1. Sequence variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associate with many cancer types
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Donghui Kan, Jack A. Schalken, Hafsteinn Saemundsson, Sebastian Navarrete, Onno van Hooij, Bjarni A. Agnarsson, D. Timothy Bishop, Gunnar Steineck, Johan Hansson, Rafn Ragnarsson, Thorunn Rafnar, Halla Skuladottir, Alejandro Tres, Eirikur Jonsson, Katja K H Aben, Eliane Kellen, Augustine Kong, Rafael Botella-Estrada, René A Termeer, Javier Banzo, Sigurborg Matthiasdottir, Henricus F. M. van der Heijden, Margret Jakobsdottir, Anna Salvarsdottir, Jose I. Mayordomo, Stefano Porru, Bardur Sigurgeirsson, Hafdis T. Helgadottir, Annika Lindblom, Giuseppe Matullo, Asgeir Sigurdsson, Gudmundur V. Einarsson, Frank Geller, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, William J. Catalona, Steinunn Thorlacius, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Anne E. Kiltie, Rajesh Kumar, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Tomas Gudbjartsson, Maurice P. Zeegers, Berta Saez, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Margret Asgeirsdottir, Helgi J Isaksson, Kari T. Kristinsson, Peter Rudnai, Jón Ólafsson, Steinn Jonsson, Kristin Thorisdottir, Gisli Masson, Petra J. de Verdier, Femmie de Vegt, Karl Olafsson, Paolo Vineis, Kvetoslava Koppova, Veronica Höiom, Hans J Smit, Jeffrey R. Gulcher, Silvia Polidoro, Thorvaldur Jonsson, Eduardo Nagore, Thorarinn Blondal, Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson, Kristrun R. Benediktsdottir, Hjordis Bjarnason, Michael L. Frigge, Maria Vidal, Steinunn G Sveinsdottir, Raquel Andrés, Egbert Oosterwijk, Frank Buntinx, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Patrick Sulem, Pablo Juberías, Simon N. Stacey, Eugene Gurzau, Marcello Campagna, Kari Stefansson, Kristleifur Kristjansson, Ana Ferrer, Dolores Isla, Julius Gudmundsson, Kari Hemminki, deCODE Genetics, Sturlugata 8, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland. thorunn.rafnar@decode.is, Populatie Genetica, Huisartsgeneeskunde, and RS: NUTRIM - R4 - Gene-environment interaction
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CLPTM1L ,Male ,Telomerase ,Skin Neoplasms ,Genetics and epigenetic pathways of disease [NCMLS 6] ,Colorectal cancer ,Genome-wide association study ,Aetiology, screening and detection [ONCOL 5] ,BASAL-CELL CARCINOMA ,Linkage Disequilibrium ,COLORECTAL-CANCER ,Prostate cancer ,GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION ,PROSTATE-CANCER ,LUNG-CANCER ,TELOMERE LENGTH ,BREAST-CANCER ,SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCUS ,COMMON VARIANTS ,RISK-FACTOR ,0302 clinical medicine ,Gene Frequency ,Immune Regulation [NCMLS 2] ,Neoplasms ,Genetics ,0303 health sciences ,cancer ,genome-wide association study ,TERT ,Middle Aged ,Neoplasm Proteins ,3. Good health ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Female ,Quantitative Trait Loci ,Biology ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Article ,Molecular epidemiology [NCEBP 1] ,03 medical and health sciences ,Breast cancer ,Translational research [ONCOL 3] ,medicine ,Humans ,Genetic Predisposition to Disease ,Telomerase reverse transcriptase ,Lung cancer ,Aged ,030304 developmental biology ,Hereditary cancer and cancer-related syndromes [ONCOL 1] ,Carcinoma ,Membrane Proteins ,Cancer ,medicine.disease ,Carcinoma, Basal Cell ,Case-Control Studies ,Cancer research ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
Contains fulltext : 81560.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) The common sequence variants that have recently been associated with cancer risk are particular to a single cancer type or at most two. Following up on our genome-wide scan of basal cell carcinoma, we found that rs401681[C] on chromosome 5p15.33 satisfied our threshold for genome-wide significance (OR = 1.25, P = 3.7 x 10(-12)). We tested rs401681 for association with 16 additional cancer types in over 30,000 cancer cases and 45,000 controls and found association with lung cancer (OR = 1.15, P = 7.2 x 10(-8)) and urinary bladder, prostate and cervix cancer (ORs = 1.07-1.31, all P < 4 x 10(-4)). However, rs401681[C] seems to confer protection against cutaneous melanoma (OR = 0.88, P = 8.0 x 10(-4)). Notably, most of these cancer types have a strong environmental component to their risk. Investigation of the region led us to rs2736098[A], which showed stronger association with some cancer types. However, neither variant could fully account for the association of the other. rs2736098 corresponds to A305A in the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) protein and rs401681 is in an intron of the CLPTM1L gene.
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