N, Carvalho AL, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chen C, Christiani DC, Claes KBM, Claessens F, Clements J, Collée JM, Correa MC, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cunningham JM, Cybulski C, Czene K, Daly MB, deFazio A, Devilee P, Diez O, Gago-Dominguez M, Donovan JL, Dörk T, Duell EJ, Dunning AM, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Edlund CK, Edwards DRV, Ellberg C, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Ferris RL, Liloglou T, Figueiredo JC, Fletcher O, Fortner RT, Fostira F, Franceschi S, Friedman E, Gallinger SJ, Ganz PA, Garber J, García-Sáenz JA, Gayther SA, Giles GG, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, Goode EL, Goodman MT, Goodman G, Grankvist K, Greene MH, Gronberg H, Gronwald J, Guénel P, Håkansson N, Hall P, Hamann U, Hamdy FC, Hamilton RJ, Hampe J, Haugen A, Heitz F, Herrero R, Hillemanns P, Hoffmeister M, Høgdall E, Hong YC, Hopper JL, Houlston R, Hulick PJ, Hunter DJ, Huntsman DG, Idos G, Imyanitov EN, Ingles SA, Isaacs C, Jakubowska A, James P, Jenkins MA, Johansson M, Johansson M, John EM, Joshi AD, Kaneva R, Karlan BY, Kelemen LE, Kühl T, Khaw KT, Khusnutdinova E, Kibel AS, Kiemeney LA, Kim J, Kjaer SK, Knight JA, Kogevinas M, Kote-Jarai Z, Koutros S, Kristensen VN, Kupryjanczyk J, Lacko M, Lam S, Lambrechts D, Landi MT, Lazarus P, Le ND, Lee E, Lejbkowicz F, Lenz HJ, Leslie G, Lessel D, Lester J, Levine DA, Li L, Li CI, Lindblom A, Lindor NM, Liu G, Loupakis F, Lubiński J, Maehle L, Maier C, Mannermaa A, Marchand LL, Margolin S, May T, McGuffog L, Meindl A, Middha P, Miller A, Milne RL, MacInnis RJ, Modugno F, Montagna M, Moreno V, Moysich KB, Mucci L, Muir K, Mulligan AM, Nathanson KL, Neal DE, Ness AR, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Newcomb PA, Newcomb LF, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Nordestgaard BG, Nussbaum RL, Offit K, Olah E, Olama AAA, Olopade OI, Olshan AF, Olsson H, Osorio A, Pandha H, Park JY, Pashayan N, Parsons MT, Pejovic T, Penney KL, Peters WHM, Phelan CM, Phipps AI, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Pring M, Prokofyeva D, Radice P, Stefansson K, Ramus SJ, Raskin L, Rennert G, Rennert HS, van Rensburg EJ, Riggan MJ, Risch HA, Risch A, Roobol MJ, Rosenstein BS, Rossing MA, De Ruyck K, Saloustros E, Sandler DP, Sawyer EJ, Schabath MB, Schleutker J, Schmidt MK, Setiawan VW, Shen H, Siegel EM, Sieh W, Singer CF, Slattery ML, Sorensen KD, Southey MC, Spurdle AB, Stanford JL, Stevens VL, Stintzing S, Stone J, Sundfeldt K, Sutphen R, Swerdlow AJ, Tajara EH, Tangen CM, Tardon A, Taylor JA, Teare MD, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Terry KL, Thibodeau SN, Thomassen M, Bjørge L, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Torres D, Townsend PA, Travis RC, Tung N, Tworoger SS, Ulrich CM, Usmani N, Vachon CM, Van Nieuwenhuysen E, Vega A, Aguado-Barrera ME, Wang Q, Webb PM, Weinberg CR, Weinstein S, Weissler MC, Weitzel JN, West CML, White E, Whittemore AS, Wichmann HE, Wiklund F, Winqvist R, Wolk A, Woll P, Woods M, Wu AH, Wu X, Yannoukakos D, Zheng W, Zienolddiny S, Ziogas A, Zorn KK, Lane JM, Saxena R, Thomas D, Hung RJ, Diergaarde B, McKay J, Peters U, Hsu L, García-Closas M, Eeles RA, Chenevix-Trench G, Brennan PJ, Haiman CA, Simard J, Easton DF, Gruber SB, Pharoah PDP, Price AL, Pasaniuc B, Amos CI, Kraft P, Lindström S. Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers. Nat Commun 2019; 10:431. [PMID: 30683880 PMCID: PMC6347624 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08054-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Quantifying the genetic correlation between cancers can provide important insights into the mechanisms driving cancer etiology. Using genome-wide association study summary statistics across six cancer types based on a total of 296,215 cases and 301,319 controls of European ancestry, here we estimate the pair-wise genetic correlations between breast, colorectal, head/neck, lung, ovary and prostate cancer, and between cancers and 38 other diseases. We observed statistically significant genetic correlations between lung and head/neck cancer (rg = 0.57, p = 4.6 × 10-8), breast and ovarian cancer (rg = 0.24, p = 7 × 10-5), breast and lung cancer (rg = 0.18, p =1.5 × 10-6) and breast and colorectal cancer (rg = 0.15, p = 1.1 × 10-4). We also found that multiple cancers are genetically correlated with non-cancer traits including smoking, psychiatric diseases and metabolic characteristics. Functional enrichment analysis revealed a significant excess contribution of conserved and regulatory regions to cancer heritability. Our comprehensive analysis of cross-cancer heritability suggests that solid tumors arising across tissues share in part a common germline genetic basis.
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- Xia Jiang
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels vagen 13, 17177, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Eucid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
| | - Stephanie L Schmit
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Dr. MRC-CANCONT, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
- Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Dr. MRC-CANCONT, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
| | - Jonathan P Tyrer
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Younghun Han
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Electron Microscopy/Molecular Pathology, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, 1683, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, Maple House, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
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- Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 800717, Charlottesville, VI, 22908, USA
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 800717, Charlottesville, VI, 22908, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 609 Oxford House, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 7927 Rubin Building, Room 860, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 3756, USA
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- Fred ALitwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G1X5, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S1A8, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, 224 Irvine Hall, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- NNAlexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Settlement of Lesnoy-2, 223040, Minsk, Belarus
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, 800 Rose Street, cc445, Lexington, KY, 40508, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, and Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, 10 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1155 Pressler St, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, Room 5568, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Landspitali University Hospital, Hringbraut, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
- BMC (Biomedical Centre), Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Vatnsmyrarvegi 16, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Translational Research Institute, 37 Kent St, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Science, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, QLD, 4059, Australia
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Universitaetsstrasse 21-23, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Calle de Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, 25171 Morris Bldg, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Humboldtallee 32, 37073, Goettingen, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- School of Public Health, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Health Science Buidling, F-350, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 4, 00290, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Oncology, Örebro University Hospital, 70185, Örebro, Sweden
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Roma, Italy
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168, Roma, Italy
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- NNAlexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Settlement of Lesnoy-2, 223040, Minsk, Belarus
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- DrMargarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Auerbachstr112, 70376, Stuttgart, Germany
- University of Tübingen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Genetic Counseling Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, IDIBGI (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona), Catalan Institute of Oncology, CIBERONC, AvFrança s/n, 17007, Girona, Spain
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- Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Box 117, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
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- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Barbara Burwinkel
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 440, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Ralf Butzow
- Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Biomedicum Helsinki 4th floor, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00029, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Gabriella Cadoni
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Roma, Italy
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168, Roma, Italy
| | - Trinidad Caldés
- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Calle del Prof Martín Lagos, 28040, Madrid, Spain
| | - Maria A Caligo
- Section of Genetic Oncology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University and University Hospital of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
| | - Ian Campbell
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Sorbonne Université, GRC N°5 ONCOTYPE-URO, Tenon Hospital, 75020, Paris, France
- CeRePP, Tenon Hospital, 75020, Paris, France
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- Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
- George EWahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
| | - Daniele Campa
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy
| | - Neil Caporaso
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Rua Antenor Duarte Villela, 1331, Barretos, SP, 784-400, Brazil
- Head and Neck Surgery Department, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Pio XII, 1331, Antenor Duarte Villela St, Barretos, SP, 14784-400, Brazil
| | - Andrew T Chan
- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Stephen J Chanock
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
| | - Chu Chen
- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
| | - David C Christiani
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Kathleen B M Claes
- Centre for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Gent, Belgium
| | - Frank Claessens
- Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
| | - Judith Clements
- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Translational Research Institute, 37 Kent St, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Science, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, QLD, 4059, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, 3015, Rotterdam, CN, The Netherlands
| | - Marcia Cruz Correa
- University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus and Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Juan, PR, 00936, USA
| | - Fergus J Couch
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
| | - Angela Cox
- Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids (SInFoNiA), Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
| | - Julie M Cunningham
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
| | - Cezary Cybulski
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Kamila Czene
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Mary B Daly
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19111, USA
| | - Anna deFazio
- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, 176 Hawkesbury Rd, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia
- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Hawkesbury Rd & Darcy Rd, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Oncogenetics Group, Clinical and Molecular Genetics Area, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron 119-129, 08035, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Manuela Gago-Dominguez
- Genomic Medicine Group, Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS, Travesía da Choupana S/N, 15706, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK
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- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), AvGran Via 199-203, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2HW, UK
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 600, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Barngatan 4, Skånes universitetssjukhus, 222 42, Lund, Sweden
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- Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, University of Manchester, St Mary's Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Universitaetsstrasse 21-23, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
| | - Robert L Ferris
- Department of Otolaryngology, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Cancer Pavilion, University of Pittsburgh, Suite 500, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, USA
| | - Triantafillos Liloglou
- Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, The Wiliam Duncan Building, 6 West Derby Street, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
| | - Jane C Figueiredo
- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
| | - Olivia Fletcher
- The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, 123 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Renée T Fortner
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Florentia Fostira
- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Neapoleos 10, AgParaskevi, Athens, 15310, Greece
| | - Silvia Franceschi
- Section of Infections, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
| | - Eitan Friedman
- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Emek HaEla St 1, 52621, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Haim Levanon 30, 69978, Ramat Aviv, Israel
| | - Steven J Gallinger
- Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada
- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada
- University Health Network Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
| | - Patricia A Ganz
- Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre, UCLA, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-6900, USA
| | - Judy Garber
- Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
| | - José A García-Sáenz
- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Calle del Prof Martín Lagos, 28040, Madrid, Spain
| | - Simon A Gayther
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
- Center for Cancer Prevention and Translational Genomics, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Spielberg Building, 8725 Alden Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Spielberg Building, 8725 Alden Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Graham G Giles
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Andrew K Godwin
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
| | - Mark S Goldberg
- Department of Medicine, McGill University, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montréal, QC, H4A3J1, Canada
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montréal, QC, H4A3J1, Canada
| | - David E Goldgar
- Department of Dermatology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
| | - Ellen L Goode
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
| | - Marc T Goodman
- Cancer Prevention and Control, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Room 1S37, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
- Community and Population Health Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Room 1S37, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Gary Goodman
- Public Health Sciences Division, Swedish Cancer Institute, 1221 Madison StSte 300, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
| | - Kjell Grankvist
- Unit of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, By 6M van 2, Sjukhusomradet, Umea universitet, 901 85, Umea, Sweden
| | - Mark H Greene
- Clinical Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, DCEG, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Bethesda, MD, 20850-9772, USA
| | - Henrik Gronberg
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Jacek Gronwald
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Pascal Guénel
- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, 94805, Villejuif, France
| | - Niclas Håkansson
- Department of Environmental Medicine, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 13, SE-171 77, SE-171, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Per Hall
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Oncology, Södersjukhuset, Sjukhusbacken 10, 118 83, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Ute Hamann
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Freddie C Hamdy
- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2JD, UK
| | - Robert J Hamilton
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G2M9, Canada
| | - Jochen Hampe
- Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), 01307, Dresden, Germany
| | - Aage Haugen
- National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Gydas vei 8, 0033, Oslo, Norway
| | - Florian Heitz
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, DrHorst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 100, 65199, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte/ EvangHuyssens-Stiftung/ Knappschaft GmbH, Henricistrasse 92, 45136, Essen, Germany
| | - Rolando Herrero
- Early Detection and Prevention Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
| | - Peter Hillemanns
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
| | - Michael Hoffmeister
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Estrid Høgdall
- Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Herlev Ringvej 75, DK-2730, Herlev, Denmark
| | - Yun-Chul Hong
- Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151 742, Korea
| | - John L Hopper
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Richard Houlston
- German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute for Cancer Research, Ingolstadter Landstr1, London, SM2 5NG, UK
| | - Peter J Hulick
- Center for Medical Genetics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, 1000 Central St, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
- The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 924 E 57th St, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
| | - David J Hunter
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - David G Huntsman
- British Columbia's Ovarian Cancer Research (OVCARE) Program, Vancouver General Hospital, BC Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia, #3427-600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E6, Canada
- Department of Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Agency Research Centre, #3427-600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E6, Canada
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, #3427-600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E6, Canada
| | - Gregory Idos
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
| | - Evgeny N Imyanitov
- NNPetrov Institute of Oncology, Leningradskaya ul, 68, StPetersburg, Russia, 197758
| | - Sue Ann Ingles
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
| | - Claudine Isaacs
- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, 3800 Reservoir Road, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
| | - Anna Jakubowska
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
- Independent Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Diagnostics, Pomeranian Medical University, Rybacka 1, 70-204, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Paul James
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
- Parkville Familial Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
| | - Mark A Jenkins
- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Mattias Johansson
- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
| | - Mikael Johansson
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, By 6M van 2, Sjukhusomradet, Umea universitet, 901 85, Umea, Sweden
| | - Esther M John
- Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, 780 Welch Rd, Stanford, CA, 94304, USA
| | - Amit D Joshi
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Radka Kaneva
- Molecular Medicine Center, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, 1504, Bulgaria
| | - Beth Y Karlan
- Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Linda E Kelemen
- Hollings Cancer Center and Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 68 President Street Bioengineering Building, MSC955, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA
| | - Tabea Kühl
- Cancer Epidemiology, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Kay-Tee Khaw
- Clinical Gerontology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Elza Khusnutdinova
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, ulZaki Validi 32, Ufa, Russia, 450076
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, 71 prosp Oktyabrya, Ufa, Russia, 450054
| | - Adam S Kibel
- Division of Urologic Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusettes, 02115, USA
| | - Lambertus A Kiemeney
- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein 21, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
| | - Jeri Kim
- Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1155 Pressler St, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
| | - Susanne K Kjaer
- Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Gynaecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Julia A Knight
- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, 60 Murray Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3L9, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T3M7, Canada
| | - Manolis Kogevinas
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), ISGlobal, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, 08003, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, 08002, Spain
| | - Zsofia Kote-Jarai
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
| | - Stella Koutros
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
| | - Vessela N Kristensen
- Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Ullernchausseen 70, 0379, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway
| | - Jolanta Kupryjanczyk
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Diagnostics, the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center, Roentgena 5, 02-781, Warsaw, Poland
| | - Martin Lacko
- Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Maastricht University Medical Center, PDebyelaan 25, POBox 5800, 6202 AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands
| | - Stephan Lam
- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Room 10-111 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1L3, Canada
| | - Diether Lambrechts
- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Herestraat 49, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Oude Markt 13, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Maria Teresa Landi
- Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch, DCEG, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room SG/7E106, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
| | - Philip Lazarus
- College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, PBS 431 PO Box 1495, Spokane, WA, 99210-1495, USA
| | - Nhu D Le
- Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1L3, Canada
| | - Eunjung Lee
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
| | - Flavio Lejbkowicz
- Clalit Health Services, Clalit National Israeli Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center, 2 Horev Street, 3436212, Haifa, Israel
| | - Heinz-Josef Lenz
- Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
| | - Goska Leslie
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Davor Lessel
- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Jenny Lester
- Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Douglas A Levine
- Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Gynecologic Oncology, Laura and Isaac Pearlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, 240 East 38th Street 19th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA
| | - Li Li
- Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Servicio Galego de Saude (SERGAS), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), 15706, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
| | - Christopher I Li
- Translational Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
| | - Annika Lindblom
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Noralane M Lindor
- Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Arizona, 13400 EShea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ, 85259, USA
| | - Geoffrey Liu
- Epidemiology Division, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G2M9, Canada
| | - Fotios Loupakis
- Unit of Oncology 1, Department of Clinical and Experimental Oncology, Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS, 35122, Padua, Italy
| | - Jan Lubiński
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Lovise Maehle
- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway
| | - Christiane Maier
- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Prittwitzstrasse 43, 89075, Ulm, Germany
| | - Arto Mannermaa
- Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistonranta 1, 70210, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Yliopistonranta 1, 70210, Finland
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Puijonlaaksontie 2, 70210, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Loic Le Marchand
- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, 701 Ilalo St, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA
| | - Sara Margolin
- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
| | - Taymaa May
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University Health Network, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, OPG Wing, 6-811, Toronto, ON, M5G 2M9, Canada
| | - Lesley McGuffog
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Alfons Meindl
- Division of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, , Technische Universität München, Arcisstraße 21, 80333, Munich, Germany
| | - Pooja Middha
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, In Neuenheimer Feld 672, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Austin Miller
- NRG Oncology, Statistics and Data Management Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
| | - Roger L Milne
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Robert J MacInnis
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Francesmary Modugno
- Womens Cancer Research Center, Magee-Womens Research Institute and Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
| | - Marco Montagna
- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Via Gattamelata 64, Padua, 35128, Italy
| | - Victor Moreno
- Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) and University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
| | - Kirsten B Moysich
- Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
| | - Lorelei Mucci
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Kenneth Muir
- Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
- Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
| | - Anna Marie Mulligan
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S1A8, Canada
- Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, ON, M5G2C4, Canada
| | - Katherine L Nathanson
- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
| | - David E Neal
- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge, UK
- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2JD, UK
- Department of Oncology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Andrew R Ness
- NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre Nutrition Theme, University of Bristol, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS2 8AE, UK
| | - Susan L Neuhausen
- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, 1500 E Duarte, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
| | - Heli Nevanlinna
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00290, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Polly A Newcomb
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- School of Public Health, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Health Science Buidling, F-350, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
| | - Lisa F Newcomb
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA
| | - Finn Cilius Nielsen
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Liene Nikitina-Zake
- Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Ratsupites str 1, Riga, LV-1067, Latvia
| | - Børge G Nordestgaard
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Robert L Nussbaum
- Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program, University of California San Francisco, 1600 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA, 94143-1714, USA
| | - Kenneth Offit
- Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
| | - Edith Olah
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Ráth György u7-9, 1122, Budapest, Hungary
| | - Ali Amin Al Olama
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Olufunmilayo I Olopade
- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, The University of Chicago, 5841S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
| | - Andrew F Olshan
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, 135 Dauer Dr, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7435, USA
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, 450 West Dr, Chapell Hill, NC, 27599, USA
| | - Håkan Olsson
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Barngatan 4, Skånes universitetssjukhus, 222 42, Lund, Sweden
| | - Ana Osorio
- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Calle de Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
| | - Hardev Pandha
- The University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
| | - Jong Y Park
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
| | - Nora Pashayan
- Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Michael T Parsons
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
| | - Tanja Pejovic
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L-466, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L-466, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
| | - Kathryn L Penney
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Wilbert H M Peters
- Department of Gastroenterology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 10, Internal BOBox 433, 6525 GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
| | - Catherine M Phelan
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
| | - Amanda I Phipps
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
| | - Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska
- Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 'Georgi DEfremov', Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Boulevard Krste Petkov Misirkov, 1000, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
| | - Miranda Pring
- Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS1 2LY, UK
| | - Darya Prokofyeva
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, ulZaki Validi 32, Ufa, Russia, 450076
| | - Paolo Radice
- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Via Giacomo Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy
| | - Kari Stefansson
- Decode genetics, Sturlugata 8, IS-101 Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland, Iceland
| | - Susan J Ramus
- School of Women's and Children's Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of NSW Sydney, 18 High St, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1161 21st Ave S # D3300, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, 7 Michal Street, 34362, Haifa, Israel
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, 7 Michal Street, 34362, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, 25171 Morris Bldg, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College St, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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- Cancer Center Cluster Salzburg at PLUS, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Billrothstr11, 5020, Salzburg, Austria
- Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Urology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Gent, Belgium
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- Hereditary Cancer Clinic, University Hospital of Heraklion, Voutes, 711 10, Heraklion, Greece
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Research Oncology, Guy's Hospital, King's College London, Guy's Hospital Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, UK
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland
- Division of Laboratory, Department of Medical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, 20014, Turku, Finland
- Prostate Cancer Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences and BioMediTech Institute, University of Tampere, 33014, Tampere, Finland
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, 101 Longmian Ave, Jiangning District, 211166, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Dr. MRC-CANCONT, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, 2nd floor, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, DK-8200, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, DK-8200, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, 246 Clayton Road, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
- Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Cnr Grattan Street and Royal Parade, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Department of Medicine III, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Marchioninistr15, 81377, Munich, Germany
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
- The Curtin UWA Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Curtin University and University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, Inst Clinical Scienses, University of Gothenburg, Blå stråket 6, 41345, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Epidemiology Center, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 3650 Spectrum Blvd, Suite 100, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
- Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto, Av Brig Faria Lima 5416 Vila São Pedro, São José do Rio Preto, SP, 15090-000, Brazil
- Department of Genetics and Evolutive Biology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 321, São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, 98109, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Campus del Cristo s/n, 33006, Oviedo, Spain
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
- Epigenetic and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Medical Statistics Group, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Rua DrAntónio Bernardino de Almeida 62, 4220-072, Porto, Portugal
- Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, RJorge de Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-013, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue RFB 368, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Harvard THChan School of Public Health, 221 Longwood Avenue RFB 368, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Sonder Boulevard 29, 5000, Odence C, Denmark
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021, Bergen, Norway
- Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, 5021, Bergen, Norway
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, McGill University, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montréal, QC, H4A3J1, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge University, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, The Ohio State University, 460W12th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Carrera 7 No40-90, Bogota, Colombia
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Health Innovation Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, M20 4GJ, UK
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, 2000 Circle of Hope, Rm 4125, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, 116 St & 85 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
- Division of Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, 116 St & 85 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica & Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, calle Choupana s/n, 15706, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
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- Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica & Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, calle Choupana s/n, 15706, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27514, NC, USA
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- City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genomics Community Research Network, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre,, The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Neuherberg D-85764, Munich, 803539, Bavaria, Germany
- Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstadter Landstr1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, 80333, Germany
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Aapistie 5A, 90220, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Aapistie 5A, 90220, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Environmental Medicine, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 13, SE-171 77, SE-171, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield, Weston Park Hospital, Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2SJ, UK
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- Discipline of Genetics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, StJohn's, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Neapoleos 10, AgParaskevi, Athens, 15310, Greece
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1161 21st Ave S # D3300, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Gydas vei 8, 0033, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, 224 Irvine Hall, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA
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- Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 300 Halket St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anasthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anasthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, 60 Murray Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3L9, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T3M7, Canada
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- Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Suite 4C, Office # 467, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, USA
- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, 15232, PA, USA
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- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
- Oncogenetics Team, The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Downs Road, Sutton, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
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- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec - Université Laval Research Center, 2705 Laurier Boulevard, Québec City, QC, G1V4G2, Canada
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- UCLA Path and Lab Med, University of California, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 190095, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Epidemiology Section, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, One Baylor Plaza, MS: BCM451, Suite 100D, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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Rosenberger A, Hung RJ, Christiani DC, Caporaso NE, Liu G, Bojesen SE, Le Marchand L, Haiman CA, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Tardon A, Fernández-Tardón G, Rennert G, Field JK, Kiemeney B, Lazarus P, Haugen A, Zienolddiny S, Lam S, Schabath MB, Andrew AS, Brunnsstöm H, Goodman GE, Doherty JA, Chen C, Teare MD, Wichmann HE, Manz J, Risch A, Muley TR, Johansson M, Brennan P, Landi MT, Amos CI, Pesch B, Johnen G, Brüning T, Bickeböller H, Gomolka M. Genetic modifiers of radon-induced lung cancer risk: a genome-wide interaction study in former uranium miners. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 2018; 91:937-950. [PMID: 29971594 PMCID: PMC6375683 DOI: 10.1007/s00420-018-1334-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2018] [Accepted: 06/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE Radon is a risk factor for lung cancer and uranium miners are more exposed than the general population. A genome-wide interaction analysis was carried out to identify genomic loci, genes or gene sets that modify the susceptibility to lung cancer given occupational exposure to the radioactive gas radon. METHODS Samples from 28 studies provided by the International Lung Cancer Consortium were pooled with samples of former uranium miners collected by the German Federal Office of Radiation Protection. In total, 15,077 cases and 13,522 controls, all of European ancestries, comprising 463 uranium miners were compared. The DNA of all participants was genotyped with the OncoArray. We fitted single-marker and in multi-marker models and performed an exploratory gene-set analysis to detect cumulative enrichment of significance in sets of genes. RESULTS We discovered a genome-wide significant interaction of the marker rs12440014 within the gene CHRNB4 (OR = 0.26, 95% CI 0.11-0.60, p = 0.0386 corrected for multiple testing). At least suggestive significant interaction of linkage disequilibrium blocks was observed at the chromosomal regions 18q21.23 (p = 1.2 × 10-6), 5q23.2 (p = 2.5 × 10-6), 1q21.3 (p = 3.2 × 10-6), 10p13 (p = 1.3 × 10-5) and 12p12.1 (p = 7.1 × 10-5). Genes belonging to the Gene Ontology term "DNA dealkylation involved in DNA repair" (GO:0006307; p = 0.0139) or the gene family HGNC:476 "microRNAs" (p = 0.0159) were enriched with LD-blockwise significance. CONCLUSION The well-established association of the genomic region 15q25 to lung cancer might be influenced by exposure to radon among uranium miners. Furthermore, lung cancer susceptibility is related to the functional capability of DNA damage signaling via ubiquitination processes and repair of radiation-induced double-strand breaks by the single-strand annealing mechanism.
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Affiliation(s)
- Albert Rosenberger
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Humboldtallee 32, 37073, Göttingen, Germany.
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Departments of Health Evidence and Urology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, USA
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Laboratory Medicine Region Skåne, Department of Clinical Sciences and Pathology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA
- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Humboldtallee 32, 37073, Göttingen, Germany
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- Unit Biological Radiation Effects, Biological Dosimetry, Department of Radiation Protection and Health, Federal Office for Radiation Protection, BfS, Neuherberg, Germany
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Rouschop S, Karl T, Maas L, Risch A, Opperhuizen A, van Schooten F, Godschalk R. Prenatal high fat diet alters DNA methylation and gene expression of metabolic genes in mouse offspring. Toxicol Lett 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2018.06.860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Sternberg C, Gruber W, Eberl M, Tesanovic S, Stadler M, Elmer DP, Schlederer M, Grund S, Roos S, Wolff F, Kaur S, Mangelberger D, Lehrach H, Hache H, Wierling C, Laimer J, Lackner P, Wiederstein M, Kasper M, Risch A, Petzelbauer P, Moriggl R, Kenner L, Aberger F. Synergistic cross-talk of hedgehog and interleukin-6 signaling drives growth of basal cell carcinoma. Int J Cancer 2018; 143:2943-2954. [PMID: 29987839 PMCID: PMC6282712 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.31724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Revised: 04/26/2018] [Accepted: 06/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Persistent activation of hedgehog (HH)/GLI signaling accounts for the development of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a very frequent nonmelanoma skin cancer with rising incidence. Targeting HH/GLI signaling by approved pathway inhibitors can provide significant therapeutic benefit to BCC patients. However, limited response rates, development of drug resistance, and severe side effects of HH pathway inhibitors call for improved treatment strategies such as rational combination therapies simultaneously inhibiting HH/GLI and cooperative signals promoting the oncogenic activity of HH/GLI. In this study, we identified the interleukin‐6 (IL6) pathway as a novel synergistic signal promoting oncogenic HH/GLI via STAT3 activation. Mechanistically, we provide evidence that signal integration of IL6 and HH/GLI occurs at the level of cis‐regulatory sequences by co‐binding of GLI and STAT3 to common HH‐IL6 target gene promoters. Genetic inactivation of Il6 signaling in a mouse model of BCC significantly reduced in vivo tumor growth by interfering with HH/GLI‐driven BCC proliferation. Our genetic and pharmacologic data suggest that combinatorial HH‐IL6 pathway blockade is a promising approach to efficiently arrest cancer growth in BCC patients. What's new? Persistent activation of hedgehog (HH)/GLI signaling represents the main driver signal for the development of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a common non‐melanoma skin cancer with rising incidence. Small molecule hedgehog pathway inhibitors are successfully used for the treatment of hedgehog‐driven BCC, but frequent drug resistance calls for improved strategies. Here, the authors identified the interleukin‐6 pathway as a novel synergistic signal promoting oncogenic HH/GLI via STAT3 activation. The synergistic interaction was required for the in vivo growth of hedgehog‐driven BCC. The study thus provides a rationale for effective combination treatments simultaneously targeting oncogenic hedgehog and interleukin‐6 signaling in BCC patients.
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- Christina Sternberg
- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Clinical Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Unit Laboratory Animal Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.,CytoSwitch, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.,Alacris Theranostics GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.,Alacris Theranostics GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.,Alacris Theranostics GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition and Center for Innovative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research, Vienna, Austria.,Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Clinical Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Unit Laboratory Animal Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria.,Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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Ferreiro-Iglesias A, Lesseur C, McKay J, Hung RJ, Han Y, Zong X, Christiani D, Johansson M, Xiao X, Li Y, Qian DC, Ji X, Liu G, Caporaso N, Scelo G, Zaridze D, Mukeriya A, Kontic M, Ognjanovic S, Lissowska J, Szołkowska M, Swiatkowska B, Janout V, Holcatova I, Bolca C, Savic M, Ognjanovic M, Bojesen SE, Wu X, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Tardon A, Fernandez-Somoano A, Fernandez-Tardon G, Le Marchand L, Rennert G, Chen C, Doherty J, Goodman G, Bickeböller H, Wichmann HE, Risch A, Rosenberger A, Shen H, Dai J, Field JK, Davies M, Woll P, Teare MD, Kiemeney LA, van der Heijden EHFM, Yuan JM, Hong YC, Haugen A, Zienolddiny S, Lam S, Tsao MS, Johansson M, Grankvist K, Schabath MB, Andrew A, Duell E, Melander O, Brunnström H, Lazarus P, Arnold S, Slone S, Byun J, Kamal A, Zhu D, Landi MT, Amos CI, Brennan P. Fine mapping of MHC region in lung cancer highlights independent susceptibility loci by ethnicity. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3927. [PMID: 30254314 PMCID: PMC6156406 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05890-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2017] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
The basis for associations between lung cancer and major histocompatibility complex genes is not completely understood. Here the authors further consider genetic variation within the MHC region in lung cancer patients and identify independent associations within HLA genes that explain MHC lung cancer associations in Europeans and Asian populations. Lung cancer has several genetic associations identified within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC); although the basis for these associations remains elusive. Here, we analyze MHC genetic variation among 26,044 lung cancer patients and 20,836 controls densely genotyped across the MHC, using the Illumina Illumina OncoArray or Illumina 660W SNP microarray. We impute sequence variation in classical HLA genes, fine-map MHC associations for lung cancer risk with major histologies and compare results between ethnicities. Independent and novel associations within HLA genes are identified in Europeans including amino acids in the HLA-B*0801 peptide binding groove and an independent HLA-DQB1*06 loci group. In Asians, associations are driven by two independent HLA allele sets that both increase risk in HLA-DQB1*0401 and HLA-DRB1*0701; the latter better represented by the amino acid Ala-104. These results implicate several HLA–tumor peptide interactions as the major MHC factor modulating lung cancer susceptibility.
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- Aida Ferreiro-Iglesias
- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 cedex 08, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 cedex 08, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 cedex 08, France
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1X5, Canada
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1X5, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 cedex 08, France
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1X5, Canada
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892-9768, MD, USA
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 cedex 08, France
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- Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, 115478, Russian Federation
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- Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, 115478, Russian Federation
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- International Organization for Cancer Prevention and Research, Belgrade, 11070, Serbia
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- M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center, Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, 02-034, Poland
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- Department of Pathology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, 01-138, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, 91-348, Poland
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Olomouc, Olomouc, 701 03, Czech Republic
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- 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Charles University, Prague, CZ 128 00, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Pneumology "Marius Nasta", Bucharest, RO-050159, Romania
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery Clinical Center of Serbia Belgrade, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- International Organization for Cancer Prevention and Research, Belgrade, 11070, Serbia
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, 2730, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, 2730, Denmark.,Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2730, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 77030, TX, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892-9768, MD, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, 37232-4682, TA, USA
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- University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Faculty of Medicine, Oviedo, 33006, Spain
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, 96813, HI, USA
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, 3525433, Israel
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, 98195, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, 98195, WA, USA.,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, 98109, WA, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, D-85764, Germany.,Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Epidemiology 2, Munich, D-85764, Germany.,Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, D-80333, Germany
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- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, 5020, Austria.,Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, 69120, Germany.,German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, 69121, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L3 9TA, UK
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L3 9TA, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK
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- School of Health and Related Research, University Of Sheffield, England, S1 4DA, UK
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- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, 15232, PA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, 110-799, Republic of Korea
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, N-0033, Norway
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, V5Z 1M9, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 85, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 85, Sweden
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, 33612, FL, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Barcelona, 08908, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, 221 00, Sweden.,Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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- Laboratory Medicine Region Skåne, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Pathology, Lund University, Lund, 221 00, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, 99202, WA, USA
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- University of Kentucky, Markey Cancer Center, Lexington, 40536-0098, KY, USA
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- University of Kentucky, Markey Cancer Center, Lexington, 40536-0098, KY, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892-9768, MD, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 cedex 08, France.
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Ji X, Bossé Y, Landi MT, Gui J, Xiao X, Qian D, Joubert P, Lamontagne M, Li Y, Gorlov I, de Biasi M, Han Y, Gorlova O, Hung RJ, Wu X, McKay J, Zong X, Carreras-Torres R, Christiani DC, Caporaso N, Johansson M, Liu G, Bojesen SE, Le Marchand L, Albanes D, Bickeböller H, Aldrich MC, Bush WS, Tardon A, Rennert G, Chen C, Teare MD, Field JK, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Haugen A, Lam S, Schabath MB, Andrew AS, Shen H, Hong YC, Yuan JM, Bertazzi PA, Pesatori AC, Ye Y, Diao N, Su L, Zhang R, Brhane Y, Leighl N, Johansen JS, Mellemgaard A, Saliba W, Haiman C, Wilkens L, Fernandez-Somoano A, Fernandez-Tardon G, van der Heijden EHFM, Kim JH, Dai J, Hu Z, Davies MPA, Marcus MW, Brunnström H, Manjer J, Melander O, Muller DC, Overvad K, Trichopoulou A, Tumino R, Doherty J, Goodman GE, Cox A, Taylor F, Woll P, Brüske I, Manz J, Muley T, Risch A, Rosenberger A, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Shepherd F, Tsao MS, Arnold SM, Haura EB, Bolca C, Holcatova I, Janout V, Kontic M, Lissowska J, Mukeria A, Ognjanovic S, Orlowski TM, Scelo G, Swiatkowska B, Zaridze D, Bakke P, Skaug V, Zienolddiny S, Duell EJ, Butler LM, Koh WP, Gao YT, Houlston R, McLaughlin J, Stevens V, Nickle DC, Obeidat M, Timens W, Zhu B, Song L, Artigas MS, Tobin MD, Wain LV, Gu F, Byun J, Kamal A, Zhu D, Tyndale RF, Wei WQ, Chanock S, Brennan P, Amos CI. Identification of susceptibility pathways for the role of chromosome 15q25.1 in modifying lung cancer risk. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3221. [PMID: 30104567 PMCID: PMC6089967 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05074-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2016] [Accepted: 05/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified the chromosome 15q25.1 locus as a leading susceptibility region for lung cancer. However, the pathogenic pathways, through which susceptibility SNPs within chromosome 15q25.1 affects lung cancer risk, have not been explored. We analyzed three cohorts with GWAS data consisting 42,901 individuals and lung expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) data on 409 individuals to identify and validate the underlying pathways and to investigate the combined effect of genes from the identified susceptibility pathways. The KEGG neuroactive ligand receptor interaction pathway, two Reactome pathways, and 22 Gene Ontology terms were identified and replicated to be significantly associated with lung cancer risk, with P values less than 0.05 and FDR less than 0.1. Functional annotation of eQTL analysis results showed that the neuroactive ligand receptor interaction pathway and gated channel activity were involved in lung cancer risk. These pathways provide important insights for the etiology of lung cancer.
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Grants
- P30 CA023108 NCI NIH HHS
- P30 CA076292 NCI NIH HHS
- U01 CA063464 NCI NIH HHS
- P50 CA070907 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA111703 NCI NIH HHS
- UM1 CA182876 NCI NIH HHS
- UL1 TR000117 NCATS NIH HHS
- P20 CA090578 NCI NIH HHS
- U19 CA148127 NCI NIH HHS
- P20 GM103534 NIGMS NIH HHS
- UL1 TR000445 NCATS NIH HHS
- R01 LM012012 NLM NIH HHS
- R01 CA092824 NCI NIH HHS
- R35 CA197449 NCI NIH HHS
- UM1 CA164973 NCI NIH HHS
- U01 CA167462 NCI NIH HHS
- U19 CA203654 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA144034 NCI NIH HHS
- P20 RR018787 NCRR NIH HHS
- S10 RR025141 NCRR NIH HHS
- R01 CA074386 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 CA176568 NCI NIH HHS
- K07 CA172294 NCI NIH HHS
- P50 CA119997 NCI NIH HHS
- G0902313 Medical Research Council
- R01 CA063464 NCI NIH HHS
- P01 CA033619 NCI NIH HHS
- R01 HL133786 NHLBI NIH HHS
- P30 CA177558 NCI NIH HHS
- P50 CA090578 NCI NIH HHS
- U01 HG004798 NHGRI NIH HHS
- R01 CA151989 NCI NIH HHS
- 001 World Health Organization
- 202849/Z/16/Z Wellcome Trust
- UM1 CA167462 NCI NIH HHS
- U01 CA164973 NCI NIH HHS
- This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the research of lung cancer (grant P30CA023108, P20GM103534 and R01LM012012); Trandisciplinary Research in Cancer of the Lung (TRICL) (grant U19CA148127); UICC American Cancer Society Beginning Investigators Fellowship funded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) (to X.Ji). CAPUA study. This work was supported by FIS-FEDER/Spain grant numbers FIS-01/310, FIS-PI03-0365, and FIS-07-BI060604, FICYT/Asturias grant numbers FICYT PB02-67 and FICYT IB09-133, and the University Institute of Oncology (IUOPA), of the University of Oviedo and the Ciber de Epidemiologia y Salud Pública. CIBERESP, SPAIN. The work performed in the CARET study was supported by the The National Institute of Health / National Cancer Institute: UM1 CA167462 (PI: Goodman), National Institute of Health UO1-CA6367307 (PIs Omen, Goodman); National Institute of Health R01 CA111703 (PI Chen), National Institute of Health 5R01 CA151989-01A1(PI Doherty). The Liverpool Lung project is supported by the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. The Harvard Lung Cancer Study was supported by the NIH (National Cancer Institute) grants CA092824, CA090578, CA074386 The Multiethnic Cohort Study was partially supported by NIH Grants CA164973, CA033619, CA63464 and CA148127 The work performed in MSH-PMH study was supported by The Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (020214), Ontario Institute of Cancer and Cancer Care Ontario Chair Award to R.J.H. and G.L. and the Alan Brown Chair and Lusi Wong Programs at the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. NJLCS was funded by the State Key Program of National Natural Science of China (81230067), the National Key Basic Research Program Grant (2011CB503805), the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81390543). Norway study was supported by Norwegian Cancer Society, Norwegian Research Council The Shanghai Cohort Study (SCS) was supported by National Institutes of Health R01 CA144034 (PI: Yuan) and UM1 CA182876 (PI: Yuan). The Singapore Chinese Health Study (SCHS) was supported by National Institutes of Health R01 CA144034 (PI: Yuan) and UM1 CA182876 (PI: Yuan). The work in TLC study has been supported in part the James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program (09KN-15), National Institutes of Health Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) Grant (P50 CA119997), and by a Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, an NCI designated Comprehensive Cancer Center (grant number P30-CA76292) The Vanderbilt Lung Cancer Study – BioVU dataset used for the analyses described was obtained from Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s BioVU, which is supported by institutional funding, the 1S10RR025141-01 instrumentation award, and by the Vanderbilt CTSA grant UL1TR000445 from NCATS/NIH. Dr. Aldrich was supported by NIH/National Cancer Institute K07CA172294 (PI: Aldrich) and Dr. Bush was supported by NHGRI/NIH U01HG004798 (PI: Crawford). The Copenhagen General Population Study (CGPS) was supported by the Chief Physician Johan Boserup and Lise Boserup Fund, the Danish Medical Research Council and Herlev Hospital. The NELCS study: Grant Number P20RR018787 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The MDACC study was supported in part by grants from the NIH (P50 CA070907, R01 CA176568) (to X. Wu), Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (RP130502) (to X. Wu), and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center institutional support for the Center for Translational and Public Health Genomics. The study in Lodz center was partially funded by Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, under task NIOM 10.13: Predictors of mortality from non-small cell lung cancer - field study. Kentucky Lung Cancer Research Initiative was supported by the Department of Defense [Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Program] under award number: 10153006 (W81XWH-11-1-0781). Views and opinions of, and endorsements by the author(s) do not reflect those of the US Army or the Department of Defense. This research was also supported by unrestricted infrastructure funds from the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science, NIH grant UL1TR000117 and Markey Cancer Center NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA177558) Shared Resource Facilities: Cancer Research Informatics, Biospecimen and Tissue Procurement, and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. The Resource for the Study of Lung Cancer Epidemiology in North Trent (ReSoLuCENT) study was funded by the Sheffield Hospitals Charity, Sheffield Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre and Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity. FT was supported by a clinical PhD fellowship funded by the Yorkshire Cancer Research/Cancer Research UK Sheffield Cancer Centre. The authors would like to thank the staff at the Respiratory Health Network Tissue Bank of the FRQS for their valuable assistance with the lung eQTL dataset at Laval University. The lung eQTL study at Laval University was supported by the Fondation de l’Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, the Respiratory Health Network of the FRQS, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP - 123369). Y.B. holds a Canada Research Chair in Genomics of Heart and Lung Diseases. The research undertaken by M.D.T., L.V.W. and M.S.A. was partly funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. M.D.T. holds a Medical Research Council Senior Clinical Fellowship (G0902313).
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- Xuemei Ji
- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Québec, G1V 4G5, Canada
- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, G1V 4G5, Canada
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892, MD, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, G1V 4G5, Canada
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, G1V 4G5, Canada
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, PA, USA
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, PA, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System and University of Toronto, Toronto, M5T 3L9, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 77030, TX, USA
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 CEDEX 08, France
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System and University of Toronto, Toronto, M5T 3L9, Canada
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 CEDEX 08, France
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892, MD, USA
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 CEDEX 08, France
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System and University of Toronto, Toronto, M5T 3L9, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Herlev 2730, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200 København N, Denmark
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Ringvej 75, Copenhagen, Herlev 2730, Denmark
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, 96813, HI, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, 37203, TN, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, 37203, TN, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 44106, OH, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Campus del Cristo s/n, Oviedo, 33006, Spain
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, 34361, Israel
- Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, 34361, Israel
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, 98109, WA, USA
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- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK
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- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, 6525 EZ, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, 99210-1495, WA, USA
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, 0033, Gydas vei 8, 0033, Oslo, Norway
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, V5Z1L3, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, 33612, FL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, 1 Medical Center Drive, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, 101 Longmian Ave, Nanjing, 211166, PR China
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151 742, Republic of Korea
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- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, 15232, PA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, IRCCS Foundation Ca'Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, 20133, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, 20133, Italy
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, IRCCS Foundation Ca'Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, 20133, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, 20133, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, 77030, TX, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, 101 Longmian Ave, Nanjing, 211166, PR China
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System and University of Toronto, Toronto, M5T 3L9, Canada
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- University Health Network-The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, M5G 2C4, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, 2730, Denmark
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- Department of Oncology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, 2730, Denmark
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, 34361, Israel
- Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, 34361, Israel
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, 90033, CA, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, 96813, HI, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Campus del Cristo s/n, Oviedo, 33006, Spain
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Campus del Cristo s/n, Oviedo, 33006, Spain
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, 6525 EZ, The Netherlands
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- Department of Integrative Bioscience & Biotechnology, Sejong University, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, 101 Longmian Ave, Nanjing, 211166, PR China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, 101 Longmian Ave, Nanjing, 211166, PR China
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- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
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- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
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- Department of Pathology, Lund University, Lund, 222 41, Sweden
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- Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, 22100, Sweden
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- Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, 22100, Sweden
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- School of Public Health, St Mary's Campus, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, 22100, Sweden
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- Cancer Registry and Histopathology Department, "Civic-M.P. Arezzo" Hospital, ASP, Ragusa, 97100, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, 1 Medical Center Drive, Hanover, 03755, NH, USA
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, 98109-1024, WA, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, 98109-1024, WA, USA
- Swedish Medical Group, Arnold Pavilion, Suite 200, Seattle, 98104, WA, USA
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK
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- Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, D-85764, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, D-85764, Germany
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- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 69126, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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- Cancer Cluster Salzburg, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, 5020, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 85, Sweden
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 85, Sweden
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, First Floor, 800 Rose Street, Lexington, 40508, KY, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, 33612, KY, USA
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- Institute of Pneumology "Marius Nasta", Bucharest, RO-050159, Romania
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- 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Kateřinská 32, Prague, 121 08 Praha 2, Czech Republic
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- 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Kateřinská 32, Prague, 121 08 Praha 2, Czech Republic
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- Clinical Center of Serbia, Clinic for Pulmonology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M. Sklodowska-Curie Institute-Oncology Center, Warsaw, 02-781, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, 115478, Russian Federation
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- International Organization for Cancer Prevention and Research, Belgrade, 11070, Serbia
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- Department of Surgery, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, PL-01-138, Poland
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 CEDEX 08, France
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- Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, 91-348, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, 115478, Russian Federation
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- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, 5021, Norway
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, 0033, Gydas vei 8, 0033, Oslo, Norway
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, 0033, Gydas vei 8, 0033, Oslo, Norway
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Barcelona, 08908, Spain
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- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, 15232, PA, USA
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- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, 119077, Singapore
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, 2200, China
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- Department of Genetics and Pharmacogenomics, Merck Research Laboratories, Boston, 02115-5727, MA, USA
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- Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6Z 1Y6, BC, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, GRIAC, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, NL - 9713 GZ, The Netherlands
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892, MD, USA
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892, MD, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A8, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5T 1R8, ON, Canada
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, M6J 1H4, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892, MD, USA
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, 69372 CEDEX 08, France
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, 03750, NH, USA.
- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, 77030, TX, USA.
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Melnik S, Dvornikov D, Müller-Decker K, Depner S, Stannek P, Meister M, Warth A, Thomas M, Muley T, Risch A, Plass C, Klingmüller U, Niehrs C, Glinka A. Cancer cell specific inhibition of Wnt/β-catenin signaling by forced intracellular acidification. Cell Discov 2018; 4:37. [PMID: 29977599 PMCID: PMC6028397 DOI: 10.1038/s41421-018-0033-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Revised: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 04/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Use of the diabetes type II drug Metformin is associated with a moderately lowered risk of cancer incidence in numerous tumor entities. Studying the molecular changes associated with the tumor-suppressive action of Metformin we found that the oncogene SOX4, which is upregulated in solid tumors and associated with poor prognosis, was induced by Wnt/β-catenin signaling and blocked by Metformin. Wnt signaling inhibition by Metformin was surprisingly specific for cancer cells. Unraveling the underlying specificity, we identified Metformin and other Mitochondrial Complex I (MCI) inhibitors as inducers of intracellular acidification in cancer cells. We demonstrated that acidification triggers the unfolded protein response to induce the global transcriptional repressor DDIT3, known to block Wnt signaling. Moreover, our results suggest that intracellular acidification universally inhibits Wnt signaling. Based on these findings, we combined MCI inhibitors with H+ ionophores, to escalate cancer cells into intracellular hyper-acidification and ATP depletion. This treatment lowered intracellular pH both in vitro and in a mouse xenograft tumor model, depleted cellular ATP, blocked Wnt signaling, downregulated SOX4, and strongly decreased stemness and viability of cancer cells. Importantly, the inhibition of Wnt signaling occurred downstream of β-catenin, encouraging applications in treatment of cancers caused by APC and β-catenin mutations.
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- Svitlana Melnik
- 1Division of Epigenetics and Cancer Risks Factors, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany.,2DNA vectors, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany
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- 3Division of Systems Biology and Signal Transduction, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany.,4Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- 5Tumor Models Unit, Center for Preclinical Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany
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- 3Division of Systems Biology and Signal Transduction, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany
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- Division of Molecular Embryology, DKFZ-ZMBH Allianz, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany
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- 4Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.,7Translational Research Unit, Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, D-69126 Germany
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- 4Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.,8Institute of Pathology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, 69120 Germany
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- 4Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.,7Translational Research Unit, Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, D-69126 Germany
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- 4Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.,7Translational Research Unit, Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, D-69126 Germany
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- 1Division of Epigenetics and Cancer Risks Factors, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany.,4Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.,9Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, 5020 Austria.,Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, 5020 Austria
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- 1Division of Epigenetics and Cancer Risks Factors, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany.,4Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- 3Division of Systems Biology and Signal Transduction, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany.,4Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Embryology, DKFZ-ZMBH Allianz, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany.,11Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, 55128 Germany
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- Division of Molecular Embryology, DKFZ-ZMBH Allianz, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, D-69120 Germany
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Gampenrieder SP, Rinnerthaler G, Hackl H, Pulverer W, Weinhaeusel A, Ilic S, Hufnagl C, Hauser-Kronberger C, Egle A, Risch A, Greil R. DNA Methylation Signatures Predicting Bevacizumab Efficacy in Metastatic Breast Cancer. Am J Cancer Res 2018; 8:2278-2288. [PMID: 29721079 PMCID: PMC5928889 DOI: 10.7150/thno.23544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2017] [Accepted: 12/08/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Background: Biomarkers predicting response to bevacizumab in breast cancer are still missing. Since epigenetic modifications can contribute to an aberrant regulation of angiogenesis and treatment resistance, we investigated the influence of DNA methylation patterns on bevacizumab efficacy. Methods: Genome-wide methylation profiling using the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip was performed in archival FFPE specimens of 36 patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer treated with chemotherapy in combination with bevacizumab as first-line therapy (learning set). Based on objective response and progression-free survival (PFS) and considering ER expression, patients were divided in responders (R) and non-responders (NR). Significantly differentially methylated gene loci (CpGs) with a strong change in methylation levels (Δβ>0.15 or Δβ<-0.15) between R and NR were identified and further investigated in 80 bevacizumab-treated breast cancer patients (optimization set) and in 15 patients treated with chemotherapy alone (control set) using targeted deep amplicon bisulfite sequencing. Methylated gene loci were considered predictive if there was a significant association with outcome (PFS) in the optimization set but not in the control set using Spearman rank correlation, Cox regression, and logrank test. Results: Differentially methylated loci in 48 genes were identified, allowing a good separation between R and NR (odds ratio (OR) 101, p<0.0001). Methylation of at least one cytosine in 26 gene-regions was significantly associated with progression-free survival (PFS) in the optimization set, but not in the control set. Using information from the optimization set, the panel was reduced to a 9-gene signature, which could divide patients from the learning set into 2 clusters, thereby predicting response with an OR of 40 (p<0.001) and an AUC of 0.91 (LOOCV). A further restricted 3-gene methylation model showed a significant association of predicted responders with longer PFS in the learning and optimization set even in multivariate analysis with an excellent and good separation of R and NR with AUC=0.94 and AUC=0.86, respectively. Conclusion: Both a 9-gene and 3-gene methylation signature can discriminate between R and NR to a bevacizumab-based therapy in MBC and could help identify patients deriving greater benefit from bevacizumab.
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Li Y, Xiao X, Han Y, Gorlova O, Qian D, Leighl N, Johansen JS, Barnett M, Chen C, Goodman G, Cox A, Taylor F, Woll P, Wichmann HE, Manz J, Muley T, Risch A, Rosenberger A, Arnold SM, Haura EB, Bolca C, Holcatova I, Janout V, Kontic M, Lissowska J, Mukeria A, Ognjanovic S, Orlowski TM, Scelo G, Swiatkowska B, Zaridze D, Bakke P, Skaug V, Zienolddiny S, Duell EJ, Butler LM, Houlston R, Soler Artigas M, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Shepherd FA, Marcus MW, Brunnström H, Manjer J, Melander O, Muller DC, Overvad K, Trichopoulou A, Tumino R, Liu G, Bojesen SE, Wu X, Marchand LL, Albanes D, Bickeböller H, Aldrich MC, Bush WS, Tardon A, Rennert G, Teare MD, Field JK, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Haugen A, Lam S, Schabath MB, Andrew AS, Bertazzi PA, Pesatori AC, Christiani DC, Caporaso N, Johansson M, McKay JD, Brennan P, Hung RJ, Amos CI. Genome-wide interaction study of smoking behavior and non-small cell lung cancer risk in Caucasian population. Carcinogenesis 2018; 39:336-346. [PMID: 29059373 PMCID: PMC6248554 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgx113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer. Both environmental and genetic risk factors contribute to lung carcinogenesis. We conducted a genome-wide interaction analysis between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and smoking status (never- versus ever-smokers) in a European-descent population. We adopted a two-step analysis strategy in the discovery stage: we first conducted a case-only interaction analysis to assess the relationship between SNPs and smoking behavior using 13336 non-small cell lung cancer cases. Candidate SNPs with P-value <0.001 were further analyzed using a standard case-control interaction analysis including 13970 controls. The significant SNPs with P-value <3.5 × 10-5 (correcting for multiple tests) from the case-control analysis in the discovery stage were further validated using an independent replication dataset comprising 5377 controls and 3054 non-small cell lung cancer cases. We further stratified the analysis by histological subtypes. Two novel SNPs, rs6441286 and rs17723637, were identified for overall lung cancer risk. The interaction odds ratio and meta-analysis P-value for these two SNPs were 1.24 with 6.96 × 10-7 and 1.37 with 3.49 × 10-7, respectively. In addition, interaction of smoking with rs4751674 was identified in squamous cell lung carcinoma with an odds ratio of 0.58 and P-value of 8.12 × 10-7. This study is by far the largest genome-wide SNP-smoking interaction analysis reported for lung cancer. The three identified novel SNPs provide potential candidate biomarkers for lung cancer risk screening and intervention. The results from our study reinforce that gene-smoking interactions play important roles in the etiology of lung cancer and account for part of the missing heritability of this disease.
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- Yafang Li
- Biomedical Data Science Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Medicine, The Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University
Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University
Hospital, Copenhagen University, Herlev, Denmark
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Program in Epidemiology, Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Cancer Prevention Program, Swedish Medical
Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Biobank and Tumor Documentation, Thoraxklinik at University Hospital
Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German
Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Biobank and Tumor Documentation, Thoraxklinik at University Hospital
Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German
Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Center Cluster Salzburg at PLUS, Department of Molecular Biology,
University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Medical School, Georg-August University
of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL,
USA
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- Thoracic Surgery Division, “Marius Nasta” National Institute of Pneumology,
București, Romania
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Clinical Center of Serbia, University
of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer
Center, Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Pol
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer
Research Centre, Moscow, Russia
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- International Organization for Cancer Prevention and Research, Belgrade,
Serbia
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung
Diseases, Warsaw, Pol
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Genetic Epidemiology
Group, Lyon, France
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- Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Nofer Institute of Occupational
Medicine, Łódź, Pol
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer
Research Centre, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Toxicology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo,
Norway
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- Department of Toxicology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo,
Norway
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- Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research
Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona,
Spain
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- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences, Genetic Epidemiology Group, University of
Leicester, Leicester, UK
- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, Leicester
Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Medical Oncology Toronto, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, ON,
Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of
Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö,
Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö,
Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, St
Mary’s Campus, London, UK
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University,
Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical School, University of Athens,
Athens, Greece
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- Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, CSPO (Cancer Research and
Prevention Centre), Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen
University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen,
Denmark
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital,
Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, TX, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI,
USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, US
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August
University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Technion Faculty of Medicine, Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel
Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Genetic Epidemiology, School of Health and Related Research, University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool,
UK
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- Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen
EZ, Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State
University, Spokane, WA, USA
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- Department of Toxicology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo,
Norway
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- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research
Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, IRCCS Foundation Cà Granda Ospedale,
Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health–DISCCO, University of
Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health–DISCCO, University of
Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA,
USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, US
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon,
France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Genetic Epidemiology
Group, Lyon, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon,
France
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- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of
Toronto, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Feng Y, Wang Y, Liu H, Liu Z, Mills C, Owzar K, Xie J, Han Y, Qian DC, Hung Rj RJ, Brhane Y, McLaughlin J, Brennan P, Bickeböller H, Rosenberger A, Houlston RS, Caporaso N, Landi MT, Brüske I, Risch A, Ye Y, Wu X, Christiani DC, Amos CI, Wei Q. Novel genetic variants in the P38MAPK pathway gene ZAK and susceptibility to lung cancer. Mol Carcinog 2018; 57:216-224. [PMID: 29071797 PMCID: PMC6128286 DOI: 10.1002/mc.22748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2017] [Revised: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 09/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Abstract
The P38MAPK pathway participates in regulating cell cycle, inflammation, development, cell death, cell differentiation, and tumorigenesis. Genetic variants of some genes in the P38MAPK pathway are reportedly associated with lung cancer risk. To substantiate this finding, we used six genome-wide association studies (GWASs) to comprehensively investigate the associations of 14 904 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 108 genes of this pathway with lung cancer risk. We identified six significant lung cancer risk-associated SNPs in two genes (CSNK2B and ZAK) after correction for multiple comparisons by a false discovery rate (FDR) <0.20. After removal of three CSNK2B SNPs that are located in the same locus previously reported by GWAS, we performed the LD analysis and found that rs3769201 and rs7604288 were in high LD. We then chose two independent representative SNPs of rs3769201 and rs722864 in ZAK for further analysis. We also expanded the analysis by including these two SNPs from additional GWAS datasets of Harvard University (984 cases and 970 controls) and deCODE (1319 cases and 26 380 controls). The overall effects of these two SNPs were assessed using all eight GWAS datasets (OR = 0.92, 95%CI = 0.89-0.95, and P = 1.03 × 10-5 for rs3769201; OR = 0.91, 95%CI = 0.88-0.95, and P = 2.03 × 10-6 for rs722864). Finally, we performed an expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analysis and found that these two SNPs were significantly associated with ZAK mRNA expression levels in lymphoblastoid cell lines. In conclusion, the ZAK rs3769201 and rs722864 may be functional susceptibility loci for lung cancer risk.
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- Yun Feng
- Department of Respiration, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Cancer Institute and Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Cancer Institute and Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Helmholtz Centre Munich, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology I, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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Gu F, Zhang H, Hyland PL, Berndt S, Gapstur SM, Wheeler W, Ellipse Consortium T, Amos CI, Bezieau S, Bickeböller H, Brenner H, Brennan P, Chang-Claude J, Conti DV, Doherty JA, Gruber SB, Harrison TA, Hayes RB, Hoffmeister M, Houlston RS, Hung RJ, Jenkins MA, Kraft P, Lawrenson K, McKay J, Markt S, Mucci L, Phelan CM, Qu C, Risch A, Rossing MA, Wichmann HE, Shi J, Schernhammer E, Yu K, Landi MT, Caporaso NE. Inherited variation in circadian rhythm genes and risks of prostate cancer and three other cancer sites in combined cancer consortia. Int J Cancer 2017; 141:1794-1802. [PMID: 28699174 PMCID: PMC5907928 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.30883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2017] [Revised: 05/15/2017] [Accepted: 06/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
Circadian disruption has been linked to carcinogenesis in animal models, but the evidence in humans is inconclusive. Genetic variation in circadian rhythm genes provides a tool to investigate such associations. We examined associations of genetic variation in nine core circadian rhythm genes and six melatonin pathway genes with risk of colorectal, lung, ovarian and prostate cancers using data from the Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME-ON) network. The major results for prostate cancer were replicated in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) cancer screening trial, and for colorectal cancer in the Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium (GECCO). The total number of cancer cases and controls was 15,838/18,159 for colorectal, 14,818/14,227 for prostate, 12,537/17,285 for lung and 4,369/9,123 for ovary. For each cancer site, we conducted gene-based and pathway-based analyses by applying the summary-based Adaptive Rank Truncated Product method (sARTP) on the summary association statistics for each SNP within the candidate gene regions. Aggregate genetic variation in circadian rhythm and melatonin pathways were significantly associated with the risk of prostate cancer in data combining GAME-ON and PLCO, after Bonferroni correction (ppathway < 0.00625). The two most significant genes were NPAS2 (pgene = 0.0062) and AANAT (pgene = 0.00078); the latter being significant after Bonferroni correction. For colorectal cancer, we observed a suggestive association with the circadian rhythm pathway in GAME-ON (ppathway = 0.021); this association was not confirmed in GECCO (ppathway = 0.76) or the combined data (ppathway = 0.17). No significant association was observed for ovarian and lung cancer. These findings support a potential role for circadian rhythm and melatonin pathways in prostate carcinogenesis. Further functional studies are needed to better understand the underlying biologic mechanisms.
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- Fangyi Gu
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of South California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of South California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Population Sciences Division, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Translational Lung Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany within the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany
- Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, DKFZ German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Munich, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute of Epidemiology II, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Epidemiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
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McKay JD, Hung RJ, Han Y, Zong X, Carreras-Torres R, Christiani DC, Caporaso NE, Johansson M, Xiao X, Li Y, Byun J, Dunning A, Pooley KA, Qian DC, Ji X, Liu G, Timofeeva MN, Bojesen SE, Wu X, Le Marchand L, Albanes D, Bickeböller H, Aldrich MC, Bush WS, Tardon A, Rennert G, Teare MD, Field JK, Kiemeney LA, Lazarus P, Haugen A, Lam S, Schabath MB, Andrew AS, Shen H, Hong YC, Yuan JM, Bertazzi PA, Pesatori AC, Ye Y, Diao N, Su L, Zhang R, Brhane Y, Leighl N, Johansen JS, Mellemgaard A, Saliba W, Haiman CA, Wilkens LR, Fernandez-Somoano A, Fernandez-Tardon G, van der Heijden HF, Kim JH, Dai J, Hu Z, Davies MPA, Marcus MW, Brunnström H, Manjer J, Melander O, Muller DC, Overvad K, Trichopoulou A, Tumino R, Doherty JA, Barnett MP, Chen C, Goodman GE, Cox A, Taylor F, Woll P, Brüske I, Wichmann HE, Manz J, Muley TR, Risch A, Rosenberger A, Grankvist K, Johansson M, Shepherd FA, Tsao MS, Arnold SM, Haura EB, Bolca C, Holcatova I, Janout V, Kontic M, Lissowska J, Mukeria A, Ognjanovic S, Orlowski TM, Scelo G, Swiatkowska B, Zaridze D, Bakke P, Skaug V, Zienolddiny S, Duell EJ, Butler LM, Koh WP, Gao YT, Houlston RS, McLaughlin J, Stevens VL, Joubert P, Lamontagne M, Nickle DC, Obeidat M, Timens W, Zhu B, Song L, Kachuri L, Artigas MS, Tobin MD, Wain LV, Rafnar T, Thorgeirsson TE, Reginsson GW, Stefansson K, Hancock DB, Bierut LJ, Spitz MR, Gaddis NC, Lutz SM, Gu F, Johnson EO, Kamal A, Pikielny C, Zhu D, Lindströem S, Jiang X, Tyndale RF, Chenevix-Trench G, Beesley J, Bossé Y, Chanock S, Brennan P, Landi MT, Amos CI. Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes. Nat Genet 2017; 49:1126-1132. [PMID: 28604730 PMCID: PMC5510465 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 365] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2016] [Accepted: 05/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
Although several lung cancer susceptibility loci have been identified, much of the heritability for lung cancer remains unexplained. Here 14,803 cases and 12,262 controls of European descent were genotyped on the OncoArray and combined with existing data for an aggregated genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis of lung cancer in 29,266 cases and 56,450 controls. We identified 18 susceptibility loci achieving genome-wide significance, including 10 new loci. The new loci highlight the striking heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across the histological subtypes of lung cancer, with four loci associated with lung cancer overall and six loci associated with lung adenocarcinoma. Gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analysis in 1,425 normal lung tissue samples highlights RNASET2, SECISBP2L and NRG1 as candidate genes. Other loci include genes such as a cholinergic nicotinic receptor, CHRNA2, and the telomere-related genes OFBC1 and RTEL1. Further exploration of the target genes will continue to provide new insights into the etiology of lung cancer.
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- James D. McKay
- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover NH
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 02115
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover NH
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover NH
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover NH
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover NH
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover NH
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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- University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Faculty of Medicine, Campus del Cristo s/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, England, UK
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington, USA
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, IRCCS Foundation Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health – DISCCO, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health – DISCCO, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 02115
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 02115
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 02115
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- University Health Network- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, CA
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- Department of Oncology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
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- Department of Oncology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center at Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Faculty of Medicine, Campus del Cristo s/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Integrative Bioscience & Biotechnology, Sejong University, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- School of Public Health, St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, UK
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Tumino. Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit CSPO (Cancer Research and Prevention Centre), Scientific Institute of Tuscany, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Thoraxklinik at University Hospital Heidelberg
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- University of Kentucky, Markey Cancer Center, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Institute of Pneumology “Marius Nasta”, Bucharest, Romania
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- 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade. School of Medicine, University of Belgrade
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- M. Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center, Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N.Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- International Organization for Cancer Prevention and Research, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Surgery, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Russian N.N.Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
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- Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, China
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, Canada
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, Canada
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- Merck Research Laboratories, Genetics and Pharmacogenomics, Boston, MA, USA
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- The University of British Columbia Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- University of Groningen, Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pathology and Medical Biology, GRIAC Research Institute, The Netherlands
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
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- SpiroMeta Consortium see Supplemental Materials for full list of participating members
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- Behavioral and Urban Health Program, Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Division, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Research Computing Division, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Program and Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice Division, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover NH
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover NH
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- Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover NH
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Health Sciences Bldg., F-247B, Box 357236, Seattle, WA 98195
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115
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- Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology & Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Cancer Division, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, Canada
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Québec, Canada
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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Carreras-Torres R, Johansson M, Haycock PC, Wade KH, Relton CL, Martin RM, Davey Smith G, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Andrew A, Arnold SM, Bickeböller H, Bojesen SE, Brunnström H, Manjer J, Brüske I, Caporaso NE, Chen C, Christiani DC, Christian WJ, Doherty JA, Duell EJ, Field JK, Davies MPA, Marcus MW, Goodman GE, Grankvist K, Haugen A, Hong YC, Kiemeney LA, van der Heijden EHFM, Kraft P, Johansson MB, Lam S, Landi MT, Lazarus P, Le Marchand L, Liu G, Melander O, Park SL, Rennert G, Risch A, Haura EB, Scelo G, Zaridze D, Mukeriya A, Savić M, Lissowska J, Swiatkowska B, Janout V, Holcatova I, Mates D, Schabath MB, Shen H, Tardon A, Teare MD, Woll P, Tsao MS, Wu X, Yuan JM, Hung RJ, Amos CI, McKay J, Brennan P. Obesity, metabolic factors and risk of different histological types of lung cancer: A Mendelian randomization study. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0177875. [PMID: 28594918 PMCID: PMC5464539 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2017] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Assessing the relationship between lung cancer and metabolic conditions is challenging because of the confounding effect of tobacco. Mendelian randomization (MR), or the use of genetic instrumental variables to assess causality, may help to identify the metabolic drivers of lung cancer. METHODS AND FINDINGS We identified genetic instruments for potential metabolic risk factors and evaluated these in relation to risk using 29,266 lung cancer cases (including 11,273 adenocarcinomas, 7,426 squamous cell and 2,664 small cell cases) and 56,450 controls. The MR risk analysis suggested a causal effect of body mass index (BMI) on lung cancer risk for two of the three major histological subtypes, with evidence of a risk increase for squamous cell carcinoma (odds ratio (OR) [95% confidence interval (CI)] = 1.20 [1.01-1.43] and for small cell lung cancer (OR [95%CI] = 1.52 [1.15-2.00]) for each standard deviation (SD) increase in BMI [4.6 kg/m2]), but not for adenocarcinoma (OR [95%CI] = 0.93 [0.79-1.08]) (Pheterogeneity = 4.3x10-3). Additional analysis using a genetic instrument for BMI showed that each SD increase in BMI increased cigarette consumption by 1.27 cigarettes per day (P = 2.1x10-3), providing novel evidence that a genetic susceptibility to obesity influences smoking patterns. There was also evidence that low-density lipoprotein cholesterol was inversely associated with lung cancer overall risk (OR [95%CI] = 0.90 [0.84-0.97] per SD of 38 mg/dl), while fasting insulin was positively associated (OR [95%CI] = 1.63 [1.25-2.13] per SD of 44.4 pmol/l). Sensitivity analyses including a weighted-median approach and MR-Egger test did not detect other pleiotropic effects biasing the main results. CONCLUSIONS Our results are consistent with a causal role of fasting insulin and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in lung cancer etiology, as well as for BMI in squamous cell and small cell carcinoma. The latter relation may be mediated by a previously unrecognized effect of obesity on smoking behavior.
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Unit in Nutrition, Diet and Lifestyle at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, DCEG, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America
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- University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratory Medicine Region Skåne, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Laboratory Medicine Region Skåne, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Genetic Epidemiology Branch, DCEG, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
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- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of Translational Medicine, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of Translational Medicine, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of Translational Medicine, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Genetic Epidemiology Branch, DCEG, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
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- Washington State University College of Pharmacy, Spokane, Washington, United States of America
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
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- Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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- Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center and Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- University of Salzburg and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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- Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, The Russian Federation
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- Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, The Russian Federation
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute – Oncology Center, Warsaw, Poland
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- Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Charles University, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
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- National Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias (IUOPA), University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Oviedo, Spain
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- University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Division of Cancer Control and Population Science, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute; and Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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Yin J, Liu H, Liu Z, Owzar K, Han Y, Su L, Wei Y, Hung RJ, Brhane Y, McLaughlin J, Brennan P, Bickeboeller H, Rosenberger A, Houlston RS, Caporaso N, Landi MT, Heinrich J, Risch A, Christiani DC, Amos CI, Wei Q. Pathway-analysis of published genome-wide association studies of lung cancer: A potential role for the CYP4F3 locus. Mol Carcinog 2017; 56:1663-1672. [PMID: 28150878 PMCID: PMC5423820 DOI: 10.1002/mc.22622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2017] [Accepted: 01/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
The fatty acids (FAs) metabolism is suggested to play a pivotal role in the development of lung cancer, and we explored that by conducting a pathway-based analysis. We performed a meta-analysis of published datasets of six genome wide association studies (GWASs) from the Transdisciplinary Research in Cancer of the Lung (TRICL) consortium, which included 12 160 cases with lung cancer and 16 838 cancer-free controls. A total of 30 722 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 317 genes relevant to FA metabolic pathways were identified. An additional dataset from the Harvard Lung Cancer Study with 984 cases and 970 healthy controls was also added to the final meta-analysis. In the initial meta-analysis, 26 of 28 SNPs that passed false discovery rate multiple tests were mapped to the CYP4F3 gene. Among the 26 top ranked hits was a proxy SNP, CYP4F3 rs4646904 (P = 8.65 × 10-6 , FDR = 0.018), which is suggested to change splicing pattern/efficiency and to be associated with gene expression levels. However, after adding data of rs4646904 from the Harvard GWAS, the significance in the combined analysis was reduced to P = 3.52 × 10-3 [odds ratio (OR) = 1.07, 95% confidence interval (95%CI) = 1.03-1.12]. Interestingly, the small Harvard dataset also pointed to the same direction of the association in subgroups of smokers (OR = 1.07) and contributed to a combined OR of 1.13 (95% CI = 1.06-1.20, P = 6.70 × 10-5 ). The results suggest that a potentially functional SNP in CYP4F3 (rs4646904) may contribute to the etiology of lung cancer, especially in smokers. Additional mechanistic studies are warranted to unravel the potential biological significance of the finding.
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- Jieyun Yin
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, 199 Ren Ai Road, Suzhou, China
- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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- Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- Genetic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Genetic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Helmholtz Centre Munich, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology I, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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