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Identification of ten variants associated with risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer

  • Roger L. Milne*
  • , Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker
  • , Kyriaki Michailidou
  • , Jonathan Beesley
  • , Siddhartha Kar
  • , Sara Lindström
  • , Shirley Hui
  • , Audrey Lemaçon
  • , Penny Soucy
  • , Joe Dennis
  • , Xia Jiang
  • , Asha Rostamianfar
  • , Hilary Finucane
  • , Manjeet K. Bolla
  • , Lesley McGuffog
  • , Qin Wang
  • , Cora M. Aalfs
  • , Investigators Abctctb
  • , Marcia Adams
  • , Julian Adlard
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Abstract

Most common breast cancer susceptibility variants have been identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of predominantly estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease1. We conducted a GWAS using 21,468 ER-negative cases and 100,594 controls combined with 18,908 BRCA1 mutation carriers (9,414 with breast cancer), all of European origin. We identified independent associations at P < 5 × 10-8 with ten variants at nine new loci. At P < 0.05, we replicated associations with 10 of 11 variants previously reported in ER-negative disease or BRCA1 mutation carrier GWAS and observed consistent associations with ER-negative disease for 105 susceptibility variants identified by other studies. These 125 variants explain approximately 16% of the familial risk of this breast cancer subtype. There was high genetic correlation (0.72) between risk of ER-negative breast cancer and breast cancer risk for BRCA1 mutation carriers. These findings may lead to improved risk prediction and inform further fine-mapping and functional work to better understand the biological basis of ER-negative breast cancer.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1767-1778
Number of pages12
JournalNature Genetics
Volume49
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2017
Externally publishedYes

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