The Effect on Melanoma Risk of Genes Previously Associated With Telomere Length

Telomere length has been associated with risk of many cancers, but results are inconsistent. Seven single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) previously associated with mean leukocyte telomere length were either genotyped or well-imputed in 11108 case patients and 13933 control patients from Europe, Isr...

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Autores principales: Iles, Mark M., Bishop, D. Timothy, Taylor, John C., Hayward, Nicholas K., Brossard, Myriam, Cust, Anne E., Dunning, Alison M., Lee, Jeffrey E., Moses, Eric K., Akslen, Lars A., Andresen, Per A., Avril, Marie-Françoise, Azizi, Esther, Scarrà, Giovanna Bianchi, Brown, Kevin M., Dębniak, Tadeusz, Elder, David E., Friedman, Eitan, Ghiorzo, Paola, Gillanders, Elizabeth M., Goldstein, Alisa M., Gruis, Nelleke A., Hansson, Johan, Harland, Mark, Helsing, Per, Hočevar, Marko, Höiom, Veronica, Ingvar, Christian, Kanetsky, Peter A., Landi, Maria Teresa, Lang, Julie, Lathrop, G. Mark, Lubiński, Jan, Mackie, Rona M., Martin, Nicholas G., Molven, Anders, Montgomery, Grant W., Novaković, Srdjan, Olsson, Håkan, Puig, Susana, Puig-Butille, Joan Anton, Radford-Smith, Graham L., Randerson-Moor, Juliette, van der Stoep, Nienke, van Doorn, Remco, Whiteman, David C., MacGregor, Stuart, Pooley, Karen A., Ward, Sarah V., Mann, Graham J., Amos, Christopher I., Pharoah, Paul D. P., Demenais, Florence, Law, Matthew H., Newton Bishop, Julia A., Barrett, Jennifer H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4196080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25231748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jnci/dju267
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Sumario:Telomere length has been associated with risk of many cancers, but results are inconsistent. Seven single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) previously associated with mean leukocyte telomere length were either genotyped or well-imputed in 11108 case patients and 13933 control patients from Europe, Israel, the United States and Australia, four of the seven SNPs reached a P value under .05 (two-sided). A genetic score that predicts telomere length, derived from these seven SNPs, is strongly associated (P = 8.92x10(-9), two-sided) with melanoma risk. This demonstrates that the previously observed association between longer telomere length and increased melanoma risk is not attributable to confounding via shared environmental effects (such as ultraviolet exposure) or reverse causality. We provide the first proof that multiple germline genetic determinants of telomere length influence cancer risk.

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