Loci on 7p12.2, 10q21.2 and 14q11.2 are associated with risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Elli Papaemmanuil, Fay J. Hosking, Jayaram Vijayakrishnan, Amy Price, Bianca Olver, Eammon Sheridan, Sally E. Kinsey, Tracy Lightfoot, Eve Roman, Julie A E Irving, James M. Allan, Ian P. Tomlinson, Malcolm Taylor, Mel Greaves, Richard S. Houlston

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    Abstract

    To identify risk variants for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), we conducted a genome-wide association study of two case-control series, analyzing the genotypes with respect to 291,423 tagging SNPs in a total of 907 ALL cases and 2,398 controls. We identified risk loci for ALL at 7p12.2 (IKZF1, rs4132601, odds ratio (OR) = 1.69, P = 1.20 × 10 -19), 10q21.2 (ARID5B, rs7089424, OR = 1.65, P = 6.69 × 10 -19) and 14q11.2 (CEBPE, rs2239633, OR = 1.34, P = 2.88 × 10 -7). The 10q21.2 (ARID5B) risk association appears to be selective for the subset of B-cell precursor ALL with hyperdiploidy. These data show that common low-penetrance susceptibility alleles contribute to the risk of developing childhood ALL and provide new insight into disease causation of this specific hematological cancer. Notably, all three risk variants map to genes involved in transcriptional regulation and differentiation of B-cell progenitors. © 2009 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1006-1010
    Number of pages4
    JournalNature Genetics
    Volume41
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 2009

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