Common variants at 19p13 are associated with susceptibility to ovarian cancer

Kelly L Bolton, Jonathan Tyrer, Honglin Song, Susan J Ramus, Maria Notaridou, Chris Jones, Tanya Sher, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Eva Wozniak, Ya-Yu Tsai, Joanne Weidhaas, Daniel Paik, David J Van Den Berg, Daniel O Stram, Celeste Leigh Pearce, Anna H Wu, Wendy Brewster, Hoda Anton-Culver, Argyrios Ziogas, Steven A NarodDouglas A Levine, Stanley B Kaye, Robert Brown, Jim Paul, James Flanagan, Weiva Sieh, Valerie McGuire, Alice S Whittemore, Ian Campbell, Martin E Gore, Jolanta Lissowska, Hanna P Yang, Krzysztof Medrek, Jacek Gronwald, Jan Lubinski, Anna Jakubowska, Nhu D Le, Linda S Cook, Linda E Kelemen, Angela Brook-Wilson, Leon F A G Massuger, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Katja K H Aben, Anne M van Altena, Richard Houlston, Ian Tomlinson, Rachel T Palmieri, Patricia G Moorman, Estrid Vilma Solyom Høgdall, Claus Hogdall, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group

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Abstract

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the leading cause of death from gynecological malignancy in the developed world, accounting for 4% of the deaths from cancer in women. We performed a three-phase genome-wide association study of EOC survival in 8,951 individuals with EOC (cases) with available survival time data and a parallel association analysis of EOC susceptibility. Two SNPs at 19p13.11, rs8170 and rs2363956, showed evidence of association with survival (overall P = 5 × 10¿4 and P = 6 × 10¿4, respectively), but they did not replicate in phase 3. However, the same two SNPs demonstrated genome-wide significance for risk of serous EOC (P = 3 × 10¿¿ and P = 4 × 10¿¹¹, respectively). Expression analysis of candidate genes at this locus in ovarian tumors supported a role for the BRCA1-interacting gene C19orf62, also known as MERIT40, which contains rs8170, in EOC development.
Original languageEnglish
JournalNature Genetics
Volume42
Issue number10
Pages (from-to)880-4
Number of pages5
ISSN1061-4036
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2010

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