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Nature Research, Nature Genetics, 4(45), p. 362-370, 2013

DOI: 10.1038/ng.2564

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GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three new susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer

Journal article published in 2013 by Paul D. Pdp Pharoah, Ya-Yu Tsai, Susan J. Ramus ORCID, Catherine M. Phelan, Ellen L. Goode, Kate Lawrenson, Melissa Buckley, Brooke L. Fridley, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Howard Shen, Rachel Weber, Rod Karevan, Melissa C. Larson, Honglin Song, Daniel C. Tessier and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified four susceptibility loci for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), with another two suggestive loci reaching near genome-wide significance. We pooled data from a GWAS conducted in North America with another GWAS from the UK. We selected the top 24,551 SNPs for inclusion on the iCOGS custom genotyping array. We performed follow-up genotyping in 18,174 individuals with EOC (cases) and 26,134 controls from 43 studies from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. We validated the two loci at 3q25 and 17q21 that were previously found to have associations close to genome-wide significance and identified three loci newly associated with risk: two loci associated with all EOC subtypes at 8q21 (rs11782652, P = 5.5 x 10(-9)) and 10p12 (rs1243180, P = 1.8 x 10(-8)) and another locus specific to the serous subtype at 17q12 (rs757210, P = 8.1 x 10(-10)). An integrated molecular analysis of genes and regulatory regions at these loci provided evidence for functional mechanisms underlying susceptibility and implicated CHMP4C in the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer.