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Chen Z, Guo X, Tao R, Huyghe JR, Law PJ, Fernandez-Rozadilla C, Ping J, Jia G, Long J, Li C, Shen Q, Xie Y, Timofeeva MN, Thomas M, Schmit SL, Díez-Obrero V, Devall M, Moratalla-Navarro F, Fernandez-Tajes J, Palles C, Sherwood K, Briggs SEW, Svinti V, Donnelly K, Farrington SM, Blackmur J, Vaughan-Shaw PG, Shu XO, Lu Y, Broderick P, Studd J, Harrison TA, Conti DV, Schumacher FR, Melas M, Rennert G, Obón-Santacana M, Martín-Sánchez V, Oh JH, Kim J, Jee SH, Jung KJ, Kweon SS, Shin MH, Shin A, Ahn YO, Kim DH, Oze I, Wen W, Matsuo K, Matsuda K, Tanikawa C, Ren Z, Gao YT, Jia WH, Hopper JL, Jenkins MA, Win AK, Pai RK, Figueiredo JC, Haile RW, Gallinger S, Woods MO, Newcomb PA, Duggan D, Cheadle JP, Kaplan R, Kerr R, Kerr D, Kirac I, Böhm J, Mecklin JP, Jousilahti P, Knekt P, Aaltonen LA, Rissanen H, Pukkala E, Eriksson JG, Cajuso T, Hänninen U, Kondelin J, Palin K, Tanskanen T, Renkonen-Sinisalo L, Männistö S, Albanes D, Weinstein SJ, Ruiz-Narvaez E, Palmer JR, Buchanan DD, Platz EA, Visvanathan K, Ulrich CM, Siegel E, Brezina S, Gsur A, Campbell PT, Chang-Claude J, Hoffmeister M, Brenner H, Slattery ML, Potter JD, Tsilidis KK, Schulze MB, Gunter MJ, Murphy N, Castells A, Castellví-Bel S, Moreira L, Arndt V, Shcherbina A, Bishop DT, Giles GG, Southey MC, Idos GE, McDonnell KJ, Abu-Ful Z, Greenson JK, Shulman K, Lejbkowicz F, Offit K, Su YR, Steinfelder R, Keku TO, van Guelpen B, Hudson TJ, Hampel H, Pearlman R, Berndt SI, Hayes RB, Martinez ME, Thomas SS, Pharoah PDP, Larsson SC, Yen Y, Lenz HJ, White E, Li L, Doheny KF, Pugh E, Shelford T, Chan AT, Cruz-Correa M, Lindblom A, Hunter DJ, Joshi AD, Schafmayer C, Scacheri PC, Kundaje A, Schoen RE, Hampe J, Stadler ZK, Vodicka P, Vodickova L, Vymetalkova V, Edlund CK, Gauderman WJ, Shibata D, Toland A, Markowitz S, Kim A, Chanock SJ, van Duijnhoven F, Feskens EJM, Sakoda LC, Gago-Dominguez M, Wolk A, Pardini B, FitzGerald LM, Lee SC, Ogino S, Bien SA, Kooperberg C, Li CI, Lin Y, Prentice R, Qu C, Bézieau S, Yamaji T, Sawada N, Iwasaki M, Le Marchand L, Wu AH, Qu C, McNeil CE, Coetzee G, Hayward C, Deary IJ, Harris SE, Theodoratou E, Reid S, Walker M, Ooi LY, Lau KS, Zhao H, Hsu L, Cai Q, Dunlop MG, Gruber SB, Houlston RS, Moreno V, Casey G, Peters U, Tomlinson I, Zheng W. Fine-mapping analysis including over 254,000 East Asian and European descendants identifies 136 putative colorectal cancer susceptibility genes. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3557. [PMID: 38670944 PMCID: PMC11053150 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47399-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 200 common genetic variants independently associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, but the causal variants and target genes are mostly unknown. We sought to fine-map all known CRC risk loci using GWAS data from 100,204 cases and 154,587 controls of East Asian and European ancestry. Our stepwise conditional analyses revealed 238 independent association signals of CRC risk, each with a set of credible causal variants (CCVs), of which 28 signals had a single CCV. Our cis-eQTL/mQTL and colocalization analyses using colorectal tissue-specific transcriptome and methylome data separately from 1299 and 321 individuals, along with functional genomic investigation, uncovered 136 putative CRC susceptibility genes, including 56 genes not previously reported. Analyses of single-cell RNA-seq data from colorectal tissues revealed 17 putative CRC susceptibility genes with distinct expression patterns in specific cell types. Analyses of whole exome sequencing data provided additional support for several target genes identified in this study as CRC susceptibility genes. Enrichment analyses of the 136 genes uncover pathways not previously linked to CRC risk. Our study substantially expanded association signals for CRC and provided additional insight into the biological mechanisms underlying CRC development.
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Affiliation(s)
- Zhishan Chen
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, 37232, TN, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Genomics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Genomic Medicine Group, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Guochong Jia
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Jirong Long
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Danish Institute for Advanced Study, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Stephanie L Schmit
- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Genomics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Genomics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Richard Doll Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- The Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain
- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedicine Institute, University of León, León, Spain
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- Center for Colorectal Cancer, National Cancer Center Hospital, National Cancer Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
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- Department of Cancer Biomedical Science, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea
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- Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Okcheon-dong, South Korea
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
- Division of Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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- Laboratory of Clinical Genome Sequencing, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Genome Technology, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes and Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Cancer Research Center for Health Equity, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John, ON, Canada
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- City of Hope National Medical Center, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit, Medical Research Council, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, University Hospital for Tumors, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Pathology, Central Finland Health Care District, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Genome-Scale Biology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
- Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Helsinki, Finland
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- Folkhälsan Research Centre, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Human Potential Translational Research Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Unit of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Genome-Scale Biology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Genome-Scale Biology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Genome-Scale Biology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Genome-Scale Biology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Genome-Scale Biology Research Program, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Clinical Pathology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia
- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Cancer Epidemiology Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Cancer Centre Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center and National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Research Centre for Hauora and Health, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany
- Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
- Department of Clinical Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Center For Precision Medicine, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Medical Oncology and Center For Precision Medicine, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit Health Services, Personalized Genomic Service, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Population Sciences, Disparities and Community Engagement, University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research, Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research, Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research, Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Internal Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Group, Galician Public Foundation of Genomic Medicine, Servicio Galego de Saude, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Candiolo Cancer Institute FPO-IRCCS, Candiolo, (TO), Italy
- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine, Candiolo Cancer Institute FPO-IRCCS, Candiolo, (TO), Italy
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- National University Cancer Institute, Singapore, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Cancer Immunology Program, Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Division of Epidemiology, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Cohort Research, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Epidemiology, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
- Division of Cohort Research, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Preventative Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genomics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Lothian Birth Cohorts group, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Lothian Birth Cohorts group, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Pathology, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Epithelial Biology Center and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
- Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Colon Cancer Genetics Group, Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Center For Precision Medicine, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Genomics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Pontius WD, Hong ES, Faber ZJ, Gray J, Peacock CD, Bayles I, Lovrenert K, Chin DH, Gryder BE, Bartels CF, Scacheri PC. Temporal chromatin accessibility changes define transcriptional states essential for osteosarcoma metastasis. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7209. [PMID: 37938582 PMCID: PMC10632377 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42656-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023] Open
Abstract
The metastasis-invasion cascade describes the series of steps required for a cancer cell to successfully spread from its primary tumor and ultimately grow within a secondary organ. Despite metastasis being a dynamic, multistep process, most omics studies to date have focused on comparing primary tumors to the metastatic deposits that define end-stage disease. This static approach means we lack information about the genomic and epigenomic changes that occur during the majority of tumor progression. One particularly understudied phase of tumor progression is metastatic colonization, during which cells must adapt to the new microenvironment of the secondary organ. Through temporal profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in vivo, we identify dynamic changes in the epigenome that occur as osteosarcoma tumors form and grow within the lung microenvironment. Furthermore, we show through paired in vivo and in vitro CRISPR drop-out screens and pharmacological validation that the upstream transcription factors represent a class of metastasis-specific dependency genes. While current models depict lung colonization as a discrete step within the metastatic cascade, our study shows it is a defined trajectory through multiple epigenetic states, revealing new therapeutic opportunities undetectable with standard approaches.
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- W Dean Pontius
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.
- Amgen Research, Discovery Biomarkers, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA.
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Dimou N, Kim AE, Flanagan O, Murphy N, Diez-Obrero V, Shcherbina A, Aglago EK, Bouras E, Campbell PT, Casey G, Gallinger S, Gruber SB, Jenkins MA, Lin Y, Moreno V, Ruiz-Narvaez E, Stern MC, Tian Y, Tsilidis KK, Arndt V, Barry EL, Baurley JW, Berndt SI, Bézieau S, Bien SA, Bishop DT, Brenner H, Budiarto A, Carreras-Torres R, Cenggoro TW, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chen X, Conti DV, Dampier CH, Devall M, Drew DA, Figueiredo JC, Giles GG, Gsur A, Harrison TA, Hidaka A, Hoffmeister M, Huyghe JR, Jordahl K, Kawaguchi E, Keku TO, Larsson SC, Le Marchand L, Lewinger JP, Li L, Mahesworo B, Morrison J, Newcomb PA, Newton CC, Obon-Santacana M, Ose J, Pai RK, Palmer JR, Papadimitriou N, Pardamean B, Peoples AR, Pharoah PDP, Platz EA, Potter JD, Rennert G, Scacheri PC, Schoen RE, Su YR, Tangen CM, Thibodeau SN, Thomas DC, Ulrich CM, Um CY, van Duijnhoven FJB, Visvanathan K, Vodicka P, Vodickova L, White E, Wolk A, Woods MO, Qu C, Kundaje A, Hsu L, Gauderman WJ, Gunter MJ, Peters U. Probing the diabetes and colorectal cancer relationship using gene - environment interaction analyses. Br J Cancer 2023; 129:511-520. [PMID: 37365285 PMCID: PMC10403521 DOI: 10.1038/s41416-023-02312-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Diabetes is an established risk factor for colorectal cancer. However, the mechanisms underlying this relationship still require investigation and it is not known if the association is modified by genetic variants. To address these questions, we undertook a genome-wide gene-environment interaction analysis. METHODS We used data from 3 genetic consortia (CCFR, CORECT, GECCO; 31,318 colorectal cancer cases/41,499 controls) and undertook genome-wide gene-environment interaction analyses with colorectal cancer risk, including interaction tests of genetics(G)xdiabetes (1-degree of freedom; d.f.) and joint testing of Gxdiabetes, G-colorectal cancer association (2-d.f. joint test) and G-diabetes correlation (3-d.f. joint test). RESULTS Based on the joint tests, we found that the association of diabetes with colorectal cancer risk is modified by loci on chromosomes 8q24.11 (rs3802177, SLC30A8 - ORAA: 1.62, 95% CI: 1.34-1.96; ORAG: 1.41, 95% CI: 1.30-1.54; ORGG: 1.22, 95% CI: 1.13-1.31; p-value3-d.f.: 5.46 × 10-11) and 13q14.13 (rs9526201, LRCH1 - ORGG: 2.11, 95% CI: 1.56-2.83; ORGA: 1.52, 95% CI: 1.38-1.68; ORAA: 1.13, 95% CI: 1.06-1.21; p-value2-d.f.: 7.84 × 10-09). DISCUSSION These results suggest that variation in genes related to insulin signaling (SLC30A8) and immune function (LRCH1) may modify the association of diabetes with colorectal cancer risk and provide novel insights into the biology underlying the diabetes and colorectal cancer relationship.
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- Niki Dimou
- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Unit of Biomarkers and Susceptibility, Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Center for Public Health Genomics, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Center for Precision Medicine, Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- ONCOBEL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences & USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
- BioRealm LLC, Walnut, CA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Service de Génétique médicale, F-44000, Nantes, France
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Computer Science Department, School of Computer Science, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 8908, Barcelona, Spain
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Cancer Centre Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Center for Public Health Genomics, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of General Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
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- Center for Cancer Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Population Science, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Avda Gran Via Barcelona 199-203, 08908L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UH, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UH, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Research Centre for Hauora and Health, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Biostatistics Division, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Laboratory Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences & USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UH, USA
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- Department of Population Science, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Memorial University of Newfoundland, Discipline of Genetics, St. John's, NL, Canada
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Aglago EK, Kim A, Lin Y, Qu C, Evangelou M, Ren Y, Morrison J, Albanes D, Arndt V, Barry EL, Baurley JW, Berndt SI, Bien SA, Bishop DT, Bouras E, Brenner H, Buchanan DD, Budiarto A, Carreras-Torres R, Casey G, Cenggoro TW, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chen X, Conti DV, Devall M, Diez-Obrero V, Dimou N, Drew D, Figueiredo JC, Gallinger S, Giles GG, Gruber SB, Gsur A, Gunter MJ, Hampel H, Harlid S, Hidaka A, Harrison TA, Hoffmeister M, Huyghe JR, Jenkins MA, Jordahl K, Joshi AD, Kawaguchi ES, Keku TO, Kundaje A, Larsson SC, Marchand LL, Lewinger JP, Li L, Lynch BM, Mahesworo B, Mandic M, Obón-Santacana M, Moreno V, Murphy N, Nan H, Nassir R, Newcomb PA, Ogino S, Ose J, Pai RK, Palmer JR, Papadimitriou N, Pardamean B, Peoples AR, Platz EA, Potter JD, Prentice RL, Rennert G, Ruiz-Narvaez E, Sakoda LC, Scacheri PC, Schmit SL, Schoen RE, Shcherbina A, Slattery ML, Stern MC, Su YR, Tangen CM, Thibodeau SN, Thomas DC, Tian Y, Ulrich CM, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, Visvanathan K, Vodicka P, Wang J, White E, Wolk A, Woods MO, Wu AH, Zemlianskaia N, Hsu L, Gauderman WJ, Peters U, Tsilidis KK, Campbell PT. A Genetic Locus within the FMN1/GREM1 Gene Region Interacts with Body Mass Index in Colorectal Cancer Risk. Cancer Res 2023; 83:2572-2583. [PMID: 37249599 PMCID: PMC10391330 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-22-3713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Revised: 02/25/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
Colorectal cancer risk can be impacted by genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors, including diet and obesity. Gene-environment interactions (G × E) can provide biological insights into the effects of obesity on colorectal cancer risk. Here, we assessed potential genome-wide G × E interactions between body mass index (BMI) and common SNPs for colorectal cancer risk using data from 36,415 colorectal cancer cases and 48,451 controls from three international colorectal cancer consortia (CCFR, CORECT, and GECCO). The G × E tests included the conventional logistic regression using multiplicative terms (one degree of freedom, 1DF test), the two-step EDGE method, and the joint 3DF test, each of which is powerful for detecting G × E interactions under specific conditions. BMI was associated with higher colorectal cancer risk. The two-step approach revealed a statistically significant G×BMI interaction located within the Formin 1/Gremlin 1 (FMN1/GREM1) gene region (rs58349661). This SNP was also identified by the 3DF test, with a suggestive statistical significance in the 1DF test. Among participants with the CC genotype of rs58349661, overweight and obesity categories were associated with higher colorectal cancer risk, whereas null associations were observed across BMI categories in those with the TT genotype. Using data from three large international consortia, this study discovered a locus in the FMN1/GREM1 gene region that interacts with BMI on the association with colorectal cancer risk. Further studies should examine the potential mechanisms through which this locus modifies the etiologic link between obesity and colorectal cancer. SIGNIFICANCE This gene-environment interaction analysis revealed a genetic locus in FMN1/GREM1 that interacts with body mass index in colorectal cancer risk, suggesting potential implications for precision prevention strategies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Elom K. Aglago
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
- BioRealm LLC, Walnut, California
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Computer Science Department, School of Computer Science, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Digestive Diseases and Microbiota Group, Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Salt, Girona, Spain
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Cancer Centre Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Unit of Biomarkers and Susceptibility (UBS), Oncology Data Analytics Program (ODAP), Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte California
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- Center for Cancer Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte California
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Physical Activity Laboratory, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Unit of Biomarkers and Susceptibility (UBS), Oncology Data Analytics Program (ODAP), Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Unit of Biomarkers and Susceptibility (UBS), Oncology Data Analytics Program (ODAP), Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana
- IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura'a University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona
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- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington
- Research Centre for Hauora and Health, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Laboratory Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Memorial University of Newfoundland, Discipline of Genetics, St. John's, Canada
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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Carreras-Torres R, Kim AE, Lin Y, Diez-Obrero V, Bien SA, Qu C, Wang J, Dimou N, Aglago EK, Albanes D, Arndt V, Baurley JW, Berndt SI, Bézieau S, Bishop DT, Bouras E, Brenner H, Budiarto A, Campbell PT, Casey G, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chen X, Conti DV, Dampier CH, Devall MAM, Drew DA, Figueiredo JC, Gallinger S, Giles GG, Gruber SB, Gsur A, Gunter MJ, Harrison TA, Hidaka A, Hoffmeister M, Huyghe JR, Jenkins MA, Jordahl KM, Kawaguchi E, Keku TO, Kundaje A, Le Marchand L, Lewinger JP, Li L, Mahesworo B, Morrison JL, Murphy N, Nan H, Nassir R, Newcomb PA, Obón-Santacana M, Ogino S, Ose J, Pai RK, Palmer JR, Papadimitriou N, Pardamean B, Peoples AR, Pharoah PDP, Platz EA, Rennert G, Ruiz-Narvaez E, Sakoda LC, Scacheri PC, Schmit SL, Schoen RE, Shcherbina A, Slattery ML, Stern MC, Su YR, Tangen CM, Thomas DC, Tian Y, Tsilidis KK, Ulrich CM, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, Visvanathan K, Vodicka P, Cenggoro TW, Weinstein SJ, White E, Wolk A, Woods MO, Hsu L, Peters U, Moreno V, Gauderman WJ. Genome-wide Interaction Study with Smoking for Colorectal Cancer Risk Identifies Novel Genetic Loci Related to Tumor Suppression, Inflammation, and Immune Response. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2023; 32:315-328. [PMID: 36576985 PMCID: PMC9992283 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-22-0763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking is an established risk factor for colorectal cancer. However, genetically defined population subgroups may have increased susceptibility to smoking-related effects on colorectal cancer. METHODS A genome-wide interaction scan was performed including 33,756 colorectal cancer cases and 44,346 controls from three genetic consortia. RESULTS Evidence of an interaction was observed between smoking status (ever vs. never smokers) and a locus on 3p12.1 (rs9880919, P = 4.58 × 10-8), with higher associated risk in subjects carrying the GG genotype [OR, 1.25; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.20-1.30] compared with the other genotypes (OR <1.17 for GA and AA). Among ever smokers, we observed interactions between smoking intensity (increase in 10 cigarettes smoked per day) and two loci on 6p21.33 (rs4151657, P = 1.72 × 10-8) and 8q24.23 (rs7005722, P = 2.88 × 10-8). Subjects carrying the rs4151657 TT genotype showed higher risk (OR, 1.12; 95% CI, 1.09-1.16) compared with the other genotypes (OR <1.06 for TC and CC). Similarly, higher risk was observed among subjects carrying the rs7005722 AA genotype (OR, 1.17; 95% CI, 1.07-1.28) compared with the other genotypes (OR <1.13 for AC and CC). Functional annotation revealed that SNPs in 3p12.1 and 6p21.33 loci were located in regulatory regions, and were associated with expression levels of nearby genes. Genetic models predicting gene expression revealed that smoking parameters were associated with lower colorectal cancer risk with higher expression levels of CADM2 (3p12.1) and ATF6B (6p21.33). CONCLUSIONS Our study identified novel genetic loci that may modulate the risk for colorectal cancer of smoking status and intensity, linked to tumor suppression and immune response. IMPACT These findings can guide potential prevention treatments.
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Affiliation(s)
- Robert Carreras-Torres
- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Digestive Diseases and Microbiota Group, Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Salt, 17190, Girona, Spain
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of General Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura’a University, Saudi Arabia
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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- Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Biomedical Informatics Program, Dept. of Biomedical Data Sciences, Stanford University
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, and Biomedical Center, Medical Faculty, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Memorial University of Newfoundland, Discipline of Genetics, St. John's, Canada
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Qu DC, Neu D, Khawaja ZQ, Wang R, Bartels CF, Lovrenert K, Chan ER, Hill-Baskin AE, Scacheri PC, Berger NA. Epigenetic effects of high-fat diet on intestinal tumorigenesis in C57BL/6J- Apc Min/+ mice. J Transl Genet Genom 2023; 7:3-16. [PMID: 36817228 PMCID: PMC9937564 DOI: 10.20517/jtgg.2022.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Aim Obesity and obesogenic diets might partly accelerate cancer development through epigenetic mechanisms. To determine these early effects, we investigated the impact of three days of a high-fat diet on epigenomic and transcriptomic changes in Apc Min/+ murine intestinal epithelia. Method ChIP-Seq and RNA-Seq were performed on small intestinal epithelia of WT and Apc Min/+ male mice fed high-fat diet (HFD) or low-fat diet (LFD) for three days to identify genomic regions associated with differential H3K27ac levels as a marker of variant enhancer loci (VELs) as well as differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Results Regarding epigenetic and transcriptomic changes, diet type (LFD vs. HFD) showed a significant impact, and genotype (WT vs.Apc Min/+) showed a small impact. Compared to LFD, HFD resulted in 1306 gained VELs, 230 lost VELs, 133 upregulated genes, and 127 downregulated genes in WT mice, with 1056 gained VELs, 371 lost VELs, 222 upregulated genes, and 182 downregulated genes in Apc Min/+ mice. Compared to the WT genotype, the Apc Min/+ genotype resulted in zero changed VELs for either diet type group, 21 DEGs for LFD, and 48 DEGs for HFD. Most gained VELs, and upregulated genes were associated with lipid metabolic processes. Gained VELs were also associated with Wnt signaling. Downregulated genes were associated with antigen presentation and processing. Conclusion Three days of HFD-induced epigenomic and transcriptomic changes involving metabolic and immunologic pathways that may promote tumor growth in the genetically predisposed murine intestine without affecting key cancer signaling pathways.
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- Dan C Qu
- Center for Science, Health and Society, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Center for Science, Health and Society, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Center for Science, Health and Society, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Center for Science, Health and Society, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Center for Science, Health and Society, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Scacheri PC. Abstract IA019: How to target lung metastasis: dynamic changes in chromatin accessibility during osteosarcoma lung metastasis expose vulnerabilities. Clin Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1557-3265.sarcomas22-ia019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The metastatic cascade describes the series of steps required for a cancer cell to successfully spread from its primary tumor to a secondary organ. Despite knowing that metastasis is a fluid process, almost all studies to date have relied on end-point assays. As a result, little is known about the continuum of molecular events required for successful growth within the secondary organ. By profiling accessible chromatin in osteosarcoma cells grown in vitro and isolated from an early and late timepoint during lung metastasis, we identify temporally distinct epigenomic reprogramming events that occur as tumors form and grow within the metastatic microenvironment. Furthermore, these data pinpoint key upstream transcription factors responsible for the dynamic chromatin changes. Through paired in vivo and in vitro CRISPR drop-out screens, we show a subset of these putative pro-metastatic transcription factors are essential for lung metastasis, but dispensable for in vitro growth. Targeting the same factors with chemical probes in vitro and ex vivo demonstrated similar context-dependent essentiality. Altogether, our study demonstrates the epigenomes of metastasizing cancer cells are tightly regulated in a dynamic and context-specific manner, and the transcription factors controlling this process may serve as novel vulnerabilities.
Citation Format: Peter C. Scacheri. How to target lung metastasis: dynamic changes in chromatin accessibility during osteosarcoma lung metastasis expose vulnerabilities [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference: Sarcomas; 2022 May 9-12; Montreal, QC, Canada. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Clin Cancer Res 2022;28(18_Suppl):Abstract nr IA019.
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Jordahl KM, Shcherbina A, Kim AE, Su YR, Lin Y, Wang J, Qu C, Albanes D, Arndt V, Baurley JW, Berndt SI, Bien SA, Bishop DT, Bouras E, Brenner H, Buchanan DD, Budiarto A, Campbell PT, Carreras-Torres R, Casey G, Cenggoro TW, Chan AT, Conti DV, Dampier CH, Devall MA, Díez-Obrero V, Dimou N, Drew DA, Figueiredo JC, Gallinger S, Giles GG, Gruber SB, Gsur A, Gunter MJ, Hampel H, Harlid S, Harrison TA, Hidaka A, Hoffmeister M, Huyghe JR, Jenkins MA, Joshi AD, Keku TO, Larsson SC, Le Marchand L, Lewinger JP, Li L, Mahesworo B, Moreno V, Morrison JL, Murphy N, Nan H, Nassir R, Newcomb PA, Obón-Santacana M, Ogino S, Ose J, Pai RK, Palmer JR, Papadimitriou N, Pardamean B, Peoples AR, Pharoah PDP, Platz EA, Potter JD, Prentice RL, Rennert G, Ruiz-Narvaez E, Sakoda LC, Scacheri PC, Schmit SL, Schoen RE, Slattery ML, Stern MC, Tangen CM, Thibodeau SN, Thomas DC, Tian Y, Tsilidis KK, Ulrich CM, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, Visvanathan K, Vodicka P, White E, Wolk A, Woods MO, Wu AH, Zemlianskaia N, Chang-Claude J, Gauderman WJ, Hsu L, Kundaje A, Peters U. Beyond GWAS of Colorectal Cancer: Evidence of Interaction with Alcohol Consumption and Putative Causal Variant for the 10q24.2 Region. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2022; 31:1077-1089. [PMID: 35438744 PMCID: PMC9081195 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-21-1003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2021] [Revised: 10/30/2021] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Currently known associations between common genetic variants and colorectal cancer explain less than half of its heritability of 25%. As alcohol consumption has a J-shape association with colorectal cancer risk, nondrinking and heavy drinking are both risk factors for colorectal cancer. METHODS Individual-level data was pooled from the Colon Cancer Family Registry, Colorectal Transdisciplinary Study, and Genetics and Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer Consortium to compare nondrinkers (≤1 g/day) and heavy drinkers (>28 g/day) with light-to-moderate drinkers (1-28 g/day) in GxE analyses. To improve power, we implemented joint 2df and 3df tests and a novel two-step method that modifies the weighted hypothesis testing framework. We prioritized putative causal variants by predicting allelic effects using support vector machine models. RESULTS For nondrinking as compared with light-to-moderate drinking, the hybrid two-step approach identified 13 significant SNPs with pairwise r2 > 0.9 in the 10q24.2/COX15 region. When stratified by alcohol intake, the A allele of lead SNP rs2300985 has a dose-response increase in risk of colorectal cancer as compared with the G allele in light-to-moderate drinkers [OR for GA genotype = 1.11; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.06-1.17; OR for AA genotype = 1.22; 95% CI, 1.14-1.31], but not in nondrinkers or heavy drinkers. Among the correlated candidate SNPs in the 10q24.2/COX15 region, rs1318920 was predicted to disrupt an HNF4 transcription factor binding motif. CONCLUSIONS Our study suggests that the association with colorectal cancer in 10q24.2/COX15 observed in genome-wide association study is strongest in nondrinkers. We also identified rs1318920 as the putative causal regulatory variant for the region. IMPACT The study identifies multifaceted evidence of a possible functional effect for rs1318920.
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- Kristina M Jordahl
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
- BioRealm LLC, Walnut, California
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Genetic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Computer Science Department, School of Computer Science, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Section of Nutrition and Metabolism, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Oncology Data Analytics Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- ONCOBEL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana
- IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura'a University, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Unit of Nutrition, Environment and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Avda Gran Via Barcelona 199-203, 08908L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona
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- Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Section of Nutrition and Metabolism, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Bioinformatics and Data Science Research Center, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
- Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Laboratory Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Memorial University of Newfoundland, Discipline of Genetics, St. John's, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Cancer Centre Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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The change in cell state from normal to malignant is driven fundamentally by oncogenic mutations in cooperation with epigenetic alterations of chromatin. These alterations in chromatin can be a consequence of environmental stressors or germline and/or somatic mutations that directly alter the structure of chromatin machinery proteins, their levels, or their regulatory function. These changes can result in an inability of the cell to differentiate along a predefined lineage path, or drive a hyperactive, highly proliferative state with addiction to high levels of transcriptional output. We discuss how these genetic alterations hijack the chromatin machinery for the oncogenic process to reveal unique vulnerabilities and novel targets for cancer therapy.
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- Berkley Gryder
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Huyghe JR, Harrison TA, Bien SA, Hampel H, Figueiredo JC, Schmit SL, Conti DV, Chen S, Qu C, Lin Y, Barfield R, Baron JA, Cross AJ, Diergaarde B, Duggan D, Harlid S, Imaz L, Kang HM, Levine DM, Perduca V, Perez-Cornago A, Sakoda LC, Schumacher FR, Slattery ML, Toland AE, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, Agudo A, Albanes D, Alonso MH, Anderson K, Arnau-Collell C, Arndt V, Banbury BL, Bassik MC, Berndt SI, Bézieau S, Bishop DT, Boehm J, Boeing H, Boutron-Ruault MC, Brenner H, Brezina S, Buch S, Buchanan DD, Burnett-Hartman A, Caan BJ, Campbell PT, Carr PR, Castells A, Castellví-Bel S, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Curtis KR, de la Chapelle A, Easton DF, English DR, Feskens EJM, Gala M, Gallinger SJ, Gauderman WJ, Giles GG, Goodman PJ, Grady WM, Grove JS, Gsur A, Gunter MJ, Haile RW, Hampe J, Hoffmeister M, Hopper JL, Hsu WL, Huang WY, Hudson TJ, Jenab M, Jenkins MA, Joshi AD, Keku TO, Kooperberg C, Kühn T, Küry S, Le Marchand L, Lejbkowicz F, Li CI, Li L, Lieb W, Lindblom A, Lindor NM, Männistö S, Markowitz SD, Milne RL, Moreno L, Murphy N, Nassir R, Offit K, Ogino S, Panico S, Parfrey PS, Pearlman R, Pharoah PDP, Phipps AI, Platz EA, Potter JD, Prentice RL, Qi L, Raskin L, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Riboli E, Schafmayer C, Schoen RE, Seminara D, Song M, Su YR, Tangen CM, Thibodeau SN, Thomas DC, Trichopoulou A, Ulrich CM, Visvanathan K, Vodicka P, Vodickova L, Vymetalkova V, Weigl K, Weinstein SJ, White E, Wolk A, Woods MO, Wu AH, Abecasis GR, Nickerson DA, Scacheri PC, Kundaje A, Casey G, Gruber SB, Hsu L, Moreno V, Hayes RB, Newcomb PA, Peters U. Genetic architectures of proximal and distal colorectal cancer are partly distinct. Gut 2021; 70:1325-1334. [PMID: 33632709 PMCID: PMC8223655 DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-321534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Revised: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE An understanding of the etiologic heterogeneity of colorectal cancer (CRC) is critical for improving precision prevention, including individualized screening recommendations and the discovery of novel drug targets and repurposable drug candidates for chemoprevention. Known differences in molecular characteristics and environmental risk factors among tumors arising in different locations of the colorectum suggest partly distinct mechanisms of carcinogenesis. The extent to which the contribution of inherited genetic risk factors for CRC differs by anatomical subsite of the primary tumor has not been examined. DESIGN To identify new anatomical subsite-specific risk loci, we performed genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analyses including data of 48 214 CRC cases and 64 159 controls of European ancestry. We characterised effect heterogeneity at CRC risk loci using multinomial modelling. RESULTS We identified 13 loci that reached genome-wide significance (p<5×10-8) and that were not reported by previous GWASs for overall CRC risk. Multiple lines of evidence support candidate genes at several of these loci. We detected substantial heterogeneity between anatomical subsites. Just over half (61) of 109 known and new risk variants showed no evidence for heterogeneity. In contrast, 22 variants showed association with distal CRC (including rectal cancer), but no evidence for association or an attenuated association with proximal CRC. For two loci, there was strong evidence for effects confined to proximal colon cancer. CONCLUSION Genetic architectures of proximal and distal CRC are partly distinct. Studies of risk factors and mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and precision prevention strategies should take into consideration the anatomical subsite of the tumour.
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- Jeroen R Huyghe
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Translational Genomics Research Institute - An Affiliate of City of Hope, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Public Health Division of Gipuzkoa, Health Department of Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées MAP5 (UMR CNRS 8145), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Institut pour la Santé et la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1018, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology - IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology - IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany
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- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), Institut pour la Santé et la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1018, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
- Institut Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Dresden, Germany
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Cancer Centre Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- The Clalit Health Services, Personalized Genomic Service, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Institute of Epidemiology, PopGen Biobank, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura'a University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Laboratory Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, MayoClinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Discipline of Genetics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
- City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology - IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Lu L, Liu X, Huang WK, Giusti-Rodríguez P, Cui J, Zhang S, Xu W, Wen Z, Ma S, Rosen JD, Xu Z, Bartels CF, Kawaguchi R, Hu M, Scacheri PC, Rong Z, Li Y, Sullivan PF, Song H, Ming GL, Li Y, Jin F. Robust Hi-C Maps of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions Reveal the Function of Non-coding Genome in Neural Development and Diseases. Mol Cell 2020; 79:521-534.e15. [PMID: 32592681 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Revised: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Genome-wide mapping of chromatin interactions at high resolution remains experimentally and computationally challenging. Here we used a low-input "easy Hi-C" protocol to map the 3D genome architecture in human neurogenesis and brain tissues and also demonstrated that a rigorous Hi-C bias-correction pipeline (HiCorr) can significantly improve the sensitivity and robustness of Hi-C loop identification at sub-TAD level, especially the enhancer-promoter (E-P) interactions. We used HiCorr to compare the high-resolution maps of chromatin interactions from 10 tissue or cell types with a focus on neurogenesis and brain tissues. We found that dynamic chromatin loops are better hallmarks for cellular differentiation than compartment switching. HiCorr allowed direct observation of cell-type- and differentiation-specific E-P aggregates spanning large neighborhoods, suggesting a mechanism that stabilizes enhancer contacts during development. Interestingly, we concluded that Hi-C loop outperforms eQTL in explaining neurological GWAS results, revealing a unique value of high-resolution 3D genome maps in elucidating the disease etiology.
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- Leina Lu
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Graduate Program in Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Cell Biology, and Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Cancer Research Institute, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Cancer Research Institute, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China; Dermatology Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510091, China
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; The Epigenetics Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Graduate Program in Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; College of Graduate Studies, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Department of Computer and Data Sciences, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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Bayles I, Krajewska M, Pontius WD, Saiakhova A, Morrow JJ, Bartels C, Lu J, Faber ZJ, Fedorov Y, Hong ES, Karnuta JM, Rubin B, Adams DJ, George RE, Scacheri PC. Ex vivo screen identifies CDK12 as a metastatic vulnerability in osteosarcoma. J Clin Invest 2020; 129:4377-4392. [PMID: 31498151 DOI: 10.1172/jci127718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite progress in intensification of therapy, outcomes for patients with metastatic osteosarcoma (OS) have not improved in thirty years. We developed a system that enabled preclinical screening of compounds against metastatic OS cells in the context of the native lung microenvironment. Using this strategy to screen a library of epigenetically targeted compounds, we identified inhibitors of CDK12 to be most effective, reducing OS cell outgrowth in the lung by more than 90% at submicromolar doses. We found that knockout of CDK12 in an in vivo model of lung metastasis significantly decreased the ability of OS to colonize the lung. CDK12 inhibition led to defects in transcription elongation in a gene length- and expression-dependent manner. These effects were accompanied by defects in RNA processing and altered the expression of genes involved in transcription regulation and the DNA damage response. We further identified OS models that differ in their sensitivity to CDK12 inhibition in the lung and provided evidence that upregulated MYC levels may mediate these differences. Our studies provided a framework for rapid preclinical testing of compounds with antimetastatic activity and highlighted CDK12 as a potential therapeutic target in OS.
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- Ian Bayles
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Small Molecules Drug Development Core Facility, Office of Research Administration, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.,Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.,Small Molecules Drug Development Core Facility, Office of Research Administration, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Factor DC, Barbeau AM, Allan KC, Hu LR, Madhavan M, Hoang AT, Hazel KEA, Hall PA, Nisraiyya S, Najm FJ, Miller TE, Nevin ZS, Karl RT, Lima BR, Song Y, Sibert AG, Dhillon GK, Volsko C, Bartels CF, Adams DJ, Dutta R, Gallagher MD, Phu W, Kozlenkov A, Dracheva S, Scacheri PC, Tesar PJ, Corradin O. Cell Type-Specific Intralocus Interactions Reveal Oligodendrocyte Mechanisms in MS. Cell 2020; 181:382-395.e21. [PMID: 32246942 PMCID: PMC7426147 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by attack on oligodendrocytes within the central nervous system (CNS). Despite widespread use of immunomodulatory therapies, patients may still face progressive disability because of failure of myelin regeneration and loss of neurons, suggesting additional cellular pathologies. Here, we describe a general approach for identifying specific cell types in which a disease allele exerts a pathogenic effect. Applying this approach to MS risk loci, we pinpoint likely pathogenic cell types for 70%. In addition to T cell loci, we unexpectedly identified myeloid- and CNS-specific risk loci, including two sites that dysregulate transcriptional pause release in oligodendrocytes. Functional studies demonstrated inhibition of transcriptional elongation is a dominant pathway blocking oligodendrocyte maturation. Furthermore, pause release factors are frequently dysregulated in MS brain tissue. These data implicate cell-intrinsic aberrations outside of the immune system and suggest new avenues for therapeutic development. VIDEO ABSTRACT.
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- Daniel C Factor
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10468, USA; Friedman Brain Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10468, USA; Friedman Brain Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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Morton AR, Dogan-Artun N, Faber ZJ, MacLeod G, Bartels CF, Piazza MS, Allan KC, Mack SC, Wang X, Gimple RC, Wu Q, Rubin BP, Shetty S, Angers S, Dirks PB, Sallari RC, Lupien M, Rich JN, Scacheri PC. Functional Enhancers Shape Extrachromosomal Oncogene Amplifications. Cell 2019; 179:1330-1341.e13. [PMID: 31761532 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.10.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2019] [Revised: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Non-coding regions amplified beyond oncogene borders have largely been ignored. Using a computational approach, we find signatures of significant co-amplification of non-coding DNA beyond the boundaries of amplified oncogenes across five cancer types. In glioblastoma, EGFR is preferentially co-amplified with its two endogenous enhancer elements active in the cell type of origin. These regulatory elements, their contacts, and their contribution to cell fitness are preserved on high-level circular extrachromosomal DNA amplifications. Interrogating the locus with a CRISPR interference screening approach reveals a diversity of additional elements that impact cell fitness. The pattern of fitness dependencies mirrors the rearrangement of regulatory elements and accompanying rewiring of the chromatin topology on the extrachromosomal amplicon. Our studies indicate that oncogene amplifications are shaped by regulatory dependencies in the non-coding genome.
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- Andrew R Morton
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3M2, Canada
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Center for Human Genetics Laboratory, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44120, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Departments of Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute and Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Center for Human Genetics Laboratory, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3M2, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada
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- Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program and Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada; Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON M5G 0A3, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada; Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON M5G 0A3, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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Shang S, Yang J, Jazaeri AA, Duval AJ, Tufan T, Lopes Fischer N, Benamar M, Guessous F, Lee I, Campbell RM, Ebert PJ, Abbas T, Landen CN, Difeo A, Scacheri PC, Adli M. Chemotherapy-Induced Distal Enhancers Drive Transcriptional Programs to Maintain the Chemoresistant State in Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Res 2019; 79:4599-4611. [PMID: 31358529 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-19-0215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2019] [Revised: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 07/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Chemoresistance is driven by unique regulatory networks in the genome that are distinct from those necessary for cancer development. Here, we investigate the contribution of enhancer elements to cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancers. Epigenome profiling of multiple cellular models of chemoresistance identified unique sets of distal enhancers, super-enhancers (SE), and their gene targets that coordinate and maintain the transcriptional program of the platinum-resistant state in ovarian cancer. Pharmacologic inhibition of distal enhancers through small-molecule epigenetic inhibitors suppressed the expression of their target genes and restored cisplatin sensitivity in vitro and in vivo. In addition to known drivers of chemoresistance, our findings identified SOX9 as a critical SE-regulated transcription factor that plays a critical role in acquiring and maintaining the chemoresistant state in ovarian cancer. The approach and findings presented here suggest that integrative analysis of epigenome and transcriptional programs could identify targetable key drivers of chemoresistance in cancers. SIGNIFICANCE: Integrative genome-wide epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses of platinum-sensitive and -resistant ovarian lines identify key distal regulatory regions and associated master regulator transcription factors that can be targeted by small-molecule epigenetic inhibitors.
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- Stephen Shang
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia.,Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Bien SA, Su YR, Conti DV, Harrison TA, Qu C, Guo X, Lu Y, Albanes D, Auer PL, Banbury BL, Berndt SI, Bézieau S, Brenner H, Buchanan DD, Caan BJ, Campbell PT, Carlson CS, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chen S, Connolly CM, Easton DF, Feskens EJM, Gallinger S, Giles GG, Gunter MJ, Hampe J, Huyghe JR, Hoffmeister M, Hudson TJ, Jacobs EJ, Jenkins MA, Kampman E, Kang HM, Kühn T, Küry S, Lejbkowicz F, Le Marchand L, Milne RL, Li L, Li CI, Lindblom A, Lindor NM, Martín V, McNeil CE, Melas M, Moreno V, Newcomb PA, Offit K, Pharaoh PDP, Potter JD, Qu C, Riboli E, Rennert G, Sala N, Schafmayer C, Scacheri PC, Schmit SL, Severi G, Slattery ML, Smith JD, Trichopoulou A, Tumino R, Ulrich CM, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, Weinstein SJ, White E, Wolk A, Woods MO, Wu AH, Abeçasis GR, Casey G, Nickerson DA, Gruber SB, Hsu L, Zheng W, Peters U. Correction to: Genetic variant predictors of gene expression provide new insight into risk of colorectal cancer. Hum Genet 2019; 138:789-791. [PMID: 31254090 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-019-02030-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Every author has erroneously been assigned to the affiliation "62". The affiliation 62 belongs to the author Graham Casey.
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- Stephanie A Bien
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA.
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.,Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53205, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Hotel-Dieu, 44093, Nantes, France.,Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU), 44093, Nantes, France
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.,German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia.,Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia.,Genetic Medicine and Familial Cancer Centre, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California, Oakland, CA, 94612, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, 30329-4251, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.,Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Unit of Genetic Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.,Genetic Tumour Epidemiology Group, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Cancer Center Hamburg, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 01223, UK
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 1X5, Canada
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia.,Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, 3004, Australia
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Medical Department 1, University Hospital Dresden, TU Dresden, 01307, Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada.,AbbVie Inc, 1500 Seaport Blvd, Redwood City, CA, 94063, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, 30329-4251, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Hotel-Dieu, 44093, Nantes, France
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- Clalit Health Services National Israeli Cancer Control Center, 34361, Haifa, Israel.,Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center, 34361, Haifa, Israel
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- University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96813, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia.,Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, 3004, Australia
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- Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet Solna, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, 85259, USA
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- Research Group on Gene-Environment Interactions and Health, (GIIGAS). Institute of Biomedicine (IBIOMED), University of León, León, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 28029, Madrid, Spain
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 28029, Madrid, Spain.,Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08028, Barcelona, Spain.,University of Barcelona, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Clinical Genetics Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, UK
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Clalit Health Services National Israeli Cancer Control Center, 34361, Haifa, Israel.,Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center, 34361, Haifa, Israel
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908, Barcelona, Spain.,Molecular Epidemiology Group, Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, 24118, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.,Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, 13 Kaisareias & Alexandroupoleos, 115 27, Athens, Greece.,WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mikras Asias 75, 115 27, Athens, Greece
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- Affiliation Cancer Registry, Department of Prevention, Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale di Ragusa, Ragusa, Italy
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- Population Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Solna, 17177, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, 75121, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Discipline of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Saint John's, NL, A1B 3V6, Canada
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.,Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA.,Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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Karnuta JM, Scacheri PC. Enhancers: bridging the gap between gene control and human disease. Hum Mol Genet 2019; 27:R219-R227. [PMID: 29726898 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddy167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Enhancers are a class of regulatory elements essential for precise spatio-temporal control of gene expression during development and in terminally differentiated cells. This review highlights signature features of enhancer elements as well as new advances that provide mechanistic insights into enhancer-mediated gene control in the context of three-dimensional chromatin. We detail the various ways in which non-coding mutations can instigate aberrant gene control and cause a variety of Mendelian disorders, common diseases and cancer.
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- Jaret M Karnuta
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.,Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Mack SC, Singh I, Wang X, Hirsch R, Wu Q, Villagomez R, Bernatchez JA, Zhu Z, Gimple RC, Kim LJY, Morton A, Lai S, Qiu Z, Prager BC, Bertrand KC, Mah C, Zhou W, Lee C, Barnett GH, Vogelbaum MA, Sloan AE, Chavez L, Bao S, Scacheri PC, Siqueira-Neto JL, Lin CY, Rich JN. Chromatin landscapes reveal developmentally encoded transcriptional states that define human glioblastoma. J Exp Med 2019; 216:1071-1090. [PMID: 30948495 PMCID: PMC6504206 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20190196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Revised: 03/13/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Mack et al. defined active chromatin landscapes of glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs) and primary tumor specimens, revealing novel transcriptional regulatory circuits and therapeutic targets. Super-enhancers identified essential transcription factors that underlie GSC identity and intertumoral diversity, potentially informing precision medicine. Glioblastoma is an incurable brain cancer characterized by high genetic and pathological heterogeneity. Here, we mapped active chromatin landscapes with gene expression, whole exomes, copy number profiles, and DNA methylomes across 44 patient-derived glioblastoma stem cells (GSCs), 50 primary tumors, and 10 neural stem cells (NSCs) to identify essential super-enhancer (SE)–associated genes and the core transcription factors that establish SEs and maintain GSC identity. GSCs segregate into two groups dominated by distinct enhancer profiles and unique developmental core transcription factor regulatory programs. Group-specific transcription factors enforce GSC identity; they exhibit higher activity in glioblastomas versus NSCs, are associated with poor clinical outcomes, and are required for glioblastoma growth in vivo. Although transcription factors are commonly considered undruggable, group-specific enhancer regulation of the MAPK/ERK pathway predicts sensitivity to MEK inhibition. These data demonstrate that transcriptional identity can be leveraged to identify novel dependencies and therapeutic approaches.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stephen C Mack
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Division of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Division of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.,Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- Division of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
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- Division of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA.,Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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- Division of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA.,Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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- Division of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
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- Division of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA.,Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.,Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
| | - Clarence Mah
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
| | - Christine Lee
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.,Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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- Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor & Neuro-Oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor & Neuro-Oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Seidman Cancer Center & University Hospitals - Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.,Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX .,Therapeutic Innovation Center, Verna and Marrs McClean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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- Division of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
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Bien SA, Su YR, Conti DV, Harrison TA, Qu C, Guo X, Lu Y, Albanes D, Auer PL, Banbury BL, Berndt SI, Bézieau S, Brenner H, Buchanan DD, Caan BJ, Campbell PT, Carlson CS, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chen S, Connolly CM, Easton DF, Feskens EJM, Gallinger S, Giles GG, Gunter MJ, Hampe J, Huyghe JR, Hoffmeister M, Hudson TJ, Jacobs EJ, Jenkins MA, Kampman E, Kang HM, Kühn T, Küry S, Lejbkowicz F, Le Marchand L, Milne RL, Li L, Li CI, Lindblom A, Lindor NM, Martín V, McNeil CE, Melas M, Moreno V, Newcomb PA, Offit K, Pharaoh PDP, Potter JD, Qu C, Riboli E, Rennert G, Sala N, Schafmayer C, Scacheri PC, Schmit SL, Severi G, Slattery ML, Smith JD, Trichopoulou A, Tumino R, Ulrich CM, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, Weinstein SJ, White E, Wolk A, Woods MO, Wu AH, Abecasis GR, Casey G, Nickerson DA, Gruber SB, Hsu L, Zheng W, Peters U. Genetic variant predictors of gene expression provide new insight into risk of colorectal cancer. Hum Genet 2019; 138:307-326. [PMID: 30820706 PMCID: PMC6483948 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-019-01989-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Accepted: 02/20/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies have reported 56 independently associated colorectal cancer (CRC) risk variants, most of which are non-coding and believed to exert their effects by modulating gene expression. The computational method PrediXcan uses cis-regulatory variant predictors to impute expression and perform gene-level association tests in GWAS without directly measured transcriptomes. In this study, we used reference datasets from colon (n = 169) and whole blood (n = 922) transcriptomes to test CRC association with genetically determined expression levels in a genome-wide analysis of 12,186 cases and 14,718 controls. Three novel associations were discovered from colon transverse models at FDR ≤ 0.2 and further evaluated in an independent replication including 32,825 cases and 39,933 controls. After adjusting for multiple comparisons, we found statistically significant associations using colon transcriptome models with TRIM4 (discovery P = 2.2 × 10- 4, replication P = 0.01), and PYGL (discovery P = 2.3 × 10- 4, replication P = 6.7 × 10- 4). Interestingly, both genes encode proteins that influence redox homeostasis and are related to cellular metabolic reprogramming in tumors, implicating a novel CRC pathway linked to cell growth and proliferation. Defining CRC risk regions as one megabase up- and downstream of one of the 56 independent risk variants, we defined 44 non-overlapping CRC-risk regions. Among these risk regions, we identified genes associated with CRC (P < 0.05) in 34/44 CRC-risk regions. Importantly, CRC association was found for two genes in the previously reported 2q25 locus, CXCR1 and CXCR2, which are potential cancer therapeutic targets. These findings provide strong candidate genes to prioritize for subsequent laboratory follow-up of GWAS loci. This study is the first to implement PrediXcan in a large colorectal cancer study and findings highlight the utility of integrating transcriptome data in GWAS for discovery of, and biological insight into, risk loci.
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- Stephanie A Bien
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA.
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA.
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53205, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Hotel-Dieu, 44093, Nantes, France
- Service de Génétique Médiczle, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU), 44093, Nantes, France
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Genetic Medicine and Familial Cancer Centre, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California, Oakland, CA, 94612, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, 30329-4251, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Unit of Genetic Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Genetic Tumour Epidemiology Group, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Cancer Center Hamburg, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Douglas F Easton
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 01223, UK
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 1X5, Canada
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, 3004, Australia
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Medical Department 1, University Hospital Dresden, TU Dresden, 01307, Dresden, Germany
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Jeroen R Huyghe
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Michael Hoffmeister
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Thomas J Hudson
- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
- AbbVie Inc, 1500 Seaport Blvd, Redwood City, CA, 94063, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Eric J Jacobs
- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, 30329-4251, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Mark A Jenkins
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Ellen Kampman
- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Hyun Min Kang
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Tilman Kühn
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Sébastien Küry
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Hotel-Dieu, 44093, Nantes, France
- Service de Génétique Médiczle, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU), 44093, Nantes, France
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Flavio Lejbkowicz
- Clalit Health Services National Israeli Cancer Control Center, 34361, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center, 34361, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Loic Le Marchand
- University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96813, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Roger L Milne
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, 3004, Australia
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Christopher I Li
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet Solna, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, 85259, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Biomedicine Institute (IBIOMED), University of León, León, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Marilena Melas
- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- University of Barcelona, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
| | - Kenneth Offit
- Department of Medicine, Clinical Genetics Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, UK
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Clalit Health Services National Israeli Cancer Control Center, 34361, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center, 34361, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908, Barcelona, Spain
- Molecular Epidemiology Group, Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, 24118, Kiel, Germany
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
- Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, 13 Kaisareias & Alexandroupoleos, 115 27, Athens, Greece
- WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Mikras Asias 75, 115 27, Athens, Greece
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Affiliation Cancer Registry, Department of Prevention, Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale di Ragusa, Ragusa, Italy
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Population Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Solna, 17177, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, 75121, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Discipline of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Saint John's, NL, A1B 3V6, Canada
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Department Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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Hung S, Saiakhova A, Faber ZJ, Bartels CF, Neu D, Bayles I, Ojo E, Hong ES, Pontius WD, Morton AR, Liu R, Kalady MF, Wald DN, Markowitz S, Scacheri PC. Mismatch repair-signature mutations activate gene enhancers across human colorectal cancer epigenomes. eLife 2019; 8:40760. [PMID: 30759065 PMCID: PMC6374075 DOI: 10.7554/elife.40760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Commonly-mutated genes have been found for many cancers, but less is known about mutations in cis-regulatory elements. We leverage gains in tumor-specific enhancer activity, coupled with allele-biased mutation detection from H3K27ac ChIP-seq data, to pinpoint potential enhancer-activating mutations in colorectal cancer (CRC). Analysis of a genetically-diverse cohort of CRC specimens revealed that microsatellite instable (MSI) samples have a high indel rate within active enhancers. Enhancers with indels show evidence of positive selection, increased target gene expression, and a subset is highly recurrent. The indels affect short homopolymer tracts of A/T and increase affinity for FOX transcription factors. We further demonstrate that signature mismatch-repair (MMR) mutations activate enhancers using a xenograft tumor metastasis model, where mutations are induced naturally via CRISPR/Cas9 inactivation of MLH1 prior to tumor cell injection. Our results suggest that MMR signature mutations activate enhancers in CRC tumor epigenomes to provide a selective advantage.
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- Stevephen Hung
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States.,Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States.,Department of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States.,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States.,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States.,Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States.,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
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Huyghe JR, Bien SA, Harrison TA, Kang HM, Chen S, Schmit SL, Conti DV, Qu C, Jeon J, Edlund CK, Greenside P, Wainberg M, Schumacher FR, Smith JD, Levine DM, Nelson SC, Sinnott-Armstrong NA, Albanes D, Alonso MH, Anderson K, Arnau-Collell C, Arndt V, Bamia C, Banbury BL, Baron JA, Berndt SI, Bézieau S, Bishop DT, Boehm J, Boeing H, Brenner H, Brezina S, Buch S, Buchanan DD, Burnett-Hartman A, Butterbach K, Caan BJ, Campbell PT, Carlson CS, Castellví-Bel S, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chirlaque MD, Cho SH, Connolly CM, Cross AJ, Cuk K, Curtis KR, de la Chapelle A, Doheny KF, Duggan D, Easton DF, Elias SG, Elliott F, English DR, Feskens EJM, Figueiredo JC, Fischer R, FitzGerald LM, Forman D, Gala M, Gallinger S, Gauderman WJ, Giles GG, Gillanders E, Gong J, Goodman PJ, Grady WM, Grove JS, Gsur A, Gunter MJ, Haile RW, Hampe J, Hampel H, Harlid S, Hayes RB, Hofer P, Hoffmeister M, Hopper JL, Hsu WL, Huang WY, Hudson TJ, Hunter DJ, Ibañez-Sanz G, Idos GE, Ingersoll R, Jackson RD, Jacobs EJ, Jenkins MA, Joshi AD, Joshu CE, Keku TO, Key TJ, Kim HR, Kobayashi E, Kolonel LN, Kooperberg C, Kühn T, Küry S, Kweon SS, Larsson SC, Laurie CA, Le Marchand L, Leal SM, Lee SC, Lejbkowicz F, Lemire M, Li CI, Li L, Lieb W, Lin Y, Lindblom A, Lindor NM, Ling H, Louie TL, Männistö S, Markowitz SD, Martín V, Masala G, McNeil CE, Melas M, Milne RL, Moreno L, Murphy N, Myte R, Naccarati A, Newcomb PA, Offit K, Ogino S, Onland-Moret NC, Pardini B, Parfrey PS, Pearlman R, Perduca V, Pharoah PDP, Pinchev M, Platz EA, Prentice RL, Pugh E, Raskin L, Rennert G, Rennert HS, Riboli E, Rodríguez-Barranco M, Romm J, Sakoda LC, Schafmayer C, Schoen RE, Seminara D, Shah M, Shelford T, Shin MH, Shulman K, Sieri S, Slattery ML, Southey MC, Stadler ZK, Stegmaier C, Su YR, Tangen CM, Thibodeau SN, Thomas DC, Thomas SS, Toland AE, Trichopoulou A, Ulrich CM, Van Den Berg DJ, van Duijnhoven FJB, Van Guelpen B, van Kranen H, Vijai J, Visvanathan K, Vodicka P, Vodickova L, Vymetalkova V, Weigl K, Weinstein SJ, White E, Win AK, Wolf CR, Wolk A, Woods MO, Wu AH, Zaidi SH, Zanke BW, Zhang Q, Zheng W, Scacheri PC, Potter JD, Bassik MC, Kundaje A, Casey G, Moreno V, Abecasis GR, Nickerson DA, Gruber SB, Hsu L, Peters U. Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer. Nat Genet 2019; 51:76-87. [PMID: 30510241 PMCID: PMC6358437 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0286-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 58.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
To further dissect the genetic architecture of colorectal cancer (CRC), we performed whole-genome sequencing of 1,439 cases and 720 controls, imputed discovered sequence variants and Haplotype Reference Consortium panel variants into genome-wide association study data, and tested for association in 34,869 cases and 29,051 controls. Findings were followed up in an additional 23,262 cases and 38,296 controls. We discovered a strongly protective 0.3% frequency variant signal at CHD1. In a combined meta-analysis of 125,478 individuals, we identified 40 new independent signals at P < 5 × 10-8, bringing the number of known independent signals for CRC to ~100. New signals implicate lower-frequency variants, Krüppel-like factors, Hedgehog signaling, Hippo-YAP signaling, long noncoding RNAs and somatic drivers, and support a role for immune function. Heritability analyses suggest that CRC risk is highly polygenic, and larger, more comprehensive studies enabling rare variant analysis will improve understanding of biology underlying this risk and influence personalized screening strategies and drug development.
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- Jeroen R Huyghe
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Biomedical Informatics Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Dresden, Germany
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- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Cancer Centre Hamburg (UCCH), Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia University, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Hematology-Oncology, Chonnam National University Hospital, Hwasun, South Korea
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics and the Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Translational Genomics Research Institute - An Affiliate of City of Hope, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of Hawaii Cancer Research Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Gastroenterology Department, Bellvitge University Hospital, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Behavioral and Epidemiology Research Group, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Surgery, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital and Medical School, Hwasun, Korea
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
- Jeonnam Regional Cancer Center, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun, Korea
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Statistical Genetics, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Haematology-Oncology, National University Cancer Institute, Singapore, Singapore
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- The Clalit Health Services, Personalized Genomic Service, Carmel, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Community Health Integration and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Institute of Epidemiology, PopGen Biobank, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Biomedicine Institute (IBIOMED), University of León, León, Spain
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- Cancer Risk Factors and Life-Style Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network - ISPRO, Florence, Italy
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- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology and Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Turin, Italy
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Turin, Italy
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- The Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Memorial University Medical School, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées MAP5 (UMR CNRS 8145), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- CESP (Inserm U1018), Facultés de Medicine Université Paris-Sud, UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Haifa, Israel
- Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública. Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Hospitales Universitarios de Granada, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
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- Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Laboratory Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Departments of Cancer Biology and Genetics and Internal Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece
- WHO Collaborating Center for Nutrition and Health, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutrition in Public Health, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology Unit, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Memorial University of Newfoundland, Discipline of Genetics, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Hematology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genomics Shared Resource, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Colorectal Cancer Group, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Bailey SD, Zhang X, Desai K, Aid M, Corradin O, Cowper-Sal Lari R, Akhtar-Zaidi B, Scacheri PC, Haibe-Kains B, Lupien M. Publisher Correction: ZNF143 provides sequence specificity to secure chromatin interactions at gene promoters. Nat Commun 2018; 9:16194. [PMID: 29633758 PMCID: PMC5898460 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Berger NA, Scacheri PC. Targeting Epigenetics to Prevent Obesity Promoted Cancers. Cancer Prev Res (Phila) 2018; 11:125-128. [PMID: 29476043 DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.capr-18-0043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Revised: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Epigenetic changes in DNA and associated chromatin proteins are increasingly being considered as important mediators of the linkage between obesity and cancer. Although multiple agents, targeted at epigenetic changes, are being tested for therapy of established cancers, this issue of Cancer Prevention Research carries two articles demonstrating that the bromodomain inhibitor I-BET-762 can attenuate adipose tissue-promoted cancers. Although I-BET-762 significantly delayed, rather than completely prevented, the onset of adiposity-promoted transformation and malignancy, these experiments provide important proof of principle for the strategies of targeting epigenetic changes to disrupt the obesity-cancer linkage. Because bromodomain proteins represent only one of multiple epigenetic mediators, it is probable that targeting other epigenetic processes, alone or in combination, may serve to even more effectively disrupt the obesity promotion of cancer. Given the magnitude of the current obesity pandemic and its impact on cancer, preventive measures to disrupt this linkage are critically important. Cancer Prev Res; 11(3); 125-8. ©2018 AACRSee related article by Chakraborty et al., p. 129.
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- Nathan A Berger
- Department of Medicine, Center for Science, Health & Society, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio. .,Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.,Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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Yao H, Hill SF, Skidmore JM, Sperry ED, Swiderski DL, Sanchez GJ, Bartels CF, Raphael Y, Scacheri PC, Iwase S, Martin DM. CHD7 represses the retinoic acid synthesis enzyme ALDH1A3 during inner ear development. JCI Insight 2018; 3:97440. [PMID: 29467333 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.97440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Accepted: 01/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
CHD7, an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeler, is disrupted in CHARGE syndrome, an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by variably penetrant abnormalities in craniofacial, cardiac, and nervous system tissues. The inner ear is uniquely sensitive to CHD7 levels and is the most commonly affected organ in individuals with CHARGE. Interestingly, upregulation or downregulation of retinoic acid (RA) signaling during embryogenesis also leads to developmental defects similar to those in CHARGE syndrome, suggesting that CHD7 and RA may have common target genes or signaling pathways. Here, we tested three separate potential mechanisms for CHD7 and RA interaction: (a) direct binding of CHD7 with RA receptors, (b) regulation of CHD7 levels by RA, and (c) CHD7 binding and regulation of RA-related genes. We show that CHD7 directly regulates expression of Aldh1a3, the gene encoding the RA synthetic enzyme ALDH1A3 and that loss of Aldh1a3 partially rescues Chd7 mutant mouse inner ear defects. Together, these studies indicate that ALDH1A3 acts with CHD7 in a common genetic pathway to regulate inner ear development, providing insights into how CHD7 and RA regulate gene expression and morphogenesis in the developing embryo.
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- Hui Yao
- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
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- Department of Human Genetics.,Medical Scientist Training Program, and
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- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases.,Department of Human Genetics.,Medical Scientist Training Program, and
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Morrow JJ, Bayles I, Funnell APW, Miller TE, Saiakhova A, Lizardo MM, Bartels CF, Kapteijn MY, Hung S, Mendoza A, Dhillon G, Chee DR, Myers JT, Allen F, Gambarotti M, Righi A, DiFeo A, Rubin BP, Huang AY, Meltzer PS, Helman LJ, Picci P, Versteeg H, Stamatoyannopolus J, Khanna C, Scacheri PC. Positively selected enhancer elements endow osteosarcoma cells with metastatic competence. Nat Med 2018; 24:176-185. [PMID: 29334376 PMCID: PMC5803371 DOI: 10.1038/nm.4475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Metastasis results from a complex set of traits acquired by tumor cells, distinct from those necessary for tumorigenesis. Here, we investigate the contribution of enhancer elements to the metastatic phenotype of osteosarcoma. Through epigenomic profiling, we identify substantial differences in enhancer activity between primary and metastatic human tumors and between near isogenic pairs of highly lung metastatic and nonmetastatic osteosarcoma cell lines. We term these regions metastatic variant enhancer loci (Met-VELs). Met-VELs drive coordinated waves of gene expression during metastatic colonization of the lung. Met-VELs cluster nonrandomly in the genome, indicating that activity of these enhancers and expression of their associated gene targets are positively selected. As evidence of this causal association, osteosarcoma lung metastasis is inhibited by global interruptions of Met-VEL-associated gene expression via pharmacologic BET inhibition, by knockdown of AP-1 transcription factors that occupy Met-VELs, and by knockdown or functional inhibition of individual genes activated by Met-VELs, such as that encoding coagulation factor III/tissue factor (F3). We further show that genetic deletion of a single Met-VEL at the F3 locus blocks metastatic cell outgrowth in the lung. These findings indicate that Met-VELs and the genes they regulate play a functional role in metastasis and may be suitable targets for antimetastatic therapies.
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- James J. Morrow
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892 USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Thrombosis and Hemostasis Division, Department of Internal Medicine, LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892 USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Research Laboratory, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Via Pupilli 1, 40136, Bologna, Italy
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- Research Laboratory, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Via Pupilli 1, 40136, Bologna, Italy
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Departments of Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute and Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892 USA
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892 USA
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- Research Laboratory, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Via Pupilli 1, 40136, Bologna, Italy
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- Thrombosis and Hemostasis Division, Department of Internal Medicine, LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892 USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Research Laboratory, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Via Pupilli 1, 40136, Bologna, Italy
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Merry CR, McMahon S, Forrest ME, Bartels CF, Saiakhova A, Bartel CA, Scacheri PC, Thompson CL, Jackson MW, Harris LN, Khalil AM. Transcriptome-wide identification of mRNAs and lincRNAs associated with trastuzumab-resistance in HER2-positive breast cancer. Oncotarget 2018; 7:53230-53244. [PMID: 27449296 PMCID: PMC5288181 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.10637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2016] [Accepted: 07/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Approximately, 25–30% of early-stage breast tumors are classified at the molecular level as HER2-positive, which is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer. Amplification of the HER2 gene in these tumors results in a substantial increase in HER2 mRNA levels, and consequently, HER2 protein levels. HER2, a transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK), is targeted therapeutically by a monoclonal antibody, trastuzumab (Tz), which has dramatically improved the prognosis of HER2-driven breast cancers. However, ~30% of patients develop resistance to trastuzumab and recur; and nearly all patients with advanced disease develop resistance over time and succumb to the disease. Mechanisms of trastuzumab resistance (TzR) are not well understood, although some studies suggest that growth factor signaling through other receptors may be responsible. However, these studies were based on cell culture models of the disease, and thus, it is not known which pathways are driving the resistance in vivo. Using an integrative transcriptomic approach of RNA isolated from trastuzumab-sensitive and trastuzumab-resistant HER2+ tumors, and isogenic cell culture models, we identified a small set of mRNAs and lincRNAs that are associated with trastuzumab-resistance (TzR). Functional analysis of a top candidate gene, S100P, demonstrated that inhibition of S100P results in reversing TzR. Mechanistically, S100P activates the RAS/MEK/MAPK pathway to compensate for HER2 inhibition by trastuzumab. Finally, we demonstrated that the upregulation of S100P appears to be driven by epigenomic changes at the enhancer level. Our current findings should pave the path toward new therapies for breast cancer patients.
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- Callie R Merry
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.,Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.,Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.,Department of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.,Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Mack SC, Pajtler KW, Chavez L, Okonechnikov K, Bertrand KC, Wang X, Erkek S, Federation A, Song A, Lee C, Wang X, McDonald L, Morrow JJ, Saiakhova A, Sin-Chan P, Wu Q, Michaelraj KA, Miller TE, Hubert CG, Ryzhova M, Garzia L, Donovan L, Dombrowski S, Factor DC, Luu B, Valentim CLL, Gimple RC, Morton A, Kim L, Prager BC, Lee JJY, Wu X, Zuccaro J, Thompson Y, Holgado BL, Reimand J, Ke SQ, Tropper A, Lai S, Vijayarajah S, Doan S, Mahadev V, Miñan AF, Gröbner SN, Lienhard M, Zapatka M, Huang Z, Aldape KD, Carcaboso AM, Houghton PJ, Keir ST, Milde T, Witt H, Li Y, Li CJ, Bian XW, Jones DTW, Scott I, Singh SK, Huang A, Dirks PB, Bouffet E, Bradner JE, Ramaswamy V, Jabado N, Rutka JT, Northcott PA, Lupien M, Lichter P, Korshunov A, Scacheri PC, Pfister SM, Kool M, Taylor MD, Rich JN. Therapeutic targeting of ependymoma as informed by oncogenic enhancer profiling. Nature 2017; 553:101-105. [PMID: 29258295 PMCID: PMC5993422 DOI: 10.1038/nature25169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Genomic sequencing has driven precision-based oncology therapy; however, genetic drivers remain unknown or non-targetable for many malignancies, demanding alternative approaches to identify therapeutic leads. Ependymomas are chemotherapy-resistant brain tumours, which, despite genomic sequencing, lack effective molecular targets. Intracranial ependymomas are segregated based on anatomical location – supratentorial region (ST) or posterior fossa (PF) – and further divided into distinct molecular subgroups that reflect differences in age of onset, gender predominance, and response to therapy1–3. The most common and aggressive subgroup, Posterior Fossa Ependymoma Group A (PF-EPN-A), occurs in young children and appears to lack recurrent somatic mutations2. Conversely, Posterior Fossa Ependymoma Group B (PF-EPN-B) tumours display frequent large-scale copy number gains and losses yet favourable clinical outcomes1,3. Greater than 70% of supratentorial ependymomas are defined by highly recurrent gene fusions in the NFκB subunit RELA (ST-EPN-RELA), and less frequently involve fusion of the gene encoding the transcriptional activator YAP1 (ST-EPN-YAP1).1,3,4 Subependymomas, a distinct histologic variant, can also be found within the ST and PF compartments accounting for the majority of tumours in the molecular subgroups ST-EPN-SE and PF-EPN-SE, respectively1. Here, we mapped active chromatin landscapes in 42 primary ependymomas in two non-overlapping primary ependymoma cohorts with the goal of identifying essential super enhancer associated genes on which tumour cells were dependent. Enhancer regions revealed putative oncogenes, molecular targets, and pathways, which when subjected to small molecule inhibitor or shRNA treatment, diminished proliferation of patient-derived neurospheres and increased survival in mouse models of ependymomas. Through profiling of transcriptional enhancers, our study provides a framework for target and drug discovery in other cancers recalcitrant to therapeutic development because of their lack of known genetic drivers.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stephen C Mack
- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.,Department of Pediatric Hematolgy and Oncology, Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers, Houston, Texas, USA.,Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, University of California - San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
| | - Konstantin Okonechnikov
- Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.,Department of Pediatric Hematolgy and Oncology, Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers, Houston, Texas, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California - San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Genomic Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 355065, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
| | - Christine Lee
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
| | - James J Morrow
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California - San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
| | - Christopher G Hubert
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Department of Neuropathology, NN Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute, 4th Tverskaya-Yamskaya 16, Moscow 125047, Russia
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor & Neuro-Oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute, Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California - San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA.,Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California - San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California - San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Computational Biology Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A3, Canada.,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
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- Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69121 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69121 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Preclinical Therapeutics and Drug Delivery Research Program, Fundacio Sant Joan de Deu, 08950 Barcelona, Spain
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- Nationwide Children's Hospital, Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases, Columbus, Ohio
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- Duke University Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Clinical Cooperation Unit Pediatric Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), INF 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, National Resource Centre for Mutant Mice, Nanjing, China
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- Institute of Pathology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, and The Key Laboratory of Tumor Immunopathology, The Ministry of Education of China, Chongqing, China
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- Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada.,Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada.,Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada.,Division of Hematology and Oncology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Departments of Paediatrics and Human Genetics, McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, Montreal, Quebec H3Z 2Z3, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Developmental Neurobiology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
| | - Peter Lichter
- Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69121 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neuropathology, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Clinical Cooperation Unit Neuropathology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69121 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.,Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Medicine, Division of Regenerative Medicine, University of California - San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, USA.,Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor & Neuro-Oncology Center, Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute, Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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Sahni JM, Gayle SS, Webb BM, Weber-Bonk KL, Seachrist DD, Singh S, Sizemore ST, Restrepo NA, Bebek G, Scacheri PC, Varadan V, Summers MK, Keri RA. Mitotic Vulnerability in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Associated with LIN9 Is Targetable with BET Inhibitors. Cancer Res 2017; 77:5395-5408. [PMID: 28807940 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-17-1571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2017] [Revised: 07/12/2017] [Accepted: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) are highly aggressive, lack FDA-approved targeted therapies, and frequently recur, making the discovery of novel therapeutic targets for this disease imperative. Our previous analysis of the molecular mechanisms of action of bromodomain and extraterminal protein inhibitors (BETi) in TNBC revealed these drugs cause multinucleation, indicating BET proteins are essential for efficient mitosis and cytokinesis. Here, using live cell imaging, we show that BET inhibition prolonged mitotic progression and induced mitotic cell death, both of which are indicative of mitotic catastrophe. Mechanistically, the mitosis regulator LIN9 was a direct target of BET proteins that mediated the effects of BET proteins on mitosis in TNBC. Although BETi have been proposed to function by dismantling super-enhancers (SE), the LIN9 gene lacks an SE but was amplified or overexpressed in the majority of TNBCs. In addition, its mRNA expression predicted poor outcome across breast cancer subtypes. Together, these results provide a mechanism for cancer selectivity of BETi that extends beyond modulation of SE-associated genes and suggest that cancers dependent upon LIN9 overexpression may be particularly vulnerable to BETi. Cancer Res; 77(19); 5395-408. ©2017 AACR.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jennifer M Sahni
- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
| | - Salendra Singh
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
| | - Steven T Sizemore
- Department of Radiation Oncology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
| | - Nicole A Restrepo
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
| | - Gurkan Bebek
- Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.,Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
| | - Matthew K Summers
- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. .,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.,Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.,Department General Medical Sciences-Oncology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Miller TE, Liau BB, Wallace LC, Morton AR, Xie Q, Dixit D, Factor DC, Kim LJY, Morrow JJ, Wu Q, Mack SC, Hubert CG, Gillespie SM, Flavahan WA, Hoffmann T, Thummalapalli R, Hemann MT, Paddison PJ, Horbinski CM, Zuber J, Scacheri PC, Bernstein BE, Tesar PJ, Rich JN. Transcription elongation factors represent in vivo cancer dependencies in glioblastoma. Nature 2017; 547:355-359. [PMID: 28678782 PMCID: PMC5896562 DOI: 10.1038/nature23000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2015] [Accepted: 06/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Glioblastoma is a universally lethal cancer with a median survival time of approximately 15 months. Despite substantial efforts to define druggable targets, there are no therapeutic options that notably extend the lifespan of patients with glioblastoma. While previous work has largely focused on in vitro cellular models, here we demonstrate a more physiologically relevant approach to target discovery in glioblastoma. We adapted pooled RNA interference (RNAi) screening technology for use in orthotopic patient-derived xenograft models, creating a high-throughput negative-selection screening platform in a functional in vivo tumour microenvironment. Using this approach, we performed parallel in vivo and in vitro screens and discovered that the chromatin and transcriptional regulators needed for cell survival in vivo are non-overlapping with those required in vitro. We identified transcription pause-release and elongation factors as one set of in vivo-specific cancer dependencies, and determined that these factors are necessary for enhancer-mediated transcriptional adaptations that enable cells to survive the tumour microenvironment. Our lead hit, JMJD6, mediates the upregulation of in vivo stress and stimulus response pathways through enhancer-mediated transcriptional pause-release, promoting cell survival specifically in vivo. Targeting JMJD6 or other identified elongation factors extends survival in orthotopic xenograft mouse models, suggesting that targeting transcription elongation machinery may be an effective therapeutic strategy for glioblastoma. More broadly, this study demonstrates the power of in vivo phenotypic screening to identify new classes of 'cancer dependencies' not identified by previous in vitro approaches, and could supply new opportunities for therapeutic intervention.
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- Tyler E Miller
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.,Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.,Epigenomics Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.,Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
| | - Lisa C Wallace
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
| | - Andrew R Morton
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
| | - Qi Xie
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
| | - Daniel C Factor
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
| | - Leo J Y Kim
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
| | - James J Morrow
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.,Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
| | - Qiulian Wu
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
| | - Stephen C Mack
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
| | - Christopher G Hubert
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
| | - Shawn M Gillespie
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.,Epigenomics Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.,Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.,Epigenomics Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.,Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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- The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.,Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60615, USA
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.,Epigenomics Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.,Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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Cohen AJ, Saiakhova A, Corradin O, Luppino JM, Lovrenert K, Bartels CF, Morrow JJ, Mack SC, Dhillon G, Beard L, Myeroff L, Kalady MF, Willis J, Bradner JE, Keri RA, Berger NA, Pruett-Miller SM, Markowitz SD, Scacheri PC. Hotspots of aberrant enhancer activity punctuate the colorectal cancer epigenome. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14400. [PMID: 28169291 PMCID: PMC5309719 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Accepted: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
In addition to mutations in genes, aberrant enhancer element activity at non-coding regions of the genome is a key driver of tumorigenesis. Here, we perform epigenomic enhancer profiling of a cohort of more than forty genetically diverse human colorectal cancer (CRC) specimens. Using normal colonic crypt epithelium as a comparator, we identify enhancers with recurrently gained or lost activity across CRC specimens. Of the enhancers highly recurrently activated in CRC, most are constituents of super enhancers, are occupied by AP-1 and cohesin complex members, and originate from primed chromatin. Many activate known oncogenes, and CRC growth can be mitigated through pharmacologic inhibition or genome editing of these loci. Nearly half of all GWAS CRC risk loci co-localize to recurrently activated enhancers. These findings indicate that the CRC epigenome is defined by highly recurrent epigenetic alterations at enhancers which activate a common, aberrant transcriptional programme critical for CRC growth and survival.
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- Andrea J. Cohen
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Genome Engineering and iPSC Center, Department of Genetics, Washington University, 4515 McKinley Building, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Corradin O, Cohen AJ, Luppino JM, Bayles IM, Schumacher FR, Scacheri PC. Modeling disease risk through analysis of physical interactions between genetic variants within chromatin regulatory circuitry. Nat Genet 2016; 48:1313-1320. [PMID: 27643537 PMCID: PMC5083135 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
SNPs associated with disease susceptibility often reside in enhancer clusters, or super-enhancers. Constituents of these enhancer clusters cooperate to regulate target genes and often extend beyond the linkage disequilibrium (LD) blocks containing risk SNPs identified in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). We identified 'outside variants', defined as SNPs in weak LD with GWAS risk SNPs that physically interact with risk SNPs as part of a target gene's regulatory circuitry. These outside variants further explain variation in target gene expression beyond that explained by GWAS-associated SNPs. Additionally, the clinical risk associated with GWAS SNPs is considerably modified by the genotype of outside variants. Collectively, these findings suggest a potential model in which outside variants and GWAS SNPs that physically interact in 3D chromatin collude to influence target transcript levels as well as clinical risk. This model offers an additional hypothesis for the source of missing heritability for complex traits.
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- Olivia Corradin
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Lizardo MM, Morrow JJ, Miller TE, Hong ES, Ren L, Mendoza A, Halsey CH, Scacheri PC, Helman LJ, Khanna C. Upregulation of Glucose-Regulated Protein 78 in Metastatic Cancer Cells Is Necessary for Lung Metastasis Progression. Neoplasia 2016; 18:699-710. [PMID: 27973325 PMCID: PMC5094383 DOI: 10.1016/j.neo.2016.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2016] [Revised: 09/04/2016] [Accepted: 09/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Metastasis is the cause of more than 90% of all cancer deaths. Despite this fact, most anticancer therapeutics currently in clinical use have limited efficacy in treating established metastases. Here, we identify the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone protein, glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78), as a metastatic dependency in several highly metastatic cancer cell models. We find that GRP78 is consistently upregulated when highly metastatic cancer cells colonize the lung microenvironment and that mitigation of GRP78 upregulation via short hairpin RNA or treatment with the small molecule IT-139, which is currently under clinical investigation for the treatment of primary tumors, inhibits metastatic growth in the lung microenvironment. Inhibition of GRP78 upregulation and an associated reduction in metastatic potential have been shown in four highly metastatic cell line models: three human osteosarcomas and one murine mammary adenocarcinoma. Lastly, we show that downmodulation of GRP78 in highly metastatic cancer cells significantly increases median survival times in our in vivo animal model of experimental metastasis. Collectively, our data indicate that GRP78 is an attractive target for the development of antimetastatic therapies.
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- Michael M Lizardo
- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Comparative Oncology Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Ethos Discovery in Washington DC and Ethos Veterinary Health, Wolburn MA, USA.
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Somatic structural variants in tumor genomes can deregulate transcription through repositioning of enhancer elements. A new method, PEAR-ChIP, leverages paired-end H3K27ac chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with high-throughput sequencing and current computational methods to identify such events.
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- Stephen C Mack
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Morrow JJ, Miller TE, Saiakhova A, Lizardo MM, Bartels CF, Bayles I, Hung S, Mendoza A, Myers JT, Allen F, DiFeo A, Rubin BP, Huang AY, Meltzer PS, Helman LJ, Khanna C, Scacheri PC. Abstract LB-151: Positively selected enhancer elements endow tumor cells with metastatic competence. Cancer Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2016-lb-151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Metastasis results from a complex set of traits acquired by tumor cells, distinct from those necessary for tumorigenesis. Here, we investigate the contribution of enhancer elements to the metastatic phenotype of osteosarcoma. Through epigenomic profiling, we identify substantial differences in signature enhancer-histone marks between near-isogenic pairs of high and low lung-metastatic osteosarcoma cells. We term these regions Metastatic Variant Enhancer Loci (Met-VELs). Met-VELs drive coordinated waves of gene expression during metastatic colonization of the lung. Met-VELs cluster non-randomly, indicating that activity of these enhancers and their associated gene targets is positively selected. Osteosarcoma lung metastasis is inhibited by global interruptions of Met-VEL associated gene expression via pharmacologic BET inhibition, by knockdown of AP-1 transcription factors whose motifs are enriched in Met-VELs, and by knockdown of individual genes activated by Met-VELs. These observations have implications for the discovery and development of targeted anti-metastatic therapies.
Citation Format: James J. Morrow, Tyler E. Miller, Alina Saiakhova, Michael M. Lizardo, Cynthia F. Bartels, Ian Bayles, Stevephen Hung, Arnulfo Mendoza, Jay T. Myers, Frederick Allen, Analisa DiFeo, Brian P. Rubin, Alex Y. Huang, Paul S. Meltzer, Lee J. Helman, Chand Khanna, Peter C. Scacheri. Positively selected enhancer elements endow tumor cells with metastatic competence. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2016 Apr 16-20; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2016;76(14 Suppl):Abstract nr LB-151.
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- James J. Morrow
- 1Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- 1Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- 1Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- 1Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- 1Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- 1Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- 1Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- 1Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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- 3Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute and Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH
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- 1Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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Morrow JJ, Mendoza A, Koyen A, Lizardo MM, Ren L, Waybright TJ, Hansen RJ, Gustafson DL, Zhou M, Fan TM, Scacheri PC, Khanna C. mTOR Inhibition Mitigates Enhanced mRNA Translation Associated with the Metastatic Phenotype of Osteosarcoma Cells In Vivo. Clin Cancer Res 2016; 22:6129-6141. [PMID: 27342399 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-16-0326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2016] [Revised: 05/20/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE To successfully metastasize, tumor cells must respond appropriately to biological stressors encountered during metastatic progression. We sought to test the hypothesis that enhanced efficiency of mRNA translation during periods of metastatic stress is required for metastatic competence of osteosarcoma and that this metastasis-specific adaptation is amenable to therapeutic intervention. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We employ novel reporter and proteomic systems that enable tracking of mRNA translation efficiency and output in metastatic osteosarcoma cells as they colonize the lungs. We test the potential to target mRNA translation as an antimetastatic therapeutic strategy through pharmacokinetic studies and preclinical assessment of the prototypic mTOR inhibitor, rapamycin, across multiple models of metastasis. RESULTS Metastatic osteosarcoma cells translate mRNA more efficiently than nonmetastatic cells during critical stressful periods of metastatic colonization of the lung. Rapamycin inhibits translational output during periods of metastatic stress, mitigates lung colonization, and prolongs survival. mTOR-inhibiting exposures of rapamycin are achievable in mice using treatment schedules that correspond to human doses well below the MTDs defined in human patients, and as such are very likely to be tolerated over long exposures alone and in combination with other agents. CONCLUSIONS Metastatic competence of osteosarcoma cells is dependent on efficient mRNA translation during stressful periods of metastatic progression, and the mTOR inhibitor, rapamycin, can mitigate this translation and inhibit metastasis in vivo Our data suggest that mTOR pathway inhibitors should be reconsidered in the clinic using rationally designed dosing schedules and clinical metrics related to metastatic progression. Clin Cancer Res; 22(24); 6129-41. ©2016 AACR.
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- James J Morrow
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.,Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.,Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, Maryland
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- Flint Animal Cancer Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.,Pharmacology Shared Resource, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Flint Animal Cancer Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.,Pharmacology Shared Resource, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
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- Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, Maryland
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- Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland.
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Martin DM, Salem-Hartshorne N, Hartshorne TS, Scacheri PC, Hefner MA. 12th International CHARGE syndrome conference proceedings. Am J Med Genet A 2016; 170A:856-69. [PMID: 26754144 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.37544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2015] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
The CHARGE Syndrome Foundation holds an International conference for families and professionals every other summer. In July, 2015, the 12th meeting was held in Schaumburg, Illinois, at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel. Day one of the 4-day conference was dedicated to professionals caring for and researching various aspects of CHARGE, including education, medical management, animal models, and stem cell-based approaches to understanding and treating individuals with CHARGE. Here, we summarize presentations from the meeting, including a synopsis of each of the three different breakout sessions (Medical/Clinical, Basic Science/CHD7, and Education), followed by a list of abstracts and authors for both platform and poster presentations.
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- Donna M Martin
- Departments of Human Genetics, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Departments of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Long non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) have recently been demonstrated to be expressed from a subset of enhancers and to be required for the distant regulation of gene expression. Several approaches to predict enhancers have been developed based on various chromatin marks and occupancy of enhancer-binding proteins. Despite the rapid advances in the field, no consensus how to define tissue specific enhancers yet exists. Here, we identify 2,695 long ncRNAs annotated by ENCODE (corresponding to 28% of all ENCODE annotated long ncRNAs) that overlap tissue-specific enhancers. We use a recently developed algorithm to predict tissue-specific enhancers, PreSTIGE, that is based on the H3K4me1 mark and tissue specific expression of mRNAs. The expression of the long ncRNAs overlapping enhancers is significantly higher when the enhancer is predicted as active in a specific cell line, suggesting a general interdependency of active enhancers and expression of long ncRNAs. This dependency is not identified using previous enhancer prediction algorithms that do not account for expression of their downstream targets. The predicted enhancers that overlap annotated long ncRNAs generally have a lower ratio of H3K4me1 to H3K4me3, suggesting that enhancers expressing long ncRNAs might be associated with specific epigenetic marks. In conclusion, we demonstrate the tissue-specific predictive power of PreSTIGE and provide evidence for thousands of long ncRNAs that are expressed from active tissue-specific enhancers, suggesting a particularly important functional relationship between long ncRNAs and enhancer activity in determining tissue-specific gene expression.
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- Dubravka Vučićević
- a Noncoding RNA Research Group; Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics ; Berlin , Germany
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Factor DC, Corradin O, Zentner GE, Saiakhova A, Song L, Chenoweth JG, McKay RD, Crawford GE, Scacheri PC, Tesar PJ. Epigenomic comparison reveals activation of "seed" enhancers during transition from naive to primed pluripotency. Cell Stem Cell 2015; 14:854-63. [PMID: 24905169 DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2014.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2014] [Revised: 05/01/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Naive mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) and primed epiblast stem cells (mEpiSCs) represent successive snapshots of pluripotency during embryogenesis. Using transcriptomic and epigenomic mapping we show that a small fraction of transcripts are differentially expressed between mESCs and mEpiSCs and that these genes show expected changes in chromatin at their promoters and enhancers. Unexpectedly, the cis-regulatory circuitry of genes that are expressed at identical levels between these cell states also differs dramatically. In mESCs, these genes are associated with dominant proximal enhancers and dormant distal enhancers, which we term seed enhancers. In mEpiSCs, the naive-dominant enhancers are lost, and the seed enhancers take up primary transcriptional control. Seed enhancers have increased sequence conservation and show preferential usage in downstream somatic tissues, often expanding into super enhancers. We propose that seed enhancers ensure proper enhancer utilization and transcriptional fidelity as mammalian cells transition from naive pluripotency to a somatic regulatory program.
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- Daniel C Factor
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27709, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; National Center for Regenerative Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
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Bailey SD, Zhang X, Desai K, Aid M, Corradin O, Cowper-Sal Lari R, Akhtar-Zaidi B, Scacheri PC, Haibe-Kains B, Lupien M. ZNF143 provides sequence specificity to secure chromatin interactions at gene promoters. Nat Commun 2015; 2:6186. [PMID: 25645053 PMCID: PMC4431651 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2014] [Accepted: 12/30/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Chromatin interactions connect distal regulatory elements to target gene promoters
guiding stimulus- and lineage-specific transcription. Few factors securing chromatin
interactions have so far been identified. Here, by integrating chromatin interaction
maps with the large collection of transcription factor-binding profiles provided by
the ENCODE project, we demonstrate that the zinc-finger protein ZNF143 preferentially occupies anchors of
chromatin interactions connecting promoters with distal regulatory elements. It
binds directly to promoters and associates with lineage-specific chromatin
interactions and gene expression. Silencing ZNF143 or modulating its DNA-binding affinity using
single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as a surrogate of site-directed mutagenesis
reveals the sequence dependency of chromatin interactions at gene promoters. We also
find that chromatin interactions alone do not regulate gene expression. Together,
our results identify ZNF143 as a
novel chromatin-looping factor that contributes to the architectural foundation of
the genome by providing sequence specificity at promoters connected with distal
regulatory elements. Chromatin interactions can connect distal regulatory elements to
promoters via protein factors, but few such factors have been identified. Here, the
authors show that zinc-finger protein ZNF143 is a sequence-specific chromatin-looping
factor that connects promoters with distal regulatory elements.
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- Swneke D Bailey
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre-University Health Network, Toronto, M5G 1L7, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1L7, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Genetics, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, 03755, New Hampshire, USA.,Present address: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, 03755, New Hampshire, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics Laboratory, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montreal, H2W 1R7, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 44106, Ohio, USA
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre-University Health Network, Toronto, M5G 1L7, Ontario, Canada.,Present address: The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 44106, Ohio, USA.,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 44106, Ohio, USA.,Present address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 44106, Ohio, USA.,Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 44106, Ohio, USA
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre-University Health Network, Toronto, M5G 1L7, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1L7, Ontario, Canada.,Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics Laboratory, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montreal, H2W 1R7, Quebec, Canada
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- The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre-University Health Network, Toronto, M5G 1L7, Ontario, Canada. .,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5G 1L7, Ontario, Canada. .,Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, M5G 1L7, Ontario, Canada.
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Gene enhancer elements are noncoding segments of DNA that play a central role in regulating transcriptional programs that control development, cell identity, and evolutionary processes. Recent studies have shown that noncoding single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that have been associated with risk for numerous common diseases through genome-wide association studies frequently lie in cell-type-specific enhancer elements. These enhancer variants probably influence transcriptional output, thereby offering a mechanistic basis to explain their association with risk for many common diseases. This review focuses on the identification and interpretation of disease-susceptibility variants that influence enhancer function. We discuss strategies for prioritizing the study of functional enhancer SNPs over those likely to be benign, review experimental and computational approaches to identifying the gene targets of enhancer variants, and highlight efforts to quantify the impact of enhancer variants on target transcript levels and cellular phenotypes. These studies are beginning to provide insights into the mechanistic basis of many common diseases, as well as into how we might translate this knowledge for improved disease diagnosis, prevention and treatments. Finally, we highlight five major challenges often associated with interpreting enhancer variants, and discuss recent technical advances that may help to surmount these challenges.
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- Olivia Corradin
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44122 USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44122 USA ; Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA
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Tie F, Banerjee R, Saiakhova AR, Howard B, Monteith KE, Scacheri PC, Cosgrove MS, Harte PJ. Trithorax monomethylates histone H3K4 and interacts directly with CBP to promote H3K27 acetylation and antagonize Polycomb silencing. Development 2014; 141:1129-39. [PMID: 24550119 DOI: 10.1242/dev.102392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Trithorax (TRX) antagonizes epigenetic silencing by Polycomb group (PcG) proteins, stimulates enhancer-dependent transcription, and establishes a 'cellular memory' of active transcription of PcG-regulated genes. The mechanisms underlying these TRX functions remain largely unknown, but are presumed to involve its histone H3K4 methyltransferase activity. We report that the SET domains of TRX and TRX-related (TRR) have robust histone H3K4 monomethyltransferase activity in vitro and that Tyr3701 of TRX and Tyr2404 of TRR prevent them from being trimethyltransferases. The trx(Z11) missense mutation (G3601S), which abolishes H3K4 methyltransferase activity in vitro, reduces the H3K4me1 but not the H3K4me3 level in vivo. trx(Z11) also suppresses the impaired silencing phenotypes of the Pc(3) mutant, suggesting that H3K4me1 is involved in antagonizing Polycomb silencing. Polycomb silencing is also antagonized by TRX-dependent H3K27 acetylation by CREB-binding protein (CBP). We show that perturbation of Polycomb silencing by TRX overexpression requires CBP. We also show that TRX and TRR are each physically associated with CBP in vivo, that TRX binds directly to the CBP KIX domain, and that the chromatin binding patterns of TRX and TRR are highly correlated with CBP and H3K4me1 genome-wide. In vitro acetylation of H3K27 by CBP is enhanced on K4me1-containing H3 substrates, and independently altering the H3K4me1 level in vivo, via the H3K4 demethylase LSD1, produces concordant changes in H3K27ac. These data indicate that the catalytic activities of TRX and CBP are physically coupled and suggest that both activities play roles in antagonizing Polycomb silencing, stimulating enhancer activity and cellular memory.
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- Feng Tie
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Weeks LD, Zentner GE, Scacheri PC, Gerson SL. Uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG) loss enhances DNA double strand break formation in human cancer cells exposed to pemetrexed. Cell Death Dis 2014; 5:e1045. [PMID: 24503537 PMCID: PMC3944228 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2013.477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2013] [Accepted: 10/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Misincorporation of genomic uracil and formation of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) are known consequences of exposure to TS inhibitors such as pemetrexed. Uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG) catalyzes the excision of uracil from DNA and initiates DNA base excision repair (BER). To better define the relationship between UNG activity and pemetrexed anticancer activity, we have investigated DNA damage, DSB formation, DSB repair capacity, and replication fork stability in UNG+/+ and UNG−/− cells. We report that despite identical growth rates and DSB repair capacities, UNG−/− cells accumulated significantly greater uracil and DSBs compared with UNG+/+ cells when exposed to pemetrexed. ChIP-seq analysis of γ-H2AX enrichment confirmed fewer DSBs in UNG+/+ cells. Furthermore, DSBs in UNG+/+ and UNG−/− cells occur at distinct genomic loci, supporting differential mechanisms of DSB formation in UNG-competent and UNG-deficient cells. UNG−/− cells also showed increased evidence of replication fork instability (PCNA dispersal) when exposed to pemetrexed. Thymidine co-treatment rescues S-phase arrest in both UNG+/+ and UNG−/− cells treated with IC50-level pemetrexed. However, following pemetrexed exposure, UNG−/− but not UNG+/+ cells are refractory to thymidine rescue, suggesting that deficient uracil excision rather than dTTP depletion is the barrier to cell cycle progression in UNG−/− cells. Based on these findings we propose that pemetrexed-induced uracil misincorporation is genotoxic, contributing to replication fork instability, DSB formation and ultimately cell death.
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- L D Weeks
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- 1] Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA [2] Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 2103 Cornell Road, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- 1] Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA [2] Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 2103 Cornell Road, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA [3] Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 2103 Cornell Road, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Corradin O, Saiakhova A, Akhtar-Zaidi B, Myeroff L, Willis J, Cowper-Sal lari R, Lupien M, Markowitz S, Scacheri PC. Combinatorial effects of multiple enhancer variants in linkage disequilibrium dictate levels of gene expression to confer susceptibility to common traits. Genome Res 2013; 24:1-13. [PMID: 24196873 PMCID: PMC3875850 DOI: 10.1101/gr.164079.113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 264] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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DNA variants (SNPs) that predispose to common traits often localize within noncoding regulatory elements such as enhancers. Moreover, loci identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) often contain multiple SNPs in linkage disequilibrium (LD), any of which may be causal. Thus, determining the effect of these multiple variant SNPs on target transcript levels has been a major challenge. Here, we provide evidence that for six common autoimmune disorders (rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, celiac disease, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and ulcerative colitis), the GWAS association arises from multiple polymorphisms in LD that map to clusters of enhancer elements active in the same cell type. This finding suggests a “multiple enhancer variant” hypothesis for common traits, where several variants in LD impact multiple enhancers and cooperatively affect gene expression. Using a novel method to delineate enhancer–gene interactions, we show that multiple enhancer variants within a given locus typically target the same gene. Using available data from HapMap and B lymphoblasts as a model system, we provide evidence at numerous loci that multiple enhancer variants cooperatively contribute to altered expression of their gene targets. The effects on target transcript levels tend to be modest and can be either gain- or loss-of-function. Additionally, the genes associated with multiple enhancer variants encode proteins that are often functionally related and enriched in common pathways. Overall, the multiple enhancer variant hypothesis offers a new paradigm by which noncoding variants can confer susceptibility to common traits.
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- Olivia Corradin
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44122, USA
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Micucci JA, Layman WS, Hurd EA, Sperry ED, Frank SF, Durham MA, Swiderski DL, Skidmore JM, Scacheri PC, Raphael Y, Martin DM. CHD7 and retinoic acid signaling cooperate to regulate neural stem cell and inner ear development in mouse models of CHARGE syndrome. Hum Mol Genet 2013; 23:434-48. [PMID: 24026680 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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CHARGE syndrome is a multiple congenital anomaly disorder that leads to life-threatening birth defects, such as choanal atresia and cardiac malformations as well as multiple sensory impairments, that affect hearing, vision, olfaction and balance. CHARGE is caused by heterozygous mutations in CHD7, which encodes an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling enzyme. Identification of the mechanisms underlying neurological and sensory defects in CHARGE is a first step toward developing treatments for CHARGE individuals. Here, we used mouse models of Chd7 deficiency to explore the function of CHD7 in the development of the subventricular zone (SVZ) neural stem cell niche and inner ear, structures that are important for olfactory bulb neurogenesis and hearing and balance, respectively. We found that loss of Chd7 results in cell-autonomous proliferative, neurogenic and self-renewal defects in the perinatal and mature mouse SVZ stem cell niche. Modulation of retinoic acid (RA) signaling prevented in vivo inner ear and in vitro neural stem cell defects caused by Chd7 deficiency. Our findings demonstrate critical, cooperative roles for RA and CHD7 in SVZ neural stem cell function and inner ear development, suggesting that altered RA signaling may be an effective method for treating Chd7 deficiency.
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Balow SA, Pierce LX, Zentner GE, Conrad PA, Davis S, Sabaawy HE, McDermott BM, Scacheri PC. Knockdown of fbxl10/kdm2bb rescues chd7 morphant phenotype in a zebrafish model of CHARGE syndrome. Dev Biol 2013; 382:57-69. [PMID: 23920116 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.07.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2013] [Revised: 07/26/2013] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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CHARGE syndrome is a sporadic autosomal-dominant genetic disorder characterized by a complex array of birth defects so named for its cardinal features of ocular coloboma, heart defects, choanal atresia, growth retardation, genital abnormalities, and ear abnormalities. Approximately two-thirds of individuals clinically diagnosed with CHARGE syndrome have heterozygous loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 7 (CHD7), an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeler. To examine the role of Chd7 in development, a zebrafish model was generated through morpholino (MO)-mediated targeting of the zebrafish chd7 transcript. High doses of chd7 MO induce lethality early in embryonic development. However, low dose-injected embryos are viable, and by 4 days post-fertilization, morphant fish display multiple defects in organ systems analogous to those affected in humans with CHARGE syndrome. The chd7 morphants show elevated expression of several potent cell-cycle inhibitors including ink4ab (p16/p15), p21 and p27, accompanied by reduced cell proliferation. We also show that Chd7 is required for proper organization of neural crest-derived craniofacial cartilage structures. Strikingly, MO-mediated knockdown of the jumonji domain-containing histone demethylase fbxl10/kdm2bb, a repressor of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, rescues cell proliferation and cartilage defects in chd7 morphant embryos and can lead to complete rescue of the CHARGE syndrome phenotype. These results indicate that CHARGE-like phenotypes in zebrafish can be mitigated through modulation of fbxl10 levels and implicate FBXL10 as a possible therapeutic target in CHARGE syndrome.
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- Stephanie A Balow
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Goodnough LH, Chang AT, Treloar C, Yang J, Scacheri PC, Atit RP. Twist1 mediates repression of chondrogenesis by β-catenin to promote cranial bone progenitor specification. Development 2012; 139:4428-38. [PMID: 23095887 DOI: 10.1242/dev.081679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The bones of the mammalian skull vault form through intramembranous ossification. Skull bones ossify directly, in a process regulated by β-catenin, instead of passing through a cartilage intermediate. We tested whether β-catenin is necessary for fate selection of intramembranous bone progenitors in the skull. Here, we show in mice that removal of β-catenin from skull bone progenitors results in the near complete transformation of the skull bones to cartilage, whereas constitutive β-catenin activation inhibits skull bone fate selection. β-catenin directly activated Twist1 expression in skull progenitors, conditional Twist1 deletion partially phenocopied the absence of β-catenin, and Twist1 deletion partially restored bone formation in the presence of constitutive β-catenin activation. Finally, Twist1 bound robustly to the 3'UTR of Sox9, the central initiator of chondrogenesis, suggesting that Twist1 might directly repress cartilage formation through Sox9. These findings provide insight into how β-catenin signaling via Twist1 actively suppresses the formation of cartilage and promotes intramembranous ossification in the skull.
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- L Henry Goodnough
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Different cell types within a single organism are generally distinguished by strikingly different patterns of gene expression, which are dynamic throughout development and adult life. Distal enhancer elements are key drivers of spatiotemporal specificity in gene regulation. Often located tens of kilobases from their target promoters and functioning in an orientation-independent manner, the identification of bona fide enhancers has proved a formidable challenge. With the development of ChIP-seq, global cataloging of putative enhancers has become feasible. Here, we review the current understanding of the chromatin landscape at enhancers and how these chromatin features enable robust identification of tissue-specific enhancers.
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- Gabriel E Zentner
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Balasubramanian D, Akhtar-Zaidi B, Song L, Bartels CF, Veigl M, Beard L, Myeroff L, Guda K, Lutterbaugh J, Willis J, Crawford GE, Markowitz SD, Scacheri PC. H3K4me3 inversely correlates with DNA methylation at a large class of non-CpG-island-containing start sites. Genome Med 2012; 4:47. [PMID: 22640407 PMCID: PMC3506913 DOI: 10.1186/gm346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2011] [Revised: 04/13/2012] [Accepted: 05/28/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In addition to mutations, epigenetic silencing of genes has been recognized as a fundamental mechanism that promotes human carcinogenesis. To date, characterization of epigenetic gene silencing has largely focused on genes in which silencing is mediated by hypermethylation of promoter-associated CpG islands, associated with loss of the H3K4me3 chromatin mark. Far less is known about promoters lacking CpG-islands or genes that are repressed by alternative mechanisms. METHODS We performed integrative ChIP-chip, DNase-seq, and global gene expression analyses in colon cancer cells and normal colon mucosa to characterize chromatin features of both CpG-rich and CpG-poor promoters of genes that undergo silencing in colon cancer. RESULTS Epigenetically repressed genes in colon cancer separate into two classes based on retention or loss of H3K4me3 at transcription start sites. Quantitatively, of transcriptionally repressed genes that lose H3K4me3 in colon cancer (K4-dependent genes), a large fraction actually lacks CpG islands. Nonetheless, similar to CpG-island containing genes, cytosines located near the start sites of K4-dependent genes become DNA hypermethylated, and repressed K4-dependent genes can be reactivated with 5-azacytidine. Moreover, we also show that when the H3K4me3 mark is retained, silencing of CpG island-associated genes can proceed through an alternative mechanism in which repressive chromatin marks are recruited. CONCLUSIONS H3K4me3 equally protects from DNA methylation at both CpG-island and non-CpG island start sites in colon cancer. Moreover, the results suggest that CpG-rich genes repressed by loss of H3K4me3 and DNA methylation represent special instances of a more general epigenetic mechanism of gene silencing, one in which gene silencing is mediated by loss of H3K4me3 and methylation of non-CpG island promoter-associated cytosines.
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- Dheepa Balasubramanian
- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Institute for Science and Policy, and Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, 101 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, 2103 Cornell Road, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Institute for Science and Policy, and Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, 101 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Akhtar-Zaidi B, Cowper-Sal·lari R, Corradin O, Saiakhova A, Bartels CF, Balasubramanian D, Myeroff L, Lutterbaugh J, Jarrar A, Kalady MF, Willis J, Moore JH, Tesar PJ, Laframboise T, Markowitz S, Lupien M, Scacheri PC. Epigenomic enhancer profiling defines a signature of colon cancer. Science 2012; 336:736-9. [PMID: 22499810 PMCID: PMC3711120 DOI: 10.1126/science.1217277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 255] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Cancer is characterized by gene expression aberrations. Studies have largely focused on coding sequences and promoters, even though distal regulatory elements play a central role in controlling transcription patterns. We used the histone mark H3K4me1 to analyze gain and loss of enhancer activity genome-wide in primary colon cancer lines relative to normal colon crypts. We identified thousands of variant enhancer loci (VELs) that comprise a signature that is robustly predictive of the in vivo colon cancer transcriptome. Furthermore, VELs are enriched in haplotype blocks containing colon cancer genetic risk variants, implicating these genomic regions in colon cancer pathogenesis. We propose that reproducible changes in the epigenome at enhancer elements drive a specific transcriptional program to promote colon carcinogenesis.
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- Batool Akhtar-Zaidi
- Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
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- Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
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- Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
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- Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
- Cancer Biology Department, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
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- Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
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- Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Tian C, Yu H, Yang B, Han F, Zheng Y, Bartels CF, Schelling D, Arnold JE, Scacheri PC, Zheng QY. Otitis media in a new mouse model for CHARGE syndrome with a deletion in the Chd7 gene. PLoS One 2012; 7:e34944. [PMID: 22539951 PMCID: PMC3335168 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2011] [Accepted: 03/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Otitis media is a middle ear disease common in children under three years old. Otitis media can occur in normal individuals with no other symptoms or syndromes, but it is often seen in individuals clinically diagnosed with genetic diseases such as CHARGE syndrome, a complex genetic disease caused by mutation in the Chd7 gene and characterized by multiple birth defects. Although otitis media is common in human CHARGE syndrome patients, it has not been reported in mouse models of CHARGE syndrome. In this study, we report a mouse model with a spontaneous deletion mutation in the Chd7 gene and with chronic otitis media of early onset age accompanied by hearing loss. These mice also exhibit morphological alteration in the Eustachian tubes, dysregulation of epithelial proliferation, and decreased density of middle ear cilia. Gene expression profiling revealed up-regulation of Muc5ac, Muc5b and Tgf-β1 transcripts, the products of which are involved in mucin production and TGF pathway regulation. This is the first mouse model of CHARGE syndrome reported to show otitis media with effusion and it will be valuable for studying the etiology of otitis media and other symptoms in CHARGE syndrome.
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- Cong Tian
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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