Cross-Cancer Genome-Wide Analysis of Lung, Ovary, Breast, Prostate, and Colorectal Cancer Reveals Novel Pleiotropic Associations.
Fehringer G, Kraft P, Pharoah PD et al.
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Identifying genetic variants with pleiotropic associations can uncover common pathways influencing multiple cancers. We took a two-stage approach to conduct genome-wide association studies for lung, ovary, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer from the GAME-ON/GECCO Network (61,851 cases, 61,820 controls) to identify pleiotropic loci. Findings were replicated in independent association studies (55,789 cases, 330,490 controls). We identified a novel pleiotropic association at 1q22 involving breast and lung squamous cell carcinoma, with eQTL analysis showing an association with ADAM15/THBS3 gene expression in lung. We also identified a known breast cancer locus CASP8/ALS2CR12 associated with prostate cancer, a known cancer locus at CDKN2B-AS1 with different variants associated with lung adenocarcinoma and prostate cancer, and confirmed the associations of a breast BRCA2 locus with lung and serous ovarian cancer. This is the largest study to date examining pleiotropy across multiple cancer-associated loci, identifying common mechanisms of cancer development and progression. Cancer Res; 76(17); 5103-14. ©2016 AACR.
5,020 European ancestry lung cancer cases, 3,718 European ancestry lung adenocarcinoma cases, 3,422 European ancestry lung squamous cell carcinoma cases, 15,414 European ancestry colorectal cancer cases, 10,809 European ancestry breast cancer cases, 4,939 European ancestry estrogen receptor negative breast cancer cases, 1,098 European ancestry ovarian cancer cases, 2,556 European ancestry serous ovarian cancer cases, 715 European ancestry ovarian endometrioid carcinoma cases, 9,710 European ancestry prostate cancer cases, 4,450 European ancestry aggressive prostate cancer cases, 61,820 European ancestry controls
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