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American Journal of Human Genetics

Publication date: 2013-04-01
Volume: 92 Pages: 489 - 503
Publisher: American Society of Human Genetics

Author:

French, Juliet D
Ghoussaini, Maya ; Edwards, Stacey L ; Meyer, Kerstin B ; Michailidou, Kyriaki ; Ahmed, Shahana ; Khan, Sofia ; Maranian, Mel J ; O'Reilly, Martin ; Hillman, Kristine M ; Betts, Joshua A ; Carroll, Thomas ; Bailey, Peter J ; Dicks, Ed ; Beesley, Jonathan ; Tyrer, Jonathan ; Maia, Ana-Teresa ; Beck, Andrew ; Knoblauch, Nicholas W ; Chen, Constance ; Kraft, Peter ; Barnes, Daniel ; González-Neira, Anna ; Alonso, M Rosario ; Herrero, Daniel ; Tessier, Daniel C ; Vincent, Daniel ; Bacot, Francois ; Luccarini, Craig ; Baynes, Caroline ; Conroy, Don ; Dennis, Joe ; Bolla, Manjeet K ; Wang, Qin ; Hopper, John L ; Southey, Melissa C ; Schmidt, Marjanka K ; Broeks, Annegien ; Verhoef, Senno ; Cornelissen, Sten ; Muir, Kenneth ; Lophatananon, Artitaya ; Stewart-Brown, Sarah ; Siriwanarangsan, Pornthep ; Fasching, Peter A ; Loehberg, Christian R ; Ekici, Arif B ; Beckmann, Matthias W ; Peto, Julian ; Dos Santos Silva, Isabel ; Johnson, Nichola ; Aitken, Zoe ; Sawyer, Elinor J ; Tomlinson, Ian ; Kerin, Michael J ; Miller, Nicola ; Marme, Frederik ; Schneeweiss, Andreas ; Sohn, Christof ; Burwinkel, Barbara ; Guénel, Pascal ; Truong, Thérèse ; Laurent-Puig, Pierre ; Menegaux, Florence ; Bojesen, Stig E ; Nordestgaard, Børge G ; Nielsen, Sune F ; Flyger, Henrik ; Milne, Roger L ; Zamora, M Pilar ; Arias Perez, Jose Ignacio ; Benitez, Javier ; Anton-Culver, Hoda ; Brenner, Hermann ; Müller, Heiko ; Arndt, Volker ; Stegmaier, Christa ; Meindl, Alfons ; Lichtner, Peter ; Schmutzler, Rita K ; Engel, Christoph ; Brauch, Hiltrud ; Hamann, Ute ; Justenhoven, Christina ; GENICA Network, ; Aaltonen, Kirsimari ; Heikkilä, Päivi ; Aittomäki, Kristiina ; Blomqvist, Carl ; Matsuo, Keitaro ; Ito, Hidemi ; Iwata, Hiroji ; Sueta, Aiko ; Bogdanova, Natalia V ; Antonenkova, Natalia N ; Dörk, Thilo ; Lindblom, Annika ; Margolin, Sara ; Mannermaa, Arto ; Kataja, Vesa ; Kosma, Veli-Matti ; Hartikainen, Jaana M ; kConFab Investigators, ; Wu, Anna H ; Tseng, Chiu-Chen ; Van Den Berg, David ; Stram, Daniel O ; Lambrechts, Diether ; Peeters, Stéphanie ; Smeets, Ann ; Floris, Guiseppe ; Chang-Claude, Jenny ; Rudolph, Anja ; Nickels, Stefan ; Flesch-Janys, Dieter ; Radice, Paolo ; Peterlongo, Paolo ; Bonanni, Bernardo ; Sardella, Domenico ; Couch, Fergus J ; Wang, Xianshu ; Pankratz, Vernon S ; Lee, Adam ; Giles, Graham G ; Severi, Gianluca ; Baglietto, Laura ; Haiman, Christopher A ; Henderson, Brian E ; Schumacher, Fredrick ; Le Marchand, Loic ; Simard, Jacques ; Goldberg, Mark S ; Labrèche, France ; Dumont, Martine ; Teo, Soo Hwang ; Yip, Cheng Har ; Ng, Char-Hong ; Vithana, Eranga Nishanthie ; Kristensen, Vessela ; Zheng, Wei ; Deming-Halverson, Sandra ; Shrubsole, Martha ; Long, Jirong ; Winqvist, Robert ; Pylkäs, Katri ; Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja ; Grip, Mervi ; Andrulis, Irene L ; Knight, Julia A ; Glendon, Gord ; Mulligan, Anna Marie ; Devilee, Peter ; Seynaeve, Caroline ; García-Closas, Montserrat ; Figueroa, Jonine ; Chanock, Stephen J ; Lissowska, Jolanta ; Czene, Kamila ; Klevebring, Daniel ; Schoof, Nils ; Hooning, Maartje J ; Martens, John WM ; Collée, J Margriet ; Tilanus-Linthorst, Madeleine ; Hall, Per ; Li, Jingmei ; Liu, Jianjun ; Humphreys, Keith ; Shu, Xiao-Ou ; Lu, Wei ; Gao, Yu-Tang ; Cai, Hui ; Cox, Angela ; Balasubramanian, Sabapathy P ; Blot, William ; Signorello, Lisa B ; Cai, Qiuyin ; Pharoah, Paul DP ; Healey, Catherine S ; Shah, Mitul ; Pooley, Karen A ; Kang, Daehee ; Yoo, Keun-Young ; Noh, Dong-Young ; Hartman, Mikael ; Miao, Hui ; Sng, Jen-Hwei ; Sim, Xueling ; Jakubowska, Anna ; Lubinski, Jan ; Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna ; Durda, Katarzyna ; Sangrajrang, Suleeporn ; Gaborieau, Valerie ; McKay, James ; Toland, Amanda E ; Ambrosone, Christine B ; Yannoukakos, Drakoulis ; Godwin, Andrew K ; Shen, Chen-Yang ; Hsiung, Chia-Ni ; Wu, Pei-Ei ; Chen, Shou-Tung ; Swerdlow, Anthony ; Ashworth, Alan ; Orr, Nick ; Schoemaker, Minouk J ; Ponder, Bruce AJ ; Nevanlinna, Heli ; Brown, Melissa A ; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia ; Easton, Douglas F ; Dunning, Alison M

Keywords:

Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Genetics & Heredity, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, GROWTH-FACTOR RECEPTOR-2, ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR, DOWN-REGULATION, MULTIPLE LOCI, CELL-CYCLE, GATA-3, GENE, ALPHA, DIFFERENTIATION, Binding Sites, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Cell Line, Tumor, Chromatin, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11, Cyclin D1, Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Female, GATA3 Transcription Factor, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Humans, Luciferases, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Promoter Regions, Genetic, RNA, Messenger, RNA, Small Interfering, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Silencer Elements, Transcriptional, ets-Domain Protein Elk-4, GENICA Network, kConFab Investigators, 06 Biological Sciences, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, 31 Biological sciences, 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences, 42 Health sciences

Abstract:

Analysis of 4,405 variants in 89,050 European subjects from 41 case-control studies identified three independent association signals for estrogen-receptor-positive tumors at 11q13. The strongest signal maps to a transcriptional enhancer element in which the G allele of the best candidate causative variant rs554219 increases risk of breast cancer, reduces both binding of ELK4 transcription factor and luciferase activity in reporter assays, and may be associated with low cyclin D1 protein levels in tumors. Another candidate variant, rs78540526, lies in the same enhancer element. Risk association signal 2, rs75915166, creates a GATA3 binding site within a silencer element. Chromatin conformation studies demonstrate that these enhancer and silencer elements interact with each other and with their likely target gene, CCND1.