Interplay of Mendelian and polygenic risk factors in Arab breast cancer patients

Autor: Mohammed Al-Jumaan, Hoyin Chu, Abdullah Alsulaiman, Sabrina Y. Camp, Seunghun Han, Riaz Gillani, Yousef Al Marzooq, Fatmah Almulhim, Chittibabu Vatte, Areej Al Nemer, Afnan Almuhanna, Eliezer M. Van Allen, Amein Al-Ali, Saud H. AlDubayan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Genome Medicine, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1756-994X
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-023-01220-4
Popis: Abstract Background Breast cancer patients from the indigenous Arab population present much earlier than patients from Western countries and have traditionally been underrepresented in cancer genomics studies. The contribution of polygenic and Mendelian risk toward the earlier onset of breast cancer in the population remains elusive. Methods We performed low-pass whole genome sequencing (lpWGS) and whole-exome sequencing (WES) from 220 female breast cancer patients unselected for positive family history from the indigenous Arab population. Using publicly available resources, we imputed population-specific variants and calculated breast cancer burden-sensitive polygenic risk scores (PRS). Variant pathogenicity was also evaluated on exome variants with high coverage. Results Variants imputed from lpWGS showed high concordance with paired exome (median dosage correlation: 0.9459, Interquartile range: 0.9410–0.9490). After adjusting the PRS to the Arab population, we found significant associations between PRS performance in risk prediction and first-degree relative breast cancer history prediction (Spearman rho=0.43, p = 0.03), where breast cancer patients in the top PRS decile are 5.53 (95% CI 1.76–17.97, p = 0.003) times more likely also to have a first-degree relative diagnosed with breast cancer compared to those in the middle deciles. In addition, we found evidence for the genetic liability threshold model of breast cancer where among patients with a family history of breast cancer, pathogenic rare variant carriers had significantly lower PRS than non-carriers (p = 0.0205, Mann-Whitney U test) while for non-carriers every standard deviation increase in PRS corresponded to 4.52 years (95% CI 8.88–0.17, p = 0.042) earlier age of presentation. Conclusions Overall, our study provides a framework to assess polygenic risk in an understudied population using lpWGS and identifies common variant risk as a factor independent of pathogenic variant carrier status for earlier age of onset of breast cancer among indigenous Arab breast cancer patients.
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