Genome-wide association study of café-au-lait macule number in neurofibromatosis type 1

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BACKGROUND: Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a tumor-predisposition disorder that arises due to pathogenic variants in tumor suppressor NF1. NF1 has variable expressivity that may be due, at least in part, from heritable elements such as modifier genes; however, few genetic modifiers have been identified to date.

METHODS: In this study, we performed a genome-wide association analysis of the number of café-au-lait macules (CALM) that are considered a tumor-like trait as a clinical phenotype modifying NF1.

RESULTS: A borderline genome-wide significant association was identified in the discovery cohort (CALM1, N = 112) between CALM number and rs12190451 (and rs3799603, r2  = 1.0; p = 7.4 × 10-8 ) in the intronic region of RPS6KA2. Although, this association was not replicated in the second cohort (CALM2, N = 59) and a meta-analysis did not show significantly associated variants in this region, a significant corroboration score (0.72) was obtained for the RPS6KA2 signal in the discovery cohort (CALM1) using Complementary Pairs Stability Selection for Genome-Wide Association Studies (ComPaSS-GWAS) analysis, suggesting that the lack of replication may be due to heterogeneity of the cohorts rather than type I error.

CONCLUSION: rs12190451 is located in a melanocyte-specific enhancer and may influence RPS6KA2 expression in melanocytes-warranting further functional studies.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

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Molecular genetics & genomic medicine - 8(2020), 10 vom: 02. Okt., Seite e1400

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sung, Heejong [VerfasserIn]
Hyland, Paula L [VerfasserIn]
Pemov, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Sabourin, Jeremy A [VerfasserIn]
Baldwin, Andrea M [VerfasserIn]
Bass, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Teshome, Kedest [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Wen [VerfasserIn]
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research [VerfasserIn]
Widemann, Brigitte C [VerfasserIn]
Stewart, Douglas R [VerfasserIn]
Wilson, Alexander F [VerfasserIn]

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Café-au-lait macule
Complementary pairs stability selection for genome-wide association studies analysis
EC 2.7.11.1
Genetic modifiers
Genome-wide association study
Journal Article
Neurofibromatosis type 1
Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases, 90-kDa
Ribosomal protein S6 kinase, 90kDa, polypeptide 3

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Date Completed 31.05.2021

Date Revised 31.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/mgg3.1400

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314425764