Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci

M Ghoussaini, O Fletcher, K Michailidou, C Turnbull, M K Schmidt, E Dicks, J Dennis, Q Wang, M K Humphreys, C Luccarini, C Baynes, D Conroy, M Maranian, S Ahmed, K Driver, N Johnson, N Orr, I dos Santos Silva, Q Waisfisz, H Meijers-HeijboerA G Uitterlinden, F Rivadeneira, P Hall, K Czene, A Irwanto, J Liu, H Nevanlinna, K Aittomaki, C Blomqvist, A Meindl, R K Schmutzler, B Muller-Myhsok, P Lichtner, J Chang-Claude, R Hein, S Nickels, D Flesch-Janys, H Tsimiklis, E Makalic, D Schmidt, M Bui, J L Hopper, C Apicella, D J Park, M Southey, D J Hunter, S J Chanock, A Broeks, S Verhoef, F B Hogervorst, P A Fasching, M P Lux, M W Beckmann, A B Ekici, E Sawyer, I Tomlinson, M Kerin, F Marme, A Schneeweiss, C Sohn, B Burwinkel, P Guenel, T Truong, E Cordina-Duverger, F Menegaux, S E Bojesen, B G Nordestgaard, S F Nielsen, H Flyger, R L Milne, M R Alonso, A Gonzalez-Neira, J Benitez, H Anton-Culver, A Ziogas, L Bernstein, C C Dur, H Brenner, H Muller, V Arndt, C Stegmaier, C Justenhoven, H Brauch, T Bruning, S Wang-Gohrke, U Eilber, T Dork, P Schurmann, M Bremer, P Hillemanns, N V Bogdanova, N N Antonenkova, Y I Rogov, J H Karstens, M Bermisheva, D Prokofieva, E Khusnutdinova, A Lindblom, S Margolin, A Mannermaa, V Kataja, V M Kosma, J M Hartikainen, D Lambrechts, B T Yesilyurt, G Floris, K Leunen, S Manoukian, B Bonanni, S Fortuzzi, P Peterlongo, F J Couch, X Wang, K Stevens, A Lee, G G Giles, L Baglietto, G Severi, C McLean, G G Alnaes, V Kristensen, A L Borrensen-Dale, E M John, A Miron, R Winqvist, K Pylkas, A Jukkola-Vuorinen, S Kauppila, I L Andrulis, G Glendon, A M Mulligan, P Devilee, C J van Asperen, R A Tollenaar, C Seynaeve, J D Figueroa, M Garcia-Closas, L Brinton, J Lissowska, M J Hooning, A Hollestelle, R A Oldenburg, A M van den Ouweland, A Cox, M W Reed, M Shah, A Jakubowska, J Lubinski, K Jaworska, K Durda, M Jones, M Schoemaker, A Ashworth, A Swerdlow, J Beesley, X Chen, K R Muir, A Lophatananon, S Rattanamongkongul, A Chaiwerawattana, D Kang, K Y Yoo, D Y Noh, C Y Shen, J C Yu, P E Wu, C N Hsiung, A Perkins, R Swann, L Velentzis, D M Eccles, W J Tapper, S M Gerty, N J Graham, B A Ponder, G Chenevix-Trench, P D Pharoah, M Lathrop, A M Dunning, N Rahman, J Peto, D F Easton

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    Abstract

    Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. To date, 22 common breast cancer susceptibility loci have been identified accounting for approximately 8% of the heritability of the disease. We attempted to replicate 72 promising associations from two independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in approximately 70,000 cases and approximately 68,000 controls from 41 case-control studies and 9 breast cancer GWAS. We identified three new breast cancer risk loci at 12p11 (rs10771399; P = 2.7 x 10(-35)), 12q24 (rs1292011; P = 4.3 x 10(-19)) and 21q21 (rs2823093; P = 1.1 x 10(-12)). rs10771399 was associated with similar relative risks for both estrogen receptor (ER)-negative and ER-positive breast cancer, whereas the other two loci were associated only with ER-positive disease. Two of the loci lie in regions that contain strong plausible candidate genes: PTHLH (12p11) has a crucial role in mammary gland development and the establishment of bone metastasis in breast cancer, and NRIP1 (21q21) encodes an ER cofactor and has a role in the regulation of breast cancer cell growth.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)312-8
    Number of pages303
    JournalNat Genet
    Volume44
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012

    Keywords

    • Breast Neoplasms/ genetics
    • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12/ genetics
    • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21/ genetics
    • European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics
    • Female
    • Genetic Loci/ genetics
    • Genetic Predisposition to Disease/ genetics
    • Genome-Wide Association Study
    • Humans
    • Logistic Models
    • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics
    • Principal Component Analysis

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