Germline genomic variants associated with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Lisa R. Trevĩo, Wenjian Yang, Deborah French, Stephen P. Hunger, William L. Carroll, Meenakshi Devidas, Cheryl Willman, Geoffrey Neale, James Downing, Susana C. Raimondi, Ching Hon Pui, William E. Evans, Mary V. Relling

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Abstract

Using the Affymetrix 500K Mapping array and publicly available genotypes, we identified 18 SNPs whose allele frequency differed significantly(P < 1 × 10-5) between pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cases (n = 317) and non-ALL controls (n = 17,958). Two SNPs in ARID5B not only differed between ALL and non-ALL groups (rs10821936, P = 1.4 × 10 -15, odds ratio (OR) = 1.91; rs10994982, P = 5.7 × 10 -9, OR = 1.62) but also distinguished B-hyperdiploid ALL from other subtypes (rs10821936, P = 1.62 × 10-5, OR = 2.17; rs10994982, P = 0.003, OR 1.72). These ARID5B SNPs also distinguished B-hyperdiploid ALL from other subtypes in an independent validation cohort (n = 124 children with ALL; P = 0.003 and P = 0.0008, OR 2.45 and 2.86, respectively) and were associated with methotrexate accumulation and gene expression pattern in leukemic lymphoblasts. We conclude that germline variants affect susceptibility to, and characteristics of, specific ALL subtypes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1001-1005
Number of pages5
JournalNature Genetics
Volume41
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2009
Externally publishedYes

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