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Walsh, K.M.* ; Codd, V.* ; Smirnov, I.V.* ; Rice, T.* ; Decker, P.A.* ; Hansen, H.M.* ; Kollmeyer, T.* ; Kosel, M.L.* ; Molinaro, A.M.* ; McCoy, L.S.* ; Bracci, P.M.* ; Cabriga, B.S.* ; Pekmezci, M.* ; Zheng, S.* ; Wiemels, J.L.* ; Pico, A.R.* ; Tihan, T.* ; Berger, M.S.* ; Chang, S.M.* ; Prados, M.D.* ; Lachance, D.H.* ; O'Neill, B.P.* ; Sicotte, H.* ; Eckel-Passow, J.E.* ; ENGAGE Consortium Telomere Group (Albrecht, E. ; Klopp, N. ; Peters, A. ; Wichmann, H.-E. ; Gieger, C.) ; van der Harst, P.* ; Wiencke, J.K.* ; Samani, N.J.* ; Jenkins, R.B.* ; Wrensch, M.R.*

Variants near TERT and TERC influencing telomere length are associated with high-grade glioma risk.

Nat. Genet. 46, 731-735 (2014)
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Glioma, the most common central nervous system cancer in adults, has poor prognosis. Here we identify a new SNP associated with glioma risk, rs1920116 (near TERC), that reached genome-wide significance (P-combined = 8.3 x 10(-9)) in a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of high-grade glioma and replication data (1,644 cases and 7,736 controls). This region has previously been associated with mean leukocyte telomere length (LTL). We therefore examined the relationship between LTL and both this new risk locus and other previously established risk loci for glioma using data from a recent GWAS of LTL (n = 37,684 individuals)(1). Alleles associated with glioma risk near TERC and TERT were strongly associated with longer LTL (P = 5.5 x 10(-20) and 4.4 x 10(-19), respectively). In contrast, risk-associated alleles near RTEL1 were inconsistently associated with LTL, suggesting the presence of distinct causal alleles. No other risk loci for glioma were associated with LTL. The identification of risk alleles for glioma near TERC and TERT that also associate with telomere length implicates telomerase in gliomagenesis.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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Keywords Genome-wide Association; Susceptibility Loci; Promoter Mutations; Cardiovascular-disease; Colorectal-cancer; Glioblastoma; Metaanalysis; Pathways; Melanoma; Humans
ISSN (print) / ISBN 1061-4036
e-ISSN 1546-1718
Journal Nature Genetics
Quellenangaben Volume: 46, Issue: 7, Pages: 731-735 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Nature Publishing Group
Publishing Place New York, NY
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Institute of Genetic Epidemiology (IGE)
Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI2)