TY - JOUR
T1 - Genomic analysis of germline variation associated with survival of patients with colorectal cancer treated with chemotherapy plus biologics in CALGB/SWOG 80405 (alliance)
AU - Innocenti, Federico
AU - Sibley, Alexander B.
AU - Patil, Sushant A.
AU - Etheridge, Amy S.
AU - Jiang, Chen
AU - Ou, Fang Shu
AU - Howell, Stefanie D.
AU - Plummer, Sarah J.
AU - Casey, Graham
AU - Bertagnolli, Monica M.
AU - McLeod, Howard L.
AU - Auman, James T.
AU - Blanke, Charles D.
AU - Furukawa, Yoichi
AU - Venook, Alan P.
AU - Kubo, Michiaki
AU - Lenz, Heinz Josef
AU - Parker, Joel S.
AU - Ratain, Mark J.
AU - Owzar, Kouros
N1 - Funding Information:
Research reported in this article was supported by the NCI of the NIH under award numbers U10CA180821, U10CA180882, and U24CA196171 (to the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology), UG1CA233253, U10CA180820 (ECOG-ACRIN), and U10CA180888 (SWOG) and NIH R01CA143237. https://acknowledgments.alliancefound.org.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Association for Cancer Research.
PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - Purpose: Irinotecan/5-fluorouracil (5-FU; FOLFIRI) or oxaliplatin/5-FU (FOLFOX), combined with bevacizumab or cetuximab, are approved, first-line treatments for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). We aimed at identifying germline variants associated with survival in patients with mCRC treated with these regimens in Cancer and Leukemia Group B/SWOG 80405. Experimental Design: Patients with mCRC receiving either FOLFOX or FOLFIRI were randomized to either cetuximab or bevacizumab. DNA from peripheral blood was genotyped for approximately 700,000 SNPs. The association between SNPs and overall survival (OS) was tested in 613 patients of genetically estimated European ancestry using Cox proportional hazards models. Results: The four most significant SNPs associated with OS were three haplotypic SNPs between microsomal glutathione S-transferase 1 (MGST1) and LIM domain only 3 (LMO3, representative HR, 1.56; P ¼ 1.30 106), and rs11644916 in AXIN1 (HR, 1.39, P ¼ 4.26 106). AXIN1 is a well-established tumor suppressor gene in colorectal cancer, and rs11644916 (G>A) conferred shorter OS. Median OS for patients with the AA, AG, or GG genotypes was 18.4, 25.6, or 36.4 months, respectively. In 90 patients with stage IV colorectal cancer from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), rs11649255 in AXIN1 [in almost complete linkage disequilibrium (LD) with rs11644916], was associated with shorter OS (HR, 2.24, P ¼ 0.0096). Using rs11648673 in AXIN1 (in very high LD with rs11644916 and with functional evidence), luciferase activity in three colorectal cancer cell lines was reduced. Conclusions: This is the first large genome-wide association study ever conducted in patients with mCRC treated with first-line standard treatment in a randomized phase III trial. A common SNP in AXIN1 conferred worse OS and the effect was replicated in TCGA. Further studies in colorectal cancer experimental models are required.
AB - Purpose: Irinotecan/5-fluorouracil (5-FU; FOLFIRI) or oxaliplatin/5-FU (FOLFOX), combined with bevacizumab or cetuximab, are approved, first-line treatments for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). We aimed at identifying germline variants associated with survival in patients with mCRC treated with these regimens in Cancer and Leukemia Group B/SWOG 80405. Experimental Design: Patients with mCRC receiving either FOLFOX or FOLFIRI were randomized to either cetuximab or bevacizumab. DNA from peripheral blood was genotyped for approximately 700,000 SNPs. The association between SNPs and overall survival (OS) was tested in 613 patients of genetically estimated European ancestry using Cox proportional hazards models. Results: The four most significant SNPs associated with OS were three haplotypic SNPs between microsomal glutathione S-transferase 1 (MGST1) and LIM domain only 3 (LMO3, representative HR, 1.56; P ¼ 1.30 106), and rs11644916 in AXIN1 (HR, 1.39, P ¼ 4.26 106). AXIN1 is a well-established tumor suppressor gene in colorectal cancer, and rs11644916 (G>A) conferred shorter OS. Median OS for patients with the AA, AG, or GG genotypes was 18.4, 25.6, or 36.4 months, respectively. In 90 patients with stage IV colorectal cancer from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), rs11649255 in AXIN1 [in almost complete linkage disequilibrium (LD) with rs11644916], was associated with shorter OS (HR, 2.24, P ¼ 0.0096). Using rs11648673 in AXIN1 (in very high LD with rs11644916 and with functional evidence), luciferase activity in three colorectal cancer cell lines was reduced. Conclusions: This is the first large genome-wide association study ever conducted in patients with mCRC treated with first-line standard treatment in a randomized phase III trial. A common SNP in AXIN1 conferred worse OS and the effect was replicated in TCGA. Further studies in colorectal cancer experimental models are required.
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U2 - 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-2021
DO - 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-2021
M3 - Article
C2 - 32958699
AN - SCOPUS:85100351859
SN - 1078-0432
VL - 27
SP - 267
EP - 276
JO - Clinical Cancer Research
JF - Clinical Cancer Research
IS - 1
ER -