Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci

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Abstract

Estrogen receptor (ER)-negative tumors represent 20-30% of all breast cancers, with a higher proportion occurring in younger women and women of African ancestry. The etiology and clinical behavior of ER-negative tumors are different from those of tumors expressing ER (ER positive), including differences in genetic predisposition. To identify susceptibility loci specific to ER-negative disease, we combined in a meta-analysis 3 genome-wide association studies of 4,193 ER-negative breast cancer cases and 35,194 controls with a series of 40 follow-up studies (6,514 cases and 41,455 controls), genotyped using a custom Illumina array, iCOGS, developed by the Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study (COGS). SNPs at four loci, 1q32.1 (MDM4, P = 2.1 × 10-12 and LGR6, P = 1.4 × 10-8), 2p24.1 (P = 4.6 × 10-8) and 16q12.2 (FTO, P = 4.0 × 10-8), were associated with ER-negative but not ER-positive breast cancer (P > 0.05). These findings provide further evidence for distinct etiological pathways associated with invasive ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)392-398
Number of pages7
JournalNature Genetics
Volume45
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Genetics

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