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Multiple Independent Loci at Chromosome 15q25.1 Affect Smoking Quantity: a Meta-Analysis and Comparison with Lung Cancer and COPD

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Saccone, Nancy L., Culverhouse, Robert C., Schwantes-An, Tae-Hwi, Cannon, Dale S., Chen, Xiangning, Cichon, Sven, Giegling, Ina, Han, Shizhong +55 more·2010·PLoS Genetics

Abstract

Recently, genetic association findings for nicotine dependence, smoking behavior, and smoking-related diseases converged to implicate the chromosome 15q25.1 region, which includes the CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 cholinergic nicotinic receptor subunit genes. In particular, association with the nonsynonymous CHRNA5 SNP rs16969968 and correlates has been replicated in several independent studies. Extensive genotyping of this region has suggested additional statistically distinct signals for nicotine dependence, tagged by rs578776 and rs588765. One goal of the Consortium for the Genetic Analysis of Smoking Phenotypes (CGASP) is to elucidate the associations among these markers and dichotomous smoking quantity (heavy versus light smoking), lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We performed a meta-analysis across 34 datasets of European-ancestry subjects, including 38,617 smokers who were assessed for cigarettes-per-day, 7,700 lung cancer cases and 5,914 lung-cancer-free controls (all smokers), and 2,614 COPD cases and 3,568 COPD-free controls (all smokers). We demonstrate statistically independent associations of rs16969968 and rs588765 with smoking (mutually adjusted p-values<10(-35) and <10(-8) respectively). Because the risk alleles at these loci are negatively correlated, their association with smoking is stronger in the joint model than when each SNP is analyzed alone. Rs578776 also demonstrates association with smoking after adjustment for rs16969968 (p<10(-6)). In models adjusting for cigarettes-per-day, we confirm the association between rs16969968 and lung cancer (p<10(-20)) and observe a nominally significant association with COPD (p = 0.01); the other loci are not significantly associated with either lung cancer or COPD after adjusting for rs16969968. This study provides strong evidence that multiple statistically distinct loci in this region affect smoking behavior. This study is also the first report of association between rs588765 (and correlates) and smoking that achieves genome-wide significance; these SNPs have previously been associated with mRNA levels of CHRNA5 in brain and lung tissue.

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Saccone, N. L., Culverhouse, R. C., Schwantes-An, T.-H., Cannon, D. S., Chen, X., Cichon, S., Giegling, I., Han, S., Han, Y., Keskitalo-Vuokko, K., Kong, X., Landi, M. T., Ma, J. Z., Short, S. E., Stephens, S. H., Stevens, V. L., Sun, L., Wang, Y., Wenzlaff, A. S., Aggen, S. H., Breslau, N., Broderick, P., Chatterjee, N., Chen, J., Heath, A. C., Heliövaara, M., Hoft, N. R., Hunter, D. J., Jensen, M. K., Martin, N. G., Montgomery, G. W., Niu, T., Payne, T. J., Peltonen, L., Pergadia, M. L., Rice, J. P., Sherva, R., Spitz, M. R., Sun, J., Wang, J. C., Weiss, R. B., Wheeler, W., Witt, S. H., Yang, B.-Z., Caporaso, N. E., Ehringer, M. A., Eisen, T., Gapstur, S. M., Gelernter, J., Houlston, R., Kaprio, J., Kendler, K. S., Kraft, P., Leppert, M. F., Li, M. D., Madden, P. A. F., Nöthen, M. M., Pillai, S., Rietschel, M., Rujescu, D., Schwartz, A., Amos, C. I., & Bierut, L. J.
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  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
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  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
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Corresponding author
Saccone, Nancy L.
Venue
PLoS Genetics
Published
2010-08-05
Volume
6
Issue
8
Pages
e1001053
ISSN
  • 1553-7390 (ISSN-L)
  • 1553-7404
OpenAlex
W2108344795
Cited by
395
References
72
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4.40
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Language
en
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
Keywords
smoking quantity, cigarettes per day, CHRNA5, CHRNA3, CHRNB4, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, rs16969968, nicotine dependence, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, genetic association
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15, Female, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Male, Middle Aged, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Receptors, Nicotinic, Smoking, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, White People, Young Adult

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