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152. Using experimental analysis to evaluate the influence of printed circuit board construction on the thermal performance of four package types in both natural and forced convection.
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Lohan, J., Tiilikka, P., Rodgers, P., Fager, C.-M., and Rantala, J.
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153. Photoacoustic inspection of matching layers of ultrasonic air-coupled transducers.
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Stor-Pellinen, J., Okasanen, M., Vuohelainen, R., Rantala, J., Hartikainen, J., and Luukkala, M.
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- 1989
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154. Photoacoustic evaluation of elasticity and integrity of pharmaceutical tablets
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Ketolainen, J., Oksanen, M., Rantala, J., and Stor-Pellinen, J.
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- 1995
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155. 073056 (E50) - On stochastic insurance company models
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Pentikôinen, T., Bonsdorff, H., Pesonen, M., Pukkila, T., Ranne, A., Rantala, J., Ruohonen, M., and Sarvamaa, S.
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156. Associations of common breast cancer susceptibility alleles with risk of breast cancer subtypes in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers
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Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B, Neuhausen, Susan L, Robson, Mark, Barrowdale, Daniel, McGuffog, Lesley, Mulligan, Anna Marie, Andrulis, Irene L, Spurdle, Amanda B, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Schmutzler, Rita K, Engel, Christoph, Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Nevanlinna, Heli, Thomassen, Mads, Southey, Melissa, Radice, Paolo, Ramus, Susan J, Domchek, Susan M, Nathanson, Katherine L, Lee, Andrew, Healey, Sue, Nussbaum, Robert L, Rebbeck, Timothy R, Arun, Banu K, James, Paul, Karlan, Beth Y, Lester, Jenny, Cass, Ilana, Breast Cancer Family Registry, the, Terry, Mary Beth, Daly, Mary B, Goldgar, David E, Buys, Saundra S, Janavicius, Ramunas, Tihomirova, Laima, Tung, Nadine, Dorfling, Cecilia M, van Rensburg, Elizabeth J, Steele, Linda, v O Hansen, Thomas, Ejlertsen, Bent, Gerdes, Anne-Marie, Nielsen, Finn C, Dennis, Joe, Cunningham, Julie, Hart, Steven, Slager, Susan, Osorio, Ana, Benitez, Javier, Duran, Mercedes, Weitzel, Jeffrey N, Tafur, Isaac, Hander, Mary, Peterlongo, Paolo, Manoukian, Siranoush, Peissel, Bernard, Roversi, Gaia, Scuvera, Giulietta, Bonanni, Bernardo, Mariani, Paolo, Volorio, Sara, Dolcetti, Riccardo, Varesco, Liliana, Papi, Laura, Tibiletti, Maria Grazia, Giannini, Giuseppe, Fostira, Florentia, Konstantopoulou, Irene, Garber, Judy, Hamann, Ute, Donaldson, Alan, Brewer, Carole, Foo, Claire, Evans, D Gareth, Frost, Debra, Eccles, Diana, EMBRACE Study, the, Douglas, Fiona, Brady, Angela, Cook, Jackie, Tischkowitz, Marc, Adlard, Julian, Barwell, Julian, Ong, Kai-ren, Walker, Lisa, Izatt, Louise, Side, Lucy E, Kennedy, M John, Rogers, Mark T, Porteous, Mary E, Morrison, Patrick J, Platte, Radka, Eeles, Ros, Davidson, Rosemarie, Hodgson, Shirley, Ellis, Steve, Godwin, Andrew K, Rhiem, Kerstin, Meindl, Alfons, Ditsch, Nina, Arnold, Norbert, Plendl, Hansjoerg, Niederacher, Dieter, Sutter, Christian, Steinemann, Doris, Bogdanova-Markov, Nadja, Kast, Karin, Varon-Mateeva, Raymonda, Wang-Gohrke, Shan, Gehrig, Andrea, Markiefka, Birgid, Buecher, Bruno, Lefol, Cédrick, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Rouleau, Etienne, Prieur, Fabienne, Damiola, Francesca, GEMO Study Collaborators, the, Barjhoux, Laure, Faivre, Laurence, Longy, Michel, Sevenet, Nicolas, Sinilnikova, Olga M, Mazoyer, Sylvie, Bonadona, Valérie, Caux-Moncoutier, Virginie, Isaacs, Claudine, Van Maerken, Tom, Claes, Kathleen, Piedmonte, Marion, Andrews, Lesley, Hays, John, Rodriguez, Gustavo C, Caldes, Trinidad, de la Hoya, Miguel, Khan, Sofia, Hogervorst, Frans BL, Aalfs, Cora M, de Lange, JL, Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne EJ, van der Hout, Annemarie H, Wijnen, Juul T, van Roozendaal, KEP, Mensenkamp, Arjen R, van den Ouweland, Ans MW, van Deurzen, Carolien HM, van der Luijt, Rob B, HEBON, ., Olah, Edith, Diez, Orland, Lazaro, Conxi, Blanco, Ignacio, Teulé, Alex, Menendez, Mireia, Jakubowska, Anna, Lubinski, Jan, Cybulski, Cezary, Gronwald, Jacek, Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna, Durda, Katarzyna, Arason, Adalgeir, Maugard, Christine, Soucy, Penny, Montagna, Marco, Agata, Simona, Teixeira, Manuel R, KConFab Investigators, the, Olswold, Curtis, Lindor, Noralane, Pankratz, Vernon S, Hallberg, Emily, Wang, Xianshu, Szabo, Csilla I, Vijai, Joseph, Jacobs, Lauren, Corines, Marina, Lincoln, Anne, Berger, Andreas, Fink-Retter, Anneliese, Singer, Christian F, Rappaport, Christine, Gschwantler Kaulich, Daphne, Pfeiler, Georg, Tea, Muy-Kheng, Phelan, Catherine M, Mai, Phuong L, Greene, Mark H, Rennert, Gad, Imyanitov, Evgeny N, Glendon, Gord, Toland, Amanda Ewart, Bojesen, Anders, Pedersen, Inge Sokilde, Jensen, Uffe Birk, Caligo, Maria A, Friedman, Eitan, Berger, Raanan, Laitman, Yael, Rantala, Johanna, Arver, Brita, Loman, Niklas, Borg, Ake, Ehrencrona, Hans, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I, Simard, Jacques, Easton, Douglas F, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Offit, Kenneth, Couch, Fergus J, Antoniou, Antonis C, CIMBA, on behalf of, Kuchenbaecker, K, Neuhausen, S, Robson, M, Barrowdale, D, Mcguffog, L, Mulligan, A, Andrulis, I, Spurdle, A, Schmidt, M, Schmutzler, R, Engel, C, Wappenschmidt, B, Nevanlinna, H, Thomassen, M, Southey, M, Radice, P, Ramus, S, Domchek, S, Nathanson, K, Lee, A, Healey, S, Nussbaum, R, Rebbeck, T, Arun, B, James, P, Karlan, B, Lester, J, Cass, I, Breast Cancer Family, R, Terry, M, Daly, M, Goldgar, D, Buys, S, Janavicius, R, Tihomirova, L, Tung, N, Dorfling, C, van Rensburg, E, Steele, L, v. 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Hansen, T, Ejlertsen, B, Gerdes, A, Nielsen, F, Dennis, J, Cunningham, J, Hart, S, Slager, S, Osorio, A, Benitez, J, Duran, M, Weitzel, J, Tafur, I, Hander, M, Peterlongo, P, Manoukian, S, Peissel, B, Roversi, G, Scuvera, G, Bonanni, B, Mariani, P, Volorio, S, Dolcetti, R, Varesco, L, Papi, L, Tibiletti, M, Giannini, G, Fostira, F, Konstantopoulou, I, Garber, J, Hamann, U, Donaldson, A, Brewer, C, Foo, C, Evans, D, Frost, D, Eccles, D, Embrace, S, Douglas, F, Brady, A, Cook, J, Tischkowitz, M, Adlard, J, Barwell, J, Ong, K, Walker, L, Izatt, L, Side, L, Kennedy, M, Rogers, M, Porteous, M, Morrison, P, Platte, R, Eeles, R, Davidson, R, Hodgson, S, Ellis, S, Godwin, A, Rhiem, K, Meindl, A, Ditsch, N, Arnold, N, Plendl, H, Niederacher, D, Sutter, C, Steinemann, D, Bogdanova Markov, N, Kast, K, Varon Mateeva, R, Wang Gohrke, S, Gehrig, A, Markiefka, B, Buecher, B, Lefol, C, Stoppa Lyonnet, D, Rouleau, E, Prieur, F, Damiola, F, GEMO Study, C, Barjhoux, L, Faivre, L, Longy, M, Sevenet, N, Sinilnikova, O, Mazoyer, S, Bonadona, V, Caux Moncoutier, V, Isaacs, C, Van Maerken, T, Claes, K, Piedmonte, M, Andrews, L, Hays, J, Rodriguez, G, Caldes, T, de la Hoya, M, Khan, S, Hogervorst, F, Aalfs, C, de Lange, J, Meijers Heijboer, H, van der Hout, A, Wijnen, J, van Roozendaal, K, Mensenkamp, A, van den Ouweland, A, van Deurzen, C, van der Luijt, R, Hebon, Olah, E, Diez, O, Lazaro, C, Blanco, I, Teulé, A, Menendez, M, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Cybulski, C, Gronwald, J, Jaworska Bieniek, K, Durda, K, Arason, A, Maugard, C, Soucy, P, Montagna, M, Agata, S, Teixeira, M, Kconfab, I, Olswold, C, Lindor, N, Pankratz, V, Hallberg, E, Wang, X, Szabo, C, Vijai, J, Jacobs, L, Corines, M, Lincoln, A, Berger, A, Fink Retter, A, Singer, C, Rappaport, C, Kaulich, D, Pfeiler, G, Tea, M, Phelan, C, Mai, P, Greene, M, Rennert, G, Imyanitov, E, Glendon, G, Toland, A, Bojesen, A, Pedersen, I, Jensen, U, Caligo, M, Friedman, E, Berger, R, Laitman, Y, Rantala, J, Arver, B, Loman, N, Borg, A, Ehrencrona, H, Olopade, O, Simard, J, Easton, D, Chenevix Trench, G, Offit, K, Couch, F, Antoniou, A, Cimba, Lee, Andrew [0000-0003-0677-0252], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Tischkowitz, Marc [0000-0002-7880-0628], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], Antoniou, Antonis [0000-0001-9223-3116], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Cancer Research ,Receptor, ErbB-2 ,Genes, BRCA2 ,BRCA ,LOCI ,Genes, BRCA1 ,MODIFIERS ,VARIANTS ,ErbB-2 ,610 Medical sciences Medicine ,Ductal ,Receptors ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,INVESTIGATORS ,Breast ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,Progesterone ,Medicine(all) ,Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast ,Middle Aged ,Adult ,Aged ,Alleles ,Breast Neoplasms ,Carcinoma ,Carcinoma, Lobular ,Female ,Genetic Predisposition to Disease ,Heterozygote ,Humans ,Neoplasm Grading ,Neoplasm Staging ,Receptors, Estrogen ,Receptors, Progesterone ,Oncology ,TUMOR SUBTYPES ,Receptor ,Research Article ,MEDULLARY CARCINOMA ,OVARIAN-CANCER ,Lobular ,GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION ,CONSORTIUM ,BRCA1 ,Estrogen ,BRCA2 ,ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR ,Genes - Abstract
Introduction More than 70 common alleles are known to be involved in breast cancer (BC) susceptibility, and several exhibit significant heterogeneity in their associations with different BC subtypes. Although there are differences in the association patterns between BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers and the general population for several loci, no study has comprehensively evaluated the associations of all known BC susceptibility alleles with risk of BC subtypes in BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers. Methods We used data from 15,252 BRCA1 and 8,211 BRCA2 carriers to analyze the associations between approximately 200,000 genetic variants on the iCOGS array and risk of BC subtypes defined by estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and triple-negative- (TN) status; morphologic subtypes; histological grade; and nodal involvement. Results The estimated BC hazard ratios (HRs) for the 74 known BC alleles in BRCA1 carriers exhibited moderate correlations with the corresponding odds ratios from the general population. However, their associations with ER-positive BC in BRCA1 carriers were more consistent with the ER-positive associations in the general population (intraclass correlation (ICC) = 0.61, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.45 to 0.74), and the same was true when considering ER-negative associations in both groups (ICC = 0.59, 95% CI: 0.42 to 0.72). Similarly, there was strong correlation between the ER-positive associations for BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers (ICC = 0.67, 95% CI: 0.52 to 0.78), whereas ER-positive associations in any one of the groups were generally inconsistent with ER-negative associations in any of the others. After stratifying by ER status in mutation carriers, additional significant associations were observed. Several previously unreported variants exhibited associations at P
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157. Fragment-based approach to study fungicide-biomimetic membrane interactions.
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Jaikishan S, Lavainne M, Ravald HK, Scobbie K, Dusa F, Maheswari R, Turpeinen J, Eikemans I, Chen R, Rantala J, Aseyev V, Maier NN, and Wiedmer SK
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- Quartz Crystal Microbalance Techniques, Biomimetic Materials chemistry, Biomimetic Materials pharmacology, Cholesterol chemistry, Fungicides, Industrial chemistry, Fungicides, Industrial pharmacology, Liposomes chemistry
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In this study, the molecular interactions of the allylamine-type fungicide butenafine and a set of substructures ("fragments") with liposomes mimicking biological membranes were studied to gain a better understanding of the structural factors governing membrane affinity and perturbation. Specifically, drug/fragment-membrane interactions were investigated using an interdisciplinary approach involving micro differential scanning calorimetry, open-tubular capillary electrochromatography, nanoplasmonic sensing, and quartz crystal microbalance. By incubating the drug and the fragment compounds with liposomes with varying lipid composition or by externally adding the compounds to preformed liposomes, a detailed mechanistic picture on the underlying drug/fragment-membrane interactions was obtained. The nature and the degree of ionisation of polar head groups of the lipids had a major influence on the nature of drug-membrane interactions, and so had the presence and relative concentration of cholesterol within the membranes. The in-depth understanding of drug/fragment-membranes interactions established by the presented interdisciplinary fragment-based approach may be useful in guiding the design and early-stage evaluation of prospective antifungal drug candidates, and the discovery of agents with improved membrane penetrating characteristics in general.
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158. Immobilised artificial membrane liquid chromatography vs liposome electrokinetic capillary chromatography: Suitability in drug/bio membrane partitioning studies and effectiveness in the assessment of the passage of drugs through the respiratory mucosa.
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Orzel D, Ravald H, Dillon A, Rantala J, Wiedmer SK, and Russo G
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- Pharmaceutical Preparations chemistry, Respiratory Mucosa metabolism, Respiratory Mucosa chemistry, Chromatography, Liquid methods, Chromatography, Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary methods, Permeability, Animals, 1-Octanol chemistry, Liposomes chemistry, Membranes, Artificial, Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
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This study pioneers a comparison of the application of biomimetic techniques, immobilised artificial membrane liquid chromatography (IAM LC) and liposome electrokinetic capillary chromatography (LEKC), for the prediction of pulmonary drug permeability. The pulmonary absorption profiles of 26 structurally unrelated drug-like molecules were evaluated using their IAM hydrophobicity index (CHI IAM) measured in IAM LC, and the logarithm of distribution constants (log K
LEKC ) derived from the LEKC experiments. Lipophilicity (phospholipids) parameters obtained from IAM LC and most LEKC analyses were linearly related to the n-octanol/water partitioning coefficients of the neutral forms (i.e., log Po/w values) to a moderate extent. However, the relationship with distribution coefficients at the experimental pH (7.4) (i.e., log D7.4 ) were weaker overall for IAM LC data and sigmoidal for some liposome compositions (phosphatidyl choline (PC): phosphatidyl inositol (PI) 85:15 mol% and 90:10 mol%) and concentrations (4 mM) in LEKC. This suggests that phospholipid partitioning supports both hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions occurring between ionised drugs and charged phospholipid moieties. The latter interactions are original when compared to those taking place in the more established n-octanol/water partitioning systems. A stronger correlation (R2 > 0.65) was identified between the LEKC retention parameters, and the experimental apparent lung permeability (i.e., log Papp values) as opposed to the values obtained by IAM LC. Therefore, LEKC offers unprecedented advantages over IAM LC in simulating cell membrane partitioning processes in the pulmonary delivery of drugs. Although LEKC has the advantage of more effectively simulating the electrostatic and hydrophobic forces in drug/pulmonary membrane interactions in vitro, the technique is unsuitable for analysing highly hydrophilic neutral or anionic compounds at the experimental pH. Conversely, IAM LC is useful for analysing compounds spanning a wider range of lipophilicity. Its simpler and more robust implementation, and propensity for high-throughput automation make it a favourable choice for researchers in drug development and pharmacological studies., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier B.V.)- Published
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159. Retraction Notice to: A FBXO7/EYA2-SCF FBXW7 axis promotes AXL-mediated maintenance of mesenchymal and immune evasion phenotypes of cancer cells.
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Shen JZ, Qiu Z, Wu Q, Zhang G, Harris R, Sun D, Rantala J, Barshop WD, Zhao L, Lv D, Won KA, Wohlschlegel J, Sangfelt O, Laman H, Rich JN, and Spruck C
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160. Ex-vivo drug screening of surgically resected glioma stem cells to replace murine avatars and provide personalise cancer therapy for glioblastoma patients.
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Gagg H, Williams ST, Conroy S, Myers KN, McGarrity-Cottrell C, Jones C, Helleday T, Rantala J, Rominiyi O, Danson SJ, Collis SJ, and Wells G
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- Animals, Humans, Mice, Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, Early Detection of Cancer, Neoplastic Stem Cells, Brain Neoplasms drug therapy, Glioblastoma drug therapy, Glioma
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With diminishing returns and high clinical failure rates from traditional preclinical and animal-based drug discovery strategies, more emphasis is being placed on alternative drug discovery platforms. Ex vivo approaches represent a departure from both more traditional preclinical animal-based models and clinical-based strategies and aim to address intra-tumoural and inter-patient variability at an earlier stage of drug discovery. Additionally, these approaches could also offer precise treatment stratification for patients within a week of tumour resection in order to direct tailored therapy. One tumour group that could significantly benefit from such ex vivo approaches are high-grade gliomas, which exhibit extensive heterogeneity, cellular plasticity and therapy-resistant glioma stem cell (GSC) niches. Historic use of murine-based preclinical models for these tumours has largely failed to generate new therapies, resulting in relatively stagnant and unacceptable survival rates of around 12-15 months post-diagnosis over the last 50 years. The near universal use of DNA damaging chemoradiotherapy after surgical resection within standard-of-care (SoC) therapy regimens provides an opportunity to improve current treatments if we can identify efficient drug combinations in preclinical models that better reflect the complex inter-/intra-tumour heterogeneity, GSC plasticity and inherent DNA damage resistance mechanisms. We have therefore developed and optimised a high-throughput ex vivo drug screening platform; GliExP, which maintains GSC populations using immediately dissociated fresh surgical tissue. As a proof-of-concept for GliExP, we have optimised SoC therapy responses and screened 30+ small molecule therapeutics and preclinical compounds against tumours from 18 different patients, including multi-region spatial heterogeneity sampling from several individual tumours. Our data therefore provides a strong basis to build upon GliExP to incorporate combination-based oncology therapeutics in tandem with SoC therapies as an important preclinical alternative to murine models (reduction and replacement) to triage experimental therapeutics for clinical translation and deliver rapid identification of effective treatment strategies for individual gliomas., Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed., (Copyright: © 2024 Gagg H et al.)
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161. Meat- and plant-based products induced similar satiation which was not affected by multimodal augmentation.
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Vanhatalo S, Lappi J, Rantala J, Farooq A, Sand A, Raisamo R, and Sozer N
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- Adult, Humans, Appetite, Taste Perception, Meat, Energy Intake, Eating, Satiation
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Little is known about how plant-based products influence satiation compared to corresponding meat-based products. As augmented reality (AR) intensifies sensory experiences, it was hypothesized to improve satiation. This study compared satiation between intake of meatballs and plant-based balls and plant-based balls intensified with AR for visual, olfactory, and haptic sensory properties. Intake order of the meatballs, plant-based balls, and augmented plant-based balls, eaten on separate days, was randomized. Satiation was measured from twenty-eight non-obese adults as ad libitum intake of the balls and extra snacks, and as subjective appetite sensations. Liking and wanting to eat the products were also investigated. There were no differences between the products in satiation. Before tasting the augmented plant-based balls were less liked than the meatballs (p = 0.002) or plant-based balls (p = 0.046), but after eating the first ball or eating the ad libitum number of balls the differences in liking disappeared. Wanting evaluations were similar for each product and decreased during eating (p < 0.001). A group of participants susceptible to AR was found (n = 11), described by decreased intake when augmentation was applied. Among the sub-group, wanting to eat the augmented balls was lower before tasting (p = 0.019) and after eating the first ball (p = 0.002) and appetite was less suppressed after eating the balls ad libitum (p = 0.01), when compared to non-susceptible participants. We conclude that meatballs and plant-based balls were equal in inducing satiation, and multisensory augmentation did not influence satiation. However, the augmentation decreased liking evaluations before tasting. Further studies are needed to explore differences between consumer groups in susceptibility to augmentation., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper, (Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
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162. Associations of height, body mass index, and weight gain with breast cancer risk in carriers of a pathogenic variant in BRCA1 or BRCA2: the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Cohort Consortium.
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Kast K, John EM, Hopper JL, Andrieu N, Noguès C, Mouret-Fourme E, Lasset C, Fricker JP, Berthet P, Mari V, Salle L, Schmidt MK, Ausems MGEM, Garcia EBG, van de Beek I, Wevers MR, Evans DG, Tischkowitz M, Lalloo F, Cook J, Izatt L, Tripathi V, Snape K, Musgrave H, Sharif S, Murray J, Colonna SV, Andrulis IL, Daly MB, Southey MC, de la Hoya M, Osorio A, Foretova L, Berkova D, Gerdes AM, Olah E, Jakubowska A, Singer CF, Tan Y, Augustinsson A, Rantala J, Simard J, Schmutzler RK, Milne RL, Phillips KA, Terry MB, Goldgar D, van Leeuwen FE, Mooij TM, Antoniou AC, Easton DF, Rookus MA, and Engel C
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- Adult, Female, Humans, Body Mass Index, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Risk, Retrospective Studies, Weight Gain genetics, Heterozygote, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genes, BRCA2, Breast Neoplasms epidemiology, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Breast Neoplasms pathology
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Introduction: Height, body mass index (BMI), and weight gain are associated with breast cancer risk in the general population. It is unclear whether these associations also exist for carriers of pathogenic variants in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes., Patients and Methods: An international pooled cohort of 8091 BRCA1/2 variant carriers was used for retrospective and prospective analyses separately for premenopausal and postmenopausal women. Cox regression was used to estimate breast cancer risk associations with height, BMI, and weight change., Results: In the retrospective analysis, taller height was associated with risk of premenopausal breast cancer for BRCA2 variant carriers (HR 1.20 per 10 cm increase, 95% CI 1.04-1.38). Higher young-adult BMI was associated with lower premenopausal breast cancer risk for both BRCA1 (HR 0.75 per 5 kg/m
2 , 95% CI 0.66-0.84) and BRCA2 (HR 0.76, 95% CI 0.65-0.89) variant carriers in the retrospective analysis, with consistent, though not statistically significant, findings from the prospective analysis. In the prospective analysis, higher BMI and adult weight gain were associated with higher postmenopausal breast cancer risk for BRCA1 carriers (HR 1.20 per 5 kg/m2 , 95% CI 1.02-1.42; and HR 1.10 per 5 kg weight gain, 95% CI 1.01-1.19, respectively)., Conclusion: Anthropometric measures are associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant carriers, with relative risk estimates that are generally consistent with those for women from the general population., (© 2023. The Author(s).)- Published
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163. Ovarian cancer pathology characteristics as predictors of variant pathogenicity in BRCA1 and BRCA2.
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O'Mahony DG, Ramus SJ, Southey MC, Meagher NS, Hadjisavvas A, John EM, Hamann U, Imyanitov EN, Andrulis IL, Sharma P, Daly MB, Hake CR, Weitzel JN, Jakubowska A, Godwin AK, Arason A, Bane A, Simard J, Soucy P, Caligo MA, Mai PL, Claes KBM, Teixeira MR, Chung WK, Lazaro C, Hulick PJ, Toland AE, Pedersen IS, Neuhausen SL, Vega A, de la Hoya M, Nevanlinna H, Dhawan M, Zampiga V, Danesi R, Varesco L, Gismondi V, Vellone VG, James PA, Janavicius R, Nikitina-Zake L, Nielsen FC, van Overeem Hansen T, Pejovic T, Borg A, Rantala J, Offit K, Montagna M, Nathanson KL, Domchek SM, Osorio A, García MJ, Karlan BY, De Fazio A, Bowtell D, McGuffog L, Leslie G, Parsons MT, Dörk T, Speith LM, Dos Santos ES, da Costa AABA, Radice P, Peterlongo P, Papi L, Engel C, Hahnen E, Schmutzler RK, Wappenschmidt B, Easton DF, Tischkowitz M, Singer CF, Tan YY, Whittemore AS, Sieh W, Brenton JD, Yannoukakos D, Fostira F, Konstantopoulou I, Soukupova J, Vocka M, Chenevix-Trench G, Pharoah PDP, Antoniou AC, Goldgar DE, Spurdle AB, and Michailidou K
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- Humans, Female, Virulence, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics, Breast Neoplasms
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Background: The distribution of ovarian tumour characteristics differs between germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers and non-carriers. In this study, we assessed the utility of ovarian tumour characteristics as predictors of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity, for application using the American College of Medical Genetics and the Association for Molecular Pathology (ACMG/AMP) variant classification system., Methods: Data for 10,373 ovarian cancer cases, including carriers and non-carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic variants, were collected from unpublished international cohorts and consortia and published studies. Likelihood ratios (LR) were calculated for the association of ovarian cancer histology and other characteristics, with BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity. Estimates were aligned to ACMG/AMP code strengths (supporting, moderate, strong)., Results: No histological subtype provided informative ACMG/AMP evidence in favour of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity. Evidence against variant pathogenicity was estimated for the mucinous and clear cell histologies (supporting) and borderline cases (moderate). Refined associations are provided according to tumour grade, invasion and age at diagnosis., Conclusions: We provide detailed estimates for predicting BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant pathogenicity based on ovarian tumour characteristics. This evidence can be combined with other variant information under the ACMG/AMP classification system, to improve classification and carrier clinical management., (© 2023. The Author(s).)
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164. PREDICT validity for prognosis of breast cancer patients with pathogenic BRCA1/2 variants.
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Muranen TA, Morra A, Khan S, Barnes DR, Bolla MK, Dennis J, Keeman R, Leslie G, Parsons MT, Wang Q, Ahearn TU, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Arun BK, Behrens S, Bialkowska K, Bojesen SE, Camp NJ, Chang-Claude J, Czene K, Devilee P, Domchek SM, Dunning AM, Engel C, Evans DG, Gago-Dominguez M, García-Closas M, Gerdes AM, Glendon G, Guénel P, Hahnen E, Hamann U, Hanson H, Hooning MJ, Hoppe R, Izatt L, Jakubowska A, James PA, Kristensen VN, Lalloo F, Lindeman GJ, Mannermaa A, Margolin S, Neuhausen SL, Newman WG, Peterlongo P, Phillips KA, Pujana MA, Rantala J, Rønlund K, Saloustros E, Schmutzler RK, Schneeweiss A, Singer CF, Suvanto M, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Thomassen M, Tischkowitz M, Tripathi V, Wappenschmidt B, Zhao E, Easton DF, Antoniou AC, Chenevix-Trench G, Pharoah PDP, Schmidt MK, Blomqvist C, and Nevanlinna H
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We assessed the PREDICT v 2.2 for prognosis of breast cancer patients with pathogenic germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants, using follow-up data from 5453 BRCA1/2 carriers from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA) and the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). PREDICT for estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer had modest discrimination for BRCA1 carrier patients overall (Gönen & Heller unbiased concordance 0.65 in CIMBA, 0.64 in BCAC), but it distinguished clearly the high-mortality group from lower risk categories. In an analysis of low to high risk categories by PREDICT score percentiles, the observed mortality was consistently lower than the expected mortality, but the confidence intervals always included the calibration slope. Altogether, our results encourage the use of the PREDICT ER-negative model in management of breast cancer patients with germline BRCA1 variants. For the PREDICT ER-positive model, the discrimination was slightly lower in BRCA2 variant carriers (concordance 0.60 in CIMBA, 0.65 in BCAC). Especially, inclusion of the tumor grade distorted the prognostic estimates. The breast cancer mortality of BRCA2 carriers was underestimated at the low end of the PREDICT score distribution, whereas at the high end, the mortality was overestimated. These data suggest that BRCA2 status should also be taken into consideration with tumor characteristics, when estimating the prognosis of ER-positive breast cancer patients., (© 2023. The Author(s).)
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165. Copy number variants as modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers.
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Hakkaart C, Pearson JF, Marquart L, Dennis J, Wiggins GAR, Barnes DR, Robinson BA, Mace PD, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Arun BK, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barkardottir RB, Belhadj S, Berger L, Blok MJ, Boonen SE, Borde J, Bradbury AR, Brunet J, Buys SS, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Collonge-Rame MA, Cook J, Cosgrove C, Couch FJ, Daly MB, Dandiker S, Davidson R, de la Hoya M, de Putter R, Delnatte C, Dhawan M, Diez O, Ding YC, Domchek SM, Donaldson A, Eason J, Easton DF, Ehrencrona H, Engel C, Evans DG, Faust U, Feliubadaló L, Fostira F, Friedman E, Frone M, Frost D, Garber J, Gayther SA, Gehrig A, Gesta P, Godwin AK, Goldgar DE, Greene MH, Hahnen E, Hake CR, Hamann U, Hansen TVO, Hauke J, Hentschel J, Herold N, Honisch E, Hulick PJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Izatt L, Izquierdo A, Jakubowska A, James PA, Janavicius R, John EM, Joseph V, Karlan BY, Kemp Z, Kirk J, Konstantopoulou I, Koudijs M, Kwong A, Laitman Y, Lalloo F, Lasset C, Lautrup C, Lazaro C, Legrand C, Leslie G, Lesueur F, Mai PL, Manoukian S, Mari V, Martens JWM, McGuffog L, Mebirouk N, Meindl A, Miller A, Montagna M, Moserle L, Mouret-Fourme E, Musgrave H, Nambot S, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Yie JNY, Nguyen-Dumont T, Nikitina-Zake L, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Osorio A, Ott CE, Park SK, Parsons MT, Pedersen IS, Peixoto A, Perez-Segura P, Peterlongo P, Pocza T, Radice P, Ramser J, Rantala J, Rodriguez GC, Rønlund K, Rosenberg EH, Rossing M, Schmutzler RK, Shah PD, Sharif S, Sharma P, Side LE, Simard J, Singer CF, Snape K, Steinemann D, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutter C, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Teo SH, Thomassen M, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Trainer AH, Tripathi V, Tung N, van Engelen K, van Rensburg EJ, Vega A, Viel A, Walker L, Weitzel JN, Wevers MR, Chenevix-Trench G, Spurdle AB, Antoniou AC, and Walker LC
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- BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, DNA Copy Number Variations, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Heterozygote, Humans, RNA, Messenger, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Breast Neoplasms pathology
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The contribution of germline copy number variants (CNVs) to risk of developing cancer in individuals with pathogenic BRCA1 or BRCA2 variants remains relatively unknown. We conducted the largest genome-wide analysis of CNVs in 15,342 BRCA1 and 10,740 BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. We used these results to prioritise a candidate breast cancer risk-modifier gene for laboratory analysis and biological validation. Notably, the HR for deletions in BRCA1 suggested an elevated breast cancer risk estimate (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.21), 95% confidence interval (95% CI = 1.09-1.35) compared with non-CNV pathogenic variants. In contrast, deletions overlapping SULT1A1 suggested a decreased breast cancer risk (HR = 0.73, 95% CI 0.59-0.91) in BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers. Functional analyses of SULT1A1 showed that reduced mRNA expression in pathogenic BRCA1 variant cells was associated with reduced cellular proliferation and reduced DNA damage after treatment with DNA damaging agents. These data provide evidence that deleterious variants in BRCA1 plus SULT1A1 deletions contribute to variable breast cancer risk in BRCA1 carriers., (© 2022. The Author(s).)
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166. Precision oncology using ex vivo technology: a step towards individualised cancer care?
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Williams ST, Wells G, Conroy S, Gagg H, Allen R, Rominiyi O, Helleday T, Hullock K, Pennington CEW, Rantala J, Collis SJ, and Danson SJ
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- Humans, Precision Medicine methods, Medical Oncology methods, Genomics methods, Neoplasms therapy, Neoplasms drug therapy
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Despite advances in cancer genomics and the increased use of genomic medicine, metastatic cancer is still mostly an incurable and fatal disease. With diminishing returns from traditional drug discovery strategies, and high clinical failure rates, more emphasis is being placed on alternative drug discovery platforms, such as ex vivo approaches. Ex vivo approaches aim to embed biological relevance and inter-patient variability at an earlier stage of drug discovery, and to offer more precise treatment stratification for patients. However, these techniques also have a high potential to offer personalised therapies to patients, complementing and enhancing genomic medicine. Although an array of approaches are available to researchers, only a minority of techniques have made it through to direct patient treatment within robust clinical trials. Within this review, we discuss the current challenges to ex vivo approaches within clinical practice and summarise the contemporary literature which has directed patient treatment. Finally, we map out how ex vivo approaches could transition from a small-scale, predominantly research based technology to a robust and validated predictive tool. In future, these pre-clinical approaches may be integrated into clinical cancer pathways to assist in the personalisation of therapy choices and to hopefully improve patient experiences and outcomes.
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167. Cancer Risks Associated With BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants.
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Li S, Silvestri V, Leslie G, Rebbeck TR, Neuhausen SL, Hopper JL, Nielsen HR, Lee A, Yang X, McGuffog L, Parsons MT, Andrulis IL, Arnold N, Belotti M, Borg Å, Buecher B, Buys SS, Caputo SM, Chung WK, Colas C, Colonna SV, Cook J, Daly MB, de la Hoya M, de Pauw A, Delhomelle H, Eason J, Engel C, Evans DG, Faust U, Fehm TN, Fostira F, Fountzilas G, Frone M, Garcia-Barberan V, Garre P, Gauthier-Villars M, Gehrig A, Glendon G, Goldgar DE, Golmard L, Greene MH, Hahnen E, Hamann U, Hanson H, Hassan T, Hentschel J, Horvath J, Izatt L, Janavicius R, Jiao Y, John EM, Karlan BY, Kim SW, Konstantopoulou I, Kwong A, Laugé A, Lee JW, Lesueur F, Mebirouk N, Meindl A, Mouret-Fourme E, Musgrave H, Ngeow Yuen Yie J, Niederacher D, Park SK, Pedersen IS, Ramser J, Ramus SJ, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Reichl F, Ritter J, Rump A, Santamariña M, Saule C, Schmidt G, Schmutzler RK, Senter L, Shariff S, Singer CF, Southey MC, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutter C, Tan Y, Teo SH, Terry MB, Thomassen M, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Torres D, Vega A, Wagner SA, Wang-Gohrke S, Wappenschmidt B, Weber BHF, Yannoukakos D, Spurdle AB, Easton DF, Chenevix-Trench G, Ottini L, and Antoniou AC
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- BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Heterozygote, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Male, Mutation, Risk, Breast Neoplasms, Breast Neoplasms, Male, Ovarian Neoplasms epidemiology, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics, Pancreatic Neoplasms epidemiology, Pancreatic Neoplasms genetics
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Purpose: To provide precise age-specific risk estimates of cancers other than female breast and ovarian cancers associated with pathogenic variants (PVs) in BRCA1 and BRCA2 for effective cancer risk management., Methods: We used data from 3,184 BRCA1 and 2,157 BRCA2 families in the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 to estimate age-specific relative (RR) and absolute risks for 22 first primary cancer types adjusting for family ascertainment., Results: BRCA1 PVs were associated with risks of male breast (RR = 4.30; 95% CI, 1.09 to 16.96), pancreatic (RR = 2.36; 95% CI, 1.51 to 3.68), and stomach (RR = 2.17; 95% CI, 1.25 to 3.77) cancers. Associations with colorectal and gallbladder cancers were also suggested. BRCA2 PVs were associated with risks of male breast (RR = 44.0; 95% CI, 21.3 to 90.9), stomach (RR = 3.69; 95% CI, 2.40 to 5.67), pancreatic (RR = 3.34; 95% CI, 2.21 to 5.06), and prostate (RR = 2.22; 95% CI, 1.63 to 3.03) cancers. The stomach cancer RR was higher for females than males (6.89 v 2.76; P = .04). The absolute risks to age 80 years ranged from 0.4% for male breast cancer to approximately 2.5% for pancreatic cancer for BRCA1 carriers and from approximately 2.5% for pancreatic cancer to 27% for prostate cancer for BRCA2 carriers., Conclusion: In addition to female breast and ovarian cancers, BRCA1 and BRCA2 PVs are associated with increased risks of male breast, pancreatic, stomach, and prostate (only BRCA2 PVs) cancers, but not with the risks of other previously suggested cancers. The estimated age-specific risks will refine cancer risk management in men and women with BRCA1/2 PVs., Competing Interests: Timothy R. RebbeckHonoraria: AstraZeneca (I)Consulting or Advisory Role: AstraZeneca (I) Andrew LeeEmployment: IlluminaPatents, Royalties, Other Intellectual Property: I am an inventor of the BOADICEA model that is licensed to Cambridge Enterprise (part of the University of Cambridge) for commercialization. I have received royalties from Cambridge Enterprise. Norbert ArnoldHonoraria: AstraZeneca Åke BorgHonoraria: Roche, AstraZenecaTravel, Accommodations, Expenses: Roche, AstraZeneca Sandrine CaputoResearch Funding: AstraZeneca/France (Inst) Wendy K. ChungConsulting or Advisory Role: RegeneronResearch Funding: Biogen Chrystelle ColasConsulting or Advisory Role: AstraZeneca/Merck, Pfizer Miguel de la HoyaConsulting or Advisory Role: AstraZenecaResearch Funding: AstraZeneca D. Gareth EvansHonoraria: AstraZeneca Tanja N. FehmConsulting or Advisory Role: Roche, Novartis, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo, MSD OncologyTravel, Accommodations, Expenses: Roche George FountzilasStock and Other Ownership Interests: GENPREX Inc (I), ARIAD (I), Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc (I), Daiichi Sankyo, RFL Holdings, FORMYCONHonoraria: AstraZenecaConsulting or Advisory Role: Pfizer, Roche, NovartisSpeakers' Bureau: Roche (I), LEO Pharma (I), Pfizer (I)Travel, Accommodations, Expenses: Merck (I), Pfizer (I), K.A.M Oncology/Hematology (I) Megan FronePatents, Royalties, Other Intellectual Property: Receive royalties for being a codeveloper of CancerGene Connect Eric HahnenConsulting or Advisory Role: AstraZeneca Helen HansonHonoraria: Pfizer Beth Y. KarlanConsulting or Advisory Role: Roche Pharma AG, Merck, Mercy Bioanalytics, GRAILResearch Funding: GOG Foundation (Inst), NCI-NRG Oncology (Inst), Genentech/Roche (Inst)Patents, Royalties, Other Intellectual Property: US and EU patent on gene signatureOther Relationship: Elsevier Irene KonstantopoulouSpeakers' Bureau: AstraZenecaResearch Funding: AstraZeneca Ava KwongHonoraria: Stryker, AstraZeneca Taiwan Limited, Roche Singapore, Pfizer, AstraZeneca Hong Kong Ltd Joanne Ngeow Yuen YieResearch Funding: AstraZeneca Rita K. SchmutzlerHonoraria: AstraZeneca, Clovis, MSD/AstraZenecaConsulting or Advisory Role: AstraZeneca, MSD/AstraZenecaResearch Funding: Amgen Leigha SenterConsulting or Advisory Role: AstraZeneca/MerckSpeakers' Bureau: AstraZeneca/Merck Christian F. SingerHonoraria: Novartis, AstraZeneca/MedImmune, Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbHConsulting or Advisory Role: AstraZeneca/MedImmune, Daiichi-Sankyo, Gilead Sciences, Sanofi/Aventis, NovartisSpeakers' Bureau: Novartis, AstraZeneca/MedImmuneResearch Funding: Novartis, Sanofi, Myriad Genetics, Roche, AstraZeneca/MedImmuneTravel, Accommodations, Expenses: Roche, Novartis Dominique Stoppa-LyonnetHonoraria: AstraZeneca/Merck (Inst) Soo Hwang TeoSpeakers' Bureau: AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Roche Sebastian A. WagnerConsulting or Advisory Role: Bayer Antonis C. AntoniouPatents, Royalties, Other Intellectual Property: Inventor of the BOADICEA model, which has been licensed to Cambridge Enterprise for commercialization. May receive royalties if commercialization is realized.No other potential conflicts of interest were reported.
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168. Correction: Polygenic risk modeling for prediction of epithelial ovarian cancer risk.
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Dareng EO, Tyrer JP, Barnes DR, Jones MR, Yang X, Aben KKH, Adank MA, Agata S, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova NN, Aravantinos G, Arun BK, Augustinsson A, Balmaña J, Bandera EV, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Beckmann MW, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Bernardini MQ, Bjorge L, Black A, Bogdanova NV, Bonanni B, Borg A, Brenton JD, Budzilowska A, Butzow R, Buys SS, Cai H, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Cannioto R, Cassingham H, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chen K, Chiew YE, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Colonna S, Cook LS, Couch FJ, Daly MB, Dao F, Davies E, de la Hoya M, de Putter R, Dennis J, DePersia A, Devilee P, Diez O, Ding YC, Doherty JA, Domchek SM, Dörk T, du Bois A, Dürst M, Eccles DM, Eliassen HA, Engel C, Evans GD, Fasching PA, Flanagan JM, Fortner RT, Machackova E, Friedman E, Ganz PA, Garber J, Gensini F, Giles GG, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goodman MT, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hamann U, Hansen TVO, Harris HR, Hartman M, Heitz F, Hildebrandt MAT, Høgdall E, Høgdall CK, Hopper JL, Huang RY, Huff C, Hulick PJ, Huntsman DG, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Jakubowska A, James PA, Janavicius R, Jensen A, Johannsson OT, John EM, Jones ME, Kang D, Karlan BY, Karnezis A, Kelemen LE, Khusnutdinova E, Kiemeney LA, Kim BG, Kjaer SK, Komenaka I, Kupryjanczyk J, Kurian AW, Kwong A, Lambrechts D, Larson MC, Lazaro C, Le ND, Leslie G, Lester J, Lesueur F, Levine DA, Li L, Li J, Loud JT, Lu KH, Lubiński J, Mai PL, Manoukian S, Marks JR, Matsuno RK, Matsuo K, May T, McGuffog L, McLaughlin JR, McNeish IA, Mebirouk N, Menon U, Miller A, Milne RL, Minlikeeva A, Modugno F, Montagna M, Moysich KB, Munro E, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Yie JNY, Nielsen HR, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Odunsi K, Offit K, Olah E, Olbrecht S, Olopade OI, Olson SH, Olsson H, Osorio A, Papi L, Park SK, Parsons MT, Pathak H, Pedersen IS, Peixoto A, Pejovic T, Perez-Segura P, Permuth JB, Peshkin B, Peterlongo P, Piskorz A, Prokofyeva D, Radice P, Rantala J, Riggan MJ, Risch HA, Rodriguez-Antona C, Ross E, Rossing MA, Runnebaum I, Sandler DP, Santamariña M, Soucy P, Schmutzler RK, Setiawan VW, Shan K, Sieh W, Simard J, Singer CF, Sokolenko AP, Song H, Southey MC, Steed H, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutphen R, Swerdlow AJ, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Teo SH, Terry KL, Terry MB, Thomassen M, Thompson PJ, Thomsen LCV, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Titus L, Toland AE, Torres D, Trabert B, Travis R, Tung N, Tworoger SS, Valen E, van Altena AM, van der Hout AH, Van Nieuwenhuysen E, van Rensburg EJ, Vega A, Edwards DV, Vierkant RA, Wang F, Wappenschmidt B, Webb PM, Weinberg CR, Weitzel JN, Wentzensen N, White E, Whittemore AS, Winham SJ, Wolk A, Woo YL, Wu AH, Yan L, Yannoukakos D, Zavaglia KM, Zheng W, Ziogas A, Zorn KK, Kleibl Z, Easton D, Lawrenson K, DeFazio A, Sellers TA, Ramus SJ, Pearce CL, Monteiro AN, Cunningham J, Goode EL, Schildkraut JM, Berchuck A, Chenevix-Trench G, Gayther SA, Antoniou AC, and Pharoah PDP
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169. A FBXO7/EYA2-SCF FBXW7 axis promotes AXL-mediated maintenance of mesenchymal and immune evasion phenotypes of cancer cells.
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Shen JZ, Qiu Z, Wu Q, Zhang G, Harris R, Sun D, Rantala J, Barshop WD, Zhao L, Lv D, Won KA, Wohlschlegel J, Sangfelt O, Laman H, Rich JN, and Spruck C
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- Animals, Cell Line, Tumor, Homeodomain Proteins genetics, Humans, Immune Evasion, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins metabolism, Mice, Nuclear Proteins metabolism, Phenotype, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases genetics, Ubiquitin metabolism, F-Box Proteins genetics, F-Box Proteins metabolism, F-Box-WD Repeat-Containing Protein 7 genetics, Neoplasms genetics
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A mesenchymal tumor phenotype associates with immunotherapy resistance, although the mechanism is unclear. Here, we identified FBXO7 as a maintenance regulator of mesenchymal and immune evasion phenotypes of cancer cells. FBXO7 bound and stabilized SIX1 co-transcriptional regulator EYA2, stimulating mesenchymal gene expression and suppressing IFNα/β, chemokines CXCL9/10, and antigen presentation machinery, driven by AXL extracellular ligand GAS6. Ubiquitin ligase SCF
FBXW7 antagonized this pathway by promoting EYA2 degradation. Targeting EYA2 Tyr phosphatase activity decreased mesenchymal phenotypes and enhanced cancer cell immunogenicity, resulting in attenuated tumor growth and metastasis, increased infiltration of cytotoxic T and NK cells, and enhanced anti-PD-1 therapy response in mouse tumor models. FBXO7 expression correlated with mesenchymal and immune-suppressive signatures in patients with cancer. An FBXO7-immune gene signature predicted immunotherapy responses. Collectively, the FBXO7/EYA2-SCFFBXW7 axis maintains mesenchymal and immune evasion phenotypes of cancer cells, providing rationale to evaluate FBXO7/EYA2 inhibitors in combination with immune-based therapies to enhance onco-immunotherapy responses., Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests., (Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)- Published
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170. Polygenic risk modeling for prediction of epithelial ovarian cancer risk.
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Dareng EO, Tyrer JP, Barnes DR, Jones MR, Yang X, Aben KKH, Adank MA, Agata S, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova NN, Aravantinos G, Arun BK, Augustinsson A, Balmaña J, Bandera EV, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Beckmann MW, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Bernardini MQ, Bjorge L, Black A, Bogdanova NV, Bonanni B, Borg A, Brenton JD, Budzilowska A, Butzow R, Buys SS, Cai H, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Cannioto R, Cassingham H, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chen K, Chiew YE, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Colonna S, Cook LS, Couch FJ, Daly MB, Dao F, Davies E, de la Hoya M, de Putter R, Dennis J, DePersia A, Devilee P, Diez O, Ding YC, Doherty JA, Domchek SM, Dörk T, du Bois A, Dürst M, Eccles DM, Eliassen HA, Engel C, Evans GD, Fasching PA, Flanagan JM, Fortner RT, Machackova E, Friedman E, Ganz PA, Garber J, Gensini F, Giles GG, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goodman MT, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hamann U, Hansen TVO, Harris HR, Hartman M, Heitz F, Hildebrandt MAT, Høgdall E, Høgdall CK, Hopper JL, Huang RY, Huff C, Hulick PJ, Huntsman DG, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Jakubowska A, James PA, Janavicius R, Jensen A, Johannsson OT, John EM, Jones ME, Kang D, Karlan BY, Karnezis A, Kelemen LE, Khusnutdinova E, Kiemeney LA, Kim BG, Kjaer SK, Komenaka I, Kupryjanczyk J, Kurian AW, Kwong A, Lambrechts D, Larson MC, Lazaro C, Le ND, Leslie G, Lester J, Lesueur F, Levine DA, Li L, Li J, Loud JT, Lu KH, Lubiński J, Mai PL, Manoukian S, Marks JR, Matsuno RK, Matsuo K, May T, McGuffog L, McLaughlin JR, McNeish IA, Mebirouk N, Menon U, Miller A, Milne RL, Minlikeeva A, Modugno F, Montagna M, Moysich KB, Munro E, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Yie JNY, Nielsen HR, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Odunsi K, Offit K, Olah E, Olbrecht S, Olopade OI, Olson SH, Olsson H, Osorio A, Papi L, Park SK, Parsons MT, Pathak H, Pedersen IS, Peixoto A, Pejovic T, Perez-Segura P, Permuth JB, Peshkin B, Peterlongo P, Piskorz A, Prokofyeva D, Radice P, Rantala J, Riggan MJ, Risch HA, Rodriguez-Antona C, Ross E, Rossing MA, Runnebaum I, Sandler DP, Santamariña M, Soucy P, Schmutzler RK, Setiawan VW, Shan K, Sieh W, Simard J, Singer CF, Sokolenko AP, Song H, Southey MC, Steed H, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutphen R, Swerdlow AJ, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Teo SH, Terry KL, Terry MB, Thomassen M, Thompson PJ, Thomsen LCV, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Titus L, Toland AE, Torres D, Trabert B, Travis R, Tung N, Tworoger SS, Valen E, van Altena AM, van der Hout AH, Van Nieuwenhuysen E, van Rensburg EJ, Vega A, Edwards DV, Vierkant RA, Wang F, Wappenschmidt B, Webb PM, Weinberg CR, Weitzel JN, Wentzensen N, White E, Whittemore AS, Winham SJ, Wolk A, Woo YL, Wu AH, Yan L, Yannoukakos D, Zavaglia KM, Zheng W, Ziogas A, Zorn KK, Kleibl Z, Easton D, Lawrenson K, DeFazio A, Sellers TA, Ramus SJ, Pearce CL, Monteiro AN, Cunningham J, Goode EL, Schildkraut JM, Berchuck A, Chenevix-Trench G, Gayther SA, Antoniou AC, and Pharoah PDP
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- Bayes Theorem, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial genetics, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Breast Neoplasms, Ovarian Neoplasms epidemiology, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics
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Polygenic risk scores (PRS) for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) have the potential to improve risk stratification. Joint estimation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) effects in models could improve predictive performance over standard approaches of PRS construction. Here, we implemented computationally efficient, penalized, logistic regression models (lasso, elastic net, stepwise) to individual level genotype data and a Bayesian framework with continuous shrinkage, "select and shrink for summary statistics" (S4), to summary level data for epithelial non-mucinous ovarian cancer risk prediction. We developed the models in a dataset consisting of 23,564 non-mucinous EOC cases and 40,138 controls participating in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC) and validated the best models in three populations of different ancestries: prospective data from 198,101 women of European ancestries; 7,669 women of East Asian ancestries; 1,072 women of African ancestries, and in 18,915 BRCA1 and 12,337 BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers of European ancestries. In the external validation data, the model with the strongest association for non-mucinous EOC risk derived from the OCAC model development data was the S4 model (27,240 SNPs) with odds ratios (OR) of 1.38 (95% CI: 1.28-1.48, AUC: 0.588) per unit standard deviation, in women of European ancestries; 1.14 (95% CI: 1.08-1.19, AUC: 0.538) in women of East Asian ancestries; 1.38 (95% CI: 1.21-1.58, AUC: 0.593) in women of African ancestries; hazard ratios of 1.36 (95% CI: 1.29-1.43, AUC: 0.592) in BRCA1 pathogenic variant carriers and 1.49 (95% CI: 1.35-1.64, AUC: 0.624) in BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers. Incorporation of the S4 PRS in risk prediction models for ovarian cancer may have clinical utility in ovarian cancer prevention programs., (© 2021. The Author(s).)
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171. Chatbot breakthrough in the 2020s? An ethical reflection on the trend of automated consultations in health care.
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Parviainen J and Rantala J
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- Delivery of Health Care, Humans, Pandemics, Referral and Consultation, SARS-CoV-2, Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19
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Many experts have emphasised that chatbots are not sufficiently mature to be able to technically diagnose patient conditions or replace the judgements of health professionals. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has significantly increased the utilisation of health-oriented chatbots, for instance, as a conversational interface to answer questions, recommend care options, check symptoms and complete tasks such as booking appointments. In this paper, we take a proactive approach and consider how the emergence of task-oriented chatbots as partially automated consulting systems can influence clinical practices and expert-client relationships. We suggest the need for new approaches in professional ethics as the large-scale deployment of artificial intelligence may revolutionise professional decision-making and client-expert interaction in healthcare organisations. We argue that the implementation of chatbots amplifies the project of rationality and automation in clinical practice and alters traditional decision-making practices based on epistemic probability and prudence. This article contributes to the discussion on the ethical challenges posed by chatbots from the perspective of healthcare professional ethics., (© 2021. The Author(s).)
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172. Breast and Prostate Cancer Risks for Male BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variant Carriers Using Polygenic Risk Scores.
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Barnes DR, Silvestri V, Leslie G, McGuffog L, Dennis J, Yang X, Adlard J, Agnarsson BA, Ahmed M, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Arason A, Arnold N, Auber B, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Barwell J, Belotti M, Benitez J, Berthet P, Boonen SE, Borg Å, Bozsik A, Brady AF, Brennan P, Brewer C, Brunet J, Bucalo A, Buys SS, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Cassingham H, Christensen LL, Cini G, Claes KBM, Cook J, Coppa A, Cortesi L, Damante G, Darder E, Davidson R, de la Hoya M, De Leeneer K, de Putter R, Del Valle J, Diez O, Ding YC, Domchek SM, Donaldson A, Eason J, Eeles R, Engel C, Evans DG, Feliubadaló L, Fostira F, Frone M, Frost D, Gallagher D, Gehrig A, Giraud S, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldgar DE, Greene MH, Gregory H, Gross E, Hahnen E, Hamann U, Hansen TVO, Hanson H, Hentschel J, Horvath J, Izatt L, Izquierdo A, James PA, Janavicius R, Jensen UB, Johannsson OT, John EM, Kramer G, Kroeldrup L, Kruse TA, Lautrup C, Lazaro C, Lesueur F, Lopez-Fernández A, Mai PL, Manoukian S, Matrai Z, Matricardi L, Maxwell KN, Mebirouk N, Meindl A, Montagna M, Monteiro AN, Morrison PJ, Muranen TA, Murray A, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Nguyen-Dumont T, Niederacher D, Olah E, Olopade OI, Palli D, Parsons MT, Pedersen IS, Peissel B, Perez-Segura P, Peterlongo P, Petersen AH, Pinto P, Porteous ME, Pottinger C, Pujana MA, Radice P, Ramser J, Rantala J, Robson M, Rogers MT, Rønlund K, Rump A, Sánchez de Abajo AM, Shah PD, Sharif S, Side LE, Singer CF, Stadler Z, Steele L, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutter C, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Teulé A, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Tommasi S, Toss A, Trainer AH, Tripathi V, Valentini V, van Asperen CJ, Venturelli M, Viel A, Vijai J, Walker L, Wang-Gohrke S, Wappenschmidt B, Whaite A, Zanna I, Offit K, Thomassen M, Couch FJ, Schmutzler RK, Simard J, Easton DF, Chenevix-Trench G, Antoniou AC, and Ottini L
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- Aged, 80 and over, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Heterozygote, Humans, Male, Mutation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Breast Neoplasms epidemiology, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Prostatic Neoplasms epidemiology, Prostatic Neoplasms genetics
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Background: Recent population-based female breast cancer and prostate cancer polygenic risk scores (PRS) have been developed. We assessed the associations of these PRS with breast and prostate cancer risks for male BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers., Methods: 483 BRCA1 and 1318 BRCA2 European ancestry male carriers were available from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). A 147-single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) prostate cancer PRS (PRSPC) and a 313-SNP breast cancer PRS were evaluated. There were 3 versions of the breast cancer PRS, optimized to predict overall (PRSBC), estrogen receptor (ER)-negative (PRSER-), or ER-positive (PRSER+) breast cancer risk., Results: PRSER+ yielded the strongest association with breast cancer risk. The odds ratios (ORs) per PRSER+ standard deviation estimates were 1.40 (95% confidence interval [CI] =1.07 to 1.83) for BRCA1 and 1.33 (95% CI = 1.16 to 1.52) for BRCA2 carriers. PRSPC was associated with prostate cancer risk for BRCA1 (OR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.28 to 2.33) and BRCA2 (OR = 1.60, 95% CI = 1.34 to 1.91) carriers. The estimated breast cancer odds ratios were larger after adjusting for female relative breast cancer family history. By age 85 years, for BRCA2 carriers, the breast cancer risk varied from 7.7% to 18.4% and prostate cancer risk from 34.1% to 87.6% between the 5th and 95th percentiles of the PRS distributions., Conclusions: Population-based prostate and female breast cancer PRS are associated with a wide range of absolute breast and prostate cancer risks for male BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers. These findings warrant further investigation aimed at providing personalized cancer risks for male carriers and informing clinical management., (© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press.)
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173. Older Adults' Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Physical Information and Communication Technology in the Era of Ambient Assisted Living: A Systematic Literature Review.
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Latikka R, Rubio-Hernández R, Lohan ES, Rantala J, Nieto Fernández F, Laitinen A, and Oksanen A
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- Aged, Communication, Humans, Loneliness, SARS-CoV-2, Social Isolation, Technology, Ambient Intelligence, COVID-19
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Background: Loneliness and social isolation can have severe effects on human health and well-being. Partial solutions to combat these circumstances in demographically aging societies have been sought from the field of information and communication technology (ICT)., Objective: This systematic literature review investigates the research conducted on older adults' loneliness and social isolation, and physical ICTs, namely robots, wearables, and smart homes, in the era of ambient assisted living (AAL). The aim is to gain insight into how technology can help overcome loneliness and social isolation other than by fostering social communication with people and what the main open-ended challenges according to the reviewed studies are., Methods: The data were collected from 7 bibliographic databases. A preliminary search resulted in 1271 entries that were screened based on predefined inclusion criteria. The characteristics of the selected studies were coded, and the results were summarized to answer our research questions., Results: The final data set consisted of 23 empirical studies. We found out that ICT solutions such as smart homes can help detect and predict loneliness and social isolation, and technologies such as robotic pets and some other social robots can help alleviate loneliness to some extent. The main open-ended challenges across studies relate to the need for more robust study samples and study designs. Further, the reviewed studies report technology- and topic-specific open-ended challenges., Conclusions: Technology can help assess older adults' loneliness and social isolation, and alleviate loneliness without direct interaction with other people. The results are highly relevant in the COVID-19 era, where various social restrictions have been introduced all over the world, and the amount of research literature in this regard has increased recently., (©Rita Latikka, Rosana Rubio-Hernández, Elena Simona Lohan, Juho Rantala, Fernando Nieto Fernández, Arto Laitinen, Atte Oksanen. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (https://www.jmir.org), 30.12.2021.)
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174. Daily Administered Dual-Light Photodynamic Therapy Provides a Sustained Antibacterial Effect on Staphylococcus aureus .
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Nikinmaa S, Podonyi A, Raivio P, Meurman J, Sorsa T, Rantala J, Kankuri E, Tauriainen T, and Pätilä T
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New means to reduce excessive antibiotic use are urgently needed. This study tested dual-light aPDT against Staphylococcus aureus biofilm with different relative ratios of light energy with indocyanine green. We applied single-light aPDT (810 nm aPDT, 405 aBL) or dual-light aPDT (simultaneous 810 nm aPDT and 405 nm aBL), in both cases, together with the ICG photosensitizer with constant energy of 100 or 200 J/cm
2 . Single-dose light exposures were given after one-day, three-day, or six-day biofilm incubations. A repeated daily dose of identical light energy was applied during biofilm incubations for the three- and six-day biofilms. Using 100 J/cm2 light energy against the one-day biofilm, the dual-light aPDT consisting of more than half of aBL was the most effective. On a three-day maturated biofilm, single-dose exposure to aPDT or dual-light aPDT was more effective than aBL alone. With total light energy of 200 J/cm2 , all dual-light treatments were effective. Dual-light aPDT improves the bactericidal effect on Staphylococcus aureus biofilm compared to aPDT or aBL and provides a sustained effect. An increase in the relative ratio of aBL strengthens the antibacterial effect, mainly when the treatment is repeatedly applied. Thus, the light components' energy ratio is essential with dual-light.- Published
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175. The predictive ability of the 313 variant-based polygenic risk score for contralateral breast cancer risk prediction in women of European ancestry with a heterozygous BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic variant.
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Lakeman IMM, van den Broek AJ, Vos JAM, Barnes DR, Adlard J, Andrulis IL, Arason A, Arnold N, Arun BK, Balmaña J, Barrowdale D, Benitez J, Borg A, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Collée JM, Couch FJ, Daly MB, Dennis J, Dhawan M, Domchek SM, Eeles R, Engel C, Evans DG, Feliubadaló L, Foretova L, Friedman E, Frost D, Ganz PA, Garber J, Gayther SA, Gerdes AM, Godwin AK, Goldgar DE, Hahnen E, Hake CR, Hamann U, Hogervorst FBL, Hooning MJ, Hopper JL, Hulick PJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Izatt L, Jakubowska A, James PA, Janavicius R, Jensen UB, Jiao Y, John EM, Joseph V, Karlan BY, Kets CM, Konstantopoulou I, Kwong A, Legrand C, Leslie G, Lesueur F, Loud JT, Lubiński J, Manoukian S, McGuffog L, Miller A, Gomes DM, Montagna M, Mouret-Fourme E, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Yie JNY, Olah E, Olopade OI, Park SK, Parsons MT, Peterlongo P, Piedmonte M, Radice P, Rantala J, Rennert G, Risch HA, Schmutzler RK, Sharma P, Simard J, Singer CF, Stadler Z, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutter C, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Teo SH, Teulé A, Thomassen M, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Tung N, van Rensburg EJ, Vega A, Wappenschmidt B, Devilee P, van Asperen CJ, Bernstein JL, Offit K, Easton DF, Rookus MA, Chenevix-Trench G, Antoniou AC, Robson M, and Schmidt MK
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Purpose: To evaluate the association between a previously published 313 variant-based breast cancer (BC) polygenic risk score (PRS
313 ) and contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk, in BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant heterozygotes., Methods: We included women of European ancestry with a prevalent first primary invasive BC (BRCA1 = 6,591 with 1,402 prevalent CBC cases; BRCA2 = 4,208 with 647 prevalent CBC cases) from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA), a large international retrospective series. Cox regression analysis was performed to assess the association between overall and ER-specific PRS313 and CBC risk., Results: For BRCA1 heterozygotes the estrogen receptor (ER)-negative PRS313 showed the largest association with CBC risk, hazard ratio (HR) per SD = 1.12, 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.06-1.18), C-index = 0.53; for BRCA2 heterozygotes, this was the ER-positive PRS313 , HR = 1.15, 95% CI (1.07-1.25), C-index = 0.57. Adjusting for family history, age at diagnosis, treatment, or pathological characteristics for the first BC did not change association effect sizes. For women developing first BC < age 40 years, the cumulative PRS313 5th and 95th percentile 10-year CBC risks were 22% and 32% for BRCA1 and 13% and 23% for BRCA2 heterozygotes, respectively., Conclusion: The PRS313 can be used to refine individual CBC risks for BRCA1/2 heterozygotes of European ancestry, however the PRS313 needs to be considered in the context of a multifactorial risk model to evaluate whether it might influence clinical decision-making., (© 2021. The Author(s).)- Published
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176. Oral contraceptive use and ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1/2 mutation carriers: an international cohort study.
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Schrijver LH, Antoniou AC, Olsson H, Mooij TM, Roos-Blom MJ, Azarang L, Adlard J, Ahmed M, Barrowdale D, Davidson R, Donaldson A, Eeles R, Evans DG, Frost D, Henderson A, Izatt L, Ong KR, Bonadona V, Coupier I, Faivre L, Fricker JP, Gesta P, van Engelen K, Jager A, Menko FH, Mourits MJE, Singer CF, Tan YY, Foretova L, Navratilova M, Schmutzler RK, Ellberg C, Gerdes AM, Caldes T, Simard J, Olah E, Jakubowska A, Rantala J, Osorio A, Hopper JL, Phillips KA, Milne RL, Beth Terry M, Noguès C, Engel C, Kast K, Goldgar DE, van Leeuwen FE, Easton DF, Andrieu N, and Rookus MA
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- Adult, Cohort Studies, Europe epidemiology, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Middle Aged, Ovarian Neoplasms epidemiology, Proportional Hazards Models, Retrospective Studies, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Contraceptives, Oral administration & dosage, Mutation, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics, Ovarian Neoplasms prevention & control
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Background: Ovarian cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers has been shown to decrease with longer duration of oral contraceptive use. Although the effects of using oral contraceptives in the general population are well established (approximately 50% risk reduction in ovarian cancer), the estimated risk reduction in mutation carriers is much less precise because of potential bias and small sample sizes. In addition, only a few studies on oral contraceptive use have examined the associations of duration of use, time since last use, starting age, and calendar year of start with risk of ovarian cancer., Objective: This study aimed to investigate in more detail the associations of various characteristics of oral contraceptive use and risk of ovarian cancer, to provide healthcare providers and carriers with better risk estimates., Study Design: In this international retrospective study, ovarian cancer risk associations were assessed using oral contraceptives data on 3989 BRCA1 and 2445 BRCA2 mutation carriers. Age-dependent-weighted Cox regression analyses were stratified by study and birth cohort and included breast cancer diagnosis as a covariate. To minimize survival bias, analyses were left truncated at 5 years before baseline questionnaire. Separate analyses were conducted for each aspect of oral contraceptive use and in a multivariate analysis, including all these aspects. In addition, the analysis of duration of oral contraceptive use was stratified by recency of use., Results: Oral contraceptives were less often used by mutation carriers who were diagnosed with ovarian cancer (ever use: 58.6% for BRCA1 and 53.5% BRCA2) than by unaffected carriers (ever use: 88.9% for BRCA1 and 80.7% for BRCA2). The median duration of use was 7 years for both BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers who developed ovarian cancer and 9 and 8 years for unaffected BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers with ovarian cancer, respectively. For BRCA1 mutation carriers, univariate analyses have shown that both a longer duration of oral contraceptive use and more recent oral contraceptive use were associated with a reduction in the risk of ovarian cancer. However, in multivariate analyses, including duration of use, age at first use, and time since last use, duration of oral contraceptive use proved to be the prominent protective factor (compared with <5 years: 5-9 years [hazard ratio, 0.67; 95% confidence interval, 0.40-1.12]; >10 years [hazard ratio, 0.37; 95% confidence interval, 0.19-0.73]; P
trend =.008). The inverse association between duration of use and ovarian cancer risk persisted for more than 15 years (duration of ≥10 years; BRCA1 <15 years since last use [hazard ratio, 0.24; 95% confidence interval, 0.14-0.43]; BRCA1 >15 years since last use [hazard ratio, 0.56; 95% confidence interval, 0.18-0.59]). Univariate results for BRCA2 mutation carriers were similar but were inconclusive because of limited sample size., Conclusion: For BRCA1 mutation carriers, longer duration of oral contraceptive use is associated with a greater reduction in ovarian cancer risk, and the protection is long term., (Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)- Published
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177. Author Correction: A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers.
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Coignard J, Lush M, Beesley J, O'Mara TA, Dennis J, Tyrer JP, Barnes DR, McGuffog L, Leslie G, Bolla MK, Adank MA, Agata S, Ahearn T, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Arndt V, Arnold N, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Augustinsson A, Azzollini J, Barrowdale D, Baynes C, Becher H, Bermisheva M, Bernstein L, Białkowska K, Blomqvist C, Bojesen SE, Bonanni B, Borg A, Brauch H, Brenner H, Burwinkel B, Buys SS, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campa D, Carter BD, Castelao JE, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Collée JM, Conroy DM, Czene K, Daly MB, Devilee P, Diez O, Ding YC, Domchek SM, Dörk T, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Dunning AM, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Eliassen AH, Engel C, Eriksson M, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Flyger H, Fostira F, Friedman E, Fritschi L, Frost D, Gago-Dominguez M, Gapstur SM, Garber J, Garcia-Barberan V, García-Closas M, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Gayther SA, Gehrig A, Georgoulias V, Giles GG, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Greene MH, Guénel P, Haeberle L, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hall P, Hamann U, Harrington PA, Hart SN, He W, Hogervorst FBL, Hollestelle A, Hopper JL, Horcasitas DJ, Hulick PJ, Hunter DJ, Imyanitov EN, Jager A, Jakubowska A, James PA, Jensen UB, John EM, Jones ME, Kaaks R, Kapoor PM, Karlan BY, Keeman R, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski JI, Ko YD, Kosma VM, Kraft P, Kurian AW, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Le Marchand L, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lindstrom T, Lopez-Fernández A, Loud JT, Luccarini C, Mannermaa A, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martens JWM, Mebirouk N, Meindl A, Miller A, Milne RL, Montagna M, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Nielsen FC, O'Brien KM, Olopade OI, Olson JE, Olsson H, Osorio A, Ottini L, Park-Simon TW, Parsons MT, Pedersen IS, Peshkin B, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Pharoah PDP, Phillips KA, Polley EC, Poppe B, Presneau N, Pujana MA, Punie K, Radice P, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Robson M, Romero A, Rossing M, Saloustros E, Sandler DP, Santella R, Scheuner MT, Schmidt MK, Schmidt G, Scott C, Sharma P, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Steinsnyder Z, Stone J, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Swerdlow A, Tamimi RM, Tapper WJ, Taylor JA, Terry MB, Teulé A, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Torres D, Trainer AH, Truong T, Tung N, Vachon CM, Vega A, Vijai J, Wang Q, Wappenschmidt B, Weinberg CR, Weitzel JN, Wendt C, Wolk A, Yadav S, Yang XR, Yannoukakos D, Zheng W, Ziogas A, Zorn KK, Park SK, Thomassen M, Offit K, Schmutzler RK, Couch FJ, Simard J, Chenevix-Trench G, Easton DF, Andrieu N, and Antoniou AC
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A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23162-4.
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178. Indocyanine Green-Assisted and LED-Light-Activated Antibacterial Photodynamic Therapy Reduces Dental Plaque.
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Nikinmaa S, Moilanen N, Sorsa T, Rantala J, Alapulli H, Kotiranta A, Auvinen P, Kankuri E, Meurman JH, and Pätilä T
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Aim: This study aimed to determine the feasibility and first efficacy of indocyanine green (ICG)-assisted antimicrobial photodynamictherapy (aPDT) as activated using LED light to the dental plaque., Methods: Fifteen healthy adults were assigned to this four-day randomized study. After rinsing with ICG, 100 J/cm
2 of 810 nm LED light was applied to the aPDT-treatment area. Plaque area and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) matrix metalloproteinase-8 (MMP-8) were measured, and plaque bacteriomes before and after the study were analyzed using 16S rRNA sequencing., Results: aPDT administration was preformed successfully and plaque-specifically with the combination of ICG and the applicator. Total plaque area and endpoint MMP-8 levels were reduced on the aPDT-treatment side. aPDT reduced Streptococcus , Acinetobacteria , Capnocytophaga , and Rothia bacteria species in plaques., Conclusion: ICG-assisted aPDT reduces plaque forming bacteria and exerts anti-inflammatory and anti-proteolytic effects.- Published
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179. A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers.
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Coignard J, Lush M, Beesley J, O'Mara TA, Dennis J, Tyrer JP, Barnes DR, McGuffog L, Leslie G, Bolla MK, Adank MA, Agata S, Ahearn T, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Arndt V, Arnold N, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Augustinsson A, Azzollini J, Barrowdale D, Baynes C, Becher H, Bermisheva M, Bernstein L, Białkowska K, Blomqvist C, Bojesen SE, Bonanni B, Borg A, Brauch H, Brenner H, Burwinkel B, Buys SS, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campa D, Carter BD, Castelao JE, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Collée JM, Conroy DM, Czene K, Daly MB, Devilee P, Diez O, Ding YC, Domchek SM, Dörk T, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Dunning AM, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Eliassen AH, Engel C, Eriksson M, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Flyger H, Fostira F, Friedman E, Fritschi L, Frost D, Gago-Dominguez M, Gapstur SM, Garber J, Garcia-Barberan V, García-Closas M, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Gayther SA, Gehrig A, Georgoulias V, Giles GG, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Greene MH, Guénel P, Haeberle L, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hall P, Hamann U, Harrington PA, Hart SN, He W, Hogervorst FBL, Hollestelle A, Hopper JL, Horcasitas DJ, Hulick PJ, Hunter DJ, Imyanitov EN, Jager A, Jakubowska A, James PA, Jensen UB, John EM, Jones ME, Kaaks R, Kapoor PM, Karlan BY, Keeman R, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski JI, Ko YD, Kosma VM, Kraft P, Kurian AW, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Le Marchand L, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lindstrom T, Lopez-Fernández A, Loud JT, Luccarini C, Mannermaa A, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martens JWM, Mebirouk N, Meindl A, Miller A, Milne RL, Montagna M, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Nielsen FC, O'Brien KM, Olopade OI, Olson JE, Olsson H, Osorio A, Ottini L, Park-Simon TW, Parsons MT, Pedersen IS, Peshkin B, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Pharoah PDP, Phillips KA, Polley EC, Poppe B, Presneau N, Pujana MA, Punie K, Radice P, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Robson M, Romero A, Rossing M, Saloustros E, Sandler DP, Santella R, Scheuner MT, Schmidt MK, Schmidt G, Scott C, Sharma P, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Steinsnyder Z, Stone J, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Swerdlow A, Tamimi RM, Tapper WJ, Taylor JA, Terry MB, Teulé A, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Torres D, Trainer AH, Truong T, Tung N, Vachon CM, Vega A, Vijai J, Wang Q, Wappenschmidt B, Weinberg CR, Weitzel JN, Wendt C, Wolk A, Yadav S, Yang XR, Yannoukakos D, Zheng W, Ziogas A, Zorn KK, Park SK, Thomassen M, Offit K, Schmutzler RK, Couch FJ, Simard J, Chenevix-Trench G, Easton DF, Andrieu N, and Antoniou AC
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- Adult, Alleles, Female, Genotype, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Middle Aged, Mutation, Quantitative Trait Loci genetics, Risk Factors, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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Breast cancer (BC) risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers varies by genetic and familial factors. About 50 common variants have been shown to modify BC risk for mutation carriers. All but three, were identified in general population studies. Other mutation carrier-specific susceptibility variants may exist but studies of mutation carriers have so far been underpowered. We conduct a novel case-only genome-wide association study comparing genotype frequencies between 60,212 general population BC cases and 13,007 cases with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. We identify robust novel associations for 2 variants with BC for BRCA1 and 3 for BRCA2 mutation carriers, P < 10
-8 , at 5 loci, which are not associated with risk in the general population. They include rs60882887 at 11p11.2 where MADD, SP11 and EIF1, genes previously implicated in BC biology, are predicted as potential targets. These findings will contribute towards customising BC polygenic risk scores for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.- Published
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180. FBXO44 promotes DNA replication-coupled repetitive element silencing in cancer cells.
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Shen JZ, Qiu Z, Wu Q, Finlay D, Garcia G, Sun D, Rantala J, Barshop W, Hope JL, Gimple RC, Sangfelt O, Bradley LM, Wohlschlegel J, Rich JN, and Spruck C
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- Adult, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Proliferation genetics, Cell Survival genetics, DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Histones metabolism, Humans, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors pharmacology, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors therapeutic use, Immunity, Interferons metabolism, Lysine metabolism, Male, Methylation, Middle Aged, Neoplasm Proteins metabolism, Neoplasms immunology, Nucleosomes metabolism, Signal Transduction, Transcription, Genetic, Treatment Outcome, DNA Replication genetics, F-Box Proteins metabolism, Neoplasms genetics, Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid genetics
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Repetitive elements (REs) compose ∼50% of the human genome and are normally transcriptionally silenced, although the mechanism has remained elusive. Through an RNAi screen, we identified FBXO44 as an essential repressor of REs in cancer cells. FBXO44 bound H3K9me3-modified nucleosomes at the replication fork and recruited SUV39H1, CRL4, and Mi-2/NuRD to transcriptionally silence REs post-DNA replication. FBXO44/SUV39H1 inhibition reactivated REs, leading to DNA replication stress and stimulation of MAVS/STING antiviral pathways and interferon (IFN) signaling in cancer cells to promote decreased tumorigenicity, increased immunogenicity, and enhanced immunotherapy response. FBXO44 expression inversely correlated with replication stress, antiviral pathways, IFN signaling, and cytotoxic T cell infiltration in human cancers, while a FBXO44-immune gene signature correlated with improved immunotherapy response in cancer patients. FBXO44/SUV39H1 were dispensable in normal cells. Collectively, FBXO44/SUV39H1 are crucial repressors of RE transcription, and their inhibition selectively induces DNA replication stress and viral mimicry in cancer cells., Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests., (Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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181. A Comparison of Various Algorithms for Classification of Food Scents Measured with an Ion Mobility Spectrometry.
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Minaev G, Müller P, Salminen K, Rantala J, Surakka V, and Visa A
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The present aim was to compare the accuracy of several algorithms in classifying data collected from food scent samples. Measurements using an electronic nose (eNose) can be used for classification of different scents. An eNose was used to measure scent samples from seven food scent sources, both from an open plate and a sealed jar. The k -Nearest Neighbour ( k -NN) classifier provides reasonable accuracy under certain conditions and uses traditionally the Euclidean distance for measuring the similarity of samples. Therefore, it was used as a baseline distance metric for the k -NN in this paper. Its classification accuracy was compared with the accuracies of the k -NN with 66 alternative distance metrics. In addition, 18 other classifiers were tested with raw eNose data. For each classifier various parameter settings were tried and compared. Overall, 304 different classifier variations were tested, which differed from each other in at least one parameter value. The results showed that Quadratic Discriminant Analysis, MLPClassifier, C-Support Vector Classification (SVC), and several different single hidden layer Neural Networks yielded lower misclassification rates applied to the raw data than k -NN with Euclidean distance. Both MLP Classifiers and SVC yielded misclassification rates of less than 3% when applied to raw data. Furthermore, when applied both to the raw data and the data preprocessed by principal component analysis that explained at least 95% or 99% of the total variance in the raw data, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis outperformed the other classifiers. The findings of this study can be used for further algorithm development. They can also be used, for example, to improve the estimation of storage times of fruit.
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182. Effects of Different Exercise Training Protocols on Gene Expression of Rac1 and PAK1 in Healthy Rat Fast- and Slow-Type Muscles.
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Laine S, Högel H, Ishizu T, Toivanen J, Yli-Karjanmaa M, Grönroos TJ, Rantala J, Mäkelä R, Hannukainen JC, Kalliokoski KK, and Heinonen I
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Purpose: Rac1 and its downstream target PAK1 are novel regulators of insulin and exercise-induced glucose uptake in skeletal muscle. However, it is not yet understood how different training intensities affect the expression of these proteins. Therefore, we studied the effects of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT) on Rac1 and PAK1 expression in fast-type ( gastrocnemius , GC) and slow-type ( soleus , SOL) muscles in rats after HIIT and MICT swimming exercises., Methods: The mRNA expression was determined using qPCR and protein expression levels with reverse-phase protein microarray (RPPA)., Results: HIIT significantly decreased Rac1 mRNA expression in GC compared to MICT ( p = 0.003) and to the control group (CON) ( p = 0.001). At the protein level Rac1 was increased in GC in both training groups, but only the difference between HIIT and CON was significant ( p = 0.02). HIIT caused significant decrease of PAK1 mRNA expression in GC compared to MICT ( p = 0.007) and to CON ( p = 0.001). At the protein level, HIIT increased PAK1 expression in GC compared to MICT and CON (by ∼17%), but the difference was not statistically significant ( p = 0.3, p = 0.2, respectively). There were no significant differences in the Rac1 or PAK1 expression in SOL between the groups., Conclusion: Our results indicate that HIIT, but not MICT, decreases Rac1 and PAK1 mRNA expression and increases the protein expression of especially Rac1 but only in fast-type muscle. These exercise training findings may reveal new therapeutic targets to treat patients with metabolic diseases., (Copyright © 2020 Laine, Högel, Ishizu, Toivanen, Yli-Karjanmaa, Grönroos, Rantala, Mäkelä, Hannukainen, Kalliokoski and Heinonen.)
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183. Polygenic risk scores and breast and epithelial ovarian cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants.
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Barnes DR, Rookus MA, McGuffog L, Leslie G, Mooij TM, Dennis J, Mavaddat N, Adlard J, Ahmed M, Aittomäki K, Andrieu N, Andrulis IL, Arnold N, Arun BK, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Benitez J, Berthet P, Białkowska K, Blanco AM, Blok MJ, Bonanni B, Boonen SE, Borg Å, Bozsik A, Bradbury AR, Brennan P, Brewer C, Brunet J, Buys SS, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Christensen LL, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Colas C, Collonge-Rame MA, Cook J, Daly MB, Davidson R, de la Hoya M, de Putter R, Delnatte C, Devilee P, Diez O, Ding YC, Domchek SM, Dorfling CM, Dumont M, Eeles R, Ejlertsen B, Engel C, Evans DG, Faivre L, Foretova L, Fostira F, Friedlander M, Friedman E, Frost D, Ganz PA, Garber J, Gehrig A, Gerdes AM, Gesta P, Giraud S, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Greene MH, Gschwantler-Kaulich D, Hahnen E, Hamann U, Hanson H, Hentschel J, Hogervorst FBL, Hooning MJ, Horvath J, Hu C, Hulick PJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Izatt L, Izquierdo A, Jakubowska A, James PA, Janavicius R, John EM, Joseph V, Karlan BY, Kast K, Koudijs M, Kruse TA, Kwong A, Laitman Y, Lasset C, Lazaro C, Lester J, Lesueur F, Liljegren A, Loud JT, Lubiński J, Mai PL, Manoukian S, Mari V, Mebirouk N, Meijers-Heijboer HEJ, Meindl A, Mensenkamp AR, Miller A, Montagna M, Mouret-Fourme E, Mukherjee S, Mulligan AM, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Niederacher D, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Noguès C, Olah E, Olopade OI, Ong KR, O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan A, Osorio A, Ott CE, Papi L, Park SK, Parsons MT, Pedersen IS, Peissel B, Peixoto A, Peterlongo P, Pfeiler G, Phillips KA, Prajzendanc K, Pujana MA, Radice P, Ramser J, Ramus SJ, Rantala J, Rennert G, Risch HA, Robson M, Rønlund K, Salani R, Schuster H, Senter L, Shah PD, Sharma P, Side LE, Singer CF, Slavin TP, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spurdle AB, Steinemann D, Steinsnyder Z, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutter C, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Teo SH, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Tognazzo S, Toland AE, Trainer AH, Tung N, van Engelen K, van Rensburg EJ, Vega A, Vierstraete J, Wagner G, Walker L, Wang-Gohrke S, Wappenschmidt B, Weitzel JN, Yadav S, Yang X, Yannoukakos D, Zimbalatti D, Offit K, Thomassen M, Couch FJ, Schmutzler RK, Simard J, Easton DF, Chenevix-Trench G, and Antoniou AC
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- BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial genetics, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Heterozygote, Humans, Mutation, Prospective Studies, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Breast Neoplasms epidemiology, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Ovarian Neoplasms epidemiology, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics
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Purpose: We assessed the associations between population-based polygenic risk scores (PRS) for breast (BC) or epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) with cancer risks for BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variant carriers., Methods: Retrospective cohort data on 18,935 BRCA1 and 12,339 BRCA2 female pathogenic variant carriers of European ancestry were available. Three versions of a 313 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) BC PRS were evaluated based on whether they predict overall, estrogen receptor (ER)-negative, or ER-positive BC, and two PRS for overall or high-grade serous EOC. Associations were validated in a prospective cohort., Results: The ER-negative PRS showed the strongest association with BC risk for BRCA1 carriers (hazard ratio [HR] per standard deviation = 1.29 [95% CI 1.25-1.33], P = 3×10
-72 ). For BRCA2, the strongest association was with overall BC PRS (HR = 1.31 [95% CI 1.27-1.36], P = 7×10-50 ). HR estimates decreased significantly with age and there was evidence for differences in associations by predicted variant effects on protein expression. The HR estimates were smaller than general population estimates. The high-grade serous PRS yielded the strongest associations with EOC risk for BRCA1 (HR = 1.32 [95% CI 1.25-1.40], P = 3×10-22 ) and BRCA2 (HR = 1.44 [95% CI 1.30-1.60], P = 4×10-12 ) carriers. The associations in the prospective cohort were similar., Conclusion: Population-based PRS are strongly associated with BC and EOC risks for BRCA1/2 carriers and predict substantial absolute risk differences for women at PRS distribution extremes.- Published
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184. Explanations for economic difficulties among old-age pensioners previously on disability pension.
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Polvinen A, Laaksonen M, Rantala J, Palomäki LM, and Kuivalainen S
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- Humans, Income, Odds Ratio, Retirement, Disabled Persons, Pensions
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Background: This study looks at how previous disability retirement is associated with economic difficulties in covering the costs of everyday basic necessities in old age, and the extent to which the differences in economic difficulties between old-age pensioners with previous disability pension and other old-age pensioners are mediated by health, income and life satisfaction., Methods: The survey data includes 2227 retirees aged 63-85 who were receiving old-age pension in 2017. A quarter of them had received a disability pension before their old-age pension. Economic difficulties were measured through a subjective assessment of how difficult it was to cover the following necessities: food, housing, medication, health services, transport, phone and internet use. The odds ratios and their 95%-confidence intervals were analyzed with ordered logistic regression models., Results: Old-age pensioners with previous disability retirement experienced more economic difficulties in covering cost of necessities than other old-age pensioners. The differences were especially large among those with a mental diagnosis. Health, pension income and life satisfaction attenuated the differences slightly. The fully adjusted odds ratio for having economic difficulties in covering the cost of medicine and health care among old-age pensioners with previous disability retirement due to mental disorders was 2.15 (95% CI 1.44-3.22) compared to other old-age pensioners without previous disability retirement., Conclusions: Preventing disability retirement among working-age people diminishes the risk of economic difficulties in old age. More attention should be focussed especially on those with a high risk of disability retirement due to mental disorders., (© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.)
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185. Characterization of the Cancer Spectrum in Men With Germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variants: Results From the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA).
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Silvestri V, Leslie G, Barnes DR, Agnarsson BA, Aittomäki K, Alducci E, Andrulis IL, Barkardottir RB, Barroso A, Barrowdale D, Benitez J, Bonanni B, Borg A, Buys SS, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Capalbo C, Campbell I, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Colonna SV, Cortesi L, Couch FJ, de la Hoya M, Diez O, Ding YC, Domchek S, Easton DF, Ejlertsen B, Engel C, Evans DG, Feliubadalò L, Foretova L, Fostira F, Géczi L, Gerdes AM, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldgar DE, Hahnen E, Hogervorst FBL, Hopper JL, Hulick PJ, Isaacs C, Izquierdo A, James PA, Janavicius R, Jensen UB, John EM, Joseph V, Konstantopoulou I, Kurian AW, Kwong A, Landucci E, Lesueur F, Loud JT, Machackova E, Mai PL, Majidzadeh-A K, Manoukian S, Montagna M, Moserle L, Mulligan AM, Nathanson KL, Nevanlinna H, Ngeow J, Nikitina-Zake L, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Osorio A, Papi L, Park SK, Pedersen IS, Perez-Segura P, Petersen AH, Pinto P, Porfirio B, Pujana MA, Radice P, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rosenzweig B, Rossing M, Santamariña M, Schmutzler RK, Senter L, Simard J, Singer CF, Solano AR, Southey MC, Steele L, Steinsnyder Z, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Teo SH, Terry MB, Thomassen M, Toland AE, Torres-Esquius S, Tung N, van Asperen CJ, Vega A, Viel A, Vierstraete J, Wappenschmidt B, Weitzel JN, Wieme G, Yoon SY, Zorn KK, McGuffog L, Parsons MT, Hamann U, Greene MH, Kirk JA, Neuhausen SL, Rebbeck TR, Tischkowitz M, Chenevix-Trench G, Antoniou AC, Friedman E, and Ottini L
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- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Germ-Line Mutation, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms diagnosis, Phenotype, Retrospective Studies, Young Adult, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Neoplasms genetics
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Importance: The limited data on cancer phenotypes in men with germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants (PVs) have hampered the development of evidence-based recommendations for early cancer detection and risk reduction in this population., Objective: To compare the cancer spectrum and frequencies between male BRCA1 and BRCA2 PV carriers., Design, Setting, and Participants: Retrospective cohort study of 6902 men, including 3651 BRCA1 and 3251 BRCA2 PV carriers, older than 18 years recruited from cancer genetics clinics from 1966 to 2017 by 53 study groups in 33 countries worldwide collaborating through the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). Clinical data and pathologic characteristics were collected., Main Outcomes and Measures: BRCA1/2 status was the outcome in a logistic regression, and cancer diagnoses were the independent predictors. All odds ratios (ORs) were adjusted for age, country of origin, and calendar year of the first interview., Results: Among the 6902 men in the study (median [range] age, 51.6 [18-100] years), 1634 cancers were diagnosed in 1376 men (19.9%), the majority (922 of 1,376 [67%]) being BRCA2 PV carriers. Being affected by any cancer was associated with a higher probability of being a BRCA2, rather than a BRCA1, PV carrier (OR, 3.23; 95% CI, 2.81-3.70; P < .001), as well as developing 2 (OR, 7.97; 95% CI, 5.47-11.60; P < .001) and 3 (OR, 19.60; 95% CI, 4.64-82.89; P < .001) primary tumors. A higher frequency of breast (OR, 5.47; 95% CI, 4.06-7.37; P < .001) and prostate (OR, 1.39; 95% CI, 1.09-1.78; P = .008) cancers was associated with a higher probability of being a BRCA2 PV carrier. Among cancers other than breast and prostate, pancreatic cancer was associated with a higher probability (OR, 3.00; 95% CI, 1.55-5.81; P = .001) and colorectal cancer with a lower probability (OR, 0.47; 95% CI, 0.29-0.78; P = .003) of being a BRCA2 PV carrier., Conclusions and Relevance: Significant differences in the cancer spectrum were observed in male BRCA2, compared with BRCA1, PV carriers. These data may inform future recommendations for surveillance of BRCA1/2-associated cancers and guide future prospective studies for estimating cancer risks in men with BRCA1/2 PVs.
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186. Transcriptome-wide association study of breast cancer risk by estrogen-receptor status.
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Feng H, Gusev A, Pasaniuc B, Wu L, Long J, Abu-Full Z, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antoniou AC, Arason A, Arndt V, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Asseryanis E, Auer PL, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barkardottir RB, Barnes DR, Barrowdale D, Beckmann MW, Behrens S, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Białkowska K, Blanco A, Blomqvist C, Boeckx B, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Bonanni B, Borg A, Brauch H, Brenner H, Briceno I, Broeks A, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Cai Q, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Canisius S, Campa D, Carter BD, Carter J, Castelao JE, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Christiansen H, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cross SS, Cybulski C, Czene K, Daly MB, de la Hoya M, De Leeneer K, Dennis J, Devilee P, Diez O, Domchek SM, Dörk T, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Dunning AM, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Ejlertsen B, Ellberg C, Engel C, Eriksson M, Fasching PA, Fletcher O, Flyger H, Fostira F, Friedman E, Fritschi L, Frost D, Gabrielson M, Ganz PA, Gapstur SM, Garber J, García-Closas M, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Giles GG, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Guénel P, Haiman CA, Hall P, Hamann U, Hake C, He W, Heyworth J, Hogervorst FBL, Hollestelle A, Hooning MJ, Hoover RN, Hopper JL, Huang G, Hulick PJ, Humphreys K, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Jakimovska M, Jakubowska A, James P, Janavicius R, Jankowitz RC, John EM, Johnson N, Joseph V, Jung A, Karlan BY, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski JI, Konstantopoulou I, Kristensen VN, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Lazaro C, Leroux D, Leslie G, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lindor N, Lindström S, Lo WY, Loud JT, Lubiński J, Makalic E, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martens JWM, Martinez ME, Matricardi L, Maurer T, Mavroudis D, McGuffog L, Meindl A, Menon U, Michailidou K, Kapoor PM, Miller A, Montagna M, Moreno F, Moserle L, Mulligan AM, Muranen TA, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Nevelsteen I, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olsson H, Osorio A, Papp J, Park-Simon TW, Parsons MT, Pedersen IS, Peixoto A, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Pharoah PDP, Phillips KA, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Poppe B, Pradhan N, Prajzendanc K, Presneau N, Punie K, Pylkäs K, Radice P, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rennert G, Risch HA, Robson M, Romero A, Saloustros E, Sandler DP, Santos C, Sawyer EJ, Schmidt MK, Schmidt DF, Schmutzler RK, Schoemaker MJ, Scott RJ, Sharma P, Shu XO, Simard J, Singer CF, Skytte AB, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Spurdle AB, Stone J, Swerdlow AJ, Tapper WJ, Taylor JA, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Teulé A, Thomassen M, Thöne K, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Tollenaar RAEM, Torres D, Truong T, Tung N, Vachon CM, van Asperen CJ, van den Ouweland AMW, van Rensburg EJ, Vega A, Viel A, Vieiro-Balo P, Wang Q, Wappenschmidt B, Weinberg CR, Weitzel JN, Wendt C, Winqvist R, Yang XR, Yannoukakos D, Ziogas A, Milne RL, Easton DF, Chenevix-Trench G, Zheng W, Kraft P, and Jiang X
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- Breast Neoplasms metabolism, Estrogens metabolism, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genomics, Humans, Risk Assessment, Transcriptome, Vesicular Transport Proteins genetics, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Receptors, Estrogen metabolism
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Previous transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have identified breast cancer risk genes by integrating data from expression quantitative loci and genome-wide association studies (GWAS), but analyses of breast cancer subtype-specific associations have been limited. In this study, we conducted a TWAS using gene expression data from GTEx and summary statistics from the hitherto largest GWAS meta-analysis conducted for breast cancer overall, and by estrogen receptor subtypes (ER+ and ER-). We further compared associations with ER+ and ER- subtypes, using a case-only TWAS approach. We also conducted multigene conditional analyses in regions with multiple TWAS associations. Two genes, STXBP4 and HIST2H2BA, were specifically associated with ER+ but not with ER- breast cancer. We further identified 30 TWAS-significant genes associated with overall breast cancer risk, including four that were not identified in previous studies. Conditional analyses identified single independent breast-cancer gene in three of six regions harboring multiple TWAS-significant genes. Our study provides new information on breast cancer genetics and biology, particularly about genomic differences between ER+ and ER- breast cancer., (© 2020 The Authors. Genetic Epidemiology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
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187. Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses.
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Zhang H, Ahearn TU, Lecarpentier J, Barnes D, Beesley J, Qi G, Jiang X, O'Mara TA, Zhao N, Bolla MK, Dunning AM, Dennis J, Wang Q, Ful ZA, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Arndt V, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Auer PL, Azzollini J, Barrowdale D, Becher H, Beckmann MW, Behrens S, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Bialkowska K, Blanco A, Blomqvist C, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bonanni B, Bondavalli D, Borg A, Brauch H, Brenner H, Briceno I, Broeks A, Brucker SY, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Buys SS, Byers H, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Calvello M, Campa D, Castelao JE, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Christiaens M, Christiansen H, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Cornelissen S, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cross SS, Czene K, Daly MB, Devilee P, Diez O, Domchek SM, Dörk T, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Ekici AB, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Figueroa J, Foretova L, Fostira F, Friedman E, Frost D, Gago-Dominguez M, Gapstur SM, Garber J, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Gayther SA, Giles GG, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Guénel P, Häberle L, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Hake CR, Hall P, Hamann U, Harkness EF, Heemskerk-Gerritsen BAM, Hillemanns P, Hogervorst FBL, Holleczek B, Hollestelle A, Hooning MJ, Hoover RN, Hopper JL, Howell A, Huebner H, Hulick PJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Izatt L, Jager A, Jakimovska M, Jakubowska A, James P, Janavicius R, Janni W, John EM, Jones ME, Jung A, Kaaks R, Kapoor PM, Karlan BY, Keeman R, Khan S, Khusnutdinova E, Kitahara CM, Ko YD, Konstantopoulou I, Koppert LB, Koutros S, Kristensen VN, Laenkholm AV, Lambrechts D, Larsson SC, Laurent-Puig P, Lazaro C, Lazarova E, Lejbkowicz F, Leslie G, Lesueur F, Lindblom A, Lissowska J, Lo WY, Loud JT, Lubinski J, Lukomska A, MacInnis RJ, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martinez ME, Matricardi L, McGuffog L, McLean C, Mebirouk N, Meindl A, Menon U, Miller A, Mingazheva E, Montagna M, Mulligan AM, Mulot C, Muranen TA, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Neven P, Newman WG, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Nodora J, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olsson H, Orr N, Papi L, Papp J, Park-Simon TW, Parsons MT, Peissel B, Peixoto A, Peshkin B, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Phillips KA, Piedmonte M, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Prajzendanc K, Prentice R, Prokofyeva D, Rack B, Radice P, Ramus SJ, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Risch HA, Romero A, Rookus MA, Rübner M, Rüdiger T, Saloustros E, Sampson S, Sandler DP, Sawyer EJ, Scheuner MT, Schmutzler RK, Schneeweiss A, Schoemaker MJ, Schöttker B, Schürmann P, Senter L, Sharma P, Sherman ME, Shu XO, Singer CF, Smichkoska S, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Stone J, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Swerdlow AJ, Szabo CI, Tamimi RM, Tapper WJ, Taylor JA, Teixeira MR, Terry M, Thomassen M, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Tollenaar RAEM, Tomlinson I, Torres D, Troester MA, Truong T, Tung N, Untch M, Vachon CM, van den Ouweland AMW, van der Kolk LE, van Veen EM, vanRensburg EJ, Vega A, Wappenschmidt B, Weinberg CR, Weitzel JN, Wildiers H, Winqvist R, Wolk A, Yang XR, Yannoukakos D, Zheng W, Zorn KK, Milne RL, Kraft P, Simard J, Pharoah PDP, Michailidou K, Antoniou AC, Schmidt MK, Chenevix-Trench G, Easton DF, Chatterjee N, and García-Closas M
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- BRCA1 Protein genetics, Breast Neoplasms pathology, Case-Control Studies, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Mutation, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms genetics, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms pathology, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study
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Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor subtype
1-3 . To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including 133,384 breast cancer cases and 113,789 controls, plus 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer) of European ancestry, using both standard and novel methodologies that account for underlying tumor heterogeneity by estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status and tumor grade. We identified 32 novel susceptibility loci (P < 5.0 × 10-8 ), 15 of which showed evidence for associations with at least one tumor feature (false discovery rate < 0.05). Five loci showed associations (P < 0.05) in opposite directions between luminal and non-luminal subtypes. In silico analyses showed that these five loci contained cell-specific enhancers that differed between normal luminal and basal mammary cells. The genetic correlations between five intrinsic-like subtypes ranged from 0.35 to 0.80. The proportion of genome-wide chip heritability explained by all known susceptibility loci was 54.2% for luminal A-like disease and 37.6% for triple-negative disease. The odds ratios of polygenic risk scores, which included 330 variants, for the highest 1% of quantiles compared with middle quantiles were 5.63 and 3.02 for luminal A-like and triple-negative disease, respectively. These findings provide an improved understanding of genetic predisposition to breast cancer subtypes and will inform the development of subtype-specific polygenic risk scores.- Published
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188. Individual- and Company-Level Predictors of Receiving Vocational Rehabilitation: A Multilevel Study of Finnish Private Sector Workplaces.
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Laaksonen M, Rantala J, Liukko J, Polvinen A, Varis J, Kesälä M, and Kuivalainen S
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- Adult, Female, Finland epidemiology, Humans, Male, Mental Disorders epidemiology, Mental Disorders rehabilitation, Middle Aged, Musculoskeletal Diseases epidemiology, Musculoskeletal Diseases rehabilitation, Registries, Private Sector statistics & numerical data, Rehabilitation, Vocational statistics & numerical data, Workplace statistics & numerical data
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Purpose The aim of this study was to examine the magnitude of company-level variation in vocational rehabilitation (VR) and to determine which individual- and company-level characteristics are associated with receiving VR due to mental disorders, musculoskeletal diseases, and other somatic diseases. Methods A 30% random sample of all Finnish private sector companies with more than 10 employees aged 25-62 years at the end of 2010 (5567 companies with 300,601 employees) was followed up for the receipt of VR over the next 6 years. Company size and industry, as well as gender, age, education, social class and sickness absence measured both at the individual- and company-level were used as explanatory variables in multilevel logit models. Results After controlling for the individual-level characteristics, 12% of the variance in VR was attributed to the company level. The proportion was largest in VR due to musculoskeletal diseases. Receiving VR was more common among women, older employees (except the oldest age group), those with low education (particularly due to musculoskeletal diseases), low social class, and previous sickness absence. Receiving VR was more common in larger companies, and in construction and in health and social work, and less common in professional, scientific and technical activities. Furthermore, receiving VR was more common in companies with low proportion of highly educated employees and with higher sickness absence rates. Conclusions Company-level variation in receiving VR was substantial. Adopting the practices of the companies with highest participation in VR could help to avoid work disability problems.
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189. Dual-light photodynamic therapy administered daily provides a sustained antibacterial effect on biofilm and prevents Streptococcus mutans adaptation.
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Nikinmaa S, Alapulli H, Auvinen P, Vaara M, Rantala J, Kankuri E, Sorsa T, Meurman J, and Pätilä T
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- Adaptation, Biological radiation effects, Bacterial Load drug effects, Bacterial Load radiation effects, Biofilms radiation effects, Humans, Microbial Viability drug effects, Microbial Viability radiation effects, Oral Hygiene methods, Periodontitis drug therapy, Streptococcus mutans radiation effects, Adaptation, Biological drug effects, Anti-Bacterial Agents pharmacology, Biofilms drug effects, Indocyanine Green pharmacology, Photochemotherapy methods, Photosensitizing Agents pharmacology, Streptococcus mutans drug effects
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Antibacterial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) and antibacterial blue light (aBL) are emerging treatment methods auxiliary to mechanical debridement for periodontitis. APDT provided with near-infrared (NIR) light in conjunction with an indocyanine green (ICG) photosensitizer has shown efficacy in several dental in-office-treatment protocols. In this study, we tested Streptococcus mutans biofilm sensitivity to either aPDT, aBL or their combination dual-light aPDT (simultaneous aPDT and aBL) exposure. Biofilm was cultured by pipetting diluted Streptococcus mutans suspension with growth medium on the bottom of well plates. Either aPDT (810 nm) or aBL (405 nm) or a dual-light aPDT (simultaneous 810 nm aPDT and 405 nm aBL) was applied with an ICG photosensitizer in cases of aPDT or dual-light, while keeping the total given radiant exposure constant at 100 J/cm2. Single-dose light exposures were given after one-day or four-day biofilm incubations. Also, a model of daily treatment was provided by repeating the same light dose daily on four-day and fourteen-day biofilm incubations. Finally, the antibacterial action of the dual-light aPDT with different energy ratios of 810 nm and 405 nm of light were examined on the single-day and four-day biofilm protocols. At the end of each experiment the bacterial viability was assessed by colony-forming unit method. Separate samples were prepared for confocal 3D biofilm imaging. On a one-day biofilm, the dual-light aPDT was significantly more efficient than aBL or aPDT, although all modalities were bactericidal. On a four-day biofilm, a single exposure of aPDT or dual-light aPDT was more efficient than aBL, resulting in a four logarithmic scale reduction in bacterial counts. Surprisingly, when the same amount of aPDT was repeated daily on a four-day or a fourteen-day biofilm, bacterial viability improved significantly. A similar improvement in bacterial viability was observed after repetitive aBL application. This viability improvement was eliminated when dual-light aPDT was applied. By changing the 405 nm to 810 nm radiant exposure ratio in dual-light aPDT, the increase in aBL improved the antibacterial action when the biofilm was older. In conclusion, when aPDT is administered repeatedly to S. mutans biofilm, a single wavelength-based aBL or aPDT leads to a significant biofilm adaptation and increased S. mutans viability. The combined use of aBL light in synchrony with aPDT arrests the adaptation and provides significantly improved and sustained antibacterial efficacy., Competing Interests: We have a financial disclosure about the paper, including authors, Sakari Nikinmaa, Tommi Pätilä and Juha Rantala. These authors are shareholders in a company Koite Health Oy, where SN and TP are also members of the board. Koite Health has filed patents P21233F100 and P22769F100, which are related to antibacterial dual light. The company Koite Health is developing a dual light antibacterial product for prevention of dental infections. Martti Vaara is a shareholder and a board member in Northern Antibiotics INC, which is dedicated to developing novel Colistin antibiotics. This financial disclosure does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
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190. Association of Genomic Domains in BRCA1 and BRCA2 with Prostate Cancer Risk and Aggressiveness.
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Patel VL, Busch EL, Friebel TM, Cronin A, Leslie G, McGuffog L, Adlard J, Agata S, Agnarsson BA, Ahmed M, Aittomäki K, Alducci E, Andrulis IL, Arason A, Arnold N, Artioli G, Arver B, Auber B, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barkardottir RB, Barnes DR, Barroso A, Barrowdale D, Belotti M, Benitez J, Bertelsen B, Blok MJ, Bodrogi I, Bonadona V, Bonanni B, Bondavalli D, Boonen SE, Borde J, Borg A, Bradbury AR, Brady A, Brewer C, Brunet J, Buecher B, Buys SS, Cabezas-Camarero S, Caldés T, Caliebe A, Caligo MA, Calvello M, Campbell IG, Carnevali I, Carrasco E, Chan TL, Chu ATW, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Collaborators GS, Collaborators E, Cook J, Cortesi L, Couch FJ, Daly MB, Damante G, Darder E, Davidson R, de la Hoya M, Puppa LD, Dennis J, Díez O, Ding YC, Ditsch N, Domchek SM, Donaldson A, Dworniczak B, Easton DF, Eccles DM, Eeles RA, Ehrencrona H, Ejlertsen B, Engel C, Evans DG, Faivre L, Faust U, Feliubadaló L, Foretova L, Fostira F, Fountzilas G, Frost D, García-Barberán V, Garre P, Gauthier-Villars M, Géczi L, Gehrig A, Gerdes AM, Gesta P, Giannini G, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldgar DE, Greene MH, Gutierrez-Barrera AM, Hahnen E, Hamann U, Hauke J, Herold N, Hogervorst FBL, Honisch E, Hopper JL, Hulick PJ, Investigators K, Investigators H, Izatt L, Jager A, James P, Janavicius R, Jensen UB, Jensen TD, Johannsson OT, John EM, Joseph V, Kang E, Kast K, Kiiski JI, Kim SW, Kim Z, Ko KP, Konstantopoulou I, Kramer G, Krogh L, Kruse TA, Kwong A, Larsen M, Lasset C, Lautrup C, Lazaro C, Lee J, Lee JW, Lee MH, Lemke J, Lesueur F, Liljegren A, Lindblom A, Llovet P, Lopez-Fernández A, Lopez-Perolio I, Lorca V, Loud JT, Ma ESK, Mai PL, Manoukian S, Mari V, Martin L, Matricardi L, Mebirouk N, Medici V, Meijers-Heijboer HEJ, Meindl A, Mensenkamp AR, Miller C, Gomes DM, Montagna M, Mooij TM, Moserle L, Mouret-Fourme E, Mulligan AM, Nathanson KL, Navratilova M, Nevanlinna H, Niederacher D, Nielsen FCC, Nikitina-Zake L, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Ong KR, Osorio A, Ott CE, Palli D, Park SK, Parsons MT, Pedersen IS, Peissel B, Peixoto A, Pérez-Segura P, Peterlongo P, Petersen AH, Porteous ME, Pujana MA, Radice P, Ramser J, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rhiem K, Rizzolo P, Robson ME, Rookus MA, Rossing CM, Ruddy KJ, Santos C, Saule C, Scarpitta R, Schmutzler RK, Schuster H, Senter L, Seynaeve CM, Shah PD, Sharma P, Shin VY, Silvestri V, Simard J, Singer CF, Skytte AB, Snape K, Solano AR, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spurdle AB, Steele L, Steinemann D, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Stradella A, Sunde L, Sutter C, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Teo SH, Thomassen M, Tibiletti MG, Tischkowitz M, Tognazzo S, Toland AE, Tommasi S, Torres D, Toss A, Trainer AH, Tung N, van Asperen CJ, van der Baan FH, van der Kolk LE, van der Luijt RB, van Hest LP, Varesco L, Varon-Mateeva R, Viel A, Vierstraete J, Villa R, von Wachenfeldt A, Wagner P, Wang-Gohrke S, Wappenschmidt B, Weitzel JN, Wieme G, Yadav S, Yannoukakos D, Yoon SY, Zanzottera C, Zorn KK, D'Amico AV, Freedman ML, Pomerantz MM, Chenevix-Trench G, Antoniou AC, Neuhausen SL, Ottini L, Nielsen HR, and Rebbeck TR
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- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Genetic Association Studies, Heterozygote, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Prognosis, Risk Factors, Young Adult, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genomics methods, Mutation, Prostatic Neoplasms genetics, Prostatic Neoplasms pathology
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Pathogenic sequence variants (PSV) in BRCA1 or BRCA2 ( BRCA1/2 ) are associated with increased risk and severity of prostate cancer. We evaluated whether PSVs in BRCA1/2 were associated with risk of overall prostate cancer or high grade (Gleason 8+) prostate cancer using an international sample of 65 BRCA1 and 171 BRCA2 male PSV carriers with prostate cancer, and 3,388 BRCA1 and 2,880 BRCA2 male PSV carriers without prostate cancer. PSVs in the 3' region of BRCA2 (c.7914+) were significantly associated with elevated risk of prostate cancer compared with reference bin c.1001-c.7913 [HR = 1.78; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.25-2.52; P = 0.001], as well as elevated risk of Gleason 8+ prostate cancer (HR = 3.11; 95% CI, 1.63-5.95; P = 0.001). c.756-c.1000 was also associated with elevated prostate cancer risk (HR = 2.83; 95% CI, 1.71-4.68; P = 0.00004) and elevated risk of Gleason 8+ prostate cancer (HR = 4.95; 95% CI, 2.12-11.54; P = 0.0002). No genotype-phenotype associations were detected for PSVs in BRCA1 . These results demonstrate that specific BRCA2 PSVs may be associated with elevated risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer. SIGNIFICANCE: Aggressive prostate cancer risk in BRCA2 mutation carriers may vary according to the specific BRCA2 mutation inherited by the at-risk individual., (©2019 American Association for Cancer Research.)
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191. Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes.
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Fachal L, Aschard H, Beesley J, Barnes DR, Allen J, Kar S, Pooley KA, Dennis J, Michailidou K, Turman C, Soucy P, Lemaçon A, Lush M, Tyrer JP, Ghoussaini M, Moradi Marjaneh M, Jiang X, Agata S, Aittomäki K, Alonso MR, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova NN, Arason A, Arndt V, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Auber B, Auer PL, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Białkowska K, Blanco AM, Blomqvist C, Blot W, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Bonanni B, Borg A, Bosse K, Brauch H, Brenner H, Briceno I, Brock IW, Brooks-Wilson A, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Buys SS, Cai Q, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Camp NJ, Campbell I, Canzian F, Carroll JS, Carter BD, Castelao JE, Chiquette J, Christiansen H, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Collée JM, Cornelissen S, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cross SS, Cybulski C, Czene K, Daly MB, de la Hoya M, Devilee P, Diez O, Ding YC, Dite GS, Domchek SM, Dörk T, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Droit A, Dubois S, Dumont M, Duran M, Durcan L, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Engel C, Eriksson M, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Fletcher O, Floris G, Flyger H, Foretova L, Foulkes WD, Friedman E, Fritschi L, Frost D, Gabrielson M, Gago-Dominguez M, Gambino G, Ganz PA, Gapstur SM, Garber J, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Georgoulias V, Giles GG, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Tibiletti MG, Greene MH, Grip M, Gronwald J, Grundy A, Guénel P, Hahnen E, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hall P, Hamann U, Harrington PA, Hartikainen JM, Hartman M, He W, Healey CS, Heemskerk-Gerritsen BAM, Heyworth J, Hillemanns P, Hogervorst FBL, Hollestelle A, Hooning MJ, Hopper JL, Howell A, Huang G, Hulick PJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Iwasaki M, Jager A, Jakimovska M, Jakubowska A, James PA, Janavicius R, Jankowitz RC, John EM, Johnson N, Jones ME, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Jung A, Kaaks R, Kang D, Kapoor PM, Karlan BY, Keeman R, Kerin MJ, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski JI, Kirk J, Kitahara CM, Ko YD, Konstantopoulou I, Kosma VM, Koutros S, Kubelka-Sabit K, Kwong A, Kyriacou K, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Lee E, Leslie G, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lindblom A, Lo WY, Long J, Lophatananon A, Loud JT, Lubiński J, MacInnis RJ, Maishman T, Makalic E, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martinez ME, Matsuo K, Maurer T, Mavroudis D, Mayes R, McGuffog L, McLean C, Mebirouk N, Meindl A, Miller A, Miller N, Montagna M, Moreno F, Muir K, Mulligan AM, Muñoz-Garzon VM, Muranen TA, Narod SA, Nassir R, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Neven P, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Norman A, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olsson H, Orr N, Osorio A, Pankratz VS, Papp J, Park SK, Park-Simon TW, Parsons MT, Paul J, Pedersen IS, Peissel B, Peshkin B, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Prajzendanc K, Prentice R, Presneau N, Prokofyeva D, Pujana MA, Pylkäs K, Radice P, Ramus SJ, Rantala J, Rau-Murthy R, Rennert G, Risch HA, Robson M, Romero A, Rossing M, Saloustros E, Sánchez-Herrero E, Sandler DP, Santamariña M, Saunders C, Sawyer EJ, Scheuner MT, Schmidt DF, Schmutzler RK, Schneeweiss A, Schoemaker MJ, Schöttker B, Schürmann P, Scott C, Scott RJ, Senter L, Seynaeve CM, Shah M, Sharma P, Shen CY, Shu XO, Singer CF, Slavin TP, Smichkoska S, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Spurdle AB, Stone J, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutter C, Swerdlow AJ, Tamimi RM, Tan YY, Tapper WJ, Taylor JA, Teixeira MR, Tengström M, Teo SH, Terry MB, Teulé A, Thomassen M, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Tollenaar RAEM, Tomlinson I, Torres D, Torres-Mejía G, Troester MA, Truong T, Tung N, Tzardi M, Ulmer HU, Vachon CM, van Asperen CJ, van der Kolk LE, van Rensburg EJ, Vega A, Viel A, Vijai J, Vogel MJ, Wang Q, Wappenschmidt B, Weinberg CR, Weitzel JN, Wendt C, Wildiers H, Winqvist R, Wolk A, Wu AH, Yannoukakos D, Zhang Y, Zheng W, Hunter D, Pharoah PDP, Chang-Claude J, García-Closas M, Schmidt MK, Milne RL, Kristensen VN, French JD, Edwards SL, Antoniou AC, Chenevix-Trench G, Simard J, Easton DF, Kraft P, and Dunning AM
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- Bayes Theorem, Female, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Risk Factors, Biomarkers, Tumor genetics, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Chromosome Mapping methods, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci
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Genome-wide association studies have identified breast cancer risk variants in over 150 genomic regions, but the mechanisms underlying risk remain largely unknown. These regions were explored by combining association analysis with in silico genomic feature annotations. We defined 205 independent risk-associated signals with the set of credible causal variants in each one. In parallel, we used a Bayesian approach (PAINTOR) that combines genetic association, linkage disequilibrium and enriched genomic features to determine variants with high posterior probabilities of being causal. Potentially causal variants were significantly over-represented in active gene regulatory regions and transcription factor binding sites. We applied our INQUSIT pipeline for prioritizing genes as targets of those potentially causal variants, using gene expression (expression quantitative trait loci), chromatin interaction and functional annotations. Known cancer drivers, transcription factors and genes in the developmental, apoptosis, immune system and DNA integrity checkpoint gene ontology pathways were over-represented among the highest-confidence target genes.
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192. Company-level determinants of disability retirement: a multilevel study of Finnish private sector workplaces.
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Laaksonen M, Rantala J, Liukko J, Polvinen A, Varis J, Kesälä M, and Kuivalainen S
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Background: We examined whether the risk for disability retirement varies between companies over and above the individual-level characteristics of their employees and which company-level characteristics are associated with the risk for any, full or partial disability retirement., Methods: A 30% random sample of Finnish private sector companies with at least 10 employees was used (5567 companies and 301 313 employees). The risk for disability retirement over 6 years was analyzed using multilevel logistic regression. Company size and industry, as well as gender, age, education and social class measured both at the individual- and the company-level were used as explanatory variables., Results: 3.8% of the variance in the risk for disability retirement was attributed to the company level after controlling for individual-level characteristics of the employees. Company-level variance was much larger in partial (11.7%) than in full (4.2%) disability retirement. After controlling for all individual- and company-level characteristics, those working in health and social work activities had increased risk for both full and partial disability retirement. The risk for full disability retirement increased by decreasing educational level of the company. The risk for partial disability retirement increased by increasing company size and was elevated in companies with the highest proportion of women., Conclusions: After controlling for the individual-level characteristics, variation in the risk for disability retirement between companies was modest. The more substantial variation in partial disability pension suggests that companies have a marked role in advancing working with partial disabilities., (© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.)
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193. The FANCM :p.Arg658* truncating variant is associated with risk of triple-negative breast cancer.
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Figlioli G, Bogliolo M, Catucci I, Caleca L, Lasheras SV, Pujol R, Kiiski JI, Muranen TA, Barnes DR, Dennis J, Michailidou K, Bolla MK, Leslie G, Aalfs CM, Adank MA, Adlard J, Agata S, Cadoo K, Agnarsson BA, Ahearn T, Aittomäki K, Ambrosone CB, Andrews L, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova NN, Arndt V, Arnold N, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Asseryanis E, Auber B, Auvinen P, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Barwell J, Beane Freeman LE, Beauparlant CJ, Beckmann MW, Behrens S, Benitez J, Berger R, Bermisheva M, Blanco AM, Blomqvist C, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen A, Bojesen SE, Bonanni B, Borg A, Brady AF, Brauch H, Brenner H, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Buys SS, Caldés T, Caliebe A, Caligo MA, Campa D, Campbell IG, Canzian F, Castelao JE, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Collavoli A, Conner TA, Cox DG, Cybulski C, Czene K, Daly MB, de la Hoya M, Devilee P, Diez O, Ding YC, Dite GS, Ditsch N, Domchek SM, Dorfling CM, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Durda K, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Ekici AB, Eliassen AH, Ellberg C, Eriksson M, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Figueroa J, Flyger H, Foulkes WD, Friebel TM, Friedman E, Gabrielson M, Gaddam P, Gago-Dominguez M, Gao C, Gapstur SM, Garber J, García-Closas M, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Gayther SA, Giles GG, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, Guénel P, Gutierrez-Barrera AM, Haeberle L, Haiman CA, Håkansson N, Hall P, Hamann U, Harrington PA, Hein A, Heyworth J, Hillemanns P, Hollestelle A, Hopper JL, Hosgood HD 3rd, Howell A, Hu C, Hulick PJ, Hunter DJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Jakimovska M, Jakubowska A, James P, Janavicius R, Janni W, John EM, Jones ME, Jung A, Kaaks R, Karlan BY, Khusnutdinova E, Kitahara CM, Konstantopoulou I, Koutros S, Kraft P, Lambrechts D, Lazaro C, Le Marchand L, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lilyquist J, Loud JT, Lu KH, Luben RN, Lubinski J, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martens JWM, Maurer T, Mavroudis D, Mebirouk N, Meindl A, Menon U, Miller A, Montagna M, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Newman WG, Nguyen-Dumont T, Nielsen FC, Nielsen S, Nikitina-Zake L, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olshan AF, Olson JE, Olsson H, Osorio A, Ottini L, Peissel B, Peixoto A, Peto J, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Pocza T, Presneau N, Pujana MA, Punie K, Rack B, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rau-Murthy R, Rennert G, Lejbkowicz F, Rhenius V, Romero A, Rookus MA, Ross EA, Rossing M, Rudaitis V, Ruebner M, Saloustros E, Sanden K, Santamariña M, Scheuner MT, Schmutzler RK, Schneider M, Scott C, Senter L, Shah M, Sharma P, Shu XO, Simard J, Singer CF, Sohn C, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Steele L, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Tapper WJ, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Thomassen M, Thompson J, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Tollenaar RAEM, Torres D, Troester MA, Truong T, Tung N, Untch M, Vachon CM, van Rensburg EJ, van Veen EM, Vega A, Viel A, Wappenschmidt B, Weitzel JN, Wendt C, Wieme G, Wolk A, Yang XR, Zheng W, Ziogas A, Zorn KK, Dunning AM, Lush M, Wang Q, McGuffog L, Parsons MT, Pharoah PDP, Fostira F, Toland AE, Andrulis IL, Ramus SJ, Swerdlow AJ, Greene MH, Chung WK, Milne RL, Chenevix-Trench G, Dörk T, Schmidt MK, Easton DF, Radice P, Hahnen E, Antoniou AC, Couch FJ, Nevanlinna H, Surrallés J, and Peterlongo P
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Breast cancer is a common disease partially caused by genetic risk factors. Germline pathogenic variants in DNA repair genes BRCA1 , BRCA2 , PALB2 , ATM , and CHEK2 are associated with breast cancer risk. FANCM , which encodes for a DNA translocase, has been proposed as a breast cancer predisposition gene, with greater effects for the ER-negative and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtypes. We tested the three recurrent protein-truncating variants FANCM :p.Arg658*, p.Gln1701*, and p.Arg1931* for association with breast cancer risk in 67,112 cases, 53,766 controls, and 26,662 carriers of pathogenic variants of BRCA1 or BRCA2 . These three variants were also studied functionally by measuring survival and chromosome fragility in FANCM
-/- patient-derived immortalized fibroblasts treated with diepoxybutane or olaparib. We observed that FANCM :p.Arg658* was associated with increased risk of ER-negative disease and TNBC (OR = 2.44, P = 0.034 and OR = 3.79; P = 0.009, respectively). In a country-restricted analysis, we confirmed the associations detected for FANCM :p.Arg658* and found that also FANCM :p.Arg1931* was associated with ER-negative breast cancer risk (OR = 1.96; P = 0.006). The functional results indicated that all three variants were deleterious affecting cell survival and chromosome stability with FANCM :p.Arg658* causing more severe phenotypes. In conclusion, we confirmed that the two rare FANCM deleterious variants p.Arg658* and p.Arg1931* are risk factors for ER-negative and TNBC subtypes. Overall our data suggest that the effect of truncating variants on breast cancer risk may depend on their position in the gene. Cell sensitivity to olaparib exposure, identifies a possible therapeutic option to treat FANCM -associated tumors., Competing Interests: Competing interestsC.I. reports consulting with AstraZeneca and Pfizer and her institution receives research support for Tesaro, AstraZeneca, and Pfizer. B.Y.K. served on Invitae Corporation’s Advisory Board from 2017 to 2018. K.P. reports receiving fee, paid to his institution, for lectures and/or participation in advisory board of AstraZeneca and Pfizer and travel support from AstraZeneca and Pfizer. Jordi Surrallés’ institution received research support from Rocket Pharmaceuticals. The remaining authors declare no competing interests., (© The Author(s) 2019.)- Published
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194. Personalized Drug Sensitivity Screening for Bladder Cancer Using Conditionally Reprogrammed Patient-derived Cells.
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Kettunen K, Boström PJ, Lamminen T, Heinosalo T, West G, Saarinen I, Kaipio K, Rantala J, Albanese C, Poutanen M, and Taimen P
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Many patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (BC) are either ineligible for or do not benefit from cisplatin-based chemotherapy, and there is an unmet need to estimate individuals' drug sensitivities. We investigated the suitability of conditionally reprogrammed (CR) cells for the characterization of BC properties and their feasibility for personalized drug sensitivity screening. The CR cultures were established from six BC tumors with varying histology and stage. Four cultures were successfully propagated for genomic, transcriptomic, and protein expression profiling and compared to the parental tumors. Two out of four CR cultures (urothelial carcinoma and small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma [SmCC]) corresponded well to their parental tumors and underwent drug sensitivity screening to identify novel drugs for the respective tumors. Both cultures were sensitive to standard BC chemotherapy agents (eg cisplatin and gemcitabine) and to conventional drugs such as taxanes and inhibitors of topoisomerase and proteasome. The SmCC cells were also sensitive to statins (eg, atorvastatin and pitavastatin). In summary, after confirming their representativeness and origin, we conclude that CR cells are a feasible platform for personalized drug sensitivity testing and might thus add to the approaches used to personalize BC treatment strategies. PATIENT SUMMARY: We investigated the conditional reprogramming method for generating patient-derived bladder cancer cell cultures and studied their feasibility for planning personalized treatment strategies., (Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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195. Mendelian randomisation study of height and body mass index as modifiers of ovarian cancer risk in 22,588 BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
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Qian F, Rookus MA, Leslie G, Risch HA, Greene MH, Aalfs CM, Adank MA, Adlard J, Agnarsson BA, Ahmed M, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Arnold N, Arun BK, Ausems MGEM, Azzollini J, Barrowdale D, Barwell J, Benitez J, Białkowska K, Bonadona V, Borde J, Borg A, Bradbury AR, Brunet J, Buys SS, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Carter J, Chiquette J, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Collée JM, Collonge-Rame MA, Couch FJ, Daly MB, Delnatte C, Diez O, Domchek SM, Dorfling CM, Eason J, Easton DF, Eeles R, Engel C, Evans DG, Faivre L, Feliubadaló L, Foretova L, Friedman E, Frost D, Ganz PA, Garber J, Garcia-Barberan V, Gehrig A, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Gómez Garcia EB, Hamann U, Hauke J, Hopper JL, Hulick PJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Izatt L, Jakubowska A, Janavicius R, John EM, Karlan BY, Kets CM, Laitman Y, Lázaro C, Leroux D, Lester J, Lesueur F, Loud JT, Lubiński J, Łukomska A, McGuffog L, Mebirouk N, Meijers-Heijboer HEJ, Meindl A, Miller A, Montagna M, Mooij TM, Mouret-Fourme E, Nathanson KL, Nehoray B, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Nielsen FC, Offit K, Olah E, Ong KR, Oosterwijk JC, Ottini L, Parsons MT, Peterlongo P, Pfeiler G, Pradhan N, Radice P, Ramus SJ, Rantala J, Rennert G, Robson M, Rodriguez GC, Salani R, Scheuner MT, Schmutzler RK, Shah PD, Side LE, Simard J, Singer CF, Steinemann D, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Thomassen M, Tischkowitz M, Tognazzo S, Toland AE, Tung N, van Asperen CJ, van Engelen K, van Rensburg EJ, Venat-Bouvet L, Vierstraete J, Wagner G, Walker L, Weitzel JN, Yannoukakos D, Antoniou AC, Goldgar DE, Olopade OI, Chenevix-Trench G, Rebbeck TR, and Huo D
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- Adult, Aged, Female, Humans, Menopause, Middle Aged, Ovarian Neoplasms genetics, Proportional Hazards Models, Body Height, Body Mass Index, Genes, BRCA1, Genes, BRCA2, Heterozygote, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Mutation, Ovarian Neoplasms etiology
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Background: Height and body mass index (BMI) are associated with higher ovarian cancer risk in the general population, but whether such associations exist among BRCA1/2 mutation carriers is unknown., Methods: We applied a Mendelian randomisation approach to examine height/BMI with ovarian cancer risk using the Consortium of Investigators for the Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA) data set, comprising 14,676 BRCA1 and 7912 BRCA2 mutation carriers, with 2923 ovarian cancer cases. We created a height genetic score (height-GS) using 586 height-associated variants and a BMI genetic score (BMI-GS) using 93 BMI-associated variants. Associations were assessed using weighted Cox models., Results: Observed height was not associated with ovarian cancer risk (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.07 per 10-cm increase in height, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.94-1.23). Height-GS showed similar results (HR = 1.02, 95% CI: 0.85-1.23). Higher BMI was significantly associated with increased risk in premenopausal women with HR = 1.25 (95% CI: 1.06-1.48) and HR = 1.59 (95% CI: 1.08-2.33) per 5-kg/m
2 increase in observed and genetically determined BMI, respectively. No association was found for postmenopausal women. Interaction between menopausal status and BMI was significant (Pinteraction < 0.05)., Conclusion: Our observation of a positive association between BMI and ovarian cancer risk in premenopausal BRCA1/2 mutation carriers is consistent with findings in the general population.- Published
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196. Combined prognostic value of CD274 (PD-L1)/PDCDI (PD-1) expression and immune cell infiltration in colorectal cancer as per mismatch repair status.
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Ahtiainen M, Wirta EV, Kuopio T, Seppälä T, Rantala J, Mecklin JP, and Böhm J
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- Aged, B7-H1 Antigen biosynthesis, Biomarkers, Tumor analysis, Colorectal Neoplasms genetics, Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis genetics, DNA Mismatch Repair, Female, Humans, Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating pathology, Male, Middle Aged, Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor biosynthesis, Tumor Microenvironment immunology, Colorectal Neoplasms immunology, Colorectal Neoplasms pathology, Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis immunology, Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis pathology, Lymphocytes, Tumor-Infiltrating immunology
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The CD274 (programmed cell death ligand-1, PD-L1)/PDCD1 (programmed cell death-1, PD-1) pathway is crucial suppressor of the cytotoxic immune response. Antibodies targeting CD274 or PDCD1 have been revealed to be effective in several malignancies. In colorectal cancer, the response to CD274/PDCD1 blockage is associated with microsatellite instability. However, the value of CD274/PDCD1 for predicting response to treatment or survival benefit is still unclear. The aims of the study were (1) to clarify differences in immune microenvironment and expression of checkpoint proteins (CD274/PDCD1) in DNA mismatch repair-proficient, mismatch repair-deficient, and hereditary Lynch syndrome-associated colorectal cancer, and (2) to assess the prognostic value of these factors and their combinations. Ninety-four mismatch repair-deficient colorectal cancers, 100 age, sex, and AJCC/UICC stage-matched mismatch repair-proficient colorectal cancers, and 48 Lynch syndrome-associated colorectal cancers were analyzed. Using whole section samples, detailed analysis of immune cell score, PDCD1, and CD274 expression was performed. Overlapping of CD274 expression in tumor and immune cells was almost complete (95%). Immune cell score and CD274/PDCD1 positivity were significantly more frequent in mismatch repair-deficient than in mismatch repair-proficient colorectal cancers (70% vs. 41% (high immune cell score); 81% vs. 49% (PDCD1
high ), 23% vs. 1% (CD274 on tumor cells) and 68% vs. 30% (CD274 on immune cells), P < 0.001), and were associated strongly with each other. Although the independent impact of immune cell score, PDCD1, and CD274 on immune cells was moderate, the immunoprofile parameter combining the above three factors appeared to be a strong independent prognostic factor for disease-specific survival and overall survival (P = 0.001) and had suggestive impact on disease-free survival (P = 0.011). Our results encourage the use of immune cell score analysis together with PDCD1 and CD274 detection to improve the prognostic evaluation of colorectal cancer patients. Particularly, the analyses from whole tissue sections are encouraged to allow reliable and cell-specific analyses of CD274 expression.- Published
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197. Genome-wide association and transcriptome studies identify target genes and risk loci for breast cancer.
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Ferreira MA, Gamazon ER, Al-Ejeh F, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Arason A, Arndt V, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Asseryanis E, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barnes DR, Barrowdale D, Beckmann MW, Behrens S, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Białkowska K, Blomqvist C, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Borg A, Brauch H, Brenner H, Broeks A, Burwinkel B, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campa D, Campbell I, Canzian F, Carter J, Carter BD, Castelao JE, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Christiansen H, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cross SS, Czene K, Daly MB, de la Hoya M, Dennis J, Devilee P, Diez O, Dörk T, Dunning AM, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Ejlertsen B, Ellberg C, Engel C, Eriksson M, Fasching PA, Fletcher O, Flyger H, Friedman E, Frost D, Gabrielson M, Gago-Dominguez M, Ganz PA, Gapstur SM, Garber J, García-Closas M, García-Sáenz JA, Gaudet MM, Giles GG, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Guénel P, Haiman CA, Hall P, Hamann U, He W, Heyworth J, Hogervorst FBL, Hollestelle A, Hoover RN, Hopper JL, Hulick PJ, Humphreys K, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Jakimovska M, Jakubowska A, James PA, Janavicius R, Jankowitz RC, John EM, Johnson N, Joseph V, Karlan BY, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski JI, Ko YD, Jones ME, Konstantopoulou I, Kristensen VN, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Lazaro C, Leslie G, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lindström S, Long J, Loud JT, Lubiński J, Makalic E, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Margolin S, Maurer T, Mavroudis D, McGuffog L, Meindl A, Menon U, Michailidou K, Miller A, Montagna M, Moreno F, Moserle L, Mulligan AM, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Nevelsteen I, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Nussbaum RL, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olsson H, Osorio A, Papp J, Park-Simon TW, Parsons MT, Pedersen IS, Peixoto A, Peterlongo P, Pharoah PDP, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Poppe B, Presneau N, Radice P, Rantala J, Rennert G, Risch HA, Saloustros E, Sanden K, Sawyer EJ, Schmidt MK, Schmutzler RK, Sharma P, Shu XO, Simard J, Singer CF, Soucy P, Southey MC, Spinelli JJ, Spurdle AB, Stone J, Swerdlow AJ, Tapper WJ, Taylor JA, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Teulé A, Thomassen M, Thöne K, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Torres D, Truong T, Tung N, Vachon CM, van Asperen CJ, van den Ouweland AMW, van Rensburg EJ, Vega A, Viel A, Wang Q, Wappenschmidt B, Weitzel JN, Wendt C, Winqvist R, Yang XR, Yannoukakos D, Ziogas A, Kraft P, Antoniou AC, Zheng W, Easton DF, Milne RL, Beesley J, and Chenevix-Trench G
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- Female, Gene Expression Profiling, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Quantitative Trait Loci, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 170 breast cancer susceptibility loci. Here we hypothesize that some risk-associated variants might act in non-breast tissues, specifically adipose tissue and immune cells from blood and spleen. Using expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) reported in these tissues, we identify 26 previously unreported, likely target genes of overall breast cancer risk variants, and 17 for estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer, several with a known immune function. We determine the directional effect of gene expression on disease risk measured based on single and multiple eQTL. In addition, using a gene-based test of association that considers eQTL from multiple tissues, we identify seven (and four) regions with variants associated with overall (and ER-negative) breast cancer risk, which were not reported in previous GWAS. Further investigation of the function of the implicated genes in breast and immune cells may provide insights into the etiology of breast cancer.
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198. Height and Body Mass Index as Modifiers of Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
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Qian F, Wang S, Mitchell J, McGuffog L, Barrowdale D, Leslie G, Oosterwijk JC, Chung WK, Evans DG, Engel C, Kast K, Aalfs CM, Adank MA, Adlard J, Agnarsson BA, Aittomäki K, Alducci E, Andrulis IL, Arun BK, Ausems MGEM, Azzollini J, Barouk-Simonet E, Barwell J, Belotti M, Benitez J, Berger A, Borg A, Bradbury AR, Brunet J, Buys SS, Caldes T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Caputo SM, Chiquette J, Claes KBM, Margriet Collée J, Couch FJ, Coupier I, Daly MB, Davidson R, Diez O, Domchek SM, Donaldson A, Dorfling CM, Eeles R, Feliubadaló L, Foretova L, Fowler J, Friedman E, Frost D, Ganz PA, Garber J, Garcia-Barberan V, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Gómez Garcia EB, Gronwald J, Hahnen E, Hamann U, Henderson A, Hendricks CB, Hopper JL, Hulick PJ, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Izatt L, Izquierdo Á, Jakubowska A, Kaczmarek K, Kang E, Karlan BY, Kets CM, Kim SW, Kim Z, Kwong A, Laitman Y, Lasset C, Hyuk Lee M, Won Lee J, Lee J, Lester J, Lesueur F, Loud JT, Lubinski J, Mebirouk N, Meijers-Heijboer HEJ, Meindl A, Miller A, Montagna M, Mooij TM, Morrison PJ, Mouret-Fourme E, Nathanson KL, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Niederacher D, Nielsen FC, Nussbaum RL, Offit K, Olah E, Ong KR, Ottini L, Park SK, Peterlongo P, Pfeiler G, Phelan CM, Poppe B, Pradhan N, Radice P, Ramus SJ, Rantala J, Robson M, Rodriguez GC, Schmutzler RK, Hutten Selkirk CG, Shah PD, Simard J, Singer CF, Sokolowska J, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutter C, Yen Tan Y, Teixeira RM, Teo SH, Terry MB, Thomassen M, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Tucker KM, Tung N, van Asperen CJ, van Engelen K, van Rensburg EJ, Wang-Gohrke S, Wappenschmidt B, Weitzel JN, Yannoukakos D, Greene MH, Rookus MA, Easton DF, Chenevix-Trench G, Antoniou AC, Goldgar DE, Olopade OI, Rebbeck TR, and Huo D
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- Adult, Breast Neoplasms pathology, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prognosis, Risk Factors, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Body Height, Body Mass Index, Breast Neoplasms etiology, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Mutation
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Background: BRCA1/2 mutations confer high lifetime risk of breast cancer, although other factors may modify this risk. Whether height or body mass index (BMI) modifies breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers remains unclear., Methods: We used Mendelian randomization approaches to evaluate the association of height and BMI on breast cancer risk, using data from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 with 14 676 BRCA1 and 7912 BRCA2 mutation carriers, including 11 451 cases of breast cancer. We created a height genetic score using 586 height-associated variants and a BMI genetic score using 93 BMI-associated variants. We examined both observed and genetically determined height and BMI with breast cancer risk using weighted Cox models. All statistical tests were two-sided., Results: Observed height was positively associated with breast cancer risk (HR = 1.09 per 10 cm increase, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.0 to 1.17; P = 1.17). Height genetic score was positively associated with breast cancer, although this was not statistically significant (per 10 cm increase in genetically predicted height, HR = 1.04, 95% CI = 0.93 to 1.17; P = .47). Observed BMI was inversely associated with breast cancer risk (per 5 kg/m2 increase, HR = 0.94, 95% CI = 0.90 to 0.98; P = .007). BMI genetic score was also inversely associated with breast cancer risk (per 5 kg/m2 increase in genetically predicted BMI, HR = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.76 to 0.98; P = .02). BMI was primarily associated with premenopausal breast cancer., Conclusion: Height is associated with overall breast cancer and BMI is associated with premenopausal breast cancer in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. Incorporating height and BMI, particularly genetic score, into risk assessment may improve cancer management., (© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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199. Differentiation-state plasticity is a targetable resistance mechanism in basal-like breast cancer.
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Risom T, Langer EM, Chapman MP, Rantala J, Fields AJ, Boniface C, Alvarez MJ, Kendsersky ND, Pelz CR, Johnson-Camacho K, Dobrolecki LE, Chin K, Aswani AJ, Wang NJ, Califano A, Lewis MT, Tomlin CJ, Spellman PT, Adey A, Gray JW, and Sears RC
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- Animals, Antineoplastic Agents therapeutic use, Azepines pharmacology, Breast Neoplasms drug therapy, Cell Line, Tumor, Chromatin metabolism, Female, Humans, Mice, Inbred NOD, Mice, SCID, Molecular Targeted Therapy, Triazoles pharmacology, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms pathology, Breast Neoplasms pathology, Cell Differentiation, Cell Plasticity, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
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Intratumoral heterogeneity in cancers arises from genomic instability and epigenomic plasticity and is associated with resistance to cytotoxic and targeted therapies. We show here that cell-state heterogeneity, defined by differentiation-state marker expression, is high in triple-negative and basal-like breast cancer subtypes, and that drug tolerant persister (DTP) cell populations with altered marker expression emerge during treatment with a wide range of pathway-targeted therapeutic compounds. We show that MEK and PI3K/mTOR inhibitor-driven DTP states arise through distinct cell-state transitions rather than by Darwinian selection of preexisting subpopulations, and that these transitions involve dynamic remodeling of open chromatin architecture. Increased activity of many chromatin modifier enzymes, including BRD4, is observed in DTP cells. Co-treatment with the PI3K/mTOR inhibitor BEZ235 and the BET inhibitor JQ1 prevents changes to the open chromatin architecture, inhibits the acquisition of a DTP state, and results in robust cell death in vitro and xenograft regression in vivo.
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200. Mutational spectrum in a worldwide study of 29,700 families with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations.
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Rebbeck TR, Friebel TM, Friedman E, Hamann U, Huo D, Kwong A, Olah E, Olopade OI, Solano AR, Teo SH, Thomassen M, Weitzel JN, Chan TL, Couch FJ, Goldgar DE, Kruse TA, Palmero EI, Park SK, Torres D, van Rensburg EJ, McGuffog L, Parsons MT, Leslie G, Aalfs CM, Abugattas J, Adlard J, Agata S, Aittomäki K, Andrews L, Andrulis IL, Arason A, Arnold N, Arun BK, Asseryanis E, Auerbach L, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barile M, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Benitez J, Berger A, Berger R, Blanco AM, Blazer KR, Blok MJ, Bonadona V, Bonanni B, Bradbury AR, Brewer C, Buecher B, Buys SS, Caldes T, Caliebe A, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Caputo SM, Chiquette J, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Collée JM, Cook J, Davidson R, de la Hoya M, De Leeneer K, de Pauw A, Delnatte C, Diez O, Ding YC, Ditsch N, Domchek SM, Dorfling CM, Velazquez C, Dworniczak B, Eason J, Easton DF, Eeles R, Ehrencrona H, Ejlertsen B, Engel C, Engert S, Evans DG, Faivre L, Feliubadaló L, Ferrer SF, Foretova L, Fowler J, Frost D, Galvão HCR, Ganz PA, Garber J, Gauthier-Villars M, Gehrig A, Gerdes AM, Gesta P, Giannini G, Giraud S, Glendon G, Godwin AK, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Gutierrez-Barrera A, Hahnen E, Hauke J, Henderson A, Hentschel J, Hogervorst FBL, Honisch E, Imyanitov EN, Isaacs C, Izatt L, Izquierdo A, Jakubowska A, James P, Janavicius R, Jensen UB, John EM, Vijai J, Kaczmarek K, Karlan BY, Kast K, Investigators K, Kim SW, Konstantopoulou I, Korach J, Laitman Y, Lasa A, Lasset C, Lázaro C, Lee A, Lee MH, Lester J, Lesueur F, Liljegren A, Lindor NM, Longy M, Loud JT, Lu KH, Lubinski J, Machackova E, Manoukian S, Mari V, Martínez-Bouzas C, Matrai Z, Mebirouk N, Meijers-Heijboer HEJ, Meindl A, Mensenkamp AR, Mickys U, Miller A, Montagna M, Moysich KB, Mulligan AM, Musinsky J, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Ngeow J, Nguyen HP, Niederacher D, Nielsen HR, Nielsen FC, Nussbaum RL, Offit K, Öfverholm A, Ong KR, Osorio A, Papi L, Papp J, Pasini B, Pedersen IS, Peixoto A, Peruga N, Peterlongo P, Pohl E, Pradhan N, Prajzendanc K, Prieur F, Pujol P, Radice P, Ramus SJ, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rhiem K, Robson M, Rodriguez GC, Rogers MT, Rudaitis V, Schmidt AY, Schmutzler RK, Senter L, Shah PD, Sharma P, Side LE, Simard J, Singer CF, Skytte AB, Slavin TP, Snape K, Sobol H, Southey M, Steele L, Steinemann D, Sukiennicki G, Sutter C, Szabo CI, Tan YY, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Teulé A, Thomas A, Thull DL, Tischkowitz M, Tognazzo S, Toland AE, Topka S, Trainer AH, Tung N, van Asperen CJ, van der Hout AH, van der Kolk LE, van der Luijt RB, Van Heetvelde M, Varesco L, Varon-Mateeva R, Vega A, Villarreal-Garza C, von Wachenfeldt A, Walker L, Wang-Gohrke S, Wappenschmidt B, Weber BHF, Yannoukakos D, Yoon SY, Zanzottera C, Zidan J, Zorn KK, Hutten Selkirk CG, Hulick PJ, Chenevix-Trench G, Spurdle AB, Antoniou AC, and Nathanson KL
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- Databases, Genetic, Family, Geography, Humans, BRCA1 Protein genetics, BRCA2 Protein genetics, Internationality, Mutation genetics
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The prevalence and spectrum of germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 have been reported in single populations, with the majority of reports focused on White in Europe and North America. The Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA) has assembled data on 18,435 families with BRCA1 mutations and 11,351 families with BRCA2 mutations ascertained from 69 centers in 49 countries on six continents. This study comprehensively describes the characteristics of the 1,650 unique BRCA1 and 1,731 unique BRCA2 deleterious (disease-associated) mutations identified in the CIMBA database. We observed substantial variation in mutation type and frequency by geographical region and race/ethnicity. In addition to known founder mutations, mutations of relatively high frequency were identified in specific racial/ethnic or geographic groups that may reflect founder mutations and which could be used in targeted (panel) first pass genotyping for specific populations. Knowledge of the population-specific mutational spectrum in BRCA1 and BRCA2 could inform efficient strategies for genetic testing and may justify a more broad-based oncogenetic testing in some populations., (© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
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