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Implications of Lifestyle Factors and Polygenic Risk Score for Absolute Risk Prediction of Colorectal Neoplasm and Risk-Adapted Screening

Journal

FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.685410

Keywords

colorectal cancer; adenoma; polygenic risk score; risk stratification; personalized screening

Funding

  1. Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality [7202169]
  2. Beijing Nova Program of Science and Technology [Z191100001119065]
  3. CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences [2017-I2M-1-006]
  4. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81925032, 81703309, 81974491]
  5. Technical Innovation Special Project of Hubei Province [2019ACA135]
  6. Health Commission of Hubei Province Scientific Research Project [WJ2019Q027]

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The study found that individuals with unfavorable lifestyle and higher genetic risk have a significantly increased risk of developing colorectal neoplasm. For high-risk individuals, the estimated absolute risk of developing colorectal neoplasm is higher. Risk models and risk-adapted screening help in developing effective personalized CRC prevention and screening strategies.
Background: Estimation of absolute risk of developing colorectal neoplasm is essential for personalized colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. We developed models to determine relative and absolute risks of colorectal neoplasm based on lifestyle and genetic variants and to validate their application in risk-adapted screening. Methods: We prospectively collected data from 203 advanced neoplasms, 464 non-advanced adenomas, and 1,213 healthy controls from a CRC screening trial in China in 2018-2019. The risk prediction model based on four lifestyle factors and a polygenic risk score (PRS) consisted of 19 CRC-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms. We assessed the relative and 10-year absolute risks of developing colorectal neoplasm and the yield of a risk-adapted screening approach incorporating risk models, fecal immunochemical test, and colonoscopy. Results: Compared to the participants with favorable lifestyle and lower PRS, those with unfavorable lifestyle and higher PRS had 2.87- and 3.79-fold higher risk of colorectal neoplasm in males and females, respectively. For a 50-year-old man or a 50-year-old woman with the highest risk profile, the estimated 10-year absolute risk of developing colorectal neoplasm was 6.59% (95% CI: 6.53-6.65%) and 4.19% (95% CI: 4.11-4.28%), respectively, compared to 2.80% (95% CI: 2.78-2.81%) for men and 2.24% (95% CI: 2.21-2.27%) for women with the lowest risk profile. The positive predictive value for advanced neoplasm was 31.7%, and the number of colonoscopies needed to detect one advanced neoplasm was 3.2. Conclusion: The risk models, absolute risk estimates, and risk-adapted screening presented in our study would contribute to developing effective personalized CRC prevention and screening strategies.

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