The 8q24 rs6983267G variant is associated with increased thyroid cancer risk.

Ruta Sahasrabudhe, Ana Estrada, Paul Lott, Lynn Martin, Guadalupe Polanco Echeverry, Alejandro Velez, Gila Neta, Meiko Takahasi, Vladimir Saenko, Norisato Mitsutake, Emma Jaeguer, Carlos Simon Duque, Alejandro Rios, Mabel Bohorquez, Rodrigo Prieto, Angel Criollo, Magdalena Echeverry, Ian Tomlinson, Luis G Carvajal Carmona, Michiko Matsuse (Collaborator)Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa (Collaborator), Eijun Nishihara (Collaborator), Keitaro Matsuo (Collaborator), Fumihiko Matsuda (Collaborator), Huw Thomas (Collaborator), Eamonn Maher (Collaborator), Gareth Evans (Collaborator), Lisa Walker (Collaborator), Dorothy Halliday (Collaborator), Anneke Lucassen (Collaborator), Joan Paterson (Collaborator), Shirley Hodgson (Collaborator), Tessa Homfray (Collaborator), Lucy Side (Collaborator), Louise Izatt (Collaborator), Alan Donaldson (Collaborator), Susan Tomkins (Collaborator), Patrick Morrison (Collaborator), Carole Brewer (Collaborator), Alex Henderson (Collaborator), Rosemarie Davidson (Collaborator), Victoria Murday (Collaborator), Jaqueline Cook (Collaborator), Neva Haites (Collaborator), Timothy Bishop (Collaborator), Eamonn Sheridan (Collaborator), Andrew Green (Collaborator), Christopher Marks (Collaborator), Sue Carpenter (Collaborator), Mary Broughton (Collaborator), Lynn Greenhalge (Collaborator), Mohnish Suri (Collaborator), Laura Moss (Collaborator), Christopher Scrase (Collaborator), Andrew Goodman (Collaborator), Radu Mihai (Collaborator), James Gildersleve (Collaborator), Catherine Lemon (Collaborator), Antony Robinson (Collaborator), Caroline Brammer (Collaborator), Georgina Gerrard (Collaborator), Hisham Mehanna (Collaborator), Matthew Beasley (Collaborator), Hosahalli K Mohan (Collaborator), Sue Clarke (Collaborator), Kate Goodchild (Collaborator), Jonathan Wadsley (Collaborator), Abdel Hamid (Collaborator), Danielle Power (Collaborator), Elena Macias (Collaborator), Jerry Sharp (Collaborator), Andrew Coatsworth (Collaborator), Hamish Courtney (Collaborator), Stephen Whitaker (Collaborator), Katie KatieWood (Collaborator), James McCaul (Collaborator), Christopher Ashford (Collaborator), Tom Roques (Collaborator), Craig Martin (Collaborator), Vivienne Loo (Collaborator), Jennifer Marshall (Collaborator), Amy Roy (Collaborator), Joanna Simpson (Collaborator), Nick Rowell (Collaborator), Edward Babu (Collaborator), Narayanan Srihari (Collaborator), Simon Ellenbogen (Collaborator), Paul Ryan (Collaborator), Arshad Jamil (Collaborator), Terri P McVeigh (Collaborator), Michael J Kerin (Collaborator), Aoife J Lowery (Collaborator)

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    Abstract

    The G allele of the rs6983267 single-nucleotide polymorphism, located on chromosome 8q24, has been associated with increased risk of several cancer types. The association between rs6983267G and thyroid cancer (TC) has been tested in different populations, mostly of European ancestry, and has led to inconclusive results. While significant associations have been reported in the British and Polish populations, no association has been detected in populations from Spain, Italy and the USA. To further investigate the role of rs6983267G in TC susceptibility, we evaluated rs6983267 genotypes in three populations of different continental ancestry (British Isles, Colombia and Japan), providing a total of 3067 cases and 8575 controls. We detected significant associations between rs6983267G and TC in the British Isles (odds ratio (OR)=1.19, 95% CI: 1.11-1.27, P=4.03×10(-7)), Japan (OR=1.20, 95% CI: 1.03-1.41, P=0.022) and a borderline significant association of similar effect direction and size in Colombia (OR=1.19, 95% CI: 0.99-1.44, P=0.069). A meta-analysis of our multi-ethnic study and previously published non-overlapping datasets, which included a total of 5484 cases and 12 594 controls, confirmed the association between rs6983267G and TC (P=1.23×10(-7), OR=1.13, 95% CI: 1.08-1.18). Our results therefore support the notion that rs6983267G is a bona fide TC risk variant that increases the risk of disease by ∼13%.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalEndocrine-related cancer
    Volume22
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Oct 2015

    Keywords

    • 8q24
    • genetic susceptibility
    • rs6983267G
    • thyroid cancer

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