The first project -Genetic Modifiers of Tamoxifen-Related Breast Cancer Risk: NSABP P1G3- was a case/case analysis of 39 SNPs in 19 different genes among 249 women with invasive breast cancer (84 exposed to tamoxifen; 165 placebo). This was a null study by single SNP association and haplotype analysis. However, the constellation of alleles characterizing cases emerging in the presence of tamoxifen (resistant genotypes) was distinct from that in the unexposed (placebo) cases. This published pathway analysis approach generated an allelic signature that has potential as a predictive biomarker of tamoxifen resistance. This project is now complete.Using NCI's PLCO cancer screening trial, we have been investigating the relationship between the Insulin-Like Growth Factor (IGF) Signaling Pathway and Risk of Advanced Colorectal Adenoma, prompted by data suggesting that IGFs may represent potentially modifiable cancer risk factors. We have analyzed 800 participants found to have an advanced colorectal adenoma at the time of baseline screen, and 800 matched non-adenoma subjects. 37 SNPs in 7 IGF-related genes (IGF1, IGF-BP3, ALS, IGF-1R, IGF-BP5, IGF2, GH) were genotyped, and circulating levels of IGF-1, IGF-2 and IGFBP-3 were assayed. The latter documented a 1.7-fold increase in adenoma risk (95% C.I. 1.2-2.5) in highest vs. lowest quartiles of IGF-1, controlled for IGF-2, IGF-BP3 and numerous other covariates. These data have been published. We also confirmed the previously-observed strong relationship between IGF-BP3-01 (rs2854744), and a new association between IGF-BP3-07 (rs6413441) and circulating levels of IGF-BP3 among controls. This study has been expanded by adding additional genotyping data from the DCEG Rare Cancers iSELECT study which, serendipitously, analyzed the same set of DNA samples. These data provide a more comprehensive interrogation of IGF signaling pathway genes: 1,338 advanced colorectal adenoma cases and 1,503 matched controls were studied, and data generated for 570 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 28 IGF pathway genes. Two SNP associations remained statistically significant after a gene-based correction for multiple testing, one in an intron of the oncogene, KRAS, was associated an increased risk of adenoma (OR per allele=1.36, 95% CI =1.13-1.63, P=0.001), and the other in the serine/threonine kinase gene, RPS6KB1, was associated with a reduced risk of adenoma (OR per allele=0.83, 95% CI=0.73-0.95, P=0.006). This project is now complete. We have developed a portfolio of projects evaluating Genetic Risk Factors for Osteosarcoma [CAS 10375]. Osteosarcoma (OS), the most common malignant primary bone tumor, occurs most commonly during the adolescent growth spurt. As part of a prospective case-control study of OS initiated in 1995 with the NCI and Harvard Dental School, we studied genetic variation in many genes/pathways implicated in the cellular regulation of growth. We updated the descriptive epidemiology of OS in two separate publications: one based on US data from NCI's SEER program, and the other based on multiple international cancer epidemiology databases. We published a meta-analysis of height and birth weight as OS risk factors. The data confirmed that height is a significant risk factor for OS. The evidence related to birth weight was not definitive. We also published the first multistage GWAS targeting OS consisting of 941 OS subjects and 3,291 cancer-free adult controls. Two loci achieved genome-wide significance: a locus in the GRM4 gene at 6p21.3 (encoding glutamate receptor metabotropic 4; rs1906953; P = 8.1 10-9) and a locus in the gene desert at 2p25.2 (rs7591996 and rs10208273; P = 1.0 10-8 and 2.9 10-7, respectively). A validation OS cohort is currently being analyzed. We performed a case-case GWAS of osteosarcoma patients with and without metastases at diagnosis which identified novel functional variants in NFIB as associated with metastasis. Our sequence analysis of TP53in osteosarcoma cases found a higher than expected frequency of germline mutations in individuals with osteosarcoma.We also contributed to a Workshop that brought together key opinion leaders and experts in the metastasis and osteosarcoma communities and which focused on developing therapeutics that target metastatic progression. Finally, we have contributed more than 1,000 BRCA1/2 mutation carriers accrued from three related studies (Etiologic Studies of Hereditary Breast/Ovarian Cancer [HBOC], Pilot Study of Breast MRI in HBOC, and the National Ovarian Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Study) to identify genetic modifiers of BRCA1/2-related breast and ovarian cancer. This project is a collaboration with the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA) which has yielded 40 peer-reviewed publications and an additional 8 manuscripts under review, all focused on detecting common, low-penetrance genetic variants which modify the risk of breast and ovarian cancer in the HBOC context. This project is designed to help develop more precise cancer risk stratification models which might permit more accurate cancer risk assessment in women with HBOC. The highest impact publication during the past year has been the massive genotype/phenotype analysis of CIMBA's collection of 20,000 BRCA1 and 12,000 BRCA2 mutation carriers from 55 centers in 33 countries on 6 continents (T Rebbeck et al., JAMA 2015; 313(13):1347-1361) which identified multiple specific regions within each gene that were associated with higher or lower risks of breast or ovarian cancer. This work should form the foundation of being able to counsel patients regarding their cancer risks based on the specific mutation they carry.
| Koster, Roelof; Panagiotou, Orestis A; Wheeler, William A et al. (2018) Genome-wide association study identifies the GLDC/IL33 locus associated with survival of osteosarcoma patients. Int J Cancer 142:1594-1601 |
| Basavaraju, Umesh; Shebl, Fatma M; Palmer, Andrew J et al. (2015) Cytokine gene polymorphisms, cytokine levels and the risk of colorectal neoplasia in a screened population of Northeast Scotland. Eur J Cancer Prev 24:296-304 |
| Hirt, Carsten; Camargo, M Constanza; Yu, Kelly J et al. (2015) Risk of follicular lymphoma associated with BCL2 translocations in peripheral blood. Leuk Lymphoma 56:2625-9 |
| Savage, Sharon A (2014) Genomic clues to ethnic differences in ALL. Blood 123:2440-2 |
| Khanna, Chand; Fan, Timothy M; Gorlick, Richard et al. (2014) Toward a drug development path that targets metastatic progression in osteosarcoma. Clin Cancer Res 20:4200-9 |
| Hirt, Carsten; Weitmann, Kerstin; Schüler, Frank et al. (2013) Circulating t(14;18)-positive cells in healthy individuals: association with age and sex but not with smoking. Leuk Lymphoma 54:2678-84 |
| Gao, Ying; Katki, Hormuzd; Graubard, Barry et al. (2012) Serum IGF1, IGF2 and IGFBP3 and risk of advanced colorectal adenoma. Int J Cancer 131:E105-13 |
| Thomas, David M; Savage, Sharon A; Bond, Gareth L (2012) Hereditary and environmental epidemiology of sarcomas. Clin Sarcoma Res 2:13 |
| Savage, Sharon A; Mirabello, Lisa (2011) Using epidemiology and genomics to understand osteosarcoma etiology. Sarcoma 2011:548151 |
| Mirabello, Lisa; Pfeiffer, Ruth; Murphy, Gwen et al. (2011) Height at diagnosis and birth-weight as risk factors for osteosarcoma. Cancer Causes Control 22:899-908 |
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