Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer
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BiBTeXTERT-locus SNPs and leukocyte telomere measures are reportedly associated with risks of multiple cancers. Using the Illumina custom genotyping array iCOGs, we analyzed \sim480 SNPs at the TERT locus in breast (n = 103,991), ovarian (n = 39,774) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (n = 11,705) cancer cases and controls. Leukocyte telomere measurements were also available for 53,724 participants. Most associations cluster into three independent peaks. The minor allele at the peak 1 SNP rs2736108 associates with longer telomeres (P = 5.8 \times 10(-7)), lower risks for estrogen receptor (ER)-negative (P = 1.0 \times 10(-8)) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (P = 1.1 \times 10(-5)) breast cancers and altered promoter assay signal. The minor allele at the peak 2 SNP rs7705526 associates with longer telomeres (P = 2.3 \times 10(-14)), higher risk of low-malignant-potential ovarian cancer (P = 1.3 \times 10(-15)) and greater promoter activity. The minor alleles at the peak 3 SNPs rs10069690 and rs2242652 increase ER-negative (P = 1.2 \times 10(-12)) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (P = 1.6 \times 10(-14)) breast and invasive ovarian (P = 1.3 \times 10(-11)) cancer risks but not via altered telomere length. The cancer risk alleles of rs2242652 and rs10069690, respectively, increase silencing and generate a truncated TERT splice variant.
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2566
Projects: GC-HBOC - German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Publication type: Journal article
Journal: Nature genetics
Human Diseases: Hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome
Citation: Nat Genet 45(4):371-384
Date Published: 1st Apr 2013
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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
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.
