A network analysis to identify mediators of germline-driven differences in breast cancer prognosis.

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Litwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada., Anton-Culver H; Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA., Arndt V; Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany., Ashworth A; UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA., Auer PL; Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.; Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA., Auvinen P; Cancer Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.; Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oncology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.; Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland., Beckmann MW; Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center ER-EMN, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany., Beesley J; Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia., Behrens S; Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany., Benitez J; Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain.; Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain., Bermisheva M; Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia., Blomqvist C; Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.; Department of Oncology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden., Blot W; Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.; International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD, USA., Bogdanova NV; Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.; Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.; N.N. 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Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2020 Jan 16; Vol. 11 (1), pp. 312. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jan 16.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-14100-6
Abstrakt: Identifying the underlying genetic drivers of the heritability of breast cancer prognosis remains elusive. We adapt a network-based approach to handle underpowered complex datasets to provide new insights into the potential function of germline variants in breast cancer prognosis. This network-based analysis studies ~7.3 million variants in 84,457 breast cancer patients in relation to breast cancer survival and confirms the results on 12,381 independent patients. Aggregating the prognostic effects of genetic variants across multiple genes, we identify four gene modules associated with survival in estrogen receptor (ER)-negative and one in ER-positive disease. The modules show biological enrichment for cancer-related processes such as G-alpha signaling, circadian clock, angiogenesis, and Rho-GTPases in apoptosis.
Databáze: MEDLINE