Genetic variants in the MRPS30 region and postmenopausal breast cancer risk
A partir de données portant sur des femmes ménopausées incluses dans la cohorte « Women's Health Initiative », cette étude évalue l'association entre des polymorphismes à simple nucléotide de la région génomique MRPS30, des expositions de nature hormonale et alimentaire et le risque de cancer du sein
BACKGROUND: Genomewide association studies have identified several genomic regions that are associated with breast cancer risk, but these provide an explanation for only a small fraction of familial breast cancer aggregation. Genotype by environment interactions may contribute further to such explanation, and may help to refine the genomic regions of interest. METHODS: We examined genotype for 4988 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), selected from recent genomewide studies, and four randomized hormonal and dietary interventions among 2166 who developed invasive breast cancer during the intervention phase of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial (1993 - 2005) among postmenopausal women, and 1-1 matched controls. These SNPs derive from 3224 genomic regions having pairwise squared correlation (r2) between adjacent regions less than 0.2. Breast cancer and SNP associations were identified using a test statistic that combined evidence of overall association with evidence for SNP by intervention interaction. RESULTS: The combined 'main effect' and interaction test led to a focus on two genomic regions, the fibroblast growth factor receptor two (FGFR2) and the mitochondrial ribosomal protein S30 (MRPS30) regions. The ranking of SNPs by significance level, based on this combined test, was rather different from that based on the main effect alone, and drew attention to the vicinities of rs3750817 in FGFR2 and rs7705343 in MRPS30. Specifically, rs7705343 was included with several FGFR2 SNPs in a group of SNPs having estimated false discovery rate < 0.05. In further analyses, there were suggestions (nominal p < 0.05) that hormonal and dietary intervention hazard ratios varied with the number of minor alleles of rs7705343. CONCLUSIONS: Genotype by environment interaction information may help to define genomic regions relevant to disease risk. Combined main effect and intervention interaction analyses raises novel hypotheses concerning the MRPS30 genomic region and the effects of hormonal and dietary exposures on postmenopausal breast cancer risk.