HumanMolecularGenetics,2014,Vol.23,No.24 6616–6633 doi:10.1093/hmg/ddu363 AdvanceAccesspublishedonJuly15,2014 Imputation and subset-based association analysis across different cancer types identifies multiple independent risk loci in the TERT-CLPTM1L region on chromosome 5p15.33 ZhaomingWang1,5,BinZhu1,MingfengZhang1,HemangParikh1,JinpingJia1,CharlesC. Chung1,5,JoshuaN.Sampson1,JasonW.Hoskins1,AmyHutchinson1,5,LaurieBurdette1,5, AbdisamadIbrahim1,ChristopherHautman1,5,PreethiS.Raj1,ChristianC.Abnet1,AndrewA. 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EnvironmentandHealth,SchoolofPublicHealth,TongjiMedicalCollege,HuazhongUniversityofSciencesand , 2 0 Technology,Wuhan,China,175DepartmentofEpidemiology,DivisionofBiologyandMedicine,BrownUniversity, 14 Providence,RI,USA,176HealthSciencesResearchInstitute,UniversityofWarwick,Coventry,UK,177ComplexTraits GeneticsTeamand178DivisionofBreastCancerResearch,InstituteofCancerResearch,London,UK,179Dipartimentodi MedicinaClinicaeChirurgia,FedericoIIUniversity,Naples,Italy,180LungCancerCenter,KyungpookNationalUniversity MedicalCenter,Daegu,RepublicofKorea,181JuliusCenterforHealthSciencesandPrimaryCare,UniversityMedical Center,Utrecht,Utrecht,TheNetherlands,182DepartmentofEpidemiologyandBiostatistics,SchoolofPublicHealth, ImperialCollegeLondon,London,UK,183DepartmentofGenomicsofCommonDisease,SchoolofPublicHealth,Imperial CollegeLondon,London,UK,184NoferInstituteofOccupationalMedicine,Lodz,Poland,185DepartmentofEpidemiology, CancerInstitute(Hospital),ChineseAcademyofMedicalSciences,Beijing,People’sRepublicofChina,186YaleSchoolof PublicHealth,NewHaven,CT,USA,187DepartmentofInternalMedicine,InhaUniversityCollegeofMedicine,Incheon, Korea,188KarmanosCancerInstituteandDepartmentofOncologyand189KarmanosCancerInstituteandDepartmentof FamilyMedicineandPublicHealthSciences,WayneStateUniversitySchoolofMedicine,Detroit,MI,USA,190Maine CancerRegistry,Augusta,ME,USA,191CentreforResearchinOccupationalHealth,UniversitatPompeuFabra, Barcelona,Spain,192CIBERofEpidemiologyandPublicHealth(CIBERESP),193DepartmentofBiostatistics,MD HumanMolecularGenetics,2014,Vol.23,No.24 6621 AndersonCancerCenter,Houston,TX,USA,194NutritionalEpidemiologyUnit,FondazioneIRCCSIstitutoNazionaledei Tumori,Milan,Italy,195DepartmentofSurgery,DivisionofCardiothoracicSurgery,QueenMaryHospital,HongKong, China,196DepartmentofNeurosurgery,UniversityofBonnMedicalCenter,Bonn,Germany,197DepartmentofPathology, TheUniversityofMelbourne,Melbourne,VIC,Australia,198UniversityofMinnesota,Minneapolis,MN,USA, 199DepartmentofInternalMedicine,NationalChengKungUniversityHospitalandCollegeofMedicine,Tainan,Taiwan, 200InstitutoUniversitariodeOncolog´ıa,UniversidaddeOviedo,Oviedo,Spain,201SirPeterMacCallumDepartmentof Oncology,UniversityofMelbourne,StAndrew’sPlace,EastMelbourne,VIC,Australia,202DanishCancerSociety ResearchCenter,Copenhagen,Denmark,203DepartmentofPulmonaryMedicine,ChangGungMemorialHospital, Chiayi,Taiwan,204CancerRegistryAssociazioneIbleaRicercaEpidemiologica,OnlusandAspRagusa,RagusaItaly, 205KaiserPermanenteNorthernCalifornia,Oakland,CA,USA,206DivisionofEnvironmentalEpidemiology,Institutefor RiskAssessmentSciences(IRAS),UtrechtUniversity,Utrecht,TheNetherlands,207ImperialCollege,London,UK, 208HumanGeneticsFoundation(HuGeF),TorinoItaly,209NationalResearchCentrefortheWorkingEnvironment, Copenhagen,Denmark,210NationalFoodInstitute,TechnicalUniversityofDenmark,Soborg,Denmark,211Department D o ofBiochemistryandCentreforGenomicSciences,LKSFacultyofMedicine,TheUniversityofHongKong,HongKong w n SAR,China,212DepartmentofPathologyand213SchoolofPublicHealth,LiKaShing(LKS)FacultyofMedicine,The lo a d UniversityofHongKong,HongKong,China,214DivisionofCancerEtiology,DepartmentofPopulationSciences,Cityof ed HopeandtheBeckmanResearchInstitute,Duarte,CA,USA,215DepartmentofCommunityMedicine,FacultyofHealth fro m Sciences,UniversityofTromsø,TheArcticUniversityofNorway,Tromsø,Norway,216DepartmentofResearch,Cancer http RegistryofNorway,Oslo,Norway,217SamfundetFolkha¨lsan,Helsinki,Finland,218UniversityofCaliforniaSanFrancisco, ://h SanFrancisco,CA,USA,219GuangdongLungCancerInstitute,MedicalResearchCenterandCancerCenterof mg GuangdongGeneralHospital,GuangdongAcademyofMedicalSciences,Guangzhou,China,220DepartmentofPathology .ox fo andMolecularDiagnostics,AichiCancerCenterHospitaland221UniversityofPittsburghCancerInstitute,Pittsburgh,PA, rd jo USAand222DepartmentofEnvironmentalHealth,KoreaNationalOpenUniversity,Seoul,RepublicofKorea urn a ls .o ReceivedApril22,2014;RevisedJune30,2014;AcceptedJuly8,2014 rg a/ t U n Genome-wideassociationstudies(GWAS)havemappedriskallelesforatleast10distinctcancerstoasmall ive rs regionof63000bponchromosome5p15.33.ThisregionharborstheTERTandCLPTM1Lgenes;theformer ity o encodesthecatalyticsubunitoftelomerasereversetranscriptaseandthelattermayplayaroleinapoptosis. f W Toinvestigatefurtherthegeneticarchitectureofcommonsusceptibilityallelesinthisregion,weconducted a s h anagnosticsubset-basedmeta-analysis(associationanalysisbasedonsubsets)acrosssixdistinctcancers in g in34248casesand45036controls.Basedonsequentialconditionalanalysis,weidentifiedasmanyassixin- to n dependentrisklocimarkedbycommonsingle-nucleotidepolymorphisms:fiveintheTERTgene(Region1: on rs7726159,P52.10310239;Region3:rs2853677,P53.30310236andPConditional52.3631028;Region4: Nov rs2736098,P53.87310212andPConditional55.1931026,Region5:rs13172201,P50.041andPConditional5 em 2.0431026;andRegion6:rs10069690,P57.49310215andP 55.3531027)andoneintheneighbor- be ingCLPTM1Lgene(Region2:rs451360;P51.90310218andPConditional 57.06310216).Betweenthreeandfive r 21 Conditional , 2 cancersmappedtoeachindependentlocuswithbothrisk-enhancingandprotectiveeffects.Allele-specific 0 1 4 effectsonDNAmethylationwereseenforasubsetofriskloci,indicatingthatmethylationandsubsequent effectsongeneexpressionmaycontributetothebiologyofriskvariantson5p15.33.Ourresultsprovide strongsupportforextensivepleiotropyacrossthisregionof5p15.33,toanextentnotpreviouslyobservedin othercancersusceptibilityloci. susceptibilityallelessuggeststhattheregionharborsanimport- INTRODUCTION antsetofelementsthatcouldinfluencemultiplecancers.Ithas Genome-wideassociationstudies(GWAS)haveidentifiedinde- beenobservedpreviouslythatoneallelemaybeprotectivefor pendentsusceptibilitylociinaregiononchromosome5p15.33 one cancer while conferring susceptibility to another (15). that are associated with at least 10 distinct cancers. The pub- These independent loci map to (cid:3)63,000 bp of 5p15.33 that lished findings include bladder (1), estrogen-negative breast harbors two plausible candidate genes: TERT, which encodes (2), glioma (3), lung (4–7), ovary (8), melanoma (9), non- the catalytic subunit of telomerase reverse transcriptase (16) melanomaskin(10,11),pancreas(12),prostate(13)andtesticu- andCLPTM1L,whichencodesthecleftlipandpalate-associated largermcellcancer(14).Thisdegreeofpleiotropyforcommon transmembrane 1 like protein (also called cisplatin resistance 6622 HumanMolecularGenetics,2014,Vol.23,No.24 related protein, CRR9). CLPTM1L appears to play a role in four SNPs, ranked by P-values, were highly correlated with apoptosis and cytokinesis, is overexpressed in both lung and the index SNP based on 1000G CEU data: rs7725218 (P¼ pancreaticcancerandisrequiredforKRASdrivenlungcancer 2.98×10239, pair-wise r2¼0.90), rs4449583 (P¼3.37× (17–21). Germline mutations in TERT can cause dyskeratosis 10239,pair-wiser2¼1.0),rs7705526(P¼1.00×10236,pair- congenita(DC),acancer-proneinheritedbonemarrowfailure wise r2¼0.74) and rs4975538 (P¼4.11×10232, pair-wise syndromecausedbyaberranttelomerebiology(22).Clinically r2¼0.76). These five SNPs reside in the second and third related telomere biology disorders, including idiopathic pul- intronoftheTERTgeneandarecommon,witheffectallelefre- monary fibrosis and acquired aplastic anemia, can also be quencies ranging between 0.18 and 0.43 in African (AFR), causedbygermlineTERTmutations(reviewedin23). 0.35–0.37inAsian(ASN)and0.32–0.38inEuropean(EUR) Toinvestigatethegeneticarchitectureofcommonsuscepti- populations,eachestimatedinthe1000Gproject(Supplemen- bility alleles across this region of 5p15.33 in multiple cancer tary Material, Table S2). A search for surrogates using an r2 sites,weutilizedarecentlydevelopedmethodcalledassociation threshold of 0.7 across a 1Mb window centered on the index analysis based on subsets (ASSET) that combines association SNP did not identify additional highly correlated SNPs. The signals for an SNP across multiple traits by exploring subsets effect allele (A) of rs7726159 was positively associated with ofstudiesfortrueassociationsignalsinthesame,ortheopposite glioma (Glioma Scan) and lung cancer (Asian Lung) (P¼ D direction, while accounting for the multiple testing required 4.38×10236, OR ¼1.47; 95% CI¼1.38–1.56), but o Combined w (24). The method has been shown to be more powerful than negativelyassociatedwithtesticularcancer(TGCTNCI),pros- nlo the standard meta-analysis in the presence of heterogeneity, tate cancer (Pegasus and AdvPrCa) and pancreatic cancer ad e wsuhbesreettohfetreafiftescotro/afnadsmpeacyifihcavSeNdPifmfeirgehnttbdeirreecsttiroicntseodftoasosonclyiaa- 0(C.8h0in–a0P.9C1))((PFi¼g.25A.0)7.×1026, ORCombined¼0.85; 95% CI¼ d from tionsfordifferenttraits(24). ThemostsignificantSNPafterconditioningonrs7726159was h rs451360(P¼1.90×10218;PConditional¼7.06×10216),res- ttp://h idinginintron13ofCLPTM1LandmarkingRegion2(Fig.1, m Table1).SixSNPswerecorrelatedwithrs451360withanr2. g.o RESULTS x 0.7, all located within 500kb of this SNP and spanning the fo Inthisstudy,weconductedacross-cancerfine-mappinganalysis entire length of CLPTM1L: rs380145, rs13170453, rs37004, rdjo u ofaregiononchromosome5p15.33knowntobeassociatedwith rs36115365, rs35953391 and rs7446461. This effect allele rn a multiple cancer sites. We imputed each dataset across a 2Mb (rs451360-A)waspositivelyassociatedwithpancreatic cancer ls window (chr5: 250000–2250000; hg19) using the 1000 (PanScan) and testicular cancer (TGCT NCI) (P¼4.38× .org Genomes (1000G) and DCEG reference datasets (25,26) and 10213,OR ¼1.34;95%CI¼1.24–1.45),butnegative- a/ Combined t U appliedasubset-basedmeta-analysismethod(ASSET)(24)to lyassociatedwithlungcancer(AALung,AsianLungandEur n caonmdbMineethroedsusltfsoarcdroestasislsix).cTahnicserms e(1th1osdtuhdaiess)be(seenesMhoawtenriatlos L0.u9n0g))((FPig¼. 29B.5)0. ×Alt1h0o2u8g,hOlRaCrgoembdiniefdfe¼ren0c.8e5s;w95e%reCseIe¼n 0in.8t0h–e iversity improve power and interpretation when compared with other effect allele frequencies across the 1000G continental popula- o traditionalmethodsfortheanalysisofheterogeneoustraits(24). tions, 0.02–0.03 in AFR, 0.12 in ASN and 0.17–0.24 in EUR f W a Inthefirstanalysis,wefocusedonsixdistinctcancersitesin (Supplementary Material, Table S2), the signal was still suffi- sh in which5p15.33hadpreviouslybeenreportedandhadanominal cientlystrongtobedetected,particularlyinAfricanandAsian g to P-valueinourdataset(‘Tier-Istudies’scans,seeMaterialsand lungstudies,suggestingitsimportanceinlungcanceretiology. n o Methods). We performed the analysis across all studies (77% Inoursequential conditionalanalysis,rs2853677(locatedin n N European, 7% African American and 16% Asian ancestry, thefirstintronofTERT)wasthemostsignificantSNPaftercon- ov e ALLscans),and, because themajorityof studies andsubjects ditioningonbothrs7726159andrs451360,thusmarkingRegion m b wtheisregorofuEpuoronplyea(nEUanRcessctrayn,s)w.eBcoonnfedrurcotneidcpoarrraelclteilonanwalaysseusseidn 3Tab(lPe¼1).3.N30o×ad1d0it2io3n6;al PSNCoPndsitwioniathl¼an2.r326.×01.072w8)ere(Floigc.ate1d, er 21 toassesssignificance,usingthethresholdat1.3×1025,based within 500kb of this SNP, which has relatively low LD with , 20 1 onthenumberofsingle-nucleotidepolymorphisms(SNPs)ana- both rs7726159 (r2¼0.13) and rs451360 (r2¼0.12) in 4 lyzed across the region (n¼1924) and the two analyses per- 1000GCEUdata.Region3(rs2853677-A)waspositivelyasso- formed (ALL or EUR scans) (see Materials and Methods). In ciatedwithtesticularcancer(TGCTNCI)andpancreaticcancer thesecondanalysis,weexaminedtheregionsidentifiedabove (PanScanandChinaPC)(P¼1.36×1027,OR ¼1.22; Combined ineightcancersinwhich5p15.33hadnotbeenreportedinthe 95% CI¼1.13–1.31), but negatively associated with lung literature(NHGRICatalogofPublishedGWASstudies:http:// cancer (Asian Lung and AA Lung) and glioma (Glioma scan) www.genome.gov/gwastudies/), or did not show a nominal (P¼2.79×10231,OR ¼0.73;95%CI¼0.70–0.77) Combined P-valueinourdataset(‘Tier-IIstudies’). (Fig.2C).Theeffectallelefrequencyforrs2853677wasconsist- Application of ASSET by sequential conditioning of asso- entacrossthethreecontinental1000Gpopulationscorrespond- ciated SNPs revealed up to six independent loci on 5p15.33, ingtothestudiesincludedinthisanalysis:0.60inEUR,0.67in eachinfluencingriskofmultiplecancers(Fig.1,Table1;Sup- ASNand0.71inAFR(SupplementaryMaterial,TableS2). plementary Material, Table S1). In the primary analysis of all A conditional analysis based on the three SNPs above subjects,weperformedtheASSETmeta-analysisbasedonun- (rs7726159, rs451360 and rs2853677) yielded Region 4, conditional association results from each of the six cancer marked by rs2736098 (P¼3.87×10212; P ¼ Conditional scans (11 studies). This identified rs7726159 with the lowest 5.19×1026), a synonymous variant (A305A) in the second P-value(P¼2.10×10239),thusmarkingRegion1.Thenext exonofTERT(Fig.1,Table1).ThreeadditionalSNPswithan HumanMolecularGenetics,2014,Vol.23,No.24 6623 D o w n lo a d e d fro m h ttp ://h m g .o x fo rd jo u rn a ls .o rg a/ t U n iv e rs ity o f W a s h in g to n o n N o v e m b e r 2 1 , 2 0 1 4 Figure1.SequentialconditionalanalysesandASSETmeta-analysesidentifieduptosixindependentsignalsfortheTERT-CLPTM1Lregiononchromosome5p15.33. SNPsmarkingeachregionareplottedintheupperpanelwithtwoP-values(soliddiamondscorrespondtoanunconditionaltestandopendiamondscorrespondtoa conditionaltest)onanegativelogscale(lefty-axis)againstgenomiccoordinates(x-axis,hg19).CancersfromdifferentGWASscans(acronymsdetailedinboxintop panel)thatareassociatedwithineachregioninthesubsetmeta-analysisarelisted(red,positivelyassociated;green,negativelyassociated)fromtheunconditional ASSETmeta-analysis.EffectallelesareshownnexttoSNPidentifiers.Recombinationhotspots(curvedlines,toppanel)wereinferredfromthreepopulations fromtheDCEGImputationReferenceSetversion1(red,CEU;green,ASN;blue,YRI)asthelikelihoodratiostatistics(righty-axis).Alsoshownarethegenestruc- turesforTERT,MIR4457andCLPTM1L(middlepanel),andLDheatmapbasedonr2usingthe1000GenomesCEUpopulation(lowerpanel).Resultsareshownfor theALLanalysisexcepttheregionmarkedbyrs10069690(toppanel)andlabeledwitha‘∗’thatwasidentifiedintheEuropeanancestry-onlyanalysis(EUR). 6 6 2 4 H u m a n M o le c u la r Table1. AssociationresultsforSNPsonchromosome5p15.33withtheriskofcancer G e n SNP Gene Region Position UPonsciotinvdeiltyionalOR(95N%egCatIi)vely UP-nvcaolnudeitional SPiogsnitiifivcealyntphenotypeclusters Negatively CPoosnidtiivtieolynalOR(95%NCeI)gatively CP-ovnadliuteional etic s associated associated associated associated associated associated , 2 0 ALL 1 4 rs7726159 TERT 1 1282319 1.47(1.38–1.56) 0.85(0.80–0.91) 2.10×10239 AsianLung,GliomaScan TGCTNCI,Pegasus, , V AdvPrCa,ChinaPC o rs451360 CLPTM1L 2 1319680 1.34(1.24–1.45) 0.85(0.80–0.90) 1.90×10218 PanScan,TGCTNCI EurLung,AfrAmLung, 1.33(1.23–1.44) 0.86(0.81–0.92) 7.06×10216 l. AsianLung 2 rs2853677 TERT 3 1287194 1.22(1.13–1.31) 0.73(0.70–0.77) 3.30×10236 TGCTNCI,PanScan, AsianLunga, 1.11(0.94–1.30) 0.80(0.74–0.86) 2.36×1028 3, ChinaPC GliomaScan, N AfrAmLung o. rs2736098 TERT 4 1294086 1.15(1.10–1.21) 0.81(0.74–0.89) 3.87×10212 AfrAmLung,Pegasus, PanScan,TGCTNCIa 1.18(1.10–1.25) 0.94(0.67–1.31) 5.19×1026 2 EurLunga,BladderNCI 4 rs13172201 TERT 5 1271661 1.06(0.80–1.41) 0.84(0.73–0.96) 5.00×1022 EurLung,Pegasusa, TGCTNCI,GliomaScan 1.13(1.03–1.23) 0.81(0.70–0.92) 1.31×1024 PanScan,AfrAmLunga EUR rs4449583 TERT 1 1284135 1.50(1.35–1.68) 0.89(0.83–0.94) 1.02×10215 GliomaScan TGCTNCI,Pegasus, AdvPrCa,PanScan rs13170453 CLPTM1L 2 1317481 1.34(1.24–1.45) 0.87(0.80–0.95) 6.69×10215 PanScan,TGCTNCI EurLung 1.33(1.22–1.44) 0.86(0.80–0.93) 6.67×10214 rs10069690 TERT 6 1279790 1.48(1.31–1.67) 0.87(0.83–0.92) 7.49×10215 GliomaScana AdvPrCa,TGCTNCIa, NA 0.77(0.69–0.85) 5.35×1027 PanScana,Bladder NCI,Pegasusa rs13172201 TERT 5 1271661 1.07(0.88–1.29) 0.84(0.73–0.96) 4.08×1022 EurLung,Pegasusa, TGCTNCI,GliomaScan 1.13(1.04–1.22) 0.82(0.75–0.90) 2.04×1026 PanScan rs2736098 TERT 4 1294086 1.14(1.08–1.20) 0.81(0.74–0.89) 5.73×10210 Pegasus,EurLunga,Bladder PanScan,TGCTNCI 1.23(1.11–1.35) 0.88(0.75–1.02) 6.31×1025 NCIa Theresultsfromtheimputationandsubset-basedASSETmeta-analysisisshownforthe‘ALL’scansthatinclude11GWASscansperformedinsubjectsofEuropean,AsianandAfricanAmericanancestry;andforthe‘EUR’scansthatinclude eightscansperformedinsubjectsofEuropeanancestry.ScanacronymsaredetailedinMaterialsandMethods.ListedareSNPsthatmarkeachoftheregionsidentified,gene,genomiclocation,unconditionalandconditionalP-valuesand GWASscansthatwerepositivelyornegativelyassociatedwiththeminoralleleforeachSNP/region.NotethatdifferenthighlycorrelatedSNPsmaymarkthesameregioninthe‘ALL’vs.the‘EUR’analysis(Regions1and2).NAindicates thatnoscanwasassociatedwithaparticularregion. aCancersitesthatwerenolongersignificantintheconditionalanalysis. 4102 ,12 rebmevoN no notgnihsaW fo ytisrevinU ta /gro.slanruojdrofxo.gmh//:ptth morf dedaolnwoD HumanMolecularGenetics,2014,Vol.23,No.24 6625 D o w n lo a d e d fro m h ttp ://h m g .o x fo rd jo u rn a ls .o rg a/ t U n iv e rs ity o f W a s h in g to n o n N o v e m b e r 2 1 , 2 0 1 4 Figure2.(A–F)Forestplotsforindividualrisklocionchr5p15.33fortheunconditionalASSETmeta-analysis.Foreachcancer/GWASscan,ORand95%CIwere listedandplottedalongeachlineaspertheunconditionalassociationanalysis.AverticallineofOR¼1indicatesthenull.TwosummarylineslistORsfortheposi- tivelyornegativelyassociatedsubsetsasestimatedbytheASSETprogram.(A)rs7726159,(B)rs451360,(C)rs2853677,(D)rs2736098,(E)rs13172201and(F) rs10069690intheanalysisofEuropean-ancestrystudiesonly.ForestplotsfortheconditionalanalysesareshowninSupplementaryMaterial,FigureS1A–E.
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