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Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers.

  • Xia Jiang
  • , Hilary K. Finucane
  • , Fredrick R. Schumacher
  • , Stephanie L. Schmit
  • , Jonathan P. Tyrer
  • , Younghun Han
  • , Kyriaki Michailidou
  • , Corina Lesseur
  • , Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker
  • , Joe Dennis
  • , David V. Conti
  • , Graham Casey
  • , Mia M. Gaudet
  • , Jeroen R. Huyghe
  • , Demetrius Albanes
  • , Melinda C. Aldrich
  • , Angeline S. Andrew
  • , Irene L. Andrulis
  • , Hoda Anton-Culver
  • , Antonis C. Antoniou
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Research output: Contribution to journalArticle

Abstract

Quantifying the genetic correlation between cancers can provide important insights into the mechanisms driving cancer etiology. Using genome-wide association study summary statistics across six cancer types based on a total of 296,215 cases and 301,319 controls of European ancestry, here we estimate the pair-wise genetic correlations between breast, colorectal, head/neck, lung, ovary and prostate cancer, and between cancers and 38 other diseases. We observed statistically significant genetic correlations between lung and head/neck cancer (rg = 0.57, p = 4.6 × 10-8), breast and ovarian cancer (rg = 0.24, p = 7 × 10-5), breast and lung cancer (rg = 0.18, p =1.5 × 10-6) and breast and colorectal cancer (rg = 0.15, p = 1.1 × 10-4). We also found that multiple cancers are genetically correlated with non-cancer traits including smoking, psychiatric diseases and metabolic characteristics. Functional enrichment analysis revealed a significant excess contribution of conserved and regulatory regions to cancer heritability. Our comprehensive analysis of cross-cancer heritability suggests that solid tumors arising across tissues share in part a common germline genetic basis.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-21
Number of pages21
JournalNature Communications
Volume2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

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Keywords

  • head and neck

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