@article{f24b01be30a945bc9182ec651e52c8eb,
title = "Breast cancer risk variants at 6q25 display different phenotype associations and regulate ESR1, RMND1 and CCDC170",
abstract = "We analyzed 3,872 common genetic variants across the ESR1 locus (encoding estrogen receptor α) in 118,816 subjects from three international consortia. We found evidence for at least five independent causal variants, each associated with different phenotype sets, including estrogen receptor (ER(+) or ER(-)) and human ERBB2 (HER2(+) or HER2(-)) tumor subtypes, mammographic density and tumor grade. The best candidate causal variants for ER(-) tumors lie in four separate enhancer elements, and their risk alleles reduce expression of ESR1, RMND1 and CCDC170, whereas the risk alleles of the strongest candidates for the remaining independent causal variant disrupt a silencer element and putatively increase ESR1 and RMND1 expression.",
keywords = "Base Sequence, Breast Neoplasms, Carrier Proteins, Cell Cycle Proteins, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6, Estrogen Receptor alpha, Female, Gene Expression, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Protein Binding, Risk Factors, Journal Article, Meta-Analysis, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.",
author = "Dunning, {Alison M} and Kyriaki Michailidou and Kuchenbaecker, {Karoline B} and Deborah Thompson and French, {Juliet D} and Jonathan Beesley and Healey, {Catherine S} and Siddhartha Kar and Pooley, {Karen A} and Elena Lopez-Knowles and Ed Dicks and Daniel Barrowdale and Sinnott-Armstrong, {Nicholas A} and Sallari, {Richard C} and Hillman, {Kristine M} and Susanne Kaufmann and Haran Sivakumaran and {Moradi Marjaneh}, Mahdi and Lee, {Jason S} and Margaret Hills and Monika Jarosz and Suzie Drury and Sander Canisius and Bolla, {Manjeet K} and Joe Dennis and Qin Wang and Hopper, {John L} and Southey, {Melissa C} and Annegien Broeks and Schmidt, {Marjanka K} and Artitaya Lophatananon and Kenneth Muir and Beckmann, {Matthias W} and Fasching, {Peter A} and Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva and Julian Peto and Sawyer, {Elinor J} and Ian Tomlinson and Barbara Burwinkel and Frederik Marme and Pascal Gu{\'e}nel and Th{\'e}r{\`e}se Truong and Bojesen, {Stig E} and Henrik Flyger and Anna Gonz{\'a}lez-Neira and Perez, {Jose I A} and Hoda Anton-Culver and Bent Ejlertsen and Hansen, {Thomas V O} and Bojesen, {Stig Egil} and EMBRACE",
year = "2016",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1038/ng.3521",
language = "English",
volume = "48",
pages = "374--86",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "4",
}