Novel breast cancer susceptibility loci under linkage peaks identified in African ancestry consortia

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BACKGROUND: Expansion of genome-wide association studies across population groups is needed to improve our understanding of shared and unique genetic contributions to breast cancer. We performed association and replication studies guided by a priori linkage findings from African ancestry (AA) relative pairs.

METHODS: We performed fixed-effect inverse-variance weighted meta-analysis under three significant AA breast cancer linkage peaks (3q26-27, 12q22-23, and 16q21-22) in 9241 AA cases and 10 193 AA controls. We examined associations with overall breast cancer as well as estrogen receptor (ER)-positive and negative subtypes (193,132 SNPs). We replicated associations in the African-ancestry Breast Cancer Genetic Consortium (AABCG).

RESULTS: In AA women, we identified two associations on chr12q for overall breast cancer (rs1420647, OR = 1.15, p = 2.50×10-6; rs12322371, OR = 1.14, p = 3.15×10-6), and one for ER-negative breast cancer (rs77006600, OR = 1.67, p = 3.51×10-6). On chr3, we identified two associations with ER-negative disease (rs184090918, OR = 3.70, p = 1.23×10-5; rs76959804, OR = 3.57, p = 1.77×10-5) and on chr16q we identified an association with ER-negative disease (rs34147411, OR = 1.62, p = 8.82×10-6). In the replication study, the chr3 associations were significant and effect sizes were larger (rs184090918, OR: 6.66, 95% CI: 1.43, 31.01; rs76959804, OR: 5.24, 95% CI: 1.70, 16.16).

CONCLUSION: The two chr3 SNPs are upstream to open chromatin ENSR00000710716, a regulatory feature that is actively regulated in mammary tissues, providing evidence that variants in this chr3 region may have a regulatory role in our target organ. Our study provides support for breast cancer variant discovery using prioritization based on linkage evidence.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:33

Enthalten in:

Human molecular genetics - 33(2024), 8 vom: 08. Apr., Seite 687-697

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ochs-Balcom, Heather M [VerfasserIn]
Preus, Leah [VerfasserIn]
Du, Zhaohui [VerfasserIn]
Elston, Robert C [VerfasserIn]
Teerlink, Craig C [VerfasserIn]
Jia, Guochong [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Xingyi [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Qiuyin [VerfasserIn]
Long, Jirong [VerfasserIn]
Ping, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Li, Bingshan [VerfasserIn]
Stram, Daniel O [VerfasserIn]
Shu, Xiao-Ou [VerfasserIn]
Sanderson, Maureen [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Guimin [VerfasserIn]
Ahearn, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Lunetta, Kathryn L [VerfasserIn]
Zirpoli, Gary [VerfasserIn]
Troester, Melissa A [VerfasserIn]
Ruiz-Narváez, Edward A [VerfasserIn]
Haddad, Stephen A [VerfasserIn]
Figueroa, Jonine [VerfasserIn]
John, Esther M [VerfasserIn]
Bernstein, Leslie [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Jennifer J [VerfasserIn]
Ziegler, Regina G [VerfasserIn]
Nyante, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Bandera, Elisa V [VerfasserIn]
Ingles, Sue A [VerfasserIn]
Mancuso, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Press, Michael F [VerfasserIn]
Deming, Sandra L [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez-Gil, Jorge L [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Song [VerfasserIn]
Ogundiran, Temidayo O [VerfasserIn]
Ojengbede, Oladosu [VerfasserIn]
Bolla, Manjeet K [VerfasserIn]
Dennis, Joe [VerfasserIn]
Dunning, Alison M [VerfasserIn]
Easton, Douglas F [VerfasserIn]
Michailidou, Kyriaki [VerfasserIn]
Pharoah, Paul D P [VerfasserIn]
Sandler, Dale P [VerfasserIn]
Taylor, Jack A [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Qin [VerfasserIn]
O'Brien, Katie M [VerfasserIn]
Weinberg, Clarice R [VerfasserIn]
Kitahara, Cari M [VerfasserIn]
Blot, William [VerfasserIn]
Nathanson, Katherine L [VerfasserIn]
Hennis, Anselm [VerfasserIn]
Nemesure, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Ambs, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Sucheston-Campbell, Lara E [VerfasserIn]
Bensen, Jeannette T [VerfasserIn]
Chanock, Stephen J [VerfasserIn]
Olshan, Andrew F [VerfasserIn]
Ambrosone, Christine B [VerfasserIn]
Olopade, Olufunmilayo I [VerfasserIn]
The Ghana Breast Health Study Team [VerfasserIn]
Conti, David V [VerfasserIn]
Palmer, Julie [VerfasserIn]
García-Closas, Montserrat [VerfasserIn]
Huo, Dezheng [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Haiman, Christopher [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

African ancestry
Breast cancer
Fine mapping
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Meta-GWAS

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Date Completed 09.04.2024

Date Revised 10.04.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/hmg/ddae002

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NLM367543273