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1. Nutritional predictors of chronic disease in a Central Australian Aboriginal cohort: A multi-mixture modelling analysis

Author: Luke, J.N., Schmidt, D.F., Ritte, R., O'Dea, K., Brown, A., Piers, L.S., Jenkins, A.J., and Rowley, K.G.
Published: 2016
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2. Smoking Methylation Marks for Prediction of Urothelial Cancer Risk.

Author: Yu C., Jordahl K.M., Bassett J.K., Joo J.E., Wong E.M., Brinkman M.T., Schmidt D.F., Bolton D.M., Makalic E., Brasky T.M., Shadyab A.H., Tinker L.F., Longano A., Hopper J.L., English D.R., Milne R.L., Bhatti P., Southey M.C., Giles G.G., Dugue P.-A., Yu C., Jordahl K.M., Bassett J.K., Joo J.E., Wong E.M., Brinkman M.T., Schmidt D.F., Bolton D.M., Makalic E., Brasky T.M., Shadyab A.H., Tinker L.F., Longano A., Hopper J.L., English D.R., Milne R.L., Bhatti P., Southey M.C., Giles G.G., and Dugue P.-A.
Abstract: Background: Self-reported information may not accurately capture smoking exposure. We aimed to evaluate whether smoking-associated DNA methylation markers improve urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC) risk prediction. Method(s): Conditional logistic regression was used to assess associations between blood-based methylation and UCC risk using two matched case-control samples: 404 pairs from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS) and 440 pairs from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) cohort. Results were pooled using fixed-effects meta-analysis. We developed methylation-based predictors of UCC and evaluated their prediction accuracy on two replication data sets using the area under the curve (AUC). Result(s): The meta-analysis identified associations (P < 4.7 X 10-5) for 29 of 1,061 smoking-associated methylation sites, but these were substantially attenuated after adjustment for self-reported smoking. Nominally significant associations (P < 0.05) were found for 387 (36%) and 86 (8%) of smoking-associated markers without/with adjustment for self-reported smoking, respectively, with same direction of association as with smoking for 387 (100%) and 79 (92%) markers. A Lasso-based predictor was associated with UCC risk in one replication data set in MCCS [N 1/4 134; odds ratio per SD (OR) 1/4 1.37; 95% CI, 1.00-1.90] after confounder adjustment; AUC 1/4 0.66, compared with AUC 1/4 0.64 without methylation information. Limited evidence of replication was found in the second testing data set in WHI (N 1/4 440; OR 1/4 1.09; 95% CI, 0.91-1.30). Conclusion(s): Combination of smoking-associated methylation marks may provide some improvement to UCC risk prediction. Our findings need further evaluation using larger data sets. Impact: DNA methylation may be associated with UCC risk beyond traditional smoking assessment and could contribute to some improvements in stratification of UCC risk in the general population.Copyright ©2021 American Association for Cancer Research
Published: 2021

3. Novel mammogram-based measures improve breast cancer risk prediction beyond an established mammographic density measure.

Author: Southey M.C., Maskarinec G., Jenkins M.A., Milne R.L., Giles G.G., Hopper J.L., Nguyen T.L., Schmidt D.F., Makalic E., Li S., Dite G.S., Aung Y.K., Evans C.F., Trinh H.N., Baglietto L., Stone J., Song Y.-M., Sung J., MacInnis R.J., Dugue P.-A., Dowty J.G., Southey M.C., Maskarinec G., Jenkins M.A., Milne R.L., Giles G.G., Hopper J.L., Nguyen T.L., Schmidt D.F., Makalic E., Li S., Dite G.S., Aung Y.K., Evans C.F., Trinh H.N., Baglietto L., Stone J., Song Y.-M., Sung J., MacInnis R.J., Dugue P.-A., and Dowty J.G.
Abstract: Mammograms contain information that predicts breast cancer risk. We developed two novel mammogram-based breast cancer risk measures based on image brightness (Cirrocumulus) and texture (Cirrus). Their risk prediction when fitted together, and with an established measure of conventional mammographic density (Cumulus), is not known. We used three studies consisting of: 168 interval cases and 498 matched controls; 422 screen-detected cases and 1197 matched controls; and 354 younger-diagnosis cases and 944 controls frequency-matched for age at mammogram. We conducted conditional and unconditional logistic regression analyses of individually- and frequency-matched studies, respectively. We estimated measure-specific risk gradients as the change in odds per standard deviation of controls after adjusting for age and body mass index (OPERA) and calculated the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). For interval, screen-detected and younger-diagnosis cancer risks, the best fitting models (OPERAs [95% confidence intervals]) involved: Cumulus (1.81 [1.41-2.31]) and Cirrus (1.72 [1.38-2.14]); Cirrus (1.49 [1.32-1.67]) and Cirrocumulus (1.16 [1.03 to 1.31]); and Cirrus (1.70 [1.48 to 1.94]) and Cirrocumulus (1.46 [1.27-1.68]), respectively. The AUCs were: 0.73 [0.68-0.77], 0.63 [0.60-0.66], and 0.72 [0.69-0.75], respectively. Combined, our new mammogram-based measures have twice the risk gradient for screen-detected and younger-diagnosis breast cancer (P <= 10-12), have at least the same discriminatory power as the current polygenic risk score, and are more correlated with causal factors than conventional mammographic density. Discovering more information about breast cancer risk from mammograms could help enable risk-based personalised breast screening.Copyright © 2020 UICC
Published: 2021

4. Stochastic epigenetic mutations are associated with risk of breast cancer, lung cancer, and mature b-cell neoplasms.

Author: Gagliardi A., Dugue P.-A., Nost T.H., Southey M.C., Buchanan D.D., Schmidt D.F., Makalic E., Hodge A.M., English D.R., Doo N.W., Hopper J.L., Severi G., Baglietto L., Naccarati A., Tarallo S., Pace L., Krogh V., Palli D., Panico S., Sacerdote C., Tumino R., Lund E., Giles G.G., Pardini B., Sandanger T.M., Milne R.L., Vineis P., Polidoro S., Fiorito G., Gagliardi A., Dugue P.-A., Nost T.H., Southey M.C., Buchanan D.D., Schmidt D.F., Makalic E., Hodge A.M., English D.R., Doo N.W., Hopper J.L., Severi G., Baglietto L., Naccarati A., Tarallo S., Pace L., Krogh V., Palli D., Panico S., Sacerdote C., Tumino R., Lund E., Giles G.G., Pardini B., Sandanger T.M., Milne R.L., Vineis P., Polidoro S., and Fiorito G.
Abstract: Background: Age-related epigenetic dysregulations are associated with several diseases, including cancer. The number of stochastic epigenetic mutations (SEM) has been suggested as a biomarker of life-course accumulation of exposure-related DNA damage; however, the predictive role of SEMs in cancer has seldom been investigated. Method(s): A SEM, at a given CpG site, was defined as an extreme outlier of DNA methylation value distribution across individuals. We investigated the association of the total number of SEMs with the risk of eight cancers in 4,497 case-control pairs nested in three prospective cohorts. Furthermore, we investigated whether SEMs were randomly distributed across the genome or enriched in functional genomic regions. Result(s): In the three-study meta-analysis, the estimated ORs per one-unit increase in log(SEM) from logistic regression models adjusted for age and cancer risk factors were 1.25; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.11-1.41 for breast cancer, and 1.23; 95% CI, 1.07-1.42 for lung cancer. In the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study, the OR for mature B-cell neoplasm was 1.46; 95% CI, 1.25-1.71. Enrichment analyses indicated that SEMs frequently occur in silenced genomic regions and in transcription factor binding sites regulated by EZH2 and SUZ12 (P < 0.0001 and P 1/4 0.0005, respectively): two components of the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PCR2). Finally, we showed that PCR2-specific SEMs are generally more stable over time compared with SEMs occurring in the whole genome. Conclusion(s): The number of SEMs is associated with a higher risk of different cancers in prediagnostic blood samples. Impact: We identified a candidate biomarker for cancer early detection, and we described a carcinogenesis mechanism involving PCR2 complex proteins worthy of further investigations. The authors are very thankful to Dr. Akram Ghantous (IARC, Lyon, France) for the methylation analyses of PEM-Turin study, produced within the Exposomics EC FP7 grant (gran
Published: 2021

5. Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes

Author: Fachal, L., Aschard, H., Beesley, J., Barnes, D.R., Allen, J., Kar, S., Pooley, K.A., Dennis, J., Michailidou, K., Turman, C., Soucy, P., Lemaçon, A., Lush, M., Tyrer, J.P., Ghoussaini, M., Marjaneh, M.M., Jiang, X., Agata, S., Aittomäki, K., Alonso, M.R., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Antonenkova, N.N., Arason, A., Arndt, V., Aronson, K.J., Arun, B.K., Auber, B., Auer, P.L., Azzollini, J., Balmaña, J., Barkardottir, R.B., Barrowdale, D., Beeghly-Fadiel, A., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Białkowska, K., Blanco, A.M., Blomqvist, C., Blot, W., Bogdanova, N.V., Bojesen, S.E., Bolla, M.K., Bonanni, B., Borg, A., Bosse, K., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Briceno, I., Brock, I.W., Brooks-Wilson, A., Brüning, T., Burwinkel, B., Buys, S.S., Cai, Q., Caldés, T., Caligo, M.A., Camp, N.J., Campbell, I., Canzian, F., Carroll, J.S., Carter, B.D., Castelao, J.E., Chiquette, J., Christiansen, H., Chung, W.K., Claes, K.B.M., Clarke, C.L., Mari, V., Berthet, P., Castera, L., Vaur, D., Lallaoui, H., Bignon, Y.-J., Uhrhammer, N., Bonadona, V., Lasset, C., Révillion, F., Vennin, P., Muller, D., Gomes, D.M., Ingster, O., Coupier, I., Pujol, P., Collonge-Rame, M.-A., Mortemousque, I., Bera, O., Rose, M., Baurand, A., Bertolone, G., Faivre, L., Dreyfus, H., Leroux, D., Venat-Bouvet, L., Bézieau, S., Delnatte, C., Chiesa, J., Gilbert-Dussardier, B., Gesta, P., Prieur, F.P., Bronner, M., Sokolowska, J., Coulet, F., Boutry-Kryza, N., Calender, A., Giraud, S., Leone, M., Fert-Ferrer, S., Stoppa-Lyonnet, D., Jiao, Y., Lesueur, F.L., Mebirouk, N., Barouk-Simonet, E., Bubien, V., Longy, M., Sevenet, N., Gladieff, L., Toulas, C., Reimineras, A., Sobol, H., Paillerets, B.B.-D., Cabaret, O., Caron, O., Guillaud-Bataille, M., Rouleau, E., Belotti, M., Buecher, B., Caputo, S., Colas, C., Pauw, A.D., Fourme, E., Gauthier-Villars, M., Golmard, L., Moncoutier, V., Saule, C., Donaldson, A., Murray, A., Brady, A., Brewer, C., Pottinger, C., Miller, C., Gallagher, D., Gregory, H., Cook, J., Eason, J., Adlard, J., Barwell, J., Ong, K.-R., Snape, K., Walker, L., Izatt, L., Side, L., Tischkowitz, M., Rogers, M.T., Porteous, M.E., Ahmed, M., Morrison, P.J., Brennan, P., Eeles, R., Davidson, R., Collée, M., Cornelissen, S., Couch, F.J., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Cybulski, C., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., de la Hoya, M., Devilee, P., Diez, O., Ding, Y.C., Dite, G.S., Domchek, S.M., Dörk, T., dos-Santos-Silva, I., Droit, A., Dubois, S., Dumont, M., Duran, M., Durcan, L., Dwek, M., Eccles, D.M., Engel, C., Eriksson, M., Evans, D.G., Fasching, P.A., Fletcher, O., Floris, G., Flyger, H., Foretova, L., Foulkes, W.D., Friedman, E., Fritschi, L., Frost, D., Gabrielson, M., Gago-Dominguez, M., Gambino, G., Ganz, P.A., Gapstur, S.M., Garber, J., García-Sáenz, J.A., Gaudet, M.M., Georgoulias, V., Giles, G., Glendon, G., Godwin, A.K., Goldberg, M.S., Goldgar, D.E., González-Neira, A., Tibiletti, M.G., Greene, M.H., Grip, M., Gronwald, J., Grundy, A., Guénel, P., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C.A., Håkansson, N., Hall, P., Hamann, U., Harrington, P.A., Hartikainen, J.M., Hartman, M., He, W., Healey, C.S., Heemskerk-Gerritsen, B.A.M., Heyworth, J., Hillemanns, P., Hogervorst, F.B.L., Hollestelle, A., Hooning, M., Hopper, J., Howell, A., Huang, G., Hulick, P.J., Imyanitov, E.N., Sexton, A., Christian, A., Trainer, A., Spigelman, A., Fellows, A., Shelling, A., Fazio, A.D., Blackburn, A., Crook, A., Meiser, B., Patterson, B., Clarke, C., Saunders, C., Hunt, C., Scott, C., Amor, D., Marsh, D., Edkins, E., Salisbury, E., Haan, E., Neidermayr, E., Macrea, F., Farshid, G., Lindeman, G., Chenevix-Trench, G., Mann, G., Gill, G., Thorne, H., Hickie, I., Winship, I., Flanagan, J., Kollias, J., Visvader, J., Stone, J., Taylor, J., Burke, J., Saunus, J., Forbes, J., Kirk, J., French, J., Tucker, K., Wu, K., Phillips, K., Lipton, L., Andrews, L., Lobb, L., Kentwell, M., Spurdle, M., Cummings, M., Gleeson, M., Harris, M., Jenkins, M., Young, M.A., Delatycki, M., Wallis, M., Burgess, M., Price, M., Brown, M., Southey, M., Bogwitz, M., Field, M., Friedlander, M., Gattas, M., Saleh, M., Hayward, N., Pachter, N., Cohen, P., Duijf, P., James, P., Simpson, P., Fong, P., Butow, P., Williams, R., Kefford, R., Scott, R., Milne, R.L., Balleine, R., Dawson, S.–J., Lok, S., O’Connell, S., Greening, S., Nightingale, S., Edwards, S., Fox, S., McLachlan, S.-A., Lakhani, S., Antill, Y., Aalfs, C., Meijers-Heijboer, H., van Engelen, K., Gille, H., Boere, I., van Deurzen, C., Obdeijn, I.-M., van den Ouweland, A., Seynaeve, C., Siesling, S., Verloop, J., van Asperen, C.J., van Cronenburg, T., Blok, R., de Boer, M., Garcia, E.G., Adank, M., Hogervorst, F., Jenner, D., van Leeuwen, F., Rookus, M., Russell, N., Schmidt, M., van den Belt-Dusebout, S., Kets, C., Mensenkamp, A., de Bock, T., van der Hout, A., Mourits, M., Oosterwijk, J., Ausems, M., Koudijs, M., Baxter, R., Yip, D., Carpenter, J., Davis, A., Pathmanathan, N., Graham, D., Sachchithananthan, M., Isaacs, C., Iwasaki, M., Jager, A., Jakimovska, M., Jakubowska, A., James, P.A., Janavicius, R., Jankowitz, R.C., John, E.M., Johnson, N., Jones, M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Jung, A., Kaaks, R., Kang, D., Kapoor, P.M., Karlan, B.Y., Keeman, R., Kerin, M.J., Khusnutdinova, E., Kiiski, J.I., Kitahara, C.M., Ko, Y.-D., Konstantopoulou, I., Kosma, V.-M., Koutros, S., Kubelka-Sabit, K., Kwong, A., Kyriacou, K., Laitman, Y., Lambrechts, D., Lee, E., Leslie, G., Lester, J., Lesueur, F., Lindblom, A., Lo, W.-Y., Long, J., Lophatananon, A., Loud, J.T., Lubiński, J., MacInnis, R.J., Maishman, T., Makalic, E., Mannermaa, A., Manoochehri, M., Manoukian, S., Margolin, S., Martinez, M.E., Matsuo, K., Maurer, T., Mavroudis, D., Mayes, R., McGuffog, L., McLean, C., Meindl, A., Miller, A., Miller, N., Montagna, M., Moreno, F., Muir, K., Mulligan, A.M., Muñoz-Garzon, V.M., Muranen, T.A., Narod, S.A., Nassir, R., Nathanson, K.L., Neuhausen, S.L., Nevanlinna, H., Neven, P., Nielsen, F.C., Nikitina-Zake, L., Norman, A., Offit, K., Olah, E., Olopade, O.I., Olsson, H., Orr, N., Osorio, A., Pankratz, V.S., Papp, J., Park, S.K., Park-Simon, T.-W., Parsons, M.T., Paul, J., Pedersen, I.S., Peissel, B., Peshkin, B., Peterlongo, P., Peto, J., Plaseska-Karanfilska, D., Prajzendanc, K., Prentice, R., Presneau, N., Prokofyeva, D., Pujana, M.A., Pylkäs, K., Radice, P., Ramus, S.J., Rantala, J., Rau-Murthy, R., Rennert, G., Risch, H.A., Robson, M., Romero, A., Rossing, M., Saloustros, E., Sánchez-Herrero, E., Sandler, D.P., Santamariña, M., Sawyer, E.J., Scheuner, M.T., Schmidt, D.F., Schmutzler, R.K., Schneeweiss, A., Schoemaker, M.J., Schöttker, B., Schürmann, P., Scott, R.J., Senter, L., Seynaeve, C.M., Shah, M., Sharma, P., Shen, C.-Y., Shu, X.-O., Singer, C.F., Slavin, T.P., Smichkoska, S., Southey, M.C., Spinelli, J.J., Spurdle, A.B., Sutter, C., Swerdlow, A.J., Tamimi, R.M., Tan, Y.Y., Tapper, W.J., Taylor, J.A., Teixeira, M.R., Tengström, M., Teo, S.H., Terry, M.B., Teulé, A., Thomassen, M., Thull, D.L., Toland, A.E., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Tomlinson, I., Torres, D., Torres-Mejía, G., Troester, M.A., Truong, T., Tung, N., Tzardi, M., Ulmer, H.-U., Vachon, C.M., van der Kolk, L.E., van Rensburg, E.J., Vega, A., Viel, A., Vijai, J., Vogel, M.J., Wang, Q., Wappenschmidt, B., Weinberg, C.R., Weitzel, J.N., Wendt, C., Wildiers, H., Winqvist, R., Wolk, A., Wu, A.H., Yannoukakos, D., Zhang, Y., Zheng, W., Hunter, D., Pharoah, P.D.P., Chang-Claude, J., García-Closas, M., Schmidt, M.K., Kristensen, V.N., French, J.D., Edwards, S.L., Antoniou, A.C., Simard, J., Easton, D.F., Kraft, P., Dunning, A.M., Collaborators, GEMO Study, Collaborators, EMBRACE, Investigators, KConFab, Investigators, HEBON, Investigators, ABCTB, Fachal, Laura, Aschard, Hugues, Beesley, Jonathan, Barnes, Daniel R, Duijf, Pascal, Dunning, Alison M, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, KConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, MUMC+: MA Medische Oncologie (9), RS: GROW - R3 - Innovative Cancer Diagnostics & Therapy, Klinische Genetica, MUMC+: DA KG Polikliniek (9), RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine, MUMC+: DA KG Lab Centraal Lab (9), European Commission, Government of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, National Institutes of Health (US), Cancer Research UK, Département de Biologie Computationnelle - Department of Computational Biology, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), NSCAD, University of Cyprus [Nicosia], Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 656144. Genotyping of the OncoArray was principally funded from three sources: the PERSPECTIVE project (funded by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the ‘Ministère de l’Économie de la Science et de l’Innovation du Québec’ (through Genome Québec) and the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation), the NCI Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME-ON) initiative and the Discovery, Biology and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) project (NIH grants U19 CA148065 and X01HG007492), and Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10118, C8197/A16565 and C1287/A16563). BCAC is funded by Cancer Research UK (C1287/A16563), by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement 223175 (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175) (COGS) and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreements 633784 (B-CAST) and 634935 (BRIDGES). Genotyping of the iCOGS array was funded by the European Union (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175), Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10710), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the ‘CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer’ program, and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade of Quebec (grant PSR-SIIRI-701). Combining of the GWAS data was supported in part by NIH Cancer Post-Cancer GWAS initiative grant U19 CA 148065 (DRIVE, part of the GAME-ON initiative). For a full description of funding and acknowledgments, see the Supplementary Note., We thank all of the individuals who took part in these studies, as well as all of the researchers, clinicians, technicians and administrative staff who enabled this work to be carried out, European Project: 656144,H2020,H2020-MSCA-IF-2014,RADIOGENFF(2016), European Project: 223175,EC:FP7:HEALTH,FP7-HEALTH-2007-B,COGS(2009), European Project: 633784,H2020,H2020-PHC-2014-two-stage,B-CAST(2015), European Project: 634935,H2020,H2020-PHC-2014-two-stage,BRIDGES(2015), Clinical Genetics, Medical Oncology, Pathology, Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Cyprus [Nicosia] (UCY), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Damage and Repair in Cancer Development and Cancer Treatment (DARE), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Targeted Gynaecologic Oncology (TARGON), Basic and Translational Research and Imaging Methodology Development in Groningen (BRIDGE), Aschard, Hugues [0000-0002-7554-6783], Barnes, Daniel R [0000-0002-3781-7570], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Michailidou, Kyriaki [0000-0001-7065-1237], Lemaçon, Audrey [0000-0002-1817-7029], Andrulis, Irene L [0000-0002-4226-6435], Arason, Adalgeir [0000-0003-0480-886X], Arndt, Volker [0000-0001-9320-8684], Auber, Bernd [0000-0003-1880-291X], Azzollini, Jacopo [0000-0002-9364-9778], Bojesen, Stig E [0000-0002-4061-4133], Bonanni, Bernardo [0000-0003-3589-2128], Brauch, Hiltrud [0000-0001-7531-2736], Campbell, Ian [0000-0002-7773-4155], Carroll, Jason S [0000-0003-3643-0080], Claes, Kathleen BM [0000-0003-0841-7372], Collée, J Margriet [0000-0002-9272-9346], Devilee, Peter [0000-0002-8023-2009], Dörk, Thilo [0000-0002-9458-0282], Dwek, Miriam [0000-0001-7184-2932], Fletcher, Olivia [0000-0001-9387-7116], Floris, Giuseppe [0000-0003-2391-5425], Foulkes, William D [0000-0001-7427-4651], García-Sáenz, José A [0000-0001-6880-0301], Greene, Mark H [0000-0003-1852-9239], Guénel, Pascal [0000-0002-8359-518X], Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Bernadette AM [0000-0002-9724-6693], Hollestelle, Antoinette [0000-0003-1166-1966], Hulick, Peter J [0000-0001-8397-4078], Jakimovska, Milena [0000-0002-1506-0669], Jakubowska, Anna [0000-0002-5650-0501], James, Paul A [0000-0002-4361-4657], Jones, Michael E [0000-0001-7479-3451], Kapoor, Pooja Middha [0000-0001-5503-8215], Keeman, Renske [0000-0002-5452-9933], Konstantopoulou, Irene [0000-0002-0470-0309], Leslie, Goska [0000-0001-5756-6222], Lesueur, Fabienne [0000-0001-7404-4549], Matsuo, Keitaro [0000-0003-1761-6314], McLean, Catriona [0000-0002-0302-5727], Miller, Austin [0000-0001-9739-8462], Muir, Kenneth [0000-0001-6429-988X], Muranen, Taru A [0000-0002-5895-1808], Nathanson, Katherine L [0000-0002-6740-0901], Nevanlinna, Heli [0000-0002-0916-2976], Olopade, Olufunmilayo I [0000-0002-9936-1599], Orr, Nick [0000-0003-2866-942X], Pankratz, V Shane [0000-0002-3742-040X], Parsons, Michael T [0000-0003-3242-8477], Paul, James [0000-0001-7367-5816], Peshkin, Beth [0000-0002-2997-4701], Peterlongo, Paolo [0000-0001-6951-6855], Peto, Julian [0000-0002-1685-8912], Plaseska-Karanfilska, Dijana [0000-0001-8877-2416], Pylkäs, Katri [0000-0002-2449-0521], Radice, Paolo [0000-0001-6298-4111], Rennert, Gad [0000-0002-8512-068X], Robson, Mark [0000-0002-3109-1692], Romero, Atocha [0000-0002-1634-7397], Saloustros, Emmanouil [0000-0002-0485-0120], Scott, Christopher [0000-0003-1340-0647], Scott, Rodney J [0000-0001-7724-3404], Spurdle, Amanda B [0000-0003-1337-7897], Stone, Jennifer [0000-0001-5077-0124], Sutter, Christian [0000-0003-4051-5888], Tan, Yen Yen [0000-0003-1063-5352], Teixeira, Manuel R [0000-0002-4896-5982], Toland, Amanda E [0000-0002-0271-1792], Tomlinson, Ian [0000-0003-3037-1470], Viel, Alessandra [0000-0003-2804-0840], Vijai, Joseph [0000-0002-7933-151X], Wolk, Alicja [0000-0001-7387-6845], Yannoukakos, Drakoulis [0000-0001-7509-3510], Pharoah, Paul DP [0000-0001-8494-732X], Schmidt, Marjanka K [0000-0002-2228-429X], Milne, Roger L [0000-0001-5764-7268], Edwards, Stacey L [0000-0001-7428-4139], Simard, Jacques [0000-0001-6906-3390], Easton, Douglas F [0000-0003-2444-3247], Kraft, Peter [0000-0002-4472-8103], Dunning, Alison M [0000-0001-6651-7166], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Academic Medical Center, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Human genetics, CCA - Cancer biology and immunology, Molecular cell biology and Immunology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research, Staff Services, INDIVIDRUG - Individualized Drug Therapy, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subjects: CHROMATIN, Linkage disequilibrium, Genome-wide association study, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Genome-wide association studies, Linkage Disequilibrium, Basic medicine, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, MESH: Risk Factors, Risk Factors, COMPREHENSIVE MOLECULAR PORTRAITS, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, HEBON Investigators, Genetics & Heredity, 0303 health sciences, [STAT.AP]Statistics [stat]/Applications [stat.AP], PROTEIN FUNCTION, Tumor, breast tumor, MESH: Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, MESH: Genetic Predisposition to Disease, apoptosis, Chromosome Mapping, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, MESH: Linkage Disequilibrium, Female, MESH: Biomarkers, Tumor, Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics, [STAT.ME]Statistics [stat]/Methodology [stat.ME], Life Sciences & Biomedicine, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, MESH: Bayes Theorem, Quantitative Trait Loci, ABCTB Investigators, INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS, Breast Neoplasms, Computational biology, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, Breast Neoplasms/genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, ENHANCER, GEMO Study Collaborators, 03 medical and health sciences, breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, REVEALS, Genetics, Biomarkers, Tumor, MESH: Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, FUNCTIONAL VARIANTS, EMBRACE Collaborators, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Bayes Theorem, Genome-Wide Association Study, MESH: Humans, Science & Technology, Nucleic Acid, gene mapping, 06 Biological Sciences, MESH: Quantitative Trait Loci, DNA binding site, ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Clinical medicine, Expression quantitative trait loci, MESH: Genome-Wide Association Study, Human genome, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, KConFab Investigators, [INFO.INFO-BI]Computer Science [cs]/Bioinformatics [q-bio.QM], MESH: Chromosome Mapping, Chromosome Mapping/methods, Regulatory Sequences, MESH: Female, Biomarkers, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, MESH: Breast Neoplasms, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies have identified breast cancer risk variants in over 150 genomic regions, but the mechanisms underlying risk remain largely unknown. These regions were explored by combining association analysis with in silico genomic feature annotations. We defined 205 independent risk-associated signals with the set of credible causal variants in each one. In parallel, we used a Bayesian approach (PAINTOR) that combines genetic association, linkage disequilibrium and enriched genomic features to determine variants with high posterior probabilities of being causal. Potentially causal variants were significantly over-represented in active gene regulatory regions and transcription factor binding sites. We applied our INQUSIT pipeline for prioritizing genes as targets of those potentially causal variants, using gene expression (expression quantitative trait loci), chromatin interaction and functional annotations. Known cancer drivers, transcription factors and genes in the developmental, apoptosis, immune system and DNA integrity checkpoint gene ontology pathways were over-represented among the highest-confidence target genes., This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 656144. Genotyping of the OncoArray was principally funded from three sources: the PERSPECTIVE project (funded by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the ‘Ministère de l’Économie de la Science et de l’Innovation du Québec’ (through Genome Québec) and the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation); the NCI Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME-ON) initiative and the Discovery, Biology and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) project (NIH grants U19 CA148065 and X01HG007492); and Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10118, C8197/A16565 and C1287/A16563). BCAC is funded by Cancer Research UK (C1287/A16563), by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement 223175 (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175) (COGS) and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreements 633784 (B-CAST) and 634935 (BRIDGES). Genotyping of the iCOGS array was funded by the European Union (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175), Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10710), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the ‘CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer’ program, and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade of Quebec (grant PSR-SIIRI-701). Combining of the GWAS data was supported in part by NIH Cancer Post-Cancer GWAS initiative grant U19 CA 148065 (DRIVE; part of the GAME-ON initiative).
Published: 2020
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6. Genome-wide association study of germline variants and breast cancer-specific mortality

Author: Escala-Garcia, M., Guo, Q., Dork, T., Canisius, S., Keeman, R., Dennis, J., Beesley, J., Lecarpentier, J., Bolla, M.K., Wang, Q., Abraham, J., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Arndt, V., Auer, P.L., Beckmann, M.W., Behrens, S., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Bernstein, L., Blomqvist, C., Boeckx, B., Bojesen, S.E., Bonanni, B., Borresen-Dale, A.L., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Brentnall, A., Brinton, L., Broberg, P., Brock, I.W., Brucker, S.Y., Burwinkel, B., Caldas, C., Caldes, T., Campa, D., Canzian, F., Carracedo, A., Carter, B.D., Castelao, J.E., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S.J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Cheng, T.Y.D., Chin, S.F., Clarke, C.L., Cordina-Duverger, E., Couch, F.J., Cox, D.G., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., Devilee, P., Dunn, J.A., Dunning, A.M., Durcan, L., Dwek, M., Earl, H.M., Ekici, A.B., Eliassen, A.H., Ellberg, C., Engel, C., Eriksson, M., Evans, D.G., Figueroa, J., Flesch-Janys, D., Flyger, H., Gabrielson, M., Gago-Dominguez, M., Galle, E., Gapstur, S.M., Garcia-Closas, M., Garcia-Saenz, J.A., Gaudet, M.M., George, A., Georgoulias, V., Giles, G.G., Glendon, G., Goldgar, D.E., Gonzalez-Neira, A., Alnaes, G.I.G., Grip, M., Guenel, P., Haeberle, L., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C.A., Hakansson, N., Hall, P., Hamann, U., Hankinson, S., Harkness, E.F., Harrington, P.A., Hart, S.N., Hartikainen, J.M., Hein, A., Hillemanns, P., Hiller, L., Holleczek, B., Hollestelle, A., Hooning, M.J., Hoover, R.N., Hopper, J.L., Howell, A., Huang, G.M.Q., Humphreys, K., Hunter, D.J., Janni, W., John, E.M., Jones, M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Jung, A., Kaaks, R., Kabisch, M., Kaczmarek, K., Kerin, M.J., Khan, S., Khusnutdinova, E., Kiiski, J.I., Kitahara, C.M., Knight, J.A., Ko, Y.D., Koppert, L.B., Kosma, V.M., Kraft, P., Kristensen, V.N., Kruger, U., Kuhl, T., Lambrechts, D., Marchand, L. le, Lee, E., Lejbkowicz, F., Li, L., Lindblom, A., Lindstrom, S., Linet, M., Lissowska, J., W.Y. lo, Loibl, S., Lubinski, J., Lux, M.P., MacInnis, R.J., Maierthaler, M., Maishman, T., Makalic, E., Mannermaa, A., Manoochehri, M., Manoukian, S., Margolin, S., Martinez, M.E., Mavroudis, D., McLean, C., Meindl, A., Middha, P., Miller, N., Milne, R.L., Moreno, F., Mulligan, A.M., Mulot, C., Nassir, R., Neuhausen, S.L., Newman, W.T., Nielsen, S.F., Nordestgaard, B.G., Norman, A., Olsson, H., Orr, N., Pankratz, V.S., Park-Simon, T.W., Perez, J.I.A., Perez-Barrios, C., Peterlongo, P., Petridis, C., Pinchev, M., Prajzendanc, K., Prentice, R., Presneau, N., Prokofieva, D., Pylkas, K., Rack, B., Radice, P., Ramachandran, D., Rennert, G., Rennert, H.S., Rhenius, V., Romero, A., Roylance, R., Saloustros, E., Sawyer, E.J., Schmidt, D.F., Schmutzler, R.K., Schneeweiss, A., Schoemaker, M.J., Schumacher, F., Schwentner, L., Scott, R.J., Scott, C., Seynaeve, C., Shah, M., Simard, J., Smeets, A., Sohn, C., Southey, M.C., Swerdlow, A.J., Talhouk, A., Tamimi, R.M., Tapper, W.J., Teixeira, M.R., Tengstrom, M., Terry, M.B., Thone, K., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Tomlinson, I., Torres, D., Truong, T., Turman, C., Turnbull, C., Ulmer, H.U., Untch, M., Vachon, C., Asperen, C.J. van, Ouweland, A.M.W. van den, Veen, E.M. van, Wendt, C., Whittemore, A.S., Willett, W., Winqvist, R., Wolk, A., Yang, X.R., Zhang, Y., Easton, D.F., Fasching, P.A., Nevanlinna, H., Eccles, D.M., Pharoah, P.D.P., Schmidt, M.K., and NBCS Collaborators
Abstract: BACKGROUND: We examined the associations between germline variants and breast cancer mortality using a large meta-analysis of women of European ancestry.METHODS: Meta-analyses included summary estimates based on Cox models of twelve datasets using similar to 10.4 million variants for 96,661 women with breast cancer and 7697 events (breast cancer-specific deaths). Oestrogen receptor (ER)-specific analyses were based on 64,171 ER-positive (4116) and 16,172 ER-negative (2125) patients. We evaluated the probability of a signal to be a true positive using the Bayesian false discovery probability (BFDP).RESULTS: We did not find any variant associated with breast cancer-specific mortality at P
Published: 2019

7. Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes.

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MacInnis R.J., Maishman T., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Matsuo K., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., McGuffog L., McLean C., Meindl A., Miller A., Miller N., Montagna M., Moreno F., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Munoz-Garzon V.M., Muranen T.A., Narod S.A., Nassir R., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Norman A., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Orr N., Osorio A., Pankratz V.S., Papp J., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Paul J., Pedersen I.S., Peissel B., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofyeva D., Pujana M.A., Pylkas K., Radice P., Canzian F., Rantala J., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sanchez-Herrero E., Sandler D.P., Santamarina M., Sawyer E.J., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Ramus S.J., Carroll J.S., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schottker B., Schurmann P., Scott C., Scott R.J., Senter L., Shah M., Sharma P., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Singer C.F., Slavin T.P., Smichkoska S., Spinelli J.J., Spurdle A.B., Sutter C., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tan Y.Y., Tapper W.J., Taylor J., Teixeira M.R., Tengstrom M., Teo S.H., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thomassen M., Thull D.L., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Torres-Mejia G., Troester M.A., Truong T., Tung N., Tzardi M., Ulmer H.-U., Vachon C.M., van der Kolk L.E., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Viel A., Vijai J., Vogel M.J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yannoukakos D., Zhang Y., Zheng W., Hunter D., Pharoah P.D.P., Chang-Claude J., Garcia-Closas M., Schmidt M.K., Kristensen V.N., French J.D., Antoniou A.C., Chenevix-Trench G., Simard J., Easton D.F., Kraft P., Allen J., Harris M., Fachal L., Aschard H., Beesley J., Barnes D.R., Kar S., Pooley K.A., Dennis J., Michailidou K., Turman C., Soucy P., Lemacon A., Lush M., Tyrer J.P., Ghoussaini M., Marjaneh M.M., Jiang X., Agata S., Aittomaki K., Alonso M.R., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arason A., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Auber B., Auer P.L., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barrowdale D., Beeghly-Fadiel A., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blanco A.M., Blomqvist C., Blot W., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Bonanni B., Borg A., Bosse K., Brauch H., Brenner H., Briceno I., Brock I.W., Brooks-Wilson A., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Cai Q., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Camp N.J., Campbell I., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chiquette J., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Mari V., Berthet P., Castera L., Vaur D., Lallaoui H., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Bonadona V., Lasset C., Revillion F., Vennin P., Muller D., Gomes D.M., Ingster O., Coupier I., Pujol P., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Mortemousque I., Bera O., Rose M., Baurand A., Bertolone G., Faivre L., Dreyfus H., Leroux D., Venat-Bouvet L., Bezieau S., Delnatte C., Chiesa J., Gilbert-Dussardier B., Gesta P., Prieur F.P., Bronner M., Sokolowska J., Coulet F., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Leone M., Fert-Ferrer S., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Jiao Y., Lesueur F.L., Mebirouk N., Barouk-Simonet E., Bubien V., Longy M., Sevenet N., Gladieff L., Toulas C., Reimineras A., Sobol H., Paillerets B.B.-D., Cabaret O., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Rouleau E., Belotti M., Buecher B., Caputo S., Colas C., Pauw A.D., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Moncoutier V., Saule C., Donaldson A., Murray A., Brady A., Brewer C., Pottinger C., Miller C., Gallagher D., Gregory H., Cook J., Eason J., Adlard J., Barwell J., Ong K.-R., Snape K., Walker L., Izatt L., Side L., Tischkowitz M., Rogers M.T., Porteous M.E., Ahmed M., Morrison P.J., Brennan P., Eeles R., Davidson R., Collee J.M., Cornelissen S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Cybulski C., Czene K., Daly M.B., de la Hoya M., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Dite G.S., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Droit A., Dubois S., Dumont M., Duran M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Fletcher O., Floris G., Flyger H., Foretova L., Foulkes W.D., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gambino G., Ganz P.A., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Georgoulias V., Giles G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Tibiletti M.G., Greene M.H., Grip M., Gronwald J., Grundy A., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hartikainen J.M., Hartman M., He W., Healey C.S., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Heyworth J., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hooning M., Hopper J., Howell A., Huang G., Hulick P.J., Imyanitov E.N., Sexton A., Christian A., Trainer A., Spigelman A., Fellows A., Shelling A., Fazio A.D., Blackburn A., Crook A., Meiser B., Patterson B., Clarke C., Saunders C., Hunt C., Amor D., Marsh D., Edkins E., Salisbury E., Haan E., Neidermayr E., Macrea F., Farshid G., Lindeman G., Trench G., Mann G., Gill G., Thorne H., Hickie I., Winship I., Flanagan J., Kollias J., Visvader J., Stone J., Burke J., Saunus J., Forbes J., French J., Tucker K., Wu K., Phillips K., Lipton L., Andrews L., Lobb L., Kentwell M., Spurdle M., Cummings M., Gleeson M., Jenkins M., Young M.A., Delatycki M., Wallis M., Burgess M., Price M., Brown M., Southey M., Bogwitz M., Field M., Friedlander M., Gattas M., Saleh M., Hayward N., Pachter N., Cohen P., Duijf P., James P., Simpson P., Fong P., Butow P., Williams R., Kefford R., Scott R., Milne R.L., Balleine R., Dawson S.-J., Lok S., O'Connell S., Greening S., Nightingale S., Edwards S., Fox S., McLachlan S.-A., Lakhani S., Antill Y., Aalfs C., Meijers-Heijboer H., van Engelen K., Gille H., Boere I., Collee M., van Deurzen C., Obdeijn I.-M., van den Ouweland A., Seynaeve C., Siesling S., Verloop J., van Asperen C., van Cronenburg T., Blok R., de Boer M., Garcia E.G., Adank M., Hogervorst F., Jenner D., van Leeuwen F., Rookus M., Russell N., Schmidt M., van den Belt-Dusebout S., Kets C., Mensenkamp A., de Bock T., van der Hout A., Mourits M., Oosterwijk J., Ausems M., Koudijs M., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Isaacs C., Iwasaki M., Jager A., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janavicius R., Jankowitz R.C., John E.M., Johnson N., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kang D., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Kirk J., Kitahara C.M., Ko Y.-D., Konstantopoulou I., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kubelka-Sabit K., Kwong A., Kyriacou K., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Lee E., Leslie G., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindblom A., Lo W.-Y., Long J., Lophatananon A., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., MacInnis R.J., Maishman T., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Matsuo K., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., McGuffog L., McLean C., Meindl A., Miller A., Miller N., Montagna M., Moreno F., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Munoz-Garzon V.M., Muranen T.A., Narod S.A., Nassir R., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Norman A., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Orr N., Osorio A., Pankratz V.S., Papp J., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Paul J., Pedersen I.S., Peissel B., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofyeva D., Pujana M.A., Pylkas K., Radice P., Canzian F., Rantala J., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sanchez-Herrero E., Sandler D.P., Santamarina M., Sawyer E.J., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt D.F., and Schmutzler R.K.
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies have identified breast cancer risk variants in over 150 genomic regions, but the mechanisms underlying risk remain largely unknown. These regions were explored by combining association analysis with in silico genomic feature annotations. We defined 205 independent risk-associated signals with the set of credible causal variants in each one. In parallel, we used a Bayesian approach (PAINTOR) that combines genetic association, linkage disequilibrium and enriched genomic features to determine variants with high posterior probabilities of being causal. Potentially causal variants were significantly over-represented in active gene regulatory regions and transcription factor binding sites. We applied our INQUSIT pipeline for prioritizing genes as targets of those potentially causal variants, using gene expression (expression quantitative trait loci), chromatin interaction and functional annotations. Known cancer drivers, transcription factors and genes in the developmental, apoptosis, immune system and DNA integrity checkpoint gene ontology pathways were over-represented among the highest-confidence target genes.Copyright © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.
Published: 2020

8. Transcriptome-wide association study of breast cancer risk by estrogen-receptor status.

Author: Eriksson M., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Poppe B., Pradhan N., Prajzendanc K., Presneau N., Punie K., Pylkas K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santos C., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Scott R.J., Sharma P., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Singer C.F., Skytte A.-B., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Spurdle A.B., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thomassen M., Thone K., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Torres D., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., van Asperen C.J., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Viel A., Vieiro-Balo P., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Ziogas A., Milne R.L., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Zheng W., Kraft P., Jiang X., Feng H., Gusev A., Pasaniuc B., Wu L., Long J., Abu-full Z., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antoniou A.C., Arason A., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Asseryanis E., Auer P.L., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barnes D.R., Barrowdale D., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blanco A., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Briceno I., Broeks A., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Cai Q., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Canisius S., Campa D., Carter B.D., Carter J., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Cybulski C., Czene K., Daly M.B., de la Hoya M., De Leeneer K., Dennis J., Devilee P., Diez O., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ejlertsen B., Ellberg C., Engel C., Fasching P.A., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gabrielson M., Ganz P.A., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gronwald J., Guenel P., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., Hake C., He W., Heyworth J., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Huang G., Hulick P.J., Humphreys K., Imyanitov E.N., Isaacs C., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., James P., Janavicius R., Jankowitz R.C., John E.M., Johnson N., Joseph V., Jung A., Karlan B.Y., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Konstantopoulou I., Kristensen V.N., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Lazaro C., Leroux D., Leslie G., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindor N., Lindstrom S., Lo W.-Y., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Matricardi L., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., McGuffog L., Meindl A., Menon U., Michailidou K., Kapoor P.M., Miller A., Montagna M., Moreno F., Moserle L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nevelsteen I., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Osorio A., Papp J., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peixoto A., Eriksson M., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Poppe B., Pradhan N., Prajzendanc K., Presneau N., Punie K., Pylkas K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santos C., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Scott R.J., Sharma P., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Singer C.F., Skytte A.-B., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Spurdle A.B., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thomassen M., Thone K., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Torres D., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., van Asperen C.J., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Viel A., Vieiro-Balo P., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Ziogas A., Milne R.L., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Zheng W., Kraft P., Jiang X., Feng H., Gusev A., Pasaniuc B., Wu L., Long J., Abu-full Z., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antoniou A.C., Arason A., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Asseryanis E., Auer P.L., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barnes D.R., Barrowdale D., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blanco A., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Briceno I., Broeks A., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Cai Q., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Canisius S., Campa D., Carter B.D., Carter J., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Cybulski C., Czene K., Daly M.B., de la Hoya M., De Leeneer K., Dennis J., Devilee P., Diez O., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ejlertsen B., Ellberg C., Engel C., Fasching P.A., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gabrielson M., Ganz P.A., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gronwald J., Guenel P., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., Hake C., He W., Heyworth J., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Huang G., Hulick P.J., Humphreys K., Imyanitov E.N., Isaacs C., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., James P., Janavicius R., Jankowitz R.C., John E.M., Johnson N., Joseph V., Jung A., Karlan B.Y., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Konstantopoulou I., Kristensen V.N., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Lazaro C., Leroux D., Leslie G., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindor N., Lindstrom S., Lo W.-Y., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Matricardi L., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., McGuffog L., Meindl A., Menon U., Michailidou K., Kapoor P.M., Miller A., Montagna M., Moreno F., Moserle L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nevelsteen I., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Osorio A., Papp J., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., and Peixoto A.
Abstract: Previous transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have identified breast cancer risk genes by integrating data from expression quantitative loci and genome-wide association studies (GWAS), but analyses of breast cancer subtype-specific associations have been limited. In this study, we conducted a TWAS using gene expression data from GTEx and summary statistics from the hitherto largest GWAS meta-analysis conducted for breast cancer overall, and by estrogen receptor subtypes (ER+ and ER-). We further compared associations with ER+ and ER- subtypes, using a case-only TWAS approach. We also conducted multigene conditional analyses in regions with multiple TWAS associations. Two genes, STXBP4 and HIST2H2BA, were specifically associated with ER+ but not with ER- breast cancer. We further identified 30 TWAS-significant genes associated with overall breast cancer risk, including four that were not identified in previous studies. Conditional analyses identified single independent breast-cancer gene in three of six regions harboring multiple TWAS-significant genes. Our study provides new information on breast cancer genetics and biology, particularly about genomic differences between ER+ and ER- breast cancer.Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Genetic Epidemiology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Published: 2020

9. Alcohol consumption is associated with widespread changes in blood DNA methylation: Analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal data.

Author: English D.R., Southey M.C., Waldenberger M., Milne R.L., Giles G.G., Chambers J.C., Dugue P.-A., Wilson R., Lehne B., Jayasekara H., Wang X., Jung C.-H., Joo J.E., Makalic E., Schmidt D.F., Baglietto L., Severi G., Gieger C., Ladwig K.-H., Peters A., Kooner J.S., English D.R., Southey M.C., Waldenberger M., Milne R.L., Giles G.G., Chambers J.C., Dugue P.-A., Wilson R., Lehne B., Jayasekara H., Wang X., Jung C.-H., Joo J.E., Makalic E., Schmidt D.F., Baglietto L., Severi G., Gieger C., Ladwig K.-H., Peters A., and Kooner J.S.
Abstract: DNA methylation may be one of the mechanisms by which alcohol consumption is associated with the risk of disease. We conducted a large-scale, cross-sectional, genome-wide DNA methylation association study of alcohol consumption and a longitudinal analysis of repeated measurements taken several years apart. Using the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip, DNA methylation was measured in blood samples from 5606 Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS) participants. For 1088 of them, these measures were repeated using blood samples collected a median of 11 years later. Associations between alcohol intake and blood DNA methylation were assessed using linear mixed-effects regression models. Independent data from the London Life Sciences Prospective Population (LOLIPOP) (N = 4042) and Cooperative Health Research in the Augsburg Region (KORA) (N = 1662) cohorts were used to replicate associations discovered in the MCCS. Cross-sectional analyses identified 1414 CpGs associated with alcohol intake at P < 10-7, 1243 of which had not been reported previously. Of these novel associations, 1078 were replicated (P <.05) using LOLIPOP and KORA data. Using the MCCS data, we also replicated 403 of 518 previously reported associations. Interaction analyses suggested that associations were stronger for women, non-smokers, and participants genetically predisposed to consume less alcohol. Of the 1414 CpGs, 530 were differentially methylated (P <.05) in former compared with current drinkers. Longitudinal associations between the change in alcohol intake and the change in methylation were observed for 513 of the 1414 cross-sectional associations. Our study indicates that alcohol intake is associated with widespread changes in DNA methylation across the genome. Longitudinal analyses showed that the methylation status of alcohol-associated CpGs may change with alcohol consumption changes in adulthood.Copyright © 2019 Society for the Study of Addiction
Published: 2020

10. Overall lack of replication of associations between dietary intake of folate and vitamin B-12 and DNA methylation in peripheral blood.

Author: Makalic E., Bassett J.K., Hodge A.M., Brinkman M.T., Joo J.E., Jung C.-H., Wong E.M., Schmidt D.F., Giles G.G., Southey M.C., Milne R.L., English D.R., Buchanan D.D., Hopper J.L., Dugue P.-A., Chamberlain J.A., Makalic E., Bassett J.K., Hodge A.M., Brinkman M.T., Joo J.E., Jung C.-H., Wong E.M., Schmidt D.F., Giles G.G., Southey M.C., Milne R.L., English D.R., Buchanan D.D., Hopper J.L., Dugue P.-A., and Chamberlain J.A.
Published: 2020

11. Transcriptome-wide association study of breast cancer risk by estrogen-receptor status

Author: Feng, H. (Helian), Gusev, A. (Alexander), Pasaniuc, B. (Bogdan), Wu, L. (Lang), Long, J. (Jirong), Abu-full, Z. (Zomoroda), Aittomäki, K. (Kristiina), Andrulis, I.L. (Irene L.), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Antoniou, A.C. (Antonis C.), Arason, A. (Adalgeir), Arndt, V. (Volker), Aronson, K.J. (Kristan J.), Arun, B.K. (Banu), Asseryanis, E. (Ella), Auer, P.L. (Paul L.), Azzollini, J., Balmaña, J. (Judith), Barkardottir, R.B. (Rosa B.), Barnes, D. (Daniel), Barrowdale, D. (Daniel), Beckmann, M.W. (Matthias), Behrens, T.W. (Timothy), Benítez, J. (Javier), Bermisheva, M. (Marina), Białkowska, K. (Katarzyna), Blanco, A. (Ana), Blomqvist, C. (Carl), Boeckx, B. (Bram), Bogdanova, N.V. (Natalia V.), Bojesen, S.E. (Stig), Bolla, M.K. (Manjeet K.), Bonnani, B. (Bernardo), Borg, Å. (Åke), Brauch, H. (Hiltrud), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Briceno, I. (Ignacio), Broeks, A. (Annegien), Brüning, T. (Thomas), Burwinkel, B. (Barbara), Cai, Q. (Qiuyin), Caldes, T. (Trinidad), Caligo, M.A. (Maria A.), Campbell, I. (Ian), Canisius, S. (Sander), Campa, D. (Daniele), Carter, B.D. (Brian D.), Carter, J. (Jonathan), Castelao, J.E. (Jose ), Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Chanock, S.J. (Stephen), Christiansen, H. (Hans), Chung, W. (Wendy), Claes, K.B.M. (Kathleen B. M.), Clarke, C. (Christine), Couch, F.J. (Fergus), Cox, A. (Angela), Cross, S.S. (Simon S.), Cybulski, C. (Cezary), Czene, K. (Kamila), Daly, M.B. (Mary), de la Hoya, M. (Miguel), De Leeneer, K. (Kim), Dennis, J. (Joe), Devilee, P. (Peter), Diez, O. (Orland), Domchek, S.M. (Susan), Dörk, T. (Thilo), Santos Silva, I. (Isabel) dos, Dunning, A.M. (Alison M.), Dwek, M. (Miriam), Eccles, D.M. (Diana M.), Ejlertsen, B. (Bent), Ellberg, C. (Carolina), Engel, C. (Christoph), Eriksson, M. (Mikael), Fasching, P.A. (Peter), Fletcher, O. (Olivia), Flyger, H. (Henrik), Fostira, F. (Florentia), Friedman, E. (Eitan), Fritschi, L. (Lin), Frost, D. (Debra), Gabrielson, M. (Marike), Ganz, P.A. (Patricia A.), Gapstur, S.M. (Susan M.), Garber, J. (Judy), García-Closas, M. (Montserrat), García-Sáenz, J.A. (José A.), Gaudet, M.M. (Mia M.), Giles, G.G. (Graham G.), Glendon, G. (Gord), Godwin, A.K. (Andrew), Goldberg, M.S. (Mark), Radice, P. (Paolo), González-Neira, A. (Anna), Greene, M.H. (Mark H.), Gronwald, J. (Jacek), Guénel, P. (Pascal), Haiman, C.A. (Christopher), Hall, P. (Per), Hamann, U. (Ute), Hake, C. (Christopher), He, W. (Wei), Heyworth, J. (Jane), Hogervorst, F.B.L. (Frans B.L.), Hollestelle, A. (Antoinette), Hooning, M.J. (Maartje J.), Hoover, R.N. (Robert), Hopper, J.L. (John), Huang, G. (Guanmengqian), Hulick, P.J. (Peter J.), Humphreys, K. (Keith), Imyanitov, E.N. (Evgeny), Isaacs, C. (Claudine), Jakimovska, M. (Milena), Jakubowska, A. (Anna), James, M. (Margaret), Janavicius, R. (Ramunas), Jankowitz, R.C. (Rachel C.), John, E.M. (Esther), Johnson, N. (Nichola), Joseph, V. (Vijai), Jung, A. (Audrey), Karlan, B.Y. (Beth), Khusnutdinova, E.K. (Elza), Kiiski, J.I. (Johanna I.), Konstantopoulou, I. (Irene), Kristensen, V. (Vessela), Laitman, Y. (Yael), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Lázaro, C. (Conxi), Leroux, D. (Dominique), Leslie, G. (Goska), Lester, J. (Jenny), Lesueur, F. (Fabienne), Lindor, N.M. (Noralane), Lindström, S. (Sara), Lo, W.-Y. (Wing-Yee), Loud, J.T. (Jennifer T.), Lubinski, J. (Jan), Makalic, E. (Enes), Mannermaa, A. (Arto), Manoochehri, M. (Mehdi), Manoukian, S. (Siranoush), Margolin, S. (Sara), Martens, J.W.M. (John), Martinez, M.E. (Maria E.), Matricardi, L. (Laura), Maurer, T. (Tabea), Mavroudis, D. (Dimitris), McGuffog, L. (Lesley), Meindl, A. (Alfons), Menon, U. (Usha), Michailidou, K. (Kyriaki), Kapoor, P.M. (Pooja M.), Miller, A. (Austin), Montagna, M. (Marco), Moreno, F. (Fernando), Moserle, L. (Lidia), Mulligan, A.-M. (Anna-Marie), Muranen, T.A. (Taru A.), Nathanson, K.L. (Katherine), Floris, O.A.M., Nevanlinna, H. (Heli), Nevelsteen, I. (Ines), Nielsen, F. (Finn), Nikitina-Zake, L. (Liene), Offit, K. (Kenneth), Olah, E., Olopade, O.I. (Olofunmilayo), Olsson, H. (Håkan), Osorio, A. (Ana), Papp, J. (Janos), Park-Simon, T.-W. (Tjoung-Won), Parsons, M. (Marilyn), Pedersen, I.S. (Inge S.), Peixoto, A. (Ana), Peterlongo, P. (Paolo), Peto, J. (Julian), Pharoah, P.D.P. (Paul), Phillips, K.-A. (Kelly-Anne), Plaseska-Karanfilska, D. (Dijana), Poppe, B. (Bruce), Pradhan, N. (Nisha), Prajzendanc, K. (Karolina), Presneau, N. (Nadege), Punie, K. (Kevin), Pylkäs, K. (Katri), Rantala, J. (Johanna), Rashid, M.U. (Muhammad), Rennert, G. (Gad), Risch, H.A. (Harvey A.), Robson, M. (Mark), Romero, A. (Atocha), Saloustros, E. (Emmanouil), Sandler, D.P. (Dale P.), Santos, C. (Catarina), Sawyer, E.J. (Elinor), Schmidt, M.K. (Marjanka), Schmidt, D.F. (Daniel), Schmutzler, R.K. (Rita), Schoemaker, M.J. (Minouk J.), Scott, R.J. (Rodney), Sharma, P. (Priyanka), Shu, X.-O. (Xiao-Ou), Simard, J. (Jacques), Singer, C.F. (Christian), Skytte, A.-B. (Anne-Bine), Soucy, P. (Penny), Southey, M.C. (Melissa), Spinelli, J.J. (John J.), Spurdle, A.B. (Amanda), Stone, J. (Jennifer), Swerdlow, A.J. (Anthony ), Tapper, W.J. (William J.), Taylor, J.A. (Jack A.), Teixeira, P.J., Terry, M.B. (Mary Beth), Teulé, A. (Alex), Thomassen, M. (Mads), Thöne, K. (Kathrin), Thull, D.L. (Darcy L.), Tischkowitz, M. (Marc), Toland, A.E. (Amanda), Tollenaar, R.A.E.M. (Rob), Torres, D. (Diana), Truong, T. (Thérèse), Tung, N. (Nadine), Vachon, C. (Celine), van Asperen, C.J. (Christi J.), Ouweland, A.M.W. (Ans) van den, Rensburg, E.J. (Elizabeth) van, Vega, A. (Ana), Viel, A. (Alessandra), Vieiro-Balo, P. (Paula), Wang, Q. (Qin), Wappenschmidt, B. (Barbara), Weinberg, C.R. (Clarice R.), Weitzel, J.N. (Jeffrey), Wendt, C. (Camilla), Winqvist, R. (Robert), Yang, X.R. (Xiaohong R.), Yannoukakos, D. (Drakoulis), Ziogas, A. (Argyrios), Milne, R.L. (Roger), Adamo, P. (Pio) d', Chenevix-Trench, G. (Georgia), Zheng, W. (Wei), Kraft, P. (Peter), Jiang, X. (Xia), Feng, H. (Helian), Gusev, A. (Alexander), Pasaniuc, B. (Bogdan), Wu, L. (Lang), Long, J. (Jirong), Abu-full, Z. (Zomoroda), Aittomäki, K. (Kristiina), Andrulis, I.L. (Irene L.), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Antoniou, A.C. (Antonis C.), Arason, A. (Adalgeir), Arndt, V. (Volker), Aronson, K.J. (Kristan J.), Arun, B.K. (Banu), Asseryanis, E. (Ella), Auer, P.L. (Paul L.), Azzollini, J., Balmaña, J. (Judith), Barkardottir, R.B. (Rosa B.), Barnes, D. (Daniel), Barrowdale, D. (Daniel), Beckmann, M.W. (Matthias), Behrens, T.W. (Timothy), Benítez, J. (Javier), Bermisheva, M. (Marina), Białkowska, K. (Katarzyna), Blanco, A. (Ana), Blomqvist, C. (Carl), Boeckx, B. (Bram), Bogdanova, N.V. (Natalia V.), Bojesen, S.E. (Stig), Bolla, M.K. (Manjeet K.), Bonnani, B. (Bernardo), Borg, Å. (Åke), Brauch, H. (Hiltrud), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Briceno, I. (Ignacio), Broeks, A. (Annegien), Brüning, T. (Thomas), Burwinkel, B. (Barbara), Cai, Q. (Qiuyin), Caldes, T. (Trinidad), Caligo, M.A. (Maria A.), Campbell, I. (Ian), Canisius, S. (Sander), Campa, D. (Daniele), Carter, B.D. (Brian D.), Carter, J. (Jonathan), Castelao, J.E. (Jose ), Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Chanock, S.J. (Stephen), Christiansen, H. (Hans), Chung, W. (Wendy), Claes, K.B.M. (Kathleen B. M.), Clarke, C. (Christine), Couch, F.J. (Fergus), Cox, A. (Angela), Cross, S.S. (Simon S.), Cybulski, C. (Cezary), Czene, K. (Kamila), Daly, M.B. (Mary), de la Hoya, M. (Miguel), De Leeneer, K. (Kim), Dennis, J. (Joe), Devilee, P. (Peter), Diez, O. (Orland), Domchek, S.M. (Susan), Dörk, T. (Thilo), Santos Silva, I. (Isabel) dos, Dunning, A.M. (Alison M.), Dwek, M. (Miriam), Eccles, D.M. (Diana M.), Ejlertsen, B. (Bent), Ellberg, C. (Carolina), Engel, C. (Christoph), Eriksson, M. (Mikael), Fasching, P.A. (Peter), Fletcher, O. (Olivia), Flyger, H. (Henrik), Fostira, F. (Florentia), Friedman, E. (Eitan), Fritschi, L. (Lin), Frost, D. (Debra), Gabrielson, M. (Marike), Ganz, P.A. (Patricia A.), Gapstur, S.M. (Susan M.), Garber, J. (Judy), García-Closas, M. (Montserrat), García-Sáenz, J.A. (José A.), Gaudet, M.M. (Mia M.), Giles, G.G. (Graham G.), Glendon, G. (Gord), Godwin, A.K. (Andrew), Goldberg, M.S. (Mark), Radice, P. (Paolo), González-Neira, A. (Anna), Greene, M.H. (Mark H.), Gronwald, J. (Jacek), Guénel, P. (Pascal), Haiman, C.A. (Christopher), Hall, P. (Per), Hamann, U. (Ute), Hake, C. (Christopher), He, W. (Wei), Heyworth, J. (Jane), Hogervorst, F.B.L. (Frans B.L.), Hollestelle, A. (Antoinette), Hooning, M.J. (Maartje J.), Hoover, R.N. (Robert), Hopper, J.L. (John), Huang, G. (Guanmengqian), Hulick, P.J. (Peter J.), Humphreys, K. (Keith), Imyanitov, E.N. (Evgeny), Isaacs, C. (Claudine), Jakimovska, M. (Milena), Jakubowska, A. (Anna), James, M. (Margaret), Janavicius, R. (Ramunas), Jankowitz, R.C. (Rachel C.), John, E.M. (Esther), Johnson, N. (Nichola), Joseph, V. (Vijai), Jung, A. (Audrey), Karlan, B.Y. (Beth), Khusnutdinova, E.K. (Elza), Kiiski, J.I. (Johanna I.), Konstantopoulou, I. (Irene), Kristensen, V. (Vessela), Laitman, Y. (Yael), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Lázaro, C. (Conxi), Leroux, D. (Dominique), Leslie, G. (Goska), Lester, J. (Jenny), Lesueur, F. (Fabienne), Lindor, N.M. (Noralane), Lindström, S. (Sara), Lo, W.-Y. (Wing-Yee), Loud, J.T. (Jennifer T.), Lubinski, J. (Jan), Makalic, E. (Enes), Mannermaa, A. (Arto), Manoochehri, M. (Mehdi), Manoukian, S. (Siranoush), Margolin, S. (Sara), Martens, J.W.M. (John), Martinez, M.E. (Maria E.), Matricardi, L. (Laura), Maurer, T. (Tabea), Mavroudis, D. (Dimitris), McGuffog, L. (Lesley), Meindl, A. (Alfons), Menon, U. (Usha), Michailidou, K. (Kyriaki), Kapoor, P.M. (Pooja M.), Miller, A. (Austin), Montagna, M. (Marco), Moreno, F. (Fernando), Moserle, L. (Lidia), Mulligan, A.-M. (Anna-Marie), Muranen, T.A. (Taru A.), Nathanson, K.L. (Katherine), Floris, O.A.M., Nevanlinna, H. (Heli), Nevelsteen, I. (Ines), Nielsen, F. (Finn), Nikitina-Zake, L. (Liene), Offit, K. (Kenneth), Olah, E., Olopade, O.I. (Olofunmilayo), Olsson, H. (Håkan), Osorio, A. (Ana), Papp, J. (Janos), Park-Simon, T.-W. (Tjoung-Won), Parsons, M. (Marilyn), Pedersen, I.S. (Inge S.), Peixoto, A. (Ana), Peterlongo, P. (Paolo), Peto, J. (Julian), Pharoah, P.D.P. (Paul), Phillips, K.-A. (Kelly-Anne), Plaseska-Karanfilska, D. (Dijana), Poppe, B. (Bruce), Pradhan, N. (Nisha), Prajzendanc, K. (Karolina), Presneau, N. (Nadege), Punie, K. (Kevin), Pylkäs, K. (Katri), Rantala, J. (Johanna), Rashid, M.U. (Muhammad), Rennert, G. (Gad), Risch, H.A. (Harvey A.), Robson, M. (Mark), Romero, A. (Atocha), Saloustros, E. (Emmanouil), Sandler, D.P. (Dale P.), Santos, C. (Catarina), Sawyer, E.J. (Elinor), Schmidt, M.K. (Marjanka), Schmidt, D.F. (Daniel), Schmutzler, R.K. (Rita), Schoemaker, M.J. (Minouk J.), Scott, R.J. (Rodney), Sharma, P. (Priyanka), Shu, X.-O. (Xiao-Ou), Simard, J. (Jacques), Singer, C.F. (Christian), Skytte, A.-B. (Anne-Bine), Soucy, P. (Penny), Southey, M.C. (Melissa), Spinelli, J.J. (John J.), Spurdle, A.B. (Amanda), Stone, J. (Jennifer), Swerdlow, A.J. (Anthony ), Tapper, W.J. (William J.), Taylor, J.A. (Jack A.), Teixeira, P.J., Terry, M.B. (Mary Beth), Teulé, A. (Alex), Thomassen, M. (Mads), Thöne, K. (Kathrin), Thull, D.L. (Darcy L.), Tischkowitz, M. (Marc), Toland, A.E. (Amanda), Tollenaar, R.A.E.M. (Rob), Torres, D. (Diana), Truong, T. (Thérèse), Tung, N. (Nadine), Vachon, C. (Celine), van Asperen, C.J. (Christi J.), Ouweland, A.M.W. (Ans) van den, Rensburg, E.J. (Elizabeth) van, Vega, A. (Ana), Viel, A. (Alessandra), Vieiro-Balo, P. (Paula), Wang, Q. (Qin), Wappenschmidt, B. (Barbara), Weinberg, C.R. (Clarice R.), Weitzel, J.N. (Jeffrey), Wendt, C. (Camilla), Winqvist, R. (Robert), Yang, X.R. (Xiaohong R.), Yannoukakos, D. (Drakoulis), Ziogas, A. (Argyrios), Milne, R.L. (Roger), Adamo, P. (Pio) d', Chenevix-Trench, G. (Georgia), Zheng, W. (Wei), Kraft, P. (Peter), and Jiang, X. (Xia)
Abstract: Previous transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have identified breast cancer risk genes by integrating data from expression quantitative loci and genome-wide association studies (GWAS), but analyses of breast cancer subtype-specific associations have been limited. In this study, we conducted a TWAS using gene expression data from GTEx and summary statistics from the hitherto largest GWAS meta-analysis conducted for breast cancer overall, and by estrogen receptor subtypes (ER+ and ER−). We further compared associations with ER+ and ER− subtypes, using a case-only TWAS approach. We also conducted multigene conditional analyses in regions with multiple TWAS associations. Two genes, STXBP4 and HIST2H2BA, were specifically associated with ER+ but not with ER– breast cancer. We further identified 30 TWAS-significant genes associated with overall breast cancer risk, including four that were not identified in previous studies. Conditional analyses identified single independent breast-cancer gene in three of six regions harboring multiple TWAS-significant genes. Our study provides new information on breast cancer genetics and biology, particularly about genomic differences between ER+ and ER− breast cancer.
Published: 2020
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12. Smoking and blood DNA methylation: an epigenome-wide association study and assessment of reversibility.

Author: Wong E.M., Wang X., Milne R.L., Dugue P.-A., Jung C.-H., Giles G.G., Joo J.E., English D.R., Southey M.C., Severi G., Baglietto L., Schmidt D.F., Makalic E., Wong E.M., Wang X., Milne R.L., Dugue P.-A., Jung C.-H., Giles G.G., Joo J.E., English D.R., Southey M.C., Severi G., Baglietto L., Schmidt D.F., and Makalic E.
Abstract: We conducted a genome-wide association study of blood DNA methylation and smoking, attempted replication of previously discovered associations, and assessed the reversibility of smoking-associated methylation changes. DNA methylation was measured in baseline peripheral blood samples for 5,044 participants in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study. For 1,032 participants, these measures were repeated using blood samples collected at follow-up, a median of 11 years later. A cross-sectional analysis of the association between smoking and DNA methylation and a longitudinal analysis of changes in smoking status and changes in DNA methylation were conducted. We used our cross-sectional analysis to replicate previously reported associations for current (N = 3,327) and former (N = 172) smoking. A comprehensive smoking index accounting for the biological half-life of smoking compounds and several aspects of smoking history was constructed to assess the reversibility of smoking-induced methylation changes. This measure of lifetime exposure to smoking allowed us to detect more associations than comparing current with never smokers. We identified 4,496 cross-sectional associations at P < 10-7, including 3,296 annotated to 1,326 genes that were not previously implicated in smoking-associated DNA methylation changes at this significance threshold. We replicated the majority of previously reported associations (P < 10-7) for current and former smokers. In our data, we observed for former smokers a substantial degree of return to the methylation levels of never smokers, compared with current smokers (median: 74%, IQR = 63-86%), corresponding to small values (median: 2.75, IQR = 1.5-5.25) for the half-life parameter of the comprehensive smoking index. Longitudinal analyses identified 368 sites at which methylation changed upon smoking cessation. Our study demonstrates the usefulness of the comprehensive smoking index to detect associations between smoking and DNA methylation at Cp
Published: 2019

13. Genome-wide association study of germline variants and breast cancer-specific mortality.

Author: Garcia-Closas M., Moreno F., Mulligan A.M., Mulot C., Nassir R., Neuhausen S.L., Newman W.T., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Norman A., Olsson H., Orr N., Pankratz V.S., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Perez-Barrios C., Peterlongo P., Petridis C., Pinchev M., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofieva D., Pylkas K., Rack B., Radice P., Ramachandran D., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Roylance R., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schumacher F., Schwentner L., Scott R.J., Scott C., Seynaeve C., Shah M., Simard J., Smeets A., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Swerdlow A.J., Talhouk A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teixeira M.R., Tengstrom M., Terry M.B., Thone K., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Truong T., Turman C., Turnbull C., Ulmer H.-U., Untch M., Vachon C., van Asperen C.J., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van Veen E.M., Wendt C., Whittemore A.S., Willett W., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Zhang Y., Easton D.F., Fasching P.A., Nevanlinna H., Eccles D.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Schmidt M.K., Escala-Garcia M., Guo Q., Dork T., Canisius S., Keeman R., Dennis J., Beesley J., Lecarpentier J., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Abraham J., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Auer P.L., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brentnall A., Brinton L., Broberg P., Brock I.W., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Caldas C., Caldes T., Campa D., Canzian F., Carracedo A., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Cheng T.-Y.D., Chin S.-F., Clarke C.L., Cordina-Duverger E., Couch F.J., Cox D.G., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dunn J.A., Dunning A.M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Earl H.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Figueroa J., Flesch-Janys D., Flyger H., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Galle E., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., George A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Alnaes G.I.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hankinson S., Harkness E.F., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hartikainen J.M., Hein A., Hillemanns P., Hiller L., Holleczek B., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huang G., Humphreys K., Hunter D.J., Janni W., John E.M., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kabisch M., Kaczmarek K., Kerin M.J., Khan S., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Kitahara C.M., Knight J.A., Ko Y.-D., Koppert L.B., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kruger U., Kuhl T., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Lejbkowicz F., Li L., Lindblom A., Lindstrom S., Linet M., Lissowska J., Lo W.-Y., Loibl S., Lubinski J., Lux M.P., MacInnis R.J., Maierthaler M., Maishman T., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., Middha P., Miller N., Milne R.L., Garcia-Closas M., Moreno F., Mulligan A.M., Mulot C., Nassir R., Neuhausen S.L., Newman W.T., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Norman A., Olsson H., Orr N., Pankratz V.S., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Perez-Barrios C., Peterlongo P., Petridis C., Pinchev M., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofieva D., Pylkas K., Rack B., Radice P., Ramachandran D., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Roylance R., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schumacher F., Schwentner L., Scott R.J., Scott C., Seynaeve C., Shah M., Simard J., Smeets A., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Swerdlow A.J., Talhouk A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teixeira M.R., Tengstrom M., Terry M.B., Thone K., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Truong T., Turman C., Turnbull C., Ulmer H.-U., Untch M., Vachon C., van Asperen C.J., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van Veen E.M., Wendt C., Whittemore A.S., Willett W., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Zhang Y., Easton D.F., Fasching P.A., Nevanlinna H., Eccles D.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Schmidt M.K., Escala-Garcia M., Guo Q., Dork T., Canisius S., Keeman R., Dennis J., Beesley J., Lecarpentier J., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Abraham J., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Auer P.L., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brentnall A., Brinton L., Broberg P., Brock I.W., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Caldas C., Caldes T., Campa D., Canzian F., Carracedo A., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Cheng T.-Y.D., Chin S.-F., Clarke C.L., Cordina-Duverger E., Couch F.J., Cox D.G., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dunn J.A., Dunning A.M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Earl H.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Figueroa J., Flesch-Janys D., Flyger H., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Galle E., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., George A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Alnaes G.I.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hankinson S., Harkness E.F., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hartikainen J.M., Hein A., Hillemanns P., Hiller L., Holleczek B., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huang G., Humphreys K., Hunter D.J., Janni W., John E.M., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kabisch M., Kaczmarek K., Kerin M.J., Khan S., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Kitahara C.M., Knight J.A., Ko Y.-D., Koppert L.B., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kruger U., Kuhl T., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Lejbkowicz F., Li L., Lindblom A., Lindstrom S., Linet M., Lissowska J., Lo W.-Y., Loibl S., Lubinski J., Lux M.P., MacInnis R.J., Maierthaler M., Maishman T., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., Middha P., Miller N., and Milne R.L.
Abstract: Background: We examined the associations between germline variants and breast cancer mortality using a large meta-analysis of women of European ancestry. Method(s): Meta-analyses included summary estimates based on Cox models of twelve datasets using ~10.4 million variants for 96,661 women with breast cancer and 7697 events (breast cancer-specific deaths). Oestrogen receptor (ER)-specific analyses were based on 64,171 ER-positive (4116) and 16,172 ER-negative (2125) patients. We evaluated the probability of a signal to be a true positive using the Bayesian false discovery probability (BFDP). Result(s): We did not find any variant associated with breast cancer-specific mortality at P < 5 x 10-8. For ER-positive disease, the most significantly associated variant was chr7:rs4717568 (BFDP = 7%, P = 1.28 x 10-7, hazard ratio [HR] = 0.88, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.84-0.92); the closest gene is AUTS2. For ER-negative disease, the most significant variant was chr7:rs67918676 (BFDP = 11%, P = 1.38 x 10-7, HR = 1.27, 95% CI = 1.16-1.39); located within a long intergenic non-coding RNA gene (AC004009.3), close to the HOXA gene cluster. Conclusion(s): We uncovered germline variants on chromosome 7 at BFDP < 15% close to genes for which there is biological evidence related to breast cancer outcome. However, the paucity of variants associated with mortality at genome-wide significance underpins the challenge in providing genetic-based individualised prognostic information for breast cancer patients.Copyright © 2019, The Author(s).
Published: 2019

14. Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes.

Author: Giles G.G., Bonanni B., Pinchev M., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Polley E.C., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofyeva D., Purrington K., Pylkas K., Rack B., Radice P., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Robson M., Romero A., Ruddy K.J., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schumacher F., Schurmann P., Schwentner L., Scott C., Scott R.J., Seynaeve C., Shah M., Sherman M.E., Shrubsole M.J., Shu X.-O., Slager S., Smeets A., Sohn C., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stegmaier C., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Thone K., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Truong T., Tzardi M., Ulmer H.-U., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Vijai J., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Whittemore A.S., Wildiers H., Willett W., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zhang Y., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Thompson D.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Chang-Claude J., Schmidt M.K., Hall P., Milne R.L., Pharoah P.D.P., Antoniou A.C., Chatterjee N., Kraft P., Garcia-Closas M., Simard J., Easton D.F., Allen J., Mavaddat N., Michailidou K., Dennis J., Lush M., Fachal L., Lee A., Tyrer J.P., Chen T.-H., Wang Q., Bolla M.K., Yang X., Adank M.A., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Auer P.L., Auvinen P., Barrdahl M., Beane Freeman L.E., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Bremer M., Brenner H., Brentnall A., Brock I.W., Brooks-Wilson A., Brucker S.Y., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chlebowski R., Christiansen H., Clarke C.L., Collee J.M., Cordina-Duverger E., Cornelissen S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dumont M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Forsti A., Fritschi L., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Georgoulias V., Gilyazova I.R., Glendon G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Grip M., Gronwald J., Grundy A., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hamann U., Hankinson S.E., Harkness E.F., Hart S.N., He W., Hein A., Heyworth J., Hillemanns P., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huang G., Humphreys K., Hunter D.J., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Johnson N., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kaczmarek K., Kataja V., Keeman R., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Knight J.A., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Kruger U., Kuhl T., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Lejbkowicz F., Lilyquist J., Lindblom A., Lindstrom S., Lissowska J., Lo W.-Y., Loibl S., Long J., Lubinski J., Lux M.P., MacInnis R.J., Maishman T., Makalic E., Maleva Kostovska I., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., Menon U., Middha P., Miller N., Moreno F., Mulligan A.M., Mulot C., Munoz-Garzon V.M., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Norman A., Offit K., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orr N., Pankratz V.S., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Perez-Barrios C., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Giles G.G., Bonanni B., Pinchev M., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Polley E.C., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofyeva D., Purrington K., Pylkas K., Rack B., Radice P., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Robson M., Romero A., Ruddy K.J., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schumacher F., Schurmann P., Schwentner L., Scott C., Scott R.J., Seynaeve C., Shah M., Sherman M.E., Shrubsole M.J., Shu X.-O., Slager S., Smeets A., Sohn C., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stegmaier C., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Thone K., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Truong T., Tzardi M., Ulmer H.-U., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Vijai J., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Whittemore A.S., Wildiers H., Willett W., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zhang Y., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Thompson D.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Chang-Claude J., Schmidt M.K., Hall P., Milne R.L., Pharoah P.D.P., Antoniou A.C., Chatterjee N., Kraft P., Garcia-Closas M., Simard J., Easton D.F., Allen J., Mavaddat N., Michailidou K., Dennis J., Lush M., Fachal L., Lee A., Tyrer J.P., Chen T.-H., Wang Q., Bolla M.K., Yang X., Adank M.A., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Auer P.L., Auvinen P., Barrdahl M., Beane Freeman L.E., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Bremer M., Brenner H., Brentnall A., Brock I.W., Brooks-Wilson A., Brucker S.Y., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chlebowski R., Christiansen H., Clarke C.L., Collee J.M., Cordina-Duverger E., Cornelissen S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dumont M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Forsti A., Fritschi L., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Georgoulias V., Gilyazova I.R., Glendon G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Grip M., Gronwald J., Grundy A., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hamann U., Hankinson S.E., Harkness E.F., Hart S.N., He W., Hein A., Heyworth J., Hillemanns P., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huang G., Humphreys K., Hunter D.J., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Johnson N., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kaczmarek K., Kataja V., Keeman R., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Knight J.A., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Kruger U., Kuhl T., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Lejbkowicz F., Lilyquist J., Lindblom A., Lindstrom S., Lissowska J., Lo W.-Y., Loibl S., Long J., Lubinski J., Lux M.P., MacInnis R.J., Maishman T., Makalic E., Maleva Kostovska I., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., Menon U., Middha P., Miller N., Moreno F., Mulligan A.M., Mulot C., Munoz-Garzon V.M., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Norman A., Offit K., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orr N., Pankratz V.S., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Perez-Barrios C., Peterlongo P., and Peto J.
Abstract: Stratification of women according to their risk of breast cancer based on polygenic risk scores (PRSs) could improve screening and prevention strategies. Our aim was to develop PRSs, optimized for prediction of estrogen receptor (ER)-specific disease, from the largest available genome-wide association dataset and to empirically validate the PRSs in prospective studies. The development dataset comprised 94,075 case subjects and 75,017 control subjects of European ancestry from 69 studies, divided into training and validation sets. Samples were genotyped using genome-wide arrays, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were selected by stepwise regression or lasso penalized regression. The best performing PRSs were validated in an independent test set comprising 11,428 case subjects and 18,323 control subjects from 10 prospective studies and 190,040 women from UK Biobank (3,215 incident breast cancers). For the best PRSs (313 SNPs), the odds ratio for overall disease per 1 standard deviation in ten prospective studies was 1.61 (95%CI: 1.57-1.65) with area under receiver-operator curve (AUC) = 0.630 (95%CI: 0.628-0.651). The lifetime risk of overall breast cancer in the top centile of the PRSs was 32.6%. Compared with women in the middle quintile, those in the highest 1% of risk had 4.37- and 2.78-fold risks, and those in the lowest 1% of risk had 0.16- and 0.27-fold risks, of developing ER-positive and ER-negative disease, respectively. Goodness-of-fit tests indicated that this PRS was well calibrated and predicts disease risk accurately in the tails of the distribution. This PRS is a powerful and reliable predictor of breast cancer risk that may improve breast cancer prevention programs.Copyright © 2018 The Authors
Published: 2019

15. Heritable methylation marks associated with breast and prostate cancer risk.

Author: Dugue P.-A., Dowty J.G., Joo J.E., Wong E.M., Makalic E., Schmidt D.F., English D.R., Hopper J.L., Pedersen J., Severi G., MacInnis R.J., Milne R.L., Giles G.G., Southey M.C., Dugue P.-A., Dowty J.G., Joo J.E., Wong E.M., Makalic E., Schmidt D.F., English D.R., Hopper J.L., Pedersen J., Severi G., MacInnis R.J., Milne R.L., Giles G.G., and Southey M.C.
Abstract: Background: DNA methylation can mimic the effects of germline mutations in cancer predisposition genes. Recently, we identified twenty-four heritable methylation marks associated with breast cancer risk. As breast and prostate cancer share genetic risk factors, including rare, high-risk mutations (eg, in BRCA2), we hypothesized that some of these heritable methylation marks might also be associated with the risk of prostate cancer. Method(s): We studied 869 incident prostate cancers (430 aggressive and 439 non-aggressive) and 869 matched controls nested within a prospective cohort study. DNA methylation was measured in pre-diagnostic blood samples using the Illumina Infinium HM450K BeadChip. Conditional logistic regression models, adjusted for prostate cancer risk factors and blood cell composition, were used to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the association between the 24 methylation marks and the risk of prostate cancer. Result(s): Five methylation marks within the VTRNA2-1 promoter region (cg06536614, cg00124993, cg26328633, cg25340688, and cg26896946), and one in the body of CLGN (cg22901919) were associated with the risk of prostate cancer. In stratified analyses, the five VTRNA2-1 marks were associated with the risk of aggressive prostate cancer. Conclusion(s): This work highlights a potentially important new area of investigation for prostate cancer susceptibility and adds to our knowledge about shared risk factors for breast and prostate cancer.Copyright © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Published: 2018

16. Identification and characterization of novel associations in the CASP8/ALS2CR12 region on chromosome 2 with breast cancer risk

Author: Lin, W.Y., Camp, N.J., Ghoussaini, M., Beesley, J., Michailidou, K., Hopper, J.L., Apicella, C., Southey, M.C., Stone, J., Schmidt, M.K., Broeks, A., Van't Veer, L.J., Rutgers, E.J.T., Muir, K., Lophatananon, A., Stewart-Brown, S., Siriwanarangsan, P., Fasching, P.A., Haeberle, L., Ekici, A.B., Beckmann, M.W., Peto, J., Dos-Santos-Silva, I., Fletcher, O., Johnson, N., Bolla, M.K., Wang, Q., Dennis, J., Sawyer, E.J., Cheng, T., Tomlinson, I., Kerin, M.J., Miller, N., Marme, F., Surowy, H.M., Burwinkel, B., Guenel, P., Truong, T., Menegaux, F., Mulot, C., Bojesen, S.E., Nordestgaard, B.G., Nielsen, S.F., Flyger, H., Benitez, J., Zamora, M.P., Perez, J.I.A., Menendez, P., Gonzalez-Neira, A., Pita, G., Alonso, M.R., Alvarez, N., Herrera, D., Anton-Culver, H., Brenner, H., Dieffenbach, A.K., Arndt, V., Stegmaier, C., Meindl, A., Lichtner, P., Schmutzler, R.K., Muller-Myhsok, B., Brauch, H., Bruning, T., Ko, Y.D., Tessier, D.C., Vincent, D., Bacot, F., Nevanlinna, H., Aittomaki, K., Blomqvist, C., Khan, S., Matsuo, K., Ito, H., Iwata, H., Horio, A., Bogdanova, N.V., Antonenkova, N.N., Dork, T., Lindblom, A., Margolin, S., Mannermaa, A., Kataja, V., Kosma, V.M., Hartikainen, J.M., Wu, A.H., Tseng, C.C., Berg, D. van den, Stram, D.O., Neven, P., Wauters, E., Wildiers, H., Lambrechts, D., Chang-Claude, J., Rudolph, A., Seibold, P., Flesch-Janys, D., Radice, P., Peterlongo, P., Manoukian, S., Bonanni, B., Couch, F.J., Wang, X.S., Vachon, C., Purrington, K., Giles, G.G., Milne, R.L., Mclean, C., Haiman, C.A., Henderson, B.E., Schumacher, F., Marchand, L. le, Simard, J., Goldberg, M.S., Labreche, F., Dumont, M., Teo, S.H., Yip, C.H., Hassan, N., Vithana, E.N., Kristensen, V., Zheng, W., Deming-Halverson, S., Shrubsole, M.J., Long, J.R., Winqvist, R., Pylkas, K., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Kauppila, S., Andrulis, I.L., Knight, J.A., Glendon, G., Tchatchou, S., Devilee, P., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Seynaeve, C., Asperen, C.J. van, Garcia-Closas, M., Figueroa, J., Lissowska, J., Brinton, L., Czene, K., Darabi, H., Eriksson, M., Brand, J.S., Hooning, M.J., Hollestelle, A., Ouweland, A.M.W. van den, Jager, A., Li, J.M., Liu, J.J., Humphreys, K., Shu, X.O., Lu, W., Gao, Y.T., Cai, H., Cross, S.S., Reed, M.W.R., Blot, W., Signorello, L.B., Cai, Q.Y., Pharoah, P.D.P., Perkins, B., Shah, M., Blows, F.M., Kang, D., Yoo, K.Y., Noh, D.Y., Hartman, M., Miao, H., Chia, K.S., Putti, T.C., Hamann, U., Luccarini, C., Baynes, C., Ahmed, S., Maranian, M., Healey, C.S., Jakubowska, A., Lubinski, J., Jaworska-Bieniek, K., Durda, K., Sangrajrang, S., Gaborieau, V., Brennan, P., Mckay, J., Slager, S., Toland, A.E., Yannoukakos, D., Shen, C.Y., Hsiung, C.N., Wu, P.E., Ding, S.L., Ashworth, A., Jones, M., Orr, N., Swerdlow, A.J., Tsimiklis, H., Makalic, E., Schmidt, D.F., Bui, Q.M., Chanock, S.J., Hunter, D.J., Hein, R., Dahmen, N., Beckmann, L., Aaltonen, K., Muranen, T.A., Heikkinen, T., Irwanto, A., Rahman, N., Turnbull, C.A., Waisfisz, Q., Meijers-Heijboer, H.E.J., Adank, M.A., Luijt, R.B. van der, Hall, P., Chenevix-Trench, G., Dunning, A., Easton, D.F., Cox, A., GENICA Network, kConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Canc Study Grp, Breast Ovarian Canc Susceptibility, Clinical Genetics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Medical Oncology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), Human Genetics, Human genetics, CCA - Oncogenesis, Ghoussaini, Maya [0000-0002-2415-2143], Wang, Jean [0000-0002-9139-0627], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Genotyping Techniques, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S, CASP8 and FADD-Like Apoptosis Regulating Protein, Genome-wide association study, P.H.S, Medical and Health Sciences, Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility (BOCS) Study, Medizinische Fakultät, Genetics(clinical), Non-U.S. Gov't, Genetics (clinical), Genetics, Genetics & Heredity, variants, Caspase 8, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Association Studies Articles, General Medicine, Biological Sciences, ddc, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2, kConFab Investigators, Female, GENICA Network, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, European Continental Ancestry Group, Non-P.H.S, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Research Support, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, N.I.H, Breast cancer, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, medicine, Journal Article, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, gene, Genotyping, Molecular Biology, Genetic association, disease, Extramural, Proteins, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, susceptibility loci, Minor allele frequency, Case-Control Studies, genome-wide association, enhancers, U.S. Gov't, casp8, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Previous studies have suggested that polymorphisms in CASP8 on chromosome 2 are associated with breast cancer risk. To clarify the role of CASP8 in breast cancer susceptibility, we carried out dense genotyping of this region in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spanning a 1 Mb region around CASP8 were genotyped in 46 450 breast cancer cases and 42 600 controls of European origin from 41 studies participating in the BCAC as part of a custom genotyping array experiment (iCOGS). Missing genotypes and SNPs were imputed and, after quality exclusions, 501 typed and 1232 imputed SNPs were included in logistic regressionmodels adjusting for study and ancestry principal components. The SNPs retained in the final model were investigated further in data from nine genome-wide association studies (GWAS) comprising in total 10 052 case and 12 575 control subjects. The most significant association signal observed in European subjects was for the imputed intronic SNP rs1830298 in ALS2CR12 (telomeric to CASP8), with per allele odds ratio and 95% confidence interval [OR (95% confidence interval, CI)] for the minor allele of 1.05 (1.03-1.07), P = 1 × 10-5. Three additional independent signals from intronic SNPs were identified, in CASP8 (rs36043647), ALS2CR11 (rs59278883) and CFLAR (rs7558475). The association with rs1830298 was replicated in the imputed results from the combined GWAS (P=3 × 10-6), yielding a combined OR (95% CI) of 1.06 (1.04-1.08), P = 1 × 10-9. Analyses of gene expression associations in peripheral blood and normal breast tissue indicate that CASP8might be the target gene, suggesting amechanism involving apoptosis.
Published: 2016
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17. Common non-synonymous SNPs associated with breast cancer susceptibility: findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Milne, R.L., Burwinkel, B., Michailidou, K., Arias-Perez, J.I., Zamora, M.P., Menendez-Rodriguez, P., Hardisson, D., Mendiola, M., Gonzalez-Neira, A., Pita, G., Alonso, M.R., Dennis, J., Wang, Q., Bolla, M.K., Swerdlow, A., Ashworth, A., Orr, N., Schoemaker, M., Ko, Y.D., Brauch, H., Hamann, U., Andrulis, I.L., Knight, J.A., Glendon, G., Tchatchou, S., Matsuo, K., Ito, H., Iwata, H., Tajima, K., Li, J.M., Brand, J.S., Brenner, H., Dieffenbach, A.K., Arndt, V., Stegmaier, C., Lambrechts, D., Peuteman, G., Christiaens, M.R., Smeets, A., Jakubowska, A., Lubinski, J., Jaworska-Bieniek, K., Durda, K., Hartman, M., Hui, M., Lim, W.Y., Chan, C.W., Marme, F., Yang, R.X., Bugert, P., Lindblom, A., Margolin, S., Garcia-Closas, M., Chanock, S.J., Lissowska, J., Figueroa, J.D., Bojesen, S.E., Nordestgaard, B.G., Flyger, H., Hooning, M.J., Kriege, M., Ouweland, A.M.W. van den, Koppert, L.B., Fletcher, O., Johnson, N., Dos-Santos-Silva, I., Peto, J., Zheng, W., Deming-Halverson, S., Shrubsole, M.J., Long, J.R., Chang-Claude, J., Rudolph, A., Seibold, P., Flesch-Janys, D., Winqvist, R., Pylkas, K., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Grip, M., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Reed, M.W.R., Schmidt, M.K., Broeks, A., Cornelissen, S., Braaf, L., Kang, D., Choi, J.Y., Park, S.K., Noh, D.Y., Simard, J., Dumont, M., Goldberg, M.S., Labreche, F., Fasching, P.A., Hein, A., Ekici, A.B., Beckmann, M.W., Radice, P., Peterlongo, P., Azzollini, J., Barile, M., Sawyer, E., Tomlinson, I., Kerin, M., Miller, N., Hopper, J.L., Schmidt, D.F., Makalic, E., Southey, M.C., Teo, S.H., Yip, C.H., Sivanandan, K., Tay, W.T., Shen, C.Y., Hsiung, C.N., Yu, J.C., Hou, M.F., Guenel, P., Truong, T., Sanchez, M., Mulot, C., Blot, W., Cai, Q.Y., Nevanlinna, H., Muranen, T.A., Aittomaki, K., Blomqvist, C., Wu, A.H., Tseng, C.C., Berg, D. van den, Stram, D.O., Bogdanova, N., Dork, T., Muir, K., Lophatananon, A., Stewart-Brown, S., Siriwanarangsan, P., Mannermaa, A., Kataja, V., Kosma, V.M., Hartikainen, J.M., Shu, X.O., Lu, W., Gao, Y.T., Zhang, B., Couch, F.J., Toland, A.E., Yannoukakos, D., Sangrajrang, S., McKay, J., Wang, X.S., Olson, J.E., Vachon, C., Purrington, K., Severi, G., Baglietto, L., Haiman, C.A., Henderson, B.E., Schumacher, F., Marchand, L. le, Devilee, P., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Seynaeve, C., Czene, K., Eriksson, M., Humphreys, K., Darabi, H., Ahmed, S., Shah, M., Pharoah, P.D.P., Hall, P., Giles, G.G., Benitez, J., Dunning, A.M., Chenevix-Trench, G., Easton, D.F., GENICA Network, kConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Canc Study Grp, TNBCC, Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Wang, Jean [0000-0002-9139-0627], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Adult, Ataxin-7, A Kinase Anchor Proteins, Breast Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Middle Aged, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Cytoskeletal Proteins, Case-Control Studies, Humans, NIMA-Related Kinases, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, health care economics and organizations, Alleles, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Candidate variant association studies have been largely unsuccessful in identifying common breast cancer susceptibility\ud variants, although most studies have been underpowered to detect associations of a realistic magnitude.\ud We assessed 41 common non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) for which\ud evidence of association with breast cancer risk had been previously reported. Case-control data were combined\ud from 38 studies of white European women (46 450 cases and 42 600 controls) and analyzed using unconditional\ud logistic regression. Strong evidence of association was observed for three nsSNPs: ATXN7-K264R at 3p21\ud [rs1053338, per allele OR 5 1.07, 95% confidence interval (CI) 5 1.04–1.10, P 5 2.9 3 1026\ud ], AKAP9-M463I at\ud 7q21 (rs6964587, OR 5 1.05, 95% CI 5 1.03–1.07, P 5 1.7 3 1026\ud ) and NEK10-L513S at 3p24 (rs10510592,\ud OR 5 1.10, 95% CI 5 1.07 –1.12, P 5 5.1 3 10217). The first two associations reached genome-wide statistical\ud significance in a combined analysis of available data, including independent data from nine genome-wide association\ud studies (GWASs): for ATXN7-K264R, OR 5 1.07 (95% CI 5 1.05–1.10, P 5 1.0 3 1028\ud ); for AKAP9-M463I,\ud OR 5 1.05 (95% CI 5 1.04–1.07, P 5 2.0 3 10210). Further analysis of other common variants in these two\ud regions suggested that intronic SNPs nearby are more strongly associated with disease risk. We have thus identified\ud a novel susceptibility locus at 3p21, and confirmed previous suggestive evidence that rs6964587 at 7q21 is\ud associated with risk. The third locus, rs10510592, is located in an established breast cancer susceptibility\ud region; the association was substantially attenuated after adjustment for the known GWAS hit. Thus, each of\ud the associated nsSNPs is likely to be a marker for another, non-coding, variant causally related to breast\ud cancer risk. Further fine-mapping and functional studies are required to identify the underlying risk-modifying\ud variants and the genes through which they act.
Published: 2014

18. Genome-wide measures of DNA methylation in peripheral blood and the risk of urothelial cell carcinoma: A prospective nested case-control study.

Author: English D.R., Severi G., Saffery R., Southey M.C., Giles G.G., Dugue P.-A., Brinkman M.T., Milne R.L., Wong E.M., FitzGerald L.M., Bassett J.K., Joo J.E., Jung C.-H., Makalic E., Schmidt D.F., Park D.J., Chung J., Ta A.D., Bolton D.M., Lonie A., Longano A., Hopper J.L., English D.R., Severi G., Saffery R., Southey M.C., Giles G.G., Dugue P.-A., Brinkman M.T., Milne R.L., Wong E.M., FitzGerald L.M., Bassett J.K., Joo J.E., Jung C.-H., Makalic E., Schmidt D.F., Park D.J., Chung J., Ta A.D., Bolton D.M., Lonie A., Longano A., and Hopper J.L.
Abstract: Background: Global DNA methylation has been reported to be associated with urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC) by studies using blood samples collected at diagnosis. Using the Illumina HumanMethylation450 assay, we derived genome-wide measures of blood DNA methylation and assessed them for their prospective association with UCC risk. Method(s): We used 439 case-control pairs from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study matched on age, sex, country of birth, DNA sample type, and collection period. Conditional logistic regression was used to compute odds ratios (OR) of UCC risk per s.d. of each genome-wide measure of DNA methylation and 95% confidence intervals (CIs), adjusted for potential confounders. We also investigated associations by disease subtype, sex, smoking, and time since blood collection. Result(s): The risk of superficial UCC was decreased for individuals with higher levels of our genome-wide DNA methylation measure (OR=0.71, 95% CI: 0.54-0.94; P=0.02). This association was particularly strong for current smokers at sample collection (OR=0.47, 95% CI: 0.27-0.83). Intermediate levels of our genome-wide measure were associated with decreased risk of invasive UCC. Some variation was observed between UCC subtypes and the location and regulatory function of the CpGs included in the genome-wide measures of methylation. Conclusion(s): Higher levels of our genome-wide DNA methylation measure were associated with decreased risk of superficial UCC and intermediate levels were associated with reduced risk of invasive disease. These findings require replication by other prospective studies.Copyright © 2016 Cancer Research UK.
Published: 2016

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

Author: Couch, F.J. (Fergus), Kuchenbaecker, K.B. (Karoline), Michailidou, K. (Kyriaki), Mendoza-Fandino, G.A. (Gustavo A.), Nord, S. (Silje), Lilyquist, J. (Janna), Olswold, C. (Curtis), Hallberg, B. (Boubou), Agata, S. (Simona), Ahsan, H. (Habibul), Aittomäki, K. (Kristiina), Ambrosone, C.B. (Christine), Andrulis, I.L. (Irene), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Arndt, V. (Volker), Arun, B.K. (Banu), Arver, B. (Brita Wasteson), Barile, M. (Monica), Barkardottir, R.B. (Rosa), Barrowdale, D. (Daniel), Beckmann, L. (Lars), Beckmann, M.W. (Matthias), Benítez, J. (Javier), Blank, S.V. (Stephanie), Blomqvist, C. (Carl), Bogdanova, N.V. (Natalia), Bojesen, S.E. (Stig), Bolla, M.K. (Manjeet), Bonnani, B. (Bernardo), Brauch, H. (Hiltrud), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Burwinkel, B. (Barbara), Buys, S.S. (Saundra S.), Caldes, T. (Trinidad), Caligo, M.A. (Maria), Canzian, F. (Federico), Carpenter, T.A. (Adrian), Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Chanock, S.J. (Stephen J.), Chung, W.K. (Wendy K.), Claes, K.B.M. (Kathleen B.M.), Cox, A. (Angela), Cross, S.S. (Simon), Cunningham, J.M. (Julie), Czene, K. (Kamila), Daly, M.B. (Mary B.), Damiola, F. (Francesca), Darabi, H. (Hatef), Hoya, M. (Miguel) de La, Devilee, P. (Peter), Díez, O. (Orland), Ding, Y.C. (Yuan), Dolcetti, R. (Riccardo), Domchek, S.M. (Susan), Dorfling, C.M. (Cecilia), Santos Silva, I. (Isabel) dos, Dumont, M. (Martine), Dunning, A.M. (Alison), Eccles, D. (Diana), Ehrencrona, H. (Hans), Ekici, A.B. (Arif), Eliassen, H. (Heather), Ellis, S.D. (Steve), Fasching, P.A. (Peter), Figueroa, J.D. (Jonine), Flesch-Janys, D. (Dieter), Försti, A. (Asta), Fostira, F. (Florentia), Foulkes, W.D. (William), Friebel, M.O.W. (Mark ), Friedman, E. (Eitan), Frost, D. (Debra), Gabrielson, M. (Marike), Gammon, M. (Marilie), Ganz, P.A. (Patricia A.), Gapstur, S.M. (Susan M.), Garber, J. (Judy), Gaudet, M.M. (Mia), Gayther, S.A. (Simon), Gerdes, A-M. (Anne-Marie), Ghoussaini, M. (Maya), Giles, G.G. (Graham), Glendon, G. (Gord), Godwin, A.K. (Andrew K.), Goldberg, M.S. (Mark), Goldgar, D. (David), González-Neira, A. (Anna), Greene, M.H. (Mark H.), Gronwald, J. (Jacek), Guénel, P. (Pascal), Gunter, M.J. (Marc J.), Haeberle, L. (Lothar), Haiman, C.A. (Christopher A.), Hamann, U. (Ute), Hansen, T.V.O. (Thomas), Hart, S. (Stewart), Healey, S. (Sue), Heikkinen, T. (Tuomas), Henderson, B.E. (Brian), Herzog, J. (Josef), Hogervorst, F.B.L. (Frans), Hollestelle, A. (Antoinette), Hooning, M.J. (Maartje), Hoover, R.N. (Robert), Hopper, J.L. (John), Humphreys, K. (Keith), Hunter, D. (David), Huzarski, T. (Tomasz), Imyanitov, E.N. (Evgeny N.), Isaacs, C. (Claudine), Jakubowska, A. (Anna), James, M. (Margaret), Janavicius, R. (Ramunas), Jensen, U.B., John, E.M. (Esther), Jones, M. (Michael), Kabisch, M. (Maria), Kar, S. (Siddhartha), Karlan, B.Y. (Beth Y.), Khan, S. (Sofia), Khaw, K.T., Kibriya, M.G. (Muhammad), Knight, J.A. (Julia), Ko, Y.-D. (Yon-Dschun), Konstantopoulou, I. (I.), Kosma, V-M. (Veli-Matti), Kristensen, V. (Vessela), Kwong, A. (Ava), Laitman, Y. (Yael), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Lázaro, C. (Conxi), Lee, E. (Eunjung), Le Marchand, L. (Loic), Lester, K.J. (Kathryn), Lindblom, A. (Annika), Lindor, N.M. (Noralane), Lindstrom, S. (Stephen), Liu, J. (Jianjun), Long, J. (Jirong), Lubinski, J. (Jan), Mai, P.L. (Phuong), Makalic, E. (Enes), Malone, K.E. (Kathleen E.), Mannermaa, A. (Arto), Manoukian, S. (Siranoush), Margolin, S. (Sara), Marme, F. (Federick), Martens, J.W.M. (John), McGuffog, L. (Lesley), Meindl, A. (Alfons), Miller, A. (Austin), Milne, R.L. (Roger), Miron, P. (Penelope), Montagna, M. (Marco), Mazoyer, S. (Sylvie), Mulligan, A.-M. (Anna-Marie), Muranen, T.A. (Taru), Nathanson, K.L. (Katherine), Neuhausen, S.L. (Susan), Nevanlinna, H. (Heli), Nordestgaard, B.G. (Børge), Nussbaum, R. (Robert), Offit, K. (Kenneth), Olah, E., Olopade, O.I. (Olufunmilayo I.), Olson, J.E. (Janet), Osorio, A. (Ana), Park, S.K. (Sue K.), Peeters, P.H.M., Peissel, B. (Bernard), Peterlongo, P. (Paolo), Peto, J. (Julian), Phelan, C. (Catherine), Pilarski, R. (Robert), Poppe, B. (Bruce), Pykäs, K. (Katri), Radice, P. (Paolo), Rahman, N. (Nazneen), Rantala, J. (Johanna), Rappaport, C. (Christine), Rennert, G. (Gad), Richardson, A.L. (Andrea), Robson, M. (Mark), Romieu, I. (Isabelle), Rudolph, A. (Anja), Rutgers, E.J.T. (Emiel), Sanchez, M.-J. (Maria-Jose), Santella, R. (Regina), Sawyer, E.J. (Elinor), Schmidt, D.F. (Daniel), Schmidt, M.K. (Marjanka), Schmutzler, R.K. (Rita), Schumacher, F.R. (Fredrick), Scott, R.J. (Rodney), Senter, L. (Leigha), Sharma, P. (Priyanka), Simard, J. (Jacques), Singer, C.F. (Christian), Sinilnikova, O. (Olga), Soucy, P. (Penny), Southey, M.C. (Melissa), Steinemann, D. (Doris), Stenmark-Askmalm, M. (Marie), Stoppa-Lyonnet, D. (Dominique), Swerdlow, A.J. (Anthony ), Szabo, C. (Csilla), Tamimi, R. (Rulla), Tapper, W. (William), Teixeira, P.J., Teo, S.-H. (Soo-Hwang), Terry, M.B. (Mary Beth), Thomassen, M. (Mads), Thompson, D. (Deborah), Tihomirova, L. (Laima), Toland, A.E. (Amanda), Tollenaar, R.A.E.M. (Rob), Tomlinson, I.P. (Ian), Truong, T. (Thérèse), Tsimiklis, H. (Helen), Teulé, A. (A.), Tumino, R. (Rosario), Tung, N. (Nadine), Turnbull, C. (Clare), Ursin, G. (Giski), Deurzen, C.H.M. (Carolien) van, Rensburg, E.J. (Elizabeth) van, Varon-Mateeva, R. (Raymonda), Wang, Z. (Zhaoming), Wang-Gohrke, S. (Shan), Weiderpass, E. (Elisabete), Weitzel, J.N. (Jeffrey), Whittemore, A.S. (Alice S.), Wildiers, H. (Hans), Winqvist, R. (Robert), Yang, X.R. (Xiaohong R.), Yannoukakos, D. (Drakoulis), Yao, S. (Song), Zamora, M.P. (Pilar), Zheng, W. (Wei), Hall, P. (Per), Kraft, P. (Peter), Vachon, C. (Celine), Slager, S. (Susan), Chenevix-Trench, G. (Georgia), Pharoah, P.D.P. (Paul), Monteiro, A.A.N. (Alvaro A. N.), García-Closas, M. (Montserrat), Easton, D.F. (Douglas F.), Antoniou, A.C. (Antonis), Couch, F.J. (Fergus), Kuchenbaecker, K.B. (Karoline), Michailidou, K. (Kyriaki), Mendoza-Fandino, G.A. (Gustavo A.), Nord, S. (Silje), Lilyquist, J. (Janna), Olswold, C. (Curtis), Hallberg, B. (Boubou), Agata, S. (Simona), Ahsan, H. (Habibul), Aittomäki, K. (Kristiina), Ambrosone, C.B. (Christine), Andrulis, I.L. (Irene), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Arndt, V. (Volker), Arun, B.K. (Banu), Arver, B. (Brita Wasteson), Barile, M. (Monica), Barkardottir, R.B. (Rosa), Barrowdale, D. (Daniel), Beckmann, L. (Lars), Beckmann, M.W. (Matthias), Benítez, J. (Javier), Blank, S.V. (Stephanie), Blomqvist, C. (Carl), Bogdanova, N.V. (Natalia), Bojesen, S.E. (Stig), Bolla, M.K. (Manjeet), Bonnani, B. (Bernardo), Brauch, H. (Hiltrud), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Burwinkel, B. (Barbara), Buys, S.S. (Saundra S.), Caldes, T. (Trinidad), Caligo, M.A. (Maria), Canzian, F. (Federico), Carpenter, T.A. (Adrian), Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Chanock, S.J. (Stephen J.), Chung, W.K. (Wendy K.), Claes, K.B.M. (Kathleen B.M.), Cox, A. (Angela), Cross, S.S. (Simon), Cunningham, J.M. (Julie), Czene, K. (Kamila), Daly, M.B. (Mary B.), Damiola, F. (Francesca), Darabi, H. (Hatef), Hoya, M. (Miguel) de La, Devilee, P. (Peter), Díez, O. (Orland), Ding, Y.C. (Yuan), Dolcetti, R. (Riccardo), Domchek, S.M. (Susan), Dorfling, C.M. (Cecilia), Santos Silva, I. (Isabel) dos, Dumont, M. (Martine), Dunning, A.M. (Alison), Eccles, D. (Diana), Ehrencrona, H. (Hans), Ekici, A.B. (Arif), Eliassen, H. (Heather), Ellis, S.D. (Steve), Fasching, P.A. (Peter), Figueroa, J.D. (Jonine), Flesch-Janys, D. (Dieter), Försti, A. (Asta), Fostira, F. (Florentia), Foulkes, W.D. (William), Friebel, M.O.W. (Mark ), Friedman, E. (Eitan), Frost, D. (Debra), Gabrielson, M. (Marike), Gammon, M. (Marilie), Ganz, P.A. (Patricia A.), Gapstur, S.M. (Susan M.), Garber, J. (Judy), Gaudet, M.M. (Mia), Gayther, S.A. (Simon), Gerdes, A-M. (Anne-Marie), Ghoussaini, M. (Maya), Giles, G.G. (Graham), Glendon, G. (Gord), Godwin, A.K. (Andrew K.), Goldberg, M.S. (Mark), Goldgar, D. (David), González-Neira, A. (Anna), Greene, M.H. (Mark H.), Gronwald, J. (Jacek), Guénel, P. (Pascal), Gunter, M.J. (Marc J.), Haeberle, L. (Lothar), Haiman, C.A. (Christopher A.), Hamann, U. (Ute), Hansen, T.V.O. (Thomas), Hart, S. (Stewart), Healey, S. (Sue), Heikkinen, T. (Tuomas), Henderson, B.E. (Brian), Herzog, J. (Josef), Hogervorst, F.B.L. (Frans), Hollestelle, A. (Antoinette), Hooning, M.J. (Maartje), Hoover, R.N. (Robert), Hopper, J.L. (John), Humphreys, K. (Keith), Hunter, D. (David), Huzarski, T. (Tomasz), Imyanitov, E.N. (Evgeny N.), Isaacs, C. (Claudine), Jakubowska, A. (Anna), James, M. (Margaret), Janavicius, R. (Ramunas), Jensen, U.B., John, E.M. (Esther), Jones, M. (Michael), Kabisch, M. (Maria), Kar, S. (Siddhartha), Karlan, B.Y. (Beth Y.), Khan, S. (Sofia), Khaw, K.T., Kibriya, M.G. (Muhammad), Knight, J.A. (Julia), Ko, Y.-D. (Yon-Dschun), Konstantopoulou, I. (I.), Kosma, V-M. (Veli-Matti), Kristensen, V. (Vessela), Kwong, A. (Ava), Laitman, Y. (Yael), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Lázaro, C. (Conxi), Lee, E. (Eunjung), Le Marchand, L. (Loic), Lester, K.J. (Kathryn), Lindblom, A. (Annika), Lindor, N.M. (Noralane), Lindstrom, S. (Stephen), Liu, J. (Jianjun), Long, J. (Jirong), Lubinski, J. (Jan), Mai, P.L. (Phuong), Makalic, E. (Enes), Malone, K.E. (Kathleen E.), Mannermaa, A. (Arto), Manoukian, S. (Siranoush), Margolin, S. (Sara), Marme, F. (Federick), Martens, J.W.M. (John), McGuffog, L. (Lesley), Meindl, A. (Alfons), Miller, A. (Austin), Milne, R.L. (Roger), Miron, P. (Penelope), Montagna, M. (Marco), Mazoyer, S. (Sylvie), Mulligan, A.-M. (Anna-Marie), Muranen, T.A. (Taru), Nathanson, K.L. (Katherine), Neuhausen, S.L. (Susan), Nevanlinna, H. (Heli), Nordestgaard, B.G. (Børge), Nussbaum, R. (Robert), Offit, K. (Kenneth), Olah, E., Olopade, O.I. (Olufunmilayo I.), Olson, J.E. (Janet), Osorio, A. (Ana), Park, S.K. (Sue K.), Peeters, P.H.M., Peissel, B. (Bernard), Peterlongo, P. (Paolo), Peto, J. (Julian), Phelan, C. (Catherine), Pilarski, R. (Robert), Poppe, B. (Bruce), Pykäs, K. (Katri), Radice, P. (Paolo), Rahman, N. (Nazneen), Rantala, J. (Johanna), Rappaport, C. (Christine), Rennert, G. (Gad), Richardson, A.L. (Andrea), Robson, M. (Mark), Romieu, I. (Isabelle), Rudolph, A. (Anja), Rutgers, E.J.T. (Emiel), Sanchez, M.-J. (Maria-Jose), Santella, R. (Regina), Sawyer, E.J. (Elinor), Schmidt, D.F. (Daniel), Schmidt, M.K. (Marjanka), Schmutzler, R.K. (Rita), Schumacher, F.R. (Fredrick), Scott, R.J. (Rodney), Senter, L. (Leigha), Sharma, P. (Priyanka), Simard, J. (Jacques), Singer, C.F. (Christian), Sinilnikova, O. (Olga), Soucy, P. (Penny), Southey, M.C. (Melissa), Steinemann, D. (Doris), Stenmark-Askmalm, M. (Marie), Stoppa-Lyonnet, D. (Dominique), Swerdlow, A.J. (Anthony ), Szabo, C. (Csilla), Tamimi, R. (Rulla), Tapper, W. (William), Teixeira, P.J., Teo, S.-H. (Soo-Hwang), Terry, M.B. (Mary Beth), Thomassen, M. (Mads), Thompson, D. (Deborah), Tihomirova, L. (Laima), Toland, A.E. (Amanda), Tollenaar, R.A.E.M. (Rob), Tomlinson, I.P. (Ian), Truong, T. (Thérèse), Tsimiklis, H. (Helen), Teulé, A. (A.), Tumino, R. (Rosario), Tung, N. (Nadine), Turnbull, C. (Clare), Ursin, G. (Giski), Deurzen, C.H.M. (Carolien) van, Rensburg, E.J. (Elizabeth) van, Varon-Mateeva, R. (Raymonda), Wang, Z. (Zhaoming), Wang-Gohrke, S. (Shan), Weiderpass, E. (Elisabete), Weitzel, J.N. (Jeffrey), Whittemore, A.S. (Alice S.), Wildiers, H. (Hans), Winqvist, R. (Robert), Yang, X.R. (Xiaohong R.), Yannoukakos, D. (Drakoulis), Yao, S. (Song), Zamora, M.P. (Pilar), Zheng, W. (Wei), Hall, P. (Per), Kraft, P. (Peter), Vachon, C. (Celine), Slager, S. (Susan), Chenevix-Trench, G. (Georgia), Pharoah, P.D.P. (Paul), Monteiro, A.A.N. (Alvaro A. N.), García-Closas, M. (Montserrat), Easton, D.F. (Douglas F.), and Antoniou, A.C. (Antonis)
Abstract: Common variants in 94 loci have been associated with breast cancer including 15 loci with genome-wide significant associations (P<5 × 10-8) with oestrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer and BRCA1-associated breast cancer risk. In this study, to identify new ER-negative susceptibility loci, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) consisting of 4,939 ER-negative cases and 14,352 controls, combined with 7,333 ER-negati
Published: 2016
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20. MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

Author: Khan, S., Greco, D., Michailidou, K., Milne, R.L., Muranen, T.A., Heikkinen, T., Aaltonen, K., Dennis, J., Bolla, M.K., Liu, J., Hall, P., Irwanto, A., Humphreys, K., Li, J., Czene, K., Chang-Claude, J., Hein, R., Rudolph, A., Seibold, P., Flesch-Janys, D., Fletcher, O., Peto, J., Silva, I.D., Johnson, N., Gibson, L., Aitken, Z., Hopper, J.L., Tsimiklis, H., Bui, M., Makalic, E., Schmidt, D.F., Southey, M.C., Apicella, C., Stone, J., Waisfisz, Q., Meijers-Heijboer, H., Adank, M.A., Luijt, R.B. van der, Meindl, A., Schmutzler, R.K., Muller-Myhsok, B., Lichtner, P., Turnbull, C., Rahman, N., Chanock, S.J., Hunter, D.J., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Reed, M.W.R., Schmidt, M.K., Broeks, A., Van't Veer, L.J., Hogervorst, F.B., Fasching, P.A., Schrauder, M.G., Ekici, A.B., Beckmann, M.W., Bojesen, S.E., Nordestgaard, B.G., Nielsen, S.F., Flyger, H., Benitez, J., Zamora, P.M., Perez, J.I.A., Haiman, C.A., Henderson, B.E., Schumacher, F., Marchand, L. le, Pharoah, P.D.P., Dunning, A.M., Shah, M., Luben, R., Brown, J., Couch, F.J., Wang, X., Vachon, C., Olson, J.E., Lambrechts, D., Moisse, M., Paridaens, R., Christiaens, M.R., Guenel, P., Truong, T., Laurent-Puig, P., Mulot, C., Marme, F., Burwinkel, B., Schneeweiss, A., Sohn, C., Sawyer, E.J., Tomlinson, I., Kerin, M.J., Miller, N., Andrulis, I.L., Knight, J.A., Tchatchou, S., Mulligan, A.M., Dork, T., Bogdanova, N.V., Antonenkova, N.N., Anton-Culver, H., Darabi, H., Eriksson, M., Garcia-Closas, M., Figueroa, J., Lissowska, J., Brinton, L., Devilee, P., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Seynaeve, C., Asperen, C.J. van, Kristensen, V.N., Slager, S., Toland, A.E., Ambrosone, C.B., Yannoukakos, D., Lindblom, A., Margolin, S., Radice, P., Peterlongo, P., Barile, M., Mariani, P., Hooning, M.J., Martens, J.W.M., Collee, J.M., Jager, A., Jakubowska, A., Lubinski, J., Jaworska-Bieniek, K., Durda, K., Giles, G.G., McLean, C., Brauch, H., Bruning, T., Ko, Y.D., Brenner, H., Dieffenbach, A.K., Arndt, V., Stegmaier, C., Swerdlow, A., Ashworth, A., Orr, N., Jones, M., Simard, J., Goldberg, M.S., Labreche, F., Dumont, M., Winqvist, R., Pylkas, K., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Grip, M., Kataja, V., Kosma, V.M., Hartikainen, J.M., Mannermaa, A., Hamann, U., Chenevix-Trench, G., Blomqvist, C., Aittomaki, K., Easton, D.F., Nevanlinna, H., KConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Canc Study Grp, GENICA Network, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinicum, Department of Oncology, Haartman Institute (-2014), Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Human genetics, CCA - Oncogenesis, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC other, and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: Heredity, IDENTIFIES 3, lcsh:Medicine, Estrogen receptor, Genome-wide association study, Bioinformatics, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, HUMAN GENES, lcsh:Science, 3' Untranslated Regions, Multidisciplinary, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Chromosome Mapping, SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS, 3. Good health, Receptors, Estrogen, Female, CASP8 GENE, Research Article, EXPRESSION, Genotype, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, education, 3122 Cancers, MiRNA binding, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Genetic Predisposition, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, BINDING-SITES, Breast cancer, REDUCED RISK, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, microRNA, Genetic predisposition, medicine, Journal Article, Genetics, Cancer Genetics, Humans, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, Drosha, Genetic Association Studies, Binding Sites, Complex Traits, lcsh:R, Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Human Genetics, medicine.disease, Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural, COMMON VARIANT, MicroRNAs, Case-Control Studies, Genetics of Disease, lcsh:Q, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Genetic variations, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in microRNAs (miRNA) or in the miRNA binding sites may affect the miRNA dependent gene expression regulation, which has been implicated in various cancers, including breast cancer, and may alter individual susceptibility to cancer. We investigated associations between miRNA related SNPs and breast cancer risk. First we evaluated 2,196 SNPs in a case-control study combining nine genome wide association studies (GWAS). Second, we further investigated 42 SNPs with suggestive evidence for association using 41,785 cases and 41,880 controls from 41 studies included in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). Combining the GWAS and BCAC data within a meta-analysis, we estimated main effects on breast cancer risk as well as risks for estrogen receptor (ER) and age defined subgroups. Five miRNA binding site SNPs associated significantly with breast cancer risk: rs1045494 (odds ratio (OR) 0.92; 95 confidence interval (CI): 0.88-0.96), rs1052532 (OR 0.97; 95 CI: 0.95-0.99), rs10719 (OR 0.97; 95 Cl: 0.94-0.99), rs4687554 (OR 0.97; 95 CI: 0.95-0.99, and rs3134615 (OR 1.03; 95 CI: 1.01 -1.05) located in the 3' UTR of CASP8, HDDC3, DROSHA, MUSTN1, and MYCL1, respectively. DROSHA belongs to miRNA machinery genes and has a central role in initial miRNA processing. The remaining genes are involved in different molecular functions, including apoptosis and gene expression regulation. Further studies are warranted to elucidate whether the miRNA binding site SNPs are the causative variants for the observed risk effects. This is an open-access article free of all copyright.
Published: 2014
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21. Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

Author: Michailidou, K., Hall, P., Gonzalez-Neira, A., Ghoussaini, M., Dennis, J., Milne, R.L., Schmidt, M.K., Chang-Claude, J., Bojesen, S.E., Bolla, M.K., Wang, Q., Dicks, E., Lee, A., Turnbull, C., Rahman, N., Fletcher, O., Peto, J., Gibson, L., Silva, I.D., Nevanlinna, H., Muranen, T.A., Aittomaki, K., Blomqvist, C., Czene, K., Irwanto, A., Liu, J.J., Waisfisz, Q., Meijers-Heijboer, H., Adank, M., Luijt, R.B. van der, Hein, R., Dahmen, N., Beckman, L., Meindl, A., Schmutzler, R.K., Muller-Myhsok, B., Lichtner, P., Hopper, J.L., Southey, M.C., Makalic, E., Schmidt, D.F., Uitterlinden, A.G., Hofman, A., Hunter, D.J., Chanock, S.J., Vincent, D., Bacot, F., Tessier, D.C., Canisius, S., Wessels, L.F.A., Haiman, C.A., Shah, M., Luben, R., Brown, J., Luccarini, C., Schoof, N., Humphreys, K., Li, J.M., Nordestgaard, B.G., Nielsen, S.F., Flyger, H., Couch, F.J., Wang, X.S., Vachon, C., Stevens, K.N., Lambrechts, D., Moisse, M., Paridaens, R., Christiaens, M.R., Rudolph, A., Nickels, S., Flesch-Janys, D., Johnson, N., Aitken, Z., Aaltonen, K., Heikkinen, T., Broeks, A., Van't Veer, L.J., Schoot, C.E. van der, Guenel, P., Truong, T., Laurent-Puig, P., Menegaux, F., Marme, F., Schneeweiss, A., Sohn, C., Burwinke, B., Zamora, M.P., Perez, J.I.A., Pita, G., Alonso, M.R., Cox, A., Brock, I.W., Cross, S.S., Reed, M.W.R., Sawyer, E.J., Tomlinson, I., Kerin, M.J., Miller, N., Henderson, B.E., Schumacher, F., Marchand, L. le, Andrulis, I.L., Knight, J.A., Glendon, G., Mulligan, A.M., Lindblom, A., Margolin, S., Hooning, M.J., Hollestelle, A., Ouweland, A.M.W. van den, Jager, A., Bui, Q.M., Stone, J., Dite, G.S., Apicella, C., Tsimiklis, H., Giles, G.G., Severi, G., Baglietto, L., Fasching, P.A., Haeberle, L., Ekici, A.B., Beckmann, M.W., Brenner, H., Muller, H., Arndt, V., Stegmaier, C., Swerdlown, A., Ashworth, A., Orr, N., Jones, M., Figueroa, J., Lissowska, J., Brinton, L., Goldberg, M.S., Labreche, F., Dumont, M., Winqvist, R., Pylkas, K., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Grip, M., Brauch, H., Hamann, U., Bruning, T., Radice, P., Peterlongo, P., Manouldan, S., Bonanni, B., Devilee, P., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Seynaeve, C., Asperen, C.J. van, Jakubowska, A., Lubinski, J., Jaworska, K., Durda, K., Mannermaa, A., Kataja, V., Kosma, V.M., Hartikainen, J.M., Bogdanova, N.V., Antonenkova, N.N., Dork, T., Kristensen, V.N., Anton-Culver, H., Slager, S., Toland, A.E., Edge, S., Fostira, F., Kang, D., Yoo, K.Y., Noh, D.Y., Matsuo, K., Ito, H., Iwata, H., Sueta, A., Wu, A.H., Tseng, C.C., Berg, D. van den, Stram, D.O., Shu, X.O., Lu, W., Gao, Y.T., Cai, H., Teo, S.H., Yip, C.H., Phuah, S.Y., Cornes, B.K., Hartman, M., Miao, H., Lim, W.Y., Sng, J.H., Muir, K., Lophatananon, A., Stewart-Brown, S., Siriwanarangsan, P., Shen, C.Y., Hsiung, C.N., Wu, P.E., Ding, S.L., Sangrajrang, S., Gaborieau, V., Brennan, P., Mckay, J., Blot, W.J., Signorello, L.B., Cai, Q.Y., Zheng, W., Deming-Halverson, S., Shrubsole, M., Long, J.R., Simard, J., Garcia-Closas, M., Pharoah, P.D.P., Chenevix-Trench, G., Dunning, A.M., Benitez, J., Easton, D.F., Breast Ovarian Canc Susceptibility, Hereditary Breast Ovarian Canc Res, kConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Can Study Grp, GENICA Gene Environm Interaction B, CCA -Cancer Center Amsterdam, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Human Genetics, Landsteiner Laboratory, Clinical Haematology, Clinical Genetics, Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, Medical Oncology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Human genetics, CCA - Oncogenesis, and ~
Subjects: signaling pathway, Genotyping, Genotype, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Genome-wide association study, Breast Neoplasms, consortium, Biology, Case-Control Studies, Cooperative Behavior, Female, Gene-Environment Interaction, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetics, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, common variants, expression, medicine, Polymorphism, gene, hormone-related protein, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, 0303 health sciences, Breast cancer susceptibility, Cancer, Single Nucleotide, medicine.disease, confer susceptibility, susceptibility loci, 3. Good health, 14q24.1 rad51l1, TOX3, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, genome-wide association
Abstract: Journal article Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Common variants at 27 loci have been identified as associated with susceptibility to breast cancer, and these account for ~9% of the familial risk of the disease. We report here a meta-analysis of 9 genome-wide association studies, including 10,052 breast cancer cases and 12,575 controls of European ancestry, from which we selected 29,807 SNPs for further genotyping. These SNPs were genotyped in 45,290 cases and 41,880 controls of European ancestry from 41 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). The SNPs were genotyped as part of a collaborative genotyping experiment involving four consortia (Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study, COGS) and used a custom Illumina iSelect genotyping array, iCOGS, comprising more than 200,000 SNPs. We identified SNPs at 41 new breast cancer susceptibility loci at genome-wide significance (P < 5 × 10!¿8). Further analyses suggest that more than 1,000 additional loci are involved in breast cancer susceptibility. European Community Seventh Framework Programme - grant agreement 223175 (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175) (COGS) peer-reviewed
Published: 2013
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22. Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

Author: Michailidou, K. (Kyriaki), Beesley, J. (Jonathan), Lindstrom, S. (Stephen), Canisius, S. (Sander), Dennis, J. (Joe), Lush, M. (Michael), Maranian, M. (Melanie), Bolla, M.K. (Manjeet), Wang, Q. (Qing), Shah, M. (Mitul), Perkins, B. (Barbara), Czene, K. (Kamila), Eriksson, M. (Mikael), Darabi, H. (Hatef), Brand, J.S. (Judith S.), Bojesen, S.E. (Stig), Nordestgaard, B.G. (Børge), Flyger, H. (Henrik), Nielsen, S.F. (Sune), Rahman, N. (Nazneen), Turnbull, C. (Clare), Fletcher, O. (Olivia), Peto, J. (Julian), Gibson, L.J. (Lorna), Santos Silva, I. (Isabel) dos, Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Flesch-Janys, D. (Dieter), Rudolph, A. (Anja), Eilber, U. (Ursula), Behrens, T.W. (Timothy), Nevanlinna, H. (Heli), Muranen, T.A. (Taru), Aittomäki, K. (Kristiina), Blomqvist, C. (Carl), Khan, S. (Sofia), Aaltonen, K. (Kirsimari), Ahsan, H. (Habibul), Kibriya, M.G. (Muhammad), Whittemore, A.S. (Alice S.), John, E.M. (Esther M.), Malone, K.E. (Kathleen E.), Gammon, M.D. (Marilie), Santella, R.M. (Regina M.), Ursin, G. (Giske), Makalic, E. (Enes), Schmidt, D.F. (Daniel), Casey, G. (Graham), Hunter, D.J. (David J.), Gapstur, S.M. (Susan M.), Gaudet, M.M. (Mia), Diver, W.R. (Ryan), Haiman, C.A. (Christopher A.), Schumacher, F.R. (Fredrick), Henderson, B.E. (Brian), Le Marchand, L. (Loic), Berg, C.D. (Christine), Chanock, S.J. (Stephen), Figueroa, J.D. (Jonine), Hoover, R.N. (Robert N.), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Neven, P. (Patrick), Wildiers, H. (Hans), Limbergen, E. (Erik) van, Schmidt, M.K. (Marjanka), Broeks, A. (Annegien), Verhoef, S., Cornelissen, S. (Sten), Couch, F.J. (Fergus), Olson, J.E. (Janet), Hallberg, B. (Boubou), Vachon, C. (Celine), Waisfisz, Q. (Quinten), Meijers-Heijboer, E.J. (Hanne), Adank, M.A. (Muriel), Luijt, R.B. (Rob) van der, Li, J. (Jingmei), Liu, J. (Jianjun), Humphreys, M.K. (Manjeet), Kang, D. (Daehee), Choi, J.-Y. (Ji-Yeob), Park, S.K. (Sue K.), Yoo, K.Y., Matsuo, K. (Keitaro), Ito, H. (Hidemi), Iwata, H. (Hiroji), Tajima, K. (Kazuo), Guénel, P. (Pascal), Truong, T. (Thérèse), Mulot, C. (Claire), Sanchez, M. (Marie), Burwinkel, B. (Barbara), Marme, F. (Federick), Surowy, H. (Harald), Sohn, C. (Christof), Wu, A.H. (Anna H), Tseng, C.-C. (Chiu-chen), Van Den Berg, D. (David), Stram, D.O. (Daniel O.), González-Neira, A. (Anna), Benítez, J. (Javier), Zamora, M.P. (Pilar), Perez, J.I.A. (Jose Ignacio Arias), Shu, X.-O. (Xiao-Ou), Lu, W. (Wei), Gao, Y. (Ying), Cai, H. (Hui), Cox, A. (Angela), Cross, S.S. (Simon), Reed, M.W.R. (Malcolm), Andrulis, I.L. (Irene), Knight, J.A. (Julia), Glendon, G. (Gord), Mulligan, A.-M. (Anna-Marie), Sawyer, E.J. (Elinor), Tomlinson, I.P. (Ian), Kerin, M. (Michael), Miller, N. (Nicola), Lindblom, A. (Annika), Margolin, S. (Sara), Teo, S.H. (Soo Hwang), Yip, C.H. (Cheng Har), Taib, N.A.M. (Nur Aishah Mohd), Tan, G.-H. (Gie-Hooi), Hooning, M.J. (Maartje), Hollestelle, A. (Antoinette), Martens, J.W.M. (John), Collée, J.M. (Margriet), Blot, W.J. (William), Signorello, L.B. (Lisa B.), Cai, Q. (Qiuyin), Hopper, J. (John), Southey, M.C. (Melissa), Tsimiklis, H. (Helen), Apicella, C. (Carmel), Shen, C-Y. (Chen-Yang), Hsiung, C.-N. (Chia-Ni), Wu, P.-E. (Pei-Ei), Hou, M.-F. (Ming-Feng), Kristensen, V. (Vessela), Nord, S. (Silje), Alnæs, G.G. (Grethe), Giles, G.G. (Graham G.), Milne, R.L. (Roger), McLean, C.A. (Catriona Ann), Canzian, F. (Federico), Trichopoulos, D. (Dimitrios), Peeters, P.H.M., Lund, E. (Eiliv), Sund, R. (Reijo), Khaw, K.T., Gunter, M.J. (Marc J.), Palli, D. (Domenico), Mortensen, L.M. (Lotte Maxild), Dossus, L. (Laure), Huerta, J.-M. (Jose-Maria), Meindl, A. (Alfons), Schmutzler, R.K. (Rita), Sutter, C. (Christian), Yang, R. (Rongxi), Muir, K. (Kenneth), Lophatananon, A. (Artitaya), Stewart-Brown, S. (Sarah), Siriwanarangsan, P. (Pornthep), Hartman, J.M. (Joost), Miao, X., Chia, K.S. (Kee Seng), Chan, C.W. (Ching Wan), Fasching, P.A. (Peter), Hein, R. (Rebecca), Beckmann, M.W. (Matthias), Haeberle, L. (Lothar), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Dieffenbach, A.K. (Aida Karina), Arndt, V. (Volker), Stegmaier, C. (Christa), Ashworth, A. (Alan), Orr, N. (Nick), Schoemaker, M. (Minouk), Swerdlow, A.J. (Anthony ), Brinton, L.A. (Louise), García-Closas, M. (Montserrat), Zheng, W. (Wei), Halverson, S.L. (Sandra L.), Shrubsole, M. (Martha), Long, J. (Jirong), Goldberg, M.S. (Mark), Labrèche, F. (France), Dumont, M. (Martine), Winqvist, R. (Robert), Pykäs, K. (Katri), Jukkola-Vuorinen, A. (Arja), Grip, M. (Mervi), Brauch, H. (Hiltrud), Hamann, U. (Ute), Brüning, T. (Thomas), Radice, P. (Paolo), Peterlongo, P. (Paolo), Manoukian, S. (Siranoush), Bernard, L. (Loris), Bogdanova, N.V. (Natalia), Dörk, T. (Thilo), Mannermaa, A. (Arto), Kataja, V. (Vesa), Kosma, V-M. (Veli-Matti), Hartikainen, J.M. (J.), Devilee, P. (Peter), Tollenaar, R.A.E.M. (Rob), Seynaeve, C.M. (Caroline), Asperen, C.J. (Christi) van, Jakubowska, A. (Anna), Lubinski, J. (Jan), Jaworska, K. (Katarzyna), Huzarski, T. (Tomasz), Sangrajrang, S. (Suleeporn), Gaborieau, V. (Valerie), Brennan, P. (Paul), McKay, J.D. (James), Slager, S. (Susan), Toland, A.E. (Amanda), Ambrosone, C.B. (Christine), Yannoukakos, D. (Drakoulis), Kabisch, M. (Maria), Torres, D. (Diana), Neuhausen, S.L. (Susan), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Luccarini, C. (Craig), Baynes, C. (Caroline), Ahmed, S. (Shahana), Healey, S. (Sue), Tessier, D.C. (Daniel C.), Vincent, D. (Daniel), Bacot, F. (Francois), Pita, G. (Guillermo), Alonso, M.R. (Rosario), Álvarez, N. (Nuria), Herrero, D. (Daniel), Simard, J. (Jacques), Pharoah, P.P.D.P. (Paul P.D.P.), Kraft, P. (Peter), Dunning, A.M. (Alison), Chenevix-Trench, G. (Georgia), Hall, P. (Per), Easton, D.F. (Douglas), Michailidou, K. (Kyriaki), Beesley, J. (Jonathan), Lindstrom, S. (Stephen), Canisius, S. (Sander), Dennis, J. (Joe), Lush, M. (Michael), Maranian, M. (Melanie), Bolla, M.K. (Manjeet), Wang, Q. (Qing), Shah, M. (Mitul), Perkins, B. (Barbara), Czene, K. (Kamila), Eriksson, M. (Mikael), Darabi, H. (Hatef), Brand, J.S. (Judith S.), Bojesen, S.E. (Stig), Nordestgaard, B.G. (Børge), Flyger, H. (Henrik), Nielsen, S.F. (Sune), Rahman, N. (Nazneen), Turnbull, C. (Clare), Fletcher, O. (Olivia), Peto, J. (Julian), Gibson, L.J. (Lorna), Santos Silva, I. (Isabel) dos, Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Flesch-Janys, D. (Dieter), Rudolph, A. (Anja), Eilber, U. (Ursula), Behrens, T.W. (Timothy), Nevanlinna, H. (Heli), Muranen, T.A. (Taru), Aittomäki, K. (Kristiina), Blomqvist, C. (Carl), Khan, S. (Sofia), Aaltonen, K. (Kirsimari), Ahsan, H. (Habibul), Kibriya, M.G. (Muhammad), Whittemore, A.S. (Alice S.), John, E.M. (Esther M.), Malone, K.E. (Kathleen E.), Gammon, M.D. (Marilie), Santella, R.M. (Regina M.), Ursin, G. (Giske), Makalic, E. (Enes), Schmidt, D.F. (Daniel), Casey, G. (Graham), Hunter, D.J. (David J.), Gapstur, S.M. (Susan M.), Gaudet, M.M. (Mia), Diver, W.R. (Ryan), Haiman, C.A. (Christopher A.), Schumacher, F.R. (Fredrick), Henderson, B.E. (Brian), Le Marchand, L. (Loic), Berg, C.D. (Christine), Chanock, S.J. (Stephen), Figueroa, J.D. (Jonine), Hoover, R.N. (Robert N.), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Neven, P. (Patrick), Wildiers, H. (Hans), Limbergen, E. (Erik) van, Schmidt, M.K. (Marjanka), Broeks, A. (Annegien), Verhoef, S., Cornelissen, S. (Sten), Couch, F.J. (Fergus), Olson, J.E. (Janet), Hallberg, B. (Boubou), Vachon, C. (Celine), Waisfisz, Q. (Quinten), Meijers-Heijboer, E.J. (Hanne), Adank, M.A. (Muriel), Luijt, R.B. (Rob) van der, Li, J. (Jingmei), Liu, J. (Jianjun), Humphreys, M.K. (Manjeet), Kang, D. (Daehee), Choi, J.-Y. (Ji-Yeob), Park, S.K. (Sue K.), Yoo, K.Y., Matsuo, K. (Keitaro), Ito, H. (Hidemi), Iwata, H. (Hiroji), Tajima, K. (Kazuo), Guénel, P. (Pascal), Truong, T. (Thérèse), Mulot, C. (Claire), Sanchez, M. (Marie), Burwinkel, B. (Barbara), Marme, F. (Federick), Surowy, H. (Harald), Sohn, C. (Christof), Wu, A.H. (Anna H), Tseng, C.-C. (Chiu-chen), Van Den Berg, D. (David), Stram, D.O. (Daniel O.), González-Neira, A. (Anna), Benítez, J. (Javier), Zamora, M.P. (Pilar), Perez, J.I.A. (Jose Ignacio Arias), Shu, X.-O. (Xiao-Ou), Lu, W. (Wei), Gao, Y. (Ying), Cai, H. (Hui), Cox, A. (Angela), Cross, S.S. (Simon), Reed, M.W.R. (Malcolm), Andrulis, I.L. (Irene), Knight, J.A. (Julia), Glendon, G. (Gord), Mulligan, A.-M. (Anna-Marie), Sawyer, E.J. (Elinor), Tomlinson, I.P. (Ian), Kerin, M. (Michael), Miller, N. (Nicola), Lindblom, A. (Annika), Margolin, S. (Sara), Teo, S.H. (Soo Hwang), Yip, C.H. (Cheng Har), Taib, N.A.M. (Nur Aishah Mohd), Tan, G.-H. (Gie-Hooi), Hooning, M.J. (Maartje), Hollestelle, A. (Antoinette), Martens, J.W.M. (John), Collée, J.M. (Margriet), Blot, W.J. (William), Signorello, L.B. (Lisa B.), Cai, Q. (Qiuyin), Hopper, J. (John), Southey, M.C. (Melissa), Tsimiklis, H. (Helen), Apicella, C. (Carmel), Shen, C-Y. (Chen-Yang), Hsiung, C.-N. (Chia-Ni), Wu, P.-E. (Pei-Ei), Hou, M.-F. (Ming-Feng), Kristensen, V. (Vessela), Nord, S. (Silje), Alnæs, G.G. (Grethe), Giles, G.G. (Graham G.), Milne, R.L. (Roger), McLean, C.A. (Catriona Ann), Canzian, F. (Federico), Trichopoulos, D. (Dimitrios), Peeters, P.H.M., Lund, E. (Eiliv), Sund, R. (Reijo), Khaw, K.T., Gunter, M.J. (Marc J.), Palli, D. (Domenico), Mortensen, L.M. (Lotte Maxild), Dossus, L. (Laure), Huerta, J.-M. (Jose-Maria), Meindl, A. (Alfons), Schmutzler, R.K. (Rita), Sutter, C. (Christian), Yang, R. (Rongxi), Muir, K. (Kenneth), Lophatananon, A. (Artitaya), Stewart-Brown, S. (Sarah), Siriwanarangsan, P. (Pornthep), Hartman, J.M. (Joost), Miao, X., Chia, K.S. (Kee Seng), Chan, C.W. (Ching Wan), Fasching, P.A. (Peter), Hein, R. (Rebecca), Beckmann, M.W. (Matthias), Haeberle, L. (Lothar), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Dieffenbach, A.K. (Aida Karina), Arndt, V. (Volker), Stegmaier, C. (Christa), Ashworth, A. (Alan), Orr, N. (Nick), Schoemaker, M. (Minouk), Swerdlow, A.J. (Anthony ), Brinton, L.A. (Louise), García-Closas, M. (Montserrat), Zheng, W. (Wei), Halverson, S.L. (Sandra L.), Shrubsole, M. (Martha), Long, J. (Jirong), Goldberg, M.S. (Mark), Labrèche, F. (France), Dumont, M. (Martine), Winqvist, R. (Robert), Pykäs, K. (Katri), Jukkola-Vuorinen, A. (Arja), Grip, M. (Mervi), Brauch, H. (Hiltrud), Hamann, U. (Ute), Brüning, T. (Thomas), Radice, P. (Paolo), Peterlongo, P. (Paolo), Manoukian, S. (Siranoush), Bernard, L. (Loris), Bogdanova, N.V. (Natalia), Dörk, T. (Thilo), Mannermaa, A. (Arto), Kataja, V. (Vesa), Kosma, V-M. (Veli-Matti), Hartikainen, J.M. (J.), Devilee, P. (Peter), Tollenaar, R.A.E.M. (Rob), Seynaeve, C.M. (Caroline), Asperen, C.J. (Christi) van, Jakubowska, A. (Anna), Lubinski, J. (Jan), Jaworska, K. (Katarzyna), Huzarski, T. (Tomasz), Sangrajrang, S. (Suleeporn), Gaborieau, V. (Valerie), Brennan, P. (Paul), McKay, J.D. (James), Slager, S. (Susan), Toland, A.E. (Amanda), Ambrosone, C.B. (Christine), Yannoukakos, D. (Drakoulis), Kabisch, M. (Maria), Torres, D. (Diana), Neuhausen, S.L. (Susan), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Luccarini, C. (Craig), Baynes, C. (Caroline), Ahmed, S. (Shahana), Healey, S. (Sue), Tessier, D.C. (Daniel C.), Vincent, D. (Daniel), Bacot, F. (Francois), Pita, G. (Guillermo), Alonso, M.R. (Rosario), Álvarez, N. (Nuria), Herrero, D. (Daniel), Simard, J. (Jacques), Pharoah, P.P.D.P. (Paul P.D.P.), Kraft, P. (Peter), Dunning, A.M. (Alison), Chenevix-Trench, G. (Georgia), Hall, P. (Per), and Easton, D.F. (Douglas)
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and large-scale replication studies have identified common variants in 79 loci associated with breast cancer, explaining ∼14% of the familial risk of the disease. To identify new susceptibility loci, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 GWAS, comprising 15,748 breast cancer cases and 18,084 controls together with 46,785 cases and 42,892 controls from 41 studies genotyped on a 211,155-marker custom array (iCOGS). Analyses were restricted to women of European ancestry. We generated genotypes for more than 11 million SNPs by imputation using the 1000 Genomes Project reference panel, and we identified 15 new loci associated with breast cancer at P < 5 × 10 â '8. Combining association analysis with ChIP-seq chromatin binding data in mammary cell lines and ChIA-PET chromatin interaction data from ENCODE, we identified likely target genes in two regions: SETBP1 at 18q12.3 and RNF115 and PDZK1 at 1q21.1. One association appears to be driven by an amino acid substitution encoded in EXO1.
Published: 2015
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23. Identification of new genetic susceptibility loci for breast cancer through consideration of gene-environment interactions

Author: Schoeps, A., Rudolph, A., Seibold, P., Dunning, A.M., Milne, R.L., Bojesen, S.E., Swerdlow, A., Andrulis, I., Brenner, H., Behrens, S., Orr, N., Jones, M., Ashworth, A., Li, J., Cramp, H., Connley, D., Czene, K., Darabi, H., Chanock, S.J., Lissowska, J., Figueroa, J.D., Knight, J., Glendon, G., Mulligan, A.M., Dumont, M., Severi, G., Baglietto, L., Olson, J., Vachon, C., Purrington, K., Moisse, M., Neven, P., Wildiers, H., Spurdle, A., Kosma, V.M., Kataja, V., Hartikainen, J.M., Hamann, U., Ko, Y.D., Dieffenbach, A.K., Arndt, V., Stegmaier, C., Malats, N., Perez, J.I., Benitez, J., Flyger, H., Nordestgaard, B.G., Truong, T., Cordina-Duverger, E., Menegaux, F., dos Santos Silva, I., Fletcher, O., Johnson, N., Haberle, L., Beckmann, M.W., Ekici, A.B., Braaf, L., Atsma, F., Broek, A.J. van den, Makalic, E., Schmidt, D.F., Southey, M.C., Cox, A, Simard, J., Giles, G.G., Lambrechts, D., Mannermaa, A., Brauch, H., Guenel, P., Peto, J., Fasching, P.A., Hopper, J., Flesch-Janys, D., Couch, F., Chenevix-Trench, G., Pharoah, P.D., Garcia-Closas, M., Schmidt, M.K., Hall, P., Easton, D.F., Chang-Claude, J., Schoeps, A., Rudolph, A., Seibold, P., Dunning, A.M., Milne, R.L., Bojesen, S.E., Swerdlow, A., Andrulis, I., Brenner, H., Behrens, S., Orr, N., Jones, M., Ashworth, A., Li, J., Cramp, H., Connley, D., Czene, K., Darabi, H., Chanock, S.J., Lissowska, J., Figueroa, J.D., Knight, J., Glendon, G., Mulligan, A.M., Dumont, M., Severi, G., Baglietto, L., Olson, J., Vachon, C., Purrington, K., Moisse, M., Neven, P., Wildiers, H., Spurdle, A., Kosma, V.M., Kataja, V., Hartikainen, J.M., Hamann, U., Ko, Y.D., Dieffenbach, A.K., Arndt, V., Stegmaier, C., Malats, N., Perez, J.I., Benitez, J., Flyger, H., Nordestgaard, B.G., Truong, T., Cordina-Duverger, E., Menegaux, F., dos Santos Silva, I., Fletcher, O., Johnson, N., Haberle, L., Beckmann, M.W., Ekici, A.B., Braaf, L., Atsma, F., Broek, A.J. van den, Makalic, E., Schmidt, D.F., Southey, M.C., Cox, A, Simard, J., Giles, G.G., Lambrechts, D., Mannermaa, A., Brauch, H., Guenel, P., Peto, J., Fasching, P.A., Hopper, J., Flesch-Janys, D., Couch, F., Chenevix-Trench, G., Pharoah, P.D., Garcia-Closas, M., Schmidt, M.K., Hall, P., Easton, D.F., and Chang-Claude, J.
Abstract: Item does not contain fulltext, Genes that alter disease risk only in combination with certain environmental exposures may not be detected in genetic association analysis. By using methods accounting for gene-environment (G x E) interaction, we aimed to identify novel genetic loci associated with breast cancer risk. Up to 34,475 cases and 34,786 controls of European ancestry from up to 23 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium were included. Overall, 71,527 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), enriched for association with breast cancer, were tested for interaction with 10 environmental risk factors using three recently proposed hybrid methods and a joint test of association and interaction. Analyses were adjusted for age, study, population stratification, and confounding factors as applicable. Three SNPs in two independent loci showed statistically significant association: SNPs rs10483028 and rs2242714 in perfect linkage disequilibrium on chromosome 21 and rs12197388 in ARID1B on chromosome 6. While rs12197388 was identified using the joint test with parity and with age at menarche (P-values = 3 x 10(-07)), the variants on chromosome 21 q22.12, which showed interaction with adult body mass index (BMI) in 8,891 postmenopausal women, were identified by all methods applied. SNP rs10483028 was associated with breast cancer in women with a BMI below 25 kg/m(2) (OR = 1.26, 95% CI 1.15-1.38) but not in women with a BMI of 30 kg/m(2) or higher (OR = 0.89, 95% CI 0.72-1.11, P for interaction = 3.2 x 10(-05)). Our findings confirm comparable power of the recent methods for detecting G x E interaction and the utility of using G x E interaction analyses to identify new susceptibility loci.
Published: 2014

24. MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

Author: Khan, S. (Sofia), Greco, D. (Dario), Michailidou, K. (Kyriaki), Milne, R.L. (Roger), Muranen, T.A. (Taru), Heikkinen, T. (Tuomas), Aaltonen, K. (Kirsimari), Dennis, J. (Joe), Bolla, M.K. (Manjeet), Liu, J. (Jianjun), Hall, P. (Per), Irwanto, A. (Astrid), Humphreys, M.K. (Manjeet), Li, J. (Jingmei), Czene, K. (Kamila), Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Hein, R. (Rebecca), Rudolph, A. (Anja), Seibold, P. (Petra), Flesch-Janys, D. (Dieter), Fletcher, O. (Olivia), Peto, J. (Julian), Santos Silva, I. (Isabel) dos, Johnson, N. (Nichola), Gibson, L.J. (Lorna), Aitken, Z. (Zoe), Hopper, J.L. (John), Tsimiklis, H. (Helen), Bui, M. (Minh), Makalic, E. (Enes), Schmidt, D.F. (Daniel), Southey, M.C. (Melissa), Apicella, C. (Carmel), Stone, J. (Jennifer), Waisfisz, Q. (Quinten), Meijers-Heijboer, E.J. (Hanne), Adank, M.A. (Muriel), Luijt, R.B. (Rob) van der, Meindl, A. (Alfons), Schmutzler, R.K. (Rita), Müller-Myhsok, B. (B.), Lichtner, P. (Peter), Turnbull, C. (Clare), Rahman, N. (Nazneen), Chanock, S.J. (Stephen), Hunter, D. (David), Cox, A. (Angela), Cross, S.S. (Simon), Reed, M.W.R. (Malcolm), Schmidt, M.K. (Marjanka), Broeks, A. (Annegien), Veer, L.J. (Laura) van 't, Hogervorst, F.B.L. (Frans), Fasching, P.A. (Peter), Schrauder, A. (André), Ekici, A.B. (Arif), Beckmann, M.W. (Matthias), Bojesen, S.E. (Stig), Nordestgaard, B.G. (Børge), Nielsen, S.F. (Sune), Flyger, H. (Henrik), Benítez, J. (Javier), Zamora, P.M. (Pilar M.), Perez, J.I.A. (Jose Ignacio Arias), Haiman, C.A. (Christopher), Henderson, B.E. (Brian), Schumacher, F.R. (Fredrick), March, L.L. (Loic Le), Pharoah, P.D.P. (Paul), Dunning, A.M. (Alison), Shah, M. (Mitul), Luben, R.N. (Robert), Brown, J. (Judith), Couch, F.J. (Fergus), Wang, X. (X.), Vachon, C. (Celine), Olson, J.E. (Janet), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Moisse, M. (Matthieu), Paridaens, R. (Robert), Christiaens, M.R. (Marie Rose), Guénel, P. (Pascal), Truong, T. (Thérèse), Laurent-Puig, P. (Pierre), Mulot, C. (Claire), Marme, F. (Frederick), Burwinkel, B. (Barbara), Schneeweiss, A. (Andreas), Sohn, C. (Christof), Sawyer, E.J. (Elinor), Tomlinson, I.P. (Ian), Kerin, M. (Michael), Miller, N. (Nicola), Andrulis, I.L. (Irene), Knight, J.A. (Julia), Tchatchou, S. (Srine), Mulligan, A.-M. (Anna-Marie), Dörk, T. (Thilo), Bogdanova, N.V. (Natalia), Antonenkova, N.N. (Natalia), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Darabi, H. (Hatef), Eriksson, M. (Mats), García-Closas, M. (Montserrat), Figueroa, J.D. (Jonine), Lissowska, J. (Jolanta), Brinton, L.A. (Louise), Devilee, P. (Peter), Tollenaar, R.A.E.M. (Rob), Seynaeve, C.M. (Caroline), Asperen, C.J. (Christi) van, Kristensen, V. (Vessela), Slager, S. (Susan), Tol, A.E. (Ama E.), Ambrosone, C.B. (Christine), Yannoukakos, D. (Drakoulis), Lindblom, A. (Annika), Margolin, S. (Sara), Radice, P. (Paolo), Peterlongo, P. (Paolo), Barile, M. (Monica), Mariani, P. (Paolo), Hooning, M.J. (Maartje), Martens, J.W.M. (John), Collée, J.M. (Margriet), Jager, A. (Agnes), Jakubowska, A. (Anna), Lubinski, J. (Jan), Jaworska-Bieniek, K. (Katarzyna), Durda, K. (Katarzyna), Giles, G.G. (Graham), McLean, C.A. (Catriona Ann), Brauch, H. (Hiltrud), Brüning, T. (Thomas), Ko, Y.-D. (Yon-Dschun), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Dieffenbach, A.K. (Aida Karina), Arndt, V. (Volker), Stegmaier, C. (Christa), Swerdlow, A.J. (Anthony ), Ashworth, A. (Alan), Orr, N. (Nick), Jones, M. (Michael), Simard, J. (Jacques), Goldberg, M.S. (Mark), Labrèche, F. (France), Dumont, M. (Martine), Winqvist, R. (Robert), Pykäs, K. (Katri), Jukkola-Vuorinen, A. (Arja), Grip, M. (Mervi), Kataja, V. (Vesa), Kosma, V-M. (Veli-Matti), Hartikainen, J.M. (J.), Mannermaa, A. (Arto), Hamann, U. (Ute), Chenevix-Trench, G. (Georgia), Blomqvist, C. (Carl), Aittomäki, K. (Kristiina), Easton, D.F. (Douglas), Nevanlinna, H. (Heli), Khan, S. (Sofia), Greco, D. (Dario), Michailidou, K. (Kyriaki), Milne, R.L. (Roger), Muranen, T.A. (Taru), Heikkinen, T. (Tuomas), Aaltonen, K. (Kirsimari), Dennis, J. (Joe), Bolla, M.K. (Manjeet), Liu, J. (Jianjun), Hall, P. (Per), Irwanto, A. (Astrid), Humphreys, M.K. (Manjeet), Li, J. (Jingmei), Czene, K. (Kamila), Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Hein, R. (Rebecca), Rudolph, A. (Anja), Seibold, P. (Petra), Flesch-Janys, D. (Dieter), Fletcher, O. (Olivia), Peto, J. (Julian), Santos Silva, I. (Isabel) dos, Johnson, N. (Nichola), Gibson, L.J. (Lorna), Aitken, Z. (Zoe), Hopper, J.L. (John), Tsimiklis, H. (Helen), Bui, M. (Minh), Makalic, E. (Enes), Schmidt, D.F. (Daniel), Southey, M.C. (Melissa), Apicella, C. (Carmel), Stone, J. (Jennifer), Waisfisz, Q. (Quinten), Meijers-Heijboer, E.J. (Hanne), Adank, M.A. (Muriel), Luijt, R.B. (Rob) van der, Meindl, A. (Alfons), Schmutzler, R.K. (Rita), Müller-Myhsok, B. (B.), Lichtner, P. (Peter), Turnbull, C. (Clare), Rahman, N. (Nazneen), Chanock, S.J. (Stephen), Hunter, D. (David), Cox, A. (Angela), Cross, S.S. (Simon), Reed, M.W.R. (Malcolm), Schmidt, M.K. (Marjanka), Broeks, A. (Annegien), Veer, L.J. (Laura) van 't, Hogervorst, F.B.L. (Frans), Fasching, P.A. (Peter), Schrauder, A. (André), Ekici, A.B. (Arif), Beckmann, M.W. (Matthias), Bojesen, S.E. (Stig), Nordestgaard, B.G. (Børge), Nielsen, S.F. (Sune), Flyger, H. (Henrik), Benítez, J. (Javier), Zamora, P.M. (Pilar M.), Perez, J.I.A. (Jose Ignacio Arias), Haiman, C.A. (Christopher), Henderson, B.E. (Brian), Schumacher, F.R. (Fredrick), March, L.L. (Loic Le), Pharoah, P.D.P. (Paul), Dunning, A.M. (Alison), Shah, M. (Mitul), Luben, R.N. (Robert), Brown, J. (Judith), Couch, F.J. (Fergus), Wang, X. (X.), Vachon, C. (Celine), Olson, J.E. (Janet), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Moisse, M. (Matthieu), Paridaens, R. (Robert), Christiaens, M.R. (Marie Rose), Guénel, P. (Pascal), Truong, T. (Thérèse), Laurent-Puig, P. (Pierre), Mulot, C. (Claire), Marme, F. (Frederick), Burwinkel, B. (Barbara), Schneeweiss, A. (Andreas), Sohn, C. (Christof), Sawyer, E.J. (Elinor), Tomlinson, I.P. (Ian), Kerin, M. (Michael), Miller, N. (Nicola), Andrulis, I.L. (Irene), Knight, J.A. (Julia), Tchatchou, S. (Srine), Mulligan, A.-M. (Anna-Marie), Dörk, T. (Thilo), Bogdanova, N.V. (Natalia), Antonenkova, N.N. (Natalia), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Darabi, H. (Hatef), Eriksson, M. (Mats), García-Closas, M. (Montserrat), Figueroa, J.D. (Jonine), Lissowska, J. (Jolanta), Brinton, L.A. (Louise), Devilee, P. (Peter), Tollenaar, R.A.E.M. (Rob), Seynaeve, C.M. (Caroline), Asperen, C.J. (Christi) van, Kristensen, V. (Vessela), Slager, S. (Susan), Tol, A.E. (Ama E.), Ambrosone, C.B. (Christine), Yannoukakos, D. (Drakoulis), Lindblom, A. (Annika), Margolin, S. (Sara), Radice, P. (Paolo), Peterlongo, P. (Paolo), Barile, M. (Monica), Mariani, P. (Paolo), Hooning, M.J. (Maartje), Martens, J.W.M. (John), Collée, J.M. (Margriet), Jager, A. (Agnes), Jakubowska, A. (Anna), Lubinski, J. (Jan), Jaworska-Bieniek, K. (Katarzyna), Durda, K. (Katarzyna), Giles, G.G. (Graham), McLean, C.A. (Catriona Ann), Brauch, H. (Hiltrud), Brüning, T. (Thomas), Ko, Y.-D. (Yon-Dschun), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Dieffenbach, A.K. (Aida Karina), Arndt, V. (Volker), Stegmaier, C. (Christa), Swerdlow, A.J. (Anthony ), Ashworth, A. (Alan), Orr, N. (Nick), Jones, M. (Michael), Simard, J. (Jacques), Goldberg, M.S. (Mark), Labrèche, F. (France), Dumont, M. (Martine), Winqvist, R. (Robert), Pykäs, K. (Katri), Jukkola-Vuorinen, A. (Arja), Grip, M. (Mervi), Kataja, V. (Vesa), Kosma, V-M. (Veli-Matti), Hartikainen, J.M. (J.), Mannermaa, A. (Arto), Hamann, U. (Ute), Chenevix-Trench, G. (Georgia), Blomqvist, C. (Carl), Aittomäki, K. (Kristiina), Easton, D.F. (Douglas), and Nevanlinna, H. (Heli)
Abstract: Genetic variations, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in microRNAs (miRNA) or in the miRNA binding sites may affect the miRNA dependent gene expression regulation, which has been implicated in various cancers, including breast cancer, and may alter individual susceptibility to cancer. We investigated associations between miRNA related SNPs and breast cancer risk. First we evaluated 2,196 SNPs in a case-control study combining n
Published: 2014
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25. Poly(styrene-block-isoprene) nanocomposites: Kinetics of intercalation and effects of copolymer on intercalation behaviors

Author: Chen, H. Schmidt, D.F. Pitsikalis, M. Hadjichristidis, N. Zhang, Y. Wiesner, U. Giannelis, E.P.
Abstract: In addition to phase morphology, diffusion, and dynamics in the bulk, the behavior of block copolymers in the confined state has been of great interest. Although random and graft copolymers have been used in polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites, well-defined block copolymers have received relatively little attention. In this study, the kinetics of intercalation of a series of poly(styrene-b-isoprene) block copolymers into a layered silicate were examined via X-ray diffraction. Intercalation was observed even when the copolymer was in the ordered state, with no discontinuity around the order-disorder transition of the copolymer. As the size of the polystyrene block was increased, slower intercalation kinetics were observed, possibly because of the increased glass-transition temperature of the polystyrene segment. Finally, the clearing temperature of the copolymer in the nanocomposites as measured by small-angle X-ray scattering showed a large heating-rate dependence suggesting that the nanoparticles act as kinetics barriers to the disordering of the copolymer.
Published: 2003

26. Evidence of gene-environment interactions between common breast cancer susceptibility loci and established environmental risk factors

Author: Nickels, S., Truong, T., Hein, R., Stevens, K., Buck, K., Behrens, S., Eilber, U., Schmidt, M., Haberle, L., Vrieling, A., Gaudet, M., Figueroa, J., Schoof, N., Spurdle, A.B., Rudolph, A., Fasching, P.A., Hopper, J.L., Makalic, E., Schmidt, D.F., Southey, M.C., Beckmann, M.W., Ekici, A.B., Fletcher, O., Gibson, L., Idos, S. Silva, Peto, J., Humphreys, M.K., Wang, J, Cordina-Duverger, E., Menegaux, F., Nordestgaard, B.G., Bojesen, S.E., Lanng, C., Anton-Culver, H., Ziogas, A., Bernstein, L., Clarke, C.A., Brenner, H., Muller, H., Arndt, V., Stegmaier, C., Brauch, H., Bruning, T., Harth, V., Genica, N., Mannermaa, A., Kataja, V., Kosma, V.M., Hartikainen, J.M., Lambrechts, D., Smeets, D., Neven, P., Paridaens, R., Flesch-Janys, D., Obi, N., Wang-Gohrke, S., Couch, F.J., Olson, J.E., Vachon, C.M., Giles, G.G., Severi, G., Baglietto, L., Offit, K., John, E.M., Miron, A., Andrulis, I.L., Knight, J.A., Glendon, G., Mulligan, A.M., Chanock, S.J., Lissowska, J., Liu, J., Cox, A, Cramp, H., Connley, D., Balasubramanian, S., Dunning, A.M., Shah, M., Trentham-Dietz, A., Newcomb, P., Titus, L., Egan, K., Cahoon, E.K., Rajaraman, P., Sigurdson, A.J., Doody, M.M., Guenel, P., Pharoah, P.D., Schmidt, M.K., Hall, P., Easton, D.F., Garcia-Closas, M., Milne, R.L., Chang-Claude, J., et al., Nickels, S., Truong, T., Hein, R., Stevens, K., Buck, K., Behrens, S., Eilber, U., Schmidt, M., Haberle, L., Vrieling, A., Gaudet, M., Figueroa, J., Schoof, N., Spurdle, A.B., Rudolph, A., Fasching, P.A., Hopper, J.L., Makalic, E., Schmidt, D.F., Southey, M.C., Beckmann, M.W., Ekici, A.B., Fletcher, O., Gibson, L., Idos, S. Silva, Peto, J., Humphreys, M.K., Wang, J, Cordina-Duverger, E., Menegaux, F., Nordestgaard, B.G., Bojesen, S.E., Lanng, C., Anton-Culver, H., Ziogas, A., Bernstein, L., Clarke, C.A., Brenner, H., Muller, H., Arndt, V., Stegmaier, C., Brauch, H., Bruning, T., Harth, V., Genica, N., Mannermaa, A., Kataja, V., Kosma, V.M., Hartikainen, J.M., Lambrechts, D., Smeets, D., Neven, P., Paridaens, R., Flesch-Janys, D., Obi, N., Wang-Gohrke, S., Couch, F.J., Olson, J.E., Vachon, C.M., Giles, G.G., Severi, G., Baglietto, L., Offit, K., John, E.M., Miron, A., Andrulis, I.L., Knight, J.A., Glendon, G., Mulligan, A.M., Chanock, S.J., Lissowska, J., Liu, J., Cox, A, Cramp, H., Connley, D., Balasubramanian, S., Dunning, A.M., Shah, M., Trentham-Dietz, A., Newcomb, P., Titus, L., Egan, K., Cahoon, E.K., Rajaraman, P., Sigurdson, A.J., Doody, M.M., Guenel, P., Pharoah, P.D., Schmidt, M.K., Hall, P., Easton, D.F., Garcia-Closas, M., Milne, R.L., Chang-Claude, J., and et al.
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 118401.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access), Various common genetic susceptibility loci have been identified for breast cancer; however, it is unclear how they combine with lifestyle/environmental risk factors to influence risk. We undertook an international collaborative study to assess gene-environment interaction for risk of breast cancer. Data from 24 studies of the Breast Cancer Association Consortium were pooled. Using up to 34,793 invasive breast cancers and 41,099 controls, we examined whether the relative risks associated with 23 single nucleotide polymorphisms were modified by 10 established environmental risk factors (age at menarche, parity, breastfeeding, body mass index, height, oral contraceptive use, menopausal hormone therapy use, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, physical activity) in women of European ancestry. We used logistic regression models stratified by study and adjusted for age and performed likelihood ratio tests to assess gene-environment interactions. All statistical tests were two-sided. We replicated previously reported potential interactions between LSP1-rs3817198 and parity (Pinteraction = 2.4 x 10(-6)) and between CASP8-rs17468277 and alcohol consumption (Pinteraction = 3.1 x 10(-4)). Overall, the per-allele odds ratio (95% confidence interval) for LSP1-rs3817198 was 1.08 (1.01-1.16) in nulliparous women and ranged from 1.03 (0.96-1.10) in parous women with one birth to 1.26 (1.16-1.37) in women with at least four births. For CASP8-rs17468277, the per-allele OR was 0.91 (0.85-0.98) in those with an alcohol intake of <20 g/day and 1.45 (1.14-1.85) in those who drank >/= 20 g/day. Additionally, interaction was found between 1p11.2-rs11249433 and ever being parous (Pinteraction = 5.3 x 10(-5)), with a per-allele OR of 1.14 (1.11-1.17) in parous women and 0.98 (0.92-1.05) in nulliparous women. These data provide first strong evidence that the risk of breast cancer associated with some common genetic variants may vary with environmental risk factors.
Published: 2013

27. Fast Computation of the Kullback–Leibler Divergence and Exact Fisher Information for the First-Order Moving Average Model

Author: Makalic, E., primary and Schmidt, D.F., additional
Published: 2010
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28. Current and Emerging Technology for Powering Small Satellites with Secondary Cells and Batteries

Author: Klein, G.C. and Schmidt, D.F.
Abstract: Gates Aerospace Batteries [GAB] is currently participating in the full range of small and large satellites with a variety of products from three electrochemical technologies of NiCd, NiMH and NiHz. In this presentation we discuss the role of small capacity cells [nominally 17 A-H and less] from those three electrochemical technologies. NiCd is of course the oldest technology. GAB's Survivability Database contains a total of 117 spacecraft with approximately 644 Total Mission Years of successful NiCd performance without a recorded failure. We continue to update this technology with improved plate designs and non-nylon separators to improve both performance and survivability. Nickel-metal hydride [NiMH] is one emerging technology that appears amenable for powering small spacecraft. In this technology, we literally replace the cadmium or negative electrode from NiCd technology with the metal-hydride electrode to form this new electrochemical couple. NiMH technology provides a reduction in both weight and volume as compared to NiCd technology. NiHz Planar Technology is another emerging technology that appears amenable for powering small spacecraft. In this technology, GAB has combined the superior capability of the nickel-hydrogen electrochemistry with the simplicity and design heritage of the mature NiCd product line. Again, GAB's success with this technology is based upon the expertise and heritage of the NiCd and NiHz programs.
Published: 1993

29. Controlling sol-gel polymerization by solvent selection to create tissue engineering scaffolds

Author: Lippincott, H.W., primary and Schmidt, D.F., additional
Published: 2009
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30. Adaptive Control of Hydraulic Systems with MML Inferred RBF Networks.

Author: Schmidt, D.F., Paplinski, A.P., and Lowe, G.S.
Published: 2005
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31. Capillary Electrophoretic Analysis of Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase in Escherichia coli Fermentation Broth

Author: Strege, M.A., primary, Schmidt, D.F., additional, Kreuzman, A., additional, Dotzlaf, J., additional, Yeh, W.K., additional, Kaiser, R.E., additional, and Lagu, A.L., additional
Published: 1994
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32. Capillary Electrophoretic Analysis of Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase in Escherichia coliFermentation Broth

Author: Strege, M.A., Schmidt, D.F., Kreuzman, A., Dotzlaf, J., Yeh, W.K., Kaiser, R.E., and Lagu, A.L.
Abstract: Serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) expressed in Escherichia coliwas analyzed in fermentation broth through the use of capillary electrophoresis (CE), a method which provided advantages over the traditional techniques of slab gel electrophoresis and chromatography. In addition, via CE the difficult resolution and quantitation of SHMT holoenzyme and apo-enzyme were achieved. Using this method, a pyridoxal-5′-phosphate (PLP) cofactor/SHMT dimer molar ratio of 0.65 was estimated to be present in holoenzyme in the absence of excess PLP. This determination correlated well with results obtained by other techniques, including electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). CE and ESI-MS analyses both provided evidence for significant differences between the folded conformations of SHMT holoenzyme and apoenzyme.
Published: 1994
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33. On the design of a hydraulically actuated finger for dexterous manipulation.

Author: Schmidt, D.F., Lowe, G.S., and Paplinski, A.P.
Published: 2004
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34. Mendelian randomization study of adiposity-related traits and risk of breast, ovarian, prostate, lung and colorectal cancer

Author: Gao, C., Patel, C. J., Michailidou, K., Peters, U., Gong, J., Schildkraut, J., Schumacher, F. R., Zheng, W., Boffetta, P., Stucker, I., Willett, W., Gruber, S., Easton, D. F., Hunter, D. J., Sellers, T. A., Haiman, C., Henderson, B. E., Hung, R. J., Amos, C., Pierce, B. L., Lindström, S., Kraft, P., Hunter, D., Henderson, B., Sellers, T., Hopper, J. L., Southey, M. C., Makalic, E., Schmidt, D. F., Fletcher, O., Peto, J., Gibson, L., Silva, I. S., Waisfisz, Q., Meijers-Heijboer, H., Adank, M., van der Luijt, R. B., Uitterlinden, A. G., Hofman, A., Meindl, A., Schmutzler, R. K., Müller-Myhsok, B., Lichtner, P., Nevanlinna, H., Muranen, T. A., Aittomäki, K., Blomqvist, C., Chang-Claude, J., Hein, R., Dahmen, N., Beckman, L., Hall, P., Czene, K., Irwanto, A., Liu, J., Turnbull, C., Rahman, N., Cramer, D., Terry, K., Sutphen, R., Narod, S., Phelan, C., Risch, H., Pharoah, P., Gayther, S., Menon, U., Wentzensen, N., Human genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, CCA - Oncogenesis, CCA - Quality of life, and Gao, C. and Patel, C.J. and Michailidou, K. and Peters, U. and Gong, J. and Schildkraut, J. and Schumacher, F.R. and Zheng, W. and Boffetta, P. and Stucker, I. and Willett, W. and Gruber, S. and Easton, D.F. and Hunter, D.J. and Sellers, T.A. and Haiman, C. and Henderson, B.E. and Hung, R.J. and Amos, C. and Pierce, B.L. and Lindström, S. and Kraft, P. and Hunter, D. and Henderson, B. and Sellers, T. and Amos, C. and Hopper, J.L. and Southey, M.C. and Makalic, E. and Schmidt, D.F. and Fletcher, O. and Peto, J. and Gibson, L. and Silva, I.S. and Waisfisz, Q. and Meijers-Heijboer, H. and Adank, M. and van der Luijt, R.B. and Uitterlinden, A.G. and Hofman, A. and Meindl, A. and Schmutzler, R.K. and Müller-Myhsok, B. and Lichtner, P. and Nevanlinna, H. and Muranen, T.A. and Aittomäki, K. and Blomqvist, C. and Chang-Claude, J. and Hein, R. and Dahmen, N. and Beckman, L. and Hall, P. and Czene, K. and Irwanto, A. and Liu, J. and Turnbull, C. and Rahman, N. and Cramer, D. and Terry, K. and Sutphen, R. and Narod, S. and Phelan, C. and Risch, H. and Pharoah, P. and Gayther, S. and Menon, U. and Wentzensen, N.
Subjects: Male, Oncology, obesity, Epidemiology, smoking, adcy3 gene, health statu, Colorectal Neoplasm, cancer risk, genetic risk, lung tumor, Body Mass Index, genetic heterogeneity, 0302 clinical medicine, single nucleotide polymorphism, Epidemiology of cancer, Odds Ratio, tnn13k gene, 030212 general & internal medicine, sec16b gene, 2. Zero hunger, prostate tumor, breast tumor, adult, public health, allele, ovary cancer, General Medicine, prostate cancer, 3. Good health, gnpda2 gene, waist hip ratio, female, Phenotype, risk factor, priority journal, ovary tumor, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, child health, gnat2 gene, childhood obesity, Breast Neoplasm, cancer epidemiology, Human, single nucleotide polymorphism, Adiposity, medicine.medical_specialty, gpr61 gene, colorectal cancer, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, olfm4 gene, Regression Analysi, 03 medical and health sciences, mc4r gene, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, tmem18 gene, Internal medicine, pleiotropy, Mendelian randomization, medicine, cancer, controlled study, Mendelian Randomization Analysi, Risk factor, gene, Lung cancer, Post-GWAS study, health risk, genome-wide association study, fto gene, Waist-Hip Ratio, business.industry, Ovarian Neoplasm, Waist-to-hip ratio, birth weight, Cancer, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, major clinical study, Lung Neoplasm, lung cancer, confidence interval, genetic variation, Prostatic Neoplasm, Neoplasm, genetic, business, Body mass index, body ma, colorectal tumor
Abstract: Background: Adiposity traits have been associated with risk of many cancers in observational studies, but whether these associations are causal is unclear. Mendelian randomization (MR) uses genetic predictors of risk factors as instrumental variables to eliminate reverse causation and reduce confounding bias. We performed MR analyses to assess the possible causal relationship of birthweight, childhood and adult body mass index (BMI), and waist-hip ratio (WHR) on the risks of breast, ovarian, prostate, colorectal and lung cancers. Methods: We tested the association between genetic risk scores and each trait using summary statistics from published genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and from 51 537 cancer cases and 61 600 controls in the Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME-ON) Consortium. Results: We found an inverse association between the genetic score for childhood BMI and risk of breast cancer [odds ratio (OR)=0.71 per standard deviation (s.d.) increase in childhood BMI; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.60, 0.80; P=6.5×10-5). We also found the genetic score for adult BMI to be inversely associated with breast cancer risk (OR=0.66 per s.d. increase in BMI; 95% CI: 0.57, 0.77; P=2.5×10-7), and positively associated with ovarian cancer (OR=1.35; 95% CI: 1.05, 1.72; P=0.017), lung cancer (OR=1.27; 95% CI: 1.09, 1.49; P=2.9×10-3) and colorectal cancer (OR=1.39; 95% CI: 1.06, 1.82, P=0.016). The inverse association between genetically predicted adult BMI and breast cancer risk remained even after adjusting for directional pleiotropy via MR-Egger regression. Conclusions: Findings from this study provide additional understandings of the complex relationship between adiposity and cancer risks. Our results for breast and lung cancer are particularly interesting, given previous reports of effect heterogeneity by menopausal status and smoking status. © The Author 2016; Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association All rights reserved.
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