Height, selected genetic markers and prostate cancer risk: Results from the PRACTICAL consortium

Artitaya Lophatananon, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Ali Amin Al Olama, Sara Benlloch Garcia, David E. Neal, Freddie C. Hamdy, Jenny L. Donovan, Graham G. Giles, Liesel M. Fitzgerald, Melissa C. Southey, Paul Pharoah, Nora Pashayan, Henrik Gronberg, Markus Aly, Janet L. Stanford, Hermann Brenner, Aida K. Dieffenbach, Volker Arndt, Jong Y. ParkHui Yi Lin, Thomas Sellers, Chavdar Slavov, Radka Kaneva, Vanio Mitev, Jyotsna Batra, Amanda Spurdle, Judith A. Clements, Douglas Easton, Rosalind A. Eeles, Kenneth Muir, Johanna Schleutker, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Fredrik Wiklund, Ruth C. Travis, Christopher A. Haiman, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Christiane Maier, Vogel Walther, William J. Blot, Adam S. Kibel, Cezary Cybulski, Lisa Cannon-Albright, Hardev Pandha, Manuel R. Teixeira, Margaret Cook, Koveela Govindasami, Michelle Guy, Daniel Leongamornlert, Emma J. Sawyer, Rosemary Wilkinson, Angela Morgan, Cyril Fisher, Edward J. Saunders, Malgorzata Tymrakiewicz, Naomi Livni, Steve Hazel, Tokhir Dadaev, Angela Cox, Anne George, Athene Lane, Gemma Marsden, Michael Davis, Paul Brown, John Pedersen, John L. Hopper, Ami Karlsson, Carin Cavalli-Bjoerkman, Jan Adolfson, Jan Erik Johansson, Michael Broms, Paer Stattin, Suzanne Kolb, Christa Stegmaier, Babu Zachariah, Hyun Park, James Haley, Julio Pow-Sang, Maria Rincon, Selina Radlein, Aleksandrina Vlahova, Atanaska Mitkova, Darina Kachakova, Elenko Popov, Svetlana Christova, Tihomir Dikov, Allison Eckert, Angus Collins, Glenn Wood, Greg Malone, Kimberly Alexander, Kris Kerr, Mary Anne Kedda, Megan Turner, Pamela Saunders, Peter Heathcote, Srilakshmi Srinivasan, Tracy Omara, Trina Yeadon, Felicity Lose

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Abstract

Background:Evidence on height and prostate cancer risk is mixed, however, recent studies with large data sets support a possible role for its association with the risk of aggressive prostate cancer.Methods:We analysed data from the PRACTICAL consortium consisting of 6207 prostate cancer cases and 6016 controls and a subset of high grade cases (2480 cases). We explored height, polymorphisms in genes related to growth processes as main effects and their possible interactions.Results:The results suggest that height is associated with high-grade prostate cancer risk. Men with height >180 cm are at a 22% increased risk as compared to men with height <173 cm (OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.01-1.48). Genetic variants in the growth pathway gene showed an association with prostate cancer risk. The aggregate scores of the selected variants identified a significantly increased risk of overall prostate cancer and high-grade prostate cancer by 13% and 15%, respectively, in the highest score group as compared to lowest score group.Conclusions:There was no evidence of gene-environment interaction between height and the selected candidate SNPs.Our findings suggest a role of height in high-grade prostate cancer. The effect of genetic variants in the genes related to growth is seen in all cases and high-grade prostate cancer. There is no interaction between these two exposures.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)734-743
Number of pages10
JournalBritish journal of cancer
Volume117
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 22 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Oncology
  • Cancer Research

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