Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Fine-mapping of prostate cancer susceptibility loci in a large meta-analysis identifies candidate causal variants

  • Tokhir Dadaev,
  • Edward J. Saunders,
  • Paul J. Newcombe,
  • Ezequiel Anokian,
  • Daniel A. Leongamornlert,
  • Mark N. Brook,
  • Clara Cieza-Borrella,
  • Martina Mijuskovic,
  • Sarah Wakerell,
  • Ali Amin Al Olama,
  • Fredrick R. Schumacher,
  • Sonja I. Berndt,
  • Sara Benlloch,
  • Mahbubl Ahmed,
  • Chee Goh,
  • Xin Sheng,
  • Zhuo Zhang,
  • Kenneth Muir,
  • Koveela Govindasami,
  • Artitaya Lophatananon,
  • Victoria L. Stevens,
  • Susan M. Gapstur,
  • Brian D. Carter,
  • Catherine M. Tangen,
  • Phyllis Goodman,
  • Ian M. Thompson,
  • Jyotsna Batra,
  • Suzanne Chambers,
  • Leire Moya,
  • Judith Clements,
  • Lisa Horvath,
  • Wayne Tilley,
  • Gail Risbridger,
  • Henrik Gronberg,
  • Markus Aly,
  • Tobias Nordström,
  • Paul Pharoah,
  • Nora Pashayan,
  • Johanna Schleutker,
  • Teuvo L. J. Tammela,
  • Csilla Sipeky,
  • Anssi Auvinen,
  • Demetrius Albanes,
  • Stephanie Weinstein,
  • Alicja Wolk,
  • Niclas Hakansson,
  • Catharine West,
  • Alison M. Dunning,
  • Neil Burnet,
  • Lorelei Mucci,
  • Edward Giovannucci,
  • Gerald Andriole,
  • Olivier Cussenot,
  • Géraldine Cancel-Tassin,
  • Stella Koutros,
  • Laura E. Beane Freeman,
  • Karina Dalsgaard Sorensen,
  • Torben Falck Orntoft,
  • Michael Borre,
  • Lovise Maehle,
  • Eli Marie Grindedal,
  • David E. Neal,
  • Jenny L. Donovan,
  • Freddie C. Hamdy,
  • Richard M. Martin,
  • Ruth C. Travis,
  • Tim J. Key,
  • Robert J. Hamilton,
  • Neil E. Fleshner,
  • Antonio Finelli,
  • Sue Ann Ingles,
  • Mariana C. Stern,
  • Barry Rosenstein,
  • Sarah Kerns,
  • Harry Ostrer,
  • Yong-Jie Lu,
  • Hong-Wei Zhang,
  • Ninghan Feng,
  • Xueying Mao,
  • Xin Guo,
  • Guomin Wang,
  • Zan Sun,
  • Graham G. Giles,
  • Melissa C. Southey,
  • Robert J. MacInnis,
  • Liesel M. FitzGerald,
  • Adam S. Kibel,
  • Bettina F. Drake,
  • Ana Vega,
  • Antonio Gómez-Caamaño,
  • Laura Fachal,
  • Robert Szulkin,
  • Martin Eklund,
  • Manolis Kogevinas,
  • Javier Llorca,
  • Gemma Castaño-Vinyals,
  • Kathryn L. Penney,
  • Meir Stampfer,
  • Jong Y. Park,
  • Thomas A. Sellers,
  • Hui-Yi Lin,
  • Janet L. Stanford,
  • Cezary Cybulski,
  • Dominika Wokolorczyk,
  • Jan Lubinski,
  • Elaine A. Ostrander,
  • Milan S. Geybels,
  • Børge G. Nordestgaard,
  • Sune F. Nielsen,
  • Maren Weisher,
  • Rasmus Bisbjerg,
  • Martin Andreas Røder,
  • Peter Iversen,
  • Hermann Brenner,
  • Katarina Cuk,
  • Bernd Holleczek,
  • Christiane Maier,
  • Manuel Luedeke,
  • Thomas Schnoeller,
  • Jeri Kim,
  • Christopher J. Logothetis,
  • Esther M. John,
  • Manuel R. Teixeira,
  • Paula Paulo,
  • Marta Cardoso,
  • Susan L. Neuhausen,
  • Linda Steele,
  • Yuan Chun Ding,
  • Kim De Ruyck,
  • Gert De Meerleer,
  • Piet Ost,
  • Azad Razack,
  • Jasmine Lim,
  • Soo-Hwang Teo,
  • Daniel W. Lin,
  • Lisa F. Newcomb,
  • Davor Lessel,
  • Marija Gamulin,
  • Tomislav Kulis,
  • Radka Kaneva,
  • Nawaid Usmani,
  • Chavdar Slavov,
  • Vanio Mitev,
  • Matthew Parliament,
  • Sandeep Singhal,
  • Frank Claessens,
  • Steven Joniau,
  • Thomas Van den Broeck,
  • Samantha Larkin,
  • Paul A. Townsend,
  • Claire Aukim-Hastie,
  • Manuela Gago-Dominguez,
  • Jose Esteban Castelao,
  • Maria Elena Martinez,
  • Monique J. Roobol,
  • Guido Jenster,
  • Ron H. N. van Schaik,
  • Florence Menegaux,
  • Thérèse Truong,
  • Yves Akoli Koudou,
  • Jianfeng Xu,
  • Kay-Tee Khaw,
  • Lisa Cannon-Albright,
  • Hardev Pandha,
  • Agnieszka Michael,
  • Andrzej Kierzek,
  • Stephen N. Thibodeau,
  • Shannon K. McDonnell,
  • Daniel J. Schaid,
  • Sara Lindstrom,
  • Constance Turman,
  • Jing Ma,
  • David J. Hunter,
  • Elio Riboli,
  • Afshan Siddiq,
  • Federico Canzian,
  • Laurence N. Kolonel,
  • Loic Le Marchand,
  • Robert N. Hoover,
  • Mitchell J. Machiela,
  • Peter Kraft,
  • The PRACTICAL (Prostate Cancer Association Group to Investigate Cancer-Associated Alterations in the Genome) Consortium,
  • Matthew Freedman,
  • Fredrik Wiklund,
  • Stephen Chanock,
  • Brian E. Henderson,
  • Douglas F. Easton,
  • Christopher A. Haiman,
  • Rosalind A. Eeles,
  • David V. Conti,
  • Zsofia Kote-Jarai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04109-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Prostate cancer (PrCa) involves a large heritable genetic component. Here, the authors perform multivariate fine-mapping of known PrCa GWAS loci, identifying variants enriched for biological function, explaining more familial relative risk, and with potential application in clinical risk profiling.