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Fine mapping of MHC region in lung cancer highlights independent susceptibility loci by ethnicity

  • Aida Ferreiro-Iglesias
  • , Corina Lesseur
  • , James McKay
  • , Rayjean J. Hung
  • , Younghun Han
  • , Xuchen Zong
  • , David Christiani
  • , Mattias Johansson
  • , Xiangjun Xiao
  • , Yafang Li
  • , David C. Qian
  • , Xuemei Ji
  • , Geoffrey Liu
  • , Neil Caporaso
  • , Ghislaine Scelo
  • , David Zaridze
  • , Anush Mukeriya
  • , Milica Kontic
  • , Simona Ognjanovic
  • , Jolanta Lissowska
  • Małgorzata Szołkowska, Beata Swiatkowska, Vladimir Janout, Ivana Holcatova, Ciprian Bolca, Milan Savic, Miodrag Ognjanovic, Stig Egil Bojesen, Xifeng Wu, Demetrios Albanes, Melinda C. Aldrich, Adonina Tardon, Ana Fernandez-Somoano, Guillermo Fernandez-Tardon, Loic Le Marchand, Gadi Rennert, Chu Chen, Jennifer Doherty, Gary Goodman, Heike Bickeböller, H. Erich Wichmann, Angela Risch, Albert Rosenberger, Hongbing Shen, Juncheng Dai, John K. Field, Michael Davies, Penella Woll, M. Dawn Teare, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Erik H.F.M. van der Heijden, Jian Min Yuan, Yun Chul Hong, Aage Haugen, Shanbeh Zienolddiny, Stephen Lam, Ming Sound Tsao, Mikael Johansson, Kjell Grankvist, Matthew B. Schabath, Angeline Andrew, Eric Duell, Olle Melander, Hans Brunnström, Philip Lazarus, Susanne Arnold, Stacey Slone, Jinyoung Byun, Ahsan Kamal, Dakai Zhu, Maria Teresa Landi, Christopher I. Amos, Paul Brennan
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • University of Toronto
  • Dartmouth College
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Russian N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Centre
  • Clinical Center of Serbia
  • International Organization for Cancer Prevention and Research
  • Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology
  • National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases
  • Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
  • Palacký University Olomouc
  • Charles University
  • Institute of Pneumology “Marius Nasta”
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Vanderbilt University
  • University of Oviedo
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Clalit Health Services
  • University of Washington
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Swedish Medical Group
  • University of Göttingen
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health
  • Technical University of Munich
  • University of Salzburg
  • Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg
  • German Center for Lung Research (DZL)
  • Nanjing Medical University
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Sheffield
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Seoul National University
  • National Institute of Occupational Health
  • Provincial Health Services Authority
  • University Health Network
  • Umeå University
  • Moffitt Cancer Center
  • Institute Catala Oncologia
  • Lund University
  • University of Kentucky

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Abstract

Lung cancer has several genetic associations identified within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC); although the basis for these associations remains elusive. Here, we analyze MHC genetic variation among 26,044 lung cancer patients and 20,836 controls densely genotyped across the MHC, using the Illumina Illumina OncoArray or Illumina 660W SNP microarray. We impute sequence variation in classical HLA genes, fine-map MHC associations for lung cancer risk with major histologies and compare results between ethnicities. Independent and novel associations within HLA genes are identified in Europeans including amino acids in the HLA-B*0801 peptide binding groove and an independent HLA-DQB1*06 loci group. In Asians, associations are driven by two independent HLA allele sets that both increase risk in HLA-DQB1*0401 and HLA-DRB1*0701; the latter better represented by the amino acid Ala-104. These results implicate several HLA–tumor peptide interactions as the major MHC factor modulating lung cancer susceptibility.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3927
JournalNature Communications
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2018

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