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Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

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Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B, Olswold, Curtis, Cunningham, Julie M, Slager, Susan, Pankratz, Vernon S, Dicks, Ed, Lakhani, Sunil R, Couch, Fergus J, Hall, Per, Monteiro, Alvaro N A, Gayther, Simon A, Pharoah, Paul D P, Reddel, Roger R, Goode, Ellen L, Greene, Mark H, Easton, Douglas F, Berchuck, Andrew, Antoniou, Antonis C, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Dunning, Alison M·2013·Nature Genetics
DOI 10.1038/ng.2566
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Stig Bojesen, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Alison Dunning and colleagues report common variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associated with mean telomere length measured in whole blood. They also identify associations at this locus to breast or ovarian cancer susceptibility and report functional studies in breast and ovarian cancer tissue and cell lines. TERT-locus SNPs and leukocyte telomere measures are reportedly associated with risks of multiple cancers. Using the Illumina custom genotyping array iCOGs, we analyzed ∼480 SNPs at the TERT locus in breast (n = 103,991), ovarian (n = 39,774) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (n = 11,705) cancer cases and controls. Leukocyte telomere measurements were also available for 53,724 participants. Most associations cluster into three independent peaks. The minor allele at the peak 1 SNP rs2736108 associates with longer telomeres (P = 5.8 × 10−7), lower risks for estrogen receptor (ER)-negative (P = 1.0 × 10−8) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (P = 1.1 × 10−5) breast cancers and altered promoter assay signal. The minor allele at the peak 2 SNP rs7705526 associates with longer telomeres (P = 2.3 × 10−14), higher risk of low-malignant-potential ovarian cancer (P = 1.3 × 10−15) and greater promoter activity. The minor alleles at the peak 3 SNPs rs10069690 and rs2242652 increase ER-negative (P = 1.2 × 10−12) and BRCA1 mutation carrier (P = 1.6 × 10−14) breast and invasive ovarian (P = 1.3 × 10−11) cancer risks but not via altered telomere length. The cancer risk alleles of rs2242652 and rs10069690, respectively, increase silencing and generate a truncated TERT splice variant.

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Study, A. C., Bojesen, S. E., Study, A. O. C., Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer (kConFab), (GENICA), G. E. I. A. B. C., (SWE-BRCA), S. B. C. S., The Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Group Netherlands (HEBON), (EMBRACE), E. S. O. B. &. B. M. C., (GEMO), G. M. O. C. R. I. B. M. C., Pooley, K. A., Johnatty, S. E., Beesley, J., Michailidou, K., Tyrer, J. P., Edwards, S. L., Pickett, H. A., Shen, H. C., Smart, C. E., Hillman, K. M., Mai, P. L., Lawrenson, K., Stutz, M. D., Lu, Y., Karevan, R., Woods, N., Johnston, R. L., French, J. D., Chen, X., Weischer, M., Nielsen, S. F., Maranian, M. J., Ghoussaini, M., Ahmed, S., Baynes, C., Bolla, M. K., Wang, Q., Dennis, J., McGuffog, L., Barrowdale, D., Lee, A., Healey, S., Lush, M., Tessier, D. C., Vincent, D., Bacot, F., Vergote, I., Lambrechts, S., Despierre, E., Risch, H. A., González-Neira, A., Rossing, M. A., Pita, G., Doherty, J. A., Álvarez, N., Larson, M. C., Fridley, B. 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Nature Genetics
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2013-03-27
Volume
45
Issue
4
Pages
371-384
ISSN
  • 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1718
DOI
10.1038/ng.2566
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528
References
14
FWCI
48.56
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journal article
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en
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Study, A. C., Bojesen, S. E., Study, A. O. C., Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer (kConFab), (GENICA), G. E. I. A. B. C., (SWE-BRCA), S. B. C. S., The Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Group Netherlands (HEBON), (EMBRACE), E. S. O. B. &. B. M. C., (GEMO), G. M. O. C. R. I. B. M. C., Pooley, K. A., Johnatty, S. E., Beesley, J., Michailidou, K., Tyrer, J. P., Edwards, S. L., Pickett, H. A., Shen, H. C., Smart, C. E., Hillman, K. M., . . . Dunning, A. M. (2013). Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer. Nature Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2566

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