1. Tuberculosis infection and lung adenocarcinoma: Mendelian randomization and pathway analysis of genome-wide association study data from never-smoking Asian women.
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Wong, Jason Y.Y., Zhang, Han, Hsiung, Chao A., Shiraishi, Kouya, Yu, Kai, Matsuo, Keitaro, Wong, Maria Pik, Hong, Yun-Chul, Wang, Jiucun, Seow, Wei Jie, Wang, Zhaoming, Song, Minsun, Kim, Hee Nam, Chang, I-Shou, Chatterjee, Nilanjan, Hu, Wei, Wu, Chen, Mitsudomi, Tetsuya, Zheng, Wei, and Kim, Jin Hee
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LUNG infections , *ADENOCARCINOMA , *LUNG cancer , *LUNG development , *EAST Asians - Abstract
We investigated whether genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) influences lung adenocarcinoma development among never-smokers using TB genome-wide association study (GWAS) results within the Female Lung Cancer Consortium in Asia. Pathway analysis with the adaptive rank truncated product method was used to assess the association between a TB-related gene-set and lung adenocarcinoma using GWAS data from 5512 lung adenocarcinoma cases and 6277 controls. The gene-set consisted of 31 genes containing known/suggestive associations with genetic variants from previous TB-GWAS. Subsequently, we followed-up with Mendelian Randomization to evaluate the association between TB and lung adenocarcinoma using three genome-wide significant variants from previous TB-GWAS in East Asians. The TB-related gene-set was associated with lung adenocarcinoma (p = 0.016). Additionally, the Mendelian Randomization showed an association between TB and lung adenocarcinoma (OR = 1.31, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.66, p = 0.027). Our findings support TB as a causal risk factor for lung cancer development among never-smoking Asian women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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