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Functional polymorphisms in the TERT promoter are associated with risk of serous epithelial ovarian and breast cancers |
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| Authors: | Beesley Jonathan Pickett Hilda A Johnatty Sharon E Dunning Alison M Chen Xiaoqing Li Jun Michailidou Kyriaki Lu Yi Rider David N Palmieri Rachel T Stutz Michael D Lambrechts Diether Despierre Evelyn Lambrechts Sandrina Vergote Ignace Chang-Claude Jenny Nickels Stefan Vrieling Alina Flesch-Janys Dieter Wang-Gohrke Shan Eilber Ursula Bogdanova Natalia Antonenkova Natalia Runnebaum Ingo B Dörk Thilo Goodman Marc T Lurie Galina Wilkens Lynne R Matsuno Rayna K Kiemeney Lambertus A Aben Katja K H Marees Tamara Massuger Leon F A G Fridley Brooke L Vierkant Robert A Bandera Elisa V Olson Sara H |
| Affiliation: | Division of Genetics and Population Health, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. jonathan.beesley@qimr.edu.au |
| Abstract: | Genetic variation at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus at 5p15.33 is associated with susceptibility to several cancers, including epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). We have carried out fine-mapping of this region in EOC which implicates an association with a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within the TERT promoter. We demonstrate that the minor alleles at rs2736109, and at an additional TERT promoter SNP, rs2736108, are associated with decreased breast cancer risk, and that the combination of both SNPs substantially reduces TERT promoter activity. |
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