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Atlas of prostate cancer heritability in European and African-American men pinpoints tissue-specific regulation

  • Alexander Gusev
  • , Huwenbo Shi
  • , Gleb Kichaev
  • , Mark Pomerantz
  • , Fugen Li
  • , Henry W. Long
  • , Sue A. Ingles
  • , Rick A. Kittles
  • , Sara S. Strom
  • , Benjamin A. Rybicki
  • , Barbara Nemesure
  • , William B. Isaacs
  • , Wei Zheng
  • , Curtis A. Pettaway
  • , Edward D. Yeboah
  • , Yao Tettey
  • , Richard B. Biritwum
  • , Andrew A. Adjei
  • , Evelyn Tay
  • , Ann Truelove
  • Shelley Niwa, Anand P. Chokkalingam, Esther M. John, Adam B. Murphy, Lisa B. Signorello, John Carpten, M. Cristina Leske, Suh Yuh Wu, Anslem J.M. Hennis, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Ann W. Hsing, Lisa Chu, Phyllis J. Goodman, Eric A. Klein, John S. Witte, Graham Casey, Sam Kaggwa, Michael B. Cook, Daniel O. Stram, William J. Blot, Rosalind A. Eeles, Douglas Easton, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Ali Amin Al Olama, Sara Benlloch, Kenneth Muir, Graham G. Giles, Melissa C. Southey, Liesel M. Fitzgerald, Henrik Gronberg, Fredrik Wiklund, Markus Aly, Brian E. Henderson, Johanna Schleutker, Tiina Wahlfors, Teuvo L.J. Tammela, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Tim J. Key, Ruth C. Travis, David E. Neal, Jenny L. Donovan, Freddie C. Hamdy, Paul Pharoah, Nora Pashayan, Kay Tee Khaw, Janet L. Stanford, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Shannon K. McDonnell, Daniel J. Schaid, Christiane Maier, Walther Vogel, Manuel Luedeke, Kathleen Herkommer, Adam S. Kibel, Cezary Cybulski, Dominika Wokolorczyk, Wojciech Kluzniak, Lisa Cannon-Albright, Craig Teerlink, Hermann Brenner, Aida K. Dieffenbach, Volker Arndt, Jong Y. Park, Thomas A. Sellers, Hui Yi Lin, Chavdar Slavov, Radka Kaneva, Vanio Mitev, Jyotsna Batra, Amanda Spurdle, Judith A. Clements, Manuel R. Teixeira, Hardev Pandha, Agnieszka Michael, Paula Paulo, Sofia Maia, Andrzej Kierzek, David V. Conti, Demetrius Albanes, Christine Berg, Sonja I. Berndt, Daniele Campa, E. David Crawford, W. Ryan Diver, Susan M. Gapstur, J. Michael Gaziano, Edward Giovannucci, Robert Hoover, David J. Hunter, Mattias Johansson, Peter Kraft, Loic Le Marchand, Sara Lindström, Carmen Navarro, Kim Overvad, Elio Riboli, Afshan Siddiq, Victoria L. Stevens, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Paolo Vineis, Meredith Yeager, Gosia Trynka, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Frederick R. Schumacher, Alkes L. Price, Matthew L. Freedman, Christopher A. Haiman, Bogdan Pasaniuc
  • Harvard University
  • Broad Institute
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Arizona
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Henry Ford Health System
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Vanderbilt University
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
  • University of Ghana
  • Westat
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Cancer Prevention Institute of California
  • Stanford University
  • Northwestern University
  • International Epidemiology Institute
  • Translational Genomics Research Institute
  • Stony Brook University
  • The University of the West Indies
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • Makerere University
  • National Institutes of Health
  • The Institute of Cancer Research
  • Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Warwick
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • University of Melbourne
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Stockholm County Council
  • University of Turku
  • Tampere University
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Oxford
  • Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
  • University of Bristol
  • Aarhus University
  • University College London
  • University of Washington
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • Ulm University
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin
  • University of Utah
  • VA Medical Center
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • Moffitt Cancer Center
  • Medical University Sofia
  • Queensland University of Technology
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil E.P.E.
  • University of Porto
  • University of Surrey
  • University of Colorado Denver
  • American Cancer Society
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • Umeå University
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Regional Health Authority
  • CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)
  • Imperial College London
  • Academy of Athens
  • Helenic Health Foundation
  • HuGeF Foundation
  • Wellcome Trust

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Abstract

Although genome-wide association studies have identified over 100 risk loci that explain ∼33% of familial risk for prostate cancer (PrCa), their functional effects on risk remain largely unknown. Here we use genotype data from 59,089 men of European and African American ancestries combined with cell-type-specific epigenetic data to build a genomic atlas of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) heritability in PrCa. We find significant differences in heritability between variants in prostate-relevant epigenetic marks defined in normal versus tumour tissue as well as between tissue and cell lines. The majority of SNP heritability lies in regions marked by H3k27 acetylation in prostate adenoc7arcinoma cell line (LNCaP) or by DNaseI hypersensitive sites in cancer cell lines. We find a high degree of similarity between European and African American ancestries suggesting a similar genetic architecture from common variation underlying PrCa risk. Our findings showcase the power of integrating functional annotation with genetic data to understand the genetic basis of PrCa.

Original languageEnglish
Article number10979
JournalNature Communications
Volume7
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 7 2016

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