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Genome-wide association analysis implicates dysregulation of immunity genes in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

  • Philip J. Law
  • , Sonja I. Berndt
  • , Helen E. Speedy
  • , Nicola J. Camp
  • , Georgina P. Sava
  • , Christine F. Skibola
  • , Amy Holroyd
  • , Vijai Joseph
  • , Nicola J. Sunter
  • , Alexandra Nieters
  • , Silvia Bea
  • , Alain Monnereau
  • , David Martin-Garcia
  • , Lynn R. Goldin
  • , Guillem Clot
  • , Lauren R. Teras
  • , Inés Quintela
  • , Brenda M. Birmann
  • , Sandrine Jayne
  • , Wendy Cozen
  • Aneela Majid, Karin E. Smedby, Qing Lan, Claire Dearden, Angela R. Brooks-Wilson, Andrew G. Hall, Mark P. Purdue, Tryfonia Mainou-Fowler, Claire M. Vajdic, Graham H. Jackson, Pierluigi Cocco, Helen Marr, Yawei Zhang, Tongzhang Zheng, Graham G. Giles, Charles Lawrence, Timothy G. Call, Mark Liebow, Mads Melbye, Bengt Glimelius, Larry Mansouri, Martha Glenn, Karen Curtin, W. Ryan Diver, Brian K. Link, Lucia Conde, Paige M. Bracci, Elizabeth A. Holly, Rebecca D. Jackson, Lesley F. Tinker, Yolanda Benavente, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, Marc Maynadie, James McKay, Demetrius Albanes, Stephanie Weinstein, Zhaoming Wang, Neil E. Caporaso, Lindsay M. Morton, Richard K. Severson, Elio Riboli, Paolo Vineis, Roel C.H. Vermeulen, Melissa C. Southey, Roger L. Milne, Jacqueline Clavel, Sabine Topka, John J. Spinelli, Peter Kraft, Maria Grazia Ennas, Geoffrey Summerfield, Giovanni M. Ferri, Robert J. Harris, Lucia Miligi, Andrew R. Pettitt, Kari E. North, David J. Allsup, Joseph F. Fraumeni, James R. Bailey, Kenneth Offit, Guy Pratt, Henrik Hjalgrim, Chris Pepper, Stephen J. Chanock, Chris Fegan, Richard Rosenquist, Silvia De Sanjose, Angel Carracedo, Martin J.S. Dyer, Daniel Catovsky, Elias Campo, James R. Cerhan, James M. Allan, Nathanial Rothman, Richard Houlston, Susan Slager
  • The Institute of Cancer Research
  • National Institutes of Health
  • University of Utah
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Newcastle University
  • University of Freiburg
  • Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
  • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • Center of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité (CRESS)
  • Université Paris Cité
  • American Cancer Society
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
  • Harvard University
  • University of Leicester
  • University of Southern California
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
  • Provincial Health Services Authority
  • Simon Fraser University
  • University of New South Wales
  • Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Cagliari
  • Yale University
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • University of Melbourne
  • Westat
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • Statens Serum Institut
  • Stanford University
  • Uppsala University
  • University of Iowa
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • Ohio State University
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Institute Catala Oncologia
  • CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • Université de Bourgogne
  • St. Jude Children Research Hospital
  • Wayne State University
  • Imperial College London
  • Human Genetics Foundation
  • Utrecht University
  • University of British Columbia
  • Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Bari
  • University of Liverpool
  • Centro Per Lo Studio E La Prevenzione Oncologica
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
  • University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
  • Cardiff University
  • Cardiff & Vale University Health Board
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • King Abdulaziz University
  • University of Barcelona

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Abstract

Several chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) susceptibility loci have been reported; however, much of the heritable risk remains unidentified. Here we perform a meta-analysis of six genome-wide association studies, imputed using a merged reference panel of 1,000 Genomes and UK10K data, totalling 6,200 cases and 17,598 controls after replication. We identify nine risk loci at 1p36.11 (rs34676223, P=5.04 × 10-13), 1q42.13 (rs41271473, P=1.06 × 10-10), 4q24 (rs71597109, P=1.37 × 10 -10), 4q35.1 (rs57214277, P=3.69 × 10-8), 6p21.31 (rs3800461, P=1.97 × 10-8), 11q23.2 (rs61904987, P=2.64 × 10-11), 18q21.1 (rs1036935, P=3.27 × 10-8), 19p13.3 (rs7254272, P=4.67 × 10-8) and 22q13.33 (rs140522, P=2.70 × 10-9). These new and established risk loci map to areas of active chromatin and show an over-representation of transcription factor binding for the key determinants of B-cell development and immune response.

Original languageEnglish
Article number14175
JournalNature Communications
Volume8
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 6 2017

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