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1. Additional file 2 of Mendelian randomization analysis of factors related to ovulation and reproductive function and endometrial cancer risk

Author: D’Urso, Shannon, Arumugam, Pooja, Weider, Therese, Hwang, Liang-Dar, Bond, Tom A., Kemp, John P., Warrington, Nicole M., Evans, David M., O’Mara, Tracy A., and Moen, Gunn-Helen
Abstract: Additional file 2.
Published: 2022
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2. Additional file 3 of Identifying molecular mediators of the relationship between body mass index and endometrial cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis

Author: Hazelwood, Emma, Sanderson, Eleanor, Tan, Vanessa Y., Ruth, Katherine S., Frayling, Timothy M., Dimou, Niki, Gunter, Marc J., Dossus, Laure, Newton, Claire, Ryan, Neil, Pournaras, Dimitri J., O’Mara, Tracy A., Davey Smith, George, Martin, Richard M., and Yarmolinsky, James
Abstract: Additional file 3: Appendix S16. STROBE-MR checklist of recommended items to address in reports of Mendelian randomization studies.
Published: 2022
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3. Additional file 1 of Identifying molecular mediators of the relationship between body mass index and endometrial cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis

Author: Hazelwood, Emma, Sanderson, Eleanor, Tan, Vanessa Y., Ruth, Katherine S., Frayling, Timothy M., Dimou, Niki, Gunter, Marc J., Dossus, Laure, Newton, Claire, Ryan, Neil, Pournaras, Dimitri J., O’Mara, Tracy A., Davey Smith, George, Martin, Richard M., and Yarmolinsky, James
Abstract: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. Supplementary methods. Appendix S2. List of unique molecular traits identified from literature search. Appendix S3. PubMed search terms for literature review. Table S4. Additional information on GWAS, including covariates adjusted for. Table S6. Results of female BMI sensitivity analysis MR. Table S7. Results of female-specific SNP fasting insulin sensitivity analysis MR. Table S8. Results of female-specific SNP BMI sensitivity mediation analysis. Table S9. Results of female-specific SNP fasting insulin mediation analysis. Table S10. Results of post-hoc power analysis for MR of all molecular traits on endometrial cancer risk, and BMI on all traits confirmed to have a causal effect on endometrial cancer. Table S11. Conditional F-statistics with different levels of genetic correlation for SHBG and bioavailable testosterone and BMI in multivariable Mendelian randomization analyses. Table S12. Conditional F-statistics for fasting insulin (adjusted for BMI) and BMI with differing thresholds used to construct fasting insulin. Table S13. Conditional F-statistics for multivariable Mendelian randomization of BMI and mediators on endometrial cancer risk. Table S14. Conditional F-statistics for further multivariable Mendelian randomization analyses. Table S15. Sample overlap between GWAS. Figure S17. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of adult BMI on overall endometrial cancer risk. Table S18. Results from sensitivity analyses examining the influence of Winner’s curse on GWAS with overlapping samples. Table S19. Results from sensitivity analyses examining the influence of Winner’s curse on GWAS with overlapping samples in analyses determining the mediating role of traits in the relationship between BMI and endometrial cancer risk. Figure S20. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of adult BMI on endometrioid endometrial cancer risk. Figure S21. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of adult BMI on non-endometrioid endometrial cancer risk. Figure S22. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of total testosterone level on endometrial cancer risk. Figure S23. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of bioavailable testosterone level on endometrial cancer risk. Figure S24. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of fasting insulin level on endometrial cancer risk. Figure S25. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of SHBG level on endometrial cancer risk. Figure S26. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of total serum cholesterol level on endometrial cancer risk. Table S27. Results of female-specific SNP CRP sensitivity analysis MR. Figure S28. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of total testosterone level on endometrioid endometrial cancer risk. Figure S29. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of bioavailable testosterone level on endometrioid endometrial cancer risk. Figure S30. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of fasting insulin level on endometrioid endometrial cancer risk. Figure S31. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of SHBG level on endometrioid endometrial cancer risk. Figure S32. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of adult BMI on fasting insulin level. Figure S33. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of adult BMI on SHBG level. Figure S34. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of adult BMI on bioavailable testosterone level. Figure S35. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of adult BMI on total serum cholesterol level. Figure S36. Leave-one-out analysis for MR examining the effect of adult BMI on C-reactive protein level. Table S37. Results of multivariable MR mediation analysis examining the effect of BMI and endometrial cancer with fasting insulin as a potential mediator with BMI-adjusted fasting insulin instrument and 100 SNPs from BMI instrument. Table S38. Results of sensitivity analysis examining the effect of only including 100 SNPs for the BMI instrument in MR analyses. Table S39. Results of multivariable MR mediation analysis examining the effect of BMI and endometrial cancer with fasting insulin as a potential mediator with 100 SNPs from BMI instrument. Table S40. Results of multivariable MR mediation analysis examining the effect of BMI and endometrial cancer with fasting insulin as a potential mediator with BMI-adjusted fasting insulin instrument. Table S41. Results of multivariable MR mediation analysis examining the effect of endometrial cancer with pairs of confirmed mediating molecular traits without BMI. Table S42. Results of multivariable MR mediation analysis examining the effect of BMI and endometrial cancer with all confirmed mediating molecular traits with BMI-adjusted fasting insulin. Table S43. Results of multivariable MR mediation analysis examining the effect of BMI and endometrial cancer with pairs of confirmed mediating molecular traits. Table S44. Results of multivariable MR mediation analysis examining the effect of BMI and endometrial cancer with all confirmed mediating molecular traits including fasting insulin adjusted for BMI with 100 SNPs from BMI instrument. Table S45. Results of multivariable MR mediation analysis examining the effect of BMI and endometrial cancer with pairs of confirmed mediating molecular traits with 100 SNPs from BMI instrument. Table S46. Results of multivariable MR mediation analysis examining the effect of endometrial cancer with all confirmed mediating molecular traits without BMI. Table S47. Results from sensitivity analyses examining the influence of Winner’s curse on GWAS with overlapping samples in analyses determining the interdependent effects of mediators of the relationship between BMI and endometrial cancer risk. Table S48. Results of HEIDI test-filtered low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and overall endometrial cancer MR.
Published: 2022
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4. Additional file 3 of Mendelian randomization analysis of factors related to ovulation and reproductive function and endometrial cancer risk

Author: D’Urso, Shannon, Arumugam, Pooja, Weider, Therese, Hwang, Liang-Dar, Bond, Tom A., Kemp, John P., Warrington, Nicole M., Evans, David M., O’Mara, Tracy A., and Moen, Gunn-Helen
Abstract: Additional file 3.
Published: 2022
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5. A comprehensive re-assessment of the association between vitamin D and cancer susceptibility using Mendelian randomization

Author: Ong, Jue-Sheng, Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C., Han, Xikun, An, Jiyuan, Liyanage, Upekha, Dusingize, Jean-Cluade, Schumacher, Johannes, Gockel, Ines, Böhmer, Anne, Jankowski, Janusz, Palles, Claire, O’Mara, Tracy, Spurdle, Amanda, Law, Matthew H., Iles, Mark M., Pharoah, Paul, Berchuck, Andrew, Zheng, Wei, Thrift, Aaron P., Olsen, Catherine, Neale, Rachel E., Gharahkhani, Puya, Webb, Penelope M., MacGregor, Stuart, Fitzgerald, Rebecca, Buas, Matt, Gammon, Marilie D., Corley, Douglas A., Shaheen, Nicholas J., Hardie, Laura J., Bird, Nigel C., Reid, Brian J., Chow, Wong-Ho, Risch, Harvey A., Ye, Weimin, Liu, Geoffrey, Romero, Yvonne, Bernstein, Leslie, Wu, Anna H., Whiteman, David E., Vaughan, Thomas, Agee, M., Alipanahi, B., Auton, A., Bell, R. K., Bryc, K., Elson, S. L., Fontanillas, P., Furlotte, N. A., Hinds, D. A., Huber, K. E., Kleinman, A., Litterman, N. K., McIntyre, M. H., Mountain, J. L., Noblin, E. S., Northover, C. A. M., Pitts, S. J., Sathirapongsasuti, J. Fah, Sazonova, O. V., Shelton, J. F., Shringarpure, S., Tian, C., Tung, J. Y., Vacic, V., Wilson, C. H., Ong, Jue-Sheng [0000-0002-6062-710X], Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C. [0000-0003-3714-8386], Han, Xikun [0000-0002-3823-7308], Gockel, Ines [0000-0001-7423-713X], Böhmer, Anne [0000-0002-5716-786X], O’Mara, Tracy [0000-0002-5436-3232], Spurdle, Amanda [0000-0003-1337-7897], Law, Matthew H. [0000-0002-4303-8821], Iles, Mark M. [0000-0002-2603-6509], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Zheng, Wei [0000-0003-1226-070X], Thrift, Aaron P. [0000-0002-0084-5308], Olsen, Catherine [0000-0003-4483-1888], Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Webb, Penelope M. [0000-0003-0733-5930], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 631/67/68, 45/43, article, 692/699/67/2195, 692/4028/67/2324
Abstract: Previous Mendelian randomization (MR) studies on 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and cancer have typically adopted a handful of variants and found no relationship between 25(OH)D and cancer; however, issues of horizontal pleiotropy cannot be reliably addressed. Using a larger set of variants associated with 25(OH)D (74 SNPs, up from 6 previously), we perform a unified MR analysis to re-evaluate the relationship between 25(OH)D and ten cancers. Our findings are broadly consistent with previous MR studies indicating no relationship, apart from ovarian cancers (OR 0.89; 95% C.I: 0.82 to 0.96 per 1 SD change in 25(OH)D concentration) and basal cell carcinoma (OR 1.16; 95% C.I.: 1.04 to 1.28). However, after adjustment for pigmentation related variables in a multivariable MR framework, the BCC findings were attenuated. Here we report that lower 25(OH)D is unlikely to be a causal risk factor for most cancers, with our study providing more precise confidence intervals than previously possible.
Published: 2021
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6. Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

Author: Zhang, Haoyu, Ahearn, Thomas U, Lecarpentier, Julie, Barnes, Daniel, Beesley, Jonathan, Qi, Guanghao, Jiang, Xia, O'Mara, Tracy A, Zhao, Ni, Bolla, Manjeet K, Dunning, Alison M, Dennis, Joe, Wang, Qin, Ful, Zumuruda Abu, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Aronson, Kristan J, Arun, Banu K, Auer, Paul L, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barrowdale, Daniel, Becher, Heiko, Beckmann, Matthias W, Behrens, Sabine, Benitez, Javier, Bermisheva, Marina, Bialkowska, Katarzyna, Blanco, Ana, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Bonanni, Bernardo, Bondavalli, Davide, Borg, Ake, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Briceno, Ignacio, Broeks, Annegien, Brucker, Sara Y, Brüning, Thomas, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S, Byers, Helen, Caldés, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A, Calvello, Mariarosaria, Campa, Daniele, Castelao, Jose E, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J, Christiaens, Melissa, Christiansen, Hans, Chung, Wendy K, Claes, Kathleen BM, Clarke, Christine L, Cornelissen, Sten, Couch, Fergus J, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Domchek, Susan M, Dörk, Thilo, Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M, Ekici, Arif B, Evans, D Gareth, Fasching, Peter A, Figueroa, Jonine, Foretova, Lenka, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Frost, Debra, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M, Garber, Judy, García-Sáenz, José A, Gaudet, Mia M, Gayther, Simon A, Giles, Graham G, Godwin, Andrew K, Goldberg, Mark S, Goldgar, David E, González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H, Gronwald, Jacek, Guénel, Pascal, Häberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A, Hake, Christopher R, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Harkness, Elaine F, Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Bernadette AM, Hillemanns, Peter, Hogervorst, Frans BL, Holleczek, Bernd, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Hooning, Maartje J, Hoover, Robert N, Hopper, John L, Howell, Anthony, Huebner, Hanna, Hulick, Peter J, Imyanitov, Evgeny N, kConFab Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, Isaacs, Claudine, Izatt, Louise, Jager, Agnes, Jakimovska, Milena, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul, Janavicius, Ramunas, Janni, Wolfgang, John, Esther M, Jones, Michael E, Jung, Audrey, Kaaks, Rudolf, Kapoor, Pooja Middha, Karlan, Beth Y, Keeman, Renske, Khan, Sofia, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Kitahara, Cari M, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Konstantopoulou, Irene, Koppert, Linetta B, Koutros, Stella, Kristensen, Vessela N, Laenkholm, Anne-Vibeke, Lambrechts, Diether, Larsson, Susanna C, Laurent-Puig, Pierre, Lazaro, Conxi, Lazarova, Emilija, Lejbkowicz, Flavio, Leslie, Goska, Lesueur, Fabienne, Lindblom, Annika, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lo, Wing-Yee, Loud, Jennifer T, Lubinski, Jan, Lukomska, Alicja, MacInnis, Robert J, Mannermaa, Arto, Manoochehri, Mehdi, Manoukian, Siranoush, Margolin, Sara, Martinez, Maria Elena, Matricardi, Laura, McGuffog, Lesley, McLean, Catriona, Mebirouk, Noura, Meindl, Alfons, Menon, Usha, Miller, Austin, Mingazheva, Elvira, Montagna, Marco, Mulligan, Anna Marie, Mulot, Claire, Muranen, Taru A, Nathanson, Katherine L, Neuhausen, Susan L, Nevanlinna, Heli, Neven, Patrick, Newman, William G, Nielsen, Finn C, Nikitina-Zake, Liene, Nodora, Jesse, Offit, Kenneth, Olah, Edith, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I, Olsson, Håkan, Orr, Nick, Papi, Laura, Papp, Janos, Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won, Parsons, Michael T, Peissel, Bernard, Peixoto, Ana, Peshkin, Beth, Peterlongo, Paolo, Peto, Julian, Phillips, Kelly-Anne, Piedmonte, Marion, Plaseska-Karanfilska, Dijana, Prajzendanc, Karolina, Prentice, Ross, Prokofyeva, Darya, Rack, Brigitte, Radice, Paolo, Ramus, Susan J, Rantala, Johanna, Rashid, Muhammad U, Rennert, Gad, Rennert, Hedy S, Risch, Harvey A, Romero, Atocha, Rookus, Matti A, Rübner, Matthias, Rüdiger, Thomas, Saloustros, Emmanouil, Sampson, Sarah, Sandler, Dale P, Sawyer, Elinor J, Scheuner, Maren T, Schmutzler, Rita K, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Schoemaker, Minouk J, Schöttker, Ben, Schürmann, Peter, Senter, Leigha, Sharma, Priyanka, Sherman, Mark E, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Singer, Christian F, Smichkoska, Snezhana, Soucy, Penny, Southey, Melissa C, Spinelli, John J, Stone, Jennifer, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, EMBRACE Study, GEMO Study Collaborators, Swerdlow, Anthony J, Szabo, Csilla I, Tamimi, Rulla M, Tapper, William J, Taylor, Jack A, Teixeira, Manuel R, Terry, MaryBeth, Thomassen, Mads, Thull, Darcy L, Tischkowitz, Marc, Toland, Amanda E, Tollenaar, Rob AEM, Tomlinson, Ian, Torres, Diana, Troester, Melissa A, Truong, Thérèse, Tung, Nadine, Untch, Michael, Vachon, Celine M, van den Ouweland, Ans MW, van der Kolk, Lizet E, van Veen, Elke M, vanRensburg, Elizabeth J, Vega, Ana, Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Weinberg, Clarice R, Weitzel, Jeffrey N, Wildiers, Hans, Winqvist, Robert, Wolk, Alicja, Yang, Xiaohong R, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Zheng, Wei, Zorn, Kristin K, Milne, Roger L, Kraft, Peter, Simard, Jacques, Pharoah, Paul DP, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Antoniou, Antonis C, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Easton, Douglas F, Chatterjee, Nilanjan, García-Closas, Montserrat, Barnes, Daniel [0000-0002-3781-7570], O'Mara, Tracy A [0000-0002-5436-3232], Dunning, Alison M [0000-0001-6651-7166], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Andrulis, Irene L [0000-0002-4226-6435], Arndt, Volker [0000-0001-9320-8684], Azzollini, Jacopo [0000-0002-9364-9778], Bojesen, Stig E [0000-0002-4061-4133], Bonanni, Bernardo [0000-0003-3589-2128], Brauch, Hiltrud [0000-0001-7531-2736], Caldés, Trinidad [0000-0002-1038-5392], Calvello, Mariarosaria [0000-0003-2113-8503], Chanock, Stephen J [0000-0002-2324-3393], Claes, Kathleen BM [0000-0003-0841-7372], Devilee, Peter [0000-0002-8023-2009], Dörk, Thilo [0000-0002-9458-0282], Dwek, Miriam [0000-0001-7184-2932], Ekici, Arif B [0000-0001-6099-7066], Fasching, Peter A [0000-0003-4885-8471], García-Sáenz, José A [0000-0001-6880-0301], Gayther, Simon A [0000-0001-7937-5443], Giles, Graham G [0000-0003-4946-9099], Greene, Mark H [0000-0003-1852-9239], Guénel, Pascal [0000-0002-8359-518X], Harkness, Elaine F [0000-0001-6625-7739], Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Bernadette AM [0000-0002-9724-6693], Hollestelle, Antoinette [0000-0003-1166-1966], Huebner, Hanna [0000-0001-6889-1493], Hulick, Peter J [0000-0001-8397-4078], Jakimovska, Milena [0000-0002-1506-0669], Jakubowska, Anna [0000-0002-5650-0501], James, Paul [0000-0002-4361-4657], Jones, Michael E [0000-0001-7479-3451], Kapoor, Pooja Middha [0000-0001-5503-8215], Keeman, Renske [0000-0002-5452-9933], Konstantopoulou, Irene [0000-0002-0470-0309], Larsson, Susanna C [0000-0003-0118-0341], Laurent-Puig, Pierre [0000-0001-8475-5459], Leslie, Goska [0000-0001-5756-6222], Lesueur, Fabienne [0000-0001-7404-4549], Lissowska, Jolanta [0000-0003-2695-5799], Matricardi, Laura [0000-0002-0241-1810], McLean, Catriona [0000-0002-0302-5727], Menon, Usha [0000-0003-3708-1732], Miller, Austin [0000-0001-9739-8462], Muranen, Taru A [0000-0002-5895-1808], Nathanson, Katherine L [0000-0002-6740-0901], Nevanlinna, Heli [0000-0002-0916-2976], Newman, William G [0000-0002-6382-4678], Olopade, Olufunmilayo I [0000-0002-9936-1599], Orr, Nick [0000-0003-2866-942X], Parsons, Michael T [0000-0003-3242-8477], Peshkin, Beth [0000-0002-2997-4701], Peterlongo, Paolo [0000-0001-6951-6855], Peto, Julian [0000-0002-1685-8912], Plaseska-Karanfilska, Dijana [0000-0001-8877-2416], Radice, Paolo [0000-0001-6298-4111], Rennert, Gad [0000-0002-8512-068X], Romero, Atocha [0000-0002-1634-7397], Saloustros, Emmanouil [0000-0002-0485-0120], Stone, Jennifer [0000-0001-5077-0124], Teixeira, Manuel R [0000-0002-4896-5982], Toland, Amanda E [0000-0002-0271-1792], Tomlinson, Ian [0000-0003-3037-1470], van Veen, Elke M [0000-0001-8618-2332], vanRensburg, Elizabeth J [0000-0003-2077-230X], Weitzel, Jeffrey N [0000-0001-6714-092X], Winqvist, Robert [0000-0003-0932-9104], Wolk, Alicja [0000-0001-7387-6845], Yannoukakos, Drakoulis [0000-0001-7509-3510], Zheng, Wei [0000-0003-1226-070X], Milne, Roger L [0000-0001-5764-7268], Kraft, Peter [0000-0002-4472-8103], Simard, Jacques [0000-0001-6906-3390], Pharoah, Paul DP [0000-0001-8494-732X], Michailidou, Kyriaki [0000-0001-7065-1237], Schmidt, Marjanka K [0000-0002-2228-429X], Easton, Douglas F [0000-0003-2444-3247], Chatterjee, Nilanjan [0000-0002-9060-008X], García-Closas, Montserrat [0000-0003-1033-2650], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: BRCA1 Protein, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, Linkage Disequilibrium, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor subtype1-3. To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including 133,384 breast cancer cases and 113,789 controls, plus 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer) of European ancestry, using both standard and novel methodologies that account for underlying tumor heterogeneity by estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status and tumor grade. We identified 32 novel susceptibility loci (P
Published: 2020

7. Using human genetics to understand the disease impacts of testosterone in men and women

Author: Ruth, Katherine S, Day, Felix R, Tyrrell, Jessica, Thompson, Deborah J, Wood, Andrew R, Mahajan, Anubha, Beaumont, Robin N, Wittemans, Laura, Martin, Susan, Busch, Alexander S, Erzurumluoglu, A Mesut, Hollis, Benjamin, O'Mara, Tracy A, Endometrial Cancer Association Consortium, McCarthy, Mark I, Langenberg, Claudia, Easton, Douglas F, Wareham, Nicholas J, Burgess, Stephen, Murray, Anna, Ong, Ken K, Frayling, Timothy M, Perry, John RB, Day, Felix R [0000-0003-3789-7651], Martin, Susan [0000-0001-8746-0947], Busch, Alexander S [0000-0003-4417-569X], Erzurumluoglu, A Mesut [0000-0003-1322-8138], O'Mara, Tracy A [0000-0002-5436-3232], Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Easton, Douglas F [0000-0003-2444-3247], Burgess, Stephen [0000-0001-5365-8760], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Male, Estradiol, Genotype, Prostatic Neoplasms, Breast Neoplasms, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, United Kingdom, Endometrial Neoplasms, Phenotype, Sex Factors, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Haplotypes, Body Composition, Odds Ratio, Cluster Analysis, Humans, Female, Testosterone, Biomarkers, Software, Biological Specimen Banks, Genome-Wide Association Study, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Abstract: Testosterone supplementation is commonly used for its effects on sexual function, bone health and body composition, yet its effects on disease outcomes are unknown. To better understand this, we identified genetic determinants of testosterone levels and related sex hormone traits in 425,097 UK Biobank study participants. Using 2,571 genome-wide significant associations, we demonstrate that the genetic determinants of testosterone levels are substantially different between sexes and that genetically higher testosterone is harmful for metabolic diseases in women but beneficial in men. For example, a genetically determined 1 s.d. higher testosterone increases the risks of type 2 diabetes (odds ratio (OR) = 1.37 (95% confidence interval (95% CI): 1.22-1.53)) and polycystic ovary syndrome (OR = 1.51 (95% CI: 1.33-1.72)) in women, but reduces type 2 diabetes risk in men (OR = 0.86 (95% CI: 0.76-0.98)). We also show adverse effects of higher testosterone on breast and endometrial cancers in women and prostate cancer in men. Our findings provide insights into the disease impacts of testosterone and highlight the importance of sex-specific genetic analyses.
Published: 2019
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8. Author Correction: A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers

Author: Coignard, Juliette, Lush, Michael, Beesley, Jonathan, O'Mara, Tracy A, Dennis, Joe, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Barnes, Daniel R, McGuffog, Lesley, Leslie, Goska, Bolla, Manjeet K, Adank, Muriel A, Agata, Simona, Ahearn, Thomas, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Arnold, Norbert, Aronson, Kristan J, Arun, Banu K, Augustinsson, Annelie, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barrowdale, Daniel, Baynes, Caroline, Becher, Heko, Bermisheva, Marina, Bernstein, Leslie, Białkowska, Katarzyna, Blomqvist, Carl, Bojesen, Stig E, Bonanni, Bernardo, Borg, Ake, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S, Caldés, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A, Campa, Daniele, Carter, Brian D, Castelao, Jose E, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J, Chung, Wendy K, Claes, Kathleen BM, Clarke, Christine L, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, Collée, J Margriet, Conroy, Don M, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Ding, Yuan Chun, Domchek, Susan M, Dörk, Thilo, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dunning, Alison M, Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M, Eliassen, A Heather, Engel, Christoph, Eriksson, Mikael, Evans, D Gareth, Fasching, Peter A, Flyger, Henrik, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Fritschi, Lin, Frost, Debra, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M, Garber, Judy, Garcia-Barberan, Vanesa, García-Closas, Montserrat, García-Sáenz, José A, Gaudet, Mia M, Gayther, Simon A, Gehrig, Andrea, Georgoulias, Vassilios, Giles, Graham G, Godwin, Andrew K, Goldberg, Mark S, Goldgar, David E, González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H, Guénel, Pascal, Haeberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A, Håkansson, Niclas, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Harrington, Patricia A, Hart, Steven N, He, Wei, Hogervorst, Frans BL, Hollestelle, Antoinette, and Hopper, John L
Subjects: GEMO Study Collaborators, ABCTB Investigators, KConFab Investigators, EMBRACE Collaborators, HEBON Investigators, Cancer
Abstract: A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23162-4.
Published: 2021

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

Author: Coignard, Juliette, Lush, Michael, Beesley, Jonathan, O'Mara, Tracy A, Dennis, Joe, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Barnes, Daniel R, McGuffog, Lesley, Leslie, Goska, Bolla, Manjeet K, Adank, Muriel A, Agata, Simona, Ahearn, Thomas, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Arnold, Norbert, Aronson, Kristan J, Arun, Banu K, Augustinsson, Annelie, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barrowdale, Daniel, Baynes, Caroline, Becher, Heiko, Bermisheva, Marina, Bernstein, Leslie, Białkowska, Katarzyna, Blomqvist, Carl, Bojesen, Stig E, Bonanni, Bernardo, Borg, Ake, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S, Caldés, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A, Campa, Daniele, Carter, Brian D, Castelao, Jose E, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J, Chung, Wendy K, Claes, Kathleen BM, Clarke, Christine L, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, Collée, J Margriet, Conroy, Don M, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Ding, Yuan Chun, Domchek, Susan M, Dörk, Thilo, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dunning, Alison M, Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M, Eliassen, A Heather, Engel, Christoph, Eriksson, Mikael, Evans, D Gareth, Fasching, Peter A, Flyger, Henrik, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Fritschi, Lin, Frost, Debra, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M, Garber, Judy, Garcia-Barberan, Vanesa, García-Closas, Montserrat, García-Sáenz, José A, Gaudet, Mia M, Gayther, Simon A, Gehrig, Andrea, Georgoulias, Vassilios, Giles, Graham G, Godwin, Andrew K, Goldberg, Mark S, Goldgar, David E, González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H, Guénel, Pascal, Haeberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A, Håkansson, Niclas, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Harrington, Patricia A, Hart, Steven N, He, Wei, Hogervorst, Frans BL, Hollestelle, Antoinette, and Hopper, John L
Subjects: Adult, endocrine system diseases, Genotype, Quantitative Trait Loci, ABCTB Investigators, Breast Neoplasms, Linkage Disequilibrium, GEMO Study Collaborators, Risk Factors, Breast Cancer, Genetics, Humans, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Testing, Aetiology, Polymorphism, skin and connective tissue diseases, EMBRACE Collaborators, Alleles, HEBON Investigators, Cancer, BRCA2 Protein, BRCA1 Protein, Prevention, Human Genome, Single Nucleotide, Middle Aged, Mutation, Female, KConFab Investigators, Genome-Wide Association Study
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
Published: 2021

10. Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers

Author: Zhang, Yan Dora, Hurson, Amber N, Zhang, Haoyu, Choudhury, Parichoy Pal, Easton, Douglas F, Milne, Roger L, Simard, Jacques, Hall, Per, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Dennis, Joe, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Gharahkhani, Puya, Whiteman, David, Campbell, Peter T, Hoffmeister, Michael, Jenkins, Mark, Peters, Ulrike, Hsu, Li, Gruber, Stephen B, Casey, Graham, Schmit, Stephanie L, O'Mara, Tracy A, Spurdle, Amanda B, Thompson, Deborah J, Tomlinson, Ian, De Vivo, Immaculata, Landi, Maria Teresa, Law, Matthew H, Iles, Mark M, Demenais, Florence, Kumar, Rajiv, MacGregor, Stuart, Bishop, D Timothy, Ward, Sarah V, Bondy, Melissa L, Houlston, Richard, Wiencke, John K, Melin, Beatrice, Barnholtz-Sloan, Jill, Kinnersley, Ben, Wrensch, Margaret R, Amos, Christopher I, Hung, Rayjean J, Brennan, Paul, McKay, James, Caporaso, Neil E, Berndt, Sonja I, Birmann, Brenda M, Camp, Nicola J, Kraft, Peter, Rothman, Nathaniel, Slager, Susan L, Berchuck, Andrew, Pharoah, Paul DP, Sellers, Thomas A, Gayther, Simon A, Pearce, Celeste L, Goode, Ellen L, Schildkraut, Joellen M, Moysich, Kirsten B, Amundadottir, Laufey T, Jacobs, Eric J, Klein, Alison P, Petersen, Gloria M, Risch, Harvey A, Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachel Z, Wolpin, Brian M, Li, Donghui, Eeles, Rosalind A, Haiman, Christopher A, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Schumacher, Fredrick R, Al Olama, Ali Amin, Purdue, Mark P, Scelo, Ghislaine, Dalgaard, Marlene D, Greene, Mark H, Grotmol, Tom, Kanetsky, Peter A, McGlynn, Katherine A, Nathanson, Katherine L, Turnbull, Clare, Wiklund, Fredrik, Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC), Barrett’s and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Consortium (BEACON), Colon Cancer Family Registry (CCFR), Transdisciplinary Studies of Genetic Variation in Colorectal Cancer (CORECT), Endometrial Cancer Association Consortium (ECAC), Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium (GECCO), Melanoma Genetics Consortium (GenoMEL), Glioma International Case-Control Study (GICC), International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO), Integrative Analysis of Lung Cancer Etiology and Risk (INTEGRAL) Consortium, International Consortium of Investigators Working on Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Epidemiologic Studies (InterLymph), Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC), Oral Cancer GWAS, Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control Consortium (PanC4), Pancreatic Cancer Cohort Consortium (PanScan), and Prostate Cancer Association Group to Investigate Cancer Associated Alterations in the Genome (PRACTICAL)
Subjects: Male, Urologic Diseases, Multifactorial Inheritance, Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, Risk Assessment, Transdisciplinary Studies of Genetic Variation in Colorectal Cancer, Genetic, Risk Factors, Models, Neoplasms, Genetics, Animals, Humans, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Endometrial Cancer Association Consortium, Aetiology, Polymorphism, International Consortium of Investigators Working on Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Epidemiologic Studies, Cancer, Renal Cancer GWAS, Incidence, Prevention, Prostate Cancer, International Lung Cancer Consortium, Human Genome, Melanoma Genetics Consortium, Single Nucleotide, Barrett’s and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Consortium, Prostate Cancer Association Group to Investigate Cancer Associated Alterations in the Genome, Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium, Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control Consortium, Testicular Cancer Consortium, Breast Cancer Association Consortium, Oral Cancer GWAS, Female, Integrative Analysis of Lung Cancer Etiology and Risk (INTEGRAL) Consortium, Colon Cancer Family Registry, Glioma International Case-Control Study, Pancreatic Cancer Cohort Consortium, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have led to the identification of hundreds of susceptibility loci across cancers, but the impact of further studies remains uncertain. Here we analyse summary-level data from GWAS of European ancestry across fourteen cancer sites to estimate the number of common susceptibility variants (polygenicity) and underlying effect-size distribution. All cancers show a high degree of polygenicity, involving at a minimum of thousands of loci. We project that sample sizes required to explain 80% of GWAS heritability vary from 60,000 cases for testicular to over 1,000,000 cases for lung cancer. The maximum relative risk achievable for subjects at the 99th risk percentile of underlying polygenic risk scores (PRS), compared to average risk, ranges from 12 for testicular to 2.5 for ovarian cancer. We show that PRS have potential for risk stratification for cancers of breast, colon and prostate, but less so for others because of modest heritability and lower incidence.
Published: 2020

11. Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

Author: Zhang, Haoyu, Ahearn, Thomas U, Lecarpentier, Julie, Barnes, Daniel, Beesley, Jonathan, Qi, Guanghao, Jiang, Xia, O'Mara, Tracy A, Zhao, Ni, Bolla, Manjeet K, Dunning, Alison M, Dennis, Joe, Wang, Qin, Ful, Zumuruda Abu, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Aronson, Kristan J, Arun, Banu K, Auer, Paul L, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barrowdale, Daniel, Becher, Heiko, Beckmann, Matthias W, Behrens, Sabine, Benitez, Javier, Bermisheva, Marina, Bialkowska, Katarzyna, Blanco, Ana, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Bonanni, Bernardo, Bondavalli, Davide, Borg, Ake, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Briceno, Ignacio, Broeks, Annegien, Brucker, Sara Y, Brüning, Thomas, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S, Byers, Helen, Caldés, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A, Calvello, Mariarosaria, Campa, Daniele, Castelao, Jose E, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J, Christiaens, Melissa, Christiansen, Hans, Chung, Wendy K, Claes, Kathleen BM, Clarke, Christine L, Cornelissen, Sten, Couch, Fergus J, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Domchek, Susan M, Dörk, Thilo, Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M, Ekici, Arif B, Evans, D Gareth, Fasching, Peter A, Figueroa, Jonine, Foretova, Lenka, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Frost, Debra, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M, Garber, Judy, García-Sáenz, José A, Gaudet, Mia M, Gayther, Simon A, Giles, Graham G, Godwin, Andrew K, Goldberg, Mark S, Goldgar, David E, González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H, Gronwald, Jacek, Guénel, Pascal, Häberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A, Hake, Christopher R, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Harkness, Elaine F, Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Bernadette AM, and Hillemanns, Peter
Subjects: BRCA1 Protein, Prevention, Human Genome, ABCTB Investigators, Breast Neoplasms, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Linkage Disequilibrium, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Study, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, Breast Cancer, Genetics, kConFab Investigators, Humans, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Female, Aetiology, Genome-Wide Association Study, Cancer, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor subtype1-3. To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including 133,384 breast cancer cases and 113,789 controls, plus 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer) of European ancestry, using both standard and novel methodologies that account for underlying tumor heterogeneity by estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status and tumor grade. We identified 32 novel susceptibility loci (P
Published: 2020

12. Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

Author: Zhang, Haoyu, Ahearn, Thomas U, Lecarpentier, Julie, Barnes, Daniel, Beesley, Jonathan, Qi, Guanghao, Jiang, Xia, O'Mara, Tracy A, Zhao, Ni, Bolla, Manjeet K, Dunning, Alison M, Dennis, Joe, Wang, Qin, Ful, Zumuruda Abu, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Aronson, Kristan J, Arun, Banu K, Auer, Paul L, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barrowdale, Daniel, Becher, Heiko, Beckmann, Matthias W, Behrens, Sabine, Benitez, Javier, Bermisheva, Marina, Bialkowska, Katarzyna, Blanco, Ana, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Bonanni, Bernardo, Bondavalli, Davide, Borg, Ake, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Briceno, Ignacio, Broeks, Annegien, Brucker, Sara Y, Brüning, Thomas, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S, Byers, Helen, Caldés, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A, Calvello, Mariarosaria, Campa, Daniele, Castelao, Jose E, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J, Christiaens, Melissa, Christiansen, Hans, Chung, Wendy K, Claes, Kathleen BM, Clarke, Christine L, Cornelissen, Sten, Couch, Fergus J, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Domchek, Susan M, Dörk, Thilo, Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M, Ekici, Arif B, Evans, D Gareth, Fasching, Peter A, Figueroa, Jonine, Foretova, Lenka, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Frost, Debra, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M, Garber, Judy, García-Sáenz, José A, Gaudet, Mia M, Gayther, Simon A, Giles, Graham G, Godwin, Andrew K, Goldberg, Mark S, Goldgar, David E, González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H, Gronwald, Jacek, Guénel, Pascal, Häberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A, Hake, Christopher R, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Harkness, Elaine F, Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Bernadette AM, and Hillemanns, Peter
Subjects: BRCA1 Protein, Prevention, Human Genome, ABCTB Investigators, Breast Neoplasms, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Linkage Disequilibrium, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Study, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, Breast Cancer, Genetics, kConFab Investigators, Humans, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Cancer, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor subtype1-3. To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including 133,384 breast cancer cases and 113,789 controls, plus 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer) of European ancestry, using both standard and novel methodologies that account for underlying tumor heterogeneity by estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status and tumor grade. We identified 32 novel susceptibility loci (P
Published: 2020

13. Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

Author: Zhang, Haoyu, Ahearn, Thomas U, Lecarpentier, Julie, Barnes, Daniel, Beesley, Jonathan, Qi, Guanghao, Jiang, Xia, O'Mara, Tracy A, Zhao, Ni, Bolla, Manjeet K, Dunning, Alison M, Dennis, Joe, Wang, Qin, Ful, Zumuruda Abu, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Aronson, Kristan J, Arun, Banu K, Auer, Paul L, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barrowdale, Daniel, Becher, Heiko, Beckmann, Matthias W, Behrens, Sabine, Benitez, Javier, Bermisheva, Marina, Bialkowska, Katarzyna, Blanco, Ana, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Bonanni, Bernardo, Bondavalli, Davide, Borg, Ake, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Briceno, Ignacio, Broeks, Annegien, Brucker, Sara Y, Brüning, Thomas, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S, Byers, Helen, Caldés, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A, Calvello, Mariarosaria, Campa, Daniele, Castelao, Jose E, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J, Christiaens, Melissa, Christiansen, Hans, Chung, Wendy K, Claes, Kathleen BM, Clarke, Christine L, Cornelissen, Sten, Couch, Fergus J, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Domchek, Susan M, Dörk, Thilo, Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M, Ekici, Arif B, Evans, D Gareth, Fasching, Peter A, Figueroa, Jonine, Foretova, Lenka, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Frost, Debra, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M, Garber, Judy, García-Sáenz, José A, Gaudet, Mia M, Gayther, Simon A, Giles, Graham G, Godwin, Andrew K, Goldberg, Mark S, Goldgar, David E, González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H, Gronwald, Jacek, Guénel, Pascal, Häberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A, Hake, Christopher R, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Harkness, Elaine F, Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Bernadette AM, Hillemanns, Peter, Hogervorst, Frans BL, Holleczek, Bernd, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Hooning, Maartje J, Hoover, Robert N, Hopper, John L, Howell, Anthony, Huebner, Hanna, Hulick, Peter J, Imyanitov, Evgeny N, KConFab Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, Isaacs, Claudine, Izatt, Louise, Jager, Agnes, Jakimovska, Milena, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul, Janavicius, Ramunas, Janni, Wolfgang, John, Esther M, Jones, Michael E, Jung, Audrey, Kaaks, Rudolf, Kapoor, Pooja Middha, Karlan, Beth Y, Keeman, Renske, Khan, Sofia, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Kitahara, Cari M, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Konstantopoulou, Irene, Koppert, Linetta B, Koutros, Stella, Kristensen, Vessela N, Laenkholm, Anne-Vibeke, Lambrechts, Diether, Larsson, Susanna C, Laurent-Puig, Pierre, Lazaro, Conxi, Lazarova, Emilija, Lejbkowicz, Flavio, Leslie, Goska, Lesueur, Fabienne, Lindblom, Annika, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lo, Wing-Yee, Loud, Jennifer T, Lubinski, Jan, Lukomska, Alicja, MacInnis, Robert J, Mannermaa, Arto, Manoochehri, Mehdi, Manoukian, Siranoush, Margolin, Sara, Martinez, Maria Elena, Matricardi, Laura, McGuffog, Lesley, McLean, Catriona, Mebirouk, Noura, Meindl, Alfons, Menon, Usha, Miller, Austin, Mingazheva, Elvira, Montagna, Marco, Mulligan, Anna Marie, Mulot, Claire, Muranen, Taru A, Nathanson, Katherine L, Neuhausen, Susan L, Nevanlinna, Heli, Neven, Patrick, Newman, William G, Nielsen, Finn C, Nikitina-Zake, Liene, Nodora, Jesse, Offit, Kenneth, Olah, Edith, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I, Olsson, Håkan, Orr, Nick, Papi, Laura, Papp, Janos, Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won, Parsons, Michael T, Peissel, Bernard, Peixoto, Ana, Peshkin, Beth, Peterlongo, Paolo, Peto, Julian, Phillips, Kelly-Anne, Piedmonte, Marion, Plaseska-Karanfilska, Dijana, Prajzendanc, Karolina, Prentice, Ross, Prokofyeva, Darya, Rack, Brigitte, Radice, Paolo, Ramus, Susan J, Rantala, Johanna, Rashid, Muhammad U, Rennert, Gad, Rennert, Hedy S, Risch, Harvey A, Romero, Atocha, Rookus, Matti A, Rübner, Matthias, Rüdiger, Thomas, Saloustros, Emmanouil, Sampson, Sarah, Sandler, Dale P, Sawyer, Elinor J, Scheuner, Maren T, Schmutzler, Rita K, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Schoemaker, Minouk J, Schöttker, Ben, Schürmann, Peter, Senter, Leigha, Sharma, Priyanka, Sherman, Mark E, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Singer, Christian F, Smichkoska, Snezhana, Soucy, Penny, Southey, Melissa C, Spinelli, John J, Stone, Jennifer, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, EMBRACE Study, GEMO Study Collaborators, Swerdlow, Anthony J, Szabo, Csilla I, Tamimi, Rulla M, Tapper, William J, Taylor, Jack A, Teixeira, Manuel R, Terry, MaryBeth, Thomassen, Mads, Thull, Darcy L, Tischkowitz, Marc, Toland, Amanda E, Tollenaar, Rob AEM, Tomlinson, Ian, Torres, Diana, Troester, Melissa A, Truong, Thérèse, Tung, Nadine, Untch, Michael, Vachon, Celine M, Van Den Ouweland, Ans MW, Van Der Kolk, Lizet E, Van Veen, Elke M, VanRensburg, Elizabeth J, Vega, Ana, Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Weinberg, Clarice R, Weitzel, Jeffrey N, Wildiers, Hans, Winqvist, Robert, Wolk, Alicja, Yang, Xiaohong R, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Zheng, Wei, Zorn, Kristin K, Milne, Roger L, Kraft, Peter, Simard, Jacques, Pharoah, Paul DP, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Antoniou, Antonis C, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Easton, Douglas F, Chatterjee, Nilanjan, and García-Closas, Montserrat
Subjects: BRCA1 Protein, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, Linkage Disequilibrium, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor subtype1-3. To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including 133,384 breast cancer cases and 113,789 controls, plus 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer) of European ancestry, using both standard and novel methodologies that account for underlying tumor heterogeneity by estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status and tumor grade. We identified 32 novel susceptibility loci (P < 5.0 × 10-8), 15 of which showed evidence for associations with at least one tumor feature (false discovery rate < 0.05). Five loci showed associations (P < 0.05) in opposite directions between luminal and non-luminal subtypes. In silico analyses showed that these five loci contained cell-specific enhancers that differed between normal luminal and basal mammary cells. The genetic correlations between five intrinsic-like subtypes ranged from 0.35 to 0.80. The proportion of genome-wide chip heritability explained by all known susceptibility loci was 54.2% for luminal A-like disease and 37.6% for triple-negative disease. The odds ratios of polygenic risk scores, which included 330 variants, for the highest 1% of quantiles compared with middle quantiles were 5.63 and 3.02 for luminal A-like and triple-negative disease, respectively. These findings provide an improved understanding of genetic predisposition to breast cancer subtypes and will inform the development of subtype-specific polygenic risk scores.
Published: 2020
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14. Additional file 1 of The MLH1 polymorphism rs1800734 and risk of endometrial cancer with microsatellite instability

Author: Russell, Holly, Kedzierska, Katarzyna, Buchanan, Daniel D., Thomas, Rachael, Tham, Emma, Mints, Miriam, Keränen, Anne, Giles, Graham G., Southey, Melissa C., Milne, Roger L., Tomlinson, Ian, Church, David, Spurdle, Amanda B., O’Mara, Tracy A., and Lewis, Annabelle
Subjects: digestive system diseases
Abstract: Additional file 1: Supplementary figure 1. A Boxplot of the proportion of methylation proximal to the MLH1 promoter and MLH1 gene expression in EC patient samples (TCGA-UCEC) stratified by rs1800734 genotype and MSI with high MLH1 methylation (median Beta >0.2) and MSS status. Supplementary figure 2: MLH1 expression of MSI samples inversely correlates with promoter methylation. Supplementary figure 3: In HEC1A cells TFAP4 binds preferentially to the rs1800734 G allele. Supplementary table 1: Sample numbers and minor allele frequency for rs1800734 for each data set. Supplementary table 4: Statistical test p-values on genotype vs methylation and genotype vs expression associations in TCGA-UEAC sample subsets. Supplementary table 5: Primers used for genotyping, amplicon bisulphite sequencing and cDNA amplification. Supplementary table 6: Primers used for Q-PCR (SYBR) amplification of ChIP DNA.
Published: 2020
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15. Correction: Evaluation of copy-number variants as modifiers of breast and ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers

Author: Walker, Logan C, Marquart, Louise, Pearson, John F, Wiggins, George AR, O'Mara, Tracy A, Parsons, Michael T, BCFR, Barrowdale, Daniel, McGuffog, Lesley, Dennis, Joe, Benitez, Javier, Slavin, Thomas P, Radice, Paolo, Frost, Debra, EMBRACE, Godwin, Andrew K, Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita Katharina, GEMO Study Collaborators, Isaacs, Claudine, Peshkin, Beth N, Caldes, Trinidad, Hogervorst, Frans BL, HEBON, Lazaro, Conxi, Jakubowska, Anna, Montagna, Marco, KConFab Investigators, Chen, Xiaoqing, Offit, Kenneth, Hulick, Peter J, Andrulis, Irene L, Lindblom, Annika, Nussbaum, Robert L, Nathanson, Katherine L, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Antoniou, Antonis C, Couch, Fergus J, Spurdle, Amanda B, Dennis, Joseph [0000-0003-4591-1214], Antoniou, Antonis [0000-0001-9223-3116], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: GEMO Study Collaborators, BCFR, KConFab Investigators, HEBON, EMBRACE
Abstract: This Article was originally published under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, but has now been made available under a CC BY 4.0 license. The PDF and HTML versions of the Article have been modified accordingly.
Published: 2019

16. Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases: A Mendelian Randomization Study

Author: Telomeres Mendelian Randomization Collaboration, Haycock, Philip C, Burgess, Stephen, Nounu, Aayah, Zheng, Jie, Okoli, George N, Bowden, Jack, Wade, Kaitlin Hazel, Timpson, Nicholas J, Evans, David M, Willeit, Peter, Aviv, Abraham, Gaunt, Tom R, Hemani, Gibran, Mangino, Massimo, Ellis, Hayley Patricia, Kurian, Kathreena M, Pooley, Karen A, Eeles, Rosalind A, Lee, Jeffrey E, Fang, Shenying, Chen, Wei V, Law, Matthew H, Bowdler, Lisa M, Iles, Mark M, Yang, Qiong, Worrall, Bradford B, Markus, Hugh Stephen, Hung, Rayjean J, Amos, Chris I, Spurdle, Amanda B, Thompson, Deborah J, O'Mara, Tracy A, Wolpin, Brian, Amundadottir, Laufey, Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael, Trichopoulou, Antonia, Onland-Moret, N Charlotte, Lund, Eiliv, Duell, Eric J, Canzian, Federico, Severi, Gianluca, Overvad, Kim, Gunter, Marc J, Tumino, Rosario, Svenson, Ulrika, van Rij, Andre, Baas, Annette F, Bown, Matthew J, Samani, Nilesh J, van t'Hof, Femke NG, Tromp, Gerard, Jones, Gregory T, Kuivaniemi, Helena, Elmore, James R, Johansson, Mattias, Mckay, James, Scelo, Ghislaine, Carreras-Torres, Robert, Gaborieau, Valerie, Brennan, Paul, Bracci, Paige M, Neale, Rachel E, Olson, Sara H, Gallinger, Steven, Li, Donghui, Petersen, Gloria M, Risch, Harvey A, Klein, Alison P, Han, Jiali, Abnet, Christian C, Freedman, Neal D, Taylor, Philip R, Maris, John M, Aben, Katja K, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Vermeulen, Sita H, Wiencke, John K, Walsh, Kyle M, Wrensch, Margaret, Rice, Terri, Turnbull, Clare, Litchfield, Kevin, Paternoster, Lavinia, Standl, Marie, Abecasis, Gonçalo R, SanGiovanni, John Paul, Li, Yong, Mijatovic, Vladan, Sapkota, Yadav, Low, Siew-Kee, Zondervan, Krina T, Montgomery, Grant W, Nyholt, Dale R, van Heel, David A, Hunt, Karen, Arking, Dan E, Ashar, Foram N, Sotoodehnia, Nona, and Woo, Daniel
Subjects: Adult, Male, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, and over, Risk Assessment, Rare Diseases, Telomeres Mendelian Randomization Collaboration, Clinical Research, Neoplasms, 80 and over, Genetics, Humans, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Aetiology, Polymorphism, Germ-Line Mutation, Aged, Cancer, Prevention, Telomere Homeostasis, Single Nucleotide, Telomere, Middle Aged, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Cardiovascular Diseases, Public Health and Health Services, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: ImportanceThe causal direction and magnitude of the association between telomere length and incidence of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases is uncertain owing to the susceptibility of observational studies to confounding and reverse causation.ObjectiveTo conduct a Mendelian randomization study, using germline genetic variants as instrumental variables, to appraise the causal relevance of telomere length for risk of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases.Data sourcesGenomewide association studies (GWAS) published up to January 15, 2015.Study selectionGWAS of noncommunicable diseases that assayed germline genetic variation and did not select cohort or control participants on the basis of preexisting diseases. Of 163 GWAS of noncommunicable diseases identified, summary data from 103 were available.Data extraction and synthesisSummary association statistics for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are strongly associated with telomere length in the general population.Main outcomes and measuresOdds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for disease per standard deviation (SD) higher telomere length due to germline genetic variation.ResultsSummary data were available for 35 cancers and 48 non-neoplastic diseases, corresponding to 420 081 cases (median cases, 2526 per disease) and 1 093 105 controls (median, 6789 per disease). Increased telomere length due to germline genetic variation was generally associated with increased risk for site-specific cancers. The strongest associations (ORs [95% CIs] per 1-SD change in genetically increased telomere length) were observed for glioma, 5.27 (3.15-8.81); serous low-malignant-potential ovarian cancer, 4.35 (2.39-7.94); lung adenocarcinoma, 3.19 (2.40-4.22); neuroblastoma, 2.98 (1.92-4.62); bladder cancer, 2.19 (1.32-3.66); melanoma, 1.87 (1.55-2.26); testicular cancer, 1.76 (1.02-3.04); kidney cancer, 1.55 (1.08-2.23); and endometrial cancer, 1.31 (1.07-1.61). Associations were stronger for rarer cancers and at tissue sites with lower rates of stem cell division. There was generally little evidence of association between genetically increased telomere length and risk of psychiatric, autoimmune, inflammatory, diabetic, and other non-neoplastic diseases, except for coronary heart disease (OR, 0.78 [95% CI, 0.67-0.90]), abdominal aortic aneurysm (OR, 0.63 [95% CI, 0.49-0.81]), celiac disease (OR, 0.42 [95% CI, 0.28-0.61]) and interstitial lung disease (OR, 0.09 [95% CI, 0.05-0.15]).Conclusions and relevanceIt is likely that longer telomeres increase risk for several cancers but reduce risk for some non-neoplastic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases.
Published: 2017

17. Correction: Evaluation of copy-number variants as modifiers of breast and ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers

Author: Walker, Logan C., Marquart, Louise, Pearson, John F., Wiggins, George A. R., O’Mara, Tracy A., Parsons, Michael T., Barrowdale, Daniel, McGuffog, Lesley, Dennis, Joe, Benitez, Javier, Slavin, Thomas P., Radice, Paolo, Frost, Debra, Godwin, Andrew K., Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita Katharina, Isaacs, Claudine, Peshkin, Beth N., Caldes, Trinidad, Hogervorst, Frans B. L., Lazaro, Conxi, Jakubowska, Anna, Montagna, Marco, Chen, Xiaoqing, Offit, Kenneth, Hulick, Peter J., Andrulis, Irene L., Lindblom, Annika, Nussbaum, Robert L., Nathanson, Katherine L., Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Antoniou, Antonis C., Couch, Fergus J., and Spurdle, Amanda B.
Subjects: Adult, Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II, Ovarian Neoplasms, Genetics, Heterozygote, Genes, Modifier, DNA Copy Number Variations, BRCA1 Protein, Pregnancy-Specific beta 1-Glycoproteins, Correction, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, medicine.disease, Human genetics, DNA-Binding Proteins, Transcription Factors, TFII, medicine, Humans, Female, Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases, Copy-number variation, Cytochrome P450 Family 2, Ovarian cancer, Genetics (clinical)
Abstract: Genome-wide studies of patients carrying pathogenic variants (mutations) in BRCA1 or BRCA2 have reported strong associations between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and cancer risk. To conduct the first genome-wide association analysis of copy-number variants (CNVs) with breast or ovarian cancer risk in a cohort of 2500 BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers, CNV discovery was performed using multiple calling algorithms and Illumina 610k SNP array data from a previously published genome-wide association study. Our analysis, which focused on functionally disruptive genomic deletions overlapping gene regions, identified a number of loci associated with risk of breast or ovarian cancer for BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers. Despite only including putative deletions called by at least two or more algorithms, detection of selected CNVs by ancillary molecular technologies only confirmed 40% of predicted common (1% allele frequency) variants. These include four loci that were associated (unadjusted P0.05) with breast cancer (GTF2H2, ZNF385B, NAALADL2 and PSG5), and two loci associated with ovarian cancer (CYP2A7 and OR2A1). An interesting finding from this study was an association of a validated CNV deletion at the CYP2A7 locus (19q13.2) with decreased ovarian cancer risk (relative risk=0.50, P=0.007). Genomic analysis found this deletion coincides with a region displaying strong regulatory potential in ovarian tissue, but not in breast epithelial cells. This study highlighted the need to verify CNVs in vitro, but also provides evidence that experimentally validated CNVs (with plausible biological consequences) can modify risk of breast or ovarian cancer in BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers.
Published: 2018

18. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies common susceptibility polymorphisms for colorectal and endometrial cancer near SH2B3 and TSHZ1

Author: Cheng, Timothy HT, Thompson, Deborah, Painter, Jodie, O’Mara, Tracy, Gorman, Maggie, Martin, Lynn, Palles, Claire, Jones, Angela, Buchanan, Daniel D., Ko Win, Aung, Hopper, John, Jenkins, Mark, Lindor, Noralane M., Newcomb, Polly A., Gallinger, Steve, Conti, David, Schumacher, Fred, Casey, Graham, Giles, Graham G, Pharoah, Paul, Peto, Julian, Cox, Angela, Swerdlow, Anthony, Couch, Fergus, Cunningham, Julie M, Goode, Ellen L, Winham, Stacey J, Lambrechts, Diether, Fasching, Peter, Burwinkel, Barbara, Brenner, Hermann, Brauch, Hiltrud, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Salvesen, Helga B., Kristensen, Vessela, Darabi, Hatef, Li, Jingmei, Liu, Tao, Lindblom, Annika, Hall, Per, de Polanco, Magdalena Echeverry, Sans, Monica, Carracedo, Angel, Castellvi-Bel, Sergi, Rojas-Martinez, Augusto, Aguiar Jnr, Samuel, Teixeira, Manuel R., Dunning, Alison M, Dennis, Joe, Otton, Geoffrey, Proietto, Tony, Holliday, Elizabeth, Attia, John, Ashton, Katie, Scott, Rodney J, McEvoy, Mark, Dowdy, Sean C, Fridley, Brooke L, Werner, Henrica MJ, Trovik, Jone, Njolstad, Tormund S, Tham, Emma, Mints, Miriam, Runnebaum, Ingo, Hillemanns, Peter, Dörk, Thilo, Amant, Frederic, Schrauwen, Stefanie, Hein, Alexander, Beckmann, Matthias W, Ekici, Arif, Czene, Kamila, Meindl, Alfons, Bolla, Manjeet K, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Wang, Qin, Ahmed, Shahana, Healey, Catherine S, Shah, Mitul, Annibali, Daniela, Depreeuw, Jeroen, Al-Tassan, Nada A., Harris, Rebecca, Meyer, Brian F., Whiffin, Nicola, Hosking, Fay J, Kinnersley, Ben, Farrington, Susan M., Timofeeva, Maria, Tenesa, Albert, Campbell, Harry, Haile, Robert W., Hodgson, Shirley, Carvajal-Carmona, Luis, Cheadle, Jeremy P., Easton, Douglas, Dunlop, Malcolm, Houlston, Richard, Spurdle, Amanda, and Tomlinson, Ian
Subjects: ddc
Published: 2015

19. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies common susceptibility polymorphisms for colorectal and endometrial cancer near SH2B3 and TSHZ1

Author: Cheng, Timothy HT, Thompson, Deborah, Painter, Jodie, O'Mara, Tracy, Gorman, Maggie, Martin, Lynn, Palles, Claire, Jones, Angela, Buchanan, Daniel D, Win, Aung Ko, Hopper, John, Jenkins, Mark, Lindor, Noralane M, Newcomb, Polly A, Gallinger, Steve, Conti, David, Schumacher, Fred, Casey, Graham, Giles, Graham G, Pharoah, Paul, Peto, Julian, Cox, Angela, Swerdlow, Anthony, Couch, Fergus, Cunningham, Julie M, Goode, Ellen L, Winham, Stacey J, Lambrechts, Diether, Fasching, Peter, Burwinkel, Barbara, Brenner, Hermann, Brauch, Hiltrud, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Salvesen, Helga B, Kristensen, Vessela, Darabi, Hatef, Li, Jingmei, Liu, Tao, Lindblom, Annika, Hall, Per, de Polanco, Magdalena Echeverry, Sans, Monica, Carracedo, Angel, Castellvi-Bel, Sergi, Rojas-Martinez, Augusto, Aguiar Jnr, Samuel, Teixeira, Manuel R, Dunning, Alison M, Dennis, Joe, Otton, Geoffrey, Proietto, Tony, Holliday, Elizabeth, Attia, John, Ashton, Katie, Scott, Rodney J, McEvoy, Mark, Dowdy, Sean C, Fridley, Brooke L, Werner, Henrica MJ, Trovik, Jone, Njolstad, Tormund S, Tham, Emma, Mints, Miriam, Runnebaum, Ingo, Hillemanns, Peter, Dörk, Thilo, Amant, Frederic, Schrauwen, Stefanie, Hein, Alexander, Beckmann, Matthias W, Ekici, Arif, Czene, Kamila, Meindl, Alfons, Bolla, Manjeet K, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Wang, Qin, Ahmed, Shahana, Healey, Catherine S, Shah, Mitul, Annibali, Daniela, Depreeuw, Jeroen, Al-Tassan, Nada A, Harris, Rebecca, Meyer, Brian F, Whiffin, Nicola, Hosking, Fay J, Kinnersley, Ben, Farrington, Susan M, Timofeeva, Maria, Tenesa, Albert, Campbell, Harry, Haile, Robert W, Hodgson, Shirley, Carvajal-Carmona, Luis, Cheadle, Jeremy P, Easton, Douglas, Dunlop, Malcolm, Houlston, Richard, and Spurdle, Amanda
Subjects: Male, Genetic, Genetics, Humans, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Testing, Polymorphism, Aetiology, Alleles, Cancer, Homeodomain Proteins, Prevention, Human Genome, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Signal Transducing, Adaptor Proteins, Proteins, Endometrial Neoplasms, Neoplasm Proteins, Colo-Rectal Cancer, Repressor Proteins, Female, Colorectal Neoplasms, Digestive Diseases, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: High-risk mutations in several genes predispose to both colorectal cancer (CRC) and endometrial cancer (EC). We therefore hypothesised that some lower-risk genetic variants might also predispose to both CRC and EC. Using CRC and EC genome-wide association series, totalling 13,265 cancer cases and 40,245 controls, we found that the protective allele [G] at one previously-identified CRC polymorphism, rs2736100 near TERT, was associated with EC risk (odds ratio (OR) = 1.08, P = 0.000167); this polymorphism influences the risk of several other cancers. A further CRC polymorphism near TERC also showed evidence of association with EC (OR = 0.92; P = 0.03). Overall, however, there was no good evidence that the set of CRC polymorphisms was associated with EC risk, and neither of two previously-reported EC polymorphisms was associated with CRC risk. A combined analysis revealed one genome-wide significant polymorphism, rs3184504, on chromosome 12q24 (OR = 1.10, P = 7.23 × 10(-9)) with shared effects on CRC and EC risk. This polymorphism, a missense variant in the gene SH2B3, is also associated with haematological and autoimmune disorders, suggesting that it influences cancer risk through the immune response. Another polymorphism, rs12970291 near gene TSHZ1, was associated with both CRC and EC (OR = 1.26, P = 4.82 × 10(-8)), with the alleles showing opposite effects on the risks of the two cancers.
Published: 2015

20. Fine-mapping of the HNF1B multicancer locus identifies candidate variants that mediate endometrial cancer risk

Author: Painter, Jodie N, O'Mara, Tracy A, Batra, Jyotsna, Cheng, Timothy, Lose, Felicity A, Dennis, Joe, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Ahmed, Shahana, Ferguson, Kaltin, Healey, Catherine S, Kaufmann, Susanne, Hillman, Kristine M, Walpole, Carina, Moya, Leire, Pollock, Pamela, Jones, Angela, Howarth, Kimberley, Martin, Lynn, Gorman, Maggie, Hodgson, Shirley, National Study of Endometrial Cancer Genetics Group (NSECG), CHIBCHA Consortium, De Polanco, Ma Magdalena Echeverry, Sans, Monica, Carracedo, Angel, Castellvi-Bel, Sergi, Rojas-Martinez, Augusto, Santos, Erika, Teixeira, Manuel R, Carvajal-Carmona, Luis, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Long, Jirong, Zheng, Wei, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Australian National Endometrial Cancer Study Group (ANECS), Montgomery, Grant W, Webb, Penelope M, Scott, Rodney J, McEvoy, Mark, Attia, John, Holliday, Elizabeth, Martin, Nicholas G, Nyholt, Dale R, Henders, Anjali K, Fasching, Peter A, Hein, Alexander, Beckmann, Matthias W, Renner, Stefan P, Dörk, Thilo, Hillemanns, Peter, Dürst, Matthias, Runnebaum, Ingo, Lambrechts, Diether, Coenegrachts, Lieve, Schrauwen, Stefanie, Amant, Frederic, Winterhoff, Boris, Dowdy, Sean C, Goode, Ellen L, Teoman, Attila, Salvesen, Helga B, Trovik, Jone, Njolstad, Tormund S, Werner, Henrica MJ, Ashton, Katie, Proietto, Tony, Otton, Geoffrey, Tzortzatos, Gerasimos, Mints, Miriam, Tham, Emma, RENDOCAS, Hall, Per, Czene, Kamila, Liu, Jianjun, Li, Jingmei, Hopper, John L, Southey, Melissa C, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study (AOCS), Ekici, Arif B, Ruebner, Matthias, Johnson, Nicola, Peto, Julian, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Brenner, Hermann, Dieffenbach, Aida K, Meindl, Alfons, Brauch, Hiltrud, GENICA Network, Lindblom, Annika, Depreeuw, Jeroen, Moisse, Matthieu, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Giles, Graham G, Bruinsma, Fiona, and Cunningham, Julie M
Subjects: Genotype, CHIBCHA Consortium, Messenger, European Continental Ancestry Group, National Study of Endometrial Cancer Genetics Group, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study, Medical and Health Sciences, Linkage Disequilibrium, Cell Line, Promoter Regions, Databases, Genetic, Risk Factors, Australian National Endometrial Cancer Study Group, Humans, Polymorphism, Alleles, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-beta, Genetics & Heredity, Tumor, RENDOCAS, Chromosome Mapping, Computational Biology, Genetic Variation, Single Nucleotide, Biological Sciences, Endometrial Neoplasms, Haplotypes, Genetic Loci, Case-Control Studies, RNA, Female, GENICA Network, Epigenesis, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Common variants in the hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 homeobox B (HNF1B) gene are associated with the risk of Type II diabetes and multiple cancers. Evidence to date indicates that cancer risk may be mediated via genetic or epigenetic effects on HNF1B gene expression. We previously found single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at the HNF1B locus to be associated with endometrial cancer, and now report extensive fine-mapping and in silico and laboratory analyses of this locus. Analysis of 1184 genotyped and imputed SNPs in 6608 Caucasian cases and 37 925 controls, and 895 Asian cases and 1968 controls, revealed the best signal of association for SNP rs11263763 (P = 8.4 × 10(-14), odds ratio = 0.86, 95% confidence interval = 0.82-0.89), located within HNF1B intron 1. Haplotype analysis and conditional analyses provide no evidence of further independent endometrial cancer risk variants at this locus. SNP rs11263763 genotype was associated with HNF1B mRNA expression but not with HNF1B methylation in endometrial tumor samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Genetic analyses prioritized rs11263763 and four other SNPs in high-to-moderate linkage disequilibrium as the most likely causal SNPs. Three of these SNPs map to the extended HNF1B promoter based on chromatin marks extending from the minimal promoter region. Reporter assays demonstrated that this extended region reduces activity in combination with the minimal HNF1B promoter, and that the minor alleles of rs11263763 or rs8064454 are associated with decreased HNF1B promoter activity. Our findings provide evidence for a single signal associated with endometrial cancer risk at the HNF1B locus, and that risk is likely mediated via altered HNF1B gene expression.
Published: 2015

21. Non-coding RNAs underlie genetic predisposition to breast cancer

Author: Moradi Marjaneh, Mahdi, Beesley, Jonathan, O’Mara, Tracy A., Mukhopadhyay, Pamela, Koufariotis, Lambros T., Kazakoff, Stephen, Hussein, Nehal, Fachal, Laura, Bartonicek, Nenad, Hillman, Kristine M., Kaufmann, Susanne, Sivakumaran, Haran, Smart, Chanel E., McCart Reed, Amy E., Ferguson, Kaltin, Saunus, Jodi M., Lakhani, Sunil R., Barnes, Daniel R., Antoniou, Antonis C., Dinger, Marcel E., Waddell, Nicola, Easton, Douglas F., Dunning, Alison M., Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Edwards, Stacey L., and French, Juliet D.
Subjects: Research, 3. Good health
Abstract: Funder: National Breast Cancer Foundation; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001026, Background: Genetic variants identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are predominantly non-coding and typically attributed to altered regulatory elements such as enhancers and promoters. However, the contribution of non-coding RNAs to complex traits is not clear. Results: Using targeted RNA sequencing, we systematically annotated multi-exonic non-coding RNA (mencRNA) genes transcribed from 1.5-Mb intervals surrounding 139 breast cancer GWAS signals and assessed their contribution to breast cancer risk. We identify more than 4000 mencRNA genes and show their expression distinguishes normal breast tissue from tumors and different breast cancer subtypes. Importantly, breast cancer risk variants, identified through genetic fine-mapping, are significantly enriched in mencRNA exons, but not the promoters or introns. eQTL analyses identify mencRNAs whose expression is associated with risk variants. Furthermore, chromatin interaction data identify hundreds of mencRNA promoters that loop to regions that contain breast cancer risk variants. Conclusions: We have compiled the largest catalog of breast cancer-associated mencRNAs to date and provide evidence that modulation of mencRNAs by GWAS variants may provide an alternative mechanism underlying complex traits.

22. Assessing the Role of Selenium in Endometrial Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study

Author: Kho, Pik Fang, Glubb, Dylan M, Thompson, Deborah J, Spurdle, Amanda B, and O'Mara, Tracy A
Subjects: genome-wide association study, circulating selenium, endometrial cancer, Mendelian randomization, toenail selenium, food and beverages, 3. Good health
Abstract: Endometrial cancer is the most commonly diagnosed gynecological cancer in developed countries. Based on evidence from observational studies which suggest selenium inhibits the development of several cancers (including lung and prostate cancer), selenium supplementation has been touted as a potential cancer preventative agent. However, randomized controlled trials have not reported benefit for selenium supplementation in reducing cancer risk. For endometrial cancer, limited observational studies have been conducted assessing whether selenium intake, or blood selenium levels, associated with reduced risk, and no randomized controlled trials have been conducted. We performed a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis to examine the relationship between selenium levels (using a composite measure of blood and toenail selenium) and endometrial cancer risk, using summary statistics for four genetic variants associated with selenium levels at genome-wide significance levels (P < 5 × 10-8), from a study of 12,906 endometrial cancer cases and 108,979 controls, all of European ancestry. Inverse variance weighted (IVW) analysis indicated no evidence of a causal role for selenium levels in endometrial cancer development (OR per unit increase in selenium levels Z-score = 0.99, 95% CI = 0.87-1.14). Similar results were observed for sensitivity analyses robust to the presence of unknown pleiotropy (OR per unit increase in selenium levels Z-score = 0.98, 95% CI 0.89-1.08 for weighted median; OR per unit increase in selenium levels Z-score = 0.90, 95% CI = 0.53-1.50 for MR-Egger). In conclusion, these results do not support the use of selenium supplementation to prevent endometrial cancer.

23. Mendelian randomization analyses suggest a role for cholesterol in the development of endometrial cancer

Author: Kho, Pik-Fang, Amant, Frederic, Annibali, Daniela, Ashton, Katie, Attia, John, Auer, Paul L, Beckmann, Matthias W, Black, Amanda, Brinton, Louise, Buchanan, Daniel D, Chanock, Stephen J, Chen, Chu, Chen, Maxine M, Cheng, Timothy HT, Cook, Linda S, Crous-Bous, Marta, Czene, Kamila, De Vivo, Immaculata, Dennis, Joe, Dörk, Thilo, Dowdy, Sean C, Dunning, Alison M, Dürst, Matthias, Easton, Douglas F, Ekici, Arif B, Fasching, Peter A, Fridley, Brooke L, Friedenreich, Christine M, García-Closas, Montserrat, Gaudet, Mia M, Giles, Graham G, Goode, Ellen L, Gorman, Maggie, Haiman, Christopher A, Hall, Per, Hankinson, Susan E, Hein, Alexander, Hillemanns, Peter, Hodgson, Shirley, Hoivik, Erling A, Holliday, Elizabeth G, Hunter, David J, Jones, Angela, Kraft, Peter, Krakstad, Camilla, Lambrechts, Diether, Le Marchand, Loic, Liang, Xiaolin, Lindblom, Annika, Lissowska, Jolanta, Long, Jirong, Lu, Lingeng, Magliocco, Anthony M, Martin, Lynn, McEvoy, Mark, Milne, Roger L, Mints, Miriam, Nassir, Rami, Otton, Geoffrey, Palles, Claire, Pooler, Loreall, Proietto, Tony, Rebbeck, Timothy R, Renner, Stefan P, Risch, Harvey A, Rübner, Matthias, Runnebaum, Ingo, Sacerdote, Carlotta, Sarto, Gloria E, Schumacher, Fredrick, Scott, Rodney J, Setiawan, V Wendy, Shah, Mitul, Sheng, Xin, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Southey, Melissa C, Tham, Emma, Tomlinson, Ian, Trovik, Jone, Turman, Constance, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Van Den Berg, David, Wang, Zhaoming, Wentzensen, Nicolas, Xia, Lucy, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Yang, Hannah P, Yu, Herbert, Zheng, Wei, Webb, Penelope M, Thompson, Deborah J, Spurdle, Amanda B, Glubb, Dylan M, and O'Mara, Tracy A
Subjects: 2. Zero hunger, Risk, Cholesterol, HDL, endometrial cancer risk, Cholesterol, LDL, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, 3. Good health, Endometrial Neoplasms, HDL cholesterol, Case-Control Studies, LDL cholesterol, Mendelian randomization, Humans, lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins), Female, triglycerides, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Blood lipids have been associated with the development of a range of cancers, including breast, lung and colorectal cancer. For endometrial cancer, observational studies have reported inconsistent associations between blood lipids and cancer risk. To reduce biases from unmeasured confounding, we performed a bidirectional, two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis to investigate the relationship between levels of three blood lipids (low-density lipoprotein [LDL] and high-density lipoprotein [HDL] cholesterol, and triglycerides) and endometrial cancer risk. Genetic variants associated with each of these blood lipid levels (P < 5 × 10-8 ) were identified as instrumental variables, and assessed using genome-wide association study data from the Endometrial Cancer Association Consortium (12 906 cases and 108 979 controls) and the Global Lipids Genetic Consortium (n = 188 578). Mendelian randomization analyses found genetically raised LDL cholesterol levels to be associated with lower risks of endometrial cancer of all histologies combined, and of endometrioid and non-endometrioid subtypes. Conversely, higher genetically predicted HDL cholesterol levels were associated with increased risk of non-endometrioid endometrial cancer. After accounting for the potential confounding role of obesity (as measured by genetic variants associated with body mass index), the association between genetically predicted increased LDL cholesterol levels and lower endometrial cancer risk remained significant, especially for non-endometrioid endometrial cancer. There was no evidence to support a role for triglycerides in endometrial cancer development. Our study supports a role for LDL and HDL cholesterol in the development of non-endometrioid endometrial cancer. Further studies are required to understand the mechanisms underlying these findings.

24. Non-coding RNAs underlie genetic predisposition to breast cancer

Author: Moradi Marjaneh, Mahdi, Beesley, Jonathan, O'Mara, Tracy A, Mukhopadhyay, Pamela, Koufariotis, Lambros T, Kazakoff, Stephen, Hussein, Nehal, Fachal, Laura, Bartonicek, Nenad, Hillman, Kristine M, Kaufmann, Susanne, Sivakumaran, Haran, Smart, Chanel E, McCart Reed, Amy E, Ferguson, Kaltin, Saunus, Jodi M, Lakhani, Sunil R, Barnes, Daniel R, Antoniou, Antonis C, Dinger, Marcel E, Waddell, Nicola, Easton, Douglas F, Dunning, Alison M, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Edwards, Stacey L, and French, Juliet D
Subjects: 3. Good health
Abstract: BACKGROUND:Genetic variants identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are predominantly non-coding and typically attributed to altered regulatory elements such as enhancers and promoters. However, the contribution of non-coding RNAs to complex traits is not clear. RESULTS:Using targeted RNA sequencing, we systematically annotated multi-exonic non-coding RNA (mencRNA) genes transcribed from 1.5-Mb intervals surrounding 139 breast cancer GWAS signals and assessed their contribution to breast cancer risk. We identify more than 4000 mencRNA genes and show their expression distinguishes normal breast tissue from tumors and different breast cancer subtypes. Importantly, breast cancer risk variants, identified through genetic fine-mapping, are significantly enriched in mencRNA exons, but not the promoters or introns. eQTL analyses identify mencRNAs whose expression is associated with risk variants. Furthermore, chromatin interaction data identify hundreds of mencRNA promoters that loop to regions that contain breast cancer risk variants. CONCLUSIONS:We have compiled the largest catalog of breast cancer-associated mencRNAs to date and provide evidence that modulation of mencRNAs by GWAS variants may provide an alternative mechanism underlying complex traits.

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

Author: Coignard, Juliette, Lush, Michael, Beesley, Jonathan, O'Mara, Tracy A, Dennis, Joe, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Barnes, Daniel R, McGuffog, Lesley, Leslie, Goska, Bolla, Manjeet K, Adank, Muriel A, Agata, Simona, Ahearn, Thomas, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Arnold, Norbert, Aronson, Kristan J, Arun, Banu K, Augustinsson, Annelie, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barrowdale, Daniel, Baynes, Caroline, Becher, Heiko, Bermisheva, Marina, Bernstein, Leslie, Białkowska, Katarzyna, Blomqvist, Carl, Bojesen, Stig E, Bonanni, Bernardo, Borg, Ake, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S, Caldés, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A, Campa, Daniele, Carter, Brian D, Castelao, Jose E, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J, Chung, Wendy K, Claes, Kathleen BM, Clarke, Christine L, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, Collée, J Margriet, Conroy, Don M, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Ding, Yuan Chun, Domchek, Susan M, Dörk, Thilo, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dunning, Alison M, Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M, Eliassen, A Heather, Engel, Christoph, Eriksson, Mikael, Evans, D Gareth, Fasching, Peter A, Flyger, Henrik, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Fritschi, Lin, Frost, Debra, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M, Garber, Judy, Garcia-Barberan, Vanesa, García-Closas, Montserrat, García-Sáenz, José A, Gaudet, Mia M, Gayther, Simon A, Gehrig, Andrea, Georgoulias, Vassilios, Giles, Graham G, Godwin, Andrew K, Goldberg, Mark S, Goldgar, David E, González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H, Guénel, Pascal, Haeberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A, Håkansson, Niclas, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Harrington, Patricia A, Hart, Steven N, He, Wei, Hogervorst, Frans BL, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Hopper, John L, Horcasitas, Darling J, Hulick, Peter J, Hunter, David J, Imyanitov, Evgeny N, KConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, Jager, Agnes, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul A, Jensen, Uffe Birk, John, Esther M, Jones, Michael E, Kaaks, Rudolf, Kapoor, Pooja Middha, Karlan, Beth Y, Keeman, Renske, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Kiiski, Johanna I, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Kraft, Peter, Kurian, Allison W, Laitman, Yael, Lambrechts, Diether, Le Marchand, Loic, Lester, Jenny, Lesueur, Fabienne, Lindstrom, Tricia, Lopez-Fernández, Adria, Loud, Jennifer T, Luccarini, Craig, Mannermaa, Arto, Manoukian, Siranoush, Margolin, Sara, Martens, John WM, Mebirouk, Noura, Meindl, Alfons, Miller, Austin, Milne, Roger L, Montagna, Marco, Nathanson, Katherine L, Neuhausen, Susan L, Nevanlinna, Heli, Nielsen, Finn C, O'Brien, Katie M, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I, Olson, Janet E, Olsson, Håkan, Osorio, Ana, Ottini, Laura, Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won, Parsons, Michael T, Pedersen, Inge Sokilde, Peshkin, Beth, Peterlongo, Paolo, Peto, Julian, Pharoah, Paul DP, Phillips, Kelly-Anne, Polley, Eric C, Poppe, Bruce, Presneau, Nadege, Pujana, Miquel Angel, Punie, Kevin, Radice, Paolo, Rantala, Johanna, Rashid, Muhammad U, Rennert, Gad, Rennert, Hedy S, Robson, Mark, Romero, Atocha, Rossing, Maria, Saloustros, Emmanouil, Sandler, Dale P, Santella, Regina, Scheuner, Maren T, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Schmidt, Gunnar, Scott, Christopher, Sharma, Priyanka, Soucy, Penny, Southey, Melissa C, Spinelli, John J, Steinsnyder, Zoe, Stone, Jennifer, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Swerdlow, Anthony, Tamimi, Rulla M, Tapper, William J, Taylor, Jack A, Terry, Mary Beth, Teulé, Alex, Thull, Darcy L, Tischkowitz, Marc, Toland, Amanda E, Torres, Diana, Trainer, Alison H, Truong, Thérèse, Tung, Nadine, Vachon, Celine M, Vega, Ana, Vijai, Joseph, Wang, Qin, Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Weinberg, Clarice R, Weitzel, Jeffrey N, Wendt, Camilla, Wolk, Alicja, Yadav, Siddhartha, Yang, Xiaohong R, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Zheng, Wei, Ziogas, Argyrios, Zorn, Kristin K, Park, Sue K, Thomassen, Mads, Offit, Kenneth, Schmutzler, Rita K, Couch, Fergus J, Simard, Jacques, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Easton, Douglas F, Andrieu, Nadine, and Antoniou, Antonis C
Subjects: Adult, BRCA2 Protein, endocrine system diseases, Genotype, BRCA1 Protein, Quantitative Trait Loci, Breast Neoplasms, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Linkage Disequilibrium, 3. Good health, Risk Factors, Mutation, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, skin and connective tissue diseases, Alleles, Genome-Wide Association Study
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.

26. Genetic overlap between endometriosis and endometrial cancer: evidence from cross-disease genetic correlation and GWAS meta-analyses

Author: Painter, Jodie N, O'Mara, Tracy A, Morris, Andrew P, Cheng, Timothy HT, Gorman, Maggie, Martin, Lynn, Hodson, Shirley, Jones, Angela, Martin, Nicholas G, Gordon, Scott, Henders, Anjali K, Attia, John, McEvoy, Mark, Holliday, Elizabeth G, Scott, Rodney J, Webb, Penelope M, Fasching, Peter A, Beckmann, Matthias W, Ekici, Arif B, Hein, Alexander, Rübner, Matthias, Hall, Per, Czene, Kamila, Dörk, Thilo, Dürst, Matthias, Hillemanns, Peter, Runnebaum, Ingo, Lambrechts, Diether, Amant, Frederic, Annibali, Daniela, Depreeuw, Jeroen, Vanderstichele, Adriaan, Goode, Ellen L, Cunningham, Julie M, Dowdy, Sean C, Winham, Stacey J, Trovik, Jone, Hoivik, Erling, Werner, Henrica MJ, Krakstad, Camilla, Ashton, Katie, Otton, Geoffrey, Proietto, Tony, Tham, Emma, Mints, Miriam, Ahmed, Shahana, Healey, Catherine S, Shah, Mitul, Pharoah, Paul DP, Dunning, Alison M, Dennis, Joe, Bolla, Manjeet K, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Wang, Qin, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Hopper, John L, Peto, Julian, Swerdlow, Anthony J, Burwinkel, Barbara, Brenner, Hermann, Meindl, Alfons, Brauch, Hiltrud, Lindblom, Annika, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Couch, Fergus J, Giles, Graham G, Kristensen, Vessela N, Cox, Angela, Zondervan, Krina T, Nyholt, Dale R, MacGregor, Stuart, Montgomery, Grant W, Tomlinson, Ian, Easton, Douglas F, Thompson, Deborah J, and Spurdle, Amanda B
Subjects: endometriosis, STAT3 Transcription Factor, genome-wide association study, Australia, Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 2, Cross-disease analysis, genetic correlation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, Endometrial Neoplasms, Endometrium, endometrial cancer, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Abstract: Epidemiological, biological, and molecular data suggest links between endometriosis and endometrial cancer, with recent epidemiological studies providing evidence for an association between a previous diagnosis of endometriosis and risk of endometrial cancer. We used genetic data as an alternative approach to investigate shared biological etiology of these two diseases. Genetic correlation analysis of summary level statistics from genomewide association studies (GWAS) using LD Score regression revealed moderate but significant genetic correlation (rg = 0.23, P = 9.3 × 10-3 ), and SNP effect concordance analysis provided evidence for significant SNP pleiotropy (P = 6.0 × 10-3 ) and concordance in effect direction (P = 2.0 × 10-3 ) between the two diseases. Cross-disease GWAS meta-analysis highlighted 13 distinct loci associated at P ≤ 10-5 with both endometriosis and endometrial cancer, with one locus (SNP rs2475335) located within PTPRD associated at a genomewide significant level (P = 4.9 × 10-8 , OR = 1.11, 95% CI = 1.07-1.15). PTPRD acts in the STAT3 pathway, which has been implicated in both endometriosis and endometrial cancer. This study demonstrates the value of cross-disease genetic analysis to support epidemiological observations and to identify biological pathways of relevance to multiple diseases.

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

Author: Coignard, Juliette, Lush, Michael, Beesley, Jonathan, O’Mara, Tracy A., Dennis, Joe, Tyrer, Jonathan P., Barnes, Daniel R., McGuffog, Lesley, Leslie, Goska, Bolla, Manjeet K., Adank, Muriel A., Agata, Simona, Ahearn, Thomas, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L., Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Arnold, Norbert, Aronson, Kristan J., Arun, Banu K., Augustinsson, Annelie, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barrowdale, Daniel, Baynes, Caroline, Becher, Heko, Bermisheva, Marina, Bernstein, Leslie, Białkowska, Katarzyna, Blomqvist, Carl, Bojesen, Stig E., Bonanni, Bernardo, Borg, Ake, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S., Caldés, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A., Campa, Daniele, Carter, Brian D., Castelao, Jose E., Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J., Chung, Wendy K., Claes, Kathleen B. M., Clarke, Christine L., Conroy, Don M., Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B., Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Ding, Yuan Chun, Domchek, Susan M., Dörk, Thilo, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dunning, Alison M., Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M., Eliassen, A. Heather, Engel, Christoph, Eriksson, Mikael, Evans, D. Gareth, Fasching, Peter A., Flyger, Henrik, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Fritschi, Lin, Frost, Debra, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M., Garber, Judy, Garcia-Barberan, Vanesa, García-Closas, Montserrat, García-Sáenz, José A., Gaudet, Mia M., Gayther, Simon A., Gehrig, Andrea, Georgoulias, Vassilios, Giles, Graham G., Godwin, Andrew K., Goldberg, Mark S., Goldgar, David E., González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H., Guénel, Pascal, Haeberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A., Håkansson, Niclas, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Harrington, Patricia A., Hart, Steven N., He, Wei, Hogervorst, Frans B. L., Hollestelle, Antoinette, Hopper, John L., Horcasitas, Darling J., Hulick, Peter J., Hunter, David J., Imyanitov, Evgeny N., Jager, Agnes, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul A., Jensen, Uffe Birk, John, Esther M., Jones, Michael E., Kaaks, Rudolf, Kapoor, Pooja Middha, Karlan, Beth Y., Keeman, Renske, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Kiiski, Johanna I., Ko, Yon-Dschun, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Kraft, Peter, Kurian, Allison W., Laitman, Yael, Lambrechts, Diether, Le Marchand, Loic, Lester, Jenny, Lesueur, Fabienne, Lindstrom, Tricia, Lopez-Fernández, Adria, Loud, Jennifer T., Luccarini, Craig, Mannermaa, Arto, Manoukian, Siranoush, Margolin, Sara, Martens, John W. M., Mebirouk, Noura, Meindl, Alfons, Miller, Austin, Milne, Roger L., Montagna, Marco, Nathanson, Katherine L., Neuhausen, Susan L., Nevanlinna, Heli, Nielsen, Finn C., O’Brien, Katie M., Olopade, Olufunmilayo I., Olson, Janet E., Olsson, Håkan, Osorio, Ana, Ottini, Laura, Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won, Parsons, Michael T., Pedersen, Inge Sokilde, Peshkin, Beth, Peterlongo, Paolo, Peto, Julian, Pharoah, Paul D. P., Phillips, Kelly-Anne, Polley, Eric C., Poppe, Bruce, Presneau, Nadege, Pujana, Miquel Angel, Punie, Kevin, Radice, Paolo, Rantala, Johanna, Rashid, Muhammad U., Rennert, Gad, Rennert, Hedy S., Robson, Mark, Romero, Atocha, Rossing, Maria, Saloustros, Emmanouil, Sandler, Dale P., Santella, Regina, Scheuner, Maren T., Schmidt, Marjanka K., Schmidt, Gunnar, Scott, Christopher, Sharma, Priyanka, Soucy, Penny, Southey, Melissa C., Spinelli, John J., Steinsnyder, Zoe, Stone, Jennifer, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Swerdlow, Anthony, Tamimi, Rulla M., Tapper, William J., Taylor, Jack A., Terry, Mary Beth, Teulé, Alex, Thull, Darcy L., Tischkowitz, Marc, Toland, Amanda E., Torres, Diana, Trainer, Alison H., Truong, Thérèse, Tung, Nadine, Vachon, Celine M., Vega, Ana, Vijai, Joseph, Wang, Qin, Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Weinberg, Clarice R., Weitzel, Jeffrey N., Wendt, Camilla, Wolk, Alicja, Yadav, Siddhartha, Yang, Xiaohong R., Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Zheng, Wei, Ziogas, Argyrios, Zorn, Kristin K., Park, Sue K., Thomassen, Mads, Offit, Kenneth, Schmutzler, Rita K., Couch, Fergus J., Simard, Jacques, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Easton, Douglas F., Andrieu, Nadine, Antoniou, Antonis C., Bertrand, Ophélie, Caputo, Sandrine, Dupré, Anaïs, Le Mentec, Marine, Belotti, Muriel, Birot, Anne-Marie, Buecher, Bruno, Fourme, Emmanuelle, Gauthier-Villars, Marion, Golmard, Lisa, Houdayer, Claude, Moncoutier, Virginie, De Pauw, Antoine, Saule, Claire, Sinilnikova, Olga, Mazoyer, Sylvie, Damiola, Francesca, Barjhoux, Laure, Verny-Pierre, Carole, Léone, Mélanie, Boutry-Kryza, Nadia, Calender, Alain, Giraud, Sophie, Caron, Olivier, Guillaud-Bataille, Marine, Bressac-De-Paillerets, Brigitte, Bignon, Yves- Jean, Uhrhammer, Nancy, Lasset, Christine, Bonadona, Valérie, Berthet, Pascaline, Vaur, Dominique, Castera, Laurent, Noguchi, Tetsuro, Popovici, Cornel, Sobol, Hagay, Bourdon, Violaine, Remenieras, Audrey, Noguès, Catherine, Coupier, Isabelle, Pujol, Pascal, Dumont, Aurélie, Révillion, Françoise, Adenis, Claude, Muller, Danièle, Barouk-Simonet, Emmanuelle, Bonnet, Françoise, Bubien, Virginie, Sevenet, Nicolas, Longy, Michel, Toulas, Christine, Guimbaud, Rosine, Gladieff, Laurence, Feillel, Viviane, Leroux, Dominique, Dreyfus, Hélène, Rebischung, Christine, Peysselon, Magalie, Coron, Fanny, Faivre, Laurence, Baurand, Amandine, Jacquot, Caroline, Bertolone, Geoffrey, Lizard, Sarab, Prieur, Fabienne, Lebrun, Marine, Kientz, Caroline, Ferrer, Sandra Fert, Mari, Véronique, Vénat-Bouvet, Laurence, Delnatte, Capucine, Bézieau, Stéphane, Mortemousque, Isabelle, Coulet, Florence, Colas, Chrystelle, Soubrier, Florent, Warcoin, Mathilde, Sokolowska, Johanna, Bronner, Myriam, Collonge-Rame, Marie-Agnès, Damette, Alexandre, Gesta, Paul, Lallaoui, Hakima, Chiesa, Jean, Molina-Gomes, Denise, Ingster, Olivier, Gregory, Helen, Miedzybrodzka, Zosia, Morrison, Patrick J., Ong, Kai-Ren, Donaldson, Alan, Rogers, Mark T., Kennedy, M. John, Porteous, Mary E., Brewer, Carole, Davidson, Rosemarie, Izatt, Louise, Brady, Angela, Barwell, Julian, Adlard, Julian, Foo, Claire, Lalloo, Fiona, Side, Lucy E., Eason, Jacqueline, Henderson, Alex, Walker, Lisa, Eeles, Rosalind A., Cook, Jackie, Snape, Katie, Eccles, Diana, Murray, Alex, McCann, Emma, Fox, Stephen, Campbell, Ian, Spurdle, Amanda, Webb, Penny, De Fazio, Anna, Tassell, Margaret, Kirk, Judy, Lindeman, Geoff, Price, Melanie, Southey, Melissa, Milne, Roger, Deb, Sid, Bowtell, David, Van Der Hout, Annemieke H., Van Den Ouweland, Ans M. W., Mensenkamp, Arjen R., Van Deurzen, Carolien H. M., Kets, Carolien M., Seynaeve, Caroline, Van Asperen, Christi J., Aalfs, Cora M., Gómez Garcia, Encarna B., Van Leeuwen, Flora E., De Bock, G. H., Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne E. J., Obdeijn, Inge M., Collée, J. Margriet, Gille, J. J. P., Oosterwijk, Jan C., Wijnen, Juul T., Van Der Kolk, Lizet E., Hooning, Maartje J., Ausems, Margreet G. E. M., Mourits, Marian J. E., Blok, Marinus J., Rookus, Matti A., Van Der Luijt, Rob B., Van Cronenburg, T. C. T. E. F., Van Der Pol, Carmen C., Russell, Nicola S., Siesling, Sabine, Overbeek, Lucy, Wijnands, R., De Lange, Judith L., Clarke, Christine, Graham, Dinny, Sachchithananthan, Mythily, Marsh, Deborah, Scott, Rodney, Baxter, Robert, Yip, Desmond, Carpenter, Jane, Davis, Alison, Pathmanathan, Nirmala, and Simpson, Peter
Subjects: endocrine system diseases, 45/61, 45/43, article, 631/67/2324, 631/67/1347, 631/208/68, skin and connective tissue diseases, 692/499, 3. Good health
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.

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

Author: Coignard, Juliette, Lush, Michael, Beesley, Jonathan, O’Mara, Tracy A., Dennis, Joe, Tyrer, Jonathan P., Barnes, Daniel R., McGuffog, Lesley, Leslie, Goska, Bolla, Manjeet K., Adank, Muriel A., Agata, Simona, Ahearn, Thomas, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L., Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Arnold, Norbert, Aronson, Kristan J., Arun, Banu K., Augustinsson, Annelie, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barrowdale, Daniel, Baynes, Caroline, Becher, Heiko, Bermisheva, Marina, Bernstein, Leslie, Białkowska, Katarzyna, Blomqvist, Carl, Bojesen, Stig E., Bonanni, Bernardo, Borg, Ake, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S., Caldés, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A., Campa, Daniele, Carter, Brian D., Castelao, Jose E., Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J., Chung, Wendy K., Claes, Kathleen B. M., Clarke, Christine L., Conroy, Don M., Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B., Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Ding, Yuan Chun, Domchek, Susan M., Dörk, Thilo, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dunning, Alison M., Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M., Eliassen, A. Heather, Engel, Christoph, Eriksson, Mikael, Evans, D. Gareth, Fasching, Peter A., Flyger, Henrik, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Fritschi, Lin, Frost, Debra, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M., Garber, Judy, Garcia-Barberan, Vanesa, García-Closas, Montserrat, García-Sáenz, José A., Gaudet, Mia M., Gayther, Simon A., Gehrig, Andrea, Georgoulias, Vassilios, Giles, Graham G., Godwin, Andrew K., Goldberg, Mark S., Goldgar, David E., González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H., Guénel, Pascal, Haeberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A., Håkansson, Niclas, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Harrington, Patricia A., Hart, Steven N., He, Wei, Hogervorst, Frans B. L., Hollestelle, Antoinette, Hopper, John L., Horcasitas, Darling J., Hulick, Peter J., Hunter, David J., Imyanitov, Evgeny N., Jager, Agnes, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul A., Jensen, Uffe Birk, John, Esther M., Jones, Michael E., Kaaks, Rudolf, Kapoor, Pooja Middha, Karlan, Beth Y., Keeman, Renske, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Kiiski, Johanna I., Ko, Yon-Dschun, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Kraft, Peter, Kurian, Allison W., Laitman, Yael, Lambrechts, Diether, Le Marchand, Loic, Lester, Jenny, Lesueur, Fabienne, Lindstrom, Tricia, Lopez-Fernández, Adria, Loud, Jennifer T., Luccarini, Craig, Mannermaa, Arto, Manoukian, Siranoush, Margolin, Sara, Martens, John W. M., Mebirouk, Noura, Meindl, Alfons, Miller, Austin, Milne, Roger L., Montagna, Marco, Nathanson, Katherine L., Neuhausen, Susan L., Nevanlinna, Heli, Nielsen, Finn C., O’Brien, Katie M., Olopade, Olufunmilayo I., Olson, Janet E., Olsson, Håkan, Osorio, Ana, Ottini, Laura, Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won, Parsons, Michael T., Pedersen, Inge Sokilde, Peshkin, Beth, Peterlongo, Paolo, Peto, Julian, Pharoah, Paul D. P., Phillips, Kelly-Anne, Polley, Eric C., Poppe, Bruce, Presneau, Nadege, Pujana, Miquel Angel, Punie, Kevin, Radice, Paolo, Rantala, Johanna, Rashid, Muhammad U., Rennert, Gad, Rennert, Hedy S., Robson, Mark, Romero, Atocha, Rossing, Maria, Saloustros, Emmanouil, Sandler, Dale P., Santella, Regina, Scheuner, Maren T., Schmidt, Marjanka K., Schmidt, Gunnar, Scott, Christopher, Sharma, Priyanka, Soucy, Penny, Southey, Melissa C., Spinelli, John J., Steinsnyder, Zoe, Stone, Jennifer, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Swerdlow, Anthony, Tamimi, Rulla M., Tapper, William J., Taylor, Jack A., Terry, Mary Beth, Teulé, Alex, Thull, Darcy L., Tischkowitz, Marc, Toland, Amanda E., Torres, Diana, Trainer, Alison H., Truong, Thérèse, Tung, Nadine, Vachon, Celine M., Vega, Ana, Vijai, Joseph, Wang, Qin, Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Weinberg, Clarice R., Weitzel, Jeffrey N., Wendt, Camilla, Wolk, Alicja, Yadav, Siddhartha, Yang, Xiaohong R., Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Zheng, Wei, Ziogas, Argyrios, Zorn, Kristin K., Park, Sue K., Thomassen, Mads, Offit, Kenneth, Schmutzler, Rita K., Couch, Fergus J., Simard, Jacques, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Easton, Douglas F., Andrieu, Nadine, Antoniou, Antonis C., Bertrand, Ophélie, Caputo, Sandrine, Dupré, Anaïs, Le Mentec, Marine, Belotti, Muriel, Birot, Anne-Marie, Buecher, Bruno, Fourme, Emmanuelle, Gauthier-Villars, Marion, Golmard, Lisa, Houdayer, Claude, Moncoutier, Virginie, De Pauw, Antoine, Saule, Claire, Sinilnikova, Olga, Mazoyer, Sylvie, Damiola, Francesca, Barjhoux, Laure, Verny-Pierre, Carole, Léone, Mélanie, Boutry-Kryza, Nadia, Calender, Alain, Giraud, Sophie, Caron, Olivier, Guillaud-Bataille, Marine, Bressac-De-Paillerets, Brigitte, Bignon, Yves- Jean, Uhrhammer, Nancy, Lasset, Christine, Bonadona, Valérie, Berthet, Pascaline, Vaur, Dominique, Castera, Laurent, Noguchi, Tetsuro, Popovici, Cornel, Sobol, Hagay, Bourdon, Violaine, Remenieras, Audrey, Noguès, Catherine, Coupier, Isabelle, Pujol, Pascal, Dumont, Aurélie, Révillion, Françoise, Adenis, Claude, Muller, Danièle, Barouk-Simonet, Emmanuelle, Bonnet, Françoise, Bubien, Virginie, Sevenet, Nicolas, Longy, Michel, Toulas, Christine, Guimbaud, Rosine, Gladieff, Laurence, Feillel, Viviane, Leroux, Dominique, Dreyfus, Hélène, Rebischung, Christine, Peysselon, Magalie, Coron, Fanny, Faivre, Laurence, Baurand, Amandine, Jacquot, Caroline, Bertolone, Geoffrey, Lizard, Sarab, Prieur, Fabienne, Lebrun, Marine, Kientz, Caroline, Ferrer, Sandra Fert, Mari, Véronique, Vénat-Bouvet, Laurence, Delnatte, Capucine, Bézieau, Stéphane, Mortemousque, Isabelle, Coulet, Florence, Colas, Chrystelle, Soubrier, Florent, Warcoin, Mathilde, Sokolowska, Johanna, Bronner, Myriam, Collonge-Rame, Marie-Agnès, Damette, Alexandre, Gesta, Paul, Lallaoui, Hakima, Chiesa, Jean, Molina-Gomes, Denise, Ingster, Olivier, Gregory, Helen, Miedzybrodzka, Zosia, Morrison, Patrick J., Ong, Kai-Ren, Donaldson, Alan, Rogers, Mark T., Kennedy, M. John, Porteous, Mary E., Brewer, Carole, Davidson, Rosemarie, Izatt, Louise, Brady, Angela, Barwell, Julian, Adlard, Julian, Foo, Claire, Lalloo, Fiona, Side, Lucy E., Eason, Jacqueline, Henderson, Alex, Walker, Lisa, Eeles, Rosalind A., Cook, Jackie, Snape, Katie, Eccles, Diana, Murray, Alex, McCann, Emma, Fox, Stephen, Campbell, Ian, Spurdle, Amanda, Webb, Penny, De Fazio, Anna, Tassell, Margaret, Kirk, Judy, Lindeman, Geoff, Price, Melanie, Southey, Melissa, Milne, Roger, Deb, Sid, Bowtell, David, Van Der Hout, Annemieke H., Van Den Ouweland, Ans M. W., Mensenkamp, Arjen R., Van Deurzen, Carolien H. M., Kets, Carolien M., Seynaeve, Caroline, Van Asperen, Christi J., Aalfs, Cora M., Gómez Garcia, Encarna B., Van Leeuwen, Flora E., De Bock, G. H., Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne E. J., Obdeijn, Inge M., Collée, J. Margriet, Gille, J. J. P., Oosterwijk, Jan C., Wijnen, Juul T., Van Der Kolk, Lizet E., Hooning, Maartje J., Ausems, Margreet G. E. M., Mourits, Marian J. E., Blok, Marinus J., Rookus, Matti A., Van Der Luijt, Rob B., Van Cronenburg, T. C. T. E. F., Van Der Pol, Carmen C., Russell, Nicola S., Siesling, Sabine, Overbeek, Lucy, Wijnands, R., De Lange, Judith L., Clarke, Christine, Graham, Dinny, Sachchithananthan, Mythily, Marsh, Deborah, Scott, Rodney, Baxter, Robert, Yip, Desmond, Carpenter, Jane, Davis, Alison, Pathmanathan, Nirmala, and Simpson, Peter
Subjects: endocrine system diseases, 45/61, 45/43, article, 631/67/2324, 631/67/1347, 631/208/68, skin and connective tissue diseases, 692/499, 3. Good health
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.

29. Non-coding RNAs underlie genetic predisposition to breast cancer

Author: Moradi Marjaneh, Mahdi, Beesley, Jonathan, O'Mara, Tracy A, Mukhopadhyay, Pamela, Koufariotis, Lambros T, Kazakoff, Stephen, Hussein, Nehal, Fachal, Laura, Bartonicek, Nenad, Hillman, Kristine M, Kaufmann, Susanne, Sivakumaran, Haran, Smart, Chanel E, McCart Reed, Amy E, Ferguson, Kaltin, Saunus, Jodi M, Lakhani, Sunil R, Barnes, Daniel R, Antoniou, Antonis C, Dinger, Marcel E, Waddell, Nicola, Easton, Douglas F, Dunning, Alison M, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Edwards, Stacey L, and French, Juliet D
Subjects: RNA, Untranslated, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Humans, Breast Neoplasms, 3. Good health, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Genetic variants identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are predominantly non-coding and typically attributed to altered regulatory elements such as enhancers and promoters. However, the contribution of non-coding RNAs to complex traits is not clear. RESULTS: Using targeted RNA sequencing, we systematically annotated multi-exonic non-coding RNA (mencRNA) genes transcribed from 1.5-Mb intervals surrounding 139 breast cancer GWAS signals and assessed their contribution to breast cancer risk. We identify more than 4000 mencRNA genes and show their expression distinguishes normal breast tissue from tumors and different breast cancer subtypes. Importantly, breast cancer risk variants, identified through genetic fine-mapping, are significantly enriched in mencRNA exons, but not the promoters or introns. eQTL analyses identify mencRNAs whose expression is associated with risk variants. Furthermore, chromatin interaction data identify hundreds of mencRNA promoters that loop to regions that contain breast cancer risk variants. CONCLUSIONS: We have compiled the largest catalog of breast cancer-associated mencRNAs to date and provide evidence that modulation of mencRNAs by GWAS variants may provide an alternative mechanism underlying complex traits.

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

Author: Coignard, Juliette, Lush, Michael, Beesley, Jonathan, O’Mara, Tracy A., Dennis, Joe, Tyrer, Jonathan P., Barnes, Daniel R., McGuffog, Lesley, Leslie, Goska, Bolla, Manjeet K., Adank, Muriel A., Agata, Simona, Ahearn, Thomas, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Andrulis, Irene L., Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Arnold, Norbert, Aronson, Kristan J., Arun, Banu K., Augustinsson, Annelie, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barrowdale, Daniel, Baynes, Caroline, Becher, Heiko, Bermisheva, Marina, Bernstein, Leslie, Białkowska, Katarzyna, Blomqvist, Carl, Bojesen, Stig E., Bonanni, Bernardo, Borg, Ake, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S., Caldés, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A., Campa, Daniele, Carter, Brian D., Castelao, Jose E., Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J., Chung, Wendy K., Claes, Kathleen B. M., Clarke, Christine L., Conroy, Don M., Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B., Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Ding, Yuan Chun, Domchek, Susan M., Dörk, Thilo, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dunning, Alison M., Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M., Eliassen, A. Heather, Engel, Christoph, Eriksson, Mikael, Evans, D. Gareth, Fasching, Peter A., Flyger, Henrik, Fostira, Florentia, Friedman, Eitan, Fritschi, Lin, Frost, Debra, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M., Garber, Judy, Garcia-Barberan, Vanesa, García-Closas, Montserrat, García-Sáenz, José A., Gaudet, Mia M., Gayther, Simon A., Gehrig, Andrea, Georgoulias, Vassilios, Giles, Graham G., Godwin, Andrew K., Goldberg, Mark S., Goldgar, David E., González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H., Guénel, Pascal, Haeberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A., Håkansson, Niclas, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Harrington, Patricia A., Hart, Steven N., He, Wei, Hogervorst, Frans B. L., Hollestelle, Antoinette, Hopper, John L., Horcasitas, Darling J., Hulick, Peter J., Hunter, David J., Imyanitov, Evgeny N., Jager, Agnes, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul A., Jensen, Uffe Birk, John, Esther M., Jones, Michael E., Kaaks, Rudolf, Kapoor, Pooja Middha, Karlan, Beth Y., Keeman, Renske, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Kiiski, Johanna I., Ko, Yon-Dschun, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Kraft, Peter, Kurian, Allison W., Laitman, Yael, Lambrechts, Diether, Le Marchand, Loic, Lester, Jenny, Lesueur, Fabienne, Lindstrom, Tricia, Lopez-Fernández, Adria, Loud, Jennifer T., Luccarini, Craig, Mannermaa, Arto, Manoukian, Siranoush, Margolin, Sara, Martens, John W. M., Mebirouk, Noura, Meindl, Alfons, Miller, Austin, Milne, Roger L., Montagna, Marco, Nathanson, Katherine L., Neuhausen, Susan L., Nevanlinna, Heli, Nielsen, Finn C., O’Brien, Katie M., Olopade, Olufunmilayo I., Olson, Janet E., Olsson, Håkan, Osorio, Ana, Ottini, Laura, Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won, Parsons, Michael T., Pedersen, Inge Sokilde, Peshkin, Beth, Peterlongo, Paolo, Peto, Julian, Pharoah, Paul D. P., Phillips, Kelly-Anne, Polley, Eric C., Poppe, Bruce, Presneau, Nadege, Pujana, Miquel Angel, Punie, Kevin, Radice, Paolo, Rantala, Johanna, Rashid, Muhammad U., Rennert, Gad, Rennert, Hedy S., Robson, Mark, Romero, Atocha, Rossing, Maria, Saloustros, Emmanouil, Sandler, Dale P., Santella, Regina, Scheuner, Maren T., Schmidt, Marjanka K., Schmidt, Gunnar, Scott, Christopher, Sharma, Priyanka, Soucy, Penny, Southey, Melissa C., Spinelli, John J., Steinsnyder, Zoe, Stone, Jennifer, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Swerdlow, Anthony, Tamimi, Rulla M., Tapper, William J., Taylor, Jack A., Terry, Mary Beth, Teulé, Alex, Thull, Darcy L., Tischkowitz, Marc, Toland, Amanda E., Torres, Diana, Trainer, Alison H., Truong, Thérèse, Tung, Nadine, Vachon, Celine M., Vega, Ana, Vijai, Joseph, Wang, Qin, Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Weinberg, Clarice R., Weitzel, Jeffrey N., Wendt, Camilla, Wolk, Alicja, Yadav, Siddhartha, Yang, Xiaohong R., Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Zheng, Wei, Ziogas, Argyrios, Zorn, Kristin K., Park, Sue K., Thomassen, Mads, Offit, Kenneth, Schmutzler, Rita K., Couch, Fergus J., Simard, Jacques, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Easton, Douglas F., Andrieu, Nadine, Antoniou, Antonis C., Bertrand, Ophélie, Caputo, Sandrine, Dupré, Anaïs, Le Mentec, Marine, Belotti, Muriel, Birot, Anne-Marie, Buecher, Bruno, Fourme, Emmanuelle, Gauthier-Villars, Marion, Golmard, Lisa, Houdayer, Claude, Moncoutier, Virginie, De Pauw, Antoine, Saule, Claire, Sinilnikova, Olga, Mazoyer, Sylvie, Damiola, Francesca, Barjhoux, Laure, Verny-Pierre, Carole, Léone, Mélanie, Boutry-Kryza, Nadia, Calender, Alain, Giraud, Sophie, Caron, Olivier, Guillaud-Bataille, Marine, Bressac-De-Paillerets, Brigitte, Bignon, Yves- Jean, Uhrhammer, Nancy, Lasset, Christine, Bonadona, Valérie, Berthet, Pascaline, Vaur, Dominique, Castera, Laurent, Noguchi, Tetsuro, Popovici, Cornel, Sobol, Hagay, Bourdon, Violaine, Remenieras, Audrey, Noguès, Catherine, Coupier, Isabelle, Pujol, Pascal, Dumont, Aurélie, Révillion, Françoise, Adenis, Claude, Muller, Danièle, Barouk-Simonet, Emmanuelle, Bonnet, Françoise, Bubien, Virginie, Sevenet, Nicolas, Longy, Michel, Toulas, Christine, Guimbaud, Rosine, Gladieff, Laurence, Feillel, Viviane, Leroux, Dominique, Dreyfus, Hélène, Rebischung, Christine, Peysselon, Magalie, Coron, Fanny, Faivre, Laurence, Baurand, Amandine, Jacquot, Caroline, Bertolone, Geoffrey, Lizard, Sarab, Prieur, Fabienne, Lebrun, Marine, Kientz, Caroline, Ferrer, Sandra Fert, Mari, Véronique, Vénat-Bouvet, Laurence, Delnatte, Capucine, Bézieau, Stéphane, Mortemousque, Isabelle, Coulet, Florence, Colas, Chrystelle, Soubrier, Florent, Warcoin, Mathilde, Sokolowska, Johanna, Bronner, Myriam, Collonge-Rame, Marie-Agnès, Damette, Alexandre, Gesta, Paul, Lallaoui, Hakima, Chiesa, Jean, Molina-Gomes, Denise, Ingster, Olivier, Gregory, Helen, Miedzybrodzka, Zosia, Morrison, Patrick J., Ong, Kai-Ren, Donaldson, Alan, Rogers, Mark T., Kennedy, M. John, Porteous, Mary E., Brewer, Carole, Davidson, Rosemarie, Izatt, Louise, Brady, Angela, Barwell, Julian, Adlard, Julian, Foo, Claire, Lalloo, Fiona, Side, Lucy E., Eason, Jacqueline, Henderson, Alex, Walker, Lisa, Eeles, Rosalind A., Cook, Jackie, Snape, Katie, Eccles, Diana, Murray, Alex, McCann, Emma, Fox, Stephen, Campbell, Ian, Spurdle, Amanda, Webb, Penny, De Fazio, Anna, Tassell, Margaret, Kirk, Judy, Lindeman, Geoff, Price, Melanie, Southey, Melissa, Milne, Roger, Deb, Sid, Bowtell, David, Van Der Hout, Annemieke H., Van Den Ouweland, Ans M. W., Mensenkamp, Arjen R., Van Deurzen, Carolien H. M., Kets, Carolien M., Seynaeve, Caroline, Van Asperen, Christi J., Aalfs, Cora M., Gómez Garcia, Encarna B., Van Leeuwen, Flora E., De Bock, G. H., Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne E. J., Obdeijn, Inge M., Collée, J. Margriet, Gille, J. J. P., Oosterwijk, Jan C., Wijnen, Juul T., Van Der Kolk, Lizet E., Hooning, Maartje J., Ausems, Margreet G. E. M., Mourits, Marian J. E., Blok, Marinus J., Rookus, Matti A., Van Der Luijt, Rob B., Van Cronenburg, T. C. T. E. F., Van Der Pol, Carmen C., Russell, Nicola S., Siesling, Sabine, Overbeek, Lucy, Wijnands, R., De Lange, Judith L., Clarke, Christine, Graham, Dinny, Sachchithananthan, Mythily, Marsh, Deborah, Scott, Rodney, Baxter, Robert, Yip, Desmond, Carpenter, Jane, Davis, Alison, Pathmanathan, Nirmala, and Simpson, Peter
Subjects: endocrine system diseases, 45/61, 45/43, article, 631/67/2324, 631/67/1347, 631/208/68, skin and connective tissue diseases, 692/499, 3. Good health
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.

31. Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers

Author: Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Ellen L. Goode, Mark M. Iles, Brian M. Wolpin, Stephen J. Chanock, Susan L. Slager, Li Hsu, Clare Turnbull, Ccfr, Michael Hoffmeister, Peter T. Campbell, Maria Teresa Landi, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Amber N. Hurson, Melissa L. Bondy, Roger L. Milne, Peter A. Kanetsky, Simon A. Gayther, Christopher A. Haiman, Nicola J. Camp, Mark A. Jenkins, Margaret Wrensch, Bcac, Ulrike Peters, Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Richard S. Houlston, PanScan, Haoyu Zhang, Christopher I. Amos, Ben Kinnersley, GenoMEL, Florence Demenais, Rosalind A. Eeles, Katherine A. McGlynn, Practical, John K. Wiencke, Gicc, Katherine L. Nathanson, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Brenda M. Birmann, Rayjean J. Hung, Donghui Li, David C. Whiteman, Ghislaine Scelo, Sonja I. Berndt, Alison P. Klein, Sarah V. Ward, Per Hall, D. Timothy Bishop, Tracy A. O'Mara, Kirsten B. Moysich, Corect, Laufey T. Amundadottir, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Ian Tomlinson, Ocac, Yan Zhang, Gloria M. Petersen, Ali Amin Al Olama, Puya Gharahkhani, Deborah J. Thompson, Paul Brennan, Douglas F. Easton, Celeste Leigh Pearce, InterLymph, Jacques Simard, Mark H. Greene, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Ecac, Marlene Danner Dalgaard, Mark P. Purdue, Beatrice Melin, Graham Casey, Rajesh Kumar, Jenny Chang-Claude, Thomas A. Sellers, Stephen B. Gruber, Beacon, James D. McKay, Tecac, Stephanie L. Schmit, Tom Grotmol, Kyriaki Michailidou, Immaculata De Vivo, Joellen M. Schildkraut, Eric J. Jacobs, Fredrik Wiklund, Amanda B. Spurdle, Nathaniel Rothman, Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Peter Kraft, Panc, Renal Cancer Gwas, Neil E. Caporaso, Joe Dennis, Matthew Law, Fredrick R. Schumacher, Harvey A. Risch, Stuart MacGregor, Andrew Berchuck, Ilcco, Oral Cancer Gwas, Zhang, Yan Dora [0000-0002-5302-3690], Hurson, Amber N. [0000-0001-7831-6660], Easton, Douglas F. [0000-0003-2444-3247], Milne, Roger L. [0000-0001-5764-7268], Simard, Jacques [0000-0001-6906-3390], Michailidou, Kyriaki [0000-0001-7065-1237], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Schmidt, Marjanka K. [0000-0002-2228-429X], Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Whiteman, David [0000-0003-2563-9559], Jenkins, Mark [0000-0002-8964-6160], Peters, Ulrike [0000-0001-5666-9318], Schmit, Stephanie L. [0000-0001-5931-1194], O’Mara, Tracy A. [0000-0002-5436-3232], Spurdle, Amanda B. [0000-0003-1337-7897], Thompson, Deborah J. [0000-0003-1465-5799], Tomlinson, Ian [0000-0003-3037-1470], Landi, Maria Teresa [0000-0003-4507-329X], Law, Matthew H. [0000-0002-4303-8821], Iles, Mark M. [0000-0002-2603-6509], Demenais, Florence [0000-0001-8361-0936], Kumar, Rajiv [0000-0002-6093-0395], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], Bishop, D. Timothy [0000-0002-8752-8785], Houlston, Richard [0000-0002-5268-0242], Barnholtz-Sloan, Jill [0000-0001-6190-9304], Kinnersley, Ben [0000-0003-1783-6296], Amos, Christopher I. [0000-0002-8540-7023], Hung, Rayjean J. [0000-0002-4486-7496], Brennan, Paul [0000-0002-0518-8714], Birmann, Brenda M. [0000-0002-7550-5498], Camp, Nicola J. [0000-0002-4788-1998], Kraft, Peter [0000-0002-4472-8103], Pharoah, Paul D. P. [0000-0001-8494-732X], Gayther, Simon A. [0000-0001-7937-5443], Amundadottir, Laufey T. [0000-0003-1859-8971], Jacobs, Eric J. [0000-0002-8458-7659], Klein, Alison P. [0000-0003-2737-8399], Eeles, Rosalind A. [0000-0002-3698-6241], Schumacher, Fredrick R. [0000-0002-3073-7463], Greene, Mark H. [0000-0003-1852-9239], Kanetsky, Peter A. [0000-0002-5567-9618], Nathanson, Katherine L. [0000-0002-6740-0901], Wiklund, Fredrik [0000-0002-4623-0544], Chanock, Stephen J. [0000-0002-2324-3393], Garcia-Closas, Montserrat [0000-0003-1033-2650], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Hurson, Amber N [0000-0001-7831-6660], Easton, Douglas F [0000-0003-2444-3247], Milne, Roger L [0000-0001-5764-7268], Schmidt, Marjanka K [0000-0002-2228-429X], Schmit, Stephanie L [0000-0001-5931-1194], O'Mara, Tracy A [0000-0002-5436-3232], Spurdle, Amanda B [0000-0003-1337-7897], Thompson, Deborah J [0000-0003-1465-5799], Law, Matthew H [0000-0002-4303-8821], Iles, Mark M [0000-0002-2603-6509], Bishop, D Timothy [0000-0002-8752-8785], Amos, Christopher I [0000-0002-8540-7023], Hung, Rayjean J [0000-0002-4486-7496], Birmann, Brenda M [0000-0002-7550-5498], Camp, Nicola J [0000-0002-4788-1998], Pharoah, Paul DP [0000-0001-8494-732X], Gayther, Simon A [0000-0001-7937-5443], Amundadottir, Laufey T [0000-0003-1859-8971], Jacobs, Eric J [0000-0002-8458-7659], Klein, Alison P [0000-0003-2737-8399], Eeles, Rosalind A [0000-0002-3698-6241], Schumacher, Fredrick R [0000-0002-3073-7463], Greene, Mark H [0000-0003-1852-9239], Kanetsky, Peter A [0000-0002-5567-9618], Nathanson, Katherine L [0000-0002-6740-0901], and Chanock, Stephen J [0000-0002-2324-3393]
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Multifactorial Inheritance, 45/43, General Physics and Astronomy, Diseases, Genome-wide association study, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Neoplasms, 631/208/68, lcsh:Science, Cancer genetics, Multidisciplinary, 692/699, Incidence, article, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Medical genetics, Female, Medical Genetics, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Assessment, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, medicine, Genetic predisposition, Animals, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Lung cancer, Genetic association, Medicinsk genetik, Cancer och onkologi, Models, Genetic, 45, Cancer, General Chemistry, Heritability, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Sample size determination, Relative risk, Cancer and Oncology, lcsh:Q, Ovarian cancer, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have led to the identification of hundreds of susceptibility loci across cancers, but the impact of further studies remains uncertain. Here we analyse summary-level data from GWAS of European ancestry across fourteen cancer sites to estimate the number of common susceptibility variants (polygenicity) and underlying effect-size distribution. All cancers show a high degree of polygenicity, involving at a minimum of thousands of loci. We project that sample sizes required to explain 80% of GWAS heritability vary from 60,000 cases for testicular to over 1,000,000 cases for lung cancer. The maximum relative risk achievable for subjects at the 99th risk percentile of underlying polygenic risk scores (PRS), compared to average risk, ranges from 12 for testicular to 2.5 for ovarian cancer. We show that PRS have potential for risk stratification for cancers of breast, colon and prostate, but less so for others because of modest heritability and lower incidence., In cancer many gene variants may contribute to disease etiology, but the impact of a given gene variant may have varied effect size. Here, the authors analyse summary statistics of genome-wide association studies from fourteen cancers, and show the utility of polygenic risk scores may vary depending on cancer type.
Published: 2020

32. A comprehensive re-assessment of the association between vitamin D and cancer susceptibility using Mendelian randomization

Author: Upekha E Liyanage, Amanda B. Spurdle, K. E. Huber, Anna H. Wu, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Douglas A. Corley, C. Tian, Anne Böhmer, David A. Hinds, A. Auton, Xikun Han, Matt Buas, M. Agee, Rebecca C. Fitzgerald, Puya Gharahkhani, Yvonne Romero, S. L. Elson, Ines Gockel, Johannes Schumacher, Leslie Bernstein, Nigel C. Bird, Thomas L. Vaughan, E. S. Noblin, P. Fontanillas, Laura J. Hardie, Brian J. Reid, V. Vacic, M. H. McIntyre, Jiyuan An, Andrew Berchuck, Claire Palles, Weimin Ye, K. Bryc, S. J. Pitts, Jue-Sheng Ong, Geoffrey Liu, R. K. Bell, Rachel E. Neale, Marilie D. Gammon, J. L. Mountain, C. A. M. Northover, Catherine M. Olsen, C. H. Wilson, Janusz Jankowski, Matthew Law, A. Kleinman, Suzanne C. Dixon-Suen, J. Y. Tung, Aaron P. Thrift, Wong-Ho Chow, Paul Pharoah, Jean-Cluade Dusingize, Suyash Shringarpure, Mark M. Iles, Wei Zheng, N. A. Furlotte, Penelope M. Webb, B. Alipanahi, O. V. Sazonova, Stuart MacGregor, David Whiteman, J. F. Shelton, Harvey A. Risch, N. K. Litterman, Tracy A. O'Mara, Nicholas J. Shaheen, Ong, Jue-Sheng [0000-0002-6062-710X], Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C [0000-0003-3714-8386], Han, Xikun [0000-0002-3823-7308], Gockel, Ines [0000-0001-7423-713X], Böhmer, Anne [0000-0002-5716-786X], O'Mara, Tracy [0000-0002-5436-3232], Spurdle, Amanda [0000-0003-1337-7897], Law, Matthew H [0000-0002-4303-8821], Iles, Mark M [0000-0002-2603-6509], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Zheng, Wei [0000-0003-1226-070X], Thrift, Aaron P [0000-0002-0084-5308], Olsen, Catherine [0000-0003-4483-1888], Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Webb, Penelope M [0000-0003-0733-5930], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, General Physics and Astronomy, Sunburn, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, Cancer prevention, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Cancer epidemiology, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, Neoplasms, Mendelian randomization, Vitamin D and neurology, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, 030212 general & internal medicine, Risk factor, Vitamin D, Child, Cancer genetics, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, Pigmentation, Case-control study, Cancer, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, General Chemistry, medicine.disease, Confidence interval, 030104 developmental biology, Case-Control Studies, Multivariate Analysis, business
Abstract: Previous Mendelian randomization (MR) studies on 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and cancer have typically adopted a handful of variants and found no relationship between 25(OH)D and cancer; however, issues of horizontal pleiotropy cannot be reliably addressed. Using a larger set of variants associated with 25(OH)D (74 SNPs, up from 6 previously), we perform a unified MR analysis to re-evaluate the relationship between 25(OH)D and ten cancers. Our findings are broadly consistent with previous MR studies indicating no relationship, apart from ovarian cancers (OR 0.89; 95% C.I: 0.82 to 0.96 per 1 SD change in 25(OH)D concentration) and basal cell carcinoma (OR 1.16; 95% C.I.: 1.04 to 1.28). However, after adjustment for pigmentation related variables in a multivariable MR framework, the BCC findings were attenuated. Here we report that lower 25(OH)D is unlikely to be a causal risk factor for most cancers, with our study providing more precise confidence intervals than previously possible., Studies of the genetic association between vitamin D and cancer risk have typically been underpowered. Here the authors analyse this using Mendelian Randomisation with more than 70 vitamin D variants obtained from the UK Biobank and large-scale data from various consortia, confirming null associations between vitamin D and most cancers.
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