Journal
HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
Volume 23, Issue 24, Pages 6616-6633Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu363
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- US National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute [HHSN261200800001E]
- Intramural Research Program
- US National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute [HHSN261200800001E]
- Intramural Research Program
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [221S0001] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Cancer Research UK [16491, 14136] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0401527, G1000143] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0512-10114] Funding Source: researchfish
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have mapped risk alleles for at least 10 distinct cancers to a small region of 63 000 bp on chromosome 5p15.33. This region harbors the TERT and CLPTM1L genes; the former encodes the catalytic subunit of telomerase reverse transcriptase and the latter may play a role in apoptosis. To investigate further the genetic architecture of common susceptibility alleles in this region, we conducted an agnostic subset-based meta-analysis (association analysis based on subsets) across six distinct cancers in 34 248 cases and 45 036 controls. Based on sequential conditional analysis, we identified as many as six independent risk loci marked by common single-nucleotide polymorphisms: five in the TERT gene (Region 1: rs7726159, P = 2.10 x 10(-39); Region 3: rs2853677, P = 3.30 x 10(-36) and P-Conditional = 2.36 x 10(-8); Region 4: rs2736098, P = 3.87 x 10(-12) and P-Conditional = 5.19 x 10(-6), Region 5: rs13172201, P = 0.041 and P-Conditional = 2.04 x 10(-6); and Region 6: rs10069690, P = 7.49 x 10 215 and P-Conditional = 5.35 x 10(-7)) and one in the neighboring CLPTM1L gene(Region 2: rs451360; P = 1.90 x 10(-18) and P-Conditional = 7.06 x 10(-16)). Between three and five cancers mapped to each independent locus with both risk-enhancing and protective effects. Allele-specific effects on DNA methylation were seen for a subset of risk loci, indicating that methylation and subsequent effects on gene expression may contribute to the biology of risk variants on 5p15.33. Our results provide strong support for extensive pleiotropy across this region of 5p15.33, to an extent not previously observed in other cancer susceptibility loci.
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