Genome-wide association study identifies multiple risk loci for renal cell carcinoma

Ghislaine Scelo, Mark P. Purdue, Kevin M. Brown, Mattias Johansson, Zhaoming Wang, Jeanette E. Eckel-Passow, Yuanqing Ye, Jonathan N. Hofmann, Jiyeon Choi, Matthieu Foll, Valerie Gaborieau, Mitchell J. Machiela, Leandro M. Colli, Peng Li, Joshua N. Sampson, Behnoush Abedi-Ardekani, Celine Besse, Helene Blanche, Anne Boland, Laurie BurdetteAmelie Chabrier, Geoffroy Durand, Florence Le Calvez-Kelm, Egor Prokhortchouk, Nivonirina Robinot, Konstantin G. Skryabin, Magdalena B. Wozniak, Meredith Yeager, Gordana Basta-Jovanovic, Zoran Dzamic, Lenka Foretova, Ivana Holcatova, Vladimir Janout, Dana Mates, Anush Mukeriya, Stefan Rascu, David Zaridze, Vladimir Bencko, Cezary Cybulski, Eleonora Fabianova, Viorel Jinga, Jolanta Lissowska, Jan Lubinski, Marie Navratilova, Peter Rudnai, Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Simone Benhamou, Geraldine Cancel-Tassin, Olivier Cussenot, Laura Baglietto, Heiner Boeing, Kay Tee Khaw, Elisabete Weiderpass, Borje Ljungberg, Raviprakash T. Sitaram, Fiona Bruinsma, Susan J. Jordan, Gianluca Severi, Ingrid Winship, Kristian Hveem, Lars J. Vatten, Tony Fletcher, Kvetoslava Koppova, Susanna C. Larsson, Alicja Wolk, Rosamonde E. Banks, Peter J. Selby, Douglas F. Easton, Paul Pharoah, Gabriella Andreotti, Laura E.Beane Freeman, Stella Koutros, Demetrius Albanes, Satu Männistö, Stephanie Weinstein, Peter E. Clark, Todd L. Edwards, Loren Lipworth, Susan M. Gapstur, Victoria L. Stevens, Hallie Carol, Matthew L. Freedman, Mark M. Pomerantz, Eunyoung Cho, Peter Kraft, Mark A. Preston, Kathryn M. Wilson, J. Michael Gaziano, Howard D. Sesso, Amanda Black, Neal D. Freedman, Wen Yi Huang, John G. Anema, Richard J. Kahnoski, Brian R. Lane, Sabrina L. Noyes, David Petillo, Bin Tean Teh, Ulrike Peters, Emily White, Garnet L. Anderson, Lisa Johnson, Juhua Luo, Julie Buring, I. Min Lee, Wong Ho Chow, Lee E. Moore, Christopher Wood, Timothy Eisen, Marc Henrion, James Larkin, Poulami Barman, Bradley C. Leibovich, Toni K. Choueiri, G. Mark Lathrop, Nathaniel Rothman, Jean Francois Deleuze, James D. McKay, Alexander S. Parker, Xifeng Wu, Richard S. Houlston, Paul Brennan, Stephen J. Chanock

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Abstract

Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified six risk loci for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We conducted a meta-analysis of two new scans of 5,198 cases and 7,331 controls together with four existing scans, totalling 10,784 cases and 20,406 controls of European ancestry. Twenty-four loci were tested in an additional 3,182 cases and 6,301 controls. We confirm the six known RCC risk loci and identify seven new loci at 1p32.3 (rs4381241, P = 3.1×10-10), 3p22.1 (rs67311347, P = 2.5×10-8), 3q26.2 (rs10936602, P = 8.8×10-9), 8p21.3 (rs2241261, P = 5.8×10-9), 10q24.33-q25.1 (rs11813268, P = 3.9×10-8), 11q22.3 (rs74911261, P = 2.1×10-10) and 14q24.2 (rs4903064, P = 2.2×10-24). Expression quantitative trait analyses suggest plausible candidate genes at these regions that may contribute to RCC susceptibility.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number15724
JournalNature communications
Volume8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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