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Fine-scale mapping of 8q24 locus identifies multiple independent risk variants for breast cancer

  • kConFab Investigators
  • University of Melbourne
  • Vanderbilt University
  • University of Cambridge
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • University of Toronto
  • University of California, Irvine
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Raras
  • Centre for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER)
  • International Epidemiology Institute
  • Hannover Medical School
  • Copenhagen University Hospital – Herlev and Gentofte
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology
  • University of Tübingen
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
  • Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (IPA)
  • Seoul National University
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • University of Sheffield
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Leiden University
  • Université Laval Research Center
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Institute of Cancer Research
  • Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • Oulu University Hospital
  • Occupational and Social Determinants of Health
  • APHP – Paris Saclay University
  • Keck School of Medicine of USC
  • National University of Singapore
  • National University Health System
  • Erasmus MC Cancer Institute
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Biomedical Sciences
  • Aichi Cancer Center Hospital and Research Institute
  • Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin
  • Helsinki University Hospital
  • University of Eastern Finland
  • Vesalius Research Center
  • KU Leuven
  • University of Warwick
  • IRCCS Fondazione Istituto Nazionale per lo studio e la cura dei tumori - Milano
  • University of Hawaii Cancer Center
  • Heidelberg University 
  • Kyushu University
  • Alfred Health
  • University of Manchester
  • City of Hope National Med Center
  • University of Oslo
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology
  • The National Cancer Institute
  • Guy’s Hospital
  • University of Cologne
  • China Medical University Taichung
  • Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
  • Sime Darby Medical Centre
  • University of Malaya
  • Ohio State University
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Oulu
  • Northern Finland Laboratory Centre NordLab
  • Hospital Universitario La Paz
  • Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • University Hospitals Leuven

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Abstract

Previous genome-wide association studies among women of European ancestry identified two independent breast cancer susceptibility loci represented by single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs13281615 and rs11780156 at 8q24. A fine-mapping study across 2.06 Mb (chr8:127,561,724–129,624,067, hg19) in 55,540 breast cancer cases and 51,168 controls within the Breast Cancer Association Consortium was conducted. Three additional independent association signals in women of European ancestry, represented by rs35961416 (OR = 0.95, 95% CI = 0.93–0.97, conditional p = 5.8 × 10−6), rs7815245 (OR = 0.94, 95% CI = 0.91–0.96, conditional p = 1.1 × 10−6) and rs2033101 (OR = 1.05, 95% CI = 1.02–1.07, conditional p = 1.1 × 10−4) were found. Integrative analysis using functional genomic data from the Roadmap Epigenomics, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project, the Cancer Genome Atlas and other public resources implied that SNPs rs7815245 in Signal 3, and rs1121948 in Signal 5 (in linkage disequilibrium with rs11780156, r2 = 0.77), were putatively functional variants for two of the five independent association signals. The results highlighted multiple 8q24 variants associated with breast cancer susceptibility in women of European ancestry.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1303-1317
Number of pages15
JournalInternational Journal of Cancer
Volume139
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Sep 2016

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Keywords

  • 8q24
  • breast cancer
  • fine-mapping
  • genetic susceptibility
  • single nucleotide polymorphism

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