1. Genome-wide and transcriptome-wide association studies of mammographic density phenotypes reveal novel loci
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Hongjie Chen, Shaoqi Fan, Jennifer Stone, Deborah J. Thompson, Julie Douglas, Shuai Li, Christopher Scott, Manjeet K. Bolla, Qin Wang, Joe Dennis, Kyriaki Michailidou, Christopher Li, Ulrike Peters, John L. Hopper, Melissa C. Southey, Tu Nguyen-Dumont, Tuong L. Nguyen, Peter A. Fasching, Annika Behrens, Gemma Cadby, Rachel A. Murphy, Kristan Aronson, Anthony Howell, Susan Astley, Fergus Couch, Janet Olson, Roger L. Milne, Graham G. Giles, Christopher A. Haiman, Gertraud Maskarinec, Stacey Winham, Esther M. John, Allison Kurian, Heather Eliassen, Irene Andrulis, D. Gareth Evans, William G. Newman, Per Hall, Kamila Czene, Anthony Swerdlow, Michael Jones, Marina Pollan, Pablo Fernandez-Navarro, Daniel S. McConnell, Vessela N. Kristensen, NBCS Investigators, Joseph H. Rothstein, Pei Wang, Laurel A. Habel, Weiva Sieh, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Douglas F. Easton, Gretchen L. Gierach, Rulla M. Tamimi, Celine M. Vachon, and Sara Lindström
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Mammographic density ,Breast cancer ,Genome-wide association study (GWAS) ,Transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) ,Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,RC254-282 - Abstract
Abstract Background Mammographic density (MD) phenotypes, including percent density (PMD), area of dense tissue (DA), and area of non-dense tissue (NDA), are associated with breast cancer risk. Twin studies suggest that MD phenotypes are highly heritable. However, only a small proportion of their variance is explained by identified genetic variants. Methods We conducted a genome-wide association study, as well as a transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS), of age- and BMI-adjusted DA, NDA, and PMD in up to 27,900 European-ancestry women from the MODE/BCAC consortia. Results We identified 28 genome-wide significant loci for MD phenotypes, including nine novel signals (5q11.2, 5q14.1, 5q31.1, 5q33.3, 5q35.1, 7p11.2, 8q24.13, 12p11.2, 16q12.2). Further, 45% of all known breast cancer SNPs were associated with at least one MD phenotype at p
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- 2022
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