Abstract:
:Quantifying the genetic correlation between cancers can provide important insights into the mechanisms driving cancer etiology. Using genome-wide association study summary statistics across six cancer types based on a total of 296,215 cases and 301,319 controls of European ancestry, here we estimate the pair-wise genetic correlations between breast, colorectal, head/neck, lung, ovary and prostate cancer, and between cancers and 38 other diseases. We observed statistically significant genetic correlations between lung and head/neck cancer (rg = 0.57, p = 4.6 × 10-8), breast and ovarian cancer (rg = 0.24, p = 7 × 10-5), breast and lung cancer (rg = 0.18, p =1.5 × 10-6) and breast and colorectal cancer (rg = 0.15, p = 1.1 × 10-4). We also found that multiple cancers are genetically correlated with non-cancer traits including smoking, psychiatric diseases and metabolic characteristics. Functional enrichment analysis revealed a significant excess contribution of conserved and regulatory regions to cancer heritability. Our comprehensive analysis of cross-cancer heritability suggests that solid tumors arising across tissues share in part a common germline genetic basis.
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Nat Communjournal_title
Nature communicationsauthors
Jiang X,Finucane HK,Schumacher FR,Schmit SL,Tyrer JP,Han Y,Michailidou K,Lesseur C,Kuchenbaecker KB,Dennis J,Conti DV,Casey G,Gaudet MM,Huyghe JR,Albanes D,Aldrich MC,Andrew AS,Andrulis IL,Anton-Culver H,Antoniou ACdoi
10.1038/s41467-018-08054-4subject
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2019-01-25 00:00:00pages
431issue
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2041-1723pii
10.1038/s41467-018-08054-4journal_volume
10pub_type
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