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Genome-wide association study identifies five susceptibility loci for follicular lymphoma outside the HLA region
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Genome-wide association study identifies five susceptibility loci for follicular lymphoma outside the HLA region

Christine F Skibola, Sonja I Berndt, Joseph Vijai, Lucia Conde, Zhaoming Wang, Meredith Yeager, Paul I W de Bakker, Brenda M Birmann, Claire M Vajdic, Jia-Nee Foo, …
American journal of human genetics, v 95(4), pp 462-471
02 Oct 2014
PMID: 25279986
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.09.004View
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Abstract

Alleles Biomarkers, Tumor - genetics Case-Control Studies Chromosomes, Human - genetics Genetic Predisposition to Disease Genome-Wide Association Study Haplotypes - genetics HLA Antigens - genetics Humans Lymphoma, Follicular - genetics Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide - genetics
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of follicular lymphoma (FL) have previously identified human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene variants. To identify additional FL susceptibility loci, we conducted a large-scale two-stage GWAS in 4,523 case subjects and 13,344 control subjects of European ancestry. Five non-HLA loci were associated with FL risk: 11q23.3 (rs4938573, p = 5.79 × 10(-20)) near CXCR5; 11q24.3 (rs4937362, p = 6.76 × 10(-11)) near ETS1; 3q28 (rs6444305, p = 1.10 × 10(-10)) in LPP; 18q21.33 (rs17749561, p = 8.28 × 10(-10)) near BCL2; and 8q24.21 (rs13254990, p = 1.06 × 10(-8)) near PVT1. In an analysis of the HLA region, we identified four linked HLA-DRβ1 multiallelic amino acids at positions 11, 13, 28, and 30 that were associated with FL risk (pomnibus = 4.20 × 10(-67) to 2.67 × 10(-70)). Additional independent signals included rs17203612 in HLA class II (odds ratio [OR(per-allele)] = 1.44; p = 4.59 × 10(-16)) and rs3130437 in HLA class I (OR(per-allele) = 1.23; p = 8.23 × 10(-9)). Our findings further expand the number of loci associated with FL and provide evidence that multiple common variants outside the HLA region make a significant contribution to FL risk.

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