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Genome-wide association analyses identify new susceptibility loci for oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer.

  • Corina Lesseur
  • , Brenda Diergaarde
  • , Andrew F. Olshan
  • , Victor Wünsch-Filho
  • , Andrew R. Ness
  • , Geoffrey Liu*
  • , Martin Lacko
  • , José Eluf-Neto
  • , Silvia Franceschi
  • , Pagona Lagiou
  • , Gary J. Macfarlane
  • , Lorenzo Richiardi
  • , Stefania Boccia
  • , Jerry Polesel
  • , Kristina Kjaerheim
  • , David Zaridze
  • , Mattias Johansson
  • , Ana M. Menezes
  • , Maria Paula Curado
  • , Max Robinson
  • Wolfgang Ahrens, Cristina Canova, Ariana Znaor, Xavier Castellsagué, David I. Conway, Ivana Holcátová, Dana Mates, Marta Vilensky, Claire M Healy, Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Eleonóra Fabiánová, Jolanta Lissowska, Jennifer R. Grandis, Mark C. Weissler, Eloiza H. Tajara, Fabio D. Nunes, Marcos B. De Carvalho, Steve Thomas, Rayjean J. Hung, Wilbert H.M. Peters, Rolando Herrero, Gabriella Cadoni, H. Bas Bueno-De-Mesquita, Annika Steffen, Antonio Agudo, Oxana Shangina, Xiangjun Xiao, Valérie Gaborieau, Amélie Chabrier, Devasena Anantharaman, Paolo Boffetta, Christopher I. Amos, James D. Mckay, Paul Brennan
*Corresponding author
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
  • Maastricht University
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • University of Aberdeen
  • University of Turin
  • IRCCS Centro di Riferimento Oncologico - Aviano PN
  • Cancer Registry of Norway Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research
  • Russian Ministry of Health
  • Universidade Federal de Pelotas
  • A.C.Camargo Cancer Center
  • Newcastle University
  • Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology
  • University of Padua
  • Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute
  • University of Glasgow
  • Charles University
  • Institutul de Sanatate Publica
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine
  • Regional Authority of Public Health
  • Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • School of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto
  • Heliopolis Hospital
  • University of Bristol
  • Mount Sinai Hospital
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
  • German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke
  • Dartmouth College

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Abstract

We conducted a genome-wide association study of oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer in 6,034 cases and 6,585 controls from Europe, North America and South America. We detected eight significantly associated loci (P < 5 × 10−8), seven of which are new for these cancer sites. Oral and pharyngeal cancers combined were associated with loci at 6p21.32 (rs3828805, HLA-DQB1), 10q26.13 (rs201982221, LHPP) and 11p15.4 (rs1453414, OR52N2–TRIM5). Oral cancer was associated with two new regions, 2p23.3 (rs6547741, GPN1) and 9q34.12 (rs928674, LAMC3), and with known cancer-related loci—9p21.3 (rs8181047, CDKN2B-AS1) and 5p15.33 (rs10462706, CLPTM1L). Oropharyngeal cancer associations were limited to the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region, and classical HLA allele imputation showed a protective association with the class II haplotype HLA-DRB1*1301–HLA-DQA1*0103–HLA-DQB1*0603 (odds ratio (OR) = 0.59, P = 2.7 × 10−9). Stratified analyses on a subgroup of oropharyngeal cases with information available on human papillomavirus (HPV) status indicated that this association was considerably stronger in HPV-positive (OR = 0.23, P = 1.6 × 10−6) than in HPV-negative (OR = 0.75, P = 0.16) cancers.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1544-1550
Number of pages7
JournalNature Genetics
Volume2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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Keywords

  • oral cancer

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