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1. Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer.

Author: Milne RL, Kuchenbaecker KB, Michailidou K, Beesley J, Kar S, Lindström S, Hui S, Lemaçon A, Soucy P, Dennis J, Jiang X, Rostamianfar A, Finucane H, Bolla MK, McGuffog L, Wang Q, Aalfs CM, Adams M, Adlard J, Agata S, Ahmed S, Ahsan H, Aittomäki K, Al-Ejeh F, Allen J, Ambrosone CB, Amos CI, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova NN, Arndt V, Arnold N, Aronson KJ, Auber B, Auer PL, Ausems MGEM, Azzollini J, Bacot F, Balmaña J, Barile M, Barjhoux L, Barkardottir RB, Barrdahl M, Barnes D, Barrowdale D, Baynes C, Beckmann MW, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Bernstein L, Bignon YJ, Blazer KR, Blok MJ, Blomqvist C, Blot W, Bobolis K, Boeckx B, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen A, Bojesen SE, Bonanni B, Børresen-Dale AL, Bozsik A, Bradbury AR, Brand JS, Brauch H, Brenner H, Bressac-de Paillerets B, Brewer C, Brinton L, Broberg P, Brooks-Wilson A, Brunet J, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Buys SS, Byun J, Cai Q, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Canzian F, Caron O, Carracedo A, Carter BD, Castelao JE, Castera L, Caux-Moncoutier V, Chan SB, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chen X, Cheng TD, Chiquette J, Christiansen H, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Conner T, Conroy DM, Cook J, Cordina-Duverger E, Cornelissen S, Coupier I, Cox A, Cox DG, Cross SS, Cuk K, Cunningham JM, Czene K, Daly MB, Damiola F, Darabi H, Davidson R, De Leeneer K, Devilee P, Dicks E, Diez O, Ding YC, Ditsch N, Doheny KF, Domchek SM, Dorfling CM, Dörk T, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Dubois S, Dugué PA, Dumont M, Dunning AM, Durcan L, Dwek M, Dworniczak B, Eccles D, Eeles R, Ehrencrona H, Eilber U, Ejlertsen B, Ekici AB, Eliassen AH, Engel C, Eriksson M, Fachal L, Faivre L, Fasching PA, Faust U, Figueroa J, Flesch-Janys D, Fletcher O, Flyger H, Foulkes WD, Friedman E, Fritschi L, Frost D, Gabrielson M, Gaddam P, Gammon MD, Ganz PA, Gapstur SM, Garber J, Garcia-Barberan V, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Gauthier-Villars M, Gehrig A, Georgoulias V, Gerdes AM, Giles GG, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Goodfellow P, Greene MH, Alnæs GIG, Grip M, Gronwald J, Grundy A, Gschwantler-Kaulich D, Guénel P, Guo Q, Haeberle L, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hallberg E, Hamann U, Hamel N, Hankinson S, Hansen TVO, Harrington P, Hart SN, Hartikainen JM, Healey CS, Hein A, Helbig S, Henderson A, Heyworth J, Hicks B, Hillemanns P, Hodgson S, Hogervorst FB, Hollestelle A, Hooning MJ, Hoover B, Hopper JL, Hu C, Huang G, Hulick PJ, Humphreys K, Hunter DJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Iwasaki M, Izatt L, Jakubowska A, James P, Janavicius R, Janni W, Jensen UB, John EM, Johnson N, Jones K, Jones M, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Kaaks R, Kabisch M, Kaczmarek K, Kang D, Kast K, Keeman R, Kerin MJ, Kets CM, Keupers M, Khan S, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski JI, Kim SW, Knight JA, Konstantopoulou I, Kosma VM, Kristensen VN, Kruse TA, Kwong A, Lænkholm AV, Laitman Y, Lalloo F, Lambrechts D, Landsman K, Lasset C, Lazaro C, Le Marchand L, Lecarpentier J, Lee A, Lee E, Lee JW, Lee MH, Lejbkowicz F, Lesueur F, Li J, Lilyquist J, Lincoln A, Lindblom A, Lissowska J, Lo WY, Loibl S, Long J, Loud JT, Lubinski J, Luccarini C, Lush M, MacInnis RJ, Maishman T, Makalic E, Kostovska IM, Malone KE, Manoukian S, Manson JE, Margolin S, Martens JWM, Martinez ME, Matsuo K, Mavroudis D, Mazoyer S, McLean C, Meijers-Heijboer H, Menéndez P, Meyer J, Miao H, Miller A, Miller N, Mitchell G, Montagna M, Muir K, Mulligan AM, Mulot C, Nadesan S, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Nevelsteen I, Niederacher D, Nielsen SF, Nordestgaard BG, Norman A, Nussbaum RL, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olson JE, Olswold C, Ong KR, Oosterwijk JC, Orr N, Osorio A, Pankratz VS, Papi L, Park-Simon TW, Paulsson-Karlsson Y, Lloyd R, Pedersen IS, Peissel B, Peixoto A, Perez JIA, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Pfeiler G, Phelan CM, Pinchev M, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Poppe B, Porteous ME, Prentice R, Presneau N, Prokofieva D, Pugh E, Pujana MA, Pylkäs K, Rack B, Radice P, Rahman N, Rantala J, Rappaport-Fuerhauser C, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Rhenius V, Rhiem K, Richardson A, Rodriguez GC, Romero A, Romm J, Rookus MA, Rudolph A, Ruediger T, Saloustros E, Sanders J, Sandler DP, Sangrajrang S, Sawyer EJ, Schmidt DF, Schoemaker MJ, Schumacher F, Schürmann P, Schwentner L, Scott C, Scott RJ, Seal S, Senter L, Seynaeve C, Shah M, Sharma P, Shen CY, Sheng X, Shimelis H, Shrubsole MJ, Shu XO, Side LE, Singer CF, Sohn C, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Spurdle AB, Stegmaier C, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sukiennicki G, Surowy H, Sutter C, Swerdlow A, Szabo CI, Tamimi RM, Tan YY, Taylor JA, Tejada MI, Tengström M, Teo SH, Terry MB, Tessier DC, Teulé A, Thöne K, Thull DL, Tibiletti MG, Tihomirova L, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Tollenaar RAEM, Tomlinson I, Tong L, Torres D, Tranchant M, Truong T, Tucker K, Tung N, Tyrer J, Ulmer HU, Vachon C, van Asperen CJ, Van Den Berg D, van den Ouweland AMW, van Rensburg EJ, Varesco L, Varon-Mateeva R, Vega A, Viel A, Vijai J, Vincent D, Vollenweider J, Walker L, Wang Z, Wang-Gohrke S, Wappenschmidt B, Weinberg CR, Weitzel JN, Wendt C, Wesseling J, Whittemore AS, Wijnen JT, Willett W, Winqvist R, Wolk A, Wu AH, Xia L, Yang XR, Yannoukakos D, Zaffaroni D, Zheng W, Zhu B, Ziogas A, Ziv E, Zorn KK, Gago-Dominguez M, Mannermaa A, Olsson H, Teixeira MR, Stone J, Offit K, Ottini L, Park SK, Thomassen M, Hall P, Meindl A, Schmutzler RK, Droit A, Bader GD, Pharoah PDP, Couch FJ, Easton DF, Kraft P, Chenevix-Trench G, García-Closas M, Schmidt MK, Antoniou AC, and Simard J
Subjects: Breast Neoplasms ethnology, Breast Neoplasms metabolism, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease ethnology, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Heterozygote, Humans, Receptors, Estrogen metabolism, Risk Factors, White People genetics, BRCA1 Protein genetics, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Mutation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: Most common breast cancer susceptibility variants have been identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of predominantly estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease. We conducted a GWAS using 21,468 ER-negative cases and 100,594 controls combined with 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer), all of European origin. We identified independent associations at P < 5 × 10 -8 with ten variants at nine new loci. At P < 0.05, we replicated associations with 10 of 11 variants previously reported in ER-negative disease or BRCA1 mutation carrier GWAS and observed consistent associations with ER-negative disease for 105 susceptibility variants identified by other studies. These 125 variants explain approximately 16% of the familial risk of this breast cancer subtype. There was high genetic correlation (0.72) between risk of ER-negative breast cancer and breast cancer risk for BRCA1 mutation carriers. These findings may lead to improved risk prediction and inform further fine-mapping and functional work to better understand the biological basis of ER-negative breast cancer.
Published: 2017
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2. Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci.

Author: Michailidou K, Lindström S, Dennis J, Beesley J, Hui S, Kar S, Lemaçon A, Soucy P, Glubb D, Rostamianfar A, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Tyrer J, Dicks E, Lee A, Wang Z, Allen J, Keeman R, Eilber U, French JD, Qing Chen X, Fachal L, McCue K, McCart Reed AE, Ghoussaini M, Carroll JS, Jiang X, Finucane H, Adams M, Adank MA, Ahsan H, Aittomäki K, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova NN, Arndt V, Aronson KJ, Arun B, Auer PL, Bacot F, Barrdahl M, Baynes C, Beckmann MW, Behrens S, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Bernstein L, Blomqvist C, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bonanni B, Børresen-Dale AL, Brand JS, Brauch H, Brennan P, Brenner H, Brinton L, Broberg P, Brock IW, Broeks A, Brooks-Wilson A, Brucker SY, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Butterbach K, Cai Q, Cai H, Caldés T, Canzian F, Carracedo A, Carter BD, Castelao JE, Chan TL, David Cheng TY, Seng Chia K, Choi JY, Christiansen H, Clarke CL, Collée M, Conroy DM, Cordina-Duverger E, Cornelissen S, Cox DG, Cox A, Cross SS, Cunningham JM, Czene K, Daly MB, Devilee P, Doheny KF, Dörk T, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Dumont M, Durcan L, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Ekici AB, Eliassen AH, Ellberg C, Elvira M, Engel C, Eriksson M, Fasching PA, Figueroa J, Flesch-Janys D, Fletcher O, Flyger H, Fritschi L, Gaborieau V, Gabrielson M, Gago-Dominguez M, Gao YT, Gapstur SM, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Georgoulias V, Giles GG, Glendon G, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Grenaker Alnæs GI, Grip M, Gronwald J, Grundy A, Guénel P, Haeberle L, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hamann U, Hamel N, Hankinson S, Harrington P, Hart SN, Hartikainen JM, Hartman M, Hein A, Heyworth J, Hicks B, Hillemanns P, Ho DN, Hollestelle A, Hooning MJ, Hoover RN, Hopper JL, Hou MF, Hsiung CN, Huang G, Humphreys K, Ishiguro J, Ito H, Iwasaki M, Iwata H, Jakubowska A, Janni W, John EM, Johnson N, Jones K, Jones M, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Kaaks R, Kabisch M, Kaczmarek K, Kang D, Kasuga Y, Kerin MJ, Khan S, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski JI, Kim SW, Knight JA, Kosma VM, Kristensen VN, Krüger U, Kwong A, Lambrechts D, Le Marchand L, Lee E, Lee MH, Lee JW, Neng Lee C, Lejbkowicz F, Li J, Lilyquist J, Lindblom A, Lissowska J, Lo WY, Loibl S, Long J, Lophatananon A, Lubinski J, Luccarini C, Lux MP, Ma ESK, MacInnis RJ, Maishman T, Makalic E, Malone KE, Kostovska IM, Mannermaa A, Manoukian S, Manson JE, Margolin S, Mariapun S, Martinez ME, Matsuo K, Mavroudis D, McKay J, McLean C, Meijers-Heijboer H, Meindl A, Menéndez P, Menon U, Meyer J, Miao H, Miller N, Taib NAM, Muir K, Mulligan AM, Mulot C, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Neven P, Nielsen SF, Noh DY, Nordestgaard BG, Norman A, Olopade OI, Olson JE, Olsson H, Olswold C, Orr N, Pankratz VS, Park SK, Park-Simon TW, Lloyd R, Perez JIA, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Phillips KA, Pinchev M, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Prentice R, Presneau N, Prokofyeva D, Pugh E, Pylkäs K, Rack B, Radice P, Rahman N, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Rhenius V, Romero A, Romm J, Ruddy KJ, Rüdiger T, Rudolph A, Ruebner M, Rutgers EJT, Saloustros E, Sandler DP, Sangrajrang S, Sawyer EJ, Schmidt DF, Schmutzler RK, Schneeweiss A, Schoemaker MJ, Schumacher F, Schürmann P, Scott RJ, Scott C, Seal S, Seynaeve C, Shah M, Sharma P, Shen CY, Sheng G, Sherman ME, Shrubsole MJ, Shu XO, Smeets A, Sohn C, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Stegmaier C, Stewart-Brown S, Stone J, Stram DO, Surowy H, Swerdlow A, Tamimi R, Taylor JA, Tengström M, Teo SH, Beth Terry M, Tessier DC, Thanasitthichai S, Thöne K, Tollenaar RAEM, Tomlinson I, Tong L, Torres D, Truong T, Tseng CC, Tsugane S, Ulmer HU, Ursin G, Untch M, Vachon C, van Asperen CJ, Van Den Berg D, van den Ouweland AMW, van der Kolk L, van der Luijt RB, Vincent D, Vollenweider J, Waisfisz Q, Wang-Gohrke S, Weinberg CR, Wendt C, Whittemore AS, Wildiers H, Willett W, Winqvist R, Wolk A, Wu AH, Xia L, Yamaji T, Yang XR, Har Yip C, Yoo KY, Yu JC, Zheng W, Zheng Y, Zhu B, Ziogas A, Ziv E, Lakhani SR, Antoniou AC, Droit A, Andrulis IL, Amos CI, Couch FJ, Pharoah PDP, Chang-Claude J, Hall P, Hunter DJ, Milne RL, García-Closas M, Schmidt MK, Chanock SJ, Dunning AM, Edwards SL, Bader GD, Chenevix-Trench G, Simard J, Kraft P, and Easton DF
Subjects: Asia ethnology, Asian People genetics, Binding Sites genetics, Breast Neoplasms diagnosis, Computer Simulation, Europe ethnology, Female, Humans, Multifactorial Inheritance genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Risk Assessment, Transcription Factors metabolism, White People genetics, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Breast cancer risk is influenced by rare coding variants in susceptibility genes, such as BRCA1, and many common, mostly non-coding variants. However, much of the genetic contribution to breast cancer risk remains unknown. Here we report the results of a genome-wide association study of breast cancer in 122,977 cases and 105,974 controls of European ancestry and 14,068 cases and 13,104 controls of East Asian ancestry. We identified 65 new loci that are associated with overall breast cancer risk at P < 5 × 10 -8 . The majority of credible risk single-nucleotide polymorphisms in these loci fall in distal regulatory elements, and by integrating in silico data to predict target genes in breast cells at each locus, we demonstrate a strong overlap between candidate target genes and somatic driver genes in breast tumours. We also find that heritability of breast cancer due to all single-nucleotide polymorphisms in regulatory features was 2-5-fold enriched relative to the genome-wide average, with strong enrichment for particular transcription factor binding sites. These results provide further insight into genetic susceptibility to breast cancer and will improve the use of genetic risk scores for individualized screening and prevention.
Published: 2017
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3. Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer.

Author: Phelan CM, Kuchenbaecker KB, Tyrer JP, Kar SP, Lawrenson K, Winham SJ, Dennis J, Pirie A, Riggan MJ, Chornokur G, Earp MA, Lyra PC Jr, Lee JM, Coetzee S, Beesley J, McGuffog L, Soucy P, Dicks E, Lee A, Barrowdale D, Lecarpentier J, Leslie G, Aalfs CM, Aben KKH, Adams M, Adlard J, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova N, Aravantinos G, Arnold N, Arun BK, Arver B, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Banerjee SN, Barjhoux L, Barkardottir RB, Bean Y, Beckmann MW, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Bernardini MQ, Birrer MJ, Bjorge L, Black A, Blankstein K, Blok MJ, Bodelon C, Bogdanova N, Bojesen A, Bonanni B, Borg Å, Bradbury AR, Brenton JD, Brewer C, Brinton L, Broberg P, Brooks-Wilson A, Bruinsma F, Brunet J, Buecher B, Butzow R, Buys SS, Caldes T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Cannioto R, Carney ME, Cescon T, Chan SB, Chang-Claude J, Chanock S, Chen XQ, Chiew YE, Chiquette J, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Conner T, Cook LS, Cook J, Cramer DW, Cunningham JM, D'Aloisio AA, Daly MB, Damiola F, Damirovna SD, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Dao F, Davidson R, DeFazio A, Delnatte C, Doheny KF, Diez O, Ding YC, Doherty JA, Domchek SM, Dorfling CM, Dörk T, Dossus L, Duran M, Dürst M, Dworniczak B, Eccles D, Edwards T, Eeles R, Eilber U, Ejlertsen B, Ekici AB, Ellis S, Elvira M, Eng KH, Engel C, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Ferguson S, Ferrer SF, Flanagan JM, Fogarty ZC, Fortner RT, Fostira F, Foulkes WD, Fountzilas G, Fridley BL, Friebel TM, Friedman E, Frost D, Ganz PA, Garber J, García MJ, Garcia-Barberan V, Gehrig A, Gentry-Maharaj A, Gerdes AM, Giles GG, Glasspool R, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldgar DE, Goranova T, Gore M, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Gruber S, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hamann U, Hansen TVO, Harrington PA, Harris HR, Hauke J, Hein A, Henderson A, Hildebrandt MAT, Hillemanns P, Hodgson S, Høgdall CK, Høgdall E, Hogervorst FBL, Holland H, Hooning MJ, Hosking K, Huang RY, Hulick PJ, Hung J, Hunter DJ, Huntsman DG, Huzarski T, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Iversen ES, Izatt L, Izquierdo A, Jakubowska A, James P, Janavicius R, Jernetz M, Jensen A, Jensen UB, John EM, Johnatty S, Jones ME, Kannisto P, Karlan BY, Karnezis A, Kast K, Kennedy CJ, Khusnutdinova E, Kiemeney LA, Kiiski JI, Kim SW, Kjaer SK, Köbel M, Kopperud RK, Kruse TA, Kupryjanczyk J, Kwong A, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Larrañaga N, Larson MC, Lazaro C, Le ND, Le Marchand L, Lee JW, Lele SB, Leminen A, Leroux D, Lester J, Lesueur F, Levine DA, Liang D, Liebrich C, Lilyquist J, Lipworth L, Lissowska J, Lu KH, Lubinński J, Luccarini C, Lundvall L, Mai PL, Mendoza-Fandiño G, Manoukian S, Massuger LFAG, May T, Mazoyer S, McAlpine JN, McGuire V, McLaughlin JR, McNeish I, Meijers-Heijboer H, Meindl A, Menon U, Mensenkamp AR, Merritt MA, Milne RL, Mitchell G, Modugno F, Moes-Sosnowska J, Moffitt M, Montagna M, Moysich KB, Mulligan AM, Musinsky J, Nathanson KL, Nedergaard L, Ness RB, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Niederacher D, Nussbaum RL, Odunsi K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olsson H, Olswold C, O'Malley DM, Ong KR, Onland-Moret NC, Orr N, Orsulic S, Osorio A, Palli D, Papi L, Park-Simon TW, Paul J, Pearce CL, Pedersen IS, Peeters PHM, Peissel B, Peixoto A, Pejovic T, Pelttari LM, Permuth JB, Peterlongo P, Pezzani L, Pfeiler G, Phillips KA, Piedmonte M, Pike MC, Piskorz AM, Poblete SR, Pocza T, Poole EM, Poppe B, Porteous ME, Prieur F, Prokofyeva D, Pugh E, Pujana MA, Pujol P, Radice P, Rantala J, Rappaport-Fuerhauser C, Rennert G, Rhiem K, Rice P, Richardson A, Robson M, Rodriguez GC, Rodríguez-Antona C, Romm J, Rookus MA, Rossing MA, Rothstein JH, Rudolph A, Runnebaum IB, Salvesen HB, Sandler DP, Schoemaker MJ, Senter L, Setiawan VW, Severi G, Sharma P, Shelford T, Siddiqui N, Side LE, Sieh W, Singer CF, Sobol H, Song H, Southey MC, Spurdle AB, Stadler Z, Steinemann D, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sucheston-Campbell LE, Sukiennicki G, Sutphen R, Sutter C, Swerdlow AJ, Szabo CI, Szafron L, Tan YY, Taylor JA, Tea MK, Teixeira MR, Teo SH, Terry KL, Thompson PJ, Thomsen LCV, Thull DL, Tihomirova L, Tinker AV, Tischkowitz M, Tognazzo S, Toland AE, Tone A, Trabert B, Travis RC, Trichopoulou A, Tung N, Tworoger SS, van Altena AM, Van Den Berg D, van der Hout AH, van der Luijt RB, Van Heetvelde M, Van Nieuwenhuysen E, van Rensburg EJ, Vanderstichele A, Varon-Mateeva R, Vega A, Edwards DV, Vergote I, Vierkant RA, Vijai J, Vratimos A, Walker L, Walsh C, Wand D, Wang-Gohrke S, Wappenschmidt B, Webb PM, Weinberg CR, Weitzel JN, Wentzensen N, Whittemore AS, Wijnen JT, Wilkens LR, Wolk A, Woo M, Wu X, Wu AH, Yang H, Yannoukakos D, Ziogas A, Zorn KK, Narod SA, Easton DF, Amos CI, Schildkraut JM, Ramus SJ, Ottini L, Goodman MT, Park SK, Kelemen LE, Risch HA, Thomassen M, Offit K, Simard J, Schmutzler RK, Hazelett D, Monteiro AN, Couch FJ, Berchuck A, Chenevix-Trench G, Goode EL, Sellers TA, Gayther SA, Antoniou AC, and Pharoah PDP
Subjects: Alleles, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Mutation, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial pathology, Ovarian Neoplasms pathology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, Telomere-Binding Proteins genetics, Genetic Loci genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial genetics, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics
Abstract: To identify common alleles associated with different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), we pooled data from multiple genome-wide genotyping projects totaling 25,509 EOC cases and 40,941 controls. We identified nine new susceptibility loci for different EOC histotypes: six for serous EOC histotypes (3q28, 4q32.3, 8q21.11, 10q24.33, 18q11.2 and 22q12.1), two for mucinous EOC (3q22.3 and 9q31.1) and one for endometrioid EOC (5q12.3). We then performed meta-analysis on the results for high-grade serous ovarian cancer with the results from analysis of 31,448 BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers, including 3,887 mutation carriers with EOC. This identified three additional susceptibility loci at 2q13, 8q24.1 and 12q24.31. Integrated analyses of genes and regulatory biofeatures at each locus predicted candidate susceptibility genes, including OBFC1, a new candidate susceptibility gene for low-grade and borderline serous EOC.
Published: 2017
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4. PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS.

Author: Southey MC, Goldgar DE, Winqvist R, Pylkäs K, Couch F, Tischkowitz M, Foulkes WD, Dennis J, Michailidou K, van Rensburg EJ, Heikkinen T, Nevanlinna H, Hopper JL, Dörk T, Claes KB, Reis-Filho J, Teo ZL, Radice P, Catucci I, Peterlongo P, Tsimiklis H, Odefrey FA, Dowty JG, Schmidt MK, Broeks A, Hogervorst FB, Verhoef S, Carpenter J, Clarke C, Scott RJ, Fasching PA, Haeberle L, Ekici AB, Beckmann MW, Peto J, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Fletcher O, Johnson N, Bolla MK, Sawyer EJ, Tomlinson I, Kerin MJ, Miller N, Marme F, Burwinkel B, Yang R, Guénel P, Truong T, Menegaux F, Sanchez M, Bojesen S, Nielsen SF, Flyger H, Benitez J, Zamora MP, Perez JI, Menéndez P, Anton-Culver H, Neuhausen S, Ziogas A, Clarke CA, Brenner H, Arndt V, Stegmaier C, Brauch H, Brüning T, Ko YD, Muranen TA, Aittomäki K, Blomqvist C, Bogdanova NV, Antonenkova NN, Lindblom A, Margolin S, Mannermaa A, Kataja V, Kosma VM, Hartikainen JM, Spurdle AB, Investigators K, Wauters E, Smeets D, Beuselinck B, Floris G, Chang-Claude J, Rudolph A, Seibold P, Flesch-Janys D, Olson JE, Vachon C, Pankratz VS, McLean C, Haiman CA, Henderson BE, Schumacher F, Le Marchand L, Kristensen V, Alnæs GG, Zheng W, Hunter DJ, Lindstrom S, Hankinson SE, Kraft P, Andrulis I, Knight JA, Glendon G, Mulligan AM, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Grip M, Kauppila S, Devilee P, Tollenaar RA, Seynaeve C, Hollestelle A, Garcia-Closas M, Figueroa J, Chanock SJ, Lissowska J, Czene K, Darabi H, Eriksson M, Eccles DM, Rafiq S, Tapper WJ, Gerty SM, Hooning MJ, Martens JW, Collée JM, Tilanus-Linthorst M, Hall P, Li J, Brand JS, Humphreys K, Cox A, Reed MW, Luccarini C, Baynes C, Dunning AM, Hamann U, Torres D, Ulmer HU, Rüdiger T, Jakubowska A, Lubinski J, Jaworska K, Durda K, Slager S, Toland AE, Ambrosone CB, Yannoukakos D, Swerdlow A, Ashworth A, Orr N, Jones M, González-Neira A, Pita G, Alonso MR, Álvarez N, Herrero D, Tessier DC, Vincent D, Bacot F, Simard J, Dumont M, Soucy P, Eeles R, Muir K, Wiklund F, Gronberg H, Schleutker J, Nordestgaard BG, Weischer M, Travis RC, Neal D, Donovan JL, Hamdy FC, Khaw KT, Stanford JL, Blot WJ, Thibodeau S, Schaid DJ, Kelley JL, Maier C, Kibel AS, Cybulski C, Cannon-Albright L, Butterbach K, Park J, Kaneva R, Batra J, Teixeira MR, Kote-Jarai Z, Olama AA, Benlloch S, Renner SP, Hartmann A, Hein A, Ruebner M, Lambrechts D, Van Nieuwenhuysen E, Vergote I, Lambretchs S, Doherty JA, Rossing MA, Nickels S, Eilber U, Wang-Gohrke S, Odunsi K, Sucheston-Campbell LE, Friel G, Lurie G, Killeen JL, Wilkens LR, Goodman MT, Runnebaum I, Hillemanns PA, Pelttari LM, Butzow R, Modugno F, Edwards RP, Ness RB, Moysich KB, du Bois A, Heitz F, Harter P, Kommoss S, Karlan BY, Walsh C, Lester J, Jensen A, Kjaer SK, Høgdall E, Peissel B, Bonanni B, Bernard L, Goode EL, Fridley BL, Vierkant RA, Cunningham JM, Larson MC, Fogarty ZC, Kalli KR, Liang D, Lu KH, Hildebrandt MA, Wu X, Levine DA, Dao F, Bisogna M, Berchuck A, Iversen ES, Marks JR, Akushevich L, Cramer DW, Schildkraut J, Terry KL, Poole EM, Stampfer M, Tworoger SS, Bandera EV, Orlow I, Olson SH, Bjorge L, Salvesen HB, van Altena AM, Aben KK, Kiemeney LA, Massuger LF, Pejovic T, Bean Y, Brooks-Wilson A, Kelemen LE, Cook LS, Le ND, Górski B, Gronwald J, Menkiszak J, Høgdall CK, Lundvall L, Nedergaard L, Engelholm SA, Dicks E, Tyrer J, Campbell I, McNeish I, Paul J, Siddiqui N, Glasspool R, Whittemore AS, Rothstein JH, McGuire V, Sieh W, Cai H, Shu XO, Teten RT, Sutphen R, McLaughlin JR, Narod SA, Phelan CM, Monteiro AN, Fenstermacher D, Lin HY, Permuth JB, Sellers TA, Chen YA, Tsai YY, Chen Z, Gentry-Maharaj A, Gayther SA, Ramus SJ, Menon U, Wu AH, Pearce CL, Van Den Berg D, Pike MC, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Plisiecka-Halasa J, Moes-Sosnowska J, Kupryjanczyk J, Pharoah PD, Song H, Winship I, Chenevix-Trench G, Giles GG, Tavtigian SV, Easton DF, and Milne RL
Subjects: Breast Neoplasms epidemiology, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Case-Control Studies, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group N Protein, Female, Genetic Association Studies, Humans, Male, Ovarian Neoplasms epidemiology, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics, Ovarian Neoplasms metabolism, Prostatic Neoplasms epidemiology, Prostatic Neoplasms genetics, Risk, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins genetics, Breast Neoplasms metabolism, Checkpoint Kinase 2 genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Mutation, Nuclear Proteins genetics, Prostatic Neoplasms metabolism, Tumor Suppressor Proteins genetics
Abstract: Background: The rarity of mutations in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM make it difficult to estimate precisely associated cancer risks. Population-based family studies have provided evidence that at least some of these mutations are associated with breast cancer risk as high as those associated with rare BRCA2 mutations. We aimed to estimate the relative risks associated with specific rare variants in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM via a multicentre case-control study., Methods: We genotyped 10 rare mutations using the custom iCOGS array: PALB2 c.1592delT, c.2816T>G and c.3113G>A, CHEK2 c.349A>G, c.538C>T, c.715G>A, c.1036C>T, c.1312G>T, and c.1343T>G and ATM c.7271T>G. We assessed associations with breast cancer risk (42 671 cases and 42 164 controls), as well as prostate (22 301 cases and 22 320 controls) and ovarian (14 542 cases and 23 491 controls) cancer risk, for each variant., Results: For European women, strong evidence of association with breast cancer risk was observed for PALB2 c.1592delT OR 3.44 (95% CI 1.39 to 8.52, p=7.1×10 -5 ), PALB2 c.3113G>A OR 4.21 (95% CI 1.84 to 9.60, p=6.9×10 -8 ) and ATM c.7271T>G OR 11.0 (95% CI 1.42 to 85.7, p=0.0012). We also found evidence of association with breast cancer risk for three variants in CHEK2, c.349A>G OR 2.26 (95% CI 1.29 to 3.95), c.1036C>T OR 5.06 (95% CI 1.09 to 23.5) and c.538C>T OR 1.33 (95% CI 1.05 to 1.67) (p≤0.017). Evidence for prostate cancer risk was observed for CHEK2 c.1343T>G OR 3.03 (95% CI 1.53 to 6.03, p=0.0006) for African men and CHEK2 c.1312G>T OR 2.21 (95% CI 1.06 to 4.63, p=0.030) for European men. No evidence of association with ovarian cancer was found for any of these variants., Conclusions: This report adds to accumulating evidence that at least some variants in these genes are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer that is clinically important., Competing Interests: Conflicts of Interest: None declared., (Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/.)
Published: 2016
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5. Identification of independent association signals and putative functional variants for breast cancer risk through fine-scale mapping of the 12p11 locus.

Author: Zeng C, Guo X, Long J, Kuchenbaecker KB, Droit A, Michailidou K, Ghoussaini M, Kar S, Freeman A, Hopper JL, Milne RL, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Dennis J, Agata S, Ahmed S, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova NN, Arason A, Arndt V, Arun BK, Arver B, Bacot F, Barrowdale D, Baynes C, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Blomqvist C, Blot WJ, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bonanni B, Borresen-Dale AL, Brand JS, Brauch H, Brennan P, Brenner H, Broeks A, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Buys SS, Cai Q, Caldes T, Campbell I, Carpenter J, Chang-Claude J, Choi JY, Claes KB, Clarke C, Cox A, Cross SS, Czene K, Daly MB, de la Hoya M, De Leeneer K, Devilee P, Diez O, Domchek SM, Doody M, Dorfling CM, Dörk T, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Dumont M, Dwek M, Dworniczak B, Egan K, Eilber U, Einbeigi Z, Ejlertsen B, Ellis S, Frost D, Lalloo F, Fasching PA, Figueroa J, Flyger H, Friedlander M, Friedman E, Gambino G, Gao YT, Garber J, García-Closas M, Gehrig A, Damiola F, Lesueur F, Mazoyer S, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Giles GG, Godwin AK, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Greene MH, Guénel P, Haeberle L, Haiman CA, Hallberg E, Hamann U, Hansen TV, Hart S, Hartikainen JM, Hartman M, Hassan N, Healey S, Hogervorst FB, Verhoef S, Hendricks CB, Hillemanns P, Hollestelle A, Hulick PJ, Hunter DJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Ito H, Jakubowska A, Janavicius R, Jaworska-Bieniek K, Jensen UB, John EM, Joly Beauparlant C, Jones M, Kabisch M, Kang D, Karlan BY, Kauppila S, Kerin MJ, Khan S, Khusnutdinova E, Knight JA, Konstantopoulou I, Kraft P, Kwong A, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Lazaro C, Le Marchand L, Lee CN, Lee MH, Lester J, Li J, Liljegren A, Lindblom A, Lophatananon A, Lubinski J, Mai PL, Mannermaa A, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Marme F, Matsuo K, McGuffog L, Meindl A, Menegaux F, Montagna M, Muir K, Mulligan AM, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Newcomb PA, Nord S, Nussbaum RL, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olswold C, Osorio A, Papi L, Park-Simon TW, Paulsson-Karlsson Y, Peeters S, Peissel B, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Pfeiler G, Phelan CM, Presneau N, Radice P, Rahman N, Ramus SJ, Rashid MU, Rennert G, Rhiem K, Rudolph A, Salani R, Sangrajrang S, Sawyer EJ, Schmidt MK, Schmutzler RK, Schoemaker MJ, Schürmann P, Seynaeve C, Shen CY, Shrubsole MJ, Shu XO, Sigurdson A, Singer CF, Slager S, Soucy P, Southey M, Steinemann D, Swerdlow A, Szabo CI, Tchatchou S, Teixeira MR, Teo SH, Terry MB, Tessier DC, Teulé A, Thomassen M, Tihomirova L, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Tung N, Turnbull C, van den Ouweland AM, van Rensburg EJ, Ven den Berg D, Vijai J, Wang-Gohrke S, Weitzel JN, Whittemore AS, Winqvist R, Wong TY, Wu AH, Yannoukakos D, Yu JC, Pharoah PD, Hall P, Chenevix-Trench G, Dunning AM, Simard J, Couch FJ, Antoniou AC, Easton DF, and Zheng W
Subjects: Alleles, BRCA1 Protein genetics, Case-Control Studies, Computational Biology methods, Databases, Genetic, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Epigenesis, Genetic, Female, Genotype, Haplotypes, Heterozygote, Humans, Mutation, Odds Ratio, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Population Surveillance, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Quantitative Trait Loci, Risk, White People genetics, Breast Neoplasms epidemiology, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Background: Multiple recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs10771399, at 12p11 that is associated with breast cancer risk., Method: We performed a fine-scale mapping study of a 700 kb region including 441 genotyped and more than 1300 imputed genetic variants in 48,155 cases and 43,612 controls of European descent, 6269 cases and 6624 controls of East Asian descent and 1116 cases and 932 controls of African descent in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC; http://bcac.ccge.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ ), and in 15,252 BRCA1 mutation carriers in the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). Stepwise regression analyses were performed to identify independent association signals. Data from the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project (ENCODE) and the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) were used for functional annotation., Results: Analysis of data from European descendants found evidence for four independent association signals at 12p11, represented by rs7297051 (odds ratio (OR) = 1.09, 95 % confidence interval (CI) = 1.06-1.12; P = 3 × 10(-9)), rs805510 (OR = 1.08, 95 % CI = 1.04-1.12, P = 2 × 10(-5)), and rs1871152 (OR = 1.04, 95 % CI = 1.02-1.06; P = 2 × 10(-4)) identified in the general populations, and rs113824616 (P = 7 × 10(-5)) identified in the meta-analysis of BCAC ER-negative cases and BRCA1 mutation carriers. SNPs rs7297051, rs805510 and rs113824616 were also associated with breast cancer risk at P < 0.05 in East Asians, but none of the associations were statistically significant in African descendants. Multiple candidate functional variants are located in putative enhancer sequences. Chromatin interaction data suggested that PTHLH was the likely target gene of these enhancers. Of the six variants with the strongest evidence of potential functionality, rs11049453 was statistically significantly associated with the expression of PTHLH and its nearby gene CCDC91 at P < 0.05., Conclusion: This study identified four independent association signals at 12p11 and revealed potentially functional variants, providing additional insights into the underlying biological mechanism(s) for the association observed between variants at 12p11 and breast cancer risk.
Published: 2016
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6. Genetic variation in the immunosuppression pathway genes and breast cancer susceptibility: a pooled analysis of 42,510 cases and 40,577 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium.

Author: Lei J, Rudolph A, Moysich KB, Behrens S, Goode EL, Bolla MK, Dennis J, Dunning AM, Easton DF, Wang Q, Benitez J, Hopper JL, Southey MC, Schmidt MK, Broeks A, Fasching PA, Haeberle L, Peto J, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Sawyer EJ, Tomlinson I, Burwinkel B, Marmé F, Guénel P, Truong T, Bojesen SE, Flyger H, Nielsen SF, Nordestgaard BG, González-Neira A, Menéndez P, Anton-Culver H, Neuhausen SL, Brenner H, Arndt V, Meindl A, Schmutzler RK, Brauch H, Hamann U, Nevanlinna H, Fagerholm R, Dörk T, Bogdanova NV, Mannermaa A, Hartikainen JM, Van Dijck L, Smeets A, Flesch-Janys D, Eilber U, Radice P, Peterlongo P, Couch FJ, Hallberg E, Giles GG, Milne RL, Haiman CA, Schumacher F, Simard J, Goldberg MS, Kristensen V, Borresen-Dale AL, Zheng W, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Winqvist R, Grip M, Andrulis IL, Glendon G, García-Closas M, Figueroa J, Czene K, Brand JS, Darabi H, Eriksson M, Hall P, Li J, Cox A, Cross SS, Pharoah PD, Shah M, Kabisch M, Torres D, Jakubowska A, Lubinski J, Ademuyiwa F, Ambrosone CB, Swerdlow A, Jones M, and Chang-Claude J
Subjects: Case-Control Studies, Female, Humans, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Immune Tolerance genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: Immunosuppression plays a pivotal role in assisting tumors to evade immune destruction and promoting tumor development. We hypothesized that genetic variation in the immunosuppression pathway genes may be implicated in breast cancer tumorigenesis. We included 42,510 female breast cancer cases and 40,577 controls of European ancestry from 37 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (2015) with available genotype data for 3595 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 133 candidate genes. Associations between genotyped SNPs and overall breast cancer risk, and secondarily according to estrogen receptor (ER) status, were assessed using multiple logistic regression models. Gene-level associations were assessed based on principal component analysis. Gene expression analyses were conducted using RNA sequencing level 3 data from The Cancer Genome Atlas for 989 breast tumor samples and 113 matched normal tissue samples. SNP rs1905339 (A>G) in the STAT3 region was associated with an increased breast cancer risk (per allele odds ratio 1.05, 95 % confidence interval 1.03-1.08; p value = 1.4 × 10(-6)). The association did not differ significantly by ER status. On the gene level, in addition to TGFBR2 and CCND1, IL5 and GM-CSF showed the strongest associations with overall breast cancer risk (p value = 1.0 × 10(-3) and 7.0 × 10(-3), respectively). Furthermore, STAT3 and IL5 but not GM-CSF were differentially expressed between breast tumor tissue and normal tissue (p value = 2.5 × 10(-3), 4.5 × 10(-4) and 0.63, respectively). Our data provide evidence that the immunosuppression pathway genes STAT3, IL5, and GM-CSF may be novel susceptibility loci for breast cancer in women of European ancestry.
Published: 2016
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7. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) Gene Variants and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk.

Author: Amankwah EK, Lin HY, Tyrer JP, Lawrenson K, Dennis J, Chornokur G, Aben KK, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova N, Bruinsma F, Bandera EV, Bean YT, Beckmann MW, Bisogna M, Bjorge L, Bogdanova N, Brinton LA, Brooks-Wilson A, Bunker CH, Butzow R, Campbell IG, Carty K, Chen Z, Chen YA, Chang-Claude J, Cook LS, Cramer DW, Cunningham JM, Cybulski C, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, du Bois A, Despierre E, Dicks E, Doherty JA, Dörk T, Dürst M, Easton DF, Eccles DM, Edwards RP, Ekici AB, Fasching PA, Fridley BL, Gao YT, Gentry-Maharaj A, Giles GG, Glasspool R, Goodman MT, Gronwald J, Harrington P, Harter P, Hasmad HN, Hein A, Heitz F, Hildebrandt MA, Hillemanns P, Hogdall CK, Hogdall E, Hosono S, Iversen ES, Jakubowska A, Jensen A, Ji BT, Karlan BY, Jim H, Kellar M, Kiemeney LA, Krakstad C, Kjaer SK, Kupryjanczyk J, Lambrechts D, Lambrechts S, Le ND, Lee AW, Lele S, Leminen A, Lester J, Levine DA, Liang D, Lim BK, Lissowska J, Lu K, Lubinski J, Lundvall L, Massuger LF, Matsuo K, McGuire V, McLaughlin JR, McNeish I, Menon U, Milne RL, Modugno F, Moysich KB, Ness RB, Nevanlinna H, Eilber U, Odunsi K, Olson SH, Orlow I, Orsulic S, Weber RP, Paul J, Pearce CL, Pejovic T, Pelttari LM, Permuth-Wey J, Pike MC, Poole EM, Risch HA, Rosen B, Rossing MA, Rothstein JH, Rudolph A, Runnebaum IB, Rzepecka IK, Salvesen HB, Schernhammer E, Schwaab I, Shu XO, Shvetsov YB, Siddiqui N, Sieh W, Song H, Southey MC, Spiewankiewicz B, Sucheston-Campbell L, Teo SH, Terry KL, Thompson PJ, Thomsen L, Tangen IL, Tworoger SS, van Altena AM, Vierkant RA, Vergote I, Walsh CS, Wang-Gohrke S, Wentzensen N, Whittemore AS, Wicklund KG, Wilkens LR, Wu AH, Wu X, Woo YL, Yang H, Zheng W, Ziogas A, Kelemen LE, Berchuck A, Schildkraut JM, Ramus SJ, Goode EL, Monteiro AN, Gayther SA, Narod SA, Pharoah PD, Sellers TA, and Phelan CM
Subjects: Adult, Aged, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Middle Aged, Odds Ratio, Risk, White People, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial epidemiology, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial genetics, Ovarian Neoplasms epidemiology, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics
Abstract: Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process whereby epithelial cells assume mesenchymal characteristics to facilitate cancer metastasis. However, EMT also contributes to the initiation and development of primary tumors. Prior studies that explored the hypothesis that EMT gene variants contribute to epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) risk have been based on small sample sizes and none have sought replication in an independent population. We screened 15,816 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 296 genes in a discovery phase using data from a genome-wide association study of EOC among women of European ancestry (1,947 cases and 2,009 controls) and identified 793 variants in 278 EMT-related genes that were nominally (P < 0.05) associated with invasive EOC. These SNPs were then genotyped in a larger study of 14,525 invasive-cancer patients and 23,447 controls. A P-value <0.05 and a false discovery rate (FDR) <0.2 were considered statistically significant. In the larger dataset, GPC6/GPC5 rs17702471 was associated with the endometrioid subtype among Caucasians (odds ratio (OR) = 1.16, 95% CI = 1.07-1.25, P = 0.0003, FDR = 0.19), whereas F8 rs7053448 (OR = 1.69, 95% CI = 1.27-2.24, P = 0.0003, FDR = 0.12), F8 rs7058826 (OR = 1.69, 95% CI = 1.27-2.24, P = 0.0003, FDR = 0.12), and CAPN13 rs1983383 (OR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.69-0.90, P = 0.0005, FDR = 0.12) were associated with combined invasive EOC among Asians. In silico functional analyses revealed that GPC6/GPC5 rs17702471 coincided with DNA regulatory elements. These results suggest that EMT gene variants do not appear to play a significant role in the susceptibility to EOC., (© 2015 WILEY PERIODICALS, INC.)
Published: 2015
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8. Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer.

Author: Michailidou K, Beesley J, Lindstrom S, Canisius S, Dennis J, Lush MJ, Maranian MJ, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Shah M, Perkins BJ, Czene K, Eriksson M, Darabi H, Brand JS, Bojesen SE, Nordestgaard BG, Flyger H, Nielsen SF, Rahman N, Turnbull C, Fletcher O, Peto J, Gibson L, dos-Santos-Silva I, Chang-Claude J, Flesch-Janys D, Rudolph A, Eilber U, Behrens S, Nevanlinna H, Muranen TA, Aittomäki K, Blomqvist C, Khan S, Aaltonen K, Ahsan H, Kibriya MG, Whittemore AS, John EM, Malone KE, Gammon MD, Santella RM, Ursin G, Makalic E, Schmidt DF, Casey G, Hunter DJ, Gapstur SM, Gaudet MM, Diver WR, Haiman CA, Schumacher F, Henderson BE, Le Marchand L, Berg CD, Chanock SJ, Figueroa J, Hoover RN, Lambrechts D, Neven P, Wildiers H, van Limbergen E, Schmidt MK, Broeks A, Verhoef S, Cornelissen S, Couch FJ, Olson JE, Hallberg E, Vachon C, Waisfisz Q, Meijers-Heijboer H, Adank MA, van der Luijt RB, Li J, Liu J, Humphreys K, Kang D, Choi JY, Park SK, Yoo KY, Matsuo K, Ito H, Iwata H, Tajima K, Guénel P, Truong T, Mulot C, Sanchez M, Burwinkel B, Marme F, Surowy H, Sohn C, Wu AH, Tseng CC, Van Den Berg D, Stram DO, González-Neira A, Benitez J, Zamora MP, Perez JI, Shu XO, Lu W, Gao YT, Cai H, Cox A, Cross SS, Reed MW, Andrulis IL, Knight JA, Glendon G, Mulligan AM, Sawyer EJ, Tomlinson I, Kerin MJ, Miller N, Lindblom A, Margolin S, Teo SH, Yip CH, Taib NA, Tan GH, Hooning MJ, Hollestelle A, Martens JW, Collée JM, Blot W, Signorello LB, Cai Q, Hopper JL, Southey MC, Tsimiklis H, Apicella C, Shen CY, Hsiung CN, Wu PE, Hou MF, Kristensen VN, Nord S, Alnaes GI, Giles GG, Milne RL, McLean C, Canzian F, Trichopoulos D, Peeters P, Lund E, Sund M, Khaw KT, Gunter MJ, Palli D, Mortensen LM, Dossus L, Huerta JM, Meindl A, Schmutzler RK, Sutter C, Yang R, Muir K, Lophatananon A, Stewart-Brown S, Siriwanarangsan P, Hartman M, Miao H, Chia KS, Chan CW, Fasching PA, Hein A, Beckmann MW, Haeberle L, Brenner H, Dieffenbach AK, Arndt V, Stegmaier C, Ashworth A, Orr N, Schoemaker MJ, Swerdlow AJ, Brinton L, Garcia-Closas M, Zheng W, Halverson SL, Shrubsole M, Long J, Goldberg MS, Labrèche F, Dumont M, Winqvist R, Pylkäs K, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Grip M, Brauch H, Hamann U, Brüning T, Radice P, Peterlongo P, Manoukian S, Bernard L, Bogdanova NV, Dörk T, Mannermaa A, Kataja V, Kosma VM, Hartikainen JM, Devilee P, Tollenaar RA, Seynaeve C, Van Asperen CJ, Jakubowska A, Lubinski J, Jaworska K, Huzarski T, Sangrajrang S, Gaborieau V, Brennan P, McKay J, Slager S, Toland AE, Ambrosone CB, Yannoukakos D, Kabisch M, Torres D, Neuhausen SL, Anton-Culver H, Luccarini C, Baynes C, Ahmed S, Healey CS, Tessier DC, Vincent D, Bacot F, Pita G, Alonso MR, Álvarez N, Herrero D, Simard J, Pharoah PP, Kraft P, Dunning AM, Chenevix-Trench G, Hall P, and Easton DF
Subjects: Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Microarray Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and large-scale replication studies have identified common variants in 79 loci associated with breast cancer, explaining ∼14% of the familial risk of the disease. To identify new susceptibility loci, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 GWAS, comprising 15,748 breast cancer cases and 18,084 controls together with 46,785 cases and 42,892 controls from 41 studies genotyped on a 211,155-marker custom array (iCOGS). Analyses were restricted to women of European ancestry. We generated genotypes for more than 11 million SNPs by imputation using the 1000 Genomes Project reference panel, and we identified 15 new loci associated with breast cancer at P < 5 × 10(-8). Combining association analysis with ChIP-seq chromatin binding data in mammary cell lines and ChIA-PET chromatin interaction data from ENCODE, we identified likely target genes in two regions: SETBP1 at 18q12.3 and RNF115 and PDZK1 at 1q21.1. One association appears to be driven by an amino acid substitution encoded in EXO1.
Published: 2015
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9. Investigation of gene-environment interactions between 47 newly identified breast cancer susceptibility loci and environmental risk factors.

Author: Rudolph A, Milne RL, Truong T, Knight JA, Seibold P, Flesch-Janys D, Behrens S, Eilber U, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Dennis J, Dunning AM, Shah M, Munday HR, Darabi H, Eriksson M, Brand JS, Olson J, Vachon CM, Hallberg E, Castelao JE, Carracedo A, Torres M, Li J, Humphreys K, Cordina-Duverger E, Menegaux F, Flyger H, Nordestgaard BG, Nielsen SF, Yesilyurt BT, Floris G, Leunen K, Engelhardt EG, Broeks A, Rutgers EJ, Glendon G, Mulligan AM, Cross S, Reed M, Gonzalez-Neira A, Arias Perez JI, Provenzano E, Apicella C, Southey MC, Spurdle A, Häberle L, Beckmann MW, Ekici AB, Dieffenbach AK, Arndt V, Stegmaier C, McLean C, Baglietto L, Chanock SJ, Lissowska J, Sherman ME, Brüning T, Hamann U, Ko YD, Orr N, Schoemaker M, Ashworth A, Kosma VM, Kataja V, Hartikainen JM, Mannermaa A, Swerdlow A, Giles GG, Brenner H, Fasching PA, Chenevix-Trench G, Hopper J, Benítez J, Cox A, Andrulis IL, Lambrechts D, Gago-Dominguez M, Couch F, Czene K, Bojesen SE, Easton DF, Schmidt MK, Guénel P, Hall P, Pharoah PD, Garcia-Closas M, and Chang-Claude J
Subjects: Breast Neoplasms chemistry, Breast Neoplasms etiology, Female, Genetic Loci, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptors, Estrogen analysis, Risk Factors, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Gene-Environment Interaction, Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Abstract: A large genotyping project within the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) recently identified 41 associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and overall breast cancer (BC) risk. We investigated whether the effects of these 41 SNPs, as well as six SNPs associated with estrogen receptor (ER) negative BC risk are modified by 13 environmental risk factors for BC. Data from 22 studies participating in BCAC were pooled, comprising up to 26,633 cases and 30,119 controls. Interactions between SNPs and environmental factors were evaluated using an empirical Bayes-type shrinkage estimator. Six SNPs showed interactions with associated p-values (pint ) <1.1 × 10(-3) . None of the observed interactions was significant after accounting for multiple testing. The Bayesian False Discovery Probability was used to rank the findings, which indicated three interactions as being noteworthy at 1% prior probability of interaction. SNP rs6828523 was associated with increased ER-negative BC risk in women ≥170 cm (OR = 1.22, p = 0.017), but inversely associated with ER-negative BC risk in women <160 cm (OR = 0.83, p = 0.039, pint = 1.9 × 10(-4) ). The inverse association between rs4808801 and overall BC risk was stronger for women who had had four or more pregnancies (OR = 0.85, p = 2.0 × 10(-4) ), and absent in women who had had just one (OR = 0.96, p = 0.19, pint = 6.1 × 10(-4) ). SNP rs11242675 was inversely associated with overall BC risk in never/former smokers (OR = 0.93, p = 2.8 × 10(-5) ), but no association was observed in current smokers (OR = 1.07, p = 0.14, pint = 3.4 × 10(-4) ). In conclusion, recently identified BC susceptibility loci are not strongly modified by established risk factors and the observed potential interactions require confirmation in independent studies., (© 2014 UICC.)
Published: 2015
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10. Evaluating the ovarian cancer gonadotropin hypothesis: a candidate gene study.

Author: Lee AW, Tyrer JP, Doherty JA, Stram DA, Kupryjanczyk J, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Plisiecka-Halasa J, Spiewankiewicz B, Myers EJ, Chenevix-Trench G, Fasching PA, Beckmann MW, Ekici AB, Hein A, Vergote I, Van Nieuwenhuysen E, Lambrechts D, Wicklund KG, Eilber U, Wang-Gohrke S, Chang-Claude J, Rudolph A, Sucheston-Campbell L, Odunsi K, Moysich KB, Shvetsov YB, Thompson PJ, Goodman MT, Wilkens LR, Dörk T, Hillemanns P, Dürst M, Runnebaum IB, Bogdanova N, Pelttari LM, Nevanlinna H, Leminen A, Edwards RP, Kelley JL, Harter P, Schwaab I, Heitz F, du Bois A, Orsulic S, Lester J, Walsh C, Karlan BY, Hogdall E, Kjaer SK, Jensen A, Vierkant RA, Cunningham JM, Goode EL, Fridley BL, Southey MC, Giles GG, Bruinsma F, Wu X, Hildebrandt MA, Lu K, Liang D, Bisogna M, Levine DA, Weber RP, Schildkraut JM, Iversen ES, Berchuck A, Terry KL, Cramer DW, Tworoger SS, Poole EM, Olson SH, Orlow I, Bandera EV, Bjorge L, Tangen IL, Salvesen HB, Krakstad C, Massuger LF, Kiemeney LA, Aben KK, van Altena AM, Bean Y, Pejovic T, Kellar M, Le ND, Cook LS, Kelemen LE, Brooks-Wilson A, Lubinski J, Gronwald J, Cybulski C, Jakubowska A, Wentzensen N, Brinton LA, Lissowska J, Yang H, Nedergaard L, Lundvall L, Hogdall C, Song H, Campbell IG, Eccles D, Glasspool R, Siddiqui N, Carty K, Paul J, McNeish IA, Sieh W, McGuire V, Rothstein JH, Whittemore AS, McLaughlin JR, Risch HA, Phelan CM, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Menon U, Ramus SJ, Gentry-Maharaj A, Harrington P, Pike MC, Modugno F, Rossing MA, Ness RB, Pharoah PD, Stram DO, Wu AH, and Pearce CL
Subjects: Biomarkers, Tumor metabolism, Case-Control Studies, Female, Genetic Markers, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Logistic Models, Ovarian Neoplasms metabolism, Risk Factors, Signal Transduction, Biomarkers, Tumor genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Gonadotropins metabolism, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: Objective: Ovarian cancer is a hormone-related disease with a strong genetic basis. However, none of its high-penetrance susceptibility genes and GWAS-identified variants to date are known to be involved in hormonal pathways. Given the hypothesized etiologic role of gonadotropins, an assessment of how variability in genes involved in the gonadotropin signaling pathway impacts disease risk is warranted., Methods: Genetic data from 41 ovarian cancer study sites were pooled and unconditional logistic regression was used to evaluate whether any of the 2185 SNPs from 11 gonadotropin signaling pathway genes was associated with ovarian cancer risk. A burden test using the admixture likelihood (AML) method was also used to evaluate gene-level associations., Results: We did not find any genome-wide significant associations between individual SNPs and ovarian cancer risk. However, there was some suggestion of gene-level associations for four gonadotropin signaling pathway genes: INHBB (p=0.045, mucinous), LHCGR (p=0.046, high-grade serous), GNRH (p=0.041, high-grade serous), and FSHB (p=0.036, overall invasive). There was also suggestive evidence for INHA (p=0.060, overall invasive)., Conclusions: Ovarian cancer studies have limited sample numbers, thus fewer genome-wide susceptibility alleles, with only modest associations, have been identified relative to breast and prostate cancers. We have evaluated the majority of ovarian cancer studies with biological samples, to our knowledge, leaving no opportunity for replication. Using both our understanding of biology and powerful gene-level tests, we have identified four putative ovarian cancer loci near INHBB, LHCGR, GNRH, and FSHB that warrant a second look if larger sample sizes and denser genotype chips become available., (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Published: 2015
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11. Identification of six new susceptibility loci for invasive epithelial ovarian cancer.

Author: Kuchenbaecker KB, Ramus SJ, Tyrer J, Lee A, Shen HC, Beesley J, Lawrenson K, McGuffog L, Healey S, Lee JM, Spindler TJ, Lin YG, Pejovic T, Bean Y, Li Q, Coetzee S, Hazelett D, Miron A, Southey M, Terry MB, Goldgar DE, Buys SS, Janavicius R, Dorfling CM, van Rensburg EJ, Neuhausen SL, Ding YC, Hansen TV, Jønson L, Gerdes AM, Ejlertsen B, Barrowdale D, Dennis J, Benitez J, Osorio A, Garcia MJ, Komenaka I, Weitzel JN, Ganschow P, Peterlongo P, Bernard L, Viel A, Bonanni B, Peissel B, Manoukian S, Radice P, Papi L, Ottini L, Fostira F, Konstantopoulou I, Garber J, Frost D, Perkins J, Platte R, Ellis S, Godwin AK, Schmutzler RK, Meindl A, Engel C, Sutter C, Sinilnikova OM, Damiola F, Mazoyer S, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Claes K, De Leeneer K, Kirk J, Rodriguez GC, Piedmonte M, O'Malley DM, de la Hoya M, Caldes T, Aittomäki K, Nevanlinna H, Collée JM, Rookus MA, Oosterwijk JC, Tihomirova L, Tung N, Hamann U, Isaccs C, Tischkowitz M, Imyanitov EN, Caligo MA, Campbell IG, Hogervorst FB, Olah E, Diez O, Blanco I, Brunet J, Lazaro C, Pujana MA, Jakubowska A, Gronwald J, Lubinski J, Sukiennicki G, Barkardottir RB, Plante M, Simard J, Soucy P, Montagna M, Tognazzo S, Teixeira MR, Pankratz VS, Wang X, Lindor N, Szabo CI, Kauff N, Vijai J, Aghajanian CA, Pfeiler G, Berger A, Singer CF, Tea MK, Phelan CM, Greene MH, Mai PL, Rennert G, Mulligan AM, Tchatchou S, Andrulis IL, Glendon G, Toland AE, Jensen UB, Kruse TA, Thomassen M, Bojesen A, Zidan J, Friedman E, Laitman Y, Soller M, Liljegren A, Arver B, Einbeigi Z, Stenmark-Askmalm M, Olopade OI, Nussbaum RL, Rebbeck TR, Nathanson KL, Domchek SM, Lu KH, Karlan BY, Walsh C, Lester J, Hein A, Ekici AB, Beckmann MW, Fasching PA, Lambrechts D, Van Nieuwenhuysen E, Vergote I, Lambrechts S, Dicks E, Doherty JA, Wicklund KG, Rossing MA, Rudolph A, Chang-Claude J, Wang-Gohrke S, Eilber U, Moysich KB, Odunsi K, Sucheston L, Lele S, Wilkens LR, Goodman MT, Thompson PJ, Shvetsov YB, Runnebaum IB, Dürst M, Hillemanns P, Dörk T, Antonenkova N, Bogdanova N, Leminen A, Pelttari LM, Butzow R, Modugno F, Kelley JL, Edwards RP, Ness RB, du Bois A, Heitz F, Schwaab I, Harter P, Matsuo K, Hosono S, Orsulic S, Jensen A, Kjaer SK, Hogdall E, Hasmad HN, Azmi MA, Teo SH, Woo YL, Fridley BL, Goode EL, Cunningham JM, Vierkant RA, Bruinsma F, Giles GG, Liang D, Hildebrandt MA, Wu X, Levine DA, Bisogna M, Berchuck A, Iversen ES, Schildkraut JM, Concannon P, Weber RP, Cramer DW, Terry KL, Poole EM, Tworoger SS, Bandera EV, Orlow I, Olson SH, Krakstad C, Salvesen HB, Tangen IL, Bjorge L, van Altena AM, Aben KK, Kiemeney LA, Massuger LF, Kellar M, Brooks-Wilson A, Kelemen LE, Cook LS, Le ND, Cybulski C, Yang H, Lissowska J, Brinton LA, Wentzensen N, Hogdall C, Lundvall L, Nedergaard L, Baker H, Song H, Eccles D, McNeish I, Paul J, Carty K, Siddiqui N, Glasspool R, Whittemore AS, Rothstein JH, McGuire V, Sieh W, Ji BT, Zheng W, Shu XO, Gao YT, Rosen B, Risch HA, McLaughlin JR, Narod SA, Monteiro AN, Chen A, Lin HY, Permuth-Wey J, Sellers TA, Tsai YY, Chen Z, Ziogas A, Anton-Culver H, Gentry-Maharaj A, Menon U, Harrington P, Lee AW, Wu AH, Pearce CL, Coetzee G, Pike MC, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Timorek A, Rzepecka IK, Kupryjanczyk J, Freedman M, Noushmehr H, Easton DF, Offit K, Couch FJ, Gayther S, Pharoah PP, Antoniou AC, and Chenevix-Trench G
Subjects: Adolescent, Adult, Alleles, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, Female, Genes, Reporter, Genotype, Heterozygote, Humans, Mutation, Quantitative Trait Loci, Risk, Young Adult, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial genetics, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 12 epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) susceptibility alleles. The pattern of association at these loci is consistent in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers who are at high risk of EOC. After imputation to 1000 Genomes Project data, we assessed associations of 11 million genetic variants with EOC risk from 15,437 cases unselected for family history and 30,845 controls and from 15,252 BRCA1 mutation carriers and 8,211 BRCA2 mutation carriers (3,096 with ovarian cancer), and we combined the results in a meta-analysis. This new study design yielded increased statistical power, leading to the discovery of six new EOC susceptibility loci. Variants at 1p36 (nearest gene, WNT4), 4q26 (SYNPO2), 9q34.2 (ABO) and 17q11.2 (ATAD5) were associated with EOC risk, and at 1p34.3 (RSPO1) and 6p22.1 (GPX6) variants were specifically associated with the serous EOC subtype, all with P < 5 × 10(-8). Incorporating these variants into risk assessment tools will improve clinical risk predictions for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Published: 2015
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12. Polymorphisms in the gene regions of the adaptor complex LAMTOR2/LAMTOR3 and their association with breast cancer risk.

Author: De Araujo ME, Erhart G, Buck K, Müller-Holzner E, Hubalek M, Fiegl H, Campa D, Canzian F, Eilber U, Chang-Claude J, Coassin S, Haun M, Kedenko L, Paulweber B, Reitsamer R, Himmel I, Flesch-Janys D, Lamina C, Kronenberg F, Huber LA, and Kloss-Brandstätter A
Subjects: Breast Neoplasms pathology, Case-Control Studies, Computational Biology, Exons genetics, Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases metabolism, Female, Humans, Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1, Middle Aged, Multiprotein Complexes metabolism, Mutation, Signal Transduction genetics, TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases metabolism, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing genetics, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: Background: The late endosomal LAMTOR complex serves as a convergence point for both the RAF/MEK/ERK and the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathways. Interestingly, both of these signalling cascades play a significant role in the aetiology of breast cancer. Our aim was to address the possible role of genetic polymorphisms in LAMTOR2 and LAMTOR3 as genetic risk factors for breast cancer., Methodology/results: We sequenced the exons and exon-intron boundaries of LAMTOR2 (p14) and LAMTOR3 (MP1) in 50 prospectively collected pairs of cancerous tissue and blood samples from breast cancer patients and compared their genetic variability. We found one single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in LAMTOR2 (rs7541) and two SNPs in LAMTOR3 (rs2298735 and rs148972953) in both tumour and blood samples, but no somatic mutations in cancerous tissues. In addition, we genotyped all three SNPs in 296 samples from the Risk Prediction of Breast Cancer Metastasis Study and found evidence of a genetic association between rs148972953 and oestrogen (ER) and progesterone receptor negative status (PR) (ER: OR = 3.60 (1.15-11.28); PR: OR = 4.27 (1.43-12.72)). However, when we additionally genotyped rs148972953 in the MARIE study including 2,715 breast cancer cases and 5,216 controls, we observed neither a difference in genotype frequencies between patients and controls nor was the SNP associated with ER or PR. Finally, all three SNPs were equally frequent in breast cancer samples and female participants (n = 640) of the population-based SAPHIR Study., Conclusions: The identified polymorphisms in LAMTOR2 and LAMTOR3 do not seem to play a relevant role in breast cancer. Our work does not exclude a role of other not yet identified SNPs or that the here annotated polymorphism may in fact play a relevant role in other diseases. Our results underscore the importance of replication in association studies.
Published: 2013
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13. 9q31.2-rs865686 as a susceptibility locus for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: evidence from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium.

Author: Warren H, Dudbridge F, Fletcher O, Orr N, Johnson N, Hopper JL, Apicella C, Southey MC, Mahmoodi M, Schmidt MK, Broeks A, Cornelissen S, Braaf LM, Muir KR, Lophatananon A, Chaiwerawattana A, Wiangnon S, Fasching PA, Beckmann MW, Ekici AB, Schulz-Wendtland R, Sawyer EJ, Tomlinson I, Kerin M, Burwinkel B, Marme F, Schneeweiss A, Sohn C, Guénel P, Truong T, Laurent-Puig P, Mulot C, Bojesen SE, Nielsen SF, Flyger H, Nordestgaard BG, Milne RL, Benítez J, Arias-Pérez JI, Zamora MP, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Bernstein L, Dur CC, Brenner H, Müller H, Arndt V, Langheinz A, Meindl A, Golatta M, Bartram CR, Schmutzler RK, Brauch H, Justenhoven C, Brüning T, Chang-Claude J, Wang-Gohrke S, Eilber U, Dörk T, Schürmann P, Bremer M, Hillemanns P, Nevanlinna H, Muranen TA, Aittomäki K, Blomqvist C, Bogdanova N, Antonenkova N, Rogov Y, Bermisheva M, Prokofyeva D, Zinnatullina G, Khusnutdinova E, Lindblom A, Margolin S, Mannermaa A, Kosma VM, Hartikainen JM, Kataja V, Chenevix-Trench G, Beesley J, Chen X, Lambrechts D, Smeets A, Paridaens R, Weltens C, Flesch-Janys D, Buck K, Behrens S, Peterlongo P, Bernard L, Manoukian S, Radice P, Couch FJ, Vachon C, Wang X, Olson J, Giles G, Baglietto L, McLean CA, Severi G, John EM, Miron A, Winqvist R, Pylkäs K, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Grip M, Andrulis IL, Knight JA, Mulligan AM, Weerasooriya N, Devilee P, Tollenaar RA, Martens JW, Seynaeve CM, Hooning MJ, Hollestelle A, Jager A, Tilanus-Linthorst MM, Hall P, Czene K, Liu J, Li J, Cox A, Cross SS, Brock IW, Reed MW, Pharoah P, Blows FM, Dunning AM, Ghoussaini M, Ashworth A, Swerdlow A, Jones M, Schoemaker M, Easton DF, Humphreys M, Wang Q, Peto J, and dos-Santos-Silva I
Subjects: Aged, Breast Neoplasms chemistry, Breast Neoplasms ethnology, Case-Control Studies, Chromosome Mapping, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptors, Progesterone analysis, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Receptors, Estrogen analysis
Abstract: Background: Our recent genome-wide association study identified a novel breast cancer susceptibility locus at 9q31.2 (rs865686)., Methods: To further investigate the rs865686-breast cancer association, we conducted a replication study within the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, which comprises 37 case-control studies (48,394 cases, 50,836 controls)., Results: This replication study provides additional strong evidence of an inverse association between rs865686 and breast cancer risk [study-adjusted per G-allele OR, 0.90; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.88; 0.91, P = 2.01 × 10(-29)] among women of European ancestry. There were ethnic differences in the estimated minor (G)-allele frequency among controls [0.09, 0.30, and 0.38 among, respectively, Asians, Eastern Europeans, and other Europeans; P for heterogeneity (P(het)) = 1.3 × 10(-143)], but no evidence of ethnic differences in per allele OR (P(het) = 0.43). rs865686 was associated with estrogen receptor-positive (ER(+)) disease (per G-allele OR, 0.89; 95% CI, 0.86-0.91; P = 3.13 × 10(-22)) but less strongly, if at all, with ER-negative (ER(-)) disease (OR, 0.98; 95% CI, 0.94-1.02; P = 0.26; P(het) = 1.16 × 10(-6)), with no evidence of independent heterogeneity by progesterone receptor or HER2 status. The strength of the breast cancer association decreased with increasing age at diagnosis, with case-only analysis showing a trend in the number of copies of the G allele with increasing age at diagnosis (P for linear trend = 0.0095), but only among women with ER(+) tumors., Conclusions: This study is the first to show that rs865686 is a susceptibility marker for ER(+) breast cancer., Impact: The findings further support the view that genetic susceptibility varies according to tumor subtype., (2012 AACR)
Published: 2012
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14. The role of genetic breast cancer susceptibility variants as prognostic factors.

Author: Fasching PA, Pharoah PD, Cox A, Nevanlinna H, Bojesen SE, Karn T, Broeks A, van Leeuwen FE, van't Veer LJ, Udo R, Dunning AM, Greco D, Aittomäki K, Blomqvist C, Shah M, Nordestgaard BG, Flyger H, Hopper JL, Southey MC, Apicella C, Garcia-Closas M, Sherman M, Lissowska J, Seynaeve C, Huijts PE, Tollenaar RA, Ziogas A, Ekici AB, Rauh C, Mannermaa A, Kataja V, Kosma VM, Hartikainen JM, Andrulis IL, Ozcelik H, Mulligan AM, Glendon G, Hall P, Czene K, Liu J, Chang-Claude J, Wang-Gohrke S, Eilber U, Nickels S, Dörk T, Schiekel M, Bremer M, Park-Simon TW, Giles GG, Severi G, Baglietto L, Hooning MJ, Martens JW, Jager A, Kriege M, Lindblom A, Margolin S, Couch FJ, Stevens KN, Olson JE, Kosel M, Cross SS, Balasubramanian SP, Reed MW, Miron A, John EM, Winqvist R, Pylkäs K, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Kauppila S, Burwinkel B, Marme F, Schneeweiss A, Sohn C, Chenevix-Trench G, Lambrechts D, Dieudonne AS, Hatse S, van Limbergen E, Benitez J, Milne RL, Zamora MP, Pérez JI, Bonanni B, Peissel B, Loris B, Peterlongo P, Rajaraman P, Schonfeld SJ, Anton-Culver H, Devilee P, Beckmann MW, Slamon DJ, Phillips KA, Figueroa JD, Humphreys MK, Easton DF, and Schmidt MK
Subjects: Breast Neoplasms mortality, Databases, Genetic, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Genetic Loci genetics, Genetics, Population, Homozygote, Humans, Middle Aged, Prognosis, Proportional Hazards Models, Receptors, Estrogen metabolism, Risk Factors, Breast Neoplasms diagnosis, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics
Abstract: Recent genome-wide association studies identified 11 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with breast cancer (BC) risk. We investigated these and 62 other SNPs for their prognostic relevance. Confirmed BC risk SNPs rs17468277 (CASP8), rs1982073 (TGFB1), rs2981582 (FGFR2), rs13281615 (8q24), rs3817198 (LSP1), rs889312 (MAP3K1), rs3803662 (TOX3), rs13387042 (2q35), rs4973768 (SLC4A7), rs6504950 (COX11) and rs10941679 (5p12) were genotyped for 25 853 BC patients with the available follow-up; 62 other SNPs, which have been suggested as BC risk SNPs by a GWAS or as candidate SNPs from individual studies, were genotyped for replication purposes in subsets of these patients. Cox proportional hazard models were used to test the association of these SNPs with overall survival (OS) and BC-specific survival (BCS). For the confirmed loci, we performed an accessory analysis of publicly available gene expression data and the prognosis in a different patient group. One of the 11 SNPs, rs3803662 (TOX3) and none of the 62 candidate/GWAS SNPs were associated with OS and/or BCS at P<0.01. The genotypic-specific survival for rs3803662 suggested a recessive mode of action [hazard ratio (HR) of rare homozygous carriers=1.21; 95% CI: 1.09-1.35, P=0.0002 and HR=1.29; 95% CI: 1.12-1.47, P=0.0003 for OS and BCS, respectively]. This association was seen similarly in all analyzed tumor subgroups defined by nodal status, tumor size, grade and estrogen receptor. Breast tumor expression of these genes was not associated with prognosis. With the exception of rs3803662 (TOX3), there was no evidence that any of the SNPs associated with BC susceptibility were associated with the BC survival. Survival may be influenced by a distinct set of germline variants from those influencing susceptibility.
Published: 2012
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15. Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci.

Author: Ghoussaini M, Fletcher O, Michailidou K, Turnbull C, Schmidt MK, Dicks E, Dennis J, Wang Q, Humphreys MK, Luccarini C, Baynes C, Conroy D, Maranian M, Ahmed S, Driver K, Johnson N, Orr N, dos Santos Silva I, Waisfisz Q, Meijers-Heijboer H, Uitterlinden AG, Rivadeneira F, Hall P, Czene K, Irwanto A, Liu J, Nevanlinna H, Aittomäki K, Blomqvist C, Meindl A, Schmutzler RK, Müller-Myhsok B, Lichtner P, Chang-Claude J, Hein R, Nickels S, Flesch-Janys D, Tsimiklis H, Makalic E, Schmidt D, Bui M, Hopper JL, Apicella C, Park DJ, Southey M, Hunter DJ, Chanock SJ, Broeks A, Verhoef S, Hogervorst FB, Fasching PA, Lux MP, Beckmann MW, Ekici AB, Sawyer E, Tomlinson I, Kerin M, Marme F, Schneeweiss A, Sohn C, Burwinkel B, Guénel P, Truong T, Cordina-Duverger E, Menegaux F, Bojesen SE, Nordestgaard BG, Nielsen SF, Flyger H, Milne RL, Alonso MR, González-Neira A, Benítez J, Anton-Culver H, Ziogas A, Bernstein L, Dur CC, Brenner H, Müller H, Arndt V, Stegmaier C, Justenhoven C, Brauch H, Brüning T, Wang-Gohrke S, Eilber U, Dörk T, Schürmann P, Bremer M, Hillemanns P, Bogdanova NV, Antonenkova NN, Rogov YI, Karstens JH, Bermisheva M, Prokofieva D, Khusnutdinova E, Lindblom A, Margolin S, Mannermaa A, Kataja V, Kosma VM, Hartikainen JM, Lambrechts D, Yesilyurt BT, Floris G, Leunen K, Manoukian S, Bonanni B, Fortuzzi S, Peterlongo P, Couch FJ, Wang X, Stevens K, Lee A, Giles GG, Baglietto L, Severi G, McLean C, Alnaes GG, Kristensen V, Børrensen-Dale AL, John EM, Miron A, Winqvist R, Pylkäs K, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Kauppila S, Andrulis IL, Glendon G, Mulligan AM, Devilee P, van Asperen CJ, Tollenaar RA, Seynaeve C, Figueroa JD, Garcia-Closas M, Brinton L, Lissowska J, Hooning MJ, Hollestelle A, Oldenburg RA, van den Ouweland AM, Cox A, Reed MW, Shah M, Jakubowska A, Lubinski J, Jaworska K, Durda K, Jones M, Schoemaker M, Ashworth A, Swerdlow A, Beesley J, Chen X, Muir KR, Lophatananon A, Rattanamongkongul S, Chaiwerawattana A, Kang D, Yoo KY, Noh DY, Shen CY, Yu JC, Wu PE, Hsiung CN, Perkins A, Swann R, Velentzis L, Eccles DM, Tapper WJ, Gerty SM, Graham NJ, Ponder BA, Chenevix-Trench G, Pharoah PD, Lathrop M, Dunning AM, Rahman N, Peto J, and Easton DF
Subjects: Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Logistic Models, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Principal Component Analysis, White People genetics, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12 genetics, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21 genetics, Genetic Loci genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics
Abstract: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. To date, 22 common breast cancer susceptibility loci have been identified accounting for ∼8% of the heritability of the disease. We attempted to replicate 72 promising associations from two independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in ∼70,000 cases and ∼68,000 controls from 41 case-control studies and 9 breast cancer GWAS. We identified three new breast cancer risk loci at 12p11 (rs10771399; P = 2.7 × 10(-35)), 12q24 (rs1292011; P = 4.3 × 10(-19)) and 21q21 (rs2823093; P = 1.1 × 10(-12)). rs10771399 was associated with similar relative risks for both estrogen receptor (ER)-negative and ER-positive breast cancer, whereas the other two loci were associated only with ER-positive disease. Two of the loci lie in regions that contain strong plausible candidate genes: PTHLH (12p11) has a crucial role in mammary gland development and the establishment of bone metastasis in breast cancer, and NRIP1 (21q21) encodes an ER cofactor and has a role in the regulation of breast cancer cell growth.
Published: 2012
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16. A transcriptome-wide association study of 229,000 women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer

Author: Wu, Lang, Shi, Wei, Long, Jirong, Guo, Xingyi, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Beesley, Jonathan, Bolla, Manjeet K, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Lu, Yingchang, Cai, Qiuyin, Al-Ejeh, Fares, Rozali, Esdy, Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Li, Bingshan, Zeng, Chenjie, Feng, Helian, Gusev, Alexander, Barfield, Richard T, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Aronson, Kristan J, Auer, Paul L, Barrdahl, Myrto, Baynes, Caroline, Beckmann, Matthias W, Benitez, Javier, Bermisheva, Marina, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Brinton, Louise, Broberg, Per, Brucker, Sara Y, Burwinkel, Barbara, Caldés, Trinidad, Canzian, Federico, Carter, Brian D, Castelao, J Esteban, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chen, Xiaoqing, Cheng, Ting-Yuan David, Christiansen, Hans, Clarke, Christine L, NBCS Collaborators, Collée, Margriet, Cornelissen, Sten, Couch, Fergus J, Cox, David, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Cunningham, Julie M, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Devilee, Peter, Doheny, Kimberly F, Dörk, Thilo, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dumont, Martine, Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M, Eilber, Ursula, Eliassen, A Heather, Engel, Christoph, Eriksson, Mikael, Fachal, Laura, Fasching, Peter A, Figueroa, Jonine, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Fletcher, Olivia, Flyger, Henrik, Fritschi, Lin, Gabrielson, Marike, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M, García-Closas, Montserrat, Gaudet, Mia M, Ghoussaini, Maya, Giles, Graham G, Goldberg, Mark S, Goldgar, David E, González-Neira, Anna, Guénel, Pascal, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A, Håkansson, Niclas, Hall, Per, Hallberg, Emily, Hamann, Ute, Harrington, Patricia, Hein, Alexander, Hicks, Belynda, Hillemanns, Peter, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Hoover, Robert N, Hopper, John L, and Huang, Guanmengqian
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Biotechnology, Prevention, Breast Cancer, Women's Health, Cancer Genomics, Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Generic health relevance, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Female, Gene Expression, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk, Transcriptome, NBCS Collaborators, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract: The breast cancer risk variants identified in genome-wide association studies explain only a small fraction of the familial relative risk, and the genes responsible for these associations remain largely unknown. To identify novel risk loci and likely causal genes, we performed a transcriptome-wide association study evaluating associations of genetically predicted gene expression with breast cancer risk in 122,977 cases and 105,974 controls of European ancestry. We used data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression Project to establish genetic models to predict gene expression in breast tissue and evaluated model performance using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Of the 8,597 genes evaluated, significant associations were identified for 48 at a Bonferroni-corrected threshold of P
Published: 2018

17. Association of vitamin D levels and risk of ovarian cancer: a Mendelian randomization study.

Author: Ong, Jue-Sheng, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Lu, Yi, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study, Fasching, Peter A, Hein, Alexander, Burghaus, Stefanie, Beckmann, Matthias W, Lambrechts, Diether, Van Nieuwenhuysen, Els, Vergote, Ignace, Vanderstichele, Adriaan, Anne Doherty, Jennifer, Anne Rossing, Mary, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Eilber, Ursula, Rudolph, Anja, Wang-Gohrke, Shan, Goodman, Marc T, Bogdanova, Natalia, Dörk, Thilo, Dürst, Matthias, Hillemanns, Peter, Runnebaum, Ingo B, Antonenkova, Natalia, Butzow, Ralf, Leminen, Arto, Nevanlinna, Heli, Pelttari, Liisa M, Edwards, Robert P, Kelley, Joseph L, Modugno, Francesmary, Moysich, Kirsten B, Ness, Roberta B, Cannioto, Rikki, Høgdall, Estrid, Høgdall, Claus K, Jensen, Allan, Giles, Graham G, Bruinsma, Fiona, Kjaer, Susanne K, Hildebrandt, Michelle At, Liang, Dong, Lu, Karen H, Wu, Xifeng, Bisogna, Maria, Dao, Fanny, Levine, Douglas A, Cramer, Daniel W, Terry, Kathryn L, Tworoger, Shelley S, Stampfer, Meir, Missmer, Stacey, Bjorge, Line, Salvesen, Helga B, Kopperud, Reidun K, Bischof, Katharina, Aben, Katja Kh, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Massuger, Leon Fag, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Olson, Sara H, McGuire, Valerie, Rothstein, Joseph H, Sieh, Weiva, Whittemore, Alice S, Cook, Linda S, Le, Nhu D, Gilks, C Blake, Gronwald, Jacek, Jakubowska, Anna, Lubiński, Jan, Kluz, Tomasz, Song, Honglin, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Wentzensen, Nicolas, Brinton, Louise, Trabert, Britton, Lissowska, Jolanta, McLaughlin, John R, Narod, Steven A, Phelan, Catherine, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Ziogas, Argyrios, Eccles, Diana, Campbell, Ian, Gayther, Simon A, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Menon, Usha, Ramus, Susan J, Wu, Anna H, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka, Kupryjanczyk, Jolanta, Timorek, Agnieszka, Szafron, Lukasz, Cunningham, Julie M, Fridley, Brooke L, Winham, Stacey J, Bandera, Elisa V, and Poole, Elizabeth M
Subjects: Australian Ovarian Cancer Study, Humans, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial, Ovarian Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Vitamin D, Odds Ratio, Risk Factors, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Female, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, Prevention, Rare Diseases, Nutrition, Clinical Research, Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Statistics, Public Health and Health Services, Epidemiology
Abstract: BackgroundIn vitro and observational epidemiological studies suggest that vitamin D may play a role in cancer prevention. However, the relationship between vitamin D and ovarian cancer is uncertain, with observational studies generating conflicting findings. A potential limitation of observational studies is inadequate control of confounding. To overcome this problem, we used Mendelian randomization (MR) to evaluate the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentration and risk of ovarian cancer.MethodsWe employed SNPs with well-established associations with 25(OH)D concentration as instrumental variables for MR: rs7944926 (DHCR7), rs12794714 (CYP2R1) and rs2282679 (GC). We included 31 719 women of European ancestry (10 065 cases, 21 654 controls) from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, who were genotyped using customized Illumina Infinium iSelect (iCOGS) arrays. A two-sample (summary data) MR approach was used and analyses were performed separately for all ovarian cancer (10 065 cases) and for high-grade serous ovarian cancer (4121 cases).ResultsThe odds ratio for epithelial ovarian cancer risk (10 065 cases) estimated by combining the individual SNP associations using inverse variance weighting was 1.27 (95% confidence interval: 1.06 to 1.51) per 20 nmol/L decrease in 25(OH)D concentration. The estimated odds ratio for high-grade serous epithelial ovarian cancer (4121 cases) was 1.54 (1.19, 2.01).ConclusionsGenetically lowered 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations were associated with higher ovarian cancer susceptibility in Europeans. These findings suggest that increasing plasma vitamin D levels may reduce risk of ovarian cancer.
Published: 2016

18. Common variants at the CHEK2 gene locus and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer

Author: Lawrenson, Kate, Iversen, Edwin S, Tyrer, Jonathan, Weber, Rachel Palmieri, Concannon, Patrick, Hazelett, Dennis J, Li, Qiyuan, Marks, Jeffrey R, Berchuck, Andrew, Lee, Janet M, Aben, Katja KH, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia, Bandera, Elisa V, Bean, Yukie, Beckmann, Matthias W, Bisogna, Maria, Bjorge, Line, Bogdanova, Natalia, Brinton, Louise A, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Bruinsma, Fiona, Butzow, Ralf, Campbell, Ian G, Carty, Karen, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Chen, Ann, Chen, Zhihua, Cook, Linda S, Cramer, Daniel W, Cunningham, Julie M, Cybulski, Cezary, Plisiecka-Halasa, Joanna, Dennis, Joe, Dicks, Ed, Doherty, Jennifer A, Dörk, Thilo, du Bois, Andreas, Eccles, Diana, Easton, Douglas T, Edwards, Robert P, Eilber, Ursula, Ekici, Arif B, Fasching, Peter A, Fridley, Brooke L, Gao, Yu-Tang, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Giles, Graham G, Glasspool, Rosalind, Goode, Ellen L, Goodman, Marc T, Gronwald, Jacek, Harter, Philipp, Hasmad, Hanis Nazihah, Hein, Alexander, Heitz, Florian, Hildebrandt, Michelle AT, Hillemanns, Peter, Hogdall, Estrid, Hogdall, Claus, Hosono, Satoyo, Jakubowska, Anna, Paul, James, Jensen, Allan, Karlan, Beth Y, Kjaer, Susanne Kruger, Kelemen, Linda E, Kellar, Melissa, Kelley, Joseph L, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Krakstad, Camilla, Lambrechts, Diether, Lambrechts, Sandrina, Le, Nhu D, Lee, Alice W, Cannioto, Rikki, Leminen, Arto, Lester, Jenny, Levine, Douglas A, Liang, Dong, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lu, Karen, Lubinski, Jan, Lundvall, Lene, Massuger, Leon FAG, Matsuo, Keitaro, McGuire, Valerie, McLaughlin, John R, Nevanlinna, Heli, McNeish, Iain, Menon, Usha, Modugno, Francesmary, Moysich, Kirsten B, Narod, Steven A, Nedergaard, Lotte, Ness, Roberta B, Azmi, Mat Adenan Noor, Odunsi, Kunle, and Olson, Sara H
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Clinical Research, Biotechnology, Cancer, Human Genome, Ovarian Cancer, Prevention, Rare Diseases, Genetic Testing, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, Case-Control Studies, Checkpoint Kinase 2, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial, Ovarian Neoplasms, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Risk Factors, Australian Cancer Study, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies have identified 20 genomic regions associated with risk of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), but many additional risk variants may exist. Here, we evaluated associations between common genetic variants [single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and indels] in DNA repair genes and EOC risk. We genotyped 2896 common variants at 143 gene loci in DNA samples from 15 397 patients with invasive EOC and controls. We found evidence of associations with EOC risk for variants at FANCA, EXO1, E2F4, E2F2, CREB5 and CHEK2 genes (P ≤ 0.001). The strongest risk association was for CHEK2 SNP rs17507066 with serous EOC (P = 4.74 x 10(-7)). Additional genotyping and imputation of genotypes from the 1000 genomes project identified a slightly more significant association for CHEK2 SNP rs6005807 (r (2) with rs17507066 = 0.84, odds ratio (OR) 1.17, 95% CI 1.11-1.24, P = 1.1×10(-7)). We identified 293 variants in the region with likelihood ratios of less than 1:100 for representing the causal variant. Functional annotation identified 25 candidate SNPs that alter transcription factor binding sites within regulatory elements active in EOC precursor tissues. In The Cancer Genome Atlas dataset, CHEK2 gene expression was significantly higher in primary EOCs compared to normal fallopian tube tissues (P = 3.72×10(-8)). We also identified an association between genotypes of the candidate causal SNP rs12166475 (r (2) = 0.99 with rs6005807) and CHEK2 expression (P = 2.70×10(-8)). These data suggest that common variants at 22q12.1 are associated with risk of serous EOC and CHEK2 as a plausible target susceptibility gene.
Published: 2015

19. Cis-eQTL analysis and functional validation of candidate susceptibility genes for high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

Author: Lawrenson, Kate, Li, Qiyuan, Kar, Siddhartha, Seo, Ji-Heui, Tyrer, Jonathan, Spindler, Tassja J, Lee, Janet, Chen, Yibu, Karst, Alison, Drapkin, Ronny, Aben, Katja KH, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Baker, Helen, Bandera, Elisa V, Bean, Yukie, Beckmann, Matthias W, Berchuck, Andrew, Bisogna, Maria, Bjorge, Line, Bogdanova, Natalia, Brinton, Louise A, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Bruinsma, Fiona, Butzow, Ralf, Campbell, Ian G, Carty, Karen, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Chen, Anne, Chen, Zhihua, Cook, Linda S, Cramer, Daniel W, Cunningham, Julie M, Cybulski, Cezary, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka, Dennis, Joe, Dicks, Ed, Doherty, Jennifer A, Dörk, Thilo, du Bois, Andreas, Dürst, Matthias, Eccles, Diana, Easton, Douglas T, Edwards, Robert P, Eilber, Ursula, Ekici, Arif B, Fasching, Peter A, Fridley, Brooke L, Gao, Yu-Tang, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Giles, Graham G, Glasspool, Rosalind, Goode, Ellen L, Goodman, Marc T, Grownwald, Jacek, Harrington, Patricia, Harter, Philipp, Hasmad, Hanis Nazihah, Hein, Alexander, Heitz, Florian, Hildebrandt, Michelle AT, Hillemanns, Peter, Hogdall, Estrid, Hogdall, Claus, Hosono, Satoyo, Iversen, Edwin S, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul, Jensen, Allan, Ji, Bu-Tian, Karlan, Beth Y, Kruger Kjaer, Susanne, Kelemen, Linda E, Kellar, Melissa, Kelley, Joseph L, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Krakstad, Camilla, Kupryjanczyk, Jolanta, Lambrechts, Diether, Lambrechts, Sandrina, Le, Nhu D, Lee, Alice W, Lele, Shashi, Leminen, Arto, Lester, Jenny, Levine, Douglas A, Liang, Dong, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lu, Karen, Lubinski, Jan, Lundvall, Lene, Massuger, Leon FAG, Matsuo, Keitaro, McGuire, Valerie, McLaughlin, John R, Nevanlinna, Heli, McNeish, Ian, and Menon, Usha
Subjects: Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Cell Line, Tumor, Humans, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial, Ovarian Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Homeodomain Proteins, Neoplasm Proteins, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Protein Binding, Quantitative Trait Loci, Female, Nuchal Cord, Genetic Association Studies, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, Cell Line, Tumor, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, Rare Diseases, Prevention, Ovarian Cancer, Biotechnology, Human Genome, Cancer, Genetics, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies have reported 11 regions conferring risk of high-grade serous epithelial ovarian cancer (HGSOC). Expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analyses can identify candidate susceptibility genes at risk loci. Here we evaluate cis-eQTL associations at 47 regions associated with HGSOC risk (P≤10(-5)). For three cis-eQTL associations (P
Published: 2015

20. Genome-wide significant risk associations for mucinous ovarian carcinoma

Author: Kelemen, Linda E, Lawrenson, Kate, Tyrer, Jonathan, Li, Qiyuan, Lee, Janet M, Seo, Ji-Heui, Phelan, Catherine M, Beesley, Jonathan, Chen, Xiaoqing, Spindler, Tassja J, Aben, Katja KH, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia, Baker, Helen, Bandera, Elisa V, Bean, Yukie, Beckmann, Matthias W, Bisogna, Maria, Bjorge, Line, Bogdanova, Natalia, Brinton, Louise A, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Bruinsma, Fiona, Butzow, Ralf, Campbell, Ian G, Carty, Karen, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chen, Y Ann, Chen, Zhihua, Cook, Linda S, Cramer, Daniel W, Cunningham, Julie M, Cybulski, Cezary, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka, Dennis, Joe, Dicks, Ed, Doherty, Jennifer A, Doerk, Thilo, du Bois, Andreas, Duerst, Matthias, Eccles, Diana, Easton, Douglas T, Edwards, Robert P, Eilber, Ursula, Ekici, Arif B, Engelholm, Svend Aage, Fasching, Peter A, Fridley, Brooke L, Gao, Yu-Tang, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Giles, Graham G, Glasspool, Rosalind, Goode, Ellen L, Goodman, Marc T, Grownwald, Jacek, Harrington, Patricia, Harter, Philipp, Hasmad, Hanis Nazihah, Hein, Alexander, Heitz, Florian, Hildebrandt, Michelle AT, Hillemanns, Peter, Hogdall, Estrid, Hogdall, Claus, Hosono, Satoyo, Iversen, Edwin S, Jakubowska, Anna, Jensen, Allan, Ji, Bu-Tian, Karlan, Beth Y, Kellar, Melissa, Kelley, Joseph L, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Krakstad, Camilla, Kjaer, Susanne K, Kupryjanczyk, Jolanta, Lambrechts, Diether, Lambrechts, Sandrina, Le, Nhu D, Lee, Alice W, Lele, Shashi, Leminen, Arto, Lester, Jenny, Levine, Douglas A, Liang, Dong, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lu, Karen, Lubinski, Jan, Lundvall, Lene, Massuger, Leon FAG, Matsuo, Keitaro, McGuire, Valerie, McLaughlin, John R, McNeish, Iain, Menon, Usha, Modugno, Francesmary, Moes-Sosnowska, Joanna, and Moysich, Kirsten B
Subjects: Rare Diseases, Prevention, Ovarian Cancer, Genetics, Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous, Base Sequence, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Nucleus, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Green Fluorescent Proteins, Homeodomain Proteins, Humans, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Molecular Sequence Data, Neoplasm Proteins, Ovarian Neoplasms, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Risk Factors, Australian Cancer Study, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies have identified several risk associations for ovarian carcinomas but not for mucinous ovarian carcinomas (MOCs). Our analysis of 1,644 MOC cases and 21,693 controls with imputation identified 3 new risk associations: rs752590 at 2q13 (P = 3.3 × 10(-8)), rs711830 at 2q31.1 (P = 7.5 × 10(-12)) and rs688187 at 19q13.2 (P = 6.8 × 10(-13)). We identified significant expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) associations for HOXD9 at 2q31.1 in ovarian (P = 4.95 × 10(-4), false discovery rate (FDR) = 0.003) and colorectal (P = 0.01, FDR = 0.09) tumors and for PAX8 at 2q13 in colorectal tumors (P = 0.03, FDR = 0.09). Chromosome conformation capture analysis identified interactions between the HOXD9 promoter and risk-associated SNPs at 2q31.1. Overexpressing HOXD9 in MOC cells augmented the neoplastic phenotype. These findings provide the first evidence for MOC susceptibility variants and insights into the underlying biology of the disease.
Published: 2015

21. Cell-type-specific enrichment of risk-associated regulatory elements at ovarian cancer susceptibility loci

Author: Coetzee, Simon G, Shen, Howard C, Hazelett, Dennis J, Lawrenson, Kate, Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Tyrer, Jonathan, Rhie, Suhn K, Levanon, Keren, Karst, Alison, Drapkin, Ronny, Ramus, Susan J, Consortium, The Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1 2 The Ovarian Cancer Association, Couch, Fergus J, Offit, Kenneth, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Monteiro, Alvaro NA, Antoniou, Antonis, Freedman, Matthew, Coetzee, Gerhard A, Pharoah, Paul DP, Noushmehr, Houtan, Gayther, Simon A, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia, Baker, Helen, Bandera, Elisa V, Bean, Yukie, Beckmann, Matthias W, Berchuck, Andrew, Bisogna, Maria, Bjorge, Line, Bogdanova, Natalia, Brinton, Louise A, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Bruinsma, Fiona, Butzow, Ralf, Campbell, Ian G, Carty, Karen, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chen, Ann, Chen, Zhihua, Cook, Linda S, Cramer, Daniel W, Cunningham, Julie M, Cybulski, Cezary, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka, Dennis, Joe, Dicks, Ed, Doherty, Jennifer A, Dörk, Thilo, du Bois, Andreas, Dürst, Matthias, Eccles, Diana, Easton, Douglas F, Edwards, Robert P, Eilber, Ursula, Ekici, Arif B, Fasching, Peter A, Fridley, Brooke L, Gao, Yu-Tang, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Giles, Graham G, Glasspool, Rosalind, Goode, Ellen L, Goodman, Marc T, Grownwald, Jacek, Harrington, Patricia, Harter, Philipp, Hasmad, Hanis Nazihah, Hein, Alexander, Heitz, Florian, Hildebrandt, Michelle AT, Hillemanns, Peter, Hogdall, Estrid, Hogdall, Claus, Hosono, Satoyo, Iversen, Edwin S, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul, Jensen, Allan, Ji, Bu-Tian, Karlan, Beth Y, Kjaer, Susanne Kruger, Kelemen, Linda E, Kellar, Melissa, Kelley, Joseph L, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Krakstad, Camilla, Kupryjanczyk, Jolanta, Lambrechts, Diether, Lambrechts, Sandrina, Le, Nhu D, Lele, Shashi, Leminen, Arto, Lester, Jenny, Levine, Douglas A, Liang, Dong, and Lissowska, Jolanta
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Rare Diseases, Prevention, Human Genome, Ovarian Cancer, Biotechnology, Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Underpinning research, Aetiology, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Chromatin, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Histones, Humans, Organ Specificity, Ovarian Neoplasms, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, The Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2, Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium The Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract: Understanding the regulatory landscape of the human genome is a central question in complex trait genetics. Most single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with cancer risk lie in non-protein-coding regions, implicating regulatory DNA elements as functional targets of susceptibility variants. Here, we describe genome-wide annotation of regions of open chromatin and histone modification in fallopian tube and ovarian surface epithelial cells (FTSECs, OSECs), the debated cellular origins of high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSOCs) and in endometriosis epithelial cells (EECs), the likely precursor of clear cell ovarian carcinomas (CCOCs). The regulatory architecture of these cell types was compared with normal human mammary epithelial cells and LNCaP prostate cancer cells. We observed similar positional patterns of global enhancer signatures across the three different ovarian cancer precursor cell types, and evidence of tissue-specific regulatory signatures compared to non-gynecological cell types. We found significant enrichment for risk-associated SNPs intersecting regulatory biofeatures at 17 known HGSOC susceptibility loci in FTSECs (P = 3.8 × 10(-30)), OSECs (P = 2.4 × 10(-23)) and HMECs (P = 6.7 × 10(-15)) but not for EECs (P = 0.45) or LNCaP cells (P = 0.88). Hierarchical clustering of risk SNPs conditioned on the six different cell types indicates FTSECs and OSECs are highly related (96% of samples using multi-scale bootstrapping) suggesting both cell types may be precursors of HGSOC. These data represent the first description of regulatory catalogues of normal precursor cells for different ovarian cancer subtypes, and provide unique insights into the tissue specific regulatory variation with respect to the likely functional targets of germline genetic susceptibility variants for ovarian cancer.
Published: 2015

22. Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

Author: Chornokur, Ganna, Lin, Hui-Yi, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Lawrenson, Kate, Dennis, Joe, Amankwah, Ernest K, Qu, Xiaotao, Tsai, Ya-Yu, Jim, Heather SL, Chen, Zhihua, Chen, Ann Y, Permuth-Wey, Jennifer, Aben, Katja KH, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia, Bruinsma, Fiona, Bandera, Elisa V, Bean, Yukie T, Beckmann, Matthias W, Bisogna, Maria, Bjorge, Line, Bogdanova, Natalia, Brinton, Louise A, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Bunker, Clareann H, Butzow, Ralf, Campbell, Ian G, Carty, Karen, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Cook, Linda S, Cramer, Daniel W, Cunningham, Julie M, Cybulski, Cezary, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka, du Bois, Andreas, Despierre, Evelyn, Dicks, Ed, Doherty, Jennifer A, Dörk, Thilo, Dürst, Matthias, Easton, Douglas F, Eccles, Diana M, Edwards, Robert P, Ekici, Arif B, Fasching, Peter A, Fridley, Brooke L, Gao, Yu-Tang, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Giles, Graham G, Glasspool, Rosalind, Goodman, Marc T, Gronwald, Jacek, Harrington, Patricia, Harter, Philipp, Hein, Alexander, Heitz, Florian, Hildebrandt, Michelle AT, Hillemanns, Peter, Hogdall, Claus K, Hogdall, Estrid, Hosono, Satoyo, Jakubowska, Anna, Jensen, Allan, Ji, Bu-Tian, Karlan, Beth Y, Kelemen, Linda E, Kellar, Mellissa, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Krakstad, Camilla, Kjaer, Susanne K, Kupryjanczyk, Jolanta, Lambrechts, Diether, Lambrechts, Sandrina, Le, Nhu D, Lee, Alice W, Lele, Shashi, Leminen, Arto, Lester, Jenny, Levine, Douglas A, Liang, Dong, Lim, Boon Kiong, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lu, Karen, Lubinski, Jan, Lundvall, Lene, Massuger, Leon FAG, Matsuo, Keitaro, McGuire, Valerie, McLaughlin, John R, McNeish, Iain, Menon, Usha, Milne, Roger L, Modugno, Francesmary, Moysich, Kirsten B, Ness, Roberta B, Nevanlinna, Heli, Eilber, Ursula, Odunsi, Kunle, Olson, Sara H, and Orlow, Irene
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Genetics, Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Rare Diseases, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Black or African American, Alleles, Asian, Biological Transport, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial, Carrier Proteins, Case-Control Studies, Female, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Humans, Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial, Odds Ratio, Ovarian Neoplasms, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, AOCS management group, General Science & Technology
Abstract: BackgroundDefective cellular transport processes can lead to aberrant accumulation of trace elements, iron, small molecules and hormones in the cell, which in turn may promote the formation of reactive oxygen species, promoting DNA damage and aberrant expression of key regulatory cancer genes. As DNA damage and uncontrolled proliferation are hallmarks of cancer, including epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), we hypothesized that inherited variation in the cellular transport genes contributes to EOC risk.MethodsIn total, DNA samples were obtained from 14,525 case subjects with invasive EOC and from 23,447 controls from 43 sites in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC). Two hundred seventy nine SNPs, representing 131 genes, were genotyped using an Illumina Infinium iSelect BeadChip as part of the Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study (COGS). SNP analyses were conducted using unconditional logistic regression under a log-additive model, and the FDR q
Published: 2015

23. Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer

Author: Milne, Roger L., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B., Michailidou, Kyriaki, Beesley, Jonathan, Kar, Siddhartha, Lindstrom, Sara, Hui, Shirley, Lemaçon, Audrey, Soucy, Penny, Dennis, Joe, Jiang, Xia, Rostamianfar, Asha, Finucane, Hilary, Bolla, Manjeet K., McGuffog, Lesley, Wang, Qin, Aalfs, Cora M., Abctctb, Investigators, Adams, Marcia, Adlard, Julian, Agata, Simona, Ahmed, Shahana, Ahsan, Habibul, Aittom, Kristiina Äki, Fares, Al Ejeh, Allen, Jamie, Ambrosone, Christine B., Amos, Christopher I., Andrulis, Irene L., Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia N., Arndt, Volker, Arnold, Norbert, Aronson, Kristan J., Auber, Bernd, Auer, Paul L., Ausems, Margreet G.M., Azzollini, Jacopo, François, Bacot, Balma, Judith Nã, Barile, Monica, Barjhoux, Laure, Barkardottir, Rosa B., Barrdahl, Myrto, Barnes, Daniel, Barrowdale, Daniel, Baynes, Caroline, Beckmann, Matthias W., Benitez, Javier, Bermisheva, Marina, Bernstein, Leslie, Bignon, Yves Jean, Blazer, Kathleen R., Blok, Marinus J., Blomqvist, Carl, Blot, William, Bobolis, Kristie, Boeckx, Bram, Bogdanova, Natalia V., Bojesen, Anders, Bojesen, Stig E., Bonanni, Bernardo, Anne-Lise, Børresen Dale, Bozsik, Aniko, Bradbury, Angela R., Brand, Judith S., Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Brigitte, Bressac De Paillerets, Brewer, Carole, Brinton, Louise, Broberg, Per, Angela, Brooks Wilson, Brunet, Joan, Brüning, Thomas, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S., Byun, Jinyoung, Cai, Qiuyin, Cald, Trinidad És, Caligo, Maria A., Campbell, Ian, Canzian, Federico, Caron, Olivier, Carracedo, Angel, Carter, Brian D., Esteban, Castelao, Castera, Laurent, Virginie, Caux Moncoutier, Chan, Salina B., Jenny, Chang Claude, Chanock, Stephen J., Chen, Xiaoqing, Cheng, Ting Yuan David, Chiquette, Jocelyne, Christiansen, Hans, Claes, Kathleen B., Clarke, Christine L., Conner, Thomas, Conroy, Don M., Cook, Jackie, Cordina-Duverger, Emilie, Cornelissen, Sten, Coupier, Isabelle, Cox, Angela, Cox, David G., Cross, Simon S., Cuk, Katarina, Cunningham, J. M., Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B., Damiola, Francesca, Darabi, Hatef, Davidson, Rosemarie, Leeneer, Kim De L., Devilee, Peter, Dicks, Ed, Diez, Orland, Ding, Yuan Chun, Ditsch, Nina, Doheny, Kimberly F., Domchek, Susan M., Dorfling, Cecilia M., Dörk, Thilo, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dubois, Stéphane, Dugué, Pierre Antoine, Dumont, Martine, Dunning, Alison M., Durcan, Lorraine, Dwek, Miriam, Dworniczak, Bernd, Eccles, Diana, Eeles, Ros, Ehrencrona, Hans, Eilber, Ursula, Ejlertsen, Bent, Ekici, Arif B., Eliassen, A. Heather, Engel, Christoph, Eriksson, Mikael, Fachal, Laura, Faivre, Laurence, Fasching, Peter A., Faust, Ulrike, Figueroa, Jonine, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Fletcher, Olivia, Flyger, Henrik, Foulkes, William D., Friedman, Eitan, Fritschi, Lin, Frost, Debra, Gabrielson, Marike, Gaddam, Pragna, Gammon, Marilie D., Ganz, Patricia A., Gapstur, Susan M., Garber, Judy, Garcia-Barberan, Vanesa, Garciá-Saénz, José A., Gaudet, Mia M., Gauthier-Villars, Marion, Gehrig, Andrea, Georgoulias, Vassilios, Gerdes, Anne Marie, Giles, Graham G., Glendon, Gord, Godwin, Andrew K., Goldberg, Mark S., Goldgar, David E., González-Neira, Anna, Goodfellow, Paul, Greene, Mark H., Grenaker, Grethe Alnæs I., Grip, Mervi, Gronwald, Jacek, Grundy, Anne, Gschwantler, Daphne Kaulich, Guénel, Pascal, Guo, Qi, Haeberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A., Håkansson, Niclas, Hallberg, Emily, Hamann, Ute, Hamel, Nathalie, Hankinson, Susan, Hansen, Thomas V., Harrington, Patricia, Hart, Steven N., Hartikainen, Jaana M., Healey, Catherine S., Hein, Alexander, Helbig, Sonja, Henderson, Alex, Heyworth, Jane, Hicks, Belynda, Hillemanns, Peter, Hodgson, Shirley, Hogervorst, Frans B., Hollestelle, Antoinette, Hooning, Maartje J., Hoover, Bob, Hopper, John L., Hu, Chunling, Huang, Guanmengqian, Hulick, Peter J., Humphreys, Keith, Hunter, David J., Imyanitov, Evgeny N., Isaacs, Claudine, Iwasaki, Motoki, Izatt, Louise, Jakubowska, Anna, James, Paul, Janavicius, Ramunas, Janni, Wolfgang, Jensen, Uffe Birk, John, Esther M., Johnson, Nichola, Jones, Kristine, Jones, Michael, Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja, Kaaks, Rudolf, Kabisch, Maria, Kaczmarek, Katarzyna, Kang, Daehee, Kast, Karin, Keeman, Renske, Kerin, Michael J., Kets, Carolien M., Keupers, Mac Hteld, Khan, Sofia, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Kiiski, Johanna I., Kim, Sung Won, Knight, Julia A., Konstantopoulou, Irene, Kosma, Veli Matti, Kristensen, Vessela N., Kruse, Torben A., Kwong, Ava, Lænkholm, Anne Vibeke, Laitman, Yael, Lalloo, Fiona, Lambrechts, Diether, Landsman, Keren, Lasset, Christine, Lazaro, Conxi, Marchand, Loic Le, Lindström, Sara, Al-Ejeh, Fares, Margreet, G. M.Ausems, Bacot, François, Børresen-Dale, Anne Lise, Bressac-De, Brigitte Paillerets, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Castelao, J. Esteban, Caux-Moncoutier, Virginie, Chang-Claude, Jenny, McLaes, Kathleen B., Leeneer, Kim De, Dieter, Flesch Janys, Gschwantler-Kaulich, Daphne, Keupers, MacHteld, Lecarpentier, Julie, Lee, Andrew, Lee, Eunjung, Won, Jong Lee, Lee, Min Hyuk, Lejbkowicz, Flavio, Lesueur, Fabienne, Li, Jingmei, Lilyquist, Jenna, Lincoln, Anne, Lindblom, Annika, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lo, Wing Yee, Loibl, Sibylle, Long, Jirong, Loud, Jennifer T., Lubinski, Jan, Luccarini, Craig, Lush, Michael, MacInnis, Robert J., Maishman, Tom, Makalic, Enes, Kostovska, Ivana Maleva, Malone, Kathleen E., Siranoush, Manoukian, Manson, Joann E., Margolin, Sara, Martens, John W., Martinez, Maria Elena, Matsuo, Keitaro, Mavroudis, Dimitrios, Mazoyer, Sylvie, McLean, Catriona, Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne, Menéndez, Primitiva, Meyer, Jeffery, Miao, Hui, Miller, Austin, Miller, Nicola, Mitchell, Gillian, Montagna, Marco, Muir, Kenneth, Mulligan, Anna Marie, Mulot, Claire, Nadesan, Sue, Nathanson, Katherine L., Neuhausen, Susan L., Nevanlinna, Heli, Nevelsteen, Ines, Niederacher, Dieter, Nielsen, Sune F., Nordestgaard, Børge G., Norman, Aaron, Nussbaum, Robert L., Olah, Edith, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I., Olson, Janet E., Olswold, Curtis, Ong, Kai Ren, Oosterwijk, Jan C., Orr, Nick, Osorio, Ana, Pankratz, V. Shane, Papi, Laura, Park-Simon, Tjoung Won, Paulsson-Karlsson, Ylva, Lloyd, Rachel, Pedersen, Inge Søkilde, Peissel, Bernard, Peixoto, Ana, Perez, Jose I., Peterlongo, Paolo, Peto, Julian, Pfeiler, Georg, Phelan, Catherine M., Pinchev, Mila, Plaseska-Karanfilska, Dijana, Poppe, Bruce, Porteous, Mary E., Prentice, Ross, Presneau, Nadege, Prokofieva, Darya, Pugh, Elizabeth, Pujana, Miquel Angel, Pylkäs, Katri, Rack, Brigitte, Radice, Paolo, Rahman, Nazneen, Rantala, Johanna, Rappaport-Fuerhauser, Christine, Rennert, Gad, Rennert, Hedy S., Rhenius, Valerie, Rhiem, Kerstin, Richardson, Andrea, Rodriguez, Gustavo C., Romero, Atocha, Romm, Jane, Rookus, Matti A., Rudolph, Anja, Ruediger, Thomas, Saloustros, Emmanouil, Sanders, Joyce, Sandler, Dale P., Sangrajrang, Suleeporn, Sawyer, Elinor J., Schmidt, Daniel F., Schoemaker, Minouk J., Schumacher, Fredrick, Schürmann, Peter, Schwentner, Lukas, Scott, Christopher, Scott, Rodney J., Seal, Sheila, Senter, Leigha, Seynaeve, Caroline, Shah, Mitul, Sharma, Priyanka, Shen, Chen Yang, Sheng, Xin, Shimelis, Hermela, Shrubsole, Martha J., Shu, Xiao Ou, Side, Lucy E., Singer, Christian F., Sohn, Christof, Southey, Melissa C., Spinelli, John J., Spurdle, Amanda B., Stegmaier, Christa, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Sukiennicki, Grzegorz, Surowy, Harald, Sutter, Christian, Swerdlow, Anthony, Szabo, Csilla I., Tamimi, Rulla M., Tan, Yen Y., Taylor, Jack A., Tejada, Maria Isabel, Tengström, Maria, Teo, Soo H., Terry, Mary B., Tessier, Daniel C., Teul, Alex E., Thöne, Kathrin, Thull, Darcy L., Tibiletti, Maria Grazia, Tihomirova, Laima, Tischkowitz, Marc, Toland, Amanda E., Tollenaar, Rob A.M., Tomlinson, Ian, Tong, Ling, Torres, Diana, Tranchant, Martine, Truong, Thérèse, Tucker, Kathy, Tung, Nadine, Tyrer, Jonathan, Ulmer, Hans Ulrich, Vachon, Celine, Christi, Van Asperen J., Den Berg, David Van, Ouweland, Ans M.Vanden, Rensburg, Elizabeth J., Varesco, Liliana, Varon-Mateeva, Raymonda, Vega, Ana, Viel, Alessandra, Vijai, Joseph, Vincent, Daniel, Vollenweider, Jason, Walker, Lisa, Wang, Zhaoming, Wang-Gohrke, Shan, Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Weinberg, Clarice R., Weitzel, Jeffrey N., Wendt, Camilla, Wesseling, Jelle, Whittemore, Alice S., Wijnen, Juul T., Willett, Walter, Winqvist, Robert, Wolk, Alicja, Wu, Anna H., Xia, Lucy, Yang, Xiaohong R., Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Zaffaroni, Daniela, Zheng, Wei, Zhu, Bin, Ziogas, Argyrios, Ziv, Elad, Zorn, Kristin K., Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Mannermaa, Arto, Olsson, Håkan, Teixeira, Manuel R., Stone, Jennifer, Offit, Kenneth, Ottini, Laura, Park, Sue K., Thomassen, Mads, Hall, Per, Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita K., Droit, Arnaud, Bader, Gary D., Pharoah, Paul D., Couch, Fergus J., Easton, Douglas F., Kraft, Peter, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Garciá-Closas, Montserrat, Schmidt, Marjanka K., Antoniou, Antonis C., Simard, Jacques, Damage and Repair in Cancer Development and Cancer Treatment (DARE), Targeted Gynaecologic Oncology (TARGON), Human Genetics, CCA - Cancer biology and immunology, Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Human genetics, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), Clinical Genetics, Medical Oncology, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, MUMC+: DA KG Lab Centraal Lab (9), and RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Estrogen receptor, Genome-wide association study, consortium, Gene mutation, DISEASE, Breast cancer, Risk Factors, Receptors, common variants, BRCA2 MUTATION CARRIERS, Medicine and Health Sciences, CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY, skin and connective tissue diseases, ovarian cancers, BRCA1 Protein, COMMON VARIANTS, Single Nucleotide, OVARIAN CANCERS, 3. Good health, Women's cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 17], Receptors, Estrogen, functional variants, Female, estrogen receptor, SNPs, EXPRESSION, medicine.medical_specialty, Heterozygote, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, European Continental Ancestry Group, Breast cancer, estrogen receptor, SNPs, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, Article, Càncer de mama, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, expression, medicine, Genetic predisposition, Genetics, Journal Article, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, Risk factor, Polymorphism, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, FUNCTIONAL VARIANTS, disease, CONSORTIUM, Case-control study, Biology and Life Sciences, medicine.disease, confer susceptibility, Estrogen, susceptibility loci, 030104 developmental biology, Mutation, genome-wide association, brca2 mutation carriers, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Most common breast cancer susceptibility variants have been identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of predominantly estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease1. We conducted a GWAS using 21,468 ER-negative cases and 100,594 controls combined with 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer), all of European origin. We identified independent associations at P < 5 × 10−8 with ten variants at nine new loci. At P < 0.05, we replicated associations with 10 of 11 variants previously reported in ER-negative disease or BRCA1mutation carrier GWAS and observed consistent associations with ER-negative disease for 105 susceptibility variants identified by other studies. These 125 variants explain approximately 16% of the familial risk of this breast cancer subtype. There was high genetic correlation (0.72) between risk of ER-negative breast cancer and breast cancer risk for BRCA1 mutation carriers. These findings may lead to improved risk prediction and inform further fine-mapping and functional work to better understand the biological basis of ER-negative breast cancer.
Published: 2017

24. PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS

Author: Southey, Melissa C, Goldgar, David E, Winqvist, Robert, Pylkäs, Katri, Couch, Fergus, Tischkowitz, Marc, Foulkes, William D, Dennis, Joe, Michailidou, Kyriaki, van Rensburg, Elizabeth J, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Nevanlinna, Heli, Hopper, John L, Dörk, Thilo, Claes, Kathleen Bm, Reis-Filho, Jorge, Teo, Zhi Ling, Radice, Paolo, Catucci, Irene, Peterlongo, Paolo, Tsimiklis, Helen, Odefrey, Fabrice A, Dowty, James G, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Broeks, Annegien, Hogervorst, Frans B, Verhoef, Senno, Carpenter, Jane, Clarke, Christine, Scott, Rodney J, Fasching, Peter A, Haeberle, Lothar, Ekici, Arif B, Beckmann, Matthias W, Peto, Julian, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Fletcher, Olivia, Johnson, Nichola, Bolla, Manjeet K, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J, Miller, Nicola, Marme, Federik, Burwinkel, Barbara, Yang, Rongxi, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Menegaux, Florence, Sanchez, Marie, Bojesen, Stig, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Benitez, Javier, Zamora, M Pilar, Perez, Jose Ignacio Arias, Menéndez, Primitiva, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Neuhausen, Susan, Ziogas, Argyrios, Clarke, Christina A, Brenner, Hermann, Arndt, Volker, Stegmaier, Christa, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brüning, Thomas, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Muranen, Taru A, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Antonenkova, Natalia N, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Mannermaa, Arto, Kataja, Vesa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Hartikainen, Jaana M, Spurdle, Amanda B, Investigators, kConFab, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Wauters, Els, Smeets, Dominiek, Beuselinck, Benoit, Floris, Giuseppe, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Olson, Janet E, Vachon, Celine, Pankratz, Vernon S, McLean, Catriona, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Kristensen, Vessela, Alnæs, Grethe Grenaker, Zheng, Wei, Hunter, David J, Lindstrom, Sara, Hankinson, Susan E, Kraft, Peter, Andrulis, Irene, Knight, Julia A, Glendon, Gord, Mulligan, Anna Marie, Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja, Grip, Mervi, Kauppila, Saila, Devilee, Peter, Tollenaar, Robert AEM, Seynaeve, Caroline, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Figueroa, Jonine, Chanock, Stephen J, Lissowska, Jolanta, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Eccles, Diana M, Rafiq, Sajjad, Tapper, William J, Gerty, Sue M, Hooning, Maartje J, Martens, John WM, Collée, J Margriet, Tilanus-Linthorst, Madeleine, Hall, Per, Li, Jingmei, Brand, Judith S, Humphreys, Keith, Cox, Angela, Reed, Malcolm WR, Luccarini, Craig, Baynes, Caroline, Dunning, Alison M, Hamann, Ute, Torres, Diana, Ulmer, Hans Ulrich, Rüdiger, Thomas, Jakubowska, Anna, Lubinski, Jan, Jaworska, Katarzyna, Durda, Katarzyna, Slager, Susan, Toland, Amanda E, Ambrosone, Christine B, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Swerdlow, Anthony, Ashworth, Alan, Orr, Nick, Jones, Michael, González-Neira, Anna, Pita, Guillermo, Alonso, M Rosario, Álvarez, Nuria, Herrero, Daniel, Tessier, Daniel C, Vincent, Daniel, Bacot, Francois, Simard, Jacques, Dumont, Martine, Soucy, Penny, Eeles, Rosalind, Muir, Kenneth, Wiklund, Fredrik, Gronberg, Henrik, Schleutker, Johanna, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Weischer, Maren, Travis, Ruth C, Neal, David, Donovan, Jenny L, Hamdy, Freddie C, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Stanford, Janet L, Blot, William J, Thibodeau, Stephen, Schaid, Daniel J, Kelley, Joseph L, Maier, Christiane, Kibel, Adam S, Cybulski, Cezary, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Butterbach, Katja, Park, Jong, Kaneva, Radka, Batra, Jyotsna, Teixeira, Manuel R, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Olama, Ali Amin Al, Benlloch, Sara, Renner, Stefan P, Hartmann, Arndt, Hein, Alexander, Ruebner, Matthias, Lambrechts, Diether, Van Nieuwenhuysen, Els, Vergote, Ignace, Lambretchs, Sandrina, Doherty, Jennifer A, Rossing, Mary Anne, Nickels, Stefan, Eilber, Ursula, Wang-Gohrke, Shan, Odunsi, Kunle, Sucheston-Campbell, Lara E, Friel, Grace, Lurie, Galina, Killeen, Jeffrey L, Wilkens, Lynne R, Goodman, Marc T, Runnebaum, Ingo, Hillemanns, Peter A, Pelttari, Liisa M, Butzow, Ralf, Modugno, Francesmary, Edwards, Robert P, Ness, Roberta B, Moysich, Kirsten B, du Bois, Andreas, Heitz, Florian, Harter, Philipp, Kommoss, Stefan, Karlan, Beth Y, Walsh, Christine, Lester, Jenny, Jensen, Allan, Kjaer, Susanne Krüger, Høgdall, Estrid, Peissel, Bernard, Bonanni, Bernardo, Bernard, Loris, Goode, Ellen L, Fridley, Brooke L, Vierkant, Robert A, Cunningham, Julie M, Larson, Melissa C, Fogarty, Zachary C, Kalli, Kimberly R, Liang, Dong, Lu, Karen H, Hildebrandt, Michelle AT, Wu, Xifeng, Levine, Douglas A, Dao, Fanny, Bisogna, Maria, Berchuck, Andrew, Iversen, Edwin S, Marks, Jeffrey R, Akushevich, Lucy, Cramer, Daniel W, Schildkraut, Joellen, Terry, Kathryn L, Poole, Elizabeth M, Stampfer, Meir, Tworoger, Shelley S, Bandera, Elisa V, Orlow, Irene, Olson, Sara H, Bjorge, Line, Salvesen, Helga B, van Altena, Anne M, Aben, Katja KH, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Massuger, Leon FAG, Pejovic, Tanja, Bean, Yukie, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Kelemen, Linda E, Cook, Linda S, Le, Nhu D, Górski, Bohdan, Gronwald, Jacek, Menkiszak, Janusz, Høgdall, Claus K, Lundvall, Lene, Nedergaard, Lotte, Engelholm, Svend Aage, Dicks, Ed, Tyrer, Jonathan, Campbell, Ian, McNeish, Iain, Paul, James, Siddiqui, Nadeem, Glasspool, Rosalind, Whittemore, Alice S, Rothstein, Joseph H, McGuire, Valerie, Sieh, Weiva, Cai, Hui, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Teten, Rachel T, Sutphen, Rebecca, McLaughlin, John R, Narod, Steven A, Phelan, Catherine M, Monteiro, Alvaro N, Fenstermacher, David, Lin, Hui-Yi, Permuth, Jennifer B, Sellers, Thomas A, Chen, Y Ann, Tsai, Ya-Yu, Chen, Zhihua, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Gayther, Simon A, Ramus, Susan J, Menon, Usha, Wu, Anna H, Pearce, Celeste L, Van Den Berg, David, Pike, Malcolm C, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka, Plisiecka-Halasa, Joanna, Moes-Sosnowska, Joanna, Kupryjanczyk, Jolanta, Pharoah, Paul Dp, Song, Honglin, Winship, Ingrid, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Giles, Graham G, Tavtigian, Sean V, Easton, Doug F, Milne, Roger L, Clinical Genetics, Neurology, Medical Oncology, Surgery, Erasmus MC other, Clinicum, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Oncology, Department of Pathology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Tischkowitz, Marc [0000-0002-7880-0628], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Khaw, Kay-Tee [0000-0002-8802-2903], Amin Al Olama, Ali [0000-0002-7178-3431], Dicks, Ed [0000-0002-0617-0401], Tyrer, Jonathan [0000-0003-3724-4757], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Song, Honglin [0000-0001-5076-7371], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Male, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins, prostate-cancer, Prostate cancer, 0302 clinical medicine, brca1, Medizinische Fakultät, Medicine and Health Sciences, skin and connective tissue diseases, Genetics (clinical), Ovarian Neoplasms, education.field_of_study, brca2-interacting protein, Women's cancers Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 17], 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, Nuclear Proteins, Women's cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 17], 3. Good health, PROSTATE-CANCER, Cancer: prostate, Multicenter Study, ovarian-cancer, Centre for Surgical Research, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, ovary [Cancer], Female, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group N Protein, metaanalysis, Risk, medicine.medical_specialty, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, Population, 3122 Cancers, cancer predisposition, Breast Neoplasms, OVARIAN-CANCER, BRCA2-INTERACTING PROTEIN, Cancer: ovary, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, prostate [Cancer], medicine, Cancer Genetics, Genetics, Journal Article, breast [Cancer], BREAST-CANCER, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, education, gene, CHEK2, FAMILY REGISTRY, METAANALYSIS, breast-cancer, Genetic Association Studies, business.industry, MUTATIONS, Cancer: breast, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Case-control study, Cancer, Prostatic Neoplasms, medicine.disease, BRCA1, mutations, GENE, susceptibility loci, Checkpoint Kinase 2, 030104 developmental biology, Relative risk, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, family registry, Ovarian cancer, business
Abstract: Background: The rarity of mutations in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM make it difficult to estimate precisely associated cancer risks. Population-based family studies have provided evidence that at least some of these mutations are associated with breast cancer risk as high as those associated with rare BRCA2 mutations. We aimed to estimate the relative risks associated with specific rare variants in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM via a multicentre case-control study.Methods: We genotyped 10 rare mutations using the custom iCOGS array: PALB2 c.1592delT, c.2816T>G and c.3113G>A, CHEK2c.349A>G, c.538C>T, c.715G>A, c.1036C>T, c.1312G>T, and c.1343T>G and ATM c.7271T>G. We assessed associations with breast cancer risk (42 671 cases and 42 164 controls), as well as prostate (22 301 cases and 22 320 controls) and ovarian (14 542 cases and 23 491 controls) cancer risk, for each variant.Results: For European women, strong evidence of association with breast cancer risk was observed for PALB2 c.1592delT OR 3.44 (95% CI 1.39 to 8.52, p=7.1×10−5), PALB2 c.3113G>A OR 4.21 (95% CI 1.84 to 9.60, p=6.9×10−8) and ATM c.7271T>G OR 11.0 (95% CI 1.42 to 85.7, p=0.0012). We also found evidence of association with breast cancer risk for three variants in CHEK2, c.349A>G OR 2.26 (95% CI 1.29 to 3.95), c.1036C>T OR 5.06 (95% CI 1.09 to 23.5) and c.538C>T OR 1.33 (95% CI 1.05 to 1.67) (p≤0.017). Evidence for prostate cancer risk was observed for CHEK2 c.1343T>G OR 3.03 (95% CI 1.53 to 6.03, p=0.0006) for African men and CHEK2 c.1312G>T OR 2.21 (95% CI 1.06 to 4.63, p=0.030) for European men. No evidence of association with ovarian cancer was found for any of these variants.Conclusions: This report adds to accumulating evidence that at least some variants in these genes are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer that is clinically important.
Published: 2016

25. Genetic variation in the immunosuppression pathway genes and breast cancer susceptibility: a pooled analysis of 42,510 cases and 40,577 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Lei, Jieping, Rudolph, Anja, Moysich, Kirsten B, Behrens, Sabine, Goode, Ellen L, Bolla, Manjeet K, Dennis, Joe, Dunning, Alison M, Easton, Douglas F, Wang, Qin, Benitez, Javier, Hopper, John L, Southey, Melissa C, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Broeks, Annegien, Fasching, Peter A, Haeberle, Lothar, Peto, Julian, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marmé, Frederik, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Bojesen, Stig E, Flyger, Henrik, Nielsen, Sune F, Nordestgaard, Børge G, González-Neira, Anna, Menéndez, Primitiva, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Neuhausen, Susan L, Brenner, Hermann, Arndt, Volker, Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita K, Brauch, Hiltrud, Hamann, Ute, Nevanlinna, Heli, Fagerholm, Rainer, Dörk, Thilo, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Mannermaa, Arto, Hartikainen, Jaana M, Australian Ovarian Study Group, kConFab Investigators, Van Dijck, Laurien, Smeets, Ann, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Eilber, Ursula, Radice, Paolo, Peterlongo, Paolo, Couch, Fergus J, Hallberg, Emily, Giles, Graham G, Milne, Roger L, Haiman, Christopher A, Schumacher, Fredrick, Simard, Jacques, Goldberg, Mark S, Kristensen, Vessela, Borresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Zheng, Wei, Beeghly-Fadiel, Alicia, Winqvist, Robert, Grip, Mervi, Andrulis, Irene L, Glendon, Gord, García-Closas, Montserrat, Figueroa, Jonine, Czene, Kamila, Brand, Judith S, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Hall, Per, Li, Jingmei, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Pharoah, Paul DP, Shah, Mitul, Kabisch, Maria, Torres, Diana, Jakubowska, Anna, Lubinski, Jan, Ademuyiwa, Foluso, Ambrosone, Christine B, Swerdlow, Anthony, Jones, Michael, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], Wang, Jean [0000-0002-9139-0627], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, Genetics & Heredity, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Case-Control Studies, Immune Tolerance, Genetics, Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, health care economics and organizations
Abstract: © 2015, The Author(s). Immunosuppression plays a pivotal role in assisting tumors to evade immune destruction and promoting tumor development. We hypothesized that genetic variation in the immunosuppression pathway genes may be implicated in breast cancer tumorigenesis. We included 42,510 female breast cancer cases and 40,577 controls of European ancestry from 37 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (2015) with available genotype data for 3595 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 133 candidate genes. Associations between genotyped SNPs and overall breast cancer risk, and secondarily according to estrogen receptor (ER) status, were assessed using multiple logistic regression models. Gene-level associations were assessed based on principal component analysis. Gene expression analyses were conducted using RNA sequencing level 3 data from The Cancer Genome Atlas for 989 breast tumor samples and 113 matched normal tissue samples. SNP rs1905339 (A>G) in the STAT3 region was associated with an increased breast cancer risk (per allele odds ratio 1.05, 95 % confidence interval 1.03–1.08; p value = 1.4 × 10 −6 ). The association did not differ significantly by ER status. On the gene level, in addition to TGFBR2 and CCND1, IL5 and GM-CSF showed the strongest associations with overall breast cancer risk (p value = 1.0 × 10 −3 and 7.0 × 10 −3 , respectively). Furthermore, STAT3 and IL5 but not GM-CSF were differentially expressed between breast tumor tissue and normal tissue (p value = 2.5 × 10 −3 , 4.5 × 10 −4 and 0.63, respectively). Our data provide evidence that the immunosuppression pathway genes STAT3,IL5, and GM-CSF may be novel susceptibility loci for breast cancer in women of European ancestry.
Published: 2016

26. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) Gene Variants and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

Author: Amankwah, Ernest K, Lin, Hui-Yi, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Lawrenson, Kate, Dennis, Joe, Chornokur, Ganna, Aben, Katja KH, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia, Bruinsma, Fiona, Bandera, Elisa V, Bean, Yukie T, Beckmann, Matthias W, Bisogna, Maria, Bjorge, Line, Bogdanova, Natalia, Brinton, Louise A, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Bunker, Clareann H, Butzow, Ralf, Campbell, Ian G, Carty, Karen, Chen, Zhihua, Chen, Y Ann, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Cook, Linda S, Cramer, Daniel W, Cunningham, Julie M, Cybulski, Cezary, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka, du Bois, Andreas, Despierre, Evelyn, Dicks, Ed, Doherty, Jennifer A, Dörk, Thilo, Dürst, Matthias, Easton, Douglas F, Eccles, Diana M, Edwards, Robert P, Ekici, Arif B, Fasching, Peter A, Fridley, Brooke L, Gao, Yu-Tang, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Giles, Graham G, Glasspool, Rosalind, Goodman, Marc T, Gronwald, Jacek, Harrington, Patricia, Harter, Philipp, Hasmad, Hanis N, Hein, Alexander, Heitz, Florian, Hildebrandt, Michelle AT, Hillemanns, Peter, Hogdall, Claus K, Hogdall, Estrid, Hosono, Satoyo, Iversen, Edwin S, Jakubowska, Anna, Jensen, Allan, Ji, Bu-Tian, Karlan, Beth Y, Jim, Heather, Kellar, Melissa, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Krakstad, Camilla, Kjaer, Susanne K, Kupryjanczyk, Jolanta, Lambrechts, Diether, Lambrechts, Sandrina, Le, Nhu D, Lee, Alice W, Lele, Shashi, Leminen, Arto, Lester, Jenny, Levine, Douglas A, Liang, Dong, Lim, Boon Kiong, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lu, Karen, Lubinski, Jan, Lundvall, Lene, Massuger, Leon FAG, Matsuo, Keitaro, McGuire, Valerie, McLaughlin, John R, McNeish, Ian, Menon, Usha, Milne, Roger L, Modugno, Francesmary, Moysich, Kirsten B, Ness, Roberta B, Nevanlinna, Heli, Eilber, Ursula, Odunsi, Kunle, Olson, Sara H, Orlow, Irene, Orsulic, Sandra, and Weber, Rachel Palmieri
Subjects: Risk, Adult, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition, Genotype, Epidemiology, European Continental Ancestry Group, White People, Rare Diseases, Neoplasms, Ovarian Epithelial, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, Odds Ratio, Genetics, Humans, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Aetiology, Aged, Cancer, Ovarian Neoplasms, Carcinoma, Human Genome, Glandular and Epithelial, Single Nucleotide, Middle Aged, Georgia Chenevix-Trench on behalf of the AOCS management group, Ovarian Cancer, Public Health and Health Services, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Biotechnology
Abstract: Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process whereby epithelial cells assume mesenchymal characteristics to facilitate cancer metastasis. However, EMT also contributes to the initiation and development of primary tumors. Prior studies that explored the hypothesis that EMT gene variants contribute to epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) risk have been based on small sample sizes and none have sought replication in an independent population. We screened 15,816 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 296 genes in a discovery phase using data from a genome-wide association study of EOC among women of European ancestry (1,947 cases and 2,009 controls) and identified 793 variants in 278 EMT-related genes that were nominally (P < 0.05) associated with invasive EOC. These SNPs were then genotyped in a larger study of 14,525 invasive-cancer patients and 23,447 controls. A P-value
Published: 2015

27. Investigation of gene-environment interactions between 47 newly identified breast cancer susceptibility loci and environmental risk factors

Author: Rudolph, Anja, Milne, Roger L, Truong, Thérèse, Knight, Julia A, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Behrens, Sabine, Eilber, Ursula, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Dunning, Alison M, Shah, Mitul, Munday, Hannah R, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Brand, Judith S, Olson, Janet, Vachon, Celine M, Hallberg, Emily, Castelao, J Esteban, Carracedo, Angel, Torres, Maria, Li, Jingmei, Humphreys, Keith, Cordina-Duverger, Emilie, Menegaux, Florence, Flyger, Henrik, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Nielsen, Sune F, Yesilyurt, Betul T, Floris, Giuseppe, Leunen, Karin, Engelhardt, Ellen G, Broeks, Annegien, Rutgers, Emiel J, Glendon, Gord, Mulligan, Anna Marie, Cross, Simon, Reed, Malcolm, Gonzalez-Neira, Anna, Arias Perez, José Ignacio, Provenzano, Elena, Apicella, Carmel, Southey, Melissa C, Spurdle, Amanda, kConFab Investigators, AOCS Group, Häberle, Lothar, Beckmann, Matthias W, Ekici, Arif B, Dieffenbach, Aida Karina, Arndt, Volker, Stegmaier, Christa, McLean, Catriona, Baglietto, Laura, Chanock, Stephen J, Lissowska, Jolanta, Sherman, Mark E, Brüning, Thomas, Hamann, Ute, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Orr, Nick, Schoemaker, Minouk, Ashworth, Alan, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Kataja, Vesa, Hartikainen, Jaana M, Mannermaa, Arto, Swerdlow, Anthony, GENICA-Network, Giles, Graham G, Brenner, Hermann, Fasching, Peter A, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Hopper, John, Benítez, Javier, Cox, Angela, Andrulis, Irene L, Lambrechts, Diether, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Couch, Fergus, Czene, Kamila, Bojesen, Stig E, Easton, Doug F, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Guénel, Pascal, Hall, Per, Pharoah, Paul DP, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, and Chang-Claude, Jenny
Subjects: Aging, GENICA-Network, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Breast Neoplasms, breast cancer, Risk Factors, Clinical Research, Receptors, Genetics, Humans, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Polymorphism, Aetiology, Cancer, Prevention, AOCS Group, Single Nucleotide, Estrogen, gene-environment interaction, risk factor, Genetic Loci, kConFab Investigators, Female, genetic susceptibility
Abstract: A large genotyping project within the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) recently identified 41 associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and overall breast cancer (BC) risk. We investigated whether the effects of these 41 SNPs, as well as six SNPs associated with estrogen receptor (ER) negative BC risk are modified by 13 environmental risk factors for BC. Data from 22 studies participating in BCAC were pooled, comprising up to 26,633 cases and 30,119 controls. Interactions between SNPs and environmental factors were evaluated using an empirical Bayes-type shrinkage estimator. Six SNPs showed interactions with associated p-values (pint )
Published: 2015

28. Common non-synonymous snps associated with breast cancer susceptibility: findings from the breast cancer association consortium

Author: Milne, Roger L., Burwinkel, Barbara, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Arias-Perez, Jose-Ignacio, Zamora, M. Pilar, Menéndez-Rodríguez, Primitiva, Hardisson, David, Mendiola, Marta, González-Neira, Anna, Pita, Guillermo, Alonso, M. Rosario, Dennis, Joe, Wang, Qin, Bolla, Manjeet K., Swerdlow, Anthony, Ashworth, Alan, Orr, Nick, Schoemaker, Minouk, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Brauch, Hiltrud, Hamann, Ute, Andrulis, Irene L., Knight, Julia A., Glendon, Gord, Tchatchou, Sandrine, Matsuo, Keitaro, Ito, Hidemi, Iwata, Hiroji, Tajima, Kazuo, Li, Jingmei, Brand, Judith S., Brenner, Hermann, Dieffenbach, Aida Karina, Arndt, Volker, Stegmaier, Christa, Lambrechts, Diether, Peuteman, Gilian, Christiaens, Marie-Rose, Smeets, Ann, Jakubowska, Anna, Lubinski, Jan, Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna, Durda, Katazyna, Hartman, Mikael, Hui, Miao, Yen Lim, Wei, Wan Chan, Ching, Marme, Federick, Yang, Rongxi, Bugert, Peter, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, García-Closas, Montserrat, Chanock, Stephen J., Lissowska, Jolanta, Figueroa, Jonine D., Bojesen, Stig E., Nordestgaard, Børge G., Flyger, Henrik, Hooning, Maartje J., Kriege, Mieke, van den Ouweland, Ans M.W., Koppert, Linetta B., Fletcher, Olivia, Johnson, Nichola, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Peto, Julian, Zheng, Wei, Deming-Halverson, Sandra, Shrubsole, Martha J., Long, Jirong, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Winqvist, Robert, Pylkäs, Katri, Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja, Grip, Mervi, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S., Reed, Malcolm W.R., Schmidt, Marjanka K., Broeks, Annegien, Cornelissen, Sten, Braaf, Linde, Kang, Daehee, Choi, Ji-Yeob, Park, Sue K., Noh, Dong-Young, Simard, Jacques, Dumont, Martine, Goldberg, Mark S., Labrèche, France, Fasching, Peter A., Hein, Alexander, Ekici, Arif B., Beckmann, Matthias W., Radice, Paolo, Peterlongo, Paolo, Azzollini, Jacopo, Barile, Monica, Sawyer, Elinor, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael, Miller, Nicola, Hopper, John L., Schmidt, Daniel F., Makalic, Enes, Southey, Melissa C., Hwang Teo, Soo, Har Yip, Cheng, Sivanandan, Kavitta, Tay, Wan-Ting, Shen, Chen-Yang, Hsiung, Chia-Ni, Yu, Jyh-Cherng, Hou, Ming-Feng, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Therese, Sanchez, Marie, Mulot, Claire, Blot, William, Cai, Qiuyin, Nevanlinna, Heli, Muranen, Taru A., Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Wu, Anna H., Tseng, Chiu-Chen, Van Den Berg, David, Stram, Daniel O., Bogdanova, Natalia, Dörk, Thilo, Muir, Kenneth, Lophatananon, Artitaya, Stewart-Brown, Sarah, Siriwanarangsan, Pornthep, Mannermaa, Arto, Kataja, Vesa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Hartikainen, Jaana M., Shu, Xiao-Ou, Lu, Wei, Gao, Yu-Tang, Zhang, Ben, Couch, Fergus J., Toland, Amanda E., Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Sangrajrang, Suleeporn, McKay, James, Wang, Xianshu, Olson, Janet E., Vachon, Celine, Purrington, Kristen, Severi, Gianluca, Baglietto, Laura, Haiman, Christopher A., Henderson, Brian E., Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Devilee, Peter, Tollenaar, Robert A.E.M., Seynaeve, Caroline, Czene, Kamila, Eriksson, Mikael, Humphreys, Keith, Darabi, Hatef, Ahmed, Shahana, Shah, Mitul, Pharoah, Paul D.P., Hall, Per, Giles, Graham G., Benítez, Javier, Dunning, Alison M., Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Easton, Douglas F., Berchuck, Andrew, Eeles, Rosalind A., Olama, Ali Amin Al, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Benlloch, Sara, Antoniou, Antonis, McGuffog, Lesley, Offit, Ken, Lee, Andrew, Dicks, Ed, Luccarini, Craig, Tessier, Daniel C., Bacot, Francois, Vincent, Daniel, LaBoissière, Sylvie, Robidoux, Frederic, Nielsen, Sune F., Cunningham, Julie M., Windebank, Sharon A., Hilker, Christopher A., Meyer, Jeffrey, Angelakos, Maggie, Maskiell, Judi, van der Schoot, Ellen, Rutgers, Emiel, Verhoef, Senno, Hogervorst, Frans, Boonyawongviroj, Prat, Siriwanarungsan, Pornthep, Schrauder, Michael, Rübner, Matthias, Oeser, Sonja, Landrith, Silke, Williams, Eileen, Ryder-Mills, Elaine, Sargus, Kara, McInerney, Niall, Colleran, Gabrielle, Rowan, Andrew, Jones, Angela, Sohn, Christof, Schneeweiß, Andeas, Álvarez, Núria, Lacey, James, Wang, Sophia, Ma, Huiyan, Lu, Yani, Deapen, Dennis, Pinder, Rich, Lee, Eunjung, Schumacher, Fred, Horn-Ross, Pam, Reynolds, Peggy, Nelson, David, Ziegler, Hartwig, Wolf, Sonja, Hermann, Volker, Lo, Wing-Yee, Justenhoven, Christina, Baisch, Christian, Fischer, Hans-Peter, Brüning, Thomas, Pesch, Beate, Rabstein, Sylvia, Lotz, Anne, Harth, Volker, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Erkkilä, Irja, Aaltonen, Kirsimari, von Smitten, Karl, Antonenkova, Natalia, Hillemanns, Peter, Christiansen, Hans, Myöhänen, Eija, Kemiläinen, Helena, Thorne, Heather, Niedermayr, Eveline, Bowtell, D, Chenevix-Trench, G, deFazio, A, Gertig, D, Green, A, Webb, P, Green, A., Parsons, P., Hayward, N., Webb, P., Whiteman, D., Fung, Annie, Yashiki, June, Smeets, Dominiek, Brussel, Thomas Van, Corthouts, Kathleen, Obi, Nadia, Heinz, Judith, Behrens, Sabine, Eilber, Ursula, Celik, Muhabbet, Olchers, Til, Manoukian, Siranoush, Peissel, Bernard, Scuvera, Giulietta, Zaffaroni, Daniela, Bonanni, Bernardo, Feroce, Irene, Maniscalco, Angela, Rossi, Alessandra, Bernard, Loris, Tranchant, Martine, Valois, Marie-France, Turgeon, Annie, Heguy, Lea, Sze Yee, Phuah, Kang, Peter, Nee, Kang In, Mariapun, Shivaani, Sook-Yee, Yoon, Lee, Daphne, Ching, Teh Yew, Taib, Nur Aishah Mohd, Otsukka, Meeri, Mononen, Kari, Selander, Teresa, Weerasooriya, Nayana, staff, OFBCR, Krol-Warmerdam, E., Molenaar, J., Blom, J., Brinton, Louise, Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Neonila, Peplonska, Beata, Zatonski, Witold, Chao, Pei, Stagner, Michael, Bos, Petra, Blom, Jannet, Crepin, Ellen, Nieuwlaat, Anja, Heemskerk, Annette, Higham, Sue, Cross, Simon, Cramp, Helen, Connley, Dan, Balasubramanian, Sabapathy, Brock, Ian, Conroy, Don, Baynes, Caroline, and Chua, Kimberley
Subjects: Adult, A Kinase Anchor Proteins, Alleles, Ataxin-7, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Cytoskeletal Proteins, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Middle Aged, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Genetics (clinical), Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Medizinische Fakultät, NIMA-Related Kinases, ddc:610, Polymorphism, risk, variants, Association Studies Articles, identifies 2, Single Nucleotide, confer susceptibility, 5p12, loci, alleles, genome-wide association, metaanalysis
Abstract: Candidate variant association studies have been largely unsuccessful in identifying common breast cancer susceptibility variants, although most studies have been underpowered to detect associations of a realistic magnitude. We assessed 41 common non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) for which evidence of association with breast cancer risk had been previously reported. Case-control data were combined from 38 studies of white European women (46 450 cases and 42 600 controls) and analyzed using unconditional logistic regression. Strong evidence of association was observed for three nsSNPs: ATXN7-K264R at 3p21 [rs1053338, per allele OR = 1.07, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.04-1.10, P = 2.9 × 10(-6)], AKAP9-M463I at 7q21 (rs6964587, OR = 1.05, 95% CI = 1.03-1.07, P = 1.7 × 10(-6)) and NEK10-L513S at 3p24 (rs10510592, OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.07-1.12, P = 5.1 × 10(-17)). The first two associations reached genome-wide statistical significance in a combined analysis of available data, including independent data from nine genome-wide association studies (GWASs): for ATXN7-K264R, OR = 1.07 (95% CI = 1.05-1.10, P = 1.0 × 10(-8)); for AKAP9-M463I, OR = 1.05 (95% CI = 1.04-1.07, P = 2.0 × 10(-10)). Further analysis of other common variants in these two regions suggested that intronic SNPs nearby are more strongly associated with disease risk. We have thus identified a novel susceptibility locus at 3p21, and confirmed previous suggestive evidence that rs6964587 at 7q21 is associated with risk. The third locus, rs10510592, is located in an established breast cancer susceptibility region; the association was substantially attenuated after adjustment for the known GWAS hit. Thus, each of the associated nsSNPs is likely to be a marker for another, non-coding, variant causally related to breast cancer risk. Further fine-mapping and functional studies are required to identify the underlying risk-modifying variants and the genes through which they act.
Published: 2014

29. Genetic variation in the immunosuppression pathway genes and breast cancer susceptibility: a pooled analysis of 42,510 cases and 40,577 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Lei, Jieping, Rudolph, Anja, Moysich, Kirsten B., Behrens, Sabine, Goode, Ellen L., Bolla, Manjeet K., Dennis, Joe, Dunning, Alison M., Easton, Douglas F., Wang, Qin, Benitez, Javier, Hopper, John L., Southey, Melissa C., Schmidt, Marjanka K., Broeks, Annegien, Fasching, Peter A., Haeberle, Lothar, Peto, Julian, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Sawyer, Elinor J., Tomlinson, Ian, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Guenel, Pascal, Truong, Therese, Bojesen, Stig E., Flyger, Henrik, Nielsen, Sune F., Nordestgaard, Borge G., Gonzalez-Neira, Anna, Menendez, Primitiva, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Neuhausen, Susan L., Brenner, Hermann, Arndt, Volker, Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita K., Brauch, Hiltrud, Hamann, Ute, Nevanlinna, Heli, Fagerholm, Rainer, Doerk, Thilo, Bogdanova, Natalia V., Mannermaa, Arto, Hartikainen, Jaana M., Van Dijck, Laurien, Smeets, Ann, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Eilber, Ursula, Radice, Paolo, Peterlongo, Paolo, Couch, Fergus J., Hallberg, Emily, Giles, Graham G., Milne, Roger L., Haiman, Christopher A., Schumacher, Fredrick, Simard, Jacques, Goldberg, Mark S., Kristensen, Vessela, Borresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Zheng, Wei, Beeghly-Fadiel, Alicia, Winqvist, Robert, Grip, Mervi, Andrulis, Irene L., Glendon, Gord, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Figueroa, Jonine, Czene, Kamila, Brand, Judith S., Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Hall, Per, Li, Jingmei, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S., Pharoah, Paul D. P., Shah, Mitul, Kabisch, Maria, Torres, Diana, Jakubowska, Anna, Lubinski, Jan, Ademuyiwa, Foluso, Ambrosone, Christine B., Swerdlow, Anthony, Jones, Michael, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Clinicum
Subjects: 3122 Cancers, LOCI, Breast Neoplasms, MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, CROHNS-DISEASE, STAT3, Case-Control Studies, ANTITUMOR IMMUNITY, Immune Tolerance, Genetics, SUPPRESSOR-CELLS, Humans, JAPANESE POPULATION, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetics(clinical), REGULATORY T-CELLS, 3111 Biomedicine, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT, Original Investigation
Abstract: Immunosuppression plays a pivotal role in assisting tumors to evade immune destruction and promoting tumor development. We hypothesized that genetic variation in the immunosuppression pathway genes may be implicated in breast cancer tumorigenesis. We included 42,510 female breast cancer cases and 40,577 controls of European ancestry from 37 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (2015) with available genotype data for 3595 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 133 candidate genes. Associations between genotyped SNPs and overall breast cancer risk, and secondarily according to estrogen receptor (ER) status, were assessed using multiple logistic regression models. Gene-level associations were assessed based on principal component analysis. Gene expression analyses were conducted using RNA sequencing level 3 data from The Cancer Genome Atlas for 989 breast tumor samples and 113 matched normal tissue samples. SNP rs1905339 (A>G) in the STAT3 region was associated with an increased breast cancer risk (per allele odds ratio 1.05, 95 % confidence interval 1.03–1.08; p value = 1.4 × 10−6). The association did not differ significantly by ER status. On the gene level, in addition to TGFBR2 and CCND1, IL5 and GM-CSF showed the strongest associations with overall breast cancer risk (p value = 1.0 × 10−3 and 7.0 × 10−3, respectively). Furthermore, STAT3 and IL5 but not GM-CSF were differentially expressed between breast tumor tissue and normal tissue (p value = 2.5 × 10−3, 4.5 × 10−4 and 0.63, respectively). Our data provide evidence that the immunosuppression pathway genes STAT3,IL5, and GM-CSF may be novel susceptibility loci for breast cancer in women of European ancestry. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00439-015-1616-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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30. PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS

Author: Southey, Melissa C, Goldgar, David E, Winqvist, Robert, Pylkäs, Katri, Couch, Fergus, Tischkowitz, Marc, Foulkes, William D, Dennis, Joe, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Van Rensburg, Elizabeth J, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Nevanlinna, Heli, Hopper, John L, Dörk, Thilo, Claes, Kathleen Bm, Reis-Filho, Jorge, Teo, Zhi Ling, Radice, Paolo, Catucci, Irene, Peterlongo, Paolo, Tsimiklis, Helen, Odefrey, Fabrice A, Dowty, James G, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Broeks, Annegien, Hogervorst, Frans B, Verhoef, Senno, Carpenter, Jane, Clarke, Christine, Scott, Rodney J, Fasching, Peter A, Haeberle, Lothar, Ekici, Arif B, Beckmann, Matthias W, Peto, Julian, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Fletcher, Olivia, Johnson, Nichola, Bolla, Manjeet K, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J, Miller, Nicola, Marme, Federik, Burwinkel, Barbara, Yang, Rongxi, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Menegaux, Florence, Sanchez, Marie, Bojesen, Stig, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Benitez, Javier, Zamora, M Pilar, Perez, Jose Ignacio Arias, Menéndez, Primitiva, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Neuhausen, Susan, Ziogas, Argyrios, Clarke, Christina A, Brenner, Hermann, Arndt, Volker, Stegmaier, Christa, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brüning, Thomas, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Muranen, Taru A, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Antonenkova, Natalia N, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Mannermaa, Arto, Kataja, Vesa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Hartikainen, Jaana M, Spurdle, Amanda B, Investigators, KConFab, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Wauters, Els, Smeets, Dominiek, Beuselinck, Benoit, Floris, Giuseppe, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Olson, Janet E, Vachon, Celine, Pankratz, Vernon S, McLean, Catriona, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Kristensen, Vessela, Alnæs, Grethe Grenaker, Zheng, Wei, Hunter, David J, Lindstrom, Sara, Hankinson, Susan E, Kraft, Peter, Andrulis, Irene, Knight, Julia A, Glendon, Gord, Mulligan, Anna Marie, Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja, Grip, Mervi, Kauppila, Saila, Devilee, Peter, Tollenaar, Robert AEM, Seynaeve, Caroline, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Figueroa, Jonine, Chanock, Stephen J, Lissowska, Jolanta, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Eccles, Diana M, Rafiq, Sajjad, Tapper, William J, Gerty, Sue M, Hooning, Maartje J, Martens, John WM, Collée, J Margriet, Tilanus-Linthorst, Madeleine, Hall, Per, Li, Jingmei, Brand, Judith S, Humphreys, Keith, Cox, Angela, Reed, Malcolm WR, Luccarini, Craig, Baynes, Caroline, Dunning, Alison M, Hamann, Ute, Torres, Diana, Ulmer, Hans Ulrich, Rüdiger, Thomas, Jakubowska, Anna, Lubinski, Jan, Jaworska, Katarzyna, Durda, Katarzyna, Slager, Susan, Toland, Amanda E, Ambrosone, Christine B, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Swerdlow, Anthony, Ashworth, Alan, Orr, Nick, Jones, Michael, González-Neira, Anna, Pita, Guillermo, Alonso, M Rosario, Álvarez, Nuria, Herrero, Daniel, Tessier, Daniel C, Vincent, Daniel, Bacot, Francois, Simard, Jacques, Dumont, Martine, Soucy, Penny, Eeles, Rosalind, Muir, Kenneth, Wiklund, Fredrik, Gronberg, Henrik, Schleutker, Johanna, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Weischer, Maren, Travis, Ruth C, Neal, David, Donovan, Jenny L, Hamdy, Freddie C, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Stanford, Janet L, Blot, William J, Thibodeau, Stephen, Schaid, Daniel J, Kelley, Joseph L, Maier, Christiane, Kibel, Adam S, Cybulski, Cezary, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Butterbach, Katja, Park, Jong, Kaneva, Radka, Batra, Jyotsna, Teixeira, Manuel R, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Olama, Ali Amin Al, Benlloch, Sara, Renner, Stefan P, Hartmann, Arndt, Hein, Alexander, Ruebner, Matthias, Lambrechts, Diether, Van Nieuwenhuysen, Els, Vergote, Ignace, Lambretchs, Sandrina, Doherty, Jennifer A, Rossing, Mary Anne, Nickels, Stefan, Eilber, Ursula, Wang-Gohrke, Shan, Odunsi, Kunle, Sucheston-Campbell, Lara E, Friel, Grace, Lurie, Galina, Killeen, Jeffrey L, Wilkens, Lynne R, Goodman, Marc T, Runnebaum, Ingo, Hillemanns, Peter A, Pelttari, Liisa M, Butzow, Ralf, Modugno, Francesmary, Edwards, Robert P, Ness, Roberta B, Moysich, Kirsten B, Du Bois, Andreas, Heitz, Florian, Harter, Philipp, Kommoss, Stefan, Karlan, Beth Y, Walsh, Christine, Lester, Jenny, Jensen, Allan, Kjaer, Susanne Krüger, Høgdall, Estrid, Peissel, Bernard, Bonanni, Bernardo, Bernard, Loris, Goode, Ellen L, Fridley, Brooke L, Vierkant, Robert A, Cunningham, Julie M, Larson, Melissa C, Fogarty, Zachary C, Kalli, Kimberly R, Liang, Dong, Lu, Karen H, Hildebrandt, Michelle AT, Wu, Xifeng, Levine, Douglas A, Dao, Fanny, Bisogna, Maria, Berchuck, Andrew, Iversen, Edwin S, Marks, Jeffrey R, Akushevich, Lucy, Cramer, Daniel W, Schildkraut, Joellen, Terry, Kathryn L, Poole, Elizabeth M, Stampfer, Meir, Tworoger, Shelley S, Bandera, Elisa V, Orlow, Irene, Olson, Sara H, Bjorge, Line, Salvesen, Helga B, Van Altena, Anne M, Aben, Katja KH, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Massuger, Leon FAG, Pejovic, Tanja, Bean, Yukie, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Kelemen, Linda E, Cook, Linda S, Le, Nhu D, Górski, Bohdan, Gronwald, Jacek, Menkiszak, Janusz, Høgdall, Claus K, Lundvall, Lene, Nedergaard, Lotte, Engelholm, Svend Aage, Dicks, Ed, Tyrer, Jonathan, Campbell, Ian, McNeish, Iain, Paul, James, Siddiqui, Nadeem, Glasspool, Rosalind, Whittemore, Alice S, Rothstein, Joseph H, McGuire, Valerie, Sieh, Weiva, Cai, Hui, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Teten, Rachel T, Sutphen, Rebecca, McLaughlin, John R, Narod, Steven A, Phelan, Catherine M, Monteiro, Alvaro N, Fenstermacher, David, Lin, Hui-Yi, Permuth, Jennifer B, Sellers, Thomas A, Chen, Y Ann, Tsai, Ya-Yu, Chen, Zhihua, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Gayther, Simon A, Ramus, Susan J, Menon, Usha, Wu, Anna H, Pearce, Celeste L, Van Den Berg, David, Pike, Malcolm C, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka, Plisiecka-Halasa, Joanna, Moes-Sosnowska, Joanna, Kupryjanczyk, Jolanta, Pharoah, Paul Dp, Song, Honglin, Winship, Ingrid, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Giles, Graham G, Tavtigian, Sean V, Easton, Doug F, and Milne, Roger L
Subjects: Male, Ovarian Neoplasms, Risk, Cancer: breast, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, cancer predisposition, Nuclear Proteins, Prostatic Neoplasms, Breast Neoplasms, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins, 3. Good health, Cancer: prostate, Cancer: ovary, Checkpoint Kinase 2, FOS: Biological sciences, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, Genetics, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group N Protein, Genetic Association Studies
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The rarity of mutations in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM make it difficult to estimate precisely associated cancer risks. Population-based family studies have provided evidence that at least some of these mutations are associated with breast cancer risk as high as those associated with rare BRCA2 mutations. We aimed to estimate the relative risks associated with specific rare variants in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM via a multicentre case-control study. METHODS: We genotyped 10 rare mutations using the custom iCOGS array: PALB2 c.1592delT, c.2816T>G and c.3113G>A, CHEK2 c.349A>G, c.538C>T, c.715G>A, c.1036C>T, c.1312G>T, and c.1343T>G and ATM c.7271T>G. We assessed associations with breast cancer risk (42 671 cases and 42 164 controls), as well as prostate (22 301 cases and 22 320 controls) and ovarian (14 542 cases and 23 491 controls) cancer risk, for each variant. RESULTS: For European women, strong evidence of association with breast cancer risk was observed for PALB2 c.1592delT OR 3.44 (95% CI 1.39 to 8.52, p=7.1×10-5), PALB2 c.3113G>A OR 4.21 (95% CI 1.84 to 9.60, p=6.9×10-8) and ATM c.7271T>G OR 11.0 (95% CI 1.42 to 85.7, p=0.0012). We also found evidence of association with breast cancer risk for three variants in CHEK2, c.349A>G OR 2.26 (95% CI 1.29 to 3.95), c.1036C>T OR 5.06 (95% CI 1.09 to 23.5) and c.538C>T OR 1.33 (95% CI 1.05 to 1.67) (p≤0.017). Evidence for prostate cancer risk was observed for CHEK2 c.1343T>G OR 3.03 (95% CI 1.53 to 6.03, p=0.0006) for African men and CHEK2 c.1312G>T OR 2.21 (95% CI 1.06 to 4.63, p=0.030) for European men. No evidence of association with ovarian cancer was found for any of these variants. CONCLUSIONS: This report adds to accumulating evidence that at least some variants in these genes are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer that is clinically important.

31. A transcriptome-wide association study of 229,000 women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer

Author: Wu, Lang, Shi, Wei, Long, Jirong, Guo, Xingyi, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Beesley, Jonathan, Bolla, Manjeet K, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Lu, Yingchang, Cai, Qiuyin, Al-Ejeh, Fares, Rozali, Esdy, Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Li, Bingshan, Zeng, Chenjie, Feng, Helian, Gusev, Alexander, Barfield, Richard T, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Aronson, Kristan J, Auer, Paul L, Barrdahl, Myrto, Baynes, Caroline, Beckmann, Matthias W, Benitez, Javier, Bermisheva, Marina, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Brinton, Louise, Broberg, Per, Brucker, Sara Y, Burwinkel, Barbara, Caldés, Trinidad, Canzian, Federico, Carter, Brian D, Castelao, J Esteban, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chen, Xiaoqing, Cheng, Ting-Yuan David, Christiansen, Hans, Clarke, Christine L, NBCS Collaborators, Collée, Margriet, Cornelissen, Sten, Couch, Fergus J, Cox, David, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Cunningham, Julie M, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Devilee, Peter, Doheny, Kimberly F, Dörk, Thilo, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dumont, Martine, Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M, Eilber, Ursula, Eliassen, A Heather, Engel, Christoph, Eriksson, Mikael, Fachal, Laura, Fasching, Peter A, Figueroa, Jonine, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Fletcher, Olivia, Flyger, Henrik, Fritschi, Lin, Gabrielson, Marike, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gapstur, Susan M, García-Closas, Montserrat, Gaudet, Mia M, Ghoussaini, Maya, Giles, Graham G, Goldberg, Mark S, Goldgar, David E, González-Neira, Anna, Guénel, Pascal, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A, Håkansson, Niclas, Hall, Per, Hallberg, Emily, Hamann, Ute, Harrington, Patricia, Hein, Alexander, Hicks, Belynda, Hillemanns, Peter, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Hoover, Robert N, Hopper, John L, Huang, Guanmengqian, Humphreys, Keith, Hunter, David J, Jakubowska, Anna, Janni, Wolfgang, John, Esther M, Johnson, Nichola, Jones, Kristine, Jones, Michael E, Jung, Audrey, Kaaks, Rudolf, Kerin, Michael J, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Kristensen, Vessela N, Lambrechts, Diether, Le Marchand, Loic, Li, Jingmei, Lindström, Sara, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lo, Wing-Yee, Loibl, Sibylle, Lubinski, Jan, Luccarini, Craig, Lux, Michael P, MacInnis, Robert J, Maishman, Tom, Kostovska, Ivana Maleva, Mannermaa, Arto, Manson, JoAnn E, Margolin, Sara, Mavroudis, Dimitrios, Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne, Meindl, Alfons, Menon, Usha, Meyer, Jeffery, Mulligan, Anna Marie, Neuhausen, Susan L, Nevanlinna, Heli, Neven, Patrick, Nielsen, Sune F, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I, Olson, Janet E, Olsson, Håkan, Peterlongo, Paolo, Peto, Julian, Plaseska-Karanfilska, Dijana, Prentice, Ross, Presneau, Nadege, Pylkäs, Katri, Rack, Brigitte, Radice, Paolo, Rahman, Nazneen, Rennert, Gad, Rennert, Hedy S, Rhenius, Valerie, Romero, Atocha, Romm, Jane, Rudolph, Anja, Saloustros, Emmanouil, Sandler, Dale P, Sawyer, Elinor J, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Schmutzler, Rita K, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Scott, Rodney J, Scott, Christopher G, Seal, Sheila, Shah, Mitul, Shrubsole, Martha J, Smeets, Ann, Southey, Melissa C, Spinelli, John J, Stone, Jennifer, Surowy, Harald, Swerdlow, Anthony J, Tamimi, Rulla M, Tapper, William, Taylor, Jack A, Terry, Mary Beth, Tessier, Daniel C, Thomas, Abigail, Thöne, Kathrin, Tollenaar, Rob AEM, Torres, Diana, Truong, Thérèse, Untch, Michael, Vachon, Celine, Van Den Berg, David, Vincent, Daniel, Waisfisz, Quinten, Weinberg, Clarice R, Wendt, Camilla, Whittemore, Alice S, Wildiers, Hans, Willett, Walter C, Winqvist, Robert, Wolk, Alicja, Xia, Lucy, Yang, Xiaohong R, Ziogas, Argyrios, Ziv, Elad, KConFab/AOCS Investigators, Dunning, Alison M, Pharoah, Paul DP, Simard, Jacques, Milne, Roger L, Edwards, Stacey L, Kraft, Peter, Easton, Douglas F, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, and Zheng, Wei
Subjects: Risk, Case-Control Studies, Gene Expression, Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Transcriptome, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: The breast cancer risk variants identified in genome-wide association studies explain only a small fraction of the familial relative risk, and the genes responsible for these associations remain largely unknown. To identify novel risk loci and likely causal genes, we performed a transcriptome-wide association study evaluating associations of genetically predicted gene expression with breast cancer risk in 122,977 cases and 105,974 controls of European ancestry. We used data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression Project to establish genetic models to predict gene expression in breast tissue and evaluated model performance using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Of the 8,597 genes evaluated, significant associations were identified for 48 at a Bonferroni-corrected threshold of P < 5.82 × 10-6, including 14 genes at loci not yet reported for breast cancer. We silenced 13 genes and showed an effect for 11 on cell proliferation and/or colony-forming efficiency. Our study provides new insights into breast cancer genetics and biology.

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1. Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer.

2. Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci.

3. Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer.

4. PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS.

5. Identification of independent association signals and putative functional variants for breast cancer risk through fine-scale mapping of the 12p11 locus.

6. Genetic variation in the immunosuppression pathway genes and breast cancer susceptibility: a pooled analysis of 42,510 cases and 40,577 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium.

7. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) Gene Variants and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk.

8. Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer.

9. Investigation of gene-environment interactions between 47 newly identified breast cancer susceptibility loci and environmental risk factors.

10. Evaluating the ovarian cancer gonadotropin hypothesis: a candidate gene study.

11. Identification of six new susceptibility loci for invasive epithelial ovarian cancer.

12. Polymorphisms in the gene regions of the adaptor complex LAMTOR2/LAMTOR3 and their association with breast cancer risk.

13. 9q31.2-rs865686 as a susceptibility locus for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: evidence from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium.

14. The role of genetic breast cancer susceptibility variants as prognostic factors.

15. Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci.

16. A transcriptome-wide association study of 229,000 women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer

17. Association of vitamin D levels and risk of ovarian cancer: a Mendelian randomization study.

18. Common variants at the CHEK2 gene locus and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer

19. Cis-eQTL analysis and functional validation of candidate susceptibility genes for high-grade serous ovarian cancer.

20. Genome-wide significant risk associations for mucinous ovarian carcinoma

21. Cell-type-specific enrichment of risk-associated regulatory elements at ovarian cancer susceptibility loci

22. Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

23. Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer

24. PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS

25. Genetic variation in the immunosuppression pathway genes and breast cancer susceptibility: a pooled analysis of 42,510 cases and 40,577 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

26. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) Gene Variants and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

27. Investigation of gene-environment interactions between 47 newly identified breast cancer susceptibility loci and environmental risk factors

28. Common non-synonymous snps associated with breast cancer susceptibility: findings from the breast cancer association consortium

29. Genetic variation in the immunosuppression pathway genes and breast cancer susceptibility: a pooled analysis of 42,510 cases and 40,577 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

30. PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS

31. A transcriptome-wide association study of 229,000 women identifies new candidate susceptibility genes for breast cancer

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