Fine mapping of 14q24.1 breast cancer susceptibility locus

Phoebe Lee, Yi Ping Fu, Jonine D. Figueroa, Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, Jesus Gonzalez-Bosquet, Peter Kraft, Zhaoming Wang, Kevin B. Jacobs, Meredith Yeager, Marie Josèphe Horner, Susan E. Hankinson, Amy Hutchinson, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Regina G. Ziegler, Christine D. Berg, Saundra S. Buys, Catherine A. McCarty, Heather Spencer Feigelson, Michael J. ThunRyan Diver, Ross Prentice, Rebecca Jackson, Charles Kooperberg, Rowan Chlebowski, Jolanta Lissowska, Beata Peplonska, Louise A. Brinton, Margaret Tucker, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Robert N. Hoover, Gilles Thomas, David J. Hunter, Stephen J. Chanock

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Abstract

In the National Cancer Institute Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS) genome-wide association study of breast cancer, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker, rs999737, in the 14q24.1 interval, was associated with breast cancer risk. In order to fine map this region, we imputed a 3.93 MB region flanking rs999737 for Stages 1 and 2 of the CGEMS study (5,692 cases, 5,576 controls) using the combined reference panels of the HapMap 3 and the 1000 Genomes Project. Singlemarker association testing and variable-sized sliding-window haplotype analysis were performed, and for both analyses the initial tagging SNP rs999737 retained the strongest association with breast cancer risk. Investigation of contiguous regions did not reveal evidence for an additional independent signal. Therefore, we conclude that rs999737 is an optimal tag SNP for common variants in the 14q24.1 region and thus narrow the candidate variants that should be investigated in follow-up laboratory evaluation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)479-490
Number of pages12
JournalHuman genetics
Volume131
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2012
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Genetics
  • Genetics(clinical)

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