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Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer

  • Yufei Wang
  • , James D. McKay
  • , Thorunn Rafnar
  • , Zhaoming Wang
  • , Maria N. Timofeeva
  • , Peter Broderick
  • , Xuchen Zong
  • , Marina Laplana
  • , Yongyue Wei
  • , Younghun Han
  • , Amy Lloyd
  • , Manon Delahaye-Sourdeix
  • , Daniel Chubb
  • , Valerie Gaborieau
  • , William Wheeler
  • , Nilanjan Chatterjee
  • , Gudmar Thorleifsson
  • , Patrick Sulem
  • , Geoffrey Liu
  • , Rudolf Kaaks
  • Marc Henrion, Ben Kinnersley, Maxime Vallée, Florence Lecalvez-Kelm, Victoria L. Stevens, Susan M. Gapstur, Wei V. Chen, David Zaridze, Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Jolanta Lissowska, Peter Rudnai, Eleonora Fabianova, Dana Mates, Vladimir Bencko, Lenka Foretova, Vladimir Janout, Hans E. Krokan, Maiken Elvestad Gabrielsen, Frank Skorpen, Lars Vatten, Inger Njølstad, Chu Chen, Gary Goodman, Simone Benhamou, Tonu Vooder, Kristjan Välk, Mari Nelis, Andres Metspalu, Marcin Lener, Jan Lubiński, Mattias Johansson, Paolo Vineis, Antonio Agudo, Francoise Clavel-Chapelon, H. Bas Bueno-De-Mesquita, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Kay Tee Khaw, Mikael Johansson, Elisabete Weiderpass, Anne Tjønneland, Elio Riboli, Mark Lathrop, Ghislaine Scelo, Demetrius Albanes, Neil E. Caporaso, Yuanqing Ye, Jian Gu, Xifeng Wu, Margaret R. Spitz, Hendrik Dienemann, Albert Rosenberger, Li Su, Athena Matakidou, Timothy Eisen, Kari Stefansson, Angela Risch, Stephen J. Chanock, David C. Christiani, Rayjean J. Hung, Paul Brennan, Maria Teresa Landi, Richard S. Houlston, Christopher I. Amos
  • Institute of Cancer Research
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • deCODE Genetics
  • National Institutes of Health
  • University of Toronto
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • Harvard University
  • Dartmouth College
  • Information Management Services, Inc.
  • Princess Margaret Hospital
  • German Center for Lung Research
  • American Cancer Society
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Russian Academy of Medical Sciences - N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center
  • Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
  • Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology
  • Hungarian National Institute of Environmental Health
  • Regional Authority of Public Health
  • National Institute of Public Health
  • Charles University
  • Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute
  • Palacký University Olomouc
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • University of Tartu
  • University of Bergen
  • Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
  • University of Geneva
  • Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin
  • Imperial College London
  • HuGeF Foundation
  • Institute Catala Oncologia
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus
  • National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
  • Utrecht University
  • Academy of Athens
  • Helenic Health Foundation
  • University of Cambridge
  • Umeå University
  • Cancer Registry of Norway Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Folkhalsan
  • Danish Cancer Society
  • Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH)
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Baylor College of Medicine
  • Heidelberg University 
  • University of Göttingen
  • Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Abstract

We conducted imputation to the 1000 Genomes Project of four genome-wide association studies of lung cancer in populations of European ancestry (11,348 cases and 15,861 controls) and genotyped an additional 10,246 cases and 38,295 controls for follow-up. We identified large-effect genome-wide associations for squamous lung cancer with the rare variants BRCA2 p.Lys3326X (rs11571833, odds ratio (OR) = 2.47, P = 4.74 × 10 â ̂'20) and CHEK2 p.Ile157Thr (rs17879961, OR = 0.38, P = 1.27 × 10 â ̂'13). We also showed an association between common variation at 3q28 (TP63, rs13314271, OR = 1.13, P = 7.22 × 10 â ̂'10) and lung adenocarcinoma that had been previously reported only in Asians. These findings provide further evidence for inherited genetic susceptibility to lung cancer and its biological basis. Additionally, our analysis demonstrates that imputation can identify rare disease-causing variants with substantive effects on cancer risk from preexisting genome-wide association study data.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)736-741
Number of pages6
JournalNature Genetics
Volume46
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes

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    Wang, Y., McKay, J. D., Rafnar, T., Wang, Z., Timofeeva, M. N., Broderick, P., Zong, X., Laplana, M., Wei, Y., Han, Y., Lloyd, A., Delahaye-Sourdeix, M., Chubb, D., Gaborieau, V., Wheeler, W., Chatterjee, N., Thorleifsson, G., Sulem, P., Liu, G. & Kaaks, R. & 63 others, Henrion, M., Kinnersley, B., Vallée, M., Le Calvez-Kelm, F., Stevens, V. L., Gapstur, S. M., Chen, W. V., Zaridze, D., Szeszenia-Dabrowska, N., Lissowska, J., Rudnai, P., Fabianova, E., Mates, D., Bencko, V., Foretova, L., Janout, V., Krokan, H. E., Gabrielsen, M. E., Skorpen, F., Vatten, L., Njølstad, I., Chen, C., Goodman, G., Benhamou, S., Vooder, T., Välk, K., Nelis, M., Metspalu, A., Lener, M., Lubiński, J., Johansson, M., Vineis, P., Agudo, A., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Bueno-De-Mesquita, H. B., Trichopoulos, D., Khaw, K. T., Johansson, M., Weiderpass, E., Tjønneland, A., Riboli, E., Lathrop, M., Scelo, G., Albanes, D., Caporaso, N. E., Ye, Y., Gu, J., Wu, X., Spitz, M. R., Dienemann, H., Rosenberger, A., Su, L., Matakidou, A., Eisen, T., Stefansson, K., Risch, A., Chanock, S. J., Christiani, D. C., Hung, R. J., Brennan, P., Landi, M. T., Houlston, R. S. & Amos, C. I., 30 Mar 2017, 1 p.

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