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Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci.
Nat. Genet. 44, 312-319 (2012)
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. To date, 22 common breast cancer susceptibility loci have been identified accounting for ∼8% of the heritability of the disease. We attempted to replicate 72 promising associations from two independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in ∼70,000 cases and ∼68,000 controls from 41 case-control studies and 9 breast cancer GWAS. We identified three new breast cancer risk loci at 12p11 (rs10771399; P = 2.7 × 10(-35)), 12q24 (rs1292011; P = 4.3 × 10(-19)) and 21q21 (rs2823093; P = 1.1 × 10(-12)). rs10771399 was associated with similar relative risks for both estrogen receptor (ER)-negative and ER-positive breast cancer, whereas the other two loci were associated only with ER-positive disease. Two of the loci lie in regions that contain strong plausible candidate genes: PTHLH (12p11) has a crucial role in mammary gland development and the establishment of bone metastasis in breast cancer, and NRIP1 (21q21) encodes an ER cofactor and has a role in the regulation of breast cancer cell growth.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Hormone-related protein; Developmental regulatory molecule; Unlar-mammary syndrome; Parathjyroid-hormone; Negative-feedback; Common variants; Confer susceptibility; Gene-expression; Cell carcinoma; Retinoic acid
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1061-4036
e-ISSN
1546-1718
Journal
Nature Genetics
Quellenangaben
Volume: 44,
Issue: 3,
Pages: 312-319
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Publishing Place
New York, NY
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Human Genetics (IHG)