Genome-wide association study of follicular lymphoma identifies a risk locus at 6p21.32

Lucia Conde, Eran Halperin, Nicholas K. Akers, Kevin M. Brown, Karin E. Smedby, Nathaniel Rothman, Alexandra Nieters, Susan L. Slager, Angela Brooks-Wilson, Luz Agana, Jacques Riby, Jianjun Liu, Hans Olov Adami, Hatef Darabi, Henrik Hjalgrim, Hui Qi Low, Keith Humphreys, Mads Melbye, Ellen T. Chang, Bengt GlimeliusWendy Cozen, Scott Davis, Patricia Hartge, Lindsay M. Morton, Maryjean Schenk, Sophia S. Wang, Bruce Armstrong, Anne Kricker, Sam Milliken, Mark P. Purdue, Claire M. Vajdic, Peter Boyle, Qing Lan, Shelia H. Zahm, Yawei Zhang, Tongzhang Zheng, Nikolaus Becker, Yolanda Benavente, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, Katja Butterbach, Pierluigi Cocco, Lenka Foretova, Marc Maynadié, Silvia De Sanjosé, Anthony Staines, John J. Spinelli, Sara J. Achenbach, Timothy G. Call, Nicola J. Camp, Martha Glenn, Neil E. Caporaso, James R. Cerhan, Julie M. Cunningham, Lynn R. Goldin, Curtis A. Hanson, Neil E. Kay, Mark C. Lanasa, Jose F. Leis, Gerald E. Marti, Kari G. Rabe, Laura Z. Rassenti, Logan G. Spector, Sara S. Strom, Celine M. Vachon, J. Brice Weinberg, Elizabeth A. Holly, Stephen Chanock, Martyn T. Smith, Paige M. Bracci, Christine F. Skibola

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Abstract

To identify susceptibility loci for non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes, we conducted a three-stage genome-wide association study. We identified two variants associated with follicular lymphoma at 6p21.32 (rs10484561, combined P = 1.12 × 10-29 and rs7755224, combined P = 2.00 × 10-19; r2 = 1.0), supporting the idea that major histocompatibility complex genetic variation influences follicular lymphoma susceptibility. We also found confirmatory evidence of a previously reported association between chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma and rs735665 (combined P = 4.24 × 10-9).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)661-664
Number of pages4
JournalNature Genetics
Volume42
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2010

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants CA122663 and CA104682 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), US National Institutes of Health (NIH) (C.F.S.); grants

Funding Information:
CA45614 and CA89745 from the NCI, NIH (E.A.H.); the American Cancer Society (IRG-07-06401) and a charitable donation by S. Chase (K.B.). E.H. is a faculty fellow of the Edmond J. Safra Bioinformatics program at Tel-Aviv University. SCALE study: We thank X.Y. Chen, H.B. Toh, K.K. Heng and W.Y. Meah from Genome Institute of Singapore for their support in genotyping analyses. We are also grateful to L. Klareskog, Center for Molecular Medicine, and L. Alfredsson, Institute of Environmental Medicine at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, for sharing DNA from their EIRA study control population and to E. Rehnberg for help with imputing genotypes in the SCALE study. The following agencies contributed funding to SCALE that facilitated the present project: Agency for Science and Technology and Research of Singapore (A*STAR), NCI, the Swedish Cancer Society, the Swedish Research Council and the Danish Medical Research Council. GEC-Mayo Study: This study is supported by grants R01 CA91253 and R01 CA118444 from the NCI. NCI-SEER study: We thank P. Hui of the Information Management Services, Inc. for programming support, and we acknowledge the contributions of the staff and scientists at the SEER centers of Iowa, Los Angeles, Detroit and Seattle for conducting the study’s field effort. We especially acknowledge the contributions of study site principal investigator L. Bernstein (Los Angeles). The NCI-SEER study was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH (NCI) and by US Public Health Service (PHS) contracts N01-PC-65064, N01-PC-67008, N01-PC-67009, N01-PC-67010 and N02-PC-71105. Yale study: This study is supported by grant CA62006 from the NCI and the Intramural Research Program of the NIH (NCI). NSW study: The NSW study was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia project grant, Cancer Council NSW, a University of Sydney Medical Foundation Program Grant and the Intramural Research Program of the NIH (NCI). BC study: Funding for the British Columbia study was from the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. A.B.-W. is a Senior Scholar of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. EpiLymph study: Funding was available from the German José Carreras Leukemia Foundation (DJCLS_R04/08 and R07/26f) (A.N.), the EC 5th Framework Program Quality of Life grant No. QLK4-CT-2000-00422 (P. Boffetta, P. Brennan), the Federal Office for Radiation Protection grants No. StSch4261 and StSch4420 (Germany), the Spanish Ministry of Health grants Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP) (06/02/0073), FIS 08-1555 and Marato TV3 (051210) (Spain), La Fondation de France, no. 1999 0084 71 (M. Maynadié), Compagnia di San Paolo di Torino, Programma Oncologia 2001 (P.C.), the Health Research Board, Ireland, and the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, MZ0 MOU 2005 (L.F.).

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