Mendelian randomisation study of height and body mass index as modifiers of ovarian cancer risk in 22,588 BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers
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BiBTeXBACKGROUND Height and body mass index (BMI) are associated with higher ovarian cancer risk in the general population, but whether such associations exist among BRCA1/2 mutation carriers is unknown. METHODS We applied a Mendelian randomisation approach to examine height/BMI with ovarian cancer risk using the Consortium of Investigators for the Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA) data set, comprising 14,676 BRCA1 and 7912 BRCA2 mutation carriers, with 2923 ovarian cancer cases. We created a height genetic score (height-GS) using 586 height-associated variants and a BMI genetic score (BMI-GS) using 93 BMI-associated variants. Associations were assessed using weighted Cox models. RESULTS Observed height was not associated with ovarian cancer risk (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.07 per 10-cm increase in height, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.94-1.23). Height-GS showed similar results (HR = 1.02, 95% CI: 0.85-1.23). Higher BMI was significantly associated with increased risk in premenopausal women with HR = 1.25 (95% CI: 1.06-1.48) and HR = 1.59 (95% CI: 1.08-2.33) per 5-kg/m2 increase in observed and genetically determined BMI, respectively. No association was found for postmenopausal women. Interaction between menopausal status and BMI was significant (Pinteraction \textless 0.05). CONCLUSION Our observation of a positive association between BMI and ovarian cancer risk in premenopausal BRCA1/2 mutation carriers is consistent with findings in the general population.
DOI: 10.1038/s41416-019-0492-8
Projects: GC-HBOC - German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Publication type: Journal article
Journal: British journal of cancer
Human Diseases: Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome
Citation: Br J Cancer 121(2):180-192
Date Published: 1st Jul 2019
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The German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer HBOC has been founded in 1996 by the German Cancer Aid and has been funded by the German Cancer Aid until recently. GC-HBOC currently comprises 17 university centers providing genetic counseling, histopathological and molecular tissue analysis, genetic testing, and specific structured surveillance programs for early cancer detection at each clinical unit, all based on defined standard operating procedures.
Programme: LIFE Management Cluster
Public web page: http://www.konsortium-familiaerer-brustkrebs.de/
Start date: 1st Jan 1996
Projects: LIFE Adult, LIFE - Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, GC-HBOC - German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, GC-HNPCC - German Consortium for Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer
Institutions: Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7247-282X
Projects: LHA - Leipzig Health Atlas, LIFE Adult, LIFE - Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, LIFE HNC - Head and Neck Cancer Group, LIFE Heart, MMML - Molecular mechanisms in malignant lymphoma, GLA - German Lymphoma Alliance, MMML Demonstrators - Molecular Mechanisms in Malignant Lymphomas - Demonstrators of Personalized Medicine, HaematoOpt - Individualized model-based managing of the next-cycle thrombopenia of CHOEP/CHOP treated patients based on platelets dynamics during the previous cycles, e:Med, GC-HBOC - German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, GC-HNPCC - German Consortium for Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer, MMML-MYC-SYS, NLP4CR - Natural Language Processing for Clinical Research, Genetical Statistics and Systems Biology, SepNet - German Competence Network Sepsis, LIFE Child, HNPCC-Sys - Genomic and transcriptomic heterogeneity of colorectal tumours arising in Lynch syndrome, GGN - German Glioma Network, CAPSys - Footprints of Sepsis Framed Within Community Acquired Pneumonia in the Blood Transcriptome, CapSys - Systems Medicine of Community Acquired Pneumonia, ProstataCA, HaematoSys - Systems biology of haematopoiesis and haematopoietic neoplasia, SMITH - Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare, Task Force COVID-19 Leipzig, NFDI4Health, POLAR - Polypharmacy, Drug Interactions, Risks, Management of health information systems, LivSys Transfer - Transfer of the LivSys in vitro system for hepatotoxicity into application, Project Test Demonstrator, Fundus photography as tool for analysis of eyes of subjects with diabetes, Clinical Trials Leipzig, NFDI4Health - TA3 Services, STOP-NUC, SCALE-TORT, EarlyAMDRate
Institutions: Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8344-0658
Universität Leipzig Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Statistik und Epidemiologie (IMISE) Härtelstr. 16-18 04107 Leipzig
Projects: LIFE Heart, LIFE - Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, LIFE HNC - Head and Neck Cancer Group, SepNet - German Competence Network Sepsis, GC-HNPCC - German Consortium for Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer, LIFE Child, GC-HBOC - German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, LIFE Adult
Web page: https://www.uniklinikum-leipzig.de/einrichtungen/life
Taxonomy URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_5683
Synonyms: BRCA1- and BRCA2-associated hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC)
Definitions: Xref MGI., An autosomal dominant disease characterized by the higher than normal tendency associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 to develop breast and ovarian cancers in genetically related families.
