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1. Quest markup for developing FAIR questionnaire modules for epidemiologic studies

Author: Daniel E. Russ, Nicole M. Gerlanc, Brian Shen, Bhaumik Patel, Amy Berrington de González, Neal D. Freedman, Julie M. Cusack, Mia M. Gaudet, Montserrat García-Closas, and Jonas S. Almeida
Subjects: Surveys and questionnaires, Data collection, Data commons, Data science, Epidemiologic methods, Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics, R858-859.7
Abstract: Abstract Background Online questionnaires are commonly used to collect information from participants in epidemiological studies. This requires building questionnaires using machine-readable formats that can be delivered to study participants using web-based technologies such as progressive web applications. However, the paucity of open-source markup standards with support for complex logic make collaborative development of web-based questionnaire modules difficult. This often prevents interoperability and reusability of questionnaire modules across epidemiological studies. Results We developed an open-source markup language for presentation of questionnaire content and logic, Quest, within a real-time renderer that enables the user to test logic (e.g., skip patterns) and view the structure of data collection. We provide the Quest markup language, an in-browser markup rendering tool, questionnaire development tool and an example web application that embeds the renderer, developed for The Connect for Cancer Prevention Study. Conclusion A markup language can specify both the content and logic of a questionnaire as plain text. Questionnaire markup, such as Quest, can become a standard format for storing questionnaires or sharing questionnaires across the web. Quest is a step towards generation of FAIR data in epidemiological studies by facilitating reusability of questionnaires and data interoperability using open-source tools.
Published: 2023
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2. A genome-wide gene-environment interaction study of breast cancer risk for women of European ancestry

Author: Pooja Middha, Xiaoliang Wang, Sabine Behrens, Manjeet K. Bolla, Qin Wang, Joe Dennis, Kyriaki Michailidou, Thomas U. Ahearn, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Kristan J. Aronson, Paul L. Auer, Annelie Augustinsson, Thaïs Baert, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Heiko Becher, Matthias W. Beckmann, Javier Benitez, Stig E. Bojesen, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Angela Brooks-Wilson, Daniele Campa, Federico Canzian, Angel Carracedo, Jose E. Castelao, Stephen J. Chanock, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, CTS Consortium, Emilie Cordina-Duverger, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Laure Dossus, Pierre-Antoine Dugué, A. Heather Eliassen, Mikael Eriksson, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine D. Figueroa, Olivia Fletcher, Henrik Flyger, Marike Gabrielson, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Graham G. Giles, Anna González-Neira, Felix Grassmann, Anne Grundy, Pascal Guénel, Christopher A. Haiman, Niclas Håkansson, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Susan E. Hankinson, Elaine F. Harkness, Bernd Holleczek, Reiner Hoppe, John L. Hopper, Richard S. Houlston, Anthony Howell, David J. Hunter, Christian Ingvar, ABCTB Investigators, kConFab Investigators, Karolin Isaksson, Helena Jernström, Esther M. John, Michael E. Jones, Rudolf Kaaks, Renske Keeman, Cari M. Kitahara, Yon-Dschun Ko, Stella Koutros, Allison W. Kurian, James V. Lacey, Diether Lambrechts, Nicole L. Larson, Susanna Larsson, Loic Le Marchand, Flavio Lejbkowicz, Shuai Li, Martha Linet, Jolanta Lissowska, Maria Elena Martinez, Tabea Maurer, Anna Marie Mulligan, Claire Mulot, Rachel A. Murphy, William G. Newman, Sune F. Nielsen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Aaron Norman, Katie M. O’Brien, Janet E. Olson, Alpa V. Patel, Ross Prentice, Erika Rees-Punia, Gad Rennert, Valerie Rhenius, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Dale P. Sandler, Christopher G. Scott, Mitul Shah, Xiao-Ou Shu, Ann Smeets, Melissa C. Southey, Jennifer Stone, Rulla M. Tamimi, Jack A. Taylor, Lauren R. Teras, Katarzyna Tomczyk, Melissa A. Troester, Thérèse Truong, Celine M. Vachon, Sophia S. Wang, Clarice R. Weinberg, Hans Wildiers, Walter Willett, Stacey J. Winham, Alicja Wolk, Xiaohong R. Yang, M. Pilar Zamora, Wei Zheng, Argyrios Ziogas, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Montserrat García-Closas, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Peter Kraft, Roger L. Milne, Sara Lindström, Douglas F. Easton, and Jenny Chang-Claude
Subjects: Breast cancer, Gene-environment interactions, Genetic epidemiology, European ancestry, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: Abstract Background Genome-wide studies of gene–environment interactions (G×E) may identify variants associated with disease risk in conjunction with lifestyle/environmental exposures. We conducted a genome-wide G×E analysis of ~ 7.6 million common variants and seven lifestyle/environmental risk factors for breast cancer risk overall and for estrogen receptor positive (ER +) breast cancer. Methods Analyses were conducted using 72,285 breast cancer cases and 80,354 controls of European ancestry from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Gene–environment interactions were evaluated using standard unconditional logistic regression models and likelihood ratio tests for breast cancer risk overall and for ER + breast cancer. Bayesian False Discovery Probability was employed to assess the noteworthiness of each SNP-risk factor pairs. Results Assuming a 1 × 10–5 prior probability of a true association for each SNP-risk factor pairs and a Bayesian False Discovery Probability
Published: 2023
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3. Association of the CHEK2 c.1100delC variant, radiotherapy, and systemic treatment with contralateral breast cancer risk and breast cancer‐specific survival

Author: Anna Morra, Maartje A. C. Schreurs, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton‐Culver, Annelie Augustinsson, Matthias W. Beckmann, Sabine Behrens, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Hiltrud Brauch, Annegien Broeks, Saundra S. Buys, Nicola J. Camp, Jose E. Castelao, Melissa H. Cessna, Jenny Chang‐Claude, Wendy K. Chung, NBCS Collaborators, Sarah V. Colonna, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Joe Dennis, Peter Devilee, Thilo Dörk, Alison M. Dunning, Miriam Dwek, Douglas F. Easton, Diana M. Eccles, Mikael Eriksson, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Tanja N. Fehm, Jonine D. Figueroa, Henrik Flyger, Marike Gabrielson, Manuela Gago‐Dominguez, Montserrat García‐Closas, José A. García‐Sáenz, Jeanine Genkinger, Felix Grassmann, Melanie Gündert, Eric Hahnen, Christopher A. Haiman, Ute Hamann, Patricia A. Harrington, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Reiner Hoppe, John L. Hopper, Richard S. Houlston, Anthony Howell, ABCTB Investigators, kConFab Investigators, Anna Jakubowska, Wolfgang Janni, Helena Jernström, Esther M. John, Nichola Johnson, Michael E. Jones, Vessela N. Kristensen, Allison W. Kurian, Diether Lambrechts, Loic Le Marchand, Annika Lindblom, Jan Lubiński, Michael P. Lux, Arto Mannermaa, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Anna Marie Mulligan, Taru A. Muranen, Heli Nevanlinna, Ines Nevelsteen, Patrick Neven, William G. Newman, Nadia Obi, Kenneth Offit, Andrew F. Olshan, Tjoung‐Won Park‐Simon, Alpa V. Patel, Paolo Peterlongo, Kelly‐Anne Phillips, Dijana Plaseska‐Karanfilska, Eric C. Polley, Nadege Presneau, Katri Pylkäs, Brigitte Rack, Paolo Radice, Muhammad U. Rashid, Valerie Rhenius, Mark Robson, Atocha Romero, Emmanouil Saloustros, Elinor J. Sawyer, Rita K. Schmutzler, Sabine Schuetze, Christopher Scott, Mitul Shah, Snezhana Smichkoska, Melissa C. Southey, William J. Tapper, Lauren R. Teras, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Katarzyna Tomczyk, Ian Tomlinson, Melissa A. Troester, Celine M. Vachon, Elke M. vanVeen, Qin Wang, Camilla Wendt, Hans Wildiers, Robert Winqvist, Argyrios Ziogas, Per Hall, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Muriel A. Adank, Antoinette Hollestelle, Marjanka K. Schmidt, and Maartje J. Hooning
Subjects: CHEK2 c.1100delC germline genetic variant, contralateral breast cancer risk, radiotherapy, survival, systemic treatment, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: Abstract Background Breast cancer (BC) patients with a germline CHEK2 c.1100delC variant have an increased risk of contralateral BC (CBC) and worse BC‐specific survival (BCSS) compared to non‐carriers. Aim To assessed the associations of CHEK2 c.1100delC, radiotherapy, and systemic treatment with CBC risk and BCSS. Methods Analyses were based on 82,701 women diagnosed with a first primary invasive BC including 963 CHEK2 c.1100delC carriers; median follow‐up was 9.1 years. Differential associations with treatment by CHEK2 c.1100delC status were tested by including interaction terms in a multivariable Cox regression model. A multi‐state model was used for further insight into the relation between CHEK2 c.1100delC status, treatment, CBC risk and death. Results There was no evidence for differential associations of therapy with CBC risk by CHEK2 c.1100delC status. The strongest association with reduced CBC risk was observed for the combination of chemotherapy and endocrine therapy [HR (95% CI): 0.66 (0.55–0.78)]. No association was observed with radiotherapy. Results from the multi‐state model showed shorter BCSS for CHEK2 c.1100delC carriers versus non‐carriers also after accounting for CBC occurrence [HR (95% CI): 1.30 (1.09–1.56)]. Conclusion Systemic therapy was associated with reduced CBC risk irrespective of CHEK2 c.1100delC status. Moreover, CHEK2 c.1100delC carriers had shorter BCSS, which appears not to be fully explained by their CBC risk.
Published: 2023
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4. PREDICT validity for prognosis of breast cancer patients with pathogenic BRCA1/2 variants

Author: Taru A. Muranen, Anna Morra, Sofia Khan, Daniel R. Barnes, Manjeet K. Bolla, Joe Dennis, Renske Keeman, Goska Leslie, Michael T. Parsons, Qin Wang, Thomas U. Ahearn, Kristiina Aittomäki, Irene L. Andrulis, Banu K. Arun, Sabine Behrens, Katarzyna Bialkowska, Stig E. Bojesen, Nicola J. Camp, Jenny Chang-Claude, Kamila Czene, Peter Devilee, HEBON investigators, Susan M. Domchek, Alison M. Dunning, Christoph Engel, D. Gareth Evans, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Montserrat García-Closas, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Gord Glendon, Pascal Guénel, Eric Hahnen, Ute Hamann, Helen Hanson, Maartje J. Hooning, Reiner Hoppe, Louise Izatt, Anna Jakubowska, Paul A. James, Vessela N. Kristensen, Fiona Lalloo, Geoffrey J. Lindeman, Arto Mannermaa, Sara Margolin, Susan L. Neuhausen, William G. Newman, Paolo Peterlongo, Kelly-Anne Phillips, Miquel Angel Pujana, Johanna Rantala, Karina Rønlund, Emmanouil Saloustros, Rita K. Schmutzler, Andreas Schneeweiss, Christian F. Singer, Maija Suvanto, Yen Yen Tan, Manuel R. Teixeira, Mads Thomassen, Marc Tischkowitz, Vishakha Tripathi, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Emily Zhao, Douglas F. Easton, Antonis C. Antoniou, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Carl Blomqvist, and Heli Nevanlinna
Subjects: Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: Abstract We assessed the PREDICT v 2.2 for prognosis of breast cancer patients with pathogenic germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants, using follow-up data from 5453 BRCA1/2 carriers from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA) and the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). PREDICT for estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer had modest discrimination for BRCA1 carrier patients overall (Gönen & Heller unbiased concordance 0.65 in CIMBA, 0.64 in BCAC), but it distinguished clearly the high-mortality group from lower risk categories. In an analysis of low to high risk categories by PREDICT score percentiles, the observed mortality was consistently lower than the expected mortality, but the confidence intervals always included the calibration slope. Altogether, our results encourage the use of the PREDICT ER-negative model in management of breast cancer patients with germline BRCA1 variants. For the PREDICT ER-positive model, the discrimination was slightly lower in BRCA2 variant carriers (concordance 0.60 in CIMBA, 0.65 in BCAC). Especially, inclusion of the tumor grade distorted the prognostic estimates. The breast cancer mortality of BRCA2 carriers was underestimated at the low end of the PREDICT score distribution, whereas at the high end, the mortality was overestimated. These data suggest that BRCA2 status should also be taken into consideration with tumor characteristics, when estimating the prognosis of ER-positive breast cancer patients.
Published: 2023
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5. Aggregation tests identify new gene associations with breast cancer in populations with diverse ancestry

Author: Stefanie H. Mueller, Alvina G. Lai, Maria Valkovskaya, Kyriaki Michailidou, Manjeet K. Bolla, Qin Wang, Joe Dennis, Michael Lush, Zomoruda Abu-Ful, Thomas U. Ahearn, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Volker Arndt, Kristan J. Aronson, Annelie Augustinsson, Thais Baert, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Matthias W. Beckmann, Sabine Behrens, Javier Benitez, Marina Bermisheva, Carl Blomqvist, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Bernardo Bonanni, Hermann Brenner, Sara Y. Brucker, Saundra S. Buys, Jose E. Castelao, Tsun L. Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Ji-Yeob Choi, Wendy K. Chung, NBCS Collaborators, Sarah V. Colonna, CTS Consortium, Sten Cornelissen, Fergus J. Couch, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Peter Devilee, Thilo Dörk, Laure Dossus, Miriam Dwek, Diana M. Eccles, Arif B. Ekici, A. Heather Eliassen, Christoph Engel, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Olivia Fletcher, Henrik Flyger, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Yu-Tang Gao, Montserrat García-Closas, José A. García-Sáenz, Jeanine Genkinger, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Felix Grassmann, Pascal Guénel, Melanie Gündert, Lothar Haeberle, Eric Hahnen, Christopher A. Haiman, Niclas Håkansson, Per Hall, Elaine F. Harkness, Patricia A. Harrington, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Mikael Hartman, Alexander Hein, Weang-Kee Ho, Maartje J. Hooning, Reiner Hoppe, John L. Hopper, Richard S. Houlston, Anthony Howell, David J. Hunter, Dezheng Huo, ABCTB Investigators, Hidemi Ito, Motoki Iwasaki, Anna Jakubowska, Wolfgang Janni, Esther M. John, Michael E. Jones, Audrey Jung, Rudolf Kaaks, Daehee Kang, Elza K. Khusnutdinova, Sung-Won Kim, Cari M. Kitahara, Stella Koutros, Peter Kraft, Vessela N. Kristensen, Katerina Kubelka-Sabit, Allison W. Kurian, Ava Kwong, James V. Lacey, Diether Lambrechts, Loic Le Marchand, Jingmei Li, Martha Linet, Wing-Yee Lo, Jirong Long, Artitaya Lophatananon, Arto Mannermaa, Mehdi Manoochehri, Sara Margolin, Keitaro Matsuo, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Usha Menon, Kenneth Muir, Rachel A. Murphy, Heli Nevanlinna, William G. Newman, Dieter Niederacher, Katie M. O’Brien, Nadia Obi, Kenneth Offit, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Andrew F. Olshan, Håkan Olsson, Sue K. Park, Alpa V. Patel, Achal Patel, Charles M. Perou, Julian Peto, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Nadege Presneau, Brigitte Rack, Paolo Radice, Dhanya Ramachandran, Muhammad U. Rashid, Gad Rennert, Atocha Romero, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Matthias Ruebner, Emmanouil Saloustros, Dale P. Sandler, Elinor J. Sawyer, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Rita K. Schmutzler, Michael O. Schneider, Christopher Scott, Mitul Shah, Priyanka Sharma, Chen-Yang Shen, Xiao-Ou Shu, Jacques Simard, Harald Surowy, Rulla M. Tamimi, William J. Tapper, Jack A. Taylor, Soo Hwang Teo, Lauren R. Teras, Amanda E. Toland, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Diana Torres, Gabriela Torres-Mejía, Melissa A. Troester, Thérèse Truong, Celine M. Vachon, Joseph Vijai, Clarice R. Weinberg, Camilla Wendt, Robert Winqvist, Alicja Wolk, Anna H. Wu, Taiki Yamaji, Xiaohong R. Yang, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Wei Zheng, Argyrios Ziogas, Elad Ziv, Alison M. Dunning, Douglas F. Easton, Harry Hemingway, Ute Hamann, and Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker
Subjects: Breast cancer susceptibility, Diverse ancestry, Rare variants, Gene regulation, Genome-wide association study, Medicine, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Abstract Background Low-frequency variants play an important role in breast cancer (BC) susceptibility. Gene-based methods can increase power by combining multiple variants in the same gene and help identify target genes. Methods We evaluated the potential of gene-based aggregation in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium cohorts including 83,471 cases and 59,199 controls. Low-frequency variants were aggregated for individual genes’ coding and regulatory regions. Association results in European ancestry samples were compared to single-marker association results in the same cohort. Gene-based associations were also combined in meta-analysis across individuals with European, Asian, African, and Latin American and Hispanic ancestry. Results In European ancestry samples, 14 genes were significantly associated (q
Published: 2023
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6. PredictCBC-2.0: a contralateral breast cancer risk prediction model developed and validated in ~ 200,000 patients

Author: Daniele Giardiello, Maartje J. Hooning, Michael Hauptmann, Renske Keeman, B. A. M. Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Heiko Becher, Carl Blomqvist, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Nicola J. Camp, Kamila Czene, Peter Devilee, Diana M. Eccles, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine D. Figueroa, Henrik Flyger, Montserrat García-Closas, Christopher A. Haiman, Ute Hamann, John L. Hopper, Anna Jakubowska, Floor E. Leeuwen, Annika Lindblom, Jan Lubiński, Sara Margolin, Maria Elena Martinez, Heli Nevanlinna, Ines Nevelsteen, Saskia Pelders, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Sabine Siesling, Melissa C. Southey, Annemieke H. van der Hout, Liselotte P. van Hest, Jenny Chang-Claude, Per Hall, Douglas F. Easton, Ewout W. Steyerberg, and Marjanka K. Schmidt
Subjects: Contralateral breast cancer, Risk prediction, Contralateral preventive mastectomy, Clinical decision-making, Breast cancer genetic predisposition, Breast Cancer Association Consortium, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: Abstract Background Prediction of contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk is challenging due to moderate performances of the known risk factors. We aimed to improve our previous risk prediction model (PredictCBC) by updated follow-up and including additional risk factors. Methods We included data from 207,510 invasive breast cancer patients participating in 23 studies. In total, 8225 CBC events occurred over a median follow-up of 10.2 years. In addition to the previously included risk factors, PredictCBC-2.0 included CHEK2 c.1100delC, a 313 variant polygenic risk score (PRS-313), body mass index (BMI), and parity. Fine and Gray regression was used to fit the model. Calibration and a time-dependent area under the curve (AUC) at 5 and 10 years were assessed to determine the performance of the models. Decision curve analysis was performed to evaluate the net benefit of PredictCBC-2.0 and previous PredictCBC models. Results The discrimination of PredictCBC-2.0 at 10 years was higher than PredictCBC with an AUC of 0.65 (95% prediction intervals (PI) 0.56–0.74) versus 0.63 (95%PI 0.54–0.71). PredictCBC-2.0 was well calibrated with an observed/expected ratio at 10 years of 0.92 (95%PI 0.34–2.54). Decision curve analysis for contralateral preventive mastectomy (CPM) showed the potential clinical utility of PredictCBC-2.0 between thresholds of 4 and 12% 10-year CBC risk for BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and non-carriers. Conclusions Additional genetic information beyond BRCA1/2 germline mutations improved CBC risk prediction and might help tailor clinical decision-making toward CPM or alternative preventive strategies. Identifying patients who benefit from CPM, especially in the general breast cancer population, remains challenging.
Published: 2022
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7. Breast cancer risks associated with missense variants in breast cancer susceptibility genes

Author: Leila Dorling, Sara Carvalho, Jamie Allen, Michael T. Parsons, Cristina Fortuno, Anna González-Neira, Stephan M. Heijl, Muriel A. Adank, Thomas U. Ahearn, Irene L. Andrulis, Päivi Auvinen, Heiko Becher, Matthias W. Beckmann, Sabine Behrens, Marina Bermisheva, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Michael Bremer, Ignacio Briceno, Nicola J. Camp, Archie Campbell, Jose E. Castelao, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, NBCS Collaborators, J. Margriet Collée, Kamila Czene, Joe Dennis, Thilo Dörk, Mikael Eriksson, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine Figueroa, Henrik Flyger, Marike Gabrielson, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Montserrat García-Closas, Graham G. Giles, Gord Glendon, Pascal Guénel, Melanie Gündert, Andreas Hadjisavvas, Eric Hahnen, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Elaine F. Harkness, Mikael Hartman, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Antoinette Hollestelle, Reiner Hoppe, Anthony Howell, kConFab Investigators, SGBCC Investigators, Anna Jakubowska, Audrey Jung, Elza Khusnutdinova, Sung-Won Kim, Yon-Dschun Ko, Vessela N. Kristensen, Inge M. M. Lakeman, Jingmei Li, Annika Lindblom, Maria A. Loizidou, Artitaya Lophatananon, Jan Lubiński, Craig Luccarini, Michael J. Madsen, Arto Mannermaa, Mehdi Manoochehri, Sara Margolin, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Roger L. Milne, Nur Aishah Mohd Taib, Kenneth Muir, Heli Nevanlinna, William G. Newman, Jan C. Oosterwijk, Sue K. Park, Paolo Peterlongo, Paolo Radice, Emmanouil Saloustros, Elinor J. Sawyer, Rita K. Schmutzler, Mitul Shah, Xueling Sim, Melissa C. Southey, Harald Surowy, Maija Suvanto, Ian Tomlinson, Diana Torres, Thérèse Truong, Christi J. van Asperen, Regina Waltes, Qin Wang, Xiaohong R. Yang, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Javier Benitez, Bas Vroling, Alison M. Dunning, Soo Hwang Teo, Anders Kvist, Miguel de la Hoya, Peter Devilee, Amanda B. Spurdle, Maaike P. G. Vreeswijk, and Douglas F. Easton
Subjects: Breast cancer, Genetic epidemiology, Risk prediction, Missense variants, Medicine, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Abstract Background Protein truncating variants in ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, and PALB2 are associated with increased breast cancer risk, but risks associated with missense variants in these genes are uncertain. Methods We analyzed data on 59,639 breast cancer cases and 53,165 controls from studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium BRIDGES project. We sampled training (80%) and validation (20%) sets to analyze rare missense variants in ATM (1146 training variants), BRCA1 (644), BRCA2 (1425), CHEK2 (325), and PALB2 (472). We evaluated breast cancer risks according to five in silico prediction-of-deleteriousness algorithms, functional protein domain, and frequency, using logistic regression models and also mixture models in which a subset of variants was assumed to be risk-associated. Results The most predictive in silico algorithms were Helix (BRCA1, BRCA2 and CHEK2) and CADD (ATM). Increased risks appeared restricted to functional protein domains for ATM (FAT and PIK domains) and BRCA1 (RING and BRCT domains). For ATM, BRCA1, and BRCA2, data were compatible with small subsets (approximately 7%, 2%, and 0.6%, respectively) of rare missense variants giving similar risk to those of protein truncating variants in the same gene. For CHEK2, data were more consistent with a large fraction (approximately 60%) of rare missense variants giving a lower risk (OR 1.75, 95% CI (1.47–2.08)) than CHEK2 protein truncating variants. There was little evidence for an association with risk for missense variants in PALB2. The best fitting models were well calibrated in the validation set. Conclusions These results will inform risk prediction models and the selection of candidate variants for functional assays and could contribute to the clinical reporting of gene panel testing for breast cancer susceptibility.
Published: 2022
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8. The case for increasing diversity in tissue-based functional genomics datasets to understand human disease susceptibility

Author: Erping Long, Montserrat García-Closas, Stephen J. Chanock, M. Constanza Camargo, Nicholas E. Banovich, and Jiyeon Choi
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Tissue-based functional genomics resources including molecular quantitative trait loci datasets lack diversity in ancestry and tissue types and thus are inadequate for comprehensively investigating gene regulation. Global efforts to increase the tissue diversity will help achieve more equitable medical care.
Published: 2022
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9. Genome-wide interaction analysis of menopausal hormone therapy use and breast cancer risk among 62,370 women

Author: Xiaoliang Wang, Pooja Middha Kapoor, Paul L. Auer, Joe Dennis, Alison M. Dunning, Qin Wang, Michael Lush, Kyriaki Michailidou, Manjeet K. Bolla, Kristan J. Aronson, Rachel A. Murphy, Angela Brooks-Wilson, Derrick G. Lee, Emilie Cordina-Duverger, Pascal Guénel, Thérèse Truong, Claire Mulot, Lauren R. Teras, Alpa V. Patel, Laure Dossus, Rudolf Kaaks, Reiner Hoppe, Wing-Yee Lo, Thomas Brüning, Ute Hamann, Kamila Czene, Marike Gabrielson, Per Hall, Mikael Eriksson, Audrey Jung, Heiko Becher, Fergus J. Couch, Nicole L. Larson, Janet E. Olson, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Graham G. Giles, Robert J. MacInnis, Melissa C. Southey, Loic Le Marchand, Lynne R. Wilkens, Christopher A. Haiman, Håkan Olsson, Annelie Augustinsson, Ute Krüger, Philippe Wagner, Christopher Scott, Stacey J. Winham, Celine M. Vachon, Charles M. Perou, Andrew F. Olshan, Melissa A. Troester, David J. Hunter, Heather A. Eliassen, Rulla M. Tamimi, Kristen Brantley, Irene L. Andrulis, Jonine Figueroa, Stephen J. Chanock, Thomas U. Ahearn, Montserrat García-Closas, Gareth D. Evans, William G. Newman, Elke M. van Veen, Anthony Howell, Alicja Wolk, Niclas Håkansson, Hoda Anton-Culver, Argyrios Ziogas, Michael E. Jones, Nick Orr, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Cari M. Kitahara, Martha Linet, Ross L. Prentice, Douglas F. Easton, Roger L. Milne, Peter Kraft, Jenny Chang-Claude, and Sara Lindström
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Abstract Use of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) is associated with increased risk for breast cancer. However, the relevant mechanisms and its interaction with genetic variants are not fully understood. We conducted a genome-wide interaction analysis between MHT use and genetic variants for breast cancer risk in 27,585 cases and 34,785 controls from 26 observational studies. All women were post-menopausal and of European ancestry. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to test for multiplicative interactions between genetic variants and current MHT use. We considered interaction p-values
Published: 2022
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10. Rare germline copy number variants (CNVs) and breast cancer risk

Author: Joe Dennis, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Logan C. Walker, Kyriaki Michailidou, Leila Dorling, Manjeet K. Bolla, Qin Wang, Thomas U. Ahearn, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Volker Arndt, Kristan J. Aronson, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Matthias W. Beckmann, Sabine Behrens, Javier Benitez, Marina Bermisheva, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Hermann Brenner, Jose E. Castelao, Jenny Chang-Claude, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Christine L. Clarke, NBCS Collaborators, J. Margriet Collée, CTS Consortium, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Peter Devilee, Thilo Dörk, Laure Dossus, A. Heather Eliassen, Mikael Eriksson, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine Figueroa, Olivia Fletcher, Henrik Flyger, Lin Fritschi, Marike Gabrielson, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Montserrat García-Closas, Graham G. Giles, Anna González-Neira, Pascal Guénel, Eric Hahnen, Christopher A. Haiman, Per Hall, Antoinette Hollestelle, Reiner Hoppe, John L. Hopper, Anthony Howell, ABCTB Investigators, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Agnes Jager, Anna Jakubowska, Esther M. John, Nichola Johnson, Michael E. Jones, Audrey Jung, Rudolf Kaaks, Renske Keeman, Elza Khusnutdinova, Cari M. Kitahara, Yon-Dschun Ko, Veli-Matti Kosma, Stella Koutros, Peter Kraft, Vessela N. Kristensen, Katerina Kubelka-Sabit, Allison W. Kurian, James V. Lacey, Diether Lambrechts, Nicole L. Larson, Martha Linet, Alicja Ogrodniczak, Arto Mannermaa, Siranoush Manoukian, Sara Margolin, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Roger L. Milne, Taru A. Muranen, Rachel A. Murphy, Heli Nevanlinna, Janet E. Olson, Håkan Olsson, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Charles M. Perou, Paolo Peterlongo, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Katri Pylkäs, Gad Rennert, Emmanouil Saloustros, Dale P. Sandler, Elinor J. Sawyer, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Rita K. Schmutzler, Rana Shibli, Ann Smeets, Penny Soucy, Melissa C. Southey, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Rulla M. Tamimi, Jack A. Taylor, Lauren R. Teras, Mary Beth Terry, Ian Tomlinson, Melissa A. Troester, Thérèse Truong, Celine M. Vachon, Camilla Wendt, Robert Winqvist, Alicja Wolk, Xiaohong R. Yang, Wei Zheng, Argyrios Ziogas, Jacques Simard, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D. P. Pharoah, and Douglas F. Easton
Subjects: Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract: Dennis et al. investigate potential breast cancer associations with rare germline copy number variants (CNVs) by conducting a genome-wide analysis in a large breast cancer case-control dataset. The authors detected associations with exonic deletions in established breast cancer susceptibility genes and suggestive associations for a number of non-coding CNVs.
Published: 2022
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11. Common variants in breast cancer risk loci predispose to distinct tumor subtypes

Author: Thomas U. Ahearn, Haoyu Zhang, Kyriaki Michailidou, Roger L. Milne, Manjeet K. Bolla, Joe Dennis, Alison M. Dunning, Michael Lush, Qin Wang, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Kristan J. Aronson, Paul L. Auer, Annelie Augustinsson, Adinda Baten, Heiko Becher, Sabine Behrens, Javier Benitez, Marina Bermisheva, Carl Blomqvist, Stig E. Bojesen, Bernardo Bonanni, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Angela Brooks-Wilson, Thomas Brüning, Barbara Burwinkel, Saundra S. Buys, Federico Canzian, Jose E. Castelao, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Christine L. Clarke, NBCS Collaborators, J. Margriet Collée, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Peter Devilee, Thilo Dörk, Miriam Dwek, Diana M. Eccles, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine Figueroa, Giuseppe Floris, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Susan M. Gapstur, José A. García-Sáenz, Mia M. Gaudet, Graham G. Giles, Mark S. Goldberg, Anna González-Neira, Grethe I. Grenaker Alnæs, Mervi Grip, Pascal Guénel, Christopher A. Haiman, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Elaine F. Harkness, Bernadette A. M. Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Bernd Holleczek, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje J. Hooning, Robert N. Hoover, John L. Hopper, Anthony Howell, ABCTB Investigators, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Milena Jakimovska, Anna Jakubowska, Esther M. John, Michael E. Jones, Audrey Jung, Rudolf Kaaks, Saila Kauppila, Renske Keeman, Elza Khusnutdinova, Cari M. Kitahara, Yon-Dschun Ko, Stella Koutros, Vessela N. Kristensen, Ute Krüger, Katerina Kubelka-Sabit, Allison W. Kurian, Kyriacos Kyriacou, Diether Lambrechts, Derrick G. Lee, Annika Lindblom, Martha Linet, Jolanta Lissowska, Ana Llaneza, Wing-Yee Lo, Robert J. MacInnis, Arto Mannermaa, Mehdi Manoochehri, Sara Margolin, Maria Elena Martinez, Catriona McLean, Alfons Meindl, Usha Menon, Heli Nevanlinna, William G. Newman, Jesse Nodora, Kenneth Offit, Håkan Olsson, Nick Orr, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Alpa V. Patel, Julian Peto, Guillermo Pita, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Ross Prentice, Kevin Punie, Katri Pylkäs, Paolo Radice, Gad Rennert, Atocha Romero, Thomas Rüdiger, Emmanouil Saloustros, Sarah Sampson, Dale P. Sandler, Elinor J. Sawyer, Rita K. Schmutzler, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Ben Schöttker, Mark E. Sherman, Xiao-Ou Shu, Snezhana Smichkoska, Melissa C. Southey, John J. Spinelli, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Rulla M. Tamimi, William J. Tapper, Jack A. Taylor, Lauren R. Teras, Mary Beth Terry, Diana Torres, Melissa A. Troester, Celine M. Vachon, Carolien H. M. van Deurzen, Elke M. van Veen, Philippe Wagner, Clarice R. Weinberg, Camilla Wendt, Jelle Wesseling, Robert Winqvist, Alicja Wolk, Xiaohong R. Yang, Wei Zheng, Fergus J. Couch, Jacques Simard, Peter Kraft, Douglas F. Easton, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Montserrat García-Closas, and Nilanjan Chatterjee
Subjects: Breast cancer, Etiologic heterogeneity, Genetic predisposition, Common breast cancer susceptibility variants, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: Abstract Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple common breast cancer susceptibility variants. Many of these variants have differential associations by estrogen receptor (ER) status, but how these variants relate with other tumor features and intrinsic molecular subtypes is unclear. Methods Among 106,571 invasive breast cancer cases and 95,762 controls of European ancestry with data on 173 breast cancer variants identified in previous GWAS, we used novel two-stage polytomous logistic regression models to evaluate variants in relation to multiple tumor features (ER, progesterone receptor (PR), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and grade) adjusting for each other, and to intrinsic-like subtypes. Results Eighty-five of 173 variants were associated with at least one tumor feature (false discovery rate
Published: 2022
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12. Germline variants and breast cancer survival in patients with distant metastases at primary breast cancer diagnosis

Author: Maria Escala-Garcia, Sander Canisius, Renske Keeman, Jonathan Beesley, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Annelie Augustinsson, Heiko Becher, Matthias W. Beckmann, Sabine Behrens, Marina Bermisheva, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Hermann Brenner, Federico Canzian, Jose E. Castelao, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Fergus J. Couch, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Joe Dennis, Peter Devilee, Thilo Dörk, Alison M. Dunning, Douglas F. Easton, Arif B. Ekici, A. Heather Eliassen, Peter A. Fasching, Henrik Flyger, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Montserrat García-Closas, José A. García-Sáenz, Jürgen Geisler, Graham G. Giles, Mervi Grip, Melanie Gündert, Eric Hahnen, Christopher A. Haiman, Niclas Håkansson, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Bernadette A. M. Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Antoinette Hollestelle, Reiner Hoppe, John L. Hopper, David J. Hunter, William Jacot, Anna Jakubowska, Esther M. John, Audrey Y. Jung, Rudolf Kaaks, Elza Khusnutdinova, Linetta B. Koppert, Peter Kraft, Vessela N. Kristensen, Allison W. Kurian, Diether Lambrechts, Loic Le Marchand, Annika Lindblom, Robert N. Luben, Jan Lubiński, Arto Mannermaa, Mehdi Manoochehri, Sara Margolin, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Taru A. Muranen, Heli Nevanlinna, Andrew F. Olshan, Håkan Olsson, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Alpa V. Patel, Paolo Peterlongo, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Kevin Punie, Paolo Radice, Gad Rennert, Hedy S. Rennert, Atocha Romero, Rebecca Roylance, Thomas Rüdiger, Matthias Ruebner, Emmanouil Saloustros, Elinor J. Sawyer, Rita K. Schmutzler, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Christopher Scott, Melissa C. Southey, Harald Surowy, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Rulla M. Tamimi, Lauren R. Teras, Emilie Thomas, Ian Tomlinson, Melissa A. Troester, Celine M. Vachon, Qin Wang, Robert Winqvist, Alicja Wolk, Argyrios Ziogas, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Kyriaki Michailidou, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Thomas Bachelot, and Marjanka K. Schmidt
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Abstract Breast cancer metastasis accounts for most of the deaths from breast cancer. Identification of germline variants associated with survival in aggressive types of breast cancer may inform understanding of breast cancer progression and assist treatment. In this analysis, we studied the associations between germline variants and breast cancer survival for patients with distant metastases at primary breast cancer diagnosis. We used data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) including 1062 women of European ancestry with metastatic breast cancer, 606 of whom died of breast cancer. We identified two germline variants on chromosome 1, rs138569520 and rs146023652, significantly associated with breast cancer-specific survival (P = 3.19 × 10−8 and 4.42 × 10−8). In silico analysis suggested a potential regulatory effect of the variants on the nearby target genes SDE2 and H3F3A. However, the variants showed no evidence of association in a smaller replication dataset. The validation dataset was obtained from the SNPs to Risk of Metastasis (StoRM) study and included 293 patients with metastatic primary breast cancer at diagnosis. Ultimately, larger replication studies are needed to confirm the identified associations.
Published: 2021
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13. Association of germline genetic variants with breast cancer-specific survival in patient subgroups defined by clinic-pathological variables related to tumor biology and type of systemic treatment

Author: Anna Morra, Maria Escala-Garcia, Jonathan Beesley, Renske Keeman, Sander Canisius, Thomas U. Ahearn, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Paul L. Auer, Annelie Augustinsson, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Heiko Becher, Matthias W. Beckmann, Sabine Behrens, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Hermann Brenner, Thomas Brüning, Saundra S. Buys, Bette Caan, Daniele Campa, Federico Canzian, Jose E. Castelao, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Ting-Yuan David Cheng, Christine L. Clarke, NBCS Collaborators, Sarah V. Colonna, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Joe Dennis, Thilo Dörk, Laure Dossus, Alison M. Dunning, Miriam Dwek, Diana M. Eccles, Arif B. Ekici, A. Heather Eliassen, Mikael Eriksson, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Henrik Flyger, Lin Fritschi, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, José A. García-Sáenz, Graham G. Giles, Mervi Grip, Pascal Guénel, Melanie Gündert, Eric Hahnen, Christopher A. Haiman, Niclas Håkansson, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Steven N. Hart, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Arndt Hartmann, Wei He, Maartje J. Hooning, Reiner Hoppe, John L. Hopper, Anthony Howell, David J. Hunter, ABCTB Investigators, kConFab Investigators, Agnes Jager, Anna Jakubowska, Wolfgang Janni, Esther M. John, Audrey Y. Jung, Rudolf Kaaks, Machteld Keupers, Cari M. Kitahara, Stella Koutros, Peter Kraft, Vessela N. Kristensen, Allison W. Kurian, James V. Lacey, Diether Lambrechts, Loic Le Marchand, Annika Lindblom, Martha Linet, Robert N. Luben, Jan Lubiński, Michael Lush, Arto Mannermaa, Mehdi Manoochehri, Sara Margolin, John W. M. Martens, Maria Elena Martinez, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Kyriaki Michailidou, Roger L. Milne, Anna Marie Mulligan, Taru A. Muranen, Heli Nevanlinna, William G. Newman, Sune F. Nielsen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Andrew F. Olshan, Håkan Olsson, Nick Orr, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Alpa V. Patel, Bernard Peissel, Paolo Peterlongo, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Karolina Prajzendanc, Ross Prentice, Nadege Presneau, Brigitte Rack, Gad Rennert, Hedy S. Rennert, Valerie Rhenius, Atocha Romero, Rebecca Roylance, Matthias Ruebner, Emmanouil Saloustros, Elinor J. Sawyer, Rita K. Schmutzler, Andreas Schneeweiss, Christopher Scott, Mitul Shah, Snezhana Smichkoska, Melissa C. Southey, Jennifer Stone, Harald Surowy, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Rulla M. Tamimi, William J. Tapper, Lauren R. Teras, Mary Beth Terry, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Ian Tomlinson, Melissa A. Troester, Thérèse Truong, Celine M. Vachon, Qin Wang, Amber N. Hurson, Robert Winqvist, Alicja Wolk, Argyrios Ziogas, Hiltrud Brauch, Montserrat García-Closas, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Douglas F. Easton, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, and Marjanka K. Schmidt
Subjects: Common germline genetic variants, Breast cancer-specific survival, Patient subgroups, Tumor biology, Systemic treatment, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: Abstract Background Given the high heterogeneity among breast tumors, associations between common germline genetic variants and survival that may exist within specific subgroups could go undetected in an unstratified set of breast cancer patients. Methods We performed genome-wide association analyses within 15 subgroups of breast cancer patients based on prognostic factors, including hormone receptors, tumor grade, age, and type of systemic treatment. Analyses were based on 91,686 female patients of European ancestry from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, including 7531 breast cancer-specific deaths over a median follow-up of 8.1 years. Cox regression was used to assess associations of common germline variants with 15-year and 5-year breast cancer-specific survival. We assessed the probability of these associations being true positives via the Bayesian false discovery probability (BFDP
Published: 2021
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14. A multilayered post-GWAS assessment on genetic susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

Author: Evangelina López de Maturana, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Lola Alonso, Oscar Lao, Esther Molina-Montes, Isabel Adoración Martín-Antoniano, Paulina Gómez-Rubio, Rita Lawlor, Alfredo Carrato, Manuel Hidalgo, Mar Iglesias, Xavier Molero, Matthias Löhr, Christopher Michalski, José Perea, Michael O’Rorke, Victor Manuel Barberà, Adonina Tardón, Antoni Farré, Luís Muñoz-Bellvís, Tanja Crnogorac-Jurcevic, Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, Thomas Gress, William Greenhalf, Linda Sharp, Luís Arnes, Lluís Cecchini, Joaquim Balsells, Eithne Costello, Lucas Ilzarbe, Jörg Kleeff, Bo Kong, Mirari Márquez, Josefina Mora, Damian O’Driscoll, Aldo Scarpa, Weimin Ye, Jingru Yu, PanGenEU Investigators, Montserrat García-Closas, Manolis Kogevinas, Nathaniel Rothman, Debra T Silverman, SBC/EPICURO Investigators, Demetrius Albanes, Alan A Arslan, Laura Beane-Freeman, Paige M Bracci, Paul Brennan, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Julie Buring, Federico Canzian, Margaret Du, Steve Gallinger, J Michael Gaziano, Phyllis J Goodman, Marc Gunter, Loic LeMarchand, Donghui Li, Rachael E Neale, Ulrika Peters, Gloria M Petersen, Harvey A Risch, Maria José Sánchez, Xiao-Ou Shu, Mark D Thornquist, Kala Visvanathan, Wei Zheng, Stephen J Chanock, Douglas Easton, Brian M Wolpin, Rachael Z Stolzenberg-Solomon, Alison P Klein, Laufey T Amundadottir, Marc A Marti-Renom, Francisco X Real, and Núria Malats
Subjects: Pancreatic cancer risk, Genome-wide association analysis, Genetic susceptibility, 3D genomic structure, Local indices of genome spatial autocorrelation, Medicine, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Abstract Background Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a complex disease in which both non-genetic and genetic factors interplay. To date, 40 GWAS hits have been associated with PC risk in individuals of European descent, explaining 4.1% of the phenotypic variance. Methods We complemented a new conventional PC GWAS (1D) with genome spatial autocorrelation analysis (2D) permitting to prioritize low frequency variants not detected by GWAS. These were further expanded via Hi-C map (3D) interactions to gain additional insight into the inherited basis of PC. In silico functional analysis of public genomic information allowed prioritization of potentially relevant candidate variants. Results We identified several new variants located in genes for which there is experimental evidence of their implication in the biology and function of pancreatic acinar cells. Among them is a novel independent variant in NR5A2 (rs3790840) with a meta-analysis p value = 5.91E−06 in 1D approach and a Local Moran’s Index (LMI) = 7.76 in 2D approach. We also identified a multi-hit region in CASC8—a lncRNA associated with pancreatic carcinogenesis—with a lowest p value = 6.91E−05. Importantly, two new PC loci were identified both by 2D and 3D approaches: SIAH3 (LMI = 18.24), CTRB2/BCAR1 (LMI = 6.03), in addition to a chromatin interacting region in XBP1—a major regulator of the ER stress and unfolded protein responses in acinar cells—identified by 3D; all of them with a strong in silico functional support. Conclusions This multi-step strategy, combined with an in-depth in silico functional analysis, offers a comprehensive approach to advance the study of PC genetic susceptibility and could be applied to other diseases.
Published: 2021
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15. A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers

Author: Juliette Coignard, Michael Lush, Jonathan Beesley, Tracy A. O’Mara, Joe Dennis, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Daniel R. Barnes, Lesley McGuffog, Goska Leslie, Manjeet K. Bolla, Muriel A. Adank, Simona Agata, Thomas Ahearn, Kristiina Aittomäki, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Norbert Arnold, Kristan J. Aronson, Banu K. Arun, Annelie Augustinsson, Jacopo Azzollini, Daniel Barrowdale, Caroline Baynes, Heko Becher, Marina Bermisheva, Leslie Bernstein, Katarzyna Białkowska, Carl Blomqvist, Stig E. Bojesen, Bernardo Bonanni, Ake Borg, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Barbara Burwinkel, Saundra S. Buys, Trinidad Caldés, Maria A. Caligo, Daniele Campa, Brian D. Carter, Jose E. Castelao, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Wendy K. Chung, Kathleen B. M. Claes, Christine L. Clarke, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, J. Margriet Collée, Don M. Conroy, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Yuan Chun Ding, Susan M. Domchek, Thilo Dörk, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Alison M. Dunning, Miriam Dwek, Diana M. Eccles, A. Heather Eliassen, Christoph Engel, Mikael Eriksson, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Henrik Flyger, Florentia Fostira, Eitan Friedman, Lin Fritschi, Debra Frost, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Susan M. Gapstur, Judy Garber, Vanesa Garcia-Barberan, Montserrat García-Closas, José A. García-Sáenz, Mia M. Gaudet, Simon A. Gayther, Andrea Gehrig, Vassilios Georgoulias, Graham G. Giles, Andrew K. Godwin, Mark S. Goldberg, David E. Goldgar, Anna González-Neira, Mark H. Greene, Pascal Guénel, Lothar Haeberle, Eric Hahnen, Christopher A. Haiman, Niclas Håkansson, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Patricia A. Harrington, Steven N. Hart, Wei He, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Antoinette Hollestelle, John L. Hopper, Darling J. Horcasitas, Peter J. Hulick, David J. Hunter, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, KConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, Agnes Jager, Anna Jakubowska, Paul A. James, Uffe Birk Jensen, Esther M. John, Michael E. Jones, Rudolf Kaaks, Pooja Middha Kapoor, Beth Y. Karlan, Renske Keeman, Elza Khusnutdinova, Johanna I. Kiiski, Yon-Dschun Ko, Veli-Matti Kosma, Peter Kraft, Allison W. Kurian, Yael Laitman, Diether Lambrechts, Loic Le Marchand, Jenny Lester, Fabienne Lesueur, Tricia Lindstrom, Adria Lopez-Fernández, Jennifer T. Loud, Craig Luccarini, Arto Mannermaa, Siranoush Manoukian, Sara Margolin, John W. M. Martens, Noura Mebirouk, Alfons Meindl, Austin Miller, Roger L. Milne, Marco Montagna, Katherine L. Nathanson, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Finn C. Nielsen, Katie M. O’Brien, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Janet E. Olson, Håkan Olsson, Ana Osorio, Laura Ottini, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Michael T. Parsons, Inge Sokilde Pedersen, Beth Peshkin, Paolo Peterlongo, Julian Peto, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Kelly-Anne Phillips, Eric C. Polley, Bruce Poppe, Nadege Presneau, Miquel Angel Pujana, Kevin Punie, Paolo Radice, Johanna Rantala, Muhammad U. Rashid, Gad Rennert, Hedy S. Rennert, Mark Robson, Atocha Romero, Maria Rossing, Emmanouil Saloustros, Dale P. Sandler, Regina Santella, Maren T. Scheuner, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Gunnar Schmidt, Christopher Scott, Priyanka Sharma, Penny Soucy, Melissa C. Southey, John J. Spinelli, Zoe Steinsnyder, Jennifer Stone, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Anthony Swerdlow, Rulla M. Tamimi, William J. Tapper, Jack A. Taylor, Mary Beth Terry, Alex Teulé, Darcy L. Thull, Marc Tischkowitz, Amanda E. Toland, Diana Torres, Alison H. Trainer, Thérèse Truong, Nadine Tung, Celine M. Vachon, Ana Vega, Joseph Vijai, Qin Wang, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Clarice R. Weinberg, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Camilla Wendt, Alicja Wolk, Siddhartha Yadav, Xiaohong R. Yang, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Wei Zheng, Argyrios Ziogas, Kristin K. Zorn, Sue K. Park, Mads Thomassen, Kenneth Offit, Rita K. Schmutzler, Fergus J. Couch, Jacques Simard, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Douglas F. Easton, Nadine Andrieu, and Antonis C. Antoniou
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers varies depending on other genetic factors. Here, the authors perform a case-only genome-wide association study and highlight novel loci associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers.
Published: 2021
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16. Identification of novel breast cancer susceptibility loci in meta-analyses conducted among Asian and European descendants

Author: Xiang Shu, Jirong Long, Qiuyin Cai, Sun-Seog Kweon, Ji-Yeob Choi, Michiaki Kubo, Sue K. Park, Manjeet K. Bolla, Joe Dennis, Qin Wang, Yaohua Yang, Jiajun Shi, Xingyi Guo, Bingshan Li, Ran Tao, Kristan J. Aronson, Kelvin Y. K. Chan, Tsun L. Chan, Yu-Tang Gao, Mikael Hartman, Weang Kee Ho, Hidemi Ito, Motoki Iwasaki, Hiroji Iwata, Esther M. John, Yoshio Kasuga, Ui Soon Khoo, Mi-Kyung Kim, Sun-Young Kong, Allison W. Kurian, Ava Kwong, Eun-Sook Lee, Jingmei Li, Artitaya Lophatananon, Siew-Kee Low, Shivaani Mariapun, Koichi Matsuda, Keitaro Matsuo, Kenneth Muir, Dong-Young Noh, Boyoung Park, Min-Ho Park, Chen-Yang Shen, Min-Ho Shin, John J. Spinelli, Atsushi Takahashi, Chiuchen Tseng, Shoichiro Tsugane, Anna H. Wu, Yong-Bing Xiang, Taiki Yamaji, Ying Zheng, Roger L. Milne, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Montserrat García-Closas, Soo-Hwang Teo, Xiao-ou Shu, Daehee Kang, Douglas F. Easton, Jacques Simard, and Wei Zheng
Subjects: Science
Abstract: In breast cancer, genome-wide associations studies (GWAS) have highlighted loci associated with disease risk. Here, the authors perform a meta-analysis of GWAS data from Asian populations, discovering 31 potential new risk loci, 10 of which are validated in an independent disease cohort.
Published: 2020
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17. Correction: PredictCBC-2.0: a contralateral breast cancer risk prediction model developed and validated in ~ 200,000 patients

Author: Daniele Giardiello, Maartje J. Hooning, Michael Hauptmann, Renske Keeman, B. A. M. Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Heiko Becher, Carl Blomqvist, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Nicola J. Camp, Kamila Czene, Peter Devilee, Diana M. Eccles, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine D. Figueroa, Henrik Flyger, Montserrat García-Closas, Christopher A. Haiman, Ute Hamann, John L. Hopper, Anna Jakubowska, Floor E. Leeuwen, Annika Lindblom, Jan Lubiński, Sara Margolin, Maria Elena Martinez, Heli Nevanlinna, Ines Nevelsteen, Saskia Pelders, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Sabine Siesling, Melissa C. Southey, Annemieke H. van der Hout, Liselotte P. van Hest, Jenny Chang-Claude, Per Hall, Douglas F. Easton, Ewout W. Steyerberg, and Marjanka K. Schmidt
Subjects: Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Published: 2022
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18. A framework for transcriptome-wide association studies in breast cancer in diverse study populations

Author: Arjun Bhattacharya, Montserrat García-Closas, Andrew F. Olshan, Charles M. Perou, Melissa A. Troester, and Michael I. Love
Subjects: Transcriptome-wide analysis (TWAS), Breast cancer, Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL), Survival, Polygenic traits, Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Abstract Background The relationship between germline genetic variation and breast cancer survival is largely unknown, especially in understudied minority populations who often have poorer survival. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have interrogated breast cancer survival but often are underpowered due to subtype heterogeneity and clinical covariates and detect loci in non-coding regions that are difficult to interpret. Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) show increased power in detecting functionally relevant loci by leveraging expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) from external reference panels in relevant tissues. However, ancestry- or race-specific reference panels may be needed to draw correct inference in ancestrally diverse cohorts. Such panels for breast cancer are lacking. Results We provide a framework for TWAS for breast cancer in diverse populations, using data from the Carolina Breast Cancer Study (CBCS), a population-based cohort that oversampled black women. We perform eQTL analysis for 406 breast cancer-related genes to train race-stratified predictive models of tumor expression from germline genotypes. Using these models, we impute expression in independent data from CBCS and TCGA, accounting for sampling variability in assessing performance. These models are not applicable across race, and their predictive performance varies across tumor subtype. Within CBCS (N = 3,828), at a false discovery-adjusted significance of 0.10 and stratifying for race, we identify associations in black women near AURKA, CAPN13, PIK3CA, and SERPINB5 via TWAS that are underpowered in GWAS. Conclusions We show that carefully implemented and thoroughly validated TWAS is an efficient approach for understanding the genetics underpinning breast cancer outcomes in diverse populations.
Published: 2020
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19. A network analysis to identify mediators of germline-driven differences in breast cancer prognosis

Author: Maria Escala-Garcia, Jean Abraham, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Alan Ashworth, Paul L. Auer, Päivi Auvinen, Matthias W. Beckmann, Jonathan Beesley, Sabine Behrens, Javier Benitez, Marina Bermisheva, Carl Blomqvist, William Blot, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Sara Y. Brucker, Barbara Burwinkel, Carlos Caldas, Federico Canzian, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Suet-Feung Chin, Christine L. Clarke, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Joe Dennis, Peter Devilee, Janet A. Dunn, Alison M. Dunning, Miriam Dwek, Helena M. Earl, Diana M. Eccles, A. Heather Eliassen, Carolina Ellberg, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine Figueroa, Henrik Flyger, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Susan M. Gapstur, Montserrat García-Closas, José A. García-Sáenz, Mia M. Gaudet, Angela George, Graham G. Giles, David E. Goldgar, Anna González-Neira, Mervi Grip, Pascal Guénel, Qi Guo, Christopher A. Haiman, Niclas Håkansson, Ute Hamann, Patricia A. Harrington, Louise Hiller, Maartje J. Hooning, John L. Hopper, Anthony Howell, Chiun-Sheng Huang, Guanmengqian Huang, David J. Hunter, Anna Jakubowska, Esther M. John, Rudolf Kaaks, Pooja Middha Kapoor, Renske Keeman, Cari M. Kitahara, Linetta B. Koppert, Peter Kraft, Vessela N. Kristensen, Diether Lambrechts, Loic Le Marchand, Flavio Lejbkowicz, Annika Lindblom, Jan Lubiński, Arto Mannermaa, Mehdi Manoochehri, Siranoush Manoukian, Sara Margolin, Maria Elena Martinez, Tabea Maurer, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Alfons Meindl, Roger L. Milne, Anna Marie Mulligan, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, William G. Newman, Andrew F. Olshan, Janet E. Olson, Håkan Olsson, Nick Orr, Paolo Peterlongo, Christos Petridis, Ross L. Prentice, Nadege Presneau, Kevin Punie, Dhanya Ramachandran, Gad Rennert, Atocha Romero, Mythily Sachchithananthan, Emmanouil Saloustros, Elinor J. Sawyer, Rita K. Schmutzler, Lukas Schwentner, Christopher Scott, Jacques Simard, Christof Sohn, Melissa C. Southey, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Rulla M. Tamimi, William J. Tapper, Manuel R. Teixeira, Mary Beth Terry, Heather Thorne, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Ian Tomlinson, Melissa A. Troester, Thérèse Truong, Clare Turnbull, Celine M. Vachon, Lizet E. van der Kolk, Qin Wang, Robert Winqvist, Alicja Wolk, Xiaohong R. Yang, Argyrios Ziogas, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Per Hall, Lodewyk F. A. Wessels, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Gary D. Bader, Thilo Dörk, Douglas F. Easton, Sander Canisius, and Marjanka K. Schmidt
Subjects: Science
Abstract: In breast cancer the contribution of different genetic variants to disease heritability is complex and not fully understood. Here, the authors present a network-based analysis in 84,567 patients studying ~7.3 million variants, identifying gene modules associated with breast cancer survival.
Published: 2020
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20. Prediction and clinical utility of a contralateral breast cancer risk model

Author: Daniele Giardiello, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Michael Hauptmann, Muriel A. Adank, Delal Akdeniz, Carl Blomqvist, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Mariël Brinkhuis, Jenny Chang-Claude, Kamila Czene, Peter Devilee, Alison M. Dunning, Douglas F. Easton, Diana M. Eccles, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine Figueroa, Henrik Flyger, Montserrat García-Closas, Lothar Haeberle, Christopher A. Haiman, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, John L. Hopper, Agnes Jager, Anna Jakubowska, Audrey Jung, Renske Keeman, Iris Kramer, Diether Lambrechts, Loic Le Marchand, Annika Lindblom, Jan Lubiński, Mehdi Manoochehri, Luigi Mariani, Heli Nevanlinna, Hester S. A. Oldenburg, Saskia Pelders, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Mitul Shah, Sabine Siesling, Vincent T. H. B. M. Smit, Melissa C. Southey, William J. Tapper, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Alexandra J. van den Broek, Carolien H. M. van Deurzen, Flora E. van Leeuwen, Chantal van Ongeval, Laura J. Van’t Veer, Qin Wang, Camilla Wendt, Pieter J. Westenend, Maartje J. Hooning, and Marjanka K. Schmidt
Subjects: Contralateral breast cancer, Risk prediction model, Clinical decision-making, BRCA mutation carriers, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: Abstract Background Breast cancer survivors are at risk for contralateral breast cancer (CBC), with the consequent burden of further treatment and potentially less favorable prognosis. We aimed to develop and validate a CBC risk prediction model and evaluate its applicability for clinical decision-making. Methods We included data of 132,756 invasive non-metastatic breast cancer patients from 20 studies with 4682 CBC events and a median follow-up of 8.8 years. We developed a multivariable Fine and Gray prediction model (PredictCBC-1A) including patient, primary tumor, and treatment characteristics and BRCA1/2 germline mutation status, accounting for the competing risks of death and distant metastasis. We also developed a model without BRCA1/2 mutation status (PredictCBC-1B) since this information was available for only 6% of patients and is routinely unavailable in the general breast cancer population. Prediction performance was evaluated using calibration and discrimination, calculated by a time-dependent area under the curve (AUC) at 5 and 10 years after diagnosis of primary breast cancer, and an internal-external cross-validation procedure. Decision curve analysis was performed to evaluate the net benefit of the model to quantify clinical utility. Results In the multivariable model, BRCA1/2 germline mutation status, family history, and systemic adjuvant treatment showed the strongest associations with CBC risk. The AUC of PredictCBC-1A was 0.63 (95% prediction interval (PI) at 5 years, 0.52–0.74; at 10 years, 0.53–0.72). Calibration-in-the-large was -0.13 (95% PI: -1.62–1.37), and the calibration slope was 0.90 (95% PI: 0.73–1.08). The AUC of Predict-1B at 10 years was 0.59 (95% PI: 0.52–0.66); calibration was slightly lower. Decision curve analysis for preventive contralateral mastectomy showed potential clinical utility of PredictCBC-1A between thresholds of 4–10% 10-year CBC risk for BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and non-carriers. Conclusions We developed a reasonably calibrated model to predict the risk of CBC in women of European-descent; however, prediction accuracy was moderate. Our model shows potential for improved risk counseling, but decision-making regarding contralateral preventive mastectomy, especially in the general breast cancer population where limited information of the mutation status in BRCA1/2 is available, remains challenging.
Published: 2019
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21. Publisher Correction: Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers

Author: Xia Jiang, Hilary K. Finucane, Fredrick R. Schumacher, Stephanie L. Schmit, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Younghun Han, Kyriaki Michailidou, Corina Lesseur, Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker, Joe Dennis, David V. Conti, Graham Casey, Mia M. Gaudet, Jeroen R. Huyghe, Demetrius Albanes, Melinda C. Aldrich, Angeline S. Andrew, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Antonis C. Antoniou, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Susanne M. Arnold, Kristan J. Aronson, Banu K. Arun, Elisa V. Bandera, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Daniel R. Barnes, Jyotsna Batra, Matthias W. Beckmann, Javier Benitez, Sara Benlloch, Andrew Berchuck, Sonja I. Berndt, Heike Bickeböller, Stephanie A. Bien, Carl Blomqvist, Stefania Boccia, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, James D. Brenton, Mark N. Brook, Joan Brunet, Hans Brunnström, Daniel D. Buchanan, Barbara Burwinkel, Ralf Butzow, Gabriella Cadoni, Trinidad Caldés, Maria A. Caligo, Ian Campbell, Peter T. Campbell, Géraldine Cancel-Tassin, Lisa Cannon-Albright, Daniele Campa, Neil Caporaso, André L. Carvalho, Andrew T. Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Chu Chen, David C. Christiani, Kathleen B. M. Claes, Frank Claessens, Judith Clements, J. Margriet Collée, Marcia Cruz Correa, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Julie M. Cunningham, Cezary Cybulski, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Anna deFazio, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Jenny L. Donovan, Thilo Dörk, Eric J. Duell, Alison M. Dunning, Miriam Dwek, Diana M. Eccles, Christopher K. Edlund, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Carolina Ellberg, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Robert L. Ferris, Triantafillos Liloglou, Jane C. Figueiredo, Olivia Fletcher, Renée T. Fortner, Florentia Fostira, Silvia Franceschi, Eitan Friedman, Steven J. Gallinger, Patricia A. Ganz, Judy Garber, José A. García-Sáenz, Simon A. Gayther, Graham G. Giles, Andrew K. Godwin, Mark S. Goldberg, David E. Goldgar, Ellen L. Goode, Marc T. Goodman, Gary Goodman, Kjell Grankvist, Mark H. Greene, Henrik Gronberg, Jacek Gronwald, Pascal Guénel, Niclas Håkansson, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Freddie C. Hamdy, Robert J. Hamilton, Jochen Hampe, Aage Haugen, Florian Heitz, Rolando Herrero, Peter Hillemanns, Michael Hoffmeister, Estrid Høgdall, Yun-Chul Hong, John L. Hopper, Richard Houlston, Peter J. Hulick, David J. Hunter, David G. Huntsman, Gregory Idos, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Sue Ann Ingles, Claudine Isaacs, Anna Jakubowska, Paul James, Mark A. Jenkins, Mattias Johansson, Mikael Johansson, Esther M. John, Amit D. Joshi, Radka Kaneva, Beth Y. Karlan, Linda E. Kelemen, Tabea Kühl, Kay-Tee Khaw, Elza Khusnutdinova, Adam S. Kibel, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Jeri Kim, Susanne K. Kjaer, Julia A. Knight, Manolis Kogevinas, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Stella Koutros, Vessela N. Kristensen, Jolanta Kupryjanczyk, Martin Lacko, Stephan Lam, Diether Lambrechts, Maria Teresa Landi, Philip Lazarus, Nhu D. Le, Eunjung Lee, Flavio Lejbkowicz, Heinz-Josef Lenz, Goska Leslie, Davor Lessel, Jenny Lester, Douglas A. Levine, Li Li, Christopher I. Li, Annika Lindblom, Noralane M. Lindor, Geoffrey Liu, Fotios Loupakis, Jan Lubiński, Lovise Maehle, Christiane Maier, Arto Mannermaa, Loic Le Marchand, Sara Margolin, Taymaa May, Lesley McGuffog, Alfons Meindl, Pooja Middha, Austin Miller, Roger L. Milne, Robert J. MacInnis, Francesmary Modugno, Marco Montagna, Victor Moreno, Kirsten B. Moysich, Lorelei Mucci, Kenneth Muir, Anna Marie Mulligan, Katherine L. Nathanson, David E. Neal, Andrew R. Ness, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Polly A. Newcomb, Lisa F. Newcomb, Finn Cilius Nielsen, Liene Nikitina-Zake, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Robert L. Nussbaum, Kenneth Offit, Edith Olah, Ali Amin Al Olama, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Andrew F. Olshan, Håkan Olsson, Ana Osorio, Hardev Pandha, Jong Y. Park, Nora Pashayan, Michael T. Parsons, Tanja Pejovic, Kathryn L. Penney, Wilbert H. M. Peters, Catherine M. Phelan, Amanda I. Phipps, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Miranda Pring, Darya Prokofyeva, Paolo Radice, Kari Stefansson, Susan J. Ramus, Leon Raskin, Gad Rennert, Hedy S. Rennert, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Marjorie J. Riggan, Harvey A. Risch, Angela Risch, Monique J. Roobol, Barry S. Rosenstein, Mary Anne Rossing, Kim De Ruyck, Emmanouil Saloustros, Dale P. Sandler, Elinor J. Sawyer, Matthew B. Schabath, Johanna Schleutker, Marjanka K. Schmidt, V. Wendy Setiawan, Hongbing Shen, Erin M. Siegel, Weiva Sieh, Christian F. Singer, Martha L. Slattery, Karina Dalsgaard Sorensen, Melissa C. Southey, Amanda B. Spurdle, Janet L. Stanford, Victoria L. Stevens, Sebastian Stintzing, Jennifer Stone, Karin Sundfeldt, Rebecca Sutphen, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Eloiza H. Tajara, Catherine M. Tangen, Adonina Tardon, Jack A. Taylor, M. Dawn Teare, Manuel R. Teixeira, Mary Beth Terry, Kathryn L. Terry, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Mads Thomassen, Line Bjørge, Marc Tischkowitz, Amanda E. Toland, Diana Torres, Paul A. Townsend, Ruth C. Travis, Nadine Tung, Shelley S. Tworoger, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Nawaid Usmani, Celine M. Vachon, Els Van Nieuwenhuysen, Ana Vega, Miguel Elías Aguado-Barrera, Qin Wang, Penelope M. Webb, Clarice R. Weinberg, Stephanie Weinstein, Mark C. Weissler, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Catharine M. L. West, Emily White, Alice S. Whittemore, H-Erich Wichmann, Fredrik Wiklund, Robert Winqvist, Alicja Wolk, Penella Woll, Michael Woods, Anna H. Wu, Xifeng Wu, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Wei Zheng, Shanbeh Zienolddiny, Argyrios Ziogas, Kristin K. Zorn, Jacqueline M. Lane, Richa Saxena, Duncan Thomas, Rayjean J. Hung, Brenda Diergaarde, James McKay, Ulrike Peters, Li Hsu, Montserrat García-Closas, Rosalind A. Eeles, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Paul J. Brennan, Christopher A. Haiman, Jacques Simard, Douglas F. Easton, Stephen B. Gruber, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Alkes L. Price, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Christopher I. Amos, Peter Kraft, and Sara Lindström
Subjects: Science
Abstract: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
Published: 2019
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22. Genome-wide association and transcriptome studies identify target genes and risk loci for breast cancer

Author: Manuel A. Ferreira, Eric R. Gamazon, Fares Al-Ejeh, Kristiina Aittomäki, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Adalgeir Arason, Volker Arndt, Kristan J. Aronson, Banu K. Arun, Ella Asseryanis, Jacopo Azzollini, Judith Balmaña, Daniel R. Barnes, Daniel Barrowdale, Matthias W. Beckmann, Sabine Behrens, Javier Benitez, Marina Bermisheva, Katarzyna Białkowska, Carl Blomqvist, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Ake Borg, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Annegien Broeks, Barbara Burwinkel, Trinidad Caldés, Maria A. Caligo, Daniele Campa, Ian Campbell, Federico Canzian, Jonathan Carter, Brian D. Carter, Jose E. Castelao, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Hans Christiansen, Wendy K. Chung, Kathleen B. M. Claes, Christine L. Clarke, EMBRACE Collaborators, GC-HBOC Study Collaborators, GEMO Study Collaborators, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Miguel de la Hoya, Joe Dennis, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Thilo Dörk, Alison M. Dunning, Miriam Dwek, Diana M. Eccles, Bent Ejlertsen, Carolina Ellberg, Christoph Engel, Mikael Eriksson, Peter A. Fasching, Olivia Fletcher, Henrik Flyger, Eitan Friedman, Debra Frost, Marike Gabrielson, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Patricia A. Ganz, Susan M. Gapstur, Judy Garber, Montserrat García-Closas, José A. García-Sáenz, Mia M. Gaudet, Graham G. Giles, Gord Glendon, Andrew K. Godwin, Mark S. Goldberg, David E. Goldgar, Anna González-Neira, Mark H. Greene, Jacek Gronwald, Pascal Guénel, Christopher A. Haiman, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Wei He, Jane Heyworth, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Antoinette Hollestelle, Robert N. Hoover, John L. Hopper, Peter J. Hulick, Keith Humphreys, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, ABCTB Investigators, HEBON Investigators, BCFR Investigators, Claudine Isaacs, Milena Jakimovska, Anna Jakubowska, Paul A. James, Ramunas Janavicius, Rachel C. Jankowitz, Esther M. John, Nichola Johnson, Vijai Joseph, Beth Y. Karlan, Elza Khusnutdinova, Johanna I. Kiiski, Yon-Dschun Ko, Michael E. Jones, Irene Konstantopoulou, Vessela N. Kristensen, Yael Laitman, Diether Lambrechts, Conxi Lazaro, Goska Leslie, Jenny Lester, Fabienne Lesueur, Sara Lindström, Jirong Long, Jennifer T. Loud, Jan Lubiński, Enes Makalic, Arto Mannermaa, Mehdi Manoochehri, Sara Margolin, Tabea Maurer, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Lesley McGuffog, Alfons Meindl, Usha Menon, Kyriaki Michailidou, Austin Miller, Marco Montagna, Fernando Moreno, Lidia Moserle, Anna Marie Mulligan, Katherine L. Nathanson, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Ines Nevelsteen, Finn C. Nielsen, Liene Nikitina-Zake, Robert L. Nussbaum, Kenneth Offit, Edith Olah, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Håkan Olsson, Ana Osorio, Janos Papp, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Michael T. Parsons, Inge Sokilde Pedersen, Ana Peixoto, Paolo Peterlongo, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Bruce Poppe, Nadege Presneau, Paolo Radice, Johanna Rantala, Gad Rennert, Harvey A. Risch, Emmanouil Saloustros, Kristin Sanden, Elinor J. Sawyer, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Rita K. Schmutzler, Priyanka Sharma, Xiao-Ou Shu, Jacques Simard, Christian F. Singer, Penny Soucy, Melissa C. Southey, John J. Spinelli, Amanda B. Spurdle, Jennifer Stone, Anthony J. Swerdlow, William J. Tapper, Jack A. Taylor, Manuel R. Teixeira, Mary Beth Terry, Alex Teulé, Mads Thomassen, Kathrin Thöne, Darcy L. Thull, Marc Tischkowitz, Amanda E. Toland, Diana Torres, Thérèse Truong, Nadine Tung, Celine M. Vachon, Christi J. van Asperen, Ans M. W. van den Ouweland, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Ana Vega, Alessandra Viel, Qin Wang, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Camilla Wendt, Robert Winqvist, Xiaohong R. Yang, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Argyrios Ziogas, Peter Kraft, Antonis C. Antoniou, Wei Zheng, Douglas F. Easton, Roger L. Milne, Jonathan Beesley, and Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Over 170 susceptibility loci have been identified by genome-wide association studies in breast cancer. Here, the authors interrogated the role of risk-associated variants from non-breast tissue, and using expression quantitative trait loci, identify potential target genes of known breast cancer susceptibility variants, as well as 11 regions not previously known to be associated with breast cancer risk.
Published: 2019
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23. Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers

Author: Xia Jiang, Hilary K. Finucane, Fredrick R. Schumacher, Stephanie L. Schmit, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Younghun Han, Kyriaki Michailidou, Corina Lesseur, Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker, Joe Dennis, David V. Conti, Graham Casey, Mia M. Gaudet, Jeroen R. Huyghe, Demetrius Albanes, Melinda C. Aldrich, Angeline S. Andrew, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Antonis C. Antoniou, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Susanne M. Arnold, Kristan J. Aronson, Banu K. Arun, Elisa V. Bandera, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Daniel R. Barnes, Jyotsna Batra, Matthias W. Beckmann, Javier Benitez, Sara Benlloch, Andrew Berchuck, Sonja I. Berndt, Heike Bickeböller, Stephanie A. Bien, Carl Blomqvist, Stefania Boccia, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, James D. Brenton, Mark N. Brook, Joan Brunet, Hans Brunnström, Daniel D. Buchanan, Barbara Burwinkel, Ralf Butzow, Gabriella Cadoni, Trinidad Caldés, Maria A. Caligo, Ian Campbell, Peter T. Campbell, Géraldine Cancel-Tassin, Lisa Cannon-Albright, Daniele Campa, Neil Caporaso, André L. Carvalho, Andrew T. Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Chu Chen, David C. Christiani, Kathleen B. M. Claes, Frank Claessens, Judith Clements, J. Margriet Collée, Marcia Cruz Correa, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Julie M. Cunningham, Cezary Cybulski, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Anna deFazio, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Jenny L. Donovan, Thilo Dörk, Eric J. Duell, Alison M. Dunning, Miriam Dwek, Diana M. Eccles, Christopher K. Edlund, Digna R Velez Edwards, Carolina Ellberg, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Robert L. Ferris, Triantafillos Liloglou, Jane C. Figueiredo, Olivia Fletcher, Renée T. Fortner, Florentia Fostira, Silvia Franceschi, Eitan Friedman, Steven J. Gallinger, Patricia A. Ganz, Judy Garber, José A. García-Sáenz, Simon A. Gayther, Graham G. Giles, Andrew K. Godwin, Mark S. Goldberg, David E. Goldgar, Ellen L. Goode, Marc T. Goodman, Gary Goodman, Kjell Grankvist, Mark H. Greene, Henrik Gronberg, Jacek Gronwald, Pascal Guénel, Niclas Håkansson, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Freddie C. Hamdy, Robert J. Hamilton, Jochen Hampe, Aage Haugen, Florian Heitz, Rolando Herrero, Peter Hillemanns, Michael Hoffmeister, Estrid Høgdall, Yun-Chul Hong, John L. Hopper, Richard Houlston, Peter J. Hulick, David J. Hunter, David G. Huntsman, Gregory Idos, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Sue Ann Ingles, Claudine Isaacs, Anna Jakubowska, Paul James, Mark A. Jenkins, Mattias Johansson, Mikael Johansson, Esther M. John, Amit D. Joshi, Radka Kaneva, Beth Y. Karlan, Linda E. Kelemen, Tabea Kühl, Kay-Tee Khaw, Elza Khusnutdinova, Adam S. Kibel, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Jeri Kim, Susanne K. Kjaer, Julia A. Knight, Manolis Kogevinas, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Stella Koutros, Vessela N. Kristensen, Jolanta Kupryjanczyk, Martin Lacko, Stephan Lam, Diether Lambrechts, Maria Teresa Landi, Philip Lazarus, Nhu D. Le, Eunjung Lee, Flavio Lejbkowicz, Heinz-Josef Lenz, Goska Leslie, Davor Lessel, Jenny Lester, Douglas A. Levine, Li Li, Christopher I. Li, Annika Lindblom, Noralane M. Lindor, Geoffrey Liu, Fotios Loupakis, Jan Lubiński, Lovise Maehle, Christiane Maier, Arto Mannermaa, Loic Le Marchand, Sara Margolin, Taymaa May, Lesley McGuffog, Alfons Meindl, Pooja Middha, Austin Miller, Roger L. Milne, Robert J. MacInnis, Francesmary Modugno, Marco Montagna, Victor Moreno, Kirsten B. Moysich, Lorelei Mucci, Kenneth Muir, Anna Marie Mulligan, Katherine L. Nathanson, David E. Neal, Andrew R. Ness, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Polly A. Newcomb, Lisa F. Newcomb, Finn Cilius Nielsen, Liene Nikitina-Zake, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Robert L. Nussbaum, Kenneth Offit, Edith Olah, Ali Amin Al Olama, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Andrew F. Olshan, Håkan Olsson, Ana Osorio, Hardev Pandha, Jong Y. Park, Nora Pashayan, Michael T. Parsons, Tanja Pejovic, Kathryn L. Penney, Wilbert H M. Peters, Catherine M. Phelan, Amanda I. Phipps, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Miranda Pring, Darya Prokofyeva, Paolo Radice, Kari Stefansson, Susan J. Ramus, Leon Raskin, Gad Rennert, Hedy S. Rennert, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Marjorie J. Riggan, Harvey A. Risch, Angela Risch, Monique J. Roobol, Barry S. Rosenstein, Mary Anne Rossing, Kim De Ruyck, Emmanouil Saloustros, Dale P. Sandler, Elinor J. Sawyer, Matthew B. Schabath, Johanna Schleutker, Marjanka K. Schmidt, V. Wendy Setiawan, Hongbing Shen, Erin M. Siegel, Weiva Sieh, Christian F. Singer, Martha L. Slattery, Karina Dalsgaard Sorensen, Melissa C. Southey, Amanda B. Spurdle, Janet L. Stanford, Victoria L. Stevens, Sebastian Stintzing, Jennifer Stone, Karin Sundfeldt, Rebecca Sutphen, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Eloiza H. Tajara, Catherine M. Tangen, Adonina Tardon, Jack A. Taylor, M. Dawn Teare, Manuel R. Teixeira, Mary Beth Terry, Kathryn L. Terry, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Mads Thomassen, Line Bjørge, Marc Tischkowitz, Amanda E. Toland, Diana Torres, Paul A. Townsend, Ruth C. Travis, Nadine Tung, Shelley S. Tworoger, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Nawaid Usmani, Celine M. Vachon, Els Van Nieuwenhuysen, Ana Vega, Miguel Elías Aguado-Barrera, Qin Wang, Penelope M. Webb, Clarice R. Weinberg, Stephanie Weinstein, Mark C. Weissler, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Catharine M. L. West, Emily White, Alice S. Whittemore, H-Erich Wichmann, Fredrik Wiklund, Robert Winqvist, Alicja Wolk, Penella Woll, Michael Woods, Anna H. Wu, Xifeng Wu, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Wei Zheng, Shanbeh Zienolddiny, Argyrios Ziogas, Kristin K. Zorn, Jacqueline M. Lane, Richa Saxena, Duncan Thomas, Rayjean J. Hung, Brenda Diergaarde, James McKay, Ulrike Peters, Li Hsu, Montserrat García-Closas, Rosalind A. Eeles, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Paul J. Brennan, Christopher A. Haiman, Jacques Simard, Douglas F. Easton, Stephen B. Gruber, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Alkes L. Price, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Christopher I. Amos, Peter Kraft, and Sara Lindström
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Similarities in cancers can be studied to interrogate their etiology. Here, the authors use genome-wide association study summary statistics from six cancer types based on 296,215 cases and 301,319 controls of European ancestry, showing that solid tumours arising from different tissues share a degree of common germline genetic basis.
Published: 2019
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24. Identification of nine new susceptibility loci for endometrial cancer

Author: Tracy A. O’Mara, Dylan M. Glubb, Frederic Amant, Daniela Annibali, Katie Ashton, John Attia, Paul L. Auer, Matthias W. Beckmann, Amanda Black, Manjeet K. Bolla, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Louise Brinton, Daniel D. Buchanan, Barbara Burwinkel, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Chu Chen, Maxine M. Chen, Timothy H. T. Cheng, Christine L. Clarke, Mark Clendenning, Linda S. Cook, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Marta Crous-Bous, Kamila Czene, Felix Day, Joe Dennis, Jeroen Depreeuw, Jennifer Anne Doherty, Thilo Dörk, Sean C. Dowdy, Matthias Dürst, Arif B. Ekici, Peter A. Fasching, Brooke L. Fridley, Christine M. Friedenreich, Lin Fritschi, Jenny Fung, Montserrat García-Closas, Mia M. Gaudet, Graham G. Giles, Ellen L. Goode, Maggie Gorman, Christopher A. Haiman, Per Hall, Susan E. Hankison, Catherine S. Healey, Alexander Hein, Peter Hillemanns, Shirley Hodgson, Erling A. Hoivik, Elizabeth G. Holliday, John L. Hopper, David J. Hunter, Angela Jones, Camilla Krakstad, Vessela N. Kristensen, Diether Lambrechts, Loic Le Marchand, Xiaolin Liang, Annika Lindblom, Jolanta Lissowska, Jirong Long, Lingeng Lu, Anthony M. Magliocco, Lynn Martin, Mark McEvoy, Alfons Meindl, Kyriaki Michailidou, Roger L. Milne, Miriam Mints, Grant W. Montgomery, Rami Nassir, Håkan Olsson, Irene Orlow, Geoffrey Otton, Claire Palles, John R. B. Perry, Julian Peto, Loreall Pooler, Jennifer Prescott, Tony Proietto, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Harvey A. Risch, Peter A. W. Rogers, Matthias Rübner, Ingo Runnebaum, Carlotta Sacerdote, Gloria E. Sarto, Fredrick Schumacher, Rodney J. Scott, V. Wendy Setiawan, Mitul Shah, Xin Sheng, Xiao-Ou Shu, Melissa C. Southey, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Emma Tham, Jone Trovik, Constance Turman, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Celine Vachon, David VanDen Berg, Adriaan Vanderstichele, Zhaoming Wang, Penelope M. Webb, Nicolas Wentzensen, Henrica M. J. Werner, Stacey J. Winham, Alicja Wolk, Lucy Xia, Yong-Bing Xiang, Hannah P. Yang, Herbert Yu, Wei Zheng, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Alison M. Dunning, Peter Kraft, Immaculata De Vivo, Ian Tomlinson, Douglas F. Easton, Amanda B. Spurdle, and Deborah J. Thompson
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Endometrial cancer is the most common invasive gynaecological cancer in developed countries. Here a meta-analysis identifies an additional nine novel endometrial cancer risk loci and eQTL analysis reveals risk variants associate with reduced expression of negative regulators of oncogenic signal transduction proteins.
Published: 2018
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25. Author Correction: A case-only study to identify genetic modifiers of breast cancer risk for BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers

Author: Juliette Coignard, Michael Lush, Jonathan Beesley, Tracy A. O’Mara, Joe Dennis, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Daniel R. Barnes, Lesley McGuffog, Goska Leslie, Manjeet K. Bolla, Muriel A. Adank, Simona Agata, Thomas Ahearn, Kristiina Aittomäki, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Norbert Arnold, Kristan J. Aronson, Banu K. Arun, Annelie Augustinsson, Jacopo Azzollini, Daniel Barrowdale, Caroline Baynes, Heko Becher, Marina Bermisheva, Leslie Bernstein, Katarzyna Białkowska, Carl Blomqvist, Stig E. Bojesen, Bernardo Bonanni, Ake Borg, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Barbara Burwinkel, Saundra S. Buys, Trinidad Caldés, Maria A. Caligo, Daniele Campa, Brian D. Carter, Jose E. Castelao, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Wendy K. Chung, Kathleen B. M. Claes, Christine L. Clarke, GEMO Study Collaborators, EMBRACE Collaborators, J. Margriet Collée, Don M. Conroy, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Yuan Chun Ding, Susan M. Domchek, Thilo Dörk, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Alison M. Dunning, Miriam Dwek, Diana M. Eccles, A. Heather Eliassen, Christoph Engel, Mikael Eriksson, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Henrik Flyger, Florentia Fostira, Eitan Friedman, Lin Fritschi, Debra Frost, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Susan M. Gapstur, Judy Garber, Vanesa Garcia-Barberan, Montserrat García-Closas, José A. García-Sáenz, Mia M. Gaudet, Simon A. Gayther, Andrea Gehrig, Vassilios Georgoulias, Graham G. Giles, Andrew K. Godwin, Mark S. Goldberg, David E. Goldgar, Anna González-Neira, Mark H. Greene, Pascal Guénel, Lothar Haeberle, Eric Hahnen, Christopher A. Haiman, Niclas Håkansson, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Patricia A. Harrington, Steven N. Hart, Wei He, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Antoinette Hollestelle, John L. Hopper, Darling J. Horcasitas, Peter J. Hulick, David J. Hunter, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, KConFab Investigators, HEBON Investigators, ABCTB Investigators, Agnes Jager, Anna Jakubowska, Paul A. James, Uffe Birk Jensen, Esther M. John, Michael E. Jones, Rudolf Kaaks, Pooja Middha Kapoor, Beth Y. Karlan, Renske Keeman, Elza Khusnutdinova, Johanna I. Kiiski, Yon-Dschun Ko, Veli-Matti Kosma, Peter Kraft, Allison W. Kurian, Yael Laitman, Diether Lambrechts, Loic Le Marchand, Jenny Lester, Fabienne Lesueur, Tricia Lindstrom, Adria Lopez-Fernández, Jennifer T. Loud, Craig Luccarini, Arto Mannermaa, Siranoush Manoukian, Sara Margolin, John W. M. Martens, Noura Mebirouk, Alfons Meindl, Austin Miller, Roger L. Milne, Marco Montagna, Katherine L. Nathanson, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Finn C. Nielsen, Katie M. O’Brien, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Janet E. Olson, Håkan Olsson, Ana Osorio, Laura Ottini, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Michael T. Parsons, Inge Sokilde Pedersen, Beth Peshkin, Paolo Peterlongo, Julian Peto, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Kelly-Anne Phillips, Eric C. Polley, Bruce Poppe, Nadege Presneau, Miquel Angel Pujana, Kevin Punie, Paolo Radice, Johanna Rantala, Muhammad U. Rashid, Gad Rennert, Hedy S. Rennert, Mark Robson, Atocha Romero, Maria Rossing, Emmanouil Saloustros, Dale P. Sandler, Regina Santella, Maren T. Scheuner, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Gunnar Schmidt, Christopher Scott, Priyanka Sharma, Penny Soucy, Melissa C. Southey, John J. Spinelli, Zoe Steinsnyder, Jennifer Stone, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Anthony Swerdlow, Rulla M. Tamimi, William J. Tapper, Jack A. Taylor, Mary Beth Terry, Alex Teulé, Darcy L. Thull, Marc Tischkowitz, Amanda E. Toland, Diana Torres, Alison H. Trainer, Thérèse Truong, Nadine Tung, Celine M. Vachon, Ana Vega, Joseph Vijai, Qin Wang, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Clarice R. Weinberg, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Camilla Wendt, Alicja Wolk, Siddhartha Yadav, Xiaohong R. Yang, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Wei Zheng, Argyrios Ziogas, Kristin K. Zorn, Sue K. Park, Mads Thomassen, Kenneth Offit, Rita K. Schmutzler, Fergus J. Couch, Jacques Simard, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Douglas F. Easton, Nadine Andrieu, and Antonis C. Antoniou
Subjects: Science
Abstract: A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23162-4
Published: 2021
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26. Functional mechanisms underlying pleiotropic risk alleles at the 19p13.1 breast–ovarian cancer susceptibility locus

Author: Kate Lawrenson, Siddhartha Kar, Karen McCue, Karoline Kuchenbaeker, Kyriaki Michailidou, Jonathan Tyrer, Jonathan Beesley, Susan J. Ramus, Qiyuan Li, Melissa K. Delgado, Janet M. Lee, Kristiina Aittomäki, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Banu K. Arun, Brita Arver, Elisa V. Bandera, Monica Barile, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Daniel Barrowdale, Matthias W. Beckmann, Javier Benitez, Andrew Berchuck, Maria Bisogna, Line Bjorge, Carl Blomqvist, William Blot, Natalia Bogdanova, Anders Bojesen, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Bernardo Bonanni, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Hiltrud Brauch, Paul Brennan, Hermann Brenner, Fiona Bruinsma, Joan Brunet, Shaik Ahmad Buhari, Barbara Burwinkel, Ralf Butzow, Saundra S. Buys, Qiuyin Cai, Trinidad Caldes, Ian Campbell, Rikki Canniotto, Jenny Chang-Claude, Jocelyne Chiquette, Ji-Yeob Choi, Kathleen B. M. Claes, GEMO Study Collaborators, Linda S. Cook, Angela Cox, Daniel W. Cramer, Simon S. Cross, Cezary Cybulski, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Francesca Damiola, Agnieszka Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Hatef Darabi, Joe Dennis, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Jennifer A. Doherty, Susan M. Domchek, Cecilia M. Dorfling, Thilo Dörk, Martine Dumont, Hans Ehrencrona, Bent Ejlertsen, Steve Ellis, EMBRACE, Christoph Engel, Eunjung Lee, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Lidia Feliubadalo, Jonine Figueroa, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Olivia Fletcher, Henrik Flyger, Lenka Foretova, Florentia Fostira, William D. Foulkes, Brooke L. Fridley, Eitan Friedman, Debra Frost, Gaetana Gambino, Patricia A. Ganz, Judy Garber, Montserrat García-Closas, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Maya Ghoussaini, Graham G. Giles, Rosalind Glasspool, Andrew K. Godwin, Mark S. Goldberg, David E. Goldgar, Anna González-Neira, Ellen L. Goode, Marc T. Goodman, Mark H. Greene, Jacek Gronwald, Pascal Guénel, Christopher A. Haiman, Per Hall, Emily Hallberg, Ute Hamann, Thomas V. O. Hansen, Patricia A. Harrington, Mikael Hartman, Norhashimah Hassan, Sue Healey, The Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Group Netherlands (HEBON), Florian Heitz, Josef Herzog, Estrid Høgdall, Claus K. Høgdall, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Antoinette Hollestelle, John L. Hopper, Peter J. Hulick, Tomasz Huzarski, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, KConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Claudine Isaacs, Hidemi Ito, Anna Jakubowska, Ramunas Janavicius, Allan Jensen, Esther M. John, Nichola Johnson, Maria Kabisch, Daehee Kang, Miroslav Kapuscinski, Beth Y. Karlan, Sofia Khan, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Susanne Kruger Kjaer, Julia A. Knight, Irene Konstantopoulou, Veli-Matti Kosma, Vessela Kristensen, Jolanta Kupryjanczyk, Ava Kwong, Miguel de la Hoya, Yael Laitman, Diether Lambrechts, Nhu Le, Kim De Leeneer, Jenny Lester, Douglas A. Levine, Jingmei Li, Annika Lindblom, Jirong Long, Artitaya Lophatananon, Jennifer T. Loud, Karen Lu, Jan Lubinski, Arto Mannermaa, Siranoush Manoukian, Loic Le Marchand, Sara Margolin, Frederik Marme, Leon F. A. G. Massuger, Keitaro Matsuo, Sylvie Mazoyer, Lesley McGuffog, Catriona McLean, Iain McNeish, Alfons Meindl, Usha Menon, Arjen R. Mensenkamp, Roger L. Milne, Marco Montagna, Kirsten B. Moysich, Kenneth Muir, Anna Marie Mulligan, Katherine L. Nathanson, Roberta B. Ness, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Silje Nord, Robert L. Nussbaum, Kunle Odunsi, Kenneth Offit, Edith Olah, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Janet E. Olson, Curtis Olswold, David O’Malley, Irene Orlow, Nick Orr, Ana Osorio, Sue Kyung Park, Celeste L. Pearce, Tanja Pejovic, Paolo Peterlongo, Georg Pfeiler, Catherine M. Phelan, Elizabeth M. Poole, Katri Pylkäs, Paolo Radice, Johanna Rantala, Muhammad Usman Rashid, Gad Rennert, Valerie Rhenius, Kerstin Rhiem, Harvey A. Risch, Gus Rodriguez, Mary Anne Rossing, Anja Rudolph, Helga B. Salvesen, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Elinor J. Sawyer, Joellen M. Schildkraut, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Rita K. Schmutzler, Thomas A. Sellers, Caroline Seynaeve, Mitul Shah, Chen-Yang Shen, Xiao-Ou Shu, Weiva Sieh, Christian F. Singer, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Susan Slager, Honglin Song, Penny Soucy, Melissa C. Southey, Marie Stenmark-Askmalm, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Christian Sutter, Anthony Swerdlow, Sandrine Tchatchou, Manuel R. Teixeira, Soo H. Teo, Kathryn L. Terry, Mary Beth Terry, Mads Thomassen, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Laima Tihomirova, Silvia Tognazzo, Amanda Ewart Toland, Ian Tomlinson, Diana Torres, Thérèse Truong, Chiu-chen Tseng, Nadine Tung, Shelley S. Tworoger, Celine Vachon, Ans M. W. van den Ouweland, Helena C. van Doorn, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Laura J. Van't Veer, Adriaan Vanderstichele, Ignace Vergote, Joseph Vijai, Qin Wang, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Nicolas Wentzensen, Alice S. Whittemore, Hans Wildiers, Robert Winqvist, Anna H. Wu, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Sook-Yee Yoon, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Wei Zheng, Ying Zheng, Kum Kum Khanna, Jacques Simard, Alvaro N. Monteiro, Juliet D. French, Fergus J. Couch, Matthew L. Freedman, Douglas F. Easton, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D. Pharoah, Stacey L. Edwards, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Antonis C. Antoniou, and Simon A. Gayther
Subjects: Science
Abstract: A region on chromosome 19p13 is associated with the risk of developing ovarian and breast cancer. Here, the authors genotyped SNPs in this region in thousands of breast and ovarian cancer patients and identified SNPs associated with three genes, which were analysed with functional studies.
Published: 2016
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27. Identification of four novel susceptibility loci for oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer

Author: Fergus J. Couch, Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker, Kyriaki Michailidou, Gustavo A. Mendoza-Fandino, Silje Nord, Janna Lilyquist, Curtis Olswold, Emily Hallberg, Simona Agata, Habibul Ahsan, Kristiina Aittomäki, Christine Ambrosone, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Banu K. Arun, Brita Arver, Monica Barile, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Daniel Barrowdale, Lars Beckmann, Matthias W. Beckmann, Javier Benitez, Stephanie V. Blank, Carl Blomqvist, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Bernardo Bonanni, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Barbara Burwinkel, Saundra S. Buys, Trinidad Caldes, Maria A. Caligo, Federico Canzian, Jane Carpenter, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Wendy K. Chung, Kathleen B. M. Claes, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Julie M. Cunningham, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Francesca Damiola, Hatef Darabi, Miguel de la Hoya, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Yuan C. Ding, Riccardo Dolcetti, Susan M. Domchek, Cecilia M. Dorfling, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Martine Dumont, Alison M. Dunning, Diana M. Eccles, Hans Ehrencrona, Arif B. Ekici, Heather Eliassen, Steve Ellis, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine Figueroa, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Asta Försti, Florentia Fostira, William D. Foulkes, Tara Friebel, Eitan Friedman, Debra Frost, Marike Gabrielson, Marilie D. Gammon, Patricia A. Ganz, Susan M. Gapstur, Judy Garber, Mia M. Gaudet, Simon A. Gayther, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Maya Ghoussaini, Graham G. Giles, Gord Glendon, Andrew K. Godwin, Mark S. Goldberg, David E. Goldgar, Anna González-Neira, Mark H. Greene, Jacek Gronwald, Pascal Guénel, Marc Gunter, Lothar Haeberle, Christopher A. Haiman, Ute Hamann, Thomas V. O. Hansen, Steven Hart, Sue Healey, Tuomas Heikkinen, Brian E. Henderson, Josef Herzog, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje J. Hooning, Robert N. Hoover, John L. Hopper, Keith Humphreys, David J. Hunter, Tomasz Huzarski, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Claudine Isaacs, Anna Jakubowska, Paul James, Ramunas Janavicius, Uffe Birk Jensen, Esther M. John, Michael Jones, Maria Kabisch, Siddhartha Kar, Beth Y. Karlan, Sofia Khan, Kay-Tee Khaw, Muhammad G. Kibriya, Julia A. Knight, Yon-Dschun Ko, Irene Konstantopoulou, Veli-Matti Kosma, Vessela Kristensen, Ava Kwong, Yael Laitman, Diether Lambrechts, Conxi Lazaro, Eunjung Lee, Loic Le Marchand, Jenny Lester, Annika Lindblom, Noralane Lindor, Sara Lindstrom, Jianjun Liu, Jirong Long, Jan Lubinski, Phuong L. Mai, Enes Makalic, Kathleen E. Malone, Arto Mannermaa, Siranoush Manoukian, Sara Margolin, Frederik Marme, John W. M. Martens, Lesley McGuffog, Alfons Meindl, Austin Miller, Roger L. Milne, Penelope Miron, Marco Montagna, Sylvie Mazoyer, Anna M. Mulligan, Taru A. Muranen, Katherine L. Nathanson, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Robert L. Nussbaum, Kenneth Offit, Edith Olah, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Janet E. Olson, Ana Osorio, Sue K. Park, Petra H. Peeters, Bernard Peissel, Paolo Peterlongo, Julian Peto, Catherine M. Phelan, Robert Pilarski, Bruce Poppe, Katri Pylkäs, Paolo Radice, Nazneen Rahman, Johanna Rantala, Christine Rappaport, Gad Rennert, Andrea Richardson, Mark Robson, Isabelle Romieu, Anja Rudolph, Emiel J. Rutgers, Maria-Jose Sanchez, Regina M. Santella, Elinor J. Sawyer, Daniel F. Schmidt, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Rita K. Schmutzler, Fredrick Schumacher, Rodney Scott, Leigha Senter, Priyanka Sharma, Jacques Simard, Christian F. Singer, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Penny Soucy, Melissa Southey, Doris Steinemann, Marie Stenmark-Askmalm, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Anthony Swerdlow, Csilla I. Szabo, Rulla Tamimi, William Tapper, Manuel R. Teixeira, Soo-Hwang Teo, Mary B. Terry, Mads Thomassen, Deborah Thompson, Laima Tihomirova, Amanda E. Toland, Robert A. E. M. Tollenaar, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Helen Tsimiklis, Alex Teulé, Rosario Tumino, Nadine Tung, Clare Turnbull, Giski Ursin, Carolien H. M. van Deurzen, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Raymonda Varon-Mateeva, Zhaoming Wang, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Elisabete Weiderpass, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Alice Whittemore, Hans Wildiers, Robert Winqvist, Xiaohong R. Yang, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Song Yao, M Pilar Zamora, Wei Zheng, Per Hall, Peter Kraft, Celine Vachon, Susan Slager, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Alvaro A. N. Monteiro, Montserrat García-Closas, Douglas F. Easton, and Antonis C. Antoniou
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Oestrogen negative breast cancer is associated with a poor prognosis. In this study, the authors perform a meta-analysis of 11 breast cancer genome-wide association studies and identify four new loci associated with oestrogen negative breast cancer risk. These findings may aid in stratifying patients in the clinic.
Published: 2016
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28. Supplementary Methods, Figures S1 - S7, and References from Gene-Level Germline Contributions to Clinical Risk of Recurrence Scores in Black and White Patients with Breast Cancer

Author: Arjun Bhattacharya, Michael I. Love, Melissa A. Troester, Charles M. Perou, Andrew F. Olshan, Montserrat García-Closas, and Achal Patel
Abstract: Supplementary Methods, Figures S1-S7, and References
Published: 2023
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29. Data from Gene-Level Germline Contributions to Clinical Risk of Recurrence Scores in Black and White Patients with Breast Cancer

Author: Arjun Bhattacharya, Michael I. Love, Melissa A. Troester, Charles M. Perou, Andrew F. Olshan, Montserrat García-Closas, and Achal Patel
Abstract: Continuous risk of recurrence scores (CRS) based on tumor gene expression are vital prognostic tools for breast cancer. Studies have shown that Black women (BW) have higher CRS than White women (WW). Although systemic injustices contribute substantially to breast cancer disparities, evidence of biological and germline contributions is emerging. In this study, we investigated germline genetic associations with CRS and CRS disparity using approaches modeled after transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS). In the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, using race-specific predictive models of tumor expression from germline genetics, we performed race-stratified (N = 1,043 WW, 1,083 BW) linear regressions of three CRS (ROR-S: PAM50 subtype score; proliferation score; ROR-P: ROR-S plus proliferation score) on imputed tumor genetically regulated tumor expression (GReX). Bayesian multivariate regression and adaptive shrinkage tested GReX-prioritized genes for associations with tumor PAM50 expression and subtype to elucidate patterns of germline regulation underlying GReX-CRS associations. At FDR-adjusted P < 0.10, 7 and 1 GReX prioritized genes among WW and BW, respectively. Among WW, CRS were positively associated with MCM10, FAM64A, CCNB2, and MMP1 GReX and negatively associated with VAV3, PCSK6, and GNG11 GReX. Among BW, higher MMP1 GReX predicted lower proliferation score and ROR-P. GReX-prioritized gene and PAM50 tumor expression associations highlighted potential mechanisms for GReX-prioritized gene to CRS associations. Among patients with breast cancer, differential germline associations with CRS were found by race, underscoring the need for larger, diverse datasets in molecular studies of breast cancer. These findings also suggest possible germline trans-regulation of PAM50 tumor expression, with potential implications for CRS interpretation in clinical settings.Significance:This study identifies race-specific genetic associations with breast cancer risk of recurrence scores and suggests mediation of these associations by PAM50 subtype and expression, with implications for clinical interpretation of these scores.
Published: 2023
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30. Supplementary Tables S1-S12 from Gene-Level Germline Contributions to Clinical Risk of Recurrence Scores in Black and White Patients with Breast Cancer

Author: Arjun Bhattacharya, Michael I. Love, Melissa A. Troester, Charles M. Perou, Andrew F. Olshan, Montserrat García-Closas, and Achal Patel
Abstract: Supplementary Tables S1-S12
Published: 2023
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31. Supplementary Tables 1-3 from A Genome-Wide Gene-Based Gene–Environment Interaction Study of Breast Cancer in More than 90,000 Women

Author: Sara Lindström, Jenny Chang-Claude, Peter Kraft, Li Hsu, Roger L. Milne, Douglas F. Easton, Håkan Olsson, Sophia Wang, James V. Lacey, Nick Orr, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Jack A. Taylor, Dale P. Sandler, Alicja Wolk, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Anthony Howell, D. Gareth Evans, Rose Yang, Thomas Ahearn, Jonine Figueroa, Montserrat García-Closas, Heather Eliassen, Rulla Tamimi, Cheng Peng, Michael I. Love, Melissa A. Troester, Jirong Long, Wei Zheng, Mark S. Goldberg, Jacques Simard, Stacey Winham, Christopher Scott, Gertraud Maskarinec, Christopher A. Haiman, Graham G. Giles, Heiko Becher, Audrey Jung, Veli-Matti Kosma, Arto Mannermaa, Sabine Behrens, Wing-Yee Lo, Reiner Hoppe, Volker Arndt, Hermann Brenner, Rudolf Kaaks, Federico Canzian, James M. Hodge, Lauren R. Teras, Thérèse Truong, Pascal Guénel, Kristan Aronson, Rachel A. Murphy, Rana Shibli, Gad Rennert, Jennifer Stone, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Stella Koutros, Melissa C. Southey, John L. Hopper, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Kyriaki Michailidou, Qin Wang, Michael Lush, Alison M. Dunning, Joe Dennis, Manjeet K. Bolla, Yu-Ru Su, Pooja Middha Kapoor, Hongjie Chen, and Xiaoliang Wang
Abstract: Supplementary Table 1. Sample Size of each participated study, by case-control status and genotype platform. Supplementary Table 2. Association between fourteen environmental factors and the risk of breast cancer. Supplementary Table 3. Interactions between genes and fourteen environmental factors.
Published: 2023
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32. Data from A Genome-Wide Gene-Based Gene–Environment Interaction Study of Breast Cancer in More than 90,000 Women

Author: Sara Lindström, Jenny Chang-Claude, Peter Kraft, Li Hsu, Roger L. Milne, Douglas F. Easton, Håkan Olsson, Sophia Wang, James V. Lacey, Nick Orr, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Jack A. Taylor, Dale P. Sandler, Alicja Wolk, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Anthony Howell, D. Gareth Evans, Rose Yang, Thomas Ahearn, Jonine Figueroa, Montserrat García-Closas, Heather Eliassen, Rulla Tamimi, Cheng Peng, Michael I. Love, Melissa A. Troester, Jirong Long, Wei Zheng, Mark S. Goldberg, Jacques Simard, Stacey Winham, Christopher Scott, Gertraud Maskarinec, Christopher A. Haiman, Graham G. Giles, Heiko Becher, Audrey Jung, Veli-Matti Kosma, Arto Mannermaa, Sabine Behrens, Wing-Yee Lo, Reiner Hoppe, Volker Arndt, Hermann Brenner, Rudolf Kaaks, Federico Canzian, James M. Hodge, Lauren R. Teras, Thérèse Truong, Pascal Guénel, Kristan Aronson, Rachel A. Murphy, Rana Shibli, Gad Rennert, Jennifer Stone, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Stella Koutros, Melissa C. Southey, John L. Hopper, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Kyriaki Michailidou, Qin Wang, Michael Lush, Alison M. Dunning, Joe Dennis, Manjeet K. Bolla, Yu-Ru Su, Pooja Middha Kapoor, Hongjie Chen, and Xiaoliang Wang
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 200 susceptibility loci for breast cancer, but these variants explain less than a fifth of the disease risk. Although gene–environment interactions have been proposed to account for some of the remaining heritability, few studies have empirically assessed this.We obtained genotype and risk factor data from 46,060 cases and 47,929 controls of European ancestry from population-based studies within the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). We built gene expression prediction models for 4,864 genes with a significant (P < 0.01) heritable component using the transcriptome and genotype data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. We leveraged predicted gene expression information to investigate the interactions between gene-centric genetic variation and 14 established risk factors in association with breast cancer risk, using a mixed-effects score test.After adjusting for number of tests using Bonferroni correction, no interaction remained statistically significant. The strongest interaction observed was between the predicted expression of the C13orf45 gene and age at first full-term pregnancy (PGXE = 4.44 × 10−6).In this transcriptome-informed genome-wide gene–environment interaction study of breast cancer, we found no strong support for the role of gene expression in modifying the associations between established risk factors and breast cancer risk.Our study suggests a limited role of gene–environment interactions in breast cancer risk.
Published: 2023
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33. Supplementary Information from A Genome-Wide Gene-Based Gene–Environment Interaction Study of Breast Cancer in More than 90,000 Women

Author: Sara Lindström, Jenny Chang-Claude, Peter Kraft, Li Hsu, Roger L. Milne, Douglas F. Easton, Håkan Olsson, Sophia Wang, James V. Lacey, Nick Orr, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Jack A. Taylor, Dale P. Sandler, Alicja Wolk, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Anthony Howell, D. Gareth Evans, Rose Yang, Thomas Ahearn, Jonine Figueroa, Montserrat García-Closas, Heather Eliassen, Rulla Tamimi, Cheng Peng, Michael I. Love, Melissa A. Troester, Jirong Long, Wei Zheng, Mark S. Goldberg, Jacques Simard, Stacey Winham, Christopher Scott, Gertraud Maskarinec, Christopher A. Haiman, Graham G. Giles, Heiko Becher, Audrey Jung, Veli-Matti Kosma, Arto Mannermaa, Sabine Behrens, Wing-Yee Lo, Reiner Hoppe, Volker Arndt, Hermann Brenner, Rudolf Kaaks, Federico Canzian, James M. Hodge, Lauren R. Teras, Thérèse Truong, Pascal Guénel, Kristan Aronson, Rachel A. Murphy, Rana Shibli, Gad Rennert, Jennifer Stone, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Stella Koutros, Melissa C. Southey, John L. Hopper, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Kyriaki Michailidou, Qin Wang, Michael Lush, Alison M. Dunning, Joe Dennis, Manjeet K. Bolla, Yu-Ru Su, Pooja Middha Kapoor, Hongjie Chen, and Xiaoliang Wang
Abstract: Funding and acknowledgements.
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34. Supplementary Figure 1 from A Genome-Wide Gene-Based Gene–Environment Interaction Study of Breast Cancer in More than 90,000 Women

Author: Sara Lindström, Jenny Chang-Claude, Peter Kraft, Li Hsu, Roger L. Milne, Douglas F. Easton, Håkan Olsson, Sophia Wang, James V. Lacey, Nick Orr, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Jack A. Taylor, Dale P. Sandler, Alicja Wolk, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Anthony Howell, D. Gareth Evans, Rose Yang, Thomas Ahearn, Jonine Figueroa, Montserrat García-Closas, Heather Eliassen, Rulla Tamimi, Cheng Peng, Michael I. Love, Melissa A. Troester, Jirong Long, Wei Zheng, Mark S. Goldberg, Jacques Simard, Stacey Winham, Christopher Scott, Gertraud Maskarinec, Christopher A. Haiman, Graham G. Giles, Heiko Becher, Audrey Jung, Veli-Matti Kosma, Arto Mannermaa, Sabine Behrens, Wing-Yee Lo, Reiner Hoppe, Volker Arndt, Hermann Brenner, Rudolf Kaaks, Federico Canzian, James M. Hodge, Lauren R. Teras, Thérèse Truong, Pascal Guénel, Kristan Aronson, Rachel A. Murphy, Rana Shibli, Gad Rennert, Jennifer Stone, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Stella Koutros, Melissa C. Southey, John L. Hopper, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Kyriaki Michailidou, Qin Wang, Michael Lush, Alison M. Dunning, Joe Dennis, Manjeet K. Bolla, Yu-Ru Su, Pooja Middha Kapoor, Hongjie Chen, and Xiaoliang Wang
Abstract: Quantile-Quantile plot (Q-Q plot) of the aMiSTi p-values for each set of the GxE interactions.
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35. Supplementary Tables and References from BRCA2 Hypomorphic Missense Variants Confer Moderate Risks of Breast Cancer

Author: Fergus J. Couch, Maaike P.G. Vreeswijk, Aura Carreira, David E. Goldgar, Alvaro N.A. Monteiro, Harry Vrieling, Peter Devilee, Amanda Spurdle, Douglas F. Easton, Setareh Moghadasi, Liliana Varesco, Kathleen B.M. Claes, Florentia Fostira, Lenka Foretova, Logan Walker, Jennifer Leary, Ying Zheng, Wei Zheng, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Anna H. Wu, Robert Winqvist, Qin Wang, Lizet E. van der Kolk, Christi J. van Asperen, Thérèse Truong, Diana Torres, Ian Tomlinson, Soo H. Teo, Anthony Swerdlow, Daniel O. Stram, Melissa C. Southey, Susan Slager, Xiao-Ou Shu, Martha Shrubsole, Chen-Yang Shen, Mitul Shah, Caroline Seynaeve, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Elinor J. Sawyer, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Anja Rudolph, Valerie Rhenius, Muhammad Usman Rashid, Paolo Radice, Katri Pylkäs, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Julian Peto, Paolo Peterlongo, Ana Osorio, Jan J.C. Oosterwijk, Curtis Olswold, Janet E. Olson, Heli Nevanlinna, Susan L. Neuhausen, Kenneth Muir, Roger L. Milne, Kyriaki Michailidou, Hui Miao, Keitaro Matsuo, Frederik Marme, Sara Margolin, Arto Mannermaa, Eva Machackova, Jan Lubinski, Artitaya Lophatananon, Annika Lindblom, Jingmei Li, Loic Le Marchand, Diether Lambrechts, Kah-Nyin Lai, Vessela Kristensen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Daehee Kang, Anna Jakubowska, Hidemi Ito, John L. Hopper, Antoinette Hollestelle, Frans B. Hogervorst, Mikael Hartman, Ute Hamann, Per Hall, Christopher A. Haiman, Pascal Guénel, Gord Glendon, Graham G. Giles, Montserrat García-Closas, Henrik Flyger, Jonine Figueroa, Peter A. Fasching, Alison M. Dunning, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Thilo Dörk, Joe Dennis, Hatef Darabi, Kamila Czene, Simon S. Cross, Angela Cox, J. Margriet Collée, Ji-Yeob Choi, Ching-Yu Cheng, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Jenny Chang-Claude, Barbara Burwinkel, Thomas Brüning, Barbara Brouwers, Annegien Broeks, Hermann Brenner, Paul Brennan, Hiltrud Brauch, Anne-Lise Borresen-Dale, Manjeet K. Bolla, Stig E. Bojesen, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Javier Benitez, Matthias W. Beckmann, Volker Arndt, Hoda Anton-Culver, Irene Andrulis, Kristiina Aittomäki, Cora M. Aalfs, Chunling Hu, Jenna Lilyquist, Jamie Hinton, Emily Hallberg, Huong Meeks, Fabienne M.G.R. Calléja, Charlotte Martin, Lucia Guidugli, Asa Ehlen, Catharina Von Nicolai, Romy L.S. Mesman, and Hermela Shimelis
Abstract: Table S1: Description of the BCAC studies contributing to COGS. Table S2: Predicted effects of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants included in the iCOGS array on protein function. Table S3: Frequency of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants from iCOGS in breast cancer cases and controls. Table S4: Family studies of Y3035S showing scores for each family by constant relative risk and 75% penetrance. Supplementary References.
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36. Data from BRCA2 Hypomorphic Missense Variants Confer Moderate Risks of Breast Cancer

Author: Fergus J. Couch, Maaike P.G. Vreeswijk, Aura Carreira, David E. Goldgar, Alvaro N.A. Monteiro, Harry Vrieling, Peter Devilee, Amanda Spurdle, Douglas F. Easton, Setareh Moghadasi, Liliana Varesco, Kathleen B.M. Claes, Florentia Fostira, Lenka Foretova, Logan Walker, Jennifer Leary, Ying Zheng, Wei Zheng, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Anna H. Wu, Robert Winqvist, Qin Wang, Lizet E. van der Kolk, Christi J. van Asperen, Thérèse Truong, Diana Torres, Ian Tomlinson, Soo H. Teo, Anthony Swerdlow, Daniel O. Stram, Melissa C. Southey, Susan Slager, Xiao-Ou Shu, Martha Shrubsole, Chen-Yang Shen, Mitul Shah, Caroline Seynaeve, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Elinor J. Sawyer, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Anja Rudolph, Valerie Rhenius, Muhammad Usman Rashid, Paolo Radice, Katri Pylkäs, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Julian Peto, Paolo Peterlongo, Ana Osorio, Jan J.C. Oosterwijk, Curtis Olswold, Janet E. Olson, Heli Nevanlinna, Susan L. Neuhausen, Kenneth Muir, Roger L. Milne, Kyriaki Michailidou, Hui Miao, Keitaro Matsuo, Frederik Marme, Sara Margolin, Arto Mannermaa, Eva Machackova, Jan Lubinski, Artitaya Lophatananon, Annika Lindblom, Jingmei Li, Loic Le Marchand, Diether Lambrechts, Kah-Nyin Lai, Vessela Kristensen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Daehee Kang, Anna Jakubowska, Hidemi Ito, John L. Hopper, Antoinette Hollestelle, Frans B. Hogervorst, Mikael Hartman, Ute Hamann, Per Hall, Christopher A. Haiman, Pascal Guénel, Gord Glendon, Graham G. Giles, Montserrat García-Closas, Henrik Flyger, Jonine Figueroa, Peter A. Fasching, Alison M. Dunning, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Thilo Dörk, Joe Dennis, Hatef Darabi, Kamila Czene, Simon S. Cross, Angela Cox, J. Margriet Collée, Ji-Yeob Choi, Ching-Yu Cheng, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Jenny Chang-Claude, Barbara Burwinkel, Thomas Brüning, Barbara Brouwers, Annegien Broeks, Hermann Brenner, Paul Brennan, Hiltrud Brauch, Anne-Lise Borresen-Dale, Manjeet K. Bolla, Stig E. Bojesen, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Javier Benitez, Matthias W. Beckmann, Volker Arndt, Hoda Anton-Culver, Irene Andrulis, Kristiina Aittomäki, Cora M. Aalfs, Chunling Hu, Jenna Lilyquist, Jamie Hinton, Emily Hallberg, Huong Meeks, Fabienne M.G.R. Calléja, Charlotte Martin, Lucia Guidugli, Asa Ehlen, Catharina Von Nicolai, Romy L.S. Mesman, and Hermela Shimelis
Abstract: Breast cancer risks conferred by many germline missense variants in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, often referred to as variants of uncertain significance (VUS), have not been established. In this study, associations between 19 BRCA1 and 33 BRCA2 missense substitution variants and breast cancer risk were investigated through a breast cancer case–control study using genotyping data from 38 studies of predominantly European ancestry (41,890 cases and 41,607 controls) and nine studies of Asian ancestry (6,269 cases and 6,624 controls). The BRCA2 c.9104A>C, p.Tyr3035Ser (OR = 2.52; P = 0.04), and BRCA1 c.5096G>A, p.Arg1699Gln (OR = 4.29; P = 0.009) variant were associated with moderately increased risks of breast cancer among Europeans, whereas BRCA2 c.7522G>A, p.Gly2508Ser (OR = 2.68; P = 0.004), and c.8187G>T, p.Lys2729Asn (OR = 1.4; P = 0.004) were associated with moderate and low risks of breast cancer among Asians. Functional characterization of the BRCA2 variants using four quantitative assays showed reduced BRCA2 activity for p.Tyr3035Ser compared with wild-type. Overall, our results show how BRCA2 missense variants that influence protein function can confer clinically relevant, moderately increased risks of breast cancer, with potential implications for risk management guidelines in women with these specific variants. Cancer Res; 77(11); 2789–99. ©2017 AACR.
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37. Supplementary Table 4 from Confirmation of 5p12 As a Susceptibility Locus for Progesterone-Receptor–Positive, Lower Grade Breast Cancer

Author: Douglas F. Easton, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Qin Wang, Manjeet K. Humphreys, Xianshu Wang, Janet E. Olson, Albina Farahtdinova, Darya Prokofieva, Marina Bermisheva, Elza Khusnutdinova, Madeleine Tilanus-Linthorst, Rogier A. Oldenburg, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje Hooning, Mervi Grip, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Robert Winqvist, Christina Justenhoven, Volker Harth, Ute Hamann, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Sara Lindstrom, Peter Kraft, Susan E. Hankinson, David J. Hunter, Sei-Hyun Ahn, Dong-Young Noh, Keun-Young Yoo, Daehee Kang, Katarzyna Durda, Katarzyna Jaworska, Jan Lubinski, Anna Jakubowska, Barbara Burwinkel, Christof Sohn, Andreas Schneeweiss, Frederik Marme, Karen A. Pooley, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Rob A.E.M. Tollenaar, Laura J. Van ‘t Veer, Annegien Broeks, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Nicola Miller, Michael Kerin, Ian Tomlinson, Elinor Sawyer, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Stefan Nickels, Julian Peto, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Lorna J. Gibson, Olivia Fletcher, Robert N. Hoover, Gilles D. Thomas, Rita K. Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Joerg Heil, Alfons Meindl, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Vesa Kataja, Arto Mannermaa, Anna Marie Mulligan, Gord Glendon, Julia A. Knight, Irene L. Andrulis, Christa Stegmaier, Volker Arndt, Heiko Müller, Hermann Brenner, Matthias W. Beckmann, Arif B. Ekici, Christian M. Bayer, Peter A. Fasching, Yuri I. Rogov, Iosif V. Zalutsky, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Jonine D. Figueroa, Mark E. Sherman, Jolanta Lissowska, Stephen J. Chanock, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Laura Baglietto, Graham G. Giles, Monica Barile, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Peterlongo, Paolo Radice, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jenny Chang-Claude, James McKay, Paul Brennan, Valerie Gaborieau, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Karin Leunen, Giuseppe Floris, Betül T. Yesilyurt, Diether Lambrechts, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, Gillian S. Dite, John L. Hopper, Anne-Lise Børrensen-Dale, Vessela Kristensen, Grethe Grenaker Alnæs, Charlotte Lanng, Stig E. Bojesen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Ming-Feng Hou, Chiun-Sheng Huang, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Chen-Yang Shen, Nazneen Rahman, Anthony Renwick, Clare Turnbull, Sheila Seal, Simon S. Cross, Graeme Elliot, Ian W. Brock, Angela Cox, Peter Hillemanns, Johann H. Karstens, Peter Schürmann, Thilo Dörk, Javier Benítez, Jose Ignacio Arias Pérez, M. Pilar Zamora, Núria Malats, Zachary Fredericksen, Rebecca Hein, Gianluca Severi, Fergus J. Couch, Montserrat García-Closas, Ellen L. Goode, and Roger L. Milne
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38. Supplementary Table 1 from Fine-Scale Mapping of the 4q24 Locus Identifies Two Independent Loci Associated with Breast Cancer Risk

Author: Wei Zheng, Douglas F. Easton, Alison M. Dunning, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Jacques Simard, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Per Hall, Ying Zheng, M. Pilar Zamora, Cheng Har Yip, Anna Wu, Robert Winqvist, Wanqing Wen, Ans van den Ouweland, Chiu-chen Tseng, Thérèse Truong, Ian P.M. Tomlinson, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Amanda Ewart Toland, Bernard Thienpont, Soo Hwang Teo, Anthony Swerdlow, Melissa C. Southey, Martha J. Shrubsole, Jiajun Shi, Chen-Yang Shen, Rita K. Schmutzler, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Elinor J. Sawyer, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Anja Rudolph, Thomas Choudary Putti, Paolo Peterlongo, Nick Orr, Janet E. Olson, Silje Nord, Heli Nevanlinna, Susan L. Neuhausen, Kenneth Muir, Alfons Meindl, Catriona A. McLean, Keitaro Matsuo, Frederik Marme, Sara Margolin, Siranoush Manoukian, Arto Mannermaa, Jan Lubinski, Artitaya Lophatananon, Annika Lindblom, Jingmei Li, Loic Le Marchand, Diether Lambrechts, Veli-Matti Kosma, Julia A. Knight, Sofia Khan, Daehee Kang, Maria Kabisch, Nichola Johnson, Anna Jakubowska, Hidemi Ito, Chia-Ni Hsiung, John L. Hopper, Antoinette Hollestelle, Mikael Hartman, Ute Hamann, Christopher A. Haiman, Pascal Guénel, Mervi Grip, Graham G. Giles, Montserrat García-Closas, Valerie Gaborieau, Florentia Fostira, Henrik Flyger, Olivia Fletcher, Peter A. Fasching, Thilo Dörk, Arnaud Droit, Peter Devilee, Hatef Darabi, Kamila Czene, Simon S. Cross, Angela Cox, Fergus J. Couch, Ji-Yeob Choi, Jenny Chang-Claude, Sander Canisius, Hui Cai, Barbara Burwinkel, Thomas Brüning, Annegien Broeks, Louise Brinton, Hermann Brenner, Hiltrud Brauch, Stig E. Bojesen, Natalia Bogdanova, William Blot, Javier Benitez, Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel, Matthias W. Beckmann, Volker Arndt, Hoda Anton-Culver, Irene L. Andrulis, Siddhartha P. Kar, Jonathan Beesley, Qiuyin Cai, Xiao-Ou Shu, Roger L. Milne, Qin Wang, Manjeet K. Bolla, Maya Ghoussaini, Kyriaki Michailidou, Chenjie Zeng, Jirong Long, and Xingyi Guo
Abstract: Summary results for all SNPs at the 4q24 locus associated with breast cancer risk at P
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39. Data from Fine-Scale Mapping of the 4q24 Locus Identifies Two Independent Loci Associated with Breast Cancer Risk

Author: Wei Zheng, Douglas F. Easton, Alison M. Dunning, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Jacques Simard, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Per Hall, Ying Zheng, M. Pilar Zamora, Cheng Har Yip, Anna Wu, Robert Winqvist, Wanqing Wen, Ans van den Ouweland, Chiu-chen Tseng, Thérèse Truong, Ian P.M. Tomlinson, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Amanda Ewart Toland, Bernard Thienpont, Soo Hwang Teo, Anthony Swerdlow, Melissa C. Southey, Martha J. Shrubsole, Jiajun Shi, Chen-Yang Shen, Rita K. Schmutzler, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Elinor J. Sawyer, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Anja Rudolph, Thomas Choudary Putti, Paolo Peterlongo, Nick Orr, Janet E. Olson, Silje Nord, Heli Nevanlinna, Susan L. Neuhausen, Kenneth Muir, Alfons Meindl, Catriona A. McLean, Keitaro Matsuo, Frederik Marme, Sara Margolin, Siranoush Manoukian, Arto Mannermaa, Jan Lubinski, Artitaya Lophatananon, Annika Lindblom, Jingmei Li, Loic Le Marchand, Diether Lambrechts, Veli-Matti Kosma, Julia A. Knight, Sofia Khan, Daehee Kang, Maria Kabisch, Nichola Johnson, Anna Jakubowska, Hidemi Ito, Chia-Ni Hsiung, John L. Hopper, Antoinette Hollestelle, Mikael Hartman, Ute Hamann, Christopher A. Haiman, Pascal Guénel, Mervi Grip, Graham G. Giles, Montserrat García-Closas, Valerie Gaborieau, Florentia Fostira, Henrik Flyger, Olivia Fletcher, Peter A. Fasching, Thilo Dörk, Arnaud Droit, Peter Devilee, Hatef Darabi, Kamila Czene, Simon S. Cross, Angela Cox, Fergus J. Couch, Ji-Yeob Choi, Jenny Chang-Claude, Sander Canisius, Hui Cai, Barbara Burwinkel, Thomas Brüning, Annegien Broeks, Louise Brinton, Hermann Brenner, Hiltrud Brauch, Stig E. Bojesen, Natalia Bogdanova, William Blot, Javier Benitez, Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel, Matthias W. Beckmann, Volker Arndt, Hoda Anton-Culver, Irene L. Andrulis, Siddhartha P. Kar, Jonathan Beesley, Qiuyin Cai, Xiao-Ou Shu, Roger L. Milne, Qin Wang, Manjeet K. Bolla, Maya Ghoussaini, Kyriaki Michailidou, Chenjie Zeng, Jirong Long, and Xingyi Guo
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 (r2 ≥ 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. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 24(11); 1680–91. ©2015 AACR.
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40. Supplementary Table 3 from Confirmation of 5p12 As a Susceptibility Locus for Progesterone-Receptor–Positive, Lower Grade Breast Cancer

Author: Douglas F. Easton, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Qin Wang, Manjeet K. Humphreys, Xianshu Wang, Janet E. Olson, Albina Farahtdinova, Darya Prokofieva, Marina Bermisheva, Elza Khusnutdinova, Madeleine Tilanus-Linthorst, Rogier A. Oldenburg, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje Hooning, Mervi Grip, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Robert Winqvist, Christina Justenhoven, Volker Harth, Ute Hamann, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Sara Lindstrom, Peter Kraft, Susan E. Hankinson, David J. Hunter, Sei-Hyun Ahn, Dong-Young Noh, Keun-Young Yoo, Daehee Kang, Katarzyna Durda, Katarzyna Jaworska, Jan Lubinski, Anna Jakubowska, Barbara Burwinkel, Christof Sohn, Andreas Schneeweiss, Frederik Marme, Karen A. Pooley, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Rob A.E.M. Tollenaar, Laura J. Van ‘t Veer, Annegien Broeks, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Nicola Miller, Michael Kerin, Ian Tomlinson, Elinor Sawyer, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Stefan Nickels, Julian Peto, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Lorna J. Gibson, Olivia Fletcher, Robert N. Hoover, Gilles D. Thomas, Rita K. Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Joerg Heil, Alfons Meindl, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Vesa Kataja, Arto Mannermaa, Anna Marie Mulligan, Gord Glendon, Julia A. Knight, Irene L. Andrulis, Christa Stegmaier, Volker Arndt, Heiko Müller, Hermann Brenner, Matthias W. Beckmann, Arif B. Ekici, Christian M. Bayer, Peter A. Fasching, Yuri I. Rogov, Iosif V. Zalutsky, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Jonine D. Figueroa, Mark E. Sherman, Jolanta Lissowska, Stephen J. Chanock, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Laura Baglietto, Graham G. Giles, Monica Barile, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Peterlongo, Paolo Radice, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jenny Chang-Claude, James McKay, Paul Brennan, Valerie Gaborieau, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Karin Leunen, Giuseppe Floris, Betül T. Yesilyurt, Diether Lambrechts, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, Gillian S. Dite, John L. Hopper, Anne-Lise Børrensen-Dale, Vessela Kristensen, Grethe Grenaker Alnæs, Charlotte Lanng, Stig E. Bojesen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Ming-Feng Hou, Chiun-Sheng Huang, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Chen-Yang Shen, Nazneen Rahman, Anthony Renwick, Clare Turnbull, Sheila Seal, Simon S. Cross, Graeme Elliot, Ian W. Brock, Angela Cox, Peter Hillemanns, Johann H. Karstens, Peter Schürmann, Thilo Dörk, Javier Benítez, Jose Ignacio Arias Pérez, M. Pilar Zamora, Núria Malats, Zachary Fredericksen, Rebecca Hein, Gianluca Severi, Fergus J. Couch, Montserrat García-Closas, Ellen L. Goode, and Roger L. Milne
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41. Supplementary Table 2 from Confirmation of 5p12 As a Susceptibility Locus for Progesterone-Receptor–Positive, Lower Grade Breast Cancer

Author: Douglas F. Easton, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Qin Wang, Manjeet K. Humphreys, Xianshu Wang, Janet E. Olson, Albina Farahtdinova, Darya Prokofieva, Marina Bermisheva, Elza Khusnutdinova, Madeleine Tilanus-Linthorst, Rogier A. Oldenburg, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje Hooning, Mervi Grip, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Robert Winqvist, Christina Justenhoven, Volker Harth, Ute Hamann, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Sara Lindstrom, Peter Kraft, Susan E. Hankinson, David J. Hunter, Sei-Hyun Ahn, Dong-Young Noh, Keun-Young Yoo, Daehee Kang, Katarzyna Durda, Katarzyna Jaworska, Jan Lubinski, Anna Jakubowska, Barbara Burwinkel, Christof Sohn, Andreas Schneeweiss, Frederik Marme, Karen A. Pooley, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Rob A.E.M. Tollenaar, Laura J. Van ‘t Veer, Annegien Broeks, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Nicola Miller, Michael Kerin, Ian Tomlinson, Elinor Sawyer, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Stefan Nickels, Julian Peto, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Lorna J. Gibson, Olivia Fletcher, Robert N. Hoover, Gilles D. Thomas, Rita K. Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Joerg Heil, Alfons Meindl, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Vesa Kataja, Arto Mannermaa, Anna Marie Mulligan, Gord Glendon, Julia A. Knight, Irene L. Andrulis, Christa Stegmaier, Volker Arndt, Heiko Müller, Hermann Brenner, Matthias W. Beckmann, Arif B. Ekici, Christian M. Bayer, Peter A. Fasching, Yuri I. Rogov, Iosif V. Zalutsky, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Jonine D. Figueroa, Mark E. Sherman, Jolanta Lissowska, Stephen J. Chanock, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Laura Baglietto, Graham G. Giles, Monica Barile, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Peterlongo, Paolo Radice, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jenny Chang-Claude, James McKay, Paul Brennan, Valerie Gaborieau, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Karin Leunen, Giuseppe Floris, Betül T. Yesilyurt, Diether Lambrechts, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, Gillian S. Dite, John L. Hopper, Anne-Lise Børrensen-Dale, Vessela Kristensen, Grethe Grenaker Alnæs, Charlotte Lanng, Stig E. Bojesen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Ming-Feng Hou, Chiun-Sheng Huang, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Chen-Yang Shen, Nazneen Rahman, Anthony Renwick, Clare Turnbull, Sheila Seal, Simon S. Cross, Graeme Elliot, Ian W. Brock, Angela Cox, Peter Hillemanns, Johann H. Karstens, Peter Schürmann, Thilo Dörk, Javier Benítez, Jose Ignacio Arias Pérez, M. Pilar Zamora, Núria Malats, Zachary Fredericksen, Rebecca Hein, Gianluca Severi, Fergus J. Couch, Montserrat García-Closas, Ellen L. Goode, and Roger L. Milne
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42. Data from Confirmation of 5p12 As a Susceptibility Locus for Progesterone-Receptor–Positive, Lower Grade Breast Cancer

Author: Douglas F. Easton, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Qin Wang, Manjeet K. Humphreys, Xianshu Wang, Janet E. Olson, Albina Farahtdinova, Darya Prokofieva, Marina Bermisheva, Elza Khusnutdinova, Madeleine Tilanus-Linthorst, Rogier A. Oldenburg, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje Hooning, Mervi Grip, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Robert Winqvist, Christina Justenhoven, Volker Harth, Ute Hamann, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Sara Lindstrom, Peter Kraft, Susan E. Hankinson, David J. Hunter, Sei-Hyun Ahn, Dong-Young Noh, Keun-Young Yoo, Daehee Kang, Katarzyna Durda, Katarzyna Jaworska, Jan Lubinski, Anna Jakubowska, Barbara Burwinkel, Christof Sohn, Andreas Schneeweiss, Frederik Marme, Karen A. Pooley, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Rob A.E.M. Tollenaar, Laura J. Van ‘t Veer, Annegien Broeks, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Nicola Miller, Michael Kerin, Ian Tomlinson, Elinor Sawyer, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Stefan Nickels, Julian Peto, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Lorna J. Gibson, Olivia Fletcher, Robert N. Hoover, Gilles D. Thomas, Rita K. Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Joerg Heil, Alfons Meindl, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Vesa Kataja, Arto Mannermaa, Anna Marie Mulligan, Gord Glendon, Julia A. Knight, Irene L. Andrulis, Christa Stegmaier, Volker Arndt, Heiko Müller, Hermann Brenner, Matthias W. Beckmann, Arif B. Ekici, Christian M. Bayer, Peter A. Fasching, Yuri I. Rogov, Iosif V. Zalutsky, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Jonine D. Figueroa, Mark E. Sherman, Jolanta Lissowska, Stephen J. Chanock, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Laura Baglietto, Graham G. Giles, Monica Barile, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Peterlongo, Paolo Radice, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jenny Chang-Claude, James McKay, Paul Brennan, Valerie Gaborieau, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Karin Leunen, Giuseppe Floris, Betül T. Yesilyurt, Diether Lambrechts, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, Gillian S. Dite, John L. Hopper, Anne-Lise Børrensen-Dale, Vessela Kristensen, Grethe Grenaker Alnæs, Charlotte Lanng, Stig E. Bojesen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Ming-Feng Hou, Chiun-Sheng Huang, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Chen-Yang Shen, Nazneen Rahman, Anthony Renwick, Clare Turnbull, Sheila Seal, Simon S. Cross, Graeme Elliot, Ian W. Brock, Angela Cox, Peter Hillemanns, Johann H. Karstens, Peter Schürmann, Thilo Dörk, Javier Benítez, Jose Ignacio Arias Pérez, M. Pilar Zamora, Núria Malats, Zachary Fredericksen, Rebecca Hein, Gianluca Severi, Fergus J. Couch, Montserrat García-Closas, Ellen L. Goode, and Roger L. Milne
Abstract: Background: The single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) 5p12-rs10941679 has been found to be associated with risk of breast cancer, particularly estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease. We aimed to further explore this association overall, and by tumor histopathology, in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium.Methods: Data were combined from 37 studies, including 40,972 invasive cases, 1,398 cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), and 46,334 controls, all of white European ancestry, as well as 3,007 invasive cases and 2,337 controls of Asian ancestry. Associations overall and by tumor invasiveness and histopathology were assessed using logistic regression.Results: For white Europeans, the per-allele OR associated with 5p12-rs10941679 was 1.11 (95% CI = 1.08–1.14, P = 7 × 10−18) for invasive breast cancer and 1.10 (95% CI = 1.01–1.21, P = 0.03) for DCIS. For Asian women, the estimated OR for invasive disease was similar (OR = 1.07, 95%CI = 0.99–1.15, P = 0.09). Further analyses suggested that the association in white Europeans was largely limited to progesterone receptor (PR)-positive disease (per-allele OR = 1.16, 95% CI = 1.12–1.20, P = 1 × 10−18 vs. OR = 1.03, 95% CI = 0.99–1.07, P = 0.2 for PR-negative disease; Pheterogeneity = 2 × 10−7); heterogeneity by ER status was not observed (P = 0.2) once PR status was accounted for. The association was also stronger for lower grade tumors [per-allele OR (95% CI) = 1.20 (1.14–1.25), 1.13 (1.09–1.16), and 1.04 (0.99–1.08) for grade 1, 2, and 3/4, respectively; Ptrend = 5 × 10−7].Conclusion: 5p12 is a breast cancer susceptibility locus for PR-positive, lower grade breast cancer.Impact: Multicenter fine-mapping studies of this region are needed as a first step to identifying the causal variant or variants. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 20(10); 2222–31. ©2011 AACR.
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43. Supplementary Figures from BRCA2 Hypomorphic Missense Variants Confer Moderate Risks of Breast Cancer

Author: Fergus J. Couch, Maaike P.G. Vreeswijk, Aura Carreira, David E. Goldgar, Alvaro N.A. Monteiro, Harry Vrieling, Peter Devilee, Amanda Spurdle, Douglas F. Easton, Setareh Moghadasi, Liliana Varesco, Kathleen B.M. Claes, Florentia Fostira, Lenka Foretova, Logan Walker, Jennifer Leary, Ying Zheng, Wei Zheng, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Anna H. Wu, Robert Winqvist, Qin Wang, Lizet E. van der Kolk, Christi J. van Asperen, Thérèse Truong, Diana Torres, Ian Tomlinson, Soo H. Teo, Anthony Swerdlow, Daniel O. Stram, Melissa C. Southey, Susan Slager, Xiao-Ou Shu, Martha Shrubsole, Chen-Yang Shen, Mitul Shah, Caroline Seynaeve, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Elinor J. Sawyer, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Anja Rudolph, Valerie Rhenius, Muhammad Usman Rashid, Paolo Radice, Katri Pylkäs, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Julian Peto, Paolo Peterlongo, Ana Osorio, Jan J.C. Oosterwijk, Curtis Olswold, Janet E. Olson, Heli Nevanlinna, Susan L. Neuhausen, Kenneth Muir, Roger L. Milne, Kyriaki Michailidou, Hui Miao, Keitaro Matsuo, Frederik Marme, Sara Margolin, Arto Mannermaa, Eva Machackova, Jan Lubinski, Artitaya Lophatananon, Annika Lindblom, Jingmei Li, Loic Le Marchand, Diether Lambrechts, Kah-Nyin Lai, Vessela Kristensen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Daehee Kang, Anna Jakubowska, Hidemi Ito, John L. Hopper, Antoinette Hollestelle, Frans B. Hogervorst, Mikael Hartman, Ute Hamann, Per Hall, Christopher A. Haiman, Pascal Guénel, Gord Glendon, Graham G. Giles, Montserrat García-Closas, Henrik Flyger, Jonine Figueroa, Peter A. Fasching, Alison M. Dunning, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Thilo Dörk, Joe Dennis, Hatef Darabi, Kamila Czene, Simon S. Cross, Angela Cox, J. Margriet Collée, Ji-Yeob Choi, Ching-Yu Cheng, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Jenny Chang-Claude, Barbara Burwinkel, Thomas Brüning, Barbara Brouwers, Annegien Broeks, Hermann Brenner, Paul Brennan, Hiltrud Brauch, Anne-Lise Borresen-Dale, Manjeet K. Bolla, Stig E. Bojesen, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Javier Benitez, Matthias W. Beckmann, Volker Arndt, Hoda Anton-Culver, Irene Andrulis, Kristiina Aittomäki, Cora M. Aalfs, Chunling Hu, Jenna Lilyquist, Jamie Hinton, Emily Hallberg, Huong Meeks, Fabienne M.G.R. Calléja, Charlotte Martin, Lucia Guidugli, Asa Ehlen, Catharina Von Nicolai, Romy L.S. Mesman, and Hermela Shimelis
Abstract: Figure S1: BCRA2 p.Y3035S Pedigrees. Figure S2: Western blot of ectopically expressed full-length wildtype and mutant hBRCA2 protein in VC8 DR-GFP cells subjected to HDR assay. Figure S3: Purification of wildtype and mutant BRCA2 from human cells. Figure S4: Position of BRCA2 DNA binding domain (DBD) variants on a ribbon diagram of the murine DBD crystal structure.
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44. Supplementary Table 1 from Confirmation of 5p12 As a Susceptibility Locus for Progesterone-Receptor–Positive, Lower Grade Breast Cancer

Author: Douglas F. Easton, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Qin Wang, Manjeet K. Humphreys, Xianshu Wang, Janet E. Olson, Albina Farahtdinova, Darya Prokofieva, Marina Bermisheva, Elza Khusnutdinova, Madeleine Tilanus-Linthorst, Rogier A. Oldenburg, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje Hooning, Mervi Grip, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Katri Pylkäs, Robert Winqvist, Christina Justenhoven, Volker Harth, Ute Hamann, Jonathan Beesley, Xiaoqing Chen, Sara Lindstrom, Peter Kraft, Susan E. Hankinson, David J. Hunter, Sei-Hyun Ahn, Dong-Young Noh, Keun-Young Yoo, Daehee Kang, Katarzyna Durda, Katarzyna Jaworska, Jan Lubinski, Anna Jakubowska, Barbara Burwinkel, Christof Sohn, Andreas Schneeweiss, Frederik Marme, Karen A. Pooley, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Rob A.E.M. Tollenaar, Laura J. Van ‘t Veer, Annegien Broeks, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Nicola Miller, Michael Kerin, Ian Tomlinson, Elinor Sawyer, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Stefan Nickels, Julian Peto, Isabel dos Santos Silva, Lorna J. Gibson, Olivia Fletcher, Robert N. Hoover, Gilles D. Thomas, Rita K. Schmutzler, Claus R. Bartram, Joerg Heil, Alfons Meindl, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Veli-Matti Kosma, Vesa Kataja, Arto Mannermaa, Anna Marie Mulligan, Gord Glendon, Julia A. Knight, Irene L. Andrulis, Christa Stegmaier, Volker Arndt, Heiko Müller, Hermann Brenner, Matthias W. Beckmann, Arif B. Ekici, Christian M. Bayer, Peter A. Fasching, Yuri I. Rogov, Iosif V. Zalutsky, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Jonine D. Figueroa, Mark E. Sherman, Jolanta Lissowska, Stephen J. Chanock, Alexander Miron, Esther M. John, Laura Baglietto, Graham G. Giles, Monica Barile, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Peterlongo, Paolo Radice, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Jenny Chang-Claude, James McKay, Paul Brennan, Valerie Gaborieau, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Karin Leunen, Giuseppe Floris, Betül T. Yesilyurt, Diether Lambrechts, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, Gillian S. Dite, John L. Hopper, Anne-Lise Børrensen-Dale, Vessela Kristensen, Grethe Grenaker Alnæs, Charlotte Lanng, Stig E. Bojesen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Ming-Feng Hou, Chiun-Sheng Huang, Jyh-Cherng Yu, Chen-Yang Shen, Nazneen Rahman, Anthony Renwick, Clare Turnbull, Sheila Seal, Simon S. Cross, Graeme Elliot, Ian W. Brock, Angela Cox, Peter Hillemanns, Johann H. Karstens, Peter Schürmann, Thilo Dörk, Javier Benítez, Jose Ignacio Arias Pérez, M. Pilar Zamora, Núria Malats, Zachary Fredericksen, Rebecca Hein, Gianluca Severi, Fergus J. Couch, Montserrat García-Closas, Ellen L. Goode, and Roger L. Milne
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45. Moving Toward Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable Practices in Epidemiologic Research

Author: Montserrat García-Closas, Thomas U Ahearn, Mia M Gaudet, Amber N Hurson, Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian, Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Nicole M Gerlanc, Bhaumik Patel, Daniel Russ, Mustapha Abubakar, Neal D Freedman, Wendy S W Wong, Stephen J Chanock, Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, and Jonas S Almeida
Subjects: Epidemiology
Abstract: Data sharing is essential for reproducibility of epidemiologic research, replication of findings, pooled analyses in consortia efforts, and maximizing study value to address multiple research questions. However, barriers related to confidentiality, costs, and incentives often limit the extent and speed of data sharing. Epidemiological practices that follow Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) principles can address these barriers by making data resources findable with the necessary metadata, accessible to authorized users, and interoperable with other data, to optimize the reuse of resources with appropriate credit to its creators. We provide an overview of these principles and describe approaches for implementation in epidemiology. Increasing degrees of FAIRness can be achieved by moving data and code from on-site locations to remote, accessible (“Cloud”) data servers, using machine-readable and nonproprietary files, and developing open-source code. Adoption of these practices will improve daily work and collaborative analyses and facilitate compliance with data sharing policies from funders and scientific journals. Achieving a high degree of FAIRness will require funding, training, organizational support, recognition, and incentives for sharing research resources, both data and code. However, these costs are outweighed by the benefits of making research more reproducible, impactful, and equitable by facilitating the reuse of precious research resources by the scientific community.
Published: 2023
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46. Potential Utility of Risk Stratification for Multicancer Screening with Liquid Biopsy Tests

Author: Nilanjan Chatterjee, Elle Kim, Robert Scharpf, Montserrat García-Closas, Kala Visvanathan, and Victor Velculescu
Abstract: Our proof-of-concept study reveals the potential of risk stratification by the combined effects of age, polygenic risk scores (PRS), and non-genetic risk factors in increasing the risk-benefit balance of rapidly emerging non-invasive multicancer liquid biopsy tests for early cancer detection. We develop and validate sex-specific pan-cancer risk scores (PCRSs), defined by the combination of body mass index, smoking, family history of cancers, and cancer-specific polygenic risk scores (PRSs), to predict the absolute risk of developing at least one of the many common cancer types. We demonstrate the added value of PRSs in improving the predictive performance of the risk-factors-only model and project the positive predictive values for two promising multicancer screening tests across risk strata defined by age and PCRS.
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47. The impact of coding germline variants on contralateral breast cancer risk and survival

Author: Anna Morra, Nasim Mavaddat, Taru A. Muranen, Thomas U. Ahearn, Jamie Allen, Irene L. Andrulis, Päivi Auvinen, Heiko Becher, Sabine Behrens, Carl Blomqvist, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Hiltrud Brauch, Nicola J. Camp, Sara Carvalho, Jose E. Castelao, Melissa H. Cessna, Jenny Chang-Claude, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Kamila Czene, Brennan Decker, Joe Dennis, Thilo Dörk, Leila Dorling, Alison M. Dunning, Arif B. Ekici, Mikael Eriksson, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine D. Figueroa, Henrik Flyger, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Montserrat García-Closas, Willemina R.R. Geurts-Giele, Graham G. Giles, Pascal Guénel, Melanie Gündert, Eric Hahnen, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Patricia A. Harrington, Wei He, Päivi Heikkilä, Maartje J. Hooning, Reiner Hoppe, Anthony Howell, Keith Humphreys, Anna Jakubowska, Audrey Y. Jung, Renske Keeman, Vessela N. Kristensen, Jan Lubiński, Arto Mannermaa, Mehdi Manoochehri, Siranoush Manoukian, Sara Margolin, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Roger L. Milne, Anna Marie Mulligan, William G. Newman, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Paolo Peterlongo, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Valerie Rhenius, Emmanouil Saloustros, Elinor J. Sawyer, Rita K. Schmutzler, Mitul Shah, Amanda B. Spurdle, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Elke M. van Veen, Maaike P.G. Vreeswijk, Qin Wang, Camilla Wendt, Xiaohong R. Yang, Heli Nevanlinna, Peter Devilee, Douglas F. Easton, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Kristine K. Sahlberg, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Inger Torhild Gram, Karina Standahl Olsen, Olav Engebråten, Bjørn Naume, Jürgen Geisler, null OSBREAC, Grethe I. Grenaker Alnæs, David Amor, Lesley Andrews, Yoland Antill, Rosemary Balleine, Jonathan Beesley, Ian Bennett, Michael Bogwitz, Leon Botes, Meagan Brennan, Melissa Brown, Michael Buckley, Jo Burke, Phyllis Butow, Liz Caldon, Ian Campbell, Michelle Cao, Anannya Chakrabarti, Deepa Chauhan, Manisha Chauhan, Alice Christian, Paul Cohen, Alison Colley, Ashley Crook, James Cui, Eliza Courtney, Margaret Cummings, Sarah-Jane Dawson, Anna DeFazio, Martin Delatycki, Rebecca Dickson, Joanne Dixon, Ted Edkins, Stacey Edwards, Gelareh Farshid, Andrew Fellows, Georgina Fenton, Michael Field, James Flanagan, Peter Fong, Laura Forrest, Stephen Fox, Juliet French, Michael Friedlander, Clara Gaff, Mike Gattas, Peter George, Sian Greening, Marion Harris, Stewart Hart, Nick Hayward, John Hopper, Cass Hoskins, Clare Hunt, Paul James, Mark Jenkins, Alexa Kidd, Judy Kirk, Jessica Koehler, James Kollias, Sunil Lakhani, Mitchell Lawrence, Jason Lee, Shuai Li, Geoff Lindeman, Lara Lipton, Liz Lobb, Sherene Loi, Graham Mann, Deborah Marsh, Sue Anne McLachlan, Bettina Meiser, Roger Milne, Sophie Nightingale, Shona O'Connell, Sarah O'Sullivan, David Gallego Ortega, Nick Pachter, Jia-Min Pang, Gargi Pathak, Briony Patterson, Amy Pearn, Kelly Phillips, Ellen Pieper, Susan Ramus, Edwina Rickard, Bridget Robinson, Mona Saleh, Anita Skandarajah, Elizabeth Salisbury, Christobel Saunders, Jodi Saunus, Rodney Scott, Clare Scott, Adrienne Sexton, Andrew Shelling, Peter Simpson, Melissa Southey, Amanda Spurdle, Jessica Taylor, Renea Taylor, Heather Thorne, Alison Trainer, Kathy Tucker, Jane Visvader, Logan Walker, Rachael Williams, Ingrid Winship, Mary Ann Young, and Milita Zaheed
Subjects: Genetics, Genetics (clinical)
Abstract: Evidence linking coding germline variants in breast cancer (BC)-susceptibility genes other than BRCA1, BRCA2, and CHEK2 with contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk and breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) is scarce. The aim of this study was to assess the association of protein-truncating variants (PTVs) and rare missense variants (MSVs) in nine known (ATM, BARD1, BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, PALB2, RAD51C, RAD51D, and TP53) and 25 suspected BC-susceptibility genes with CBC risk and BCSS. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated with Cox regression models. Analyses included 34,401 women of European ancestry diagnosed with BC, including 676 CBCs and 3,449 BC deaths; the median follow-up was 10.9 years. Subtype analyses were based on estrogen receptor (ER) status of the first BC. Combined PTVs and pathogenic/likely pathogenic MSVs in BRCA1, BRCA2, and TP53 and PTVs in CHEK2 and PALB2 were associated with increased CBC risk [HRs (95% CIs): 2.88 (1.70-4.87), 2.31 (1.39-3.85), 8.29 (2.53-27.21), 2.25 (1.55-3.27), and 2.67 (1.33-5.35), respectively]. The strongest evidence of association with BCSS was for PTVs and pathogenic/likely pathogenic MSVs in BRCA2 (ER-positive BC) and TP53 and PTVs in CHEK2 [HRs (95% CIs): 1.53 (1.13-2.07), 2.08 (0.95-4.57), and 1.39 (1.13-1.72), respectively, after adjusting for tumor characteristics and treatment]. HRs were essentially unchanged when censoring for CBC, suggesting that these associations are not completely explained by increased CBC risk, tumor characteristics, or treatment. There was limited evidence of associations of PTVs and/or rare MSVs with CBC risk or BCSS for the 25 suspected BC genes. The CBC findings are relevant to treatment decisions, follow-up, and screening after BC diagnosis.
Published: 2023
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48. Incorporating progesterone receptor expression into the PREDICT breast prognostic model

Author: Isabelle Grootes, Renske Keeman, Fiona M. Blows, Roger L. Milne, Graham G. Giles, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Peter A. Fasching, Mustapha Abubakar, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Matthias W. Beckmann, Carl Blomqvist, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Bernardo Bonanni, Ignacio Briceno, Barbara Burwinkel, Nicola J. Camp, Jose E. Castelao, Ji-Yeob Choi, Christine L. Clarke, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Peter Devilee, Thilo Dörk, Alison M. Dunning, Miriam Dwek, Douglas F. Easton, Diana M. Eccles, Mikael Eriksson, Kristina Ernst, D. Gareth Evans, Jonine D. Figueroa, Visnja Fink, Giuseppe Floris, Stephen Fox, Marike Gabrielson, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, José A. García-Sáenz, Anna González-Neira, Lothar Haeberle, Christopher A. Haiman, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Elaine F. Harkness, Mikael Hartman, Alexander Hein, Maartje J. Hooning, Ming-Feng Hou, Sacha J. Howell, Hidemi Ito, Anna Jakubowska, Wolfgang Janni, Esther M. John, Audrey Jung, Daehee Kang, Vessela N. Kristensen, Ava Kwong, Diether Lambrechts, Jingmei Li, Jan Lubiński, Mehdi Manoochehri, Sara Margolin, Keitaro Matsuo, Nur Aishah Mohd Taib, Anna Marie Mulligan, Heli Nevanlinna, William G. Newman, Kenneth Offit, Ana Osorio, Sue K. Park, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Alpa V. Patel, Nadege Presneau, Katri Pylkäs, Brigitte Rack, Paolo Radice, Gad Rennert, Atocha Romero, Emmanouil Saloustros, Elinor J. Sawyer, Andreas Schneeweiss, Fabienne Schochter, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Chen-Yang Shen, Rana Shibli, Peter Sinn, William J. Tapper, Essa Tawfiq, Soo Hwang Teo, Lauren R. Teras, Diana Torres, Celine M. Vachon, Carolien H.M. van Deurzen, Camilla Wendt, Justin A. Williams, Robert Winqvist, Mark Elwood, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Montserrat García-Closas, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Medical Oncology, Pathology, Medicum, HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Oncology, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital Area, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, HUS Gynecology and Obstetrics, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Subjects: Cancer Research, Breast Neoplasms/pathology, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Receptor, ErbB-2, Receptors, Progesterone/metabolism, ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/mcrc, ADJUVANT TAMOXIFEN, 3122 Cancers, Receptor, ErbB-2/metabolism, Breast Neoplasms, PREDICT Breast, Prognosis, THERAPY, Progesterone receptor, Breast cancer, breast cancer, ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR, Oncology, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Humans, Female, CANCER PATIENTS, Receptors, Progesterone, Progesterone
Abstract: Background: Predict Breast (www.predict.nhs.uk) is an online prognostication and treatment benefit tool for early invasive breast cancer. The aim of this study was to incorporate the prognostic effect of progesterone receptor (PR) status into a new version of PREDICT and to compare its performance to the current version (2.2).Method: The prognostic effect of PR status was based on the analysis of data from 45,088 European patients with breast cancer from 49 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate the hazard ratio for PR status. Data from a New Zealand study of 11,365 patients with early invasive breast cancer were used for external validation. Model calibration and discrimination were used to test the model performance.Results: Having a PR-positive tumour was associated with a 23% and 28% lower risk of dying from breast cancer for women with oestrogen receptor (ER)-negative and ER-positive breast cancer, respectively. The area under the ROC curve increased with the addition of PR status from 0.807 to 0.809 for patients with ER-negative tumours (p = 0.023) and from 0.898 to 0. 902 for patients with ER-positive tumours (p = 2.3 x 10(-6)) in the New Zealand cohort. Model calibration was modest with 940 observed deaths compared to 1151 predicted.Conclusion: The inclusion of the prognostic effect of PR status to PREDICT Breast has led to an improvement of model performance and more accurate absolute treatment benefit predic-tions for individual patients. Further studies should determine whether the baseline hazard function requires recalibration. (C) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Published: 2022
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49. A genome-wide gene-based gene-environment interaction study of breast cancer in more than 90,000 women

Author: Xiaoliang Wang, Hongjie Chen, Pooja Middha Kapoor, Yu-Ru Su, Manjeet K. Bolla, Joe Dennis, Alison M. Dunning, Michael Lush, Qin Wang, Kyriaki Michailidou, Paul D.P. Pharoah, John L. Hopper, Melissa C. Southey, Stella Koutros, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Jennifer Stone, Gad Rennert, Rana Shibli, Rachel A. Murphy, Kristan Aronson, Pascal Guénel, Thérèse Truong, Lauren R. Teras, James M. Hodge, Federico Canzian, Rudolf Kaaks, Hermann Brenner, Volker Arndt, Reiner Hoppe, Wing-Yee Lo, Sabine Behrens, Arto Mannermaa, Veli-Matti Kosma, Audrey Jung, Heiko Becher, Graham G. Giles, Christopher A. Haiman, Gertraud Maskarinec, Christopher Scott, Stacey Winham, Jacques Simard, Mark S. Goldberg, Wei Zheng, Jirong Long, Melissa A. Troester, Michael I. Love, Cheng Peng, Rulla Tamimi, Heather Eliassen, Montserrat García-Closas, Jonine Figueroa, Thomas Ahearn, Rose Yang, D. Gareth Evans, Anthony Howell, Per Hall, Kamila Czene, Alicja Wolk, Dale P. Sandler, Jack A. Taylor, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Nick Orr, James V. Lacey, Sophia Wang, Håkan Olsson, Douglas F. Easton, Roger L. Milne, Li Hsu, Peter Kraft, Jenny Chang-Claude, and Sara Lindström
Subjects: Manchester Cancer Research Centre, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/mcrc, Article
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 200 susceptibility loci for breast cancer, but these variants explain less than a fifth of the disease risk. Although gene–environment interactions have been proposed to account for some of the remaining heritability, few studies have empirically assessed this. We obtained genotype and risk factor data from 46,060 cases and 47,929 controls of European ancestry from population-based studies within the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). We built gene expression prediction models for 4,864 genes with a significant (P < 0.01) heritable component using the transcriptome and genotype data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. We leveraged predicted gene expression information to investigate the interactions between gene-centric genetic variation and 14 established risk factors in association with breast cancer risk, using a mixed-effects score test. After adjusting for number of tests using Bonferroni correction, no interaction remained statistically significant. The strongest interaction observed was between the predicted expression of the C13orf45 gene and age at first full-term pregnancy (PGXE = 4.44 × 10−6). In this transcriptome-informed genome-wide gene–environment interaction study of breast cancer, we found no strong support for the role of gene expression in modifying the associations between established risk factors and breast cancer risk. Our study suggests a limited role of gene–environment interactions in breast cancer risk.
Published: 2022
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50. Correction: PredictCBC-2.0: a contralateral breast cancer risk prediction model developed and validated in~200,000 patients

Author: Daniele Giardiello, Maartje J. Hooning, Michael Hauptmann, Renske Keeman, B. A. M. Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Heiko Becher, Carl Blomqvist, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Nicola J. Camp, Kamila Czene, Peter Devilee, Diana M. Eccles, Peter A. Fasching, Jonine D. Figueroa, Henrik Flyger, Montserrat García-Closas, Christopher A. Haiman, Ute Hamann, John L. Hopper, Anna Jakubowska, Floor E. Leeuwen, Annika Lindblom, Jan Lubiński, Sara Margolin, Maria Elena Martinez, Heli Nevanlinna, Ines Nevelsteen, Saskia Pelders, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Sabine Siesling, Melissa C. Southey, Annemieke H. van der Hout, Liselotte P. van Hest, Jenny Chang-Claude, Per Hall, Douglas F. Easton, Ewout W. Steyerberg, and Marjanka K. Schmidt
Subjects: ddc:610
Abstract: Following publication of the original article [1], the authors flagged the following error in the '3. Formula to estimate the contralateral breast cancer risk using PredictCBC-2.0A' section of additional file 1: ‘+ 0.065 × I[Radiotherapy to the breast = yes]’ had been written in place of ‘− 0.065 × I[Radiotherapy to the breast = yes]‘. The file has since been corrected. The authors thank you for reading and apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Published: 2022

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