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- Andersson, Ulrika, et al.
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The association between longer relative leukocyte telomere length and risk of glioma is independent of the potentially confounding factors allergy, BMI, and smoking
- 2019
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Ingår i: Cancer Causes and Control. - : Springer. - 0957-5243 .- 1573-7225. ; 30:2, s. 177-185
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: Previous studies have suggested an association between relative leukocyte telomere length (rLTL) and glioma risk. This association may be influenced by several factors, including allergies, BMI, and smoking. Previous studies have shown that individuals with asthma and allergy have shortened relative telomere length, and decreased risk of glioma. Though, the details and the interplay between rLTL, asthma and allergies, and glioma molecular phenotype is largely unknown. Methods: rLTL was measured by qPCR in a Swedish population-based glioma case–control cohort (421 cases and 671 controls). rLTL was related to glioma risk and health parameters associated with asthma and allergy, as well as molecular events in glioma including IDH1 mutation, 1p/19q co-deletion, and EGFR amplification. Results: Longer rLTL was associated with increased risk of glioma (OR = 1.16; 95% CI 1.02–1.31). Similar to previous reports, there was an inverse association between allergy and glioma risk. Specific, allergy symptoms including watery eyes was most strongly associated with glioma risk. High body mass index (BMI) a year prior diagnosis was significantly protective against glioma in our population. Adjusting for allergy, asthma, BMI, and smoking did not markedly change the association between longer rLTL and glioma risk. rLTL among cases was not associated with IDH1 mutation, 1p/19q co-deletion, or EGFR amplification, after adjusting for age at diagnosis and sex. Conclusions: In this Swedish glioma case–control cohort, we identified that long rLTL increases the risk of glioma, an association not confounded by allergy, BMI, or smoking. This highlights the complex interplay of the immune system, rLTL and cancer risk.
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- Dahlin, Anna M., 1979-, et al.
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Genetic Variants in the 9p21.3 Locus Associated with Glioma Risk in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults : A Case-Control Study
- 2019
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Ingår i: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. - : American Association for Cancer Research. - 1055-9965 .- 1538-7755. ; 28:7, s. 1252-1258
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Genome-wide association studies have identified germline genetic variants in 25 genetic loci that increase the risk of developing glioma in adulthood. It is not known if these variants increase the risk of developing glioma in children and adolescents and young adults (AYA). To date, no studies have performed genome-wide analyses to find novel genetic variants associated with glioma risk in children and AYA.Methods: We investigated the association between 8,831,628 genetic variants and risk of glioma in 854 patients diagnosed up to the age of 29 years and 3,689 controls from Sweden and Denmark. Recruitment of patients and controls was population based. Genotyping was performed using Illumina BeadChips, and untyped variants were imputed with IMPUTE2. We selected 41 established adult glioma risk variants for detailed investigation.Results: Three adult glioma risk variants, rs634537, rs2157719, and rs145929329, all mapping to the 9p21.3 (CDKN2B-AS1) locus, were associated with glioma risk in children and AYA. The strongest association was seen for rs634537 (odds ratioG = 1.21; 95% confidence interval = 1.09–1.35; P = 5.8 × 10−4). In genome-wide analysis, an association with risk was suggested for 129 genetic variants (P <1 × 10−5).Conclusions: Carriers of risk alleles in the 9p21.3 locus have an increased risk of glioma throughout life. The results from genome-wide association analyses require validation in independent cohorts.Impact: Our findings line up with existing evidence that some, although not all, established adult glioma risk variants are associated with risk of glioma in children and AYA. Validation of results from genome-wide analyses may reveal novel susceptibility loci for glioma in children and AYA.
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- Rentoft, Matilda, et al.
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A geographically matched control population efficiently limits the number of candidate disease-causing variants in an unbiased whole-genome analysis
- 2019
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Ingår i: PLoS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203 .- 1932-6203. ; 14:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Whole-genome sequencing is a promising approach for human autosomal dominant disease studies. However, the vast number of genetic variants observed by this method constitutes a challenge when trying to identify the causal variants. This is often handled by restricting disease studies to the most damaging variants, e. g. those found in coding regions, and overlooking the remaining genetic variation. Such a biased approach explains in part why the genetic causes of many families with dominantly inherited diseases, in spite of being included in whole-genome sequencing studies, are left unsolved today. Here we explore the use of a geographically matched control population to minimize the number of candidate disease-causing variants without excluding variants based on assumptions on genomic position or functional predictions. To exemplify the benefit of the geographically matched control population we apply a typical disease variant filtering strategy in a family with an autosomal dominant form of colorectal cancer. With the use of the geographically matched control population we end up with 26 candidate variants genome wide. This is in contrast to the tens of thousands of candidates left when only making use of available public variant datasets. The effect of the local control population is dual, it (1) reduces the total number of candidate variants shared between affected individuals, and more importantly (2) increases the rate by which the number of candidate variants are reduced as additional affected family members are included in the filtering strategy. We demonstrate that the application of a geographically matched control population effectively limits the number of candidate disease-causing variants and may provide the means by which variants suitable for functional studies are identified genome wide.
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- Späth, Florentin, 1980-, et al.
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Immune marker changes and risk of multiple myeloma : a nested case-control study using repeated prediagnostic blood samples
- 2019
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Ingår i: Haematologica. - : Ferrata Storti Foundation. - 0390-6078 .- 1592-8721. ; 104:12, s. 2456-2464
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Biomarkers reliably predicting progression to multiple myeloma (MM) are lacking. Myeloma risk has been associated with low blood levels of monocyte chemotactic protein-3 (MCP-3), macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP-1 alpha), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2), fractalkine, and transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha). In this study, we aimed to replicate these findings and study the individual dynamics of each marker in a prospective longitudinal cohort, thereby examining their potential as markers of myeloma progression. For this purpose, we identified 65 myeloma cases and 65 matched cancer-free controls each with two donated blood samples within the Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study. The first and repeated samples from myeloma cases were donated at a median 13 and 4 years, respectively, before the myeloma was diagnosed. Known risk factors for progression were determined by protein-, and immunofixation electrophoresis, and free light chain assays. We observed lower levels of MCP-3, VEGF, FGF-2, and TGF-alpha in myeloma patients than in controls, consistent with previous data. We also observed that these markers decreased among future myeloma patients while remaining stable in controls. Decreasing trajectories were noted for TGF-alpha (P=2.5 x 10(-4)) indicating progression to MM. Investigating this, we found that low levels of TGF-alpha assessed at the time of the repeated sample were independently associated with risk of progression in a multivariable model (hazard ratio = 3.5; P=0.003). TGF-alpha can potentially improve early detection of MM.
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- Späth, Florentin, 1980-
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Molecular epidemiology approach : nested case-control studies in glioma and lymphoid malignancies
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Nested case-control studies aim to link molecular markers with a certain outcome. Repeated prediagnostic samples may improve the evaluation of marker-disease associations. However, data regarding the benefit of repeated samples in such studies are sparse. We aimed to assess the relationship between blood levels of various proteins and risk of glioma, B cell lymphoma, and multiple myeloma to gain further understanding of disease etiology and to evaluate the clinical relevance of the studied markers. To this end, marker-disease associations were evaluated considering the natural history of the studied disease and the time between blood sample collection and diagnosis using both single (I-II) and repeated prediagnostic blood samples (III-IV).PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted four nested case-control studies and one meta-analysis using samples from three prospective cohorts: the Janus Serum Bank, the Northern Sweden Health and Disease study, and the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study. The following studied endpoints and relationships were included: I) glioma risk and the association with the receptor tyrosine kinases (soluble) sEGFR and sERBB2; II) B cell lymphoma risk and the association with the immune markers sCD27 and sCD30; III) B cell lymphoma risk and the association with immune markers (CXCL13, sTNF-R1, sCD23, sCD27, and sCD30) and their trends over time; and IV) multiple myeloma risk and the association with ten immune markers and growth factors (MCP-3, MIP-1α, MIP-1β, VEGF, FGF-2, fractalkine, TGF-α, IL-13, TNF-α, and IL-10) and their trends over time.RESULTS: Risk of developing I) glioma was weakly associated with high blood levels of sERBB2. In addition, high levels of both sEGFR and sERBB2 assessed 15 years before diagnosis were associated with glioblastoma risk.Risk of II) B cell lymphoma was associated with high levels of sCD30, whereas high levels of sCD27 were particularly associated with risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Meta-analyses showed consistent results for sCD30 across cohorts and lymphoma subtypes, whereas results for sCD27 were less consistent across cohorts and subtypes.In addition, III) B cell lymphoma risk was associated with levels of CXCL13, sCD23, sCD27, and sCD30 assessed in samples collected 17 years before diagnosis. Marker levels increased in cases closer to diagnosis, particularly for indolent lymphoma with a marked association for chronic lymphocytic leukemia and sCD23. Increasing marker levels closer to diagnosis were also observed for CXCL13 in future diffuse large B cell lymphoma patients.Risk of IV) multiple myeloma was associated with low levels of MCP-3, VEGF, FGF-2, fractalkine, and TGF-α. Levels of these markers decreased in myeloma cases over time, especially for TGF-α. TGF-α assessed at time of the prediagnostic repeated sample seemed to help predict progression to multiple myeloma.CONCLUSIONS: Both the natural history of the studied disease and the time between sample collection and diagnosis are crucial for the evaluation of marker-disease associations. Using repeated blood samples improves the understanding of marker-disease associations and might help to identify useful biomarker candidates.
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- Wu, Wendy Yi-Ying, et al.
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The Genetic Architecture of Gliomagenesis-Genetic Risk Variants Linked to Specific Molecular Subtypes
- 2019
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Ingår i: Cancers. - : MDPI. - 2072-6694. ; 11:12
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Genome-wide association studies have identified 25 germline genetic loci that increase the risk of glioma. The somatic tumor molecular alterations, including IDH-mutation status and 1p/19q co-deletion, have been included into the WHO 2016 classification system for glioma. To investigate how the germline genetic risk variants correlate with the somatic molecular subtypes put forward by WHO, we performed a meta-analysis that combined findings from 330 Swedish cases and 876 controls with two other recent studies. In total, 5,103 cases and 10,915 controls were included. Three categories of associations were found. First, variants in TERT and TP53 were associated with increased risk of all glioma subtypes. Second, variants in CDKN2B-AS1, EGFR, and RTEL1 were associated with IDH-wildtype glioma. Third, variants in CCDC26 (the 8q24 locus), C2orf80 (close to IDH), LRIG1, PHLDB1, ETFA, MAML2 and ZBTB16 were associated with IDH-mutant glioma. We therefore propose three etiopathological pathways in gliomagenesis based on germline variants for future guidance of diagnosis and potential functional targets for therapies. Future prospective clinical trials of patients with suspicion of glioma diagnoses, using the genetic variants as biomarkers, are necessary to disentangle how strongly they can predict glioma diagnosis.
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