Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers.

Journal: Nature communications

Volume: 10

Issue: 1

Year of Publication: 2019

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Abstract summary 

Quantifying the genetic correlation between cancers can provide important insights into the mechanisms driving cancer etiology. Using genome-wide association study summary statistics across six cancer types based on a total of 296,215 cases and 301,319 controls of European ancestry, here we estimate the pair-wise genetic correlations between breast, colorectal, head/neck, lung, ovary and prostate cancer, and between cancers and 38 other diseases. We observed statistically significant genetic correlations between lung and head/neck cancer (r = 0.57, p = 4.6 × 10), breast and ovarian cancer (r = 0.24, p = 7 × 10), breast and lung cancer (r = 0.18, p =1.5 × 10) and breast and colorectal cancer (r = 0.15, p = 1.1 × 10). We also found that multiple cancers are genetically correlated with non-cancer traits including smoking, psychiatric diseases and metabolic characteristics. Functional enrichment analysis revealed a significant excess contribution of conserved and regulatory regions to cancer heritability. Our comprehensive analysis of cross-cancer heritability suggests that solid tumors arising across tissues share in part a common germline genetic basis.

Authors & Co-authors:  Jiang Finucane Schumacher Schmit Tyrer Han Michailidou Lesseur Kuchenbaecker Dennis Conti Casey Gaudet Huyghe Albanes Aldrich Andrew Andrulis Anton-Culver Antoniou Antonenkova Arnold Aronson Arun Bandera Barkardottir Barnes Batra Beckmann Benitez Benlloch Berchuck Berndt Bickeböller Bien Blomqvist Boccia Bogdanova Bojesen Bolla Brauch Brenner Brenton Brook Brunet Brunnström Buchanan Burwinkel Butzow Cadoni Caldés Caligo Campbell Campbell Cancel-Tassin Cannon-Albright Campa Caporaso Carvalho Chan Chang-Claude Chanock Chen Christiani Claes Claessens Clements Collée Correa Couch Cox Cunningham Cybulski Czene Daly deFazio Devilee Diez Gago-Dominguez Donovan Dörk Duell Dunning Dwek Eccles Edlund Edwards Ellberg Evans Fasching Ferris Liloglou Figueiredo Fletcher Fortner Fostira Franceschi Friedman Gallinger Ganz Garber García-Sáenz Gayther Giles Godwin Goldberg Goldgar Goode Goodman Goodman Grankvist Greene Gronberg Gronwald Guénel Håkansson Hall Hamann Hamdy Hamilton Hampe Haugen Heitz Herrero Hillemanns Hoffmeister Høgdall Hong Hopper Houlston Hulick Hunter Huntsman Idos Imyanitov Ingles Isaacs Jakubowska James Jenkins Johansson Johansson John Joshi Kaneva Karlan Kelemen Kühl Khaw Khusnutdinova Kibel Kiemeney Kim Kjaer Knight Kogevinas Kote-Jarai Koutros Kristensen Kupryjanczyk Lacko Lam Lambrechts Landi Lazarus Le Lee Lejbkowicz Lenz Leslie Lessel Lester Levine Li Li Lindblom Lindor Liu Loupakis Lubiński Maehle Maier Mannermaa Marchand Margolin May McGuffog Meindl Middha Miller Milne MacInnis Modugno Montagna Moreno Moysich Mucci Muir Mulligan Nathanson Neal Ness Neuhausen Nevanlinna Newcomb Newcomb Nielsen Nikitina-Zake Nordestgaard Nussbaum Offit Olah Olama Olopade Olshan Olsson Osorio Pandha Park Pashayan Parsons Pejovic Penney Peters Phelan Phipps Plaseska-Karanfilska Pring Prokofyeva Radice Stefansson Ramus Raskin Rennert Rennert van Rensburg Riggan Risch Risch Roobol Rosenstein Rossing De Ruyck Saloustros Sandler Sawyer Schabath Schleutker Schmidt Setiawan Shen Siegel Sieh Singer Slattery Sorensen Southey Spurdle Stanford Stevens Stintzing Stone Sundfeldt Sutphen Swerdlow Tajara Tangen Tardon Taylor Teare Teixeira Terry Terry Thibodeau Thomassen Bjørge Tischkowitz Toland Torres Townsend Travis Tung Tworoger Ulrich Usmani Vachon Van Nieuwenhuysen Vega Aguado-Barrera Wang Webb Weinberg Weinstein Weissler Weitzel West White Whittemore Wichmann Wiklund Winqvist Wolk Woll Woods Wu Wu Yannoukakos Zheng Zienolddiny Ziogas Zorn Lane Saxena Thomas Hung Diergaarde McKay Peters Hsu García-Closas Eeles Chenevix-Trench Brennan Haiman Simard Easton Gruber Pharoah Price Pasaniuc Amos Kraft Lindström

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Citations :  Lichtenstein P, et al. Environmental and heritable factors in the causation of cancer–analyses of cohorts of twins from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. N. Engl. J. Med. 2000;343:78–85. doi: 10.1056/NEJM200007133430201.
Authors :  333
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SSN : 2041-1723
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Breast Neoplasms
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England