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Corina Lesseur1,2, Aida Ferreiro-Iglesias1, James D McKay3, Yohan Bossé4, Mattias Johansson1, Valerie Gaborieau1, Maria Teresa Landi5, David C Christiani6, Neil C Caporaso5, Stig E Bojesen7, Christopher I Amos8, Sanjay Shete9, Geoffrey Liu10, Gadi Rennert11, Demetrius Albanes5, Melinda C Aldrich12, Adonina Tardon13, Chu Chen14, Liloglou Triantafillos15, John K Field15, Marion Dawn Teare16, Lambertus A Kiemeney17, Brenda Diergaarde18,19,20, Robert L Ferris20, Shanbeh Zienolddiny21, Stephen Lam22, Andrew F Olshan23, Mark C Weissler24, Martin Lacko25, Angela Risch26,27,28, Heike Bickeböller29, Andy R Ness30,31, Steve Thomas31, Loic Le Marchand32, Matthew B Schabath33, Victor Wünsch-Filho34, Eloiza H Tajara35, Angeline S Andrew36, Gary M Clifford37, Philip Lazarus38, Kjell Grankvist39, Mikael Johansson40, Susanne Arnold41, Olle Melander42,43, Hans Brunnström44, Stefania Boccia45,46, Gabriella Cadoni47,48, Wim Timens49,50, Ma'en Obeidat51, Xiangjun Xiao8, Richard S Houlston52, Rayjean J Hung53, Paul Brennan1.
Abstract
Squamous cell carcinomas (SqCC) of the aerodigestive tract have similar etiological risk factors. Although genetic risk variants for individual cancers have been identified, an agnostic, genome-wide search for shared genetic susceptibility has not been performed. To identify novel and pleotropic SqCC risk variants, we performed a meta-analysis of GWAS data on lung SqCC (LuSqCC), oro/pharyngeal SqCC (OSqCC), laryngeal SqCC (LaSqCC) and esophageal SqCC (ESqCC) cancers, totaling 13,887 cases and 61,961 controls of European ancestry. We identified one novel genome-wide significant (Pmeta<5x10-8) aerodigestive SqCC susceptibility loci in the 2q33.1 region (rs56321285, TMEM273). Additionally, three previously unknown loci reached suggestive significance (Pmeta<5x10-7): 1q32.1 (rs12133735, near MDM4), 5q31.2 (rs13181561, TMEM173) and 19p13.11 (rs61494113, ABHD8). Multiple previously identified loci for aerodigestive SqCC also showed evidence of pleiotropy in at least another SqCC site, these include: 4q23 (ADH1B), 6p21.33 (STK19), 6p21.32 (HLA-DQB1), 9p21.33 (CDKN2B-AS1) and 13q13.1(BRCA2). Gene-based association and gene set enrichment identified a set of 48 SqCC-related genes rel to DNA damage and epigenetic regulation pathways. Our study highlights the importance of cross-cancer analyses to identify pleiotropic risk loci of histology-related cancers arising at distinct anatomical sites.Entities:
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Year: 2021 PMID: 33667223 PMCID: PMC7968735 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009254
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS Genet ISSN: 1553-7390 Impact factor: 5.917