2020年5月18日，美国约翰霍普金斯大学Nilanjan Chatterjee等研究人员在《自然—遗传学》杂志发表论文，他们利用全基因组关联研究鉴定出32个新型乳腺癌易感基因座。

Title: Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

Author: Haoyu Zhang, Thomas U. Ahearn, Julie Lecarpentier, Daniel Barnes, Jonathan Beesley, Guanghao Qi, Xia Jiang, Tracy A. OMara, Ni Zhao, Manjeet K. Bolla, Alison M. Dunning, Joe Dennis, Qin Wang, Zumuruda Abu Ful, Kristiina Aittomki, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Volker Arndt, Kristan J. Aronson, Banu K. Arun, Paul L. Auer, Jacopo Azzollini, Daniel Barrowdale, Heiko Becher, Matthias W. Beckmann, Sabine Behrens, Javier Benitez, Marina Bermisheva, Katarzyna Bialkowska, Ana Blanco, Carl Blomqvist, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Bernardo Bonanni, Davide Bondavalli, Ake Borg, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Ignacio Briceno, Annegien Broeks, Sara Y. Brucker, Thomas Brning, Barbara Burwinkel, Saundra S. Buys, Helen Byers, Trinidad Calds, Maria A. Caligo, Mariarosaria Calvello, Daniele Campa, Jose E. Castelao, Jenny Chang-Claude, Stephen J. Chanock, Melissa Christiaens, Hans Christiansen, Wendy K. Chung, Kathleen B. M. Claes, Christine L. Clarke, Sten Cornelissen, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Susan M. Domchek, Thilo Drk

Issue&Volume: 2020-05-18

Abstract: Breast cancer susceptibility variants frequently show heterogeneity in associations by tumor subtype1,2,3. To identify novel loci, we performed a genome-wide association study including 133,384 breast cancer cases and 113,789 controls, plus 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer) of European ancestry, using both standard and novel methodologies that account for underlying tumor heterogeneity by estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 status and tumor grade. We identified 32 novel susceptibility loci (P<5.0×108), 15 of which showed evidence for associations with at least one tumor feature (false discovery rate<0.05). Five loci showed associations (P<0.05) in opposite directions between luminal and non-luminal subtypes. In silico analyses showed that these five loci contained cell-specific enhancers that differed between normal luminal and basal mammary cells. The genetic correlations between five intrinsic-like subtypes ranged from 0.35 to 0.80. The proportion of genome-wide chip heritability explained by all known susceptibility loci was 54.2% for luminal A-like disease and 37.6% for triple-negative disease. The odds ratios of polygenic risk scores, which included 330 variants, for the highest 1% of quantiles compared with middle quantiles were 5.63 and 3.02 for luminal A-like and triple-negative disease, respectively. These findings provide an improved understanding of genetic predisposition to breast cancer subtypes and will inform the development of subtype-specific polygenic risk scores.

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-020-0609-2

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-020-0609-2