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Evaluation of association of HNF1B variants with diverse cancers: Collaborative analysis of data from 19 genome-wide association studies

  • Australian Melanoma Family Study Investigators
  • , The PanScan Consortium
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  • deCODE genetics
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Wake Forest School of Medicine
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • Institute of Cancer Research
  • University of Bristol
  • University of Warwick
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
  • The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
  • Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
  • Translational Genomics Research Institute
  • Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
  • Boston University School of Medicine
  • Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
  • Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland
  • University of Iceland
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Harvard Medical School
  • University of Ioannina Medical School
  • Tufts University School of Medicine
  • University of Sydney
  • University of Melbourne
  • Viertel Centre for Research in Cancer Control
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • the University of Sydney
  • Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo College of Medicine
  • Dana Farber Cancer Institute
  • SAIC-Frederick
  • Bioinformed Consulting Services
  • New York University (NYU)
  • New York University
  • National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
  • University Medical Center Utrecht
  • Mount Sinai Hospital of University of Toronto
  • University of Minnesota Medical School
  • Mercy Medical Center Baltimore
  • University of California San Francisco
  • American Cancer Society
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Group Health Center for Health Studies
  • Weill Cornell Medical College
  • Yale University
  • Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
  • INSERM U70
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • University of Toronto
  • Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO)
  • Edward Hines VA Medical Center
  • Umeå University
  • Georgerown University
  • Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Health and Health Care Services Council
  • Cell Stress and Survival Unit
  • Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • National Institute for Health and Welfare
  • University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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Abstract

Background: Genome-wide association studies have found type 2 diabetes-associated variants in the HNF1B gene to exhibit reciprocal associations with prostate cancer risk. We aimed to identify whether these variants may have an effect on cancer risk in general versus a specific effect on prostate cancer only. Methodology/Principal Findings: In a collaborative analysis, we collected data from GWAS of cancer phenotypes for the frequently reported variants of HNF1B, rs4430796 and rs7501939, which are in linkage disequilibrium (r2 = 0.76, HapMap CEU). Overall, the analysis included 16 datasets on rs4430796 with 19,640 cancer cases and 21,929 controls; and 21 datasets on rs7501939 with 26,923 cases and 49,085 controls. Malignancies other than prostate cancer included colorectal, breast, lung and pancreatic cancers, and melanoma. Meta-analysis showed large between-dataset heterogeneity that was driven by different effects in prostate cancer and other cancers. The per-T2D-risk-allele odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) for rs4430796 were 0.79 (0.76, 0.83)] per G allele for prostate cancer (p<10-15 for both); and 1.03 (0.99, 1.07) for all other cancers. Similarly for rs7501939 the per-T2D-risk-allele odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) were 0.80 (0.77, 0.83) per T allele for prostate cancer (p<10-15 for both); and 1.00 (0.97, 1.04) for all other cancers. No malignancy other than prostate cancer had a nominally statistically significant association. Conclusions/Significance: The examined HNF1B variants have a highly specific effect on prostate cancer risk with no apparent association with any of the other studied cancer types.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere10858
JournalPLoS ONE
Volume5
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

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