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Identification of four novel susceptibility loci for oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer

Couch, FJ; Kuchenbaecker, KB; Michailidou, K; Mendoza-Fandino, GA; Nord, S; Lilyquist, J; Olswold, C; ... Antoniou, AC; + view all (2016) Identification of four novel susceptibility loci for oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer. Nature Communications , 7 , Article 11375. 10.1038/ncomms11375. Green open access

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Abstract

Common variants in 94 loci have been associated with breast cancer including 15 loci with genome-wide significant associations (P<5 × 10(-8)) with oestrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer and BRCA1-associated breast cancer risk. In this study, to identify new ER-negative susceptibility loci, we performed a meta-analysis of 11 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) consisting of 4,939 ER-negative cases and 14,352 controls, combined with 7,333 ER-negative cases and 42,468 controls and 15,252 BRCA1 mutation carriers genotyped on the iCOGS array. We identify four previously unidentified loci including two loci at 13q22 near KLF5, a 2p23.2 locus near WDR43 and a 2q33 locus near PPIL3 that display genome-wide significant associations with ER-negative breast cancer. In addition, 19 known breast cancer risk loci have genome-wide significant associations and 40 had moderate associations (P<0.05) with ER-negative disease. Using functional and eQTL studies we implicate TRMT61B and WDR43 at 2p23.2 and PPIL3 at 2q33 in ER-negative breast cancer aetiology. All ER-negative loci combined account for ∼11% of familial relative risk for ER-negative disease and may contribute to improved ER-negative and BRCA1 breast cancer risk prediction.

Type: Article
Title: Identification of four novel susceptibility loci for oestrogen receptor negative breast cancer
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11375
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11375
Language: English
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UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1574501
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