TY - JOUR
T1 - Prostate cancer and genetic susceptibility
T2 - A genome scan incorporating disease aggressiveness
AU - Stanford, Janet L.
AU - McDonnell, Shannon K.
AU - Friedrichsen, Danielle M.
AU - Carlson, Erin E.
AU - Kolb, Suzanne
AU - Deutsch, Kerry
AU - Janer, Marta
AU - Hood, Lee
AU - Ostrander, Elaine A.
AU - Schaid, Daniel J.
PY - 2006/2/15
Y1 - 2006/2/15
N2 - BACKGROUND. Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease, both genetically and phenotypically. Linkage studies attempting to map genes for hereditary prostate cancer (HPC) have proved challenging, and one potential problem contributing to this challenge is the variability in disease phenotypes. METHODS. We collected clinical data on 784 affected men with prostate cancer from 248 HPC families for whom a genomic screen was performed. Disease characteristics (i.e., Gleason score, stage, prostate-specific antigen (PSA)) were used to classify affected men into categories of clinically insignificant, moderate, or aggressive prostate cancer. To potentially enrich for a genetic etiology, we restricted linkage analyses to only men with aggressive disease, although we used genotype information from all family members; linkage analyses used both dominant and recessive models. In addition, subset analyses considered age at diagnosis, number of affected men per family and other stratifications to try to increase genetic homogeneity. RESULTS. Several regions of interest (heterogeneity LOD score, HLOD > 1.0) were identified in families (n = 123) with ≥2 affecteds with aggressive prostate cancer. "Suggestive" linkage was observed at chromosome 22q11.1 (Dominant model HLOD = 2.18) and the result was stronger (Dominant HLOD = 2.75) in families with evidence of male-to-male transmission. A second region at 22q12.3-q13.1 was also highlighted (Recessive model HLOD = 1.90) among men with aggressive disease, as was a region on chromosome 18. CONCLUSIONS. These analyses suggest that using clinically defined phenotypes may be a useful approach for simplifying the locus heterogeneity problems that confound the search for prostate cancer susceptibility genes.
AB - BACKGROUND. Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease, both genetically and phenotypically. Linkage studies attempting to map genes for hereditary prostate cancer (HPC) have proved challenging, and one potential problem contributing to this challenge is the variability in disease phenotypes. METHODS. We collected clinical data on 784 affected men with prostate cancer from 248 HPC families for whom a genomic screen was performed. Disease characteristics (i.e., Gleason score, stage, prostate-specific antigen (PSA)) were used to classify affected men into categories of clinically insignificant, moderate, or aggressive prostate cancer. To potentially enrich for a genetic etiology, we restricted linkage analyses to only men with aggressive disease, although we used genotype information from all family members; linkage analyses used both dominant and recessive models. In addition, subset analyses considered age at diagnosis, number of affected men per family and other stratifications to try to increase genetic homogeneity. RESULTS. Several regions of interest (heterogeneity LOD score, HLOD > 1.0) were identified in families (n = 123) with ≥2 affecteds with aggressive prostate cancer. "Suggestive" linkage was observed at chromosome 22q11.1 (Dominant model HLOD = 2.18) and the result was stronger (Dominant HLOD = 2.75) in families with evidence of male-to-male transmission. A second region at 22q12.3-q13.1 was also highlighted (Recessive model HLOD = 1.90) among men with aggressive disease, as was a region on chromosome 18. CONCLUSIONS. These analyses suggest that using clinically defined phenotypes may be a useful approach for simplifying the locus heterogeneity problems that confound the search for prostate cancer susceptibility genes.
KW - Aggressive prostate cancer
KW - Genetic susceptibility
KW - Gleason score
KW - Hereditary prostate cancer
KW - LOD score
KW - Prostate-specific antigen
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U2 - 10.1002/pros.20349
DO - 10.1002/pros.20349
M3 - Article
C2 - 16245279
AN - SCOPUS:31944443917
SN - 0270-4137
VL - 66
SP - 317
EP - 325
JO - Prostate
JF - Prostate
IS - 3
ER -