Common variation near CDKN1A, POLD3 and SHROOM2 influences colorectal cancer risk

Malcolm G Dunlop, Sara E Dobbins, Susan Mary Farrington, Angela M Jones, Claire Palles, Nicola Whiffin, Albert Tenesa, Sarah Spain, Peter Broderick, Li-Yin Ooi, Enric Domingo, Claire Smillie, Marc Henrion, Matthew Frampton, Lynn Martin, Graeme Grimes, Maggie Gorman, Colin Semple, Yusanne P Ma, Ella BarclayJames Prendergast, Jean-Baptiste Cazier, Bianca Olver, Steven Penegar, Steven Lubbe, Ian Chander, Luis G Carvajal-Carmona, Stephane Ballereau, Amy Lloyd, Jayaram Vijayakrishnan, Lina Zgaga, Igor Rudan, Evropi Theodoratou, John M Starr, Ian Deary, Iva Kirac, Dujo Kovacević, Lauri A Aaltonen, Laura Renkonen-Sinisalo, Jukka-Pekka Mecklin, Koichi Matsuda, Yusuke Nakamura, Yukinori Okada, Steven Gallinger, David J Duggan, David Conti, Polly Newcomb, John Hopper, Mark A Jenkins, Colorectal Tumour Gene Identification (CORGI) Consortium, Eamonn Maher

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Abstract

We performed a meta-analysis of five genome-wide association studies to identify common variants influencing colorectal cancer (CRC) risk comprising 8,682 cases and 9,649 controls. Replication analysis was performed in case-control sets totaling 21,096 cases and 19,555 controls. We identified three new CRC risk loci at 6p21 (rs1321311, near CDKN1A; P = 1.14 × 10(-10)), 11q13.4 (rs3824999, intronic to POLD3; P = 3.65 × 10(-10)) and Xp22.2 (rs5934683, near SHROOM2; P = 7.30 × 10(-10)) This brings the number of independent loci associated with CRC risk to 20 and provides further insight into the genetic architecture of inherited susceptibility to CRC.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)770-6
Number of pages7
JournalNature Genetics
Volume44
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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