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New basal cell carcinoma susceptibility loci

  • S.N. Stacey
  • , H. Helgason
  • , S.A. Gudjonsson
  • , G. Thorleifsson
  • , F. Zink
  • , A. Sigurdsson
  • , B. Kehr
  • , J. Gudmundsson
  • , P. Sulem
  • , B. Sigurgeirsson
  • , K.R. Benediktsdottir
  • , K. Thorisdottir
  • , R. Ragnarsson
  • , V. Fuentelsaz
  • , C. Corredera
  • , Y. Gilaberte
  • , M. Grasa
  • , D. Planelles
  • , O. Sanmartin
  • , P. Rudnai
  • E. Gurzau, K. Koppova, B.A. Nexo, A. Tjonneland, K. Overvad, J.G. Jonasson, L. Tryggvadottir, H. Johannsdottir, A.M. Kristinsdottir, H. Stefansson, G. Masson, O.T. Magnusson, B.V. Halldorsson, A. Kong, T. Rafnar, U. Thorsteinsdottir, Ulla Birgitte Vogel, R. Kumar, E. Nagore, J.I. Mayordomo, D.F. Gudbjartsson, J.H. Olafsson, K. Stefansson

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Abstract

[Open access]In an ongoing screen for DNA sequence variants that confer risk of cutaneous basal cell carcinoma (BCC), we conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 24,988,228 SNPs and small indels detected through whole-genome sequencing of 2,636 Icelanders and imputed into 4,572 BCC patients and 266,358 controls. Here we show the discovery of four new BCC susceptibility loci: 2p24 MYCN (rs57244888[C], OR=0.76, P=4.7 x 10(-12)), 2q33 CASP8-ALS2CR12 (rs13014235[C], OR=1.15, P=1.5 x 10(-9)), 8q21 ZFHX4 (rs28727938[G], OR=0.70, P=3.5 x 10(-12)) and 10p14 GATA3 (rs73635312[A], OR=0.74, P=2.4 x 10(-16)). Fine mapping reveals that two variants correlated with rs73635312[A] occur in conserved binding sites for the GATA3 transcription factor. In addition, expression microarrays and RNA-seq show that rs13014235[C] and a related SNP rs700635[C] are associated with expression of CASP8 splice variants in which sequences from intron 8 are retained
Original languageDanish
JournalNature Communications
Volume6
Pages (from-to)6825-
ISSN2041-1723
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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