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CARCINOGENESIS
Volume 33, Issue 11, Pages 2155-2161Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgs262
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- Association for International Cancer Research [09-0625]
- Medical Research Council UK
- Generation Trust
- National Institutes of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- King's College London
- South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology
- National Research Foundation
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
- South African Medical Research Council
- University of Cape Town
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Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) has a high prevalence in the Black and Mixed Ancestry populations of South Africa. Recently, three genome-wide association studies in Chinese populations identified five new OSCC susceptibility loci, including variants at PLCE1, C20orf54, PDE4D, RUNX1 and UNC5CL, but their contribution to disease risk in other populations is unknown. In this study, we report testing variants from these five loci for association with OSCC in the South African Black (407 cases and 849 controls) and Mixed Ancestry (257 cases and 860 controls) populations. The RUNX1 variant rs2014300, which reduced risk in the Chinese population, was associated with an increased risk of OSCC in the Mixed Ancestry population [odds ratio (OR) = 1.33, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.09-1.63, P = 0.0055], and none of the five loci were associated in the Black population. Since PLCE1 variants increased the risk of OSCC in all three Chinese studies, this gene was investigated further by sequencing in 46 Black South Africans. This revealed 48 variants, 10 of which resulted in amino acid substitutions, and much lower linkage disequilibrium across the PLCE1 locus than in the Chinese population. We genotyped five PLCE1 variants in cases and controls, and found association of Arg548Leu (rs17417407) with a reduced risk of OSCC (OR = 0.74, 95% CI = 0.60-0.93, P = 0.008) in the Black population. These findings indicate several differences in the genetic contribution to OSCC between the South African and Chinese populations that may be related to differences in their genetic architecture.
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