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1. Genetic determinants of telomere length and risk of pancreatic cancer: A PANDoRA study

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Campa, D, Matarazzi, M, Greenhalf, W, Bijlsma, M, Saum, K-U, Pasquali, C, Van Laarhoven, H, Szentesi, A, Federici, F, Vodicka, P, Funel, N, Pezzilli, R, Bueno-De-Mesquita, HB, Vodickova, L, Basso, D, Obazee, O, Hackert, T, Soucek, P, Cuk, K, Kaiser, J, Sperti, C, Lovecek, M, Capurso, G, Mohelnikova-Duchonova, B, Khaw, K-T, König, A-K, Kupcinskas, J, Kaaks, R, Bambi, F, Archibugi, L, Mambrini, A, Cavestro, GM, Landi, S, Hegyi, P, Izbicki, JR, Gioffreda, D, Zambon, CF, Tavano, F, Talar-Wojnarowska, R, Jamroziak, K, Key, TJ, Fave, GD, Strobel, O, Jonaitis, L, Andriulli, A, Lawlor, RT, Pirozzi, F, Katzke, V, Valsuani, C, Vashist, YK, Brenner, H, Canzian, F, Campa, D., Matarazzi, M., Greenhalf, W., Bijlsma, M., Saum, K. -U., Pasquali, C., van Laarhoven, H., Szentesi, A., Federici, F., Vodicka, P., Funel, N., Pezzilli, R., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., Vodickova, L., Basso, D., Obazee, O., Hackert, T., Soucek, P., Cuk, K., Kaiser, J., Sperti, C., Lovecek, M., Capurso, G., Mohelnikova-Duchonova, B., Khaw, K. -T., Konig, A. -K., Kupcinskas, J., Kaaks, R., Bambi, F., Archibugi, L., Mambrini, A., Cavestro, G. M., Landi, S., Hegyi, P., Izbicki, J. R., Gioffreda, D., Zambon, C. F., Tavano, F., Talar-Wojnarowska, R., Jamroziak, K., Key, T. J., Fave, G. D., Strobel, O., Jonaitis, L., Andriulli, A., Lawlor, R. T., Pirozzi, F., Katzke, V., Valsuani, C., Vashist, Y. K., Brenner, H., Canzian, F., Center of Experimental and Molecular Medicine, CCA - Cancer biology and immunology, Radiotherapy, Oncology, and AGEM - Re-generation and cancer of the digestive system

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Male, Cancer Research, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, lymphocyte telomere length, genetic polymorphisms, association, Mendelian randomization, Oncology, Humans, genetic polymorphism, Lymphocytes, Telomerase, Telomere Shortening, Aged, Pancreatic Neoplasm, Ribonucleoprotein, Middle Aged, Telomere, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Europe, Ribonucleoproteins, Case-Control Studies, Female, Lymphocyte, Case-Control Studie, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, Genome-Wide Association Study, Human
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Telomere deregulation is a hallmark of cancer. Telomere length measured in lymphocytes (LTL) has been shown to be a risk marker for several cancers. For pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) consensus is lacking whether risk is associated with long or short telomeres. Mendelian randomization approaches have shown that a score built from SNPs associated with LTL could be used as a robust risk marker. We explored this approach in a large scale study within the PANcreatic Disease ReseArch (PANDoRA) consortium. We analyzed 10 SNPs (ZNF676-rs409627, TERT-rs2736100, CTC1-rs3027234, DHX35-rs6028466, PXK-rs6772228, NAF1-rs7675998, ZNF208-rs8105767, OBFC1-rs9420907, ACYP2-rs11125529 and TERC-rs10936599) alone and combined in a LTL genetic score (“teloscore”, which explains 2.2% of the telomere variability) in relation to PDAC risk in 2,374 cases and 4,326 controls. We identified several associations with PDAC risk, among which the strongest were with the TERT-rs2736100 SNP (OR = 1.54; 95%CI 1.35–1.76; p = 1.54 × 10 −10 ) and a novel one with the NAF1-rs7675998 SNP (OR = 0.80; 95%CI 0.73–0.88; p = 1.87 × 10 −6 , p trend = 3.27 × 10 −7 ). The association of short LTL, measured by the teloscore, with PDAC risk reached genome-wide significance (p = 2.98 × 10 −9 for highest vs. lowest quintile; p = 1.82 × 10 −10 as a continuous variable). In conclusion, we present a novel genome-wide candidate SNP for PDAC risk (TERT-rs2736100), a completely new signal (NAF1-rs7675998) approaching genome-wide significance and we report a strong association between the teloscore and risk of pancreatic cancer, suggesting that telomeres are a potential risk factor for pancreatic cancer.

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2019
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2. Do pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis share the same genetic risk factors? A PANcreatic Disease ReseArch (PANDoRA) consortium investigation

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Campa, D, Pastore, M, Capurso, G, Hackert, T, Di Leo, M, Izbicki, JR, Khaw, K-T, Gioffreda, D, Kupcinskas, J, Pasquali, C, Macinga, P, Kaaks, R, Stigliano, S, Peeters, PH, Key, TJ, Talar-Wojnarowska, R, Vodicka, P, Valente, R, Vashist, YK, Salvia, R, Papaconstantinou, I, Shimizu, Y, Valsuani, C, Zambon, CF, Gazouli, M, Valantiene, I, Niesen, W, Mohelnikova-Duchonova, B, Hara, K, Soucek, P, Malecka-Panas, E, Bueno-de-Mesquita, HBA, Johnson, T, Brenner, H, Tavano, F, Fogar, P, Ito, H, Sperti, C, Butterbach, K, Latiano, A, Andriulli, A, Cavestro, GM, Busch, ORC, Dijk, F, Greenhalf, W, Matsuo, K, Lombardo, C, Strobel, O, König, A-K, Cuk, K, Strothmann, H, Katzke, V, Cantore, M, Mambrini, A, Oliverius, M, Pezzilli, R, Landi, S, Canzian, F, Other departments, CCA - Imaging and biomarkers, AGEM - Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Campa, Daniele, Pastore, Manuela, Capurso, Gabriele, Hackert, Thilo, Di Leo, Milena, Izbicki, Jakob R, Khaw, Kay tee, Gioffreda, Domenica, Kupcinskas, Juoza, Pasquali, Claudio, Macinga, Peter, Kaaks, Rudolf, Stigliano, Serena, Peeters, Petra H, Key, Timothy J, Talar wojnarowska, Renata, Vodicka, Pavel, Valente, Roberto, Vashist, Yogesh K, Salvia, Roberto, Papaconstantinou, Ioanni, Shimizu, Yasuhiro, Valsuani, Chiara, Zambon, Carlo Federico, Gazouli, Maria, Valantiene, Irena, Niesen, Willem, Mohelnikova duchonova, Beatrice, Hara, Kazuo, Soucek, Pavel, Malecka panas, Ewa, Bueno de mesquita, H. Ba, Johnson, Theron, Brenner, Herman, Tavano, Francesca, Fogar, Paola, Ito, Hidemi, Sperti, Cosimo, Butterbach, Katja, Latiano, Anna, Andriulli, Angelo, Cavestro, GIULIA MARTINA, Busch, Olivier R. C, Dijk, Frederike, Greenhalf, William, Matsuo, Keitaro, Lombardo, Carlo, Strobel, Oliver, König, Anna katharina, Cuk, Katarina, Strothmann, Hendrik, Katzke, Verena, Cantore, Maurizio, Mambrini, Andrea, Oliverius, Martin, Pezzilli, Raffaele, Landi, Stefano, and Canzian, Federico

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Adult, Male, Cancer Research, endocrine system diseases, Chronic pancreatiti, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, Adenocarcinoma, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, genetic polymorphisms, Risk Factors, Pancreatitis, Chronic, Biomarkers, Tumor, genetic polymorphism, Humans, Trypsin, Chronic, Polymorphism, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Tumor, Carcinoma, association, Nuclear Proteins, Single Nucleotide, Middle Aged, ACUTE PANCREATITIS, Prognosis, digestive system diseases, PANCREATIC CANCER, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Pancreatitis, Oncology, Pancreatic Ductal, Case-Control Studies, Chronic pancreatitis, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Trypsinogen, Biomarkers
Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a very aggressive tumor with a five-year survival of less than 6%. Chronic pancreatitis (CP), an inflammatory process in of the pancreas, is a strong risk factor for PDAC. Several genetic polymorphisms have been discovered as susceptibility loci for both CP and PDAC. Since CP and PDAC share consistent number of epidemiologic risk factors, the aim of this study was to investigate whether specific CP risk loci also contribute to PDAC susceptibility. We selected five common SNPs (rs11988997, rs379742, rs10273639 rs2995271 and rs12688220) that were identified as susceptibility markers for CP and analyzed them in 2,914 PDAC cases, 356 CP cases and 5,596 controls retrospectively collected in the context of the international PANDoRA consortium. We found a weak association between the minor allele of the PRSS1-PRSS2-rs10273639 and an increased risk of developing PDAC (ORhomozygous =1.19, 95% CI 1.02-1.38, p=0.023). Additionally all the SNPs confirmed statistically significant associations with risk of developing CP, the strongest being PRSS1-PRSS2-rs10273639 (ORheterozygous =0.51, 95% CI 0.39-0.67, p=1.10x10(-6) ) and MORC4-rs 12837024 (ORhomozygous =2.07 (1.55-2.77, ptrend =0.7x10(-11) ). Taken together, the results from our study do not support variants rs11988997, rs379742, rs10273639 rs2995271 and rs12688220 as strong predictors of PDAC risk, but further support the role of these SNPs in CP susceptibility. Our study suggests that CP and PDAC probably do not share genetic susceptibility, at least in terms of high frequency variants. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Published
2017

3. Associations between pancreatic expression quantitative traits and risk of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

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John P. Neoptolemos, Krzysztof Jamroziak, Manuel Gentiluomo, Edita Kreivenaite, Oliver Strobel, Martin Lovecek, Núria Malats, Rita T. Lawlor, Angelica Macauda, Yogesh K. Vashist, Sabrina Gloria Giulia Testoni, Paolo Giorgio Arcidiacono, Raffaele Pezzilli, Gabriele Capurso, George Theodoropoulos, Andrea Szentesi, Giuseppe Vanella, Michael F. Nentwich, Pavel Vodicka, Luca Morelli, Audrius Ivanauskas, Angelo Andriulli, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Emanuele Federico Kauffmann, Renata Talar-Wojnarowska, Raffaella Alessia Zuppardo, Pavel Soucek, Viktor Hlavac, Daniele Campa, Laura Pistoni, PanGenEU Study Investigators, Evangelina López de Maturana, Milena Di Leo, Livia Archibugi, Maria Gazouli, Federico Canzian, Péter Hegyi, Cosimo Sperti, Anna Caterina Milanetto, László Gajdán, Domenica Gioffreda, Martin Oliverius, Beatrice Mohelnikova-Duchonova, Dania Bozzato, Maria Chiara Petrone, Stefano Landi, Thilo Hackert, Luca Pollina, Hermann Brenner, Ye Lu, Cristian Gheorghe, Daniela Basso, Giuseppe Malleo, Erika Darvasi, Ludmila Vodickova, Juozas Kupcinskas, Jakob R. Izbicki, Francesca Tavano, Pistoni, L., Gentiluomo, M., Lu, Y., de Maturana, E. L., Hlavac, V., Vanella, G., Darvasi, E., Milanetto, A. C., Oliverius, M., Vashist, Y., Leo, M. D., Mohelnikova-Duchonova, B., Talar-Wojnarowska, R., Gheorghe, C., Petrone, M. C., Strobel, O., Arcidiacono, P. G., Vodickova, L., Szentesi, A., Capurso, G., Gajdan, L., Malleo, G., Theodoropoulos, G. E., Basso, D., Soucek, P., Brenner, H., Lawlor, R. T., Morelli, L., Ivanauskas, A., Kauffmann, E. F., Macauda, A., Gazouli, M., Archibugi, L., Nentwich, M., Loveeek, M., Cavestro, G. M., Vodicka, P., Landi, S., Tavano, F., Sperti, C., Hackert, T., Kupcinskas, J., Pezzilli, R., Andriulli, A., Pollina, L., Kreivenaite, E., Gioffreda, D., Jamroziak, K., Hegyi, P., Izbicki, J. R., Testoni, S. G. G., Zuppardo, R. A., Bozzato, D., Neoptolemos, J. P., Malats, N., Canzian, F., and Campa, D.

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0301 basic medicine, Male, Cancer Research, endocrine system diseases, Population, Quantitative Trait Loci, association study, eQTLs, pancreatic cancer, single nucleotide polymorphisms, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Genome-wide association study, Locus (genetics), Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Pancreatic cancer, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, 03.02. Klinikai orvostan, Polymorphism, Allele, education, Alleles, Aged, education.field_of_study, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, Case-Control Studies, Female, GTPase-Activating Proteins, Middle Aged, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Genome-Wide Association Study, Carcinoma, Single Nucleotide, General Medicine, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Pancreatic Ductal, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Expression quantitative trait loci, Cancer research, Pancreas
Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is among the most lethal cancers. Its poor prognosis is predominantly due to the fact that most patients remain asymptomatic until the disease reaches an advanced stage, alongside the lack of early markers and screening strategies. A better understanding of PDAC risk factors is essential for the identification of groups at high risk in the population. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been a powerful tool for detecting genetic variants associated with complex traits, including pancreatic cancer. By exploiting functional and GWAS data, we investigated the associations between polymorphisms affecting gene function in the pancreas (expression quantitative trait loci, eQTLs) and PDAC risk. In a two-phase approach, we analysed 13 713 PDAC cases and 43 784 controls and identified a genome-wide significant association between the A allele of the rs2035875 polymorphism and increased PDAC risk (P = 7.14 × 10−10). This allele is known to be associated with increased expression in the pancreas of the keratin genes KRT8 and KRT18, whose increased levels have been reported to correlate with various tumour cell characteristics. Additionally, the A allele of the rs789744 variant was associated with decreased risk of developing PDAC (P = 3.56 × 10–6). This single nucleotide polymorphism is situated in the SRGAP1 gene and the A allele is associated with higher expression of the gene, which in turn inactivates the cyclin-dependent protein 42 (CDC42) gene expression, thus decreasing the risk of PDAC. In conclusion, we present here a functional-based novel PDAC risk locus and an additional strong candidate supported by significant associations and plausible biological mechanisms.

Published
2021

4. Genetic Polymorphisms Involved in Mitochondrial Metabolism and Pancreatic Cancer Risk

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Raffaele Pezzilli, Pavel Vodicka, Andrea Párniczky, George Theodoropoulos, Renata Talar-Wojnarowska, Paolo Giorgio Arcidiacono, Ugo Boggi, Bálint Erőss, Ewa Małecka-Panas, Martin Oliverius, Daniele Campa, Rita T. Lawlor, Faik G. Uzunoglu, Maria Chiara Petrone, Livia Archibugi, Stefania Bunduc, Edita Kreivenaite, Beatrice Mohelnikova-Duchonova, Manuel Gentiluomo, Maria Liliana Piredda, Giulia Peduzzi, Thilo Hackert, Francesco Perri, Giuseppe Vanella, Olivier R. Busch, Hermann Brenner, Pavel Soucek, John P. Neoptolemos, Martin Schneider, Sabrina Gloria Giulia Testoni, Luca Morelli, Krzysztof Jamroziak, Federico Canzian, Daniela Basso, Silvia Carrara, Maria Gazouli, Juozas Kupcinskas, Konstantinos Georgiou, Xīn Gào, Claudio Pasquali, Cosimo Sperti, Evaristo Maiello, Vytautas Kiudelis, Mara Götz, Martin Loos, Gabriele Capurso, Francesca Bazzocchi, Martin Lovecek, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Viktor Hlavac, Niccola Funel, Roel Vermeulen, Maarten F. Bijlsma, Anna Caterina Milanetto, Ye Lu, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Stefano Ermini, Andrea Szentesi, Jakob R. Izbicki, William Greenhalf, Francesca Tavano, Feng Guo, Marta Puzzono, Domenica Gioffreda, Péter Hegyi, Eithne Costello, Casper H.J. van Eijck, Stefano Landi, Peduzzi, G., Gentiluomo, M., Tavano, F., Arcidiacono, P. G., Ermini, S., Vodicka, P., Boggi, U., Cavestro, G. M., Capurso, G., Morelli, L., Milanetto, A. C., Pezzilli, R., Lawlor, R. T., Carrara, S., Lovecek, M., Soucek, P., Guo, F., Hackert, T., Uzunoglu, F. G., Gazouli, M., Parniczky, A., Kupcinskas, J., Bijlsma, M. F., Bueno-De-Mesquita, B., Vermeulen, R., van Eijck, C. H. J., Jamroziak, K., Talar-Wojnarowska, R., Greenhalf, W., Gioffreda, D., Petrone, M. C., Landi, S., Archibugi, L., Puzzono, M., Funel, N., Sperti, C., Piredda, M. L., Mohelnikova-Duchonova, B., Lu, Y., Hlavac, V., Gao, X., Schneider, M., Izbicki, J. R., Theodoropoulos, G., Bunduc, S., Kreivenaite, E., Busch, O. R., Malecka-Panas, E., Costello, E., Perri, F., Giulia Testoni, S. G., Vanella, G., Pasquali, C., Oliverius, M., Brenner, H., Loos, M., Gotz, M., Georgiou, K., Eross, B., Maiello, E., Szentesi, A., Bazzocchi, F., Basso, D., Neoptolemos, J. P., Hegyi, P., Kiudelis, V., Canzian, F., Campa, D., Surgery, CCA - Cancer biology and immunology, CCA - Imaging and biomarkers, Center of Experimental and Molecular Medicine, and AGEM - Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism

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Mitochondrial DNA, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, Nuclear gene, endocrine system diseases, Epidemiology, Biology, SUSCEPTIBILITY, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Pancreatic cancer, medicine, Humans, 03.02. Klinikai orvostan, Genetic variability, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, Case-Control Studies, Genetic Variation, Genome, Mitochondrial, Mitochondria, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Polymorphism, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, Gene, Genetics, Genome, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, SUSCEPTIBILITY, Carcinoma, Single Nucleotide, Metabolism, medicine.disease, digestive system diseases, Mitochondrial, Oncology, Pancreatic Ductal
Abstract

Background: The mitochondrial metabolism has been associated with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) risk. Recent evidence also suggests the involvement of the genetic variability of the mitochondrial function in several traits involved in PDAC etiology. However, a systematic investigation of the genetic variability of mitochondrial genome (mtSNP) and of all the nuclear genes involved in its functioning (n-mtSNPs) has never been reported. Methods: We conducted a two-phase association study of mtSNPs and n-mtSNPs to assess their effect on PDAC risk. We analyzed 35,297 n-mtSNPs and 101 mtSNPs in up to 55,870 individuals (12,884 PDAC cases and 42,986 controls). In addition, we also conducted a gene-based analysis on 1,588 genes involved in mitochondrial metabolism using Multi-marker Analysis of GenoMic Annotation (MAGMA) software. Results: In the discovery phase, we identified 49 n-mtSNPs and no mtSNPs associated with PDAC risk (P < 0.05). In the second phase, none of the findings were replicated. In the gene-level analysis, we observed that three genes (TERT, SUGCT, and SURF1) involved in the mitochondrial metabolism showed an association below the Bonferroni-corrected threshold of statistical significance (P = 0.05/1588 = 3.1 × 10−5). Conclusions: Even though the mitochondrial metabolism might be involved in PDAC etiology, our results, obtained in a study with one of the largest sample sizes to date, show that neither n-mtSNPs nor mtSNPs are associated with PDAC risk. Impact: This large case–control study does not support a role of the genetic variability of the mitochondrial function in PDAC risk.

Published
2021

5. Lack of association of CD44-rs353630 and CHI3L2-rs684559 with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma survival

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Chiara Corradi, Carsten Palnæs Hansen, Beatrice Mohelnikova-Duchonova, Maria Gazouli, Francesca Tavano, Paolo Giorgio Arcidiacono, Anna Caterina Milanetto, Pavel Soucek, Gabriele Capurso, Casper H.J. van Eijck, Dania Bozzato, Oliver Strobel, Federico Canzian, Thilo Hackert, Manuel Gentiluomo, Giuseppe Vanella, Erika Darvasi, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Andrea Szentesi, Juozas Kupcinskas, John P. Neoptolemos, Astrid Z. Johansen, Raffaele Pezzilli, Pavel Vodicka, Péter Hegyi, Eithne Costello, Renata Talar-Wojnarowska, Daniele Campa, Liliana Piredda, Julia S. Johansen, Inna Chen, Gentiluomo, M., Corradi, C., Vanella, G., Johansen, A. Z., Strobel, O., Szentesi, A., Milanetto, A. C., Hegyi, P., Kupcinskas, J., Tavano, F., Neoptolemos, J. P., Bozzato, D., Hackert, T., Pezzilli, R., Johansen, J. S., Costello, E., Mohelnikova-Duchonova, B., van Eijck, C. H. J., Talar-Wojnarowska, R., Hansen, C. P., Darvasi, E., Chen, I. M., Cavestro, G. M., Soucek, P., Piredda, L., Vodicka, P., Gazouli, M., Arcidiacono, P. G., Canzian, F., Campa, D., Capurso, G., and Surgery

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Oncology, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Pancreatic disease, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, Science, Disease, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Gastrointestinal cancer, Cancer epidemiology, Internal medicine, Genotype, Biomarkers, Tumor, Cancer genomics, Aged, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, Chitinases, Female, Humans, Hyaluronan Receptors, Middle Aged, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Medicine, In patient, Polymorphism, Stage (cooking), Cancer genetics, Tumor, Multidisciplinary, biology, business.industry, Carcinoma, CD44, Single Nucleotide, medicine.disease, Pancreatic Ductal, Genetic marker, biology.protein, business, Biomarkers
Abstract

Although pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) survival is poor, there are differences in patients’ response to the treatments. Detection of predictive biomarkers explaining these differences is of the utmost importance. In a recent study two genetic markers (CD44-rs353630 and CHI3L2-rs684559) were reported to be associated with survival after PDAC resection. We attempted to replicate the associations in 1856 PDAC patients (685 resected with stage I/II) from the PANcreatic Disease ReseArch (PANDoRA) consortium. We also analysed the combined effect of the two genotypes in order to compare our results with what was previously reported. Additional stratified analyses considering TNM stage of the disease and whether the patients received surgery were also performed. We observed no statistically significant associations, except for the heterozygous carriers of CD44-rs353630, who were associated with worse OS (HR = 5.01; 95% CI 1.58–15.88; p = 0.006) among patients with stage I disease. This association is in the opposite direction of those reported previously, suggesting that data obtained in such small subgroups are hardly replicable and should be considered cautiously. The two polymorphisms combined did not show any statistically significant association. Our results suggest that the effect of CD44-rs353630 and CHI3L2-rs684559 cannot be generalized to all PDAC patients.

Published
2021
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6. Genome-wide scan of long noncoding RNA single nucleotide polymorphisms and pancreatic cancer susceptibility

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Ewa Małecka-Panas, Jakob R. Izbicki, Krzysztof Jamroziak, Claudio Pasquali, Sabrina Gloria Giulia Testoni, Silvia Carrara, Livia Archibugi, Domenica Gioffreda, Francesca Tavano, Matteo Giaccherini, Gregorio Di Franco, Niccolò Napoli, Viktor Hlavac, Yogesh K. Vashist, Oliver Strobel, Martin Lovecek, Paolo Giorgio Arcidiacono, Thilo Hackert, Klara Cervena, Stefano Landi, Claudio Luchini, Andrea Szentesi, Maria Gazouli, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Daniele Campa, Gabriele Capurso, Rita T. Lawlor, Martin Oliverius, Edita Kreivenaite, Audrius Ivanauskas, Luca Morelli, Raffaele Pezzilli, Maria Chiara Petrone, Chiara Corradi, Stefania Moz, George Theodoropoulos, Michael F. Nentwich, Pavel Vodicka, Giuseppe Vanella, Hermann Brenner, Manuel Gentiluomo, John P. Neoptolemos, Cosimo Sperti, Angelo Andriulli, Ye Lu, Péter Hegyi, Cristian Gheorghe, Anna Caterina Milanetto, Pavel Soucek, László Gajdán, Erika Darvasi, Juozas Kupcinskas, Federico Canzian, Raffaella Alessia Zuppardo, Corradi, C., Gentiluomo, M., Gajdan, L., Cavestro, G. M., Kreivenaite, E., Di Franco, G., Sperti, C., Giaccherini, M., Petrone, M. C., Tavano, F., Gioffreda, D., Morelli, L., Soucek, P., Andriulli, A., Izbicki, J. R., Napoli, N., Malecka-Panas, E., Hegyi, P., Neoptolemos, J. P., Landi, S., Vashist, Y., Pasquali, C., Lu, Y., Cervena, K., Theodoropoulos, G. E., Moz, S., Capurso, G., Strobel, O., Carrara, S., Hackert, T., Hlavac, V., Archibugi, L., Oliverius, M., Vanella, G., Vodicka, P., Arcidiacono, P. G., Pezzilli, R., Milanetto, A. C., Lawlor, R. T., Ivanauskas, A., Szentesi, A., Kupcinskas, J., Testoni, S. G. G., Lovecek, M., Nentwich, M., Gazouli, M., Luchini, C., Zuppardo, R. A., Darvasi, E., Brenner, H., Gheorghe, C., Jamroziak, K., Canzian, F., and Campa, D.

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Male, Cancer Research, association study, long noncoding RNA, pancreatic cancer, single nucleotide polymorphism, Aged, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, Case-Control Studies, Computational Biology, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p15, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, MicroRNAs, Middle Aged, Pancreatic Neoplasms, RNA, Long Noncoding, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Locus (genetics), Genome-wide association study, Biology, Genome, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, SNP, Genetic variability, Polymorphism, Gene, Genetics, Carcinoma, Single Nucleotide, Long non-coding RNA, Oncology, Pancreatic Ductal, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, RNA, Long Noncoding
Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is projected to become the second cancer-related cause of death by 2030. Identifying novel risk factors, including genetic risk loci, could be instrumental in risk stratification and implementation of prevention strategies. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in regulation of key biological processes, and the possible role of their genetic variability has been unexplored so far. Combining genome wide association studies and functional data, we investigated the genetic variability in all lncRNAs. We analyzed 9893 PDAC cases and 9969 controls and identified a genome-wide significant association between the rs7046076 SNP and risk of developing PDAC (P = 9.73 × 10-9 ). This SNP is located in the NONHSAG053086.2 (lnc-SMC2-1) gene and the risk allele is predicted to disrupt the binding of the lncRNA with the micro-RNA (miRNA) hsa-mir-1256 that regulates several genes involved in cell cycle, such as CDKN2B. The CDKN2B region is pleiotropic and its genetic variants have been associated with several human diseases, possibly though an imperfect interaction between lncRNA and miRNA. We present a novel PDAC risk locus, supported by a genome-wide statistical significance and a plausible biological mechanism.

Published
2021

7. Polygenic and multifactorial scores for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma risk prediction

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John P. Neoptolemos, Markus W. Büchler, Jakob R. Izbicki, Ben Schöttker, Cosmeri Rizzato, Cornelia Schroeder, Salvatore Paiella, Hanneke W. M. van Laarhoven, William Greenhalf, Simona Bursi, Renata Talar-Wojnarowska, Christos Dervenis, Ludmila Vodickova, Francesca Tavano, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Thilo Hackert, Claudio Pasquali, Ewa Małecka-Panas, Gabriele Capurso, Andrea Mambrini, Daniele Campa, Andrea Padoan, Ioannis S. Papanikolaou, Raffaele Pezzilli, Péter Hegyi, Beatrice Mohelnikova-Duchonova, Federica Gemignani, Michael F. Nentwich, Pavel Vodicka, Stefano Landi, Richárd Szmola, Anna Caterina Milanetto, Eithne Costello, Rudolf Kaaks, Laura Ginocchi, Bernd Holleczek, Erika Darvasi, Verena Katzke, Evaristo Maiello, Manuel Gentiluomo, Ondrej Strouhal, Orazio Palmieri, Juozas Kupcinskas, Alice Alessandra Galeotti, Viktor Hlavac, George Theodoropoulos, Audrius Ivanauskas, Maria Gazouli, Ferenc Izbéki, Federico Canzian, Oliver Strobel, Ofure Obazee, Martin Lovecek, Timothy J. Key, Domenica Gioffreda, Pavel Soucek, Ugo Boggi, Krzysztof Jamroziak, Cosimo Sperti, Maarten F. Bijlsma, Yogesh K. Vashist, Andrea Szentesi, Hermann Brenner, Livia Archibugi, Giuseppe Vanella, Daniela Basso, Radiotherapy, Center of Experimental and Molecular Medicine, CCA - Cancer Treatment and Quality of Life, Oncology, AGEM - Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Galeotti, A. A., Gentiluomo, M., Rizzato, C., Obazee, O., Neoptolemos, J. P., Pasquali, C., Nentwich, M., Cavestro, G. M., Pezzilli, R., Greenhalf, W., Holleczek, B., Schroeder, C., Schottker, B., Ivanauskas, A., Ginocchi, L., Key, T. J., Hegyi, P., Archibugi, L., Darvasi, E., Basso, D., Sperti, C., Bijlsma, M. F., Palmieri, O., Hlavac, V., Talar-Wojnarowska, R., Mohelnikova-Duchonova, B., Hackert, T., Vashist, Y., Strouhal, O., Van Laarhoven, H., Tavano, F., Lovecek, M., Dervenis, C., Izbeki, F., Padoan, A., Malecka-Panas, E., Maiello, E., Vanella, G., Capurso, G., Izbicki, J. R., Theodoropoulos, G. E., Jamroziak, K., Katzke, V., Kaaks, R., Mambrini, A., Papanikolaou, I. S., Szmola, R., Szentesi, A., Kupcinskas, J., Bursi, S., Costello, E., Boggi, U., Milanetto, A. C., Landi, S., Gazouli, M., Vodickova, L., Soucek, P., Gioffreda, D., Gemignani, F., Brenner, H., Strobel, O., Buchler, M., Vodicka, P., Paiella, S., Canzian, F., and Campa, D.

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0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Multifactorial Inheritance, Pancreatic disease, genetic epidemiology, Population, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Disease, pancreas and biliary tract, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Assessment, ABO Blood-Group System, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Gene Frequency, Pancreatic cancer, Internal medicine, Genetics, medicine, oncology, Humans, education, Genetics (clinical), Alleles, Early Detection of Cancer, Genetic association, education.field_of_study, business.industry, medicine.disease, Pancreatic Neoplasms, 030104 developmental biology, Genetic epidemiology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Cohort, Female, business, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal
Abstract

BackgroundMost cases of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are asymptomatic in early stages, and the disease is typically diagnosed in advanced phases, resulting in very high mortality. Tools to identify individuals at high risk of developing PDAC would be useful to improve chances of early detection.ObjectiveWe generated a polygenic risk score (PRS) for PDAC risk prediction, combining the effect of known risk SNPs, and carried out an exploratory analysis of a multifactorial score.MethodsWe tested the associations of the individual known risk SNPs on up to 2851 PDAC cases and 4810 controls of European origin from the PANcreatic Disease ReseArch (PANDoRA) consortium. Thirty risk SNPs were included in a PRS, which was computed on the subset of subjects that had 100% call rate, consisting of 839 cases and 2040 controls in PANDoRA and 6420 cases and 4889 controls from the previously published Pancreatic Cancer Cohort Consortium I–III and Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control Consortium genome-wide association studies. Additional exploratory multifactorial scores were constructed by complementing the genetic score with smoking and diabetes.ResultsThe scores were associated with increased PDAC risk and reached high statistical significance (OR=2.70, 95% CI 1.99 to 3.68, p=2.54×10−10 highest vs lowest quintile of the weighted PRS, and OR=14.37, 95% CI 5.57 to 37.09, p=3.64×10−8, highest vs lowest quintile of the weighted multifactorial score).ConclusionWe found a highly significant association between a PRS and PDAC risk, which explains more than individual SNPs and is a step forward in the direction of the construction of a tool for risk stratification in the population.

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2020

8. Genetic polymorphisms associated with telomere length and risk of developing myeloproliferative neoplasms

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Aleksandra Gołos, Aleksandra Butrym, José Maldonado, Federico Canzian, Daniele Campa, Francesca Tavano, Francisca Hernández Mohedo, Matteo Giaccherini, Manuel Jurado, Federica Gemignani, Nicola Sgherza, Joanna Gora-Tybor, Joaquin Martinez Lopez, Grzegorz Mazur, Raffaele Spadano, Judit Várkonyi, Andres Jerez, Juan Sainz, Angelica Macauda, [Giaccherini,M, Macauda,A, Gemignani,F, Campa,D] Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. [Giaccherini,M, Canzian,F] Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. [Sgherza,N] Division of Hematology, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. [Sgherza,N] U.O.C. Ematologia con Trapianto, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Consorzionale, Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy. [Sainz,J, Sanchez Maldonado,JM, Jurado,M] Genomic Oncology Area, GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research: Pfizer / University of Granada / Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Granada, Spain. [Sainz,J, Jurado,M, Hernández Mohedo,F] Monoclonal Gammopathies Unit, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain. [Sainz,J, Hernández Mohedo,F] Pharmacogenetics Unit, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada (Ibs. Granada), Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain. [Sainz,J] Department of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. [Tavano,F] Division of Gastroenterology and Research Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. [Mazur,G] Department of Internal Medicine, Occupational Diseases, Hypertension and Clinical Oncology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland. [Jerez,A] Hematology and Medical Oncology Department, University Hospital Morales Meseguer-IMIB, CIBERER, Murcia, Spain. [Góra-Tybor,J] Department of Hematology, Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland. [Gołos,A] Department of Clinical Oncology and Chemotherapy, Magodent Hospital, Warsaw, Poland. [Martinez Lopez,J] Hospital 12 de Octubre, H12O-CNIO Hematological Malignancies Clinical Research Unitc Compluntense University, CIBERONC, Madrid, Spain. [Várkonyi,J] Third Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. [Spadano,R] Division of Hematology, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. [Butrym,A] Department of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland., and This work was partially supported by intramural funds of Univerity of Pisa and DKFZ, and by the Italian Ministry of Health grants to the Division of Gastroenterology, Fondazione IRCCS 'Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza' Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo (F.G.), Italy and by the '5 × 1000' voluntary contribution.Open access funding provided by Projekt DEA.

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Male, Oncology, Polimorfismo de nucleótido simple, Epidemiology, Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Statistics as Topic::Probability::Risk::Risk Factors [Medical Subject Headings], Myeloproliferative neoplasms, Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Primates::Haplorhini::Catarrhini::Hominidae::Humans [Medical Subject Headings], 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Neoplasms, Medicine, Persons::Persons::Age Groups::Adult::Aged [Medical Subject Headings], Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic::Epidemiologic Studies::Case-Control Studies [Medical Subject Headings], Predisposición genética a la enfermedad, Hematology, Telomere, Diseases::Neoplasms [Medical Subject Headings], Middle Aged, lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, Neoplasias, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Phenomena and Processes::Genetic Phenomena::Genetic Processes::Cell Division::Telomere Homeostasis [Medical Subject Headings], Female, medicine.medical_specialty, Check Tags::Male [Medical Subject Headings], Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Case-control studies, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, lcsh:RC254-282, Article, Diseases::Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms::Pathologic Processes::Disease Attributes::Disease Susceptibility::Genetic Predisposition to Disease [Medical Subject Headings], 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Allele, Aged, Diseases::Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases::Hematologic Diseases::Bone Marrow Diseases::Myeloproliferative Disorders [Medical Subject Headings], Phenomena and Processes::Genetic Phenomena::Genetic Variation::Polymorphism, Genetic::Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide [Medical Subject Headings], Myeloproliferative Disorders, business.industry, Telomere Homeostasis, Cancer, Persons::Persons::Age Groups::Adult::Middle Aged [Medical Subject Headings], medicine.disease, Increased risk, Check Tags::Female [Medical Subject Headings], Risk factors, Risk allele, business, Telómero, 030215 immunology
Abstract

D.C., F.C., and M.G. conceived and designed the study. A.M. and M.G. performed labwork. A.M., F.C., D.C., and M.G. drafted the manuscript. A.M., F.C., D.C., and M.G. performed data quality control and statistical analyses. All other authors provided samples and data. All authors critically read, commented, and approved the manuscript., Telomere length measured in leukocyte (LTL) has been found to be associated with the risk of developing several cancer types, including myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). LTL is genetically determined by, at least, 11 SNPs previously shown to influence LTL. Their combination in a score has been used as a genetic instrument to measure LTL and evaluate the causative association between LTL and the risk of several cancer types. We tested, for the first time, the “teloscore” in 480 MPN patients and 909 healthy controls in a European multi-center case–control study. We found an increased risk to develop MPNs with longer genetically determined telomeres (OR = 1.82, 95% CI 1.24–2.68, P = 2.21 × 10−3, comparing the highest with the lowest quintile of the teloscore distribution). Analyzing the SNPs individually we confirm the association between TERT-rs2736100-C allele and increased risk of developing MPNs and we report a novel association of the OBFC1-rs9420907-C variant with higher MPN risk (ORallelic= 1.43; 95% CI 1.15–1.77; P = 1.35 × 10−3). Consistently with the results obtained with the teloscore, both risk alleles are also associated with longer LTL. In conclusion, our results suggest that genetically determined longer telomeres could be a risk marker for MPN development

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2020

9. Genome-wide association study identifies an early onset pancreatic cancer risk locus

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Verena Katzke, Jakob R. Izbicki, Francesca Tavano, Rita T. Lawlor, Thilo Hackert, Raffaella Alessia Zuppardo, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Federico Canzian, Frederike Dijk, Martin Oliverius, George Theodoropoulos, Pavel Soucek, Manuel Gentiluomo, Rudolf Kaaks, Erika Darvasi, Yogesh K. Vashist, Bill Greenhalf, Juozas Kupcinskas, Maurizio Lucchesi, Borislav Rusev, Andrea Szentesi, Gabriele Capurso, Ewa Małecka-Panas, Lucia Moletta, Beatrice Mohelnikova-Duchonova, Franco Bambi, Ugo Boggi, Alba Ballerini, Krzysztof Jamroziak, Ben Schöttker, Simona Bursi, Raffaele Pezzilli, Gyula Farkas, Dania Bozzato, Áron Vincze, Stefano Landi, Anna Caterina Milanetto, Péter Hegyi, Michael F. Nentwich, Laura Ginocchi, Pavel Vodicka, Stefania Moz, Ludmila Vodickova, Hermann Brenner, Olivier R. Busch, Viktor Hlavac, Audrius Ivanauskas, John P. Neoptolemos, Domenica Gioffreda, Ofure Obazee, Livia Archibugi, Nathalia A. Giese, Giuseppe Vanella, Xin Gao, Renata Talar-Wojnarowska, Angelo Andriulli, Oliver Strobel, Daniele Campa, Maria Gazouli, Pathology, CCA - Cancer biology and immunology, Surgery, AGEM - Digestive immunity, AGEM - Endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition, AGEM - Re-generation and cancer of the digestive system, AGEM - Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Campa, D., Gentiluomo, M., Obazee, O., Ballerini, A., Vodickova, L., Hegyi, P., Soucek, P., Brenner, H., Milanetto, A. C., Landi, S., Gao, X., Bozzato, D., Capurso, G., Tavano, F., Vashist, Y., Hackert, T., Bambi, F., Bursi, S., Oliverius, M., Gioffreda, D., Schottker, B., Ivanauskas, A., Mohelnikova-Duchonova, B., Darvasi, E., Pezzilli, R., Malecka-Panas, E., Strobel, O., Gazouli, M., Katzke, V., Szentesi, A., Cavestro, G. M., Farkas, G., Izbicki, J. R., Moz, S., Archibugi, L., Hlavac, V., Vincze, A., Talar-Wojnarowska, R., Rusev, B., Kupcinskas, J., Greenhalf, B., Dijk, F., Giese, N., Boggi, U., Andriulli, A., Busch, O. R., Vanella, G., Vodicka, P., Nentwich, M., Lawlor, R. T., Theodoropoulos, G. E., Jamroziak, K., Zuppardo, R. A., Moletta, L., Ginocchi, L., Kaaks, R., Neoptolemos, J. P., Lucchesi, M., and Canzian, F.

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Oncology, Male, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, Pancreatic disease, pancreatic cancer, early onset, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Genome-wide association study, very early onset pancreatic cancer, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, single nucleotide polymorphisms, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Pancreatic cancer, Internal medicine, Genetic predisposition, Medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic variability, Pancreas, Genetic association, genome-wide association study, business.industry, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Pancreatic Neoplasms, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Case-Control Studies, Female, Age of onset, business, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal
Abstract

Early onset pancreatic cancer (EOPC) is a rare disease with a very high mortality rate. Almost nothing is known on the genetic susceptibility of EOPC, therefore we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify novel genetic variants specific for patients diagnosed with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) at younger ages. In the first phase, conducted on 821 cases with age of onset ≤60 years, of whom 198 with age of onset ≤50, and 3227 controls from PanScan I-II, we observed four SNPs (rs7155613, rs2328991, rs4891017 and rs12610094) showing an association with EOPC risk (P < 1x10-4 ). We replicated these SNPs in the PANcreatic Disease ReseArch (PANDoRA) consortium and used additional in silico data from PanScan III and PanC4. Among these four variants rs2328991 was significant in an independent set of 855 cases with age of onset ≤60 years, of whom 265 with age of onset≤50, and 4142 controls from the PANDoRA consortium while in the in silico data we observed no statistically significant association. However, the resulting meta-analysis supported the association (P = 1.15x10-4 ). In conclusion we propose a novel variant rs2328991 to be involved in EOPC risk. Even though it was not possible to find a mechanistic link between the variant and the function, the association is supported by a solid statistical significance obtained in the largest study on EOPC genetics present so far in the literature. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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2020

10. Genetic variability of the ABCC2 gene and clinical outcomes in pancreatic cancer patients

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Rita T. Lawlor, Raffaele Pezzilli, Péter Hegyi, Andrea Szentesi, Eithne Costello, Paula Puchalt García, John P. Neoptolemos, Alice Alessandra Galeotti, Cosimo Sperti, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Pavel Vodicka, Federico Canzian, Thilo Hackert, Renata Talar-Wojnarowska, Daniele Campa, Oliver Strobel, Francesca Tavano, Martin Lovecek, Gabriele Capurso, Christine Tjaden, Pavel Soucek, Manuel Gentiluomo, Anna Caterina Milanetto, Juozas Kupcinskas, Gentiluomo, M., Garcia, P. P., Galeotti, A. A., Talar-Wojnarowska, R., Tjaden, C., Tavano, F., Strobel, O., Kupcinskas, J., Neoptolemos, J., Hegyi, P., Costello, E., Pezzilli, R., Sperti, C., Lawlor, R. T., Capurso, G., Szentesi, A., Soucek, P., Vodicka, P., Lovecek, M., Hackert, T., Cavestro, G. M., Milanetto, A. C., Canzian, F., and Campa, D.

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0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Male, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, Pancreatic disease, Genotype, alleles polymorphism gemcitabine genes single nucleotide polymorphism genetics treatment outcome pancreatic cancer mrp2 protein, human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, 0302 clinical medicine, alleles polymorphism gemcitabine genes single nucleotide polymorphism genetics treatment outcome pancreatic cancer mrp2 protein, Pancreatic cancer, Internal medicine, Biomarkers, Tumor, Medicine, Humans, Genetic variability, Allele, Aged, business.industry, Hazard ratio, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Prognosis, Combined Modality Therapy, Gemcitabine, Multidrug Resistance-Associated Protein 2, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Survival Rate, 030104 developmental biology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Case-Control Studies, Female, Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins, business, medicine.drug, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has an extremely poor prognosis, caused by various factors, such as the aggressiveness of the disease, the limited therapeutic options and the lack of early detection and risk markers. The ATP binding cassette subfamily C member 2 (ABCC2) protein plays a critical role in response to various drugs and is differentially expressed in gemcitabine sensitive and resistant cells. Moreover, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene have been associated with differential outcomes and prognosis in several tumour types. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible association between SNPs in the ABCC2 gene and overall survival (OS) in PDAC patients. We analysed 12 polymorphisms, including tagging-SNPs covering all the genetic variability of the ABCC2 gene and genotyped them in 1415 PDAC patients collected within the Pancreatic Disease ReseArch (PANDoRA) consortium. We tested the association between ABCC2 SNPs and PDAC OS using Cox proportional hazard models. We analysed PDAC patients dividing them by stage and observed that the minor alleles of three SNPs showed an association with worse OS [rs3740067: hazard ratio (HR) = 3.29, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.56-6.97, P = 0.002; rs3740073: HR = 3.11, 95% CI = 1.52-6.38, P = 0.002 and rs717620: HR = 2.90, 95% CI = 1.41-5.95, P = 0.004, respectively] in stage I patients. In patients with more advanced PDAC, we did not observe any statistically significant association. Our results suggest that rs3740067, rs3740073 and rs717620 could be promising prognostic markers in stage I PDAC patients.

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2019

11. Common variation at 2p13.3, 3q29, 7p13 and 17q25.1 associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

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Herbert Yu, Gabriele Capurso, Robert N. Hoover, Beatrice Mohelnikova-Duchonova, Amanda L. Blackford, Harvey A. Risch, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Timothy J. Key, Stephen J. Chanock, Ann L. Oberg, Federico Canzian, Lingeng Lu, Maria Gazouli, Michelle Cotterchio, Daniele Campa, John P. Neoptolemos, Claudio Pasquali, Rachel E. Neale, Rayjean J. Hung, William R. Bamlet, Raffaele Pezzilli, Stefano Landi, Juozas Kupcinskas, Joseph M. Herman, Erica J. Childs, Ivana Holcatova, Steven Gallinger, Manal M. Hassan, Ewa Małecka-Panas, Pavel Vodicka, Donghui Li, Maarten F. Bijlsma, Irene Orlow, Lenka Foretova, Robert C. Kurtz, Yogesh K. Vashist, Francesca Tavano, Evelina Mocci, Amethyst Saldia, Michael Borges, Sean P. Cleary, Gloria M. Petersen, Brian M. Wolpin, Sara H. Olson, Kari G. Chaffee, Aldo Scarpa, Vladimir Janout, Elizabeth A. Holly, Niccola Funel, Hermann Brenner, Ghislaine Scelo, Laufey T. Amundadottir, Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon, Paige M. Bracci, Charles S. Fuchs, Paul Brennan, Oliver Strobel, Michael Goggins, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Cosmeri Rizzato, Andrea Mambrini, Alison P. Klein, CCA -Cancer Center Amsterdam, Radiotherapy, Childs, Ej, Mocci, E, Campa, D, Bracci, Pm, Gallinger, S, Goggins, M, Li, D, Neale, Re, Olson, Sh, Scelo, G, Amundadottir, Lt, Bamlet, Wr, Bijlsma, Mf, Blackford, A, Borges, M, Brennan, P, Brenner, H, Bueno de Mesquita, Hb, Canzian, F, Capurso, G, Cavestro, GIULIA MARTINA, Chaffee, Kg, Chanock, Sj, Cleary, Sp, Cotterchio, M, Foretova, L, Fuchs, C, Funel, N, Gazouli, M, Hassan, M, Herman, Jm, Holcatova, I, Holly, Ea, Hoover, Rn, Hung, Rj, Janout, V, Key, Tj, Kupcinskas, J, Kurtz, Rc, Landi, S, Lu, L, Malecka Panas, E, Mambrini, A, Mohelnikova Duchonova, B, Neoptolemos, Jp, Oberg, Al, Orlow, I, Pasquali, C, Pezzilli, R, Rizzato, C, Saldia, A, Scarpa, A, Stolzenberg Solomon, Rz, Strobel, O, Tavano, F, Vashist, Yk, Vodicka, P, Wolpin, Bm, Yu, H, Petersen, Gm, Risch, Ha, and Klein, A. P.

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Male, pancreatic cancer, Genome-wide association study, Gastroenterology, Aged, Australia, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7, Europe, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Middle Aged, North America, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Risk Factors, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genetics, Medicine (all), 0302 clinical medicine, CDKN2A, 0303 health sciences, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Pair 3, Pair 2, Pair 7, Human, medicine.medical_specialty, PALB2, Biology, Article, Chromosomes, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, ABO blood group system, Pancreatic cancer, medicine, Polymorphism, 030304 developmental biology, Pair 17, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, Confidence interval, pancreatic cancer, genome-wide association study
Abstract

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the developed world. Both inherited high-penetrance mutations in BRCA2 (ref. 2), ATM, PALB2 (ref. 4), BRCA1 (ref. 5), STK11 (ref. 6), CDKN2A and mismatch-repair genes and low-penetrance loci are associated with increased risk. To identify new risk loci, we performed a genome-wide association study on 9,925 pancreatic cancer cases and 11,569 controls, including 4,164 newly genotyped cases and 3,792 controls in 9 studies from North America, Central Europe and Australia. We identified three newly associated regions: 17q25.1 (LINC00673, rs11655237, odds ratio (OR) = 1.26, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.19-1.34, P = 1.42 × 10(-14)), 7p13 (SUGCT, rs17688601, OR = 0.88, 95% CI = 0.84-0.92, P = 1.41 × 10(-8)) and 3q29 (TP63, rs9854771, OR = 0.89, 95% CI = 0.85-0.93, P = 2.35 × 10(-8)). We detected significant association at 2p13.3 (ETAA1, rs1486134, OR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.09-1.19, P = 3.36 × 10(-9)), a region with previous suggestive evidence in Han Chinese. We replicated previously reported associations at 9q34.2 (ABO), 13q22.1 (KLF5), 5p15.33 (TERT and CLPTM1), 13q12.2 (PDX1), 1q32.1 (NR5A2), 7q32.3 (LINC-PINT), 16q23.1 (BCAR1) and 22q12.1 (ZNRF3). Our study identifies new loci associated with pancreatic cancer risk.

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2015
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12. Functional single nucleotide polymorphisms within the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A/2B region affect pancreatic cancer risk

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Ugo Boggi, Cosmeri Rizzato, Krzysztof Jamroziak, Andrea Mambrini, Gabriele Capurso, Yogesh K. Vashist, Valerio Pazienza, Christoph W. Michalski, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Keitaro Matsuo, Ewa Małecka-Panas, Jakob R. Izbicki, Harald Klüter, Timothy J. Key, Ludmila Vodickova, Vincenzo Corbo, Kenji Yamao, Domenica Gioffreda, Anna Stępień, Milena Di Leo, Willem Niesen, Audrius Ivanauskas, Cosimo Sperti, Carlo Federico Zambon, Peter Bugert, Beatrice Mohelnikova-Duchonova, Satoyo Hosono, Angelo Andriulli, Renata Talar-Wojnarowska, Maria Gazouli, John P. Neoptolemos, Franco Bambi, Francesca Tavano, Claudio Pasquali, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Manuela Pastore, Federico Canzian, Rudolf Kaaks, Daniele Campa, Gianfranco Delle Fave, Frederike Dijk, George Theodoropoulos, Raffaele Pezzilli, Paola Pacetti, Eithne Costello, Pavel Vodicka, Verena Katzke, Stefano Landi, Juozas Kupcinskas, Oliver Strobel, Martin Lovecek, Thilo Hackert, Manuel Gentiluomo, Markus W. Büchler, Pavel Soucek, Roberto Valente, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Hidemi Ito, Kay-Tee Khaw, Olivier R. Busch, Daniela Basso, Campa, D, Pastore, M, Gentiluomo, M, Talar Wojnarowska, R, Kupcinskas, J, Malecka Panas, E, Neoptolemos, Jp, Niesen, W, Vodicka, P, Delle Fave, G, Bas Bueno de Mesquita, H, Gazouli, M, Pacetti, P, Di Leo, M, Ito, H, Klüter, H, Soucek, P, Corbo, V, Yamao, K, Hosono, S, Kaaks, R, Vashist, Y, Gioffreda, D, Strobel, O, Shimizu, Y, Dijk, F, Andriulli, A, Ivanauskas, A, Bugert, P, Tavano, F, Vodickova, L, Zambon, Cf, Lovecek, M, Landi, S, Key, Tj, Boggi, U, Pezzilli, R, Jamroziak, K, Mohelnikova Duchonova, B, Mambrini, A, Bambi, F, Busch, O, Pazienza, V, Valente, R, Theodoropoulos, G, Hackert, T, Capurso, G, Cavestro, GIULIA MARTINA, Pasquali, C, Basso, D, Sperti, C, Matsuo, K, Büchler, M, Khaw, Kt, Izbicki, J, Costello, E, Katzke, V, Michalski, C, Stepien, A, Rizzato, C, Canzian, F., CCA -Cancer Center Amsterdam, Pathology, AGEM - Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, and Surgery

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0301 basic medicine, Pancreatic disease, CDKN2A, association study, miRSNP, pancreatic cancer, single nucleotide polymorphisms, Alleles, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Binding Sites, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, Case-Control Studies, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p15, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p18, DNA Methylation, Disease Progression, European Continental Ancestry Group, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Germ-Line Mutation, Humans, International Cooperation, Japan, Odds Ratio, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Prognosis, Retrospective Studies, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Bioinformatics, 0302 clinical medicine, Medicine, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, Oncology, Pancreatic Ductal, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Research Paper, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, White People, 03 medical and health sciences, Germline mutation, Asian People, Pancreatic cancer, Allele, Polymorphism, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16, business.industry, Carcinoma, Cancer, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Cancer research, business
Abstract

The CDKN2A(p16) gene plays a key role in pancreatic cancer etiology. It is one of the most commonly somatically mutated genes in pancreatic cancer, rare germline mutations have been found to be associated with increased risk of developing familiar pancreatic cancer and CDKN2A promoter hyper-methylation has been suggested to play a critical role both in pancreatic cancer onset and prognosis. In addition several unrelated SNPs in the 9p21.3 region, that includes the CDNK2A, CDNK2B and the CDNK2B-AS1 genes, are associated with the development of cancer in various organs. However, association between the common genetic variability in this region and pancreatic cancer risk is not clearly understood. We sought to fill this gap in a case-control study genotyping 13 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 2,857 pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients and 6,111 controls in the context of the Pancreatic Disease Research (PANDoRA) consortium. We found that the A allele of the rs3217992 SNP was associated with an increased pancreatic cancer risk (OR het=1.14, 95% CI 1.01-1.27, p=0.026, ORhom =1.30, 95% CI 1.12-1.51, p=0.00049). This pleiotropic variant is reported to be a mir-SNP that, by changing the binding site of one or more miRNAs, could influence the normal cell cycle progression and in turn increase PDAC risk. In conclusion, we observed a novel association in a pleiotropic region that has been found to be of key relevance in the susceptibility to various types of cancer and diabetes suggesting that the CDKN2A/Blocus could represent a genetic link between diabetes and pancreatic cancer risk.

Published
2016

13. Three new pancreatic cancer susceptibility signals identified on chromosomes 1q32.1, 5p15.33 and 8q24.21

Author

Anne Tjønneland, Jason W. Hoskins, Kala Visvanathan, Yogesh K. Vashist, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Matthew H. Kulke, Ruth C. Travis, Charles S. Fuchs, Herbert Yu, Kai Yu, Phyllis J. Goodman, Michael Goggins, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Laurie Burdette, Joanne W. Elena, Andrea Mambrini, Petra H.M. Peeters, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Maria Teresa Landi, Ulrike Peters, Mingfeng Zhang, Laurence N. Kolonel, Hermann Brenner, Elżbieta Iskierka-Jażdżewska, Robert C. Kurtz, Stephen J. Chanock, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Ann L. Oberg, Elio Riboli, Maarten F. Bijlsma, Eric J. Jacobs, Manolis Kogevinas, Evelina Mocci, Steven Gallinger, Jinping Jia, Mark P. Purdue, Raffaele Pezzilli, Harvey A. Risch, Demetrius Albanes, Irene Collins, Maria Gazouli, Michelle Cotterchio, Oliver Strobel, Erica J. Childs, Charles C. Chung, Geoffrey S. Tobias, J. Ramón Quirós, Núria Malats, Robert N. Hoover, Pavel Vodicka, Brian M. Wolpin, Ugo Boggi, Patricia Hartge, Gloria M. Petersen, Peter Kraft, Christopher Hautman, Gary E. Goodman, Manal Hassan, Donghui Li, Howard D. Sesso, Malin Sund, Julie E. Buring, Loic Le Marchand, Wei Zheng, Xiao-Ou Shu, Ewa Małecka-Panas, Pavel Soucek, Salvatore Panico, Nicolas Wentzensen, Graham G. Giles, Alpa V. Patel, Daniele Campa, Myron D. Gross, Ghislaine Scelo, J. Michael Gaziano, Juozas Kupcinskas, Debra T. Silverman, Laufey T. Amundadottir, Rachael S. Stolzenberg-Solomon, Neil E. Caporaso, Mazda Jenab, Sara H. Olson, Stefano Landi, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Aruna Kamineni, Laura Beane-Freeman, Roger L. Milne, Rachel E. Neale, Aldo Scarpa, Kathy J. Helzlsouer, Miquel Porta, Emily White, Eric J. Duell, Paige M. Bracci, Nan Hu, Federico Canzian, Eric A. Klein, Gabriele Capurso, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Eithne Costello, David J. Hunter, Rudolf Kaaks, Sonja I. Berndt, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nathaniel Rothman, Christian C. Abnet, Francesca Tavano, Christopher A. Haiman, Zhaoming Wang, Ofure Obazee, Alan A. Arslan, Edward Giovannucci, Alison P. Klein, Daniela Basso, Charles Kooperberg, Philip R. Taylor, Satu Männistö, Timothy J. Key, Mark D. Thornquist, Gabriella Andreotti, Lauren K. Brais, Gisella Figlioli, Vittorio Krogh, University Medical Center Utrecht, Imperial College Trust, Cancer Research UK, Medical Research Council UK (MRC), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Cancer Research UK (Reino Unido), Medical Research Council (Reino Unido), National Institute for Health Research (Reino Unido), Zhang, Mingfeng, Wang, Zhaoming, Obazee, Ofure, Jia, Jinping, Childs, Erica J, Hoskins, Jason, Figlioli, Gisella, Mocci, Evelina, Collins, Irene, Chung, Charles C, Hautman, Christopher, Arslan, Alan A, Beane Freeman, Laura, Bracci, Paige M, Buring, Julie, Duell, Eric J, Gallinger, Steven, Giles, Graham G, Goodman, Gary E, Goodman, Phyllis J, Kamineni, Aruna, Kolonel, Laurence N, Kulke, Matthew H, Malats, Núria, Olson, Sara H, Sesso, Howard D, Visvanathan, Kala, White, Emily, Zheng, Wei, Abnet, Christian C, Albanes, Demetriu, Andreotti, Gabriella, Brais, Lauren, Bueno de Mesquita, H. Ba, Basso, Daniela, Berndt, Sonja I, Boutron Ruault, Marie Christine, Bijlsma, Maarten F, Brenner, Hermann, Burdette, Laurie, Campa, Daniele, Caporaso, Neil E, Capurso, Gabriele, Cavestro, Giulia Martina, Cotterchio, Michelle, Costello, Eithne, Elena, Joanne, Boggi, Ugo, Gaziano, J. Michael, Gazouli, Maria, Giovannucci, Edward L, Goggins, Michael, Gross, Myron, Haiman, Christopher A, Hassan, Manal, Helzlsouer, Kathy J, Hu, Nan, Hunter, David J, Iskierka Jazdzewska, Elzbieta, Jenab, Mazda, Kaaks, Rudolf, Key, Timothy J, Khaw, Kay Tee, Klein, Eric A, Kogevinas, Manoli, Krogh, Vittorio, Kupcinskas, Juoza, Kurtz, Robert C, Landi, Maria T, Landi, Stefano, Le Marchand, Loic, Mambrini, Andrea, Mannisto, Satu, Milne, Roger L, Neale, Rachel E, Oberg, Ann L, Panico, Salvatore, Patel, Alpa V, Peeters, Petra H. M, Peters, Ulrike, Pezzilli, Raffaele, Porta, Miquel, Purdue, Mark, Quiros, J. Ramón, Riboli, Elio, Rothman, Nathaniel, Scarpa, Aldo, Scelo, Ghislaine, Shu, Xiao Ou, Silverman, Debra T, Soucek, Pavel, Strobel, Oliver, Sund, Malin, Małecka Panas, Ewa, Taylor, Philip R, Tavano, Francesca, Travis, Ruth C, Thornquist, Mark, Tjønneland, Anne, Tobias, Geoffrey S, Trichopoulos, Dimitrio, Vashist, Yogesh, Vodicka, Pavel, Wactawski Wende, Jean, Wentzensen, Nicola, Yu, Herbert, Yu, Kai, Zeleniuch Jacquotte, Anne, Kooperberg, Charle, Risch, Harvey A, Jacobs, Eric J, Li, Donghui, Fuchs, Charle, Hoover, Robert, Hartge, Patricia, Chanock, Stephen J, Petersen, Gloria M, Stolzenberg Solomon, Rachael S, Wolpin, Brian M, Kraft, Peter, Klein, Alison P, Canzian, Federico, Amundadottir, Laufey T., Khaw, Kay-Tee [0000-0002-8802-2903], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, CCA -Cancer Center Amsterdam, Center of Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Radiotherapy, Zhang, M, Wang, Z, Obazee, O, Jia, J, Childs, Ej, Hoskins, J, Figlioli, G, Mocci, E, Collins, I, Chung, Cc, Hautman, C, Arslan, Aa, Beane Freeman, L, Bracci, Pm, Buring, J, Duell, Ej, Gallinger, S, Giles, Gg, Goodman, Ge, Goodman, Pj, Kamineni, A, Kolonel, Ln, Kulke, Mh, Malats, N, Olson, Sh, Sesso, Hd, Visvanathan, K, White, E, Zheng, W, Abnet, Cc, Albanes, D, Andreotti, G, Brais, L, Bueno de Mesquita, Hb, Basso, D, Berndt, Si, Boutron Ruault, Mc, Bijlsma, Mf, Brenner, H, Burdette, L, Campa, D, Caporaso, Ne, Capurso, G, Cavestro, GIULIA MARTINA, Cotterchio, M, Costello, E, Elena, J, Boggi, U, Gaziano, Jm, Gazouli, M, Giovannucci, El, Goggins, M, Gross, M, Haiman, Ca, Hassan, M, Helzlsouer, Kj, Hu, N, Hunter, Dj, Iskierka Jazdzewska, E, Jenab, M, Kaaks, R, Key, Tj, Khaw, Kt, Klein, Ea, Kogevinas, M, Krogh, V, Kupcinskas, J, Kurtz, Rc, Landi, Mt, Landi, S, Le Marchand, L, Mambrini, A, Mannisto, S, Milne, Rl, Neale, Re, Oberg, Al, Panico, S, Patel, Av, Peeters, Ph, Peters, U, Pezzilli, R, Porta, M, Purdue, M, Quiros, Jr, Riboli, E, Rothman, N, Scarpa, A, Scelo, G, Shu, Xo, Silverman, Dt, Soucek, P, Strobel, O, Sund, M, Małecka Panas, E, Taylor, Pr, Tavano, F, Travis, Rc, Thornquist, M, Tjønneland, A, Tobias, G, Trichopoulos, D, Vashist, Y, Vodicka, P, Wactawski Wende, J, Wentzensen, N, Yu, H, Yu, K, Zeleniuch Jacquotte, A, Kooperberg, C, Risch, Ha, Jacobs, Ej, Li, D, Fuchs, C, Hoover, R, Hartge, P, Chanock, Sj, Petersen, Gm, Stolzenberg Solomon, R, Wolpin, Bm, Kraft, P, Klein, Ap, Canzian, F, and Amundadottir, L. T.

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Candidate gene, Pancreatic disease, GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY, pancreatic cancer, Datasets as Topic, Genome-wide association study, imputation, TRET, 0302 clinical medicine, Fine-mapping, GWAS, Imputation, NR5A2, Pancreatic cancer, Oncology, Genotype, Genetics, 3. Good health, fine-mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8, 616.37-006.6 [udc], BLADDER-CANCER, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, GENOTYPE IMPUTATION, BREAST, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, Journal Article, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, Pàncrees -- Càncer, Cancer och onkologi, LONG-RANGE INTERACTION, business.industry, medicine.disease, Pancreatic neoplasms, genetics, Polymorphism, single nucleotide, RISK LOCI, Fold change, COMMON VARIANT, Cromosomes, Pancreatic Neoplasms, 030104 developmental biology, Cancer and Oncology, business, Imputation (genetics), LRH-1, Priority Research Paper, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Altres ajuts: The authors acknowledge the contribution of the staff of the Cancer Genomics Research Laboratory (CGR) at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, for their help throughout the project. This work was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Additional acknowledgements for individual participating studies are listed in the Supplemental Materials. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified common pancreatic cancer susceptibility variants at 13 chromosomal loci in individuals of European descent. To identify new susceptibility variants, we performed imputation based on 1000 Genomes (1000G) Project data and association analysis using 5,107 case and 8,845 control subjects from 27 cohort and case-control studies that participated in the PanScan I-III GWAS. This analysis, in combination with a two-staged replication in an additional 6,076 case and 7,555 control subjects from the PANcreatic Disease ReseArch (PANDoRA) and Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control (PanC4) Consortia uncovered 3 new pancreatic cancer risk signals marked by single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs2816938 at chromosome 1q32.1 (per allele odds ratio (OR) = 1.20, P = 4.88×10 −15), rs10094872 at 8q24.21 (OR = 1.15, P = 3.22×10 −9) and rs35226131 at 5p15.33 (OR = 0.71, P = 1.70×10 −8). These SNPs represent independent risk variants at previously identified pancreatic cancer risk loci on chr1q32.1 (NR5A2), chr8q24.21 (MYC) and chr5p15.33 (CLPTM1L - TERT) as per analyses conditioned on previously reported susceptibility variants. We assessed expression of candidate genes at the three risk loci in histologically normal (n = 10) and tumor (n = 8) derived pancreatic tissue samples and observed a marked reduction of NR5A2 expression (chr1q32.1) in the tumors (fold change -7.6, P = 5.7×10 −8). This finding was validated in a second set of paired (n = 20) histologically normal and tumor derived pancreatic tissue samples (average fold change for three NR5A2 isoforms -31.3 to -95.7, P = 7.5×10 −4 -2.0×10 −3). Our study has identified new susceptibility variants independently conferring pancreatic cancer risk that merit functional follow-up to identify target genes and explain the underlying biology.

Published
2016

14. Modeling interactions between Human Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter-1 and other factors involved in the response to gemcitabine treatment to predict clinical outcomes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients

Author

Valerio Pazienza, Massimiliano Copetti, Lucia Lombardi, Francesca Paola Burbaci, Fabio Pellegrini, Francesca Tavano, Manlio Vinciguerra, Fabio F. di Mola, Andrea Fontana, Pierluigi Di Sebastiano, Francesco Cappello, Francesca Rappa, Evaristo Maiello, Paolo Graziano, Angelo Andriulli, Tavano, F, Fontana, A, Pellegrini, F, Burbaci, F, Rappa, F, Cappello, F, Copetti, M, Maiello, E, Lombardi, L, Graziano, P, Vinciguerra, M, di Mola, F, di Sebastiano, P, Andriulli, A, and Pazienza, V

Subjects
Male, Oncology, CHOP, Equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1, Bioinformatics, Deoxycytidine, Cohort Studies, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, chemistry.chemical_compound, Medicine(all), Transcription Factor CHOP, biology, DCK, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Survival Rate, Disease Progression, Adenocarcinoma, Female, MRP1, Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal, medicine.drug, medicine.medical_specialty, Antineoplastic Agents, Malignancy, hENT1, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 1, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, RNA, Messenger, Survival rate, Aged, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), business.industry, Research, RECPAM, medicine.disease, Gemcitabine, chemistry, biology.protein, Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, hENT1, CHOP, MRP1, DCK, RECPAM, business
Abstract

Background Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an extremely aggressive malignancy, characterized by largely unsatisfactory responses to the currently available therapeutic strategies. In this study we evaluated the expression of genes involved in gemcitabine uptake in a selected cohort of patients with PDAC, with well-defined clinical-pathological features. Methods mRNA levels of hENT1, CHOP, MRP1 and DCK were evaluated by means of qRT-PCR in matched pairs of tumor and adjacent normal tissue samples collected from PDAC patients treated with gemcitabine after surgical tumor resection. To detect possible interaction between gene expression levels and to identify subgroups of patients at different mortality/progression risk, the RECursive Partitioning and Amalgamation (RECPAM) method was used. Results RECPAM analysis showed that DCK and CHOP were most relevant variables for the identification of patients with different mortality risk, while hENT1 and CHOP were able to identify subgroups of patients with different disease progression risk. Conclusion: hENT1, CHOP, MRP1 and DCK appear correlated to PDAC, and this interaction might influence disease behavior.

Published
2014

15. BAG3 is a novel serum biomarker for pancreatic adenocarcinomas

Author

Antonia Falco, Raffaele Pezzilli, Francesco Nudo, Morena d'Avenia, Michelina Festa, Daniela Barcaroli, Aldo Scarpa, Fabrizio Dal Piaz, Fabio F. di Mola, Michele Caraglia, Alessandra Rosati, Maria Caterina Turco, Vincenzo De Laurenzi, Margot De Marco, Maria Pascale, Pierluigi Di Sebastiano, Anna Basile, Pasquale Berloco, Antonio Febbraro, Francesca Tavano, Falco, A, Rosati, A, Festa, M, Basile, A, De Marco, M, D'Avenia, M, Pascale, M, Dal Piaz, F, Tavano, F, Di Mola, Ff, di Sebastiano, P, Berloco, Pb, Nudo, F, Caraglia, Michele, Febbraro, A, Barcaroli, D, Scarpa, A, Pezzilli, R, De Laurenzi, V, and Turco, M. C.

Subjects
Male, pancreatic adenocarcinomas, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Antigen-Antibody Complex, Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins, BAG3, Serum biomarkers, Biomarkers, Tumor, Carcinoma, Humans, Medicine, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Aged, Hepatology, business.industry, Gastroenterology, biomarker, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Pancreatitis, ROC Curve, Case-Control Studies, Biomarker (medicine), Female, business, Tumor immunology, Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal
Published
2013

16. Evidence for sub-haplogroup h5 of mitochondrial DNA as a risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's disease

Author

Chiara Pirazzini, Giuliano Binetti, Andrea Maria Chiamenti, Luisa Benussi, Giuseppe Passarino, Aurelia Santoro, Francesca Tavano, Michele Mishto, Claudio Franceschi, Francesca Marchegiani, Fabiola Olivieri, Stefano Salvioli, Nadia Minicuci, Roberta Ghidoni, Maurizio Cardelli, Benedetta Nacmias, Paola Siviero, Antonio Torroni, Elisa Balducci, Carlo Gabelli, Francesca Rosini, Alessandro Achilli, Giuseppina Rose, Sandro Sorbi, Valentina Balbi, Gaetano Crepaldi, Elena Bellavista, Santoro A., Balbi V., Balducci E., Pirazzini C., Rosini F., Tavano F., Achilli A., Siviero P., Minicuci N., Bellavista E., Mishto M., Salvioli S., Marchegiani F., Cardelli M., Olivieri F., Nacmias B., Chiamenti A.M., Benussi L., Ghidoni R., Rose G., Gabelli C., Binetti G., Sorbi S., Crepaldi G., Passarino G., Torroni A., and Franceschi C.

Subjects
INVOLVEMENT, SELECTION, Mitochondrial DNA, CYTOCHROME-C-OXIDASE, mtDNA, Alzheimer's disease, Science, Respiratory chain, Biology, Genetics and Genomics/Complex Traits, VARIANTS, Human mitochondrial genetics, DNA, Mitochondrial, Haplogroup, Alzheimer Disease, HUMAN-POPULATIONS, medicine, Dementia, Humans, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, LONGEVITY, Phylogeny, Aged, Genetics, Multidisciplinary, Polymorphism, Genetic, MUTATIONS, Haplotype, HUMAN MTDNA, NEAR-EASTERN, medicine.disease, Evolutionary Biology/Human Evolution, Haplotypes, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, Medicine, Female, Public Health and Epidemiology/Epidemiology, Neurological Disorders/Alzheimer Disease, Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup, Research Article
Abstract

BackgroundAlzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease and the leading cause of dementia among senile subjects. It has been proposed that AD can be caused by defects in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. Given the fundamental contribution of the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) for the respiratory chain, there have been a number of studies investigating the association between mtDNA inherited variants and multifactorial diseases, however no general consensus has been reached yet on the correlation between mtDNA haplogroups and AD.Methodology/principal findingsWe applied for the first time a high resolution analysis (sequencing of displacement loop and restriction analysis of specific markers in the coding region of mtDNA) to investigate the possible association between mtDNA-inherited sequence variation and AD in 936 AD patients and 776 cognitively assessed normal controls from central and northern Italy. Among over 40 mtDNA sub-haplogroups analysed, we found that sub-haplogroup H5 is a risk factor for AD (OR=1.85, 95% CI:1.04-3.23) in particular for females (OR=2.19, 95% CI:1.06-4.51) and independently from the APOE genotype. Multivariate logistic regression revealed an interaction between H5 and age. When the whole sample is considered, the H5a subgroup of molecules, harboring the 4336 transition in the tRNAGln gene, already associated to AD in early studies, was about threefold more represented in AD patients than in controls (2.0% vs 0.8%; p=0.031), and it might account for the increased frequency of H5 in AD patients (4.2% vs 2.3%). The complete re-sequencing of the 56 mtDNAs belonging to H5 revealed that AD patients showed a trend towards a higher number (p=0.052) of sporadic mutations in tRNA and rRNA genes when compared with controls.ConclusionsOur results indicate that high resolution analysis of inherited mtDNA sequence variation can help in identifying both ancient polymorphisms defining sub-haplogroups and the accumulation of sporadic mutations associated with complex traits such as AD.

Published
2010

17. Deregulated expression of cryptochrome genes in human colorectal cancer

Author

Lina Sabatino, Manlio Vinciguerra, Anna Panza, Cristiana Tiberio, Rosa Rubino, Clelia Tiziana Storlazzi, Vittorio Colantuoni, Gemma Macchia, Valerio Pazienza, Annamaria Gentile, Domenico Trombetta, Giovanni Bisceglia, Angelo De Cata, Gianluigi Mazzoccoli, Valeria Rosato, Bartolomeo Augello, Francesca Tavano, Tommaso Colangelo, Giuseppe Merla, Maria Rosa Valvano, Ada Piepoli, Mazzoccoli, G, Colangelo, T, Panza, A, Rubino, R, De Cata, A, Tiberio, C, Valvano, Mr, Pazienza, V, Merla, G, Augello, B, Trombetta, D, Storlazzi, Ct, Macchia, G, Gentile, A, Tavano, F, Vinciguerra, M, Bisceglia, G, Rosato, V, Colantuoni, V, Sabatino, L, and Piepoli, A

Subjects
p53, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Cancer Research, Time Factors, Colorectal cancer, Gene Dosage, Apoptosis, medicine.disease_cause, 0302 clinical medicine, Gene expression, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Regulation of gene expression, Cell Cycle, Circadian, Cell cycle, Cryptochrome, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Molecular Medicine, Female, Colorectal Neoplasms, medicine.medical_specialty, animal structures, Antineoplastic Agents, Biology, Transfection, 03 medical and health sciences, Cell Line, Tumor, Internal medicine, medicine, Clock gene, Humans, RNA, Messenger, Aged, Cell Proliferation, Chronotherapy, Research, Cancer, medicine.disease, Molecular medicine, digestive system diseases, Cryptochromes, 030104 developmental biology, Endocrinology, Cancer research, Ectopic expression, sense organs, Carcinogenesis
Abstract

Background Circadian disruption and deranged molecular clockworks are involved in carcinogenesis. The cryptochrome genes (CRY1 and CRY2) encode circadian proteins important for the functioning of biological oscillators. Their expression in human colorectal cancer (CRC) and in colon cancer cell lines has not been evaluated so far. Methods We investigated CRY1 and CRY2 expression in fifty CRCs and in the CaCo2, HCT116, HT29, SW480 cell lines. Results CRY1 (p = 0.01) and CRY2 (p

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