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Dumont, Martine ; Weber-Lassalle, Nana ; Joly-Beauparlant, Charles ; Ernst, Corinna ; Droit, Arnaud ; Feng, Bing-Jian ; Dubois, Stéphane ; Collin-Deschesnes, Annie-Claude ; Soucy, Penny ; Vallée, Maxime ; Fournier, Frédéric ; Lemaçon, Audrey ; Adank, Muriel A. ; Allen, Jamie ; Altmüller, Janine ; Arnold, Norbert ; Ausems, Margreet G. E. M. ; Berutti, Riccardo ; Bolla, Manjeet K. ; Bull, Shelley ; Carvalho, Sara ; Cornelissen, Sten ; Dufault, Michael R. ; Dunning, Alison M. ; Engel, Christoph ; Gehrig, Andrea ; Geurts-Giele, Willemina R. R. ; Gieger, Christian ; Green, Jessica ; Hackmann, Karl ; Helmy, Mohamed ; Hentschel, Julia ; Hogervorst, Frans B. L. ; Hollestelle, Antoinette ; Hooning, Maartje J. ; Horváth, Judit ; Ikram, M. Arfan ; Kaulfuß, Silke ; Keeman, Renske ; Kuang, Da ; Luccarini, Craig ; Maier, Wolfgang ; Martens, John W. M. ; Niederacher, Dieter ; Nürnberg, Peter ; Ott, Claus-Eric ; Peters, Annette ; Pharoah, Paul D. P. ; Ramirez, Alfredo ; Ramser, Juliane ; Riedel-Heller, Steffi ; Schmidt, Gunnar ; Shah, Mitul ; Scherer, Martin ; Stäbler, Antje ; Strom, Tim M. ; Sutter, Christian ; Thiele, Holger ; van Asperen, Christi J. ; van der Kolk, Lizet ; van der Luijt, Rob B. ; Volk, Alexander E. ; Wagner, Michael ; Waisfisz, Quinten ; Wang, Qin ; Wang-Gohrke, Shan ; Weber, Bernhard H. F. ; Devilee, Peter ; Tavtigian, Sean ; Bader, Gary D. ; Meindl, Alfons ; Goldgar, David E. ; Andrulis, Irene L. ; Schmutzler, Rita K. ; Easton, Douglas F. ; Schmidt, Marjanka K. ; Hahnen, Eric ; Simard, Jacques
Rare variants in at least 10 genes, including BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, ATM, and CHEK2, are associated with increased risk of breast cancer; however, these variants, in combination with common variants identified through genome-wide association studies, explain only a fraction of the familial aggregation of the disease. To identify further susceptibility genes, we performed a two-stage whole-exome sequencing study. In the discovery stage, samples from 1528 breast cancer cases enriched for breast cancer susceptibility and 3733 geographically matched unaffected controls were sequenced. Using five different filtering and gene prioritization strategies, 198 genes were selected for further validation. These genes, and a panel of 32 known or suspected breast cancer susceptibility genes, were assessed in a validation set of 6211 cases and 6019 controls for their association with risk of breast cancer overall, and by estrogen receptor (ER) disease subtypes, using gene burden tests applied to loss-of-function and rare missense variants. Twenty genes showed nominal evidence of association (p-value < 0.05) with either overall or subtype-specific breast cancer. Our study had the statistical power to detect susceptibility genes with effect sizes similar to ATM, CHEK2, and PALB2, however, it was underpowered to identify genes in which susceptibility variants are rarer or confer smaller effect sizes. Larger sample sizes would be required in order to identify such genes.
Ferreira, Manuel A. ; Gamazon, Eric R. ; Al-Ejeh, Fares ; Aittomäki, Kristiina ; Andrulis, Irene L. ; Anton-Culver, Hoda ; Arason, Adalgeir ; Arndt, Volker ; Aronson, Kristan J. ; Arun, Banu K. ; Asseryanis, Ella ; Azzollini, Jacopo ; Balmaña, Judith ; Barnes, Daniel R. ; Barrowdale, Daniel ; Beckmann, Matthias W. ; Behrens, Sabine ; Benitez, Javier ; Bermisheva, Marina ; Bialkowska, Katarzyna ; Blomqvist, Carl ; Bogdanova, Natalia V. ; Bojesen, Stig E. ; Bolla, Manjeet K. ; Borg, Ake ; Brauch, Hiltrud ; Brenner, Hermann ; Broeks, Annegien ; Burwinkel, Barbara ; Caldés, Trinidad ; Caligo, Maria A. ; Campa, Daniele ; Campbell, Ian ; Canzian, Federico ; Carter, Jonathan ; Carter, Brian D. ; Castelao, Jose E. ; Chang-Claude, Jenny ; Chanock, Stephen J. ; Christiansen, Hans ; Chung, Wendy K. ; Claes, Kathleen B. M. ; Clarke, Christine L. ; Couch, Fergus J. ; Cox, Angela ; Cross, Simon S. ; Czene, Kamila ; Daly, Mary B. ; de la Hoya, Miguel ; Dennis, Joe ; Devilee, Peter ; Diez, Orland ; Dörk, Thilo ; Dunning, Alison M. ; Dwek, Miriam ; Eccles, Diana M. ; Ejlertsen, Bent ; Ellberg, Carolina ; Engel, Christoph ; Eriksson, Mikael ; Fasching, Peter A. ; Fletcher, Olivia ; Flyger, Henrik ; Friedman, Eitan ; Frost, Debra ; Gabrielson, Marike ; Gago-Dominguez, Manuela ; Ganz, Patricia A. ; Gapstur, Susan M. ; Garber, Judy ; García-Closas, Montserrat ; García-Sáenz, José A. ; Gaudet, Mia M. ; Giles, Graham G. ; Glendon, Gord ; Godwin, Andrew K. ; Goldberg, Mark S. ; Goldgar, David E. ; González-Neira, Anna ; Greene, Mark H. ; Gronwald, Jacek ; Guenél, Pascal ; Haimann, Christopher A. ; Hall, Per ; Hamann, Ute ; He, Wei ; Heyworth, Jane ; Hogervorst, Frans B. L. ; Hollestelle, Antoinette ; Hoover, Robert N. ; Hopper, John L. ; Hulick, Peter J. ; Humphreys, Keith ; Imyanitov, Evgeny N. ; Isaacs, Claudine ; Jakimovska, Milena ; Jakubowska, Anna ; James, Paul A. ; Janavicius, Ramunas ; Jankowitz, Rachel C. ; John, Esther M. ; Johnson, Nichola ; Joseph, Vijai ; Karlan, Beth Y. ; Khusnutdinova, Elza ; Kiiski, Johanna I. ; Ko, Yon-Dschun ; Jones, Michael E. ; Konstantopoulou, Irene ; Kristensen, Vessela N. ; Laitman, Yael ; Lambrechts, Diether ; Lazaro, Conxi ; Leslie, Goska ; Lester, Jenny ; Lesueur, Fabienne ; Lindström, Sara ; Long, Jirong ; Loud, Jennifer T. ; Lubiński, Jan ; Makalic, Enes ; Mannermaa, Arto ; Manoochehri, Mehdi ; Margolin, Sara ; Maurer, Tabea ; Mavroudis, Dimitrios ; McGuffog, Lesley ; Meindl, Alfons ; Menon, Usha ; Michailidou, Kyriaki ; Miller, Austin ; Montagna, Marco ; Moreno, Fernando ; Moserle, Lidia ; Mulligan, Anna Marie ; Nathanson, Katherine L. ; Neuhausen, Susan L. ; Nevanlinna, Heli ; Nevelsteen, Ines ; Nielsen, Finn C. ; Nikitina-Zake, Liene ; Nussbaum, Robert L. ; Offit, Kenneth ; Olah, Edith ; Olopade, Olufunmilayo I. ; Olsson, Håkan ; Osorio, Ana ; Papp, Janos ; Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won ; Parsons, Michael T. ; Pedersen, Inge Sokilde ; Peixoto, Ana ; Peterlongo, Paolo ; Pharaoh, Paul D. P. ; Plaseska-Karanfilska, Dijana ; Poppe, Bruce ; Presneau, Nadege ; Radice, Paolo ; Rantala, Johanna ; Rennert, Gad ; Risch, Harvey A. ; Saloustros, Emmanouil ; Sanden, Kristin ; Sawyer, Elinor J. ; Schmidt, Marjanka K. ; Schmutzler, Rita K. ; Sharma, Priyanka ; Shu, Xiao-Ou ; Simard, Jaques ; Singer, Christian F. ; Soucy, Penny ; Southey, Melissa C. ; Spinelli, John J. ; Spurdle, Amanda B. ; Stone, Jennifer ; Swerdlow, Anthony J. ; Tapper, William J. ; Taylor, Jack A. ; Teixeira, Manuel R. ; Terry, Mary Beth ; Teulé, Alex ; Thomassen, Mads ; Thöne, Kathrin ; Thull, Darcy L. ; Tischkowitz, Marc ; Toland, Amanda E. ; Torres, Diana ; Truong, Thérèse ; Tung, Nadine ; Vachon, Celine M. ; van Asperen, Christi J. ; van den Ouweland, Ans M. W. ; van Rensburg, Elizabeth J. ; Vega, Ana ; Viel, Alexandra ; Wang, Qin ; Wappenschmidt, Barbara ; Weitzel, Jeffrey N. ; Wendt, Camilla ; Winqvist, Robert ; Yang, Xiaohong R. ; Yannoukakos, Drakoulis ; Ziogas, Argyrios ; Kraft, Peter ; Antoniou, Antonis C. ; Zheng, Wei ; Easton, Douglas F. ; Milne, Roger L. ; Beesley, Jonathan ; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 170 breast cancer susceptibility loci. Here we hypothesize that some risk-associated variants might act in non-breast tissues, specifically adipose tissue and immune cells from blood and spleen. Using expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) reported in these tissues, we identify 26 previously unreported, likely target genes of overall breast cancer risk variants, and 17 for estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer, several with a known immune function. We determine the directional effect of gene expression on disease risk measured based on single and multiple eQTL. In addition, using a gene-based test of association that considers eQTL from multiple tissues, we identify seven (and four) regions with variants associated with overall (and ER-negative) breast cancer risk, which were not reported in previous GWAS. Further investigation of the function of the implicated genes in breast and immune cells may provide insights into the etiology of breast cancer.
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