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1. Evidence of Gene-Environment Interactions between Common Breast Cancer Susceptibility Loci and Established Environmental Risk Factors

Author: Nickels, S, Truong, T, Hein, R, Stevens, K, Buck, K, Behrens, S, Eilber, U, Schmidt, M, Häberle, L, Vrieling, A, Gaudet, M, Figueroa, J, Schoof, N, Spurdle, AB, Rudolph, A, Fasching, PA, Hopper, JL, Makalic, E, Schmidt, DF, Southey, MC, Beckmann, MW, Ekici, AB, Fletcher, O, Gibson, L, dos Santos Silva, I, Peto, J, Humphreys, MK, Wang, J, Cordina-Duverger, E, Menegaux, F, Nordestgaard, BG, Bojesen, SE, Lanng, C, Anton-Culver, H, Ziogas, A, Bernstein, L, Clarke, CA, Brenner, H, Müller, H, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Brauch, H, Brüning, T, Harth, V, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, VM, Hartikainen, JM, Lambrechts, D, Smeets, D, Neven, P, Paridaens, R, Flesch-Janys, D, Obi, N, Wang-Gohrke, S, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Vachon, CM, Giles, GG, Severi, G, Baglietto, L, Offit, K, John, EM, Miron, A, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Liu, J, Cox, A, Cramp, H, Connley, D, Balasubramanian, S, Dunning, AM, Shah, M, Trentham-Dietz, A, Newcomb, P, Titus, L, Egan, K, Cahoon, EK, and Rajaraman, P
Abstract: Various common genetic susceptibility loci have been identified for breast cancer; however, it is unclear how they combine with lifestyle/environmental risk factors to influence risk. We undertook an international collaborative study to assess gene-environment interaction for risk of breast cancer. Data from 24 studies of the Breast Cancer Association Consortium were pooled. Using up to 34,793 invasive breast cancers and 41,099 controls, we examined whether the relative risks associated with 23 single nucleotide polymorphisms were modified by 10 established environmental risk factors (age at menarche, parity, breastfeeding, body mass index, height, oral contraceptive use, menopausal hormone therapy use, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, physical activity) in women of European ancestry. We used logistic regression models stratified by study and adjusted for age and performed likelihood ratio tests to assess gene-environment interactions. All statistical tests were two-sided. We replicated previously reported potential interactions between LSP1-rs3817198 and parity (Pinteraction= 2.4×10-6) and between CASP8-rs17468277 and alcohol consumption (Pinteraction= 3.1×10-4). Overall, the per-allele odds ratio (95% confidence interval) for LSP1-rs3817198 was 1.08 (1.01-1.16) in nulliparous women and ranged from 1.03 (0.96-1.10) in parous women with one birth to 1.26 (1.16-1.37) in women with at least four births. For CASP8-rs17468277, the per-allele OR was 0.91 (0.85-0.98) in those with an alcohol intake of
Published: 2013

2. Evaluation of variation in the phosphoinositide-3-kinase catalytic subunit alpha oncogene and breast cancer risk

Author: Stevens, KN, Garcia-Closas, M, Fredericksen, Z, Kosel, M, Pankratz, VS, Hopper, JL, Dite, GS, Apicella, C, Southey, MC, Schmidt, MK, Broeks, A, Van ‘t Veer, LJ, Tollenaar, RAEM, Fasching, PA, Beckmann, MW, Hein, A, Ekici, AB, Johnson, N, Peto, J, dos Santos Silva, I, Gibson, L, Sawyer, E, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Chanock, S, Lissowska, J, Hunter, DJ, Hoover, RN, Thomas, GD, Milne, RL, Pérez, JI Arias, González-Neira, A, Benítez, J, Burwinkel, B, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Bartrar, CR, Hamann, U, Ko, YD, Brüning, T, Chang-Claude, J, Hein, R, Wang-Gohrke, S, Dörk, T, Schürmann, P, Bremer, M, Hillemanns, P, Bogdanova, N, Zalutsky, JV, Rogov, YI, Antonenkova, N, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Chen, X, Peterlongo, P, Bonanni, B, Bernard, L, Manoukian, S, Wang, X, Cerhan, J, Vachon, CM, Olson, J, Giles, GG, Baglietto, L, McLean, CA, Severi, G, John, EM, Miron, A, Winqvist, R, Pylkäs, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Andrulis, I, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Cox, A, Brock, IW, Elliott, G, Cross, SS, Pharoah, PP, Dunning, AM, Pooley, KA, Humphreys, MK, Wang, J, Kang, D, Yoo, K-Y, Noh, D-Y, Sangrajrang, S, Gabrieau, V, Brennan, P, McKay, J, Anton-Culver, H, Ziogas, A, and Couch, FJ
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Prevention, Genetics, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Class I Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Humans, Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, genetic susceptibility, neoplasms, association study, GENICA Network, kConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Public Health and Health Services, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract: BackgroundSomatic mutations in phosphoinositide-3-kinase catalytic subunit alpha (PIK3CA) are frequent in breast tumours and have been associated with oestrogen receptor (ER) expression, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 overexpression, lymph node metastasis and poor survival. The goal of this study was to evaluate the association between inherited variation in this oncogene and risk of breast cancer.MethodsA single-nucleotide polymorphism from the PIK3CA locus that was associated with breast cancer in a study of Caucasian breast cancer cases and controls from the Mayo Clinic (MCBCS) was genotyped in 5436 cases and 5280 controls from the Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS) study and in 30 949 cases and 29 788 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC).ResultsRs1607237 was significantly associated with a decreased risk of breast cancer in MCBCS, CGEMS and all studies of white Europeans combined (odds ratio (OR)=0.97, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.95-0.99, P=4.6 × 10(-3)), but did not reach significance in the BCAC replication study alone (OR=0.98, 95% CI 0.96-1.01, P=0.139).ConclusionCommon germline variation in PIK3CA does not have a strong influence on the risk of breast cancer.
Published: 2011

3. Germline mutations in CDH1 are infrequent in women with early-onset or familial lobular breast cancers

Author: Schrader, KA, Masciari, S, Boyd, N, Salamanca, C, Senz, J, Saunders, DN, Yorida, E, Maines-Bandiera, S, Kaurah, P, Tung, N, Robson, ME, Ryan, PD, Olopade, OI, Domchek, SM, Ford, J, Isaacs, C, Brown, P, Balmana, J, Razzak, AR, Miron, P, Coffey, K, Terry, MB, John, EM, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, O'Malley, FP, Daly, M, Bender, P, kConFab, Moore, R, Southey, MC, Hopper, JL, Garber, JE, and Huntsman, DG
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Clinical Research, Genetic Testing, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Adult, Age of Onset, Antigens, CD, Breast Neoplasms, Cadherins, Carcinoma, Lobular, DNA Mutational Analysis, Family, Female, Germ-Line Mutation, Humans, Middle Aged, kConFab, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Clinical sciences
Abstract: BackgroundGermline mutations in CDH1 are associated with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer; lobular breast cancer also occurs excessively in families with such condition.MethodTo determine if CDH1 is a susceptibility gene for lobular breast cancer in women without a family history of diffuse gastric cancer, germline DNA was analysed for the presence of CDH1 mutations in 318 women with lobular breast cancer who were diagnosed before the age of 45 years or had a family history of breast cancer and were not known, or known not, to be carriers of germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2. Cases were ascertained through breast cancer registries and high-risk cancer genetic clinics (Breast Cancer Family Registry, the kConFab and a consortium of breast cancer genetics clinics in the United States and Spain). Additionally, Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification was performed for 134 cases to detect large deletions.ResultsNo truncating mutations and no large deletions were detected. Six non-synonymous variants were found in seven families. Four (4/318 or 1.3%) are considered to be potentially pathogenic through in vitro and in silico analysis.ConclusionPotentially pathogenic germline CDH1 mutations in women with early-onset or familial lobular breast cancer are at most infrequent.
Published: 2011

4. Assessing interactions between the associations of common genetic susceptibility variants, reproductive history and body mass index with breast cancer risk in the breast cancer association consortium: A combined case-control study

Author: Milne, RL, Gaudet, MM, Spurdle, AB, Fasching, PA, Couch, FJ, Benítez, J, Arias Pérez, JI, Zamora, MP, Malats, N, dos Santos Silva, I, Gibson, LJ, Fletcher, O, Johnson, N, Anton-Culver, H, Ziogas, A, Figueroa, J, Brinton, L, Sherman, ME, Lissowska, J, Hopper, JL, Dite, GS, Apicella, C, Southey, MC, Sigurdson, AJ, Linet, MS, Schonfeld, SJ, Freedman, DM, Mannermaa, A, Kosma, VM, Kataja, V, Auvinen, P, Andrulis, IL, Glendon, G, Knight, JA, Weerasooriya, N, Cox, A, Reed, MWR, Cross, SS, Dunning, AM, Ahmed, S, Shah, M, Brauch, H, Ko, YD, Brüning, T, Lambrechts, D, Reumers, J, Smeets, A, Wang-Gohrke, S, Hall, P, Czene, K, Liu, J, Irwanto, AK, Chenevix-Trench, G, Holland, H, Fab, KC, Giles, GG, Baglietto, L, Severi, G, Bojensen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Flyger, H, John, EM, West, DW, Whittemore, AS, Vachon, C, Olson, JE, Fredericksen, Z, Kosel, M, Hein, R, Vrieling, A, Flesch-Janys, D, Heinz, J, Beckmann, MW, Heusinger, K, Ekici, AB, Haeberle, L, Humphreys, MK, Morrison, J, Easton, DF, and Pharoah, PD
Abstract: Introduction: Several common breast cancer genetic susceptibility variants have recently been identified. We aimed to determine how these variants combine with a subset of other known risk factors to influence breast cancer risk in white women of European ancestry using case-control studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium.Methods: We evaluated two-way interactions between each of age at menarche, ever having had a live birth, number of live births, age at first birth and body mass index (BMI) and each of 12 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (10q26-rs2981582 (FGFR2), 8q24-rs13281615, 11p15-rs3817198 (LSP1), 5q11-rs889312 (MAP3K1), 16q12-rs3803662 (TOX3), 2q35-rs13387042, 5p12-rs10941679 (MRPS30), 17q23-rs6504950 (COX11), 3p24-rs4973768 (SLC4A7), CASP8-rs17468277, TGFB1-rs1982073 and ESR1-rs3020314). Interactions were tested for by fitting logistic regression models including per-allele and linear trend main effects for SNPs and risk factors, respectively, and single-parameter interaction terms for linear departure from independent multiplicative effects.Results: These analyses were applied to data for up to 26,349 invasive breast cancer cases and up to 32,208 controls from 21 case-control studies. No statistical evidence of interaction was observed beyond that expected by chance. Analyses were repeated using data from 11 population-based studies, and results were very similar.Conclusions: The relative risks for breast cancer associated with the common susceptibility variants identified to date do not appear to vary across women with different reproductive histories or body mass index (BMI). The assumption of multiplicative combined effects for these established genetic and other risk factors in risk prediction models appears justified. © 2010 Milne et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Published: 2010

5. Association of contralateral breast cancer risk with mammographic density defined at higher-than-conventional intensity thresholds

Author: Watt, GP, Knight, JA, Nguyen, TL, Reiner, AS, Malone, KE, John, EM, Lynch, CF, Brooks, JD, Woods, M, Liang, X, Bernstein, L, Pike, MC, Hopper, JL, Bernstein, JL, Watt, GP, Knight, JA, Nguyen, TL, Reiner, AS, Malone, KE, John, EM, Lynch, CF, Brooks, JD, Woods, M, Liang, X, Bernstein, L, Pike, MC, Hopper, JL, and Bernstein, JL
Abstract: Mammographic dense area (MDA) is an established predictor of future breast cancer risk. Recent studies have found that risk prediction might be improved by redefining MDA in effect at higher-than-conventional intensity thresholds. We assessed whether such higher-intensity MDA measures gave stronger prediction of subsequent contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk using the Women's Environment, Cancer, and Radiation Epidemiology (WECARE) Study, a population-based CBC case-control study of ≥1 year survivors of unilateral breast cancer diagnosed between 1990 and 2008. Three measures of MDA for the unaffected contralateral breast were made at the conventional intensity threshold ("Cumulus") and at two sequentially higher-intensity thresholds ("Altocumulus" and "Cirrocumulus") using the CUMULUS software and mammograms taken up to 3 years prior to the first breast cancer diagnosis. The measures were fitted separately and together in multivariable-adjusted logistic regression models of CBC (252 CBC cases and 271 unilateral breast cancer controls). The strongest association with CBC was MDA defined using the highest intensity threshold, Cirrocumulus (odds ratio per adjusted SD [OPERA] 1.40, 95% CI 1.13-1.73); and the weakest association was MDA defined at the conventional threshold, Cumulus (1.32, 95% CI 1.05-1.66). In a model fitting the three measures together, the association of CBC with Cirrocumulus was unchanged (1.40, 95% CI 0.97-2.05), and the lower brightness measures did not contribute to the CBC model fit. These results suggest that MDA defined at a high-intensity threshold is a better predictor of CBC risk and has the potential to improve CBC risk stratification beyond conventional MDA measures.
Published: 2022

6. Recreational Physical Activity and Outcomes After Breast Cancer in Women at High Familial Risk

Author: Kehm, RD, MacInnis, RJ, John, EM, Liao, Y, Kurian, AW, Genkinger, JM, Knight, JA, Colonna, S, Chung, WK, Milne, R, Zeinomar, N, Dite, GS, Southey, MC, Giles, GG, Mclachlan, S-A, Whitaker, KD, Friedlander, ML, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Investigators, K, Phillips, K-A, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, Daly, MB, Hopper, JL, Terry, MB, Kehm, RD, MacInnis, RJ, John, EM, Liao, Y, Kurian, AW, Genkinger, JM, Knight, JA, Colonna, S, Chung, WK, Milne, R, Zeinomar, N, Dite, GS, Southey, MC, Giles, GG, Mclachlan, S-A, Whitaker, KD, Friedlander, ML, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Investigators, K, Phillips, K-A, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, Daly, MB, Hopper, JL, and Terry, MB
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Recreational physical activity (RPA) is associated with improved survival after breast cancer (BC) in average-risk women, but evidence is limited for women who are at increased familial risk because of a BC family history or BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants (BRCA1/2 PVs). METHODS: We estimated associations of RPA (self-reported average hours per week within 3 years of BC diagnosis) with all-cause mortality and second BC events (recurrence or new primary) after first invasive BC in women in the Prospective Family Study Cohort (n = 4610, diagnosed 1993-2011, aged 22-79 years at diagnosis). We fitted Cox proportional hazards regression models adjusted for age at diagnosis, demographics, and lifestyle factors. We tested for multiplicative interactions (Wald test statistic for cross-product terms) and additive interactions (relative excess risk due to interaction) by age at diagnosis, body mass index, estrogen receptor status, stage at diagnosis, BRCA1/2 PVs, and familial risk score estimated from multigenerational pedigree data. Statistical tests were 2-sided. RESULTS: We observed 1212 deaths and 473 second BC events over a median follow-up from study enrollment of 11.0 and 10.5 years, respectively. After adjusting for covariates, RPA (any vs none) was associated with lower all-cause mortality of 16.1% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.4% to 27.9%) overall, 11.8% (95% CI = -3.6% to 24.9%) in women without BRCA1/2 PVs, and 47.5% (95% CI = 17.4% to 66.6%) in women with BRCA1/2 PVs (RPA*BRCA1/2 multiplicative interaction P = .005; relative excess risk due to interaction = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.01 to 1.74). RPA was not associated with risk of second BC events. CONCLUSION: Findings support that RPA is associated with lower all-cause mortality in women with BC, particularly in women with BRCA1/2 PVs.
Published: 2021

7. Mammographic texture features associated with contralateral breast cancer in the WECARE Study

Author: Watt, GP, Knight, JA, Lin, C, Lynch, CF, Malone, KE, John, EM, Bernstein, L, Brooks, JD, Reiner, AS, Liang, X, Woods, M, Nguyen, TL, Hopper, JL, Pike, MC, Bernstein, JL, Watt, GP, Knight, JA, Lin, C, Lynch, CF, Malone, KE, John, EM, Bernstein, L, Brooks, JD, Reiner, AS, Liang, X, Woods, M, Nguyen, TL, Hopper, JL, Pike, MC, and Bernstein, JL
Abstract: To evaluate whether mammographic texture features were associated with second primary contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk, we created a "texture risk score" using pre-treatment mammograms in a case-control study of 212 women with CBC and 223 controls with unilateral breast cancer. The texture risk score was associated with CBC (odds per adjusted standard deviation = 1.25, 95% CI 1.01-1.56) after adjustment for mammographic percent density and confounders. These results support the potential of texture features for CBC risk assessment of breast cancer survivors.
Published: 2021

8. Recreational Physical Activity Is Associated with Reduced Breast Cancer Risk in Adult Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer: A Cohort Study of Women Selected for Familial and Genetic Risk

Author: Kehm, RD, Genkinger, JM, MacInnis, RJ, John, EM, Phillips, K-A, Dite, GS, Milne, RL, Zeinomar, N, Liao, Y, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Chung, WK, Giles, GG, McLachlan, S-A, Whitaker, KD, Friedlander, M, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, Daly, MB, Hopper, JL, Terry, MB, Kehm, RD, Genkinger, JM, MacInnis, RJ, John, EM, Phillips, K-A, Dite, GS, Milne, RL, Zeinomar, N, Liao, Y, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Chung, WK, Giles, GG, McLachlan, S-A, Whitaker, KD, Friedlander, M, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, Daly, MB, Hopper, JL, and Terry, MB
Abstract: Although physical activity is associated with lower breast cancer risk for average-risk women, it is not known if this association applies to women at high familial/genetic risk. We examined the association of recreational physical activity (self-reported by questionnaire) with breast cancer risk using the Prospective Family Study Cohort, which is enriched with women who have a breast cancer family history (N = 15,550). We examined associations of adult and adolescent recreational physical activity (quintiles of age-adjusted total metabolic equivalents per week) with breast cancer risk using multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression, adjusted for demographics, lifestyle factors, and body mass index. We tested for multiplicative interactions of physical activity with predicted absolute breast cancer familial risk based on pedigree data and with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation status. Baseline recreational physical activity level in the highest four quintiles compared with the lowest quintile was associated with a 20% lower breast cancer risk (HR, 0.80; 95% confidence interval, 0.68-0.93). The association was not modified by familial risk or BRCA mutation status (P interactions >0.05). No overall association was found for adolescent recreational physical activity. Recreational physical activity in adulthood may lower breast cancer risk for women across the spectrum of familial risk. SIGNIFICANCE: These findings suggest that physical activity might reduce breast cancer risk by about 20% for women across the risk continuum, including women at higher-than-average risk due to their family history or genetic susceptibility.See related commentary by Niehoff et al., p. 23.
Published: 2020

9. Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers

Author: Jiang, X, Finucane, HK, Schumacher, FR, Schmit, SL, Tyrer, JP, Han, Y, Michailidou, K, Lesseur, C, Kuchenbaecker, KB, Dennis, J, Conti, DV, Casey, G, Gaudet, MM, Huyghe, JR, Albanes, D, Aldrich, MC, Andrew, AS, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antoniou, AC, Antonenkova, NN, Arnold, SM, Aronson, KJ, Arun, BK, Bandera, EV, Barkardottir, RB, Barnes, DR, Batra, J, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Benlloch, S, Berchuck, A, Berndt, SI, Bickeboeller, H, Bien, SA, Blomqvist, C, Boccia, S, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brenton, JD, Brook, MN, Brunet, J, Brunnstrom, H, Buchanan, DD, Burwinkel, B, Butzow, R, Cadoni, G, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Campbell, PT, Cancel-Tassin, G, Cannon-Albright, L, Campa, D, Caporaso, N, Carvalho, AL, Chan, AT, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chen, C, Christiani, DC, Claes, KBM, Claessens, F, Clements, J, Collee, JM, Correa, MC, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cunningham, JM, Cybulski, C, Czene, K, Daly, MB, defazio, A, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Gago-Dominguez, M, Donovan, JL, Doerk, T, Duell, EJ, Dunning, AM, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Edlund, CK, Edwards, DRV, Ellberg, C, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Ferris, RL, Liloglou, T, Figueiredo, JC, Fletcher, O, Fortner, RT, Fostira, F, Franceschi, S, Friedman, E, Gallinger, SJ, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gayther, SA, Giles, GG, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Goode, EL, Goodman, MT, Goodman, G, Grankvist, K, Greene, MH, Gronberg, H, Gronwald, J, Guenel, P, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hamdy, FC, Hamilton, RJ, Hampe, J, Haugen, A, Heitz, F, Herrero, R, Hillemanns, P, Hoffmeister, M, Hogdall, E, Hong, Y-C, Hopper, JL, Houlston, R, Hulick, PJ, Hunter, DJ, Huntsman, DG, Idos, G, Imyanitov, EN, Ingles, SA, Isaacs, C, Jakubowska, A, James, P, Jenkins, MA, Johansson, M, John, EM, Joshi, AD, Kaneva, R, Karlan, BY, Kelemen, LE, Kuhl, T, Khaw, K-T, Khusnutdinova, E, Kibel, AS, Kiemeney, LA, Kim, J, Kjaer, SK, Knight, JA, Kogevinas, M, Kote-Jarai, Z, Koutros, S, Kristensen, VN, Kupryjanczyk, J, Lacko, M, Lam, S, Lambrechts, D, Landi, MT, Lazarus, P, Le, ND, Lee, E, Lejbkowicz, F, Lenz, H-J, Leslie, G, Lessel, D, Lester, J, Levine, DA, Li, L, Li, CI, Lindblom, A, Lindor, NM, Liu, G, Loupakis, F, Lubinski, J, Maehle, L, Maier, C, Mannermaa, A, Le Marchand, L, Margolin, S, May, T, McGuffog, L, Meindl, A, Middha, P, Miller, A, Milne, RL, MacInnis, RJ, Modugno, F, Montagna, M, Moreno, V, Moysich, KB, Mucci, L, Muir, K, Mulligan, AM, Nathanson, KL, Neal, DE, Ness, AR, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Newcomb, PA, Newcomb, LF, Nielsen, FC, Nikitina-Zake, L, Nordestgaard, BG, Nussbaum, RL, Offit, K, Olah, E, Al Olama, AA, Olopade, OI, Olshan, AF, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Pandha, H, Park, JY, Pashayan, N, Parsons, MT, Pejovic, T, Penney, KL, Peters, WHM, Phelan, CM, Phipps, AI, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pring, M, Prokofyeva, D, Radice, P, Stefansson, K, Ramus, SJ, Raskin, L, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, van Rensburg, EJ, Riggan, MJ, Risch, HA, Risch, A, Roobol, MJ, Rosenstein, BS, Rossing, MA, De Ruyck, K, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schabath, MB, Schleutker, J, Schmidt, MK, Setiawan, VW, Shen, H, Siegel, EM, Sieh, W, Singer, CF, Slattery, ML, Sorensen, KD, Southey, MC, Spurdle, AB, Stanford, JL, Stevens, VL, Stintzing, S, Stone, J, Sundfeldt, K, Sutphen, R, Swerdlow, AJ, Tajara, EH, Tangen, CM, Tardon, A, Taylor, JA, Teare, MD, Teixeira, MR, Terry, MB, Terry, KL, Thibodeau, SN, Thomassen, M, Bjorge, L, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Townsend, PA, Travis, RC, Tung, N, Tworoger, SS, Ulrich, CM, Usmani, N, Vachon, CM, Van Nieuwenhuysen, E, Vega, A, Aguado-Barrera, ME, Wang, Q, Webb, PM, Weinberg, CR, Weinstein, S, Weissler, MC, Weitzel, JN, West, CML, White, E, Whittemore, AS, Wichmann, H-E, Wiklund, F, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Woll, P, Woods, M, Wu, AH, Wu, X, Yannoukakos, D, Zheng, W, Zienolddiny, S, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Lane, JM, Saxena, R, Thomas, D, Hung, RJ, Diergaarde, B, Mckay, J, Peters, U, Hsu, L, Garcia-Closas, M, Eeles, RA, Chenevix-Trench, G, Brennan, PJ, Haiman, CA, Simard, J, Easton, DF, Gruber, SB, Pharoah, PDP, Price, AL, Pasaniuc, B, Amos, CI, Kraft, P, Lindstrom, S, Jiang, X, Finucane, HK, Schumacher, FR, Schmit, SL, Tyrer, JP, Han, Y, Michailidou, K, Lesseur, C, Kuchenbaecker, KB, Dennis, J, Conti, DV, Casey, G, Gaudet, MM, Huyghe, JR, Albanes, D, Aldrich, MC, Andrew, AS, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antoniou, AC, Antonenkova, NN, Arnold, SM, Aronson, KJ, Arun, BK, Bandera, EV, Barkardottir, RB, Barnes, DR, Batra, J, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Benlloch, S, Berchuck, A, Berndt, SI, Bickeboeller, H, Bien, SA, Blomqvist, C, Boccia, S, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brenton, JD, Brook, MN, Brunet, J, Brunnstrom, H, Buchanan, DD, Burwinkel, B, Butzow, R, Cadoni, G, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Campbell, PT, Cancel-Tassin, G, Cannon-Albright, L, Campa, D, Caporaso, N, Carvalho, AL, Chan, AT, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chen, C, Christiani, DC, Claes, KBM, Claessens, F, Clements, J, Collee, JM, Correa, MC, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cunningham, JM, Cybulski, C, Czene, K, Daly, MB, defazio, A, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Gago-Dominguez, M, Donovan, JL, Doerk, T, Duell, EJ, Dunning, AM, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Edlund, CK, Edwards, DRV, Ellberg, C, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Ferris, RL, Liloglou, T, Figueiredo, JC, Fletcher, O, Fortner, RT, Fostira, F, Franceschi, S, Friedman, E, Gallinger, SJ, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gayther, SA, Giles, GG, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Goode, EL, Goodman, MT, Goodman, G, Grankvist, K, Greene, MH, Gronberg, H, Gronwald, J, Guenel, P, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hamdy, FC, Hamilton, RJ, Hampe, J, Haugen, A, Heitz, F, Herrero, R, Hillemanns, P, Hoffmeister, M, Hogdall, E, Hong, Y-C, Hopper, JL, Houlston, R, Hulick, PJ, Hunter, DJ, Huntsman, DG, Idos, G, Imyanitov, EN, Ingles, SA, Isaacs, C, Jakubowska, A, James, P, Jenkins, MA, Johansson, M, John, EM, Joshi, AD, Kaneva, R, Karlan, BY, Kelemen, LE, Kuhl, T, Khaw, K-T, Khusnutdinova, E, Kibel, AS, Kiemeney, LA, Kim, J, Kjaer, SK, Knight, JA, Kogevinas, M, Kote-Jarai, Z, Koutros, S, Kristensen, VN, Kupryjanczyk, J, Lacko, M, Lam, S, Lambrechts, D, Landi, MT, Lazarus, P, Le, ND, Lee, E, Lejbkowicz, F, Lenz, H-J, Leslie, G, Lessel, D, Lester, J, Levine, DA, Li, L, Li, CI, Lindblom, A, Lindor, NM, Liu, G, Loupakis, F, Lubinski, J, Maehle, L, Maier, C, Mannermaa, A, Le Marchand, L, Margolin, S, May, T, McGuffog, L, Meindl, A, Middha, P, Miller, A, Milne, RL, MacInnis, RJ, Modugno, F, Montagna, M, Moreno, V, Moysich, KB, Mucci, L, Muir, K, Mulligan, AM, Nathanson, KL, Neal, DE, Ness, AR, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Newcomb, PA, Newcomb, LF, Nielsen, FC, Nikitina-Zake, L, Nordestgaard, BG, Nussbaum, RL, Offit, K, Olah, E, Al Olama, AA, Olopade, OI, Olshan, AF, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Pandha, H, Park, JY, Pashayan, N, Parsons, MT, Pejovic, T, Penney, KL, Peters, WHM, Phelan, CM, Phipps, AI, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pring, M, Prokofyeva, D, Radice, P, Stefansson, K, Ramus, SJ, Raskin, L, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, van Rensburg, EJ, Riggan, MJ, Risch, HA, Risch, A, Roobol, MJ, Rosenstein, BS, Rossing, MA, De Ruyck, K, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schabath, MB, Schleutker, J, Schmidt, MK, Setiawan, VW, Shen, H, Siegel, EM, Sieh, W, Singer, CF, Slattery, ML, Sorensen, KD, Southey, MC, Spurdle, AB, Stanford, JL, Stevens, VL, Stintzing, S, Stone, J, Sundfeldt, K, Sutphen, R, Swerdlow, AJ, Tajara, EH, Tangen, CM, Tardon, A, Taylor, JA, Teare, MD, Teixeira, MR, Terry, MB, Terry, KL, Thibodeau, SN, Thomassen, M, Bjorge, L, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Townsend, PA, Travis, RC, Tung, N, Tworoger, SS, Ulrich, CM, Usmani, N, Vachon, CM, Van Nieuwenhuysen, E, Vega, A, Aguado-Barrera, ME, Wang, Q, Webb, PM, Weinberg, CR, Weinstein, S, Weissler, MC, Weitzel, JN, West, CML, White, E, Whittemore, AS, Wichmann, H-E, Wiklund, F, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Woll, P, Woods, M, Wu, AH, Wu, X, Yannoukakos, D, Zheng, W, Zienolddiny, S, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Lane, JM, Saxena, R, Thomas, D, Hung, RJ, Diergaarde, B, Mckay, J, Peters, U, Hsu, L, Garcia-Closas, M, Eeles, RA, Chenevix-Trench, G, Brennan, PJ, Haiman, CA, Simard, J, Easton, DF, Gruber, SB, Pharoah, PDP, Price, AL, Pasaniuc, B, Amos, CI, Kraft, P, and Lindstrom, S
Abstract: Quantifying the genetic correlation between cancers can provide important insights into the mechanisms driving cancer etiology. Using genome-wide association study summary statistics across six cancer types based on a total of 296,215 cases and 301,319 controls of European ancestry, here we estimate the pair-wise genetic correlations between breast, colorectal, head/neck, lung, ovary and prostate cancer, and between cancers and 38 other diseases. We observed statistically significant genetic correlations between lung and head/neck cancer (rg = 0.57, p = 4.6 × 10-8), breast and ovarian cancer (rg = 0.24, p = 7 × 10-5), breast and lung cancer (rg = 0.18, p =1.5 × 10-6) and breast and colorectal cancer (rg = 0.15, p = 1.1 × 10-4). We also found that multiple cancers are genetically correlated with non-cancer traits including smoking, psychiatric diseases and metabolic characteristics. Functional enrichment analysis revealed a significant excess contribution of conserved and regulatory regions to cancer heritability. Our comprehensive analysis of cross-cancer heritability suggests that solid tumors arising across tissues share in part a common germline genetic basis.
Published: 2019

10. Benign breast disease increases breast cancer risk independent of underlying familial risk profile: Findings from a Prospective Family Study Cohort

Author: Zeinomar, N, Phillips, K-A, Daly, MB, Milne, RL, Dite, GS, MacInnis, RJ, Liao, Y, Kehm, RD, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Chung, WK, Giles, GG, McLachlan, S-A, Friedlander, ML, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, John, EM, Hopper, JL, Terry, MB, Zeinomar, N, Phillips, K-A, Daly, MB, Milne, RL, Dite, GS, MacInnis, RJ, Liao, Y, Kehm, RD, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Chung, WK, Giles, GG, McLachlan, S-A, Friedlander, ML, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, John, EM, Hopper, JL, and Terry, MB
Abstract: Benign breast disease (BBD) is an established breast cancer (BC) risk factor, but it is unclear whether the magnitude of the association applies to women at familial or genetic risk. This information is needed to improve BC risk assessment in clinical settings. Using the Prospective Family Study Cohort, we used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the association of BBD with BC risk. We also examined whether the association with BBD differed by underlying familial risk profile (FRP), calculated using absolute risk estimates from the Breast Ovarian Analysis of Disease Incidence and Carrier Estimation Algorithm (BOADICEA) model. During 176,756 person-years of follow-up (median: 10.9 years, maximum: 23.7) of 17,154 women unaffected with BC at baseline, we observed 968 incident cases of BC. A total of 4,704 (27%) women reported a history of BBD diagnosis at baseline. A history of BBD was associated with a greater risk of BC: HR = 1.31 (95% CI: 1.14-1.50), and did not differ by underlying FRP, with HRs of 1.35 (95% CI: 1.11-1.65), 1.26 (95% CI: 1.00-1.60), and 1.40 (95% CI: 1.01-1.93), for categories of full-lifetime BOADICEA score <20%, 20 to <35%, ≥35%, respectively. There was no difference in the association for women with BRCA1 mutations (HR: 1.64; 95% CI: 1.04-2.58), women with BRCA2 mutations (HR: 1.34; 95% CI: 0.78-2.3) or for women without a known BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation (HR: 1.31; 95% CI: 1.13-1.53) (pinteraction = 0.95). Women with a history of BBD have an increased risk of BC that is independent of, and multiplies, their underlying familial and genetic risk.
Published: 2019

11. Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers (vol 10, 431, 2019)

Author: Jiang, X, Finucane, HK, Schumacher, FR, Schmit, SL, Tyrer, JP, Han, Y, Michailidou, K, Lesseur, C, Kuchenbaecker, KB, Dennis, J, Conti, DV, Casey, G, Gaudet, MM, Huyghe, JR, Albanes, D, Aldrich, MC, Andrew, AS, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antoniou, AC, Antonenkova, NN, Arnold, SM, Aronson, KJ, Arun, BK, Bandera, EV, Barkardottir, RB, Barnes, DR, Batra, J, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Benlloch, S, Berchuck, A, Berndt, SI, Bickeboller, H, Bien, SA, Blomqvist, C, Boccia, S, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brenton, JD, Brook, MN, Brunet, J, Brunnstrom, H, Buchanan, DD, Burwinkel, B, Butzow, R, Cadoni, G, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Campbell, PT, Cancel-Tassin, G, Cannon-Albright, L, Campa, D, Caporaso, N, Carvalho, AL, Chan, AT, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chen, C, Christiani, DC, Claes, KBM, Claessens, F, Clements, J, Collee, JM, Correa, MC, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cunningham, JM, Cybulski, C, Czene, K, Daly, MB, deFazio, A, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Gago-Dominguez, M, Donovan, JL, Dork, T, Duell, EJ, Dunning, AM, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Edlund, CK, Edwards, DRV, Ellberg, C, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Ferris, RL, Liloglou, T, Figueiredo, JC, Fletcher, O, Fortner, RT, Fostira, F, Franceschi, S, Friedman, E, Gallinger, SJ, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gayther, SA, Giles, GG, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Goode, EL, Goodman, MT, Goodman, G, Grankvist, K, Greene, MH, Gronberg, H, Gronwald, J, Guenel, P, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hamdy, FC, Hamilton, RJ, Hampe, J, Haugen, A, Heitz, F, Herrero, R, Hillemanns, P, Hoffmeister, M, Hogdall, E, Hong, Y-C, Hopper, JL, Houlston, R, Hulick, PJ, Hunter, DJ, Huntsman, DG, Idos, G, Imyanitov, EN, Ingles, SA, Isaacs, C, Jakubowska, A, James, P, Jenkins, MA, Johansson, M, John, EM, Joshi, AD, Kaneva, R, Karlan, BY, Kelemen, LE, Kuehl, T, Khaw, K-T, Khusnutdinova, E, Kibel, AS, Kiemeney, LA, Kim, J, Kjaer, SK, Knight, JA, Kogevinas, M, Kote-Jarai, Z, Koutros, S, Kristensen, VN, Kupryjanczyk, J, Lacko, M, Lam, S, Lambrechts, D, Landi, MT, Lazarus, P, Le, ND, Lee, E, Lejbkowicz, F, Lenz, H-J, Leslie, G, Lessel, D, Lester, J, Levine, DA, Li, L, Li, CI, Lindblom, A, Lindor, NM, Liu, G, Loupakis, F, Lubinski, J, Maehle, L, Maier, C, Mannermaa, A, Le Marchand, L, Margolin, S, May, T, McGuffog, L, Meindl, A, Middha, P, Miller, A, Milne, RL, MacInnis, RJ, Modugno, F, Montagna, M, Moreno, V, Moysich, KB, Mucci, L, Muir, K, Mulligan, AM, Nathanson, KL, Neal, DE, Ness, AR, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Newcomb, PA, Newcomb, LF, Nielsen, FC, Nikitina-Zake, L, Nordestgaard, BG, Nussbaum, RL, Offit, K, Olah, E, Al Olama, AA, Olopade, OI, Olshan, AF, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Pandha, H, Park, JY, Pashayan, N, Parsons, MT, Pejovic, T, Penney, KL, Peters, WHM, Phelan, CM, Phipps, AI, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pring, M, Prokofyeva, D, Radice, P, Stefansson, K, Ramus, SJ, Raskin, L, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, van Rensburg, EJ, Riggan, MJ, Risch, HA, Risch, A, Roobol, MJ, Rosenstein, BS, Rossing, MA, De Ruyck, K, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schabath, MB, Schleutker, J, Schmidt, MK, Setiawan, VW, Shen, H, Siegel, EM, Sieh, W, Singer, CF, Slattery, ML, Sorensen, KD, Southey, MC, Spurdle, AB, Stanford, JL, Stevens, VL, Stintzing, S, Stone, J, Sundfeldt, K, Sutphen, R, Swerdlow, AJ, Tajara, EH, Tangen, CM, Tardon, A, Taylor, JA, Teare, MD, Teixeira, MR, Terry, MB, Terry, KL, Thibodeau, SN, Thomassen, M, Bjorge, L, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Townsend, PA, Travis, RC, Tung, N, Tworoger, SS, Ulrich, CM, Usmani, N, Vachon, CM, Van Nieuwenhuysen, E, Vega, A, Elias Aguado-Barrera, M, Wang, Q, Webb, PM, Weinberg, CR, Weinstein, S, Weissler, MC, Weitzel, JN, West, CML, White, E, Whittemore, AS, Wichmann, H-E, Wiklund, F, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Woll, P, Woods, M, Wu, AH, Wu, X, Yannoukakos, D, Zheng, W, Zienolddiny, S, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Lane, JM, Saxena, R, Thomas, D, Hung, RJ, Diergaarde, B, McKay, J, Peters, U, Hsu, L, Garcia-Closas, M, Eeles, RA, Chenevix-Trench, G, Brennan, PJ, Haiman, CA, Simard, J, Easton, DF, Gruber, SB, Pharoah, PDP, Price, AL, Pasaniuc, B, Amos, CI, Kraft, P, Lindstrom, S, Jiang, X, Finucane, HK, Schumacher, FR, Schmit, SL, Tyrer, JP, Han, Y, Michailidou, K, Lesseur, C, Kuchenbaecker, KB, Dennis, J, Conti, DV, Casey, G, Gaudet, MM, Huyghe, JR, Albanes, D, Aldrich, MC, Andrew, AS, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antoniou, AC, Antonenkova, NN, Arnold, SM, Aronson, KJ, Arun, BK, Bandera, EV, Barkardottir, RB, Barnes, DR, Batra, J, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Benlloch, S, Berchuck, A, Berndt, SI, Bickeboller, H, Bien, SA, Blomqvist, C, Boccia, S, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brenton, JD, Brook, MN, Brunet, J, Brunnstrom, H, Buchanan, DD, Burwinkel, B, Butzow, R, Cadoni, G, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Campbell, I, Campbell, PT, Cancel-Tassin, G, Cannon-Albright, L, Campa, D, Caporaso, N, Carvalho, AL, Chan, AT, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chen, C, Christiani, DC, Claes, KBM, Claessens, F, Clements, J, Collee, JM, Correa, MC, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cunningham, JM, Cybulski, C, Czene, K, Daly, MB, deFazio, A, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Gago-Dominguez, M, Donovan, JL, Dork, T, Duell, EJ, Dunning, AM, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Edlund, CK, Edwards, DRV, Ellberg, C, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Ferris, RL, Liloglou, T, Figueiredo, JC, Fletcher, O, Fortner, RT, Fostira, F, Franceschi, S, Friedman, E, Gallinger, SJ, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gayther, SA, Giles, GG, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Goode, EL, Goodman, MT, Goodman, G, Grankvist, K, Greene, MH, Gronberg, H, Gronwald, J, Guenel, P, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hamdy, FC, Hamilton, RJ, Hampe, J, Haugen, A, Heitz, F, Herrero, R, Hillemanns, P, Hoffmeister, M, Hogdall, E, Hong, Y-C, Hopper, JL, Houlston, R, Hulick, PJ, Hunter, DJ, Huntsman, DG, Idos, G, Imyanitov, EN, Ingles, SA, Isaacs, C, Jakubowska, A, James, P, Jenkins, MA, Johansson, M, John, EM, Joshi, AD, Kaneva, R, Karlan, BY, Kelemen, LE, Kuehl, T, Khaw, K-T, Khusnutdinova, E, Kibel, AS, Kiemeney, LA, Kim, J, Kjaer, SK, Knight, JA, Kogevinas, M, Kote-Jarai, Z, Koutros, S, Kristensen, VN, Kupryjanczyk, J, Lacko, M, Lam, S, Lambrechts, D, Landi, MT, Lazarus, P, Le, ND, Lee, E, Lejbkowicz, F, Lenz, H-J, Leslie, G, Lessel, D, Lester, J, Levine, DA, Li, L, Li, CI, Lindblom, A, Lindor, NM, Liu, G, Loupakis, F, Lubinski, J, Maehle, L, Maier, C, Mannermaa, A, Le Marchand, L, Margolin, S, May, T, McGuffog, L, Meindl, A, Middha, P, Miller, A, Milne, RL, MacInnis, RJ, Modugno, F, Montagna, M, Moreno, V, Moysich, KB, Mucci, L, Muir, K, Mulligan, AM, Nathanson, KL, Neal, DE, Ness, AR, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Newcomb, PA, Newcomb, LF, Nielsen, FC, Nikitina-Zake, L, Nordestgaard, BG, Nussbaum, RL, Offit, K, Olah, E, Al Olama, AA, Olopade, OI, Olshan, AF, Olsson, H, Osorio, A, Pandha, H, Park, JY, Pashayan, N, Parsons, MT, Pejovic, T, Penney, KL, Peters, WHM, Phelan, CM, Phipps, AI, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Pring, M, Prokofyeva, D, Radice, P, Stefansson, K, Ramus, SJ, Raskin, L, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, van Rensburg, EJ, Riggan, MJ, Risch, HA, Risch, A, Roobol, MJ, Rosenstein, BS, Rossing, MA, De Ruyck, K, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schabath, MB, Schleutker, J, Schmidt, MK, Setiawan, VW, Shen, H, Siegel, EM, Sieh, W, Singer, CF, Slattery, ML, Sorensen, KD, Southey, MC, Spurdle, AB, Stanford, JL, Stevens, VL, Stintzing, S, Stone, J, Sundfeldt, K, Sutphen, R, Swerdlow, AJ, Tajara, EH, Tangen, CM, Tardon, A, Taylor, JA, Teare, MD, Teixeira, MR, Terry, MB, Terry, KL, Thibodeau, SN, Thomassen, M, Bjorge, L, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Torres, D, Townsend, PA, Travis, RC, Tung, N, Tworoger, SS, Ulrich, CM, Usmani, N, Vachon, CM, Van Nieuwenhuysen, E, Vega, A, Elias Aguado-Barrera, M, Wang, Q, Webb, PM, Weinberg, CR, Weinstein, S, Weissler, MC, Weitzel, JN, West, CML, White, E, Whittemore, AS, Wichmann, H-E, Wiklund, F, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Woll, P, Woods, M, Wu, AH, Wu, X, Yannoukakos, D, Zheng, W, Zienolddiny, S, Ziogas, A, Zorn, KK, Lane, JM, Saxena, R, Thomas, D, Hung, RJ, Diergaarde, B, McKay, J, Peters, U, Hsu, L, Garcia-Closas, M, Eeles, RA, Chenevix-Trench, G, Brennan, PJ, Haiman, CA, Simard, J, Easton, DF, Gruber, SB, Pharoah, PDP, Price, AL, Pasaniuc, B, Amos, CI, Kraft, P, and Lindstrom, S
Abstract: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
Published: 2019

12. Risk-Reducing Oophorectomy and Breast Cancer Risk Across the Spectrum of Familial Risk

Author: Terry, MB, Daly, MB, Phillips, KA, Ma, X, Zeinomar, N, Leoce, N, Dite, GS, MacInnis, RJ, Chung, WK, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Milne, RL, Goldgar, D, Giles, GG, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Buchsbaum, R, Andrulis, IL, John, EM, Buys, SS, Hopper, JL, Terry, MB, Daly, MB, Phillips, KA, Ma, X, Zeinomar, N, Leoce, N, Dite, GS, MacInnis, RJ, Chung, WK, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Milne, RL, Goldgar, D, Giles, GG, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Buchsbaum, R, Andrulis, IL, John, EM, Buys, SS, and Hopper, JL
Abstract: There remains debate about whether risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO), which reduces ovarian cancer risk, also reduces breast cancer risk. We examined the association between RRSO and breast cancer risk using a prospective cohort of 17 917 women unaffected with breast cancer at baseline (7.2% known carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations). During a median follow-up of 10.7 years, 1046 women were diagnosed with incident breast cancer. Modeling RRSO as a time-varying exposure, there was no association with breast cancer risk overall (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.04, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.87 to 1.24) or by tertiles of predicted absolute risk based on family history (HR = 0.68, 95% CI = 0.32 to 1.47, HR = 0.94, 95% CI = 0.70 to 1.26, and HR = 1.10, 95% CI = 0.88 to 1.39, for lowest, middle, and highest tertile of risk, respectively) or for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers when examined separately. There was also no association after accounting for hormone therapy use after RRSO. These findings suggest that RRSO should not be considered efficacious for reducing breast cancer risk.
Published: 2019

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

Author: Escala-Garcia, M, Guo, Q, Doerk, T, Canisius, S, Keeman, R, Dennis, J, Beesley, J, Lecarpentier, J, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Abraham, J, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Auer, PL, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bernstein, L, Blomqvist, C, Boeckx, B, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brentnall, A, Brinton, L, Broberg, P, Brock, IW, Brucker, SY, Burwinkel, B, Caldas, C, Caldes, T, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Carracedo, A, Carter, BD, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Cheng, T-YD, Chin, S-F, Clarke, CL, Cordina-Duverger, E, Couch, FJ, Cox, DG, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Dunn, JA, Dunning, AM, Durcan, L, Dwek, M, Earl, HM, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, AH, Ellberg, C, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Flyger, H, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, Galle, E, Gapstur, SM, Garcia-Closas, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gaudet, MM, George, A, Georgoulias, V, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Alnaes, GIG, Grip, M, Guenel, P, Haeberle, L, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hankinson, S, Harkness, EF, Harrington, PA, Hart, SN, Hartikainen, JM, Hein, A, Hillemanns, P, Hiller, L, Holleczek, B, Hollestelle, A, Hooning, MJ, Hoover, RN, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, Huang, G, Humphreys, K, Hunter, DJ, Janni, W, John, EM, Jones, ME, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Kabisch, M, Kaczmarek, K, Kerin, MJ, Khan, S, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiiski, J, Kitahara, CM, Knight, JA, Ko, Y-D, Koppert, LB, Kosma, V-M, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kruger, U, Kuehl, 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, MP, MacInnis, RJ, Maierthaler, M, Maishman, T, Makalic, E, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Martinez, ME, Mavroudis, D, McLean, C, Meindl, A, Middha, P, Miller, N, Milne, RL, Moreno, F, Mulligan, AM, Mulot, C, Nassir, R, Neuhausen, SL, Newman, WT, Nielsen, SF, Nordestgaard, BG, Norman, A, Olsson, H, Orr, N, Pankratz, VS, Park-Simon, T-W, Perez, JIA, 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, HS, Rhenius, V, Romero, A, Roylance, R, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, DF, Schmutzler, RK, Schneeweiss, A, Schoemaker, MJ, Schumacher, F, Schwentner, L, Scott, RJ, Scott, C, Seynaeve, C, Shah, M, Simard, J, Smeets, A, Sohn, C, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, AJ, Talhouk, A, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Teixeira, MR, Tengstrom, M, Terry, MB, Thoene, K, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Torres, D, Truong, T, Turman, C, Turnbull, C, Ulmer, H-U, Untch, M, Vachon, C, van Asperen, CJ, van den Ouweland, AMW, van Veen, EM, Wendt, C, Whittemore, AS, Willett, W, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Yang, XR, Zhang, Y, Easton, DF, Fasching, PA, Nevanlinna, H, Eccles, DM, Pharoah, PDP, Schmidt, MK, Escala-Garcia, M, Guo, Q, Doerk, T, Canisius, S, Keeman, R, Dennis, J, Beesley, J, Lecarpentier, J, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Abraham, J, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Auer, PL, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bernstein, L, Blomqvist, C, Boeckx, B, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brentnall, A, Brinton, L, Broberg, P, Brock, IW, Brucker, SY, Burwinkel, B, Caldas, C, Caldes, T, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Carracedo, A, Carter, BD, Castelao, JE, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Cheng, T-YD, Chin, S-F, Clarke, CL, Cordina-Duverger, E, Couch, FJ, Cox, DG, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Dunn, JA, Dunning, AM, Durcan, L, Dwek, M, Earl, HM, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, AH, Ellberg, C, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Flyger, H, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, Galle, E, Gapstur, SM, Garcia-Closas, M, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gaudet, MM, George, A, Georgoulias, V, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Alnaes, GIG, Grip, M, Guenel, P, Haeberle, L, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hankinson, S, Harkness, EF, Harrington, PA, Hart, SN, Hartikainen, JM, Hein, A, Hillemanns, P, Hiller, L, Holleczek, B, Hollestelle, A, Hooning, MJ, Hoover, RN, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, Huang, G, Humphreys, K, Hunter, DJ, Janni, W, John, EM, Jones, ME, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Kabisch, M, Kaczmarek, K, Kerin, MJ, Khan, S, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiiski, J, Kitahara, CM, Knight, JA, Ko, Y-D, Koppert, LB, Kosma, V-M, Kraft, P, Kristensen, VN, Kruger, U, Kuehl, 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, MP, MacInnis, RJ, Maierthaler, M, Maishman, T, Makalic, E, Mannermaa, A, Manoochehri, M, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Martinez, ME, Mavroudis, D, McLean, C, Meindl, A, Middha, P, Miller, N, Milne, RL, Moreno, F, Mulligan, AM, Mulot, C, Nassir, R, Neuhausen, SL, Newman, WT, Nielsen, SF, Nordestgaard, BG, Norman, A, Olsson, H, Orr, N, Pankratz, VS, Park-Simon, T-W, Perez, JIA, 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, HS, Rhenius, V, Romero, A, Roylance, R, Saloustros, E, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, DF, Schmutzler, RK, Schneeweiss, A, Schoemaker, MJ, Schumacher, F, Schwentner, L, Scott, RJ, Scott, C, Seynaeve, C, Shah, M, Simard, J, Smeets, A, Sohn, C, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, AJ, Talhouk, A, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Teixeira, MR, Tengstrom, M, Terry, MB, Thoene, K, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Torres, D, Truong, T, Turman, C, Turnbull, C, Ulmer, H-U, Untch, M, Vachon, C, van Asperen, CJ, van den Ouweland, AMW, van Veen, EM, Wendt, C, Whittemore, AS, Willett, W, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Yang, XR, Zhang, Y, Easton, DF, Fasching, PA, Nevanlinna, H, Eccles, DM, Pharoah, PDP, and Schmidt, MK
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 ~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 < 5 × 10-8. For ER-positive disease, the most significantly associated variant was chr7:rs4717568 (BFDP = 7%, P = 1.28 × 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 × 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. CONCLUSIONS: 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.
Published: 2019

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

Author: Mavaddat, N, Michailidou, K, Dennis, J, Lush, M, Fachal, L, Lee, A, Tyrer, JP, Chen, T-H, Wang, Q, Bolla, MK, Yang, X, Adank, MA, Ahearn, T, Aittomaki, K, Allen, J, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Auer, PL, Auvinen, P, Barrdahl, M, Freeman, LEB, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bernstein, L, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Brauch, H, Bremer, M, Brenner, H, Brentnall, A, Brock, IW, Brooks-Wilson, A, Brucker, SY, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Campa, D, Carter, BD, Castelao, JE, Chanock, SJ, Chlebowski, R, Christiansen, H, Clarke, CL, Collee, JM, Cordina-Duverger, E, Cornelissen, S, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Doerk, T, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dumont, M, Durcan, L, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, AH, Ellberg, C, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Foersti, A, Fritschi, L, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gapstur, SM, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gaudet, MM, Georgoulias, V, Giles, GG, Gilyazova, IR, Glendon, G, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Alnaes, GIG, Grip, M, Gronwald, J, Grundy, A, Guenel, P, Haeberle, L, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hamann, U, Hankinson, SE, Harkness, EF, Hart, SN, He, W, Hein, A, Heyworth, J, Hillemanns, P, Hollestelle, A, Hooning, MJ, Hoover, RN, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, Huang, G, Humphreys, K, Hunter, DJ, Jakimovska, M, Jakubowska, A, Janni, W, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Kaczmarek, K, Kataja, V, Keeman, R, Kerin, MJ, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiiski, J, Knight, JA, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Koutros, S, Kristensen, VN, Kruger, U, Kuehl, 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, MP, MacInnis, RJ, Maishman, T, Makalic, E, Kostovska, IM, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Martens, JWM, Martinez, ME, Mavroudis, D, McLean, C, Meindl, A, Menon, U, Middha, P, Miller, N, Moreno, F, Mulligan, AM, Mulot, C, Munoz-Garzon, VM, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Neven, P, Newman, WG, Nielsen, SF, Nordestgaard, BG, Norman, A, Offit, K, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Orr, N, Pankratz, VS, Park-Simon, T-W, Perez, JIA, Perez-Barrios, C, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Pinchev, M, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Polley, EC, Prentice, R, Presneau, N, Prokofyeva, D, Purrington, K, Pylkas, K, Rack, B, Radice, P, Rau-Murthy, R, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Rhenius, V, Robson, M, Romero, A, Ruddy, KJ, Ruebner, M, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, DF, Schmutzler, RK, Schneeweiss, A, Schoemaker, MJ, Schumacher, F, Schuermann, P, Schwentner, L, Scott, C, Scott, RJ, Seynaeve, C, Shah, M, Sherman, ME, Shrubsole, MJ, Shu, X-O, Slager, S, Smeets, A, Sohn, C, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Spinelli, JJ, Stegmaier, C, Stone, J, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Taylor, JA, Terry, MB, Thoene, K, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tzardi, M, Ulmer, H-U, Untch, M, Vachon, CM, van Veen, EM, Vijai, J, Weinberg, CR, Wendt, C, Whittemore, AS, Wildiers, H, Willett, W, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Yang, XR, Yannoukakos, D, Zhang, Y, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Clarke, C, Balleine, R, Baxter, R, Braye, S, Carpenter, J, Dahlstrom, J, Forbes, J, Lee, CS, Marsh, D, Morey, A, Pathmanathan, N, Scott, R, Simpson, P, Spigelman, A, Wilcken, N, Yip, D, Zeps, N, Sexton, A, Dobrovic, A, Christian, A, Trainer, A, Fellows, A, Shelling, A, De Fazio, A, Blackburn, A, Crook, A, Meiser, B, Patterson, B, Saunders, C, Hunt, C, Amor, D, Ortega, DG, Edkins, E, Salisbury, E, Haan, E, Macrea, F, Farshid, G, Lindeman, G, Trench, G, Mann, G, Giles, G, Gill, G, Thorne, H, Campbell, I, Hickie, I, Caldon, L, Winship, I, Cui, J, Flanagan, J, Kollias, J, Visvader, J, Taylor, J, Burke, J, Saunus, J, Forbs, J, Hopper, J, Beesley, J, Kirk, J, French, J, Tucker, K, Wu, K, Phillips, K, Forrest, L, Lipton, L, Andrews, L, Lobb, L, Walker, L, Kentwell, M, Spurdle, M, Cummings, M, Gleeson, M, Harris, M, Jenkins, M, Young, MA, Delatycki, M, Wallis, M, Burgess, M, Brown, M, Southey, M, Bogwitz, M, Field, M, Friedlander, M, Gattas, M, Saleh, M, Aghmesheh, M, Hayward, N, Pachter, N, Cohen, P, Duijf, P, James, P, Fong, P, Butow, P, Williams, R, Kefford, R, Simard, J, Balleine, R-M, Dawson, S-J, Lok, S, O'connell, S, Greening, S, Nightingale, S, Edwards, S, Fox, S, McLachlan, S-A, Lakhani, S, Dudding, T, Antill, Y, Sahlberg, KK, Ottestad, L, Karesen, R, Schlichting, E, Holmen, MM, Sauer, T, Haakensen, V, Engebraten, O, Naume, B, Fossa, A, Kiserud, CE, Reinertsen, K, Helland, A, Riis, M, Geisler, J, Dunning, AM, Thompson, DJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Chang-Claude, J, Schmidt, MK, Hall, P, Milne, RL, Pharoah, PDP, Antoniou, AC, Chatterjee, N, Kraft, P, Garcia-Closas, M, Easton, DF, Mavaddat, N, Michailidou, K, Dennis, J, Lush, M, Fachal, L, Lee, A, Tyrer, JP, Chen, T-H, Wang, Q, Bolla, MK, Yang, X, Adank, MA, Ahearn, T, Aittomaki, K, Allen, J, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arndt, V, Aronson, KJ, Auer, PL, Auvinen, P, Barrdahl, M, Freeman, LEB, Beckmann, MW, Behrens, S, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Bernstein, L, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Brauch, H, Bremer, M, Brenner, H, Brentnall, A, Brock, IW, Brooks-Wilson, A, Brucker, SY, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Campa, D, Carter, BD, Castelao, JE, Chanock, SJ, Chlebowski, R, Christiansen, H, Clarke, CL, Collee, JM, Cordina-Duverger, E, Cornelissen, S, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Devilee, P, Doerk, T, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dumont, M, Durcan, L, Dwek, M, Eccles, DM, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, AH, Ellberg, C, Engel, C, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Foersti, A, Fritschi, L, Gabrielson, M, Gago-Dominguez, M, Gapstur, SM, Garcia-Saenz, JA, Gaudet, MM, Georgoulias, V, Giles, GG, Gilyazova, IR, Glendon, G, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Alnaes, GIG, Grip, M, Gronwald, J, Grundy, A, Guenel, P, Haeberle, L, Hahnen, E, Haiman, CA, Hakansson, N, Hamann, U, Hankinson, SE, Harkness, EF, Hart, SN, He, W, Hein, A, Heyworth, J, Hillemanns, P, Hollestelle, A, Hooning, MJ, Hoover, RN, Hopper, JL, Howell, A, Huang, G, Humphreys, K, Hunter, DJ, Jakimovska, M, Jakubowska, A, Janni, W, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Jung, A, Kaaks, R, Kaczmarek, K, Kataja, V, Keeman, R, Kerin, MJ, Khusnutdinova, E, Kiiski, J, Knight, JA, Ko, Y-D, Kosma, V-M, Koutros, S, Kristensen, VN, Kruger, U, Kuehl, 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, MP, MacInnis, RJ, Maishman, T, Makalic, E, Kostovska, IM, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Martens, JWM, Martinez, ME, Mavroudis, D, McLean, C, Meindl, A, Menon, U, Middha, P, Miller, N, Moreno, F, Mulligan, AM, Mulot, C, Munoz-Garzon, VM, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Neven, P, Newman, WG, Nielsen, SF, Nordestgaard, BG, Norman, A, Offit, K, Olson, JE, Olsson, H, Orr, N, Pankratz, VS, Park-Simon, T-W, Perez, JIA, Perez-Barrios, C, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Pinchev, M, Plaseska-Karanfilska, D, Polley, EC, Prentice, R, Presneau, N, Prokofyeva, D, Purrington, K, Pylkas, K, Rack, B, Radice, P, Rau-Murthy, R, Rennert, G, Rennert, HS, Rhenius, V, Robson, M, Romero, A, Ruddy, KJ, Ruebner, M, Saloustros, E, Sandler, DP, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, DF, Schmutzler, RK, Schneeweiss, A, Schoemaker, MJ, Schumacher, F, Schuermann, P, Schwentner, L, Scott, C, Scott, RJ, Seynaeve, C, Shah, M, Sherman, ME, Shrubsole, MJ, Shu, X-O, Slager, S, Smeets, A, Sohn, C, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Spinelli, JJ, Stegmaier, C, Stone, J, Swerdlow, AJ, Tamimi, RM, Tapper, WJ, Taylor, JA, Terry, MB, Thoene, K, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tzardi, M, Ulmer, H-U, Untch, M, Vachon, CM, van Veen, EM, Vijai, J, Weinberg, CR, Wendt, C, Whittemore, AS, Wildiers, H, Willett, W, Winqvist, R, Wolk, A, Yang, XR, Yannoukakos, D, Zhang, Y, Zheng, W, Ziogas, A, Clarke, C, Balleine, R, Baxter, R, Braye, S, Carpenter, J, Dahlstrom, J, Forbes, J, Lee, CS, Marsh, D, Morey, A, Pathmanathan, N, Scott, R, Simpson, P, Spigelman, A, Wilcken, N, Yip, D, Zeps, N, Sexton, A, Dobrovic, A, Christian, A, Trainer, A, Fellows, A, Shelling, A, De Fazio, A, Blackburn, A, Crook, A, Meiser, B, Patterson, B, Saunders, C, Hunt, C, Amor, D, Ortega, DG, Edkins, E, Salisbury, E, Haan, E, Macrea, F, Farshid, G, Lindeman, G, Trench, G, Mann, G, Giles, G, Gill, G, Thorne, H, Campbell, I, Hickie, I, Caldon, L, Winship, I, Cui, J, Flanagan, J, Kollias, J, Visvader, J, Taylor, J, Burke, J, Saunus, J, Forbs, J, Hopper, J, Beesley, J, Kirk, J, French, J, Tucker, K, Wu, K, Phillips, K, Forrest, L, Lipton, L, Andrews, L, Lobb, L, Walker, L, Kentwell, M, Spurdle, M, Cummings, M, Gleeson, M, Harris, M, Jenkins, M, Young, MA, Delatycki, M, Wallis, M, Burgess, M, Brown, M, Southey, M, Bogwitz, M, Field, M, Friedlander, M, Gattas, M, Saleh, M, Aghmesheh, M, Hayward, N, Pachter, N, Cohen, P, Duijf, P, James, P, Fong, P, Butow, P, Williams, R, Kefford, R, Simard, J, Balleine, R-M, Dawson, S-J, Lok, S, O'connell, S, Greening, S, Nightingale, S, Edwards, S, Fox, S, McLachlan, S-A, Lakhani, S, Dudding, T, Antill, Y, Sahlberg, KK, Ottestad, L, Karesen, R, Schlichting, E, Holmen, MM, Sauer, T, Haakensen, V, Engebraten, O, Naume, B, Fossa, A, Kiserud, CE, Reinertsen, K, Helland, A, Riis, M, Geisler, J, Dunning, AM, Thompson, DJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Chang-Claude, J, Schmidt, MK, Hall, P, Milne, RL, Pharoah, PDP, Antoniou, AC, Chatterjee, N, Kraft, P, Garcia-Closas, M, and Easton, DF
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.
Published: 2019

15. Alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and familial breast cancer risk: findings from the Prospective Family Study Cohort (ProF-SC)

Author: Zeinomar, N, Knight, JA, Genkinger, JM, Phillips, K-A, Daly, MB, Milne, RL, Dite, GS, Kehm, RD, Liao, Y, Southey, MC, Chung, WK, Giles, GG, McLachlan, S-A, Friedlander, ML, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, John, EM, MacInnis, RJ, Hopper, JL, Terry, MB, Zeinomar, N, Knight, JA, Genkinger, JM, Phillips, K-A, Daly, MB, Milne, RL, Dite, GS, Kehm, RD, Liao, Y, Southey, MC, Chung, WK, Giles, GG, McLachlan, S-A, Friedlander, ML, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, John, EM, MacInnis, RJ, Hopper, JL, and Terry, MB
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer (BC), but it is unclear whether these associations vary by a woman's familial BC risk. METHODS: Using the Prospective Family Study Cohort, we evaluated associations between alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and BC risk. We used multivariable Cox proportional hazard models to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). We examined whether associations were modified by familial risk profile (FRP), defined as the 1-year incidence of BC predicted by Breast Ovarian Analysis of Disease Incidence and Carrier Estimation Algorithm (BOADICEA), a pedigree-based algorithm. RESULTS: We observed 1009 incident BC cases in 17,435 women during a median follow-up of 10.4 years. We found no overall association of smoking or alcohol consumption with BC risk (current smokers compared with never smokers HR 1.02, 95% CI 0.85-1.23; consuming ≥ 7 drinks/week compared with non-regular drinkers HR 1.10, 95% CI 0.92-1.32), but we did observe differences in associations based on FRP and by estrogen receptor (ER) status. Women with lower FRP had an increased risk of ER-positive BC associated with consuming ≥ 7 drinks/week (compared to non-regular drinkers), whereas there was no association for women with higher FRP. For example, women at the 10th percentile of FRP (5-year BOADICEA = 0.15%) had an estimated HR of 1.46 (95% CI 1.07-1.99), whereas there was no association for women at the 90th percentile (5-year BOADICEA = 4.2%) (HR 1.07, 95% CI 0.80-1.44). While the associations with smoking were not modified by FRP, we observed a positive multiplicative interaction by FRP (pinteraction = 0.01) for smoking status in women who also consumed alcohol, but not in women who were non-regular drinkers. CONCLUSIONS: Moderate alcohol intake was associated with increased BC risk, particularly for women with ER-positive BC, but only for those at lower predicted familial BC ris
Published: 2019

16. Regular use of aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and breast cancer risk for women at familial or genetic risk: a cohort study

Author: Kehm, RD, Hopper, JL, John, EM, Phillips, K-A, MacInnis, RJ, Dite, GS, Milne, RL, Liao, Y, Zeinomar, N, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Vahdat, L, Kornhauser, N, Cigler, T, Chung, WK, Giles, GG, McLachlan, S-A, Friedlander, ML, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, Daly, MB, Terry, MB, Kehm, RD, Hopper, JL, John, EM, Phillips, K-A, MacInnis, RJ, Dite, GS, Milne, RL, Liao, Y, Zeinomar, N, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Vahdat, L, Kornhauser, N, Cigler, T, Chung, WK, Giles, GG, McLachlan, S-A, Friedlander, ML, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, Daly, MB, and Terry, MB
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The use of aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has been associated with reduced breast cancer risk, but it is not known if this association extends to women at familial or genetic risk. We examined the association between regular NSAID use and breast cancer risk using a large cohort of women selected for breast cancer family history, including 1054 BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers. METHODS: We analyzed a prospective cohort (N = 5606) and a larger combined, retrospective and prospective, cohort (N = 8233) of women who were aged 18 to 79 years, enrolled before June 30, 2011, with follow-up questionnaire data on medication history. The prospective cohort was further restricted to women without breast cancer when medication history was asked by questionnaire. Women were recruited from seven study centers in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Associations were estimated using multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression models adjusted for demographics, lifestyle factors, family history, and other medication use. Women were classified as regular or non-regular users of aspirin, COX-2 inhibitors, ibuprofen and other NSAIDs, and acetaminophen (control) based on self-report at follow-up of ever using the medication for at least twice a week for ≥1 month prior to breast cancer diagnosis. The main outcome was incident invasive breast cancer, based on self- or relative-report (81% confirmed pathologically). RESULTS: From fully adjusted analyses, regular aspirin use was associated with a 39% and 37% reduced risk of breast cancer in the prospective (HR = 0.61; 95% CI = 0.33-1.14) and combined cohorts (HR = 0.63; 95% CI = 0.57-0.71), respectively. Regular use of COX-2 inhibitors was associated with a 61% and 71% reduced risk of breast cancer (prospective HR = 0.39; 95% CI = 0.15-0.97; combined HR = 0.29; 95% CI = 0.23-0.38). Other NSAIDs and acetaminophen were not associated with breast cancer risk in either cohort. Association
Published: 2019

17. Accuracy of Risk Estimates from the iPrevent Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Management Tool

Author

Phillips, K-A, Liao, Y, Milne, RL, MacInnis, RJ, Collins, IM, Buchsbaum, R, Weideman, PC, Bickerstaffe, A, Nesci, S, Chung, WK, Southey, MC, Knight, JA, Whittemore, AS, Dite, GS, Goldgar, D, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Cuzick, J, Antoniou, AC, Andrulis, IL, John, EM, Daly, MB, Buys, SS, Hopper, JL, Terry, MB, kConFab Investigators, Phillips, K-A, Liao, Y, Milne, RL, MacInnis, RJ, Collins, IM, Buchsbaum, R, Weideman, PC, Bickerstaffe, A, Nesci, S, Chung, WK, Southey, MC, Knight, JA, Whittemore, AS, Dite, GS, Goldgar, D, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Cuzick, J, Antoniou, AC, Andrulis, IL, John, EM, Daly, MB, Buys, SS, Hopper, JL, Terry, MB, and kConFab Investigators

Abstract

Background

iPrevent is an online breast cancer (BC) risk management decision support tool. It uses an internal switching algorithm, based on a woman's risk factor data, to estimate her absolute BC risk using either the International Breast Cancer Intervention Study (IBIS) version 7.02, or Breast and Ovarian Analysis of Disease Incidence and Carrier Estimation Algorithm version 3 models, and then provides tailored risk management information. This study assessed the accuracy of the 10-year risk estimates using prospective data.

Methods

iPrevent-assigned 10-year invasive BC risk was calculated for 15 732 women aged 20-70 years and without BC at recruitment to the Prospective Family Study Cohort. Calibration, the ratio of the expected (E) number of BCs to the observed (O) number and discriminatory accuracy were assessed.

Results

During the 10 years of follow-up, 619 women (3.9%) developed BC compared with 702 expected (E/O = 1.13; 95% confidence interval [CI] =1.05 to 1.23). For women younger than 50 years, 50 years and older, and BRCA1/2-mutation carriers and noncarriers, E/O was 1.04 (95% CI = 0.93 to 1.16), 1.24 (95% CI = 1.11 to 1.39), 1.13 (95% CI = 0.96 to 1.34), and 1.13 (95% CI = 1.04 to 1.24), respectively. The C-statistic was 0.70 (95% CI = 0.68 to 0.73) overall and 0.74 (95% CI = 0.71 to 0.77), 0.63 (95% CI = 0.59 to 0.66), 0.59 (95% CI = 0.53 to 0.64), and 0.65 (95% CI = 0.63 to 0.68), respectively, for the subgroups above. Applying the newer IBIS version 8.0b in the iPrevent switching algorithm improved calibration overall (E/O = 1.06, 95% CI = 0.98 to 1.15) and in all subgroups, without changing discriminatory accuracy.

Conclusions

For 10-year BC risk, iPrevent had good discriminatory accuracy overall and was well calibrated for women aged younger than 50 years. Calibration may be improved in the future by incorporating IBIS version 8.0b.

Published

2019

18. Age-specific breast cancer risk by body mass index and familial risk: prospective family study cohort (ProF-SC)

Author: Hopper, JL, Dite, GS, MacInnis, RJ, Liao, Y, Zeinomar, N, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Milne, RL, Chung, WK, Giles, GG, Genkinger, JM, McLachlan, S-A, Friedlander, ML, Antoniou, AC, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, Daly, MB, John, EM, Phillips, KA, Terry, MB, Hopper, JL, Dite, GS, MacInnis, RJ, Liao, Y, Zeinomar, N, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Milne, RL, Chung, WK, Giles, GG, Genkinger, JM, McLachlan, S-A, Friedlander, ML, Antoniou, AC, Weideman, PC, Glendon, G, Nesci, S, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, Daly, MB, John, EM, Phillips, KA, and Terry, MB
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The association between body mass index (BMI) and risk of breast cancer depends on time of life, but it is unknown whether this association depends on a woman's familial risk. METHODS: We conducted a prospective study of a cohort enriched for familial risk consisting of 16,035 women from 6701 families in the Breast Cancer Family Registry and the Kathleen Cunningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer followed for up to 20 years (mean 10.5 years). There were 896 incident breast cancers (mean age at diagnosis 55.7 years). We used Cox regression to model BMI risk associations as a function of menopausal status, age, and underlying familial risk based on pedigree data using the Breast and Ovarian Analysis of Disease Incidence and Carrier Estimation Algorithm (BOADICEA), all measured at baseline. RESULTS: The strength and direction of the BMI risk association depended on baseline menopausal status (P < 0.001); after adjusting for menopausal status, the association did not depend on age at baseline (P = 0.6). In terms of absolute risk, the negative association with BMI for premenopausal women has a much smaller influence than the positive association with BMI for postmenopausal women. Women at higher familial risk have a much larger difference in absolute risk depending on their BMI than women at lower familial risk. CONCLUSIONS: The greater a woman's familial risk, the greater the influence of BMI on her absolute postmenopausal breast cancer risk. Given that age-adjusted BMI is correlated across adulthood, maintaining a healthy weight throughout adult life is particularly important for women with a family history of breast cancer.
Published: 2018

19. Publisher Correction: Evidence that breast cancer risk at the 2q35 locus is mediated through IGFBP5 regulation.

Author: Ghoussaini, M, Edwards, SL, Michailidou, K, Nord, S, Cowper-Sal Lari, R, Desai, K, Kar, S, Hillman, KM, Kaufmann, S, Glubb, DM, Beesley, J, Dennis, J, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dicks, E, Guo, Q, Schmidt, MK, Shah, M, Luben, R, Brown, J, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Klevebring, D, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Lambrechts, D, Thienpont, B, Neven, P, Wildiers, H, Broeks, A, Van't Veer, LJ, Rutgers, EJT, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Hallberg, E, Vachon, C, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Peto, J, Dos-Santos-Silva, I, Gibson, L, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomäki, K, Blomqvist, C, Hall, P, Li, J, Liu, J, Humphreys, K, Kang, D, Choi, J-Y, Park, SK, Noh, D-Y, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Yatabe, Y, Guénel, P, Truong, T, Menegaux, F, Sanchez, M, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Schneeweiss, A, Sohn, C, Wu, AH, Tseng, C-C, Van Den Berg, D, Stram, DO, Benitez, J, Pilar Zamora, M, Perez, JIA, Menéndez, P, Shu, X-O, Lu, W, Gao, Y-T, Cai, Q, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Tchatchou, S, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Teo, SH, Yip, CH, Lee, DSC, Wong, TY, Hooning, MJ, Martens, JWM, Collée, JM, van Deurzen, CHM, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Tsimiklis, H, Kapuscinski, MK, Shen, C-Y, Wu, P-E, Yu, J-C, Chen, S-T, Alnæs, GG, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, McLean, C, Muir, K, Lophatananon, A, Stewart-Brown, S, Siriwanarangsan, P, Hartman, M, Miao, H, Buhari, SABS, Teo, YY, Fasching, PA, Haeberle, L, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, AK, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Schoemaker, MJ, García-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Simard, J, Goldberg, MS, Labrèche, F, Dumont, M, Winqvist, R, Pylkäs, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Brauch, H, Brüning, T, Koto, Y-D, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Bonanni, B, Volorio, S, Dörk, T, Bogdanova, NV, Helbig, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, C, Van Asperen, CJ, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska-Bieniek, K, Durda, K, Slager, S, Toland, AE, Ambrosone, CB, Yannoukakos, D, Sangrajrang, S, Gaborieau, V, Brennan, P, McKay, J, Hamann, U, Torres, D, Zheng, W, Long, J, Anton-Culver, H, Neuhausen, SL, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Ahmed, S, Maranian, M, Healey, CS, González-Neira, A, Pita, G, Rosario Alonso, M, Álvarez, N, Herrero, D, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, de Santiago, I, Carroll, J, Caldas, C, Brown, MA, Lupien, M, Kristensen, VN, Pharoah, PDP, Chenevix-Trench, G, French, JD, Easton, DF, Dunning, AM, Ghoussaini, M, Edwards, SL, Michailidou, K, Nord, S, Cowper-Sal Lari, R, Desai, K, Kar, S, Hillman, KM, Kaufmann, S, Glubb, DM, Beesley, J, Dennis, J, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dicks, E, Guo, Q, Schmidt, MK, Shah, M, Luben, R, Brown, J, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Klevebring, D, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Lambrechts, D, Thienpont, B, Neven, P, Wildiers, H, Broeks, A, Van't Veer, LJ, Rutgers, EJT, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Hallberg, E, Vachon, C, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Peto, J, Dos-Santos-Silva, I, Gibson, L, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomäki, K, Blomqvist, C, Hall, P, Li, J, Liu, J, Humphreys, K, Kang, D, Choi, J-Y, Park, SK, Noh, D-Y, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Yatabe, Y, Guénel, P, Truong, T, Menegaux, F, Sanchez, M, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Schneeweiss, A, Sohn, C, Wu, AH, Tseng, C-C, Van Den Berg, D, Stram, DO, Benitez, J, Pilar Zamora, M, Perez, JIA, Menéndez, P, Shu, X-O, Lu, W, Gao, Y-T, Cai, Q, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Tchatchou, S, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Teo, SH, Yip, CH, Lee, DSC, Wong, TY, Hooning, MJ, Martens, JWM, Collée, JM, van Deurzen, CHM, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Tsimiklis, H, Kapuscinski, MK, Shen, C-Y, Wu, P-E, Yu, J-C, Chen, S-T, Alnæs, GG, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, McLean, C, Muir, K, Lophatananon, A, Stewart-Brown, S, Siriwanarangsan, P, Hartman, M, Miao, H, Buhari, SABS, Teo, YY, Fasching, PA, Haeberle, L, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, AK, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Schoemaker, MJ, García-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Simard, J, Goldberg, MS, Labrèche, F, Dumont, M, Winqvist, R, Pylkäs, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Brauch, H, Brüning, T, Koto, Y-D, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Bonanni, B, Volorio, S, Dörk, T, Bogdanova, NV, Helbig, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, C, Van Asperen, CJ, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska-Bieniek, K, Durda, K, Slager, S, Toland, AE, Ambrosone, CB, Yannoukakos, D, Sangrajrang, S, Gaborieau, V, Brennan, P, McKay, J, Hamann, U, Torres, D, Zheng, W, Long, J, Anton-Culver, H, Neuhausen, SL, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Ahmed, S, Maranian, M, Healey, CS, González-Neira, A, Pita, G, Rosario Alonso, M, Álvarez, N, Herrero, D, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, de Santiago, I, Carroll, J, Caldas, C, Brown, MA, Lupien, M, Kristensen, VN, Pharoah, PDP, Chenevix-Trench, G, French, JD, Easton, DF, and Dunning, AM
Abstract: This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5999.
Published: 2018

20. Body mass index and breast cancer survival: a Mendelian randomization analysis

Author: Guo, Q, Burgess, S, Turman, C, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Lush, M, Abraham, J, Aittomäki, K, Andrulis, IL, Apicella, C, Arndt, V, Barrdahl, M, Benitez, J, Berg, CD, Blomqvist, C, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Brand, JS, Brenner, H, Broeks, A, Burwinkel, B, Caldas, C, Campa, D, Canzian, F, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chin, S-F, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Cybulski, C, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Devilee, P, Diver, WR, Dunning, AM, Earl, HM, Eccles, DM, Ekici, AB, Eriksson, M, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Flyger, H, Gapstur, SM, Gaudet, MM, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Grip, M, Gronwald, J, Haeberle, L, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Hankinson, S, Hartikainen, JM, Hein, A, Hiller, L, Hogervorst, FB, Holleczek, B, Hooning, MJ, Hoover, RN, Humphreys, K, Hunter, DJ, Hüsing, A, Jakubowska, A, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Kaaks, R, Kabisch, M, Kataja, V, Investigators, Kconfab/Aocs, Knight, JA, Koppert, LB, Kosma, V-M, Kristensen, VN, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Lindström, S, Lissowska, J, Lubinski, J, Machiela, MJ, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Martens, JWM, McLean, C, Menéndez, P, Milne, RL, Mulligan, A, Muranen, TA, Nevanlinna, H, Neven, P, Nielsen, SF, Nordestgaard, BG, Olson, JE, Perez, JIA, Peterlongo, P, Phillips, K-A, Poole, CJ, Pylkäs, K, Radice, P, Rahman, N, Rüdiger, T, Rudolph, A, Sawyer, EJ, Schumacher, F, Seibold, P, Seynaeve, C, Shah, M, Smeets, A, Southey, MC, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Tsimiklis, H, Ulmer, H-U, Vachon, C, Van Den Ouweland, AMW, Veer, LJ, Wildiers, H, Willett, W, Winqvist, R, Zamora, MP, Chenevix-Trench, G, Dörk, T, Easton, DF, García-Closas, M, Kraft, P, Hopper, JL, Zheng, W, Schmidt, MK, Pharoah, PDP, Medical Oncology, and Surgery
Subjects: Genetic Variation, Breast Neoplasms, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Body mass index, Breast cancer survival, Epidemiology, Genetics, Mendelian randomization, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Assessment, Survival Analysis, White People, Causality, Europe, RC0254, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Receptors, Estrogen, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Risk Factors, breast cancer survival, Humans, Female, epidemiology, genetics, Cancer
Abstract: Background There is increasing evidence that elevated body mass index (BMI) is associated with reduced survival for women with breast cancer. However, the underlying reasons remain unclear. We conducted a Mendelian randomization analysis to investigate a possible causal role of BMI in survival from breast cancer. Methods We used individual-level data from six large breast cancer case-cohorts including a total of 36 210 individuals (2475 events) of European ancestry. We created a BMI genetic risk score (GRS) based on genotypes at 94 known BMI-associated genetic variants. Association between the BMI genetic score and breast cancer survival was analysed by Cox regression for each study separately. Study-specific hazard ratios were pooled using fixed-effect meta-analysis. Results BMI genetic score was found to be associated with reduced breast cancer-specific survival for estrogen receptor (ER)-positive cases [hazard ratio (HR) = 1.11, per one-unit increment of GRS, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.01–1.22, P = 0.03). We observed no association for ER-negative cases (HR = 1.00, per one-unit increment of GRS, 95% CI 0.89–1.13, P = 0.95). Conclusions Our findings suggest a causal effect of increased BMI on reduced breast cancer survival for ER-positive breast cancer. There is no evidence of a causal effect of higher BMI on survival for ER-negative breast cancer cases.
Published: 2017

21. Reproductive profiles and risk of breast cancer subtypes: a multi-center case-only study

Author: Brouckaert, O, Rudolph, A, Laenen, A, Keeman, R, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Soubry, A, Wildiers, H, Andrulis, IL, Arndt, V, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Blomqvist, C, Bojesen, SE, Brauch, H, Brennan, P, Brenner, H, Chenevix-Trench, G, Choi, J-Y, Cornelissen, S, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Eriksson, M, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flyger, H, Giles, GG, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Guenel, P, Hall, P, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Ito, H, Jones, M, Kang, D, Knight, JA, Kosma, V-M, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Lilyquist, J, Lophatananon, A, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Matsuo, K, Muir, K, Nevanlinna, H, Peterlongo, P, Pylkas, K, Saajrang, S, Seynaeve, C, Shen, C-Y, Shu, X-O, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, A, Teo, S-H, Tollenaar, RAEM, Truong, T, Tseng, C-C, van den Broek, AJ, van Deurzen, CHM, Winqvist, R, Wu, AH, Yip, CH, Yu, J-C, Zheng, W, Milne, RL, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Schmidt, MK, Garcia-Closas, M, Chang-Claude, J, Lambrechts, D, Neven, P, Brouckaert, O, Rudolph, A, Laenen, A, Keeman, R, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Soubry, A, Wildiers, H, Andrulis, IL, Arndt, V, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Blomqvist, C, Bojesen, SE, Brauch, H, Brennan, P, Brenner, H, Chenevix-Trench, G, Choi, J-Y, Cornelissen, S, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Eriksson, M, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flyger, H, Giles, GG, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Guenel, P, Hall, P, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Ito, H, Jones, M, Kang, D, Knight, JA, Kosma, V-M, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Lilyquist, J, Lophatananon, A, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Matsuo, K, Muir, K, Nevanlinna, H, Peterlongo, P, Pylkas, K, Saajrang, S, Seynaeve, C, Shen, C-Y, Shu, X-O, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, A, Teo, S-H, Tollenaar, RAEM, Truong, T, Tseng, C-C, van den Broek, AJ, van Deurzen, CHM, Winqvist, R, Wu, AH, Yip, CH, Yu, J-C, Zheng, W, Milne, RL, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Schmidt, MK, Garcia-Closas, M, Chang-Claude, J, Lambrechts, D, and Neven, P
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that reproductive factors are differentially associated with breast cancer (BC) risk by subtypes. The aim of this study was to investigate associations between reproductive factors and BC subtypes, and whether these vary by age at diagnosis. METHODS: We used pooled data on tumor markers (estrogen and progesterone receptor, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2)) and reproductive risk factors (parity, age at first full-time pregnancy (FFTP) and age at menarche) from 28,095 patients with invasive BC from 34 studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). In a case-only analysis, we used logistic regression to assess associations between reproductive factors and BC subtype compared to luminal A tumors as a reference. The interaction between age and parity in BC subtype risk was also tested, across all ages and, because age was modeled non-linearly, specifically at ages 35, 55 and 75 years. RESULTS: Parous women were more likely to be diagnosed with triple negative BC (TNBC) than with luminal A BC, irrespective of age (OR for parity = 1.38, 95% CI 1.16-1.65, p = 0.0004; p for interaction with age = 0.076). Parous women were also more likely to be diagnosed with luminal and non-luminal HER2-like BCs and this effect was slightly more pronounced at an early age (p for interaction with age = 0.037 and 0.030, respectively). For instance, women diagnosed at age 35 were 1.48 (CI 1.01-2.16) more likely to have luminal HER2-like BC than luminal A BC, while this association was not significant at age 75 (OR = 0.72, CI 0.45-1.14). While age at menarche was not significantly associated with BC subtype, increasing age at FFTP was non-linearly associated with TNBC relative to luminal A BC. An age at FFTP of 25 versus 20 years lowered the risk for TNBC (OR = 0.78, CI 0.70-0.88, p < 0.0001), but this effect was not apparent at a later FFTP. CONCLUSIONS: Our main findings suggest that parity is associated with TN
Published: 2017

22. Genetic modifiers of CHEK2*1100delC-associated breast cancer risk

Author: Muranen, TA, Greco, D, Blomqvist, C, Aittomaki, K, Khan, S, Hogervorst, F, Verhoef, S, Pharoah, PDP, Dunning, AM, Shah, M, Luben, R, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Schoemaker, M, Swerdlow, A, Garcia-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Doerk, T, Bogdanova, NV, Hall, P, Li, J, Khusnutdinova, E, Bermisheva, M, Kristensen, V, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Peto, J, Silva, IDS, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Hillemans, P, Park-Simon, T-W, Brauch, H, Hamann, U, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Lambrechts, D, Moisse, M, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Hollestelle, A, Martens, JWM, Fasching, PA, Beckmann, MW, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Anton-Culver, H, Ziogas, A, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, Brenner, H, Arndt, V, Mannermaa, A, Kosma, V-M, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Devilee, P, Seynaeve, C, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, John, EM, Whittemore, AS, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Michailidou, K, Dennis, J, Easton, DF, Schmidt, MK, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Greco, D, Blomqvist, C, Aittomaki, K, Khan, S, Hogervorst, F, Verhoef, S, Pharoah, PDP, Dunning, AM, Shah, M, Luben, R, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Schoemaker, M, Swerdlow, A, Garcia-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Doerk, T, Bogdanova, NV, Hall, P, Li, J, Khusnutdinova, E, Bermisheva, M, Kristensen, V, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Peto, J, Silva, IDS, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Hillemans, P, Park-Simon, T-W, Brauch, H, Hamann, U, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Lambrechts, D, Moisse, M, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Hollestelle, A, Martens, JWM, Fasching, PA, Beckmann, MW, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Anton-Culver, H, Ziogas, A, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, Brenner, H, Arndt, V, Mannermaa, A, Kosma, V-M, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Devilee, P, Seynaeve, C, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, John, EM, Whittemore, AS, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Michailidou, K, Dennis, J, Easton, DF, Schmidt, MK, and Nevanlinna, H
Abstract: PURPOSE: CHEK2*1100delC is a founder variant in European populations that confers a two- to threefold increased risk of breast cancer (BC). Epidemiologic and family studies have suggested that the risk associated with CHEK2*1100delC is modified by other genetic factors in a multiplicative fashion. We have investigated this empirically using data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). METHODS: Using genotype data from 39,139 (624 1100delC carriers) BC patients and 40,063 (224) healthy controls from 32 BCAC studies, we analyzed the combined risk effects of CHEK2*1100delC and 77 common variants in terms of a polygenic risk score (PRS) and pairwise interaction. RESULTS: The PRS conferred odds ratios (OR) of 1.59 (95% CI: 1.21-2.09) per standard deviation for BC for CHEK2*1100delC carriers and 1.58 (1.55-1.62) for noncarriers. No evidence of deviation from the multiplicative model was found. The OR for the highest quintile of the PRS was 2.03 (0.86-4.78) for CHEK2*1100delC carriers, placing them in the high risk category according to UK NICE guidelines. The OR for the lowest quintile was 0.52 (0.16-1.74), indicating a lifetime risk close to the population average. CONCLUSION: Our results confirm the multiplicative nature of risk effects conferred by CHEK2*1100delC and the common susceptibility variants. Furthermore, the PRS could identify carriers at a high lifetime risk for clinical actions.Genet Med advance online publication 06 October 2016.
Published: 2017

23. Genetically Predicted Body Mass Index and Breast Cancer Risk: Mendelian Randomization Analyses of Data from 145,000 Women of European Descent

Author: Guo, Y, Warren Andersen, S, Shu, XO, Michailidou, K, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Garcia-Closas, M, Milne, RL, Schmidt, MK, Chang-Claude, J, Dunning, A, Bojesen, SE, Ahsan, H, Aittomäki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bogdanova, NV, Bonanni, B, Børresen-Dale, AL, Brand, J, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brüning, T, Burwinkel, B, Casey, G, Chenevix-Trench, G, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Dörk, T, Dumont, M, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Gammon, M, Giles, GG, Guénel, P, Haiman, CA, Hamann, U, Hooning, MJ, Hopper, JL, Jakubowska, A, Jasmine, F, Jenkins, M, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Kabisch, M, Kibriya, M, Knight, JA, Koppert, LB, Kosma, VM, Kristensen, V, Le Marchand, L, Lee, E, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Luben, R, Lubinski, J, Malone, KE, Mannermaa, A, Margolin, S, Marme, F, McLean, C, and Meijers-Heijboer, H
Abstract: © 2016 Guo et al. Background: Observational epidemiological studies have shown that high body mass index (BMI) is associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women but an increased risk in postmenopausal women. It is unclear whether this association is mediated through shared genetic or environmental factors. Methods: We applied Mendelian randomization to evaluate the association between BMI and risk of breast cancer occurrence using data from two large breast cancer consortia. We created a weighted BMI genetic score comprising 84 BMI-associated genetic variants to predicted BMI. We evaluated genetically predicted BMI in association with breast cancer risk using individual-level data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) (cases = 46,325, controls = 42,482). We further evaluated the association between genetically predicted BMI and breast cancer risk using summary statistics from 16,003 cases and 41,335 controls from the Discovery, Biology, and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) Project. Because most studies measured BMI after cancer diagnosis, we could not conduct a parallel analysis to adequately evaluate the association of measured BMI with breast cancer risk prospectively. Results: In the BCAC data, genetically predicted BMI was found to be inversely associated with breast cancer risk (odds ratio [OR] = 0.65 per 5 kg/m2 increase, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.56–0.75, p = 3.32 × 10−10). The associations were similar for both premenopausal (OR = 0.44, 95% CI:0.31–0.62, p = 9.91 × 10−8) and postmenopausal breast cancer (OR = 0.57, 95% CI: 0.46–0.71, p = 1.88 × 10−8). This association was replicated in the data from the DRIVE consortium (OR = 0.72, 95% CI: 0.60–0.84, p = 1.64 × 10−7). Single marker analyses identified 17 of the 84 BMI-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in association with breast cancer risk at p < 0.05; for 16 of them, the allele associated with elevated BMI was associated with reduced breast cancer risk. Conclusions: BMI predicted by genome-wide association studies (GWAS)-identified variants is inversely associated with the risk of both pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer. The reduced risk of postmenopausal breast cancer associated with genetically predicted BMI observed in this study differs from the positive association reported from studies using measured adult BMI. Understanding the reasons for this discrepancy may reveal insights into the complex relationship of genetic determinants of body weight in the etiology of breast cancer.
Published: 2016
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24. Large-Scale Genomic Analyses Link Reproductive Aging to Hypothalamic Signaling, Breast Cancer Susceptibility, and BRCA1-Mediated DNA Repair EDITORIAL COMMENT

Author: Day, FR, Ruth, KS, Thompson, DJ, Lunetta, KL, Pervjakova, N, Chasman, DI, Stolk, Lisette, Finucane, HK, Sulem, P, Bulik-Sullivan, B, Esko, T, Johnson, AD, Elks, CE, Franceschini, N, He, C, Altmaier, E, Brody, JA, Franke, LL, Huffman, JE, Keller, MF, McArdle, PF, Nutile, T, Porcu, E, Robino, A, Rose, LM, Schick, UM, Smith, JA, Teumer, A, Traglia, M, Vuckovic, D, Yao, J, Zhao, W, Albrecht, E, Amin, Najaf, Corre, T, Hottenga, JJ (Jouke Jan), Mangino, M, Smith, AV, Tanaka, T, Abecasis, GR, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antoniou, AC, Arndt, V, Arnold, AM, Barbieri, C, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bernstein, L, Bielinski, SJ, Blomqvist, C, Boerwinkle, E, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Borresen-Dale, AL, Boutin, TS, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Bruning, T, Burwinkel, B, Campbell, A (Archie), Campbell, H, Chanock, SJ, Chapman, JR, Chen, YDI, Chenevix-Trench, G, Couch, FJ, Coviello, AD, Cox, A, Czene, K, Darabi, H, de Vivo, I, Demerath, EW, Dennis, J, Devilee, P, Dork, T, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dunning, AM, Eicher, JD, Fasching, PA, Faul, JD, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Gandin, I, Garcia, ME, Garcia-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Girotto, GG, Goldberg, MS, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Goodarzi, MO, Grove, ML, Gudbjartsson, DF, Guenel, P, Guo, XQ, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Henderson, BE, Hocking, LJ, Hofman, Bert, Homuth, G, Hooning, Maartje, Hopper, JL, Hu, FB, Huang, JY, Humphreys, K, Hunter, DJ, Jakubowska, A, Jones, SE, Kabisch, M, Karasik, D, Knight, JA, Kolcic, I, Kooperberg, C, Kosma, VM, Kriebel, J, Kristensen, V, Lambrechts, D, Langenberg, C, Li, JM, Li, X, Lindstrom, S, Liu, YM, Luan, JA, Lubinski, J, Magi, R, Mannermaa, A, Manz, J, Margolin, S, Marten, J, Martin, NG, Masciullo, C, Meindl, A, Michailidou, K, Mihailov, E, Milani, L, Milne, RL, Muller-Nurasyid, M, Nalls, M, Neale, BM, Nevanlinna, H, Neven, P, Newman, AB, Nordestgaard, BG, Olson, JE, Padmanabhan, S, Peterlongo, P, Peters, U, Petersmann, A, Peto, J, Pharoah, PDP, Pirastu, NN, Pirie, A, Pistis, G, Polasek, O, Porteous, D, Psaty, BM, Pylkas, K, Radice, P, Raffel, LJ, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rudan, I, Rudolph, A, Ruggiero, D, Sala, CF, Sanna, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schlessinger, D, Schmidt, MK (Marjanka), Schmidt, F, Schmutzler, RK, Schoemaker, MJ, Scott, RA, Seynaeve, Caroline, Simard, J, Sorice, R, Southey, MC, Stockl, D, Strauch, K, Swerdlow, A, Taylor, KD, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Toland, AE, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tryggvadottir, L, Turner, ST, Vozzi, D, Wang, Q (Qing), Wellons, M, Willemsen, G, Wilson, JF, Winqvist, R, Wolffenbuttel, BBHR, Wright, AF, Yannoukakos, D, Zemunik, T, Zheng, W, Zygmunt, M, Bergmann, S, Boomsma, DI, Buring, JE, Ferrucci, L, Montgomery, GW, Gudnason, V, Spector, TD, Duijn, Cornelia, Alizadeh, BZ, Ciullo, M, Crisponi, L, Easton, DF, Gasparini, PP, Gieger, C, Harris, TB, Hayward, C, Kardia, SLR, Kraft, P, McKnight, B, Metspalu, A, Morrison, AC, Reiner, AP, Ridker, PM, Rotter, JI, Toniolo, D, Uitterlinden, André, Ulivi, S, Volzke, H, Wareham, NJ, Weir, DR, Yerges-Armstrong, LM, Price, AL, Stefansson, K, Visser, Jenny, Ong, KK, Chang-Claude, J, Murabito, JM, Perry, JRB, Murray, A, Systems Ecology, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Neurobiology of Mental Health, Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, Medical Oncology, and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Published: 2015
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25. SNP-SNP interaction analysis of NF-kappa B signaling pathway on breast cancer survival

Author: Jamshidi, M, Fagerholm, R, Khan, Salima, Aittomaki, K, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Li, JM, Andrulis, IL, Chang-Claude, J, Devilee, P, Fasching, PA, Michailidou, K, Bolla, MK, Dennis, J, Wang, Q (Qing), Guo, Q, Rhenius, V, Cornelissen, S, Rudolph, A, Knight, JA, Loehberg, CR, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Bojesen, SE, Flyger, H, Brenner, H, Holleczek, B, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kosma, VM, Van Dyck, L, Nevelsteen, I, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Giles, GG, McLean, C, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Tollenaar, RAEM, Garcia-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Hooning, Maartje, Martens, John, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Simard, J, Dunning, AM, Easton, DF, Pharoah, PDP, Hall, P, Blomqvist, C, Schmidt, MK (Marjanka), Nevanlinna, H, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Clinical Genetics, and Medical Oncology
Subjects: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Abstract: In breast cancer, constitutive activation of NF-kappa B has been reported, however, the impact of genetic variation of the pathway on patient prognosis has been little studied. Furthermore, a combination of genetic variants, rather than single polymorphisms, may affect disease prognosis. Here, in an extensive dataset (n = 30,431) from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, we investigated the association of 917 SNPs in 75 genes in the NF-kappa B pathway with breast cancer prognosis. We explored SNP-SNP interactions on survival using the likelihood-ratio test comparing multivariate Cox' regression models of SNP pairs without and with an interaction term. We found two interacting pairs associating with prognosis: patients simultaneously homozygous for the rare alleles of rs5996080 and rs7973914 had worse survival (HRinteraction 6.98, 95% CI= 3.3-14.4, P=1.42E-07), and patients carrying at least one rare allele for rs17243893 and rs57890595 had better survival (HRinteraction 0.51, 95% CI= 0.3-0.6, P = 2.19E-05). Based on in silico functional analyses and literature, we speculate that the rs5996080 and rs7973914 loci may affect the BAFFR and TNFR1/TNFR3 receptors and breast cancer survival, possibly by disturbing both the canonical and non-canonical NF-kappa B pathways or their dynamics, whereas, rs17243893-rs57890595 interaction on survival may be mediated through TRAF2-TRAIL-R4 interplay. These results warrant further validation and functional analyses.
Published: 2015

26. Identification of novel genetic markers of breast cancer survival

Author: Guo, Q, Schmidt, Mk, Kraft, P, Canisius, S, Chen, C, Khan, S, Tyrer, J, Bolla, Mk, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Michailidou, K, Lush, M, Kar, S, Beesley, J, Dunning, Am, Shah, M, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Lambrechts, D, Weltens, C, Leunen, K, Bojesen, Se, Nordestgaard, Bg, Nielsen, Sf, Flyger, H, Chang Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch Janys, D, Blomqvist, C, Aittomäki, K, Fagerholm, R, Muranen, Ta, Couch, Fj, Olson, Je, Vachon, C, Andrulis, Il, Knight, Ja, Glendon, G, Mulligan, Am, Broeks, A, Hogervorst, Fb, Haiman, Ca, Henderson, Be, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Hopper, Jl, Tsimiklis, H, Apicella, C, Southey, Mc, Cox, A, Cross, Ss, Reed, Mw, Giles, Gg, Milne, Rl, Mclean, C, Winqvist, R, Pylkäs, K, Jukkola Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Hooning, Mj, Hollestelle, A, Martens, Jw, van den Ouweland, Am, Marme, F, Schneeweiss, A, Yang, R, Burwinkel, B, Figueroa, J, Chanock, Sj, Lissowska, J, Sawyer, Ej, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, Mj, Miller, N, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, Ak, Arndt, V, Holleczek, B, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, Vm, Hartikainen, Jm, Li, J, Brand, Js, Humphreys, K, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, Ra, Seynaeve, C, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Bonanni, B, Mariani, P, Fasching, Beckmann, Mw, Hein, A, Ekici, Ab, Chenevix Trench, G, Balleine, R, Kconfab, Investigators, Phillips, Ka, Benitez, J, Zamora, Mp, Arias Perez, Ji, Menéndez, P, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska Bieniek, K, Durda, K, Hamann, U, Kabisch, M, Ulmer, Hu, Rüdiger, T, Margolin, S, Kristensen, V, Nord, S, Evans, Dg, Abraham, Je, Earl, Hm, Hiller, L, Dunn, Ja, Bowden, S, Berg, C, Campa, Daniele, Diver, Wr, Gapstur, Sm, Gaudet, Mm, Hankinson, Se, Hoover, Rn, Hüsing, A, Kaaks, R, Machiela, Mj, Willett, W, Barrdahl, M, Canzian, F, Chin, Sf, Caldas, C, Hunter, Dj, Lindstrom, S, García Closas, M, Hall, P, Easton, Df, Eccles, Dm, Rahman, N, Nevanlinna, H, and Pharoah, P. d.
Subjects: GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, SINGLE-NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS, GENOTYPE IMPUTATION, PROGNOSIS, RISK, LOCI, CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE, METAANALYSIS, PROGRESSION, EPIRUBICIN
Published: 2015

27. Cohort Profile: The Breast Cancer Prospective Family Study Cohort (ProF-SC)

Author: Terry, MB, Phillips, K-A, Daly, MB, John, EM, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, Goldgar, DE, Knight, JA, Whittemore, AS, Chung, WK, Apicella, C, Hopper, JL, Terry, MB, Phillips, K-A, Daly, MB, John, EM, Andrulis, IL, Buys, SS, Goldgar, DE, Knight, JA, Whittemore, AS, Chung, WK, Apicella, C, and Hopper, JL
Published: 2016

28. Identification of four novel susceptibility loci for oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer

Author: Couch, FJ, Kuchenbaecker, KB, Michailidou, K, Mendoza-Fandino, GA, Nord, S, Lilyquist, J, Olswold, C, Hallberg, E, Agata, S, Ahsan, H, Aittomaeki, K, Ambrosone, C, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Arun, BK, Arver, B, Barile, M, Barkardottir, RB, Barrowdale, D, Beckmann, L, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Blank, SV, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Bonanni, B, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Burwinkel, B, Buys, SS, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Canzian, F, Carpenter, J, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Cunningham, JM, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Damiola, F, Darabi, H, de la Hoya, M, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Dolcetti, R, Domchek, SM, Dorfling, CM, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dumont, M, Dunning, AM, Eccles, DM, Ehrencrona, H, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, H, Ellis, S, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Foersti, A, Fostira, F, Foulkes, WD, Friebel, T, Friedman, E, Frost, D, Gabrielson, M, Gammon, MD, Ganz, PA, Gapstur, SM, Garber, J, Gaudet, MM, Gayther, SA, Gerdes, A-M, Ghoussaini, M, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Greene, MH, Gronwald, J, Guenel, P, Gunter, M, Haeberle, L, Haiman, CA, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Hart, S, Healey, S, Heikkinen, T, Henderson, BE, Herzog, J, Hogervorst, FBL, Hollestelle, A, Hooning, MJ, Hoover, RN, Hopper, JL, Humphreys, K, Hunter, DJ, Huzarski, T, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Jakubowska, A, James, P, Janavicius, R, Jensen, UB, John, EM, Jones, M, Kabisch, M, Kar, S, Karlan, BY, Khan, S, Khaw, K-T, Kibriya, MG, Knight, JA, Ko, Y-D, Konstantopoulou, I, Kosma, V-M, Kristensen, V, Kwong, A, Laitman, Y, Lambrechts, D, Lazaro, C, Lee, E, Le Marchand, L, Lester, J, Lindblom, A, Lindor, N, Lindstrom, S, Liu, J, Long, J, Lubinski, J, Mai, PL, Makalic, E, Malone, KE, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Martens, JWM, McGuffog, L, Meindl, A, Miller, A, Milne, RL, Miron, P, Montagna, M, Mazoyer, S, Mulligan, AM, Muranen, TA, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nordestgaard, BG, Nussbaum, RL, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olopade, OI, Olson, JE, Osorio, A, Park, SK, Peeters, PH, Peissel, B, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Phelan, CM, Pilarski, R, Poppe, B, Pylkaes, K, Radice, P, Rahman, N, Rantala, J, Rappaport, C, Rennert, G, Richardson, A, Robson, M, Romieu, I, Rudolph, A, Rutgers, EJ, Sanchez, M-J, Santella, RM, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, DF, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Schumacher, F, Scott, R, Senter, L, Sharma, P, Simard, J, Singer, CF, Sinilnikova, OM, Soucy, P, Southey, M, Steinemann, D, Stenmark-Askmalm, M, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Swerdlow, A, Szabo, CI, Tamimi, R, Tapper, W, Teixeira, MR, Teo, S-H, Terry, MB, Thomassen, M, Thompson, D, Tihomirova, L, Toland, AE, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tsimiklis, H, Teule, A, Tumino, R, Tung, N, Turnbull, C, Ursin, G, van Deurzen, CHM, van Rensburg, EJ, Varon-Mateeva, R, Wang, Z, Wang-Gohrke, S, Weiderpass, E, Weitzel, JN, Whittemore, A, Wildiers, H, Winqvist, R, Yang, XR, Yannoukakos, D, Yao, S, Zamora, MP, Zheng, W, Hall, P, Kraft, P, Vachon, C, Slager, S, Chenevix-Trench, G, Pharoah, PDP, Monteiro, AAN, Garcia-Closas, M, Easton, DF, Antoniou, AC, Couch, FJ, Kuchenbaecker, KB, Michailidou, K, Mendoza-Fandino, GA, Nord, S, Lilyquist, J, Olswold, C, Hallberg, E, Agata, S, Ahsan, H, Aittomaeki, K, Ambrosone, C, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Arun, BK, Arver, B, Barile, M, Barkardottir, RB, Barrowdale, D, Beckmann, L, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Blank, SV, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Bonanni, B, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Burwinkel, B, Buys, SS, Caldes, T, Caligo, MA, Canzian, F, Carpenter, J, Chang-Claude, J, Chanock, SJ, Chung, WK, Claes, KBM, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Cunningham, JM, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Damiola, F, Darabi, H, de la Hoya, M, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Ding, YC, Dolcetti, R, Domchek, SM, Dorfling, CM, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dumont, M, Dunning, AM, Eccles, DM, Ehrencrona, H, Ekici, AB, Eliassen, H, Ellis, S, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Foersti, A, Fostira, F, Foulkes, WD, Friebel, T, Friedman, E, Frost, D, Gabrielson, M, Gammon, MD, Ganz, PA, Gapstur, SM, Garber, J, Gaudet, MM, Gayther, SA, Gerdes, A-M, Ghoussaini, M, Giles, GG, Glendon, G, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Greene, MH, Gronwald, J, Guenel, P, Gunter, M, Haeberle, L, Haiman, CA, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Hart, S, Healey, S, Heikkinen, T, Henderson, BE, Herzog, J, Hogervorst, FBL, Hollestelle, A, Hooning, MJ, Hoover, RN, Hopper, JL, Humphreys, K, Hunter, DJ, Huzarski, T, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Jakubowska, A, James, P, Janavicius, R, Jensen, UB, John, EM, Jones, M, Kabisch, M, Kar, S, Karlan, BY, Khan, S, Khaw, K-T, Kibriya, MG, Knight, JA, Ko, Y-D, Konstantopoulou, I, Kosma, V-M, Kristensen, V, Kwong, A, Laitman, Y, Lambrechts, D, Lazaro, C, Lee, E, Le Marchand, L, Lester, J, Lindblom, A, Lindor, N, Lindstrom, S, Liu, J, Long, J, Lubinski, J, Mai, PL, Makalic, E, Malone, KE, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Martens, JWM, McGuffog, L, Meindl, A, Miller, A, Milne, RL, Miron, P, Montagna, M, Mazoyer, S, Mulligan, AM, Muranen, TA, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nordestgaard, BG, Nussbaum, RL, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olopade, OI, Olson, JE, Osorio, A, Park, SK, Peeters, PH, Peissel, B, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Phelan, CM, Pilarski, R, Poppe, B, Pylkaes, K, Radice, P, Rahman, N, Rantala, J, Rappaport, C, Rennert, G, Richardson, A, Robson, M, Romieu, I, Rudolph, A, Rutgers, EJ, Sanchez, M-J, Santella, RM, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, DF, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Schumacher, F, Scott, R, Senter, L, Sharma, P, Simard, J, Singer, CF, Sinilnikova, OM, Soucy, P, Southey, M, Steinemann, D, Stenmark-Askmalm, M, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Swerdlow, A, Szabo, CI, Tamimi, R, Tapper, W, Teixeira, MR, Teo, S-H, Terry, MB, Thomassen, M, Thompson, D, Tihomirova, L, Toland, AE, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tsimiklis, H, Teule, A, Tumino, R, Tung, N, Turnbull, C, Ursin, G, van Deurzen, CHM, van Rensburg, EJ, Varon-Mateeva, R, Wang, Z, Wang-Gohrke, S, Weiderpass, E, Weitzel, JN, Whittemore, A, Wildiers, H, Winqvist, R, Yang, XR, Yannoukakos, D, Yao, S, Zamora, MP, Zheng, W, Hall, P, Kraft, P, Vachon, C, Slager, S, Chenevix-Trench, G, Pharoah, PDP, Monteiro, AAN, Garcia-Closas, M, Easton, DF, and Antoniou, AC
Abstract: Common variants in 94 loci have been associated with breast cancer including 15 loci with genome-wide significant associations (P<5 × 10(-8)) with oestrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer and BRCA1-associated breast cancer risk. In this study, to identify new ER-negative susceptibility loci, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) consisting of 4,939 ER-negative cases and 14,352 controls, combined with 7,333 ER-negative cases and 42,468 controls and 15,252 BRCA1 mutation carriers genotyped on the iCOGS array. We identify four previously unidentified loci including two loci at 13q22 near KLF5, a 2p23.2 locus near WDR43 and a 2q33 locus near PPIL3 that display genome-wide significant associations with ER-negative breast cancer. In addition, 19 known breast cancer risk loci have genome-wide significant associations and 40 had moderate associations (P<0.05) with ER-negative disease. Using functional and eQTL studies we implicate TRMT61B and WDR43 at 2p23.2 and PPIL3 at 2q33 in ER-negative breast cancer aetiology. All ER-negative loci combined account for ∼11% of familial relative risk for ER-negative disease and may contribute to improved ER-negative and BRCA1 breast cancer risk prediction.
Published: 2016

29. Functional mechanisms underlying pleiotropic risk alleles at the 19p13.1 breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility locus

Author: Lawrenson, K, Kar, S, McCue, K, Kuchenbaeker, K, Michailidou, K, Tyrer, J, Beesley, J, Ramus, SJ, Li, Q, Delgado, MK, Lee, JM, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Arun, BK, Arver, B, Bandera, EV, Barile, M, Barkardottir, RB, Barrowdale, D, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Berchuck, A, Bisogna, M, Bjorge, L, Blomqvist, C, Blot, W, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, A, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Bonanni, B, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Brauch, H, Brennan, P, Brenner, H, Bruinsma, F, Brunet, J, Buhari, SA, Burwinkel, B, Butzow, R, Buys, SS, Cai, Q, Caldes, T, Campbell, I, Canniotto, R, Chang-Claude, J, Chiquette, J, Choi, J-Y, Claes, KBM, Cook, LS, Cox, A, Cramer, DW, Cross, SS, Cybulski, C, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Damiola, F, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, A, Darabi, H, Dennis, J, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Doherty, JA, Domchek, SM, Dorfling, CM, Doerk, T, Dumont, M, Ehrencrona, H, Ejlertsen, B, Ellis, S, Engel, C, Lee, E, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Feliubadalo, L, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Foretova, L, Fostira, F, Foulkes, WD, Fridley, BL, Friedman, E, Frost, D, Gambino, G, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Garcia-Closas, M, Gentry-Maharaj, A, Ghoussaini, M, Giles, GG, Glasspool, R, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Goode, EL, Goodman, MT, Greene, MH, Gronwald, J, Guenel, P, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hallberg, E, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Harrington, PA, Hartman, M, Hassan, N, Healey, S, Heitz, F, Herzog, J, Hogdall, E, Hogdall, CK, Hogervorst, FBL, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Hulick, PJ, Huzarski, T, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Ito, H, Jakubowska, A, Janavicius, R, Jensen, A, John, EM, Johnson, N, Kabisch, M, Kang, D, Kapuscinski, M, Karlan, BY, Khan, S, Kiemeney, LA, Kjaer, SK, Knight, JA, Konstantopoulou, I, Kosma, V-M, Kristensen, V, Kupryjanczyk, J, Kwong, A, de la Hoya, M, Laitman, Y, Lambrechts, D, Le, N, De Leeneer, K, Lester, J, Levine, DA, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Long, J, Lophatananon, A, Loud, JT, Lu, K, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Le Marchand, L, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Massuger, LFAG, Matsuo, K, Mazoyer, S, McGuffog, L, McLean, C, McNeish, I, Meindl, A, Menon, U, Mensenkamp, AR, Milne, RL, Montagna, M, Moysich, KB, Muir, K, Mulligan, AM, Nathanson, KL, Ness, RB, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nord, S, Nussbaum, RL, Odunsi, K, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olopade, OI, Olson, JE, Olswold, C, O'Malley, D, Orlow, I, Orr, N, Osorio, A, Park, SK, Pearce, CL, Pejovic, T, Peterlongo, P, Pfeiler, G, Phelan, CM, Poole, EM, Pylkas, K, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Rashid, MU, Rennert, G, Rhenius, V, Rhiem, K, Risch, HA, Rodriguez, G, Rossing, MA, Rudolph, A, Salvesen, HB, Sangrajrang, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schildkraut, JM, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Sellers, TA, Seynaeve, C, Shah, M, Shen, C-Y, Shu, X-O, Sieh, W, Singer, CF, Sinilnikova, OM, Slager, S, Song, H, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Stenmark-Askmalm, M, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutter, C, Swerdlow, A, Tchatchou, S, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Terry, KL, Terry, MB, Thomassen, M, Tibiletti, MG, Tihomirova, L, Tognazzo, S, Toland, AE, Tomlinson, I, Torres, D, Truong, T, Tseng, C-C, Tung, N, Tworoger, SS, Vachon, C, van den Ouweland, AMW, van Doorn, HC, van Rensburg, EJ, Van't Veer, LJ, Vanderstichele, A, Vergote, I, Vijai, J, Wang, Q, Wang-Gohrke, S, Weitzel, JN, Wentzensen, N, Whittemore, AS, Wildiers, H, Winqvist, R, Wu, AH, Yannoukakos, D, Yoon, S-Y, Yu, J-C, Zheng, W, Zheng, Y, Khanna, KK, Simard, J, Monteiro, AN, French, JD, Couch, FJ, Freedman, ML, Easton, DF, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PD, Edwards, SL, Chenevix-Trench, G, Antoniou, AC, Gayther, SA, Lawrenson, K, Kar, S, McCue, K, Kuchenbaeker, K, Michailidou, K, Tyrer, J, Beesley, J, Ramus, SJ, Li, Q, Delgado, MK, Lee, JM, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Arun, BK, Arver, B, Bandera, EV, Barile, M, Barkardottir, RB, Barrowdale, D, Beckmann, MW, Benitez, J, Berchuck, A, Bisogna, M, Bjorge, L, Blomqvist, C, Blot, W, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, A, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Bonanni, B, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Brauch, H, Brennan, P, Brenner, H, Bruinsma, F, Brunet, J, Buhari, SA, Burwinkel, B, Butzow, R, Buys, SS, Cai, Q, Caldes, T, Campbell, I, Canniotto, R, Chang-Claude, J, Chiquette, J, Choi, J-Y, Claes, KBM, Cook, LS, Cox, A, Cramer, DW, Cross, SS, Cybulski, C, Czene, K, Daly, MB, Damiola, F, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, A, Darabi, H, Dennis, J, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Doherty, JA, Domchek, SM, Dorfling, CM, Doerk, T, Dumont, M, Ehrencrona, H, Ejlertsen, B, Ellis, S, Engel, C, Lee, E, Evans, DG, Fasching, PA, Feliubadalo, L, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Foretova, L, Fostira, F, Foulkes, WD, Fridley, BL, Friedman, E, Frost, D, Gambino, G, Ganz, PA, Garber, J, Garcia-Closas, M, Gentry-Maharaj, A, Ghoussaini, M, Giles, GG, Glasspool, R, Godwin, AK, Goldberg, MS, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Goode, EL, Goodman, MT, Greene, MH, Gronwald, J, Guenel, P, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hallberg, E, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Harrington, PA, Hartman, M, Hassan, N, Healey, S, Heitz, F, Herzog, J, Hogdall, E, Hogdall, CK, Hogervorst, FBL, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Hulick, PJ, Huzarski, T, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Ito, H, Jakubowska, A, Janavicius, R, Jensen, A, John, EM, Johnson, N, Kabisch, M, Kang, D, Kapuscinski, M, Karlan, BY, Khan, S, Kiemeney, LA, Kjaer, SK, Knight, JA, Konstantopoulou, I, Kosma, V-M, Kristensen, V, Kupryjanczyk, J, Kwong, A, de la Hoya, M, Laitman, Y, Lambrechts, D, Le, N, De Leeneer, K, Lester, J, Levine, DA, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Long, J, Lophatananon, A, Loud, JT, Lu, K, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Le Marchand, L, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Massuger, LFAG, Matsuo, K, Mazoyer, S, McGuffog, L, McLean, C, McNeish, I, Meindl, A, Menon, U, Mensenkamp, AR, Milne, RL, Montagna, M, Moysich, KB, Muir, K, Mulligan, AM, Nathanson, KL, Ness, RB, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nord, S, Nussbaum, RL, Odunsi, K, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olopade, OI, Olson, JE, Olswold, C, O'Malley, D, Orlow, I, Orr, N, Osorio, A, Park, SK, Pearce, CL, Pejovic, T, Peterlongo, P, Pfeiler, G, Phelan, CM, Poole, EM, Pylkas, K, Radice, P, Rantala, J, Rashid, MU, Rennert, G, Rhenius, V, Rhiem, K, Risch, HA, Rodriguez, G, Rossing, MA, Rudolph, A, Salvesen, HB, Sangrajrang, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schildkraut, JM, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Sellers, TA, Seynaeve, C, Shah, M, Shen, C-Y, Shu, X-O, Sieh, W, Singer, CF, Sinilnikova, OM, Slager, S, Song, H, Soucy, P, Southey, MC, Stenmark-Askmalm, M, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Sutter, C, Swerdlow, A, Tchatchou, S, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Terry, KL, Terry, MB, Thomassen, M, Tibiletti, MG, Tihomirova, L, Tognazzo, S, Toland, AE, Tomlinson, I, Torres, D, Truong, T, Tseng, C-C, Tung, N, Tworoger, SS, Vachon, C, van den Ouweland, AMW, van Doorn, HC, van Rensburg, EJ, Van't Veer, LJ, Vanderstichele, A, Vergote, I, Vijai, J, Wang, Q, Wang-Gohrke, S, Weitzel, JN, Wentzensen, N, Whittemore, AS, Wildiers, H, Winqvist, R, Wu, AH, Yannoukakos, D, Yoon, S-Y, Yu, J-C, Zheng, W, Zheng, Y, Khanna, KK, Simard, J, Monteiro, AN, French, JD, Couch, FJ, Freedman, ML, Easton, DF, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, PD, Edwards, SL, Chenevix-Trench, G, Antoniou, AC, and Gayther, SA
Abstract: A locus at 19p13 is associated with breast cancer (BC) and ovarian cancer (OC) risk. Here we analyse 438 SNPs in this region in 46,451 BC and 15,438 OC cases, 15,252 BRCA1 mutation carriers and 73,444 controls and identify 13 candidate causal SNPs associated with serous OC (P=9.2 × 10(-20)), ER-negative BC (P=1.1 × 10(-13)), BRCA1-associated BC (P=7.7 × 10(-16)) and triple negative BC (P-diff=2 × 10(-5)). Genotype-gene expression associations are identified for candidate target genes ANKLE1 (P=2 × 10(-3)) and ABHD8 (P<2 × 10(-3)). Chromosome conformation capture identifies interactions between four candidate SNPs and ABHD8, and luciferase assays indicate six risk alleles increased transactivation of the ADHD8 promoter. Targeted deletion of a region containing risk SNP rs56069439 in a putative enhancer induces ANKLE1 downregulation; and mRNA stability assays indicate functional effects for an ANKLE1 3'-UTR SNP. Altogether, these data suggest that multiple SNPs at 19p13 regulate ABHD8 and perhaps ANKLE1 expression, and indicate common mechanisms underlying breast and ovarian cancer risk.
Published: 2016

30. Identification of independent association signals and putative functional variants for breast cancer risk through fine-scale mapping of the 12p11 locus

Author: Zeng, C, Guo, X, Long, J, Kuchenbaecker, KB, Droit, A, Michailidou, K, Ghoussaini, M, Kar, S, Freeman, A, Hopper, JL, Milne, RL, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Agata, S, Ahmed, S, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arason, A, Arndt, V, Arun, BK, Arver, B, Bacot, F, Barrowdale, D, Baynes, C, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Blomqvist, C, Blot, WJ, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Brand, JS, Brauch, H, Brennan, P, Brenner, H, Broeks, A, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Buys, SS, Cai, Q, Caldes, T, Campbell, I, Carpenter, J, Chang-Claude, J, Choi, J-Y, Claes, KBM, Clarke, C, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, de la Hoya, M, De Leeneer, K, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Domchek, SM, Doody, M, Dorfling, CM, Doerk, T, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dumont, M, Dwek, M, Dworniczak, B, Egan, K, Eilber, U, Einbeigi, Z, Ejlertsen, B, Ellis, S, Frost, D, Lalloo, F, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flyger, H, Friedlander, M, Friedman, E, Gambino, G, Gao, Y-T, Garber, J, Garcia-Closas, M, Gehrig, A, Damiola, F, Lesueur, F, Mazoyer, S, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Giles, GG, Godwin, AK, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Greene, MH, Guenel, P, Haeberle, L, Haiman, CA, Hallberg, E, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Hart, S, Hartikainen, JM, Hartman, M, Hassan, N, Healey, S, Hogervorst, FBL, Verhoef, S, Hendricks, CB, Hillemanns, P, Hollestelle, A, Hulick, PJ, Hunter, DJ, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Ito, H, Jakubowska, A, Janavicius, R, Jaworska-Bieniek, K, Jensen, UB, John, EM, Beauparlant, CJ, Jones, M, Kabisch, M, Kang, D, Karlan, BY, Kauppila, S, Kerin, MJ, Khan, S, Khusnutdinova, E, Knight, JA, Konstantopoulou, I, Kraft, P, Kwong, A, Laitman, Y, Lambrechts, D, Lazaro, C, Le Marchand, L, Lee, CN, Lee, MH, Lester, J, Li, J, Liljegren, A, Lindblom, A, Lophatananon, A, Lubinski, J, Mai, PL, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Matsuo, K, McGuffog, L, Meindl, A, Menegaux, F, Montagna, M, Muir, K, Mulligan, AM, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Newcomb, PA, Nord, S, Nussbaum, RL, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olopade, OI, Olswold, C, Osorio, A, Papi, L, Park-Simon, T-W, Paulsson-Karlsson, Y, Peeters, S, Peissel, B, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Pfeiler, G, Phelan, CM, Presneau, N, Radice, P, Rahman, N, Ramus, SJ, Rashid, MU, Rennert, G, Rhiem, K, Rudolph, A, Salani, R, Sangrajrang, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Schoemaker, MJ, Schuermann, P, Seynaeve, C, Shen, C-Y, Shrubsole, MJ, Shu, X-O, Sigurdson, A, Singer, CF, Slager, S, Soucy, P, Southey, M, Steinemann, D, Swerdlow, A, Szabo, CI, Tchatchou, S, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Terry, MB, Tessier, DC, Teule, A, Thomassen, M, Tihomirova, L, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Tung, N, Turnbull, C, van den Ouweland, AMW, van Rensburg, EJ, ven den Berg, D, Vijai, J, Wang-Gohrke, S, Weitzel, JN, Whittemore, AS, Winqvist, R, Wong, TY, Wu, AH, Yannoukakos, D, Yu, J-C, Pharoah, PDP, Hall, P, Chenevix-Trench, G, Dunning, AM, Simard, J, Couch, FJ, Antoniou, AC, Easton, DF, Zheng, W, Zeng, C, Guo, X, Long, J, Kuchenbaecker, KB, Droit, A, Michailidou, K, Ghoussaini, M, Kar, S, Freeman, A, Hopper, JL, Milne, RL, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Agata, S, Ahmed, S, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antonenkova, NN, Arason, A, Arndt, V, Arun, BK, Arver, B, Bacot, F, Barrowdale, D, Baynes, C, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bermisheva, M, Blomqvist, C, Blot, WJ, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bonanni, B, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Brand, JS, Brauch, H, Brennan, P, Brenner, H, Broeks, A, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Buys, SS, Cai, Q, Caldes, T, Campbell, I, Carpenter, J, Chang-Claude, J, Choi, J-Y, Claes, KBM, Clarke, C, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Daly, MB, de la Hoya, M, De Leeneer, K, Devilee, P, Diez, O, Domchek, SM, Doody, M, Dorfling, CM, Doerk, T, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dumont, M, Dwek, M, Dworniczak, B, Egan, K, Eilber, U, Einbeigi, Z, Ejlertsen, B, Ellis, S, Frost, D, Lalloo, F, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flyger, H, Friedlander, M, Friedman, E, Gambino, G, Gao, Y-T, Garber, J, Garcia-Closas, M, Gehrig, A, Damiola, F, Lesueur, F, Mazoyer, S, Stoppa-Lyonnet, D, Giles, GG, Godwin, AK, Goldgar, DE, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Greene, MH, Guenel, P, Haeberle, L, Haiman, CA, Hallberg, E, Hamann, U, Hansen, TVO, Hart, S, Hartikainen, JM, Hartman, M, Hassan, N, Healey, S, Hogervorst, FBL, Verhoef, S, Hendricks, CB, Hillemanns, P, Hollestelle, A, Hulick, PJ, Hunter, DJ, Imyanitov, EN, Isaacs, C, Ito, H, Jakubowska, A, Janavicius, R, Jaworska-Bieniek, K, Jensen, UB, John, EM, Beauparlant, CJ, Jones, M, Kabisch, M, Kang, D, Karlan, BY, Kauppila, S, Kerin, MJ, Khan, S, Khusnutdinova, E, Knight, JA, Konstantopoulou, I, Kraft, P, Kwong, A, Laitman, Y, Lambrechts, D, Lazaro, C, Le Marchand, L, Lee, CN, Lee, MH, Lester, J, Li, J, Liljegren, A, Lindblom, A, Lophatananon, A, Lubinski, J, Mai, PL, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Matsuo, K, McGuffog, L, Meindl, A, Menegaux, F, Montagna, M, Muir, K, Mulligan, AM, Nathanson, KL, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Newcomb, PA, Nord, S, Nussbaum, RL, Offit, K, Olah, E, Olopade, OI, Olswold, C, Osorio, A, Papi, L, Park-Simon, T-W, Paulsson-Karlsson, Y, Peeters, S, Peissel, B, Peterlongo, P, Peto, J, Pfeiler, G, Phelan, CM, Presneau, N, Radice, P, Rahman, N, Ramus, SJ, Rashid, MU, Rennert, G, Rhiem, K, Rudolph, A, Salani, R, Sangrajrang, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Schoemaker, MJ, Schuermann, P, Seynaeve, C, Shen, C-Y, Shrubsole, MJ, Shu, X-O, Sigurdson, A, Singer, CF, Slager, S, Soucy, P, Southey, M, Steinemann, D, Swerdlow, A, Szabo, CI, Tchatchou, S, Teixeira, MR, Teo, SH, Terry, MB, Tessier, DC, Teule, A, Thomassen, M, Tihomirova, L, Tischkowitz, M, Toland, AE, Tung, N, Turnbull, C, van den Ouweland, AMW, van Rensburg, EJ, ven den Berg, D, Vijai, J, Wang-Gohrke, S, Weitzel, JN, Whittemore, AS, Winqvist, R, Wong, TY, Wu, AH, Yannoukakos, D, Yu, J-C, Pharoah, PDP, Hall, P, Chenevix-Trench, G, Dunning, AM, Simard, J, Couch, FJ, Antoniou, AC, Easton, DF, and Zheng, W
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Multiple recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs10771399, at 12p11 that is associated with breast cancer risk. METHOD: We performed a fine-scale mapping study of a 700 kb region including 441 genotyped and more than 1300 imputed genetic variants in 48,155 cases and 43,612 controls of European descent, 6269 cases and 6624 controls of East Asian descent and 1116 cases and 932 controls of African descent in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC; http://bcac.ccge.medschl.cam.ac.uk/ ), and in 15,252 BRCA1 mutation carriers in the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA). Stepwise regression analyses were performed to identify independent association signals. Data from the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project (ENCODE) and the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) were used for functional annotation. RESULTS: Analysis of data from European descendants found evidence for four independent association signals at 12p11, represented by rs7297051 (odds ratio (OR) = 1.09, 95 % confidence interval (CI) = 1.06-1.12; P = 3 × 10(-9)), rs805510 (OR = 1.08, 95 % CI = 1.04-1.12, P = 2 × 10(-5)), and rs1871152 (OR = 1.04, 95 % CI = 1.02-1.06; P = 2 × 10(-4)) identified in the general populations, and rs113824616 (P = 7 × 10(-5)) identified in the meta-analysis of BCAC ER-negative cases and BRCA1 mutation carriers. SNPs rs7297051, rs805510 and rs113824616 were also associated with breast cancer risk at P < 0.05 in East Asians, but none of the associations were statistically significant in African descendants. Multiple candidate functional variants are located in putative enhancer sequences. Chromatin interaction data suggested that PTHLH was the likely target gene of these enhancers. Of the six variants with the strongest evidence of potential functionality, rs11049453 was statistically significantly associated with the expression of PTHLH and its nearby gene CCDC91 at P < 0.05. CONCLUSION: This
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31. Fine-scale mapping of 8q24 locus identifies multiple independent risk variants for breast cancer

Author: Shi, J, Zhang, Y, Zheng, W, Michailidou, K, Ghoussaini, M, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Lush, M, Milne, RL, Shu, X-O, Beesley, J, Kar, S, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Beckmann, MW, Zhao, Z, Guo, X, Benitez, J, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Blot, W, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brinton, L, Broeks, A, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Cai, H, Canisius, S, Chang-Claude, J, Choi, J-Y, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Devilee, P, Droit, A, Dork, T, Fasching, PA, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Gaborieau, V, Garcia-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Grip, M, Guenel, P, Haiman, CA, Hamann, U, Hartman, M, Miao, H, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Hsiung, C-N, Investigators, K, Ito, H, Jakubowska, A, Johnson, N, Torres, D, Kabisch, M, Kang, D, Khan, S, Knight, JA, Kosma, V-M, Lambrechts, D, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Lophatananon, A, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Le Marchand, L, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Matsuo, K, McLean, C, Meindl, A, Muir, K, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nord, S, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Olson, JE, Orr, N, van den Ouweland, AMW, Peterlongo, P, Putti, TC, Rudolph, A, Sangrajrang, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Shen, C-Y, Hou, M-F, Shrubsole, MJ, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, A, Teo, SH, Thienpont, B, Toland, AE, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tseng, C-C, Wen, W, Winqvist, R, Wu, AH, Yip, CH, Zamora, PM, Zheng, Y, Floris, G, Cheng, C-Y, Hooning, MJ, Martens, JWM, Seynaeve, C, Kristensen, VN, Hall, P, Pharoah, PDP, Simard, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Dunning, AM, Antoniou, AC, Easton, DF, Cai, Q, Long, J, Shi, J, Zhang, Y, Zheng, W, Michailidou, K, Ghoussaini, M, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Lush, M, Milne, RL, Shu, X-O, Beesley, J, Kar, S, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Beckmann, MW, Zhao, Z, Guo, X, Benitez, J, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Blot, W, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brinton, L, Broeks, A, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Cai, H, Canisius, S, Chang-Claude, J, Choi, J-Y, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Devilee, P, Droit, A, Dork, T, Fasching, PA, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Gaborieau, V, Garcia-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Grip, M, Guenel, P, Haiman, CA, Hamann, U, Hartman, M, Miao, H, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Hsiung, C-N, Investigators, K, Ito, H, Jakubowska, A, Johnson, N, Torres, D, Kabisch, M, Kang, D, Khan, S, Knight, JA, Kosma, V-M, Lambrechts, D, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Lophatananon, A, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Le Marchand, L, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Matsuo, K, McLean, C, Meindl, A, Muir, K, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nord, S, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Olson, JE, Orr, N, van den Ouweland, AMW, Peterlongo, P, Putti, TC, Rudolph, A, Sangrajrang, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Shen, C-Y, Hou, M-F, Shrubsole, MJ, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, A, Teo, SH, Thienpont, B, Toland, AE, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tseng, C-C, Wen, W, Winqvist, R, Wu, AH, Yip, CH, Zamora, PM, Zheng, Y, Floris, G, Cheng, C-Y, Hooning, MJ, Martens, JWM, Seynaeve, C, Kristensen, VN, Hall, P, Pharoah, PDP, Simard, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Dunning, AM, Antoniou, AC, Easton, DF, Cai, Q, and Long, J
Abstract: Previous genome-wide association studies among women of European ancestry identified two independent breast cancer susceptibility loci represented by single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs13281615 and rs11780156 at 8q24. A fine-mapping study across 2.06 Mb (chr8:127,561,724-129,624,067, hg19) in 55,540 breast cancer cases and 51,168 controls within the Breast Cancer Association Consortium was conducted. Three additional independent association signals in women of European ancestry, represented by rs35961416 (OR = 0.95, 95% CI = 0.93-0.97, conditional p = 5.8 × 10(-6) ), rs7815245 (OR = 0.94, 95% CI = 0.91-0.96, conditional p = 1.1 × 10(-6) ) and rs2033101 (OR = 1.05, 95% CI = 1.02-1.07, conditional p = 1.1 × 10(-4) ) were found. Integrative analysis using functional genomic data from the Roadmap Epigenomics, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project, the Cancer Genome Atlas and other public resources implied that SNPs rs7815245 in Signal 3, and rs1121948 in Signal 5 (in linkage disequilibrium with rs11780156, r(2) = 0.77), were putatively functional variants for two of the five independent association signals. The results highlighted multiple 8q24 variants associated with breast cancer susceptibility in women of European ancestry.
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32. Genetically Predicted Body Mass Index and Breast Cancer Risk: Mendelian Randomization Analyses of Data from 145,000 Women of European Descent

Author: Beck, AH, Guo, Y, Andersen, SW, Shu, X-O, Michailidou, K, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Garcia-Closas, M, Milne, RL, Schmidt, MK, Chang-Claude, J, Dunning, A, Bojesen, SE, Ahsan, H, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bogdanova, NV, Bonanni, B, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Brand, J, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Casey, G, Chenevix-Trench, G, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Doerk, T, Dumont, M, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Gammon, M, Giles, GG, Guenel, P, Haiman, CA, Hamann, U, Hooning, MJ, Hopper, JL, Jakubowska, A, Jasmine, F, Jenkins, M, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Kabisch, M, Kibriya, M, Knight, JA, Koppert, LB, Kosma, V-M, Kristensen, V, Le Marchand, L, Lee, E, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Luben, R, Lubinski, J, Malone, KE, Mannermaa, A, Margolin, S, Marme, F, McLean, C, Meijers-Heijboer, H, Meindl, A, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Neven, P, Olson, JE, Perez, JIA, Perkins, B, Peterlongo, P, Phillips, K-A, Pylkas, K, Rudolph, A, Santella, R, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Seynaeve, C, Shah, M, Shrubsole, MJ, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, AJ, Toland, AE, Tomlinson, I, Torres, D, Truong, T, Ursin, G, Van Der Luijt, RB, Verhoef, S, Whittemore, AS, Winqvist, R, Zhao, H, Zhao, S, Hall, P, Simard, J, Kraft, P, Pharoah, P, Hunter, D, Easton, DF, Zheng, W, Beck, AH, Guo, Y, Andersen, SW, Shu, X-O, Michailidou, K, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Garcia-Closas, M, Milne, RL, Schmidt, MK, Chang-Claude, J, Dunning, A, Bojesen, SE, Ahsan, H, Aittomaki, K, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bogdanova, NV, Bonanni, B, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Brand, J, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Casey, G, Chenevix-Trench, G, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Devilee, P, Doerk, T, Dumont, M, Fasching, PA, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Gammon, M, Giles, GG, Guenel, P, Haiman, CA, Hamann, U, Hooning, MJ, Hopper, JL, Jakubowska, A, Jasmine, F, Jenkins, M, John, EM, Johnson, N, Jones, ME, Kabisch, M, Kibriya, M, Knight, JA, Koppert, LB, Kosma, V-M, Kristensen, V, Le Marchand, L, Lee, E, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Luben, R, Lubinski, J, Malone, KE, Mannermaa, A, Margolin, S, Marme, F, McLean, C, Meijers-Heijboer, H, Meindl, A, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Neven, P, Olson, JE, Perez, JIA, Perkins, B, Peterlongo, P, Phillips, K-A, Pylkas, K, Rudolph, A, Santella, R, Sawyer, EJ, Schmutzler, RK, Seynaeve, C, Shah, M, Shrubsole, MJ, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, AJ, Toland, AE, Tomlinson, I, Torres, D, Truong, T, Ursin, G, Van Der Luijt, RB, Verhoef, S, Whittemore, AS, Winqvist, R, Zhao, H, Zhao, S, Hall, P, Simard, J, Kraft, P, Pharoah, P, Hunter, D, Easton, DF, and Zheng, W
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Observational epidemiological studies have shown that high body mass index (BMI) is associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women but an increased risk in postmenopausal women. It is unclear whether this association is mediated through shared genetic or environmental factors. METHODS: We applied Mendelian randomization to evaluate the association between BMI and risk of breast cancer occurrence using data from two large breast cancer consortia. We created a weighted BMI genetic score comprising 84 BMI-associated genetic variants to predicted BMI. We evaluated genetically predicted BMI in association with breast cancer risk using individual-level data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) (cases = 46,325, controls = 42,482). We further evaluated the association between genetically predicted BMI and breast cancer risk using summary statistics from 16,003 cases and 41,335 controls from the Discovery, Biology, and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) Project. Because most studies measured BMI after cancer diagnosis, we could not conduct a parallel analysis to adequately evaluate the association of measured BMI with breast cancer risk prospectively. RESULTS: In the BCAC data, genetically predicted BMI was found to be inversely associated with breast cancer risk (odds ratio [OR] = 0.65 per 5 kg/m2 increase, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.56-0.75, p = 3.32 × 10-10). The associations were similar for both premenopausal (OR = 0.44, 95% CI:0.31-0.62, p = 9.91 × 10-8) and postmenopausal breast cancer (OR = 0.57, 95% CI: 0.46-0.71, p = 1.88 × 10-8). This association was replicated in the data from the DRIVE consortium (OR = 0.72, 95% CI: 0.60-0.84, p = 1.64 × 10-7). Single marker analyses identified 17 of the 84 BMI-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in association with breast cancer risk at p < 0.05; for 16 of them, the allele associated with elevated BMI was associated wit
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33. PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM rare variants and cancer risk: data from COGS

Author: Southey, MC, Goldgar, DE, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Couch, F, Tischkowitz, M, Foulkes, WD, Dennis, J, Michailidou, K, van Rensburg, EJ, Heikkinen, T, Nevanlinna, H, Hopper, JL, Doerk, T, Claes, KBM, Reis-Filho, J, Teo, ZL, Radice, P, Catucci, I, Peterlongo, P, Tsimiklis, H, Odefrey, FA, Dowty, JG, Schmidt, MK, Broeks, A, Hogervorst, FB, Verhoef, S, Carpenter, J, Clarke, C, Scott, RJ, Fasching, PA, Haeberle, L, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Peto, J, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Fletcher, O, Johnson, N, Bolla, MK, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Marme, F, Burwinkel, B, Yang, R, Guenel, P, Therese, T, Menegaux, F, Sanchez, M, Bojesen, S, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Benitez, J, Pilar Zamora, M, Arias Perez, JI, Menendez, P, Anton-Culver, H, Neuhausen, S, Ziogas, A, Clarke, CA, Brenner, H, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Brauch, H, Bruening, T, Ko, Y-D, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, NV, Antonenkova, NN, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Spurdle, AB, Wauters, E, Smeets, D, Beuselinck, B, Floris, G, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Olson, JE, Vachon, C, Pankratz, VS, McLean, C, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Kristensen, V, Alnaes, GG, Zheng, W, Hunter, DJ, Lindstrom, S, Hankinson, SE, Kraft, P, Andrulis, I, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Kauppila, S, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, C, Hollestelle, A, Garcia-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Eccles, DM, Rafiq, S, Tapper, WJ, Gerty, SM, Hooning, MJ, Martens, JWM, Collee, JM, Tilanus-Linthorst, M, Hall, P, Li, J, Brand, JS, Humphreys, K, Cox, A, Reed, MWR, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Dunning, AM, Hamann, U, Torres, D, Ulmer, HU, Ruediger, T, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska, K, Durda, K, Slager, S, Toland, AE, Ambrosone, CB, Yannoukakos, D, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Jones, M, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Pita, G, Rosario Alonso, M, Alvarez, N, Herrero, D, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Simard, J, Dumont, M, Soucy, P, Eeles, R, Muir, K, Wiklund, F, Gronberg, H, Schleutker, J, Nordestgaard, BG, Weischer, M, Travis, RC, Neal, D, Donovan, JL, Hamdy, FC, Khaw, K-T, Stanford, JL, Blot, WJ, Thibodeau, S, Schaid, DJ, Kelley, JL, Maier, C, Kibel, AS, Cybulski, C, Cannon-Albright, L, Butterbach, K, Park, J, Kaneva, R, Batra, J, Teixeira, MR, Kote-Jarai, Z, Al Olama, AA, Benlloch, S, Renner, SP, Hartmann, A, Hein, A, Ruebner, M, Lambrechts, D, Van Nieuwenhuysen, E, Vergote, I, Lambretchs, S, Doherty, JA, Rossing, MA, Nickels, S, Eilber, U, Wang-Gohrke, S, Odunsi, K, Sucheston-Campbell, LE, Friel, G, Lurie, G, Killeen, JL, Wilkens, LR, Goodman, MT, Runnebaum, I, Hillemanns, PA, Pelttari, LM, Butzow, R, Modugno, F, Edwards, RP, Ness, RB, Moysich, KB, du Bois, A, Heitz, F, Harter, P, Kommoss, S, Karlan, BY, Walsh, C, Lester, J, Jensen, A, Kjaer, SK, Hogdall, E, Peissel, B, Bonanni, B, Bernard, L, Goode, EL, Fridley, BL, Vierkant, RA, Cunningham, JM, Larson, MC, Fogarty, ZC, Kalli, KR, Liang, D, Lu, KH, Hildebrandt, MAT, Wu, X, Levine, DA, Dao, F, Bisogna, M, Berchuck, A, Iversen, ES, Marks, JR, Akushevich, L, Cramer, DW, Schildkraut, J, Terry, KL, Poole, EM, Stampfer, M, Tworoger, SS, Bandera, EV, Orlow, I, Olson, SH, Bjorge, L, Salvesen, HB, van Altena, AM, Aben, KKH, Kiemeney, LA, Massuger, LFAG, Pejovic, T, Bean, Y, Brooks-Wilson, A, Kelemen, LE, Cook, LS, Le, ND, Grski, B, Gronwald, J, Menkiszak, J, Hogdall, CK, Lundvall, L, Nedergaard, L, Engelholm, SA, Dicks, E, Tyrer, J, Campbell, I, McNeish, I, Paul, J, Siddiqui, N, Glasspool, R, Whittemore, AS, Rothstein, JH, McGuire, V, Sieh, W, Cai, H, Shu, X-O, Teten, RT, Sutphen, R, McLaughlin, JR, Narod, SA, Phelan, CM, Monteiro, AN, Fenstermacher, D, Lin, H-Y, Permuth, JB, Sellers, TA, Chen, YA, Tsai, Y-Y, Chen, Z, Gentry-Maharaj, A, Gayther, SA, Ramus, SJ, Menon, U, Wu, AH, Pearce, CL, Van den Berg, D, Pike, MC, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, A, Plisiecka-Halasa, J, Moes-Sosnowska, J, Kupryjanczyk, J, Pharoah, PDP, Song, H, Winship, I, Chenevix-Trench, G, Giles, GG, Tavtigian, SV, Easton, DF, Milne, RL, Southey, MC, Goldgar, DE, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Couch, F, Tischkowitz, M, Foulkes, WD, Dennis, J, Michailidou, K, van Rensburg, EJ, Heikkinen, T, Nevanlinna, H, Hopper, JL, Doerk, T, Claes, KBM, Reis-Filho, J, Teo, ZL, Radice, P, Catucci, I, Peterlongo, P, Tsimiklis, H, Odefrey, FA, Dowty, JG, Schmidt, MK, Broeks, A, Hogervorst, FB, Verhoef, S, Carpenter, J, Clarke, C, Scott, RJ, Fasching, PA, Haeberle, L, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Peto, J, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Fletcher, O, Johnson, N, Bolla, MK, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Marme, F, Burwinkel, B, Yang, R, Guenel, P, Therese, T, Menegaux, F, Sanchez, M, Bojesen, S, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Benitez, J, Pilar Zamora, M, Arias Perez, JI, Menendez, P, Anton-Culver, H, Neuhausen, S, Ziogas, A, Clarke, CA, Brenner, H, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Brauch, H, Bruening, T, Ko, Y-D, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, NV, Antonenkova, NN, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Spurdle, AB, Wauters, E, Smeets, D, Beuselinck, B, Floris, G, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Olson, JE, Vachon, C, Pankratz, VS, McLean, C, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Kristensen, V, Alnaes, GG, Zheng, W, Hunter, DJ, Lindstrom, S, Hankinson, SE, Kraft, P, Andrulis, I, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Kauppila, S, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, C, Hollestelle, A, Garcia-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Eccles, DM, Rafiq, S, Tapper, WJ, Gerty, SM, Hooning, MJ, Martens, JWM, Collee, JM, Tilanus-Linthorst, M, Hall, P, Li, J, Brand, JS, Humphreys, K, Cox, A, Reed, MWR, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Dunning, AM, Hamann, U, Torres, D, Ulmer, HU, Ruediger, T, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska, K, Durda, K, Slager, S, Toland, AE, Ambrosone, CB, Yannoukakos, D, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Jones, M, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Pita, G, Rosario Alonso, M, Alvarez, N, Herrero, D, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Simard, J, Dumont, M, Soucy, P, Eeles, R, Muir, K, Wiklund, F, Gronberg, H, Schleutker, J, Nordestgaard, BG, Weischer, M, Travis, RC, Neal, D, Donovan, JL, Hamdy, FC, Khaw, K-T, Stanford, JL, Blot, WJ, Thibodeau, S, Schaid, DJ, Kelley, JL, Maier, C, Kibel, AS, Cybulski, C, Cannon-Albright, L, Butterbach, K, Park, J, Kaneva, R, Batra, J, Teixeira, MR, Kote-Jarai, Z, Al Olama, AA, Benlloch, S, Renner, SP, Hartmann, A, Hein, A, Ruebner, M, Lambrechts, D, Van Nieuwenhuysen, E, Vergote, I, Lambretchs, S, Doherty, JA, Rossing, MA, Nickels, S, Eilber, U, Wang-Gohrke, S, Odunsi, K, Sucheston-Campbell, LE, Friel, G, Lurie, G, Killeen, JL, Wilkens, LR, Goodman, MT, Runnebaum, I, Hillemanns, PA, Pelttari, LM, Butzow, R, Modugno, F, Edwards, RP, Ness, RB, Moysich, KB, du Bois, A, Heitz, F, Harter, P, Kommoss, S, Karlan, BY, Walsh, C, Lester, J, Jensen, A, Kjaer, SK, Hogdall, E, Peissel, B, Bonanni, B, Bernard, L, Goode, EL, Fridley, BL, Vierkant, RA, Cunningham, JM, Larson, MC, Fogarty, ZC, Kalli, KR, Liang, D, Lu, KH, Hildebrandt, MAT, Wu, X, Levine, DA, Dao, F, Bisogna, M, Berchuck, A, Iversen, ES, Marks, JR, Akushevich, L, Cramer, DW, Schildkraut, J, Terry, KL, Poole, EM, Stampfer, M, Tworoger, SS, Bandera, EV, Orlow, I, Olson, SH, Bjorge, L, Salvesen, HB, van Altena, AM, Aben, KKH, Kiemeney, LA, Massuger, LFAG, Pejovic, T, Bean, Y, Brooks-Wilson, A, Kelemen, LE, Cook, LS, Le, ND, Grski, B, Gronwald, J, Menkiszak, J, Hogdall, CK, Lundvall, L, Nedergaard, L, Engelholm, SA, Dicks, E, Tyrer, J, Campbell, I, McNeish, I, Paul, J, Siddiqui, N, Glasspool, R, Whittemore, AS, Rothstein, JH, McGuire, V, Sieh, W, Cai, H, Shu, X-O, Teten, RT, Sutphen, R, McLaughlin, JR, Narod, SA, Phelan, CM, Monteiro, AN, Fenstermacher, D, Lin, H-Y, Permuth, JB, Sellers, TA, Chen, YA, Tsai, Y-Y, Chen, Z, Gentry-Maharaj, A, Gayther, SA, Ramus, SJ, Menon, U, Wu, AH, Pearce, CL, Van den Berg, D, Pike, MC, Dansonka-Mieszkowska, A, Plisiecka-Halasa, J, Moes-Sosnowska, J, Kupryjanczyk, J, Pharoah, PDP, Song, H, Winship, I, Chenevix-Trench, G, Giles, GG, Tavtigian, SV, Easton, DF, and Milne, RL
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The rarity of mutations in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM make it difficult to estimate precisely associated cancer risks. Population-based family studies have provided evidence that at least some of these mutations are associated with breast cancer risk as high as those associated with rare BRCA2 mutations. We aimed to estimate the relative risks associated with specific rare variants in PALB2, CHEK2 and ATM via a multicentre case-control study. METHODS: We genotyped 10 rare mutations using the custom iCOGS array: PALB2 c.1592delT, c.2816T>G and c.3113G>A, CHEK2 c.349A>G, c.538C>T, c.715G>A, c.1036C>T, c.1312G>T, and c.1343T>G and ATM c.7271T>G. We assessed associations with breast cancer risk (42 671 cases and 42 164 controls), as well as prostate (22 301 cases and 22 320 controls) and ovarian (14 542 cases and 23 491 controls) cancer risk, for each variant. RESULTS: For European women, strong evidence of association with breast cancer risk was observed for PALB2 c.1592delT OR 3.44 (95% CI 1.39 to 8.52, p=7.1×10-5), PALB2 c.3113G>A OR 4.21 (95% CI 1.84 to 9.60, p=6.9×10-8) and ATM c.7271T>G OR 11.0 (95% CI 1.42 to 85.7, p=0.0012). We also found evidence of association with breast cancer risk for three variants in CHEK2, c.349A>G OR 2.26 (95% CI 1.29 to 3.95), c.1036C>T OR 5.06 (95% CI 1.09 to 23.5) and c.538C>T OR 1.33 (95% CI 1.05 to 1.67) (p≤0.017). Evidence for prostate cancer risk was observed for CHEK2 c.1343T>G OR 3.03 (95% CI 1.53 to 6.03, p=0.0006) for African men and CHEK2 c.1312G>T OR 2.21 (95% CI 1.06 to 4.63, p=0.030) for European men. No evidence of association with ovarian cancer was found for any of these variants. CONCLUSIONS: This report adds to accumulating evidence that at least some variants in these genes are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer that is clinically important.
Published: 2016

34. Fine-Mapping of the 1p11.2 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Locus

Author: Horne, H N, Chung, C C, Zhang, H, Yu, Carol, Prokunina-Olsson, L, Michailidou, K, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Schmidt, MK (Marjanka), Broeks, A, Muir, K, Lophatananon, A, Fasching, PA, Beckmann, MW, Fletcher, O, Johnson, N, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Guenel, P, Truong, T, Bojesen, SE, Flyger, H, Benitez, J, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Anton-Culver, H, Neuhausen, SL, Brenner, H, Arndt, V, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Brauch, H, Hamann, U, Nevanlinna, H, Khan, Salima, Matsuo, K, Iwata, H, Dork, T, Bogdanova, NV, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kosma, VM, Chenevix-Trench, G, Wu, AH, den Berg, D V, Smeets, A, Zhao, H, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Radice, P, Barile, M, Couch, FJ, Vachon, C, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, Haiman, CA, Le Marchand, L, Goldberg, MS, Teo, SH, Taib, NAM, Kristensen, V, Borresen-Dale, AL, Zheng, W, Shrubsole, M, Winqvist, R, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Devilee, P, Seynaeve, Caroline, Garcia-Closas, M, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Martens, John, Li, JM, Lu, W, Shu, XO, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Blot, W, Cai, QY, Shah, M, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Harrington, P, Kang, D, Choi, JY, Hartman, M, Chia, KS, Kabisch, M, Torres, D, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Sangrajrang, S, Brennan, P, Slager, S, Yannoukakos, D, Shen, CY, Hou, MF, Swerdlow, A, Orr, N, Simard, J, Hall, P, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Chanock, SJ, Dunning, AM, Figueroa, JD, Horne, H N, Chung, C C, Zhang, H, Yu, Carol, Prokunina-Olsson, L, Michailidou, K, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Schmidt, MK (Marjanka), Broeks, A, Muir, K, Lophatananon, A, Fasching, PA, Beckmann, MW, Fletcher, O, Johnson, N, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Guenel, P, Truong, T, Bojesen, SE, Flyger, H, Benitez, J, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Anton-Culver, H, Neuhausen, SL, Brenner, H, Arndt, V, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Brauch, H, Hamann, U, Nevanlinna, H, Khan, Salima, Matsuo, K, Iwata, H, Dork, T, Bogdanova, NV, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kosma, VM, Chenevix-Trench, G, Wu, AH, den Berg, D V, Smeets, A, Zhao, H, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Radice, P, Barile, M, Couch, FJ, Vachon, C, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, Haiman, CA, Le Marchand, L, Goldberg, MS, Teo, SH, Taib, NAM, Kristensen, V, Borresen-Dale, AL, Zheng, W, Shrubsole, M, Winqvist, R, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Devilee, P, Seynaeve, Caroline, Garcia-Closas, M, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Martens, John, Li, JM, Lu, W, Shu, XO, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Blot, W, Cai, QY, Shah, M, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Harrington, P, Kang, D, Choi, JY, Hartman, M, Chia, KS, Kabisch, M, Torres, D, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Sangrajrang, S, Brennan, P, Slager, S, Yannoukakos, D, Shen, CY, Hou, MF, Swerdlow, A, Orr, N, Simard, J, Hall, P, Pharoah, PDP, Easton, DF, Chanock, SJ, Dunning, AM, and Figueroa, JD
Published: 2016

35. Genetic Predisposition to In Situ and Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast

Author: Sawyer, E, Roylance, R, Petridis, C, Brook, MN, Nowinski, S, Papouli, E, Fletcher, O, Pinder, S, Hanby, A, Kohut, K, Gorman, P, Caneppele, M, Peto, J, Silva, ID, Johnson, N, Swann, R, Dwek, M, Perkins, KA, Gillett, C, Houlston, R, Ross, G, De Ieso, P, Southey, MC, Hopper, JL, Provenzano, E, Apicella, C, Wesseling, J, Cornelissen, S, Keeman, R, Fasching, PA, Jud, SM, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Kerin, MJ, Marme, F, Schneeweiss, A, Sohn, C, Burwinkel, B, Guenel, P, Laurent-Puig, P, Kerbrat, P, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Milne, RL, Perez, JIA, Menendez, P, Benitez, J, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, AK, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Meindl, A, Lichtner, P, Schmutzler, RK, Lochmann, M, Brauch, H, Fischer, HP, Ko, YD, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, NV, Dork, T, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, VM, Hartikainen, JM, Chenevix-Trench, G, Lambrechts, D, Weltens, C, van Limbergen, E, Hatse, S, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Bonanni, B, Volorio, S, Giles, GG, Severi, G, Baglietto, L, McLean, CA, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Simard, J, Goldberg, MS, Labreche, F, Dumont, M, Kristensen, V, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Kauppila, S, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Devillee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, Caroline, Kriege, Mieke, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Sherman, ME, Hooning, Maartje, Hollestelle, Antoinette, van den Ouweland, Ans, van Deurzen, Carolien, Li, JM, Czene, K, Humphreys, K, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Shah, M, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska-Bieniek, K, Durda, K, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Schoemaker, M, Couch, FJ, Hallberg, E, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Pita, G, Alonso, MR, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q (Qing), Dennis, J, Michailidou, K, Dunning, AM, Hall, P, Easton, D, Pharoah, P, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Tomlinson, I, Garcia-Closas, M, Medical Oncology, Clinical Genetics, and Pathology
Subjects: body regions, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, skin and connective tissue diseases
Abstract: Invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC) accounts for 10-15% of all invasive breast carcinomas. It is generally ER positive (ER+) and often associated with lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS). Genome-wide association studies have identified more than 70 common polymorphisms that predispose to breast cancer, but these studies included predominantly ductal (IDC) carcinomas. To identify novel common polymorphisms that predispose to ILC and LCIS, we pooled data from 6,023 cases (5,622 ILC, 401 pure LCIS) and 34,271 controls from 36 studies genotyped using the iCOGS chip. Six novel SNPs most strongly associated with ILC/LCIS in the pooled analysis were genotyped in a further 516 lobular cases (482 ILC, 36 LCIS) and 1,467 controls. These analyses identified a lobular-specific SNP at 7q34 (rs11977670, OR (95% CI) for ILC = 1.13 (1.09-1.18), P = 6.0x10(-10); P-het for ILC vs IDC ER+ tumors = 1.8x10(-4)). Of the 75 known breast cancer polymorphisms that were genotyped, 56 were associated with ILC and 15 with LCIS at P
Published: 2014

36. Common non-synonymous SNPs associated with breast cancer susceptibility: findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author: Milne, RL, Burwinkel, B, Michailidou, K, Arias-Perez, JI, Zamora, MP, Menendez-Rodriguez, P, Hardisson, D, Mendiola, M, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Pita, G, Alonso, MR, Dennis, J, Wang, Q (Qing), Bolla, MK, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Schoemaker, M, Ko, YD, Brauch, H, Hamann, U, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Tchatchou, S, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Tajima, K, Li, JM, Brand, JS, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, AK, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Lambrechts, D, Peuteman, G, Christiaens, MR, Smeets, A, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska-Bieniek, K, Durda, K, Hartman, M, Hui, M, Lim, WY, Chan, CW, Marme, F, Yang, RX, Bugert, P, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Garcia-Closas, M, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Figueroa, JD, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Flyger, H, Hooning, Maartje, Kriege, Mieke, van den Ouweland, Ans, Koppert, Linetta, Fletcher, O, Johnson, N, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Peto, J, Zheng, W, Deming-Halverson, S, Shrubsole, MJ, Long, JR, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Schmidt, MK (Marjanka), Broeks, A, Cornelissen, S, Braaf, L, Kang, D, Choi, JY, Park, SK, Noh, DY, Simard, J, Dumont, M, Goldberg, MS, Labreche, F, Fasching, PA, Hein, A, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Azzollini, J, Barile, M, Sawyer, E, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, M, Miller, N, Hopper, JL, Schmidt, DF, Makalic, E, Southey, MC, Teo, SH, Yip, CH, Sivanandan, K, Tay, WT, Shen, CY, Hsiung, CN, Yu, JC, Hou, MF, Guenel, P, Sanchez, M, Mulot, C, Blot, W, Cai, QY, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Wu, AH, Tseng, CC, van den Berg, D, Stram, DO, Bogdanova, N, Dork, T, Muir, K, Lophatananon, A, Stewart-Brown, S, Siriwanarangsan, P, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, VM, Hartikainen, JM, Shu, XO, Lu, W, Gao, YT, Zhang, B, Couch, FJ, Toland, AE, Yannoukakos, D, Sangrajrang, S, Mckay, J, Wang, XS, Olson, JE, Vachon, C, Purrington, K, Severi, G, Baglietto, L, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, Caroline, Czene, K, Eriksson, M, Humphreys, K, Darabi, H, Ahmed, S (Shahana), Shah, M, Pharoah, PDP, Hall, P, Giles, GG, Benitez, J, Dunning, AM, Chenevix-Trench, G, Easton, DF, Clinical Genetics, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical Oncology, and Surgery
Subjects: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Abstract: Candidate variant association studies have been largely unsuccessful in identifying common breast cancer susceptibility variants, although most studies have been underpowered to detect associations of a realistic magnitude. We assessed 41 common non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) for which evidence of association with breast cancer risk had been previously reported. Case-control data were combined from 38 studies of white European women (46 450 cases and 42 600 controls) and analyzed using unconditional logistic regression. Strong evidence of association was observed for three nsSNPs: ATXN7-K264R at 3p21 [rs1053338, per allele OR = 1.07, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.04-1.10, P = 2.9 x 10 26], AKAP9-M463I at 7q21 (rs6964587, OR = 1.05, 95% CI = 1.03-1.07, P = 1.7 x 10(-6)) and NEK10-L513S at 3p24 (rs10510592, OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.07-1.12, P = 5.1 x 10(-17)). The first two associations reached genome-wide statistical significance in a combined analysis of available data, including independent data from nine genome-wide association studies (GWASs): for ATXN7-K264R, OR = 1.07 (95% CI = 1.05-1.10, P = 1.0 x 10(-8)); for AKAP9-M463I, OR = 1.05 (95% CI = 1.04-1.07, P = 2.0 x 10(-10)). Further analysis of other common variants in these two regions suggested that intronic SNPs nearby are more strongly associated with disease risk. We have thus identified a novel susceptibility locus at 3p21, and confirmed previous suggestive evidence that rs6964587 at 7q21 is associated with risk. The third locus, rs10510592, is located in an established breast cancer susceptibility region; the association was substantially attenuated after adjustment for the known GWAS hit. Thus, each of the associated nsSNPs is likely to be a marker for another, non-coding, variant causally related to breast cancer risk. Further fine-mapping and functional studies are required to identify the underlying risk-modifying variants and the genes through which they act.
Published: 2014

37. The SNP rs6500843 in 16p13.3 is associated with survival specifically among chemotherapy-treated breast cancer patients

Author: Fagerholm, R, Schmidt, MK, Khan, S, Rafiq, S, Tapper, W, Aittomaki, K, Greco, D, Heikkinen, T, Muranen, TA, Fasching, PA, Janni, W, Weinshilboum, R, Loehberg, CR, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Keeman, R, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Chenevix-Trench, G, Lambrechts, D, Wildiers, H, Chang-Claude, J, Seibold, P, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Garcia-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Hooning, MJ, Jager, A, Shah, M, Perkins, BJ, Luben, R, Hamann, U, Kabisch, M, Czene, K, Hall, P, Easton, DF, Pharoah, PDP, Liu, J, Eccles, D, Blomqvist, C, Nevanlinna, H, Fagerholm, R, Schmidt, MK, Khan, S, Rafiq, S, Tapper, W, Aittomaki, K, Greco, D, Heikkinen, T, Muranen, TA, Fasching, PA, Janni, W, Weinshilboum, R, Loehberg, CR, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Keeman, R, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Chenevix-Trench, G, Lambrechts, D, Wildiers, H, Chang-Claude, J, Seibold, P, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Garcia-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Hooning, MJ, Jager, A, Shah, M, Perkins, BJ, Luben, R, Hamann, U, Kabisch, M, Czene, K, Hall, P, Easton, DF, Pharoah, PDP, Liu, J, Eccles, D, Blomqvist, C, and Nevanlinna, H
Abstract: We have utilized a two-stage study design to search for SNPs associated with the survival of breast cancer patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy. Our initial GWS data set consisted of 805 Finnish breast cancer cases (360 treated with adjuvant chemotherapy). The top 39 SNPs from this stage were analyzed in three independent data sets: iCOGS (n=6720 chemotherapy-treated cases), SUCCESS-A (n=3596), and POSH (n=518). Two SNPs were successfully validated: rs6500843 (any chemotherapy; per-allele HR 1.16, 95% C.I. 1.08-1.26, p=0.0001, p(adjusted)=0.0091), and rs11155012 (anthracycline therapy; per-allele HR 1.21, 95% C.I. 1.08-1.35, p=0.0010, p(adjusted)=0.0270). The SNP rs6500843 was found to specifically interact with adjuvant chemotherapy, independently of standard prognostic markers (p(interaction)=0.0009), with the rs6500843-GG genotype corresponding to the highest hazard among chemotherapy-treated cases (HR 1.47, 95% C.I. 1.20-1.80). Upon trans-eQTL analysis of public microarray data, the rs6500843 locus was found to associate with the expression of a group of genes involved in cell cycle control, notably AURKA, the expression of which also exhibited differential prognostic value between chemotherapy-treated and untreated cases in our analysis of microarray data. Based on previously published information, we propose that the eQTL genes may be connected to the rs6500843 locus via a RBFOX1-FOXM1 -mediated regulatory pathway.
Published: 2015

38. Large-scale genomic analyses link reproductive aging to hypothalamic signaling, breast cancer susceptibility and BRCA1-mediated DNA repair

Author: Day, FR, Ruth, KS, Thompson, DJ, Lunetta, KL, Pervjakova, N, Chasman, DI, Stolk, L, Finucane, HK, Sulem, P, Bulik-Sullivan, B, Esko, T, Johnson, AD, Elks, CE, Franceschini, N, He, C, Altmaier, E, Brody, JA, Franke, LL, Huffman, JE, Keller, MF, McArdle, PF, Nutile, T, Porcu, E, Robino, A, Rose, LM, Schick, UM, Smith, JA, Teumer, A, Traglia, M, Vuckovic, D, Yao, J, Zhao, W, Albrecht, E, Amin, N, Corre, T, Hottenga, J-J, Mangino, M, Smith, AV, Tanaka, T, Abecasis, GR, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antoniou, AC, Arndt, V, Arnold, AM, Barbieri, C, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bernstein, L, Bielinski, SJ, Blomqvist, C, Boerwinkle, E, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Boutin, TS, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Campbell, A, Campbell, H, Chanock, SJ, Chapman, JR, Chen, Y-DI, Chenevix-Trench, G, Couch, FJ, Coviello, AD, Cox, A, Czene, K, Darabi, H, De Vivo, I, Demerath, EW, Dennis, J, Devilee, P, Doerk, T, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dunning, AM, Eicher, JD, Fasching, PA, Faul, JD, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Gandin, I, Garcia, ME, Garcia-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Girotto, GG, Goldberg, MS, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Goodarzi, MO, Grove, ML, Gudbjartsson, DF, Guenel, P, Guo, X, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Henderson, BE, Hocking, LJ, Hofman, A, Homuth, G, Hooning, MJ, Hopper, JL, Hu, FB, Huang, J, Humphreys, K, Hunter, DJ, Jakubowska, A, Jones, SE, Kabisch, M, Karasik, D, Knight, JA, Kolcic, I, Kooperberg, C, Kosma, V-M, Kriebel, J, Kristensen, V, Lambrechts, D, Langenberg, C, Li, J, Li, X, Lindstroem, S, Liu, Y, Luan, J, Lubinski, J, Maegi, R, Mannermaa, A, Manz, J, Margolin, S, Marten, J, Martin, NG, Masciullo, C, Meindl, A, Michailidou, K, Mihailov, E, Milani, L, Milne, RL, Mueller-Nurasyid, M, Nalls, M, Neale, BM, Nevanlinna, H, Neven, P, Newman, AB, Nordestgaard, BG, Olson, JE, Padmanabhan, S, Peterlongo, P, Peters, U, Petersmann, A, Peto, J, Pharoah, PDP, Pirastu, NN, Pirie, A, Pistis, G, Polasek, O, Porteous, D, Psaty, BM, Pylkas, K, Radice, P, Raffel, LJ, Rivadeneira, F, Rudan, I, Rudolph, A, Ruggiero, D, Sala, CF, Sanna, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schlessinger, D, Schmidt, MK, Schmidt, F, Schmutzler, RK, Schoemaker, MJ, Scott, RA, Seynaeve, CM, Simard, J, Sorice, R, Southey, MC, Stoeckl, D, Strauch, K, Swerdlow, A, Taylor, KD, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Toland, AE, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tryggvadottir, L, Turner, ST, Vozzi, D, Wang, Q, Wellons, M, Willemsen, G, Wilson, JF, Winqvist, R, Wolffenbuttel, BBHR, Wright, AF, Yannoukakos, D, Zemunik, T, Zheng, W, Zygmunt, M, Bergmann, S, Boomsma, DI, Buring, JE, Ferrucci, L, Montgomery, GW, Gudnason, V, Spector, TD, van Duijn, CM, Alizadeh, BZ, Ciullo, M, Crisponi, L, Easton, DF, Gasparini, PP, Gieger, C, Harris, TB, Hayward, C, Kardia, SLR, Kraft, P, McKnight, B, Metspalu, A, Morrison, AC, Reiner, AP, Ridker, PM, Rotter, JI, Toniolo, D, Uitterlinden, AG, Ulivi, S, Voelzke, H, Wareham, NJ, Weir, DR, Yerges-Armstrong, LM, Price, AL, Stefansson, K, Visser, JA, Ong, KK, Chang-Claude, J, Murabito, JM, Perry, JRB, Murray, A, Day, FR, Ruth, KS, Thompson, DJ, Lunetta, KL, Pervjakova, N, Chasman, DI, Stolk, L, Finucane, HK, Sulem, P, Bulik-Sullivan, B, Esko, T, Johnson, AD, Elks, CE, Franceschini, N, He, C, Altmaier, E, Brody, JA, Franke, LL, Huffman, JE, Keller, MF, McArdle, PF, Nutile, T, Porcu, E, Robino, A, Rose, LM, Schick, UM, Smith, JA, Teumer, A, Traglia, M, Vuckovic, D, Yao, J, Zhao, W, Albrecht, E, Amin, N, Corre, T, Hottenga, J-J, Mangino, M, Smith, AV, Tanaka, T, Abecasis, GR, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Antoniou, AC, Arndt, V, Arnold, AM, Barbieri, C, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Bernstein, L, Bielinski, SJ, Blomqvist, C, Boerwinkle, E, Bogdanova, NV, Bojesen, SE, Bolla, MK, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Boutin, TS, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Campbell, A, Campbell, H, Chanock, SJ, Chapman, JR, Chen, Y-DI, Chenevix-Trench, G, Couch, FJ, Coviello, AD, Cox, A, Czene, K, Darabi, H, De Vivo, I, Demerath, EW, Dennis, J, Devilee, P, Doerk, T, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dunning, AM, Eicher, JD, Fasching, PA, Faul, JD, Figueroa, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Gandin, I, Garcia, ME, Garcia-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Girotto, GG, Goldberg, MS, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Goodarzi, MO, Grove, ML, Gudbjartsson, DF, Guenel, P, Guo, X, Haiman, CA, Hall, P, Hamann, U, Henderson, BE, Hocking, LJ, Hofman, A, Homuth, G, Hooning, MJ, Hopper, JL, Hu, FB, Huang, J, Humphreys, K, Hunter, DJ, Jakubowska, A, Jones, SE, Kabisch, M, Karasik, D, Knight, JA, Kolcic, I, Kooperberg, C, Kosma, V-M, Kriebel, J, Kristensen, V, Lambrechts, D, Langenberg, C, Li, J, Li, X, Lindstroem, S, Liu, Y, Luan, J, Lubinski, J, Maegi, R, Mannermaa, A, Manz, J, Margolin, S, Marten, J, Martin, NG, Masciullo, C, Meindl, A, Michailidou, K, Mihailov, E, Milani, L, Milne, RL, Mueller-Nurasyid, M, Nalls, M, Neale, BM, Nevanlinna, H, Neven, P, Newman, AB, Nordestgaard, BG, Olson, JE, Padmanabhan, S, Peterlongo, P, Peters, U, Petersmann, A, Peto, J, Pharoah, PDP, Pirastu, NN, Pirie, A, Pistis, G, Polasek, O, Porteous, D, Psaty, BM, Pylkas, K, Radice, P, Raffel, LJ, Rivadeneira, F, Rudan, I, Rudolph, A, Ruggiero, D, Sala, CF, Sanna, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schlessinger, D, Schmidt, MK, Schmidt, F, Schmutzler, RK, Schoemaker, MJ, Scott, RA, Seynaeve, CM, Simard, J, Sorice, R, Southey, MC, Stoeckl, D, Strauch, K, Swerdlow, A, Taylor, KD, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Toland, AE, Tomlinson, I, Truong, T, Tryggvadottir, L, Turner, ST, Vozzi, D, Wang, Q, Wellons, M, Willemsen, G, Wilson, JF, Winqvist, R, Wolffenbuttel, BBHR, Wright, AF, Yannoukakos, D, Zemunik, T, Zheng, W, Zygmunt, M, Bergmann, S, Boomsma, DI, Buring, JE, Ferrucci, L, Montgomery, GW, Gudnason, V, Spector, TD, van Duijn, CM, Alizadeh, BZ, Ciullo, M, Crisponi, L, Easton, DF, Gasparini, PP, Gieger, C, Harris, TB, Hayward, C, Kardia, SLR, Kraft, P, McKnight, B, Metspalu, A, Morrison, AC, Reiner, AP, Ridker, PM, Rotter, JI, Toniolo, D, Uitterlinden, AG, Ulivi, S, Voelzke, H, Wareham, NJ, Weir, DR, Yerges-Armstrong, LM, Price, AL, Stefansson, K, Visser, JA, Ong, KK, Chang-Claude, J, Murabito, JM, Perry, JRB, and Murray, A
Abstract: Menopause timing has a substantial impact on infertility and risk of disease, including breast cancer, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We report a dual strategy in ∼70,000 women to identify common and low-frequency protein-coding variation associated with age at natural menopause (ANM). We identified 44 regions with common variants, including two regions harboring additional rare missense alleles of large effect. We found enrichment of signals in or near genes involved in delayed puberty, highlighting the first molecular links between the onset and end of reproductive lifespan. Pathway analyses identified major association with DNA damage response (DDR) genes, including the first common coding variant in BRCA1 associated with any complex trait. Mendelian randomization analyses supported a causal effect of later ANM on breast cancer risk (∼6% increase in risk per year; P = 3 × 10(-14)), likely mediated by prolonged sex hormone exposure rather than DDR mechanisms.
Published: 2015

39. A comprehensive evaluation of interaction between genetic variants and use of menopausal hormone therapy on mammographic density

Author: Rudolph, A, Fasching, PA, Behrens, S, Eilber, U, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Thompson, D, Czene, K, Brand, JS, Li, J, Scott, C, Pankratz, VS, Brandt, K, Hallberg, E, Olson, JE, Lee, A, Beckmann, MW, Ekici, AB, Haeberle, L, Maskarinec, G, Le Marchand, L, Schumacher, F, Milne, RL, Knight, JA, Apicella, C, Southey, MC, Kapuscinski, MK, Hopper, JL, Andrulis, IL, Giles, GG, Haiman, CA, Khaw, K-T, Luben, R, Hall, P, Pharoah, PDP, Couch, FJ, Easton, DF, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Vachon, C, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Fasching, PA, Behrens, S, Eilber, U, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Thompson, D, Czene, K, Brand, JS, Li, J, Scott, C, Pankratz, VS, Brandt, K, Hallberg, E, Olson, JE, Lee, A, Beckmann, MW, Ekici, AB, Haeberle, L, Maskarinec, G, Le Marchand, L, Schumacher, F, Milne, RL, Knight, JA, Apicella, C, Southey, MC, Kapuscinski, MK, Hopper, JL, Andrulis, IL, Giles, GG, Haiman, CA, Khaw, K-T, Luben, R, Hall, P, Pharoah, PDP, Couch, FJ, Easton, DF, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Vachon, C, and Chang-Claude, J
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Mammographic density is an established breast cancer risk factor with a strong genetic component and can be increased in women using menopausal hormone therapy (MHT). Here, we aimed to identify genetic variants that may modify the association between MHT use and mammographic density. METHODS: The study comprised 6,298 postmenopausal women from the Mayo Mammography Health Study and nine studies included in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. We selected for evaluation 1327 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) showing the lowest P-values for interaction (P int) in a meta-analysis of genome-wide gene-environment interaction studies with MHT use on risk of breast cancer, 2541 SNPs in candidate genes (AKR1C4, CYP1A1-CYP1A2, CYP1B1, ESR2, PPARG, PRL, SULT1A1-SULT1A2 and TNF) and ten SNPs (AREG-rs10034692, PRDM6-rs186749, ESR1-rs12665607, ZNF365-rs10995190, 8p11.23-rs7816345, LSP1-rs3817198, IGF1-rs703556, 12q24-rs1265507, TMEM184B-rs7289126, and SGSM3-rs17001868) associated with mammographic density in genome-wide studies. We used multiple linear regression models adjusted for potential confounders to evaluate interactions between SNPs and current use of MHT on mammographic density. RESULTS: No significant interactions were identified after adjustment for multiple testing. The strongest SNP-MHT interaction (unadjusted P int <0.0004) was observed with rs9358531 6.5kb 5' of PRL. Furthermore, three SNPs in PLCG2 that had previously been shown to modify the association of MHT use with breast cancer risk were found to modify also the association of MHT use with mammographic density (unadjusted P int <0.002), but solely among cases (unadjusted P int SNP×MHT×case-status <0.02). CONCLUSIONS: The study identified potential interactions on mammographic density between current use of MHT and SNPs near PRL and in PLCG2, which require confirmation. Given the moderate size of the interactions observed, larger studies are needed to identify genetic modifiers of the
Published: 2015

40. Fine-Scale Mapping of the 4q24 Locus Identifies Two Independent Loci Associated with Breast Cancer Risk

Author: Guo, X, Long, J, Zeng, C, Michailidou, K, Ghoussaini, M, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Milne, RL, Shu, X-O, Cai, Q, Beesley, J, Kar, SP, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Blot, W, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brinton, L, Broeks, A, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Cai, H, Canisius, S, Chang-Claude, J, Choi, J-Y, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Devilee, P, Droit, A, Doerk, T, Fasching, PA, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Gaborieau, V, Garcia-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Grip, M, Guenel, P, Haiman, CA, Hamann, U, Hartman, M, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Hsiung, C-N, Ito, H, Jakubowska, A, Johnson, N, Kabisch, M, Kang, D, Khan, S, Knight, JA, Kosma, V-M, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Lophatananon, A, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Matsuo, K, McLean, CA, Meindl, A, Muir, K, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nord, S, Olson, JE, Orr, N, Peterlongo, P, Putti, TC, Rudolph, A, Sangrajrang, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Shen, C-Y, Shi, J, Shrubsole, MJ, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, A, Teo, SH, Thienpont, B, Toland, AE, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, IPM, Truong, T, Tseng, C-C, van den Ouweland, A, Wen, W, Winqvist, R, Wu, A, Yip, CH, Zamora, MP, Zheng, Y, Hall, P, Pharoah, PDP, Simard, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Dunning, AM, Easton, DF, Zheng, W, Guo, X, Long, J, Zeng, C, Michailidou, K, Ghoussaini, M, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Milne, RL, Shu, X-O, Cai, Q, Beesley, J, Kar, SP, Andrulis, IL, Anton-Culver, H, Arndt, V, Beckmann, MW, Beeghly-Fadiel, A, Benitez, J, Blot, W, Bogdanova, N, Bojesen, SE, Brauch, H, Brenner, H, Brinton, L, Broeks, A, Bruening, T, Burwinkel, B, Cai, H, Canisius, S, Chang-Claude, J, Choi, J-Y, Couch, FJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Devilee, P, Droit, A, Doerk, T, Fasching, PA, Fletcher, O, Flyger, H, Fostira, F, Gaborieau, V, Garcia-Closas, M, Giles, GG, Grip, M, Guenel, P, Haiman, CA, Hamann, U, Hartman, M, Hollestelle, A, Hopper, JL, Hsiung, C-N, Ito, H, Jakubowska, A, Johnson, N, Kabisch, M, Kang, D, Khan, S, Knight, JA, Kosma, V-M, Lambrechts, D, Le Marchand, L, Li, J, Lindblom, A, Lophatananon, A, Lubinski, J, Mannermaa, A, Manoukian, S, Margolin, S, Marme, F, Matsuo, K, McLean, CA, Meindl, A, Muir, K, Neuhausen, SL, Nevanlinna, H, Nord, S, Olson, JE, Orr, N, Peterlongo, P, Putti, TC, Rudolph, A, Sangrajrang, S, Sawyer, EJ, Schmidt, MK, Schmutzler, RK, Shen, C-Y, Shi, J, Shrubsole, MJ, Southey, MC, Swerdlow, A, Teo, SH, Thienpont, B, Toland, AE, Tollenaar, RAEM, Tomlinson, IPM, Truong, T, Tseng, C-C, van den Ouweland, A, Wen, W, Winqvist, R, Wu, A, Yip, CH, Zamora, MP, Zheng, Y, Hall, P, Pharoah, PDP, Simard, J, Chenevix-Trench, G, Dunning, AM, Easton, DF, and Zheng, W
Abstract: BACKGROUND: A recent association study identified a common variant (rs9790517) at 4q24 to be associated with breast cancer risk. Independent association signals and potential functional variants in this locus have not been explored. METHODS: We conducted a fine-mapping analysis in 55,540 breast cancer cases and 51,168 controls from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. RESULTS: Conditional analyses identified two independent association signals among women of European ancestry, represented by rs9790517 [conditional P = 2.51 × 10(-4); OR, 1.04; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.02-1.07] and rs77928427 (P = 1.86 × 10(-4); OR, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.02-1.07). Functional annotation using data from the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project revealed two putative functional variants, rs62331150 and rs73838678 in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with rs9790517 (r(2) ≥ 0.90) residing in the active promoter or enhancer, respectively, of the nearest gene, TET2. Both variants are located in DNase I hypersensitivity and transcription factor-binding sites. Using data from both The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Molecular Taxonomy of Breast Cancer International Consortium (METABRIC), we showed that rs62331150 was associated with level of expression of TET2 in breast normal and tumor tissue. CONCLUSION: Our study identified two independent association signals at 4q24 in relation to breast cancer risk and suggested that observed association in this locus may be mediated through the regulation of TET2. IMPACT: Fine-mapping study with large sample size warranted for identification of independent loci for breast cancer risk.
Published: 2015

41. Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

Author: Michailidou, K, Beesley, J, Lindstrom, S, Canisius, S, Dennis, J, Lush, MJ, Maranian, MJ, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Shah, M, Perkins, BJ, Czene, K, Eriksson, M, Darabi, H, Brand, JS, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Flyger, H, Nielsen, SF, Rahman, N, Turnbull, C, Fletcher, O, Peto, J, Gibson, L, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Chang-Claude, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Rudolph, A, Eilber, U, Behrens, S, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Khan, S, Aaltonen, K, Ahsan, H, Kibriya, MG, Whittemore, AS, John, EM, Malone, KE, Gammon, MD, Santella, RM, Ursin, G, Makalic, E, Schmidt, DF, Casey, G, Hunter, DJ, Gapstur, SM, Gaudet, MM, Diver, WR, Haiman, CA, Schumacher, F, Henderson, BE, Le Marchand, L, Berg, CD, Chanock, SJ, Figueroa, J, Hoover, RN, Lambrechts, D, Neven, P, Wildiers, H, van Limbergen, E, Schmidt, MK, Broeks, A, Verhoef, S, Cornelissen, S, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Hallberg, E, Vachon, C, Waisfisz, Q, Meijers-Heijboer, H, Adank, MA, van der Luijt, RB, Li, J, Liu, J, Humphreys, K, Kang, D, Choi, J-Y, Park, SK, Yoo, K-Y, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Tajima, K, Guenel, P, Truong, T, Mulot, C, Sanchez, M, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Surowy, H, Sohn, C, Wu, AH, Tseng, C-C, Van den Berg, D, Stram, DO, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Benitez, J, Zamora, MP, Arias Perez, JI, Shu, X-O, Lu, W, Gao, Y-T, Cai, H, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Teo, SH, Yip, CH, Taib, NAM, Tan, G-H, Hooning, MJ, Hollestelle, A, Martens, JWM, Collee, JM, Blot, W, Signorello, LB, Cai, Q, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Tsimiklis, H, Apicella, C, Shen, C-Y, Hsiung, C-N, Wu, P-E, Hou, M-F, Kristensen, VN, Nord, S, Alnaes, GIG, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, McLean, C, Canzian, F, Trichopoulos, D, Peeters, P, Lund, E, Sund, M, Khaw, K-T, Gunter, MJ, Palli, D, Mortensen, LM, Dossus, L, Huerta, J-M, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Sutter, C, Yang, R, Muir, K, Lophatananon, A, Stewart-Brown, S, Siriwanarangsan, P, Hartman, M, Miao, H, Chia, KS, Chan, CW, Fasching, PA, Hein, A, Beckmann, MW, Haeberle, L, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, AK, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Schoemaker, MJ, Swerdlow, AJ, Brinton, L, Garcia-Closas, M, Zheng, W, Halverson, SL, Shrubsole, M, Long, J, Goldberg, MS, Labreche, F, Dumont, M, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Brauch, H, Hamann, U, Bruening, T, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Manoukian, S, Bernard, L, Bogdanova, NV, Doerk, T, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, C, Van Asperen, CJ, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska, K, Huzarski, T, Sangrajrang, S, Gaborieau, V, Brennan, P, Mckay, J, Slager, S, Toland, AE, Ambrosone, CB, Yannoukakos, D, Kabisch, M, Torres, D, Neuhausen, SL, Anton-Culver, H, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Ahmed, S, Healey, CS, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Pita, G, Rosario Alonso, M, Alvarez, N, Herrero, D, Simard, J, Pharoah, PPDP, Kraft, P, Dunning, AM, Chenevix-Trench, G, Hall, P, Easton, DF, Michailidou, K, Beesley, J, Lindstrom, S, Canisius, S, Dennis, J, Lush, MJ, Maranian, MJ, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Shah, M, Perkins, BJ, Czene, K, Eriksson, M, Darabi, H, Brand, JS, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Flyger, H, Nielsen, SF, Rahman, N, Turnbull, C, Fletcher, O, Peto, J, Gibson, L, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Chang-Claude, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Rudolph, A, Eilber, U, Behrens, S, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Khan, S, Aaltonen, K, Ahsan, H, Kibriya, MG, Whittemore, AS, John, EM, Malone, KE, Gammon, MD, Santella, RM, Ursin, G, Makalic, E, Schmidt, DF, Casey, G, Hunter, DJ, Gapstur, SM, Gaudet, MM, Diver, WR, Haiman, CA, Schumacher, F, Henderson, BE, Le Marchand, L, Berg, CD, Chanock, SJ, Figueroa, J, Hoover, RN, Lambrechts, D, Neven, P, Wildiers, H, van Limbergen, E, Schmidt, MK, Broeks, A, Verhoef, S, Cornelissen, S, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Hallberg, E, Vachon, C, Waisfisz, Q, Meijers-Heijboer, H, Adank, MA, van der Luijt, RB, Li, J, Liu, J, Humphreys, K, Kang, D, Choi, J-Y, Park, SK, Yoo, K-Y, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Tajima, K, Guenel, P, Truong, T, Mulot, C, Sanchez, M, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Surowy, H, Sohn, C, Wu, AH, Tseng, C-C, Van den Berg, D, Stram, DO, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Benitez, J, Zamora, MP, Arias Perez, JI, Shu, X-O, Lu, W, Gao, Y-T, Cai, H, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Teo, SH, Yip, CH, Taib, NAM, Tan, G-H, Hooning, MJ, Hollestelle, A, Martens, JWM, Collee, JM, Blot, W, Signorello, LB, Cai, Q, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Tsimiklis, H, Apicella, C, Shen, C-Y, Hsiung, C-N, Wu, P-E, Hou, M-F, Kristensen, VN, Nord, S, Alnaes, GIG, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, McLean, C, Canzian, F, Trichopoulos, D, Peeters, P, Lund, E, Sund, M, Khaw, K-T, Gunter, MJ, Palli, D, Mortensen, LM, Dossus, L, Huerta, J-M, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Sutter, C, Yang, R, Muir, K, Lophatananon, A, Stewart-Brown, S, Siriwanarangsan, P, Hartman, M, Miao, H, Chia, KS, Chan, CW, Fasching, PA, Hein, A, Beckmann, MW, Haeberle, L, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, AK, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Schoemaker, MJ, Swerdlow, AJ, Brinton, L, Garcia-Closas, M, Zheng, W, Halverson, SL, Shrubsole, M, Long, J, Goldberg, MS, Labreche, F, Dumont, M, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Brauch, H, Hamann, U, Bruening, T, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Manoukian, S, Bernard, L, Bogdanova, NV, Doerk, T, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, C, Van Asperen, CJ, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska, K, Huzarski, T, Sangrajrang, S, Gaborieau, V, Brennan, P, Mckay, J, Slager, S, Toland, AE, Ambrosone, CB, Yannoukakos, D, Kabisch, M, Torres, D, Neuhausen, SL, Anton-Culver, H, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Ahmed, S, Healey, CS, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Pita, G, Rosario Alonso, M, Alvarez, N, Herrero, D, Simard, J, Pharoah, PPDP, Kraft, P, Dunning, AM, Chenevix-Trench, G, Hall, P, and Easton, DF
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and large-scale replication studies have identified common variants in 79 loci associated with breast cancer, explaining ∼14% of the familial risk of the disease. To identify new susceptibility loci, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 GWAS, comprising 15,748 breast cancer cases and 18,084 controls together with 46,785 cases and 42,892 controls from 41 studies genotyped on a 211,155-marker custom array (iCOGS). Analyses were restricted to women of European ancestry. We generated genotypes for more than 11 million SNPs by imputation using the 1000 Genomes Project reference panel, and we identified 15 new loci associated with breast cancer at P < 5 × 10(-8). Combining association analysis with ChIP-seq chromatin binding data in mammary cell lines and ChIA-PET chromatin interaction data from ENCODE, we identified likely target genes in two regions: SETBP1 at 18q12.3 and RNF115 and PDZK1 at 1q21.1. One association appears to be driven by an amino acid substitution encoded in EXO1.
Published: 2015

42. Common germline polymorphisms associated with breast cancer-specific survival

Author: Pirie, A, Guo, Q, Kraft, P, Canisius, S, Eccles, DM, Rahman, N, Nevanlinna, H, Chen, C, Khan, S, Tyrer, J, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Michailidou, K, Lush, M, Dunning, AM, Shah, M, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Lambrechts, D, Weltens, C, Leunen, K, van Ongeval, C, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Blomqvist, C, Aittomaki, K, Fagerholm, R, Muranen, TA, Olsen, JE, Hallberg, E, Vachon, C, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Broeks, A, Cornelissen, S, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Hopper, JL, Tsimiklis, H, Apicella, C, Southey, MC, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, McLean, C, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Hooning, MJ, Hollestelle, A, Martens, JWM, van den Ouweland, AMW, Marme, F, Schneeweiss, A, Yang, R, Burwinkel, B, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Brenner, H, Butterbach, K, Holleczek, B, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Li, J, Brand, JS, Humphreys, K, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, C, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Manoukian, S, Ficarazzi, F, Beckmann, MW, Hein, A, Ekici, AB, Balleine, R, Phillips, K-A, Benitez, J, Zamora, MP, Perez, JIA, Menendez, P, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Gronwald, J, Durda, K, Hamann, U, Kabisch, M, Ulmer, HU, Ruediger, T, Margolin, S, Kristensen, V, Nord, S, Evans, DG, Abraham, J, Earl, H, Poole, CJ, Hiller, L, Dunn, JA, Bowden, S, Campa, D, Diver, WR, Gapstur, SM, Gaudet, MM, Hankinson, S, Hoover, RN, Husing, A, Kaaks, R, Machiela, MJ, Willett, W, Barrdahl, M, Canzian, F, Chin, S-F, Caldas, C, Hunter, DJ, Lindstrom, S, Garcia-Closas, M, Couch, FJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Mannermaa, A, Andrulis, IL, Hall, P, Chang-Claude, J, Easton, DF, Bojesen, SE, Cox, A, Fasching, PA, Pharoah, PDP, Schmidt, MK, Pirie, A, Guo, Q, Kraft, P, Canisius, S, Eccles, DM, Rahman, N, Nevanlinna, H, Chen, C, Khan, S, Tyrer, J, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Michailidou, K, Lush, M, Dunning, AM, Shah, M, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Lambrechts, D, Weltens, C, Leunen, K, van Ongeval, C, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Blomqvist, C, Aittomaki, K, Fagerholm, R, Muranen, TA, Olsen, JE, Hallberg, E, Vachon, C, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Broeks, A, Cornelissen, S, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Hopper, JL, Tsimiklis, H, Apicella, C, Southey, MC, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, McLean, C, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Hooning, MJ, Hollestelle, A, Martens, JWM, van den Ouweland, AMW, Marme, F, Schneeweiss, A, Yang, R, Burwinkel, B, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Brenner, H, Butterbach, K, Holleczek, B, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Li, J, Brand, JS, Humphreys, K, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, C, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Manoukian, S, Ficarazzi, F, Beckmann, MW, Hein, A, Ekici, AB, Balleine, R, Phillips, K-A, Benitez, J, Zamora, MP, Perez, JIA, Menendez, P, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Gronwald, J, Durda, K, Hamann, U, Kabisch, M, Ulmer, HU, Ruediger, T, Margolin, S, Kristensen, V, Nord, S, Evans, DG, Abraham, J, Earl, H, Poole, CJ, Hiller, L, Dunn, JA, Bowden, S, Campa, D, Diver, WR, Gapstur, SM, Gaudet, MM, Hankinson, S, Hoover, RN, Husing, A, Kaaks, R, Machiela, MJ, Willett, W, Barrdahl, M, Canzian, F, Chin, S-F, Caldas, C, Hunter, DJ, Lindstrom, S, Garcia-Closas, M, Couch, FJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Mannermaa, A, Andrulis, IL, Hall, P, Chang-Claude, J, Easton, DF, Bojesen, SE, Cox, A, Fasching, PA, Pharoah, PDP, and Schmidt, MK
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Previous studies have identified common germline variants nominally associated with breast cancer survival. These associations have not been widely replicated in further studies. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association of previously reported SNPs with breast cancer-specific survival using data from a pooled analysis of eight breast cancer survival genome-wide association studies (GWAS) from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. METHODS: A literature review was conducted of all previously published associations between common germline variants and three survival outcomes: breast cancer-specific survival, overall survival and disease-free survival. All associations that reached the nominal significance level of P value <0.05 were included. Single nucleotide polymorphisms that had been previously reported as nominally associated with at least one survival outcome were evaluated in the pooled analysis of over 37,000 breast cancer cases for association with breast cancer-specific survival. Previous associations were evaluated using a one-sided test based on the reported direction of effect. RESULTS: Fifty-six variants from 45 previous publications were evaluated in the meta-analysis. Fifty-four of these were evaluated in the full set of 37,954 breast cancer cases with 2,900 events and the two additional variants were evaluated in a reduced sample size of 30,000 samples in order to ensure independence from the previously published studies. Five variants reached nominal significance (P <0.05) in the pooled GWAS data compared to 2.8 expected under the null hypothesis. Seven additional variants were associated (P <0.05) with ER-positive disease. CONCLUSIONS: Although no variants reached genome-wide significance (P <5 x 10(-8)), these results suggest that there is some evidence of association between candidate common germline variants and breast cancer prognosis. Larger studies from multinational collaborations are necessary to increase the
Published: 2015

43. Genetic determinants of telomere length and risk of common cancers: a Mendelian randomization study

Author: Zhang, C, Doherty, JA, Burgess, S, Hung, RJ, Lindstroem, S, Kraft, P, Gong, J, Amos, CI, Sellers, TA, Monteiro, ANA, Chenevix-Trench, G, Bickeboeller, H, Risch, A, Brennan, P, Mckay, JD, Houlston, RS, Landi, MT, Timofeeva, MN, Wang, Y, Heinrich, J, Kote-Jarai, Z, Eeles, RA, Muir, K, Wiklund, F, Gronberg, H, Berndt, SI, Chanock, SJ, Schumacher, F, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Al Olama, AA, Andrulis, IL, Hopper, JL, Chang-Claude, J, John, EM, Malone, KE, Gammon, MD, Ursin, G, Whittemore, AS, Hunter, DJ, Gruber, SB, Knight, JA, Hou, L, Le Marchand, L, Newcomb, PA, Hudson, TJ, Chan, AT, Li, L, Woods, MO, Ahsan, H, Pierce, BL, Zhang, C, Doherty, JA, Burgess, S, Hung, RJ, Lindstroem, S, Kraft, P, Gong, J, Amos, CI, Sellers, TA, Monteiro, ANA, Chenevix-Trench, G, Bickeboeller, H, Risch, A, Brennan, P, Mckay, JD, Houlston, RS, Landi, MT, Timofeeva, MN, Wang, Y, Heinrich, J, Kote-Jarai, Z, Eeles, RA, Muir, K, Wiklund, F, Gronberg, H, Berndt, SI, Chanock, SJ, Schumacher, F, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Al Olama, AA, Andrulis, IL, Hopper, JL, Chang-Claude, J, John, EM, Malone, KE, Gammon, MD, Ursin, G, Whittemore, AS, Hunter, DJ, Gruber, SB, Knight, JA, Hou, L, Le Marchand, L, Newcomb, PA, Hudson, TJ, Chan, AT, Li, L, Woods, MO, Ahsan, H, and Pierce, BL
Abstract: Epidemiological studies have reported inconsistent associations between telomere length (TL) and risk for various cancers. These inconsistencies are likely attributable, in part, to biases that arise due to post-diagnostic and post-treatment TL measurement. To avoid such biases, we used a Mendelian randomization approach and estimated associations between nine TL-associated SNPs and risk for five common cancer types (breast, lung, colorectal, ovarian and prostate cancer, including subtypes) using data on 51 725 cases and 62 035 controls. We then used an inverse-variance weighted average of the SNP-specific associations to estimate the association between a genetic score representing long TL and cancer risk. The long TL genetic score was significantly associated with increased risk of lung adenocarcinoma (P = 6.3 × 10(-15)), even after exclusion of a SNP residing in a known lung cancer susceptibility region (TERT-CLPTM1L) P = 6.6 × 10(-6)). Under Mendelian randomization assumptions, the association estimate [odds ratio (OR) = 2.78] is interpreted as the OR for lung adenocarcinoma corresponding to a 1000 bp increase in TL. The weighted TL SNP score was not associated with other cancer types or subtypes. Our finding that genetic determinants of long TL increase lung adenocarcinoma risk avoids issues with reverse causality and residual confounding that arise in observational studies of TL and disease risk. Under Mendelian randomization assumptions, our finding suggests that longer TL increases lung adenocarcinoma risk. However, caution regarding this causal interpretation is warranted in light of the potential issue of pleiotropy, and a more general interpretation is that SNPs influencing telomere biology are also implicated in lung adenocarcinoma risk.
Published: 2015

44. Assessment of variation in immunosuppressive pathway genes reveals TGFBR2 to be associated with prognosis of estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer after chemotherapy

Author: Lei, J, Rudolph, A, Moysich, KB, Rafiq, S, Behrens, S, Goode, EL, Pharoah, PP, Seibold, P, Fasching, PA, Andrulis, IL, Kristensen, VN, Couch, FJ, Hamann, U, Hooning, MJ, Nevanlinna, H, Eilber, U, Bolla, MK, Dennis, J, Wang, Q, Lindblom, A, Mannermaa, A, Lambrechts, D, Garcia-Closas, M, Hall, P, Chenevix-Trench, G, Shah, M, Luben, R, Haeberle, L, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Tchatchou, S, Alnaes, GIG, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Nord, S, Olson, JE, Hallberg, E, Vachon, C, Torres, D, Ulmer, H-U, Ruediger, T, Jager, A, van Deurzen, CH, Tilanus-Linthorst, MM, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Margolin, S, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Kataja, V, Hatse, S, Wildiers, H, Smeets, A, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Li, J, Humphreys, K, Phillips, K-A, Linn, S, Cornelissen, S, van den Broek, SAJ, Kang, D, Choi, J-Y, Park, SK, Yoo, K-Y, Hsiung, C-N, Wu, P-E, Hou, M-F, Shen, C-Y, Teo, SH, Taib, NAM, Yip, CH, Ho, GF, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Tajima, K, Dunning, AM, Benitez, J, Czene, K, Sucheston, LE, Maishman, T, Tapper, WJ, Eccles, D, Easton, DF, Schmidt, MK, Chang-Claude, J, Lei, J, Rudolph, A, Moysich, KB, Rafiq, S, Behrens, S, Goode, EL, Pharoah, PP, Seibold, P, Fasching, PA, Andrulis, IL, Kristensen, VN, Couch, FJ, Hamann, U, Hooning, MJ, Nevanlinna, H, Eilber, U, Bolla, MK, Dennis, J, Wang, Q, Lindblom, A, Mannermaa, A, Lambrechts, D, Garcia-Closas, M, Hall, P, Chenevix-Trench, G, Shah, M, Luben, R, Haeberle, L, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Tchatchou, S, Alnaes, GIG, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Nord, S, Olson, JE, Hallberg, E, Vachon, C, Torres, D, Ulmer, H-U, Ruediger, T, Jager, A, van Deurzen, CH, Tilanus-Linthorst, MM, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Margolin, S, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Kataja, V, Hatse, S, Wildiers, H, Smeets, A, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Li, J, Humphreys, K, Phillips, K-A, Linn, S, Cornelissen, S, van den Broek, SAJ, Kang, D, Choi, J-Y, Park, SK, Yoo, K-Y, Hsiung, C-N, Wu, P-E, Hou, M-F, Shen, C-Y, Teo, SH, Taib, NAM, Yip, CH, Ho, GF, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Tajima, K, Dunning, AM, Benitez, J, Czene, K, Sucheston, LE, Maishman, T, Tapper, WJ, Eccles, D, Easton, DF, Schmidt, MK, and Chang-Claude, J
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Tumor lymphocyte infiltration is associated with clinical response to chemotherapy in estrogen receptor (ER) negative breast cancer. To identify variants in immunosuppressive pathway genes associated with prognosis after adjuvant chemotherapy for ER-negative patients, we studied stage I-III invasive breast cancer patients of European ancestry, including 9,334 ER-positive (3,151 treated with chemotherapy) and 2,334 ER-negative patients (1,499 treated with chemotherapy). METHODS: We pooled data from sixteen studies from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC), and employed two independent studies for replications. Overall 3,610 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 133 genes were genotyped as part of the Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study, in which phenotype and clinical data were collected and harmonized. Multivariable Cox proportional hazard regression was used to assess genetic associations with overall survival (OS) and breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS). Heterogeneity according to chemotherapy or ER status was evaluated with the log-likelihood ratio test. RESULTS: Three independent SNPs in TGFBR2 and IL12B were associated with OS (P <10⁻³) solely in ER-negative patients after chemotherapy (267 events). Poorer OS associated with TGFBR2 rs1367610 (G > C) (per allele hazard ratio (HR) 1.54 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.22 to 1.95), P = 3.08 × 10⁻⁴) was not found in ER-negative patients without chemotherapy or ER-positive patients with chemotherapy (P for interaction <10-3). Two SNPs in IL12B (r² = 0.20) showed different associations with ER-negative disease after chemotherapy: rs2546892 (G > A) with poorer OS (HR 1.50 (95% CI 1.21 to 1.86), P = 1.81 × 10⁻⁴), and rs2853694 (A > C) with improved OS (HR 0.73 (95% CI 0.61 to 0.87), P = 3.67 × 10⁻⁴). Similar associations were observed with BCSS. Association with TGFBR2 rs1367610 but not IL12B variants replicated using BCAC Asian samples and the independent Prospective Study o
Published: 2015

45. Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

Author: Mavaddat, N, Pharoah, PDP, Michailidou, K, Tyrer, J, Brook, MN, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Dunning, AM, Shah, M, Luben, R, Brown, J, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Peto, J, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dudbridge, F, Johnson, N, Schmidt, MK, Broeks, A, Verhoef, S, Rutgers, EJ, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Schoemaker, MJ, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Brinton, L, Lissowska, J, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Vachon, C, Pankratz, VS, Lambrechts, D, Wildiers, H, Van Ongeval, C, Van Limbergen, E, Kristensen, V, Alnaes, GG, Nord, S, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomaeki, K, Blomqvist, C, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Fasching, PA, Haeberle, L, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Schneeweiss, A, Sohn, C, Trentham-Dietz, A, Newcomb, P, Titus, L, Egan, KM, Hunter, DJ, Lindstrom, S, Tamimi, RM, Kraft, P, Rahman, N, Turnbull, C, Renwick, A, Seal, S, Li, J, Liu, J, Humphreys, K, Benitez, J, Zamora, MP, Perez, JIA, Menendez, P, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska-Bieniek, K, Durda, K, Bogdanova, NV, Antonenkova, NN, Doerk, T, Anton-Culver, H, Neuhausen, SL, Ziogas, A, Bernstein, L, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, C, van Asperen, CJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Khusnutdinova, E, Bermisheva, M, Prokofyeva, D, Takhirova, Z, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Sutter, C, Yang, R, Schuermann, P, Bremer, M, Christiansen, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Hillemanns, P, Guenel, P, Truong, T, Menegaux, F, Sanchez, M, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Manoukian, S, Pensotti, V, Hopper, JL, Tsimiklis, H, Apicella, C, Southey, MC, Brauch, H, Bruening, T, Ko, Y-D, Sigurdson, AJ, Doody, MM, Hamann, U, Torres, D, Ulmer, H-U, Foersti, A, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Chenevix-Trench, G, Balleine, R, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, McLean, C, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Eilber, U, Wang-Gohrke, S, Hooning, MJ, Hollestelle, A, van den Ouweland, AMW, Koppert, LB, Carpenter, J, Clarke, C, Scott, R, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Brenner, H, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Dieffenbach, AK, Winqvist, R, Pylkaes, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Offit, K, Vijai, J, Robson, M, Rau-Murthy, R, Dwek, M, Swann, R, Perkins, KA, Goldberg, MS, Labreche, F, Dumont, M, Eccles, DM, Tapper, WJ, Rafiq, S, John, EM, Whittemore, AS, Slager, S, Yannoukakos, D, Toland, AE, Yao, S, Zheng, W, Halverson, SL, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Pita, G, Alonso, MR, Alvarez, N, Herrero, D, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Ahmed, S, Maranian, M, Healey, CS, Simard, J, Hall, P, Easton, DF, Garcia-Closas, M, Mavaddat, N, Pharoah, PDP, Michailidou, K, Tyrer, J, Brook, MN, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Dunning, AM, Shah, M, Luben, R, Brown, J, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Czene, K, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Peto, J, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Dudbridge, F, Johnson, N, Schmidt, MK, Broeks, A, Verhoef, S, Rutgers, EJ, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Schoemaker, MJ, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Brinton, L, Lissowska, J, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Vachon, C, Pankratz, VS, Lambrechts, D, Wildiers, H, Van Ongeval, C, Van Limbergen, E, Kristensen, V, Alnaes, GG, Nord, S, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomaeki, K, Blomqvist, C, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Fasching, PA, Haeberle, L, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Schneeweiss, A, Sohn, C, Trentham-Dietz, A, Newcomb, P, Titus, L, Egan, KM, Hunter, DJ, Lindstrom, S, Tamimi, RM, Kraft, P, Rahman, N, Turnbull, C, Renwick, A, Seal, S, Li, J, Liu, J, Humphreys, K, Benitez, J, Zamora, MP, Perez, JIA, Menendez, P, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska-Bieniek, K, Durda, K, Bogdanova, NV, Antonenkova, NN, Doerk, T, Anton-Culver, H, Neuhausen, SL, Ziogas, A, Bernstein, L, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, C, van Asperen, CJ, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Khusnutdinova, E, Bermisheva, M, Prokofyeva, D, Takhirova, Z, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Sutter, C, Yang, R, Schuermann, P, Bremer, M, Christiansen, H, Park-Simon, T-W, Hillemanns, P, Guenel, P, Truong, T, Menegaux, F, Sanchez, M, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Manoukian, S, Pensotti, V, Hopper, JL, Tsimiklis, H, Apicella, C, Southey, MC, Brauch, H, Bruening, T, Ko, Y-D, Sigurdson, AJ, Doody, MM, Hamann, U, Torres, D, Ulmer, H-U, Foersti, A, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Chenevix-Trench, G, Balleine, R, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, McLean, C, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Eilber, U, Wang-Gohrke, S, Hooning, MJ, Hollestelle, A, van den Ouweland, AMW, Koppert, LB, Carpenter, J, Clarke, C, Scott, R, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Brenner, H, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Dieffenbach, AK, Winqvist, R, Pylkaes, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Offit, K, Vijai, J, Robson, M, Rau-Murthy, R, Dwek, M, Swann, R, Perkins, KA, Goldberg, MS, Labreche, F, Dumont, M, Eccles, DM, Tapper, WJ, Rafiq, S, John, EM, Whittemore, AS, Slager, S, Yannoukakos, D, Toland, AE, Yao, S, Zheng, W, Halverson, SL, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Pita, G, Alonso, MR, Alvarez, N, Herrero, D, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Ahmed, S, Maranian, M, Healey, CS, Simard, J, Hall, P, Easton, DF, and Garcia-Closas, M
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Data for multiple common susceptibility alleles for breast cancer may be combined to identify women at different levels of breast cancer risk. Such stratification could guide preventive and screening strategies. However, empirical evidence for genetic risk stratification is lacking. METHODS: We investigated the value of using 77 breast cancer-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for risk stratification, in a study of 33 673 breast cancer cases and 33 381 control women of European origin. We tested all possible pair-wise multiplicative interactions and constructed a 77-SNP polygenic risk score (PRS) for breast cancer overall and by estrogen receptor (ER) status. Absolute risks of breast cancer by PRS were derived from relative risk estimates and UK incidence and mortality rates. RESULTS: There was no strong evidence for departure from a multiplicative model for any SNP pair. Women in the highest 1% of the PRS had a three-fold increased risk of developing breast cancer compared with women in the middle quintile (odds ratio [OR] = 3.36, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.95 to 3.83). The ORs for ER-positive and ER-negative disease were 3.73 (95% CI = 3.24 to 4.30) and 2.80 (95% CI = 2.26 to 3.46), respectively. Lifetime risk of breast cancer for women in the lowest and highest quintiles of the PRS were 5.2% and 16.6% for a woman without family history, and 8.6% and 24.4% for a woman with a first-degree family history of breast cancer. CONCLUSIONS: The PRS stratifies breast cancer risk in women both with and without a family history of breast cancer. The observed level of risk discrimination could inform targeted screening and prevention strategies. Further discrimination may be achievable through combining the PRS with lifestyle/environmental factors, although these were not considered in this report.
Published: 2015

46. Fine-Scale Mapping of the 5q11.2 Breast Cancer Locus Reveals at Least Three Independent Risk Variants Regulating MAP3K1

Author: Glubb, DM, Maranian, MJ, Michailidou, K, Pooley, KA, Meyer, KB, Kar, S, Carlebur, S, O'Reilly, M, Betts, JA, Hillman, KM, Kaufmann, S, Beesley, J, Canisius, S, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Tsimiklis, H, Apicella, C, Schmidt, MK (Marjanka), Broeks, A, Hogervorst, FB, van der Schoot, CE, Muir, K, Lophatananon, A, Stewart-Brown, S, Siriwanarangsan, P, Fasching, PA, Ruebner, M, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Peto, J, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Fletcher, O, Johnson, N, Pharoah, PDP, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q (Qing), Dennis, J, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Yang, RX, Surowy, H, Guenel, P, Truong, T, Menegaux, F, Sanchez, M, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Gonzelez-Neira, A, Benitez, J, Zamora, MP, Perez, JIA, Anton-Culver, H, Neuhausen, SL, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, AK, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Brauch, H, Ko, YD, Bruning, T, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Tanaka, H, Dork, T, Bogdanova, NV, Helbig, S, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, VM, Hartikainen, JM, Wu, AH, Tseng, CC, van den Berg, D, Stram, DO, Lambrechts, D, Zhao, H (Hui), Weltens, C, van Limbergen, E, Chang-Claude, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Barile, M, Capra, F, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Hallberg, E, Vachon, C, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, McLean, C, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Simard, J, Goldberg, MS, Labreche, F, Dumont, M, Teo, SH, Yip, CH, See, MH, Cornes, B, Cheng, CY (Ching-Yu), Ikram, Kamran, Kristensen, V, Zheng, W, Halverson, SL, Shrubsole, M, Long, J, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Kauppila, S, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Tchatchou, S, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, Caroline, van Asperen, CJ, Garcia-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Czene, K, Klevebring, D, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Hooning, Maartje, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Martens, John, Collee, Margriet, Hall, P, Li, JM, Humphreys, K, Shu, XO, Lu, W, Gao, YT, Cai, H, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Blot, W, Signorello, LB, Cai, QY, Shah, M, Ghoussaini, M, Kang, D, Choi, JY, Park, SK, Noh, DY, Hartman, M, Miao, H, Lim, WY, Tang, A, Hamann, U, Torres, D, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska, K, Durda, K, Sangrajrang, S, Gaborieau, V, Brennan, P, Mckay, J, Olswold, C, Slager, S, Toland, AE, Yannoukakos, D, Shen, CY, Wu, PE, Yu, JC, Hou, MF, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Jones, M, Pita, G, Alonso, MR, Alvarez, N, Herrero, D, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Ahmed, S (Shahana), Healey, CS, Brown, MA, Ponder, BAJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Thompson, DJ, Edwards, SL, Easton, DF, Dunning, AM, French, JD, Glubb, DM, Maranian, MJ, Michailidou, K, Pooley, KA, Meyer, KB, Kar, S, Carlebur, S, O'Reilly, M, Betts, JA, Hillman, KM, Kaufmann, S, Beesley, J, Canisius, S, Hopper, JL, Southey, MC, Tsimiklis, H, Apicella, C, Schmidt, MK (Marjanka), Broeks, A, Hogervorst, FB, van der Schoot, CE, Muir, K, Lophatananon, A, Stewart-Brown, S, Siriwanarangsan, P, Fasching, PA, Ruebner, M, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Peto, J, dos-Santos-Silva, I, Fletcher, O, Johnson, N, Pharoah, PDP, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q (Qing), Dennis, J, Sawyer, EJ, Tomlinson, I, Kerin, MJ, Miller, N, Burwinkel, B, Marme, F, Yang, RX, Surowy, H, Guenel, P, Truong, T, Menegaux, F, Sanchez, M, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Gonzelez-Neira, A, Benitez, J, Zamora, MP, Perez, JIA, Anton-Culver, H, Neuhausen, SL, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, AK, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Brauch, H, Ko, YD, Bruning, T, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Tanaka, H, Dork, T, Bogdanova, NV, Helbig, S, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, VM, Hartikainen, JM, Wu, AH, Tseng, CC, van den Berg, D, Stram, DO, Lambrechts, D, Zhao, H (Hui), Weltens, C, van Limbergen, E, Chang-Claude, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Barile, M, Capra, F, Couch, FJ, Olson, JE, Hallberg, E, Vachon, C, Giles, GG, Milne, RL, McLean, C, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Simard, J, Goldberg, MS, Labreche, F, Dumont, M, Teo, SH, Yip, CH, See, MH, Cornes, B, Cheng, CY (Ching-Yu), Ikram, Kamran, Kristensen, V, Zheng, W, Halverson, SL, Shrubsole, M, Long, J, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Kauppila, S, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Tchatchou, S, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, Caroline, van Asperen, CJ, Garcia-Closas, M, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Lissowska, J, Czene, K, Klevebring, D, Darabi, H, Eriksson, M, Hooning, Maartje, Hollestelle, Antoinette, Martens, John, Collee, Margriet, Hall, P, Li, JM, Humphreys, K, Shu, XO, Lu, W, Gao, YT, Cai, H, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Blot, W, Signorello, LB, Cai, QY, Shah, M, Ghoussaini, M, Kang, D, Choi, JY, Park, SK, Noh, DY, Hartman, M, Miao, H, Lim, WY, Tang, A, Hamann, U, Torres, D, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska, K, Durda, K, Sangrajrang, S, Gaborieau, V, Brennan, P, Mckay, J, Olswold, C, Slager, S, Toland, AE, Yannoukakos, D, Shen, CY, Wu, PE, Yu, JC, Hou, MF, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Jones, M, Pita, G, Alonso, MR, Alvarez, N, Herrero, D, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Luccarini, C, Baynes, C, Ahmed, S (Shahana), Healey, CS, Brown, MA, Ponder, BAJ, Chenevix-Trench, G, Thompson, DJ, Edwards, SL, Easton, DF, Dunning, AM, and French, JD
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have revealed SNP rs889312 on 5q11.2 to be associated with breast cancer risk in women of European ancestry. In an attempt to identify the biologically relevant variants, we analyzed 909 genetic variants across 5q11.2 in 103,991 breast cancer individuals and control individuals from 52 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Multiple logistic regression analyses identified three independent risk signals: the strongest associations were with 15 correlated variants (iCHAV1), where the minor allele of the best candidate, rs62355902, associated with significantly increased risks of both estrogen-receptor-positive (ER-: odds ratio [OR] = 1.24, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.21-1.27, p(trend) = 5.7 3 10(-44)) and estrogen-receptor-negative (ER-: OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.05-1.15, p(trend) = 3.0 x 10(-4)) tumors. After adjustment for rs62355902, we found evidence of association of a further 173 variants (iCHAV2) containing three subsets with a range of effects (the strongest was rs113317823 [p(cond) = 1.61 x 10(-5)]) and five variants composing iCHAV3 (lead rs11949391; ER-: OR = 0.90, 95% CI = 0.87-0.93, p(cond) = 1.4 x 10(-4)). Twenty-six percent of the prioritized candidate variants coincided with four putative regulatory elements that interact with the MAP3K1 promoter through chromatin looping and affect MAP3K1 promoter activity. Functional analysis indicated that the cancer risk alleles of four candidates (rs74345699 and rs62355900 [iCHAV1], rs16886397 [iCHAV2a], and rs17432750 [iCHAV3]) increased MAP3K1 transcriptional activity. Chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis revealed diminished GATA3 binding to the minor (cancer-protective) allele of rs17432750, indicating a mechanism for its action. We propose that the cancer risk alleles act to increase MAP3K1 expression in vivo and might promote breast cancer cell survival.
Published: 2015

47. Ethics of Care in Caring for the Elderly

Author: Knight Ja
Subjects: Value (ethics), medicine.medical_specialty, Cost Control, Health Services for the Aged, Context (language use), Best interests, Resource Allocation, Nursing, Health care, medicine, Humans, Ethics, Medical, Family, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Physician-Patient Relations, Health Care Rationing, Euthanasia, business.industry, Nursing ethics, Health Policy, Beneficence, Rationing, social sciences, General Medicine, Covenant, United States, humanities, Nursing Homes, Euthanasia, Active, Ethics of care, Personal Autonomy, business, Prejudice
Abstract: While some ethical and value issues are unique to the care of the elderly, many are shared with other age groups in medical practice. Efforts at cost containment and the rationing of medical services are impinging deeply on the elderly and placing physicians in roles that may interfere with the covenant of faithfulness that exists between physician and patient. Physicians must examine negative societal images that may influence the care of the elderly and hold firm to the commitment to respond to the needs, values, and best interests of the elderly in the face of changing health care policies and constraints of one kind or another. Further, a major ethical imperative for physicians relates to making themselves available for the treatment of the elderly in the context of an appreciation of these patients' tasks in the final stage of development.
Published: 1994
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48. Genetic Predisposition to In Situ and Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast

Author: Gibson, G, Sawyer, E, Roylance, R, Petridis, C, Brook, MN, Nowinski, S, Papouli, E, Fletcher, O, Pinder, S, Hanby, A, Kohut, K, Gorman, P, Caneppele, M, Peto, J, Silva, IDS, Johnson, N, Swann, R, Dwek, M, Perkins, K-A, Gillett, C, Houlston, R, Ross, G, De Ieso, P, Southey, MC, Hopper, JL, Provenzano, E, Apicella, C, Wesseling, J, Cornelissen, S, Keeman, R, Fasching, PA, Jud, SM, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Kerin, MJ, Marme, F, Schneeweiss, A, Sohn, C, Burwinkel, B, Guenel, P, Truong, T, Laurent-Puig, P, Kerbrat, P, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Milne, RL, Perez, JIA, Menendez, P, Benitez, J, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, AK, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Meindl, A, Lichtner, P, Schmutzler, RK, Lochmann, M, Brauch, H, Fischer, H-P, Ko, Y-D, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, NV, Dork, T, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Chenevix-Trench, G, Lambrechts, D, Weltens, C, Van Limbergen, E, Hatse, S, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Bonanni, B, Volorio, S, Giles, GG, Severi, G, Baglietto, L, Mclean, CA, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Simard, J, Goldberg, MS, Labreche, F, Dumont, M, Kristensen, V, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Kauppila, S, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Devillee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, CM, Kriege, M, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Sherman, ME, Hooning, MJ, Hollestelle, A, van den Ouweland, AMW, van Deurzen, CHM, Li, J, Czene, K, Humphreys, K, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Shah, M, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska-Bieniek, K, Durda, K, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Schoemaker, M, Couch, FJ, Hallberg, E, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Pita, G, Alonso, MR, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Michailidou, K, Dunning, AM, Hall, P, Easton, D, Pharoah, P, Schmidt, MK, Tomlinson, I, Garcia-Closas, M, Gibson, G, Sawyer, E, Roylance, R, Petridis, C, Brook, MN, Nowinski, S, Papouli, E, Fletcher, O, Pinder, S, Hanby, A, Kohut, K, Gorman, P, Caneppele, M, Peto, J, Silva, IDS, Johnson, N, Swann, R, Dwek, M, Perkins, K-A, Gillett, C, Houlston, R, Ross, G, De Ieso, P, Southey, MC, Hopper, JL, Provenzano, E, Apicella, C, Wesseling, J, Cornelissen, S, Keeman, R, Fasching, PA, Jud, SM, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Kerin, MJ, Marme, F, Schneeweiss, A, Sohn, C, Burwinkel, B, Guenel, P, Truong, T, Laurent-Puig, P, Kerbrat, P, Bojesen, SE, Nordestgaard, BG, Nielsen, SF, Flyger, H, Milne, RL, Perez, JIA, Menendez, P, Benitez, J, Brenner, H, Dieffenbach, AK, Arndt, V, Stegmaier, C, Meindl, A, Lichtner, P, Schmutzler, RK, Lochmann, M, Brauch, H, Fischer, H-P, Ko, Y-D, Nevanlinna, H, Muranen, TA, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Bogdanova, NV, Dork, T, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kataja, V, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Chenevix-Trench, G, Lambrechts, D, Weltens, C, Van Limbergen, E, Hatse, S, Chang-Claude, J, Rudolph, A, Seibold, P, Flesch-Janys, D, Radice, P, Peterlongo, P, Bonanni, B, Volorio, S, Giles, GG, Severi, G, Baglietto, L, Mclean, CA, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Simard, J, Goldberg, MS, Labreche, F, Dumont, M, Kristensen, V, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Kauppila, S, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Mulligan, AM, Devillee, P, Tollenaar, RAEM, Seynaeve, CM, Kriege, M, Figueroa, J, Chanock, SJ, Sherman, ME, Hooning, MJ, Hollestelle, A, van den Ouweland, AMW, van Deurzen, CHM, Li, J, Czene, K, Humphreys, K, Cox, A, Cross, SS, Reed, MWR, Shah, M, Jakubowska, A, Lubinski, J, Jaworska-Bieniek, K, Durda, K, Swerdlow, A, Ashworth, A, Orr, N, Schoemaker, M, Couch, FJ, Hallberg, E, Gonzalez-Neira, A, Pita, G, Alonso, MR, Tessier, DC, Vincent, D, Bacot, F, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Dennis, J, Michailidou, K, Dunning, AM, Hall, P, Easton, D, Pharoah, P, Schmidt, MK, Tomlinson, I, and Garcia-Closas, M
Abstract: Invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC) accounts for 10-15% of all invasive breast carcinomas. It is generally ER positive (ER+) and often associated with lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS). Genome-wide association studies have identified more than 70 common polymorphisms that predispose to breast cancer, but these studies included predominantly ductal (IDC) carcinomas. To identify novel common polymorphisms that predispose to ILC and LCIS, we pooled data from 6,023 cases (5,622 ILC, 401 pure LCIS) and 34,271 controls from 36 studies genotyped using the iCOGS chip. Six novel SNPs most strongly associated with ILC/LCIS in the pooled analysis were genotyped in a further 516 lobular cases (482 ILC, 36 LCIS) and 1,467 controls. These analyses identified a lobular-specific SNP at 7q34 (rs11977670, OR (95%CI) for ILC = 1.13 (1.09-1.18), P = 6.0 × 10(-10); P-het for ILC vs IDC ER+ tumors = 1.8 × 10(-4)). Of the 75 known breast cancer polymorphisms that were genotyped, 56 were associated with ILC and 15 with LCIS at P<0.05. Two SNPs showed significantly stronger associations for ILC than LCIS (rs2981579/10q26/FGFR2, P-het = 0.04 and rs889312/5q11/MAP3K1, P-het = 0.03); and two showed stronger associations for LCIS than ILC (rs6678914/1q32/LGR6, P-het = 0.001 and rs1752911/6q14, P-het = 0.04). In addition, seven of the 75 known loci showed significant differences between ER+ tumors with IDC and ILC histology, three of these showing stronger associations for ILC (rs11249433/1p11, rs2981579/10q26/FGFR2 and rs10995190/10q21/ZNF365) and four associated only with IDC (5p12/rs10941679; rs2588809/14q24/RAD51L1, rs6472903/8q21 and rs1550623/2q31/CDCA7). In conclusion, we have identified one novel lobular breast cancer specific predisposition polymorphism at 7q34, and shown for the first time that common breast cancer polymorphisms predispose to LCIS. We have shown that many of the ER+ breast cancer predisposition loci also predispose to ILC, although there is some heterogeneity between E
Published: 2014

49. A Genome-wide Association Study of Early-Onset Breast Cancer Identifies PFKM as a Novel Breast Cancer Gene and Supports a Common Genetic Spectrum for Breast Cancer at Any Age

Author: Ahsan, H, Halpern, J, Kibriya, MG, Pierce, BL, Tong, L, Gamazon, E, McGuire, V, Felberg, A, Shi, J, Jasmine, F, Roy, S, Brutus, R, Argos, M, Melkonian, S, Chang-Claude, J, Andrulis, I, Hopper, JL, John, EM, Malone, K, Ursin, G, Gammon, MD, Thomas, DC, Seminara, D, Casey, G, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Giles, GG, Santella, RM, Lee, E, Conti, D, Duggan, D, Gallinger, S, Haile, R, Jenkins, M, Lindor, NM, Newcomb, P, Michailidou, K, Apicella, C, Park, DJ, Peto, J, Fletcher, O, Silva, IDS, Lathrop, M, Hunter, DJ, Chanock, SJ, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Mueller-Myhsok, B, Lochmann, M, Beckmann, L, Hein, R, Makalic, E, Schmidt, DF, Quang, MB, Stone, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Dahmen, N, Nevanlinna, H, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Hall, P, Czene, K, Irwanto, A, Liu, J, Rahman, N, Turnbull, C, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, P, Waisfisz, Q, Meijers-Heijboer, H, Uitterlinden, AG, Rivadeneira, F, Nicolae, D, Easton, DF, Cox, NJ, Whittemore, AS, Ahsan, H, Halpern, J, Kibriya, MG, Pierce, BL, Tong, L, Gamazon, E, McGuire, V, Felberg, A, Shi, J, Jasmine, F, Roy, S, Brutus, R, Argos, M, Melkonian, S, Chang-Claude, J, Andrulis, I, Hopper, JL, John, EM, Malone, K, Ursin, G, Gammon, MD, Thomas, DC, Seminara, D, Casey, G, Knight, JA, Southey, MC, Giles, GG, Santella, RM, Lee, E, Conti, D, Duggan, D, Gallinger, S, Haile, R, Jenkins, M, Lindor, NM, Newcomb, P, Michailidou, K, Apicella, C, Park, DJ, Peto, J, Fletcher, O, Silva, IDS, Lathrop, M, Hunter, DJ, Chanock, SJ, Meindl, A, Schmutzler, RK, Mueller-Myhsok, B, Lochmann, M, Beckmann, L, Hein, R, Makalic, E, Schmidt, DF, Quang, MB, Stone, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Dahmen, N, Nevanlinna, H, Aittomaki, K, Blomqvist, C, Hall, P, Czene, K, Irwanto, A, Liu, J, Rahman, N, Turnbull, C, Dunning, AM, Pharoah, P, Waisfisz, Q, Meijers-Heijboer, H, Uitterlinden, AG, Rivadeneira, F, Nicolae, D, Easton, DF, Cox, NJ, and Whittemore, AS
Abstract: Early-onset breast cancer (EOBC) causes substantial loss of life and productivity, creating a major burden among women worldwide. We analyzed 1,265,548 Hapmap3 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) among a discovery set of 3,523 EOBC incident cases and 2,702 population control women ages ≤ 51 years. The SNPs with smallest P values were examined in a replication set of 3,470 EOBC cases and 5,475 control women. We also tested EOBC association with 19,684 genes by annotating each gene with putative functional SNPs, and then combining their P values to obtain a gene-based P value. We examined the gene with smallest P value for replication in 1,145 breast cancer cases and 1,142 control women. The combined discovery and replication sets identified 72 new SNPs associated with EOBC (P < 4 × 10(-8)) located in six genomic regions previously reported to contain SNPs associated largely with later-onset breast cancer (LOBC). SNP rs2229882 and 10 other SNPs on chromosome 5q11.2 remained associated (P < 6 × 10(-4)) after adjustment for the strongest published SNPs in the region. Thirty-two of the 82 currently known LOBC SNPs were associated with EOBC (P < 0.05). Low power is likely responsible for the remaining 50 unassociated known LOBC SNPs. The gene-based analysis identified an association between breast cancer and the phosphofructokinase-muscle (PFKM) gene on chromosome 12q13.11 that met the genome-wide gene-based threshold of 2.5 × 10(-6). In conclusion, EOBC and LOBC seem to have similar genetic etiologies; the 5q11.2 region may contain multiple distinct breast cancer loci; and the PFKM gene region is worthy of further investigation. These findings should enhance our understanding of the etiology of breast cancer.
Published: 2014

50. 2q36.3 is associated with prognosis for oestrogen receptor-negative breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy

Author: Li, J, Lindstroem, LS, Foo, JN, Rafiq, S, Schmidt, MK, Pharoah, PDP, Michailidou, K, Dennis, J, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Van't Veer, LJ, Cornelissen, S, Rutgers, E, Southey, MC, Apicella, C, Dite, GS, Hopper, JL, Fasching, PA, Haeberle, L, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Blomqvist, C, Muranen, TA, Aittomaeki, K, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Kataja, V, Chenevix-Trench, G, Phillips, K-A, McLachlan, S-A, Lambrechts, D, Thienpont, B, Smeets, A, Wildiers, H, Chang-Claude, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Seibold, P, Rudolph, A, Giles, GG, Baglietto, L, Severi, G, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Kristensen, V, Alnaes, GIG, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Nord, S, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Tchatchou, S, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, R, Seynaeve, C, Hooning, M, Kriege, M, Hollestelle, A, Van den Ouweland, A, Li, Y, Hamann, U, Torres, D, Ulmer, HU, Rudiger, T, Shen, C-Y, Hsiung, C-N, Wu, P-E, Chen, S-T, Teo, SH, Taib, NAM, Yip, CH, Ho, GF, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Tajima, K, Kang, D, Choi, J-Y, Park, SK, Yoo, K-Y, Maishman, T, Tapper, WJ, Dunning, A, Shah, M, Luben, R, Brown, J, Khor, CC, Eccles, DM, Nevanlinna, H, Easton, D, Humphreys, K, Liu, J, Hall, P, Czene, K, Li, J, Lindstroem, LS, Foo, JN, Rafiq, S, Schmidt, MK, Pharoah, PDP, Michailidou, K, Dennis, J, Bolla, MK, Wang, Q, Van't Veer, LJ, Cornelissen, S, Rutgers, E, Southey, MC, Apicella, C, Dite, GS, Hopper, JL, Fasching, PA, Haeberle, L, Ekici, AB, Beckmann, MW, Blomqvist, C, Muranen, TA, Aittomaeki, K, Lindblom, A, Margolin, S, Mannermaa, A, Kosma, V-M, Hartikainen, JM, Kataja, V, Chenevix-Trench, G, Phillips, K-A, McLachlan, S-A, Lambrechts, D, Thienpont, B, Smeets, A, Wildiers, H, Chang-Claude, J, Flesch-Janys, D, Seibold, P, Rudolph, A, Giles, GG, Baglietto, L, Severi, G, Haiman, CA, Henderson, BE, Schumacher, F, Le Marchand, L, Kristensen, V, Alnaes, GIG, Borresen-Dale, A-L, Nord, S, Winqvist, R, Pylkas, K, Jukkola-Vuorinen, A, Grip, M, Andrulis, IL, Knight, JA, Glendon, G, Tchatchou, S, Devilee, P, Tollenaar, R, Seynaeve, C, Hooning, M, Kriege, M, Hollestelle, A, Van den Ouweland, A, Li, Y, Hamann, U, Torres, D, Ulmer, HU, Rudiger, T, Shen, C-Y, Hsiung, C-N, Wu, P-E, Chen, S-T, Teo, SH, Taib, NAM, Yip, CH, Ho, GF, Matsuo, K, Ito, H, Iwata, H, Tajima, K, Kang, D, Choi, J-Y, Park, SK, Yoo, K-Y, Maishman, T, Tapper, WJ, Dunning, A, Shah, M, Luben, R, Brown, J, Khor, CC, Eccles, DM, Nevanlinna, H, Easton, D, Humphreys, K, Liu, J, Hall, P, and Czene, K
Abstract: Large population-based registry studies have shown that breast cancer prognosis is inherited. Here we analyse single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes implicated in human immunology and inflammation as candidates for prognostic markers of breast cancer survival involving 1,804 oestrogen receptor (ER)-negative patients treated with chemotherapy (279 events) from 14 European studies in a prior large-scale genotyping experiment, which is part of the Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study (COGS) initiative. We carry out replication using Asian COGS samples (n=522, 53 events) and the Prospective Study of Outcomes in Sporadic versus Hereditary breast cancer (POSH) study (n=315, 108 events). Rs4458204_A near CCL20 (2q36.3) is found to be associated with breast cancer-specific death at a genome-wide significant level (n=2,641, 440 events, combined allelic hazard ratio (HR)=1.81 (1.49-2.19); P for trend=1.90 × 10(-9)). Such survival-associated variants can represent ideal targets for tailored therapeutics, and may also enhance our current prognostic prediction capabilities.
Published: 2014

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