Rare loss of function variants in candidate genes and risk of colorectal cancer
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
10-1-2018
Journal
Human Genetics
Volume
137
Issue
10
DOI
10.1007/s00439-018-1938-4
Abstract
© 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. Although ~ 25% of colorectal cancer or polyp (CRC/P) cases show familial aggregation, current germline genetic testing identifies a causal genotype in the 16 major genes associated with high penetrance CRC/P in only 20% of these cases. As there are likely other genes underlying heritable CRC/P, we evaluated the association of variation at novel loci with CRC/P. We evaluated 158 a priori selected candidate genes by comparing the number of rare potentially disruptive variants (PDVs) found in 84 CRC/P cases without an identified CRC/P risk-associated variant and 2440 controls. We repeated this analysis using an additional 73 CRC/P cases. We also compared the frequency of PDVs in select genes among CRC/P cases with two publicly available data sets. We found a significant enrichment of PDVs in cases vs. controls: 20% of cases vs. 11.5% of controls with ≥ 1 PDV (OR = 1.9, p = 0.01) in the original set of cases. Among the second cohort of CRC/P cases, 18% had a PDV, significantly different from 11.5% (p = 0.02). Logistic regression, adjusting for ancestry and multiple testing, indicated association between CRC/P and PDVs in NTHL1 (p = 0.0001), BRCA2 (p = 0.01) and BRIP1 (p = 0.04). However, there was no significant difference in the frequency of PDVs at each of these genes between all 157 CRC/P cases and two publicly available data sets. These results suggest an increased presence of PDVs in CRC/P cases and support further investigation of the association of NTHL1, BRCA2 and BRIP1 variation with CRC/P.
APA Citation
Rosenthal, E., Shirts, B., Amendola, L., Horike-Pyne, M., Robertson, P., Hisama, F., Bennett, R., Dorschner, M., Nickerson, D., Stanaway, I., Nassir, R., Vickers, K., Li, C., Grady, W., Peters, U., Jarvik, G., Gabriel, S., Altshuler, D., Abecasis, G., Allayee, H., Cresci, S., Daly, M., de Bakker, P., DePristo, M., Do, R., Donnelly, P., Farlow, D., Fennell, T., Garimella, K., Hazen, S., Hu, Y., & Jordan, D. (2018). Rare loss of function variants in candidate genes and risk of colorectal cancer. Human Genetics, 137 (10). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00439-018-1938-4