Journal
BLOOD
Volume 125, Issue 4, Pages 680-686Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2014-09-595744
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- National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute [CA145707, CA156449, CA21765, CA36401, CA98543, CA114766, CA98413, CA140729, CA176063, HHSN261200800001E]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [GM92666]
- National Cancer Institute
- Stand Up to Cancer Innovative Research Grant
- American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Academic Programs Special Fellowship
- Spanish Ministry of Education
- American Society of Hematology
- Order of St. Francis Foundation
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
- Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in adolescents and young adults (AYA) is characterized by distinct presenting features and inferior prognosis compared with pediatric ALL. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to comprehensively identify inherited genetic variants associated with susceptibility to AYA ALL. In the discovery GWAS, we compared genotype frequency at 635 297 single nucleotide polymorphisms(SNPs) in 308AYAALL cases and 6,661 non-ALL controls by using a logistic regression model with genetic ancestry as a covariate. SNPs that reached P <= 5 x 10(-8) in GWAS were tested in an independent cohort of 162 AYA ALL cases and 5,755 non-ALL controls. We identified a single genome-wide significant susceptibility locus in GATA3: rs3824662, odds ratio (OR), 1.77 (P = 2.8 x 10(-10)) and rs3781093, OR, 1.73 (P = 3.2 x 10(-9)). These findings were validated in the replication cohort. The risk allele at rs3824662 was most frequent in Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-like ALL but also conferred susceptibility to non-Ph-like ALL in AYAs. In 1,827 non-selected ALL cases, the risk allele frequency at this SNP was positively correlated with age at diagnosis (P = 6.29 x 10(-11)). Our results from this first GWAS of AYA ALL susceptibility point to unique biology underlying leukemogenesis and potentially distinct disease etiology by age group.
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