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Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers

Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers


Title: Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers
Author: Jiang, Xia
Finucane, Hilary K.
Schumacher, Fredrick R.
Schmit, Stephanie L.
Tyrer, Jonathan P.
Han, Younghun
Michailidou, Kyriaki
Lesseur, Corina
Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B.
Dennis, Joe
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Date: 2019-01-25
Language: English
Scope: 431
University/Institute: Háskóli Íslands
University of Iceland
School: Heilbrigðisvísindasvið (HÍ)
School of Health Sciences (UI)
Department: Læknadeild (HÍ)
Faculty of Medicine (UI)
Lífvísindasetur (HÍ)
Biomedical Center (UI)
Series: Nature Communications;10(1)
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08054-4
Subject: Cancer; Cancer genetics; Epidemiology; Genomics; Brjóstakrabbamein; Krabbamein; Erfðafræði; Erfðarannsóknir; Faraldsfræði
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1587

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Jiang, X., Finucane, H.K., Schumacher, F.R. et al. Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers. Nat Commun 10, 431 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08054-4

Abstract:

Quantifying the genetic correlation between cancers can provide important insights into the mechanisms driving cancer etiology. Using genome-wide association study summary statistics across six cancer types based on a total of 296,215 cases and 301,319 controls of European ancestry, here we estimate the pair-wise genetic correlations between breast, colorectal, head/neck, lung, ovary and prostate cancer, and between cancers and 38 other diseases. We observed statistically significant genetic correlations between lung and head/neck cancer (rg = 0.57, p = 4.6 × 10−8), breast and ovarian cancer (rg = 0.24, p = 7 × 10−5), breast and lung cancer (rg = 0.18, p =1.5 × 10−6) and breast and colorectal cancer (rg = 0.15, p = 1.1 × 10−4). We also found that multiple cancers are genetically correlated with non-cancer traits including smoking, psychiatric diseases and metabolic characteristics. Functional enrichment analysis revealed a significant excess contribution of conserved and regulatory regions to cancer heritability. Our comprehensive analysis of cross-cancer heritability suggests that solid tumors arising across tissues share in part a common germline genetic basis.

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