Common genetic variants at the CRAC1 (HMPS) locus on chromosome 15q13.3 influence colorectal cancer risk.

We mapped a high-penetrance gene (CRAC1; also known as HMPS) associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) in the Ashkenazi population to a 0.6-Mb region on chromosome 15 containing SCG5 (also known as SGNE1), GREM1 and FMN1. We hypothesized that the CRAC1 locus harbored low-penetrance variants that incre...

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Hlavní autoři: Jaeger, E, Webb, E, Howarth, K, Carvajal-Carmona, L, Rowan, A, Broderick, P, Walther, A, Spain, S, Pittman, A, Kemp, Z, Sullivan, K, Heinimann, K, Lubbe, S, Domingo, E, Barclay, E, Martin, L, Gorman, M, Chandler, I, Vijayakrishnan, J, Wood, W, Papaemmanuil, E, Penegar, S, Qureshi, M, Farrington, S, Tenesa, A
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: 2008
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Shrnutí:We mapped a high-penetrance gene (CRAC1; also known as HMPS) associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) in the Ashkenazi population to a 0.6-Mb region on chromosome 15 containing SCG5 (also known as SGNE1), GREM1 and FMN1. We hypothesized that the CRAC1 locus harbored low-penetrance variants that increased CRC risk in the general population. In a large series of colorectal cancer cases and controls, SNPs near GREM1 and SCG5 were strongly associated with increased CRC risk (for rs4779584, P = 4.44 x 10(-14)).