1. CYP24A1 variant modifies the association between use of oestrogen plus progestogen therapy and colorectal cancer risk
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Garcia-Albeniz, X, Rudolph, A, Hutter, C, White, E, Lin, Y, Rosse, SA, Figueiredo, JC, Harrison, TA, Jiao, S, Brenner, H, Casey, G, Hudson, TJ, Thornquist, M, Le Marchand, L, Potter, J, Slattery, ML, Zanke, B, Baron, JA, Caan, BJ, Chanock, SJ, Berndt, SI, Stelling, D, Fuchs, CS, Hoffmeister, M, Butterbach, K, Du, M, Gauderman, WJ, Gunter, MJ, Lemire, M, Ogino, S, Lin, J, Hayes, RB, Haile, RW, Schoen, RE, SWarnick, G, Jenkins, MA, Thibodeau, SN, Schumacher, FR, Lindor, NM, Kolonel, LN, Hopper, JL, Gong, J, Seminara, D, Pflugeisen, BM, Ulrich, CM, Qu, C, Duggan, D, Cotterchio, M, Campbell, PT, Carlson, CS, Newcomb, PA, Giovannucci, E, Hsu, L, Chan, AT, Peters, U, Chang-Claude, J, Garcia-Albeniz, X, Rudolph, A, Hutter, C, White, E, Lin, Y, Rosse, SA, Figueiredo, JC, Harrison, TA, Jiao, S, Brenner, H, Casey, G, Hudson, TJ, Thornquist, M, Le Marchand, L, Potter, J, Slattery, ML, Zanke, B, Baron, JA, Caan, BJ, Chanock, SJ, Berndt, SI, Stelling, D, Fuchs, CS, Hoffmeister, M, Butterbach, K, Du, M, Gauderman, WJ, Gunter, MJ, Lemire, M, Ogino, S, Lin, J, Hayes, RB, Haile, RW, Schoen, RE, SWarnick, G, Jenkins, MA, Thibodeau, SN, Schumacher, FR, Lindor, NM, Kolonel, LN, Hopper, JL, Gong, J, Seminara, D, Pflugeisen, BM, Ulrich, CM, Qu, C, Duggan, D, Cotterchio, M, Campbell, PT, Carlson, CS, Newcomb, PA, Giovannucci, E, Hsu, L, Chan, AT, Peters, U, and Chang-Claude, J
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BACKGROUND: Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) use has been consistently associated with a decreased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in women. Our aim was to use a genome-wide gene-environment interaction analysis to identify genetic modifiers of CRC risk associated with use of MHT. METHODS: We included 10 835 postmenopausal women (5419 cases and 5416 controls) from 10 studies. We evaluated use of any MHT, oestrogen-only (E-only) and combined oestrogen-progestogen (E+P) hormone preparations. To test for multiplicative interactions, we applied the empirical Bayes (EB) test as well as the Wald test in conventional case-control logistic regression as primary tests. The Cocktail test was used as secondary test. RESULTS: The EB test identified a significant interaction between rs964293 at 20q13.2/CYP24A1 and E+P (interaction OR (95% CIs)=0.61 (0.52-0.72), P=4.8 × 10(-9)). The secondary analysis also identified this interaction (Cocktail test OR=0.64 (0.52-0.78), P=1.2 × 10(-5) (alpha threshold=3.1 × 10(-4)). The ORs for association between E+P and CRC risk by rs964293 genotype were as follows: C/C, 0.96 (0.61-1.50); A/C, 0.61 (0.39-0.95) and A/A, 0.40 (0.22-0.73), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that rs964293 modifies the association between E+P and CRC risk. The variant is located near CYP24A1, which encodes an enzyme involved in vitamin D metabolism. This novel finding offers additional insight into downstream pathways of CRC etiopathogenesis.
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- 2016