TY - JOUR
T1 - Genome Linkage Screen for Prostate Cancer Susceptibility Loci
T2 - Results from the Mayo Clinic Familial Prostate Cancer Study
AU - Cunningham, Julie M.
AU - McDonnell, Shannon K.
AU - Marks, Angela
AU - Hebbring, Scott
AU - Anderson, Sarah A.
AU - Peterson, Brett J.
AU - Slager, Susan
AU - French, Amy
AU - Blute, Michael L.
AU - Schaid, Daniel J.
AU - Thibodeau, Stephen N.
PY - 2003/12/1
Y1 - 2003/12/1
N2 - Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men and has long been recognized to occur in familial clusters. Brothers and sons of affected men have a twofold to threefold increased risk of developing prostate cancer. However, identification of genetic susceptibility loci for prostate cancer has been extremely difficult. Several putative loci identified by genetic linkage have been reported to exist on chromosomes 1 (HPC1, PCAP, and CAPB), X (HPCX), 17 (HPC2), and 20 (HPC20), with genes RNASEL (HPC1) and ELAC2 (HPC2) tentatively defined. In this study, we report our genome linkage scan in 160 prostate cancer families, using the ABI Prism Linkage Mapping Set Version 2 with 402 microsatellite markers. The most significant linkage was found for chromosome 20, with a recessive model heterogeneity LOD score (HLOD) of 4.77, and a model-free LOD score (LOD - ZLR) of 3.46 for the entire group of pedigrees. Linkage for chromosome 20 was most prominent among families with a late age of diagnosis (average age at diagnosis ≥ 66 years; maximum LOD - ZLR = 2.82), with <5 affected family members (LOD - ZLR = 3.02), with presence of hereditary prostate cancer (LOD - ZLR = 2.81), or with no male-to-male transmission of disease (LOD - ZLR = 3.84). No other chromosome showed significant evidence for linkage. However, chromosomes 6 and X showed suggestive results, with maximum LOD - ZLR values of 1.38 and 1.36, respectively. Subset analyses suggest additional chromosomal regions worth further follow-up.
AB - Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men and has long been recognized to occur in familial clusters. Brothers and sons of affected men have a twofold to threefold increased risk of developing prostate cancer. However, identification of genetic susceptibility loci for prostate cancer has been extremely difficult. Several putative loci identified by genetic linkage have been reported to exist on chromosomes 1 (HPC1, PCAP, and CAPB), X (HPCX), 17 (HPC2), and 20 (HPC20), with genes RNASEL (HPC1) and ELAC2 (HPC2) tentatively defined. In this study, we report our genome linkage scan in 160 prostate cancer families, using the ABI Prism Linkage Mapping Set Version 2 with 402 microsatellite markers. The most significant linkage was found for chromosome 20, with a recessive model heterogeneity LOD score (HLOD) of 4.77, and a model-free LOD score (LOD - ZLR) of 3.46 for the entire group of pedigrees. Linkage for chromosome 20 was most prominent among families with a late age of diagnosis (average age at diagnosis ≥ 66 years; maximum LOD - ZLR = 2.82), with <5 affected family members (LOD - ZLR = 3.02), with presence of hereditary prostate cancer (LOD - ZLR = 2.81), or with no male-to-male transmission of disease (LOD - ZLR = 3.84). No other chromosome showed significant evidence for linkage. However, chromosomes 6 and X showed suggestive results, with maximum LOD - ZLR values of 1.38 and 1.36, respectively. Subset analyses suggest additional chromosomal regions worth further follow-up.
KW - Chromosome 20
KW - Chromosome X
KW - Linkage analysis
KW - Prostate cancer
KW - Susceptibility locus
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U2 - 10.1002/pros.10308
DO - 10.1002/pros.10308
M3 - Article
C2 - 14601030
AN - SCOPUS:0344081174
SN - 0270-4137
VL - 57
SP - 335
EP - 346
JO - Prostate
JF - Prostate
IS - 4
ER -