Common genetic variation at BARD1 is not associated with breast cancer risk in BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers

Amanda B. Spurdle, Louise Marquart, Lesley McGuffog, Sue Healey, Olga Sinilnikova, Fei Wan, Xiaoqing Chen, Jonathan Beesley, Christian F. Singer, Anne Catharine Dressler, Daphne Gschwantler-Kaulich, Joanne L. Blum, Nadine Tung, Jeff Weitzel, Henry Lynch, Judy Garber, Douglas F. Easton, Susan Peock, Margaret Cook, Clare T. OliverDebra Frost, Don Conroy, D. Gareth Evans, Fiona Lalloo, Ros Eeles, Louise Izatt, Rosemarie Davidson, Carol Chu, Diana Eccles, Christina G. Selkirk, Mary Daly, Claudine Isaacs, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Bruno Buecher, Muriel Belotti, Sylvie Mazoyer, Laure Barjhoux, Carole Verny-Pierre, Christine Lasset, Hélène Dreyfus, Pascal Pujol, Marie Agnès Collonge-Rame, Matti A. Rookus, Senno Verhoef, Mieke Kriege, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, Margreet G.E.M. Ausems, Theo A. Van Os, Juul Wijnen, Peter Devilee, Hanne E.J. Meijers-Heijboer, Marinus J. Blok, Tuomas Heikkinen, Heli Nevanlinna, Anna Jakubowska, Jan Lubiński, Tomasz Huzarski, Tomasz Byrski, Francine Durocher, Fergus J. Couch, Noralane M. Lindor, Xianshu Wang, Mads Thomassen, Susan Domchek, Kate Nathanson, M. A. Caligo, Helena Jernström, Annelie Liljegren, Hans Ehrencrona, Per Karlsson, Patricia A. Ganz, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Gail Tomlinson, Susan Neuhausen, Antonis C. Antoniou, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Timothy R. Rebbeck

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Abstract

Background: Inherited BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) mutations confer elevated breast cancer risk. Knowledge of factors that can improve breast cancer risk assessment in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers may improve personalized cancer prevention strategies. Methods: A cohort of 5,546 BRCA1 and 2,865 BRCA2 mutation carriers was used to evaluate risk of breast cancer associated with BARD1 Cys557Ser. In a second nonindependent cohort of 1,537 of BRCA1 and 839 BRCA2 mutation carriers, BARD1 haplotypes were also evaluated. Results: The BARD1 Cys557Ser variant was not significantly associated with risk of breast cancer from single SNP analysis, with a pooled effect estimate of 0.90 (95% CI: 0.71-1.15) in BRCA1 carriers and 0.87 (95% CI: 0.59-1.29) in BRCA2 carriers. Further analysis of haplotypes at BARD1 also revealed no evidence that additional common genetic variation not captured by Cys557Ser was associated with breast cancer risk. Conclusion: Evidence to date does not support a role for BARD1 variation, including the Cy557Ser variant, as a modifier of risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. Impact: Interactors of BRCA1/2 have been implicated as modifiers of BRCA1/2-associated cancer risk. Our finding that BARD1 does not contribute to this risk modification may focus research on other genes that do modify BRCA1/2-associated cancer risk.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1032-1038
Number of pages7
JournalCancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention
Volume20
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2011

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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