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HLA class I and II diversity contributes to the etiologic heterogeneity of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes

  • Sophia S. Wang
  • , Mary Carrington
  • , Sonja I. Berndt
  • , Susan L. Slager
  • , Paige M. Bracci
  • , Jenna Voutsinas
  • , James R. Cerhan
  • , Karin E. Smedby
  • , Henrik Hjalgrim
  • , Joseph Vijai
  • , Lindsay M. Morton
  • , Roel Vermeulen
  • , Ora Paltiel
  • , Claire M. Vajdic
  • , Martha S. Linet
  • , Alexandra Nieters
  • , Silvia de Sanjose
  • , Wendy Cozen
  • , Elizabeth E. Brown
  • , Jennifer Turner
  • John J. Spinelli, Tongzhang Zheng, Brenda M. Birmann, Christopher R. Flowers, Nikolaus Becker, Elizabeth A. Holly, Eleanor Kane, Dennis Weisenburger, Marc Maynadie, Pierluigi Cocco, Demetrius Albanes, Stephanie J. Weinstein, Lauren R. Teras, W. Ryan Diver, Stephanie J. Lax, Ruth C. Travis, Rudolph Kaaks, Elio Riboli, Yolanda Benavente, Paul Brennan, James McKay, Marie Hélène Delfau-Larue, Brian K. Link, Corrado Magnani, Maria Grazia Ennas, Giancarlo Latte, Andrew L. Feldman, Nicole Wong Doo, Graham G. Giles, Melissa C. Southey, Roger L. Milne, Kenneth Offit, Jacob Musinsky, Alan A. Arslan, Mark P. Purdue, Hans Olov Adami, Mads Melbye, Bengt Glimelius, Lucia Conde, Nicola J. Camp, Martha Glenn, Karen Curtin, Jacqueline Clavel, Alain Monnereau, David G. Cox, Hervé Ghesquières, Gilles Salles, Paulo Bofetta, Lenka Foretova, Anthony Staines, Scott Davis, Richard K. Severson, Qing Lan, Angela Brooks-Wilson, Martyn T. Smith, Eve Roman, Anne Kricker, Yawei Zhang, Peter Kraft, Stephen J. Chanock, Nathaniel Rothman, Patricia Hartge, Christine F. Skibola
  • Beckman Research Institute and the City of Hope
  • Leidos Inc
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Statens Serum Institut
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Utrecht University
  • Hadassah University Medical Centre
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Freiburg
  • Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute
  • CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Macquarie University
  • Provincial Health Services Authority
  • University of British Columbia
  • Brown University
  • Harvard University
  • Emory University
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • University of York
  • City of Hope National Med Center
  • Université de Bourgogne
  • University of Cagliari
  • American Cancer Society
  • University of Oxford
  • Imperial College London
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • Hôpital Henri Mondor
  • University of Iowa
  • University of Eastern Piedmont
  • ATS Sardegna - ASSL Nuoro
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • University of Melbourne
  • Rishospitalet
  • New York University
  • Stanford University
  • Uppsala University
  • University College London
  • University of Utah
  • Center of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité (CRESS)
  • Université Paris Cité
  • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • CNRS
  • Hospices civils de Lyon
  • Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute
  • Dublin City University
  • University of Washington
  • Wayne State University
  • Simon Fraser University
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • The University of Sydney
  • Yale University

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Abstract

A growing number of loci within the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region have been implicated in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) etiology. Here, we test a complementary hypothesis of "heterozygote advantage" regarding the role of HLA and NHL, whereby HLA diversity is beneficial and homozygous HLA loci are associated with increased disease risk. HLA alleles at class I and II loci were imputed from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using SNP2HLA for 3,617 diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL), 2,686 follicular lymphomas (FL), 2,878 chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphomas (CLL/SLL), 741 marginal zone lymphomas (MZL), and 8,753 controls of European descent. Both DLBCL and MZL risk were elevated with homozygosity at class I HLA-B and -C loci (OR DLBCL = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.06–1.60; OR MZL = 1.45, 95% CI = 1.12–1.89) and class II HLA-DRB1 locus (OR DLBCL = 2.10, 95% CI = 1.24–3.55; OR MZL = 2.10, 95% CI = 0.99–4.45). Increased FL risk was observed with the overall increase in number of homozygous HLA class II loci (P trend < 0.0001, FDR = 0.0005). These results support a role for HLA zygosity in NHL etiology and suggests that distinct immune pathways may underly the etiology of the different NHL subtypes. Significance: HLA gene diversity reduces risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4086-4096
Number of pages11
JournalCancer Research
Volume78
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 15 2018

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