DESCRIPTION:

List of positional candidate genes after correcting for multiple testing and controlling the false discovery rate from genome wide association studies (GWAS) retrieved from the NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/). The disease/trait examined in this study, as reported by the authors, was cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. The EFO term cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma was annotated to this set after curation by NHGRI-EBI. Intergenic SNPS were mapped to both the upstream and downstream gene. P-value uploaded. This gene set was generated using gwas2gs v. 0.1.8 and the GWAS Catalog v. 1.0.1.

LABEL:

GWAS: cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

SCORE TYPE:

P-Value

DATE ADDED:

2017-05-02

DATE UPDATED:

2024-04-25

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

HS Chahal, Y Lin, KJ Ransohoff, DA Hinds, W Wu, HJ Dai, AA Qureshi, WQ Li, P Kraft, JY Tang, J Han, KY Sarin

TITLE:

Genome-wide association study identifies novel susceptibility loci for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

JOURNAL:

Nature communications Jul 2016, Vol 7, pp. 12048

ABSTRACT:

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma represents the second most common cutaneous malignancy, affecting 7-11% of Caucasians in the United States. The genetic determinants of susceptibility to cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma remain largely unknown. Here we report the results of a two-stage genome-wide association study of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, totalling 7,404 cases and 292,076 controls. Eleven loci reached genome-wide significance (P<5 × 10(-8)) including seven previously confirmed pigmentation-related loci: MC1R, ASIP, TYR, SLC45A2, OCA2, IRF4 and BNC2. We identify an additional four susceptibility loci: 11q23.3 CADM1, a metastasis suppressor gene involved in modifying tumour interaction with cell-mediated immunity; 2p22.3; 7p21.1 AHR, the dioxin receptor involved in anti-apoptotic pathways and melanoma progression; and 9q34.3 SEC16A, a putative oncogene with roles in secretion and cellular proliferation. These susceptibility loci provide deeper insight into the pathogenesis of squamous cell carcinoma. PUBMED: 27424798
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