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MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

  • Sofia Khan
  • , Dario Greco
  • , Kyriaki Michailidou
  • , Roger L. Milne
  • , Taru A. Muranen
  • , Tuomas Heikkinen
  • , Kirsimari Aaltonen
  • , Joe Dennis
  • , Manjeet K. Bolla
  • , Jianjun Liu
  • , Per Hall
  • , Astrid Irwanto
  • , Keith Humphreys
  • , Jingmei Li
  • , Kamila Czene
  • , Jenny Chang-Claude
  • , Rebecca Hein
  • , Anja Rudolph
  • , Petra Seibold
  • , Dieter Flesch-Janys
  • Olivia Fletcher, Julian Peto, Isabel Dos Santos Silva, Nichola Johnson, Lorna Gibson, Zoe Aitken, John L. Hopper, Helen Tsimiklis, Minh Bui, Enes Makalic, Daniel F. Schmidt, Melissa C. Southey, Carmel Apicella, Jennifer Stone, Quinten Waisfisz, Hanne Meijers-Heijboer, Muriel A. Adank, Rob B. Van Der Luijt, Alfons Meindl, Rita K. Schmutzler, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Peter Lichtner, Clare Turnbull, Nazneen Rahman, Stephen J. Chanock, David J. Hunter, Angela Cox, Simon S. Cross, Malcolm W.R. Reed, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Annegien Broeks, Laura J. Van'T Veer, Frans B. Hogervorst, Peter A. Fasching, Michael G. Schrauder, Arif B. Ekici, Matthias W. Beckmann, Stig E. Bojesen, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Sune F. Nielsen, Henrik Flyger, Javier Benitez, Pilar M. Zamora, Jose I.A. Perez, Christopher A. Haiman, Brian E. Henderson, Fredrick Schumacher, Loic Le March, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Alison M. Dunning, Mitul Shah, Robert Luben, Judith Brown, Fergus J. Couch, Xianshu Wang, Celine Vachon, Janet E. Olson, Diether Lambrechts, Matthieu Moisse, Robert Paridaens, Marie Rose Christiaens, Pascal Guénel, Thérèse Truong, Pierre Laurent-Puig, Claire Mulot, Frederick Marme, Barbara Burwinkel, Andreas Schneeweiss, Christof Sohn, Elinor J. Sawyer, Ian Tomlinson, Michael J. Kerin, Nicola Miller, Irene L. Andrulis, Julia A. Knight, Srine Tchatchou, Anna Marie Mulligan, Thilo Dörk, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Hoda Anton-Culver, Hatef Darabi, Mikael Eriksson, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Jonine Figueroa, Jolanta Lissowska, Louise Brinton, Peter Devilee, Robert A.E.M. Tollenaar, Caroline Seynaeve, Christi J. Van Asperen, Vessela N. Kristensen, Susan Slager Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Ama E. Tol, Christine B. Ambrosone, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Annika Lindblom, Sara Margolin, Paolo Radice, Paolo Peterlongo, Monica Barile, Paolo Mariani, Maartje J. Hooning, John W.M. Martens, J. Margriet Collée, Agnes Jager, Anna Jakubowska, Jan Lubinski, Katarzyna Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna Durda, Graham G. Giles, Catriona McLean, Hiltrud Brauch, Thomas Brüning, Yon Dschun Ko, Hermann Brenner The Genica Network, Aida Karina Dieffenbach, Volker Arndt, Christa Stegmaier, Anthony Swerdlow, Alan Ashworth, Nick Orr, Michael Jones, Jacques Simard, Mark S. Goldberg, France Labrèche, Martine Dumont, Robert Winqvist, Katri Pylkäs, Arja Jukkola-Vuorinen, Mervi Grip, Vesa Kataja, Veli Matti Kosma, Jaana M. Hartikainen, Arto Mannermaa, Ute Hamann, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Carl Blomqvist, Kristiina Aittomäki, Douglas F. Easton, Heli Nevanlinna
  • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Helsinki University Hospital
  • Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
  • Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology
  • University of Cambridge
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • University of Melbourne
  • Department of Clinical Genetics
  • University of Helsinki
  • Department of Oncology
  • Human Genetics Division
  • Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
  • Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Division of Cancer Epidemiology
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • PMV Research Group
  • University of Cologne
  • Department of Cancer Epidemiology
  • University of Hamburg
  • The Institute of Cancer Research, London
  • Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Department
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • Department of Clinical Genetics
  • VU Medical Center
  • Department of Medical Genetics
  • Utrecht University
  • Division of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Division of Molecular Gyneco-Oncology
  • Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
  • Institute of Human Genetics
  • Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health
  • Section of Cancer Genetics
  • Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology
  • Harvard University
  • University of Sheffield
  • Academic Unit of Pathology
  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
  • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Institute of Human Genetics
  • Copenhagen General Population Study
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Department of Clinical Biochemistry
  • Department of Breast Surgery
  • Human Genetics Group
  • Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas
  • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red
  • Servicio de Oncología Médica
  • Hospital Universitario La Paz
  • Servicio de Cirugía General Y Especialidades
  • Hospital Monte Naranco
  • University of Southern California
  • Epidemiology Program
  • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Clinical Gerontology
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • Department of Health Sciences Research
  • Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
  • Laboratory for Translational Genetics
  • KU Leuven
  • Oncology Department
  • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer, Inserm U1018
  • Department d'Excellence Université Sorbonne Paris Cité
  • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Heidelberg University 
  • Molecular Epidemiology Group
  • Research Oncology
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Oxford
  • Clinical Science Institute
  • University of Galway
  • University of Toronto
  • Prosserman Centre for Health Research
  • Division of Epidemiology
  • Department of Laboratory Medicine
  • Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Hannover Medical School
  • Department of Radiation Oncology
  • N.N. Alexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology
  • Department of Epidemiology
  • University of California at Irvine
  • Division of Genetics and Epidemiology
  • Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre
  • Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology
  • Department of Human Genetics and Department of Pathology
  • Leiden University
  • Department of Surgical Oncology
  • Family Cancer Clinic
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Institute of Clinical Medicine
  • University of Oslo
  • Department of Clinical Molecular Biology (EpiGen)
  • Department of Genetics
  • Peter Maccallum Cancer Centre
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • Department of Molecular Virology
  • Ohio State University
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
  • Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
  • Demokritos National Centre for Scientific Research
  • Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery
  • Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing
  • IRCCS Fondazione Istituto Nazionale per lo studio e la cura dei tumori - Milano
  • FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology
  • Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics
  • IRCCS Istituto Europeo di Oncologia - Milano
  • Cogentech Cancer Genetic Test Laboratory
  • Department of Clinical Genetics
  • Department of Genetics and Pathology
  • Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin
  • Medical University of Warsaw
  • Alfred Health
  • Robert Bosch Foundation
  • University of Tübingen
  • Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance
  • Department of Internal Medicine
  • Evangelical Clinics of Bonn
  • Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer
  • Institute for Occupational Medicine and Maritime Medicine
  • Institute of Pathology
  • University of Bonn
  • Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research
  • Saarland Cancer Registry
  • Division of Genetics and Epidemiology and Division of Breast Cancer Research
  • Cancer Genomics Laboratory
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec
  • McGill University
  • Division of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Departements de Sante Environnementale et Sante au Travail et de Medecine Sociale et Preventive
  • University of Montreal
  • University of Oulu
  • Department of Oncology
  • Department of Surgery
  • School of Medicine
  • University of Eastern Finland
  • Cancer Center
  • Imaging Center
  • Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology
  • Institute of Clinical Medicine
  • Department of Genetics

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Abstract

Genetic variations, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in microRNAs (miRNA) or in the miRNA binding sites may affect the miRNA dependent gene expression regulation, which has been implicated in various cancers, including breast cancer, and may alter individual susceptibility to cancer. We investigated associations between miRNA related SNPs and breast cancer risk. First we evaluated 2,196 SNPs in a case-control study combining nine genome wide association studies (GWAS). Second, we further investigated 42 SNPs with suggestive evidence for association using 41,785 cases and 41,880 controls from 41 studies included in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). Combining the GWAS and BCAC data within a meta-analysis, we estimated main effects on breast cancer risk as well as risks for estrogen receptor (ER) and age defined subgroups. Five miRNA binding site SNPs associated significantly with breast cancer risk: rs1045494 (odds ratio (OR) 0.92; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.88-0.96), rs1052532 (OR 0.97; 95% CI: 0.95-0.99), rs10719 (OR 0.97; 95% Cl: 0.94-0.99), rs4687554 (OR 0.97; 95% CI: 0.95-0.99, and rs3134615 (OR 1.03; 95% CI: 1.01 -1.05) located in the 3' UTR of CASP8, HDDC3, DROSHA, MUSTN1, and MYCL1, respectively. DROSHA belongs to miRNA machinery genes and has a central role in initial miRNA processing. The remaining genes are involved in different molecular functions, including apoptosis and gene expression regulation. Further studies are warranted to elucidate whether the miRNA binding site SNPs are the causative variants for the observed risk effects. This is an open-access article free of all copyright.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere109973
JournalPLOS ONE
Volume9
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Nov 2014
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
Canadian Institutes of Health ResearchUM1 CA164920
Cancer Research UKC8620/A8372
Fondation de France2004012618
National Health and Medical Research Council
National Institutes of HealthR01 CA77398, RFA-CA-06-503
University of MelbourneU01 CA69638
Wellcome Trust
National Cancer InstituteR01CA049449

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