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Additive interactions can have public health and etiological implications but are infrequently reported. We assessed departures from additivity on the absolute risk scale between 9 established breast cancer risk factors and 23 susceptibility single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified from genome-wide association studies among 10,146 non-Hispanic white breast cancer cases and 12,760 controls within the National Cancer Institute's Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium. We estimated the relative excess risk due to interaction and its 95% confidence interval for each pairwise combination of SNPs and nongenetic risk factors using age- and cohort-adjusted logistic regression models. After correction for multiple comparisons, we identified a statistically significant relative excess risk due to interaction (uncorrected P = 4.51 × 10(-5)) between a SNP in the DNA repair protein RAD51 homolog 2 gene (RAD51L1; rs10483813) and body mass index (weight (kg)/height (m)(2)). We also compared additive and multiplicative polygenic risk prediction models using per-allele odds ratio estimates from previous studies for breast-cancer susceptibility SNPs and observed that the multiplicative model had a substantially better goodness of fit than the additive model.

Original publication

DOI

10.1093/aje/kwu214

Type

Journal article

Journal

American journal of epidemiology

Publication Date

11/2014

Volume

180

Pages

1018 - 1027

Keywords

Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3), Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Prostatic Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, DNA-Binding Proteins, Body Mass Index, Odds Ratio, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Alleles, Middle Aged, European Continental Ancestry Group, United States, Australia, Europe, Female, Male, Rad51 Recombinase, Genome-Wide Association Study, Biomarkers, Tumor