Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes

Abstract:

Genome-wide association studies have identified breast cancer risk variants in over 150 genomic regions, but the mechanisms underlying risk remain largely unknown. These regions were explored by combining association analysis with in silico genomic feature annotations. We defined 205 independent risk-associated signals with the set of credible causal variants in each one. In parallel, we used a Bayesian approach (PAINTOR) that combines genetic association, linkage disequilibrium and enriched genomic features to determine variants with high posterior probabilities of being causal. Potentially causal variants were significantly over-represented in active gene regulatory regions and transcription factor binding sites. We applied our INQUSIT pipeline for prioritizing genes as targets of those potentially causal variants, using gene expression (expression quantitative trait loci), chromatin interaction and functional annotations. Known cancer drivers, transcription factors and genes in the developmental, apoptosis, immune system and DNA integrity checkpoint gene ontology pathways were over-represented among the highest-confidence target genes.

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0537-1

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 52(1):56-73

Date Published: 2020

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Authors: Laura Fachal, Hugues Aschard, Jonathan Beesley, Daniel R. Barnes, Jamie Allen, Siddhartha Kar, Karen A. Pooley, Joe Dennis, Kyriaki Michailidou, Constance Turman, Penny Soucy, Audrey Lemaçon, Michael Lush, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Maya Ghoussaini, Mahdi Moradi Marjaneh, Xia Jiang, Simona Agata, Kristiina Aittomäki, M. Rosario Alonso, Irene L. Andrulis, Hoda Anton-Culver, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Adalgeir Arason, Volker Arndt, Kristan J. Aronson, Banu K. Arun, Bernd Auber, Paul L. Auer, Jacopo Azzollini, Judith Balmaña, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Daniel Barrowdale, Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel, Javier Benitez, Marina Bermisheva, Katarzyna Białkowska, Amie M. Blanco, Carl Blomqvist, William Blot, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Bernardo Bonanni, Ake Borg, Kristin Bosse, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Ignacio Briceno, Ian W. Brock, Angela Brooks-Wilson, Thomas Brüning, Barbara Burwinkel, Saundra S. Buys, Qiuyin Cai, Trinidad Caldés, Maria A. Caligo, Nicola J. Camp, Ian Campbell, Federico Canzian, Jason S. Carroll, Brian D. Carter, Jose E. Castelao, Jocelyne Chiquette, Hans Christiansen, Wendy K. Chung, Kathleen B. M. Claes, Christine L. Clarke, J. Margriet Collée, Sten Cornelissen, Fergus J. Couch, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Cezary Cybulski, Kamila Czene, Mary B. Daly, Miguel de La Hoya, Peter Devilee, Orland Diez, Yuan Chun Ding, Gillian S. Dite, Susan M. Domchek, Thilo Dörk, Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva, Arnaud Droit, Stéphane Dubois, Martine Dumont, Mercedes Duran, Lorraine Durcan, Miriam Dwek, Diana M. Eccles, Christoph Engel, Mikael Eriksson, D. Gareth Evans, Peter A. Fasching, Olivia Fletcher, Giuseppe Floris, Henrik Flyger, Lenka Foretova, William D. Foulkes, Eitan Friedman, Lin Fritschi, Debra Frost, Marike Gabrielson, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Gaetana Gambino, Patricia A. Ganz, Susan M. Gapstur, Judy Garber, José A. García-Sáenz, Mia M. Gaudet, Vassilios Georgoulias, Graham G. Giles, Gord Glendon, Andrew K. Godwin, Mark S. Goldberg, David E. Goldgar, Anna González-Neira, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Mark H. Greene, Mervi Grip, Jacek Gronwald, Anne Grundy, Pascal Guénel, Eric Hahnen, Christopher A. Haiman, Niclas Håkansson, Per Hall, Ute Hamann, Patricia A. Harrington, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Mikael Hartman, Wei He, Catherine S. Healey, Bernadette A. M. Heemskerk-Gerritsen, Jane Heyworth, Peter Hillemanns, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Antoinette Hollestelle, Maartje J. Hooning, John L. Hopper, Anthony Howell, Guanmengqian Huang, Peter J. Hulick, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Claudine Isaacs, Motoki Iwasaki, Agnes Jager, Milena Jakimovska, Anna Jakubowska, Paul A. James, Ramunas Janavicius, Rachel C. Jankowitz, Esther M. John, Nichola Johnson, Michael E. Jones, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Audrey Jung, Rudolf Kaaks, Daehee Kang, Pooja Middha Kapoor, Beth Y. Karlan, Renske Keeman, Michael J. Kerin, Elza Khusnutdinova, Johanna I. Kiiski, Judy Kirk, Cari M. Kitahara, Yon-Dschun Ko, Irene Konstantopoulou, Veli-Matti Kosma, Stella Koutros, Katerina Kubelka-Sabit, Ava Kwong, Kyriacos Kyriacou, Yael Laitman, Diether Lambrechts, Eunjung Lee, Goska Leslie, Jenny Lester, Fabienne Lesueur, Annika Lindblom, Wing-Yee Lo, Jirong Long, Artitaya Lophatananon, Jennifer T. Loud, Jan Lubiński, Robert J. MacInnis, Tom Maishman, Enes Makalic, Arto Mannermaa, Mehdi Manoochehri, Siranoush Manoukian, Sara Margolin, Maria Elena Martinez, Keitaro Matsuo, Tabea Maurer, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Rebecca Mayes, Lesley McGuffog, Catriona McLean, Noura Mebirouk, Alfons Meindl, Austin Miller, Nicola Miller, Marco Montagna, Fernando Moreno, Kenneth Muir, Anna Marie Mulligan, Victor M. Muñoz-Garzon, Taru A. Muranen, Steven A. Narod, Rami Nassir, Katherine L. Nathanson, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Patrick Neven, Finn C. Nielsen, Liene Nikitina-Zake, Aaron Norman, Kenneth Offit, Edith Olah, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Håkan Olsson, Nick Orr, Ana Osorio, V. Shane Pankratz, Janos Papp, Sue K. Park, Tjoung-Won Park-Simon, Michael T. Parsons, James Paul, Inge Sokilde Pedersen, Bernard Peissel, Beth Peshkin, Paolo Peterlongo, Julian Peto, Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska, Karolina Prajzendanc, Ross Prentice, Nadege Presneau, Darya Prokofyeva, Miquel Angel Pujana, Katri Pylkäs, Paolo Radice, Susan J. Ramus, Johanna Rantala, Rohini Rau-Murthy, Gad Rennert, Harvey A. Risch, Mark Robson, Atocha Romero, Maria Rossing, Emmanouil Saloustros, Estela Sánchez-Herrero, Dale P. Sandler, Marta Santamariña, Christobel Saunders, Elinor J. Sawyer, Maren T. Scheuner, Daniel F. Schmidt, Rita K. Schmutzler, Andreas Schneeweiss, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Ben Schöttker, Peter Schürmann, Christopher Scott, Rodney J. Scott, Leigha Senter, Caroline M. Seynaeve, Mitul Shah, Priyanka Sharma, Chen-Yang Shen, Xiao-Ou Shu, Christian F. Singer, Thomas P. Slavin, Snezhana Smichkoska, Melissa C. Southey, John J. Spinelli, Amanda B. Spurdle, Jennifer Stone, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Christian Sutter, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Rulla M. Tamimi, Yen Yen Tan, William J. Tapper, Jack A. Taylor, Manuel R. Teixeira, Maria Tengström, Soo Hwang Teo, Mary Beth Terry, Alex Teulé, Mads Thomassen, Darcy L. Thull, Marc Tischkowitz, Amanda E. Toland, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Ian Tomlinson, Diana Torres, Gabriela Torres-Mejía, Melissa A. Troester, Thérèse Truong, Nadine Tung, Maria Tzardi, Hans-Ulrich Ulmer, Celine M. Vachon, Christi J. van Asperen, Lizet E. van der Kolk, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Ana Vega, Alessandra Viel, Joseph Vijai, Maartje J. Vogel, Qin Wang, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Clarice R. Weinberg, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Camilla Wendt, Hans Wildiers, Robert Winqvist, Alicja Wolk, Anna H. Wu, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Yan Zhang, Wei Zheng, David Hunter, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Jenny Chang-Claude, Montserrat García-Closas, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Roger L. Milne, Vessela N. Kristensen, Juliet D. French, Stacey L. Edwards, Antonis C. 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Fachal, L., , Aschard, H., Beesley, J., Barnes, D. R., Allen, J., Kar, S., Pooley, K. A., Dennis, J., Michailidou, K., Turman, C., Soucy, P., Lemaçon, A., Lush, M., Tyrer, J. P., Ghoussaini, M., Moradi Marjaneh, M., Jiang, X., Agata, S., … . (2020). Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes. In Nature Genetics (Vol. 52, Issue 1, pp. 56–73). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0537-1
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