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A genome-wide association study of marginal zone lymphoma shows association to the HLA region

  • Joseph Vijai
  • , Zhaoming Wang
  • , Sonja I. Berndt
  • , Christine F. Skibola
  • , Susan L. Slager
  • , Silvia De Sanjose
  • , Mads Melbye
  • , Bengt Glimelius
  • , Paige M. Bracci
  • , Lucia Conde
  • , Brenda M. Birmann
  • , Sophia S. Wang
  • , Angela R. Brooks-Wilson
  • , Qing Lan
  • , Paul I.W. De Bakker
  • , Roel C.H. Vermeulen
  • , Carol Portlock
  • , Stephen M. Ansell
  • , Brian K. Link
  • , Jacques Riby
  • Kari E. North, Jian Gu, Henrik Hjalgrim, Wendy Cozen, Nikolaus Becker, Lauren R. Teras, John J. Spinelli, Jenny Turner, Yawei Zhang, Mark P. Purdue, Graham G. Giles, Rachel S. Kelly, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Maria Grazia Ennas, Alain Monnereau, Kimberly A. Bertrand, Demetrius Albanes, Tracy Lightfoot, Meredith Yeager, Charles C. Chung, Laurie Burdett, Amy Hutchinson, Charles Lawrence, Rebecca Montalvan, Liming Liang, Jinyan Huang, Baoshan Ma, Danylo J. Villano, Ann Maria, Marina Corines, Tinu Thomas, Anne J. Novak, Ahmet Dogan, Mark Liebow, Carrie A. Thompson, Thomas E. Witzig, Thomas M. Habermann, George J. Weiner, Martyn T. Smith, Elizabeth A. Holly, Rebecca D. Jackson, Lesley F. Tinker, Yuanqing Ye, Hans Olov Adami, Karin E. Smedby, Anneclaire J. De Roos, Patricia Hartge, Lindsay M. Morton, Richard K. Severson, Yolanda Benavente, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, Lenka Foretova, Marc Maynadie, James McKay, Anthony Staines, W. Ryan DIver, Claire M. Vajdic, Bruce K. Armstrong, Anne Kricker, Tongzhang Zheng, Theodore R. Holford, Gianluca Severi, Paolo Vineis, Giovanni M. Ferri, Rosalia Ricco, Lucia Miligi, Jacqueline Clavel, Edward Giovannucci, Peter Kraft, Jarmo Virtamo, Alex Smith, Eleanor Kane, Eve Roman, Brian C.H. Chiu, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Xifeng Wu, James R. Cerhan, Kenneth Offit, Stephen J. Chanock, Nathaniel Rothman, Alexandra Nieters
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • National Institutes of Health
  • School of Public Health and Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute
  • CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)
  • Statens Serum Institut
  • Stanford University
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Uppsala University
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • City of Hope National Med Center
  • Provincial Health Services Authority
  • Simon Fraser University
  • Utrecht University
  • University of Iowa
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • University of Southern California
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • American Cancer Society
  • University of British Columbia
  • Macquarie University
  • Sonic Healthcare
  • Yale University
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • University of Melbourne
  • Imperial College London
  • New York University
  • University of Cagliari
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Centre Georges-François Leclerc
  • Harvard University
  • University of York
  • Health Studies Sector
  • Dalian Maritime University
  • Ohio State University
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Drexel University
  • Wayne State University
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute
  • Université de Bourgogne
  • Dublin City University
  • University of New South Wales
  • The University of Sydney
  • Human Genetics Foundation
  • University of Bari
  • ISPO-Cancer Prevention and Research Institute
  • National Institute for Health and Welfare
  • The University of Chicago
  • University of Freiburg

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Abstract

Marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) is the third most common subtype of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Here we perform a two-stage GWAS of 1,281 MZL cases and 7,127 controls of European ancestry and identify two independent loci near BTNL2 (rs9461741, P=3.95 × 10 '15) and HLA-B (rs2922994, P=2.43 × 10 '9) in the HLA region significantly associated with MZL risk. This is the first evidence that genetic variation in the major histocompatibility complex influences MZL susceptibility.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5751
JournalNature Communications
Volume6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 8 2015

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