Aggregation tests identify new gene associations with breast cancer in populations with diverse ancestry
Low-frequency variants play an important role in breast cancer (BC) susceptibility. Gene-based methods can increase power by combining multiple variants in the same gene and help identify target genes. We evaluated the potential of gene-based aggregation in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium c...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Genome medicine 2023-01, Vol.15 (1), p.7-18, Article 7 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Low-frequency variants play an important role in breast cancer (BC) susceptibility. Gene-based methods can increase power by combining multiple variants in the same gene and help identify target genes.
We evaluated the potential of gene-based aggregation in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium cohorts including 83,471 cases and 59,199 controls. Low-frequency variants were aggregated for individual genes' coding and regulatory regions. Association results in European ancestry samples were compared to single-marker association results in the same cohort. Gene-based associations were also combined in meta-analysis across individuals with European, Asian, African, and Latin American and Hispanic ancestry.
In European ancestry samples, 14 genes were significantly associated (q |
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ISSN: | 1756-994X 1756-994X |
DOI: | 10.1186/s13073-022-01152-5 |