Joint effects of colorectal cancer susceptibility loci, circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D and risk of colorectal cancer

Linda T. Hiraki, Amit D. Joshi, Kimmie Ng, Charles S. Fuchs, Jing Ma, Aditi Hazra, Ulrike Peters, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Edward Giovannucci, Peter Kraft, Andrew T. Chan

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Abstract

Background: Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several SNPs associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) susceptibility. Vitamin D is also inversely associated with CRC risk. Methods: We examined main and joint effects of previously GWAS identified genetic markers of CRC and plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) on CRC risk in three prospective cohorts: the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS), and the Physicians' Health Study (PHS). We included 1895 CRC cases and 2806 controls with genomic DNA. We calculated odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for CRC associated with additive genetic risk scores (GRSs) comprised of all CRC SNPs and subsets of these SNPs based on proximity to regions of increased vitamin D receptor binding to vitamin D response elements (VDREs), based on published ChiP-seq data. Among a subset of subjects with additional prediagnostic 25(OH)D we tested multiplicative interactions between plasma 25(OH)D and GRS's. We used fixed effects models to meta-analyze the three cohorts. Results: The per allele multivariate OR was 1.12 (95% CI, 1.06-1.19) for GRS-proximalVDRE; and 1.10 (95% CI, 1.06-1.14) for GRS-nonproxVDRE. The lowest quartile of plasma 25(OH)D compared with the highest, had a multivariate OR of 0.63 (95% CI, 0.48-0.82) for CRC. We did not observe any significant interactions between any GRSs and plasma 25(OH)D. Conclusions: We did not observe evidence for the modification of genetic susceptibility for CRC according to vitamin D status, or evidence that the effect of common CRC risk alleles differed according to their proximity to putative VDR binding sites.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere92212
JournalPLoS ONE
Volume9
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Mar 2014
Externally publishedYes

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