Abstract
Recently, common variants on human chromosome 8q24 were found to be associated with prostate cancer risk. While conducting a genome-wide association study in the Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility project with 550,000 SNPs in a nested case-control study (1,172 cases and 1,157 controls of European origin), we identified a new association at 8q24 with an independent effect on prostate cancer susceptibility. The most significant signal is 70 kb centromeric to the previously reported SNP, rs1447295, but shows little evidence of linkage disequilibrium with it. A combined analysis with four additional studies (total: 4,296 cases and 4,299 controls) confirms association with prostate cancer for rs6983267 in the centromeric locus (P = 9.42 × 10−13; heterozygote odds ratio (OR): 1.26, 95% confidence interval (c.i.): 1.13–1.41; homozygote OR: 1.58, 95% c.i.: 1.40–1.78). Each SNP remained significant in a joint analysis after adjusting for the other (rs1447295 P = 1.41 × 10−11; rs6983267 P = 6.62 × 10−10). These observations, combined with compelling evidence for a recombination hotspot between the two markers, indicate the presence of at least two independent loci within 8q24 that contribute to prostate cancer in men of European ancestry. We estimate that the population attributable risk of the new locus, marked by rs6983267, is higher than the locus marked by rs1447295 (21% versus 9%).
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The HPFS study is supported by NIH grants CA CA55075 and 5U01CA098233-04. The ACS study is supported by U01 CA098710. The ATBC study is supported by NIH contracts N01-CN-45165, N01-RC-45035 and N01-RC-37004. F.R.S. is supported by an NRSA training grant (T32 CA 09001). P.F. is supported by a UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Grant (GR/S18786). M.M. is supported by the Wellcome Trust. N.O., R.B.H., S.W., K.Y., N.C., M.T., J.F.F., R.H., S.J.C. and G.T. are supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute (US National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services).
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Supplementary Table 1
Distribution of genotype counts and frequencies in cases and controls. (PDF 13 kb)
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Results for single SNPs for all models tested. (PDF 15 kb)
Supplementary Table 3
Results for two-SNP model for all models tested and age and case status for single-SNP and two-SNP models. (PDF 96 kb)
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Population-attributable risks. (PDF 10 kb)
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Yeager, M., Orr, N., Hayes, R. et al. Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24. Nat Genet 39, 645–649 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng2022
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