Association of Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) identified SNPs and risk of breast cancer in an Indian population

Rajini Nagrani, Sharayu Mhatre, Preetha Rajaraman, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Mohammad R. Akbari, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, Rajendra Badwe, Sudeep Gupta, Rajesh Dikshit

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Abstract

To date, no studies have investigated the association of the GWAS-identified SNPs with BC risk in Indian population. We investigated the association of 30 previously reported and replicated BC susceptibility SNPs in 1,204 cases and 1,212 controls from a hospital based case-control study conducted at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. As a measure of total susceptibility burden, the polygenic risk score (PRS) for each individual was defined by the weighted sum of genotypes from 21 independent SNPs with weights derived from previously published estimates of association odds-ratios. Logistic regression models were used to assess risk associated with individual SNPs and overall PRS, and stratified by menopausal and receptor status. A total of 11 SNPs from eight genomic regions (FGFR2, 9q31.2, MAP3K, CCND1, ZM1Z1, RAD51L11, ESR1 and UST) showed statistically significant (p-value ≤ 0.05) evidence of association, either overall or when stratified by menopausal status or hormone receptor status. BC SNPs previously identified in Caucasian population showed evidence of replication in the Indian population mainly with respect to risk of postmenopausal and hormone receptor positive BC.

Original languageEnglish
Article number40963
JournalScientific Reports
Volume7
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 Jan 2017

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