2021
Functional annotation of the 2q35 breast cancer risk locus implicates a structural variant in influencing activity of a long-range enhancer element
Baxter J, Johnson N, Tomczyk K, Gillespie A, Maguire S, Brough R, Fachal L, Michailidou K, Bolla M, Wang Q, Dennis J, Ahearn T, Andrulis I, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova N, Arndt V, Aronson K, Augustinsson A, Becher H, Beckmann M, Behrens S, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Bogdanova N, Bojesen S, Brenner H, Brucker S, Cai Q, Campa D, Canzian F, Castelao J, Chan T, Chang-Claude J, Chanock S, Chenevix-Trench G, Choi J, Clarke C, Collaborators N, Colonna S, Conroy D, Couch F, Cox A, Cross S, Czene K, Daly M, Devilee P, Dörk T, Dossus L, Dwek M, Eccles D, Ekici A, Eliassen A, Engel C, Fasching P, Figueroa J, Flyger H, Gago-Dominguez M, Gao C, García-Closas M, García-Sáenz J, Ghoussaini M, Giles G, Goldberg M, González-Neira A, Guénel P, Gündert M, Haeberle L, Hahnen E, Haiman C, Hall P, Hamann U, Hartman M, Hatse S, Hauke J, Hollestelle A, Hoppe R, Hopper J, Hou M, Investigators K, Investigators A, Ito H, Iwasaki M, Jager A, Jakubowska A, Janni W, John E, Joseph V, Jung A, Kaaks R, Kang D, Keeman R, Khusnutdinova E, Kim S, Kosma V, Kraft P, Kristensen V, Kubelka-Sabit K, Kurian A, Kwong A, Lacey J, Lambrechts D, Larson N, Larsson S, Le Marchand L, Lejbkowicz F, Li J, Long J, Lophatananon A, Lubiński J, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Matsuo K, Mavroudis D, Mayes R, Menon U, Milne R, Taib N, Muir K, Muranen T, Murphy R, Nevanlinna H, O’Brien K, Offit K, Olson J, Olsson H, Park S, Park-Simon T, Patel A, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Presneau N, Pylkäs K, Rack B, Rennert G, Romero A, Ruebner M, Rüdiger T, Saloustros E, Sandler D, Sawyer E, Schmidt M, Schmutzler R, Schneeweiss A, Schoemaker M, Shah M, Shen C, Shu X, Simard J, Southey M, Stone J, Surowy H, Swerdlow A, Tamimi R, Tapper W, Taylor J, Teo S, Teras L, Terry M, Toland A, Tomlinson I, Truong T, Tseng C, Untch M, Vachon C, van den Ouweland A, Wang S, Weinberg C, Wendt C, Winham S, Winqvist R, Wolk A, Wu A, Yamaji T, Zheng W, Ziogas A, Pharoah P, Dunning A, Easton D, Pettitt S, Lord C, Haider S, Orr N, Fletcher O. Functional annotation of the 2q35 breast cancer risk locus implicates a structural variant in influencing activity of a long-range enhancer element. American Journal Of Human Genetics 2021, 108: 1190-1203. PMID: 34146516, PMCID: PMC8322933, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.05.013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBreast cancer risk lociCredible causal variantsCancer risk lociRegulatory elementsCausal variantsRisk lociCell type-specific transcriptionDeletion alleleTranscription factor binding regionsIdentified putative regulatory elementsChIP-seq dataPutative regulatory elementsCell type-specific expressionSignal 2ChIP-seqFunctional annotationStructural variantsDNase IBinding regionCRISPR assayIGFBP5 promoterEstrogen receptor-positive breast cancerReceptor-positive breast cancerRisk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancerLoci
2020
Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes
Fachal L, Aschard H, Beesley J, Barnes DR, Allen J, Kar S, Pooley KA, Dennis J, Michailidou K, Turman C, Soucy P, Lemaçon A, Lush M, Tyrer JP, Ghoussaini M, Moradi Marjaneh M, Jiang X, Agata S, Aittomäki K, Alonso MR, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antonenkova NN, Arason A, Arndt V, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Auber B, Auer PL, Azzollini J, Balmaña J, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Benitez J, Bermisheva M, Białkowska K, Blanco AM, Blomqvist C, Blot W, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Bonanni B, Borg A, Bosse K, Brauch H, Brenner H, Briceno I, Brock IW, Brooks-Wilson A, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Buys SS, Cai Q, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Camp NJ, Campbell I, Canzian F, Carroll JS, Carter BD, Castelao JE, Chiquette J, Christiansen H, Chung WK, Claes KBM, Clarke CL, Collée J, Cornelissen S, Couch F, Cox A, Cross S, Cybulski C, Czene K, Daly M, de la Hoya M, Devilee P, Diez O, Ding Y, Dite G, Domchek S, Dörk T, dos-Santos-Silva I, Droit A, Dubois S, Dumont M, Duran M, Durcan L, Dwek M, Eccles D, Engel C, Eriksson M, Evans D, Fasching P, Fletcher O, Floris G, Flyger H, Foretova L, Foulkes W, Friedman E, Fritschi L, Frost D, Gabrielson M, Gago-Dominguez M, Gambino G, Ganz P, Gapstur S, Garber J, García-Sáenz J, Gaudet M, Georgoulias V, Giles G, Glendon G, Godwin A, Goldberg M, Goldgar D, González-Neira A, Tibiletti M, Greene M, Grip M, Gronwald J, Grundy A, Guénel P, Hahnen E, Haiman C, Håkansson N, Hall P, Hamann U, Harrington P, Hartikainen J, Hartman M, He W, Healey C, Heemskerk-Gerritsen B, Heyworth J, Hillemanns P, Hogervorst F, Hollestelle A, Hooning M, Hopper J, Howell A, Huang G, Hulick P, Imyanitov E, Isaacs C, Iwasaki M, Jager A, Jakimovska M, Jakubowska A, James P, Janavicius R, Jankowitz R, John E, Johnson N, Jones M, Jukkola-Vuorinen A, Jung A, Kaaks R, Kang D, Kapoor P, Karlan B, Keeman R, Kerin M, Khusnutdinova E, Kiiski J, Kirk J, Kitahara C, Ko Y, Konstantopoulou I, Kosma V, Koutros S, Kubelka-Sabit K, Kwong A, Kyriacou K, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Lee E, Leslie G, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lindblom A, Lo W, Long J, Lophatananon A, Loud J, Lubiński J, MacInnis R, Maishman T, Makalic E, Mannermaa A, Manoochehri M, Manoukian S, Margolin S, Martinez M, Matsuo K, Maurer T, Mavroudis D, Mayes R, McGuffog L, McLean C, Mebirouk N, Meindl A, Miller A, Miller N, Montagna M, Moreno F, Muir K, Mulligan A, Muñoz-Garzon V, Muranen T, Narod S, Nassir R, Nathanson K, Neuhausen S, Nevanlinna H, Neven P, Nielsen F, Nikitina-Zake L, Norman A, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade O, Olsson H, Orr N, Osorio A, Pankratz V, Papp J, Park S, Park-Simon T, Parsons M, Paul J, Pedersen I, Peissel B, Peshkin B, Peterlongo P, Peto J, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Prajzendanc K, Prentice R, Presneau N, Prokofyeva D, Pujana M, Pylkäs K, Radice P, Ramus S, Rantala J, Rau-Murthy R, Rennert G, Risch H, Robson M, Romero A, Rossing M, Saloustros E, Sánchez-Herrero E, Sandler D, Santamariña M, Saunders C, Sawyer E, Scheuner M, Schmidt D, Schmutzler R, Schneeweiss A, Schoemaker M, Schöttker B, Schürmann P, Scott C, Scott R, Senter L, Seynaeve C, Shah M, Sharma P, Shen C, Shu X, Singer C, Slavin T, Smichkoska S, Southey M, Spinelli J, Spurdle A, Stone J, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutter C, Swerdlow A, Tamimi R, Tan Y, Tapper W, Taylor J, Teixeira M, Tengström M, Teo S, Terry M, Teulé A, Thomassen M, Thull D, Tischkowitz M, Toland A, Tollenaar R, Tomlinson I, Torres D, Torres-Mejía G, Troester M, Truong T, Tung N, Tzardi M, Ulmer H, Vachon C, van Asperen C, van der Kolk L, van Rensburg E, Vega A, Viel A, Vijai J, Vogel M, Wang Q, Wappenschmidt B, Weinberg C, Weitzel J, Wendt C, Wildiers H, Winqvist R, Wolk A, Wu A, Yannoukakos D, Zhang Y, Zheng W, Hunter D, Pharoah P, Chang-Claude J, García-Closas M, Schmidt M, Milne R, Kristensen V, French J, Edwards S, Antoniou A, Chenevix-Trench G, Simard J, Easton D, Kraft P, Dunning A. Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes. Nature Genetics 2020, 52: 56-73. PMID: 31911677, PMCID: PMC6974400, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0537-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCausal variantsTranscription factorsTarget genesActive gene regulatory regionsHigh-confidence target genesGenomic feature annotationsGenome-wide association studiesBreast cancer risk variantsGene regulatory regionsCredible causal variantsGene ontology pathwaysChromatin interactionsFunctional annotationGenomic regionsOntology pathwaysRegulatory regionsGenomic featuresCancer driversGene expressionAssociation studiesAssociation analysisGenesLinkage disequilibriumRisk variantsHigh posterior probability
2016
Fine-Scale Mapping at 9p22.2 Identifies Candidate Causal Variants That Modify Ovarian Cancer Risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers
Vigorito E, Kuchenbaecker K, Beesley J, Adlard J, Agnarsson B, Andrulis I, Arun B, Barjhoux L, Belotti M, Benitez J, Berger A, Bojesen A, Bonanni B, Brewer C, Caldes T, Caligo M, Campbell I, Chan S, Claes K, Cohn D, Cook J, Daly M, Damiola F, Davidson R, de Pauw A, Delnatte C, Diez O, Domchek S, Dumont M, Durda K, Dworniczak B, Easton D, Eccles D, Edwinsdotter Ardnor C, Eeles R, Ejlertsen B, Ellis S, Evans D, Feliubadalo L, Fostira F, Foulkes W, Friedman E, Frost D, Gaddam P, Ganz P, Garber J, Garcia-Barberan V, Gauthier-Villars M, Gehrig A, Gerdes A, Giraud S, Godwin A, Goldgar D, Hake C, Hansen T, Healey S, Hodgson S, Hogervorst F, Houdayer C, Hulick P, Imyanitov E, Isaacs C, Izatt L, Izquierdo A, Jacobs L, Jakubowska A, Janavicius R, Jaworska-Bieniek K, Jensen U, John E, Vijai J, Karlan B, Kast K, Investigators K, Khan S, Kwong A, Laitman Y, Lester J, Lesueur F, Liljegren A, Lubinski J, Mai P, Manoukian S, Mazoyer S, Meindl A, Mensenkamp A, Montagna M, Nathanson K, Neuhausen S, Nevanlinna H, Niederacher D, Olah E, Olopade O, Ong K, Osorio A, Park S, Paulsson-Karlsson Y, Pedersen I, Peissel B, Peterlongo P, Pfeiler G, Phelan C, Piedmonte M, Poppe B, Pujana M, Radice P, Rennert G, Rodriguez G, Rookus M, Ross E, Schmutzler R, Simard J, Singer C, Slavin T, Soucy P, Southey M, Steinemann D, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sukiennicki G, Sutter C, Szabo C, Tea M, Teixeira M, Teo S, Terry M, Thomassen M, Tibiletti M, Tihomirova L, Tognazzo S, van Rensburg E, Varesco L, Varon-Mateeva R, Vratimos A, Weitzel J, McGuffog L, Kirk J, Toland A, Hamann U, Lindor N, Ramus S, Greene M, Couch F, Offit K, Pharoah P, Chenevix-Trench G, Antoniou A. Fine-Scale Mapping at 9p22.2 Identifies Candidate Causal Variants That Modify Ovarian Cancer Risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers. PLOS ONE 2016, 11: e0158801. PMID: 27463617, PMCID: PMC4963094, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158801.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOvarian cancer riskBRCA2 mutation carriersModify ovarian cancer riskBRCA1 mutation carriersCancer riskOvarian cancer associationMutation carriersCausal variantsFine-scale mappingGeneral populationBRCA-2 mutation carriersCancer associationCancer risk modificationGenome wide association studiesPotential causal variantsTranscription start siteCorrelated SNPsGenotype imputationRisk modificationStart siteAssociation studiesGenotype dataBRCA1BRCA2BNC2