Genetic determinants of telomere length and risk of pancreatic cancer

• Verfasst von: Campa, Daniele [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Saum, Kai-Uwe [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Hackert, Thilo [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Cuk, Katarina [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Kaiser, Jörg [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: König, Anna-Katharina [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Kaaks, Rudolf [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Strobel, Oliver [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Brenner, Hermann [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Genetic determinants of telomere length and risk of pancreatic cancer
• Titelzusatz: a PANDoRA study
• Verf.angabe: Daniele Campa, Martina Matarazzi, William Greenhalf, Maarten Bijlsma, Kai-Uwe Saum, Claudio Pasquali, Hanneke van Laarhoven, Andrea Szentesi, Francesca Federici, Pavel Vodicka, Niccola Funel, Raffaele Pezzilli, H. Bas Bueno‐de‐Mesquita, Ludmila Vodickova, Daniela Basso, Ofure Obazee, Thilo Hackert, Pavel Soucek, Katarina Cuk, Jörg Kaiser, Cosimo Sperti, Martin Lovecek, Gabriele Capurso, Beatrice Mohelnikova‐Duchonova, Kay-Tee Khaw, Anna-Katharina König, Juozas Kupcinskas, Rudolf Kaaks, Franco Bambi, Livia Archibugi, Andrea Mambrini, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Stefano Landi, Péter Hegyi, Jakob R. Izbicki, Domenica Gioffreda, Carlo Federico Zambon, Francesca Tavano, Renata Talar‐Wojnarowska, Krzysztof Jamroziak, Timothy J. Key, Gianfranco Delle Fave, Oliver Strobel, Laimas Jonaitis, Angelo Andriulli, Rita T. Lawlor, Felice Pirozzi, Verena Katzke, Chiara Valsuani, Yogesh K. Vashist, Hermann Brenner and Federico Canzian
• Jahr: 2019
• Jahr des Originals: 2018
• Umfang: 9 S.
• Teil: volume:144
• Teil: year:2019
• Teil: number:6
• Teil: pages:1275-1283
• Teil: extent:9
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 15.02.2019 ; Online 16 Oct 2018
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: International journal of cancer
• Ort Quelle: Bognor Regis : Wiley-Liss, 1966
• Jahr Quelle: 2019
• Band/Heft Quelle: 144(2019), 6, Seite 1275-1283
• ISSN Quelle: 1097-0215
• DOI: doi:10.1002/ijc.31928
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: association
• Sach-SW: genetic polymorphisms
• Sach-SW: lymphocyte telomere length
• Sach-SW: Mendelian randomization
• Sach-SW: pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
• K10plus-PPN: 1587721929

Abstract

Telomere deregulation is a hallmark of cancer. Telomere length measured in lymphocytes (LTL) has been shown to be a risk marker for several cancers. For pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) consensus is lacking whether risk is associated with long or short telomeres. Mendelian randomization approaches have shown that a score built from SNPs associated with LTL could be used as a robust risk marker. We explored this approach in a large scale study within the PANcreatic Disease ReseArch (PANDoRA) consortium. We analyzed 10 SNPs (ZNF676-rs409627, TERT-rs2736100, CTC1-rs3027234, DHX35-rs6028466, PXK-rs6772228, NAF1-rs7675998, ZNF208-rs8105767, OBFC1-rs9420907, ACYP2-rs11125529 and TERC-rs10936599) alone and combined in a LTL genetic score (“teloscore”, which explains 2.2% of the telomere variability) in relation to PDAC risk in 2,374 cases and 4,326 controls. We identified several associations with PDAC risk, among which the strongest were with the TERT-rs2736100 SNP (OR = 1.54; 95%CI 1.35-1.76; p = 1.54 × 10−10) and a novel one with the NAF1-rs7675998 SNP (OR = 0.80; 95%CI 0.73-0.88; p = 1.87 × 10−6, ptrend = 3.27 × 10−7). The association of short LTL, measured by the teloscore, with PDAC risk reached genome-wide significance (p = 2.98 × 10−9 for highest vs. lowest quintile; p = 1.82 × 10−10 as a continuous variable). In conclusion, we present a novel genome-wide candidate SNP for PDAC risk (TERT-rs2736100), a completely new signal (NAF1-rs7675998) approaching genome-wide significance and we report a strong association between the teloscore and risk of pancreatic cancer, suggesting that telomeres are a potential risk factor for pancreatic cancer.