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Genetic variants associated with longer telomere length are associated with increased lung cancer risk among never-smoking women in Asia: A report from the female lung cancer consortium in Asia
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Genetic variants associated with longer telomere length are associated with increased lung cancer risk among never-smoking women in Asia: A report from the female lung cancer consortium in Asia

Mitchell J. Machiela, Chao Agnes Hsiung, Xiao-Ou Shu, Wei Jie Seow, Zhaoming Wang, Keitaro Matsuo, Yun-Chul Hong, Adeline Seow, Chen Wu, H. Dean Hosgood, …
International Journal of Cancer, 卷.137(2), 頁碼.311-319
07/2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.29393
PMID: 25516442

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association study genetic risk score genetics lung cancer telomere length Oncology Cancer Research
Recent evidence from several relatively small nested case-control studies in prospective cohorts shows an association between longer telomere length measured phenotypically in peripheral white blood cell (WBC) DNA and increased lung cancer risk. We sought to further explore this relationship by examining a panel of seven telomere-length associated genetic variants in a large study of 5,457 never-smoking female Asian lung cancer cases and 4,493 never-smoking female Asian controls using data from a previously reported genome-wide association study. Using a group of 1,536 individuals with phenotypically measured telomere length in WBCs in the prospective Shanghai Women's Health study, we demonstrated the utility of a genetic risk score (GRS) of seven telomere-length associated variants to predict telomere length in an Asian population. We then found that GRSs used as instrumental variables to predict longer telomere length were associated with increased lung cancer risk (OR = 1.51 (95% CI = 1.34-1.69) for upper vs. lower quartile of the weighted GRS, p value = 4.54 × 10-14) even after removing rs2736100 (p value = 4.81 × 10-3), a SNP in the TERT locus robustly associated with lung cancer risk in prior association studies. Stratified analyses suggested the effect of the telomere-associated GRS is strongest among younger individuals. We found no difference in GRS effect between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell subtypes. Our results indicate that a genetic background that favors longer telomere length may increase lung cancer risk, which is consistent with earlier prospective studies relating longer telomere length with increased lung cancer risk.

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