TY - JOUR
T1 - Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci
AU - Ghoussaini, Maya
AU - Fletcher, Olivia
AU - Michailidou, Kyriaki
AU - Turnbull, Clare
AU - Schmidt, Marjanka K
AU - Dicks, Ed
AU - Dennis, Joe
AU - Wang, Qin
AU - Humphreys, Manjeet K
AU - Luccarini, Craig
AU - Baynes, Caroline
AU - Conroy, Don
AU - Maranian, Melanie
AU - Ahmed, Shahana
AU - Driver, Kristy
AU - Johnson, Nichola
AU - Orr, Nicholas
AU - dos Santos Silva, Isabel
AU - Waisfisz, Quinten
AU - Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne
AU - Uitterlinden, Andre G
AU - Rivadeneira, Fernando
AU - Hall, Per
AU - Czene, Kamila
AU - Irwanto, Astrid
AU - Liu, Jianjun
AU - Nevanlinna, Heli
AU - Aittomäki, Kristiina
AU - Blomqvist, Carl
AU - Meindl, Alfons
AU - Schmutzler, Rita K
AU - Müller-Myhsok, Bertram
AU - Lichtner, Peter
AU - Chang-Claude, Jenny
AU - Hein, Rebecca
AU - Nickels, Stefan
AU - Flesch-Janys, Dieter
AU - Tsimiklis, Helen
AU - Makalic, Enes
AU - Schmidt, Daniel
AU - Bui, Minh
AU - Hopper, John L
AU - Apicella, Carmel
AU - Park, Daniel J
AU - Southey, Melissa
AU - Hunter, David J
AU - Bojesen, Stig E
AU - Nordestgaard, Børge G
AU - Nielsen, Sune F
AU - Flyger, Henrik
AU - Netherlands Collaborative Group on Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HEBON)
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. To date, 22 common breast cancer susceptibility loci have been identified accounting for ∼8% of the heritability of the disease. We attempted to replicate 72 promising associations from two independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in ∼70,000 cases and ∼68,000 controls from 41 case-control studies and 9 breast cancer GWAS. We identified three new breast cancer risk loci at 12p11 (rs10771399; P = 2.7 × 10(-35)), 12q24 (rs1292011; P = 4.3 × 10(-19)) and 21q21 (rs2823093; P = 1.1 × 10(-12)). rs10771399 was associated with similar relative risks for both estrogen receptor (ER)-negative and ER-positive breast cancer, whereas the other two loci were associated only with ER-positive disease. Two of the loci lie in regions that contain strong plausible candidate genes: PTHLH (12p11) has a crucial role in mammary gland development and the establishment of bone metastasis in breast cancer, and NRIP1 (21q21) encodes an ER cofactor and has a role in the regulation of breast cancer cell growth.
AB - Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. To date, 22 common breast cancer susceptibility loci have been identified accounting for ∼8% of the heritability of the disease. We attempted to replicate 72 promising associations from two independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in ∼70,000 cases and ∼68,000 controls from 41 case-control studies and 9 breast cancer GWAS. We identified three new breast cancer risk loci at 12p11 (rs10771399; P = 2.7 × 10(-35)), 12q24 (rs1292011; P = 4.3 × 10(-19)) and 21q21 (rs2823093; P = 1.1 × 10(-12)). rs10771399 was associated with similar relative risks for both estrogen receptor (ER)-negative and ER-positive breast cancer, whereas the other two loci were associated only with ER-positive disease. Two of the loci lie in regions that contain strong plausible candidate genes: PTHLH (12p11) has a crucial role in mammary gland development and the establishment of bone metastasis in breast cancer, and NRIP1 (21q21) encodes an ER cofactor and has a role in the regulation of breast cancer cell growth.
KW - Breast Neoplasms
KW - Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12
KW - Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21
KW - European Continental Ancestry Group
KW - Female
KW - Genetic Loci
KW - Genetic Predisposition to Disease
KW - Genome-Wide Association Study
KW - Humans
KW - Logistic Models
KW - Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
KW - Principal Component Analysis
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84862776961
U2 - 10.1038/ng.1049
DO - 10.1038/ng.1049
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 22267197
SN - 1061-4036
VL - 44
SP - 312
EP - 318
JO - Nature Genetics
JF - Nature Genetics
IS - 3
ER -