Nature Communications (May 2020)

Protein-altering germline mutations implicate novel genes related to lung cancer development

  • Xuemei Ji,
  • Semanti Mukherjee,
  • Maria Teresa Landi,
  • Yohan Bosse,
  • Philippe Joubert,
  • Dakai Zhu,
  • Ivan Gorlov,
  • Xiangjun Xiao,
  • Younghun Han,
  • Olga Gorlova,
  • Rayjean J. Hung,
  • Yonathan Brhane,
  • Robert Carreras-Torres,
  • David C. Christiani,
  • Neil Caporaso,
  • Mattias Johansson,
  • Geoffrey Liu,
  • Stig E. Bojesen,
  • Loic Le Marchand,
  • Demetrios Albanes,
  • Heike Bickeböller,
  • Melinda C. Aldrich,
  • William S. Bush,
  • Adonina Tardon,
  • Gad Rennert,
  • Chu Chen,
  • Jinyoung Byun,
  • Konstantin H. Dragnev,
  • John K. Field,
  • Lambertus FA. Kiemeney,
  • Philip Lazarus,
  • Shan Zienolddiny,
  • Stephen Lam,
  • Matthew B. Schabath,
  • Angeline S. Andrew,
  • Pier A. Bertazzi,
  • Angela C. Pesatori,
  • Nancy Diao,
  • Li Su,
  • Lei Song,
  • Ruyang Zhang,
  • Natasha Leighl,
  • Jakob S. Johansen,
  • Anders Mellemgaard,
  • Walid Saliba,
  • Christopher Haiman,
  • Lynne Wilkens,
  • Ana Fernandez-Somoano,
  • Guillermo Fernandez-Tardon,
  • Erik H. F. M. van der Heijden,
  • Jin Hee Kim,
  • Michael P. A. Davies,
  • Michael W. Marcus,
  • Hans Brunnström,
  • Jonas Manjer,
  • Olle Melander,
  • David C. Muller,
  • Kim Overvad,
  • Antonia Trichopoulou,
  • Rosario Tumino,
  • Gary E. Goodman,
  • Angela Cox,
  • Fiona Taylor,
  • Penella Woll,
  • Erich Wichmann,
  • Thomas Muley,
  • Angela Risch,
  • Albert Rosenberger,
  • Kjell Grankvist,
  • Mikael Johansson,
  • Frances Shepherd,
  • Ming-Sound Tsao,
  • Susanne M. Arnold,
  • Eric B. Haura,
  • Ciprian Bolca,
  • Ivana Holcatova,
  • Vladimir Janout,
  • Milica Kontic,
  • Jolanta Lissowska,
  • Anush Mukeria,
  • Simona Ognjanovic,
  • Tadeusz M. Orlowski,
  • Ghislaine Scelo,
  • Beata Swiatkowska,
  • David Zaridze,
  • Per Bakke,
  • Vidar Skaug,
  • Lesley M. Butler,
  • Kenneth Offit,
  • Preethi Srinivasan,
  • Chaitanya Bandlamudi,
  • Matthew D. Hellmann,
  • David B. Solit,
  • Mark E. Robson,
  • Charles M. Rudin,
  • Zsofia K. Stadler,
  • Barry S. Taylor,
  • Michael F. Berger,
  • Richard Houlston,
  • John McLaughlin,
  • Victoria Stevens,
  • David C. Nickle,
  • Ma’en Obeidat,
  • Wim Timens,
  • María Soler Artigas,
  • Sanjay Shete,
  • Hermann Brenner,
  • Stephen Chanock,
  • Paul Brennan,
  • James D. McKay,
  • Christopher I. Amos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15905-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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In lung cancer, relatively few germline mutations are known to impact risk. Here the authors looked at rare variants in 39,146 individuals and find novel germline mutations associated with risk, as well as implicating ATM and a new candidate gene for lung cancer risk.