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Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for diffuse large B cell lymphoma

  • James R. Cerhan
  • , Sonja I. Berndt
  • , Joseph Vijai
  • , Hervé Ghesquières
  • , James McKay
  • , Sophia S. Wang
  • , Zhaoming Wang
  • , Meredith Yeager
  • , Lucia Conde
  • , Paul I.W. De Bakker
  • , Alexandra Nieters
  • , David Cox
  • , Laurie Burdett
  • , Alain Monnereau
  • , Christopher R. Flowers
  • , Anneclaire J. De Roos
  • , Angela R. Brooks-Wilson
  • , Qing Lan
  • , Gianluca Severi
  • , Mads Melbye
  • Jian Gu, Rebecca D. Jackson, Eleanor Kane, Lauren R. Teras, Mark P. Purdue, Claire M. Vajdic, John J. Spinelli, Graham G. Giles, Demetrius Albanes, Rachel S. Kelly, Mariagrazia Zucca, Kimberly A. Bertrand, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Charles Lawrence, Amy Hutchinson, Degui Zhi, Thomas M. Habermann, Brian K. Link, Anne J. Novak, Ahmet Dogan, Yan W. Asmann, Mark Liebow, Carrie A. Thompson, Stephen M. Ansell, Thomas E. Witzig, George J. Weiner, Amelie S. Veron, Diana Zelenika, Hervé Tilly, Corinne Haioun, Thierry Jo Molina, Henrik Hjalgrim, Bengt Glimelius, Hans Olov Adami, Paige M. Bracci, Jacques Riby, Martyn T. Smith, Elizabeth A. Holly, Wendy Cozen, Patricia Hartge, Lindsay M. Morton, Richard K. Severson, Lesley F. Tinker, Kari E. North, Nikolaus Becker, Yolanda Benavente, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, Lenka Foretova, Marc Maynadie, Anthony Staines, Tracy Lightfoot, Simon Crouch, Alex Smith, Eve Roman, W. Ryan Diver, Kenneth Offit, Andrew Zelenetz, Robert J. Klein, Danylo J. Villano, Tongzhang Zheng, Yawei Zhang, Theodore R. Holford, Anne Kricker, Jenny Turner, Melissa C. Southey, Jacqueline Clavel, Jarmo Virtamo, Stephanie Weinstein, Elio Riboli, Paolo Vineis, Rudolph Kaaks, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Roel C.H. Vermeulen, Heiner Boeing, Anne Tjonneland, Emanuele Angelucci, Simonetta Di Lollo, Marco Rais, Brenda M. Birmann, Francine Laden, Edward Giovannucci, Peter Kraft, Jinyan Huang, Baoshan Ma, Yuanqing Ye, Brian C.H. Chiu, Joshua Sampson, Liming Liang, Ju Hyun Park, Charles C. Chung, Dennis D. Weisenburger, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Susan L. Slager, Xifeng Wu, Silvia De Sanjose, Karin E. Smedby, Gilles Salles, Christine F. Skibola, Nathaniel Rothman, Stephen J. Chanock
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Centre Léon Bérard
  • CNRS
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • City of Hope National Med Center
  • School of Public Health and Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Utrecht University
  • University of Freiburg
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Centre Georges-François Leclerc
  • Emory University
  • Drexel University
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Provincial Health Services Authority
  • Simon Fraser University
  • Human Genetics Foundation
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • University of Melbourne
  • Statens Serum Institut
  • Stanford University
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Ohio State University
  • University of York
  • American Cancer Society
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of British Columbia
  • Harvard University
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • University of Cagliari
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • New York University
  • Westat
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • University of Iowa
  • Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
  • Institut Génomique, Commissariat À l'Énergie Atomique
  • Centre Heni Becquerel
  • Hôpital Henri Mondor
  • Université Paris Cité
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Uppsala University
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • University of Southern California
  • Wayne State University
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute
  • CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)
  • Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute
  • Université de Bourgogne
  • Dublin City University
  • Yale University
  • The University of Sydney
  • Macquarie University
  • Sonic Healthcare
  • National Institute for Health and Welfare
  • Imperial College London
  • Academy of Athens
  • Helenic Health Foundation
  • German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke
  • Danish Cancer Society
  • AO Brotzu
  • University of Florence
  • Dalian Maritime University
  • The University of Chicago
  • Dongguk University
  • Hospices civils de Lyon
  • Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1

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Abstract

Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common lymphoma subtype and is clinically aggressive. To identify genetic susceptibility loci for DLBCL, we conducted a meta-analysis of 3 new genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and 1 previous scan, totaling 3,857 cases and 7,666 controls of European ancestry, with additional genotyping of 9 promising SNPs in 1,359 cases and 4,557 controls. In our multi-stage analysis, five independent SNPs in four loci achieved genome-wide significance marked by rs116446171 at 6p25.3 (EXOC2; P = 2.33 × 10 '21), rs2523607 at 6p21.33 (HLA-B; P = 2.40 × 10 '10), rs79480871 at 2p23.3 (NCOA1; P = 4.23 × 10 '8) and two independent SNPs, rs13255292 and rs4733601, at 8q24.21 (PVT1; P = 9.98 × 10 '13 and 3.63 × 10 '11, respectively). These data provide substantial new evidence for genetic susceptibility to this B cell malignancy and point to pathways involved in immune recognition and immune function in the pathogenesis of DLBCL.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1233-1238
Number of pages6
JournalNature Genetics
Volume46
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 5 2014

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