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1. Unravelling the biological and clinical challenges of circulating tumour cells in epithelial ovarian carcinoma

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Lewis, Faye, Beirne, James, Henderson, Brian, Norris, Lucy, Cadoo, Karen, Kelly, Tanya, Martin, Cara, Hurley, Sinéad, Kanjuga, Marika, O'Driscoll, Lorraine, Gately, Kathy, Oner, Ezgi, Saini, Volga M., Brooks, Doug, Selemidis, Stavros, Kamran, Waseem, Haughey, Niamh, Maguire, Patrick, O'Gorman, Catherine, Saadeh, Feras Abu, Ward, Mark P., O'Leary, John J., and O'Toole, Sharon A.

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2024
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3. Determinants of penetrance and variable expressivity in monogenic metabolic conditions across 77,184 exomes.

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Goodrich, Julia K, Singer-Berk, Moriel, Son, Rachel, Sveden, Abigail, Wood, Jordan, England, Eleina, Cole, Joanne B, Weisburd, Ben, Watts, Nick, Caulkins, Lizz, Dornbos, Peter, Koesterer, Ryan, Zappala, Zachary, Zhang, Haichen, Maloney, Kristin A, Dahl, Andy, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A, Atzmon, Gil, Barajas-Olmos, Francisco, Barzilai, Nir, Blangero, John, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Bottinger, Erwin, Bowden, Donald W, Centeno-Cruz, Federico, Chambers, John C, Chami, Nathalie, Chan, Edmund, Chan, Juliana, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Cho, Yoon Shin, Contreras-Cubas, Cecilia, Córdova, Emilio, Correa, Adolfo, DeFronzo, Ralph A, Duggirala, Ravindranath, Dupuis, Josée, Garay-Sevilla, Ma Eugenia, García-Ortiz, Humberto, Gieger, Christian, Glaser, Benjamin, González-Villalpando, Clicerio, Gonzalez, Ma Elena, Grarup, Niels, Groop, Leif, Gross, Myron, Haiman, Christopher, Han, Sohee, Hanis, Craig L, Hansen, Torben, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Henderson, Brian E, Hernandez, Juan Manuel Malacara, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Islas-Andrade, Sergio, Jørgensen, Marit E, Kang, Hyun Min, Kim, Bong-Jo, Kim, Young Jin, Koistinen, Heikki A, Kooner, Jaspal Singh, Kuusisto, Johanna, Kwak, Soo-Heon, Laakso, Markku, Lange, Leslie, Lee, Jong-Young, Lee, Juyoung, Lehman, Donna M, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Jianjun, Loos, Ruth JF, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Ma, Ronald CW, Martínez-Hernández, Angélica, Meigs, James B, Meitinger, Thomas, Mendoza-Caamal, Elvia, Mohlke, Karen L, Morris, Andrew D, Morrison, Alanna C, Ng, Maggie CY, Nilsson, Peter M, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Orozco, Lorena, Palmer, Colin NA, Park, Kyong Soo, Post, Wendy S, Pedersen, Oluf, Preuss, Michael, Psaty, Bruce M, Reiner, Alexander P, Revilla-Monsalve, Cristina, Rich, Stephen S, Rotter, Jerome I, Saleheen, Danish, Schurmann, Claudia, Sim, Xueling, Sladek, Rob, and Small, Kerrin S

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AMP-T2D-GENES Consortia, Humans, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Risk Assessment, Genotype, Multifactorial Inheritance, Penetrance, Adult, Dyslipidemias, Exome, Biomarkers, Biological Variation, Population
Abstract

Hundreds of thousands of genetic variants have been reported to cause severe monogenic diseases, but the probability that a variant carrier develops the disease (termed penetrance) is unknown for virtually all of them. Additionally, the clinical utility of common polygenetic variation remains uncertain. Using exome sequencing from 77,184 adult individuals (38,618 multi-ancestral individuals from a type 2 diabetes case-control study and 38,566 participants from the UK Biobank, for whom genotype array data were also available), we apply clinical standard-of-care gene variant curation for eight monogenic metabolic conditions. Rare variants causing monogenic diabetes and dyslipidemias display effect sizes significantly larger than the top 1% of the corresponding polygenic scores. Nevertheless, penetrance estimates for monogenic variant carriers average 60% or lower for most conditions. We assess epidemiologic and genetic factors contributing to risk prediction in monogenic variant carriers, demonstrating that inclusion of polygenic variation significantly improves biomarker estimation for two monogenic dyslipidemias.

Published
2021

4. Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry

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Graff, Mariaelisa, Justice, Anne E, Young, Kristin L, Marouli, Eirini, Zhang, Xinruo, Fine, Rebecca S, Lim, Elise, Buchanan, Victoria, Rand, Kristin, Feitosa, Mary F, Wojczynski, Mary K, Yanek, Lisa R, Shao, Yaming, Rohde, Rebecca, Adeyemo, Adebowale A, Aldrich, Melinda C, Allison, Matthew A, Ambrosone, Christine B, Ambs, Stefan, Amos, Christopher, Arnett, Donna K, Atwood, Larry, Bandera, Elisa V, Bartz, Traci, Becker, Diane M, Berndt, Sonja I, Bernstein, Leslie, Bielak, Lawrence F, Blot, William J, Bottinger, Erwin P, Bowden, Donald W, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Brody, Jennifer A, Broeckel, Ulrich, Burke, Gregory, Cade, Brian E, Cai, Qiuyin, Caporaso, Neil, Carlson, Chris, Carpten, John, Casey, Graham, Chanock, Stephen J, Chen, Guanjie, Chen, Minhui, Chen, Yii-Der I, Chen, Wei-Min, Chesi, Alessandra, Chiang, Charleston WK, Chu, Lisa, Coetzee, Gerry A, Conti, David V, Cooper, Richard S, Cushman, Mary, Demerath, Ellen, Deming, Sandra L, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Ding, Jingzhong, Diver, W Ryan, Duan, Qing, Evans, Michele K, Falusi, Adeyinka G, Faul, Jessica D, Fornage, Myriam, Fox, Caroline, Freedman, Barry I, Garcia, Melissa, Gillanders, Elizabeth M, Goodman, Phyllis, Gottesman, Omri, Grant, Struan FA, Guo, Xiuqing, Hakonarson, Hakon, Haritunians, Talin, Harris, Tamara B, Harris, Curtis C, Henderson, Brian E, Hennis, Anselm, Hernandez, Dena G, Hirschhorn, Joel N, McNeill, Lorna Haughton, Howard, Timothy D, Howard, Barbara, Hsing, Ann W, Hsu, Yu-Han H, Hu, Jennifer J, Huff, Chad D, Huo, Dezheng, Ingles, Sue A, Irvin, Marguerite R, John, Esther M, Johnson, Karen C, Jordan, Joanne M, Kabagambe, Edmond K, Kang, Sun J, Kardia, Sharon L, Keating, Brendan J, Kittles, Rick A, Klein, Eric A, Kolb, Suzanne, and Kolonel, Laurence N

Subjects
Human Genome, Genetics, Africa, Black or African American, Black People, Body Height, Europe, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African ancestry, fine-mapping, genome-wide, height, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Although many loci have been associated with height in European ancestry populations, very few have been identified in African ancestry individuals. Furthermore, many of the known loci have yet to be generalized to and fine-mapped within a large-scale African ancestry sample. We performed sex-combined and sex-stratified meta-analyses in up to 52,764 individuals with height and genome-wide genotyping data from the African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium (AAAGC). We additionally combined our African ancestry meta-analysis results with published European genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. In the African ancestry analyses, we identified three novel loci (SLC4A3, NCOA2, ECD/FAM149B1) in sex-combined results and two loci (CRB1, KLF6) in women only. In the African plus European sex-combined GWAS, we identified an additional three novel loci (RCCD1, G6PC3, CEP95) which were equally driven by AAAGC and European results. Among 39 genome-wide significant signals at known loci, conditioning index SNPs from European studies identified 20 secondary signals. Two of the 20 new secondary signals and none of the 8 novel loci had minor allele frequencies (MAF) < 5%. Of 802 known European height signals, 643 displayed directionally consistent associations with height, of which 205 were nominally significant (p < 0.05) in the African ancestry sex-combined sample. Furthermore, 148 of 241 loci contained ≤20 variants in the credible sets that jointly account for 99% of the posterior probability of driving the associations. In summary, trans-ethnic meta-analyses revealed novel signals and further improved fine-mapping of putative causal variants in loci shared between African and European ancestry populations.

Published
2021

5. Multiple Monoenergetic Gamma Radiography (MMGR) with a compact superconducting cyclotron

Author

Lee, Hin Y., Henderson, Brian S., Nelson, Roberts G., and Danagoulian, Areg

Subjects
Physics - Applied Physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Physics and Society
Abstract

Smuggling of special nuclear materials (SNM) and nuclear devices through borders and ports of entry constitutes a major risk to global security. Technologies are needed to reliably screen the flow of commerce for the presence of high-$Z$ materials such as uranium and plutonium. Here we present an experimental proof-of-concept of a technique which uses inelastic ($p,p'$) nuclear reactions to generate monoenergetic photons, which provide means to measure the areal density and the effective-$Z$ ($Z_{\text{eff}}$) of an object with an accuracy which surpasses that achieved by current methods. We use an ION-12$^{ \text{SC}}$ superconducting 12~MeV proton cyclotron to produce 4.4, 6.1, 6.9, and 7.1~MeV photons from a variety of nuclear reactions. Using these photons in a transmission mode we show that we are able to accurately reconstruct the areal densities and $Z_{\text{eff}}$ of a test object. This methodology could enable mobile applications to screen commercial cargoes with high material specificity, providing a means of distinguishing common cargo materials from high-Z materials that include uranium and plutonium.

Published
2019

6. Employer viewpoints

Author

Perspectives on the Ham Report Seminar, National Archives, 4 Mar 1994, Retter, Margaret, and Henderson, Brian

Published
1994

7. Analysis of the Frequency and Detectability of Objects Resembling Nuclear/Radiological Threats in Commercial Cargo

Author

Henderson, Brian S.

Subjects
Physics - Physics and Society, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The threat of smuggled nuclear/radiological weapons and material in commercial containerized cargo remains a significant threat to global security more than a decade after the enactment of laws in the United States and elsewhere mandating interdiction efforts. While significant progress has been made towards deploying passive radiation detection systems in maritime ports, such systems are incapable of detecting shielded threats or even certain scenarios in which material is unshielded. Research efforts towards developing systems for detecting such threats have typically focused on the development of systems that are highly-specific to nuclear/radiological threats and no such systems have been widely deployed. While most existing commercially-available cargo radiography systems are not specifically designed for this interdiction task, if items resembling nuclear/radiological threats are sufficiently rare in cargo radiographs to limit false alarms to an acceptably low frequency, then a smuggling interdiction scheme based on existing technology may be feasible. This analysis characterizes the relevant nuclear and radiological threats that may evade detection by passive monitors, and utilizes a dataset of 122,500 stream-of-commerce cargo container images from a 6 MeV endpoint gamma radiography system to determine the frequency at which objects of similar size and density to such threats occur in containers. It is found that for a broad class of threats, including assembled fission devices, gamma radiography is sufficient to flag threats in this cargo stream at false positive rates of $\lesssim$2%., Comment: 30 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables

Published
2018
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8. Validation of Geant4's G4NRF module against nuclear resonance fluorescence data from $^{238}$U and $^{27}$Al

Author

Vavrek, Jayson R, Henderson, Brian S, and Danagoulian, Areg

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

G4NRF is a simulation module for modeling nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) interactions in the Geant4 framework. In this work, we validate G4NRF against both absolute and relative measurements of three NRF interactions near 2.2 MeV in $^{238}$U and $^{27}$Al using the transmission NRF data from the experiments described in arXiv:1712.02904. Agreement between the absolute NRF count rates observed in the data and predicted by extensive Geant4+G4NRF modeling validate the combined Geant4+G4NRF to within $15$--$20\%$ in the $^{238}$U NRF transitions and $8\%$ in $^{27}$Al, for an average $13\%$ discrepancy across the entire study. The difference between simulation and experiment in relative NRF rates, as expressed as ratios of count rates in various NRF lines, is found at the level of ${\lesssim}4\%$, and is statistically identical to zero. Inverting the analysis, approximate values of the absolute level widths and branching ratios for $^{238}$U and $^{27}$Al are also obtained., Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables; revisions after peer review comments, chiefly making the paper more concise and the reporting of results more clear

Published
2018
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9. High-accuracy Geant4 simulation and semi-analytical modeling of nuclear resonance fluorescence

Author

Vavrek, Jayson R, Henderson, Brian S, and Danagoulian, Areg

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) is a photonuclear interaction that enables highly isotope-specific measurements in both pure and applied physics scenarios. High-accuracy design and analysis of NRF measurements in complex geometries is aided by Monte Carlo simulations of photon physics and transport, motivating Jordan and Warren (2007) to develop the G4NRF codebase for NRF simulation in Geant4. In this work, we enhance the physics accuracy of the G4NRF code and perform improved benchmarking simulations. The NRF cross section calculation in G4NRF, previously a Gaussian approximation, has been replaced with a full numerical integration for improved accuracy in thick-target scenarios. A high-accuracy semi-analytical model of expected NRF count rates in a typical NRF measurement is then constructed and compared against G4NRF simulations for both simple homogeneous and more complex heterogeneous geometries. Agreement between rates predicted by the semi-analytical model and G4NRF simulation is found at a level of ${\sim}1\%$ in simple test cases and ${\sim}3\%$ in more realistic scenarios, improving upon the ${\sim}20\%$ level of the initial benchmarking study and establishing a highly-accurate NRF framework for Geant4., Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, revised for peer review

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2018
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10. Experimental Demonstration of Multiple Monoenergetic Gamma Radiography for Effective Atomic Number Identification in Cargo Inspection

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Henderson, Brian S., Lee, Hin Y., MacDonald, Thomas D., Nelson, Roberts G., and Danagoulian, Areg

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics - Physics and Society
Abstract

The smuggling of special nuclear materials (SNM) through international borders could enable nuclear terrorism and constitutes a significant threat to global security. This paper presents the experimental demonstration of a novel radiographic technique for quantitatively reconstructing the density and type of material present in commercial cargo containers, as a means of detecting such threats. Unlike traditional techniques which use sources of bremsstrahlung photons with a continuous distribution of energies, multiple monoenergetic gamma radiography (MMGR) utilizes monoenergetic photons from nuclear reactions, specifically the 4.4 and 15.1 MeV photons from the $^{11}$B(d,n$\gamma$)$^{12}$C reaction. By exploiting the $Z$-dependence of the photon interaction cross sections at these two specific energies it is possible to simultaneously determine the areal density and the effective atomic number as a function of location for a 2D projection of a scanned object. The additional information gleaned from using and detecting photons of specific energies for radiography substantially increases the resolving power between different materials. This paper presents results from the imaging of mock cargo materials ranging from $Z\approx5$--$92$, demonstrating accurate reconstruction of the effective atomic number and areal density of the materials over the full range. In particular, the system is capable of distinguishing pure materials with $Z\gtrsim70$, such as lead and uranium --- a critical requirement of a system designed to detect SNM. This methodology could be used to screen commercial cargoes with high material specificity, to distinguish most benign materials from SNM, such as uranium and plutonium., Comment: 15 pages, 12 figures, version 2 includes language/typographical edits and changes (chiefly additions) in response to reviewers

Published
2018
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11. Experimental demonstration of an isotope-sensitive warhead verification technique using nuclear resonance fluorescence

Author

Vavrek, Jayson R, Henderson, Brian S, and Danagoulian, Areg

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics - Physics and Society
Abstract

Future nuclear arms reduction efforts will require technologies to verify that warheads slated for dismantlement are authentic without revealing any sensitive weapons design information to international inspectors. Despite several decades of research, no technology has met these requirements simultaneously. Recent work by Kemp et al. [Kemp RS, Danagoulian A, Macdonald RR, Vavrek JR (2016) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 113:8618--8623] has produced a novel physical cryptographic verification protocol that approaches this treaty verification problem by exploiting the isotope-specific nature of nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) measurements to verify the authenticity of a warhead. To protect sensitive information, the NRF signal from the warhead is convolved with that of an encryption foil that contains key warhead isotopes in amounts unknown to the inspector. The convolved spectrum from a candidate warhead is statistically compared against that from an authenticated template warhead to determine whether the candidate itself is authentic. Here we report on recent proof-of-concept warhead verification experiments conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Using high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors, we measured NRF spectra from the interrogation of proxy 'genuine' and 'hoax' objects by a 2.52 MeV endpoint bremsstrahlung beam. The observed differences in NRF intensities near 2.2 MeV indicate that the physical cryptographic protocol can distinguish between proxy genuine and hoax objects with high confidence in realistic measurement times., Comment: 38 pages, 19 figures; revised for peer review and copy editing; addition to SI for realistic scenario projections; minor length reduction for journal requirements

Published
2017
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12. Results from the OLYMPUS Experiment on the Contribution of Hard Two-Photon Exchange to Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering

Author

Henderson, Brian S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Measurements of the ratio of the elastic form factors of the proton ($\mu_pG_E/G_M$) exhibit a strong discrepancy. Experiments using unpolarized beams and Rosenbluth separation to determine the form factors have found values of the ratio approximately consistent with unity over a wide range of $Q^2$, while polarization transfer experiments suggest that the ratio decreases as a function of $Q^2$. The most widely-accepted hypothesis to explain this discrepancy is that hard two-photon exchange (TPE) significantly contributes to the elastic $ep$ cross section. Hard TPE has been neglected in previous analyses of electron-proton scattering scattering experiments, in part due to the fact that there exists no model independent way to calculate the contribution. The effect of hard TPE may be measured experimentally, however, via precise determination of the ratio of the electron-proton and positron-proton elastic cross sections. The OLYMPUS experiment collected more than 3 fb$^{-1}$ of exclusive $e^- p$ and $e^+ p$ elastic scattering data at DESY in 2012, and has determined the elastic $\sigma_{e^+p}/\sigma_{e^-p}$ ratio to unprecedented precision up to $Q^2\approx2.2$ (GeV/$c$)$^2$, $\epsilon\approx0.4$. This presentation will discuss the OLYMPUS experiment and analysis, and present the recently published results from OLYMPUS in the context of the results from the other two TPE experiments., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the XVII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure (2017)

Published
2017
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13. Measurement of the Two-Photon Exchange Contribution to Elastic Lepton-Proton Scattering at the OLYMPUS Experiment

Author

Henderson, Brian S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Measurements of the ratio of the proton elastic form factors ($\mu_pG_E/G_M$) using Rosenbluth separation and those using polarization-based techniques show a strong discrepancy, which increases as a function of $Q^2$. The contribution of hard two-photon exchange (TPE) to $e^-p$ scattering, which is neglected in the standard treatments of elastic $e^-p$ scattering, is the most widely-accepted hypothesis for the explanation of this discrepancy. While calculations of the hard TPE contribution are highly model dependent, the effect may be quantified experimentally by precisely measuring the ratio of the positron-proton and electron-proton elastic scattering cross sections. The OLYMPUS experiment collected approximately 4 fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+p$ and $e^-p$ scattering data at the DORIS storage ring at DESY in 2012, with the goal of measuring the elastic $\sigma_{e^+p}/\sigma_{e^-p}$ ratio over the kinematic range $(0.4 \leq \epsilon \leq 0.9)$, $(0.6 \leq Q^2 \leq 2.2)$ GeV$^2/c^2$ at a fixed lepton beam energy of 2.01 GeV. Initial results from OLYMPUS were presented, and subsequently results on $R_{2\gamma} = \sigma_{e^+p}/\sigma_{e^-p}$ from the experiment have been publicly released and are in preparation for publication., Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 22nd International Spin Symposium (2016)

Published
2017

14. Validation of Geant4’s G4NRF module against nuclear resonance fluorescence data from 238U and 27Al

Author

Vavrek, Jayson R, Henderson, Brian S, and Danagoulian, Areg

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Nuclear resonance fluorescence, Experimental validation, Geant4, G4NRF, nucl-ex, physics.ins-det, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Geochemistry, Interdisciplinary Engineering, Applied Physics, Condensed matter physics, Nuclear and plasma physics
Abstract

G4NRF (Jordan and Warren, 2007; Vavrek et al., 2018a,b) is a simulation module for modeling nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) interactions in the Geant4 framework (Allison et al., 2016). In this work, we validate G4NRF against both absolute and relative measurements of three NRF interactions near 2.2 MeV in 238U and 27Al using the transmission NRF data from the experiments described in Jayson et al. (2018). Agreement between the absolute NRF count rates observed in the data and predicted by extensive Geant4+G4NRF modeling validate the combined Geant4+G4NRF to approximately 15–20% in the 238U NRF transitions and 10% in 27Al, for an average 14% discrepancy across the entire study. The difference between simulation and experiment in relative NRF rates, as expressed as ratios of count rates in various NRF lines, is found at the level of ≲3%, and is statistically identical to zero. Inverting the analysis, approximate values of the absolute level widths and branching ratios for 238U and 27Al are also obtained.

Published
2019

16. A precision measurement of the e+p/e-p elastic scattering cross section ratio at the OLYMPUS experiment

Author

Henderson, Brian S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Measurements of the ratio of the proton elastic form factors ($\mu_pG_E/G_M$) using Rosenbluth separation and those using polarization-based techniques show a strong discrepancy, which has persisted both in modern experimental results and in re-analyses of previous data. The most widely accepted hypothesis to explain this discrepancy is the treatment of the contributions from hard two-photon exchange (TPE) to elastic electron-proton scattering in the radiative corrections applied to the Rosenbluth separation measurements. Calculations of the hard TPE contribution are highly model dependent, but the effect may be measured experimentally with a precise determination of the ratio of the positron-proton and electron-proton elastic scattering cross sections. The OLYMPUS experiment collected approximately 4 fb$^{-1}$ of \pp and \ep scattering data at the DORIS storage ring at DESY in 2012, with the goal of measuring the elastic \ratio ratio over the kinematic range $(0.4 \leq \epsilon \leq 0.9)$, $(0.6 \leq Q^2 \leq 2.2)$ GeV$^2/c^2$ at a fixed lepton beam energy of 2.01 GeV. The detector for the OLYMPUS experiment consisted of refurbished elements of the Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (BLAST) surrounding an internal gaseous hydrogen target, with the addition of multiple systems for the monitoring of the luminosity collected by the experiment. A detailed simulation of the experiment was developed to account for both radiative corrections and various systematic effects. This work presents preliminary results from the OLYMPUS data, demonstrating that the elastic \ratio ratio rises to several percent at $\epsilon\approx 0.4$ and indicating a significant contribution from TPE to \pmp scattering. Additionally, the value of \ratio has been measured to unprecedented precision at $\epsilon=0.98$, which provides a valuable normalization point for other experimental data., Comment: 288 pages, doctoral thesis in physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2016

Published
2017

17. A Comparative Judgement Approach to the Large-Scale Assessment of Primary Writing in England

Author

Wheadon, Christopher, Barmby, Patrick, Christodoulou, Daisy, and Henderson, Brian

Abstract

Writing assessment is a key feature of most education systems, yet there are limitations with traditional methods of assessing writing involving rubrics. In contrast, comparative judgement appears to overcome the reliability issues that beset the assessment of performance assessment tasks. The approach presented here extends previous work on comparative judgement by directly involving teachers in a large number of schools in the judging of young pupils' writing. To ensure quality control the process incorporated a process of 'anchoring' that ensured that teachers could not artificially inflate their own pupils' scores. The approach was used to assess the writing of 55,599 primary pupils in England in 2017-2018. Overall, the results showed that a comparative judgement approach to writing incorporating anchoring shows promise in providing a fair and robust large-scale method to assess writing.

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2020
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18. Publisher Correction: Evidence that breast cancer risk at the 2q35 locus is mediated through IGFBP5 regulation.

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Ghoussaini, Maya, Edwards, Stacey L, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Nord, Silje, Cowper-Sal Lari, Richard, Desai, Kinjal, Kar, Siddhartha, Hillman, Kristine M, Kaufmann, Susanne, Glubb, Dylan M, Beesley, Jonathan, Dennis, Joe, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dicks, Ed, Guo, Qi, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Shah, Mitul, Luben, Robert, Brown, Judith, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Klevebring, Daniel, Bojesen, Stig E, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Lambrechts, Diether, Thienpont, Bernard, Neven, Patrick, Wildiers, Hans, Broeks, Annegien, Van't Veer, Laura J, Rutgers, Emiel J Th, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Hallberg, Emily, Vachon, Celine, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Peto, Julian, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Gibson, Lorna, Nevanlinna, Heli, Muranen, Taru A, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Hall, Per, Li, Jingmei, Liu, Jianjun, Humphreys, Keith, Kang, Daehee, Choi, Ji-Yeob, Park, Sue K, Noh, Dong-Young, Matsuo, Keitaro, Ito, Hidemi, Iwata, Hiroji, Yatabe, Yasushi, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Menegaux, Florence, Sanchez, Marie, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Sohn, Christof, Wu, Anna H, Tseng, Chiu-Chen, Van Den Berg, David, Stram, Daniel O, Benitez, Javier, Pilar Zamora, M, Perez, Jose Ignacio Arias, Menéndez, Primitiva, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Lu, Wei, Gao, Yu-Tang, Cai, Qiuyin, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Reed, Malcolm WR, Andrulis, Irene L, Knight, Julia A, Glendon, Gord, Tchatchou, Sandrine, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J, Miller, Nicola, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, and Teo, Soo Hwang

Abstract

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5999.

Published
2018

19. Correction: Publisher Correction: Evidence that breast cancer risk at the 2q35 locus is mediated through IGFBP5 regulation

Author

Ghoussaini, Maya, Edwards, Stacey L, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Nord, Silje, Cowper-Sal·lari, Richard, Desai, Kinjal, Kar, Siddhartha, Hillman, Kristine M, Kaufmann, Susanne, Glubb, Dylan M, Beesley, Jonathan, Dennis, Joe, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dicks, Ed, Guo, Qi, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Shah, Mitul, Luben, Robert, Brown, Judith, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Klevebring, Daniel, Bojesen, Stig E, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Lambrechts, Diether, Thienpont, Bernard, Neven, Patrick, Wildiers, Hans, Broeks, Annegien, Van’t Veer, Laura J, Rutgers, Emiel J Th, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Hallberg, Emily, Vachon, Celine, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Peto, Julian, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Gibson, Lorna, Nevanlinna, Heli, Muranen, Taru A, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Hall, Per, Li, Jingmei, Liu, Jianjun, Humphreys, Keith, Kang, Daehee, Choi, Ji-Yeob, Park, Sue K, Noh, Dong-Young, Matsuo, Keitaro, Ito, Hidemi, Iwata, Hiroji, Yatabe, Yasushi, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Menegaux, Florence, Sanchez, Marie, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Sohn, Christof, Wu, Anna H, Tseng, Chiu-chen, Van Den Berg, David, Stram, Daniel O, Benitez, Javier, Pilar Zamora, M, Perez, Jose Ignacio Arias, Menéndez, Primitiva, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Lu, Wei, Gao, Yu-Tang, Cai, Qiuyin, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Reed, Malcolm WR, Andrulis, Irene L, Knight, Julia A, Glendon, Gord, Tchatchou, Sandrine, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J, Miller, Nicola, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, and Teo, Soo Hwang

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Breast Cancer, Cancer
Abstract

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5999.

Published
2018

20. Two Novel Susceptibility Loci for Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry

Author

Conti, David V, Wang, Kan, Sheng, Xin, Bensen, Jeannette T, Hazelett, Dennis J, Cook, Michael B, Ingles, Sue A, Kittles, Rick A, Strom, Sara S, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Nemesure, Barbara, Isaacs, William B, Stanford, Janet L, Zheng, Wei, Sanderson, Maureen, John, Esther M, Park, Jong Y, Xu, Jianfeng, Stevens, Victoria L, Berndt, Sonja I, Huff, Chad D, Wang, Zhaoming, Yeboah, Edward D, Tettey, Yao, Biritwum, Richard B, Adjei, Andrew A, Tay, Evelyn, Truelove, Ann, Niwa, Shelley, Sellers, Thomas A, Yamoah, Kosj, Murphy, Adam B, Crawford, Dana C, Gapstur, Susan M, Bush, William S, Aldrich, Melinda C, Cussenot, Olivier, Petrovics, Gyorgy, Cullen, Jennifer, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Stern, Mariana C, Jarai, Zsofia-Kote, Govindasami, Koveela, Chokkalingam, Anand P, Hsing, Ann W, Goodman, Phyllis J, Hoffmann, Thomas, Drake, Bettina F, Hu, Jennifer J, Clark, Peter E, Van Den Eeden, Stephen K, Blanchet, Pascal, Fowke, Jay H, Casey, Graham, Hennis, Anselm JM, Han, Ying, Lubwama, Alexander, Thompson, Ian M, Leach, Robin, Easton, Douglas F, Schumacher, Fredrick, Van den Berg, David J, Gundell, Susan M, Stram, Alex, Wan, Peggy, Xia, Lucy, Pooler, Loreall C, Mohler, James L, Fontham, Elizabeth TH, Smith, Gary J, Taylor, Jack A, Srivastava, Shiv, Eeles, Rosalind A, Carpten, John, Kibel, Adam S, Multigner, Luc, Parent, Marie-Elise, Menegaux, Florence, Cancel-Tassin, Geraldine, Klein, Eric A, Brureau, Laurent, Stram, Daniel O, Watya, Stephen, Chanock, Stephen J, Witte, John S, Blot, William J, Henderson, Brian E, and Haiman, Christopher A

Subjects
Aging, Human Genome, Cancer, Prevention, Prostate Cancer, Biotechnology, Clinical Research, Genetics, Urologic Diseases, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Blacks, Case-Control Studies, Checkpoint Kinase 2, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22, Gene Frequency, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, PRACTICAL/ELLIPSE Consortium, Black People, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Oncology & Carcinogenesis
Abstract

Prostate cancer incidence is 1.6-fold higher in African Americans than in other populations. The risk factors that drive this disparity are unknown and potentially consist of social, environmental, and genetic influences. To investigate the genetic basis of prostate cancer in men of African ancestry, we performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis using two-sided statistical tests in 10 202 case subjects and 10 810 control subjects. We identified novel signals on chromosomes 13q34 and 22q12, with the risk-associated alleles found only in men of African ancestry (13q34: rs75823044, risk allele frequency = 2.2%, odds ratio [OR] = 1.55, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.37 to 1.76, P = 6.10 × 10-12; 22q12.1: rs78554043, risk allele frequency = 1.5%, OR = 1.62, 95% CI = 1.39 to 1.89, P = 7.50 × 10-10). At 13q34, the signal is located 5' of the gene IRS2 and 3' of a long noncoding RNA, while at 22q12 the candidate functional allele is a missense variant in the CHEK2 gene. These findings provide further support for the role of ancestry-specific germline variation in contributing to population differences in prostate cancer risk.

Published
2017

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

Author

Southey, Melissa C, Goldgar, David E, Winqvist, Robert, Pylkäs, Katri, Couch, Fergus, Tischkowitz, Marc, Foulkes, William D, Dennis, Joe, Michailidou, Kyriaki, van Rensburg, Elizabeth J, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Nevanlinna, Heli, Hopper, John L, Dörk, Thilo, Claes, Kathleen BM, Reis-Filho, Jorge, Teo, Zhi Ling, Radice, Paolo, Catucci, Irene, Peterlongo, Paolo, Tsimiklis, Helen, Odefrey, Fabrice A, Dowty, James G, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Broeks, Annegien, Hogervorst, Frans B, Verhoef, Senno, Carpenter, Jane, Clarke, Christine, Scott, Rodney J, Fasching, Peter A, Haeberle, Lothar, Ekici, Arif B, Beckmann, Matthias W, Peto, Julian, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Fletcher, Olivia, Johnson, Nichola, Bolla, Manjeet K, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J, Miller, Nicola, Marme, Federik, Burwinkel, Barbara, Yang, Rongxi, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Menegaux, Florence, Sanchez, Marie, Bojesen, Stig, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Benitez, Javier, Zamora, M Pilar, Perez, Jose Ignacio Arias, Menéndez, Primitiva, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Neuhausen, Susan, Ziogas, Argyrios, Clarke, Christina A, Brenner, Hermann, Arndt, Volker, Stegmaier, Christa, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brüning, Thomas, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Muranen, Taru A, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Antonenkova, Natalia N, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Mannermaa, Arto, Kataja, Vesa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Hartikainen, Jaana M, Spurdle, Amanda B, Investigators, kConFab, Group, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study, Wauters, Els, Smeets, Dominiek, Beuselinck, Benoit, Floris, Giuseppe, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Olson, Janet E, Vachon, Celine, Pankratz, Vernon S, McLean, Catriona, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Kristensen, Vessela, Alnæs, Grethe Grenaker, and Zheng, Wei

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Ovarian Cancer, Aging, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Women's Health, Rare Diseases, Prevention, Urologic Diseases, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Checkpoint Kinase 2, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group N Protein, Female, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Male, Mutation, Nuclear Proteins, Ovarian Neoplasms, Prostatic Neoplasms, Risk, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Cancer: breast, Cancer: ovary, Cancer: prostate, cancer predisposition, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Clinical sciences
Abstract

BackgroundThe rarity of mutations in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM make it difficult to estimate precisely associated cancer risks. Population-based family studies have provided evidence that at least some of these mutations are associated with breast cancer risk as high as those associated with rare BRCA2 mutations. We aimed to estimate the relative risks associated with specific rare variants in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM via a multicentre case-control study.MethodsWe genotyped 10 rare mutations using the custom iCOGS array: PALB2 c.1592delT, c.2816T>G and c.3113G>A, CHEK2 c.349A>G, c.538C>T, c.715G>A, c.1036C>T, c.1312G>T, and c.1343T>G and ATM c.7271T>G. We assessed associations with breast cancer risk (42 671 cases and 42 164 controls), as well as prostate (22 301 cases and 22 320 controls) and ovarian (14 542 cases and 23 491 controls) cancer risk, for each variant.ResultsFor European women, strong evidence of association with breast cancer risk was observed for PALB2 c.1592delT OR 3.44 (95% CI 1.39 to 8.52, p=7.1×10-5), PALB2 c.3113G>A OR 4.21 (95% CI 1.84 to 9.60, p=6.9×10-8) and ATM c.7271T>G OR 11.0 (95% CI 1.42 to 85.7, p=0.0012). We also found evidence of association with breast cancer risk for three variants in CHEK2, c.349A>G OR 2.26 (95% CI 1.29 to 3.95), c.1036C>T OR 5.06 (95% CI 1.09 to 23.5) and c.538C>T OR 1.33 (95% CI 1.05 to 1.67) (p≤0.017). Evidence for prostate cancer risk was observed for CHEK2 c.1343T>G OR 3.03 (95% CI 1.53 to 6.03, p=0.0006) for African men and CHEK2 c.1312G>T OR 2.21 (95% CI 1.06 to 4.63, p=0.030) for European men. No evidence of association with ovarian cancer was found for any of these variants.ConclusionsThis report adds to accumulating evidence that at least some variants in these genes are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer that is clinically important.

Published
2016

23. Genome-wide association study confirms lung cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 5p15 and 15q25 in an African-American population

Author

Zanetti, Krista A, Wang, Zhaoming, Aldrich, Melinda, Amos, Christopher I, Blot, William J, Bowman, Elise D, Burdette, Laurie, Cai, Qiuyin, Caporaso, Neil, Chung, Charles C, Gillanders, Elizabeth M, Haiman, Christopher A, Hansen, Helen M, Henderson, Brian E, Kolonel, Laurence N, Le Marchand, Loic, Li, Shengchao, McNeill, Lorna Haughton, Ryan, Bríd M, Schwartz, Ann G, Sison, Jennette D, Spitz, Margaret R, Tucker, Margaret, Wenzlaff, Angela S, Wiencke, John K, Wilkens, Lynne, Wrensch, Margaret R, Wu, Xifeng, Zheng, Wei, Zhou, Weiyin, Christiani, David, Palmer, Julie R, Penning, Trevor M, Rieber, Alyssa G, Rosenberg, Lynn, Ruiz-Narvaez, Edward A, Su, Li, Vachani, Anil, Wei, Yongyue, Whitehead, Alexander S, Chanock, Stephen J, and Harris, Curtis C

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Cancer, Lung, Women's Health, Human Genome, Clinical Research, Prevention, Genetics, Lung Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Respiratory, Black or African American, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Population Surveillance, Quantitative Trait Loci, Genome-wide association study, Lung neoplasms, Smoking, African Americans, Telomerase, Receptors, Cholinergic, Clinical Sciences, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Clinical sciences, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract

ObjectivesGenome-wide association studies (GWAS) of lung cancer have identified regions of common genetic variation with lung cancer risk in Europeans who smoke and never-smoking Asian women. This study aimed to conduct a GWAS in African Americans, who have higher rates of lung cancer despite smoking fewer cigarettes per day when compared with Caucasians. This population provides a different genetic architecture based on underlying African ancestry allowing the identification of new regions and exploration of known regions for finer mapping.Materials and methodsWe genotyped 1,024,001 SNPs in 1737 cases and 3602 controls in stage 1, followed by a replication phase of 20 SNPs (p

Published
2016

24. An intergenic risk locus containing an enhancer deletion in 2q35 modulates breast cancer risk by deregulating IGFBP5 expression

Author

Wyszynski, Asaf, Hong, Chi-Chen, Lam, Kristin, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Lytle, Christian, Yao, Song, Zhang, Yali, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Hopper, John L, Southey, Melissa C, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Broeks, Annegien, Muir, Kenneth, Lophatananon, Artitaya, Fasching, Peter A, Beckmann, Matthias W, Peto, Julian, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Bojesen, Stig E, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Gonzalez-Neira, Anna, Benitez, Javier, Neuhausen, Susan L, Brenner, Hermann, Dieffenbach, Aida Karina, Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita K, Brauch, Hiltrud, Nevanlinna, Heli, Khan, Sofia, Matsuo, Keitaro, Ito, Hidemi, Dörk, Thilo, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Mannermaa, Arto, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Wu, Anna H, Van Den Berg, David, Lambrechts, Diether, Wildiers, Hans, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Radice, Paolo, Peterlongo, Paolo, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Giles, Graham G, Milne, Roger L, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Dumont, Martine, Teo, Soo Hwang, Wong, Tien Y, Kristensen, Vessela, Zheng, Wei, Long, Jirong, Winqvist, Robert, Pylkäs, Katri, Andrulis, Irene L, Knight, Julia A, Devilee, Peter, Seynaeve, Caroline, García-Closas, Montserrat, Figueroa, Jonine, Klevebring, Daniel, Czene, Kamila, Hooning, Maartje J, van den Ouweland, Ans M. W., Darabi, Hatef, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Gao, Yu-Tang, Cox, Angela, Blot, William, Signorello, Lisa B, Shah, Mitul, Kang, Daehee, Choi, Ji-Yeob, Hartman, Mikael, Miao, Hui, Hamann, Ute, Jakubowska, Anna, Lubinski, Jan, Sangrajrang, Suleeporn, McKay, James, Toland, Amanda E, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Shen, Chen-Yang, Wu, Pei-Ei, Swerdlow, Anthony, and Orr, Nick

Published
2016

25. Prostate Cancer Susceptibility in Men of African Ancestry at 8q24

Author

Han, Ying, Rand, Kristin A, Hazelett, Dennis J, Ingles, Sue A, Kittles, Rick A, Strom, Sara S, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Nemesure, Barbara, Isaacs, William B, Stanford, Janet L, Zheng, Wei, Schumacher, Fredrick R, Berndt, Sonja I, Wang, Zhaoming, Xu, Jianfeng, Rohland, Nadin, Reich, David, Tandon, Arti, Pasaniuc, Bogdan, Allen, Alex, Quinque, Dominique, Mallick, Swapan, Notani, Dimple, Rosenfeld, Michael G, Jayani, Ranveer Singh, Kolb, Suzanne, Gapstur, Susan M, Stevens, Victoria L, Pettaway, Curtis A, Yeboah, Edward D, Tettey, Yao, Biritwum, Richard B, Adjei, Andrew A, Tay, Evelyn, Truelove, Ann, Niwa, Shelley, Chokkalingam, Anand P, John, Esther M, Murphy, Adam B, Signorello, Lisa B, Carpten, John, Leske, M Cristina, Wu, Suh-Yuh, Hennis, Anslem JM, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Hsing, Ann W, Chu, Lisa, Goodman, Phyllis J, Klein, Eric A, Zheng, S Lilly, Witte, John S, Casey, Graham, Lubwama, Alex, Pooler, Loreall C, Sheng, Xin, Coetzee, Gerhard A, Cook, Michael B, Chanock, Stephen J, Stram, Daniel O, Watya, Stephen, Blot, William J, Conti, David V, Henderson, Brian E, and Haiman, Christopher A

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Clinical Research, Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Aging, Urologic Diseases, Human Genome, Prevention, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Black or African American, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, RNA, Long Noncoding, United States, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract

The 8q24 region harbors multiple risk variants for distinct cancers, including >8 for prostate cancer. In this study, we conducted fine mapping of the 8q24 risk region (127.8-128.8Mb) in search of novel associations with common and rare variation in 4853 prostate cancer case patients and 4678 control subjects of African ancestry. All statistical tests were two-sided. We identified three independent associations at P values of less than 5.00×10(-8), all of which were replicated in studies from Ghana and Uganda (combined sample = 5869 case patients, 5615 control subjects; rs114798100: risk allele frequency [RAF] = 0.04, per-allele odds ratio [OR] = 2.31, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.04 to 2.61, P = 2.38×10(-40); rs72725879: RAF = 0.33, OR = 1.37, 95% CI = 1.30 to 1.45, P = 3.04×10(-27); and rs111906932: RAF = 0.03, OR = 1.79, 95% CI = 1.53 to 2.08, P = 1.39×10(-13)). Risk variants rs114798100 and rs111906923 are only found in men of African ancestry, with rs111906923 representing a novel association signal. The three variants are located within or near a number of prostate cancer-associated long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), including PRNCR1, PCAT1, and PCAT2. These findings highlight ancestry-specific risk variation and implicate prostate-specific lncRNAs at the 8q24 prostate cancer susceptibility region.

Published
2016

26. Identification of four novel susceptibility loci for oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer.

Author

Couch, Fergus J, Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Mendoza-Fandino, Gustavo A, Nord, Silje, Lilyquist, Janna, Olswold, Curtis, Hallberg, Emily, Agata, Simona, Ahsan, Habibul, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Ambrosone, Christine, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Arndt, Volker, Arun, Banu K, Arver, Brita, Barile, Monica, Barkardottir, Rosa B, Barrowdale, Daniel, Beckmann, Lars, Beckmann, Matthias W, Benitez, Javier, Blank, Stephanie V, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Bolla, Manjeet K, Bonanni, Bernardo, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Burwinkel, Barbara, Buys, Saundra S, Caldes, Trinidad, Caligo, Maria A, Canzian, Federico, Carpenter, Jane, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J, Chung, Wendy K, Claes, Kathleen BM, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Cunningham, Julie M, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Damiola, Francesca, Darabi, Hatef, de la Hoya, Miguel, Devilee, Peter, Diez, Orland, Ding, Yuan C, Dolcetti, Riccardo, Domchek, Susan M, Dorfling, Cecilia M, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dumont, Martine, Dunning, Alison M, Eccles, Diana M, Ehrencrona, Hans, Ekici, Arif B, Eliassen, Heather, Ellis, Steve, Fasching, Peter A, Figueroa, Jonine, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Försti, Asta, Fostira, Florentia, Foulkes, William D, Friebel, Tara, Friedman, Eitan, Frost, Debra, Gabrielson, Marike, Gammon, Marilie D, Ganz, Patricia A, Gapstur, Susan M, Garber, Judy, Gaudet, Mia M, Gayther, Simon A, Gerdes, Anne-Marie, Ghoussaini, Maya, Giles, Graham G, Glendon, Gord, Godwin, Andrew K, Goldberg, Mark S, Goldgar, David E, González-Neira, Anna, Greene, Mark H, Gronwald, Jacek, Guénel, Pascal, Gunter, Marc, Haeberle, Lothar, Haiman, Christopher A, Hamann, Ute, Hansen, Thomas VO, Hart, Steven, Healey, Sue, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Henderson, Brian E, and Herzog, Josef

Subjects
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2, Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Cyclophilins, tRNA Methyltransferases, BRCA1 Protein, Receptors, Estrogen, Risk Factors, Genotype, Heterozygote, Mutation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2, Receptors, Estrogen, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Prevention, Genetics, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors
Abstract

Common variants in 94 loci have been associated with breast cancer including 15 loci with genome-wide significant associations (P

Published
2016

27. Atlas of prostate cancer heritability in European and African-American men pinpoints tissue-specific regulation.

Author

Gusev, Alexander, Shi, Huwenbo, Kichaev, Gleb, Pomerantz, Mark, Li, Fugen, Long, Henry W, Ingles, Sue A, Kittles, Rick A, Strom, Sara S, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Nemesure, Barbara, Isaacs, William B, Zheng, Wei, Pettaway, Curtis A, Yeboah, Edward D, Tettey, Yao, Biritwum, Richard B, Adjei, Andrew A, Tay, Evelyn, Truelove, Ann, Niwa, Shelley, Chokkalingam, Anand P, John, Esther M, Murphy, Adam B, Signorello, Lisa B, Carpten, John, Leske, M Cristina, Wu, Suh-Yuh, Hennis, Anslem JM, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Hsing, Ann W, Chu, Lisa, Goodman, Phyllis J, Klein, Eric A, Witte, John S, Casey, Graham, Kaggwa, Sam, Cook, Michael B, Stram, Daniel O, Blot, William J, Eeles, Rosalind A, Easton, Douglas, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Al Olama, Ali Amin, Benlloch, Sara, Muir, Kenneth, Giles, Graham G, Southey, Melissa C, Fitzgerald, Liesel M, Gronberg, Henrik, Wiklund, Fredrik, Aly, Markus, Henderson, Brian E, Schleutker, Johanna, Wahlfors, Tiina, Tammela, Teuvo LJ, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Key, Tim J, Travis, Ruth C, Neal, David E, Donovan, Jenny L, Hamdy, Freddie C, Pharoah, Paul, Pashayan, Nora, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Stanford, Janet L, Thibodeau, Stephen N, McDonnell, Shannon K, Schaid, Daniel J, Maier, Christiane, Vogel, Walther, Luedeke, Manuel, Herkommer, Kathleen, Kibel, Adam S, Cybulski, Cezary, Wokolorczyk, Dominika, Kluzniak, Wojciech, Cannon-Albright, Lisa, Teerlink, Craig, Brenner, Hermann, Dieffenbach, Aida K, Arndt, Volker, Park, Jong Y, Sellers, Thomas A, Lin, Hui-Yi, Slavov, Chavdar, Kaneva, Radka, Mitev, Vanio, Batra, Jyotsna, Spurdle, Amanda, Clements, Judith A, Teixeira, Manuel R, Pandha, Hardev, Michael, Agnieszka, Paulo, Paula, Maia, Sofia, Kierzek, Andrzej, PRACTICAL consortium, Conti, David V, and Albanes, Demetrius

Subjects
PRACTICAL consortium, Cell Line, Tumor, Humans, Prostatic Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Histones, Epigenesis, Genetic, Acetylation, Inheritance Patterns, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African Americans, European Continental Ancestry Group, Male, Atlases as Topic, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Cell Line, Tumor, Epigenesis, Genetic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract

Although genome-wide association studies have identified over 100 risk loci that explain ∼33% of familial risk for prostate cancer (PrCa), their functional effects on risk remain largely unknown. Here we use genotype data from 59,089 men of European and African American ancestries combined with cell-type-specific epigenetic data to build a genomic atlas of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) heritability in PrCa. We find significant differences in heritability between variants in prostate-relevant epigenetic marks defined in normal versus tumour tissue as well as between tissue and cell lines. The majority of SNP heritability lies in regions marked by H3k27 acetylation in prostate adenoc7arcinoma cell line (LNCaP) or by DNaseI hypersensitive sites in cancer cell lines. We find a high degree of similarity between European and African American ancestries suggesting a similar genetic architecture from common variation underlying PrCa risk. Our findings showcase the power of integrating functional annotation with genetic data to understand the genetic basis of PrCa.

Published
2016

28. Breast cancer risk variants at 6q25 display different phenotype associations and regulate ESR1, RMND1 and CCDC170.

Author

Dunning, Alison M, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B, Thompson, Deborah, French, Juliet D, Beesley, Jonathan, Healey, Catherine S, Kar, Siddhartha, Pooley, Karen A, Lopez-Knowles, Elena, Dicks, Ed, Barrowdale, Daniel, Sinnott-Armstrong, Nicholas A, Sallari, Richard C, Hillman, Kristine M, Kaufmann, Susanne, Sivakumaran, Haran, Moradi Marjaneh, Mahdi, Lee, Jason S, Hills, Margaret, Jarosz, Monika, Drury, Suzie, Canisius, Sander, Bolla, Manjeet K, Dennis, Joe, Wang, Qin, Hopper, John L, Southey, Melissa C, Broeks, Annegien, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Lophatananon, Artitaya, Muir, Kenneth, Beckmann, Matthias W, Fasching, Peter A, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Peto, Julian, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Bojesen, Stig E, Flyger, Henrik, González-Neira, Anna, Perez, Jose IA, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Eunjung, Lee, Arndt, Volker, Brenner, Hermann, Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita K, Brauch, Hiltrud, Hamann, Ute, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Ito, Hidemi, Matsuo, Keitaro, Bogdanova, Natasha, Dörk, Thilo, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Mannermaa, Arto, Tseng, Chiu-Chen, Wu, Anna H, Lambrechts, Diether, Wildiers, Hans, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Peterlongo, Paolo, Radice, Paolo, Olson, Janet E, Giles, Graham G, Milne, Roger L, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Goldberg, Mark S, Teo, Soo H, Yip, Cheng Har, Nord, Silje, Borresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Kristensen, Vessela, Long, Jirong, Zheng, Wei, Pylkäs, Katri, Winqvist, Robert, Andrulis, Irene L, Knight, Julia A, Devilee, Peter, Seynaeve, Caroline, Figueroa, Jonine, Sherman, Mark E, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Hollestelle, Antoinette, van den Ouweland, Ans MW, Humphreys, Keith, Gao, Yu-Tang, and Shu, Xiao-Ou

Subjects
EMBRACE, GEMO Study Collaborators, HEBON, kConFab Investigators, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6, Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Carrier Proteins, Cell Cycle Proteins, Estrogen Receptor alpha, Risk Factors, Gene Expression, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Base Sequence, Protein Binding, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Female, Genetic Association Studies, Cancer, Clinical Research, Breast Cancer, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology
Abstract

We analyzed 3,872 common genetic variants across the ESR1 locus (encoding estrogen receptor α) in 118,816 subjects from three international consortia. We found evidence for at least five independent causal variants, each associated with different phenotype sets, including estrogen receptor (ER(+) or ER(-)) and human ERBB2 (HER2(+) or HER2(-)) tumor subtypes, mammographic density and tumor grade. The best candidate causal variants for ER(-) tumors lie in four separate enhancer elements, and their risk alleles reduce expression of ESR1, RMND1 and CCDC170, whereas the risk alleles of the strongest candidates for the remaining independent causal variant disrupt a silencer element and putatively increase ESR1 and RMND1 expression.

Published
2016

29. Sex and Ethnic Differences in the Association of Obesity With Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Author

Setiawan, Veronica Wendy, Lim, Unhee, Lipworth, Loren, Lu, Shelly C, Shepherd, John, Ernst, Thomas, Wilkens, Lynne R, Henderson, Brian E, and Le Marchand, Loïc

Subjects
Prevention, Liver Disease, Rare Diseases, Nutrition, Cancer, Liver Cancer, Clinical Research, Digestive Diseases, Obesity, Oral and gastrointestinal, Aged, Body Mass Index, California, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular, Case-Control Studies, Ethnicity, Female, Hawaii, Humans, Incidence, Male, Middle Aged, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, MEC Study, Epidemiology, Visceral Adiposity, Clinical Sciences, Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Abstract

Background & aimsObesity is associated with increased risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the risk associated with obesity may vary by sex or ethnicity. We examined whether the association of body mass index (BMI) with HCC incidence, as well as correlations of BMI with total, visceral, and hepatic adiposity, differs among ethnic groups.MethodsWe collected data from the Multiethnic Cohort Study, a population-based prospective cohort study of more than 215,000 men and women from Hawaii and California that was assembled from 1993 through 1996. After a median follow-up of 16.6 years, 482 incident HCC cases were identified among 168,476 participants. BMI and risk factor data were obtained from a baseline questionnaire. Cox regression analyses were used to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) and confidence intervals (CIs) for HCC associated with BMI. The black subjects in the Southern Community Cohort Study were included as a replication cohort.ResultsBMI was associated with HCC in men (HR per 5 kg/m(2) increase, 1.26; 95% CI, 1.12-1.42) but not in women (HR, 1.06; 95% CI, 0.90-1.25) (P(interaction) = .009). Although BMI was strongly associated with HCC in Japanese, white, and Latino men, there was no association in black men (P(interaction) = .002). Similarly, no association was found in the blacks who participated in the Southern Community Cohort Study. BMI correlated with total fat mass, measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, in men and women and in all ethnic groups (R ≥ 0.9). However, there was a lower correlation value for BMI and visceral or liver fat measured by abdominal magnetic resonance imaging in black men (R < 0.5) and in women (R < 0.8).ConclusionsOn the basis of an analysis of data from the Multiethnic Cohort Study, the association between BMI and HCC differs between sexes and among ethnicities. The lack of association in black men warrants further investigation. Rather than studying markers of total adiposity, studies of obesity and HCC should move beyond BMI and use a better measure for fat-specific depots.

Published
2016

30. Whole-exome sequencing of over 4100 men of African ancestry and prostate cancer risk

Author

Rand, Kristin A, Rohland, Nadin, Tandon, Arti, Stram, Alex, Sheng, Xin, Do, Ron, Pasaniuc, Bogdan, Allen, Alex, Quinque, Dominique, Mallick, Swapan, Le Marchand, Loic, Kaggwa, Sam, Lubwama, Alex, Stram, Daniel O, Watya, Stephen, Henderson, Brian E, Conti, David V, Reich, David, and Haiman, Christopher A

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Clinical Research, Urologic Diseases, Prevention, Human Genome, Aging, Prostate Cancer, Cancer, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Adult, Aged, Black People, Exome, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, Risk, Sequence Analysis, DNA, African Ancestry Prostate Cancer GWAS Consortium, ELLIPSE/GAME-ON Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in males, with a ∼1.5-2-fold higher incidence in African American men when compared with whites. Epidemiologic evidence supports a large heritable contribution to prostate cancer, with over 100 susceptibility loci identified to date that can explain ∼33% of the familial risk. To explore the contribution of both rare and common variation in coding regions to prostate cancer risk, we sequenced the exomes of 2165 prostate cancer cases and 2034 controls of African ancestry at a mean coverage of 10.1×. We identified 395 220 coding variants down to 0.05% frequency [57% non-synonymous (NS), 42% synonymous and 1% gain or loss of stop codon or splice site variant] in 16 751 genes with the strongest associations observed in SPARCL1 on 4q22.1 (rs13051, Ala49Asp, OR = 0.78, P = 1.8 × 10(-6)) and PTPRR on 12q15 (rs73341069, Val239Ile, OR = 1.62, P = 2.5 × 10(-5)). In gene-level testing, the two most significant genes were C1orf100 (P = 2.2 × 10(-4)) and GORAB (P = 2.3 × 10(-4)). We did not observe exome-wide significant associations (after correcting for multiple hypothesis testing) in single variant or gene-level testing in the overall case-control or case-case analyses of disease aggressiveness. In this first whole-exome sequencing study of prostate cancer, our findings do not provide strong support for the hypothesis that NS coding variants down to 0.5-1.0% frequency have large effects on prostate cancer risk in men of African ancestry. Higher-coverage sequencing efforts in larger samples will be needed to study rarer variants with smaller effect sizes associated with prostate cancer risk.

Published
2016

31. Fine mapping of chromosome 5p15.33 based on a targeted deep sequencing and high density genotyping identifies novel lung cancer susceptibility loci

Author

Kachuri, Linda, Amos, Christopher I, McKay, James D, Johansson, Mattias, Vineis, Paolo, Bueno-de-Mesquita, H Bas, Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine, Johansson, Mikael, Quirós, J Ramón, Sieri, Sabina, Travis, Ruth C, Weiderpass, Elisabete, Le Marchand, Loic, Henderson, Brian E, Wilkens, Lynne, Goodman, Gary E, Chen, Chu, Doherty, Jennifer A, Christiani, David C, Wei, Yongyue, Su, Li, Tworoger, Shelley, Zhang, Xuehong, Kraft, Peter, Zaridze, David, Field, John K, Marcus, Michael W, Davies, Michael PA, Hyde, Russell, Caporaso, Neil E, Landi, Maria Teresa, Severi, Gianluca, Giles, Graham G, Liu, Geoffrey, McLaughlin, John R, Li, Yafang, Xiao, Xiangjun, Fehringer, Gord, Zong, Xuchen, Denroche, Robert E, Zuzarte, Philip C, McPherson, John D, Brennan, Paul, and Hung, Rayjean J

Subjects
Lung, Human Genome, Genetics, Cancer, Prevention, Lung Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Case-Control Studies, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotyping Techniques, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Male, Middle Aged, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Oncology & Carcinogenesis
Abstract

Chromosome 5p15.33 has been identified as a lung cancer susceptibility locus, however the underlying causal mechanisms were not fully elucidated. Previous fine-mapping studies of this locus have relied on imputation or investigated a small number of known, common variants. This study represents a significant advance over previous research by investigating a large number of novel, rare variants, as well as their underlying mechanisms through telomere length. Variants for this fine-mapping study were identified through a targeted deep sequencing (average depth of coverage greater than 4000×) of 576 individuals. Subsequently, 4652 SNPs, including 1108 novel SNPs, were genotyped in 5164 cases and 5716 controls of European ancestry. After adjusting for known risk loci, rs2736100 and rs401681, we identified a new, independent lung cancer susceptibility variant in LPCAT1: rs139852726 (OR = 0.46, P = 4.73×10(-9)), and three new adenocarcinoma risk variants in TERT: rs61748181 (OR = 0.53, P = 2.64×10(-6)), rs112290073 (OR = 1.85, P = 1.27×10(-5)), rs138895564 (OR = 2.16, P = 2.06×10(-5); among young cases, OR = 3.77, P = 8.41×10(-4)). In addition, we found that rs139852726 (P = 1.44×10(-3)) was associated with telomere length in a sample of 922 healthy individuals. The gene-based SKAT-O analysis implicated TERT as the most relevant gene in the 5p15.33 region for adenocarcinoma (P = 7.84×10(-7)) and lung cancer (P = 2.37×10(-5)) risk. In this largest fine-mapping study to investigate a large number of rare and novel variants within 5p15.33, we identified novel lung and adenocarcinoma susceptibility loci with large effects and provided support for the role of telomere length as the potential underlying mechanism.

Published
2016

32. The contribution of rare variation to prostate cancer heritability

Author

Mancuso, Nicholas, Rohland, Nadin, Rand, Kristin A, Tandon, Arti, Allen, Alexander, Quinque, Dominique, Mallick, Swapan, Li, Heng, Stram, Alex, Sheng, Xin, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Easton, Douglas F, Eeles, Rosalind A, Le Marchand, Loic, Lubwama, Alex, Stram, Daniel, Watya, Stephen, Conti, David V, Henderson, Brian, Haiman, Christopher A, Pasaniuc, Bogdan, and Reich, David

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Prevention, Urologic Diseases, Cancer, Aging, Prostate Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Aged, Asian People, Black People, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, Uganda, PRACTICAL consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract

We report targeted sequencing of 63 known prostate cancer risk regions in a multi-ancestry study of 9,237 men and use the data to explore the contribution of low-frequency variation to disease risk. We show that SNPs with minor allele frequencies (MAFs) of 0.1-1% explain a substantial fraction of prostate cancer risk in men of African ancestry. We estimate that these SNPs account for 0.12 (standard error (s.e.) = 0.05) of variance in risk (∼42% of the variance contributed by SNPs with MAF of 0.1-50%). This contribution is much larger than the fraction of neutral variation due to SNPs in this class, implying that natural selection has driven down the frequency of many prostate cancer risk alleles; we estimate the coupling between selection and allelic effects at 0.48 (95% confidence interval [0.19, 0.78]) under the Eyre-Walker model. Our results indicate that rare variants make a disproportionate contribution to genetic risk for prostate cancer and suggest the possibility that rare variants may also have an outsize effect on other common traits.

Published
2016

33. A Cross-Cancer Genetic Association Analysis of the DNA Repair and DNA Damage Signaling Pathways for Lung, Ovary, Prostate, Breast, and Colorectal Cancer

Author

Scarbrough, Peter M, Weber, Rachel Palmieri, Iversen, Edwin S, Brhane, Yonathan, Amos, Christopher I, Kraft, Peter, Hung, Rayjean J, Sellers, Thomas A, Witte, John S, Pharoah, Paul, Henderson, Brian E, Gruber, Stephen B, Hunter, David J, Garber, Judy E, Joshi, Amit D, McDonnell, Kevin, Easton, Doug F, Eeles, Ros, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Muir, Kenneth, Doherty, Jennifer A, and Schildkraut, Joellen M

Subjects
Epidemiology, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Health Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Human Genome, Colo-Rectal Cancer, Prevention, Genetics, Breast Cancer, Aging, Digestive Diseases, Genetic Testing, Cancer, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, BRCA2 Protein, Biomarkers, Tumor, Breast Neoplasms, Cell Cycle Proteins, Colorectal Neoplasms, DNA Damage, DNA Repair, DNA-Binding Proteins, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Male, Ovarian Neoplasms, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, Risk Factors, Signal Transduction, Medical and Health Sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract

BackgroundDNA damage is an established mediator of carcinogenesis, although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified few significant loci. This cross-cancer site, pooled analysis was performed to increase the power to detect common variants of DNA repair genes associated with cancer susceptibility.MethodsWe conducted a cross-cancer analysis of 60,297 single nucleotide polymorphisms, at 229 DNA repair gene regions, using data from the NCI Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME-ON) Network. Our analysis included data from 32 GWAS and 48,734 controls and 51,537 cases across five cancer sites (breast, colon, lung, ovary, and prostate). Because of the unavailability of individual data, data were analyzed at the aggregate level. Meta-analysis was performed using the Association analysis for SubSETs (ASSET) software. To test for genetic associations that might escape individual variant testing due to small effect sizes, pathway analysis of eight DNA repair pathways was performed using hierarchical modeling.ResultsWe identified three susceptibility DNA repair genes, RAD51B (P < 5.09 × 10(-6)), MSH5 (P < 5.09 × 10(-6)), and BRCA2 (P = 5.70 × 10(-6)). Hierarchical modeling identified several pleiotropic associations with cancer risk in the base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, mismatch repair, and homologous recombination pathways.ConclusionsOnly three susceptibility loci were identified, which had all been previously reported. In contrast, hierarchical modeling identified several pleiotropic cancer risk associations in key DNA repair pathways.ImpactResults suggest that many common variants in DNA repair genes are likely associated with cancer susceptibility through small effect sizes that do not meet stringent significance testing criteria.

Published
2016

34. Genome-wide scan of 29,141 African Americans finds no evidence of selection since admixture

Author

Bhatia, Gaurav, Tandon, Arti, Aldrich, Melinda C., Ambrosone, Christine B., Amos, Christopher, Bandera, Elisa V., Berndt, Sonja I., Bernstein, Leslie, Blot, William J., Bock, Cathryn H., Caporaso, Neil, Casey, Graham, Deming, Sandra L., Diver, W. Ryan, Gapstur, Susan M., Gillanders, Elizabeth M., Harris, Curtis C., Henderson, Brian E., Ingles, Sue A., Isaacs, William, John, Esther M., Kittles, Rick A., Larkin, Emma, McNeill, Lorna H., Millikan, Robert C., Murphy, Adam, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Nyante, Sarah, Press, Michael F., Rodriguez-Gil, Jorge L., Rybicki, Benjamin A., Schwartz, Ann G., Signorello, Lisa B., Spitz, Margaret, Strom, Sara S., Tucker, Margaret A., Wiencke, John K., Witte, John S., Wu, Xifeng, Yamamura, Yuko, Zanetti, Krista A., Zheng, Wei, Ziegler, Regina G., Chanock, Stephen J., Haiman, Christopher A., Reich, David, and Price, Alkes L.

Subjects
Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Abstract

We scanned through the genomes of 29,141 African Americans, searching for loci where the average proportion of African ancestry deviates significantly from the genome-wide average. We failed to find any genome-wide significant deviations, and conclude that any selection in African Americans since admixture is sufficiently weak that it falls below the threshold of our power to detect it using a large sample size. These results stand in contrast to the findings of a recent study of selection in African Americans. That study, which had 15 times fewer samples, reported six loci with significant deviations. We show that the discrepancy is likely due to insufficient correction for multiple hypothesis testing in the previous study. The same study reported 14 loci that showed greater population differentiation between African Americans and Nigerian Yoruba than would be expected in the absence of natural selection. Four such loci were previously shown to be genome-wide significant and likely to be affected by selection, but we show that most of the 10 additional loci are likely to be false positives. Additionally, the most parsimonious explanation for the loci that have significant evidence of unusual differentiation in frequency between Nigerians and Africans Americans is selection in Africa prior to their forced migration to the Americas.

Published
2013

35. Height and Breast Cancer Risk: Evidence From Prospective Studies and Mendelian Randomization

Author

Zhang, Ben, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Delahanty, Ryan J, Zeng, Chenjie, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Wen, Wanqing, Long, Jirong, Li, Chun, Dunning, Alison M, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Shah, Mitul, Perkins, Barbara J, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Bojesen, Stig E, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Lambrechts, Diether, Neven, Patrick, Wildiers, Hans, Floris, Giuseppe, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Rookus, Matti A, van den Hurk, Katja, de Kort, Wim LAM, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Hallberg, Emily, Vachon, Celine, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Peto, Julian, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Fletcher, Olivia, Johnson, Nichola, Nevanlinna, Heli, Muranen, Taru A, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Li, Jingmei, Humphreys, Keith, Brand, Judith, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Cordina-Duverger, Emilie, Menegaux, Florence, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Yang, Rongxi, Surowy, Harald, Benitez, Javier, Zamora, M Pilar, Perez, Jose IA, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Reed, Malcolm WR, Andrulis, Irene L, Knight, Julia A, Glendon, Gord, Tchatchou, Sandrine, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J, Miller, Nicola, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Schumacher, Fredrick, Marchand, Loic Le, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Hooning, Maartje J, Martens, John WM, Tilanus-Linthorst, Madeleine MA, Collée, J Margriet, Hopper, John L, Southey, Melissa C, Tsimiklis, Helen, Apicella, Carmel, Slager, Susan, Toland, Amanda E, Ambrosone, Christine B, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Giles, Graham G, Milne, Roger L, McLean, Catriona, Fasching, Peter A, Haeberle, Lothar, Ekici, Arif B, Beckmann, Matthias W, Brenner, Hermann, Dieffenbach, Aida Karina, Arndt, Volker, and Stegmaier, Christa

Subjects
Clinical Research, Aging, Cancer, Prevention, Breast Cancer, Human Genome, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Body Height, Breast Neoplasms, Evidence-Based Medicine, Female, Humans, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Odds Ratio, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, kConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Study Group, DRIVE Project, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Oncology & Carcinogenesis
Abstract

Epidemiological studies have linked adult height with breast cancer risk in women. However, the magnitude of the association, particularly by subtypes of breast cancer, has not been established. Furthermore, the mechanisms of the association remain unclear. We performed a meta-analysis to investigate associations between height and breast cancer risk using data from 159 prospective cohorts totaling 5216302 women, including 113178 events. In a consortium with individual-level data from 46325 case patients and 42482 control patients, we conducted a Mendelian randomization analysis using a genetic score that comprised 168 height-associated variants as an instrument. This association was further evaluated in a second consortium using summary statistics data from 16003 case patients and 41335 control patients. The pooled relative risk of breast cancer was 1.17 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.15 to 1.19) per 10cm increase in height in the meta-analysis of prospective studies. In Mendelian randomization analysis, the odds ratio of breast cancer per 10cm increase in genetically predicted height was 1.22 (95% CI = 1.13 to 1.32) in the first consortium and 1.21 (95% CI = 1.05 to 1.39) in the second consortium. The association was found in both premenopausal and postmenopausal women but restricted to hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Analyses of height-associated variants identified eight new loci associated with breast cancer risk after adjusting for multiple comparisons, including three loci at 1q21.2, DNAJC27, and CCDC91 at genome-wide significance level P < 5×10(-8). Our study provides strong evidence that adult height is a risk factor for breast cancer in women and certain genetic factors and biological pathways affecting adult height have an important role in the etiology of breast cancer.

Published
2015

36. Carotenoids, retinol, tocopherols, and prostate cancer risk: pooled analysis of 15 studies 1–3

Author

Key, Timothy J, Appleby, Paul N, Travis, Ruth C, Albanes, Demetrius, Alberg, Anthony J, Barricarte, Aurelio, Black, Amanda, Boeing, Heiner, Bueno-de-Mesquita, H Bas, Chan, June M, Chen, Chu, Cook, Michael B, Donovan, Jenny L, Galan, Pilar, Gilbert, Rebecca, Giles, Graham G, Giovannucci, Edward, Goodman, Gary E, Goodman, Phyllis J, Gunter, Marc J, Hamdy, Freddie C, Heliövaara, Markku, Helzlsouer, Kathy J, Henderson, Brian E, Hercberg, Serge, Hoffman-Bolton, Judy, Hoover, Robert N, Johansson, Mattias, Khaw, Kay-Tee, King, Irena B, Knekt, Paul, Kolonel, Laurence N, Le Marchand, Loic, Männistö, Satu, Martin, Richard M, Meyer, Haakon E, Mondul, Alison M, Moy, Kristin A, Neal, David E, Neuhouser, Marian L, Palli, Domenico, Platz, Elizabeth A, Pouchieu, Camille, Rissanen, Harri, Schenk, Jeannette M, Severi, Gianluca, Stampfer, Meir J, Tjønneland, Anne, Touvier, Mathilde, Trichopoulou, Antonia, Weinstein, Stephanie J, Ziegler, Regina G, Zhou, Cindy Ke, Allen, Naomi E, Biomarkers, Endogenous Hormones Nutritional, and Group, Prostate Cancer Collaborative

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Prevention, Urologic Diseases, Nutrition, Prostate Cancer, Cancer, Aging, Clinical Research, Adult, Biomarkers, Carotenoids, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Cross-Sectional Studies, Humans, Lycopene, Male, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Middle Aged, Neoplasm Grading, Neoplasm Staging, Observational Studies as Topic, Prospective Studies, Prostate, Prostatic Neoplasms, Risk Factors, Vitamin A, alpha-Tocopherol, prostate cancer, carotenoids, retinol, tocopherols, vitamin E, vitamin A, pooled analysis, nested case-control study, biomarkers, Endogenous Hormones Nutritional Biomarkers Prostate Cancer Collaborative Group, Engineering, Medical and Health Sciences, Nutrition & Dietetics, Clinical sciences, Nutrition and dietetics
Abstract

BackgroundIndividual studies have suggested that circulating carotenoids, retinol, or tocopherols may be associated with prostate cancer risk, but the studies have not been large enough to provide precise estimates of associations, particularly by stage and grade of disease.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to conduct a pooled analysis of the associations of the concentrations of 7 carotenoids, retinol, α-tocopherol, and γ-tocopherol with risk of prostate cancer and to describe whether any associations differ by stage or grade of the disease or other factors.DesignPrincipal investigators of prospective studies provided individual participant data for prostate cancer cases and controls. Risk by study-specific fifths of each biomarker was estimated by using multivariable-adjusted conditional logistic regression in matched case-control sets.ResultsData were available for up to 11,239 cases (including 1654 advanced stage and 1741 aggressive) and 18,541 controls from 15 studies. Lycopene was not associated with overall risk of prostate cancer, but there was statistically significant heterogeneity by stage of disease, and the OR for aggressive disease for the highest compared with the lowest fifth of lycopene was 0.65 (95% CI: 0.46, 0.91; P-trend = 0.032). No other carotenoid was significantly associated with overall risk of prostate cancer or with risk of advanced-stage or aggressive disease. For retinol, the OR for the highest compared with the lowest fifth was 1.13 (95% CI: 1.04, 1.22; P-trend = 0.015). For α-tocopherol, the OR for the highest compared with the lowest fifth was 0.86 (95% CI: 0.78, 0.94; P-trend < 0.001), with significant heterogeneity by stage of disease; the OR for aggressive prostate cancer was 0.74 (95% CI: 0.59, 0.92; P-trend = 0.001). γ-Tocopherol was not associated with risk.ConclusionsOverall prostate cancer risk was positively associated with retinol and inversely associated with α-tocopherol, and risk of aggressive prostate cancer was inversely associated with lycopene and α-tocopherol. Whether these associations reflect causal relations is unclear.

Published
2015

37. Corrigendum: genome-wide association study of colorectal cancer identifies six new susceptibility loci.

Author

Schumacher, Fredrick R, Schmit, Stephanie L, Jiao, Shuo, Edlund, Christopher K, Wang, Hansong, Zhang, Ben, Hsu, Li, Huang, Shu-Chen, Fischer, Christopher P, Harju, John F, Idos, Gregory E, Lejbkowicz, Flavio, Manion, Frank J, McDonnell, Kevin, McNeil, Caroline E, Melas, Marilena, Rennert, Hedy S, Shi, Wei, Thomas, Duncan C, Van Den Berg, David J, Hutter, Carolyn M, Aragaki, Aaron K, Butterbach, Katja, Caan, Bette J, Carlson, Christopher S, Chanock, Stephen J, Curtis, Keith R, Fuchs, Charles S, Gala, Manish, Giovannucci, Edward L, Gogarten, Stephanie M, Hayes, Richard B, Henderson, Brian, Hunter, David J, Jackson, Rebecca D, Kolonel, Laurence N, Kooperberg, Charles, Küry, Sébastien, LaCroix, Andrea, Laurie, Cathy C, Laurie, Cecelia A, Lemire, Mathieu, Levine, David, Ma, Jing, Makar, Karen W, Qu, Conghui, Taverna, Darin, Ulrich, Cornelia M, Wu, Kana, Kono, Suminori, West, Dee W, Berndt, Sonja I, Bezieau, Stephane, Brenner, Hermann, Campbell, Peter T, Chan, Andrew T, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Coetzee, Gerhard A, Conti, David V, Duggan, David, Figueiredo, Jane C, Fortini, Barbara K, Gallinger, Steven J, Gauderman, W James, Giles, Graham, Green, Roger, Haile, Robert, Harrison, Tabitha A, Hoffmeister, Michael, Hopper, John L, Hudson, Thomas J, Jacobs, Eric, Iwasaki, Motoki, Jee, Sun Ha, Jenkins, Mark, Jia, Wei-Hua, Joshi, Amit, Li, Li, Lindor, Noralene M, Matsuo, Keitaro, Moreno, Victor, Mukherjee, Bhramar, Newcomb, Polly A, Potter, John D, Raskin, Leon, Rennert, Gad, Rosse, Stephanie, Severi, Gianluca, Schoen, Robert E, Seminara, Daniela, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Slattery, Martha L, Tsugane, Shoichiro, White, Emily, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Zanke, Brent W, Zheng, Wei, Le Marchand, Loic, Casey, Graham, and Gruber, Stephen B

Subjects
MD Multidisciplinary
Published
2015

38. Integration of multiethnic fine-mapping and genomic annotation to prioritize candidate functional SNPs at prostate cancer susceptibility regions

Author

Han, Ying, Hazelett, Dennis J, Wiklund, Fredrik, Schumacher, Fredrick R, Stram, Daniel O, Berndt, Sonja I, Wang, Zhaoming, Rand, Kristin A, Hoover, Robert N, Machiela, Mitchell J, Yeager, Merideth, Burdette, Laurie, Chung, Charles C, Hutchinson, Amy, Yu, Kai, Xu, Jianfeng, Travis, Ruth C, Key, Timothy J, Siddiq, Afshan, Canzian, Federico, Takahashi, Atsushi, Kubo, Michiaki, Stanford, Janet L, Kolb, Suzanne, Gapstur, Susan M, Diver, W Ryan, Stevens, Victoria L, Strom, Sara S, Pettaway, Curtis A, Olama, Ali Amin Al, Kote-Jarai, Zsofia, Eeles, Rosalind A, Yeboah, Edward D, Tettey, Yao, Biritwum, Richard B, Adjei, Andrew A, Tay, Evelyn, Truelove, Ann, Niwa, Shelley, Chokkalingam, Anand P, Isaacs, William B, Chen, Constance, Lindstrom, Sara, Le Marchand, Loic, Giovannucci, Edward L, Pomerantz, Mark, Long, Henry, Li, Fugen, Ma, Jing, Stampfer, Meir, John, Esther M, Ingles, Sue A, Kittles, Rick A, Murphy, Adam B, Blot, William J, Signorello, Lisa B, Zheng, Wei, Albanes, Demetrius, Virtamo, Jarmo, Weinstein, Stephanie, Nemesure, Barbara, Carpten, John, Leske, M Cristina, Wu, Suh-Yuh, Hennis, Anselm JM, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Hsing, Ann W, Chu, Lisa, Goodman, Phyllis J, Klein, Eric A, Zheng, S Lilly, Witte, John S, Casey, Graham, Riboli, Elio, Li, Qiyuan, Freedman, Matthew L, Hunter, David J, Gronberg, Henrik, Cook, Michael B, Nakagawa, Hidewaki, Kraft, Peter, Chanock, Stephen J, Easton, Douglas F, Henderson, Brian E, Coetzee, Gerhard A, Conti, David V, and Haiman, Christopher A

Subjects
Cancer, Human Genome, Biotechnology, Genetics, Urologic Diseases, Prostate Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Asian People, Black People, Chromosome Mapping, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Male, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, Quantitative Trait Loci, White People, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Interpretation of biological mechanisms underlying genetic risk associations for prostate cancer is complicated by the relatively large number of risk variants (n = 100) and the thousands of surrogate SNPs in linkage disequilibrium. Here, we combined three distinct approaches: multiethnic fine-mapping, putative functional annotation (based upon epigenetic data and genome-encoded features), and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analyses, in an attempt to reduce this complexity. We examined 67 risk regions using genotyping and imputation-based fine-mapping in populations of European (cases/controls: 8600/6946), African (cases/controls: 5327/5136), Japanese (cases/controls: 2563/4391) and Latino (cases/controls: 1034/1046) ancestry. Markers at 55 regions passed a region-specific significance threshold (P-value cutoff range: 3.9 × 10(-4)-5.6 × 10(-3)) and in 30 regions we identified markers that were more significantly associated with risk than the previously reported variants in the multiethnic sample. Novel secondary signals (P < 5.0 × 10(-6)) were also detected in two regions (rs13062436/3q21 and rs17181170/3p12). Among 666 variants in the 55 regions with P-values within one order of magnitude of the most-associated marker, 193 variants (29%) in 48 regions overlapped with epigenetic or other putative functional marks. In 11 of the 55 regions, cis-eQTLs were detected with nearby genes. For 12 of the 55 regions (22%), the most significant region-specific, prostate-cancer associated variant represented the strongest candidate functional variant based on our annotations; the number of regions increased to 20 (36%) and 27 (49%) when examining the 2 and 3 most significantly associated variants in each region, respectively. These results have prioritized subsets of candidate variants for downstream functional evaluation.

Published
2015

39. Erratum: Corrigendum: Genome-wide association study of colorectal cancer identifies six new susceptibility loci

Author

Schumacher, Fredrick R, Schmit, Stephanie L, Jiao, Shuo, Edlund, Christopher K, Wang, Hansong, Zhang, Ben, Hsu, Li, Huang, Shu-Chen, Fischer, Christopher P, Harju, John F, Idos, Gregory E, Lejbkowicz, Flavio, Manion, Frank J, McDonnell, Kevin, McNeil, Caroline E, Melas, Marilena, Rennert, Hedy S, Shi, Wei, Thomas, Duncan C, Van Den Berg, David J, Hutter, Carolyn M, Aragaki, Aaron K, Butterbach, Katja, Caan, Bette J, Carlson, Christopher S, Chanock, Stephen J, Curtis, Keith R, Fuchs, Charles S, Gala, Manish, Giovannucci, Edward L, Gogarten, Stephanie M, Hayes, Richard B, Henderson, Brian, Hunter, David J, Jackson, Rebecca D, Kolonel, Laurence N, Kooperberg, Charles, Küry, Sébastien, LaCroix, Andrea, Laurie, Cathy C, Laurie, Cecelia A, Lemire, Mathieu, Levine, David, Ma, Jing, Makar, Karen W, Qu, Conghui, Taverna, Darin, Ulrich, Cornelia M, Wu, Kana, Kono, Suminori, West, Dee W, Berndt, Sonja I, Bezieau, Stephane, Brenner, Hermann, Campbell, Peter T, Chan, Andrew T, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Coetzee, Gerhard A, Conti, David V, Duggan, David, Figueiredo, Jane C, Fortini, Barbara K, Gallinger, Steven J, Gauderman, W James, Giles, Graham, Green, Roger, Haile, Robert, Harrison, Tabitha A, Hoffmeister, Michael, Hopper, John L, Hudson, Thomas J, Jacobs, Eric, Iwasaki, Motoki, Jee, Sun Ha, Jenkins, Mark, Jia, Wei-Hua, Joshi, Amit, Li, Li, Lindor, Noralene M, Matsuo, Keitaro, Moreno, Victor, Mukherjee, Bhramar, Newcomb, Polly A, Potter, John D, Raskin, Leon, Rennert, Gad, Rosse, Stephanie, Severi, Gianluca, Schoen, Robert E, Seminara, Daniela, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Slattery, Martha L, Tsugane, Shoichiro, White, Emily, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Zanke, Brent W, Zheng, Wei, Le Marchand, Loic, Casey, Graham, and Gruber, Stephen B

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Digestive Diseases, Cancer, Colo-Rectal Cancer
Published
2015

40. Identification of a common variant with potential pleiotropic effect on risk of inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer

Author

Khalili, Hamed, Gong, Jian, Brenner, Hermann, Austin, Thomas R, Hutter, Carolyn M, Baba, Yoshifumi, Baron, John A, Berndt, Sonja I, Bézieau, Stéphane, Caan, Bette, Campbell, Peter T, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J, Chen, Constance, Hsu, Li, Jiao, Shuo, Conti, David V, Duggan, David, Fuchs, Charles S, Gala, Manish, Gallinger, Steven, Haile, Robert W, Harrison, Tabitha A, Hayes, Richard, Hazra, Aditi, Henderson, Brian, Haiman, Chris, Hoffmeister, Michael, Hopper, John L, Jenkins, Mark A, Kolonel, Laurence N, Küry, Sébastien, LaCroix, Andrea, Le Marchand, Loic, Lemire, Mathieu, Lindor, Noralane M, Ma, Jing, Manson, JoAnn E, Morikawa, Teppei, Nan, Hongmei, Ng, Kimmie, Newcomb, Polly A, Nishihara, Reiko, Potter, John D, Qu, Conghui, Schoen, Robert E, Schumacher, Fredrick R, Seminara, Daniela, Taverna, Darin, Thibodeau, Stephen, Wactawski-Wende, Jean, White, Emily, Wu, Kana, Zanke, Brent W, Casey, Graham, Hudson, Thomas J, Kraft, Peter, Peters, Ulrike, Slattery, Martha L, Ogino, Shuji, and Chan, Andrew T

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Digestive Diseases, Clinical Research, Cancer, Genetics, Human Genome, Prevention, Colo-Rectal Cancer, Autoimmune Disease, Crohn's Disease, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Colitis, Ulcerative, Colorectal Neoplasms, Crohn Disease, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Microsatellite Instability, Microsatellite Repeats, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk, White People, GECCO and CCFR, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract

Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have separately identified many genetic susceptibility loci for ulcerative colitis (UC), Crohn's disease (CD) and colorectal cancer (CRC), there has been no large-scale examination for pleiotropy, or shared genetic susceptibility, for these conditions. We used logistic regression modeling to examine the associations of 181 UC and CD susceptibility variants previously identified by GWAS with risk of CRC using data from the Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium and the Colon Cancer Family Registry. We also examined associations of significant variants with clinical and molecular characteristics in a subset of the studies. Among 11794 CRC cases and 14190 controls, rs11676348, the susceptibility single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) for UC, was significantly associated with reduced risk of CRC (P = 7E-05). The multivariate-adjusted odds ratio of CRC with each copy of the T allele was 0.93 (95% CI 0.89-0.96). The association of the SNP with risk of CRC differed according to mucinous histological features (P heterogeneity = 0.008). In addition, the (T) allele was associated with lower risk of tumors with Crohn's-like reaction but not tumors without such immune infiltrate (P heterogeneity = 0.02) and microsatellite instability-high (MSI-high) but not microsatellite stable or MSI-low tumors (P heterogeneity = 0.03). The minor allele (T) in SNP rs11676348, located downstream from CXCR2 that has been implicated in CRC progression, is associated with a lower risk of CRC, particularly tumors with a mucinous component, Crohn's-like reaction and MSI-high. Our findings offer the promise of risk stratification of inflammatory bowel disease patients for complications such as CRC.

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2015

41. Contribution of the neighborhood environment and obesity to breast cancer survival: the California Breast Cancer Survivorship Consortium.

Author

Cheng, Iona, Shariff-Marco, Salma, Koo, Jocelyn, Monroe, Kristine, Yang, Juan, John, Esther, Kurian, Allison, Kwan, Marilyn, Henderson, Brian, Bernstein, Leslie, Lu, Yani, Sposto, Richard, Wu, Anna, Gomez, Scarlett, Keegan, Theresa, and Vigen, Cheryl

Subjects
Breast Neoplasms, California, Cross-Sectional Studies, Environment, Female, Humans, Obesity, Residence Characteristics, Survival Rate
Abstract

Little is known about neighborhood attributes that may influence opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity in relation to breast cancer mortality. We used data from the California Breast Cancer Survivorship Consortium and the California Neighborhoods Data System (CNDS) to examine the neighborhood environment, body mass index, and mortality after breast cancer. We studied 8,995 African American, Asian American, Latina, and non-Latina white women with breast cancer. Residential addresses were linked to the CNDS to characterize neighborhoods. We used multinomial logistic regression to evaluate the associations between neighborhood factors and obesity and Cox proportional hazards regression to examine associations between neighborhood factors and mortality. For Latinas, obesity was associated with more neighborhood crowding [quartile 4 (Q4) vs. Q1: OR, 3.24; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.50-7.00]; breast cancer-specific mortality was inversely associated with neighborhood businesses (Q4 vs. Q1: HR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.25-0.85) and positively associated with multifamily housing (Q3 vs. Q1: HR, 1.98; 95% CI, 1.20-3.26). For non-Latina whites, lower neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) was associated with obesity [quintile 1 (Q1) vs. Q5: OR, 2.52; 95% CI, 1.31-4.84], breast cancer-specific (Q1 vs. Q5: HR, 2.75; 95% CI, 1.47-5.12), and all-cause (Q1 vs. Q5: HR, 1.75; 95% CI, 1.17-2.62) mortality. For Asian Americans, no associations were seen. For African Americans, lower neighborhood SES was associated with lower mortality in a nonlinear fashion. Attributes of the neighborhood environment were associated with obesity and mortality following breast cancer diagnosis, but these associations differed across racial/ethnic groups.

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2015

42. A Large Multiethnic Genome-Wide Association Study of Prostate Cancer Identifies Novel Risk Variants and Substantial Ethnic Differences

Author

Hoffmann, Thomas J, Van Den Eeden, Stephen K, Sakoda, Lori C, Jorgenson, Eric, Habel, Laurel A, Graff, Rebecca E, Passarelli, Michael N, Cario, Clinton L, Emami, Nima C, Chao, Chun R, Ghai, Nirupa R, Shan, Jun, Ranatunga, Dilrini K, Quesenberry, Charles P, Aaronson, David, Presti, Joseph, Wang, Zhaoming, Berndt, Sonja I, Chanock, Stephen J, McDonnell, Shannon K, French, Amy J, Schaid, Daniel J, Thibodeau, Stephen N, Li, Qiyuan, Freedman, Matthew L, Penney, Kathryn L, Mucci, Lorelei A, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Seminara, Daniela, Kvale, Mark N, Kwok, Pui-Yan, Schaefer, Catherine, Risch, Neil, and Witte, John S

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Genetics, Cancer, Minority Health, Urologic Diseases, Prevention, Prostate Cancer, Aging, Clinical Research, Human Genome, Health Disparities, Adult, Aged, Alleles, Biomarkers, Tumor, Case-Control Studies, Ethnicity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genomics, Humans, INDEL Mutation, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prostatic Neoplasms, Quantitative Trait Loci, Reproducibility of Results, Risk, Biochemistry and cell biology, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract

UnlabelledA genome-wide association study (GWAS) of prostate cancer in Kaiser Permanente health plan members (7,783 cases, 38,595 controls; 80.3% non-Hispanic white, 4.9% African-American, 7.0% East Asian, and 7.8% Latino) revealed a new independent risk indel rs4646284 at the previously identified locus 6q25.3 that replicated in PEGASUS (N = 7,539) and the Multiethnic Cohort (N = 4,679) with an overall P = 1.0 × 10(-19) (OR, 1.18). Across the 6q25.3 locus, rs4646284 exhibited the strongest association with expression of SLC22A1 (P = 1.3 × 10(-23)) and SLC22A3 (P = 3.2 × 10(-52)). At the known 19q13.33 locus, rs2659124 (P = 1.3 × 10(-13); OR, 1.18) nominally replicated in PEGASUS. A risk score of 105 known risk SNPs was strongly associated with prostate cancer (P < 1.0 × 10(-8)). Comparing the highest to lowest risk score deciles, the OR was 6.22 for non-Hispanic whites, 5.82 for Latinos, 3.77 for African-Americans, and 3.38 for East Asians. In non-Hispanic whites, the 105 risk SNPs explained approximately 7.6% of disease heritability. The entire GWAS array explained approximately 33.4% of heritability, with a 4.3-fold enrichment within DNaseI hypersensitivity sites (P = 0.004).SignificanceTaken together, our findings of independent risk variants, ethnic variation in existing SNP replication, and remaining unexplained heritability have important implications for further clarifying the genetic risk of prostate cancer. Our findings also suggest that there may be much promise in evaluating understudied variation, such as indels and ethnically diverse populations.

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2015

43. Genome-wide association study of colorectal cancer identifies six new susceptibility loci.

Author

Schumacher, Fredrick R, Schmit, Stephanie L, Jiao, Shuo, Edlund, Christopher K, Wang, Hansong, Zhang, Ben, Hsu, Li, Huang, Shu-Chen, Fischer, Christopher P, Harju, John F, Idos, Gregory E, Lejbkowicz, Flavio, Manion, Frank J, McDonnell, Kevin, McNeil, Caroline E, Melas, Marilena, Rennert, Hedy S, Shi, Wei, Thomas, Duncan C, Van Den Berg, David J, Hutter, Carolyn M, Aragaki, Aaron K, Butterbach, Katja, Caan, Bette J, Carlson, Christopher S, Chanock, Stephen J, Curtis, Keith R, Fuchs, Charles S, Gala, Manish, Giovannucci, Edward L, Gogarten, Stephanie M, Hayes, Richard B, Henderson, Brian, Hunter, David J, Jackson, Rebecca D, Kolonel, Laurence N, Kooperberg, Charles, Küry, Sébastien, LaCroix, Andrea, Laurie, Cathy C, Laurie, Cecelia A, Lemire, Mathieu, Levine, David, Ma, Jing, Makar, Karen W, Qu, Conghui, Taverna, Darin, Ulrich, Cornelia M, Wu, Kana, Kono, Suminori, West, Dee W, Berndt, Sonja I, Bezieau, Stéphane, Brenner, Hermann, Campbell, Peter T, Chan, Andrew T, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Coetzee, Gerhard A, Conti, David V, Duggan, David, Figueiredo, Jane C, Fortini, Barbara K, Gallinger, Steven J, Gauderman, W James, Giles, Graham, Green, Roger, Haile, Robert, Harrison, Tabitha A, Hoffmeister, Michael, Hopper, John L, Hudson, Thomas J, Jacobs, Eric, Iwasaki, Motoki, Jee, Sun Ha, Jenkins, Mark, Jia, Wei-Hua, Joshi, Amit, Li, Li, Lindor, Noralene M, Matsuo, Keitaro, Moreno, Victor, Mukherjee, Bhramar, Newcomb, Polly A, Potter, John D, Raskin, Leon, Rennert, Gad, Rosse, Stephanie, Severi, Gianluca, Schoen, Robert E, Seminara, Daniela, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Slattery, Martha L, Tsugane, Shoichiro, White, Emily, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Zanke, Brent W, and Zheng, Wei

Subjects
Humans, Colorectal Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Odds Ratio, Case-Control Studies, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetics, Digestive Diseases, Prevention, Cancer, Human Genome, Colo-Rectal Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, MD Multidisciplinary
Abstract

Genetic susceptibility to colorectal cancer is caused by rare pathogenic mutations and common genetic variants that contribute to familial risk. Here we report the results of a two-stage association study with 18,299 cases of colorectal cancer and 19,656 controls, with follow-up of the most statistically significant genetic loci in 4,725 cases and 9,969 controls from two Asian consortia. We describe six new susceptibility loci reaching a genome-wide threshold of P

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2015

44. Polymorphisms in a Putative Enhancer at the 10q21.2 Breast Cancer Risk Locus Regulate NRBF2 Expression

Author

Darabi, Hatef, McCue, Karen, Beesley, Jonathan, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Nord, Silje, Kar, Siddhartha, Humphreys, Keith, Thompson, Deborah, Ghoussaini, Maya, Bolla, Manjeet K, Dennis, Joe, Wang, Qin, Canisius, Sander, Scott, Christopher G, Apicella, Carmel, Hopper, John L, Southey, Melissa C, Stone, Jennifer, Broeks, Annegien, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Scott, Rodney J, Lophatananon, Artitaya, Muir, Kenneth, Beckmann, Matthias W, Ekici, Arif B, Fasching, Peter A, Heusinger, Katharina, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Peto, Julian, Tomlinson, Ian, Sawyer, Elinor J, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Bojesen, Stig E, Flyger, Henrik, Benitez, Javier, González-Neira, Anna, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Neuhausen, Susan L, Arndt, Volker, Brenner, Hermann, Engel, Christoph, Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita K, Cancer, German Consortium of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian, Arnold, Norbert, Brauch, Hiltrud, Hamann, Ute, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Khan, Sofia, Nevanlinna, Heli, Ito, Hidemi, Matsuo, Keitaro, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Dörk, Thilo, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Investigators, kConFab AOCS, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Mannermaa, Arto, Tseng, Chiu-chen, Wu, Anna H, Floris, Giuseppe, Lambrechts, Diether, Rudolph, Anja, Peterlongo, Paolo, Radice, Paolo, Couch, Fergus J, Vachon, Celine, Giles, Graham G, McLean, Catriona, Milne, Roger L, Dugué, Pierre-Antoine, Haiman, Christopher A, Maskarinec, Gertraud, Woolcott, Christy, Henderson, Brian E, Goldberg, Mark S, Simard, Jacques, Teo, Soo H, Mariapun, Shivaani, Helland, Åslaug, Haakensen, Vilde, Zheng, Wei, Beeghly-Fadiel, Alicia, Tamimi, Rulla, Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja, Winqvist, Robert, Andrulis, Irene L, Knight, Julia A, Devilee, Peter, Tollenaar, Robert AEM, Figueroa, Jonine, García-Closas, Montserrat, Czene, Kamila, Hooning, Maartje J, Tilanus-Linthorst, Madeleine, and Li, Jingmei

Subjects
Human Genome, Aging, Cancer, Clinical Research, Breast Cancer, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Age Factors, Asian People, Autophagy-Related Proteins, Body Mass Index, Breast Neoplasms, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 10, DNA-Binding Proteins, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Luciferases, Odds Ratio, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Regression Analysis, Trans-Activators, Transcription Factors, White People, German Consortium of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies have identified SNPs near ZNF365 at 10q21.2 that are associated with both breast cancer risk and mammographic density. To identify the most likely causal SNPs, we fine mapped the association signal by genotyping 428 SNPs across the region in 89,050 European and 12,893 Asian case and control subjects from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. We identified four independent sets of correlated, highly trait-associated variants (iCHAVs), three of which were located within ZNF365. The most strongly risk-associated SNP, rs10995201 in iCHAV1, showed clear evidence of association with both estrogen receptor (ER)-positive (OR = 0.85 [0.82-0.88]) and ER-negative (OR = 0.87 [0.82-0.91]) disease, and was also the SNP most strongly associated with percent mammographic density. iCHAV2 (lead SNP, chr10: 64,258,684:D) and iCHAV3 (lead SNP, rs7922449) were also associated with ER-positive (OR = 0.93 [0.91-0.95] and OR = 1.06 [1.03-1.09]) and ER-negative (OR = 0.95 [0.91-0.98] and OR = 1.08 [1.04-1.13]) disease. There was weaker evidence for iCHAV4, located 5' of ADO, associated only with ER-positive breast cancer (OR = 0.93 [0.90-0.96]). We found 12, 17, 18, and 2 candidate causal SNPs for breast cancer in iCHAVs 1-4, respectively. Chromosome conformation capture analysis showed that iCHAV2 interacts with the ZNF365 and NRBF2 (more than 600 kb away) promoters in normal and cancerous breast epithelial cells. Luciferase assays did not identify SNPs that affect transactivation of ZNF365, but identified a protective haplotype in iCHAV2, associated with silencing of the NRBF2 promoter, implicating this gene in the etiology of breast cancer.

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2015

46. Fine-mapping identifies two additional breast cancer susceptibility loci at 9q31.2.

Author

Orr, Nick, Dudbridge, Frank, Dryden, Nicola, Maguire, Sarah, Novo, Daniela, Perrakis, Eleni, Johnson, Nichola, Ghoussaini, Maya, Hopper, John, Southey, Melissa, Apicella, Carmel, Stone, Jennifer, Schmidt, Marjanka, Broeks, Annegien, Vant Veer, Laura, Hogervorst, Frans, Fasching, Peter, Haeberle, Lothar, Ekici, Arif, Beckmann, Matthias, Gibson, Lorna, Aitken, Zoe, Warren, Helen, Sawyer, Elinor, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael, Miller, Nicola, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Sohn, Chistof, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Cordina-Duverger, Emilie, Sanchez, Marie, Bojesen, Stig, Nordestgaard, Børge, Nielsen, Sune, Flyger, Henrik, Benitez, Javier, Zamora, Maria, Arias Perez, Jose, Menéndez, Primitiva, Neuhausen, Susan, Brenner, Hermann, Dieffenbach, Aida, Arndt, Volker, Stegmaier, Christa, Hamann, Ute, Brauch, Hiltrud, Justenhoven, Christina, Brüning, Thomas, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Nevanlinna, Heli, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Khan, Sofia, Bogdanova, Natalia, Dörk, Thilo, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Mannermaa, Arto, Kataja, Vesa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Hartikainen, Jaana, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Beesley, Jonathan, Lambrechts, Diether, Moisse, Matthieu, Floris, Guiseppe, Beuselinck, Benoit, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Radice, Paolo, Peterlongo, Paolo, Peissel, Bernard, Pensotti, Valeria, Couch, Fergus, Olson, Janet, Slettedahl, Seth, Vachon, Celine, Giles, Graham, Milne, Roger, McLean, Catriona, Haiman, Christopher, Henderson, Brian, Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Simard, Jacques, Goldberg, Mark, Labrèche, France, Dumont, Martine, Kristensen, Vessela, Alnæs, Grethe, Nord, Silje, Borresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Zheng, Wei, and Deming-Halverson, Sandra

Subjects
Adult, Aged, Asian People, Breast Neoplasms, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Estrogen Receptor alpha, Female, GATA3 Transcription Factor, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 3-alpha, Humans, Kruppel-Like Factor 4, Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk, White People
Abstract

We recently identified a novel susceptibility variant, rs865686, for estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer at 9q31.2. Here, we report a fine-mapping analysis of the 9q31.2 susceptibility locus using 43 160 cases and 42 600 controls of European ancestry ascertained from 52 studies and a further 5795 cases and 6624 controls of Asian ancestry from nine studies. Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs676256 was most strongly associated with risk in Europeans (odds ratios [OR] = 0.90 [0.88-0.92]; P-value = 1.58 × 10(-25)). This SNP is one of a cluster of highly correlated variants, including rs865686, that spans ∼14.5 kb. We identified two additional independent association signals demarcated by SNPs rs10816625 (OR = 1.12 [1.08-1.17]; P-value = 7.89 × 10(-09)) and rs13294895 (OR = 1.09 [1.06-1.12]; P-value = 2.97 × 10(-11)). SNP rs10816625, but not rs13294895, was also associated with risk of breast cancer in Asian individuals (OR = 1.12 [1.06-1.18]; P-value = 2.77 × 10(-05)). Functional genomic annotation using data derived from breast cancer cell-line models indicates that these SNPs localise to putative enhancer elements that bind known drivers of hormone-dependent breast cancer, including ER-α, FOXA1 and GATA-3. In vitro analyses indicate that rs10816625 and rs13294895 have allele-specific effects on enhancer activity and suggest chromatin interactions with the KLF4 gene locus. These results demonstrate the power of dense genotyping in large studies to identify independent susceptibility variants. Analysis of associations using subjects with different ancestry, combined with bioinformatic and genomic characterisation, can provide strong evidence for the likely causative alleles and their functional basis.

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2015

47. Two susceptibility loci identified for prostate cancer aggressiveness.

Author

Berndt, Sonja I, Wang, Zhaoming, Yeager, Meredith, Alavanja, Michael C, Albanes, Demetrius, Amundadottir, Laufey, Andriole, Gerald, Beane Freeman, Laura, Campa, Daniele, Cancel-Tassin, Geraldine, Canzian, Federico, Cornu, Jean-Nicolas, Cussenot, Olivier, Diver, W Ryan, Gapstur, Susan M, Grönberg, Henrik, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian, Hutchinson, Amy, Hunter, David J, Key, Timothy J, Kolb, Suzanne, Koutros, Stella, Kraft, Peter, Le Marchand, Loic, Lindström, Sara, Machiela, Mitchell J, Ostrander, Elaine A, Riboli, Elio, Schumacher, Fred, Siddiq, Afshan, Stanford, Janet L, Stevens, Victoria L, Travis, Ruth C, Tsilidis, Konstantinos K, Virtamo, Jarmo, Weinstein, Stephanie, Wilkund, Fredrik, Xu, Jianfeng, Lilly Zheng, S, Yu, Kai, Wheeler, William, Zhang, Han, African Ancestry Prostate Cancer GWAS Consortium, Sampson, Joshua, Black, Amanda, Jacobs, Kevin, Hoover, Robert N, Tucker, Margaret, and Chanock, Stephen J

Subjects
African Ancestry Prostate Cancer GWAS Consortium, Humans, Prostatic Neoplasms, Neoplasm Invasiveness, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Case-Control Studies, Male, Genetic Loci, Neoplasm Grading
Abstract

Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer will experience indolent disease; hence, discovering genetic variants that distinguish aggressive from nonaggressive prostate cancer is of critical clinical importance for disease prevention and treatment. In a multistage, case-only genome-wide association study of 12,518 prostate cancer cases, we identify two loci associated with Gleason score, a pathological measure of disease aggressiveness: rs35148638 at 5q14.3 (RASA1, P=6.49 × 10(-9)) and rs78943174 at 3q26.31 (NAALADL2, P=4.18 × 10(-8)). In a stratified case-control analysis, the SNP at 5q14.3 appears specific for aggressive prostate cancer (P=8.85 × 10(-5)) with no association for nonaggressive prostate cancer compared with controls (P=0.57). The proximity of these loci to genes involved in vascular disease suggests potential biological mechanisms worthy of further investigation.

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2015

48. Characterization of Large Structural Genetic Mosaicism in Human Autosomes

Author

Machiela, Mitchell J, Zhou, Weiyin, Sampson, Joshua N, Dean, Michael C, Jacobs, Kevin B, Black, Amanda, Brinton, Louise A, Chang, I-Shou, Chen, Chu, Chen, Constance, Chen, Kexin, Cook, Linda S, Bou, Marta Crous, De Vivo, Immaculata, Doherty, Jennifer, Friedenreich, Christine M, Gaudet, Mia M, Haiman, Christopher A, Hankinson, Susan E, Hartge, Patricia, Henderson, Brian E, Hong, Yun-Chul, Hosgood, H Dean, Hsiung, Chao A, Hu, Wei, Hunter, David J, Jessop, Lea, Kim, Hee Nam, Kim, Yeul Hong, Kim, Young Tae, Klein, Robert, Kraft, Peter, Lan, Qing, Lin, Dongxin, Liu, Jianjun, Le Marchand, Loic, Liang, Xiaolin, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lu, Lingeng, Magliocco, Anthony M, Matsuo, Keitaro, Olson, Sara H, Orlow, Irene, Park, Jae Yong, Pooler, Loreall, Prescott, Jennifer, Rastogi, Radhai, Risch, Harvey A, Schumacher, Fredrick, Seow, Adeline, Setiawan, Veronica Wendy, Shen, Hongbing, Sheng, Xin, Shin, Min-Ho, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Berg, David VanDen, Wang, Jiu-Cun, Wentzensen, Nicolas, Wong, Maria Pik, Wu, Chen, Wu, Tangchun, Wu, Yi-Long, Xia, Lucy, Yang, Hannah P, Yang, Pan-Chyr, Zheng, Wei, Zhou, Baosen, Abnet, Christian C, Albanes, Demetrius, Aldrich, Melinda C, Amos, Christopher, Amundadottir, Laufey T, Berndt, Sonja I, Blot, William J, Bock, Cathryn H, Bracci, Paige M, Burdett, Laurie, Buring, Julie E, Butler, Mary A, Carreón, Tania, Chatterjee, Nilanjan, Chung, Charles C, Cook, Michael B, Cullen, Michael, Davis, Faith G, Ding, Ti, Duell, Eric J, Epstein, Caroline G, Fan, Jin-Hu, Figueroa, Jonine D, Fraumeni, Joseph F, Freedman, Neal D, Fuchs, Charles S, Gao, Yu-Tang, Gapstur, Susan M, Patiño-Garcia, Ana, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Gaziano, J Michael, Giles, Graham G, and Gillanders, Elizabeth M

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Clinical Research, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Aged, Chromosome Aberrations, Female, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mosaicism, Neoplasms, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract

Analyses of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data have revealed that detectable genetic mosaicism involving large (>2 Mb) structural autosomal alterations occurs in a fraction of individuals. We present results for a set of 24,849 genotyped individuals (total GWAS set II [TGSII]) in whom 341 large autosomal abnormalities were observed in 168 (0.68%) individuals. Merging data from the new TGSII set with data from two prior reports (the Gene-Environment Association Studies and the total GWAS set I) generated a large dataset of 127,179 individuals; we then conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the patterns of detectable autosomal mosaicism (n = 1,315 events in 925 [0.73%] individuals). Restricting to events >2 Mb in size, we observed an increase in event frequency as event size decreased. The combined results underscore that the rate of detectable mosaicism increases with age (p value = 5.5 × 10(-31)) and is higher in men (p value = 0.002) but lower in participants of African ancestry (p value = 0.003). In a subset of 47 individuals from whom serial samples were collected up to 6 years apart, complex changes were noted over time and showed an overall increase in the proportion of mosaic cells as age increased. Our large combined sample allowed for a unique ability to characterize detectable genetic mosaicism involving large structural events and strengthens the emerging evidence of non-random erosion of the genome in the aging population.

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2015

49. Generalizability of established prostate cancer risk variants in men of African ancestry

Author

Han, Ying, Signorello, Lisa B, Strom, Sara S, Kittles, Rick A, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Stanford, Janet L, Goodman, Phyllis J, Berndt, Sonja I, Carpten, John, Casey, Graham, Chu, Lisa, Conti, David V, Rand, Kristin A, Diver, W Ryan, Hennis, Anselm JM, John, Esther M, Kibel, Adam S, Klein, Eric A, Kolb, Suzanne, Le Marchand, Loic, Leske, M Cristina, Murphy, Adam B, Neslund‐Dudas, Christine, Park, Jong Y, Pettaway, Curtis, Rebbeck, Timothy R, Gapstur, Susan M, Zheng, S Lilly, Wu, Suh‐Yuh, Witte, John S, Xu, Jianfeng, Isaacs, William, Ingles, Sue A, Hsing, Ann, Consortium, The PRACTICAL, Consortium, The ELLIPSE GAME‐ON, Easton, Douglas F, Eeles, Rosalind A, Schumacher, Fredrick R, Chanock, Stephen, Nemesure, Barbara, Blot, William J, Stram, Daniel O, Henderson, Brian E, and Haiman, Christopher A

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Aging, Prevention, Genetics, Human Genome, Clinical Research, Urologic Diseases, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Black People, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Follow-Up Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prognosis, Prostatic Neoplasms, Risk Factors, prostate cancer, genetic risk variant, generalizability, African ancestry, PRACTICAL Consortium, ELLIPSE GAME-ON Consortium, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies have identified more than 80 risk variants for prostate cancer, mainly in European or Asian populations. The generalizability of these variants in other racial/ethnic populations needs to be understood before the loci can be used widely in risk modeling. In our study, we examined 82 previously reported risk variants in 4,853 prostate cancer cases and 4,678 controls of African ancestry. We performed association testing for each variant using logistic regression adjusted for age, study and global ancestry. Of the 82 known risk variants, 68 (83%) had effects that were directionally consistent in their association with prostate cancer risk and 30 (37%) were significantly associated with risk at p < 0.05, with the most statistically significant variants being rs116041037 (p = 3.7 × 10(-26) ) and rs6983561 (p = 1.1 × 10(-16) ) at 8q24, as well as rs7210100 (p = 5.4 × 10(-8) ) at 17q21. By exploring each locus in search of better markers, the number of variants that captured risk in men of African ancestry (p < 0.05) increased from 30 (37%) to 44 (54%). An aggregate score comprised of these 44 markers was strongly associated with prostate cancer risk [per-allele odds ratio (OR) = 1.12, p = 7.3 × 10(-98) ]. In summary, the consistent directions of effects for the vast majority of variants in men of African ancestry indicate common functional alleles that are shared across populations. Further exploration of these susceptibility loci is needed to identify the underlying biologically relevant variants to improve prostate cancer risk modeling in populations of African ancestry.

Published
2015

50. Inherited variants in the inner centromere protein (INCENP) gene of the chromosomal passenger complex contribute to the susceptibility of ER-negative breast cancer

Author

Kabisch, Maria, Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo, Dünnebier, Thomas, Ying, Shibo, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Shah, Mitul, Perkins, Barbara J, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Bojesen, Stig E, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Lambrechts, Diether, Neven, Patrick, Peeters, Stephanie, Weltens, Caroline, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Wang, Xianshu, Purrington, Kristen, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Peto, Julian, dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Johnson, Nichola, Fletcher, Olivia, Nevanlinna, Heli, Muranen, Taru A, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Broeks, Annegien, Cornelissen, Sten, Hogervorst, Frans BL, Li, Jingmei, Brand, Judith S, Humphreys, Keith, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Menegaux, Florence, Sanchez, Marie, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marmé, Frederik, Yang, Rongxi, Bugert, Peter, González-Neira, Anna, Benitez, Javier, Zamora, M Pilar, Perez, Jose I Arias, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Reed, Malcolm WR, Andrulis, Irene L, Knight, Julia A, Glendon, Gord, Tchatchou, Sandrine, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J, Miller, Nicola, Haiman, Christopher A, Schumacher, Fredrick, Henderson, Brian E, Le Marchand, Loic, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Hooning, Maartje J, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Kriege, Mieke, Koppert, Linetta B, Hopper, John L, Southey, Melissa C, Tsimiklis, Helen, Apicella, Carmel, Slettedahl, Seth, Toland, Amanda E, Vachon, Celine, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Giles, Graham G, Milne, Roger L, McLean, Catriona, Fasching, Peter A, Ruebner, Matthias, Ekici, Arif B, Beckmann, Matthias W, Brenner, Hermann, Dieffenbach, Aida K, Arndt, Volker, Stegmaier, Christa, Ashworth, Alan, Orr, Nicholas, Schoemaker, Minouk J, and Swerdlow, Anthony

Subjects
Cancer, Human Genome, Prevention, Breast Cancer, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, 3' Untranslated Regions, Aurora Kinase B, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Cell Cycle Proteins, Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptors, Estrogen, Risk, Survivin, White People, kConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, GENICA Network, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Oncology & Carcinogenesis
Abstract

The chromosomal passenger complex (CPC) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of cell division. Therefore, inherited CPC variability could influence tumor development. The present candidate gene approach investigates the relationship between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes encoding key CPC components and breast cancer risk. Fifteen SNPs in four CPC genes (INCENP, AURKB, BIRC5 and CDCA8) were genotyped in 88 911 European women from 39 case-control studies of the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Possible associations were investigated in fixed-effects meta-analyses. The synonymous SNP rs1675126 in exon 7 of INCENP was associated with overall breast cancer risk [per A allele odds ratio (OR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.92-0.98, P = 0.007] and particularly with estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast tumors (per A allele OR 0.89, 95% CI 0.83-0.95, P = 0.0005). SNPs not directly genotyped were imputed based on 1000 Genomes. The SNPs rs1047739 in the 3' untranslated region and rs144045115 downstream of INCENP showed the strongest association signals for overall (per T allele OR 1.03, 95% CI 1.00-1.06, P = 0.0009) and ER-negative breast cancer risk (per A allele OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.02-1.10, P = 0.0002). Two genotyped SNPs in BIRC5 were associated with familial breast cancer risk (top SNP rs2071214: per G allele OR 1.12, 95% CI 1.04-1.21, P = 0.002). The data suggest that INCENP in the CPC pathway contributes to ER-negative breast cancer susceptibility in the European population. In spite of a modest contribution of CPC-inherited variants to the total burden of sporadic and familial breast cancer, their potential as novel targets for breast cancer treatment should be further investigated.

Published
2015

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