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1. Lake and Peat Records of Climate Change and Archaeology

Author: Langdon, P.G., primary, Brown, A.G., additional, Clarke, C.L., additional, Edwards, M.E., additional, Hughes, P.D.M., additional, Mayfield, R., additional, Monteath, A., additional, Sear, D., additional, and Mackay, H., additional
Published: 2023
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2. Free-living Physical Activity as a Novel Outcome Measure in Patients with Intermittent Claudication

Author: Clarke, C.L., Holdsworth, R.J., Ryan, C.G., and Granat, M.H.
Published: 2013
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3. Functional annotation of the 2q35 breast cancer risk locus implicates a structural variant in influencing activity of a long-range enhancer element

Author: Baxter, J.S., Johnson, N., Tomczyk, K., Gillespie, A., Maguire, S., Brough, R., Fachal, L., Michailidou, K., Bolla, M.K., Wang, Q., Dennis, J., Ahearn, T.U., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Antonenkova, N.N., Arndt, V., Aronson, K.J., Augustinsson, A., Becher, H., Beckmann, M.W., Behrens, S., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Bogdanova, N.V., Bojesen, S.E., Brenner, H., Brucker, S.Y., Cai, Q.Y., Campa, D., Canzian, F., Castelao, J.E., Chan, T.L., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S.J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Choi, J.Y., Clarke, C.L., Collaborators, N., Colonna, S., Conroy, D.M., Couch, F.J., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., Devilee, P., Dork, T., Dossus, L., Dwek, M., Eccles, D.M., Ekici, A.B., Eliassen, A.H., Engel, C., Fasching, P.A., Figueroa, J., Flyger, H., Gago-Dominguez, M., Gao, C., Garcia-Closas, M., Garcia-Saenz, J.A., Ghoussaini, M., Giles, G.G., Goldberg, M.S., Gonzalez-Neira, A., Guenel, P., Gundert, M., Haeberle, L., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C.A., Hall, P., Hamann, U., Hartman, M., Hatse, S., Hauke, J., Hollestelle, A., Hoppe, R., Hopper, J.L., Hou, M.F., Ito, H., Iwasaki, M., Jager, A., Jakubowska, A., Janni, W., John, E.M., Joseph, V., Jung, A., Kaaks, R., Kang, D., Keeman, R., Khusnutdinova, E., Kim, S.W., Kosma, V.M., Kraft, P., Kristensen, V.N., Kubelka-Sabit, K., Kurian, A.W., Kwong, A., Lacey, J.V., Lambrechts, D., Larson, N.L., Larsson, S.C., Marchand, L. le, Lejbkowicz, F., Li, J.M., Long, J.R., Lophatananon, A., LubiNski, J., Mannermaa, A., Manoochehri, M., Manoukian, S., Margolin, S., Matsuo, K., Mavroudis, D., Mayes, R., Menon, U., Milne, R.L., Taib, N.A.M., Muir, K., Muranen, T.A., Murphy, R.A., Nevanlinna, H., O'Brien, K.M., Offit, K., Olson, J.E., Olsson, H., Park, S.K., Park-Simon, T.W., Patel, A.V., Peterlongo, P., Peto, J., Plaseska-Karanfilska, D., Presneau, N., Pylkas, K., Rack, B., Rennert, G., Romero, A., Ruebner, M., Rudiger, T., Saloustros, E., Sandler, D.P., Sawyer, E.J., Schmidt, M.K., Schmutzler, R.K., Schneeweiss, A., Schoemaker, M.J., Shah, M., Shen, C.Y., Shu, X.O., Simard, J., Southey, M.C., Stone, J., Surowy, H., Swerdlow, A.J., Tamimi, R.M., Tapper, W.J., Taylor, J.A., Teo, S.H., Teras, L.R., Terry, M.B., Toland, A.E., Tomlinson, I., Truong, T., Tseng, C.C., Untch, M., Vachon, C.M., Ouweland, A.M.W. van den, Wang, S.S., Weinberg, C.R., Wendt, C., Winham, S.J., Winqvist, R., Wolk, A., Wu, A.H., Yamaji, T., Zheng, W., Ziogas, A., Pharoah, P.D.P., Dunning, A.M., Easton, D.F., Pettitt, S.J., Lord, C.J., Haider, S., Orr, N., Fletcher, O., kConFab Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, Medical Oncology, Clinical Genetics, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Biosciences, Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Basic medicine, breast cancer risk, 0302 clinical medicine, Transcription (biology), Risk Factors, WIDE ASSOCIATION, TRANSCRIPTION, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Genetics (clinical), Sequence Deletion, Genetics, Genetics & Heredity, 0303 health sciences, Chromosome Mapping, 3. Good health, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2, Pair 2, Female, Medical Genetics, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Human, Tumor suppressor gene, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, In silico, 3122 Cancers, Locus (genetics), Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Chromosomes, Article, Cell Line, RNAS, Promoter Regions, 03 medical and health sciences, functional annotation, risk locus, CRISPR-Cas Systems, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Variation, Humans, Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 5, Molecular Sequence Annotation, 11Q13, Genetic, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Enhancer, Transcription factor, 030304 developmental biology, Medicinsk genetik, Reporter gene, Science & Technology, IDENTIFICATION, Clinical medicine, Estrogen receptor alpha
Abstract: A combination of genetic and functional approaches has identified three independent breast cancer risk loci at 2q35. A recent fine-scale mapping analysis to refine these associations resulted in 1 (signal 1), 5 (signal 2), and 42 (signal 3) credible causal variants at these loci. We used publicly available in silico DNase I and ChIP-seq data with in vitro reporter gene and CRISPR assays to annotate signals 2 and 3. We identified putative regulatory elements that enhanced cell-type-specific transcription from the IGFBP5 promoter at both signals (30- to 40-fold increased expression by the putative regulatory element at signal 2, 2- to 3-fold by the putative regulatory element at signal 3). We further identified one of the five credible causal variants at signal 2, a 1.4 kb deletion (esv3594306), as the likely causal variant; the deletion allele of this variant was associated with an average additional increase in IGFBP5 expression of 1.3-fold (MCF-7) and 2.2-fold (T-47D). We propose a model in which the deletion allele of esv3594306 juxtaposes two transcription factor binding regions (annotated by estrogen receptor alpha ChIP-seq peaks) to generate a single extended regulatory element. This regulatory element increases cell-type-specific expression of the tumor suppressor gene IGFBP5 and, thereby, reduces risk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (odds ratio = 0.77, 95% CI 0.74-0.81, p = 3.1 × 10-31). ispartof: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS vol:108 issue:7 pages:1190-1203 ispartof: location:United States status: published
Published: 2021

4. A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers

Author: Coignard, J., Lush, M., Beesley, J., O'Mara, T.A., Dennis, J., Tyrer, J.P., Barnes, D.R., McGuffog, L., Leslie, G., Bolla, M.K., Adank, M.A., Agata, S., Ahearn, T., Aittomäki, K., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Arndt, V., Arnold, N., Aronson, K.J., Arun, B.K., Augustinsson, A., Azzollini, J., Barrowdale, D., Baynes, C., Becher, H., Bermisheva, M., Bernstein, L., Białkowska, K., Blomqvist, C., Bojesen, S.E., Bonanni, B., Borg, A., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Burwinkel, B., Buys, S.S., Caldés, T., Caligo, M.A., Campa, D., Carter, B.D., Castelao, J.E., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S.J., Chung, W.K., Claes, K.B.M., Clarke, C.L., Collée, J.M., Conroy, D.M., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., Devilee, P., Diez, O., Ding, Y.C., Domchek, S.M., Dörk, T., Dos-Santos-Silva, I., Dunning, A.M., Dwek, M., Eccles, D.M., Eliassen, A.H., Engel, C., Eriksson, M., Evans, D.G., Fasching, P.A., Flyger, H., Fostira, F., Friedman, E., Fritschi, L., Frost, D., Gago-Dominguez, M., Gapstur, S.M., Garber, J., Garcia-Barberan, V., García-Closas, M., García-Sáenz, J.A., Gaudet, M.M., Gayther, S.A., Gehrig, A., Georgoulias, V., Giles, G.G., Godwin, A.K., Goldberg, M.S., Goldgar, D.E., González-Neira, A., Greene, M.H., Guénel, P., Haeberle, L., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C.A., Håkansson, N., Hall, P., Hamann, U., Harrington, Patrick, Hart, S.N., He, W., Hogervorst, F.B., Hollestelle, A., Mensenkamp, A.R., Hopper, J.L., Horcasitas, D.J., Hulick, P.J., Coignard, J., Lush, M., Beesley, J., O'Mara, T.A., Dennis, J., Tyrer, J.P., Barnes, D.R., McGuffog, L., Leslie, G., Bolla, M.K., Adank, M.A., Agata, S., Ahearn, T., Aittomäki, K., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Arndt, V., Arnold, N., Aronson, K.J., Arun, B.K., Augustinsson, A., Azzollini, J., Barrowdale, D., Baynes, C., Becher, H., Bermisheva, M., Bernstein, L., Białkowska, K., Blomqvist, C., Bojesen, S.E., Bonanni, B., Borg, A., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Burwinkel, B., Buys, S.S., Caldés, T., Caligo, M.A., Campa, D., Carter, B.D., Castelao, J.E., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S.J., Chung, W.K., Claes, K.B.M., Clarke, C.L., Collée, J.M., Conroy, D.M., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., Devilee, P., Diez, O., Ding, Y.C., Domchek, S.M., Dörk, T., Dos-Santos-Silva, I., Dunning, A.M., Dwek, M., Eccles, D.M., Eliassen, A.H., Engel, C., Eriksson, M., Evans, D.G., Fasching, P.A., Flyger, H., Fostira, F., Friedman, E., Fritschi, L., Frost, D., Gago-Dominguez, M., Gapstur, S.M., Garber, J., Garcia-Barberan, V., García-Closas, M., García-Sáenz, J.A., Gaudet, M.M., Gayther, S.A., Gehrig, A., Georgoulias, V., Giles, G.G., Godwin, A.K., Goldberg, M.S., Goldgar, D.E., González-Neira, A., Greene, M.H., Guénel, P., Haeberle, L., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C.A., Håkansson, N., Hall, P., Hamann, U., Harrington, Patrick, Hart, S.N., He, W., Hogervorst, F.B., Hollestelle, A., Mensenkamp, A.R., Hopper, J.L., Horcasitas, D.J., and Hulick, P.J.
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 231768.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access), Breast cancer (BC) risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers varies by genetic and familial factors. About 50 common variants have been shown to modify BC risk for mutation carriers. All but three, were identified in general population studies. Other mutation carrier-specific susceptibility variants may exist but studies of mutation carriers have so far been underpowered. We conduct a novel case-only genome-wide association study comparing genotype frequencies between 60,212 general population BC cases and 13,007 cases with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. We identify robust novel associations for 2 variants with BC for BRCA1 and 3 for BRCA2 mutation carriers, P < 10(-8), at 5 loci, which are not associated with risk in the general population. They include rs60882887 at 11p11.2 where MADD, SP11 and EIF1, genes previously implicated in BC biology, are predicted as potential targets. These findings will contribute towards customising BC polygenic risk scores for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Published: 2021

5. A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers

Author: Coignard, J. (Juliette), Lush, M. (Michael), Beesley, J. (Jonathan), O’Mara, T.A. (Tracy A.), Dennis, J. (Joe), Tyrer, J.P. (Jonathan P.), Barnes, D. (Daniel), McGuffog, L. (Lesley), Leslie, G. (Goska), Bolla, M.K. (Manjeet K.), Adank, M.A. (Muriel), Agata, S. (Simona), Ahearn, T. (Thomas), Aittomäki, K. (Kristiina), Andrulis, I.L. (Irene L.), Anton-Culver, H. (Hoda), Arndt, V. (Volker), Arnold, N. (Norbert), Aronson, K.J. (Kristan J.), Arun, B.K. (Banu), Augustinsson, A. (Annelie), Azzollini, J., Barrowdale, D. (Daniel), Baynes, C. (Caroline), Becher, H. (Heko), Bermisheva, M. (Marina), Bernstein, L. (Leslie), Białkowska, K. (Katarzyna), Blomqvist, C. (Carl), Bojesen, S.E. (Stig), Bonnani, B. (Bernardo), Borg, Å. (Åke), Brauch, H. (Hiltrud), Brenner, H. (Hermann), Burwinkel, B. (Barbara), Buys, S.S. (Saundra S.), Caldes, T. (Trinidad), Caligo, M.A. (Maria A.), Campa, D. (Daniele), Carter, B.D. (Brian D.), Castelao, J.E. (Jose ), Chang-Claude, J. (Jenny), Chanock, S.J. (Stephen J.), Chung, W.K. (Wendy K.), Claes, K.B.M. (Kathleen B. M.), Clarke, C.L. (Christine L.), Bertrand, O. (Ophélie), Caputo, S. (Sandrine), Dupré, A. (Anaïs), Le Mentec, M. (Marine), Belotti, M. (Muriel), Birot, A.-M. (Anne-Marie), Buecher, B. (Bruno), Fourme, E. (Emmanuelle), Gauthier-Villars, M. (Marion), Golmard, L. (Lisa), Houdayer, C. (Claude), Moncoutier, V. (Virginie), de Pauw, A. (Antoine), Saule, C. (Claire), Sinilnikova, O. (Olga), Mazoyer, S. (Sylvie), Damiola, F. (Francesca), Barjhoux, L. (Laure), Verny-Pierre, C. (Carole), Léone, M. (Mélanie), Boutry-Kryza, N. (N.), Calender, A. (Alain), Giraud, S. (Sophie), Caron, O. (Olivier), Guillaud-Bataille, M. (Marine), Bressac-de Paillerets, B. (Brigitte), Bignon, Y.-J. (Yves-Jean), Uhrhammer, N. (Nancy), Lasset, C. (Christine), Bonadona, V. (Valérie), Berthet, P. (Pascaline), Vaur, D. (Dominique), Castera, L. (Laurent), Noguchi, T. (Tetsuro), Popovici, C. (Cornel), Sobol, H. (Hagay), Bourdon, V. 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(Johanna), Bronner, M. (Myriam), Collonge-Rame, M.-A., Damette, A. (Alexandre), Gesta, P. (Paul), Lallaoui, H. (Hakima), Chiesa, J. (Jean), Molina-Gomes, D. (Denise), Ingster, O. (Olivier), Gregory, H. (Helen), Miedzybrodzka, Z. (Zosia), Morrison, P.J. (Patrick J.), Ong, K.-R. (Kai-ren), Donaldson, A. (Alan), Rogers, M.T. (Mark), Kennedy, M.J. (M. John), Porteous, M.E. (Mary), Brewer, C. (Carole), Davidson, R. (Rosemarie), Izatt, L. (Louise), Brady, A. (A.), Barwell, J. (Julian), Adlard, J.W. (Julian), Foo, C. (Claire), Lalloo, F. (Fiona), Side, L.E. (Lucy E.), Eason, J. (Jacqueline), Henderson, A. (Alex), Walker, L. (Lisa), Eeles, R. (Rosalind), Cook, J. (Jackie), Snape, K. (Katie), Eccles, D. (Diana), Murray, A. (Alexandra), McCann, E. (Emma), Collée, J.M. (J. Margriet), Conroy, D.M. (Don M.), Czene, K. (Kamila), Daly, M.B. (Mary B.), Devilee, P. (Peter), Diez, O. (Orland), Ding, Y.C. (Yuan Chun), Domchek, S.M. (Susan), Dörk, T. (Thilo), Santos Silva, I. (Isabel) dos, Dunning, A.M. (Alison M.), Dwek, M. (Miriam), Eccles, D.M. (Diana M.), Eliassen, A.H. (A. Heather), Engel, C. (Christoph), Eriksson, M. (Mikael), Evans, D.G. (D. Gareth), Fasching, P.A. (Peter), Flyger, H. (Henrik), Fostira, F. (Florentia), Friedman, E. (Eitan), Fritschi, L. (Lin), Frost, D. (Debra), Gago-Dominguez, M. (Manuela), Gapstur, S.M. (Susan M.), Garber, J. (Judy), Garcia-Barberan, V. (Vanesa), García-Closas, M. (Montserrat), García-Sáenz, J.A. (José A.), Gaudet, M.M. (Mia M.), Gayther, S.A. (Simon), Gehrig, A. (Andrea), Georgoulias, V. (Vassilios), Giles, G.G. (Graham G.), Godwin, A.K. (Andrew K.), Goldberg, M.S. (Mark), Radice, P. (Paolo), González-Neira, A. (Anna), Greene, M.H. (Mark H.), Guénel, P. (Pascal), Haeberle, L. (Lothar), Hahnen, E. (Eric), Haiman, C.A. (Christopher), Håkansson, N. (Niclas), Hall, P. (Per), Hamann, U. (Ute), Harrington, P.A. (Patricia A.), Hart, S.N. (Steven N.), He, W. (Wei), Hogervorst, F.B.L. (Frans B. L.), Hollestelle, A. 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(Marinus J.), Rookus, M.A. (Matti), van der Luijt, R.B. (Rob B.), Cronenburg, T.C.T.E.F. van, Pol, C. (Carmen) van der, Russell, N.S. (Nicola), Siesling, S. (Sabine), Overbeek, L.I.H. (Lucy), Wijnands, R. (R.), Lange, J.L. (J.) de, Clarke, C. (Christine), Graham, D. (Dinny), Sachchithananthan, M. (Mythily), Marsh, D. (Deborah), Scott, R.J. (Rodney), Baxter, R. (Robert), Yip, D. (Desmond), Carpenter, T.A. (Adrian), Davis, A. (Alison), Pathmanathan, N. (Nirmala), Simpson, P. (Peter), Jager, A. (Agnes), Jakubowska, A. (Anna), James, M. (Margaret), Jensen, U.B. (Uffe Birk), John, E.M. (Esther), Jones, M.E. (Michael E.), Kaaks, R. (Rudolf), Kapoor, P.M. (Pooja Middha), Karlan, B.Y. (Beth), Keeman, R. (Renske), Khusnutdinova, E.K. (Elza), Kiiski, J.I. (Johanna I.), Ko, Y.-D. (Yon-Dschun), Kosma, V.-M. (Veli-Matti), Kraft, P. (Peter), Kurian, A.W. (Allison W.), Laitman, Y. (Yael), Lambrechts, D. (Diether), Le Marchand, L. (Loic), Lester, J. (Jenny), Lesueur, F. (Fabienne), Lindstrom, T. 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Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers varies by genetic and familial factors. About 50 common variants have been shown to modify BC risk for mutation carriers. All but three, were identified in general population studies. Other mutation carrier-specific susceptibility variants may exist but studies of mutation carriers have so far been underpowered. We conduct a novel case-only genome-wide association study comparing genotype frequencies between 60,212 general population BC cases and 13,007 cases with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. We identify robust novel associations for 2 variants with BC for BRCA1 and 3 for BRCA2 mutation carriers, P < 10−8, at 5 loci, which are not associated with risk in the general population. They include rs60882887 at 11p11.2 where MADD, SP11 and EIF1, genes previously implicated in BC biology, are predicted as potential targets. These findings will contribute towards customising BC polygenic risk scores for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Published: 2021
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6. Author Correction: A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers (Nature Communications, (2021), 12, 1, (1078), 10.1038/s41467-020-20496-3).

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D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., and Antoniou A.C.
Abstract: The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Heiko Becher, which was incorrectly given as Heko Becher. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

7. Breast cancer risk factors and survival by tumor subtype: Pooled analyses from the breast cancer association consortium.

Author: Morra A., Jung A.Y., Behrens S., Keeman R., Ahearn T.U., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Augustinsson A., Auvinen P.K., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Briceno I., Brucker S.Y., Camp N.J., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Choi J.-Y., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Dork T., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Easton D.F., Eccles D.M., Egan K.M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Han S.N., Hart S.N., Hartman M., Heyworth J.S., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Ito H., Jager A., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janni W., Kaaks R., Kang D., Kapoor P.M., Kitahara C.M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Li J., Lindblom A., Lubi-Nski J., Lush M., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Mariapun S., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Milne R.L., Muranen T.A., Newman W.G., Noh D.-Y., Nordestgaard B.G., Obi N., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Petridis C., Pharoah P.D.P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schneeweiss A., Schwentner L., Scott C., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Southey M.C., Stram D.O., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Troester M.A., Therese Truong, Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Wang S.S., Williams J.A., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yoo K.-Y., Yu J.-C., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Yang X.R., Eliassen A.H., Holmes M.D., Garcia-Closas M., Teo S.H., Schmidt M.K., Chang-Claude J., Morra A., Jung A.Y., Behrens S., Keeman R., Ahearn T.U., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Augustinsson A., Auvinen P.K., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Briceno I., Brucker S.Y., Camp N.J., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Choi J.-Y., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Dork T., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Easton D.F., Eccles D.M., Egan K.M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Han S.N., Hart S.N., Hartman M., Heyworth J.S., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Ito H., Jager A., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janni W., Kaaks R., Kang D., Kapoor P.M., Kitahara C.M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Li J., Lindblom A., Lubi-Nski J., Lush M., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Mariapun S., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Milne R.L., Muranen T.A., Newman W.G., Noh D.-Y., Nordestgaard B.G., Obi N., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Petridis C., Pharoah P.D.P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schneeweiss A., Schwentner L., Scott C., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Southey M.C., Stram D.O., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Troester M.A., Therese Truong, Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Wang S.S., Williams J.A., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yoo K.-Y., Yu J.-C., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Yang X.R., Eliassen A.H., Holmes M.D., Garcia-Closas M., Teo S.H., Schmidt M.K., and Chang-Claude J.
Abstract: Background: It is not known whether modifiable lifestyle factors that predict survival after invasive breast cancer differ by subtype. Method(s): We analyzed data for 121,435 women diagnosed with breast cancer from 67 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium with 16,890 deaths (8,554 breast cancer specific) over 10 years. Cox regression was used to estimate associations between risk factors and 10-year all-cause mortality and breast cancer. specific mortality overall, by estrogen receptor (ER) status, and by intrinsic-like subtype. Result(s): There was no evidence of heterogeneous associations between risk factors and mortality by subtype (Padj > 0.30). The strongest associations were between all-cause mortality and BMI >=30 versus 18.5.25 kg/m2 [HR (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.19 (1.06-1.34)]; current versus never smoking [1.37 (1.27-1.47)], high versus low physical activity [0.43 (0.21-0.86)], age >=30 years versus <20 years at first pregnancy [0.79 (0.72-0.86)]; >0.<5 years versus >=10 years since last full-term birth [1.31 (1.11-1.55)]; ever versus never use of oral contraceptives [0.91 (0.87-0.96)]; ever versus never use of menopausal hormone therapy, including current estrogen.progestin therapy [0.61 (0.54.0.69)]. Similar associations with breast cancer mortality were weaker; for example, 1.11 (1.02-1.21) for current versus never smoking. Conclusion(s): We confirm associations between modifiable lifestyle factors and 10-year all-cause mortality. There was no strong evidence that associations differed by ER status or intrinsic-like subtype. Impact: Given the large dataset and lack of evidence that associations between modifiable risk factors and 10-year mortality differed by subtype, these associations could be cautiously used in prognostication models to inform patient-centered care.Copyright © 2021 American Association for Cancer Research.
Published: 2021

8. A tumour suppressive relationship between mineralocorticoid and retinoic acid receptors activates a transcriptional program consistent with a reverse Warburg effect in breast cancer.

Author: Clarke C.L., Doan T.B., Cheung V., Clyne C.D., Hilton H.N., Eriksson N., Graham J.D., Young M.J., Funder J.W., Muscat G.E.O., Fuller P.J., Clarke C.L., Doan T.B., Cheung V., Clyne C.D., Hilton H.N., Eriksson N., Graham J.D., Young M.J., Funder J.W., Muscat G.E.O., and Fuller P.J.
Abstract: Background: The role of nuclear receptors in both the aetiology and treatment of breast cancer is exemplified by the use of the oestrogen receptor (ER) as a prognostic marker and treatment target. Treatments targeting the oestrogen signalling pathway are initially highly effective for most patients. However, for the breast cancers that fail to respond, or become resistant, to current endocrine treatments, the long-term outlook is poor. ER is a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily, comprising 48 members in the human, many of which are expressed in the breast and could be used as alternative targets in cases where current treatments are ineffective. Method(s): We used sparse canonical correlation analysis to interrogate potential novel nuclear receptor expression relationships in normal breast and breast cancer. These were further explored using whole transcriptome profiling in breast cancer cells after combinations of ligand treatments. Result(s): Using this approach, we discovered a tumour suppressive relationship between the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) and retinoic acid receptors (RAR), in particular RARbeta. Expression profiling of MR expressing breast cancer cells revealed that mineralocorticoid and retinoid co-treatment activated an expression program consistent with a reverse Warburg effect and growth inhibition, which was not observed with either ligand alone. Moreover, high expression of both MR and RARB was associated with improved breast cancer-specific survival. Conclusion(s): Our study reveals a previously unknown relationship between MR and RAR in the breast, which is dependent on menopausal state and altered in malignancy. This finding identifies potential new targets for the treatment of breast cancers that are refractory to existing therapeutic options.Copyright © 2020, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

9. Mendelian randomisation study of smoking exposure in relation to breast cancer risk.

Author: Park H.A., Neumeyer S., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baten A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grip M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Han S., Harkness E.F., Hart S.N., He W., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Chenevix-Trench G., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Scott R., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Koppert L.B., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lo W.-Y., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Menon U., Milne R.L., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nordestgaard B.G., Offit K., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Radice P., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Schwentner L., Scott C., Shah M., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smeets A., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stevens V., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Vijai J., Wang S., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Zheng W., Kraft P., Chang-Claude J., Park H.A., Neumeyer S., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baten A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grip M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Han S., Harkness E.F., Hart S.N., He W., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Chenevix-Trench G., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Scott R., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Koppert L.B., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lo W.-Y., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Menon U., Milne R.L., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nordestgaard B.G., Offit K., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Radice P., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Schwentner L., Scott C., Shah M., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smeets A., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stevens V., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Vijai J., Wang S., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Zheng W., Kraft P., and Chang-Claude J.
Abstract: Background: Despite a modest association between tobacco smoking and breast cancer risk reported by recent epidemiological studies, it is still equivocal whether smoking is causally related to breast cancer risk. Method(s): We applied Mendelian randomisation (MR) to evaluate a potential causal effect of cigarette smoking on breast cancer risk. Both individual-level data as well as summary statistics for 164 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) reported in genome-wide association studies of lifetime smoking index (LSI) or cigarette per day (CPD) were used to obtain MR effect estimates. Data from 108,420 invasive breast cancer cases and 87,681 controls were used for the LSI analysis and for the CPD analysis conducted among ever-smokers from 26,147 cancer cases and 26,072 controls. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to address pleiotropy. Result(s): Genetically predicted LSI was associated with increased breast cancer risk (OR 1.18 per SD, 95% CI: 1.07-1.30, P = 0.11 x 10-2), but there was no evidence of association for genetically predicted CPD (OR 1.02, 95% CI: 0.78-1.19, P = 0.85). The sensitivity analyses yielded similar results and showed no strong evidence of pleiotropic effect. Conclusion(s): Our MR study provides supportive evidence for a potential causal association with breast cancer risk for lifetime smoking exposure but not cigarettes per day among smokers.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

10. Erratum: Author Correction: A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers (Nature communications (2021) 12 1 (1078)).

Author: Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Adank M.A., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Collee J.M., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., Dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Adank M.A., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Collee J.M., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., Dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Milne R.L., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., and Antoniou A.C.
Abstract: A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23162-4.
Published: 2021

11. Functional annotation of the 2q35 breast cancer risk locus implicates a structural variant in influencing activity of a long-range enhancer element.

Author: Baxter J.S., Johnson N., Tomczyk K., Gillespie A., Maguire S., Brough R., Fachal L., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Cai Q., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chan T.L., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Choi J.-Y., Clarke C.L., Colonna S., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., Dossus L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Ghoussaini M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Guenel P., Gundert M., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartman M., Hatse S., Hauke J., Hollestelle A., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hou M.-F., Ito H., Iwasaki M., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Joseph V., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kang D., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kubelka-Sabit K., Kurian A.W., Kwong A., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Larson N.L., Larsson S.C., Le Marchand L., Lejbkowicz F., Li J., Long J., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Menon U., Milne R.L., Mohd Taib N.A., Muir K., Muranen T.A., Murphy R.A., Nevanlinna H., O'Brien K.M., Offit K., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Pylkas K., Rack B., Rennert G., Romero A., Ruebner M., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teo S.H., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Toland A.E., Tomlinson I., Truong T., Tseng C.-C., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Winham S.J., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yamaji T., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Pharoah P.D.P., Dunning A.M., Easton D.F., Pettitt S.J., Lord C.J., Haider S., Orr N., Fletcher O., Baxter J.S., Johnson N., Tomczyk K., Gillespie A., Maguire S., Brough R., Fachal L., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Cai Q., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chan T.L., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Choi J.-Y., Clarke C.L., Colonna S., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., Dossus L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Ghoussaini M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Guenel P., Gundert M., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartman M., Hatse S., Hauke J., Hollestelle A., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Hou M.-F., Ito H., Iwasaki M., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Joseph V., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kang D., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kubelka-Sabit K., Kurian A.W., Kwong A., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Larson N.L., Larsson S.C., Le Marchand L., Lejbkowicz F., Li J., Long J., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Menon U., Milne R.L., Mohd Taib N.A., Muir K., Muranen T.A., Murphy R.A., Nevanlinna H., O'Brien K.M., Offit K., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Pylkas K., Rack B., Rennert G., Romero A., Ruebner M., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teo S.H., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Toland A.E., Tomlinson I., Truong T., Tseng C.-C., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Winham S.J., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yamaji T., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Pharoah P.D.P., Dunning A.M., Easton D.F., Pettitt S.J., Lord C.J., Haider S., Orr N., and Fletcher O.
Abstract: A combination of genetic and functional approaches has identified three independent breast cancer risk loci at 2q35. A recent fine-scale mapping analysis to refine these associations resulted in 1 (signal 1), 5 (signal 2), and 42 (signal 3) credible causal variants at these loci. We used publicly available in silico DNase I and ChIP-seq data with in vitro reporter gene and CRISPR assays to annotate signals 2 and 3. We identified putative regulatory elements that enhanced cell-type-specific transcription from the IGFBP5 promoter at both signals (30- to 40-fold increased expression by the putative regulatory element at signal 2, 2- to 3-fold by the putative regulatory element at signal 3). We further identified one of the five credible causal variants at signal 2, a 1.4 kb deletion (esv3594306), as the likely causal variant; the deletion allele of this variant was associated with an average additional increase in IGFBP5 expression of 1.3-fold (MCF-7) and 2.2-fold (T-47D). We propose a model in which the deletion allele of esv3594306 juxtaposes two transcription factor binding regions (annotated by estrogen receptor alpha ChIP-seq peaks) to generate a single extended regulatory element. This regulatory element increases cell-type-specific expression of the tumor suppressor gene IGFBP5 and, thereby, reduces risk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (odds ratio = 0.77, 95% CI 0.74-0.81, p = 3.1 x 10-31).Copyright © 2021 The Authors
Published: 2021

12. CYP3A7*1C allele: linking premenopausal oestrone and progesterone levels with risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers.

Author: Johnson N., Maguire S., Morra A., Kapoor P.M., Tomczyk K., Jones M.E., Schoemaker M.J., Gilham C., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baynes C., Freeman L.E.B., Beckmann M.W., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Alnaes G.I.G., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Dork T., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Floris G., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Closas M., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Bowtell D.D.L., Webb P.M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hooning M.J., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R.L., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M.C., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Linet M., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Meindl A., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Obi N., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orban E., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Pylkas K., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Ruddy K.J., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Scott C., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smichkoska S., Sohn C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Tamimi R.M., Taylor J.A., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Howie A.F., Peto J., dos-Santos-Silva I., Swerdlow A.J., Chang-Claude J., Schmidt M.K., Orr N., Fletcher O., Johnson N., Maguire S., Morra A., Kapoor P.M., Tomczyk K., Jones M.E., Schoemaker M.J., Gilham C., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Baynes C., Freeman L.E.B., Beckmann M.W., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Alnaes G.I.G., Sahlberg K.K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C.E., Reinertsen K.V., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Conroy D.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Dork T., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Floris G., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Closas M., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Bowtell D.D.L., Webb P.M., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hooning M.J., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Clarke C., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., Marsh D., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Milne R.L., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Sexton A., Shelling A., Simpson P., Southey M.C., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Jager A., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Linet M., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., Meindl A., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Obi N., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orban E., Park-Simon T.-W., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Pylkas K., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Ruddy K.J., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Scott C., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Smichkoska S., Sohn C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Tamimi R.M., Taylor J.A., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Wang S.S., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Howie A.F., Peto J., dos-Santos-Silva I., Swerdlow A.J., Chang-Claude J., Schmidt M.K., Orr N., and Fletcher O.
Abstract: Background: Epidemiological studies provide strong evidence for a role of endogenous sex hormones in the aetiology of breast cancer. The aim of this analysis was to identify genetic variants that are associated with urinary sex-hormone levels and breast cancer risk. Method(s): We carried out a genome-wide association study of urinary oestrone-3-glucuronide and pregnanediol-3-glucuronide levels in 560 premenopausal women, with additional analysis of progesterone levels in 298 premenopausal women. To test for the association with breast cancer risk, we carried out follow-up genotyping in 90,916 cases and 89,893 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. All women were of European ancestry. Result(s): For pregnanediol-3-glucuronide, there were no genome-wide significant associations; for oestrone-3-glucuronide, we identified a single peak mapping to the CYP3A locus, annotated by rs45446698. The minor rs45446698-C allele was associated with lower oestrone-3-glucuronide (-49.2%, 95% CI -56.1% to -41.1%, P = 3.1 x 10-18); in follow-up analyses, rs45446698-C was also associated with lower progesterone (-26.7%, 95% CI -39.4% to -11.6%, P = 0.001) and reduced risk of oestrogen and progesterone receptor-positive breast cancer (OR = 0.86, 95% CI 0.82-0.91, P = 6.9 x 10-8). Conclusion(s): The CYP3A7*1C allele is associated with reduced risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer possibly mediated via an effect on the metabolism of endogenous sex hormones in premenopausal women.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

13. Combined Associations of a Polygenic Risk Score and Classical Risk Factors with Breast Cancer Risk.

Author: Kapoor P.M., Mavaddat N., Choudhury P.P., Wilcox A.N., Lindstrom S., Behrens S., Michailidou K., Dennis J., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Jung A., Abu-Ful Z., Ahearn T., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Auer P.L., Freeman L.E.B., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Beeghly-Fadiel A., Benitez J., Bernstein L., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Bruning T., Cai Q., Campa D., Canzian F., Carracedo A., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chatterjee N., Chenevix-Trench G., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Dai J.Y., Earp H.S., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Fritschi L., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Gapstur S.M., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Gonzalez-Neira A., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hatse S., Heyworth J., Holleczek B., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Keeman R., Kitahara C.M., Ko Y.-D., Koutros S., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Lejbkowicz F., Linet M., Lissowska J., Llaneza A., Macinnis R.J., Martinez M.E., Maurer T., Mclean C., Neuhausen S.L., Newman W.G., Norman A., O'brien K.M., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orr N., Perou C.M., Pita G., Polley E.C., Prentice R.L., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Ruddy K.J., Sandler D.P., Saunders C., Schoemaker M.J., Schottker B., Schumacher F., Scott C., Scott R.J., Shu X.-O., Smeets A., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Taylor J.A., Troester M.A., Vachon C.M., Van Veen E.M., Wang X., Weinberg C.R., Weltens C., Willett W., Winham S.J., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Schmidt M.K., Kraft P., Easton D.F., Milne R.L., Garcia-Closas M., Chang-Claude J., Kapoor P.M., Mavaddat N., Choudhury P.P., Wilcox A.N., Lindstrom S., Behrens S., Michailidou K., Dennis J., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Jung A., Abu-Ful Z., Ahearn T., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Auer P.L., Freeman L.E.B., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Beeghly-Fadiel A., Benitez J., Bernstein L., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Bruning T., Cai Q., Campa D., Canzian F., Carracedo A., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chatterjee N., Chenevix-Trench G., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Dai J.Y., Earp H.S., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Fritschi L., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Gapstur S.M., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Gonzalez-Neira A., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hatse S., Heyworth J., Holleczek B., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Keeman R., Kitahara C.M., Ko Y.-D., Koutros S., Kurian A.W., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Lejbkowicz F., Linet M., Lissowska J., Llaneza A., Macinnis R.J., Martinez M.E., Maurer T., Mclean C., Neuhausen S.L., Newman W.G., Norman A., O'brien K.M., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orr N., Perou C.M., Pita G., Polley E.C., Prentice R.L., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Ruddy K.J., Sandler D.P., Saunders C., Schoemaker M.J., Schottker B., Schumacher F., Scott C., Scott R.J., Shu X.-O., Smeets A., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Taylor J.A., Troester M.A., Vachon C.M., Van Veen E.M., Wang X., Weinberg C.R., Weltens C., Willett W., Winham S.J., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Schmidt M.K., Kraft P., Easton D.F., Milne R.L., Garcia-Closas M., and Chang-Claude J.
Abstract: We evaluated the joint associations between a new 313-variant PRS (PRS313) and questionnaire-based breast cancer risk factors for women of European ancestry, using 72 284 cases and 80 354 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Interactions were evaluated using standard logistic regression and a newly developed case-only method for breast cancer risk overall and by estrogen receptor status. After accounting for multiple testing, we did not find evidence that per-standard deviation PRS313 odds ratio differed across strata defined by individual risk factors. Goodness-of-fit tests did not reject the assumption of a multiplicative model between PRS313 and each risk factor. Variation in projected absolute lifetime risk of breast cancer associated with classical risk factors was greater for women with higher genetic risk (PRS313 and family history) and, on average, 17.5% higher in the highest vs lowest deciles of genetic risk. These findings have implications for risk prevention for women at increased risk of breast cancer. Copyright © 2020 The Author(s).
Published: 2021

14. A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers.

Author: Radice P., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R.L., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Robson M., Radice P., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santella R., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt G., Scott C., Sharma P., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steinsnyder Z., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Trainer A.H., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., Vega A., Vijai J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yadav S., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Park S.K., Thomassen M., Offit K., Schmutzler R.K., Couch F.J., Simard J., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Andrieu N., Antoniou A.C., Coignard J., Lush M., Beesley J., O'Mara T.A., Dennis J., Tyrer J.P., Barnes D.R., McGuffog L., Leslie G., Bolla M.K., Agata S., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Augustinsson A., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Baynes C., Becher H., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Bertrand O., Caputo S., Dupre A., Le Mentec M., Belotti M., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Houdayer C., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Sinilnikova O., Mazoyer S., Damiola F., Barjhoux L., Verny-Pierre C., Leone M., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Lasset C., Bonadona V., Berthet P., Vaur D., Castera L., Popovici C., Sobol H., Bourdon V., Noguchi T., Remenieras A., Nogues C., Coupier I., Pujol P., Dumont A., Revillion F., Adenis C., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Sevenet N., Longy M., Toulas C., Guimbaud R., Gladieff L., Feillel V., Leroux D., Dreyfus H., Rebischung C., Peysselon M., Coron F., Faivre L., Baurand A., Jacquot C., Bertolone G., Lizard S., Prieur F., Lebrun M., Kientz C., Ferrer S.F., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Delnatte C., Bezieau S., Mortemousque I., Coulet F., Colas C., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Sokolowska J., Bronner M., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Gregory H., Miedzybrodzka Z., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Donaldson A., Rogers M.T., Kennedy M.J., Porteous M.E., Brewer C., Davidson R., Izatt L., Brady A., Barwell J., Adlard J., Foo C., Lalloo F., Side L.E., Eason J., Henderson A., Walker L., Eeles R.A., Cook J., Snape K., Eccles D., Murray A., McCann E., Conroy D.M., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Barberan V., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Gehrig A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., He W., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Horcasitas D.J., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Fox S., Campbell I., Spurdle A., Webb P., de Fazio A., Tassell M., Kirk J., Lindeman G., Price M., Southey M., Milne R.L., Deb S., Bowtell D., van der Hout A.H., van den Ouweland A.M.W., Mensenkamp A.R., van Deurzen C.H.M., Kets C.M., Seynaeve C., van Asperen C.J., Aalfs C.M., Gomez Garcia E.B., van Leeuwen F.E., de Bock G.H., Meijers-Heijboer H.E.J., Obdeijn I.M., Collee J.M., Gille J.J.P., Oosterwijk J.C., Wijnen J.T., van der Kolk L.E., Hooning M.J., Ausems M.G.E.M., Mourits M.J.E., Blok M.J., Rookus M.A., Adank M.A., van der Luijt R.B., van Cronenburg T.C.T.E.F., van der Pol C.C., Russell N.S., Siesling S., Overbeek L., Wijnands R., de Lange J.L., Clarke C., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Jager A., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Jensen U.B., John E.M., Jones M.E., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kurian A.W., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom T., Lopez-Fernandez A., Loud J.T., Luccarini C., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Miller A., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nielsen F.C., O'Brien K.M., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Polley E.C., Poppe B., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., and Robson M.
Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers varies by genetic and familial factors. About 50 common variants have been shown to modify BC risk for mutation carriers. All but three, were identified in general population studies. Other mutation carrier-specific susceptibility variants may exist but studies of mutation carriers have so far been underpowered. We conduct a novel case-only genome-wide association study comparing genotype frequencies between 60,212 general population BC cases and 13,007 cases with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. We identify robust novel associations for 2 variants with BC for BRCA1 and 3 for BRCA2 mutation carriers, P < 10-8, at 5 loci, which are not associated with risk in the general population. They include rs60882887 at 11p11.2 where MADD, SP11 and EIF1, genes previously implicated in BC biology, are predicted as potential targets. These findings will contribute towards customising BC polygenic risk scores for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.Copyright © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

15. Association of germline genetic variants with breast cancer-specific survival in patient subgroups defined by clinic-pathological variables related to tumor biology and type of systemic treatment.

Author: Morra A., Escala-Garcia M., Beesley J., Keeman R., Canisius S., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Auer P.L., Augustinsson A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Bruning T., Buys S.S., Caan B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Cheng T.-Y.D., Clarke C.L., Colonna S.V., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Dork T., Dossus L., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Giles G.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Gundert M., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hart S.N., Hartikainen J.M., Hartmann A., He W., Hooning M.J., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Jung A.Y., Kaaks R., Keupers M., Kitahara C.M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lindblom A., Linet M., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Lush M., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Michailidou K., Milne R.L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Orr N., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peissel B., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Rack B., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Roylance R., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Scott C., Shah M., Smichkoska S., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Hurson A.N., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Brauch H., Garcia-Closas M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Schmidt M.K., Morra A., Escala-Garcia M., Beesley J., Keeman R., Canisius S., Ahearn T.U., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Auer P.L., Augustinsson A., Beane Freeman L.E., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Brenner H., Bruning T., Buys S.S., Caan B., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Cheng T.-Y.D., Clarke C.L., Colonna S.V., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Dork T., Dossus L., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Giles G.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Gundert M., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hart S.N., Hartikainen J.M., Hartmann A., He W., Hooning M.J., Hoppe R., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Hunter D.J., Jager A., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Jung A.Y., Kaaks R., Keupers M., Kitahara C.M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Lacey J.V., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lindblom A., Linet M., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Lush M., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., Michailidou K., Milne R.L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Olshan A.F., Olsson H., Orr N., Park-Simon T.-W., Patel A.V., Peissel B., Peterlongo P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Rack B., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Roylance R., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Scott C., Shah M., Smichkoska S., Southey M.C., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teras L.R., Terry M.B., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Vachon C.M., Wang Q., Hurson A.N., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Ziogas A., Brauch H., Garcia-Closas M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., and Schmidt M.K.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Given the high heterogeneity among breast tumors, associations between common germline genetic variants and survival that may exist within specific subgroups could go undetected in an unstratified set of breast cancer patients. METHOD(S): We performed genome-wide association analyses within 15 subgroups of breast cancer patients based on prognostic factors, including hormone receptors, tumor grade, age, and type of systemic treatment. Analyses were based on 91,686 female patients of European ancestry from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, including 7531 breast cancer-specific deaths over a median follow-up of 8.1years. Cox regression was used to assess associations of common germline variants with 15-year and 5-year breast cancer-specific survival. We assessed the probability of these associations being true positives via the Bayesian false discovery probability (BFDP <0.15). RESULT(S): Evidence of associations with breast cancer-specific survival was observed in three patient subgroups, with variant rs5934618 in patients with grade 3 tumors (15-year-hazard ratio (HR) [95% confidence interval (CI)] 1.32 [1.20, 1.45], P = 1.4E-08, BFDP = 0.01, per G allele); variant rs4679741 in patients with ER-positive tumors treated with endocrine therapy (15-year-HR [95% CI] 1.18 [1.11, 1.26], P = 1.6E-07, BFDP = 0.09, per G allele); variants rs1106333 (15-year-HR [95% CI] 1.68 [1.39,2.03], P = 5.6E-08, BFDP = 0.12, per A allele) and rs78754389 (5-year-HR [95% CI] 1.79 [1.46,2.20], P = 1.7E-08, BFDP = 0.07, per A allele), in patients with ER-negative tumors treated with chemotherapy. CONCLUSION(S): We found evidence of four loci associated with breast cancer-specific survival within three patient subgroups. There was limited evidence for the existence of associations in other patient subgroups. However, the power for many subgroups is limited due to the low number of events. Even so, our results suggest that the impact of common germline genetic variants on br
Published: 2021

16. Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Score and Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk

Author: Kramer, I., Hooning, M.J., Mavaddat, N., Hauptmann, M., Keeman, R., Steyerberg, E.W., Giardiello, D., Antoniou, A.C., Pharoah, P.D.P., Canisius, S., Abu-Ful, Z., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Aronson, K.J., Augustinsson, A., Becher, H., Beckmann, M.W., Behrens, S., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Bogdanova, N.V., Bojesen, S.E., Bolla, M.K., Bonanni, B., Brauch, H., Bremer, M., Brucker, S.Y., Burwinkel, B., Castelao, J.E., Chan, T.L., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S.J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Choi, J.Y., Clarke, C.L., Collee, J.M., Couch, F.J., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., Devilee, P., Dork, T., dos-Santos-Silva, I., Dunning, A.M., Dwek, M., Eccles, D.M., Evans, D.G., Fasching, P.A., Flyger, H., Gago-Dominguez, M., Garcia-Closas, M., Garcia-Saenz, J.A., Giles, G.G., Goldgar, D.E., Gonzalez-Neira, A., Haiman, C.A., Hakansson, N., Hamann, U., Hartman, M., Heemskerk-Gerritsen, B.A.M., Hollestelle, A., Hopper, J.L., Hou, M.F., Howell, A., Ito, H., Jakimovska, M., Jakubowska, A., Janni, W., John, E.M., Jung, A., Kang, D., Kets, C.M., Khusnutdinova, E., Ko, Y.D., Kristensen, V.N., Kurian, A.W., Kwong, A., Lambrechts, D., Marchand, L. le, Li, J.M., Lindblom, A., Mannermaa, A., Manoochehri, M., Margolin, S., Matsuo, K., Mavroudis, D., Meindl, A., Milne, R.L., Mulligan, A.M., Muranen, T.A., Neuhausen, S.L., Nevanlinna, H., Newman, W.G., Olshan, A.F., Olson, J.E., Olsson, H., Park-Simon, T.W., Peto, J., Petridis, C., Plaseska-Karanfilska, D., Presneau, N., Pylkas, K., Radice, P., Rennert, G., Romero, A., Roylance, R., Saloustros, E., Sawyer, E.J., Schmutzler, R.K., Schwentner, L., Scott, C., See, M.H., Shah, M., Shen, C.Y., Shu, X.O., Siesling, S., Slager, S., Sohn, C., Southey, M.C., Spinelli, J.J., Stone, J., Tapper, W.J., Tengstrom, M., Teo, S.H., Terry, M.B., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Tomlinson, I., Troester, M.A., Vachon, C.M., Ongeval, C. van, Veen, E.M. van, Winqvist, R., Wolk, A., Zheng, W., Ziogas, A., Easton, D.F., Hall, P., Schmidt, M.K., NBCS Collaborators, ABCTB Investigators, and kConFab Investigators
Subjects: parasitic diseases
Abstract: Previous research has shown that polygenic risk scores (PRSs) can be used to stratify women according to their risk of developing primary invasive breast cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the association between a recently validated PRS of 313 germline variants (PRS313) and contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk. We included 56,068 women of European ancestry diagnosed with first invasive breast cancer from 1990 onward with follow-up from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Metachronous CBC risk (N = 1,027) according to the distribution of PRS313 was quantified using Cox regression analyses. We assessed PRS313 interaction with age at first diagnosis, family history, morphology, ER status, PR status, and HER2 status, and (neo)adjuvant therapy. In studies of Asian women, with limited follow-up, CBC risk associated with PRS313 was assessed using logistic regression for 340 women with CBC compared with 12,133 women with unilateral breast cancer. Higher PRS313 was associated with increased CBC risk: hazard ratio per standard deviation (SD) = 1.25 (95%CI = 1.18-1.33) for Europeans, and an OR per SD = 1.15 (95%CI = 1.02-1.29) for Asians. The absolute lifetime risks of CBC, accounting for death as competing risk, were 12.4% for European women at the 10th percentile and 20.5% at the 90th percentile of PRS313. We found no evidence of confounding by or interaction with individual characteristics, characteristics of the primary tumor, or treatment. The C-index for the PRS313 alone was 0.563 (95%CI = 0.547-0.586). In conclusion, PRS313 is an independent factor associated with CBC risk and can be incorporated into CBC risk prediction models to help improve stratification and optimize surveillance and treatment strategies.
Published: 2020

17. Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

Author: Zhan, H.Y., Ahearn, T.U., Lecarpentier, J., Barnes, D., Beesley, J., Qi, G.H., Jiang, X., O'Mara, T.A., Zhao, N., Bolla, M.K., Dunning, A.M., Dennis, J., Wang, Q., Abu Ful, Z., Aittomaki, K., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Arndt, V., Aronson, K.J., Arun, B.K., Auer, P.L., Azzollini, J., Barrowdale, D., Becher, H., Beckmann, M.W., Behrens, S., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Bialkowska, K., Blanco, A., Blomqvist, C., Bogdanova, N.V., Bojesen, S.E., Bonanni, B., Bondavalli, D., Borg, A., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Briceno, I., Broeks, A., Brucker, S.Y., Bruning, T., Burwinkel, B., Buys, S.S., Byers, H., Caldes, T., Caligo, M.A., Calvello, M., Campa, D., Castelao, J.E., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S.J., Christiaens, M., Christiansen, H., Chung, W.K., Claes, K.B.M., Clarke, C.L., Cornelissen, S., Couch, F.J., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., Devilee, P., Diez, O., Domchek, S.M., Dork, T., Dwek, M., Eccles, D.M., Ekici, A.B., Evans, D.G., Fasching, P.A., Figueroa, J., Foretova, L., Fostira, F., Friedman, E., Frost, D., Gago-Dominguez, M., Gapstur, S.M., Garber, J., Garcia-Saenz, J.A., Gaudet, M.M., Gayther, S.A., Giles, G.G., Godwin, A.K., Goldberg, M.S., Goldgar, D.E., Gonzalez-Neira, A., Greene, M.H., Gronwald, J., Guenel, P., Haberle, L., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C.A., Hake, C.R., Hall, P., Hamann, U., Harkness, E.F., Heemskerk-Gerritsen, B.A.M., Hillemanns, P., Hogervorst, F.B.L., Holleczek, B., Hollestelle, A., Hooning, M.J., Hoover, R.N., Hopper, J.L., Howell, A., Huebner, H., Hulick, P.J., Imyanitov, E.N., Isaacs, C., Izatt, L., Jager, A., Jakimovska, M., Jakubowska, A., James, P., Janavicius, R., Janni, W., John, E.M., Jones, M.E., Jung, A., Kaaks, R., Kapoor, P.M., Karlan, B.Y., Keeman, R., Khan, S., Khusnutdinova, E., Kitahara, C.M., Ko, Y.D., Konstantopoulou, I., Koppert, L.B., Koutros, S., Kristensen, V.N., Laenkholm, A.V., Lambrechts, D., Larsson, S.C., Laurent-Puig, P., Lazaro, C., Lazarova, E., Lejbkowicz, F., Leslie, G., Lesueur, F., Lindblom, A., Lissowska, J., W.Y. lo, Loud, J.T., Lubinski, J., Lukomska, A., MacInnis, R.J., Mannermaa, A., Manoochehri, M., Manoukian, S., Margolin, S., Martinez, M.E., Matricardi, L., McGuffog, L., McLean, C., Mebirouk, N., Meindl, A., Menon, U., Miller, A., Mingazheva, E., Montagna, M., Mulligan, A.M., Mulot, C., Muranen, T.A., Nathanson, K.L., Neuhausen, S.L., Nevanlinna, H., Neven, P., Newman, W.G., Nielsens, F.C., Nikitina-Zake, L., Nodora, J., Offit, K., Olah, E., Olopade, O.I., Olsson, H., Orr, N., Papi, L., Papp, J., Park-Simon, T.W., Parsons, M.T., Peissel, B., Peixoto, A., Peshkin, B., Peterlongo, P., Peto, J., Phillips, K.A., Piedmonte, M., Plaseska-Karanfilska, D., Prajzendanc, K., Prentice, R., Prokofyeva, D., Rack, B., Radice, P., Ramus, S.J., Rantala, J., Rashid, M.U., Rennert, G., Rennert, H.S., Risch, H.A., Romero, A., Rookus, M.A., Rubner, M., Rudiger, T., Saloustros, E., Sampson, S., Sandler, D.P., Sawyer, E.J., Scheuner, M.T., Schmutzler, R.K., Schneeweiss, A., Schoemaker, M.J., Schottker, B., Schurmann, P., Senter, L., Sharma, P., Sherman, M.E., Shu, X.O., Singer, C.F., Smichkoska, S., Soucy, P., Southey, M.C., Spinelli, J.J., Stone, J., Stoppa-Lyonnet, D., Swerdlow, A.J., Szabo, C.I., Tamimi, R.M., Tapper, W.J., Taylor, J.A., Teixeira, M.R., Terry, M., Thomassen, M., Thull, D.L., Tischkowitz, M., Toland, A.E., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Tomlinson, I., Torres, D., Troester, M.A., Truong, T., Tung, N., Untch, M., Vachon, C.M., Ouweland, A.M.W. van den, Kolk, L.E. van der, Veen, E.M. van, vanRensburg, E.J., Vega, A., Wappenschmidt, B., Weinberg, C.R., Weitzel, J.N., Wildiers, H., Winqvist, R., Wolk, A., Yang, X.H.R., Yannoukakos, D., Zheng, W., Zorn, K.K., Milne, R.L., Kraft, P., Simard, J., Pharoah, P.D.P., Michailidou, K., Antoniou, A.C., Schmidt, M.K., Chenevix-Trench, G., Easton, D.F., Chatterjee, N., Garcia-Closas, M., kConFab Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, EMBRACE Study, and GEMO Study Collaborators
Abstract: Genome-wide analysis identifies 32 loci associated with breast cancer susceptibility, accounting for estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status and tumor grade.Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor subtype(1-3). 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 x 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.
Published: 2020

18. Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes

Author: Fachal, L., Aschard, H., Beesley, J., Barnes, D.R., Allen, J., Kar, S., Pooley, K.A., Dennis, J., Michailidou, K., Turman, C., Soucy, P., Lemaçon, A., Lush, M., Tyrer, J.P., Ghoussaini, M., Marjaneh, M.M., Jiang, X., Agata, S., Aittomäki, K., Alonso, M.R., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Antonenkova, N.N., Arason, A., Arndt, V., Aronson, K.J., Arun, B.K., Auber, B., Auer, P.L., Azzollini, J., Balmaña, J., Barkardottir, R.B., Barrowdale, D., Beeghly-Fadiel, A., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Białkowska, K., Blanco, A.M., Blomqvist, C., Blot, W., Bogdanova, N.V., Bojesen, S.E., Bolla, M.K., Bonanni, B., Borg, A., Bosse, K., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Briceno, I., Brock, I.W., Brooks-Wilson, A., Brüning, T., Burwinkel, B., Buys, S.S., Cai, Q., Caldés, T., Caligo, M.A., Camp, N.J., Campbell, I., Canzian, F., Carroll, J.S., Carter, B.D., Castelao, J.E., Chiquette, J., Christiansen, H., Chung, W.K., Claes, K.B.M., Clarke, C.L., Mari, V., Berthet, P., Castera, L., Vaur, D., Lallaoui, H., Bignon, Y.-J., Uhrhammer, N., Bonadona, V., Lasset, C., Révillion, F., Vennin, P., Muller, D., Gomes, D.M., Ingster, O., Coupier, I., Pujol, P., Collonge-Rame, M.-A., Mortemousque, I., Bera, O., Rose, M., Baurand, A., Bertolone, G., Faivre, L., Dreyfus, H., Leroux, D., Venat-Bouvet, L., Bézieau, S., Delnatte, C., Chiesa, J., Gilbert-Dussardier, B., Gesta, P., Prieur, F.P., Bronner, M., Sokolowska, J., Coulet, F., Boutry-Kryza, N., Calender, A., Giraud, S., Leone, M., Fert-Ferrer, S., Stoppa-Lyonnet, D., Jiao, Y., Lesueur, F.L., Mebirouk, N., Barouk-Simonet, E., Bubien, V., Longy, M., Sevenet, N., Gladieff, L., Toulas, C., Reimineras, A., Sobol, H., Paillerets, B.B.-D., Cabaret, O., Caron, O., Guillaud-Bataille, M., Rouleau, E., Belotti, M., Buecher, B., Caputo, S., Colas, C., Pauw, A.D., Fourme, E., Gauthier-Villars, M., Golmard, L., Moncoutier, V., Saule, C., Donaldson, A., Murray, A., Brady, A., Brewer, C., Pottinger, C., Miller, C., Gallagher, D., Gregory, H., Cook, J., Eason, J., Adlard, J., Barwell, J., Ong, K.-R., Snape, K., Walker, L., Izatt, L., Side, L., Tischkowitz, M., Rogers, M.T., Porteous, M.E., Ahmed, M., Morrison, P.J., Brennan, P., Eeles, R., Davidson, R., Collée, M., Cornelissen, S., Couch, F.J., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Cybulski, C., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., de la Hoya, M., Devilee, P., Diez, O., Ding, Y.C., Dite, G.S., Domchek, S.M., Dörk, T., dos-Santos-Silva, I., Droit, A., Dubois, S., Dumont, M., Duran, M., Durcan, L., Dwek, M., Eccles, D.M., Engel, C., Eriksson, M., Evans, D.G., Fasching, P.A., Fletcher, O., Floris, G., Flyger, H., Foretova, L., Foulkes, W.D., Friedman, E., Fritschi, L., Frost, D., Gabrielson, M., Gago-Dominguez, M., Gambino, G., Ganz, P.A., Gapstur, S.M., Garber, J., García-Sáenz, J.A., Gaudet, M.M., Georgoulias, V., Giles, G., Glendon, G., Godwin, A.K., Goldberg, M.S., Goldgar, D.E., González-Neira, A., Tibiletti, M.G., Greene, M.H., Grip, M., Gronwald, J., Grundy, A., Guénel, P., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C.A., Håkansson, N., Hall, P., Hamann, U., Harrington, P.A., Hartikainen, J.M., Hartman, M., He, W., Healey, C.S., Heemskerk-Gerritsen, B.A.M., Heyworth, J., Hillemanns, P., Hogervorst, F.B.L., Hollestelle, A., Hooning, M., Hopper, J., Howell, A., Huang, G., Hulick, P.J., Imyanitov, E.N., Sexton, A., Christian, A., Trainer, A., Spigelman, A., Fellows, A., Shelling, A., Fazio, A.D., Blackburn, A., Crook, A., Meiser, B., Patterson, B., Clarke, C., Saunders, C., Hunt, C., Scott, C., Amor, D., Marsh, D., Edkins, E., Salisbury, E., Haan, E., Neidermayr, E., Macrea, F., Farshid, G., Lindeman, G., Chenevix-Trench, G., Mann, G., Gill, G., Thorne, H., Hickie, I., Winship, I., Flanagan, J., Kollias, J., Visvader, J., Stone, J., Taylor, J., Burke, J., Saunus, J., Forbes, J., Kirk, J., French, J., Tucker, K., Wu, K., Phillips, K., Lipton, L., Andrews, L., Lobb, L., Kentwell, M., Spurdle, M., Cummings, M., Gleeson, M., Harris, M., Jenkins, M., Young, M.A., Delatycki, M., Wallis, M., Burgess, M., Price, M., Brown, M., Southey, M., Bogwitz, M., Field, M., Friedlander, M., Gattas, M., Saleh, M., Hayward, N., Pachter, N., Cohen, P., Duijf, P., James, P., Simpson, P., Fong, P., Butow, P., Williams, R., Kefford, R., Scott, R., Milne, R.L., Balleine, R., Dawson, S.–J., Lok, S., O’Connell, S., Greening, S., Nightingale, S., Edwards, S., Fox, S., McLachlan, S.-A., Lakhani, S., Antill, Y., Aalfs, C., Meijers-Heijboer, H., van Engelen, K., Gille, H., Boere, I., van Deurzen, C., Obdeijn, I.-M., van den Ouweland, A., Seynaeve, C., Siesling, S., Verloop, J., van Asperen, C.J., van Cronenburg, T., Blok, R., de Boer, M., Garcia, E.G., Adank, M., Hogervorst, F., Jenner, D., van Leeuwen, F., Rookus, M., Russell, N., Schmidt, M., van den Belt-Dusebout, S., Kets, C., Mensenkamp, A., de Bock, T., van der Hout, A., Mourits, M., Oosterwijk, J., Ausems, M., Koudijs, M., Baxter, R., Yip, D., Carpenter, J., Davis, A., Pathmanathan, N., Graham, D., Sachchithananthan, M., Isaacs, C., Iwasaki, M., Jager, A., Jakimovska, M., Jakubowska, A., James, P.A., Janavicius, R., Jankowitz, R.C., John, E.M., Johnson, N., Jones, M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Jung, A., Kaaks, R., Kang, D., Kapoor, P.M., Karlan, B.Y., Keeman, R., Kerin, M.J., Khusnutdinova, E., Kiiski, J.I., Kitahara, C.M., Ko, Y.-D., Konstantopoulou, I., Kosma, V.-M., Koutros, S., Kubelka-Sabit, K., Kwong, A., Kyriacou, K., Laitman, Y., Lambrechts, D., Lee, E., Leslie, G., Lester, J., Lesueur, F., Lindblom, A., Lo, W.-Y., Long, J., Lophatananon, A., Loud, J.T., Lubiński, J., MacInnis, R.J., Maishman, T., Makalic, E., Mannermaa, A., Manoochehri, M., Manoukian, S., Margolin, S., Martinez, M.E., Matsuo, K., Maurer, T., Mavroudis, D., Mayes, R., McGuffog, L., McLean, C., Meindl, A., Miller, A., Miller, N., Montagna, M., Moreno, F., Muir, K., Mulligan, A.M., Muñoz-Garzon, V.M., Muranen, T.A., Narod, S.A., Nassir, R., Nathanson, K.L., Neuhausen, S.L., Nevanlinna, H., Neven, P., Nielsen, F.C., Nikitina-Zake, L., Norman, A., Offit, K., Olah, E., Olopade, O.I., Olsson, H., Orr, N., Osorio, A., Pankratz, V.S., Papp, J., Park, S.K., Park-Simon, T.-W., Parsons, M.T., Paul, J., Pedersen, I.S., Peissel, B., Peshkin, B., Peterlongo, P., Peto, J., Plaseska-Karanfilska, D., Prajzendanc, K., Prentice, R., Presneau, N., Prokofyeva, D., Pujana, M.A., Pylkäs, K., Radice, P., Ramus, S.J., Rantala, J., Rau-Murthy, R., Rennert, G., Risch, H.A., Robson, M., Romero, A., Rossing, M., Saloustros, E., Sánchez-Herrero, E., Sandler, D.P., Santamariña, M., Sawyer, E.J., Scheuner, M.T., Schmidt, D.F., Schmutzler, R.K., Schneeweiss, A., Schoemaker, M.J., Schöttker, B., Schürmann, P., Scott, R.J., Senter, L., Seynaeve, C.M., Shah, M., Sharma, P., Shen, C.-Y., Shu, X.-O., Singer, C.F., Slavin, T.P., Smichkoska, S., Southey, M.C., Spinelli, J.J., Spurdle, A.B., Sutter, C., Swerdlow, A.J., Tamimi, R.M., Tan, Y.Y., Tapper, W.J., Taylor, J.A., Teixeira, M.R., Tengström, M., Teo, S.H., Terry, M.B., Teulé, A., Thomassen, M., Thull, D.L., Toland, A.E., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Tomlinson, I., Torres, D., Torres-Mejía, G., Troester, M.A., Truong, T., Tung, N., Tzardi, M., Ulmer, H.-U., Vachon, C.M., van der Kolk, L.E., van Rensburg, E.J., Vega, A., Viel, A., Vijai, J., Vogel, M.J., Wang, Q., Wappenschmidt, B., Weinberg, C.R., Weitzel, J.N., Wendt, C., Wildiers, H., Winqvist, R., Wolk, A., Wu, A.H., Yannoukakos, D., Zhang, Y., Zheng, W., Hunter, D., Pharoah, P.D.P., Chang-Claude, J., García-Closas, M., Schmidt, M.K., Kristensen, V.N., French, J.D., Edwards, S.L., Antoniou, A.C., Simard, J., Easton, D.F., Kraft, P., Dunning, A.M., Collaborators, GEMO Study, Collaborators, EMBRACE, Investigators, KConFab, Investigators, HEBON, Investigators, ABCTB, Fachal, Laura, Aschard, Hugues, Beesley, Jonathan, Barnes, Daniel R, Duijf, Pascal, Dunning, Alison M, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, KConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, MUMC+: MA Medische Oncologie (9), RS: GROW - R3 - Innovative Cancer Diagnostics & Therapy, Klinische 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Chan School of Public Health, This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 656144. Genotyping of the OncoArray was principally funded from three sources: the PERSPECTIVE project (funded by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the ‘Ministère de l’Économie de la Science et de l’Innovation du Québec’ (through Genome Québec) and the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation), the NCI Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME-ON) initiative and the Discovery, Biology and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) project (NIH grants U19 CA148065 and X01HG007492), and Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10118, C8197/A16565 and C1287/A16563). BCAC is funded by Cancer Research UK (C1287/A16563), by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement 223175 (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175) (COGS) and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreements 633784 (B-CAST) and 634935 (BRIDGES). Genotyping of the iCOGS array was funded by the European Union (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175), Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10710), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the ‘CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer’ program, and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade of Quebec (grant PSR-SIIRI-701). Combining of the GWAS data was supported in part by NIH Cancer Post-Cancer GWAS initiative grant U19 CA 148065 (DRIVE, part of the GAME-ON initiative). 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University of Cambridge Repository, Academic Medical Center, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Human genetics, CCA - Cancer biology and immunology, Molecular cell biology and Immunology, Medicum, Kristiina Aittomäki / Principal Investigator, HUSLAB, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research, Staff Services, INDIVIDRUG - Individualized Drug Therapy, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subjects: CHROMATIN, Linkage disequilibrium, Genome-wide association study, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Genome-wide association studies, Linkage Disequilibrium, Basic medicine, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, MESH: Risk Factors, Risk Factors, COMPREHENSIVE MOLECULAR PORTRAITS, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, HEBON Investigators, Genetics & Heredity, 0303 health sciences, [STAT.AP]Statistics [stat]/Applications [stat.AP], PROTEIN FUNCTION, Tumor, breast tumor, MESH: Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, MESH: Genetic Predisposition to Disease, apoptosis, Chromosome Mapping, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, MESH: Linkage Disequilibrium, Female, MESH: Biomarkers, Tumor, Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics, [STAT.ME]Statistics [stat]/Methodology [stat.ME], Life Sciences & Biomedicine, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, MESH: Bayes Theorem, Quantitative Trait Loci, ABCTB Investigators, INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS, Breast Neoplasms, Computational biology, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, Breast Neoplasms/genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, ENHANCER, GEMO Study Collaborators, 03 medical and health sciences, breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, REVEALS, Genetics, Biomarkers, Tumor, MESH: Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, FUNCTIONAL VARIANTS, EMBRACE Collaborators, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Bayes Theorem, Genome-Wide Association Study, MESH: Humans, Science & Technology, Nucleic Acid, gene mapping, 06 Biological Sciences, MESH: Quantitative Trait Loci, DNA binding site, ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Clinical medicine, Expression quantitative trait loci, MESH: Genome-Wide Association Study, Human genome, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, KConFab Investigators, [INFO.INFO-BI]Computer Science [cs]/Bioinformatics [q-bio.QM], MESH: Chromosome Mapping, Chromosome Mapping/methods, Regulatory Sequences, MESH: Female, Biomarkers, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, MESH: Breast Neoplasms, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies have identified breast cancer risk variants in over 150 genomic regions, but the mechanisms underlying risk remain largely unknown. These regions were explored by combining association analysis with in silico genomic feature annotations. We defined 205 independent risk-associated signals with the set of credible causal variants in each one. In parallel, we used a Bayesian approach (PAINTOR) that combines genetic association, linkage disequilibrium and enriched genomic features to determine variants with high posterior probabilities of being causal. Potentially causal variants were significantly over-represented in active gene regulatory regions and transcription factor binding sites. We applied our INQUSIT pipeline for prioritizing genes as targets of those potentially causal variants, using gene expression (expression quantitative trait loci), chromatin interaction and functional annotations. Known cancer drivers, transcription factors and genes in the developmental, apoptosis, immune system and DNA integrity checkpoint gene ontology pathways were over-represented among the highest-confidence target genes., This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 656144. Genotyping of the OncoArray was principally funded from three sources: the PERSPECTIVE project (funded by the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the ‘Ministère de l’Économie de la Science et de l’Innovation du Québec’ (through Genome Québec) and the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation); the NCI Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME-ON) initiative and the Discovery, Biology and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) project (NIH grants U19 CA148065 and X01HG007492); and Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10118, C8197/A16565 and C1287/A16563). BCAC is funded by Cancer Research UK (C1287/A16563), by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement 223175 (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175) (COGS) and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreements 633784 (B-CAST) and 634935 (BRIDGES). Genotyping of the iCOGS array was funded by the European Union (HEALTH-F2-2009-223175), Cancer Research UK (C1287/A10710), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the ‘CIHR Team in Familial Risks of Breast Cancer’ program, and the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export Trade of Quebec (grant PSR-SIIRI-701). Combining of the GWAS data was supported in part by NIH Cancer Post-Cancer GWAS initiative grant U19 CA 148065 (DRIVE; part of the GAME-ON initiative).
Published: 2020

19. Two truncating variants in FANCC and breast cancer risk.

Author: Gaudet M.M., Kaaks R., Kang D., Kwong A., Lambrechts D., Marchand L.L., Li J., Lindstrom S., Linet M., Lo W.-Y., Long J., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez E., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Menon U., Milne R.L., Mohd Taib N.A., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Newman W.G., Offit K., Olopade O.I., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Pohl-Rescigno E., Presneau N., Rack B., Radice P., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schneider M.O., Schoemaker M.J., Scott C., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Slager S., Smichkoska S., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teo S.H., Terry M.B., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Torres D., Torres-Mejia G., Troester M.A., Truong T., Tsugane S., Untch M., Vachon C.M., Ouweland A.M.W.V.D., Veen E.M.V., Vijai J., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yu J.-C., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Ziv E., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Schindler D., Devilee P., Easton D.F., Hopper J.L., Howell T., Huo D., Ito H., Iwasaki M., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Dork T., Peterlongo P., Mannermaa A., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Freeman L.E.B., Beckmann M.W., Beeghly-Fadiel A., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Canzian F., Chan T.L., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Choi J.-Y., Christiansen H., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dos-Santos-Silva I., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Jung A., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartman M., Hauke J., Hein A., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hooning M.J., Kapoor P.M., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Kitahara C.M., Koutros S., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Gaudet M.M., Kaaks R., Kang D., Kwong A., Lambrechts D., Marchand L.L., Li J., Lindstrom S., Linet M., Lo W.-Y., Long J., Lophatananon A., Lubinski J., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez E., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Menon U., Milne R.L., Mohd Taib N.A., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Newman W.G., Offit K., Olopade O.I., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Pohl-Rescigno E., Presneau N., Rack B., Radice P., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Romero A., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Schneider M.O., Schoemaker M.J., Scott C., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Slager S., Smichkoska S., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Surowy H., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teo S.H., Terry M.B., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Torres D., Torres-Mejia G., Troester M.A., Truong T., Tsugane S., Untch M., Vachon C.M., Ouweland A.M.W.V.D., Veen E.M.V., Vijai J., Wendt C., Wolk A., Yu J.-C., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Ziv E., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Schindler D., Devilee P., Easton D.F., Hopper J.L., Howell T., Huo D., Ito H., Iwasaki M., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Dork T., Peterlongo P., Mannermaa A., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Dennis J., Ahearn T., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Freeman L.E.B., Beckmann M.W., Beeghly-Fadiel A., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Burwinkel B., Canzian F., Chan T.L., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Choi J.-Y., Christiansen H., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dos-Santos-Silva I., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Jung A., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hartman M., Hauke J., Hein A., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hooning M.J., Kapoor P.M., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Kitahara C.M., Koutros S., Kraft P., and Kristensen V.N.
Abstract: Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder with 22 disease-causing genes reported to date. In some FA genes, monoallelic mutations have been found to be associated with breast cancer risk, while the risk associations of others remain unknown. The gene for FA type C, FANCC, has been proposed as a breast cancer susceptibility gene based on epidemiological and sequencing studies. We used the Oncoarray project to genotype two truncating FANCC variants (p.R185X and p.R548X) in 64,760 breast cancer cases and 49,793 controls of European descent. FANCC mutations were observed in 25 cases (14 with p.R185X, 11 with p.R548X) and 26 controls (18 with p.R185X, 8 with p.R548X). There was no evidence of an association with the risk of breast cancer, neither overall (odds ratio 0.77, 95%CI 0.44-1.33, p=0.4) nor by histology, hormone receptor status, age or family history. We conclude that the breast cancer risk association of these two FANCC variants, if any, is much smaller than for BRCA1, BRCA2 or PALB2 mutations. If this applies to all truncating variants in FANCC it would suggest there are differences between FA genes in their roles on breast cancer risk and demonstrates the merit of large consortia for clarifying risk associations of rare variants.
Published: 2020

20. A network analysis to identify mediators of germline-driven differences in breast cancer prognosis.

Author: Garcia-Closas M., John E.M., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Keeman R., Kitahara C.M., Koppert L.B., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lejbkowicz F., Lindblom A., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Milne R.L., Mulligan A.M., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orr N., Peterlongo P., Petridis C., Prentice R.L., Presneau N., Punie K., Ramachandran D., Rennert G., Romero A., Sachchithananthan M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schwentner L., Scott C., Simard J., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Thorne H., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Turnbull C., Vachon C.M., van der Kolk L.E., Wang Q., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Ziogas A., Pharoah P.D.P., Hall P., Wessels L.F.A., Chenevix-Trench G., Bader G.D., Dork T., Easton D.F., Canisius S., Schmidt M.K., Escala-Garcia M., Abraham J., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Ashworth A., Auer P.L., Auvinen P., Beckmann M.W., Beesley J., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Blomqvist C., Blot W., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Caldas C., Canzian F., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chin S.-F., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Devilee P., Dunn J.A., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Earl H.M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., George A., Giles G.G., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grip M., Guenel P., Guo Q., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hiller L., Hooning M.J., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huang C.-S., Huang G., Hunter D.J., Jakubowska A., Garcia-Closas M., John E.M., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Keeman R., Kitahara C.M., Koppert L.B., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lejbkowicz F., Lindblom A., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Milne R.L., Mulligan A.M., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orr N., Peterlongo P., Petridis C., Prentice R.L., Presneau N., Punie K., Ramachandran D., Rennert G., Romero A., Sachchithananthan M., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schwentner L., Scott C., Simard J., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Thorne H., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Truong T., Turnbull C., Vachon C.M., van der Kolk L.E., Wang Q., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Ziogas A., Pharoah P.D.P., Hall P., Wessels L.F.A., Chenevix-Trench G., Bader G.D., Dork T., Easton D.F., Canisius S., Schmidt M.K., Escala-Garcia M., Abraham J., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Ashworth A., Auer P.L., Auvinen P., Beckmann M.W., Beesley J., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Blomqvist C., Blot W., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Caldas C., Canzian F., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chin S.-F., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Dennis J., Devilee P., Dunn J.A., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Earl H.M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., George A., Giles G.G., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grip M., Guenel P., Guo Q., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hiller L., Hooning M.J., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huang C.-S., Huang G., Hunter D.J., and Jakubowska A.
Abstract: Identifying the underlying genetic drivers of the heritability of breast cancer prognosis remains elusive. We adapt a network-based approach to handle underpowered complex datasets to provide new insights into the potential function of germline variants in breast cancer prognosis. This network-based analysis studies ~7.3 million variants in 84,457 breast cancer patients in relation to breast cancer survival and confirms the results on 12,381 independent patients. Aggregating the prognostic effects of genetic variants across multiple genes, we identify four gene modules associated with survival in estrogen receptor (ER)-negative and one in ER-positive disease. The modules show biological enrichment for cancer-related processes such as G-alpha signaling, circadian clock, angiogenesis, and Rho-GTPases in apoptosis.Copyright © 2020, The Author(s).
Published: 2020

21. Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes.

Author: Ramus S.J., Carroll J.S., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schottker B., Schurmann P., Scott C., Scott R.J., Senter L., Shah M., Sharma P., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Singer C.F., Slavin T.P., Smichkoska S., Spinelli J.J., Spurdle A.B., Sutter C., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tan Y.Y., Tapper W.J., Taylor J., Teixeira M.R., Tengstrom M., Teo S.H., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thomassen M., Thull D.L., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Torres-Mejia G., Troester M.A., Truong T., Tung N., Tzardi M., Ulmer H.-U., Vachon C.M., van der Kolk L.E., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Viel A., Vijai J., Vogel M.J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yannoukakos D., Zhang Y., Zheng W., Hunter D., Pharoah P.D.P., Chang-Claude J., Garcia-Closas M., Schmidt M.K., Kristensen V.N., French J.D., Antoniou A.C., Chenevix-Trench G., Simard J., Easton D.F., Kraft P., Allen J., Harris M., Fachal L., Aschard H., Beesley J., Barnes D.R., Kar S., Pooley K.A., Dennis J., Michailidou K., Turman C., Soucy P., Lemacon A., Lush M., Tyrer J.P., Ghoussaini M., Marjaneh M.M., Jiang X., Agata S., Aittomaki K., Alonso M.R., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arason A., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Auber B., Auer P.L., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barrowdale D., Beeghly-Fadiel A., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blanco A.M., Blomqvist C., Blot W., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Bonanni B., Borg A., Bosse K., Brauch H., Brenner H., Briceno I., Brock I.W., Brooks-Wilson A., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Cai Q., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Camp N.J., Campbell I., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chiquette J., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Mari V., Berthet P., Castera L., Vaur D., Lallaoui H., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Bonadona V., Lasset C., Revillion F., Vennin P., Muller D., Gomes D.M., Ingster O., Coupier I., Pujol P., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Mortemousque I., Bera O., Rose M., Baurand A., Bertolone G., Faivre L., Dreyfus H., Leroux D., Venat-Bouvet L., Bezieau S., Delnatte C., Chiesa J., Gilbert-Dussardier B., Gesta P., Prieur F.P., Bronner M., Sokolowska J., Coulet F., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Leone M., Fert-Ferrer S., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Jiao Y., Lesueur F.L., Mebirouk N., Barouk-Simonet E., Bubien V., Longy M., Sevenet N., Gladieff L., Toulas C., Reimineras A., Sobol H., Paillerets B.B.-D., Cabaret O., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Rouleau E., Belotti M., Buecher B., Caputo S., Colas C., Pauw A.D., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Moncoutier V., Saule C., Donaldson A., Murray A., Brady A., Brewer C., Pottinger C., Miller C., Gallagher D., Gregory H., Cook J., Eason J., Adlard J., Barwell J., Ong K.-R., Snape K., Walker L., Izatt L., Side L., Tischkowitz M., Rogers M.T., Porteous M.E., Ahmed M., Morrison P.J., Brennan P., Eeles R., Davidson R., Collee J.M., Cornelissen S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Cybulski C., Czene K., Daly M.B., de la Hoya M., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Dite G.S., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Droit A., Dubois S., Dumont M., Duran M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Fletcher O., Floris G., Flyger H., Foretova L., Foulkes W.D., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gambino G., Ganz P.A., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Georgoulias V., Giles G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Tibiletti M.G., Greene M.H., Grip M., Gronwald J., Grundy A., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hartikainen J.M., Hartman M., He W., Healey C.S., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Heyworth J., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hooning M., Hopper J., Howell A., Huang G., Hulick P.J., Imyanitov E.N., Sexton A., Christian A., Trainer A., Spigelman A., Fellows A., Shelling A., Fazio A.D., Blackburn A., Crook A., Meiser B., Patterson B., Clarke C., Saunders C., Hunt C., Amor D., Marsh D., Edkins E., Salisbury E., Haan E., Neidermayr E., Macrea F., Farshid G., Lindeman G., Trench G., Mann G., Gill G., Thorne H., Hickie I., Winship I., Flanagan J., Kollias J., Visvader J., Stone J., Burke J., Saunus J., Forbes J., French J., Tucker K., Wu K., Phillips K., Lipton L., Andrews L., Lobb L., Kentwell M., Spurdle M., Cummings M., Gleeson M., Jenkins M., Young M.A., Delatycki M., Wallis M., Burgess M., Price M., Brown M., Southey M., Bogwitz M., Field M., Friedlander M., Gattas M., Saleh M., Hayward N., Pachter N., Cohen P., Duijf P., James P., Simpson P., Fong P., Butow P., Williams R., Kefford R., Scott R., Milne R.L., Balleine R., Dawson S.-J., Lok S., O'Connell S., Greening S., Nightingale S., Edwards S., Fox S., McLachlan S.-A., Lakhani S., Antill Y., Aalfs C., Meijers-Heijboer H., van Engelen K., Gille H., Boere I., Collee M., van Deurzen C., Obdeijn I.-M., van den Ouweland A., Seynaeve C., Siesling S., Verloop J., van Asperen C., van Cronenburg T., Blok R., de Boer M., Garcia E.G., Adank M., Hogervorst F., Jenner D., van Leeuwen F., Rookus M., Russell N., Schmidt M., van den Belt-Dusebout S., Kets C., Mensenkamp A., de Bock T., van der Hout A., Mourits M., Oosterwijk J., Ausems M., Koudijs M., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Isaacs C., Iwasaki M., Jager A., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janavicius R., Jankowitz R.C., John E.M., Johnson N., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kang D., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Kirk J., Kitahara C.M., Ko Y.-D., Konstantopoulou I., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kubelka-Sabit K., Kwong A., Kyriacou K., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Lee E., Leslie G., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindblom A., Lo W.-Y., Long J., Lophatananon A., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., MacInnis R.J., Maishman T., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Matsuo K., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., McGuffog L., McLean C., Meindl A., Miller A., Miller N., Montagna M., Moreno F., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Munoz-Garzon V.M., Muranen T.A., Narod S.A., Nassir R., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Norman A., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Orr N., Osorio A., Pankratz V.S., Papp J., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Paul J., Pedersen I.S., Peissel B., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofyeva D., Pujana M.A., Pylkas K., Radice P., Canzian F., Rantala J., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sanchez-Herrero E., Sandler D.P., Santamarina M., Sawyer E.J., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Ramus S.J., Carroll J.S., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schottker B., Schurmann P., Scott C., Scott R.J., Senter L., Shah M., Sharma P., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Singer C.F., Slavin T.P., Smichkoska S., Spinelli J.J., Spurdle A.B., Sutter C., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tan Y.Y., Tapper W.J., Taylor J., Teixeira M.R., Tengstrom M., Teo S.H., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thomassen M., Thull D.L., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Torres-Mejia G., Troester M.A., Truong T., Tung N., Tzardi M., Ulmer H.-U., Vachon C.M., van der Kolk L.E., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Viel A., Vijai J., Vogel M.J., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Wu A.H., Yannoukakos D., Zhang Y., Zheng W., Hunter D., Pharoah P.D.P., Chang-Claude J., Garcia-Closas M., Schmidt M.K., Kristensen V.N., French J.D., Antoniou A.C., Chenevix-Trench G., Simard J., Easton D.F., Kraft P., Allen J., Harris M., Fachal L., Aschard H., Beesley J., Barnes D.R., Kar S., Pooley K.A., Dennis J., Michailidou K., Turman C., Soucy P., Lemacon A., Lush M., Tyrer J.P., Ghoussaini M., Marjaneh M.M., Jiang X., Agata S., Aittomaki K., Alonso M.R., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arason A., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Auber B., Auer P.L., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barrowdale D., Beeghly-Fadiel A., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blanco A.M., Blomqvist C., Blot W., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Bonanni B., Borg A., Bosse K., Brauch H., Brenner H., Briceno I., Brock I.W., Brooks-Wilson A., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Cai Q., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Camp N.J., Campbell I., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chiquette J., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Mari V., Berthet P., Castera L., Vaur D., Lallaoui H., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Bonadona V., Lasset C., Revillion F., Vennin P., Muller D., Gomes D.M., Ingster O., Coupier I., Pujol P., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Mortemousque I., Bera O., Rose M., Baurand A., Bertolone G., Faivre L., Dreyfus H., Leroux D., Venat-Bouvet L., Bezieau S., Delnatte C., Chiesa J., Gilbert-Dussardier B., Gesta P., Prieur F.P., Bronner M., Sokolowska J., Coulet F., Boutry-Kryza N., Calender A., Giraud S., Leone M., Fert-Ferrer S., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Jiao Y., Lesueur F.L., Mebirouk N., Barouk-Simonet E., Bubien V., Longy M., Sevenet N., Gladieff L., Toulas C., Reimineras A., Sobol H., Paillerets B.B.-D., Cabaret O., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Rouleau E., Belotti M., Buecher B., Caputo S., Colas C., Pauw A.D., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Moncoutier V., Saule C., Donaldson A., Murray A., Brady A., Brewer C., Pottinger C., Miller C., Gallagher D., Gregory H., Cook J., Eason J., Adlard J., Barwell J., Ong K.-R., Snape K., Walker L., Izatt L., Side L., Tischkowitz M., Rogers M.T., Porteous M.E., Ahmed M., Morrison P.J., Brennan P., Eeles R., Davidson R., Collee J.M., Cornelissen S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Cybulski C., Czene K., Daly M.B., de la Hoya M., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Dite G.S., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Droit A., Dubois S., Dumont M., Duran M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Fletcher O., Floris G., Flyger H., Foretova L., Foulkes W.D., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gambino G., Ganz P.A., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Georgoulias V., Giles G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Tibiletti M.G., Greene M.H., Grip M., Gronwald J., Grundy A., Guenel P., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hartikainen J.M., Hartman M., He W., Healey C.S., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Heyworth J., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hooning M., Hopper J., Howell A., Huang G., Hulick P.J., Imyanitov E.N., Sexton A., Christian A., Trainer A., Spigelman A., Fellows A., Shelling A., Fazio A.D., Blackburn A., Crook A., Meiser B., Patterson B., Clarke C., Saunders C., Hunt C., Amor D., Marsh D., Edkins E., Salisbury E., Haan E., Neidermayr E., Macrea F., Farshid G., Lindeman G., Trench G., Mann G., Gill G., Thorne H., Hickie I., Winship I., Flanagan J., Kollias J., Visvader J., Stone J., Burke J., Saunus J., Forbes J., French J., Tucker K., Wu K., Phillips K., Lipton L., Andrews L., Lobb L., Kentwell M., Spurdle M., Cummings M., Gleeson M., Jenkins M., Young M.A., Delatycki M., Wallis M., Burgess M., Price M., Brown M., Southey M., Bogwitz M., Field M., Friedlander M., Gattas M., Saleh M., Hayward N., Pachter N., Cohen P., Duijf P., James P., Simpson P., Fong P., Butow P., Williams R., Kefford R., Scott R., Milne R.L., Balleine R., Dawson S.-J., Lok S., O'Connell S., Greening S., Nightingale S., Edwards S., Fox S., McLachlan S.-A., Lakhani S., Antill Y., Aalfs C., Meijers-Heijboer H., van Engelen K., Gille H., Boere I., Collee M., van Deurzen C., Obdeijn I.-M., van den Ouweland A., Seynaeve C., Siesling S., Verloop J., van Asperen C., van Cronenburg T., Blok R., de Boer M., Garcia E.G., Adank M., Hogervorst F., Jenner D., van Leeuwen F., Rookus M., Russell N., Schmidt M., van den Belt-Dusebout S., Kets C., Mensenkamp A., de Bock T., van der Hout A., Mourits M., Oosterwijk J., Ausems M., Koudijs M., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Graham D., Sachchithananthan M., Isaacs C., Iwasaki M., Jager A., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janavicius R., Jankowitz R.C., John E.M., Johnson N., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kang D., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Kirk J., Kitahara C.M., Ko Y.-D., Konstantopoulou I., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kubelka-Sabit K., Kwong A., Kyriacou K., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Lee E., Leslie G., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindblom A., Lo W.-Y., Long J., Lophatananon A., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., MacInnis R.J., Maishman T., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Matsuo K., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., Mayes R., McGuffog L., McLean C., Meindl A., Miller A., Miller N., Montagna M., Moreno F., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Munoz-Garzon V.M., Muranen T.A., Narod S.A., Nassir R., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Norman A., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Orr N., Osorio A., Pankratz V.S., Papp J., Park S.K., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Paul J., Pedersen I.S., Peissel B., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofyeva D., Pujana M.A., Pylkas K., Radice P., Canzian F., Rantala J., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Romero A., Rossing M., Saloustros E., Sanchez-Herrero E., Sandler D.P., Santamarina M., Sawyer E.J., Scheuner M.T., Schmidt D.F., and Schmutzler R.K.
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies have identified breast cancer risk variants in over 150 genomic regions, but the mechanisms underlying risk remain largely unknown. These regions were explored by combining association analysis with in silico genomic feature annotations. We defined 205 independent risk-associated signals with the set of credible causal variants in each one. In parallel, we used a Bayesian approach (PAINTOR) that combines genetic association, linkage disequilibrium and enriched genomic features to determine variants with high posterior probabilities of being causal. Potentially causal variants were significantly over-represented in active gene regulatory regions and transcription factor binding sites. We applied our INQUSIT pipeline for prioritizing genes as targets of those potentially causal variants, using gene expression (expression quantitative trait loci), chromatin interaction and functional annotations. Known cancer drivers, transcription factors and genes in the developmental, apoptosis, immune system and DNA integrity checkpoint gene ontology pathways were over-represented among the highest-confidence target genes.Copyright © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.
Published: 2020

22. Germline HOXB13 mutations p.G84E and p.R217C do not confer an increased breast cancer risk.

Author: Briceno I., Guenel P., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hartman M., Hillemanns P., Hopper J.L., Hou M.-F., Hunter D.J., Huo D., Ito H., Iwasaki M., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Presneau N., Rack B., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Scott C., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teo S.H., Terry M.B., Torres D., Truong T., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van Asperen C.J., Wolk A., Yamaji T., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Ziv E., Torres-Mejia G., Dork T., Swerdlow A.J., Hamann U., Schmidt M.K., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Hooning M.J., Martens J.W.M., Hollestelle A., Liu J., Prager-van der Smissen W.J.C., Collee J.M., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Michailidou K., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Aittomaki K., Ambrosone C.B., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Auvinen P., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bogdanova N.V., Bogdanova-Markov N., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Cai Q., Cai H., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Choi J.-Y., Christiaens M., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dos-Santos-Silva I., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Kaaks R., Kang D., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Le Marchand L., Li J., Lindblom A., Lophatananon A., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Mariapun S., Matsuo K., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Menon U., Milne R.L., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Offit K., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orr N., Park S.K., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Briceno I., Guenel P., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hartman M., Hillemanns P., Hopper J.L., Hou M.-F., Hunter D.J., Huo D., Ito H., Iwasaki M., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., John E.M., Presneau N., Rack B., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Scott C., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teo S.H., Terry M.B., Torres D., Truong T., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van Asperen C.J., Wolk A., Yamaji T., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Ziv E., Torres-Mejia G., Dork T., Swerdlow A.J., Hamann U., Schmidt M.K., Dunning A.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Easton D.F., Hooning M.J., Martens J.W.M., Hollestelle A., Liu J., Prager-van der Smissen W.J.C., Collee J.M., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Michailidou K., Dennis J., Ahearn T.U., Aittomaki K., Ambrosone C.B., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Auvinen P., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Bogdanova N.V., Bogdanova-Markov N., Bojesen S.E., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brucker S.Y., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Cai Q., Cai H., Campa D., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Choi J.-Y., Christiaens M., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dos-Santos-Silva I., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Eliassen A.H., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Fritschi L., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Kaaks R., Kang D., Keeman R., Khusnutdinova E., Kim S.-W., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Le Marchand L., Li J., Lindblom A., Lophatananon A., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Mariapun S., Matsuo K., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Menon U., Milne R.L., Muir K., Mulligan A.M., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Offit K., Olopade O.I., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orr N., Park S.K., Peterlongo P., Peto J., and Plaseska-Karanfilska D.
Abstract: In breast cancer, high levels of homeobox protein Hox-B13 (HOXB13) have been associated with disease progression of ER-positive breast cancer patients and resistance to tamoxifen treatment. Since HOXB13 p.G84E is a prostate cancer risk allele, we evaluated the association between HOXB13 germline mutations and breast cancer risk in a previous study consisting of 3,270 familial non-BRCA1/2 breast cancer cases and 2,327 controls from the Netherlands. Although both recurrent HOXB13 mutations p.G84E and p.R217C were not associated with breast cancer risk, the risk estimation for p.R217C was not very precise. To provide more conclusive evidence regarding the role of HOXB13 in breast cancer susceptibility, we here evaluated the association between HOXB13 mutations and increased breast cancer risk within 81 studies of the international Breast Cancer Association Consortium containing 68,521 invasive breast cancer patients and 54,865 controls. Both HOXB13 p.G84E and p.R217C did not associate with the development of breast cancer in European women, neither in the overall analysis (OR=1.035, 95% CI=0.859-1.246, P=0.718 and OR=0.798, 95% CI=0.482-1.322, P=0.381 respectively), nor in specific high-risk subgroups or breast cancer subtypes. Thus, although involved in breast cancer progression, HOXB13 is not a material breast cancer susceptibility gene.
Published: 2020

23. Transcriptome-wide association study of breast cancer risk by estrogen-receptor status.

Author: Eriksson M., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Poppe B., Pradhan N., Prajzendanc K., Presneau N., Punie K., Pylkas K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santos C., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Scott R.J., Sharma P., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Singer C.F., Skytte A.-B., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Spurdle A.B., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thomassen M., Thone K., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Torres D., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., van Asperen C.J., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Viel A., Vieiro-Balo P., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Ziogas A., Milne R.L., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Zheng W., Kraft P., Jiang X., Feng H., Gusev A., Pasaniuc B., Wu L., Long J., Abu-full Z., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antoniou A.C., Arason A., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Asseryanis E., Auer P.L., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barnes D.R., Barrowdale D., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blanco A., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Briceno I., Broeks A., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Cai Q., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Canisius S., Campa D., Carter B.D., Carter J., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Cybulski C., Czene K., Daly M.B., de la Hoya M., De Leeneer K., Dennis J., Devilee P., Diez O., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ejlertsen B., Ellberg C., Engel C., Fasching P.A., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gabrielson M., Ganz P.A., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gronwald J., Guenel P., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., Hake C., He W., Heyworth J., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Huang G., Hulick P.J., Humphreys K., Imyanitov E.N., Isaacs C., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., James P., Janavicius R., Jankowitz R.C., John E.M., Johnson N., Joseph V., Jung A., Karlan B.Y., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Konstantopoulou I., Kristensen V.N., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Lazaro C., Leroux D., Leslie G., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindor N., Lindstrom S., Lo W.-Y., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Matricardi L., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., McGuffog L., Meindl A., Menon U., Michailidou K., Kapoor P.M., Miller A., Montagna M., Moreno F., Moserle L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nevelsteen I., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Osorio A., Papp J., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peixoto A., Eriksson M., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Pharoah P.D.P., Phillips K.-A., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Poppe B., Pradhan N., Prajzendanc K., Presneau N., Punie K., Pylkas K., Radice P., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Robson M., Romero A., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Santos C., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schoemaker M.J., Scott R.J., Sharma P., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Singer C.F., Skytte A.-B., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Spurdle A.B., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thomassen M., Thone K., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Torres D., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., van Asperen C.J., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Viel A., Vieiro-Balo P., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Ziogas A., Milne R.L., Easton D.F., Chenevix-Trench G., Zheng W., Kraft P., Jiang X., Feng H., Gusev A., Pasaniuc B., Wu L., Long J., Abu-full Z., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antoniou A.C., Arason A., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Asseryanis E., Auer P.L., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barnes D.R., Barrowdale D., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blanco A., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Briceno I., Broeks A., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Cai Q., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campbell I., Canisius S., Campa D., Carter B.D., Carter J., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Cybulski C., Czene K., Daly M.B., de la Hoya M., De Leeneer K., Dennis J., Devilee P., Diez O., Domchek S.M., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ejlertsen B., Ellberg C., Engel C., Fasching P.A., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Fostira F., Friedman E., Fritschi L., Frost D., Gabrielson M., Ganz P.A., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gronwald J., Guenel P., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., Hake C., He W., Heyworth J., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Huang G., Hulick P.J., Humphreys K., Imyanitov E.N., Isaacs C., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., James P., Janavicius R., Jankowitz R.C., John E.M., Johnson N., Joseph V., Jung A., Karlan B.Y., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Konstantopoulou I., Kristensen V.N., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Lazaro C., Leroux D., Leslie G., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindor N., Lindstrom S., Lo W.-Y., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Matricardi L., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., McGuffog L., Meindl A., Menon U., Michailidou K., Kapoor P.M., Miller A., Montagna M., Moreno F., Moserle L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nevelsteen I., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Osorio A., Papp J., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., and Peixoto A.
Abstract: Previous transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) have identified breast cancer risk genes by integrating data from expression quantitative loci and genome-wide association studies (GWAS), but analyses of breast cancer subtype-specific associations have been limited. In this study, we conducted a TWAS using gene expression data from GTEx and summary statistics from the hitherto largest GWAS meta-analysis conducted for breast cancer overall, and by estrogen receptor subtypes (ER+ and ER-). We further compared associations with ER+ and ER- subtypes, using a case-only TWAS approach. We also conducted multigene conditional analyses in regions with multiple TWAS associations. Two genes, STXBP4 and HIST2H2BA, were specifically associated with ER+ but not with ER- breast cancer. We further identified 30 TWAS-significant genes associated with overall breast cancer risk, including four that were not identified in previous studies. Conditional analyses identified single independent breast-cancer gene in three of six regions harboring multiple TWAS-significant genes. Our study provides new information on breast cancer genetics and biology, particularly about genomic differences between ER+ and ER- breast cancer.Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Genetic Epidemiology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Published: 2020

24. Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses.

Author: Goldgar D.E., Newman W.G., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Nodora J., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Orr N., Papi L., Papp J., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Peissel B., Peixoto A., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Phillips K.-A., Piedmonte M., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Prokofyeva D., Rack B., Radice P., Ramus S.J., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Risch H.A., Romero A., Rookus M.A., Rubner M., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sampson S., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Scheuner M.T., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schottker B., Schurmann P., Senter L., Sharma P., Sherman M.E., Shu X.-O., Singer C.F., Smichkoska S., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A.J., Szabo C.I., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Thomassen M., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Troester M.A., Truong T., Tung N., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van der Kolk L.E., van Veen E.M., vanRensburg E.J., Vega A., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Zorn K.K., Milne R.L., Kraft P., Simard J., Pharoah P.D.P., Michailidou K., Antoniou A.C., Schmidt M.K., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Chatterjee N., Garcia-Closas M., Zhang H., Ahearn T.U., Lecarpentier J., Barnes D., Beesley J., Qi G., Jiang X., O'Mara T.A., Zhao N., Bolla M.K., Dunning A.M., Dennis J., Wang Q., Ful Z.A., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Auer P.L., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blanco A., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Bondavalli D., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Briceno I., Broeks A., Brucker S.Y., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Byers H., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Calvello M., Campa D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Christiaens M., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Cornelissen S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Domchek S.M., Dork T., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Foretova L., Fostira F., Friedman E., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gronwald J., Guenel P., Haberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hake C.R., Hall P., Hamann U., Harkness E.F., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Holleczek B., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huebner H., Hulick P.J., Imyanitov E.N., Isaacs C., Izatt L., Jager A., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., James P., Janavicius R., Janni W., John E.M., Jones M.E., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khan S., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Ko Y.-D., Konstantopoulou I., Koppert L.B., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Laenkholm A.-V., Lambrechts D., Larsson S.C., Laurent-Puig P., Lazaro C., Lazarova E., Lejbkowicz F., Leslie G., Lesueur F., Lindblom A., Lissowska J., Lo W.-Y., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Lukomska A., MacInnis R.J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Matricardi L., McGuffog L., McLean C., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Menon U., Miller A., Mingazheva E., Montagna M., Mulligan A.M., Mulot C., Muranen T.A., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Goldgar D.E., Newman W.G., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Nodora J., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Orr N., Papi L., Papp J., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Peissel B., Peixoto A., Peshkin B., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Phillips K.-A., Piedmonte M., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Prokofyeva D., Rack B., Radice P., Ramus S.J., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Risch H.A., Romero A., Rookus M.A., Rubner M., Rudiger T., Saloustros E., Sampson S., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Scheuner M.T., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schottker B., Schurmann P., Senter L., Sharma P., Sherman M.E., Shu X.-O., Singer C.F., Smichkoska S., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Swerdlow A.J., Szabo C.I., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Thomassen M., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Troester M.A., Truong T., Tung N., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van der Kolk L.E., van Veen E.M., vanRensburg E.J., Vega A., Wappenschmidt B., Weinberg C.R., Weitzel J.N., Wildiers H., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zheng W., Zorn K.K., Milne R.L., Kraft P., Simard J., Pharoah P.D.P., Michailidou K., Antoniou A.C., Schmidt M.K., Chenevix-Trench G., Easton D.F., Chatterjee N., Garcia-Closas M., Zhang H., Ahearn T.U., Lecarpentier J., Barnes D., Beesley J., Qi G., Jiang X., O'Mara T.A., Zhao N., Bolla M.K., Dunning A.M., Dennis J., Wang Q., Ful Z.A., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Auer P.L., Azzollini J., Barrowdale D., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blanco A., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Bondavalli D., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Briceno I., Broeks A., Brucker S.Y., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Byers H., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Calvello M., Campa D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Christiaens M., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Cornelissen S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Diez O., Domchek S.M., Dork T., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Foretova L., Fostira F., Friedman E., Frost D., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Giles G.G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gronwald J., Guenel P., Haberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hake C.R., Hall P., Hamann U., Harkness E.F., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Hillemanns P., Hogervorst F.B.L., Holleczek B., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huebner H., Hulick P.J., Imyanitov E.N., Isaacs C., Izatt L., Jager A., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., James P., Janavicius R., Janni W., John E.M., Jones M.E., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kapoor P.M., Karlan B.Y., Keeman R., Khan S., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Ko Y.-D., Konstantopoulou I., Koppert L.B., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Laenkholm A.-V., Lambrechts D., Larsson S.C., Laurent-Puig P., Lazaro C., Lazarova E., Lejbkowicz F., Leslie G., Lesueur F., Lindblom A., Lissowska J., Lo W.-Y., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Lukomska A., MacInnis R.J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Matricardi L., McGuffog L., McLean C., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Menon U., Miller A., Mingazheva E., Montagna M., Mulligan A.M., Mulot C., Muranen T.A., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., and Neven P.
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 x 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.Copyright © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.
Published: 2020

25. Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Score and Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk.

Author: Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Ito H., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Jung A., Kang D., Kets C.M., Khusnutdinova E., Ko Y.-D., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Kwong A., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Li J., Lindblom A., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Milne R.L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Peto J., Petridis C., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Pylkas K., Radice P., Rennert G., Romero A., Roylance R., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schwentner L., Scott C., See M.-H., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Siesling S., Slager S., Sohn C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Tapper W.J., Tengstrom M., Teo S.H., Terry M.B., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Vachon C.M., van Ongeval C., van Veen E.M., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Easton D.F., Hall P., Schmidt M.K., Kramer I., Hooning M.J., Mavaddat N., Hauptmann M., Keeman R., Steyerberg E.W., Giardiello D., Antoniou A.C., Pharoah P.D.P., Canisius S., Abu-Ful Z., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Bonanni B., Brauch H., Bremer M., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Castelao J.E., Chan T.L., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Choi J.-Y., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Sahlberg K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C., Reinertsen K., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Alnaes G.G., Collee J.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Giles G.G., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hamann U., Hartman M., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Hou M.-F., Howell A., Clarke C., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Graham J.D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., deFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Sexton A., Shelling A., Southey M.C., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., Young M.A., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Ito H., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Jung A., Kang D., Kets C.M., Khusnutdinova E., Ko Y.-D., Kristensen V.N., Kurian A.W., Kwong A., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Li J., Lindblom A., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Matsuo K., Mavroudis D., Meindl A., Milne R.L., Mulligan A.M., Muranen T.A., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Newman W.G., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Park-Simon T.-W., Peto J., Petridis C., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Presneau N., Pylkas K., Radice P., Rennert G., Romero A., Roylance R., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmutzler R.K., Schwentner L., Scott C., See M.-H., Shah M., Shen C.-Y., Shu X.-O., Siesling S., Slager S., Sohn C., Spinelli J.J., Stone J., Tapper W.J., Tengstrom M., Teo S.H., Terry M.B., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Troester M.A., Vachon C.M., van Ongeval C., van Veen E.M., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Easton D.F., Hall P., Schmidt M.K., Kramer I., Hooning M.J., Mavaddat N., Hauptmann M., Keeman R., Steyerberg E.W., Giardiello D., Antoniou A.C., Pharoah P.D.P., Canisius S., Abu-Ful Z., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Aronson K.J., Augustinsson A., Becher H., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Bonanni B., Brauch H., Bremer M., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Castelao J.E., Chan T.L., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Choi J.-Y., Clarke C.L., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Sahlberg K., Ottestad L., Karesen R., Schlichting E., Holmen M.M., Sauer T., Haakensen V., Engebraten O., Naume B., Fossa A., Kiserud C., Reinertsen K., Helland A., Riis M., Geisler J., Alnaes G.G., Collee J.M., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Flyger H., Gago-Dominguez M., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Giles G.G., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hamann U., Hartman M., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Hou M.-F., Howell A., Clarke C., Marsh D., Scott R., Baxter R., Yip D., Carpenter J., Davis A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Graham J.D., Sachchithananthan M., Amor D., Andrews L., Antill Y., Balleine R., Beesley J., Bennett I., Bogwitz M., Botes L., Brennan M., Brown M., Buckley M., Burke J., Butow P., Caldon L., Campbell I., Chauhan D., Chauhan M., Christian A., Cohen P., Colley A., Crook A., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., deFazio A., Delatycki M., Dickson R., Dixon J., Edkins T., Edwards S., Farshid G., Fellows A., Fenton G., Field M., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Fox S., French J., Friedlander M., Gaff C., Gattas M., George P., Greening S., Harris M., Hart S., Hayward N., Hopper J., Hoskins C., Hunt C., James P., Jenkins M., Kidd A., Kirk J., Koehler J., Kollias J., Lakhani S., Lawrence M., Lindeman G., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., McLachlan S.A., Meiser B., Nightingale S., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Ortega D.G., Pachter N., Patterson B., Pearn A., Phillips K., Pieper E., Rickard E., Robinson B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Saunders C., Saunus J., Sexton A., Shelling A., Southey M.C., Spurdle A., Taylor J., Taylor R., Thorne H., Trainer A., Tucker K., Visvader J., Walker L., Williams R., Winship I., and Young M.A.
Abstract: Previous research has shown that polygenic risk scores (PRSs) can be used to stratify women according to their risk of developing primary invasive breast cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the association between a recently validated PRS of 313 germline variants (PRS313) and contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk. We included 56,068 women of European ancestry diagnosed with first invasive breast cancer from 1990 onward with follow-up from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Metachronous CBC risk (N = 1,027) according to the distribution of PRS313 was quantified using Cox regression analyses. We assessed PRS313 interaction with age at first diagnosis, family history, morphology, ER status, PR status, and HER2 status, and (neo)adjuvant therapy. In studies of Asian women, with limited follow-up, CBC risk associated with PRS313 was assessed using logistic regression for 340 women with CBC compared with 12,133 women with unilateral breast cancer. Higher PRS313 was associated with increased CBC risk: hazard ratio per standard deviation (SD) = 1.25 (95%CI = 1.18-1.33) for Europeans, and an OR per SD = 1.15 (95%CI = 1.02-1.29) for Asians. The absolute lifetime risks of CBC, accounting for death as competing risk, were 12.4% for European women at the 10th percentile and 20.5% at the 90th percentile of PRS313. We found no evidence of confounding by or interaction with individual characteristics, characteristics of the primary tumor, or treatment. The C-index for the PRS313 alone was 0.563 (95%CI = 0.547-0.586). In conclusion, PRS313 is an independent factor associated with CBC risk and can be incorporated into CBC risk prediction models to help improve stratification and optimize surveillance and treatment strategies.Copyright © 2020 American Society of Human Genetics
Published: 2020

26. Effect of Progesterone Receptor A Predominance on Breast Cancer Cell Migration into Bone Marrow Fibroblasts

Author: McGowan, E.M., Saad, S., Bendall, L.J., Bradstock, K.F., and Clarke, C.L.
Published: 2004
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27. Loss of Co-ordinate Expression of Progesterone Receptors A and B is an Early Event in Breast Carcinogenesis

Author: Mote, P.A., Bartow, S., Tran, N., and Clarke, C.L.
Published: 2002
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28. Two truncating variants in FANCC and breast cancer risk

Author: Dork, T., Peterlongo, P., Mannermaa, A., Bolla, M.K., Wang, Q., Dennis, J., Ahearn, T., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Arndt, V., Aronson, K.J., Augustinsson, A., Freeman, L.E.B., Beckmann, M.W., Beeghly-Fadiel, A., Behrens, S., Bermisheva, M., Blomqvist, C., Bogdanova, N., Bojesen, S.E., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Burwinkel, B., Canzian, F., Chan, T.L., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S.J., Choi, J.Y., Christiansen, H., Clarke, C.L., Couch, F.J., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., dos-Santos-Silva, I., Dwek, M., Eccles, D.M., Ekici, A.B., Eriksson, M., Evans, D.G., Fasching, P.A., Figueroa, J., Flyger, H., Fritschisl, L., Gabrielson, M., Gago-Dominguez, M., Gao, C., Gapstur, S.M., Garcia-Closas, M., Garcia-Saenz, J.A., Gaudet, M.M., Giles, G.G., Goldberg, M.S., Goldgar, D.E., Guenel, P., Haeberle, L., Haiman, C.A., Hakansson, N., Hall, P., Hamann, U., Hartman, M., Hauke, J., Hein, A., Hillemanns, P., Hogervorst, F.B.L., Hooning, M.J., Hopper, J.L., Howell, T., Huo, D.Z., Ito, H., Iwasaki, M., Jakubowska, A., Janni, W., John, E.M., Jung, A., Kaaks, R., Kang, D., Kapoor, P.M., Khusnutdinova, E., Kim, S.W., Kitahara, C.M., Koutros, S., Kraft, P., Kristensen, V.N., Kwon, A., Lambrechts, D., Marchand, L. le, Li, J.M., Lindstrom, S., Linet, M., W.Y. lo, Long, J.R., Lophatananon, A., Lubinski, J., Manoochehri, M., Manoukian, S., Margolin, S., Martinez, E., Matsuo, K., Mavroudis, D., Meindl, A., Menon, U., Milne, R.L., Taib, N.A.M., Muir, K., Mulligan, A.M., Neuhausen, S.L., Nevanlinna, H., Neven, P., Newman, W.G., Offit, K., Olopade, O.I., Olshan, A.F., Olson, J.E., Olsson, H., Park, S.K., Park-Simon, T.W., Peto, J., Plaseska-Karanfilska, D., Pohl-Rescigno, E., Presneau, N., Rack, B., Radice, P., Rashid, M.U., Rennert, G., Rennert, H.S., Romero, A., Ruebner, M., Saloustros, E., Schmidt, M.K., Schmutzler, R.K., Schneider, M.O., Schoemaker, M.J., Scott, C., Shen, C.Y., Shu, X.O., Simard, J., Slager, S., Smichkoska, S., Southey, M.C., Spinelli, J.J., Stone, J., Surowy, H., Swerdlow, A.J., Tamimi, R.M., Tapper, W.J., Teo, S.H., Terry, M.B., Toland, A.E., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Torres, D., Torres-Mejia, G., Troester, M.A., Truong, T., Tsugane, S., Untch, M., Vachon, C.M., Ouweland, A.M.W. van den, Veen, E.M. van, Vijai, J., Wendt, C., Wolk, A., Yu, J.C., Zheng, W., Ziogas, A., Ziv, E., Dunning, A.M., Pharoah, P.D.P., Schindler, D., Devilee, P., Easton, D.F., Balleine, R., Baxter, R., Braye, S., Carpenter, J., Dahlstrom, J., Forbes, J., Lee, C.S., Marsh, D., Morey, A., Pathmanathan, N., Scott, R., Simpson, P., Spigelman, A., Wilcken, N., Yip, D., Zeps, N., Borresen-Dale, A.L., Alnaes, G.I.G., Sahlberg, K.K., Ottestad, L., Karesen, R., Schlichting, E., Holmen, M.M., Sauer, T., Haakensen, V., Engebraten, O., Naume, B., Fossa, A., Kiserud, C.E., Reinertsen, K.V., Helland, A., Riis, M., Geisler, J., ABCTB Investigators, NBCS Collaborators, Andrulis, Irene L [0000-0002-4226-6435], Arndt, Volker [0000-0001-9320-8684], Brauch, Hiltrud [0000-0001-7531-2736], Dwek, Miriam [0000-0001-7184-2932], Ekici, Arif B [0000-0001-6099-7066], Fasching, Peter A [0000-0003-4885-8471], Figueroa, Jonine [0000-0002-5100-623X], Hein, Alexander [0000-0003-2601-3398], Ito, Hidemi [0000-0002-8023-4581], Matsuo, Keitaro [0000-0003-1761-6314], Menon, Usha [0000-0003-3708-1732], Milne, Roger L [0000-0001-5764-7268], Muir, Kenneth [0000-0001-6429-988X], Nevanlinna, Heli [0000-0002-0916-2976], Newman, William G [0000-0002-6382-4678], Peto, Julian [0000-0002-1685-8912], Rennert, Gad [0000-0002-8512-068X], Romero, Atocha [0000-0002-1634-7397], Schmidt, Marjanka K [0000-0002-2228-429X], Scott, Christopher [0000-0003-1340-0647], Stone, Jennifer [0000-0001-5077-0124], Truong, Thérèse [0000-0002-2943-6786], Tsugane, Shoichiro [0000-0003-4105-2774], Ziogas, Argyrios [0000-0003-4529-3727], Dunning, Alison M [0000-0001-6651-7166], Pharoah, Paul DP [0000-0001-8494-732X], Devilee, Peter [0000-0002-8023-2009], Easton, Douglas F [0000-0003-2444-3247], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Andrulis, Irene L. [0000-0002-4226-6435], Ekici, Arif B. [0000-0001-6099-7066], Fasching, Peter A. [0000-0003-4885-8471], Milne, Roger L. [0000-0001-5764-7268], Newman, William G. [0000-0002-6382-4678], Schmidt, Marjanka K. [0000-0002-2228-429X], Dunning, Alison M. [0000-0001-6651-7166], Pharoah, Paul D. P. [0000-0001-8494-732X], Easton, Douglas F. [0000-0003-2444-3247], HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Clinicum, University Management, Department of Oncology, University of Helsinki, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical Oncology, and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, PROTEIN, lcsh:Medicine, 45/47, 0302 clinical medicine, Fanconi anemia, Genotype, lcsh:Science, Sequence Deletion, Multidisciplinary, BRCA1 Protein, Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group C Protein, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, BRCA2 Protein, 3. Good health, BIALLELIC MUTATIONS, DNA-REPAIR, Female, 692/499, Medical Genetics, medicine.medical_specialty, PALB2, 3122 Cancers, ABCTB Investigators, Breast Neoplasms, FANCONIS ANEMIA, Article, 692/4028, NBCS Collaborators, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, NONSENSE MUTATION, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Medicinsk genetik, 45, business.industry, Genetic heterogeneity, lcsh:R, Case-control study, Genetic Variation, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, GENE, Fanconi Anemia, 030104 developmental biology, Risk factors, Case-Control Studies, lcsh:Q, 3111 Biomedicine, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder with 22 disease-causing genes reported to date. In some FA genes, monoallelic mutations have been found to be associated with breast cancer risk, while the risk associations of others remain unknown. The gene for FA type C, FANCC, has been proposed as a breast cancer susceptibility gene based on epidemiological and sequencing studies. We used the Oncoarray project to genotype two truncating FANCC variants (p.R185X and p.R548X) in 64,760 breast cancer cases and 49,793 controls of European descent. FANCC mutations were observed in 25 cases (14 with p.R185X, 11 with p.R548X) and 26 controls (18 with p.R185X, 8 with p.R548X). There was no evidence of an association with the risk of breast cancer, neither overall (odds ratio 0.77, 95%CI 0.44–1.33, p = 0.4) nor by histology, hormone receptor status, age or family history. We conclude that the breast cancer risk association of these two FANCC variants, if any, is much smaller than for BRCA1, BRCA2 or PALB2 mutations. If this applies to all truncating variants in FANCC it would suggest there are differences between FA genes in their roles on breast cancer risk and demonstrates the merit of large consortia for clarifying risk associations of rare variants.
Published: 2019

29. Genome-wide association study of germline variants and breast cancer-specific mortality

Author: Escala-Garcia, M., Guo, Q., Dork, T., Canisius, S., Keeman, R., Dennis, J., Beesley, J., Lecarpentier, J., Bolla, M.K., Wang, Q., Abraham, J., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Arndt, V., Auer, P.L., Beckmann, M.W., Behrens, S., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Bernstein, L., Blomqvist, C., Boeckx, B., Bojesen, S.E., Bonanni, B., Borresen-Dale, A.L., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Brentnall, A., Brinton, L., Broberg, P., Brock, I.W., Brucker, S.Y., Burwinkel, B., Caldas, C., Caldes, T., Campa, D., Canzian, F., Carracedo, A., Carter, B.D., Castelao, J.E., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S.J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Cheng, T.Y.D., Chin, S.F., Clarke, C.L., Cordina-Duverger, E., Couch, F.J., Cox, D.G., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., Devilee, P., Dunn, J.A., Dunning, A.M., Durcan, L., Dwek, M., Earl, H.M., Ekici, A.B., Eliassen, A.H., Ellberg, C., Engel, C., Eriksson, M., Evans, D.G., Figueroa, J., Flesch-Janys, D., Flyger, H., Gabrielson, M., Gago-Dominguez, M., Galle, E., Gapstur, S.M., Garcia-Closas, M., Garcia-Saenz, J.A., Gaudet, M.M., George, A., Georgoulias, V., Giles, G.G., Glendon, G., Goldgar, D.E., Gonzalez-Neira, A., Alnaes, G.I.G., Grip, M., Guenel, P., Haeberle, L., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C.A., Hakansson, N., Hall, P., Hamann, U., Hankinson, S., Harkness, E.F., Harrington, P.A., Hart, S.N., Hartikainen, J.M., Hein, A., Hillemanns, P., Hiller, L., Holleczek, B., Hollestelle, A., Hooning, M.J., Hoover, R.N., Hopper, J.L., Howell, A., Huang, G.M.Q., Humphreys, K., Hunter, D.J., Janni, W., John, E.M., Jones, M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Jung, A., Kaaks, R., Kabisch, M., Kaczmarek, K., Kerin, M.J., Khan, S., Khusnutdinova, E., Kiiski, J.I., Kitahara, C.M., Knight, J.A., Ko, Y.D., Koppert, L.B., Kosma, V.M., Kraft, P., Kristensen, V.N., Kruger, U., Kuhl, T., Lambrechts, D., Marchand, L. le, Lee, E., Lejbkowicz, F., Li, L., Lindblom, A., Lindstrom, S., Linet, M., Lissowska, J., W.Y. lo, Loibl, S., Lubinski, J., Lux, M.P., MacInnis, R.J., Maierthaler, M., Maishman, T., Makalic, E., Mannermaa, A., Manoochehri, M., Manoukian, S., Margolin, S., Martinez, M.E., Mavroudis, D., McLean, C., Meindl, A., Middha, P., Miller, N., Milne, R.L., Moreno, F., Mulligan, A.M., Mulot, C., Nassir, R., Neuhausen, S.L., Newman, W.T., Nielsen, S.F., Nordestgaard, B.G., Norman, A., Olsson, H., Orr, N., Pankratz, V.S., Park-Simon, T.W., Perez, J.I.A., Perez-Barrios, C., Peterlongo, P., Petridis, C., Pinchev, M., Prajzendanc, K., Prentice, R., Presneau, N., Prokofieva, D., Pylkas, K., Rack, B., Radice, P., Ramachandran, D., Rennert, G., Rennert, H.S., Rhenius, V., Romero, A., Roylance, R., Saloustros, E., Sawyer, E.J., Schmidt, D.F., Schmutzler, R.K., Schneeweiss, A., Schoemaker, M.J., Schumacher, F., Schwentner, L., Scott, R.J., Scott, C., Seynaeve, C., Shah, M., Simard, J., Smeets, A., Sohn, C., Southey, M.C., Swerdlow, A.J., Talhouk, A., Tamimi, R.M., Tapper, W.J., Teixeira, M.R., Tengstrom, M., Terry, M.B., Thone, K., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Tomlinson, I., Torres, D., Truong, T., Turman, C., Turnbull, C., Ulmer, H.U., Untch, M., Vachon, C., Asperen, C.J. van, Ouweland, A.M.W. van den, Veen, E.M. van, Wendt, C., Whittemore, A.S., Willett, W., Winqvist, R., Wolk, A., Yang, X.R., Zhang, Y., Easton, D.F., Fasching, P.A., Nevanlinna, H., Eccles, D.M., Pharoah, P.D.P., Schmidt, M.K., and NBCS Collaborators
Abstract: BACKGROUND: We examined the associations between germline variants and breast cancer mortality using a large meta-analysis of women of European ancestry.METHODS: Meta-analyses included summary estimates based on Cox models of twelve datasets using similar to 10.4 million variants for 96,661 women with breast cancer and 7697 events (breast cancer-specific deaths). Oestrogen receptor (ER)-specific analyses were based on 64,171 ER-positive (4116) and 16,172 ER-negative (2125) patients. We evaluated the probability of a signal to be a true positive using the Bayesian false discovery probability (BFDP).RESULTS: We did not find any variant associated with breast cancer-specific mortality at P
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30. Associations of obesity and circulating insulin and glucose with breast cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis

Author: Shu, X., Wu, L., Khankari, N.K., Shu, X.O., Wang, T.J., Michailidou, K., Bolla, M.K., Wang, Q., Dennis, J., Milne, R.L., Schmidt, M.K., Pharoah, P.D.P., Andrulis, I.L., Hunter, D.J., Simard, J., Easton, D.F., Zheng, W., Alicia, B.F.J., Anton-Culver, H., Antonenkova, N.N., Arndt, V., Aronson, K.J., Auer, P.L., Barrdahl, M., Baynes, C., Freeman, L.E.B., Beckmann, M.W., Behrens, S., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Blomqvist, C., Bogdanova, N.V., Bojesen, S.E., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Brinton, L., Broberg, P., Brucker, S.Y., Bruning, T., Burwinkel, B., Cai, Q.Y., Caldes, T., Canzian, F., Carter, B.D., Castelao, J.E., Chang-Claude, J., Chenevix-Trench, G., Cheng, T.Y.D., Clarke, C.L., Conroy, D.M., Couch, F.J., Cox, D.G., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Cunningham, J.M., Czene, K., Daly, M.B., Doheny, K.F., Dork, T., dos-Santos-Silva, I., Dumont, M., Dunning, A.M., Dwek, M., Earp, H.S., Eccles, D.M., Eliassen, A.H., Engel, C., Eriksson, M., Evans, D.G., Fachal, L., Fasching, P.A., Figueroa, J., Fletcher, O., Flyger, H., Fritschi, L., Gabrielson, M., Gago-Dominguez, M., Gapstur, S.M., Garcia-Closas, M., Gaudet, M.M., Ghoussaini, M., Giles, G.G., Goldberg, M.S., Goldgar, D.E., Gonzalez-Neira, A., Guenel, P., Hahnen, E., Haiman, C.A., Hakansson, N., Hall, P., Hallberg, E., Hamann, U., Harrington, P., He, W., Hein, A., Hicks, B., Hillemanns, P., Hogervorst, F.B., Hollestelle, A., Hoover, R.N., Hopper, J.L., Howell, A., Huang, G., Jakubowska, A., Janni, W., John, E.M., Johnson, N., Jones, K., Jung, A., Kaaks, R., Kabisch, M., Kerin, M.J., Khusnutdinova, E., Kitahara, C.M., Kosma, V.M., Koutros, S., Kraft, P., Kristensen, V.N., Lambrechts, D., Marchand, L. le, Lindstrom, S., Linet, M.S., Lissowska, J., Loibl, S., Lubinski, J., Luccarini, C., Lux, M.P., Maishman, T., Kostovska, I.M., Mannermaa, A., Manoukian, S., Manson, J.E., Margolin, S., Mavroudis, D., Meijers-Heijboer, H., Meindl, A., Menon, U., Meyer, J., Mulligan, A.M., Neuhausen, S.L., Nevanlinna, H., Neven, P., Newman, W.T., Nielsen, S.F., Nordestgaard, B.G., Olopade, O.I., Olshan, A.F., Olson, J.E., Olsson, H., Olswol, C., Orr, N., Perou, C.M., Peto, J., Plaseska-Karanfilska, D., Prentice, R., Presneau, N., Pylkas, K., Rack, B., Radice, P., Rahman, N., Rennert, G., Rennert, H.S., Romero, A., Romm, J., Saloustros, E., Sandler, D.P., Sawyer, E.J., Schmutzler, R.K., Schneeweiss, A., Scott, R.J., Scott, C., Seal, S., Seynaeve, C., Smeets, A., Southey, M.C., Spinelli, J.J., Stone, J., Surowy, H., Swerdlow, A.J., Tamimi, R., Tapper, W., Taylor, J.A., Terry, M.B., Tessier, D.C., Thone, K., Tollenaar, R.A.E.M., Torres, D., Troester, M.A., Truong, T., Untch, M., Vachon, C., Berg, D. van den, Ouweland, A.M.W. van den, Veen, E.M. van, Vincent, D., Waisfisz, Q., Weinberg, C.R., Wendt, C., Whittemore, A.S., Wildiers, H., Winqvist, R., Wolk, A., Xia, L., Yang, X.H.R., Ziogas, A., Ziv, E., Breast Canc Assoc Consortium, NBCS Collaborators, and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, insulin, obesity, Epidemiology, medicine.medical_treatment, Mendelian randomization analysis, Type 2 diabetes, VARIANTS, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Breast cancer, Waist–hip ratio, FATNESS, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Mendelian Randomization, Internal medicine, Diabetes mellitus, medicine, genetics, COHORT, 030212 general & internal medicine, glucose, Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, 2. Zero hunger, Science & Technology, business.industry, Insulin, Cancer, PATHWAYS, General Medicine, Odds ratio, INSTRUMENTS, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, BODY-MASS INDEX, INSIGHTS, 030104 developmental biology, FASTING PLASMA-GLUCOSE, business, Body mass index, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, RESISTANCE, EXPENDITURE
Abstract: Background In addition to the established association between general obesity and breast cancer risk, central obesity and circulating fasting insulin and glucose have been linked to the development of this common malignancy. Findings from previous studies, however, have been inconsistent, and the nature of the associations is unclear. Methods We conducted Mendelian randomization analyses to evaluate the association of breast cancer risk, using genetic instruments, with fasting insulin, fasting glucose, 2-h glucose, body mass index (BMI) and BMI-adjusted waist-hip-ratio (WHRadj BMI). We first confirmed the association of these instruments with type 2 diabetes risk in a large diabetes genome-wide association study consortium. We then investigated their associations with breast cancer risk using individual-level data obtained from 98 842 cases and 83 464 controls of European descent in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Results All sets of instruments were associated with risk of type 2 diabetes. Associations with breast cancer risk were found for genetically predicted fasting insulin [odds ratio (OR) = 1.71 per standard deviation (SD) increase, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.26-2.31, p = 5.09 × 10–4], 2-h glucose (OR = 1.80 per SD increase, 95% CI = 1.3 0-2.49, p = 4.02 × 10–4), BMI (OR = 0.70 per 5-unit increase, 95% CI = 0.65-0.76, p = 5.05 × 10–19) and WHRadj BMI (OR = 0.85, 95% CI = 0.79-0.91, p = 9.22 × 10–6). Stratified analyses showed that genetically predicted fasting insulin was more closely related to risk of estrogen-receptor [ER]-positive cancer, whereas the associations with instruments of 2-h glucose, BMI and WHRadj BMI were consistent regardless of age, menopausal status, estrogen receptor status and family history of breast cancer. Conclusions We confirmed the previously reported inverse association of genetically predicted BMI with breast cancer risk, and showed a positive association of genetically predicted fasting insulin and 2-h glucose and an inverse association of WHRadj BMI with breast cancer risk. Our study suggests that genetically determined obesity and glucose/insulin-related traits have an important role in the aetiology of breast cancer.
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31. The FANCM:p.Arg658* truncating variant is associated with risk of triple-negative breast cancer.

Author: Boutry-Kryza N., Rantala J., Rashid M.U., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Lejbkowicz F., Rhenius V., Romero A., Rookus M.A., Ross E.A., Rossing M., Rudaitis V., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sanden K., Santamarina M., Scheuner M.T., Schmutzler R.K., Schneider M., Scott C., Senter L., Shah M., Sharma P., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Singer C.F., Sohn C., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Steele L., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Tapper W.J., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Thomassen M., Thompson J., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Torres D., Troester M.A., Truong T., Tung N., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van Rensburg E.J., van Veen E.M., Vega A., Viel A., Wappenschmidt B., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Wieme G., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Zorn K.K., Dunning A.M., Lush M., Wang Q., McGuffog L., Parsons M.T., Pharoah P.D.P., Fostira F., Toland A.E., Andrulis I.L., Ramus S.J., Swerdlow A.J., Greene M.H., Chung W.K., Milne R.L., Chenevix-Trench G., Dork T., Schmidt M.K., Easton D.F., Radice P., Hahnen E., Antoniou A.C., Couch F.J., Nevanlinna H., Surralles J., Peterlongo P., Harris M., Figlioli G., Bogliolo M., Catucci I., Caleca L., Lasheras S.V., Pujol R., Kiiski J.I., Muranen T.A., Barnes D.R., Dennis J., Michailidou K., Bolla M.K., Leslie G., Aalfs C.M., Balleine R., Baxter R., Braye S., Carpenter J., Dahlstrom J., Forbes J., Lee C.S., Marsh D., Morey A., Pathmanathan N., Scott R., Simpson P., Spigelman A., Wilcken N., Yip D., Zeps N., Adank M.A., Adlard J., Agata S., Cadoo K., Agnarsson B.A., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Ambrosone C.B., Andrews L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Arnold N., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Asseryanis E., Auber B., Auvinen P., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barkardottir R.B., Barrowdale D., Barwell J., Beane Freeman L.E., Beauparlant C.J., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Berger R., Bermisheva M., Blanco A.M., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen A., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borg A., Brady A.F., Brauch H., Brenner H., Bruning T., 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Castera L., Vaur D., Bourdon V., Nogues C., Noguchi T., Popovici C., Remenieras A., Sobol H., Coupier I., Pujol P., Adenis C., Dumont A., Revillion F., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Longy M., Sevenet N., Gladieff L., Guimbaud R., Feillel V., Toulas C., Dreyfus H., Leroux C.D., Peysselon M., Rebischung C., Legrand C., Baurand A., Bertolone G., Coron F., Faivre L., Jacquot C., Lizard S., Kientz C., Lebrun M., Prieur F., Fert-Ferrer S., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Bezieau S., Delnatte C., Mortemousque I., Colas C., Coulet F., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Bronner M., Sokolowska J., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Manouvrier-Hanu S., Lejeune S., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Guenel P., Gutierrez-Barrera A.M., Haeberle L., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hein A., Heyworth J., Hillemanns P., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Hosgood H.D., Howell A., Hu 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Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Buys S.S., Caldes T., Caliebe A., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Campbell I.G., Canzian F., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Collavoli A., Conner T.A., Cox D.G., Cybulski C., Czene K., Daly M.B., de la Hoya M., Devilee P., Diez O., Ding Y.C., Dite G.S., Ditsch N., Domchek S.M., Dorfling C.M., dos-Santos-Silva I., Durda K., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Flyger H., Foulkes W.D., Friebel T.M., Friedman E., Gabrielson M., Gaddam P., Gago-Dominguez M., Gao C., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Gayther S.A., Belotti M., Bertrand O., Birot A.-M., Buecher B., Caputo S., Dupre A., Fourme E., Gauthier-Villars M., Golmard L., Le Mentec M., Moncoutier V., de Pauw A., Saule C., Calender A., Giraud S., Leone M., Bressac-de-Paillerets B., Caron O., Guillaud-Bataille M., Bignon Y.-J., Uhrhammer N., Bonadona V., Lasset C., Berthet P., Castera L., Vaur D., Bourdon V., Nogues C., Noguchi T., Popovici C., Remenieras A., Sobol H., Coupier I., Pujol P., Adenis C., Dumont A., Revillion F., Muller D., Barouk-Simonet E., Bonnet F., Bubien V., Longy M., Sevenet N., Gladieff L., Guimbaud R., Feillel V., Toulas C., Dreyfus H., Leroux C.D., Peysselon M., Rebischung C., Legrand C., Baurand A., Bertolone G., Coron F., Faivre L., Jacquot C., Lizard S., Kientz C., Lebrun M., Prieur F., Fert-Ferrer S., Mari V., Venat-Bouvet L., Bezieau S., Delnatte C., Mortemousque I., Colas C., Coulet F., Soubrier F., Warcoin M., Bronner M., Sokolowska J., Collonge-Rame M.-A., Damette A., Gesta P., Lallaoui H., Chiesa J., Molina-Gomes D., Ingster O., Manouvrier-Hanu S., Lejeune S., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Guenel P., Gutierrez-Barrera A.M., Haeberle L., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Harrington P.A., Hein A., Heyworth J., Hillemanns P., Hollestelle A., Hopper J.L., Hosgood H.D., Howell A., Hu C., Hulick P.J., Hunter D.J., Imyanitov E.N., Aghmesheh M., Greening S., Amor D., Gattas M., Botes L., Buckley M., Friedlander M., Koehler J., Meiser B., Saleh M., Salisbury E., Trainer A., Tucker K., Antill Y., Dobrovic A., Fellows A., Fox S., Nightingale S., Phillips K., Sambrook J., Thorne H., Armitage S., Arnold L., Kefford R., Kirk J., Rickard E., Bastick P., Beesley J., Hayward N., Spurdle A., Walker L., Beilby J., Saunders C., Bennett I., Blackburn A., Bogwitz M., Gaff C., Lindeman G., Pachter N., Sexton A., Visvader J., Taylor J., Winship I., Brennan M., Brown M., French J., Edwards S., Burgess M., Burke J., Patterson B., Butow P., Culling B., Caldon L., Callen D., Chauhan D., Eisenbruch M., Heiniger L., Chauhan M., Christian A., Dixon J., Kidd A., Cohen P., Colley A., Fenton G., Crook A., Dickson R., Field M., Cui J., Cummings M., Dawson S.-J., DeFazio A., Delatycki M., Dudding T., Edkins T., Farshid G., Flanagan J., Fong P., Forrest L., Gallego-Ortega D., George P., Gill G., Kollias J., Haan E., Hart S., Jenkins M., Hunt C., Lakhani S., Lipton L., Lobb L., Mann G., McLachlan S.A., O'Connell S., O'Sullivan S., Pieper E., Robinson B., Saunus J., Scott E., Shelling A., Williams R., Young M.A., Isaacs C., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., James P., Janavicius R., Janni W., John E.M., Jones M.E., Jung A., Kaaks R., Karlan B.Y., Khusnutdinova E., Kitahara C.M., Konstantopoulou I., Koutros S., Kraft P., Lambrechts D., Lazaro C., Le Marchand L., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lilyquist J., Loud J.T., Lu K.H., Luben R.N., Lubinski J., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., Mebirouk N., Meindl A., Menon U., Miller A., Montagna M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Newman W.G., Nguyen-Dumont T., Nielsen F.C., Nielsen S., Nikitina-Zake L., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olshan A.F., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Osorio A., Ottini L., Peissel B., Peixoto A., Peto J., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Pocza T., Presneau N., Pujana M.A., Punie K., and Rack B.
Abstract: Breast cancer is a common disease partially caused by genetic risk factors. Germline pathogenic variants in DNA repair genes BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, ATM, and CHEK2 are associated with breast cancer risk. FANCM, which encodes for a DNA translocase, has been proposed as a breast cancer predisposition gene, with greater effects for the ER-negative and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtypes. We tested the three recurrent protein-truncating variants FANCM:p.Arg658*, p.Gln1701*, and p.Arg1931* for association with breast cancer risk in 67,112 cases, 53,766 controls, and 26,662 carriers of pathogenic variants of BRCA1 or BRCA2. These three variants were also studied functionally by measuring survival and chromosome fragility in FANCM-/- patient-derived immortalized fibroblasts treated with diepoxybutane or olaparib. We observed that FANCM:p.Arg658* was associated with increased risk of ER-negative disease and TNBC (OR = 2.44, P = 0.034 and OR = 3.79; P = 0.009, respectively). In a country-restricted analysis, we confirmed the associations detected for FANCM:p.Arg658* and found that also FANCM:p.Arg1931* was associated with ER-negative breast cancer risk (OR = 1.96; P = 0.006). The functional results indicated that all three variants were deleterious affecting cell survival and chromosome stability with FANCM:p.Arg658* causing more severe phenotypes. In conclusion, we confirmed that the two rare FANCM deleterious variants p.Arg658* and p.Arg1931* are risk factors for ER-negative and TNBC subtypes. Overall our data suggest that the effect of truncating variants on breast cancer risk may depend on their position in the gene. Cell sensitivity to olaparib exposure, identifies a possible therapeutic option to treat FANCM-associated tumors.Copyright © 2019, The Author(s).
Published: 2019

32. Genome-wide association study of germline variants and breast cancer-specific mortality.

Author: Garcia-Closas M., Moreno F., Mulligan A.M., Mulot C., Nassir R., Neuhausen S.L., Newman W.T., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Norman A., Olsson H., Orr N., Pankratz V.S., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Perez-Barrios C., Peterlongo P., Petridis C., Pinchev M., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofieva D., Pylkas K., Rack B., Radice P., Ramachandran D., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Roylance R., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schumacher F., Schwentner L., Scott R.J., Scott C., Seynaeve C., Shah M., Simard J., Smeets A., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Swerdlow A.J., Talhouk A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teixeira M.R., Tengstrom M., Terry M.B., Thone K., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Truong T., Turman C., Turnbull C., Ulmer H.-U., Untch M., Vachon C., van Asperen C.J., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van Veen E.M., Wendt C., Whittemore A.S., Willett W., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Zhang Y., Easton D.F., Fasching P.A., Nevanlinna H., Eccles D.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Schmidt M.K., Escala-Garcia M., Guo Q., Dork T., Canisius S., Keeman R., Dennis J., Beesley J., Lecarpentier J., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Abraham J., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Auer P.L., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brentnall A., Brinton L., Broberg P., Brock I.W., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Caldas C., Caldes T., Campa D., Canzian F., Carracedo A., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Cheng T.-Y.D., Chin S.-F., Clarke C.L., Cordina-Duverger E., Couch F.J., Cox D.G., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dunn J.A., Dunning A.M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Earl H.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Figueroa J., Flesch-Janys D., Flyger H., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Galle E., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., George A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Alnaes G.I.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hankinson S., Harkness E.F., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hartikainen J.M., Hein A., Hillemanns P., Hiller L., Holleczek B., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huang G., Humphreys K., Hunter D.J., Janni W., John E.M., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kabisch M., Kaczmarek K., Kerin M.J., Khan S., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Kitahara C.M., Knight J.A., Ko Y.-D., Koppert L.B., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kruger U., Kuhl T., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Lejbkowicz F., Li L., Lindblom A., Lindstrom S., Linet M., Lissowska J., Lo W.-Y., Loibl S., Lubinski J., Lux M.P., MacInnis R.J., Maierthaler M., Maishman T., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., Middha P., Miller N., Milne R.L., Garcia-Closas M., Moreno F., Mulligan A.M., Mulot C., Nassir R., Neuhausen S.L., Newman W.T., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Norman A., Olsson H., Orr N., Pankratz V.S., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Perez-Barrios C., Peterlongo P., Petridis C., Pinchev M., Prajzendanc K., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofieva D., Pylkas K., Rack B., Radice P., Ramachandran D., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Romero A., Roylance R., Saloustros E., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schumacher F., Schwentner L., Scott R.J., Scott C., Seynaeve C., Shah M., Simard J., Smeets A., Sohn C., Southey M.C., Swerdlow A.J., Talhouk A., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Teixeira M.R., Tengstrom M., Terry M.B., Thone K., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Torres D., Truong T., Turman C., Turnbull C., Ulmer H.-U., Untch M., Vachon C., van Asperen C.J., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van Veen E.M., Wendt C., Whittemore A.S., Willett W., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Zhang Y., Easton D.F., Fasching P.A., Nevanlinna H., Eccles D.M., Pharoah P.D.P., Schmidt M.K., Escala-Garcia M., Guo Q., Dork T., Canisius S., Keeman R., Dennis J., Beesley J., Lecarpentier J., Bolla M.K., Wang Q., Abraham J., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arndt V., Auer P.L., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Blomqvist C., Boeckx B., Bojesen S.E., Bonanni B., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brentnall A., Brinton L., Broberg P., Brock I.W., Brucker S.Y., Burwinkel B., Caldas C., Caldes T., Campa D., Canzian F., Carracedo A., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Cheng T.-Y.D., Chin S.-F., Clarke C.L., Cordina-Duverger E., Couch F.J., Cox D.G., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dunn J.A., Dunning A.M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Earl H.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Figueroa J., Flesch-Janys D., Flyger H., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Galle E., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., George A., Georgoulias V., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Alnaes G.I.G., Grip M., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hall P., Hamann U., Hankinson S., Harkness E.F., Harrington P.A., Hart S.N., Hartikainen J.M., Hein A., Hillemanns P., Hiller L., Holleczek B., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huang G., Humphreys K., Hunter D.J., Janni W., John E.M., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kabisch M., Kaczmarek K., Kerin M.J., Khan S., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Kitahara C.M., Knight J.A., Ko Y.-D., Koppert L.B., Kosma V.-M., Kraft P., Kristensen V.N., Kruger U., Kuhl T., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Lejbkowicz F., Li L., Lindblom A., Lindstrom S., Linet M., Lissowska J., Lo W.-Y., Loibl S., Lubinski J., Lux M.P., MacInnis R.J., Maierthaler M., Maishman T., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., Middha P., Miller N., and Milne R.L.
Abstract: Background: We examined the associations between germline variants and breast cancer mortality using a large meta-analysis of women of European ancestry. Method(s): Meta-analyses included summary estimates based on Cox models of twelve datasets using ~10.4 million variants for 96,661 women with breast cancer and 7697 events (breast cancer-specific deaths). Oestrogen receptor (ER)-specific analyses were based on 64,171 ER-positive (4116) and 16,172 ER-negative (2125) patients. We evaluated the probability of a signal to be a true positive using the Bayesian false discovery probability (BFDP). Result(s): We did not find any variant associated with breast cancer-specific mortality at P < 5 x 10-8. For ER-positive disease, the most significantly associated variant was chr7:rs4717568 (BFDP = 7%, P = 1.28 x 10-7, hazard ratio [HR] = 0.88, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.84-0.92); the closest gene is AUTS2. For ER-negative disease, the most significant variant was chr7:rs67918676 (BFDP = 11%, P = 1.38 x 10-7, HR = 1.27, 95% CI = 1.16-1.39); located within a long intergenic non-coding RNA gene (AC004009.3), close to the HOXA gene cluster. Conclusion(s): We uncovered germline variants on chromosome 7 at BFDP < 15% close to genes for which there is biological evidence related to breast cancer outcome. However, the paucity of variants associated with mortality at genome-wide significance underpins the challenge in providing genetic-based individualised prognostic information for breast cancer patients.Copyright © 2019, The Author(s).
Published: 2019

33. Genome-wide association and transcriptome studies identify target genes and risk loci for breast cancer.

Author: Herold N., Rantala J., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Saloustros E., Sanden K., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Sharma P., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Singer C.F., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Spurdle A.B., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thomassen M., Thone K., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., van Asperen C.J., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Viel A., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Ziogas A., Kraft P., Antoniou A.C., Zheng W., Easton D.F., Milne R.L., Beesley J., Chenevix-Trench G., Ferreira M.A., Gamazon E.R., Al-Ejeh F., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arason A., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Asseryanis E., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barnes D.R., Barrowdale D., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Broeks A., Burwinkel B., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Campbell I., Canzian F., Carter J., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Adlard J., Ahmed M., Barwell J., Brady A., Brewer C., Cook J., Davidson R., Donaldson A., Eason J., Eeles R., Evans D.G., Gregory H., Hanson H., Henderson A., Hodgson S., Izatt L., Kennedy M.J., Lalloo F., Miller C., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Perkins J., Porteous M.E., Rogers M.T., Side L.E., Snape K., Walker L., Harrington P.A., Arnold N., Auber B., Bogdanova-Markov N., Borde J., Caliebe A., Ditsch N., Dworniczak B., Engert S., Faust U., Gehrig A., Hahnen E., Hauke J., Hentschel J., Honisch E., Just W., Kast K., Larsen M., Lemke J., Nguyen H.P., Niederacher D., Ott C.-E., Platzer K., Pohl-Rescigno E., Ramser J., Rhiem K., Steinemann D., Sutter C., Varon-Mateeva R., Wang-Gohrke S., Weber B.H.F., Prieur F., Pujol P., Sagne C., Sevenet N., Sobol H., Sokolowska J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Venat-Bouvet L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., de la Hoya M., Dennis J., Devilee P., Diez O., Dork T., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ejlertsen B., Ellberg C., Engel C., Eriksson M., Fasching P.A., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Friedman E., Frost D., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Ganz P.A., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gronwald J., Guenel P., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., He W., Heyworth J., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Hulick P.J., Humphreys K., Imyanitov E.N., Balleine R., Baxter R., Braye S., Carpenter J., Dahlstrom J., Forbes J., Lee S.C., Marsh D., Morey A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Spigelman A., Wilcken N., Yip D., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Rookus M.A., Seynaeve C.M., van der Baan F.H., van der Hout A.H., van der Kolk L.E., van der Luijt R.B., van Deurzen C.H.M., van Doorn H.C., van Engelen K., van Hest L., van Os T.A.M., Verhoef S., Vogel M.J., Wijnen J.T., Miron A., Kapuscinski M., Bane A., Ross E., Buys S.S., Conner T.A., Isaacs C., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Janavicius R., Jankowitz R.C., John E.M., Johnson N., Joseph V., Karlan B.Y., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Jones M.E., Konstantopoulou I., Kristensen V.N., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Lazaro C., Leslie G., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom S., Long J., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., McGuffog L., Meindl A., Menon U., Michailidou K., Miller A., Montagna M., Moreno F., Moserle L., Mulligan A.M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nevelsteen I., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Nussbaum R.L., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Osorio A., Papp J., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peixoto A., Peterlongo P., Pharoah P.D.P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Poppe B., Presneau N., Radice P., Herold N., Rantala J., Rennert G., Risch H.A., Saloustros E., Sanden K., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt M.K., Schmutzler R.K., Sharma P., Shu X.-O., Simard J., Singer C.F., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Spurdle A.B., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Teixeira M.R., Terry M.B., Teule A., Thomassen M., Thone K., Thull D.L., Tischkowitz M., Toland A.E., Torres D., Truong T., Tung N., Vachon C.M., van Asperen C.J., van den Ouweland A.M.W., van Rensburg E.J., Vega A., Viel A., Wang Q., Wappenschmidt B., Weitzel J.N., Wendt C., Winqvist R., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Ziogas A., Kraft P., Antoniou A.C., Zheng W., Easton D.F., Milne R.L., Beesley J., Chenevix-Trench G., Ferreira M.A., Gamazon E.R., Al-Ejeh F., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Arason A., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Arun B.K., Asseryanis E., Azzollini J., Balmana J., Barnes D.R., Barrowdale D., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bialkowska K., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Bolla M.K., Borg A., Brauch H., Brenner H., Broeks A., Burwinkel B., Caldes T., Caligo M.A., Campa D., Campbell I., Canzian F., Carter J., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chang-Claude J., Chanock S.J., Christiansen H., Chung W.K., Claes K.B.M., Clarke C.L., Adlard J., Ahmed M., Barwell J., Brady A., Brewer C., Cook J., Davidson R., Donaldson A., Eason J., Eeles R., Evans D.G., Gregory H., Hanson H., Henderson A., Hodgson S., Izatt L., Kennedy M.J., Lalloo F., Miller C., Morrison P.J., Ong K.-R., Perkins J., Porteous M.E., Rogers M.T., Side L.E., Snape K., Walker L., Harrington P.A., Arnold N., Auber B., Bogdanova-Markov N., Borde J., Caliebe A., Ditsch N., Dworniczak B., Engert S., Faust U., Gehrig A., Hahnen E., Hauke J., Hentschel J., Honisch E., Just W., Kast K., Larsen M., Lemke J., Nguyen H.P., Niederacher D., Ott C.-E., Platzer K., Pohl-Rescigno E., Ramser J., Rhiem K., Steinemann D., Sutter C., Varon-Mateeva R., Wang-Gohrke S., Weber B.H.F., Prieur F., Pujol P., Sagne C., Sevenet N., Sobol H., Sokolowska J., Stoppa-Lyonnet D., Venat-Bouvet L., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., de la Hoya M., Dennis J., Devilee P., Diez O., Dork T., Dunning A.M., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ejlertsen B., Ellberg C., Engel C., Eriksson M., Fasching P.A., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Friedman E., Frost D., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Ganz P.A., Gapstur S.M., Garber J., Garcia-Closas M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Glendon G., Godwin A.K., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Greene M.H., Gronwald J., Guenel P., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hamann U., He W., Heyworth J., Hogervorst F.B.L., Hollestelle A., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Hulick P.J., Humphreys K., Imyanitov E.N., Balleine R., Baxter R., Braye S., Carpenter J., Dahlstrom J., Forbes J., Lee S.C., Marsh D., Morey A., Pathmanathan N., Simpson P., Spigelman A., Wilcken N., Yip D., Heemskerk-Gerritsen B.A.M., Rookus M.A., Seynaeve C.M., van der Baan F.H., van der Hout A.H., van der Kolk L.E., van der Luijt R.B., van Deurzen C.H.M., van Doorn H.C., van Engelen K., van Hest L., van Os T.A.M., Verhoef S., Vogel M.J., Wijnen J.T., Miron A., Kapuscinski M., Bane A., Ross E., Buys S.S., Conner T.A., Isaacs C., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., James P.A., Janavicius R., Jankowitz R.C., John E.M., Johnson N., Joseph V., Karlan B.Y., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Ko Y.-D., Jones M.E., Konstantopoulou I., Kristensen V.N., Laitman Y., Lambrechts D., Lazaro C., Leslie G., Lester J., Lesueur F., Lindstrom S., Long J., Loud J.T., Lubinski J., Makalic E., Mannermaa A., Manoochehri M., Margolin S., Maurer T., Mavroudis D., McGuffog L., Meindl A., Menon U., Michailidou K., Miller A., Montagna M., Moreno F., Moserle L., Mulligan A.M., Nathanson K.L., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Nevelsteen I., Nielsen F.C., Nikitina-Zake L., Nussbaum R.L., Offit K., Olah E., Olopade O.I., Olsson H., Osorio A., Papp J., Park-Simon T.-W., Parsons M.T., Pedersen I.S., Peixoto A., Peterlongo P., Pharoah P.D.P., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Poppe B., Presneau N., and Radice P.
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 170 breast cancer susceptibility loci. Here we hypothesize that some risk-associated variants might act in non-breast tissues, specifically adipose tissue and immune cells from blood and spleen. Using expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) reported in these tissues, we identify 26 previously unreported, likely target genes of overall breast cancer risk variants, and 17 for estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer, several with a known immune function. We determine the directional effect of gene expression on disease risk measured based on single and multiple eQTL. In addition, using a gene-based test of association that considers eQTL from multiple tissues, we identify seven (and four) regions with variants associated with overall (and ER-negative) breast cancer risk, which were not reported in previous GWAS. Further investigation of the function of the implicated genes in breast and immune cells may provide insights into the etiology of breast cancer.Copyright © 2019, The Author(s).
Published: 2019

34. Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes.

Author: Giles G.G., Bonanni B., Pinchev M., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Polley E.C., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofyeva D., Purrington K., Pylkas K., Rack B., Radice P., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Robson M., Romero A., Ruddy K.J., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schumacher F., Schurmann P., Schwentner L., Scott C., Scott R.J., Seynaeve C., Shah M., Sherman M.E., Shrubsole M.J., Shu X.-O., Slager S., Smeets A., Sohn C., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stegmaier C., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Thone K., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Truong T., Tzardi M., Ulmer H.-U., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Vijai J., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Whittemore A.S., Wildiers H., Willett W., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zhang Y., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Thompson D.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Chang-Claude J., Schmidt M.K., Hall P., Milne R.L., Pharoah P.D.P., Antoniou A.C., Chatterjee N., Kraft P., Garcia-Closas M., Simard J., Easton D.F., Allen J., Mavaddat N., Michailidou K., Dennis J., Lush M., Fachal L., Lee A., Tyrer J.P., Chen T.-H., Wang Q., Bolla M.K., Yang X., Adank M.A., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Auer P.L., Auvinen P., Barrdahl M., Beane Freeman L.E., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Bremer M., Brenner H., Brentnall A., Brock I.W., Brooks-Wilson A., Brucker S.Y., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chlebowski R., Christiansen H., Clarke C.L., Collee J.M., Cordina-Duverger E., Cornelissen S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dumont M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Forsti A., Fritschi L., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Georgoulias V., Gilyazova I.R., Glendon G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Grip M., Gronwald J., Grundy A., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hamann U., Hankinson S.E., Harkness E.F., Hart S.N., He W., Hein A., Heyworth J., Hillemanns P., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huang G., Humphreys K., Hunter D.J., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Johnson N., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kaczmarek K., Kataja V., Keeman R., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Knight J.A., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Kruger U., Kuhl T., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Lejbkowicz F., Lilyquist J., Lindblom A., Lindstrom S., Lissowska J., Lo W.-Y., Loibl S., Long J., Lubinski J., Lux M.P., MacInnis R.J., Maishman T., Makalic E., Maleva Kostovska I., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., Menon U., Middha P., Miller N., Moreno F., Mulligan A.M., Mulot C., Munoz-Garzon V.M., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Norman A., Offit K., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orr N., Pankratz V.S., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Perez-Barrios C., Peterlongo P., Peto J., Giles G.G., Bonanni B., Pinchev M., Plaseska-Karanfilska D., Polley E.C., Prentice R., Presneau N., Prokofyeva D., Purrington K., Pylkas K., Rack B., Radice P., Rau-Murthy R., Rennert G., Rennert H.S., Rhenius V., Robson M., Romero A., Ruddy K.J., Ruebner M., Saloustros E., Sandler D.P., Sawyer E.J., Schmidt D.F., Schmutzler R.K., Schneeweiss A., Schoemaker M.J., Schumacher F., Schurmann P., Schwentner L., Scott C., Scott R.J., Seynaeve C., Shah M., Sherman M.E., Shrubsole M.J., Shu X.-O., Slager S., Smeets A., Sohn C., Soucy P., Southey M.C., Spinelli J.J., Stegmaier C., Stone J., Swerdlow A.J., Tamimi R.M., Tapper W.J., Taylor J.A., Terry M.B., Thone K., Tollenaar R.A.E.M., Tomlinson I., Truong T., Tzardi M., Ulmer H.-U., Untch M., Vachon C.M., van Veen E.M., Vijai J., Weinberg C.R., Wendt C., Whittemore A.S., Wildiers H., Willett W., Winqvist R., Wolk A., Yang X.R., Yannoukakos D., Zhang Y., Zheng W., Ziogas A., Dunning A.M., Thompson D.J., Chenevix-Trench G., Chang-Claude J., Schmidt M.K., Hall P., Milne R.L., Pharoah P.D.P., Antoniou A.C., Chatterjee N., Kraft P., Garcia-Closas M., Simard J., Easton D.F., Allen J., Mavaddat N., Michailidou K., Dennis J., Lush M., Fachal L., Lee A., Tyrer J.P., Chen T.-H., Wang Q., Bolla M.K., Yang X., Adank M.A., Ahearn T., Aittomaki K., Andrulis I.L., Anton-Culver H., Antonenkova N.N., Arndt V., Aronson K.J., Auer P.L., Auvinen P., Barrdahl M., Beane Freeman L.E., Beckmann M.W., Behrens S., Benitez J., Bermisheva M., Bernstein L., Blomqvist C., Bogdanova N.V., Bojesen S.E., Borresen-Dale A.-L., Brauch H., Bremer M., Brenner H., Brentnall A., Brock I.W., Brooks-Wilson A., Brucker S.Y., Bruning T., Burwinkel B., Campa D., Carter B.D., Castelao J.E., Chanock S.J., Chlebowski R., Christiansen H., Clarke C.L., Collee J.M., Cordina-Duverger E., Cornelissen S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Cross S.S., Czene K., Daly M.B., Devilee P., Dork T., dos-Santos-Silva I., Dumont M., Durcan L., Dwek M., Eccles D.M., Ekici A.B., Eliassen A.H., Ellberg C., Engel C., Eriksson M., Evans D.G., Fasching P.A., Figueroa J., Fletcher O., Flyger H., Forsti A., Fritschi L., Gabrielson M., Gago-Dominguez M., Gapstur S.M., Garcia-Saenz J.A., Gaudet M.M., Georgoulias V., Gilyazova I.R., Glendon G., Goldberg M.S., Goldgar D.E., Gonzalez-Neira A., Grenaker Alnaes G.I., Grip M., Gronwald J., Grundy A., Guenel P., Haeberle L., Hahnen E., Haiman C.A., Hakansson N., Hamann U., Hankinson S.E., Harkness E.F., Hart S.N., He W., Hein A., Heyworth J., Hillemanns P., Hollestelle A., Hooning M.J., Hoover R.N., Hopper J.L., Howell A., Huang G., Humphreys K., Hunter D.J., Jakimovska M., Jakubowska A., Janni W., John E.M., Johnson N., Jones M.E., Jukkola-Vuorinen A., Jung A., Kaaks R., Kaczmarek K., Kataja V., Keeman R., Kerin M.J., Khusnutdinova E., Kiiski J.I., Knight J.A., Ko Y.-D., Kosma V.-M., Koutros S., Kristensen V.N., Kruger U., Kuhl T., Lambrechts D., Le Marchand L., Lee E., Lejbkowicz F., Lilyquist J., Lindblom A., Lindstrom S., Lissowska J., Lo W.-Y., Loibl S., Long J., Lubinski J., Lux M.P., MacInnis R.J., Maishman T., Makalic E., Maleva Kostovska I., Mannermaa A., Manoukian S., Margolin S., Martens J.W.M., Martinez M.E., Mavroudis D., McLean C., Meindl A., Menon U., Middha P., Miller N., Moreno F., Mulligan A.M., Mulot C., Munoz-Garzon V.M., Neuhausen S.L., Nevanlinna H., Neven P., Newman W.G., Nielsen S.F., Nordestgaard B.G., Norman A., Offit K., Olson J.E., Olsson H., Orr N., Pankratz V.S., Park-Simon T.-W., Perez J.I.A., Perez-Barrios C., Peterlongo P., and Peto J.
Abstract: Stratification of women according to their risk of breast cancer based on polygenic risk scores (PRSs) could improve screening and prevention strategies. Our aim was to develop PRSs, optimized for prediction of estrogen receptor (ER)-specific disease, from the largest available genome-wide association dataset and to empirically validate the PRSs in prospective studies. The development dataset comprised 94,075 case subjects and 75,017 control subjects of European ancestry from 69 studies, divided into training and validation sets. Samples were genotyped using genome-wide arrays, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were selected by stepwise regression or lasso penalized regression. The best performing PRSs were validated in an independent test set comprising 11,428 case subjects and 18,323 control subjects from 10 prospective studies and 190,040 women from UK Biobank (3,215 incident breast cancers). For the best PRSs (313 SNPs), the odds ratio for overall disease per 1 standard deviation in ten prospective studies was 1.61 (95%CI: 1.57-1.65) with area under receiver-operator curve (AUC) = 0.630 (95%CI: 0.628-0.651). The lifetime risk of overall breast cancer in the top centile of the PRSs was 32.6%. Compared with women in the middle quintile, those in the highest 1% of risk had 4.37- and 2.78-fold risks, and those in the lowest 1% of risk had 0.16- and 0.27-fold risks, of developing ER-positive and ER-negative disease, respectively. Goodness-of-fit tests indicated that this PRS was well calibrated and predicts disease risk accurately in the tails of the distribution. This PRS is a powerful and reliable predictor of breast cancer risk that may improve breast cancer prevention programs.Copyright © 2018 The Authors
Published: 2019

35. Identification of nine new susceptibility loci for endometrial cancer.

Author: Fung J., Chanock S.J., Chen C., Chen M.M., Ashton K., Milne R.L., Mints M., Montgomery G.W., Nassir R., Olsson H., Orlow I., Otton G., Palles C., Perry J.R.B., Peto J., Pooler L., Prescott J., Proietto T., Rebbeck T.R., Risch H.A., Rogers P.A.W., Rubner M., Runnebaum I., Sacerdote C., Sarto G.E., Schumacher F., Scott R.J., Setiawan V.W., Shah M., Sheng X., Shu X.-O., Southey M.C., Swerdlow A.J., Tham E., Trovik J., Turman C., Tyrer J.P., Vachon C., VanDen Berg D., Vanderstichele A., Wang Z., Webb P.M., Wentzensen N., Werner H.M.J., Winham S.J., Wolk A., Xia L., Xiang Y.-B., Yang H.P., Yu H., Zheng W., Pharoah P.D.P., Dunning A.M., Kraft P., De Vivo I., Tomlinson I., Easton D.F., Spurdle A.B., Thompson D.J., Jones A., O'Mara T.A., Glubb D.M., Amant F., Annibali D., Attia J., Auer P.L., Beckmann M.W., Black A., Bolla M.K., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brinton L., Buchanan D.D., Burwinkel B., Cheng T.H.T., Clarke C.L., Clendenning M., Cook L.S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Crous-Bous M., Czene K., Day F., Dennis J., Depreeuw J., Doherty J.A., Dork T., Dowdy S.C., Durst M., Ekici A.B., Fasching P.A., Fridley B.L., Friedenreich C.M., Fritschi L., Chang-Claude J., Garcia-Closas M., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Goode E.L., Gorman M., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hankison S.E., Healey C.S., Hein A., Hillemanns P., Hodgson S., Hoivik E.A., Holliday E.G., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Krakstad C., Kristensen V.N., Lambrechts D., Marchand L.L., Liang X., Lindblom A., Lissowska J., Long J., Lu L., Magliocco A.M., Martin L., McEvoy M., Meindl A., Michailidou K., Fung J., Chanock S.J., Chen C., Chen M.M., Ashton K., Milne R.L., Mints M., Montgomery G.W., Nassir R., Olsson H., Orlow I., Otton G., Palles C., Perry J.R.B., Peto J., Pooler L., Prescott J., Proietto T., Rebbeck T.R., Risch H.A., Rogers P.A.W., Rubner M., Runnebaum I., Sacerdote C., Sarto G.E., Schumacher F., Scott R.J., Setiawan V.W., Shah M., Sheng X., Shu X.-O., Southey M.C., Swerdlow A.J., Tham E., Trovik J., Turman C., Tyrer J.P., Vachon C., VanDen Berg D., Vanderstichele A., Wang Z., Webb P.M., Wentzensen N., Werner H.M.J., Winham S.J., Wolk A., Xia L., Xiang Y.-B., Yang H.P., Yu H., Zheng W., Pharoah P.D.P., Dunning A.M., Kraft P., De Vivo I., Tomlinson I., Easton D.F., Spurdle A.B., Thompson D.J., Jones A., O'Mara T.A., Glubb D.M., Amant F., Annibali D., Attia J., Auer P.L., Beckmann M.W., Black A., Bolla M.K., Brauch H., Brenner H., Brinton L., Buchanan D.D., Burwinkel B., Cheng T.H.T., Clarke C.L., Clendenning M., Cook L.S., Couch F.J., Cox A., Crous-Bous M., Czene K., Day F., Dennis J., Depreeuw J., Doherty J.A., Dork T., Dowdy S.C., Durst M., Ekici A.B., Fasching P.A., Fridley B.L., Friedenreich C.M., Fritschi L., Chang-Claude J., Garcia-Closas M., Gaudet M.M., Giles G.G., Goode E.L., Gorman M., Haiman C.A., Hall P., Hankison S.E., Healey C.S., Hein A., Hillemanns P., Hodgson S., Hoivik E.A., Holliday E.G., Hopper J.L., Hunter D.J., Krakstad C., Kristensen V.N., Lambrechts D., Marchand L.L., Liang X., Lindblom A., Lissowska J., Long J., Lu L., Magliocco A.M., Martin L., McEvoy M., Meindl A., and Michailidou K.
Abstract: Endometrial cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer of the female reproductive tract in developed countries. Through genome-wide association studies (GWAS), we have previously identified eight risk loci for endometrial cancer. Here, we present an expanded meta-analysis of 12,906 endometrial cancer cases and 108,979 controls (including new genotype data for 5624 cases) and identify nine novel genome-wide significant loci, including a locus on 12q24.12 previously identified by meta-GWAS of endometrial and colorectal cancer. At five loci, expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analyses identify candidate causal genes; risk alleles at two of these loci associate with decreased expression of genes, which encode negative regulators of oncogenic signal transduction proteins (SH2B3 (12q24.12) and NF1 (17q11.2)). In summary, this study has doubled the number of known endometrial cancer risk loci and revealed candidate causal genes for future study.Copyright © 2018, The Author(s).
Published: 2018

36. Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer

Author: Milne, R.L., Kuchenbaecker, K.B., Michailidou, K., Beesley, J., Kar, S., Lindstrom, S., Hui, S., Lemacon, A., Soucy, P., Dennis, J., Jiang, X, Rostamianfar, A., Finucane, H., Bolla, M.K., McGuffog, L., Wang, Q., Aalfs, C.M., Adams, M., Adlard, J., Agata, S., Ahmed, S., Ahsan, H., Aittomaki, K., Al-Ejeh, F., Allen, J., Ambrosone, C.B., Amos, C.I., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Antonenkova, N.N., Arndt, V., Arnold, N., Aronson, K.J., Auber, B., Auer, P.L., Ausems, M., Azzollini, J., Bacot, F., Balmana, J., Barile, M., Barjhoux, L., Barkardottir, R.B., Barrdahl, M., Barnes, D., Barrowdale, D., Baynes, C., Beckmann, M.W., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Bernstein, L., Bignon, Y.J., Blazer, K.R., Blok, M.J., Blomqvist, C., Blot, W., Bobolis, K., Boeckx, B., Bogdanova, N.V., Bojesen, A., Bojesen, S.E., Bonanni, B., Borresen-Dale, A.L., Bozsik, A., Bradbury, A.R., Brand, J.S., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Bressac-de Paillerets, B., Brewer, C., Brinton, L., Broberg, P., Brooks-Wilson, A., Brunet, J., Bruning, T., Burwinkel, B., Buys, S.S., Byun, J., Cai, Q., Caldes, T., Caligo, M.A., Campbell, I., Canzian, F., Caron, O., Carracedo, A., Carter, B.D., Castelao, J.E., Castera, L., Caux-Moncoutier, V., Chan, S.B., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S.J., Chen, X, Cheng, T.D., Chiquette, J., Christiansen, H., Claes, K.B.M., Clarke, C.L., Conner, T., Conroy, D.M., Cook, J., Kets, C.M., Simard, J., Milne, R.L., Kuchenbaecker, K.B., Michailidou, K., Beesley, J., Kar, S., Lindstrom, S., Hui, S., Lemacon, A., Soucy, P., Dennis, J., Jiang, X, Rostamianfar, A., Finucane, H., Bolla, M.K., McGuffog, L., Wang, Q., Aalfs, C.M., Adams, M., Adlard, J., Agata, S., Ahmed, S., Ahsan, H., Aittomaki, K., Al-Ejeh, F., Allen, J., Ambrosone, C.B., Amos, C.I., Andrulis, I.L., Anton-Culver, H., Antonenkova, N.N., Arndt, V., Arnold, N., Aronson, K.J., Auber, B., Auer, P.L., Ausems, M., Azzollini, J., Bacot, F., Balmana, J., Barile, M., Barjhoux, L., Barkardottir, R.B., Barrdahl, M., Barnes, D., Barrowdale, D., Baynes, C., Beckmann, M.W., Benitez, J., Bermisheva, M., Bernstein, L., Bignon, Y.J., Blazer, K.R., Blok, M.J., Blomqvist, C., Blot, W., Bobolis, K., Boeckx, B., Bogdanova, N.V., Bojesen, A., Bojesen, S.E., Bonanni, B., Borresen-Dale, A.L., Bozsik, A., Bradbury, A.R., Brand, J.S., Brauch, H., Brenner, H., Bressac-de Paillerets, B., Brewer, C., Brinton, L., Broberg, P., Brooks-Wilson, A., Brunet, J., Bruning, T., Burwinkel, B., Buys, S.S., Byun, J., Cai, Q., Caldes, T., Caligo, M.A., Campbell, I., Canzian, F., Caron, O., Carracedo, A., Carter, B.D., Castelao, J.E., Castera, L., Caux-Moncoutier, V., Chan, S.B., Chang-Claude, J., Chanock, S.J., Chen, X, Cheng, T.D., Chiquette, J., Christiansen, H., Claes, K.B.M., Clarke, C.L., Conner, T., Conroy, D.M., Cook, J., Kets, C.M., and Simard, J.
Abstract: Item does not contain fulltext, Most common breast cancer susceptibility variants have been identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of predominantly estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease. We conducted a GWAS using 21,468 ER-negative cases and 100,594 controls combined with 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer), all of European origin. We identified independent associations at P < 5 x 10(-8) with ten variants at nine new loci. At P < 0.05, we replicated associations with 10 of 11 variants previously reported in ER-negative disease or BRCA1 mutation carrier GWAS and observed consistent associations with ER-negative disease for 105 susceptibility variants identified by other studies. These 125 variants explain approximately 16% of the familial risk of this breast cancer subtype. There was high genetic correlation (0.72) between risk of ER-negative breast cancer and breast cancer risk for BRCA1 mutation carriers. These findings may lead to improved risk prediction and inform further fine-mapping and functional work to better understand the biological basis of ER-negative breast cancer.
Published: 2017

37. Common Breast Cancer Susceptibility Loci Are Associated with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Author: Stevens, K.N., Vachon, C.M., Lee, A.M., Slager, S., Lesnick, T., Olswold, C., Fasching, P.A., Miron, P., Eccles, D., Carpenter, J.E., Godwin, A.K., Ambrosone, C., Winqvist, R., Brauch, H., Schmidt, M.K., Cox, A., Cross, S.S., Sawyer, E., Hartmann, A., Beckmann, M.W., Schulz-Wendtland, R., Ekici, A.B., Tapper, W.J., Gerty, S.M., Durcan, L., Graham, N., Hein, R., Nickels, S., Flesch-Janys, D., Heinz, J., Sinn, H.P., Konstantopoulou, I., Fostira, F., Pectasides, D., Dimopoulos, A.M., Fountzilas, G., Clarke, C.L., Balleine, R., Olson, J.E., Fredericksen, Z., Diasio, R.B., Pathak, H., Ross, E., Weaver, J., Rudiger, T., Forsti, A., Dunnebier, T., Ademuyiwa, F., Kulkarni, S., Pylkas, K., Jukkola-Vuorinen, A., Ko, Y.D., Van Limbergen, E., Janssen, H., Peto, J., Fletcher, O., Giles, G.G, Baglietto, L., Verhoef, S., Tomlinson, I., Kosma, V.M., Beesley, J., Greco, D., Blomqvist, C., Irwanto, A., Liu, J., Blows, F.M., Dawson, S.J., Margolin, S., Mannermaa, A., Martin, N.G., Montgomery, G.W., Lambrechts, D., Silva, I.D., Severi, G., Hamann, U., Pharoah, P., Easton, D.F., Chang-Claude, J., Yannoukakos, D., Nevanlinna, H., Wang, X.S., Couch, F.J., and Consortium, GENICA.
Subjects: skin and connective tissue diseases
Abstract: Triple-negative breast cancers are an aggressive subtype of breast cancer with poor survival, but there remains little known about the etiologic factors that promote its initiation and development. Commonly inherited breast cancer risk factors identified through genome-wide association studies display heterogeneity of effect among breast cancer subtypes as defined by the status of estrogen and progesterone receptors. In the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Consortium (TNBCC), 22 common breast cancer susceptibility variants were investigated in 2,980 Caucasian women with triple-negative breast cancer and 4,978 healthy controls. We identified six single-nucleotide polymorphisms, including rs2046210 (ESR1), rs12662670 (ESR1), rs3803662 (TOX3), rs999737 (RAD51L1), rs8170 (19p13.1), and rs8100241 (19p13.1), significantly associated with the risk of triple-negative breast cancer. Together, our results provide convincing evidence of genetic susceptibility for triple-negative breast cancer.
Published: 2011

38. Characterization of Human Endometrial Carcinoma during Combination Treatment with Tamoxifen and Progestin in the Nude Mouse System1

Author: Satyaswaroop, P.G., primary, Clarke, C.L., additional, Zaino, R.J., additional, and Mortel, R., additional
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39. Free-living Physical Activity as a Novel Outcome Measure in Patients with Intermittent Claudication

Author: Clarke, C.L., primary, Holdsworth, R.J., additional, Ryan, C.G., additional, and Granat, M.H., additional
Published: 2013
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40. Progesterone and estrogen receptors segregate into different cell subpopulations in the normal human breast

Author: Hilton, H.N., primary, Graham, J.D., additional, Kantimm, S., additional, Santucci, N., additional, Cloosterman, D., additional, Huschtscha, L.I., additional, Mote, P.A., additional, and Clarke, C.L., additional
Published: 2012
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41. Heterogeneity of progesterone receptors A and B expression in human endometrial glands and stroma

Author: Mote, P.A., primary, Balleine, R.L., additional, McGowan, E.M., additional, and Clarke, C.L., additional
Published: 2000
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42. NMDAR1 in the caudate–putamen nucleus: ultrastructural localization and co-expression with sorcin, a 22,000 mol. wt calcium binding protein

Author: Gracy, K.N, primary, Clarke, C.L, additional, Meyers, M.B, additional, and Pickel, V.M, additional
Published: 1999
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43. Expression of osteonectin mRNA in human breast tumours is inversely correlated with oestrogen receptor content

Author: Graham, J.D., primary, Balleine, R.L., additional, Milliken, J.S., additional, Bilous, A.M., additional, and Clarke, C.L., additional
Published: 1997
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44. Apparent resistance in human endometrial carcinoma during combination treatment with tamoxifen and progestin may result from desensitization following downregulation of tumor progesterone receptor

Author: Satyaswaroop, P.G., primary, Clarke, C.L., additional, Zaino, R.J., additional, and Mortel, R., additional
Published: 1992
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45. Direct transcriptional regulation of the progesterone receptor by retinoic acid diminishes progestin responsiveness in the breast cancer cell line T-47D.

Author: Clarke, C.L., primary, Graham, J., additional, Roman, S.D., additional, and Sutherland, R.L., additional
Published: 1991
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46. Detection of progesterone receptor forms A and B by immunohistochemical analysis

Author: Mote, P.A., Johnston, J.F., Manninen, T., Tuohimaa, P., and Clarke, C.L.
Abstract: Aim--The measurement of progesterone receptors (PR) is recommended as part of the clinical management of breast and endometrial cancers, and immunohistochemistry on formalin fixed tissue is now the method of choice. PR is expressed as two isoforms, PRA and PRB, and although both these proteins are expressed in hormone dependent cancers, there is evidence that a large proportion of tumours express a predominance of one isoform. Therefore, it is essential to document the individual detection of PRA and PRB by the presently available anti-PR antibodies. The aim of this study is to investigate the detection of PR isoforms A and B in formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded cell lines and tissue sections by immunohistochemistry, using a panel of commercial and in house antibodies to human PR.Methods--PR negative cell lines stably transfected to express only PRA (MCF-7Mll/PRA) or PRB (MDA-MB-231/PRB), and tissue sections of human breast carcinoma and normal endometrium were stained using an immunoperoxidase method. A panel of primary PR specific antibodies was evaluated for ability to detect both PRA and PRB proteins, and for intensity and distribution of positive staining under optimal conditions.Results--Of the 11 antibodies assessed, only four recognised PRA and PRB similarly. Six recognised PRA proteins but were unable to detect PRB expression in the cell lines expressing only PRA or PRB. In tissues expressing high amounts of PRA and PRB, all antibodies tested demonstrated positive PR staining. However, in tissues expressing a predominance of PRB, differential staining patterns were observed, with variations in staining intensity and in the proportion of cells positive for PR.Conclusions--Most PR specific antibodies tested failed to detect PRB in formalin fixed tissue by immunohistochemical techniques, despite their ability to do so by immunoblot analysis. These observations suggest that there are conformational differences between PRA and PRB that mask epitopes on the PRB protein recognised by most anti-PR antibodies. The selection of antibodies that recognise both PRB and PRA in formalin fixed tissue is essential for the accurate evaluation of PR positivity in clinical specimens.
Published: 2001

47. Making changes: a survey toidentify mediators in the development of health care practice

Author: Clarke, C.L., Procter, S., and Watson, B.
Abstract: Aim:: To identify and examine the factors which influence and sustain the development of health care practice. Design:: A questionnaire survey. Participants:: Two hundred and nineteen practitioners in the North East of England whowere actively developing their practice, as identified through the Practice and Service Development Initiative of the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at York University. Key finding:: The reasons for developing health care practice emphasized an intimateknowledge of the local health needs of the patient population and the context of care delivery.
Published: 1998
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