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Multiple newly identified loci associated with prostate cancer susceptibility

Rosalind A Eeles et al. Nat Genet. 2008 Mar.

Abstract

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting males in developed countries. It shows consistent evidence of familial aggregation, but the causes of this aggregation are mostly unknown. To identify common alleles associated with prostate cancer risk, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using blood DNA samples from 1,854 individuals with clinically detected prostate cancer diagnosed at </=60 years or with a family history of disease, and 1,894 population-screened controls with a low prostate-specific antigen (PSA) concentration (<0.5 ng/ml). We analyzed these samples for 541,129 SNPs using the Illumina Infinium platform. Initial putative associations were confirmed using a further 3,268 cases and 3,366 controls. We identified seven loci associated with prostate cancer on chromosomes 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 19 and X (P = 2.7 x 10(-8) to P = 8.7 x 10(-29)). We confirmed previous reports of common loci associated with prostate cancer at 8q24 and 17q. Moreover, we found that three of the newly identified loci contain candidate susceptibility genes: MSMB, LMTK2 and KLK3.

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  • Variation in KLK genes, prostate-specific antigen and risk of prostate cancer.
    Ahn J, Berndt SI, Wacholder S, Kraft P, Kibel AS, Yeager M, Albanes D, Giovannucci E, Stampfer MJ, Virtamo J, Thun MJ, Feigelson HS, Cancel-Tassin G, Cussenot O, Thomas G, Hunter DJ, Fraumeni JF Jr, Hoover RN, Chanock SJ, Hayes RB. Ahn J, et al. Nat Genet. 2008 Sep;40(9):1032-4; author reply 1035-6. doi: 10.1038/ng0908-1032. Nat Genet. 2008. PMID: 19165914 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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