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

  • Maya Ghoussaini
  • , Olivia Fletcher
  • , Kyriaki Michailidou
  • , Clare Turnbull
  • , Marjanka K. Schmidt
  • , Ed Dicks
  • , Joe Dennis
  • , Qin Wang
  • , Manjeet K Humphreys
  • , Craig Luccarini
  • , Caroline Baynes
  • , Don Conroy
  • , Melanie Maranian
  • , Shahana Ahmed
  • , Kristy Driver
  • , Nichola Johnson
  • , Nicholas Orr
  • , Isabel Dos Santos Silva
  • , Quinten Waisfisz
  • , Hanne Meijers-Heijboer
  • Andre G Uitterlinden, Fernando Rivadeneira, Per Hall, Kamila Czene, Astrid Irwanto, Jianjun Liu, Heli Nevanlinna, Kristiina Aittomäki, Carl Blomqvist, Alfons Meindl, Rita K Schmutzler, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Peter Lichtner, Jenny Chang-Claude, Rebecca Hein, Stefan Nickels, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Helen Tsimiklis, Enes Makalic, Daniel Schmidt, Minh Bui, John L Hopper, Carmel Apicella, Daniel J Park, Melissa Southey, David J Hunter, Stephen J Chanock, Annegien Broeks, Senno Verhoef, Frans B L Hogervorst, Peter A Fasching, Michael P Lux, Matthias W Beckmann, Arif B Ekici, Elinor Sawyer, Ian Tomlinson, Michael Kerin, Frederik Marme, Andreas Schneeweiss, Christof Sohn, Barbara Burwinkel, Pascal Guénel, Thér̈se Truong, Emilie Cordina-Duverger, Florence Menegaux, Stig E Bojesen, Børge G Nordestgaard, Sune F Nielsen, Henrik Flyger, Roger L. Milne, M Rosario Alonso, Anna González-Neira, Javier Benítez, Hoda Anton-Culver, Argyrios Ziogas, Leslie Bernstein, Christina Clarke Dur, Hermann Brenner, Heiko Müller, Volker Arndt, Christa Stegmaier, Christina Justenhoven, Hiltrud Brauch, Thomas Brüning, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Ursula Eilber, Thilo Dörk, Peter Schürmann, Michael Bremer, Peter Hillemanns, Natalia V Bogdanova, Natalia N Antonenkova, Yuri I Rogov, Johann H Karstens, Marina Bermisheva, Darya Prokofieva, Elza Khusnutdinova, Annika Lindblom, Sara Margolin, Arto Mannermaa, Vesa Kataja, Veli-Matti Kosma, Jaana M Hartikainen, Diether Lambrechts, Betul T Yesilyurt, Giuseppe Floris, Karin Leunen, Siranoush Manoukian, Bernardo Bonanni, Stefano Fortuzzi, Paolo Peterlongo, Fergus J Couch, Xianshu Wang, Kristen Stevens, Adam Lee, Graham G Giles, Laura Baglietto, Gianluca Severi, Catriona McLean, Grethe Grenaker Alnæs, Vessela Kristensen, Anne-Lise Børrensen-Dale, Esther M John, Alexander Miron, Robert Winqvist, Katri Pylkäs, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Saila Kauppila, Irene L Andrulis, Gord Glendon, Anna Marie Mulligan, Peter Devilee, Christie J Van Asperen, Robert A. E. M. Tollenaar, Caroline Seynaeve, Jonine D Figueroa, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Louise Brinton, Jolanta Lissowska, Maartje J Hooning, Antoinette Hollestelle, Rogier A Oldenburg, Ans M W Van Den Ouweland, Angela Cox, Malcolm W R Reed, Mitul Shah, Ania Jakubowska, Lubinski Jan, Katarzyna Jaworska, Katarzyna Durda, Michael Jones, Minouk Schoemaker, Alan Ashworth, Anthony Swerdlow, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Kenneth R Muir, Artitaya Lophatananon, Suthee Rattanamongkongul, Arkom Chaiwerawattana, Daehee Kang, Keun-Young Yoo, Dong-Young Noh, Chen-Yang Shen, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Pei-Ei Wu, Chia-Ni Hsiung, Annie Perkins, Ruth Swann, Louiza Velentzis, Diana M Eccles, Will J Tapper, Susan M Gerty, Nikki J Graham, Bruce A J Ponder, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Paul D P Pharoah, Mark Lathrop, Alison M. Dunning, Nazneen Rahman, Julian Peto, Douglas F Easton
  • University of Cambridge
  • Divisions of Molecular Pathology and Cancer Therapeutics
  • Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • VU University Medical Center
  • Erasmus MC
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Helsinki University Central Hospital
  • A*STAR
  • Technical University Munich
  • University of Cologne
  • Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
  • German Research Center for Environmental Health
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • Division of Cancer Epidemiology
  • Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
  • University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
  • University of Melbourne
  • Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
  • Harvard School of Public Health
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • The Netherlands Cancer Institute
  • University Hospital Erlangen
  • University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • King's College London
  • Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
  • Galway University Hospital
  • Heidelberg University
  • Inserm
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Gentofte University Hospital
  • Cell Division and Cancer Group
  • University of California, Irvine
  • City of Hope National Med Center
  • Cancer Prevention Institute of California
  • Saarland Cancer Registry
  • Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology
  • University of Tübingen
  • Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance
  • Johanniter Krankenhaus
  • Ulm University
  • Hannover Medical School
  • N.N. Alexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Institute of Clinical Medicine
  • Kuopio University Hospital
  • University of Eastern Finland
  • VIB Center for the Biology of Disease
  • KU Leuven– University Hospital Leuven
  • Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan
  • Department of Experimental Oncology
  • IFOM - The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology
  • Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura A Carattere Scientifico)
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • Alfred Hospital
  • Faculty of Medicine
  • University of Oslo
  • Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • University of Oulu
  • Mt Sinai Hospital
  • University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
  • Mount Sinai Hospital, Ontario Cancer Genetics Network, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
  • Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science
  • Leiden University Medical Center
  • M. Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology
  • Josephine Nefkens Institute - JNI
  • University of Sheffield
  • Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin
  • QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
  • Warwick Medical School
  • Srinakharainwirot University
  • Ministry of Public Health
  • Seoul National University College of Medicine
  • Academia Sinica, Institute of Biomedical Sciences
  • Tri-Service General Hospital
  • University of Westminster
  • University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine
  • Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
  • Commissariat À l'Energie Atomique
  • CEPH-Fondation Jean Dausset

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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 g1/48% of the heritability of the disease. We attempted to replicate 72 promising associations from two independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in g1/470,000 cases and ĝ̂1/468,000 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 - 10 g35), 12q24 (rs1292011; P = 4.3 - 10 g19) and 21q21 (rs2823093; P = 1.1 - 10 g12). 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)312-318
Number of pages7
JournalNature Genetics
Volume44
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2012

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