Investigation of the colorectal cancer susceptibility region on chromosome 8q24.21 in a large German case-control sample
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- 6 October 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 124 (1), 75-80
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.23872
Abstract
Human chromosome 8q24.21 has been implicated as a susceptibility region for colorectal cancer (CRC) as a result of genome‐wide association and candidate gene studies. To assess the impact of molecular variants at 8q24.21 upon the CRC risk of German individuals and to refine the disease‐associated region, a total of 2,713 patients with operated CRC (median age at diagnosis: 63 years) were compared with 2,718 sex‐matched control individuals (median age at inclusion: 65 years). Information on microsatellite instability in tumors was available for 901 patients. Association analysis of SNPs rs10505477 and rs6983267 yielded allelic p‐values of 1.42 × 10−7 and 2.57 × 10−7, respectively. For both polymorphisms, the odds ratio was estimated to be 1.50 (95% CI: 1.29–1.75) under a recessive disease model. The strongest candidate interval, outside of which significance dropped by more than 4 orders of magnitude, was delineated by SNPs rs10505477 and rs7014346 and comprised 17 kb. In a subgroup analysis, the disease association was found to be more pronounced in MSI‐stable tumors (odds ratio: 1.71). Our study confirms the role of genetic variation at 8q24.21 as a risk factor for CRC and localizes the corresponding susceptibility gene to a 17 kb candidate region.Keywords
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