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1. FANCM missense variants and breast cancer risk: a case-control association study of 75,156 European women

Author: Figlioli, G, Billaud, A, Ahearn, TU, Antonenkova, NN, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Blok, MJ, Bogdanova, N, Bonanni, B, Burwinkel, B, Camp, NJ, Campbell, A, Castelao, JE, Cessna, MH, Chanock, SJ, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Doerk, T, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, JD, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, Garcia-Closas, M, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Grassmann, F, Guenel, P, Gundert, M, Hadjisavvas, A, Hahnen, E, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Harrington, PA, He, W, Hillemanns, P, Hollestelle, A, Hooning, MJ, Hoppe, R, Howell, A, Humphreys, K, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, Khusnutdinova, EK, Ko, Y-D, Kristensen, VN, Lindblom, A, Lissowska, J, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Newman, WG, Obi, N, Panayiotidis, M, Rashid, MU, Rhenius, V, Rookus, MA, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Shah, M, Sironen, R, Southey, MC, Suvanto, M, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, van der Kolk, LE, van Veen, EM, Wappenschmidt, B, Yang, XR, Bolla, MK, Dennis, J, Dunning, AM, Easton, DF, Lush, M, Michailidou, K, Pharoah, PDP, Wang, Q, Adank, MA, Schmidt, MK, Andrulis, IL, Chang-Claude, J, Nevanlinna, H, Chenevix-Trench, G, Evans, DG, Milne, RL, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Figlioli, G, Billaud, A, Ahearn, TU, Antonenkova, NN, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Blok, MJ, Bogdanova, N, Bonanni, B, Burwinkel, B, Camp, NJ, Campbell, A, Castelao, JE, Cessna, MH, Chanock, SJ, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Doerk, T, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, JD, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, Garcia-Closas, M, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Grassmann, F, Guenel, P, Gundert, M, Hadjisavvas, A, Hahnen, E, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Harrington, PA, He, W, Hillemanns, P, Hollestelle, A, Hooning, MJ, Hoppe, R, Howell, A, Humphreys, K, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, Khusnutdinova, EK, Ko, Y-D, Kristensen, VN, Lindblom, A, Lissowska, J, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Newman, WG, Obi, N, Panayiotidis, M, Rashid, MU, Rhenius, V, Rookus, MA, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Shah, M, Sironen, R, Southey, MC, Suvanto, M, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, van der Kolk, LE, van Veen, EM, Wappenschmidt, B, Yang, XR, Bolla, MK, Dennis, J, Dunning, AM, Easton, DF, Lush, M, Michailidou, K, Pharoah, PDP, Wang, Q, Adank, MA, Schmidt, MK, Andrulis, IL, Chang-Claude, J, Nevanlinna, H, Chenevix-Trench, G, Evans, DG, Milne, RL, Radice, P, and Peterlongo, P
Abstract: Evidence from literature, including the BRIDGES study, indicates that germline protein truncating variants (PTVs) in FANCM confer moderately increased risk of ER-negative and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), especially for women with a family history of the disease. Association between FANCM missense variants (MVs) and breast cancer risk has been postulated. In this study, we further used the BRIDGES study to test 689 FANCM MVs for association with breast cancer risk, overall and in ER-negative and TNBC subtypes, in 39,885 cases (7566 selected for family history) and 35,271 controls of European ancestry. Sixteen common MVs were tested individually; the remaining rare 673 MVs were tested by burden analyses considering their position and pathogenicity score. We also conducted a meta-analysis of our results and those from published studies. We did not find evidence for association for any of the 16 variants individually tested. The rare MVs were significantly associated with increased risk of ER-negative breast cancer by burden analysis comparing familial cases to controls (OR = 1.48; 95% CI 1.07-2.04; P = 0.017). Higher ORs were found for the subgroup of MVs located in functional domains or predicted to be pathogenic. The meta-analysis indicated that FANCM MVs overall are associated with breast cancer risk (OR = 1.22; 95% CI 1.08-1.38; P = 0.002). Our results support the definition from previous analyses of FANCM as a moderate-risk breast cancer gene and provide evidence that FANCM MVs could be low/moderate risk factors for ER-negative and TNBC subtypes. Further genetic and functional analyses are necessary to clarify better the increased risks due to FANCM MVs.
Published: 2023

2. Ovarian cancer pathology characteristics as predictors of variant pathogenicity in BRCA1 and BRCA2

Author: O'Mahony, DG, Ramus, SJ, Southey, MC, Meagher, NS, Hadjisavvas, A, John, EM, Hamann, U, Imyanitov, EN, Andrulis, IL, Sharma, P, Daly, MB, Hake, CR, Weitzel, JN, Jakubowska, A, Godwin, AK, Arason, A, Bane, A, Simard, J, Soucy, P, Caligo, MA, Mai, PL, Claes, KBM, Teixeira, MR, Chung, WK, Lazaro, C, Hulick, PJ, Toland, AE, Pedersen, IS, Neuhausen, SL, Vega, A, de la Hoya, M, Nevanlinna, H, Dhawan, M, Zampiga, V, Danesi, R, Varesco, L, Gismondi, V, Vellone, VG, James, PA, Janavicius, R, Nikitina-Zake, L, Nielsen, FC, van Overeem Hansen, T, Pejovic, T, Borg, A, Rantala, J, Offit, K, Montagna, M, Nathanson, KL, Domchek, SM, Osorio, A, Garcia, MJ, Karlan, BY, De Fazio, A, Bowtell, D, McGuffog, L, Leslie, G, Parsons, MT, Doerk, T, Speith, L-M, dos Santos, ES, da Costa, AABA, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Papi, L, Engel, C, Hahnen, E, Schmutzler, RK, Wappenschmidt, B, Easton, DF, Tischkowitz, M, Singer, CF, Tan, YY, Whittemore, AS, Sieh, W, Brenton, JD, Yannoukakos, D, Fostira, F, Konstantopoulou, I, Soukupova, J, Vocka, M, Chenevix-Trench, G, Pharoah, PDP, Antoniou, AC, Goldgar, DE, Spurdle, AB, Michailidou, K, Mourits, MJE, Lesueur, F, O'Mahony, DG, Ramus, SJ, Southey, MC, Meagher, NS, Hadjisavvas, A, John, EM, Hamann, U, Imyanitov, EN, Andrulis, IL, Sharma, P, Daly, MB, Hake, CR, Weitzel, JN, Jakubowska, A, Godwin, AK, Arason, A, Bane, A, Simard, J, Soucy, P, Caligo, MA, Mai, PL, Claes, KBM, Teixeira, MR, Chung, WK, Lazaro, C, Hulick, PJ, Toland, AE, Pedersen, IS, Neuhausen, SL, Vega, A, de la Hoya, M, Nevanlinna, H, Dhawan, M, Zampiga, V, Danesi, R, Varesco, L, Gismondi, V, Vellone, VG, James, PA, Janavicius, R, Nikitina-Zake, L, Nielsen, FC, van Overeem Hansen, T, Pejovic, T, Borg, A, Rantala, J, Offit, K, Montagna, M, Nathanson, KL, Domchek, SM, Osorio, A, Garcia, MJ, Karlan, BY, De Fazio, A, Bowtell, D, McGuffog, L, Leslie, G, Parsons, MT, Doerk, T, Speith, L-M, dos Santos, ES, da Costa, AABA, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Papi, L, Engel, C, Hahnen, E, Schmutzler, RK, Wappenschmidt, B, Easton, DF, Tischkowitz, M, Singer, CF, Tan, YY, Whittemore, AS, Sieh, W, Brenton, JD, Yannoukakos, D, Fostira, F, Konstantopoulou, I, Soukupova, J, Vocka, M, Chenevix-Trench, G, Pharoah, PDP, Antoniou, AC, Goldgar, DE, Spurdle, AB, Michailidou, K, Mourits, MJE, and Lesueur, F
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The distribution of ovarian tumour characteristics differs between germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers and non-carriers. In this study, we assessed the utility of ovarian tumour characteristics as predictors of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity, for application using the American College of Medical Genetics and the Association for Molecular Pathology (ACMG/AMP) variant classification system. METHODS: Data for 10,373 ovarian cancer cases, including carriers and non-carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic variants, were collected from unpublished international cohorts and consortia and published studies. Likelihood ratios (LR) were calculated for the association of ovarian cancer histology and other characteristics, with BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity. Estimates were aligned to ACMG/AMP code strengths (supporting, moderate, strong). RESULTS: No histological subtype provided informative ACMG/AMP evidence in favour of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity. Evidence against variant pathogenicity was estimated for the mucinous and clear cell histologies (supporting) and borderline cases (moderate). Refined associations are provided according to tumour grade, invasion and age at diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: We provide detailed estimates for predicting BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity based on ovarian tumour characteristics. This evidence can be combined with other variant information under the ACMG/AMP classification system, to improve classification and carrier clinical management.
Published: 2023

3. Correction: Polygenic risk modeling for prediction of epithelial ovarian cancer risk.

Author: Dareng, EO, Tyrer, JP, Barnes, DR, Jones, MR, Yang, X, Aben, KKH, Adank, MA, Agata, S, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Aravantinos, G, Arun, BK, Augustinsson, A, Balmaña, J, Bandera, EV, Barkardottir, RB, Barrowdale, D, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bernardini, MQ, Bjorge, L, Black, A, Bogdanova, NV, Bonanni, B, Borg, A, Brenton, JD, Budzilowska, A, Butzow, R, Buys, SS, Cai, H, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Cannioto, R, Cassingham, H, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chen, K, Chiew, Y-E, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Colonna, S, GEMO Study Collaborators, GC-HBOC Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, Cook, LS, Couch, FJ, Daly, MB, Dao, F, Davies, E, de la Hoya, M, de Putter, R, Dennis, J, DePersia, A, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Doherty, JA, Domchek, SM, Dörk, T, du Bois, A, Dürst, M, Eccles, DM, Eliassen, HA, Engel, C, Evans, GD, Fasching, PA, Flanagan, JM, Fortner, RT, Machackova, E, Friedman, E, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Gensini, F, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Godwin, AK, Goodman, MT, Greene, MH, Gronwald, J, OPAL Study Group, AOCS Group, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Håkansson, N, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Harris, HR, Hartman, M, Heitz, F, Hildebrandt, MAT, Høgdall, E, Høgdall, CK, Hopper, JL, Huang, R-Y, Huff, C, Hulick, PJ, Huntsman, DG, Imyanitov, EN, KConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, Isaacs, C, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Janavicius, R, Jensen, A, Johannsson, OT, John, EM, Jones, ME, Kang, D, Karlan, BY, Karnezis, A, Kelemen, LE, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiemeney, LA, Kim, B-G, Kjaer, SK, Komenaka, I, Kupryjanczyk, J, Kurian, AW, Kwong, A, Lambrechts, D, Larson, MC, Lazaro, C, Le, ND, Leslie, G, Lester, J, Lesueur, F, Levine, DA, Li, L, Li, J, Loud, JT, Lu, KH, Lubiński, J, Mai, PL, Manoukian, S, Marks, JR, Matsuno, RK, Matsuo, K, May, T, McGuffog, L, McLaughlin, JR, McNeish, IA, Mebirouk, N, Menon, U, Miller, A, Milne, RL, Minlikeeva, A, Modugno, F, Montagna, M, Moysich, KB, Munro, E, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Yie, JNY, Nielsen, HR, Nielsen, FC, Nikitina-Zake, L, Odunsi, K, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olbrecht, S, Olopade, OI, Olson, SH, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Papi, L, Park, SK, Parsons, MT, Pathak, H, Pedersen, IS, Peixoto, A, Pejovic, T, Perez-Segura, P, Permuth, JB, Peshkin, B, Peterlongo, P, Piskorz, A, Prokofyeva, D, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Riggan, MJ, Risch, HA, Rodriguez-Antona, C, Ross, E, Rossing, MA, Runnebaum, I, Sandler, DP, Santamariña, M, Soucy, P, Schmutzler, RK, Setiawan, VW, Shan, K, Sieh, W, Simard, J, Singer, CF, Sokolenko, AP, Song, H, Southey, MC, Steed, H, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutphen, R, Swerdlow, AJ, Tan, YY, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Terry, KL, Terry, MB, OCAC Consortium, CIMBA Consortium, Thomassen, M, Thompson, PJ, Thomsen, LCV, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Titus, L, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Trabert, B, Travis, R, Tung, N, Tworoger, SS, Valen, E, van Altena, AM, van der Hout, AH, Van Nieuwenhuysen, E, van Rensburg, EJ, Vega, A, Edwards, DV, Vierkant, RA, Wang, F, Wappenschmidt, B, Webb, PM, Weinberg, CR, Weitzel, JN, Wentzensen, N, White, E, Whittemore, AS, Winham, SJ, Wolk, A, Woo, Y-L, Wu, AH, Yan, L, Yannoukakos, D, Zavaglia, KM, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Kleibl, Z, Easton, D, Lawrenson, K, DeFazio, A, Sellers, TA, Ramus, SJ, Pearce, CL, Monteiro, AN, Cunningham, J, Goode, EL, Schildkraut, JM, Berchuck, A, Chenevix-Trench, G, Gayther, SA, Antoniou, AC, Pharoah, PDP, Dareng, EO, Tyrer, JP, Barnes, DR, Jones, MR, Yang, X, Aben, KKH, Adank, MA, Agata, S, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Aravantinos, G, Arun, BK, Augustinsson, A, Balmaña, J, Bandera, EV, Barkardottir, RB, Barrowdale, D, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bernardini, MQ, Bjorge, L, Black, A, Bogdanova, NV, Bonanni, B, Borg, A, Brenton, JD, Budzilowska, A, Butzow, R, Buys, SS, Cai, H, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Cannioto, R, Cassingham, H, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chen, K, Chiew, Y-E, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Colonna, S, GEMO Study Collaborators, GC-HBOC Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, Cook, LS, Couch, FJ, Daly, MB, Dao, F, Davies, E, de la Hoya, M, de Putter, R, Dennis, J, DePersia, A, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Doherty, JA, Domchek, SM, Dörk, T, du Bois, A, Dürst, M, Eccles, DM, Eliassen, HA, Engel, C, Evans, GD, Fasching, PA, Flanagan, JM, Fortner, RT, Machackova, E, Friedman, E, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Gensini, F, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Godwin, AK, Goodman, MT, Greene, MH, Gronwald, J, OPAL Study Group, AOCS Group, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Håkansson, N, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Harris, HR, Hartman, M, Heitz, F, Hildebrandt, MAT, Høgdall, E, Høgdall, CK, Hopper, JL, Huang, R-Y, Huff, C, Hulick, PJ, Huntsman, DG, Imyanitov, EN, KConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, Isaacs, C, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Janavicius, R, Jensen, A, Johannsson, OT, John, EM, Jones, ME, Kang, D, Karlan, BY, Karnezis, A, Kelemen, LE, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiemeney, LA, Kim, B-G, Kjaer, SK, Komenaka, I, Kupryjanczyk, J, Kurian, AW, Kwong, A, Lambrechts, D, Larson, MC, Lazaro, C, Le, ND, Leslie, G, Lester, J, Lesueur, F, Levine, DA, Li, L, Li, J, Loud, JT, Lu, KH, Lubiński, J, Mai, PL, Manoukian, S, Marks, JR, Matsuno, RK, Matsuo, K, May, T, McGuffog, L, McLaughlin, JR, McNeish, IA, Mebirouk, N, Menon, U, Miller, A, Milne, RL, Minlikeeva, A, Modugno, F, Montagna, M, Moysich, KB, Munro, E, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Yie, JNY, Nielsen, HR, Nielsen, FC, Nikitina-Zake, L, Odunsi, K, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olbrecht, S, Olopade, OI, Olson, SH, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Papi, L, Park, SK, Parsons, MT, Pathak, H, Pedersen, IS, Peixoto, A, Pejovic, T, Perez-Segura, P, Permuth, JB, Peshkin, B, Peterlongo, P, Piskorz, A, Prokofyeva, D, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Riggan, MJ, Risch, HA, Rodriguez-Antona, C, Ross, E, Rossing, MA, Runnebaum, I, Sandler, DP, Santamariña, M, Soucy, P, Schmutzler, RK, Setiawan, VW, Shan, K, Sieh, W, Simard, J, Singer, CF, Sokolenko, AP, Song, H, Southey, MC, Steed, H, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutphen, R, Swerdlow, AJ, Tan, YY, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Terry, KL, Terry, MB, OCAC Consortium, CIMBA Consortium, Thomassen, M, Thompson, PJ, Thomsen, LCV, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Titus, L, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Trabert, B, Travis, R, Tung, N, Tworoger, SS, Valen, E, van Altena, AM, van der Hout, AH, Van Nieuwenhuysen, E, van Rensburg, EJ, Vega, A, Edwards, DV, Vierkant, RA, Wang, F, Wappenschmidt, B, Webb, PM, Weinberg, CR, Weitzel, JN, Wentzensen, N, White, E, Whittemore, AS, Winham, SJ, Wolk, A, Woo, Y-L, Wu, AH, Yan, L, Yannoukakos, D, Zavaglia, KM, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Kleibl, Z, Easton, D, Lawrenson, K, DeFazio, A, Sellers, TA, Ramus, SJ, Pearce, CL, Monteiro, AN, Cunningham, J, Goode, EL, Schildkraut, JM, Berchuck, A, Chenevix-Trench, G, Gayther, SA, Antoniou, AC, and Pharoah, PDP
Published: 2022

4. Polygenic risk modeling for prediction of epithelial ovarian cancer risk

Author: Dareng, EO, Tyrer, JP, Barnes, DR, Jones, MR, Yang, X, Aben, KKH, Adank, MA, Agata, S, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Aravantinos, G, Arun, BK, Augustinsson, A, Balmana, J, Bandera, E, Barkardottir, RB, Barrowdale, D, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bernardini, MQ, Bjorge, L, Black, A, Bogdanova, N, Bonanni, B, Borg, A, Brenton, JD, Budzilowska, A, Butzow, R, Buys, SS, Cai, H, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Cannioto, R, Cassingham, H, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chen, K, Chiew, Y-E, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Colonna, S, Cook, LS, Couch, FJ, Daly, MB, Dao, F, Davies, E, de la Hoya, M, de Putter, R, Dennis, J, DePersia, A, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Doherty, JA, Domchek, SM, Dork, T, du Bois, A, Durst, M, Eccles, DM, Eliassen, HA, Engel, C, Evans, GD, Fasching, PA, Flanagan, JM, Fortner, R, Machackova, E, Friedman, E, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Gensini, F, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Godwin, AK, Goodman, MT, Greene, MH, Gronwald, J, Group, OS, AOCSGroup, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Harris, HR, Hartman, M, Heitz, F, Hildebrandt, MAT, Hogdall, E, Hogdall, CK, Hopper, JL, Huang, R-Y, Huff, C, Hulick, PJ, Huntsman, DG, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Janavicius, R, Jensen, A, Johannsson, OT, John, EM, Jones, ME, Kang, D, Karlan, BY, Karnezis, A, Kelemen, LE, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiemeney, LA, Kim, B-G, Kjaer, SK, Komenaka, I, Kupryjanczyk, J, Kurian, AW, Kwong, A, Lambrechts, D, Larson, MC, Lazaro, C, Le, ND, Leslie, G, Lester, J, Lesueur, F, Levine, DA, Li, L, Li, J, Loud, JT, Lu, KH, Mai, PL, Manoukian, S, Marks, JR, KimMatsuno, R, Matsuo, K, May, T, McGuffog, L, McLaughlin, JR, McNeish, IA, Mebirouk, N, Menon, U, Miller, A, Milne, RL, Minlikeeva, A, Modugno, F, Montagna, M, Moysich, KB, Munro, E, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Yie, JNY, Nielsen, HR, Nielsen, FC, Nikitina-Zake, L, Odunsi, K, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olbrecht, S, Olopade, O, Olson, SH, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Papi, L, Park, SK, Parsons, MT, Pathak, H, Pedersen, IS, Peixoto, A, Pejovic, T, Perez-Segura, P, Permuth, JB, Peshkin, B, Peterlongo, P, Piskorz, A, Prokofyeva, D, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Riggan, MJ, Risch, HA, Rodriguez-Antona, C, Ross, E, Rossing, MA, Runnebaum, I, Sandler, DP, Santamarina, M, Soucy, P, Schmutzler, RK, Setiawan, VW, Shan, K, Sieh, W, Simard, J, Singer, CF, Sokolenko, AP, Song, H, Southey, MC, Steed, H, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutphen, R, Swerdlow, AJ, Tan, YY, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Terry, KL, BethTerry, M, Thomassen, M, Thompson, PJ, Thomsen, LCV, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Titus, L, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Trabert, B, Travis, R, Tung, N, Tworoger, SS, Valen, E, van Altena, AM, van der Hout, AH, Nieuwenhuysen, E, van Rensburg, EJ, Vega, A, Edwards, DV, Vierkant, RA, Wang, F, Wappenschmidt, B, Webb, PM, Weinberg, CR, Weitzel, JN, Wentzensen, N, White, E, Whittemore, AS, Winham, SJ, Wolk, A, Woo, Y-L, Wu, AH, Yan, L, Yannoukakos, D, Zavaglia, KM, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Kleibl, Z, Easton, D, Lawrenson, K, DeFazio, A, Sellers, TA, Ramus, SJ, Pearce, CL, Monteiro, AN, Cunningham, J, Goode, EL, Schildkraut, JM, Berchuck, A, Chenevix-Trench, G, Gayther, SA, Antoniou, AC, Pharoah, PDP, Dareng, EO, Tyrer, JP, Barnes, DR, Jones, MR, Yang, X, Aben, KKH, Adank, MA, Agata, S, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Aravantinos, G, Arun, BK, Augustinsson, A, Balmana, J, Bandera, E, Barkardottir, RB, Barrowdale, D, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bernardini, MQ, Bjorge, L, Black, A, Bogdanova, N, Bonanni, B, Borg, A, Brenton, JD, Budzilowska, A, Butzow, R, Buys, SS, Cai, H, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Cannioto, R, Cassingham, H, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chen, K, Chiew, Y-E, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Colonna, S, Cook, LS, Couch, FJ, Daly, MB, Dao, F, Davies, E, de la Hoya, M, de Putter, R, Dennis, J, DePersia, A, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Doherty, JA, Domchek, SM, Dork, T, du Bois, A, Durst, M, Eccles, DM, Eliassen, HA, Engel, C, Evans, GD, Fasching, PA, Flanagan, JM, Fortner, R, Machackova, E, Friedman, E, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Gensini, F, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Godwin, AK, Goodman, MT, Greene, MH, Gronwald, J, Group, OS, AOCSGroup, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Harris, HR, Hartman, M, Heitz, F, Hildebrandt, MAT, Hogdall, E, Hogdall, CK, Hopper, JL, Huang, R-Y, Huff, C, Hulick, PJ, Huntsman, DG, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Janavicius, R, Jensen, A, Johannsson, OT, John, EM, Jones, ME, Kang, D, Karlan, BY, Karnezis, A, Kelemen, LE, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiemeney, LA, Kim, B-G, Kjaer, SK, Komenaka, I, Kupryjanczyk, J, Kurian, AW, Kwong, A, Lambrechts, D, Larson, MC, Lazaro, C, Le, ND, Leslie, G, Lester, J, Lesueur, F, Levine, DA, Li, L, Li, J, Loud, JT, Lu, KH, Mai, PL, Manoukian, S, Marks, JR, KimMatsuno, R, Matsuo, K, May, T, McGuffog, L, McLaughlin, JR, McNeish, IA, Mebirouk, N, Menon, U, Miller, A, Milne, RL, Minlikeeva, A, Modugno, F, Montagna, M, Moysich, KB, Munro, E, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Yie, JNY, Nielsen, HR, Nielsen, FC, Nikitina-Zake, L, Odunsi, K, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olbrecht, S, Olopade, O, Olson, SH, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Papi, L, Park, SK, Parsons, MT, Pathak, H, Pedersen, IS, Peixoto, A, Pejovic, T, Perez-Segura, P, Permuth, JB, Peshkin, B, Peterlongo, P, Piskorz, A, Prokofyeva, D, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Riggan, MJ, Risch, HA, Rodriguez-Antona, C, Ross, E, Rossing, MA, Runnebaum, I, Sandler, DP, Santamarina, M, Soucy, P, Schmutzler, RK, Setiawan, VW, Shan, K, Sieh, W, Simard, J, Singer, CF, Sokolenko, AP, Song, H, Southey, MC, Steed, H, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutphen, R, Swerdlow, AJ, Tan, YY, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Terry, KL, BethTerry, M, Thomassen, M, Thompson, PJ, Thomsen, LCV, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Titus, L, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Trabert, B, Travis, R, Tung, N, Tworoger, SS, Valen, E, van Altena, AM, van der Hout, AH, Nieuwenhuysen, E, van Rensburg, EJ, Vega, A, Edwards, DV, Vierkant, RA, Wang, F, Wappenschmidt, B, Webb, PM, Weinberg, CR, Weitzel, JN, Wentzensen, N, White, E, Whittemore, AS, Winham, SJ, Wolk, A, Woo, Y-L, Wu, AH, Yan, L, Yannoukakos, D, Zavaglia, KM, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Kleibl, Z, Easton, D, Lawrenson, K, DeFazio, A, Sellers, TA, Ramus, SJ, Pearce, CL, Monteiro, AN, Cunningham, J, Goode, EL, Schildkraut, JM, Berchuck, A, Chenevix-Trench, G, Gayther, SA, Antoniou, AC, and Pharoah, PDP
Abstract: Polygenic risk scores (PRS) for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) have the potential to improve risk stratification. Joint estimation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) effects in models could improve predictive performance over standard approaches of PRS construction. Here, we implemented computationally efficient, penalized, logistic regression models (lasso, elastic net, stepwise) to individual level genotype data and a Bayesian framework with continuous shrinkage, "select and shrink for summary statistics" (S4), to summary level data for epithelial non-mucinous ovarian cancer risk prediction. We developed the models in a dataset consisting of 23,564 non-mucinous EOC cases and 40,138 controls participating in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC) and validated the best models in three populations of different ancestries: prospective data from 198,101 women of European ancestries; 7,669 women of East Asian ancestries; 1,072 women of African ancestries, and in 18,915 BRCA1 and 12,337 BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers of European ancestries. In the external validation data, the model with the strongest association for non-mucinous EOC risk derived from the OCAC model development data was the S4 model (27,240 SNPs) with odds ratios (OR) of 1.38 (95% CI: 1.28-1.48, AUC: 0.588) per unit standard deviation, in women of European ancestries; 1.14 (95% CI: 1.08-1.19, AUC: 0.538) in women of East Asian ancestries; 1.38 (95% CI: 1.21-1.58, AUC: 0.593) in women of African ancestries; hazard ratios of 1.36 (95% CI: 1.29-1.43, AUC: 0.592) in BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers and 1.49 (95% CI: 1.35-1.64, AUC: 0.624) in BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. Incorporation of the S4 PRS in risk prediction models for ovarian cancer may have clinical utility in ovarian cancer prevention programs.
Published: 2022

5. Rare germline copy number variants (CNVs) and breast cancer risk

Author: Dennis, J, Tyrer, JP, Walker, LC, Michailidou, K, Dorling, L, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Freeman, LEB, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Brenner, H, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Clarke, CL, Collee, JM, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Dork, T, Dossus, L, Eliassen, AH, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fritschi, L, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, Garcia-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Guenel, P, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kitahara, CM, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Koutros, S, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kubelka-Sabit, K, Kurian, AW, Lacey, J, Lambrechts, D, Larson, NL, Linet, M, Ogrodniczak, A, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Milne, RL, Muranen, TA, Murphy, RA, Nevanlinna, H, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Perou, CM, Peterlongo, P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pylkas, K, Rennert, G, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Shibli, R, Smeets, A, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Taylor, JA, Teras, LR, Terry, MB, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, Wendt, C, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Yang, XR, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Simard, J, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Dennis, J, Tyrer, JP, Walker, LC, Michailidou, K, Dorling, L, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Freeman, LEB, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Brenner, H, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Clarke, CL, Collee, JM, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Dork, T, Dossus, L, Eliassen, AH, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fritschi, L, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, Garcia-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Guenel, P, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kitahara, CM, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Koutros, S, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kubelka-Sabit, K, Kurian, AW, Lacey, J, Lambrechts, D, Larson, NL, Linet, M, Ogrodniczak, A, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Milne, RL, Muranen, TA, Murphy, RA, Nevanlinna, H, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Perou, CM, Peterlongo, P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pylkas, K, Rennert, G, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Shibli, R, Smeets, A, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Taylor, JA, Teras, LR, Terry, MB, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, Wendt, C, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Yang, XR, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Simard, J, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PDP, and Easton, DF
Abstract: Germline copy number variants (CNVs) are pervasive in the human genome but potential disease associations with rare CNVs have not been comprehensively assessed in large datasets. We analysed rare CNVs in genes and non-coding regions for 86,788 breast cancer cases and 76,122 controls of European ancestry with genome-wide array data. Gene burden tests detected the strongest association for deletions in BRCA1 (P = 3.7E-18). Nine other genes were associated with a p-value < 0.01 including known susceptibility genes CHEK2 (P = 0.0008), ATM (P = 0.002) and BRCA2 (P = 0.008). Outside the known genes we detected associations with p-values < 0.001 for either overall or subtype-specific breast cancer at nine deletion regions and four duplication regions. Three of the deletion regions were in established common susceptibility loci. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first genome-wide analysis of rare CNVs in a large breast cancer case-control dataset. We detected associations with exonic deletions in established breast cancer susceptibility genes. We also detected suggestive associations with non-coding CNVs in known and novel loci with large effects sizes. Larger sample sizes will be required to reach robust levels of statistical significance.
Published: 2022

6. Pathology of Tumors Associated With Pathogenic Germline Variants in 9 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes

Author: Mavaddat, N, Dorling, L, Carvalho, S, Allen, J, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Keeman, R, Bolla, MK, Dennis, J, Wang, Q, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Briceno, I, Bruning, T, Camp, NJ, Campbell, A, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Christiansen, H, Czene, K, Dork, T, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, JD, Flyger, H, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, Geisler, J, Giles, GG, Guenel, P, Hadjisavvas, A, Hahnen, E, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hartikainen, JM, Hartman, M, Hoppe, R, Howell, A, Jakubowska, A, Jung, A, Khusnutdinova, EK, Kristensen, VN, Li, J, Lim, SH, Lindblom, A, Loizidou, MA, Lophatananon, A, Lubinski, J, Madsen, MJ, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Milne, RL, Taib, NAM, Morra, A, Muir, K, Obi, N, Osorio, A, Park-Simon, T-W, Peterlongo, P, Radice, P, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Shah, M, Sim, X, Southey, MC, Thorne, H, Tomlinson, I, Torres, D, Truong, T, Yip, CH, Spurdle, AB, Vreeswijk, MPG, Dunning, AM, Garcia-Closas, M, Pharoah, PDP, Kvist, A, Muranen, TA, Nevanlinna, H, Teo, SH, Devilee, P, Schmidt, MK, Easton, DF, Mavaddat, N, Dorling, L, Carvalho, S, Allen, J, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Keeman, R, Bolla, MK, Dennis, J, Wang, Q, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Briceno, I, Bruning, T, Camp, NJ, Campbell, A, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Christiansen, H, Czene, K, Dork, T, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, JD, Flyger, H, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, Geisler, J, Giles, GG, Guenel, P, Hadjisavvas, A, Hahnen, E, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hartikainen, JM, Hartman, M, Hoppe, R, Howell, A, Jakubowska, A, Jung, A, Khusnutdinova, EK, Kristensen, VN, Li, J, Lim, SH, Lindblom, A, Loizidou, MA, Lophatananon, A, Lubinski, J, Madsen, MJ, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Milne, RL, Taib, NAM, Morra, A, Muir, K, Obi, N, Osorio, A, Park-Simon, T-W, Peterlongo, P, Radice, P, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Shah, M, Sim, X, Southey, MC, Thorne, H, Tomlinson, I, Torres, D, Truong, T, Yip, CH, Spurdle, AB, Vreeswijk, MPG, Dunning, AM, Garcia-Closas, M, Pharoah, PDP, Kvist, A, Muranen, TA, Nevanlinna, H, Teo, SH, Devilee, P, Schmidt, MK, and Easton, DF
Abstract: IMPORTANCE: Rare germline genetic variants in several genes are associated with increased breast cancer (BC) risk, but their precise contributions to different disease subtypes are unclear. This information is relevant to guidelines for gene panel testing and risk prediction. OBJECTIVE: To characterize tumors associated with BC susceptibility genes in large-scale population- or hospital-based studies. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: The multicenter, international case-control analysis of the BRIDGES study included 42 680 patients and 46 387 control participants, comprising women aged 18 to 79 years who were sampled independently of family history from 38 studies. Studies were conducted between 1991 and 2016. Sequencing and analysis took place between 2016 and 2021. EXPOSURES: Protein-truncating variants and likely pathogenic missense variants in ATM, BARD1, BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, PALB2, RAD51C, RAD51D, and TP53. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: The intrinsic-like BC subtypes as defined by estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and ERBB2 (formerly known as HER2) status, and tumor grade; morphology; size; stage; lymph node involvement; subtype-specific odds ratios (ORs) for carrying protein-truncating variants and pathogenic missense variants in the 9 BC susceptibility genes. RESULTS: The mean (SD) ages at interview (control participants) and diagnosis (cases) were 55.1 (11.9) and 55.8 (10.6) years, respectively; all participants were of European or East Asian ethnicity. There was substantial heterogeneity in the distribution of intrinsic subtypes by gene. RAD51C, RAD51D, and BARD1 variants were associated mainly with triple-negative disease (OR, 6.19 [95% CI, 3.17-12.12]; OR, 6.19 [95% CI, 2.99-12.79]; and OR, 10.05 [95% CI, 5.27-19.19], respectively). CHEK2 variants were associated with all subtypes (with ORs ranging from 2.21-3.17) except for triple-negative disease. For ATM variants, the association was strongest for the hormone receptor (HR)+ERBB2- high-grade subt
Published: 2022

7. Copy number variants as modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers

Author: Hakkaart, C, Pearson, JF, Marquart, L, Dennis, J, Wiggins, GAR, Barnes, DR, Robinson, BA, Mace, PD, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Arun, BK, Azzollini, J, Balmana, J, Barkardottir, RB, Belhadj, S, Berger, L, Blok, MJ, Boonen, SE, Borde, J, Bradbury, AR, Brunet, J, Buys, SS, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Collonge-Rame, M-A, Cook, J, Cosgrove, C, Couch, FJ, Daly, MB, Dandiker, S, Davidson, R, de la Hoya, M, de Putter, R, Delnatte, C, Dhawan, M, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Domchek, SM, Donaldson, A, Eason, J, Easton, DF, Ehrencrona, H, Engel, C, Evans, DG, Faust, U, Feliubadalo, L, Fostira, F, Friedman, E, Frone, M, Frost, D, Garber, J, Gayther, SA, Gehrig, A, Gesta, P, Godwin, AK, Goldgar, DE, Greene, MH, Hahnen, E, Hake, CR, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Hauke, J, Hentschel, J, Herold, N, Honisch, E, Hulick, PJ, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Izatt, L, Izquierdo, A, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Janavicius, R, John, EM, Joseph, V, Karlan, BY, Kemp, Z, Kirk, J, Konstantopoulou, I, Koudijs, M, Kwong, A, Laitman, Y, Lalloo, F, Lasset, C, Lautrup, C, Lazaro, C, Legrand, C, Leslie, G, Lesueur, F, Mai, PL, Manoukian, S, Mari, V, Martens, JWM, McGuffog, L, Mebirouk, N, Meindl, A, Miller, A, Montagna, M, Moserle, L, Mouret-Fourme, E, Musgrave, H, Nambot, S, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Yie, JNY, Nguyen-Dumont, T, Nikitina-Zake, L, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olopade, OI, Osorio, A, Ott, C-E, Park, SK, Parsons, MT, Pedersen, IS, Peixoto, A, Perez-Segura, P, Peterlongo, P, Pocza, T, Radice, P, Ramser, J, Rantala, J, Rodriguez, GC, Ronlund, K, Rosenberg, EH, Rossing, M, Schmutzler, RK, Shah, PD, Sharif, S, Sharma, P, Side, LE, Simard, J, Singer, CF, Snape, K, Steinemann, D, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutter, C, Tan, YY, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Thomassen, M, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Trainer, AH, Tripathi, V, Tung, N, van Engelen, K, van Rensburg, EJ, Vega, A, Viel, A, Walker, L, Weitzel, JN, Wevers, MR, Chenevix-Trench, G, Spurdle, AB, Antoniou, AC, Walker, LC, Hakkaart, C, Pearson, JF, Marquart, L, Dennis, J, Wiggins, GAR, Barnes, DR, Robinson, BA, Mace, PD, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Arun, BK, Azzollini, J, Balmana, J, Barkardottir, RB, Belhadj, S, Berger, L, Blok, MJ, Boonen, SE, Borde, J, Bradbury, AR, Brunet, J, Buys, SS, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Collonge-Rame, M-A, Cook, J, Cosgrove, C, Couch, FJ, Daly, MB, Dandiker, S, Davidson, R, de la Hoya, M, de Putter, R, Delnatte, C, Dhawan, M, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Domchek, SM, Donaldson, A, Eason, J, Easton, DF, Ehrencrona, H, Engel, C, Evans, DG, Faust, U, Feliubadalo, L, Fostira, F, Friedman, E, Frone, M, Frost, D, Garber, J, Gayther, SA, Gehrig, A, Gesta, P, Godwin, AK, Goldgar, DE, Greene, MH, Hahnen, E, Hake, CR, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Hauke, J, Hentschel, J, Herold, N, Honisch, E, Hulick, PJ, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Izatt, L, Izquierdo, A, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Janavicius, R, John, EM, Joseph, V, Karlan, BY, Kemp, Z, Kirk, J, Konstantopoulou, I, Koudijs, M, Kwong, A, Laitman, Y, Lalloo, F, Lasset, C, Lautrup, C, Lazaro, C, Legrand, C, Leslie, G, Lesueur, F, Mai, PL, Manoukian, S, Mari, V, Martens, JWM, McGuffog, L, Mebirouk, N, Meindl, A, Miller, A, Montagna, M, Moserle, L, Mouret-Fourme, E, Musgrave, H, Nambot, S, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Yie, JNY, Nguyen-Dumont, T, Nikitina-Zake, L, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olopade, OI, Osorio, A, Ott, C-E, Park, SK, Parsons, MT, Pedersen, IS, Peixoto, A, Perez-Segura, P, Peterlongo, P, Pocza, T, Radice, P, Ramser, J, Rantala, J, Rodriguez, GC, Ronlund, K, Rosenberg, EH, Rossing, M, Schmutzler, RK, Shah, PD, Sharif, S, Sharma, P, Side, LE, Simard, J, Singer, CF, Snape, K, Steinemann, D, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutter, C, Tan, YY, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Thomassen, M, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Trainer, AH, Tripathi, V, Tung, N, van Engelen, K, van Rensburg, EJ, Vega, A, Viel, A, Walker, L, Weitzel, JN, Wevers, MR, Chenevix-Trench, G, Spurdle, AB, Antoniou, AC, and Walker, LC
Abstract: The contribution of germline copy number variants (CNVs) to risk of developing cancer in individuals with pathogenic BRCA1 or BRCA2 variants remains relatively unknown. We conducted the largest genome-wide analysis of CNVs in 15,342 BRCA1 and 10,740 BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. We used these results to prioritise a candidate breast cancer risk-modifier gene for laboratory analysis and biological validation. Notably, the HR for deletions in BRCA1 suggested an elevated breast cancer risk estimate (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.21), 95% confidence interval (95% CI = 1.09-1.35) compared with non-CNV pathogenic variants. In contrast, deletions overlapping SULT1A1 suggested a decreased breast cancer risk (HR = 0.73, 95% CI 0.59-0.91) in BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers. Functional analyses of SULT1A1 showed that reduced mRNA expression in pathogenic BRCA1 variant cells was associated with reduced cellular proliferation and reduced DNA damage after treatment with DNA damaging agents. These data provide evidence that deleterious variants in BRCA1 plus SULT1A1 deletions contribute to variable breast cancer risk in BRCA1 carriers.
Published: 2022

8. Breast cancer risks associated with missense variants in breast cancer susceptibility genes.

Author: Dorling, L, Carvalho, S, Allen, J, Parsons, MT, Fortuno, C, González-Neira, A, Heijl, SM, Adank, MA, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Auvinen, P, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Bremer, M, Briceno, I, Camp, NJ, Campbell, A, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, NBCS Collaborators, Collée, JM, Czene, K, Dennis, J, Dörk, T, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flyger, H, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, García-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Guénel, P, Gündert, M, Hadjisavvas, A, Hahnen, E, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Harkness, EF, Hartman, M, Hogervorst, FBL, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Howell, A, kConFab Investigators, SGBCC Investigators, Jakubowska, A, Jung, A, Khusnutdinova, E, Kim, S-W, Ko, Y-D, Kristensen, VN, Lakeman, IMM, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Loizidou, MA, Lophatananon, A, Lubiński, J, Luccarini, C, Madsen, MJ, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Milne, RL, Mohd Taib, NA, Muir, K, Nevanlinna, H, Newman, WG, Oosterwijk, JC, Park, SK, Peterlongo, P, Radice, P, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Shah, M, Sim, X, Southey, MC, Surowy, H, Suvanto, M, Tomlinson, I, Torres, D, Truong, T, van Asperen, CJ, Waltes, R, Wang, Q, Yang, XR, Pharoah, PDP, Schmidt, MK, Benitez, J, Vroling, B, Dunning, AM, Teo, SH, Kvist, A, de la Hoya, M, Devilee, P, Spurdle, AB, Vreeswijk, MPG, Easton, DF, Dorling, L, Carvalho, S, Allen, J, Parsons, MT, Fortuno, C, González-Neira, A, Heijl, SM, Adank, MA, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Auvinen, P, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Bremer, M, Briceno, I, Camp, NJ, Campbell, A, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, NBCS Collaborators, Collée, JM, Czene, K, Dennis, J, Dörk, T, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flyger, H, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, García-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Guénel, P, Gündert, M, Hadjisavvas, A, Hahnen, E, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Harkness, EF, Hartman, M, Hogervorst, FBL, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Howell, A, kConFab Investigators, SGBCC Investigators, Jakubowska, A, Jung, A, Khusnutdinova, E, Kim, S-W, Ko, Y-D, Kristensen, VN, Lakeman, IMM, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Loizidou, MA, Lophatananon, A, Lubiński, J, Luccarini, C, Madsen, MJ, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Milne, RL, Mohd Taib, NA, Muir, K, Nevanlinna, H, Newman, WG, Oosterwijk, JC, Park, SK, Peterlongo, P, Radice, P, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Shah, M, Sim, X, Southey, MC, Surowy, H, Suvanto, M, Tomlinson, I, Torres, D, Truong, T, van Asperen, CJ, Waltes, R, Wang, Q, Yang, XR, Pharoah, PDP, Schmidt, MK, Benitez, J, Vroling, B, Dunning, AM, Teo, SH, Kvist, A, de la Hoya, M, Devilee, P, Spurdle, AB, Vreeswijk, MPG, and Easton, DF
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Protein truncating variants in ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, and PALB2 are associated with increased breast cancer risk, but risks associated with missense variants in these genes are uncertain. METHODS: We analyzed data on 59,639 breast cancer cases and 53,165 controls from studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium BRIDGES project. We sampled training (80%) and validation (20%) sets to analyze rare missense variants in ATM (1146 training variants), BRCA1 (644), BRCA2 (1425), CHEK2 (325), and PALB2 (472). We evaluated breast cancer risks according to five in silico prediction-of-deleteriousness algorithms, functional protein domain, and frequency, using logistic regression models and also mixture models in which a subset of variants was assumed to be risk-associated. RESULTS: The most predictive in silico algorithms were Helix (BRCA1, BRCA2 and CHEK2) and CADD (ATM). Increased risks appeared restricted to functional protein domains for ATM (FAT and PIK domains) and BRCA1 (RING and BRCT domains). For ATM, BRCA1, and BRCA2, data were compatible with small subsets (approximately 7%, 2%, and 0.6%, respectively) of rare missense variants giving similar risk to those of protein truncating variants in the same gene. For CHEK2, data were more consistent with a large fraction (approximately 60%) of rare missense variants giving a lower risk (OR 1.75, 95% CI (1.47-2.08)) than CHEK2 protein truncating variants. There was little evidence for an association with risk for missense variants in PALB2. The best fitting models were well calibrated in the validation set. CONCLUSIONS: These results will inform risk prediction models and the selection of candidate variants for functional assays and could contribute to the clinical reporting of gene panel testing for breast cancer susceptibility.
Published: 2022

9. Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation: the second round of challenges

Author: Meyer, F, Fritz, A, Deng, Z-L, Koslicki, D, Lesker, TR, Gurevich, A, Robertson, G, Alser, M, Antipov, D, Beghini, F, Bertrand, D, Brito, JJ, Brown, CT, Buchmann, J, Buluc, A, Chen, B, Chikhi, R, Clausen, PTLC, Cristian, A, Dabrowski, PW, Darling, AE, Egan, R, Eskin, E, Georganas, E, Goltsman, E, Gray, MA, Hansen, LH, Hofmeyr, S, Huang, P, Irber, L, Jia, H, Jorgensen, TS, Kieser, SD, Klemetsen, T, Kola, A, Kolmogorov, M, Korobeynikov, A, Kwan, J, LaPierre, N, Lemaitre, C, Li, C, Limasset, A, Malcher-Miranda, F, Mangul, S, Marcelino, VR, Marchet, C, Marijon, P, Meleshko, D, Mende, DR, Milanese, A, Nagarajan, N, Nissen, J, Nurk, S, Oliker, L, Paoli, L, Peterlongo, P, Piro, VC, Porter, JS, Rasmussen, S, Rees, ER, Reinert, K, Renard, B, Robertsen, EM, Rosen, GL, Ruscheweyh, H-J, Sarwal, V, Segata, N, Seiler, E, Shi, L, Sun, F, Sunagawa, S, Sorensen, SJ, Thomas, A, Tong, C, Trajkovski, M, Tremblay, J, Uritskiy, G, Vicedomini, R, Wang, Z, Warren, A, Willassen, NP, Yelick, K, You, R, Zeller, G, Zhao, Z, Zhu, S, Zhu, J, Garrido-Oter, R, Gastmeier, P, Hacquard, S, Haeussler, S, Khaledi, A, Maechler, F, Mesny, F, Radutoiu, S, Schulze-Lefert, P, Smit, N, Strowig, T, Bremges, A, Sczyrba, A, McHardy, AC, Meyer, F, Fritz, A, Deng, Z-L, Koslicki, D, Lesker, TR, Gurevich, A, Robertson, G, Alser, M, Antipov, D, Beghini, F, Bertrand, D, Brito, JJ, Brown, CT, Buchmann, J, Buluc, A, Chen, B, Chikhi, R, Clausen, PTLC, Cristian, A, Dabrowski, PW, Darling, AE, Egan, R, Eskin, E, Georganas, E, Goltsman, E, Gray, MA, Hansen, LH, Hofmeyr, S, Huang, P, Irber, L, Jia, H, Jorgensen, TS, Kieser, SD, Klemetsen, T, Kola, A, Kolmogorov, M, Korobeynikov, A, Kwan, J, LaPierre, N, Lemaitre, C, Li, C, Limasset, A, Malcher-Miranda, F, Mangul, S, Marcelino, VR, Marchet, C, Marijon, P, Meleshko, D, Mende, DR, Milanese, A, Nagarajan, N, Nissen, J, Nurk, S, Oliker, L, Paoli, L, Peterlongo, P, Piro, VC, Porter, JS, Rasmussen, S, Rees, ER, Reinert, K, Renard, B, Robertsen, EM, Rosen, GL, Ruscheweyh, H-J, Sarwal, V, Segata, N, Seiler, E, Shi, L, Sun, F, Sunagawa, S, Sorensen, SJ, Thomas, A, Tong, C, Trajkovski, M, Tremblay, J, Uritskiy, G, Vicedomini, R, Wang, Z, Warren, A, Willassen, NP, Yelick, K, You, R, Zeller, G, Zhao, Z, Zhu, S, Zhu, J, Garrido-Oter, R, Gastmeier, P, Hacquard, S, Haeussler, S, Khaledi, A, Maechler, F, Mesny, F, Radutoiu, S, Schulze-Lefert, P, Smit, N, Strowig, T, Bremges, A, Sczyrba, A, and McHardy, AC
Abstract: Evaluating metagenomic software is key for optimizing metagenome interpretation and focus of the Initiative for the Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI). The CAMI II challenge engaged the community to assess methods on realistic and complex datasets with long- and short-read sequences, created computationally from around 1,700 new and known genomes, as well as 600 new plasmids and viruses. Here we analyze 5,002 results by 76 program versions. Substantial improvements were seen in assembly, some due to long-read data. Related strains still were challenging for assembly and genome recovery through binning, as was assembly quality for the latter. Profilers markedly matured, with taxon profilers and binners excelling at higher bacterial ranks, but underperforming for viruses and Archaea. Clinical pathogen detection results revealed a need to improve reproducibility. Runtime and memory usage analyses identified efficient programs, including top performers with other metrics. The results identify challenges and guide researchers in selecting methods for analyses.
Published: 2022

10. Rare germline copy number variants (CNVs) and breast cancer risk

Author: Dennis, J. (Joe), Tyrer, J. P. (Jonathan P.), Walker, L. C. (Logan C.), Michailidou, K. (Kyriaki), Dorling, L. (Leila), Bolla, M. K. (Manjeet K.), Wang, Q. (Qin), Ahearn, T. U. (Thomas U.), Andrulis, I. L. (Irene L.), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Antonenkova, N. N. (Natalia N.), Arndt, V. (Volker), Aronson, K. J. (Kristan J.), Freeman, L. E. (Laura E. Beane), Beckmann, M. W. (Matthias W.), Behrens, S. (Sabine), Benitez, J. (Javier), Bermisheva, M. (Marina), Bogdanova, N. V. (Natalia, V), Bojesen, S. E. (Stig E.), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Castelao, J. E. (Jose E.), Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Chenevix-Trench, G. (Georgia), Clarke, C. L. (Christine L.), N. C. (NBCS Collaborators), Collee, J. M. (J. Margriet), C. C. (CTS Consortium), Couch, F. J. (Fergus J.), Cox, A. (Angela), Cross, S. S. (Simon S.), Czene, K. (Kamila), Devilee, P. (Peter), Dörk, T. (Thilo), Dossus, L. (Laure), Eliassen, A. H. (A. Heather), Eriksson, M. (Mikael), Evans, D. G. (D. Gareth), Fasching, P. A. (Peter A.), Figueroa, J. (Jonine), Fletcher, O. (Olivia), Flyger, H. (Henrik), Fritschi, L. (Lin), Gabrielson, M. (Marike), Gago-Dominguez, M. (Manuela), Garcia-Closas, M. (Montserrat), Giles, G. G. (Graham G.), Gonzalez-Neira, A. (Anna), Guenel, P. (Pascal), Hahnen, E. (Eric), Haiman, C. A. (Christopher A.), Hall, P. (Per), Hollestelle, A. (Antoinette), Hoppe, R. (Reiner), Hopper, J. L. (John L.), Howell, A. (Anthony), A. I. (ABCTB Investigators), k. I. (kConFab/AOCS Investigators), Jager, A. (Agnes), Jakubowska, A. (Anna), John, E. M. (Esther M.), Johnson, N. (Nichola), Jones, M. E. (Michael E.), Jung, A. (Audrey), Kaaks, R. (Rudolf), Keeman, R. (Renske), Khusnutdinova, E. (Elza), Kitahara, C. M. (Cari M.), Ko, Y.-D. (Yon-Dschun), Kosma, V.-M. (Veli-Matti), Koutros, S. (Stella), Kraft, P. (Peter), Kristensen, V. N. (Vessela N.), Kubelka-Sabit, K. (Katerina), Kurian, A. W. (Allison W.), Lacey, J. V. (James, V), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Larson, N. L. (Nicole L.), Linet, M. (Martha), Ogrodniczak, A. (Alicja), Mannermaa, A. (Arto), Manoukian, S. (Siranoush), Margolin, S. (Sara), Mavroudis, D. (Dimitrios), Milne, R. L. (Roger L.), Muranen, T. A. (Taru A.), Murphy, R. A. (Rachel A.), Nevanlinna, H. (Heli), Olson, J. E. (Janet E.), Olsson, H. (Hakan), Park-Simon, T.-W. (Tjoung-Won), Perou, C. M. (Charles M.), Peterlongo, P. (Paolo), Plaseska-Karanfilska, D. (Dijana), Pylkas, K. (Katri), Rennert, G. (Gad), Saloustros, E. (Emmanouil), Sandler, D. P. (Dale P.), Sawyer, E. J. (Elinor J.), Schmidt, M. K. (Marjanka K.), Schmutzler, R. K. (Rita K.), Shibli, R. (Rana), Smeets, A. (Ann), Soucy, P. (Penny), Southey, M. C. (Melissa C.), Swerdlow, A. J. (Anthony J.), Tamimi, R. M. (Rulla M.), Taylor, J. A. (Jack A.), Teras, L. R. (Lauren R.), Terry, M. B. (Mary Beth), Tomlinson, I. (Ian), Troester, M. A. (Melissa A.), Truong, T. (Therese), Vachon, C. M. (Celine M.), Wendt, C. (Camilla), Winqvist, R. (Robert), Wolk, A. (Alicja), Yang, X. R. (Xiaohong R.), Zheng, W. (Wei), Ziogas, A. (Argyrios), Simard, J. (Jacques), Dunning, A. M. (Alison M.), Pharoah, P. D. (Paul D. P.), Easton, D. F. (Douglas F.), Dennis, J. (Joe), Tyrer, J. P. (Jonathan P.), Walker, L. C. (Logan C.), Michailidou, K. (Kyriaki), Dorling, L. (Leila), Bolla, M. K. (Manjeet K.), Wang, Q. (Qin), Ahearn, T. U. (Thomas U.), Andrulis, I. L. (Irene L.), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Antonenkova, N. N. (Natalia N.), Arndt, V. (Volker), Aronson, K. J. (Kristan J.), Freeman, L. E. (Laura E. Beane), Beckmann, M. W. (Matthias W.), Behrens, S. (Sabine), Benitez, J. (Javier), Bermisheva, M. (Marina), Bogdanova, N. V. (Natalia, V), Bojesen, S. E. (Stig E.), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Castelao, J. E. (Jose E.), Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Chenevix-Trench, G. (Georgia), Clarke, C. L. (Christine L.), N. C. (NBCS Collaborators), Collee, J. M. (J. Margriet), C. C. (CTS Consortium), Couch, F. J. (Fergus J.), Cox, A. (Angela), Cross, S. S. (Simon S.), Czene, K. (Kamila), Devilee, P. (Peter), Dörk, T. (Thilo), Dossus, L. (Laure), Eliassen, A. H. (A. Heather), Eriksson, M. (Mikael), Evans, D. G. (D. Gareth), Fasching, P. A. (Peter A.), Figueroa, J. (Jonine), Fletcher, O. (Olivia), Flyger, H. (Henrik), Fritschi, L. (Lin), Gabrielson, M. (Marike), Gago-Dominguez, M. (Manuela), Garcia-Closas, M. (Montserrat), Giles, G. G. (Graham G.), Gonzalez-Neira, A. (Anna), Guenel, P. (Pascal), Hahnen, E. (Eric), Haiman, C. A. (Christopher A.), Hall, P. (Per), Hollestelle, A. (Antoinette), Hoppe, R. (Reiner), Hopper, J. L. (John L.), Howell, A. (Anthony), A. I. (ABCTB Investigators), k. I. (kConFab/AOCS Investigators), Jager, A. (Agnes), Jakubowska, A. (Anna), John, E. M. (Esther M.), Johnson, N. (Nichola), Jones, M. E. (Michael E.), Jung, A. (Audrey), Kaaks, R. (Rudolf), Keeman, R. (Renske), Khusnutdinova, E. (Elza), Kitahara, C. M. (Cari M.), Ko, Y.-D. (Yon-Dschun), Kosma, V.-M. (Veli-Matti), Koutros, S. (Stella), Kraft, P. (Peter), Kristensen, V. N. (Vessela N.), Kubelka-Sabit, K. (Katerina), Kurian, A. W. (Allison W.), Lacey, J. V. (James, V), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Larson, N. L. (Nicole L.), Linet, M. (Martha), Ogrodniczak, A. (Alicja), Mannermaa, A. (Arto), Manoukian, S. (Siranoush), Margolin, S. (Sara), Mavroudis, D. (Dimitrios), Milne, R. L. (Roger L.), Muranen, T. A. (Taru A.), Murphy, R. A. (Rachel A.), Nevanlinna, H. (Heli), Olson, J. E. (Janet E.), Olsson, H. (Hakan), Park-Simon, T.-W. (Tjoung-Won), Perou, C. M. (Charles M.), Peterlongo, P. (Paolo), Plaseska-Karanfilska, D. (Dijana), Pylkas, K. (Katri), Rennert, G. (Gad), Saloustros, E. (Emmanouil), Sandler, D. P. (Dale P.), Sawyer, E. J. (Elinor J.), Schmidt, M. K. (Marjanka K.), Schmutzler, R. K. (Rita K.), Shibli, R. (Rana), Smeets, A. (Ann), Soucy, P. (Penny), Southey, M. C. (Melissa C.), Swerdlow, A. J. (Anthony J.), Tamimi, R. M. (Rulla M.), Taylor, J. A. (Jack A.), Teras, L. R. (Lauren R.), Terry, M. B. (Mary Beth), Tomlinson, I. (Ian), Troester, M. A. (Melissa A.), Truong, T. (Therese), Vachon, C. M. (Celine M.), Wendt, C. (Camilla), Winqvist, R. (Robert), Wolk, A. (Alicja), Yang, X. R. (Xiaohong R.), Zheng, W. (Wei), Ziogas, A. (Argyrios), Simard, J. (Jacques), Dunning, A. M. (Alison M.), Pharoah, P. D. (Paul D. P.), and Easton, D. F. (Douglas F.)
Abstract: Germline copy number variants (CNVs) are pervasive in the human genome but potential disease associations with rare CNVs have not been comprehensively assessed in large datasets. We analysed rare CNVs in genes and non-coding regions for 86,788 breast cancer cases and 76,122 controls of European ancestry with genome-wide array data. Gene burden tests detected the strongest association for deletions in BRCA1 (P = 3.7E-18). Nine other genes were associated with a p-value < 0.01 including known susceptibility genes CHEK2 (P = 0.0008), ATM (P = 0.002) and BRCA2 (P = 0.008). Outside the known genes we detected associations with p-values < 0.001 for either overall or subtype-specific breast cancer at nine deletion regions and four duplication regions. Three of the deletion regions were in established common susceptibility loci. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first genome-wide analysis of rare CNVs in a large breast cancer case-control dataset. We detected associations with exonic deletions in established breast cancer susceptibility genes. We also detected suggestive associations with non-coding CNVs in known and novel loci with large effects sizes. Larger sample sizes will be required to reach robust levels of statistical significance.
Published: 2022

11. Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation: the second round of challenges.

Author: Meyer, F, Fritz, A, Deng, Z-L, Koslicki, D, Lesker, TR, Gurevich, A, Robertson, G, Alser, M, Antipov, D, Beghini, F, Bertrand, D, Brito, JJ, Brown, CT, Buchmann, J, Buluç, A, Chen, B, Chikhi, R, Clausen, PTLC, Cristian, A, Dabrowski, PW, Darling, AE, Egan, R, Eskin, E, Georganas, E, Goltsman, E, Gray, MA, Hansen, LH, Hofmeyr, S, Huang, P, Irber, L, Jia, H, Jørgensen, TS, Kieser, SD, Klemetsen, T, Kola, A, Kolmogorov, M, Korobeynikov, A, Kwan, J, LaPierre, N, Lemaitre, C, Li, C, Limasset, A, Malcher-Miranda, F, Mangul, S, Marcelino, VR, Marchet, C, Marijon, P, Meleshko, D, Mende, DR, Milanese, A, Nagarajan, N, Nissen, J, Nurk, S, Oliker, L, Paoli, L, Peterlongo, P, Piro, VC, Porter, JS, Rasmussen, S, Rees, ER, Reinert, K, Renard, B, Robertsen, EM, Rosen, GL, Ruscheweyh, H-J, Sarwal, V, Segata, N, Seiler, E, Shi, L, Sun, F, Sunagawa, S, Sørensen, SJ, Thomas, A, Tong, C, Trajkovski, M, Tremblay, J, Uritskiy, G, Vicedomini, R, Wang, Z, Warren, A, Willassen, NP, Yelick, K, You, R, Zeller, G, Zhao, Z, Zhu, S, Zhu, J, Garrido-Oter, R, Gastmeier, P, Hacquard, S, Häußler, S, Khaledi, A, Maechler, F, Mesny, F, Radutoiu, S, Schulze-Lefert, P, Smit, N, Strowig, T, Bremges, A, Sczyrba, A, McHardy, AC, Meyer, F, Fritz, A, Deng, Z-L, Koslicki, D, Lesker, TR, Gurevich, A, Robertson, G, Alser, M, Antipov, D, Beghini, F, Bertrand, D, Brito, JJ, Brown, CT, Buchmann, J, Buluç, A, Chen, B, Chikhi, R, Clausen, PTLC, Cristian, A, Dabrowski, PW, Darling, AE, Egan, R, Eskin, E, Georganas, E, Goltsman, E, Gray, MA, Hansen, LH, Hofmeyr, S, Huang, P, Irber, L, Jia, H, Jørgensen, TS, Kieser, SD, Klemetsen, T, Kola, A, Kolmogorov, M, Korobeynikov, A, Kwan, J, LaPierre, N, Lemaitre, C, Li, C, Limasset, A, Malcher-Miranda, F, Mangul, S, Marcelino, VR, Marchet, C, Marijon, P, Meleshko, D, Mende, DR, Milanese, A, Nagarajan, N, Nissen, J, Nurk, S, Oliker, L, Paoli, L, Peterlongo, P, Piro, VC, Porter, JS, Rasmussen, S, Rees, ER, Reinert, K, Renard, B, Robertsen, EM, Rosen, GL, Ruscheweyh, H-J, Sarwal, V, Segata, N, Seiler, E, Shi, L, Sun, F, Sunagawa, S, Sørensen, SJ, Thomas, A, Tong, C, Trajkovski, M, Tremblay, J, Uritskiy, G, Vicedomini, R, Wang, Z, Warren, A, Willassen, NP, Yelick, K, You, R, Zeller, G, Zhao, Z, Zhu, S, Zhu, J, Garrido-Oter, R, Gastmeier, P, Hacquard, S, Häußler, S, Khaledi, A, Maechler, F, Mesny, F, Radutoiu, S, Schulze-Lefert, P, Smit, N, Strowig, T, Bremges, A, Sczyrba, A, and McHardy, AC
Abstract: Evaluating metagenomic software is key for optimizing metagenome interpretation and focus of the Initiative for the Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI). The CAMI II challenge engaged the community to assess methods on realistic and complex datasets with long- and short-read sequences, created computationally from around 1,700 new and known genomes, as well as 600 new plasmids and viruses. Here we analyze 5,002 results by 76 program versions. Substantial improvements were seen in assembly, some due to long-read data. Related strains still were challenging for assembly and genome recovery through binning, as was assembly quality for the latter. Profilers markedly matured, with taxon profilers and binners excelling at higher bacterial ranks, but underperforming for viruses and Archaea. Clinical pathogen detection results revealed a need to improve reproducibility. Runtime and memory usage analyses identified efficient programs, including top performers with other metrics. The results identify challenges and guide researchers in selecting methods for analyses.
Published: 2022

12. Rare germline copy number variants (CNVs) and breast cancer risk.

Author: Dennis, J, Tyrer, JP, Walker, LC, Michailidou, K, Dorling, L, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Freeman, LEB, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Brenner, H, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Clarke, CL, NBCS Collaborators, Collée, JM, CTS Consortium, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Dörk, T, Dossus, L, Eliassen, AH, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fritschi, L, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, García-Closas, M, Giles, GG, González-Neira, A, Guénel, P, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, ABCTB Investigators, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kitahara, CM, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Koutros, S, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kubelka-Sabit, K, Kurian, AW, Lacey, JV, Lambrechts, D, Larson, NL, Linet, M, Ogrodniczak, A, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Milne, RL, Muranen, TA, Murphy, RA, Nevanlinna, H, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Perou, CM, Peterlongo, P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pylkäs, K, Rennert, G, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Shibli, R, Smeets, A, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Taylor, JA, Teras, LR, Terry, MB, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, Wendt, C, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Yang, XR, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Simard, J, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Dennis, J, Tyrer, JP, Walker, LC, Michailidou, K, Dorling, L, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Freeman, LEB, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Brenner, H, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Clarke, CL, NBCS Collaborators, Collée, JM, CTS Consortium, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Dörk, T, Dossus, L, Eliassen, AH, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fritschi, L, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, García-Closas, M, Giles, GG, González-Neira, A, Guénel, P, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, ABCTB Investigators, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kitahara, CM, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Koutros, S, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kubelka-Sabit, K, Kurian, AW, Lacey, JV, Lambrechts, D, Larson, NL, Linet, M, Ogrodniczak, A, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Milne, RL, Muranen, TA, Murphy, RA, Nevanlinna, H, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Perou, CM, Peterlongo, P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pylkäs, K, Rennert, G, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Shibli, R, Smeets, A, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Taylor, JA, Teras, LR, Terry, MB, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, Wendt, C, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Yang, XR, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Simard, J, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PDP, and Easton, DF
Abstract: Germline copy number variants (CNVs) are pervasive in the human genome but potential disease associations with rare CNVs have not been comprehensively assessed in large datasets. We analysed rare CNVs in genes and non-coding regions for 86,788 breast cancer cases and 76,122 controls of European ancestry with genome-wide array data. Gene burden tests detected the strongest association for deletions in BRCA1 (P = 3.7E-18). Nine other genes were associated with a p-value < 0.01 including known susceptibility genes CHEK2 (P = 0.0008), ATM (P = 0.002) and BRCA2 (P = 0.008). Outside the known genes we detected associations with p-values < 0.001 for either overall or subtype-specific breast cancer at nine deletion regions and four duplication regions. Three of the deletion regions were in established common susceptibility loci. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first genome-wide analysis of rare CNVs in a large breast cancer case-control dataset. We detected associations with exonic deletions in established breast cancer susceptibility genes. We also detected suggestive associations with non-coding CNVs in known and novel loci with large effects sizes. Larger sample sizes will be required to reach robust levels of statistical significance.
Published: 2022

13. Rare germline copy number variants (CNVs) and breast cancer risk.

Author: Dennis, J, Tyrer, JP, Walker, LC, Michailidou, K, Dorling, L, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Freeman, LEB, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Brenner, H, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Clarke, CL, NBCS Collaborators, Collée, JM, CTS Consortium, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Dörk, T, Dossus, L, Eliassen, AH, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fritschi, L, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, García-Closas, M, Giles, GG, González-Neira, A, Guénel, P, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, ABCTB Investigators, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kitahara, CM, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Koutros, S, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kubelka-Sabit, K, Kurian, AW, Lacey, JV, Lambrechts, D, Larson, NL, Linet, M, Ogrodniczak, A, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Milne, RL, Muranen, TA, Murphy, RA, Nevanlinna, H, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Perou, CM, Peterlongo, P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pylkäs, K, Rennert, G, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Shibli, R, Smeets, A, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Taylor, JA, Teras, LR, Terry, MB, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, Wendt, C, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Yang, XR, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Simard, J, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Dennis, J, Tyrer, JP, Walker, LC, Michailidou, K, Dorling, L, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Freeman, LEB, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Brenner, H, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Clarke, CL, NBCS Collaborators, Collée, JM, CTS Consortium, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Dörk, T, Dossus, L, Eliassen, AH, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fritschi, L, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, García-Closas, M, Giles, GG, González-Neira, A, Guénel, P, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, ABCTB Investigators, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kitahara, CM, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Koutros, S, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kubelka-Sabit, K, Kurian, AW, Lacey, JV, Lambrechts, D, Larson, NL, Linet, M, Ogrodniczak, A, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Milne, RL, Muranen, TA, Murphy, RA, Nevanlinna, H, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Perou, CM, Peterlongo, P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pylkäs, K, Rennert, G, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Shibli, R, Smeets, A, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Taylor, JA, Teras, LR, Terry, MB, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, Wendt, C, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Yang, XR, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Simard, J, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PDP, and Easton, DF
Abstract: Germline copy number variants (CNVs) are pervasive in the human genome but potential disease associations with rare CNVs have not been comprehensively assessed in large datasets. We analysed rare CNVs in genes and non-coding regions for 86,788 breast cancer cases and 76,122 controls of European ancestry with genome-wide array data. Gene burden tests detected the strongest association for deletions in BRCA1 (P = 3.7E-18). Nine other genes were associated with a p-value < 0.01 including known susceptibility genes CHEK2 (P = 0.0008), ATM (P = 0.002) and BRCA2 (P = 0.008). Outside the known genes we detected associations with p-values < 0.001 for either overall or subtype-specific breast cancer at nine deletion regions and four duplication regions. Three of the deletion regions were in established common susceptibility loci. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first genome-wide analysis of rare CNVs in a large breast cancer case-control dataset. We detected associations with exonic deletions in established breast cancer susceptibility genes. We also detected suggestive associations with non-coding CNVs in known and novel loci with large effects sizes. Larger sample sizes will be required to reach robust levels of statistical significance.
Published: 2022

14. The predictive ability of the 313 variant-based polygenic risk score for contralateral breast cancer risk prediction in women of European ancestry with a heterozygous BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic variant

Author: Lakeman, I.M.M., Broek, A.J. van den, Vos, Janet R., Barnes, D.R., Adlard, J., Andrulis, I.L., Arason, A., Arnold, N., Arun, B.K., Balmaña, J., Barrowdale, D., Benitez, J., Borg, A., Caldés, T., Caligo, M.A., Chung, W.K., Claes, K.B.M., Collée, J.M., Couch, F.J., Daly, M.B., Dennis, J., Dhawan, M., Domchek, S.M., Eeles, R., Engel, C., Evans, D.G., Feliubadaló, L., Foretova, L., Friedman, E., Frost, D., Ganz, P.A., Garber, J., Gayther, S.A., Gerdes, A.M., Godwin, A.K., Goldgar, D.E., Hahnen, E., Hake, C.R., Hamann, U., Hogervorst, F.B., Hooning, M.J., Hopper, J.L., Hulick, P.J., Imyanitov, E.N., Isaacs, C., Izatt, L., Jakubowska, A., James, P.A., Janavicius, R., Jensen, U.B., Jiao, Y., John, E.M., Joseph, V., Karlan, B.Y., Kets, C.M., Konstantopoulou, I., Kwong, A., Legrand, C., Leslie, G., Lesueur, F., Loud, J.T., Lubiński, J., Manoukian, S., McGuffog, L., Miller, A., Gomes, D.M., Montagna, M., Mouret-Fourme, E., Nathanson, K.L., Neuhausen, S.L., Nevanlinna, H., Yie, J.N.Y., Olah, E., Olopade, O.I., Park, S.K., Parsons, M.T., Peterlongo, P., Piedmonte, M., Radice, P., Rantala, J., Rennert, G., Risch, H.A., Schmutzler, R.K., Sharma, P., Simard, J., Singer, C.F., Stadler, Z., Stoppa-Lyonnet, D., Sutter, C., Tan, Y.Y., Teixeira, M.R., Teo, S.H., Teulé, A., Thomassen, M., Thull, D.L., Tischkowitz, M., Toland, A.E., Tung, N., Rensburg, E.J. van, Vega, A., Robson, M., Schmidt, M.K., Lakeman, I.M.M., Broek, A.J. van den, Vos, Janet R., Barnes, D.R., Adlard, J., Andrulis, I.L., Arason, A., Arnold, N., Arun, B.K., Balmaña, J., Barrowdale, D., Benitez, J., Borg, A., Caldés, T., Caligo, M.A., Chung, W.K., Claes, K.B.M., Collée, J.M., Couch, F.J., Daly, M.B., Dennis, J., Dhawan, M., Domchek, S.M., Eeles, R., Engel, C., Evans, D.G., Feliubadaló, L., Foretova, L., Friedman, E., Frost, D., Ganz, P.A., Garber, J., Gayther, S.A., Gerdes, A.M., Godwin, A.K., Goldgar, D.E., Hahnen, E., Hake, C.R., Hamann, U., Hogervorst, F.B., Hooning, M.J., Hopper, J.L., Hulick, P.J., Imyanitov, E.N., Isaacs, C., Izatt, L., Jakubowska, A., James, P.A., Janavicius, R., Jensen, U.B., Jiao, Y., John, E.M., Joseph, V., Karlan, B.Y., Kets, C.M., Konstantopoulou, I., Kwong, A., Legrand, C., Leslie, G., Lesueur, F., Loud, J.T., Lubiński, J., Manoukian, S., McGuffog, L., Miller, A., Gomes, D.M., Montagna, M., Mouret-Fourme, E., Nathanson, K.L., Neuhausen, S.L., Nevanlinna, H., Yie, J.N.Y., Olah, E., Olopade, O.I., Park, S.K., Parsons, M.T., Peterlongo, P., Piedmonte, M., Radice, P., Rantala, J., Rennert, G., Risch, H.A., Schmutzler, R.K., Sharma, P., Simard, J., Singer, C.F., Stadler, Z., Stoppa-Lyonnet, D., Sutter, C., Tan, Y.Y., Teixeira, M.R., Teo, S.H., Teulé, A., Thomassen, M., Thull, D.L., Tischkowitz, M., Toland, A.E., Tung, N., Rensburg, E.J. van, Vega, A., Robson, M., and Schmidt, M.K.
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 244113.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), PURPOSE: To evaluate the association between a previously published 313 variant-based breast cancer (BC) polygenic risk score (PRS(313)) and contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk, in BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant heterozygotes. METHODS: We included women of European ancestry with a prevalent first primary invasive BC (BRCA1 = 6,591 with 1,402 prevalent CBC cases; BRCA2 = 4,208 with 647 prevalent CBC cases) from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA), a large international retrospective series. Cox regression analysis was performed to assess the association between overall and ER-specific PRS(313) and CBC risk. RESULTS: For BRCA1 heterozygotes the estrogen receptor (ER)-negative PRS(313) showed the largest association with CBC risk, hazard ratio (HR) per SD = 1.12, 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.06-1.18), C-index = 0.53; for BRCA2 heterozygotes, this was the ER-positive PRS(313), HR = 1.15, 95% CI (1.07-1.25), C-index = 0.57. Adjusting for family history, age at diagnosis, treatment, or pathological characteristics for the first BC did not change association effect sizes. For women developing first BC < age 40 years, the cumulative PRS(313) 5th and 95th percentile 10-year CBC risks were 22% and 32% for BRCA1 and 13% and 23% for BRCA2 heterozygotes, respectively. CONCLUSION: The PRS(313) can be used to refine individual CBC risks for BRCA1/2 heterozygotes of European ancestry, however the PRS(313) needs to be considered in the context of a multifactorial risk model to evaluate whether it might influence clinical decision-making.
Published: 2021

15. Pleiotropy-guided transcriptome imputation from normal and tumor tissues identifies candidate susceptibility genes for breast and ovarian cancer

Author: Kar, S.P., Considine, D.P.C., Tyrer, J.P., Plummer, J.T., Chen, S., Dezem, F.S., Barbeira, A.N., Rajagopal, P.S., Rosenow, W.T., Moreno, F., Bodelon, C., Chang-Claude, J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Defazio, A., Dörk, T., Ekici, A.B., Ewing, A., Fountzilas, G., Goode, E.L., Hartman, M, Heitz, F., Hillemanns, P., Høgdall, E., Høgdall, C.K., Huzarski, T., Jensen, A., Karlan, B.Y., Khusnutdinova, E., Kiemeney, L.A.L.M., Kjaer, S.K., Klapdor, R., Köbel, M., Li, J., Liebrich, C., May, T., Olsson, H., Permuth, J.B., Peterlongo, P., Radice, P., Ramus, S.J., Riggan, M.J., Risch, H.A., Saloustros, E., Simard, J., Szafron, L.M., Titus, L., Thompson, C.L., Vierkant, R.A., Winham, S.J., Zheng, W., Doherty, J.A., Berchuck, A., Lawrenson, K., Im, H.K., Manichaikul, A.W., Pharoah, P.D., Gayther, S.A., Schildkraut, J.M., Kar, S.P., Considine, D.P.C., Tyrer, J.P., Plummer, J.T., Chen, S., Dezem, F.S., Barbeira, A.N., Rajagopal, P.S., Rosenow, W.T., Moreno, F., Bodelon, C., Chang-Claude, J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Defazio, A., Dörk, T., Ekici, A.B., Ewing, A., Fountzilas, G., Goode, E.L., Hartman, M, Heitz, F., Hillemanns, P., Høgdall, E., Høgdall, C.K., Huzarski, T., Jensen, A., Karlan, B.Y., Khusnutdinova, E., Kiemeney, L.A.L.M., Kjaer, S.K., Klapdor, R., Köbel, M., Li, J., Liebrich, C., May, T., Olsson, H., Permuth, J.B., Peterlongo, P., Radice, P., Ramus, S.J., Riggan, M.J., Risch, H.A., Saloustros, E., Simard, J., Szafron, L.M., Titus, L., Thompson, C.L., Vierkant, R.A., Winham, S.J., Zheng, W., Doherty, J.A., Berchuck, A., Lawrenson, K., Im, H.K., Manichaikul, A.W., Pharoah, P.D., Gayther, S.A., and Schildkraut, J.M.
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 237689.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Familial, sequencing, and genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and genetic correlation analyses have progressively unraveled the shared or pleiotropic germline genetics of breast and ovarian cancer. In this study, we aimed to leverage this shared germline genetics to improve the power of transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) to identify candidate breast cancer and ovarian cancer susceptibility genes. We built gene expression prediction models using the PrediXcan method in 681 breast and 295 ovarian tumors from The Cancer Genome Atlas and 211 breast and 99 ovarian normal tissue samples from the Genotype-Tissue Expression project and integrated these with GWAS meta-analysis data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (122,977 cases/105,974 controls) and the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (22,406 cases/40,941 controls). The integration was achieved through application of a pleiotropy-guided conditional/conjunction false discovery rate (FDR) approach in the setting of a TWASs. This identified 14 candidate breast cancer susceptibility genes spanning 11 genomic regions and 8 candidate ovarian cancer susceptibility genes spanning 5 genomic regions at conjunction FDR < 0.05 that were >1 Mb away from known breast and/or ovarian cancer susceptibility loci. We also identified 38 candidate breast cancer susceptibility genes and 17 candidate ovarian cancer susceptibility genes at conjunction FDR < 0.05 at known breast and/or ovarian susceptibility loci. The 22 genes identified by our cross-cancer analysis represent promising candidates that further elucidate the role of the transcriptome in mediating germline breast and ovarian cancer risk.
Published: 2021

16. A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers

Author: Coignard, J. (Juliette), Lush, M. (Michael), Beesley, J. (Jonathan), O’Mara, T.A. (Tracy A.), Dennis, J. (Joe), Tyrer, J.P. (Jonathan P.), Barnes, D. (Daniel), McGuffog, L. (Lesley), Leslie, G. (Goska), Bolla, M.K. (Manjeet K.), Adank, M.A. (Muriel), Agata, S. (Simona), Ahearn, T. (Thomas), Aittomäki, K. (Kristiina), Andrulis, I.L. (Irene L.), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Arndt, V. (Volker), Arnold, N. (Norbert), Aronson, K.J. (Kristan J.), Arun, B.K. (Banu), Augustinsson, A. (Annelie), Azzollini, J., Barrowdale, D. (Daniel), Baynes, C. (Caroline), Becher, H. (Heko), Bermisheva, M. (Marina), Bernstein, L. (Leslie), Białkowska, K. (Katarzyna), Blomqvist, C. (Carl), Bojesen, S.E. (Stig), Bonnani, B. (Bernardo), Borg, Å. (Åke), Brauch, H. (Hiltrud), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Burwinkel, B. (Barbara), Buys, S.S. (Saundra S.), Caldes, T. (Trinidad), Caligo, M.A. (Maria A.), Campa, D. (Daniele), Carter, B.D. (Brian D.), Castelao, J.E. (Jose ), Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Chanock, S.J. (Stephen J.), Chung, W.K. (Wendy K.), Claes, K.B.M. (Kathleen B. M.), Clarke, C.L. (Christine L.), Bertrand, O. (Ophélie), Caputo, S. (Sandrine), Dupré, A. (Anaïs), Le Mentec, M. (Marine), Belotti, M. (Muriel), Birot, A.-M. (Anne-Marie), Buecher, B. (Bruno), Fourme, E. (Emmanuelle), Gauthier-Villars, M. (Marion), Golmard, L. (Lisa), Houdayer, C. (Claude), Moncoutier, V. (Virginie), de Pauw, A. (Antoine), Saule, C. (Claire), Sinilnikova, O. (Olga), Mazoyer, S. (Sylvie), Damiola, F. (Francesca), Barjhoux, L. (Laure), Verny-Pierre, C. (Carole), Léone, M. (Mélanie), Boutry-Kryza, N. (N.), Calender, A. (Alain), Giraud, S. (Sophie), Caron, O. (Olivier), Guillaud-Bataille, M. (Marine), Bressac-de Paillerets, B. (Brigitte), Bignon, Y.-J. (Yves-Jean), Uhrhammer, N. (Nancy), Lasset, C. (Christine), Bonadona, V. (Valérie), Berthet, P. (Pascaline), Vaur, D. (Dominique), Castera, L. (Laurent), Noguchi, T. (Tetsuro), Popovici, C. (Cornel), Sobol, H. (Hagay), Bourdon, V. (Violaine), Remenieras, A. (Audrey), Nogues, C. (Catherine), Coupier, I. (Isabelle), Pujol, P. (Pascal), Dumont, A. (Aurélie), Révillion, F. (Françoise), Adenis, C. (Claude), Muller, D.W. (Danièle), Barouk-Simonet, E. (Emmanuelle), Bonnet, F. (Françoise), Bubien, V. (Virginie), Sevenet, N. (Nicolas), Longy, M. (Michel), Toulas, C. (Christine), Guimbaud, R. (Rosine), Gladieff, L. (Laurence), Feillel, V. (Viviane), Leroux, D. (Dominique), Dreyfus, H. (Hélène), Rebischung, C. (Christine), Peysselon, M. (Magalie), Coron, F. (Fanny), Faivre, L. (Laurence), Baurand, A. (Amandine), Jacquot, C. (Caroline), Bertolone, G. (Geoffrey), Lizard, S. (Sarab), Prieur, F. (Fabienne), Lebrun, M. (Marine), Kientz, C. (Caroline), Ferrer, S.F., Mari, V. (Véronique), Vénat-Bouvet, L. (Laurence), Delnatte, C. (Capucine), Bézieau, S. (Stéphane), Mortemousque, I. (Isabelle), Coulet, F. (Florence), Colas, C. (Chrystelle), Soubrier, F. (Florent), Warcoin, M. (Mathilde), Sokolowska, J. (Johanna), Bronner, M. (Myriam), Collonge-Rame, M.-A., Damette, A. (Alexandre), Gesta, P. (Paul), Lallaoui, H. (Hakima), Chiesa, J. (Jean), Molina-Gomes, D. (Denise), Ingster, O. (Olivier), Gregory, H. (Helen), Miedzybrodzka, Z. (Zosia), Morrison, P.J. (Patrick J.), Ong, K.-R. (Kai-ren), Donaldson, A. (Alan), Rogers, M.T. (Mark), Kennedy, M.J. (M. John), Porteous, M.E. (Mary), Brewer, C. (Carole), Davidson, R. (Rosemarie), Izatt, L. (Louise), Brady, A. (A.), Barwell, J. (Julian), Adlard, J.W. (Julian), Foo, C. (Claire), Lalloo, F. (Fiona), Side, L.E. (Lucy E.), Eason, J. (Jacqueline), Henderson, A. (Alex), Walker, L. (Lisa), Eeles, R. (Rosalind), Cook, J. (Jackie), Snape, K. (Katie), Eccles, D. (Diana), Murray, A. (Alexandra), McCann, E. (Emma), Collée, J.M. (J. Margriet), Conroy, D.M. (Don M.), Czene, K. (Kamila), Daly, M.B. (Mary B.), Devilee, P. (Peter), Diez, O. (Orland), Ding, Y.C. (Yuan Chun), Domchek, S.M. (Susan), Dörk, T. (Thilo), Santos Silva, I. 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Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers varies by genetic and familial factors. About 50 common variants have been shown to modify BC risk for mutation carriers. All but three, were identified in general population studies. Other mutation carrier-specific susceptibility variants may exist but studies of mutation carriers have so far been underpowered. We conduct a novel case-only genome-wide association study comparing genotype frequencies between 60,212 general population BC cases and 13,007 cases with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. We identify robust novel associations for 2 variants with BC for BRCA1 and 3 for BRCA2 mutation carriers, P < 10−8, at 5 loci, which are not associated with risk in the general population. They include rs60882887 at 11p11.2 where MADD, SP11 and EIF1, genes previously implicated in BC biology, are predicted as potential targets. These findings will contribute towards customising BC polygenic risk scores for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Published: 2021
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17. Author Correction: A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers (Nature Communications, (2021), 12, 1, (1078), 10.1038/s41467-020-20496-3).

Author: Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., and Antoniou A.C.
Abstract: The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Heiko Becher, which was incorrectly given as Heko Becher. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

18. Mendelian randomisation study of smoking exposure in relation to breast cancer risk.

Author: Park H.A., Neumeyer S., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baten A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grip M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Han S., Harkness E.F., Hart S.N., He W., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Chenevix-Trench G., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Scott R., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Koppert L.B., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lo W.-Y., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Menon U., Milne R.L., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nordestgaard B.G., Offit K., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Radice P., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Schwentner L., Scott C., Shah M., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smeets A., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stevens V., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Vijai J., Wang S., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Zheng W., Kraft P., Chang-Claude J., Park H.A., Neumeyer S., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baten A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grip M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Han S., Harkness E.F., Hart S.N., He W., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Chenevix-Trench G., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Scott R., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Koppert L.B., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lo W.-Y., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Menon U., Milne R.L., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nordestgaard B.G., Offit K., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Radice P., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Schwentner L., Scott C., Shah M., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smeets A., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stevens V., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Vijai J., Wang S., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Zheng W., Kraft P., and Chang-Claude J.
Abstract: Background: Despite a modest association between tobacco smoking and breast cancer risk reported by recent epidemiological studies, it is still equivocal whether smoking is causally related to breast cancer risk. Method(s): We applied Mendelian randomisation (MR) to evaluate a potential causal effect of cigarette smoking on breast cancer risk. Both individual-level data as well as summary statistics for 164 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) reported in genome-wide association studies of lifetime smoking index (LSI) or cigarette per day (CPD) were used to obtain MR effect estimates. Data from 108,420 invasive breast cancer cases and 87,681 controls were used for the LSI analysis and for the CPD analysis conducted among ever-smokers from 26,147 cancer cases and 26,072 controls. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to address pleiotropy. Result(s): Genetically predicted LSI was associated with increased breast cancer risk (OR 1.18 per SD, 95% CI: 1.07-1.30, P = 0.11 x 10-2), but there was no evidence of association for genetically predicted CPD (OR 1.02, 95% CI: 0.78-1.19, P = 0.85). The sensitivity analyses yielded similar results and showed no strong evidence of pleiotropic effect. Conclusion(s): Our MR study provides supportive evidence for a potential causal association with breast cancer risk for lifetime smoking exposure but not cigarettes per day among smokers.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

19. Breast cancer risk genes - Association analysis in more than 113,000 women.

Author: Cornelissen S., Michailidou K., Miller N., Taib N.A.M., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nordestgaard B.G., Ng P.-S., Oosterwijk J.C., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Peterlongo P., Porteous D.J., Prajzendanc K., Prokofyeva D., Radice P., Rashid M.U., Rhenius V., Rookus M.A., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schurmann P., Shah M., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Surowy H., Suvanto M., Thanasitthichai S., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Truong T., Tzardi M., Valova Y., van Asperen C.J., van Dam R.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van der Kolk L.E., van Veen E.M., Wendt C., Williams J.A., Yang X.R., Yoon S.-Y., Zamora M.P., Evans D.G., de la Hoya M., Simard J., Antoniou A.C., Borg A., Andrulis I.L., Chang-Claude J., Garcia-Closas M., Chenevix-Trench G., Milne R.L., Pharoah P.D.P., Schmidt M.K., Spurdle A.B., Vreeswijk M.P.G., Benitez J., Dunning A.M., Kvist A., Teo S.H., Devilee P., Easton D.F., Dorling L., Carvalho S., Allen J., Gonzalez-Neira A., Luccarini C., Wahlstrom C., Pooley K.A., Parsons M.T., Fortuno C., Wang Q., Bolla M.K., Dennis J., Keeman R., Alonso M.R., Alvarez N., Herraez B., Fernandez V., Nunez-Torres R., Osorio A., Valcich J., Li M., Torngren T., Harrington P.A., Baynes C., Conroy D.M., Decker B., Fachal L., Mavaddat N., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Antonenkova N.N., Arnold N., Arveux P., Ausems M.G.E.M., Auvinen P., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bogdanova-Markov N., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Bremer M., Briceno I., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Cameron D.A., Camp N.J., Campbell A., Carracedo A., Castelao J.E., Cessna M.H., Chanock S.J., Christiansen H., Collee J.M., Cordina-Duverger E., Czene K., Dork T., Ekici A.B., Engel C., Eriksson M., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Forsti A., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Georgoulias V., Gil F., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Gomez Garcia E.B., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Guenel P., Hadjisavvas A., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Hall P., Hamann U., Harkness E.F., Hartikainen J.M., Hartman M., He W., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Ho W.K., Hooning M.J., Howell A., Humphreys K., Idris F., Jakubowska A., Jung A., Kapoor P.M., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kristensen V.N., Kyriacou K., Lakeman I.M.M., Lee J.W., Lee M.H., Li J., Lindblom A., Lo W.-Y., Loizidou M.A., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., MacInnis R.J., Madsen M.J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., Mensenkamp A.R., Cornelissen S., Michailidou K., Miller N., Taib N.A.M., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nordestgaard B.G., Ng P.-S., Oosterwijk J.C., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Peterlongo P., Porteous D.J., Prajzendanc K., Prokofyeva D., Radice P., Rashid M.U., Rhenius V., Rookus M.A., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schurmann P., Shah M., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Surowy H., Suvanto M., Thanasitthichai S., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Truong T., Tzardi M., Valova Y., van Asperen C.J., van Dam R.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van der Kolk L.E., van Veen E.M., Wendt C., Williams J.A., Yang X.R., Yoon S.-Y., Zamora M.P., Evans D.G., de la Hoya M., Simard J., Antoniou A.C., Borg A., Andrulis I.L., Chang-Claude J., Garcia-Closas M., Chenevix-Trench G., Milne R.L., Pharoah P.D.P., Schmidt M.K., Spurdle A.B., Vreeswijk M.P.G., Benitez J., Dunning A.M., Kvist A., Teo S.H., Devilee P., Easton D.F., Dorling L., Carvalho S., Allen J., Gonzalez-Neira A., Luccarini C., Wahlstrom C., Pooley K.A., Parsons M.T., Fortuno C., Wang Q., Bolla M.K., Dennis J., Keeman R., Alonso M.R., Alvarez N., Herraez B., Fernandez V., Nunez-Torres R., Osorio A., Valcich J., Li M., Torngren T., Harrington P.A., Baynes C., Conroy D.M., Decker B., Fachal L., Mavaddat N., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Antonenkova N.N., Arnold N., Arveux P., Ausems M.G.E.M., Auvinen P., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bogdanova-Markov N., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Bremer M., Briceno I., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Cameron D.A., Camp N.J., Campbell A., Carracedo A., Castelao J.E., Cessna M.H., Chanock S.J., Christiansen H., Collee J.M., Cordina-Duverger E., Czene K., Dork T., Ekici A.B., Engel C., Eriksson M., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Forsti A., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Georgoulias V., Gil F., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Gomez Garcia E.B., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Guenel P., Hadjisavvas A., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Hall P., Hamann U., Harkness E.F., Hartikainen J.M., Hartman M., He W., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Ho W.K., Hooning M.J., Howell A., Humphreys K., Idris F., Jakubowska A., Jung A., Kapoor P.M., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kristensen V.N., Kyriacou K., Lakeman I.M.M., Lee J.W., Lee M.H., Li J., Lindblom A., Lo W.-Y., Loizidou M.A., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., MacInnis R.J., Madsen M.J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., and Mensenkamp A.R.
Abstract: BACKGROUND Genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility is widely used, but for many genes, evidence of an association with breast cancer is weak, underlying risk estimates are imprecise, and reliable subtype-specific risk estimates are lacking. METHODS We used a panel of 34 putative susceptibility genes to perform sequencing on samples from 60,466 women with breast cancer and 53,461 controls. In separate analyses for protein-truncating variants and rare missense variants in these genes, we estimated odds ratios for breast cancer overall and tumor subtypes. We evaluated missense-variant associations according to domain and classification of pathogenicity. RESULTS Protein-truncating variants in 5 genes (ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, and PALB2) were associated with a risk of breast cancer overall with a P value of less than 0.0001. Protein-truncating variants in 4 other genes (BARD1, RAD51C, RAD51D, and TP53) were associated with a risk of breast cancer overall with a P value of less than 0.05 and a Bayesian false-discovery probability of less than 0.05. For protein-truncating variants in 19 of the remaining 25 genes, the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval of the odds ratio for breast cancer overall was less than 2.0. For protein-truncating variants in ATM and CHEK2, odds ratios were higher for estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease than for ER-negative disease; for protein-truncating variants in BARD1, BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, RAD51C, and RAD51D, odds ratios were higher for ER-negative disease than for ER-positive disease. Rare missense variants (in aggregate) in ATM, CHEK2, and TP53 were associated with a risk of breast cancer overall with a P value of less than 0.001. For BRCA1, BRCA2, and TP53, missense variants (in aggregate) that would be classified as pathogenic according to standard criteria were associated with a risk of breast cancer overall, with the risk being similar to that of protein-truncating variants. CONCLUSIONS The results of this study define
Published: 2021

20. Erratum: Author Correction: A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers (Nature communications (2021) 12 1 (1078)).

Author: Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Adank M.A., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Collee J.M., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., Dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Adank M.A., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Collee J.M., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., Dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., and Antoniou A.C.
Abstract: A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23162-4.
Published: 2021

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

Author: Baxter J.S., Johnson N., Tomczyk K., Gillespie A., Maguire S., Brough R., Fachal L., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Cai Q., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chan T.L., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Choi J.-Y., Clarke C.L., Colonna S., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., Dossus L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Ghoussaini M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Guenel P., Gundert M., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartman M., Hatse S., Hauke J., Hollestelle A., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hou M.-F., Ito H., Iwasaki M., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Joseph V., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kang D., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kubelka-Sabit K., Kurian A.W., Kwong A., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Larson N.L., Larsson S.C., Le Marchand L., Lejbkowicz F., Li J., Long J., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Menon U., Milne R.L., Mohd Taib N.A., Muir K., Muranen T.A., Murphy R.A., Nevanlinna H., O'Brien K.M., Offit K., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Pylkas K., Rack B., Rennert G., Romero A., Ruebner M., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teo S.H., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Toland A.E., Tomlinson I., Truong T., Tseng C.-C., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Winham S.J., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yamaji T., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Pharoah P.D.P., Dunning A.M., Easton D.F., Pettitt S.J., Lord C.J., Haider S., Orr N., Fletcher O., Baxter J.S., Johnson N., Tomczyk K., Gillespie A., Maguire S., Brough R., Fachal L., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Cai Q., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chan T.L., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Choi J.-Y., Clarke C.L., Colonna S., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., Dossus L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Ghoussaini M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Guenel P., Gundert M., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartman M., Hatse S., Hauke J., Hollestelle A., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hou M.-F., Ito H., Iwasaki M., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Joseph V., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kang D., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kubelka-Sabit K., Kurian A.W., Kwong A., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Larson N.L., Larsson S.C., Le Marchand L., Lejbkowicz F., Li J., Long J., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Menon U., Milne R.L., Mohd Taib N.A., Muir K., Muranen T.A., Murphy R.A., Nevanlinna H., O'Brien K.M., Offit K., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Pylkas K., Rack B., Rennert G., Romero A., Ruebner M., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teo S.H., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Toland A.E., Tomlinson I., Truong T., Tseng C.-C., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Winham S.J., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yamaji T., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Pharoah P.D.P., Dunning A.M., Easton D.F., Pettitt S.J., Lord C.J., Haider S., Orr N., and Fletcher O.
Abstract: A combination of genetic and functional approaches has identified three independent breast cancer risk loci at 2q35. A recent fine-scale mapping analysis to refine these associations resulted in 1 (signal 1), 5 (signal 2), and 42 (signal 3) credible causal variants at these loci. We used publicly available in silico DNase I and ChIP-seq data with in vitro reporter gene and CRISPR assays to annotate signals 2 and 3. We identified putative regulatory elements that enhanced cell-type-specific transcription from the IGFBP5 promoter at both signals (30- to 40-fold increased expression by the putative regulatory element at signal 2, 2- to 3-fold by the putative regulatory element at signal 3). We further identified one of the five credible causal variants at signal 2, a 1.4 kb deletion (esv3594306), as the likely causal variant; the deletion allele of this variant was associated with an average additional increase in IGFBP5 expression of 1.3-fold (MCF-7) and 2.2-fold (T-47D). We propose a model in which the deletion allele of esv3594306 juxtaposes two transcription factor binding regions (annotated by estrogen receptor alpha ChIP-seq peaks) to generate a single extended regulatory element. This regulatory element increases cell-type-specific expression of the tumor suppressor gene IGFBP5 and, thereby, reduces risk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (odds ratio = 0.77, 95% CI 0.74-0.81, p = 3.1 x 10-31).Copyright © 2021 The Authors
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22. CYP3A7*1C allele: linking premenopausal oestrone and progesterone levels with risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers.

Author: Johnson N., Maguire S., Morra A., Kapoor P.M., Tomczyk K., Jones M.E., Schoemaker M.J., Gilham C., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baynes C., Freeman L.E.B., Beckmann M.W., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Alnaes G.I.G., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Dork T., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Floris G., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Closas M., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Bowtell D.D.L., Webb P.M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hooning M.J., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R.L., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M.C., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Linet M., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Meindl A., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Obi N., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orban E., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Pylkas K., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Ruddy K.J., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Scott C., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smichkoska S., Sohn C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Tamimi R.M., Taylor J.A., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Howie A.F., Peto J., dos-Santos-Silva I., Swerdlow A.J., Chang-Claude J., Schmidt M.K., Orr N., Fletcher O., Johnson N., Maguire S., Morra A., Kapoor P.M., Tomczyk K., Jones M.E., Schoemaker M.J., Gilham C., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baynes C., Freeman L.E.B., Beckmann M.W., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Alnaes G.I.G., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Dork T., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Floris G., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Closas M., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Bowtell D.D.L., Webb P.M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hooning M.J., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R.L., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M.C., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Linet M., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Meindl A., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Obi N., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orban E., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Pylkas K., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Ruddy K.J., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Scott C., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smichkoska S., Sohn C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Tamimi R.M., Taylor J.A., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Howie A.F., Peto J., dos-Santos-Silva I., Swerdlow A.J., Chang-Claude J., Schmidt M.K., Orr N., and Fletcher O.
Abstract: Background: Epidemiological studies provide strong evidence for a role of endogenous sex hormones in the aetiology of breast cancer. The aim of this analysis was to identify genetic variants that are associated with urinary sex-hormone levels and breast cancer risk. Method(s): We carried out a genome-wide association study of urinary oestrone-3-glucuronide and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide levels in 560 premenopausal women, with additional analysis of progesterone levels in 298 premenopausal women. To test for the association with breast cancer risk, we carried out follow-up genotyping in 90,916 cases and 89,893 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. All women were of European ancestry. Result(s): For pregnanediol-3-glucuronide, there were no genome-wide significant associations; for oestrone-3-glucuronide, we identified a single peak mapping to the CYP3A locus, annotated by rs45446698. The minor rs45446698-C allele was associated with lower oestrone-3-glucuronide (-49.2%, 95% CI -56.1% to -41.1%, P = 3.1 x 10-18); in follow-up analyses, rs45446698-C was also associated with lower progesterone (-26.7%, 95% CI -39.4% to -11.6%, P = 0.001) and reduced risk of oestrogen and progesterone receptor-positive breast cancer (OR = 0.86, 95% CI 0.82-0.91, P = 6.9 x 10-8). Conclusion(s): The CYP3A7*1C allele is associated with reduced risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer possibly mediated via an effect on the metabolism of endogenous sex hormones in premenopausal women.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

23. Polygenic risk scores and breast and epithelial ovarian cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants.

Author: Gesta P., Mulligan A.M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Niederacher D., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Nogues C., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Ong K.-R., O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan A., Osorio A., Ott C.-E., Papi L., Park S.K., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peissel B., Peixoto A., Peterlongo P., Pfeiler G., Phillips K.-A., Prajzendanc K., Pujana M.A., Radice P., Ramser J., Ramus S.J., Rantala J., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Ronlund K., Salani R., Schuster H., Senter L., Shah P.D., Sharma P., Side L.E., Singer C.F., Slavin T.P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spurdle A.B., Steinemann D., Steinsnyder Z., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Sutter C., Tan Y.Y., Teixeira M.R., Teo S.H., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Tognazzo S., Toland A.E., Trainer A.H., Tung N., van Engelen K., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Vierstraete J., Wagner G., Walker L., Wang-Gohrke S., Wappenschmidt B., Weitzel J.N., Yadav S., Yang X., Yannoukakos D., Zimbalatti D., Offit K., Thomassen M., Couch F.J., Schmutzler R.K., Simard J., Easton D.F., Antoniou A.C., GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, kConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, GENEPSO Investigators, Barnes D.R., Rookus M.A., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Mooij T.M., Dennis J., Mavaddat N., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Arnold N., Arun B.K., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Benitez J., Bialkowska K., Blanco A.M., Blok M.J., Bonanni B., Boonen S.E., Borg A., Bozsik A., Bradbury A.R., Brunet J., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Christensen L.L., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Berthet P., Colas C., Adlard J., Ahmed M., Antoniou A., Barrowdale D., Brennan P., Brewer C., Easton D., Evans D.G., Side L., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Cook J., Daly M.B., Davidson R., de la Hoya M., de Putter R., Delnatte C., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dorfling C.M., Dumont M., Eeles R., Ejlertsen B., Engel C., Faivre L., Foretova L., Fostira F., Friedlander M., Friedman E., Frost D., Ganz P.A., Garber J., Gehrig A., Gerdes A.-M., Giraud S., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gschwantler-Kaulich D., Hahnen E., Hamann U., Hanson H., Hentschel J., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hooning M.J., Horvath J., Hu C., Hulick P.J., Imyanitov E.N., Chenevix-Trench G., Spurdle A., Blok M., Devilee P., Hogervorst F., Hooning M., Mensenkamp A., Meijers-Heijboer H., Rookus M., Engelen K., Andrieu N., Isaacs C., Izatt L., Izquierdo A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Janavicius R., John E.M., Joseph V., Karlan B.Y., Kast K., Koudijs M., Kruse T.A., Kwong A., Laitman Y., Lasset C., Lazaro C., Lester J., Lesueur F., Liljegren A., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Mai P.L., Manoukian S., Mari V., Mebirouk N., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Meindl A., Mensenkamp A.R., Miller A., Montagna M., Mouret-Fourme E., Mukherjee S., Gesta P., Mulligan A.M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Niederacher D., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Nogues C., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Ong K.-R., O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan A., Osorio A., Ott C.-E., Papi L., Park S.K., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peissel B., Peixoto A., Peterlongo P., Pfeiler G., Phillips K.-A., Prajzendanc K., Pujana M.A., Radice P., Ramser J., Ramus S.J., Rantala J., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Ronlund K., Salani R., Schuster H., Senter L., Shah P.D., Sharma P., Side L.E., Singer C.F., Slavin T.P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spurdle A.B., Steinemann D., Steinsnyder Z., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Sutter C., Tan Y.Y., Teixeira M.R., Teo S.H., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Tognazzo S., Toland A.E., Trainer A.H., Tung N., van Engelen K., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Vierstraete J., Wagner G., Walker L., Wang-Gohrke S., Wappenschmidt B., Weitzel J.N., Yadav S., Yang X., Yannoukakos D., Zimbalatti D., Offit K., Thomassen M., Couch F.J., Schmutzler R.K., Simard J., Easton D.F., Antoniou A.C., GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, kConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, GENEPSO Investigators, Barnes D.R., Rookus M.A., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Mooij T.M., Dennis J., Mavaddat N., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Arnold N., Arun B.K., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Benitez J., Bialkowska K., Blanco A.M., Blok M.J., Bonanni B., Boonen S.E., Borg A., Bozsik A., Bradbury A.R., Brunet J., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Christensen L.L., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Berthet P., Colas C., Adlard J., Ahmed M., Antoniou A., Barrowdale D., Brennan P., Brewer C., Easton D., Evans D.G., Side L., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Cook J., Daly M.B., Davidson R., de la Hoya M., de Putter R., Delnatte C., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dorfling C.M., Dumont M., Eeles R., Ejlertsen B., Engel C., Faivre L., Foretova L., Fostira F., Friedlander M., Friedman E., Frost D., Ganz P.A., Garber J., Gehrig A., Gerdes A.-M., Giraud S., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gschwantler-Kaulich D., Hahnen E., Hamann U., Hanson H., Hentschel J., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hooning M.J., Horvath J., Hu C., Hulick P.J., Imyanitov E.N., Chenevix-Trench G., Spurdle A., Blok M., Devilee P., Hogervorst F., Hooning M., Mensenkamp A., Meijers-Heijboer H., Rookus M., Engelen K., Andrieu N., Isaacs C., Izatt L., Izquierdo A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Janavicius R., John E.M., Joseph V., Karlan B.Y., Kast K., Koudijs M., Kruse T.A., Kwong A., Laitman Y., Lasset C., Lazaro C., Lester J., Lesueur F., Liljegren A., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Mai P.L., Manoukian S., Mari V., Mebirouk N., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Meindl A., Mensenkamp A.R., Miller A., Montagna M., Mouret-Fourme E., and Mukherjee S.
Abstract: Purpose: We assessed the associations between population-based polygenic risk scores (PRS) for breast (BC) or epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) with cancer risks for BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. Method(s): Retrospective cohort data on 18,935 BRCA1 and 12,339 BRCA2 female pathogenic variant carriers of European ancestry were available. Three versions of a 313 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) BC PRS were evaluated based on whether they predict overall, estrogen receptor (ER)-negative, or ER-positive BC, and two PRS for overall or high-grade serous EOC. Associations were validated in a prospective cohort. Result(s): The ER-negative PRS showed the strongest association with BC risk for BRCA1 carriers (hazard ratio [HR] per standard deviation = 1.29 [95% CI 1.25-1.33], P = 3x10-72). For BRCA2, the strongest association was with overall BC PRS (HR = 1.31 [95% CI 1.27-1.36], P = 7x10-50). HR estimates decreased significantly with age and there was evidence for differences in associations by predicted variant effects on protein expression. The HR estimates were smaller than general population estimates. The high-grade serous PRS yielded the strongest associations with EOC risk for BRCA1 (HR = 1.32 [95% CI 1.25-1.40], P = 3x10-22) and BRCA2 (HR = 1.44 [95% CI 1.30-1.60], P = 4x10-12) carriers. The associations in the prospective cohort were similar. Conclusion(s): Population-based PRS are strongly associated with BC and EOC risks for BRCA1/2 carriers and predict substantial absolute risk differences for women at PRS distribution extremes.Copyright © 2020, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

24. A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers.

Author: Radice P., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R.L., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Radice P., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R.L., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., and Robson M.
Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers varies by genetic and familial factors. About 50 common variants have been shown to modify BC risk for mutation carriers. All but three, were identified in general population studies. Other mutation carrier-specific susceptibility variants may exist but studies of mutation carriers have so far been underpowered. We conduct a novel case-only genome-wide association study comparing genotype frequencies between 60,212 general population BC cases and 13,007 cases with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. We identify robust novel associations for 2 variants with BC for BRCA1 and 3 for BRCA2 mutation carriers, P < 10-8, at 5 loci, which are not associated with risk in the general population. They include rs60882887 at 11p11.2 where MADD, SP11 and EIF1, genes previously implicated in BC biology, are predicted as potential targets. These findings will contribute towards customising BC polygenic risk scores for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

25. Association of germline genetic variants with breast cancer-specific survival in patient subgroups defined by clinic-pathological variables related to tumor biology and type of systemic treatment.

Author: Morra A., Escala-Garcia M., Beesley J., Keeman R., Canisius S., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Auer P.L., Augustinsson A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Bruning T., Buys S.S., Caan B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Cheng T.-Y.D., Clarke C.L., Colonna S.V., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Dork T., Dossus L., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Giles G.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Gundert M., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hart S.N., Hartikainen J.M., Hartmann A., He W., Hooning M.J., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Jung A.Y., Kaaks R., Keupers M., Kitahara C.M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lindblom A., Linet M., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Lush M., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Michailidou K., Milne R.L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Orr N., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peissel B., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Rack B., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Roylance R., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Scott C., Shah M., Smichkoska S., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Hurson A.N., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Brauch H., Garcia-Closas M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Schmidt M.K., Morra A., Escala-Garcia M., Beesley J., Keeman R., Canisius S., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Auer P.L., Augustinsson A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Bruning T., Buys S.S., Caan B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Cheng T.-Y.D., Clarke C.L., Colonna S.V., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Dork T., Dossus L., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Giles G.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Gundert M., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hart S.N., Hartikainen J.M., Hartmann A., He W., Hooning M.J., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Jung A.Y., Kaaks R., Keupers M., Kitahara C.M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lindblom A., Linet M., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Lush M., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Michailidou K., Milne R.L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Orr N., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peissel B., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Rack B., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Roylance R., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Scott C., Shah M., Smichkoska S., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Hurson A.N., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Brauch H., Garcia-Closas M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., and Schmidt M.K.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Given the high heterogeneity among breast tumors, associations between common germline genetic variants and survival that may exist within specific subgroups could go undetected in an unstratified set of breast cancer patients. METHOD(S): We performed genome-wide association analyses within 15 subgroups of breast cancer patients based on prognostic factors, including hormone receptors, tumor grade, age, and type of systemic treatment. Analyses were based on 91,686 female patients of European ancestry from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, including 7531 breast cancer-specific deaths over a median follow-up of 8.1years. Cox regression was used to assess associations of common germline variants with 15-year and 5-year breast cancer-specific survival. We assessed the probability of these associations being true positives via the Bayesian false discovery probability (BFDP <0.15). RESULT(S): Evidence of associations with breast cancer-specific survival was observed in three patient subgroups, with variant rs5934618 in patients with grade 3 tumors (15-year-hazard ratio (HR) [95% confidence interval (CI)] 1.32 [1.20, 1.45], P = 1.4E-08, BFDP = 0.01, per G allele); variant rs4679741 in patients with ER-positive tumors treated with endocrine therapy (15-year-HR [95% CI] 1.18 [1.11, 1.26], P = 1.6E-07, BFDP = 0.09, per G allele); variants rs1106333 (15-year-HR [95% CI] 1.68 [1.39,2.03], P = 5.6E-08, BFDP = 0.12, per A allele) and rs78754389 (5-year-HR [95% CI] 1.79 [1.46,2.20], P = 1.7E-08, BFDP = 0.07, per A allele), in patients with ER-negative tumors treated with chemotherapy. CONCLUSION(S): We found evidence of four loci associated with breast cancer-specific survival within three patient subgroups. There was limited evidence for the existence of associations in other patient subgroups. However, the power for many subgroups is limited due to the low number of events. Even so, our results suggest that the impact of common germline genetic variants on br
Published: 2021

26. Breast and Prostate Cancer Risks for Male BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variant Carriers Using Polygenic Risk Scores.

Author: Barnes D.R., Silvestri V., Leslie G., McGuffog L., Dennis J., Yang X., Adlard J., Agnarsson B.A., Ahmed M., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Arason A., Arnold N., Auber B., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barrowdale D., Barwell J., Belotti M., Benitez J., Berthet P., Boonen S.E., Borg A., Bozsik A., Brady A., Brennan P., Brewer C., Brunet J., Bucalo A., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Cassingham H., Lotte Christensen L., Cini G., Claes K.B.M., Cook J., Coppa A., Cortesi L., Damante G., Darder E., Davidson R., de la Hoya M., De Leeneer K., de Putter R., Del Valle J., Diez O., Chun Ding Y., Domchek S.M., Donaldson A., Eason J., Eeles R., Engel C., Gareth Evans D., Feliubadalo L., Fostira F., Frone M., Frost D., Gallagher D., Gehrig A., Giraud S., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldgar D.E., Greene M.H., Gregory H., Gross E., Hahnen E., Hamann U., Hansen T.V.O., Hanson H., Hentschel J., Horvath J., Izatt L., Izquierdo A., James P.A., Janavicius R., Birk Jensen U., Johannsson O.T., John E.M., Kramer G., Kroeldrup L., Kruse T.A., Lautrup C., Lazaro C., Lesueur F., Lopez-Fernandez A., Mai P.L., Manoukian S., Matrai Z., Matricardi L., Maxwell K.N., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Montagna M., Monteiro A.N., Morrison P.J., Muranen T.A., Murray A., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nguyen-Dumont T., Niederacher D., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Palli D., Parsons M.T., Sokilde Pedersen I., Peissel B., Perez-Segura P., Peterlongo P., Petersen A.H., Pinto P., Porteous M.E., Pottinger C., Angel Pujana M., Radice P., Ramser J., Rantala J., Robson M., Rogers M.T., Ronlund K., Rump A., Maria Sanchez de Abajo A., Shah P.D., Sharif S., Side L.E., Singer C.F., Stadler Z., Steele L., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Sutter C., Yen Tan Y., Teixeira M.R., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Tommasi S., Toss A., Trainer A.H., Tripathi V., Valentini V., van Asperen C.J., Venturelli M., Viel A., Vijai J., Walker L., Wang-Gohrke S., Wappenschmidt B., Whaite A., Zanna I., Offit K., Thomassen M., Couch F.J., Schmutzler R.K., Simard J., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Antoniou A.C., Ottini L., Barnes D.R., Silvestri V., Leslie G., McGuffog L., Dennis J., Yang X., Adlard J., Agnarsson B.A., Ahmed M., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Arason A., Arnold N., Auber B., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barrowdale D., Barwell J., Belotti M., Benitez J., Berthet P., Boonen S.E., Borg A., Bozsik A., Brady A., Brennan P., Brewer C., Brunet J., Bucalo A., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Cassingham H., Lotte Christensen L., Cini G., Claes K.B.M., Cook J., Coppa A., Cortesi L., Damante G., Darder E., Davidson R., de la Hoya M., De Leeneer K., de Putter R., Del Valle J., Diez O., Chun Ding Y., Domchek S.M., Donaldson A., Eason J., Eeles R., Engel C., Gareth Evans D., Feliubadalo L., Fostira F., Frone M., Frost D., Gallagher D., Gehrig A., Giraud S., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldgar D.E., Greene M.H., Gregory H., Gross E., Hahnen E., Hamann U., Hansen T.V.O., Hanson H., Hentschel J., Horvath J., Izatt L., Izquierdo A., James P.A., Janavicius R., Birk Jensen U., Johannsson O.T., John E.M., Kramer G., Kroeldrup L., Kruse T.A., Lautrup C., Lazaro C., Lesueur F., Lopez-Fernandez A., Mai P.L., Manoukian S., Matrai Z., Matricardi L., Maxwell K.N., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Montagna M., Monteiro A.N., Morrison P.J., Muranen T.A., Murray A., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nguyen-Dumont T., Niederacher D., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Palli D., Parsons M.T., Sokilde Pedersen I., Peissel B., Perez-Segura P., Peterlongo P., Petersen A.H., Pinto P., Porteous M.E., Pottinger C., Angel Pujana M., Radice P., Ramser J., Rantala J., Robson M., Rogers M.T., Ronlund K., Rump A., Maria Sanchez de Abajo A., Shah P.D., Sharif S., Side L.E., Singer C.F., Stadler Z., Steele L., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Sutter C., Yen Tan Y., Teixeira M.R., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Tommasi S., Toss A., Trainer A.H., Tripathi V., Valentini V., van Asperen C.J., Venturelli M., Viel A., Vijai J., Walker L., Wang-Gohrke S., Wappenschmidt B., Whaite A., Zanna I., Offit K., Thomassen M., Couch F.J., Schmutzler R.K., Simard J., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Antoniou A.C., and Ottini L.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Recent population-based female breast cancer and prostate cancer polygenic risk scores (PRS) have been developed. We assessed the associations of these PRS with breast and prostate cancer risks for male BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. METHOD(S): 483 BRCA1 and 1,318 BRCA2 European ancestry male carriers were available from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). A 147-single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) prostate cancer PRS (PRSPC) and a 313-SNP breast cancer PRS were evaluated. There were three versions of the breast cancer PRS, optimized to predict overall (PRSBC), estrogen-receptor (ER) negative (PRSER-) or ER-positive (PRSER+) breast cancer risk. RESULT(S): PRSER+ yielded the strongest association with breast cancer risk. The odds ratios (ORs) per PRSER+ standard deviation estimates were 1.40 (95% confidence interval [CI] =1.07-1.83) for BRCA1 and 1.33 (95% CI=1.16-1.52) for BRCA2 carriers. PRSPC was associated with prostate cancer risk for both BRCA1 (OR=1.73, 95% CI=1.28-2.33) and BRCA2 (OR=1.60, 95% CI=1.34-1.91) carriers. The estimated breast cancer ORs were larger after adjusting for female relative breast cancer family history. By age 85years, for BRCA2 carriers, the breast cancer risk varied from 7.7% to 18.4% and prostate cancer risk from 34.1% to 87.6% between the 5th and 95th percentiles of the PRS distributions. CONCLUSION(S): Population-based prostate and female breast cancer PRS are associated with a wide range of absolute breast and prostate cancer risks for male BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers. These findings warrant further investigation aimed at providing personalized cancer risks for male carriers and to inform clinical management.Copyright © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press.
Published: 2021

27. Germline variants and breast cancer survival in patients with distant metastases at primary breast cancer diagnosis.

Author: Escala-Garcia M., Canisius S., Keeman R., Beesley J., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Couch F.J., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Devilee P., Dork T., Dunning A.M., Easton D.F., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Geisler J., Giles G.G., Grip M., Gundert M., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartikainen J.M., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hollestelle A., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Jacot W., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Jung A.Y., Kaaks R., Khusnutdinova E., Koppert L.B., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lindblom A., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Mavroudis D., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peterlongo P., Pharoah P.D.P., Punie K., Radice P., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Roylance R., Rudiger T., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Scott C., Southey M.C., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Teras L.R., Thomas E., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Michailidou K., Chenevix-Trench G., Bachelot T., Schmidt M.K., Escala-Garcia M., Canisius S., Keeman R., Beesley J., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Couch F.J., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Devilee P., Dork T., Dunning A.M., Easton D.F., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Geisler J., Giles G.G., Grip M., Gundert M., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartikainen J.M., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hollestelle A., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Jacot W., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Jung A.Y., Kaaks R., Khusnutdinova E., Koppert L.B., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lindblom A., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Mavroudis D., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peterlongo P., Pharoah P.D.P., Punie K., Radice P., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Roylance R., Rudiger T., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Scott C., Southey M.C., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Teras L.R., Thomas E., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Michailidou K., Chenevix-Trench G., Bachelot T., and Schmidt M.K.
Abstract: Breast cancer metastasis accounts for most of the deaths from breast cancer. Identification of germline variants associated with survival in aggressive types of breast cancer may inform understanding of breast cancer progression and assist treatment. In this analysis, we studied the associations between germline variants and breast cancer survival for patients with distant metastases at primary breast cancer diagnosis. We used data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) including 1062 women of European ancestry with metastatic breast cancer, 606 of whom died of breast cancer. We identified two germline variants on chromosome 1, rs138569520 and rs146023652, significantly associated with breast cancer-specific survival (P=3.19x10-8 and 4.42x10-8). In silico analysis suggested a potential regulatory effect of the variants on the nearby target genes SDE2 and H3F3A. However, the variants showed no evidence of association in a smaller replication dataset. The validation dataset was obtained from the SNPs to Risk of Metastasis (StoRM) study and included 293 patients with metastatic primary breast cancer at diagnosis. Ultimately, larger replication studies are needed to confirm the identified associations.Copyright © 2021. The Author(s).
Published: 2021

28. Author Correction: A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers (Nature Communications, (2021), 12, 1, (1078), 10.1038/s41467-020-20496-3).

Author: Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., and Antoniou A.C.
Abstract: The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Heiko Becher, which was incorrectly given as Heko Becher. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

29. Mendelian randomisation study of smoking exposure in relation to breast cancer risk.

Author: Park H.A., Neumeyer S., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baten A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grip M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Han S., Harkness E.F., Hart S.N., He W., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Chenevix-Trench G., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Scott R., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Koppert L.B., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lo W.-Y., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Menon U., Milne R.L., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nordestgaard B.G., Offit K., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Radice P., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Schwentner L., Scott C., Shah M., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smeets A., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stevens V., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Vijai J., Wang S., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Zheng W., Kraft P., Chang-Claude J., Park H.A., Neumeyer S., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baten A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grip M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Han S., Harkness E.F., Hart S.N., He W., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Chenevix-Trench G., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Scott R., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Koppert L.B., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lo W.-Y., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Menon U., Milne R.L., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nordestgaard B.G., Offit K., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Radice P., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Schwentner L., Scott C., Shah M., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smeets A., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stevens V., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Vijai J., Wang S., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Zheng W., Kraft P., and Chang-Claude J.
Abstract: Background: Despite a modest association between tobacco smoking and breast cancer risk reported by recent epidemiological studies, it is still equivocal whether smoking is causally related to breast cancer risk. Method(s): We applied Mendelian randomisation (MR) to evaluate a potential causal effect of cigarette smoking on breast cancer risk. Both individual-level data as well as summary statistics for 164 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) reported in genome-wide association studies of lifetime smoking index (LSI) or cigarette per day (CPD) were used to obtain MR effect estimates. Data from 108,420 invasive breast cancer cases and 87,681 controls were used for the LSI analysis and for the CPD analysis conducted among ever-smokers from 26,147 cancer cases and 26,072 controls. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to address pleiotropy. Result(s): Genetically predicted LSI was associated with increased breast cancer risk (OR 1.18 per SD, 95% CI: 1.07-1.30, P = 0.11 x 10-2), but there was no evidence of association for genetically predicted CPD (OR 1.02, 95% CI: 0.78-1.19, P = 0.85). The sensitivity analyses yielded similar results and showed no strong evidence of pleiotropic effect. Conclusion(s): Our MR study provides supportive evidence for a potential causal association with breast cancer risk for lifetime smoking exposure but not cigarettes per day among smokers.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
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30. Functional annotation of the 2q35 breast cancer risk locus implicates a structural variant in influencing activity of a long-range enhancer element.

Author: Baxter J.S., Johnson N., Tomczyk K., Gillespie A., Maguire S., Brough R., Fachal L., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Cai Q., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chan T.L., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Choi J.-Y., Clarke C.L., Colonna S., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., Dossus L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Ghoussaini M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Guenel P., Gundert M., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartman M., Hatse S., Hauke J., Hollestelle A., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hou M.-F., Ito H., Iwasaki M., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Joseph V., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kang D., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kubelka-Sabit K., Kurian A.W., Kwong A., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Larson N.L., Larsson S.C., Le Marchand L., Lejbkowicz F., Li J., Long J., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Menon U., Milne R.L., Mohd Taib N.A., Muir K., Muranen T.A., Murphy R.A., Nevanlinna H., O'Brien K.M., Offit K., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Pylkas K., Rack B., Rennert G., Romero A., Ruebner M., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teo S.H., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Toland A.E., Tomlinson I., Truong T., Tseng C.-C., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Winham S.J., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yamaji T., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Pharoah P.D.P., Dunning A.M., Easton D.F., Pettitt S.J., Lord C.J., Haider S., Orr N., Fletcher O., Baxter J.S., Johnson N., Tomczyk K., Gillespie A., Maguire S., Brough R., Fachal L., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Cai Q., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chan T.L., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Choi J.-Y., Clarke C.L., Colonna S., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., Dossus L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Ghoussaini M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Guenel P., Gundert M., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartman M., Hatse S., Hauke J., Hollestelle A., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hou M.-F., Ito H., Iwasaki M., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Joseph V., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kang D., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kubelka-Sabit K., Kurian A.W., Kwong A., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Larson N.L., Larsson S.C., Le Marchand L., Lejbkowicz F., Li J., Long J., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Menon U., Milne R.L., Mohd Taib N.A., Muir K., Muranen T.A., Murphy R.A., Nevanlinna H., O'Brien K.M., Offit K., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Pylkas K., Rack B., Rennert G., Romero A., Ruebner M., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teo S.H., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Toland A.E., Tomlinson I., Truong T., Tseng C.-C., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Winham S.J., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yamaji T., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Pharoah P.D.P., Dunning A.M., Easton D.F., Pettitt S.J., Lord C.J., Haider S., Orr N., and Fletcher O.
Abstract: A combination of genetic and functional approaches has identified three independent breast cancer risk loci at 2q35. A recent fine-scale mapping analysis to refine these associations resulted in 1 (signal 1), 5 (signal 2), and 42 (signal 3) credible causal variants at these loci. We used publicly available in silico DNase I and ChIP-seq data with in vitro reporter gene and CRISPR assays to annotate signals 2 and 3. We identified putative regulatory elements that enhanced cell-type-specific transcription from the IGFBP5 promoter at both signals (30- to 40-fold increased expression by the putative regulatory element at signal 2, 2- to 3-fold by the putative regulatory element at signal 3). We further identified one of the five credible causal variants at signal 2, a 1.4 kb deletion (esv3594306), as the likely causal variant; the deletion allele of this variant was associated with an average additional increase in IGFBP5 expression of 1.3-fold (MCF-7) and 2.2-fold (T-47D). We propose a model in which the deletion allele of esv3594306 juxtaposes two transcription factor binding regions (annotated by estrogen receptor alpha ChIP-seq peaks) to generate a single extended regulatory element. This regulatory element increases cell-type-specific expression of the tumor suppressor gene IGFBP5 and, thereby, reduces risk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (odds ratio = 0.77, 95% CI 0.74-0.81, p = 3.1 x 10-31).Copyright © 2021 The Authors
Published: 2021

31. Breast cancer risk genes - Association analysis in more than 113,000 women.

Author: Cornelissen S., Michailidou K., Miller N., Taib N.A.M., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nordestgaard B.G., Ng P.-S., Oosterwijk J.C., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Peterlongo P., Porteous D.J., Prajzendanc K., Prokofyeva D., Radice P., Rashid M.U., Rhenius V., Rookus M.A., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schurmann P., Shah M., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Surowy H., Suvanto M., Thanasitthichai S., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Truong T., Tzardi M., Valova Y., van Asperen C.J., van Dam R.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van der Kolk L.E., van Veen E.M., Wendt C., Williams J.A., Yang X.R., Yoon S.-Y., Zamora M.P., Evans D.G., de la Hoya M., Simard J., Antoniou A.C., Borg A., Andrulis I.L., Chang-Claude J., Garcia-Closas M., Chenevix-Trench G., Milne R.L., Pharoah P.D.P., Schmidt M.K., Spurdle A.B., Vreeswijk M.P.G., Benitez J., Dunning A.M., Kvist A., Teo S.H., Devilee P., Easton D.F., Dorling L., Carvalho S., Allen J., Gonzalez-Neira A., Luccarini C., Wahlstrom C., Pooley K.A., Parsons M.T., Fortuno C., Wang Q., Bolla M.K., Dennis J., Keeman R., Alonso M.R., Alvarez N., Herraez B., Fernandez V., Nunez-Torres R., Osorio A., Valcich J., Li M., Torngren T., Harrington P.A., Baynes C., Conroy D.M., Decker B., Fachal L., Mavaddat N., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Antonenkova N.N., Arnold N., Arveux P., Ausems M.G.E.M., Auvinen P., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bogdanova-Markov N., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Bremer M., Briceno I., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Cameron D.A., Camp N.J., Campbell A., Carracedo A., Castelao J.E., Cessna M.H., Chanock S.J., Christiansen H., Collee J.M., Cordina-Duverger E., Czene K., Dork T., Ekici A.B., Engel C., Eriksson M., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Forsti A., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Georgoulias V., Gil F., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Gomez Garcia E.B., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Guenel P., Hadjisavvas A., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Hall P., Hamann U., Harkness E.F., Hartikainen J.M., Hartman M., He W., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Ho W.K., Hooning M.J., Howell A., Humphreys K., Idris F., Jakubowska A., Jung A., Kapoor P.M., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kristensen V.N., Kyriacou K., Lakeman I.M.M., Lee J.W., Lee M.H., Li J., Lindblom A., Lo W.-Y., Loizidou M.A., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., MacInnis R.J., Madsen M.J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., Mensenkamp A.R., Cornelissen S., Michailidou K., Miller N., Taib N.A.M., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nordestgaard B.G., Ng P.-S., Oosterwijk J.C., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Peterlongo P., Porteous D.J., Prajzendanc K., Prokofyeva D., Radice P., Rashid M.U., Rhenius V., Rookus M.A., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schurmann P., Shah M., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Surowy H., Suvanto M., Thanasitthichai S., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Truong T., Tzardi M., Valova Y., van Asperen C.J., van Dam R.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van der Kolk L.E., van Veen E.M., Wendt C., Williams J.A., Yang X.R., Yoon S.-Y., Zamora M.P., Evans D.G., de la Hoya M., Simard J., Antoniou A.C., Borg A., Andrulis I.L., Chang-Claude J., Garcia-Closas M., Chenevix-Trench G., Milne R.L., Pharoah P.D.P., Schmidt M.K., Spurdle A.B., Vreeswijk M.P.G., Benitez J., Dunning A.M., Kvist A., Teo S.H., Devilee P., Easton D.F., Dorling L., Carvalho S., Allen J., Gonzalez-Neira A., Luccarini C., Wahlstrom C., Pooley K.A., Parsons M.T., Fortuno C., Wang Q., Bolla M.K., Dennis J., Keeman R., Alonso M.R., Alvarez N., Herraez B., Fernandez V., Nunez-Torres R., Osorio A., Valcich J., Li M., Torngren T., Harrington P.A., Baynes C., Conroy D.M., Decker B., Fachal L., Mavaddat N., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Antonenkova N.N., Arnold N., Arveux P., Ausems M.G.E.M., Auvinen P., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bogdanova-Markov N., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Bremer M., Briceno I., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Cameron D.A., Camp N.J., Campbell A., Carracedo A., Castelao J.E., Cessna M.H., Chanock S.J., Christiansen H., Collee J.M., Cordina-Duverger E., Czene K., Dork T., Ekici A.B., Engel C., Eriksson M., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Forsti A., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Georgoulias V., Gil F., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Gomez Garcia E.B., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Guenel P., Hadjisavvas A., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Hall P., Hamann U., Harkness E.F., Hartikainen J.M., Hartman M., He W., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Ho W.K., Hooning M.J., Howell A., Humphreys K., Idris F., Jakubowska A., Jung A., Kapoor P.M., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kristensen V.N., Kyriacou K., Lakeman I.M.M., Lee J.W., Lee M.H., Li J., Lindblom A., Lo W.-Y., Loizidou M.A., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., MacInnis R.J., Madsen M.J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., and Mensenkamp A.R.
Abstract: BACKGROUND Genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility is widely used, but for many genes, evidence of an association with breast cancer is weak, underlying risk estimates are imprecise, and reliable subtype-specific risk estimates are lacking. METHODS We used a panel of 34 putative susceptibility genes to perform sequencing on samples from 60,466 women with breast cancer and 53,461 controls. In separate analyses for protein-truncating variants and rare missense variants in these genes, we estimated odds ratios for breast cancer overall and tumor subtypes. We evaluated missense-variant associations according to domain and classification of pathogenicity. RESULTS Protein-truncating variants in 5 genes (ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, and PALB2) were associated with a risk of breast cancer overall with a P value of less than 0.0001. Protein-truncating variants in 4 other genes (BARD1, RAD51C, RAD51D, and TP53) were associated with a risk of breast cancer overall with a P value of less than 0.05 and a Bayesian false-discovery probability of less than 0.05. For protein-truncating variants in 19 of the remaining 25 genes, the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval of the odds ratio for breast cancer overall was less than 2.0. For protein-truncating variants in ATM and CHEK2, odds ratios were higher for estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease than for ER-negative disease; for protein-truncating variants in BARD1, BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, RAD51C, and RAD51D, odds ratios were higher for ER-negative disease than for ER-positive disease. Rare missense variants (in aggregate) in ATM, CHEK2, and TP53 were associated with a risk of breast cancer overall with a P value of less than 0.001. For BRCA1, BRCA2, and TP53, missense variants (in aggregate) that would be classified as pathogenic according to standard criteria were associated with a risk of breast cancer overall, with the risk being similar to that of protein-truncating variants. CONCLUSIONS The results of this study define
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32. Erratum: Author Correction: A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers (Nature communications (2021) 12 1 (1078)).

Author: Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Adank M.A., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Collee J.M., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., Dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Adank M.A., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Collee J.M., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., Dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., and Antoniou A.C.
Abstract: A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23162-4.
Published: 2021

33. CYP3A7*1C allele: linking premenopausal oestrone and progesterone levels with risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers.

Author: Johnson N., Maguire S., Morra A., Kapoor P.M., Tomczyk K., Jones M.E., Schoemaker M.J., Gilham C., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baynes C., Freeman L.E.B., Beckmann M.W., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Alnaes G.I.G., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Dork T., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Floris G., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Closas M., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Bowtell D.D.L., Webb P.M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hooning M.J., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R.L., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M.C., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Linet M., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Meindl A., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Obi N., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orban E., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Pylkas K., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Ruddy K.J., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Scott C., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smichkoska S., Sohn C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Tamimi R.M., Taylor J.A., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Howie A.F., Peto J., dos-Santos-Silva I., Swerdlow A.J., Chang-Claude J., Schmidt M.K., Orr N., Fletcher O., Johnson N., Maguire S., Morra A., Kapoor P.M., Tomczyk K., Jones M.E., Schoemaker M.J., Gilham C., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baynes C., Freeman L.E.B., Beckmann M.W., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Alnaes G.I.G., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Dork T., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Floris G., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Closas M., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Bowtell D.D.L., Webb P.M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hooning M.J., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R.L., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M.C., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Linet M., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Meindl A., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Obi N., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orban E., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Pylkas K., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Ruddy K.J., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Scott C., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smichkoska S., Sohn C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Tamimi R.M., Taylor J.A., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Howie A.F., Peto J., dos-Santos-Silva I., Swerdlow A.J., Chang-Claude J., Schmidt M.K., Orr N., and Fletcher O.
Abstract: Background: Epidemiological studies provide strong evidence for a role of endogenous sex hormones in the aetiology of breast cancer. The aim of this analysis was to identify genetic variants that are associated with urinary sex-hormone levels and breast cancer risk. Method(s): We carried out a genome-wide association study of urinary oestrone-3-glucuronide and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide levels in 560 premenopausal women, with additional analysis of progesterone levels in 298 premenopausal women. To test for the association with breast cancer risk, we carried out follow-up genotyping in 90,916 cases and 89,893 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. All women were of European ancestry. Result(s): For pregnanediol-3-glucuronide, there were no genome-wide significant associations; for oestrone-3-glucuronide, we identified a single peak mapping to the CYP3A locus, annotated by rs45446698. The minor rs45446698-C allele was associated with lower oestrone-3-glucuronide (-49.2%, 95% CI -56.1% to -41.1%, P = 3.1 x 10-18); in follow-up analyses, rs45446698-C was also associated with lower progesterone (-26.7%, 95% CI -39.4% to -11.6%, P = 0.001) and reduced risk of oestrogen and progesterone receptor-positive breast cancer (OR = 0.86, 95% CI 0.82-0.91, P = 6.9 x 10-8). Conclusion(s): The CYP3A7*1C allele is associated with reduced risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer possibly mediated via an effect on the metabolism of endogenous sex hormones in premenopausal women.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

34. Polygenic risk scores and breast and epithelial ovarian cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants.

Author: Gesta P., Mulligan A.M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Niederacher D., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Nogues C., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Ong K.-R., O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan A., Osorio A., Ott C.-E., Papi L., Park S.K., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peissel B., Peixoto A., Peterlongo P., Pfeiler G., Phillips K.-A., Prajzendanc K., Pujana M.A., Radice P., Ramser J., Ramus S.J., Rantala J., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Ronlund K., Salani R., Schuster H., Senter L., Shah P.D., Sharma P., Side L.E., Singer C.F., Slavin T.P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spurdle A.B., Steinemann D., Steinsnyder Z., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Sutter C., Tan Y.Y., Teixeira M.R., Teo S.H., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Tognazzo S., Toland A.E., Trainer A.H., Tung N., van Engelen K., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Vierstraete J., Wagner G., Walker L., Wang-Gohrke S., Wappenschmidt B., Weitzel J.N., Yadav S., Yang X., Yannoukakos D., Zimbalatti D., Offit K., Thomassen M., Couch F.J., Schmutzler R.K., Simard J., Easton D.F., Antoniou A.C., GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, kConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, GENEPSO Investigators, Barnes D.R., Rookus M.A., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Mooij T.M., Dennis J., Mavaddat N., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Arnold N., Arun B.K., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Benitez J., Bialkowska K., Blanco A.M., Blok M.J., Bonanni B., Boonen S.E., Borg A., Bozsik A., Bradbury A.R., Brunet J., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Christensen L.L., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Berthet P., Colas C., Adlard J., Ahmed M., Antoniou A., Barrowdale D., Brennan P., Brewer C., Easton D., Evans D.G., Side L., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Cook J., Daly M.B., Davidson R., de la Hoya M., de Putter R., Delnatte C., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dorfling C.M., Dumont M., Eeles R., Ejlertsen B., Engel C., Faivre L., Foretova L., Fostira F., Friedlander M., Friedman E., Frost D., Ganz P.A., Garber J., Gehrig A., Gerdes A.-M., Giraud S., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gschwantler-Kaulich D., Hahnen E., Hamann U., Hanson H., Hentschel J., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hooning M.J., Horvath J., Hu C., Hulick P.J., Imyanitov E.N., Chenevix-Trench G., Spurdle A., Blok M., Devilee P., Hogervorst F., Hooning M., Mensenkamp A., Meijers-Heijboer H., Rookus M., Engelen K., Andrieu N., Isaacs C., Izatt L., Izquierdo A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Janavicius R., John E.M., Joseph V., Karlan B.Y., Kast K., Koudijs M., Kruse T.A., Kwong A., Laitman Y., Lasset C., Lazaro C., Lester J., Lesueur F., Liljegren A., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Mai P.L., Manoukian S., Mari V., Mebirouk N., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Meindl A., Mensenkamp A.R., Miller A., Montagna M., Mouret-Fourme E., Mukherjee S., Gesta P., Mulligan A.M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Niederacher D., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Nogues C., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Ong K.-R., O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan A., Osorio A., Ott C.-E., Papi L., Park S.K., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peissel B., Peixoto A., Peterlongo P., Pfeiler G., Phillips K.-A., Prajzendanc K., Pujana M.A., Radice P., Ramser J., Ramus S.J., Rantala J., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Ronlund K., Salani R., Schuster H., Senter L., Shah P.D., Sharma P., Side L.E., Singer C.F., Slavin T.P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spurdle A.B., Steinemann D., Steinsnyder Z., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Sutter C., Tan Y.Y., Teixeira M.R., Teo S.H., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Tognazzo S., Toland A.E., Trainer A.H., Tung N., van Engelen K., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Vierstraete J., Wagner G., Walker L., Wang-Gohrke S., Wappenschmidt B., Weitzel J.N., Yadav S., Yang X., Yannoukakos D., Zimbalatti D., Offit K., Thomassen M., Couch F.J., Schmutzler R.K., Simard J., Easton D.F., Antoniou A.C., GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, kConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, GENEPSO Investigators, Barnes D.R., Rookus M.A., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Mooij T.M., Dennis J., Mavaddat N., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Arnold N., Arun B.K., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Benitez J., Bialkowska K., Blanco A.M., Blok M.J., Bonanni B., Boonen S.E., Borg A., Bozsik A., Bradbury A.R., Brunet J., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Christensen L.L., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Berthet P., Colas C., Adlard J., Ahmed M., Antoniou A., Barrowdale D., Brennan P., Brewer C., Easton D., Evans D.G., Side L., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Cook J., Daly M.B., Davidson R., de la Hoya M., de Putter R., Delnatte C., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dorfling C.M., Dumont M., Eeles R., Ejlertsen B., Engel C., Faivre L., Foretova L., Fostira F., Friedlander M., Friedman E., Frost D., Ganz P.A., Garber J., Gehrig A., Gerdes A.-M., Giraud S., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gschwantler-Kaulich D., Hahnen E., Hamann U., Hanson H., Hentschel J., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hooning M.J., Horvath J., Hu C., Hulick P.J., Imyanitov E.N., Chenevix-Trench G., Spurdle A., Blok M., Devilee P., Hogervorst F., Hooning M., Mensenkamp A., Meijers-Heijboer H., Rookus M., Engelen K., Andrieu N., Isaacs C., Izatt L., Izquierdo A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Janavicius R., John E.M., Joseph V., Karlan B.Y., Kast K., Koudijs M., Kruse T.A., Kwong A., Laitman Y., Lasset C., Lazaro C., Lester J., Lesueur F., Liljegren A., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Mai P.L., Manoukian S., Mari V., Mebirouk N., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Meindl A., Mensenkamp A.R., Miller A., Montagna M., Mouret-Fourme E., and Mukherjee S.
Abstract: Purpose: We assessed the associations between population-based polygenic risk scores (PRS) for breast (BC) or epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) with cancer risks for BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. Method(s): Retrospective cohort data on 18,935 BRCA1 and 12,339 BRCA2 female pathogenic variant carriers of European ancestry were available. Three versions of a 313 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) BC PRS were evaluated based on whether they predict overall, estrogen receptor (ER)-negative, or ER-positive BC, and two PRS for overall or high-grade serous EOC. Associations were validated in a prospective cohort. Result(s): The ER-negative PRS showed the strongest association with BC risk for BRCA1 carriers (hazard ratio [HR] per standard deviation = 1.29 [95% CI 1.25-1.33], P = 3x10-72). For BRCA2, the strongest association was with overall BC PRS (HR = 1.31 [95% CI 1.27-1.36], P = 7x10-50). HR estimates decreased significantly with age and there was evidence for differences in associations by predicted variant effects on protein expression. The HR estimates were smaller than general population estimates. The high-grade serous PRS yielded the strongest associations with EOC risk for BRCA1 (HR = 1.32 [95% CI 1.25-1.40], P = 3x10-22) and BRCA2 (HR = 1.44 [95% CI 1.30-1.60], P = 4x10-12) carriers. The associations in the prospective cohort were similar. Conclusion(s): Population-based PRS are strongly associated with BC and EOC risks for BRCA1/2 carriers and predict substantial absolute risk differences for women at PRS distribution extremes.Copyright © 2020, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

35. A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers.

Author: Radice P., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R.L., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Radice P., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R.L., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., and Robson M.
Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers varies by genetic and familial factors. About 50 common variants have been shown to modify BC risk for mutation carriers. All but three, were identified in general population studies. Other mutation carrier-specific susceptibility variants may exist but studies of mutation carriers have so far been underpowered. We conduct a novel case-only genome-wide association study comparing genotype frequencies between 60,212 general population BC cases and 13,007 cases with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. We identify robust novel associations for 2 variants with BC for BRCA1 and 3 for BRCA2 mutation carriers, P < 10-8, at 5 loci, which are not associated with risk in the general population. They include rs60882887 at 11p11.2 where MADD, SP11 and EIF1, genes previously implicated in BC biology, are predicted as potential targets. These findings will contribute towards customising BC polygenic risk scores for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

36. Association of germline genetic variants with breast cancer-specific survival in patient subgroups defined by clinic-pathological variables related to tumor biology and type of systemic treatment.

Author: Morra A., Escala-Garcia M., Beesley J., Keeman R., Canisius S., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Auer P.L., Augustinsson A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Bruning T., Buys S.S., Caan B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Cheng T.-Y.D., Clarke C.L., Colonna S.V., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Dork T., Dossus L., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Giles G.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Gundert M., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hart S.N., Hartikainen J.M., Hartmann A., He W., Hooning M.J., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Jung A.Y., Kaaks R., Keupers M., Kitahara C.M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lindblom A., Linet M., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Lush M., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Michailidou K., Milne R.L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Orr N., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peissel B., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Rack B., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Roylance R., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Scott C., Shah M., Smichkoska S., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Hurson A.N., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Brauch H., Garcia-Closas M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Schmidt M.K., Morra A., Escala-Garcia M., Beesley J., Keeman R., Canisius S., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Auer P.L., Augustinsson A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Bruning T., Buys S.S., Caan B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Cheng T.-Y.D., Clarke C.L., Colonna S.V., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Dork T., Dossus L., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Giles G.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Gundert M., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hart S.N., Hartikainen J.M., Hartmann A., He W., Hooning M.J., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Jung A.Y., Kaaks R., Keupers M., Kitahara C.M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lindblom A., Linet M., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Lush M., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Michailidou K., Milne R.L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Orr N., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peissel B., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Rack B., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Roylance R., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Scott C., Shah M., Smichkoska S., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Hurson A.N., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Brauch H., Garcia-Closas M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., and Schmidt M.K.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Given the high heterogeneity among breast tumors, associations between common germline genetic variants and survival that may exist within specific subgroups could go undetected in an unstratified set of breast cancer patients. METHOD(S): We performed genome-wide association analyses within 15 subgroups of breast cancer patients based on prognostic factors, including hormone receptors, tumor grade, age, and type of systemic treatment. Analyses were based on 91,686 female patients of European ancestry from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, including 7531 breast cancer-specific deaths over a median follow-up of 8.1years. Cox regression was used to assess associations of common germline variants with 15-year and 5-year breast cancer-specific survival. We assessed the probability of these associations being true positives via the Bayesian false discovery probability (BFDP <0.15). RESULT(S): Evidence of associations with breast cancer-specific survival was observed in three patient subgroups, with variant rs5934618 in patients with grade 3 tumors (15-year-hazard ratio (HR) [95% confidence interval (CI)] 1.32 [1.20, 1.45], P = 1.4E-08, BFDP = 0.01, per G allele); variant rs4679741 in patients with ER-positive tumors treated with endocrine therapy (15-year-HR [95% CI] 1.18 [1.11, 1.26], P = 1.6E-07, BFDP = 0.09, per G allele); variants rs1106333 (15-year-HR [95% CI] 1.68 [1.39,2.03], P = 5.6E-08, BFDP = 0.12, per A allele) and rs78754389 (5-year-HR [95% CI] 1.79 [1.46,2.20], P = 1.7E-08, BFDP = 0.07, per A allele), in patients with ER-negative tumors treated with chemotherapy. CONCLUSION(S): We found evidence of four loci associated with breast cancer-specific survival within three patient subgroups. There was limited evidence for the existence of associations in other patient subgroups. However, the power for many subgroups is limited due to the low number of events. Even so, our results suggest that the impact of common germline genetic variants on br
Published: 2021

37. Breast and Prostate Cancer Risks for Male BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variant Carriers Using Polygenic Risk Scores.

Author: Barnes D.R., Silvestri V., Leslie G., McGuffog L., Dennis J., Yang X., Adlard J., Agnarsson B.A., Ahmed M., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Arason A., Arnold N., Auber B., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barrowdale D., Barwell J., Belotti M., Benitez J., Berthet P., Boonen S.E., Borg A., Bozsik A., Brady A., Brennan P., Brewer C., Brunet J., Bucalo A., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Cassingham H., Lotte Christensen L., Cini G., Claes K.B.M., Cook J., Coppa A., Cortesi L., Damante G., Darder E., Davidson R., de la Hoya M., De Leeneer K., de Putter R., Del Valle J., Diez O., Chun Ding Y., Domchek S.M., Donaldson A., Eason J., Eeles R., Engel C., Gareth Evans D., Feliubadalo L., Fostira F., Frone M., Frost D., Gallagher D., Gehrig A., Giraud S., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldgar D.E., Greene M.H., Gregory H., Gross E., Hahnen E., Hamann U., Hansen T.V.O., Hanson H., Hentschel J., Horvath J., Izatt L., Izquierdo A., James P.A., Janavicius R., Birk Jensen U., Johannsson O.T., John E.M., Kramer G., Kroeldrup L., Kruse T.A., Lautrup C., Lazaro C., Lesueur F., Lopez-Fernandez A., Mai P.L., Manoukian S., Matrai Z., Matricardi L., Maxwell K.N., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Montagna M., Monteiro A.N., Morrison P.J., Muranen T.A., Murray A., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nguyen-Dumont T., Niederacher D., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Palli D., Parsons M.T., Sokilde Pedersen I., Peissel B., Perez-Segura P., Peterlongo P., Petersen A.H., Pinto P., Porteous M.E., Pottinger C., Angel Pujana M., Radice P., Ramser J., Rantala J., Robson M., Rogers M.T., Ronlund K., Rump A., Maria Sanchez de Abajo A., Shah P.D., Sharif S., Side L.E., Singer C.F., Stadler Z., Steele L., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Sutter C., Yen Tan Y., Teixeira M.R., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Tommasi S., Toss A., Trainer A.H., Tripathi V., Valentini V., van Asperen C.J., Venturelli M., Viel A., Vijai J., Walker L., Wang-Gohrke S., Wappenschmidt B., Whaite A., Zanna I., Offit K., Thomassen M., Couch F.J., Schmutzler R.K., Simard J., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Antoniou A.C., Ottini L., Barnes D.R., Silvestri V., Leslie G., McGuffog L., Dennis J., Yang X., Adlard J., Agnarsson B.A., Ahmed M., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Arason A., Arnold N., Auber B., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barrowdale D., Barwell J., Belotti M., Benitez J., Berthet P., Boonen S.E., Borg A., Bozsik A., Brady A., Brennan P., Brewer C., Brunet J., Bucalo A., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Cassingham H., Lotte Christensen L., Cini G., Claes K.B.M., Cook J., Coppa A., Cortesi L., Damante G., Darder E., Davidson R., de la Hoya M., De Leeneer K., de Putter R., Del Valle J., Diez O., Chun Ding Y., Domchek S.M., Donaldson A., Eason J., Eeles R., Engel C., Gareth Evans D., Feliubadalo L., Fostira F., Frone M., Frost D., Gallagher D., Gehrig A., Giraud S., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldgar D.E., Greene M.H., Gregory H., Gross E., Hahnen E., Hamann U., Hansen T.V.O., Hanson H., Hentschel J., Horvath J., Izatt L., Izquierdo A., James P.A., Janavicius R., Birk Jensen U., Johannsson O.T., John E.M., Kramer G., Kroeldrup L., Kruse T.A., Lautrup C., Lazaro C., Lesueur F., Lopez-Fernandez A., Mai P.L., Manoukian S., Matrai Z., Matricardi L., Maxwell K.N., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Montagna M., Monteiro A.N., Morrison P.J., Muranen T.A., Murray A., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nguyen-Dumont T., Niederacher D., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Palli D., Parsons M.T., Sokilde Pedersen I., Peissel B., Perez-Segura P., Peterlongo P., Petersen A.H., Pinto P., Porteous M.E., Pottinger C., Angel Pujana M., Radice P., Ramser J., Rantala J., Robson M., Rogers M.T., Ronlund K., Rump A., Maria Sanchez de Abajo A., Shah P.D., Sharif S., Side L.E., Singer C.F., Stadler Z., Steele L., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Sutter C., Yen Tan Y., Teixeira M.R., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Tommasi S., Toss A., Trainer A.H., Tripathi V., Valentini V., van Asperen C.J., Venturelli M., Viel A., Vijai J., Walker L., Wang-Gohrke S., Wappenschmidt B., Whaite A., Zanna I., Offit K., Thomassen M., Couch F.J., Schmutzler R.K., Simard J., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Antoniou A.C., and Ottini L.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Recent population-based female breast cancer and prostate cancer polygenic risk scores (PRS) have been developed. We assessed the associations of these PRS with breast and prostate cancer risks for male BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. METHOD(S): 483 BRCA1 and 1,318 BRCA2 European ancestry male carriers were available from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). A 147-single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) prostate cancer PRS (PRSPC) and a 313-SNP breast cancer PRS were evaluated. There were three versions of the breast cancer PRS, optimized to predict overall (PRSBC), estrogen-receptor (ER) negative (PRSER-) or ER-positive (PRSER+) breast cancer risk. RESULT(S): PRSER+ yielded the strongest association with breast cancer risk. The odds ratios (ORs) per PRSER+ standard deviation estimates were 1.40 (95% confidence interval [CI] =1.07-1.83) for BRCA1 and 1.33 (95% CI=1.16-1.52) for BRCA2 carriers. PRSPC was associated with prostate cancer risk for both BRCA1 (OR=1.73, 95% CI=1.28-2.33) and BRCA2 (OR=1.60, 95% CI=1.34-1.91) carriers. The estimated breast cancer ORs were larger after adjusting for female relative breast cancer family history. By age 85years, for BRCA2 carriers, the breast cancer risk varied from 7.7% to 18.4% and prostate cancer risk from 34.1% to 87.6% between the 5th and 95th percentiles of the PRS distributions. CONCLUSION(S): Population-based prostate and female breast cancer PRS are associated with a wide range of absolute breast and prostate cancer risks for male BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers. These findings warrant further investigation aimed at providing personalized cancer risks for male carriers and to inform clinical management.Copyright © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press.
Published: 2021

38. Germline variants and breast cancer survival in patients with distant metastases at primary breast cancer diagnosis.

Author: Escala-Garcia M., Canisius S., Keeman R., Beesley J., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Couch F.J., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Devilee P., Dork T., Dunning A.M., Easton D.F., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Geisler J., Giles G.G., Grip M., Gundert M., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartikainen J.M., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hollestelle A., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Jacot W., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Jung A.Y., Kaaks R., Khusnutdinova E., Koppert L.B., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lindblom A., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Mavroudis D., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peterlongo P., Pharoah P.D.P., Punie K., Radice P., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Roylance R., Rudiger T., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Scott C., Southey M.C., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Teras L.R., Thomas E., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Michailidou K., Chenevix-Trench G., Bachelot T., Schmidt M.K., Escala-Garcia M., Canisius S., Keeman R., Beesley J., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Couch F.J., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Devilee P., Dork T., Dunning A.M., Easton D.F., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Geisler J., Giles G.G., Grip M., Gundert M., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartikainen J.M., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hollestelle A., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Jacot W., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Jung A.Y., Kaaks R., Khusnutdinova E., Koppert L.B., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lindblom A., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Mavroudis D., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peterlongo P., Pharoah P.D.P., Punie K., Radice P., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Roylance R., Rudiger T., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Scott C., Southey M.C., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Teras L.R., Thomas E., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Michailidou K., Chenevix-Trench G., Bachelot T., and Schmidt M.K.
Abstract: Breast cancer metastasis accounts for most of the deaths from breast cancer. Identification of germline variants associated with survival in aggressive types of breast cancer may inform understanding of breast cancer progression and assist treatment. In this analysis, we studied the associations between germline variants and breast cancer survival for patients with distant metastases at primary breast cancer diagnosis. We used data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) including 1062 women of European ancestry with metastatic breast cancer, 606 of whom died of breast cancer. We identified two germline variants on chromosome 1, rs138569520 and rs146023652, significantly associated with breast cancer-specific survival (P=3.19x10-8 and 4.42x10-8). In silico analysis suggested a potential regulatory effect of the variants on the nearby target genes SDE2 and H3F3A. However, the variants showed no evidence of association in a smaller replication dataset. The validation dataset was obtained from the SNPs to Risk of Metastasis (StoRM) study and included 293 patients with metastatic primary breast cancer at diagnosis. Ultimately, larger replication studies are needed to confirm the identified associations.Copyright © 2021. The Author(s).
Published: 2021

39. The predictive ability of the 313 variant-based polygenic risk score for contralateral breast cancer risk prediction in women of European ancestry with a heterozygous BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic variant

Author: Lakeman, IMM, van den Broek, AJ, Vos, JAM, Barnes, DR, Adlard, J, Andrulis, IL, Arason, A, Arnold, N, Arun, BK, Balmana, J, Barrowdale, D, Benitez, J, Borg, A, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Collee, JM, Couch, FJ, Daly, MB, Dennis, J, Dhawan, M, Domchek, SM, Eeles, R, Engel, C, Evans, DG, Feliubadalo, L, Foretova, L, Friedman, E, Frost, D, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Gayther, SA, Gerdes, A-M, Godwin, AK, Goldgar, DE, Hahnen, E, Hake, CR, Hamann, U, Hogervorst, FBL, Hooning, MJ, Hopper, JL, Hulick, PJ, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Izatt, L, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Janavicius, R, Jensen, UB, Jiao, Y, John, EM, Joseph, V, Karlan, BY, Kets, CM, Konstantopoulou, I, Kwong, A, Legrand, C, Leslie, G, Lesueur, F, Loud, JT, Lubinski, J, Manoukian, S, McGuffog, L, Miller, A, Gomes, DM, Montagna, M, Mouret-Fourme, E, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Yie, JNY, Olah, E, Olopade, OI, Park, SK, Parsons, MT, Peterlongo, P, Piedmonte, M, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Rennert, G, Risch, HA, Schmutzler, RK, Sharma, P, Simard, J, Singer, CF, Stadler, Z, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutter, C, Tan, YY, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Teule, A, Thomassen, M, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Tung, N, van Rensburg, EJ, Vega, A, Wappenschmidt, B, Devilee, P, van Asperen, CJ, Bernstein, JL, Offit, K, Easton, DF, Rookus, MA, Chenevix-Trench, G, Antoniou, AC, Robson, M, Schmidt, MK, Lakeman, IMM, van den Broek, AJ, Vos, JAM, Barnes, DR, Adlard, J, Andrulis, IL, Arason, A, Arnold, N, Arun, BK, Balmana, J, Barrowdale, D, Benitez, J, Borg, A, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Collee, JM, Couch, FJ, Daly, MB, Dennis, J, Dhawan, M, Domchek, SM, Eeles, R, Engel, C, Evans, DG, Feliubadalo, L, Foretova, L, Friedman, E, Frost, D, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Gayther, SA, Gerdes, A-M, Godwin, AK, Goldgar, DE, Hahnen, E, Hake, CR, Hamann, U, Hogervorst, FBL, Hooning, MJ, Hopper, JL, Hulick, PJ, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Izatt, L, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Janavicius, R, Jensen, UB, Jiao, Y, John, EM, Joseph, V, Karlan, BY, Kets, CM, Konstantopoulou, I, Kwong, A, Legrand, C, Leslie, G, Lesueur, F, Loud, JT, Lubinski, J, Manoukian, S, McGuffog, L, Miller, A, Gomes, DM, Montagna, M, Mouret-Fourme, E, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Yie, JNY, Olah, E, Olopade, OI, Park, SK, Parsons, MT, Peterlongo, P, Piedmonte, M, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Rennert, G, Risch, HA, Schmutzler, RK, Sharma, P, Simard, J, Singer, CF, Stadler, Z, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutter, C, Tan, YY, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Teule, A, Thomassen, M, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Tung, N, van Rensburg, EJ, Vega, A, Wappenschmidt, B, Devilee, P, van Asperen, CJ, Bernstein, JL, Offit, K, Easton, DF, Rookus, MA, Chenevix-Trench, G, Antoniou, AC, Robson, M, and Schmidt, MK
Abstract: PURPOSE: To evaluate the association between a previously published 313 variant-based breast cancer (BC) polygenic risk score (PRS313) and contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk, in BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant heterozygotes. METHODS: We included women of European ancestry with a prevalent first primary invasive BC (BRCA1 = 6,591 with 1,402 prevalent CBC cases; BRCA2 = 4,208 with 647 prevalent CBC cases) from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA), a large international retrospective series. Cox regression analysis was performed to assess the association between overall and ER-specific PRS313 and CBC risk. RESULTS: For BRCA1 heterozygotes the estrogen receptor (ER)-negative PRS313 showed the largest association with CBC risk, hazard ratio (HR) per SD = 1.12, 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.06-1.18), C-index = 0.53; for BRCA2 heterozygotes, this was the ER-positive PRS313, HR = 1.15, 95% CI (1.07-1.25), C-index = 0.57. Adjusting for family history, age at diagnosis, treatment, or pathological characteristics for the first BC did not change association effect sizes. For women developing first BC < age 40 years, the cumulative PRS313 5th and 95th percentile 10-year CBC risks were 22% and 32% for BRCA1 and 13% and 23% for BRCA2 heterozygotes, respectively. CONCLUSION: The PRS313 can be used to refine individual CBC risks for BRCA1/2 heterozygotes of European ancestry, however the PRS313 needs to be considered in the context of a multifactorial risk model to evaluate whether it might influence clinical decision-making.
Published: 2021

40. Breast and Prostate Cancer Risks for Male BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variant Carriers Using Polygenic Risk Scores

Author: Barnes, DR, Silvestri, V, Leslie, G, McGuffog, L, Dennis, J, Yang, X, Adlard, J, Agnarsson, BA, Ahmed, M, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Arason, A, Arnold, N, Auber, B, Azzollini, J, Balmana, J, Barkardottir, RB, Barrowdale, D, Barwell, J, Belotti, M, Benitez, J, Berthet, P, Boonen, SE, Borg, A, Bozsik, A, Brady, AF, Brennan, P, Brewer, C, Brunet, J, Bucalo, A, Buys, SS, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Cassingham, H, Christensen, LL, Cini, G, Claes, KBM, Cook, J, Coppa, A, Cortesi, L, Damante, G, Darder, E, Davidson, R, de la Hoya, M, De Leeneer, K, de Putter, R, Del Valle, J, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Domchek, SM, Donaldson, A, Eason, J, Eeles, R, Engel, C, Evans, DG, Feliubadalo, L, Fostira, F, Frone, M, Frost, D, Gallagher, D, Gehrig, A, Giraud, S, Glendon, G, Godwin, AK, Goldgar, DE, Greene, MH, Gregory, H, Gross, E, Hahnen, E, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Hanson, H, Hentschel, J, Horvath, J, Izatt, L, Izquierdo, A, James, PA, Janavicius, R, Jensen, UB, Johannsson, OT, John, EM, Kramer, G, Kroeldrup, L, Kruse, TA, Lautrup, C, Lazaro, C, Lesueur, F, Lopez-Fernandez, A, Mai, PL, Manoukian, S, Matrai, Z, Matricardi, L, Maxwell, KN, Mebirouk, N, Meindl, A, Montagna, M, Monteiro, AN, Morrison, PJ, Muranen, TA, Murray, A, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Tu, N-D, Niederacher, D, Olah, E, Olopade, O, Palli, D, Parsons, MT, Pedersen, IS, Peissel, B, Perez-Segura, P, Peterlongo, P, Petersen, AH, Pinto, P, Porteous, ME, Pottinger, C, Pujana, MA, Radice, P, Ramser, J, Rantala, J, Robson, M, Rogers, MT, Ronlund, K, Rump, A, Sanchez de Abajo, AM, Shah, PD, Sharif, S, Side, LE, Singer, CF, Stadler, Z, Steele, L, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutter, C, Tan, YY, Teixeira, MR, Teule, A, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Tommasi, S, Toss, A, Trainer, AH, Tripathi, V, Valentini, V, van Asperen, CJ, Venturelli, M, Viel, A, Vijai, J, Walker, L, Wang-Gohrke, S, Wappenschmidt, B, Whaite, A, Zanna, I, Offit, K, Thomassen, M, Couch, FJ, Schmutzler, RK, Simard, J, Easton, DF, Chenevix-Trench, G, Antoniou, AC, Ottini, L, Barnes, DR, Silvestri, V, Leslie, G, McGuffog, L, Dennis, J, Yang, X, Adlard, J, Agnarsson, BA, Ahmed, M, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Arason, A, Arnold, N, Auber, B, Azzollini, J, Balmana, J, Barkardottir, RB, Barrowdale, D, Barwell, J, Belotti, M, Benitez, J, Berthet, P, Boonen, SE, Borg, A, Bozsik, A, Brady, AF, Brennan, P, Brewer, C, Brunet, J, Bucalo, A, Buys, SS, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Cassingham, H, Christensen, LL, Cini, G, Claes, KBM, Cook, J, Coppa, A, Cortesi, L, Damante, G, Darder, E, Davidson, R, de la Hoya, M, De Leeneer, K, de Putter, R, Del Valle, J, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Domchek, SM, Donaldson, A, Eason, J, Eeles, R, Engel, C, Evans, DG, Feliubadalo, L, Fostira, F, Frone, M, Frost, D, Gallagher, D, Gehrig, A, Giraud, S, Glendon, G, Godwin, AK, Goldgar, DE, Greene, MH, Gregory, H, Gross, E, Hahnen, E, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Hanson, H, Hentschel, J, Horvath, J, Izatt, L, Izquierdo, A, James, PA, Janavicius, R, Jensen, UB, Johannsson, OT, John, EM, Kramer, G, Kroeldrup, L, Kruse, TA, Lautrup, C, Lazaro, C, Lesueur, F, Lopez-Fernandez, A, Mai, PL, Manoukian, S, Matrai, Z, Matricardi, L, Maxwell, KN, Mebirouk, N, Meindl, A, Montagna, M, Monteiro, AN, Morrison, PJ, Muranen, TA, Murray, A, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Tu, N-D, Niederacher, D, Olah, E, Olopade, O, Palli, D, Parsons, MT, Pedersen, IS, Peissel, B, Perez-Segura, P, Peterlongo, P, Petersen, AH, Pinto, P, Porteous, ME, Pottinger, C, Pujana, MA, Radice, P, Ramser, J, Rantala, J, Robson, M, Rogers, MT, Ronlund, K, Rump, A, Sanchez de Abajo, AM, Shah, PD, Sharif, S, Side, LE, Singer, CF, Stadler, Z, Steele, L, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutter, C, Tan, YY, Teixeira, MR, Teule, A, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Tommasi, S, Toss, A, Trainer, AH, Tripathi, V, Valentini, V, van Asperen, CJ, Venturelli, M, Viel, A, Vijai, J, Walker, L, Wang-Gohrke, S, Wappenschmidt, B, Whaite, A, Zanna, I, Offit, K, Thomassen, M, Couch, FJ, Schmutzler, RK, Simard, J, Easton, DF, Chenevix-Trench, G, Antoniou, AC, and Ottini, L
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Recent population-based female breast cancer and prostate cancer polygenic risk scores (PRS) have been developed. We assessed the associations of these PRS with breast and prostate cancer risks for male BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. METHODS: 483 BRCA1 and 1318 BRCA2 European ancestry male carriers were available from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). A 147-single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) prostate cancer PRS (PRSPC) and a 313-SNP breast cancer PRS were evaluated. There were 3 versions of the breast cancer PRS, optimized to predict overall (PRSBC), estrogen receptor (ER)-negative (PRSER-), or ER-positive (PRSER+) breast cancer risk. RESULTS: PRSER+ yielded the strongest association with breast cancer risk. The odds ratios (ORs) per PRSER+ standard deviation estimates were 1.40 (95% confidence interval [CI] =1.07 to 1.83) for BRCA1 and 1.33 (95% CI = 1.16 to 1.52) for BRCA2 carriers. PRSPC was associated with prostate cancer risk for BRCA1 (OR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.28 to 2.33) and BRCA2 (OR = 1.60, 95% CI = 1.34 to 1.91) carriers. The estimated breast cancer odds ratios were larger after adjusting for female relative breast cancer family history. By age 85 years, for BRCA2 carriers, the breast cancer risk varied from 7.7% to 18.4% and prostate cancer risk from 34.1% to 87.6% between the 5th and 95th percentiles of the PRS distributions. CONCLUSIONS: Population-based prostate and female breast cancer PRS are associated with a wide range of absolute breast and prostate cancer risks for male BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers. These findings warrant further investigation aimed at providing personalized cancer risks for male carriers and informing clinical management.
Published: 2021

41. Germline variants and breast cancer survival in patients with distant metastases at primary breast cancer diagnosis

Author: Escala-Garcia, M, Canisius, S, Keeman, R, Beesley, J, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Augustinsson, A, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Bermisheva, M, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Brenner, H, Canzian, F, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Couch, FJ, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Dennis, J, Devilee, P, Dork, T, Dunning, AM, Easton, DF, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, AH, Fasching, PA, Flyger, H, Gago-Dominguez, M, Garcia-Closas, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Geisler, J, Giles, GG, Grip, M, Guendert, M, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hartikainen, JM, Heemskerk-Gerritsen, BAM, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Hunter, DJ, Jacot, W, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Jung, AY, Kaaks, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Koppert, LB, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kurian, AW, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Lindblom, A, Luben, RN, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Muranen, TA, Nevanlinna, H, Olshan, AF, Olsson, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Patel, AV, Peterlongo, P, Pharoah, PDP, Punie, K, Radice, P, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Romero, A, Roylance, R, Ruediger, T, Ruebner, M, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Schoemaker, MJ, Scott, C, Southey, MC, Surowy, H, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Teras, LR, Thomas, E, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Vachon, CM, Wang, Q, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Ziogas, A, Michailidou, K, Chenevix-Trench, G, Bachelot, T, Schmidt, MK, Escala-Garcia, M, Canisius, S, Keeman, R, Beesley, J, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Augustinsson, A, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Bermisheva, M, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Brenner, H, Canzian, F, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Couch, FJ, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Dennis, J, Devilee, P, Dork, T, Dunning, AM, Easton, DF, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, AH, Fasching, PA, Flyger, H, Gago-Dominguez, M, Garcia-Closas, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Geisler, J, Giles, GG, Grip, M, Guendert, M, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hartikainen, JM, Heemskerk-Gerritsen, BAM, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Hunter, DJ, Jacot, W, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Jung, AY, Kaaks, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Koppert, LB, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kurian, AW, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Lindblom, A, Luben, RN, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Margolin, S, Mavroudis, D, Muranen, TA, Nevanlinna, H, Olshan, AF, Olsson, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Patel, AV, Peterlongo, P, Pharoah, PDP, Punie, K, Radice, P, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Romero, A, Roylance, R, Ruediger, T, Ruebner, M, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Schoemaker, MJ, Scott, C, Southey, MC, Surowy, H, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Teras, LR, Thomas, E, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Vachon, CM, Wang, Q, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Ziogas, A, Michailidou, K, Chenevix-Trench, G, Bachelot, T, and Schmidt, MK
Abstract: Breast cancer metastasis accounts for most of the deaths from breast cancer. Identification of germline variants associated with survival in aggressive types of breast cancer may inform understanding of breast cancer progression and assist treatment. In this analysis, we studied the associations between germline variants and breast cancer survival for patients with distant metastases at primary breast cancer diagnosis. We used data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) including 1062 women of European ancestry with metastatic breast cancer, 606 of whom died of breast cancer. We identified two germline variants on chromosome 1, rs138569520 and rs146023652, significantly associated with breast cancer-specific survival (P = 3.19 × 10-8 and 4.42 × 10-8). In silico analysis suggested a potential regulatory effect of the variants on the nearby target genes SDE2 and H3F3A. However, the variants showed no evidence of association in a smaller replication dataset. The validation dataset was obtained from the SNPs to Risk of Metastasis (StoRM) study and included 293 patients with metastatic primary breast cancer at diagnosis. Ultimately, larger replication studies are needed to confirm the identified associations.
Published: 2021

42. Protein truncating variants in FANCM and risk for ER-negative/triple negative breast cancer COMMENT

Author: Peterlongo, P, Figlioli, G, Deans, AJ, Couch, FJ, Peterlongo, P, Figlioli, G, Deans, AJ, and Couch, FJ
Abstract: FANCM protein truncating variants (PTVs) are emerging as risk factors for ER-negative and triple negative breast cancer. Here, we discuss evidence that greatest risk associates with PTVs, such as p.Arg658*, that extensively truncate the 2048 amino acid FANCM protein. Moreover, risks associated with other less-truncating FANCM PTVs such as p.Gln1701* and p.Gly1906Alafs12* may be amplified by additional gene variants acting as modifiers. Further studies need to be conducted taking into considerations these aspects.
Published: 2021

43. Association of germline genetic variants with breast cancer-specific survival in patient subgroups defined by clinic-pathological variables related to tumor biology and type of systemic treatment

Author: Morra, A, Escala-Garcia, M, Beesley, J, Keeman, R, Canisius, S, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Auer, PL, Augustinsson, A, Freeman, LEB, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Brenner, H, Bruening, T, Buys, SS, Caan, B, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Cheng, T-YD, Clarke, CL, Colonna, S, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Dennis, J, Dork, T, Dossus, L, Dunning, AM, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, AH, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Flyger, H, Fritschi, L, Gago-Dominguez, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Giles, GG, Grip, M, Guenel, P, Guendert, M, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hart, SN, Hartikainen, JM, Hartmann, A, He, W, Hooning, MJ, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, Hunter, DJ, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, Janni, W, John, EM, Jung, AY, Kaaks, R, Keupers, M, Kitahara, CM, Koutros, S, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kurian, AW, Lacey, J, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Lindblom, A, Linet, M, Luben, RN, Lush, M, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Margolin, S, Martens, JWM, Martinez, ME, Mavroudis, D, Michailidou, K, Milne, RL, Mulligan, AM, Muranen, TA, Nevanlinna, H, Newman, WG, Nielsen, SF, Nordestgaard, BG, Olshan, AF, Olsson, H, Orr, N, Park-Simon, T-W, Patel, A, Peissel, B, Peterlongo, P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Prajzendanc, K, Prentice, R, Presneau, N, Rack, B, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Rhenius, V, Romero, A, Roylance, R, Lubinski, J, Ruebner, M, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Schneeweiss, A, Scott, C, Shah, M, Smichkoska, S, Southey, MC, Stone, J, Surowy, H, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Teras, LR, Terry, MB, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, Wang, Q, Hurson, AN, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Ziogas, A, Brauch, H, Garcia-Closas, M, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Chenevix-Trench, G, Schmidt, MK, Morra, A, Escala-Garcia, M, Beesley, J, Keeman, R, Canisius, S, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Auer, PL, Augustinsson, A, Freeman, LEB, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Brenner, H, Bruening, T, Buys, SS, Caan, B, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Cheng, T-YD, Clarke, CL, Colonna, S, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Dennis, J, Dork, T, Dossus, L, Dunning, AM, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, AH, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Flyger, H, Fritschi, L, Gago-Dominguez, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Giles, GG, Grip, M, Guenel, P, Guendert, M, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hart, SN, Hartikainen, JM, Hartmann, A, He, W, Hooning, MJ, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, Hunter, DJ, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, Janni, W, John, EM, Jung, AY, Kaaks, R, Keupers, M, Kitahara, CM, Koutros, S, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kurian, AW, Lacey, J, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Lindblom, A, Linet, M, Luben, RN, Lush, M, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Margolin, S, Martens, JWM, Martinez, ME, Mavroudis, D, Michailidou, K, Milne, RL, Mulligan, AM, Muranen, TA, Nevanlinna, H, Newman, WG, Nielsen, SF, Nordestgaard, BG, Olshan, AF, Olsson, H, Orr, N, Park-Simon, T-W, Patel, A, Peissel, B, Peterlongo, P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Prajzendanc, K, Prentice, R, Presneau, N, Rack, B, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Rhenius, V, Romero, A, Roylance, R, Lubinski, J, Ruebner, M, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Schneeweiss, A, Scott, C, Shah, M, Smichkoska, S, Southey, MC, Stone, J, Surowy, H, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Teras, LR, Terry, MB, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, Wang, Q, Hurson, AN, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Ziogas, A, Brauch, H, Garcia-Closas, M, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Chenevix-Trench, G, and Schmidt, MK
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Given the high heterogeneity among breast tumors, associations between common germline genetic variants and survival that may exist within specific subgroups could go undetected in an unstratified set of breast cancer patients. METHODS: We performed genome-wide association analyses within 15 subgroups of breast cancer patients based on prognostic factors, including hormone receptors, tumor grade, age, and type of systemic treatment. Analyses were based on 91,686 female patients of European ancestry from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, including 7531 breast cancer-specific deaths over a median follow-up of 8.1 years. Cox regression was used to assess associations of common germline variants with 15-year and 5-year breast cancer-specific survival. We assessed the probability of these associations being true positives via the Bayesian false discovery probability (BFDP < 0.15). RESULTS: Evidence of associations with breast cancer-specific survival was observed in three patient subgroups, with variant rs5934618 in patients with grade 3 tumors (15-year-hazard ratio (HR) [95% confidence interval (CI)] 1.32 [1.20, 1.45], P = 1.4E-08, BFDP = 0.01, per G allele); variant rs4679741 in patients with ER-positive tumors treated with endocrine therapy (15-year-HR [95% CI] 1.18 [1.11, 1.26], P = 1.6E-07, BFDP = 0.09, per G allele); variants rs1106333 (15-year-HR [95% CI] 1.68 [1.39,2.03], P = 5.6E-08, BFDP = 0.12, per A allele) and rs78754389 (5-year-HR [95% CI] 1.79 [1.46,2.20], P = 1.7E-08, BFDP = 0.07, per A allele), in patients with ER-negative tumors treated with chemotherapy. CONCLUSIONS: We found evidence of four loci associated with breast cancer-specific survival within three patient subgroups. There was limited evidence for the existence of associations in other patient subgroups. However, the power for many subgroups is limited due to the low number of events. Even so, our results suggest that the impact of common germline genetic variants on breast
Published: 2021

44. CYP3A7*1C allele: linking premenopausal oestrone and progesterone levels with risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers

Author: Johnson, N, Maguire, S, Morra, A, Kapoor, PM, Tomczyk, K, Jones, ME, Schoemaker, MJ, Gilham, C, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Augustinsson, A, Baynes, C, Freeman, LEB, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Blomqvist, C, Boeckx, B, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Burwinkel, B, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Castelao, JE, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Clarke, CL, Conroy, DM, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Doerk, T, Eliassen, AH, Engel, C, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Floris, G, Flyger, H, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gapstur, SM, Garcia-Closas, M, Gaudet, MM, Giles, GG, Goldberg, MS, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Guenel, P, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Harrington, PA, Hart, SN, Hooning, MJ, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, Hunter, DJ, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Kaaks, R, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kitahara, CM, Kosma, V-M, Koutros, S, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kurian, AW, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Linet, M, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Martens, JWM, Mavroudis, D, Mayes, R, Meindl, A, Milne, RL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Newman, WG, Nielsen, SF, Nordestgaard, BG, Obi, N, Olshan, AF, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Orban, E, Park-Simon, T-W, Peterlongo, P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pylkas, K, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Ruddy, KJ, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Scott, C, Shu, X-O, Simard, J, Smichkoska, S, Sohn, C, Southey, MC, Spinelli, JJ, Stone, J, Tamimi, RM, Taylor, JA, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, van Veen, EM, Wang, SS, Weinberg, CR, Wendt, C, Wildiers, H, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Howie, AF, Peto, J, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Swerdlow, AJ, Chang-Claude, J, Schmidt, MK, Orr, N, Fletcher, O, Johnson, N, Maguire, S, Morra, A, Kapoor, PM, Tomczyk, K, Jones, ME, Schoemaker, MJ, Gilham, C, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Augustinsson, A, Baynes, C, Freeman, LEB, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Blomqvist, C, Boeckx, B, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Burwinkel, B, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Castelao, JE, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Clarke, CL, Conroy, DM, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Doerk, T, Eliassen, AH, Engel, C, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Floris, G, Flyger, H, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gapstur, SM, Garcia-Closas, M, Gaudet, MM, Giles, GG, Goldberg, MS, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Guenel, P, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Harrington, PA, Hart, SN, Hooning, MJ, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, Hunter, DJ, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Kaaks, R, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kitahara, CM, Kosma, V-M, Koutros, S, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kurian, AW, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Linet, M, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Martens, JWM, Mavroudis, D, Mayes, R, Meindl, A, Milne, RL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Newman, WG, Nielsen, SF, Nordestgaard, BG, Obi, N, Olshan, AF, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Orban, E, Park-Simon, T-W, Peterlongo, P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pylkas, K, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Ruddy, KJ, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Scott, C, Shu, X-O, Simard, J, Smichkoska, S, Sohn, C, Southey, MC, Spinelli, JJ, Stone, J, Tamimi, RM, Taylor, JA, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, van Veen, EM, Wang, SS, Weinberg, CR, Wendt, C, Wildiers, H, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Howie, AF, Peto, J, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Swerdlow, AJ, Chang-Claude, J, Schmidt, MK, Orr, N, and Fletcher, O
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies provide strong evidence for a role of endogenous sex hormones in the aetiology of breast cancer. The aim of this analysis was to identify genetic variants that are associated with urinary sex-hormone levels and breast cancer risk. METHODS: We carried out a genome-wide association study of urinary oestrone-3-glucuronide and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide levels in 560 premenopausal women, with additional analysis of progesterone levels in 298 premenopausal women. To test for the association with breast cancer risk, we carried out follow-up genotyping in 90,916 cases and 89,893 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. All women were of European ancestry. RESULTS: For pregnanediol-3-glucuronide, there were no genome-wide significant associations; for oestrone-3-glucuronide, we identified a single peak mapping to the CYP3A locus, annotated by rs45446698. The minor rs45446698-C allele was associated with lower oestrone-3-glucuronide (-49.2%, 95% CI -56.1% to -41.1%, P = 3.1 × 10-18); in follow-up analyses, rs45446698-C was also associated with lower progesterone (-26.7%, 95% CI -39.4% to -11.6%, P = 0.001) and reduced risk of oestrogen and progesterone receptor-positive breast cancer (OR = 0.86, 95% CI 0.82-0.91, P = 6.9 × 10-8). CONCLUSIONS: The CYP3A7*1C allele is associated with reduced risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer possibly mediated via an effect on the metabolism of endogenous sex hormones in premenopausal women.
Published: 2021

45. Mendelian randomisation study of smoking exposure in relation to breast cancer risk

Author: Park, HA, Neumeyer, S, Michailidou, K, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Augustinsson, A, Baten, A, Freeman, LEB, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brucker, SY, Burwinkel, B, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Castelao, JE, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Clarke, CL, Conroy, DM, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Dork, T, Dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Eliassen, AH, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Flyger, H, Fritschi, L, Garcia-Closas, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gaudet, MM, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Grip, M, Guenel, P, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Han, S, Harkness, EF, Hart, SN, He, W, Heemskerk-Gerritsen, BAM, Hopper, JL, Hunter, DJ, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Kapoor, PM, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kitahara, CM, Koppert, LB, Koutros, S, Kristensen, VN, Kurian, AW, Lacey, J, Lambrechts, D, LeMarchand, L, Lo, W-Y, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Margolin, S, ElenaMartinez, M, Mavroudis, D, Meindl, A, Menon, U, Milne, RL, Muranen, TA, Nevanlinna, H, Newman, WG, Nordestgaard, BG, Offit, K, Olshan, AF, Olsson, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Presneau, N, Radice, P, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Romero, A, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Schoemaker, MJ, Schwentner, L, Scott, C, Shah, M, Shu, X-O, Simard, J, Smeets, A, Southey, MC, Spinelli, JJ, Stevens, V, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Taylor, JA, Terry, MB, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, van Veen, EM, Vijai, J, Wang, S, Wendt, C, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Ziogas, A, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Zheng, W, Kraft, P, Chang-Claude, J, Park, HA, Neumeyer, S, Michailidou, K, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Augustinsson, A, Baten, A, Freeman, LEB, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brucker, SY, Burwinkel, B, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Castelao, JE, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Clarke, CL, Conroy, DM, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Dork, T, Dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Eliassen, AH, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Flyger, H, Fritschi, L, Garcia-Closas, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gaudet, MM, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Grip, M, Guenel, P, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Han, S, Harkness, EF, Hart, SN, He, W, Heemskerk-Gerritsen, BAM, Hopper, JL, Hunter, DJ, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, John, EM, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Kapoor, PM, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kitahara, CM, Koppert, LB, Koutros, S, Kristensen, VN, Kurian, AW, Lacey, J, Lambrechts, D, LeMarchand, L, Lo, W-Y, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Margolin, S, ElenaMartinez, M, Mavroudis, D, Meindl, A, Menon, U, Milne, RL, Muranen, TA, Nevanlinna, H, Newman, WG, Nordestgaard, BG, Offit, K, Olshan, AF, Olsson, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Presneau, N, Radice, P, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Romero, A, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Schoemaker, MJ, Schwentner, L, Scott, C, Shah, M, Shu, X-O, Simard, J, Smeets, A, Southey, MC, Spinelli, JJ, Stevens, V, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Taylor, JA, Terry, MB, Tomlinson, I, Troester, MA, Truong, T, Vachon, CM, van Veen, EM, Vijai, J, Wang, S, Wendt, C, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Ziogas, A, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Zheng, W, Kraft, P, and Chang-Claude, J
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Despite a modest association between tobacco smoking and breast cancer risk reported by recent epidemiological studies, it is still equivocal whether smoking is causally related to breast cancer risk. METHODS: We applied Mendelian randomisation (MR) to evaluate a potential causal effect of cigarette smoking on breast cancer risk. Both individual-level data as well as summary statistics for 164 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) reported in genome-wide association studies of lifetime smoking index (LSI) or cigarette per day (CPD) were used to obtain MR effect estimates. Data from 108,420 invasive breast cancer cases and 87,681 controls were used for the LSI analysis and for the CPD analysis conducted among ever-smokers from 26,147 cancer cases and 26,072 controls. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to address pleiotropy. RESULTS: Genetically predicted LSI was associated with increased breast cancer risk (OR 1.18 per SD, 95% CI: 1.07-1.30, P = 0.11 × 10-2), but there was no evidence of association for genetically predicted CPD (OR 1.02, 95% CI: 0.78-1.19, P = 0.85). The sensitivity analyses yielded similar results and showed no strong evidence of pleiotropic effect. CONCLUSION: Our MR study provides supportive evidence for a potential causal association with breast cancer risk for lifetime smoking exposure but not cigarettes per day among smokers.
Published: 2021

46. A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers (vol 12, 1078, 2021)

Author: Coignard, J, Lush, M, Beesley, J, O'Mara, TA, Dennis, J, Tyrer, JP, Barnes, DR, McGuffog, L, Leslie, G, Bolla, MK, Adank, MA, Agata, S, Ahearn, T, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Arnold, N, Aronson, KJ, Arun, BK, Augustinsson, A, Azzollini, J, Barrowdale, D, Baynes, C, Becher, H, Bermisheva, M, Bernstein, L, Bialkowska, K, Blomqvist, C, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Borg, A, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Burwinkel, B, Buys, SS, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Campa, D, Carter, BD, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Clarke, CL, Collee, JM, Conroy, DM, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Domchek, SM, Doerk, T, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dunning, AM, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Eliassen, AH, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Friedman, E, Fritschi, L, Frost, D, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gapstur, SM, Garber, J, Garcia-Barberan, V, Garcia-Closas, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gaudet, MM, Gayther, SA, Gehrig, A, Georgoulias, V, Giles, GG, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Greene, MH, Guenel, P, Haeberle, L, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Harrington, PA, Hart, SN, He, W, Hogervorst, FBL, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Horcasitas, DJ, Hulick, PJ, Hunter, DJ, Imyanitov, EN, Fox, S, van der Hout, AH, Clarke, C, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Jensen, UB, John, EM, Jones, ME, Kaaks, R, Kapoor, PM, Karlan, BY, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiiski, JI, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Kraft, P, Kurian, AW, Laitman, Y, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Lester, J, Lesueur, F, Lindstrom, T, Lopez-Fernandez, A, Loud, JT, Luccarini, C, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Martens, JWM, Mebirouk, N, Meindl, A, Miller, A, Milne, RL, Montagna, M, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nielsen, FC, O'Brien, KM, Olopade, OI, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Ottini, L, Park-Simon, T-W, Parsons, MT, Pedersen, IS, Peshkin, B, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Pharoah, PDP, Phillips, K-A, Polley, EC, Poppe, B, Presneau, N, Pujana, MA, Punie, K, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Rashid, MU, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Robson, M, Romero, A, Rossing, M, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Santella, R, Scheuner, MT, Schmidt, MK, Schmidt, G, Scott, C, Sharma, P, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Spinelli, JJ, Steinsnyder, Z, Stone, J, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Swerdlow, A, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Taylor, JA, Terry, MB, Teule, A, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Trainer, AH, Truong, T, Tung, N, Vachon, CM, Vega, A, Vijai, J, Wang, Q, Wappenschmidt, B, Weinberg, CR, Weitzel, JN, Wendt, C, Wolk, A, Yadav, S, Yang, XR, Yannoukakos, D, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Park, SK, Thomassen, M, Offit, K, Schmutzler, RK, Couch, FJ, Simard, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Easton, DF, Andrieu, N, Antoniou, AC, Coignard, J, Lush, M, Beesley, J, O'Mara, TA, Dennis, J, Tyrer, JP, Barnes, DR, McGuffog, L, Leslie, G, Bolla, MK, Adank, MA, Agata, S, Ahearn, T, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Arnold, N, Aronson, KJ, Arun, BK, Augustinsson, A, Azzollini, J, Barrowdale, D, Baynes, C, Becher, H, Bermisheva, M, Bernstein, L, Bialkowska, K, Blomqvist, C, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Borg, A, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Burwinkel, B, Buys, SS, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Campa, D, Carter, BD, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Clarke, CL, Collee, JM, Conroy, DM, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Domchek, SM, Doerk, T, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dunning, AM, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Eliassen, AH, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Friedman, E, Fritschi, L, Frost, D, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gapstur, SM, Garber, J, Garcia-Barberan, V, Garcia-Closas, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gaudet, MM, Gayther, SA, Gehrig, A, Georgoulias, V, Giles, GG, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Greene, MH, Guenel, P, Haeberle, L, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Harrington, PA, Hart, SN, He, W, Hogervorst, FBL, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Horcasitas, DJ, Hulick, PJ, Hunter, DJ, Imyanitov, EN, Fox, S, van der Hout, AH, Clarke, C, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Jensen, UB, John, EM, Jones, ME, Kaaks, R, Kapoor, PM, Karlan, BY, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiiski, JI, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Kraft, P, Kurian, AW, Laitman, Y, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Lester, J, Lesueur, F, Lindstrom, T, Lopez-Fernandez, A, Loud, JT, Luccarini, C, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Martens, JWM, Mebirouk, N, Meindl, A, Miller, A, Milne, RL, Montagna, M, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nielsen, FC, O'Brien, KM, Olopade, OI, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Ottini, L, Park-Simon, T-W, Parsons, MT, Pedersen, IS, Peshkin, B, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Pharoah, PDP, Phillips, K-A, Polley, EC, Poppe, B, Presneau, N, Pujana, MA, Punie, K, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Rashid, MU, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Robson, M, Romero, A, Rossing, M, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Santella, R, Scheuner, MT, Schmidt, MK, Schmidt, G, Scott, C, Sharma, P, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Spinelli, JJ, Steinsnyder, Z, Stone, J, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Swerdlow, A, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Taylor, JA, Terry, MB, Teule, A, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Trainer, AH, Truong, T, Tung, N, Vachon, CM, Vega, A, Vijai, J, Wang, Q, Wappenschmidt, B, Weinberg, CR, Weitzel, JN, Wendt, C, Wolk, A, Yadav, S, Yang, XR, Yannoukakos, D, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Park, SK, Thomassen, M, Offit, K, Schmutzler, RK, Couch, FJ, Simard, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Easton, DF, Andrieu, N, and Antoniou, AC
Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers varies by genetic and familial factors. About 50 common variants have been shown to modify BC risk for mutation carriers. All but three, were identified in general population studies. Other mutation carrier-specific susceptibility variants may exist but studies of mutation carriers have so far been underpowered. We conduct a novel case-only genome-wide association study comparing genotype frequencies between 60,212 general population BC cases and 13,007 cases with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. We identify robust novel associations for 2 variants with BC for BRCA1 and 3 for BRCA2 mutation carriers, P < 10-8, at 5 loci, which are not associated with risk in the general population. They include rs60882887 at 11p11.2 where MADD, SP11 and EIF1, genes previously implicated in BC biology, are predicted as potential targets. These findings will contribute towards customising BC polygenic risk scores for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Published: 2021

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

Author: Baxter, JS, Johnson, N, Tomczyk, K, Gillespie, A, Maguire, S, Brough, R, Fachal, L, Michailidou, K, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Augustinsson, A, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Brenner, H, Brucker, SY, Cai, Q, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Castelao, JE, Chan, TL, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Choi, J-Y, Clarke, CL, Collaborators, N, Colonna, S, Conroy, DM, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Doerk, T, Dossus, L, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, AH, Engel, C, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flyger, H, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gao, C, Garcia-Closas, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Ghoussaini, M, Giles, GG, Goldberg, MS, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Guenel, P, Guendert, M, Haeberle, L, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hartman, M, Hatse, S, Hauke, J, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Hou, M-F, Ito, H, Iwasaki, M, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, Janni, W, John, EM, Joseph, V, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Kang, D, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kim, S-W, Kosma, V-M, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kubelka-Sabit, K, Kurian, AW, Kwong, A, Lacey, J, Lambrechts, D, Larson, NL, Larsson, SC, Le Marchand, L, Lejbkowicz, F, Li, J, Long, J, Lophatananon, A, LubiNski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Matsuo, K, Mavroudis, D, Mayes, R, Menon, U, Milne, RL, Taib, NAM, Muir, K, Muranen, TA, Murphy, RA, Nevanlinna, H, O'Brien, KM, Offit, K, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Park, SK, Park-Simon, T-W, Patel, A, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Presneau, N, Pylkas, K, Rack, B, Rennert, G, Romero, A, Ruebner, M, Ruediger, T, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Schneeweiss, A, Schoemaker, MJ, Shah, M, Shen, C-Y, Shu, X-O, Simard, J, Southey, MC, Stone, J, Surowy, H, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Taylor, JA, Teo, SH, Teras, LR, Terry, MB, Toland, AE, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tseng, C-C, Untch, M, Vachon, CM, van den Ouweland, AMW, Wang, SS, Weinberg, CR, Wendt, C, Winham, SJ, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Wu, AH, Yamaji, T, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Pharoah, PDP, Dunning, AM, Easton, DF, Pettitt, SJ, Lord, CJ, Haider, S, Orr, N, Fletcher, O, Baxter, JS, Johnson, N, Tomczyk, K, Gillespie, A, Maguire, S, Brough, R, Fachal, L, Michailidou, K, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Ahearn, TU, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Augustinsson, A, Becher, H, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Brenner, H, Brucker, SY, Cai, Q, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Castelao, JE, Chan, TL, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Choi, J-Y, Clarke, CL, Collaborators, N, Colonna, S, Conroy, DM, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Doerk, T, Dossus, L, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, AH, Engel, C, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flyger, H, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gao, C, Garcia-Closas, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Ghoussaini, M, Giles, GG, Goldberg, MS, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Guenel, P, Guendert, M, Haeberle, L, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hartman, M, Hatse, S, Hauke, J, Hollestelle, A, Hoppe, R, Hopper, JL, Hou, M-F, Ito, H, Iwasaki, M, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, Janni, W, John, EM, Joseph, V, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Kang, D, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kim, S-W, Kosma, V-M, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kubelka-Sabit, K, Kurian, AW, Kwong, A, Lacey, J, Lambrechts, D, Larson, NL, Larsson, SC, Le Marchand, L, Lejbkowicz, F, Li, J, Long, J, Lophatananon, A, LubiNski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Matsuo, K, Mavroudis, D, Mayes, R, Menon, U, Milne, RL, Taib, NAM, Muir, K, Muranen, TA, Murphy, RA, Nevanlinna, H, O'Brien, KM, Offit, K, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Park, SK, Park-Simon, T-W, Patel, A, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Presneau, N, Pylkas, K, Rack, B, Rennert, G, Romero, A, Ruebner, M, Ruediger, T, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Schneeweiss, A, Schoemaker, MJ, Shah, M, Shen, C-Y, Shu, X-O, Simard, J, Southey, MC, Stone, J, Surowy, H, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Taylor, JA, Teo, SH, Teras, LR, Terry, MB, Toland, AE, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tseng, C-C, Untch, M, Vachon, CM, van den Ouweland, AMW, Wang, SS, Weinberg, CR, Wendt, C, Winham, SJ, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Wu, AH, Yamaji, T, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Pharoah, PDP, Dunning, AM, Easton, DF, Pettitt, SJ, Lord, CJ, Haider, S, Orr, N, and Fletcher, O
Abstract: A combination of genetic and functional approaches has identified three independent breast cancer risk loci at 2q35. A recent fine-scale mapping analysis to refine these associations resulted in 1 (signal 1), 5 (signal 2), and 42 (signal 3) credible causal variants at these loci. We used publicly available in silico DNase I and ChIP-seq data with in vitro reporter gene and CRISPR assays to annotate signals 2 and 3. We identified putative regulatory elements that enhanced cell-type-specific transcription from the IGFBP5 promoter at both signals (30- to 40-fold increased expression by the putative regulatory element at signal 2, 2- to 3-fold by the putative regulatory element at signal 3). We further identified one of the five credible causal variants at signal 2, a 1.4 kb deletion (esv3594306), as the likely causal variant; the deletion allele of this variant was associated with an average additional increase in IGFBP5 expression of 1.3-fold (MCF-7) and 2.2-fold (T-47D). We propose a model in which the deletion allele of esv3594306 juxtaposes two transcription factor binding regions (annotated by estrogen receptor alpha ChIP-seq peaks) to generate a single extended regulatory element. This regulatory element increases cell-type-specific expression of the tumor suppressor gene IGFBP5 and, thereby, reduces risk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (odds ratio = 0.77, 95% CI 0.74-0.81, p = 3.1 × 10-31).
Published: 2021

48. The predictive ability of the 313 variant-based polygenic risk score for contralateral breast cancer risk prediction in women of European ancestry with a heterozygous BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic variant

Author: Lakeman, I.M.M., Broek, A.J. van den, Vos, Janet R., Barnes, D.R., Adlard, J., Andrulis, I.L., Arason, A., Arnold, N., Arun, B.K., Balmaña, J., Barrowdale, D., Benitez, J., Borg, A., Caldés, T., Caligo, M.A., Chung, W.K., Claes, K.B.M., Collée, J.M., Couch, F.J., Daly, M.B., Dennis, J., Dhawan, M., Domchek, S.M., Eeles, R., Engel, C., Evans, D.G., Feliubadaló, L., Foretova, L., Friedman, E., Frost, D., Ganz, P.A., Garber, J., Gayther, S.A., Gerdes, A.M., Godwin, A.K., Goldgar, D.E., Hahnen, E., Hake, C.R., Hamann, U., Hogervorst, F.B., Hooning, M.J., Hopper, J.L., Hulick, P.J., Imyanitov, E.N., Isaacs, C., Izatt, L., Jakubowska, A., James, P.A., Janavicius, R., Jensen, U.B., Jiao, Y., John, E.M., Joseph, V., Karlan, B.Y., Kets, C.M., Konstantopoulou, I., Kwong, A., Legrand, C., Leslie, G., Lesueur, F., Loud, J.T., Lubiński, J., Manoukian, S., McGuffog, L., Miller, A., Gomes, D.M., Montagna, M., Mouret-Fourme, E., Nathanson, K.L., Neuhausen, S.L., Nevanlinna, H., Yie, J.N.Y., Olah, E., Olopade, O.I., Park, S.K., Parsons, M.T., Peterlongo, P., Piedmonte, M., Radice, P., Rantala, J., Rennert, G., Risch, H.A., Schmutzler, R.K., Sharma, P., Simard, J., Singer, C.F., Stadler, Z., Stoppa-Lyonnet, D., Sutter, C., Tan, Y.Y., Teixeira, M.R., Teo, S.H., Teulé, A., Thomassen, M., Thull, D.L., Tischkowitz, M., Toland, A.E., Tung, N., Rensburg, E.J. van, Vega, A., Robson, M., Schmidt, M.K., Lakeman, I.M.M., Broek, A.J. van den, Vos, Janet R., Barnes, D.R., Adlard, J., Andrulis, I.L., Arason, A., Arnold, N., Arun, B.K., Balmaña, J., Barrowdale, D., Benitez, J., Borg, A., Caldés, T., Caligo, M.A., Chung, W.K., Claes, K.B.M., Collée, J.M., Couch, F.J., Daly, M.B., Dennis, J., Dhawan, M., Domchek, S.M., Eeles, R., Engel, C., Evans, D.G., Feliubadaló, L., Foretova, L., Friedman, E., Frost, D., Ganz, P.A., Garber, J., Gayther, S.A., Gerdes, A.M., Godwin, A.K., Goldgar, D.E., Hahnen, E., Hake, C.R., Hamann, U., Hogervorst, F.B., Hooning, M.J., Hopper, J.L., Hulick, P.J., Imyanitov, E.N., Isaacs, C., Izatt, L., Jakubowska, A., James, P.A., Janavicius, R., Jensen, U.B., Jiao, Y., John, E.M., Joseph, V., Karlan, B.Y., Kets, C.M., Konstantopoulou, I., Kwong, A., Legrand, C., Leslie, G., Lesueur, F., Loud, J.T., Lubiński, J., Manoukian, S., McGuffog, L., Miller, A., Gomes, D.M., Montagna, M., Mouret-Fourme, E., Nathanson, K.L., Neuhausen, S.L., Nevanlinna, H., Yie, J.N.Y., Olah, E., Olopade, O.I., Park, S.K., Parsons, M.T., Peterlongo, P., Piedmonte, M., Radice, P., Rantala, J., Rennert, G., Risch, H.A., Schmutzler, R.K., Sharma, P., Simard, J., Singer, C.F., Stadler, Z., Stoppa-Lyonnet, D., Sutter, C., Tan, Y.Y., Teixeira, M.R., Teo, S.H., Teulé, A., Thomassen, M., Thull, D.L., Tischkowitz, M., Toland, A.E., Tung, N., Rensburg, E.J. van, Vega, A., Robson, M., and Schmidt, M.K.
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 244113.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), PURPOSE: To evaluate the association between a previously published 313 variant-based breast cancer (BC) polygenic risk score (PRS(313)) and contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk, in BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant heterozygotes. METHODS: We included women of European ancestry with a prevalent first primary invasive BC (BRCA1 = 6,591 with 1,402 prevalent CBC cases; BRCA2 = 4,208 with 647 prevalent CBC cases) from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA), a large international retrospective series. Cox regression analysis was performed to assess the association between overall and ER-specific PRS(313) and CBC risk. RESULTS: For BRCA1 heterozygotes the estrogen receptor (ER)-negative PRS(313) showed the largest association with CBC risk, hazard ratio (HR) per SD = 1.12, 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.06-1.18), C-index = 0.53; for BRCA2 heterozygotes, this was the ER-positive PRS(313), HR = 1.15, 95% CI (1.07-1.25), C-index = 0.57. Adjusting for family history, age at diagnosis, treatment, or pathological characteristics for the first BC did not change association effect sizes. For women developing first BC < age 40 years, the cumulative PRS(313) 5th and 95th percentile 10-year CBC risks were 22% and 32% for BRCA1 and 13% and 23% for BRCA2 heterozygotes, respectively. CONCLUSION: The PRS(313) can be used to refine individual CBC risks for BRCA1/2 heterozygotes of European ancestry, however the PRS(313) needs to be considered in the context of a multifactorial risk model to evaluate whether it might influence clinical decision-making.
Published: 2021

49. Pleiotropy-guided transcriptome imputation from normal and tumor tissues identifies candidate susceptibility genes for breast and ovarian cancer

Author: Kar, S.P., Considine, D.P.C., Tyrer, J.P., Plummer, J.T., Chen, S., Dezem, F.S., Barbeira, A.N., Rajagopal, P.S., Rosenow, W.T., Moreno, F., Bodelon, C., Chang-Claude, J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Defazio, A., Dörk, T., Ekici, A.B., Ewing, A., Fountzilas, G., Goode, E.L., Hartman, M, Heitz, F., Hillemanns, P., Høgdall, E., Høgdall, C.K., Huzarski, T., Jensen, A., Karlan, B.Y., Khusnutdinova, E., Kiemeney, L.A.L.M., Kjaer, S.K., Klapdor, R., Köbel, M., Li, J., Liebrich, C., May, T., Olsson, H., Permuth, J.B., Peterlongo, P., Radice, P., Ramus, S.J., Riggan, M.J., Risch, H.A., Saloustros, E., Simard, J., Szafron, L.M., Titus, L., Thompson, C.L., Vierkant, R.A., Winham, S.J., Zheng, W., Doherty, J.A., Berchuck, A., Lawrenson, K., Im, H.K., Manichaikul, A.W., Pharoah, P.D., Gayther, S.A., Schildkraut, J.M., Kar, S.P., Considine, D.P.C., Tyrer, J.P., Plummer, J.T., Chen, S., Dezem, F.S., Barbeira, A.N., Rajagopal, P.S., Rosenow, W.T., Moreno, F., Bodelon, C., Chang-Claude, J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Defazio, A., Dörk, T., Ekici, A.B., Ewing, A., Fountzilas, G., Goode, E.L., Hartman, M, Heitz, F., Hillemanns, P., Høgdall, E., Høgdall, C.K., Huzarski, T., Jensen, A., Karlan, B.Y., Khusnutdinova, E., Kiemeney, L.A.L.M., Kjaer, S.K., Klapdor, R., Köbel, M., Li, J., Liebrich, C., May, T., Olsson, H., Permuth, J.B., Peterlongo, P., Radice, P., Ramus, S.J., Riggan, M.J., Risch, H.A., Saloustros, E., Simard, J., Szafron, L.M., Titus, L., Thompson, C.L., Vierkant, R.A., Winham, S.J., Zheng, W., Doherty, J.A., Berchuck, A., Lawrenson, K., Im, H.K., Manichaikul, A.W., Pharoah, P.D., Gayther, S.A., and Schildkraut, J.M.
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 237689.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access), Familial, sequencing, and genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and genetic correlation analyses have progressively unraveled the shared or pleiotropic germline genetics of breast and ovarian cancer. In this study, we aimed to leverage this shared germline genetics to improve the power of transcriptome-wide association studies (TWASs) to identify candidate breast cancer and ovarian cancer susceptibility genes. We built gene expression prediction models using the PrediXcan method in 681 breast and 295 ovarian tumors from The Cancer Genome Atlas and 211 breast and 99 ovarian normal tissue samples from the Genotype-Tissue Expression project and integrated these with GWAS meta-analysis data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (122,977 cases/105,974 controls) and the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (22,406 cases/40,941 controls). The integration was achieved through application of a pleiotropy-guided conditional/conjunction false discovery rate (FDR) approach in the setting of a TWASs. This identified 14 candidate breast cancer susceptibility genes spanning 11 genomic regions and 8 candidate ovarian cancer susceptibility genes spanning 5 genomic regions at conjunction FDR < 0.05 that were >1 Mb away from known breast and/or ovarian cancer susceptibility loci. We also identified 38 candidate breast cancer susceptibility genes and 17 candidate ovarian cancer susceptibility genes at conjunction FDR < 0.05 at known breast and/or ovarian susceptibility loci. The 22 genes identified by our cross-cancer analysis represent promising candidates that further elucidate the role of the transcriptome in mediating germline breast and ovarian cancer risk.
Published: 2021

50. A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers.

Author: Coignard, J, Lush, M, Beesley, J, O'Mara, TA, Dennis, J, Tyrer, JP, Barnes, DR, McGuffog, L, Leslie, G, Bolla, MK, Adank, MA, Agata, S, Ahearn, T, Aittomäki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Arnold, N, Aronson, KJ, Arun, BK, Augustinsson, A, Azzollini, J, Barrowdale, D, Baynes, C, Becher, H, Bermisheva, M, Bernstein, L, Białkowska, K, Blomqvist, C, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Borg, A, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Burwinkel, B, Buys, SS, Caldés, T, Caligo, MA, Campa, D, Carter, BD, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Clarke, CL, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, Collée, JM, Conroy, DM, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Domchek, SM, Dörk, T, Dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dunning, AM, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Eliassen, AH, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Friedman, E, Fritschi, L, Frost, D, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gapstur, SM, Garber, J, Garcia-Barberan, V, García-Closas, M, García-Sáenz, JA, Gaudet, MM, Gayther, SA, Gehrig, A, Georgoulias, V, Giles, GG, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, González-Neira, A, Greene, MH, Guénel, P, Haeberle, L, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Håkansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Harrington, PA, Hart, SN, He, W, Hogervorst, FBL, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Horcasitas, DJ, Hulick, PJ, Hunter, DJ, Imyanitov, EN, KConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Jensen, UB, John, EM, Jones, ME, Kaaks, R, Kapoor, PM, Karlan, BY, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiiski, JI, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Kraft, P, Kurian, AW, Laitman, Y, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Lester, J, Lesueur, F, Lindstrom, T, Lopez-Fernández, A, Loud, JT, Luccarini, C, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Martens, JWM, Mebirouk, N, Meindl, A, Miller, A, Milne, RL, Montagna, M, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nielsen, FC, O'Brien, KM, Olopade, OI, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Ottini, L, Park-Simon, T-W, Parsons, MT, Pedersen, IS, Peshkin, B, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Pharoah, PDP, Phillips, K-A, Polley, EC, Poppe, B, Presneau, N, Pujana, MA, Punie, K, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Rashid, MU, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Robson, M, Romero, A, Rossing, M, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Santella, R, Scheuner, MT, Schmidt, MK, Schmidt, G, Scott, C, Sharma, P, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Spinelli, JJ, Steinsnyder, Z, Stone, J, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Swerdlow, A, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Taylor, JA, Terry, MB, Teulé, A, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Trainer, AH, Truong, T, Tung, N, Vachon, CM, Vega, A, Vijai, J, Wang, Q, Wappenschmidt, B, Weinberg, CR, Weitzel, JN, Wendt, C, Wolk, A, Yadav, S, Yang, XR, Yannoukakos, D, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Park, SK, Thomassen, M, Offit, K, Schmutzler, RK, Couch, FJ, Simard, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Easton, DF, Andrieu, N, Antoniou, AC, Coignard, J, Lush, M, Beesley, J, O'Mara, TA, Dennis, J, Tyrer, JP, Barnes, DR, McGuffog, L, Leslie, G, Bolla, MK, Adank, MA, Agata, S, Ahearn, T, Aittomäki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Arnold, N, Aronson, KJ, Arun, BK, Augustinsson, A, Azzollini, J, Barrowdale, D, Baynes, C, Becher, H, Bermisheva, M, Bernstein, L, Białkowska, K, Blomqvist, C, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Borg, A, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Burwinkel, B, Buys, SS, Caldés, T, Caligo, MA, Campa, D, Carter, BD, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Clarke, CL, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, Collée, JM, Conroy, DM, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Domchek, SM, Dörk, T, Dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dunning, AM, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Eliassen, AH, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Friedman, E, Fritschi, L, Frost, D, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gapstur, SM, Garber, J, Garcia-Barberan, V, García-Closas, M, García-Sáenz, JA, Gaudet, MM, Gayther, SA, Gehrig, A, Georgoulias, V, Giles, GG, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, González-Neira, A, Greene, MH, Guénel, P, Haeberle, L, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Håkansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Harrington, PA, Hart, SN, He, W, Hogervorst, FBL, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Horcasitas, DJ, Hulick, PJ, Hunter, DJ, Imyanitov, EN, KConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, Jager, A, Jakubowska, A, James, PA, Jensen, UB, John, EM, Jones, ME, Kaaks, R, Kapoor, PM, Karlan, BY, Keeman, R, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiiski, JI, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Kraft, P, Kurian, AW, Laitman, Y, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Lester, J, Lesueur, F, Lindstrom, T, Lopez-Fernández, A, Loud, JT, Luccarini, C, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Martens, JWM, Mebirouk, N, Meindl, A, Miller, A, Milne, RL, Montagna, M, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nielsen, FC, O'Brien, KM, Olopade, OI, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Ottini, L, Park-Simon, T-W, Parsons, MT, Pedersen, IS, Peshkin, B, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Pharoah, PDP, Phillips, K-A, Polley, EC, Poppe, B, Presneau, N, Pujana, MA, Punie, K, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Rashid, MU, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Robson, M, Romero, A, Rossing, M, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Santella, R, Scheuner, MT, Schmidt, MK, Schmidt, G, Scott, C, Sharma, P, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Spinelli, JJ, Steinsnyder, Z, Stone, J, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Swerdlow, A, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Taylor, JA, Terry, MB, Teulé, A, Thull, DL, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Trainer, AH, Truong, T, Tung, N, Vachon, CM, Vega, A, Vijai, J, Wang, Q, Wappenschmidt, B, Weinberg, CR, Weitzel, JN, Wendt, C, Wolk, A, Yadav, S, Yang, XR, Yannoukakos, D, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Park, SK, Thomassen, M, Offit, K, Schmutzler, RK, Couch, FJ, Simard, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Easton, DF, Andrieu, N, and Antoniou, AC
Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers varies by genetic and familial factors. About 50 common variants have been shown to modify BC risk for mutation carriers. All but three, were identified in general population studies. Other mutation carrier-specific susceptibility variants may exist but studies of mutation carriers have so far been underpowered. We conduct a novel case-only genome-wide association study comparing genotype frequencies between 60,212 general population BC cases and 13,007 cases with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. We identify robust novel associations for 2 variants with BC for BRCA1 and 3 for BRCA2 mutation carriers, P < 10-8, at 5 loci, which are not associated with risk in the general population. They include rs60882887 at 11p11.2 where MADD, SP11 and EIF1, genes previously implicated in BC biology, are predicted as potential targets. These findings will contribute towards customising BC polygenic risk scores for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Published: 2021

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