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Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for pancreatic cancer

  • Brian M. Wolpin
  • , Cosmeri Rizzato
  • , Peter Kraft
  • , Charles Kooperberg
  • , Gloria M. Petersen
  • , Zhaoming Wang
  • , Alan A. Arslan
  • , Laura Beane-Freeman
  • , Paige M. Bracci
  • , Julie Buring
  • , Federico Canzian
  • , Eric J. Duell
  • , Steven Gallinger
  • , Graham G. Giles
  • , Gary E. Goodman
  • , Phyllis J. Goodman
  • , Eric J. Jacobs
  • , Aruna Kamineni
  • , Alison P. Klein
  • , Laurence N. Kolonel
  • Matthew H. Kulke, Donghui Li, Núria Malats, Sara H. Olson, Harvey A. Risch, Howard D. Sesso, Kala Visvanathan, Emily White, Wei Zheng, Christian C. Abnet, Demetrius Albanes, Gabriella Andreotti, Melissa A. Austin, Richard Barfield, Daniela Basso, Sonja I. Berndt, Marie Christine Boutron-Ruault, Michelle Brotzman, Markus W. Büchler, H. Bas Bueno-De-Mesquita, Peter Bugert, Laurie Burdette, Daniele Campa, Neil E. Caporaso, Gabriele Capurso, Charles Chung, Michelle Cotterchio, Eithne Costello, Joanne Elena, Niccola Funel, J. Michael Gaziano, Nathalia A. Giese, Edward L. Giovannucci, Michael Goggins, Megan J. Gorman, Myron Gross, Christopher A. Haiman, Manal Hassan, Kathy J. Helzlsouer, Brian E. Henderson, Elizabeth A. Holly, Nan Hu, David J. Hunter, Federico Innocenti, Mazda Jenab, Rudolf Kaaks, Timothy J. Key, Kay Tee Khaw, Eric A. Klein, Manolis Kogevinas, Vittorio Krogh, Juozas Kupcinskas, Robert C. Kurtz, Andrea Lacroix, Maria T. Landi, Stefano Landi, Loic Le Marchand, Andrea Mambrini, Satu Mannisto, Roger L. Milne, Yusuke Nakamura, Ann L. Oberg, Kouros Owzar, Alpa V. Patel, Petra H.M. Peeters, Ulrike Peters, Raffaele Pezzilli, Ada Piepoli, Miquel Porta, Francisco X. Real, Elio Riboli, Nathaniel Rothman, Aldo Scarpa, Xiao Ou Shu, Debra T. Silverman, Pavel Soucek, Malin Sund, Renata Talar-Wojnarowska, Philip R. Taylor, George E. Theodoropoulos, Mark Thornquist, Anne Tjønneland, Geoffrey S. Tobias, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Pavel Vodicka, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Nicolas Wentzensen, Chen Wu, Herbert Yu, Kai Yu, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Robert Hoover, Patricia Hartge, Charles Fuchs, Stephen J. Chanock, Rachael S. Stolzenberg-Solomon, Laufey T. Amundadottir
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • Harvard University
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • National Institutes of Health
  • New York University
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute
  • University of Toronto
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • University of Melbourne
  • Monash University
  • Southwest Oncology Group Statistical Center
  • American Cancer Society
  • Group Health Cooperative
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Yale University
  • SUNY Buffalo
  • University of Washington
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova
  • University Paris-Sud
  • Institut Gustave Roussy
  • Westat
  • Heidelberg University 
  • National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
  • Utrecht University
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • University and University Hospital of Pisa
  • VA Medical Center
  • University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • University of Southern California
  • Mercy Medical Center Baltimore
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Cambridge
  • Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  • (ISGlobal) Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona
  • Hospital del Mar
  • University of West Attica
  • IRCCS Fondazione Istituto Nazionale per lo studio e la cura dei tumori - Milano
  • Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
  • University of Pisa
  • Oncology Department
  • National Institute for Health and Welfare
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Duke University
  • Imperial College London
  • Pancreas Unit, Department of Digestive Diseases and Internal Medicine, SantOrsola-Malpighi Hospital
  • IRCCS Ospedale Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza - San Giovanni Rotondo (FG)
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Centro de Investigación Biomédicaen Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)
  • Pompeu Fabra University
  • ARC-NET: Centre for Applied Research on Cancer, University and Hospital Trust of Verona
  • Czech National Institute of Public Health
  • Umeå University
  • Medical University of Łódź
  • Hippokration General Hospital
  • Danish Cancer Society
  • Academy of Athens
  • Helenic Health Foundation
  • Czech Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

We performed a multistage genome-wide association study including 7,683 individuals with pancreatic cancer and 14,397 controls of European descent. Four new loci reached genome-wide significance: rs6971499 at 7q32.3 (LINC-PINT, per-allele odds ratio (OR) = 0.79, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.74-0.84, P = 3.0 × 10-12), rs7190458 at 16q23.1 (BCAR1/CTRB1/CTRB2, OR = 1.46, 95% CI 1.30-1.65, P = 1.1 × 10-10), rs9581943 at 13q12.2 (PDX1, OR = 1.15, 95% CI 1.10-1.20, P = 2.4 × 10-9) and rs16986825 at 22q12.1 (ZNRF3, OR = 1.18, 95% CI 1.12-1.25, P = 1.2 × 10-8). We identified an independent signal in exon 2 of TERT at the established region 5p15.33 (rs2736098, OR = 0.80, 95% CI 0.76-0.85, P = 9.8 × 10-14). We also identified a locus at 8q24.21 (rs1561927, P = 1.3 × 10-7) that approached genome-wide significance located 455 kb telomeric of PVT1. Our study identified multiple new susceptibility alleles for pancreatic cancer that are worthy of follow-up studies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)994-1000
Number of pages7
JournalNature Genetics
Volume46
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

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