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A common variant associated with prostate cancer in European and African populations

Nature Genetics 38, 652–658 (2006) | Download Citation

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With the increasing incidence of prostate cancer, identifying common genetic variants that confer risk of the disease is important. Here we report such a variant on chromosome 8q24, a region initially identified through a study of Icelandic families. Allele −8 of the microsatellite DG8S737 was associated with prostate cancer in three case-control series of European ancestry from Iceland, Sweden and the US. The estimated odds ratio (OR) of the allele is 1.62 (P = 2.7 × 10−11). About 19% of affected men and 13% of the general population carry at least one copy, yielding a population attributable risk (PAR) of ∼8%. The association was also replicated in an African American case-control group with a similar OR, in which 41% of affected individuals and 30% of the population are carriers. This leads to a greater estimated PAR (16%) that may contribute to higher incidence of prostate cancer in African American men than in men of European ancestry.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the men with cancer and their family members whose contribution made this work possible. We also thank the nurses at Noatun and personnel at the deCODE core facilities for their hard work and enthusiasm. In addition, we thank the following individuals at the Department of Pathology at Landspitali University-Hospital for their contributions: A. Arason, G. Johannesdottir, K. Olafsdottir and S. Kristjansdottir. We also thank the staff at the Icelandic Cancer Registry for providing patient lists. We thank Regional Cancer Registries in Umeå, Uppsala, Stockholm-Gotland and Lindköping and all urologists who recruited their patients to this study and provided clinical data to the national registry of prostate cancer. We also thank P. Stattin, J. Adolfsson and E. Varenhorst as regional coordinators in CAPS and the personnel at the Medical Biobank in Umeå. The CAPS study has been supported by grants from the Swedish Cancer Foundation and partially funded by a US National Cancer Institute grant (CA 1R01CA105055-01A1). We also thank participants and clinicians at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan for their contribution to the collection of samples and clinical data used in this study.

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    • Laufey T Amundadottir
    • , Patrick Sulem
    •  & Julius Gudmundsson

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

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    • Laufey T Amundadottir
    • , Patrick Sulem
    • , Julius Gudmundsson
    • , Agnar Helgason
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    • , Birgitta Birgisdottir
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    • , Kristleifur Kristjansson
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    • , Augustine Kong
    • , Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
    •  & Kari Stefansson

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    • , Kristrun R Benediktsdottir
    • , Helgi Isaksson
    •  & Rosa B Barkardottir

  3. Department of Urology, Landspitali-University Hospital of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland.

    • Gudmundur Geirsson
    •  & Gudmundur V Einarsson

  4. Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.

    • Julie Douglas

  5. Department of Urology and Clinical Medicine, Örebro University Hospital, Sweden.

    • Jan-Erik Johansson

  6. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden.

    • Katarina Bälter
    • , Fredrik Wiklund
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  7. Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.

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  8. Department of Urology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.

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L.T.A., P.S., J.G., A.H., A.S., A.B., J.B.C., J.S., M.J., J.K., D.N.M., S.G., K.A., B.B., L.L.R., A.O., T.B., M.A., O.S.A., J.T.B., D.G., A.G., G.T., A.M., K.K., J.R.G., A.K., U.T. and K.S. own stock or stock options in deCODE genetics.

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    A phylogenetic network of 46 SNPs and the DG8S737 microsatellite for the HapMap samples.

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    Linkage disequilibrium between the 17 SNPs and the –8 allele of DG8S737 typed in the CEU and the African American populations.

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    SNP markers genotyped in the 600-kb region on chromosome 8q24.

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    LD between the –8 allele of DG8S737 and allele A of rs1447295, and the 19 SNPs belonging to the equivalent class of rs1447295 in HapMap Caucasians (CEU).

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    Frequencies of haplotype groups (DG8S737 and rs1447295) in three Caucasian populations from Iceland, Sweden and the US.

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    The frequency of the various alleles of the microsatellite marker DS8S737 in the four populations studied.

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    Count of individuals and yields for DG8S737 and rs1447295 in the four study groups from Iceland, Sweden and the US.

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    Comparison of the relative risk of allele –8 of DG8S737 and allele A of rs1447295 under the multiplicative model with that of model-free estimates of the genotype relative risks of heterozygous carriers (0X), homozygous carriers (XX) and non-carriers (00).

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