Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses27.603Nat Genet . 2020 Jun;52(6):572-581. doi: 10.1038/s41588-020-0609-2. Epub 2020 May 18.
Abstract
Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor subtype1-3. To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including 133,384 breast cancer cases and 113,789 controls, plus 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer) of European ancestry, using both standard and novel methodologies that account for underlying tumor heterogeneity by estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status and tumor grade. We identified 32 novel susceptibility loci (P < 5.0 × 10-8), 15 of which showed evidence for associations with at least one tumor feature (false discovery rate < 0.05). Five loci showed associations (P < 0.05) in opposite directions between luminal and non-luminal subtypes. In silico analyses showed that these five loci contained cell-specific enhancers that differed between normal luminal and basal mammary cells. The genetic correlations between five intrinsic-like subtypes ranged from 0.35 to 0.80. The proportion of genome-wide chip heritability explained by all known susceptibility loci was 54.2% for luminal A-like disease and 37.6% for triple-negative disease. The odds ratios of polygenic risk scores, which included 330 variants, for the highest 1% of quantiles compared with middle quantiles were 5.63 and 3.02 for luminal A-like and triple-negative disease, respectively. These findings provide an improved understanding of genetic predisposition to breast cancer subtypes and will inform the development of subtype-specific polygenic risk scores.
总结:本工作进行了一项全基因组关联研究,使用标准的和新的方法,根据雌激素受体、孕激素受体和人类表皮生长因子受体2的状态和肿瘤级别来解释潜在的肿瘤异质性,识别32个新的易感性基因座,并分析这些基因座的亚型异质性。通过定义候选因果变异,研究了原发乳腺细胞中CCVs与先前注释的增强子的关系,发现某些变异可能以细胞类型特异性的方式调节增强子活性,从而影响肿瘤亚型的风险。确定CCVs潜在靶点基因,已分析调控机制。然后使用连锁不平衡评分回归来研究亚型之间的遗传相关性,发现亚型之间的遗传基础高度相似。
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