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Endometrial cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer of the female reproductive tract in developed countries. Through genome-wide association studies (GWAS), we have previously identified eight risk loci for endometrial cancer. Here, we present an expanded meta-analysis of 12,906 endometrial cancer cases and 108,979 controls (including new genotype data for 5624 cases) and identify nine novel genome-wide significant loci, including a locus on 12q24.12 previously identified by meta-GWAS of endometrial and colorectal cancer. At five loci, expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analyses identify candidate causal genes; risk alleles at two of these loci associate with decreased expression of genes, which encode negative regulators of oncogenic signal transduction proteins (SH2B3 (12q24.12) and NF1 (17q11.2)). In summary, this study has doubled the number of known endometrial cancer risk loci and revealed candidate causal genes for future study.

Original publication

DOI

10.1038/s41467-018-05427-7

Type

Journal article

Journal

Nature communications

Publication Date

09/08/2018

Volume

9

Addresses

Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, 4006, QLD, Australia. Tracy.OMara@qimrberghofer.edu.au.

Keywords

Chromatin, Humans, Endometrial Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Risk Factors, Signal Transduction, Gene Frequency, Genotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Alleles, Quantitative Trait Loci, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Biomarkers, Tumor