Atlas of prostate cancer heritability in European and African-American men pinpoints tissue-specific regulation.
Alexander GusevHuwenbo ShiGleb KichaevMark PomerantzFugen LiHenry W LongSue A InglesRick A KittlesSara S StromBenjamin A RybickiBarbara NemesureWilliam B IsaacsWei ZhengCurtis A PettawayEdward D YeboahYao TetteyRichard B BiritwumAndrew A AdjeiEvelyn TayAnn TrueloveShelley NiwaAnand P ChokkalingamEsther M JohnAdam B MurphyLisa B SignorelloJohn CarptenM Cristina LeskeSuh-Yuh WuAnslem J M HennisChristine Neslund-DudasAnn W HsingLisa ChuPhyllis J GoodmanEric A KleinJohn S WitteGraham CaseySam KaggwaMichael B CookDaniel O StramWilliam J BlotRosalind A EelesDouglas EastonZsofia Kote-JaraiAli Amin Al OlamaSara BenllochKenneth MuirGraham G GilesMelissa C SoutheyLiesel M FitzgeraldHenrik GronbergFredrik WiklundMarkus AlyBrian E HendersonJohanna SchleutkerTiina WahlforsTeuvo L J TammelaBørge G NordestgaardTim J KeyRuth C TravisDavid E NealJenny L DonovanFreddie C HamdyPaul David Peter PharoahNora PashayanKay-Tee KhawJanet L StanfordStephen N ThibodeauShannon K McDonnellDaniel J SchaidChristiane MaierWalther VogelManuel LuedekeKathleen HerkommerAdam S KibelCezary CybulskiDominika WokolorczykWojciech KluzniakLisa Cannon-AlbrightCraig TeerlinkHermann BrennerAida K DieffenbachVolker ArndtJong Y ParkThomas A SellersHui-Yi LinChavdar SlavovRadka KanevaVanio MitevJyotsna BatraAmanda SpurdleJudith A ClementsManuel R TeixeiraHardev PandhaAgnieszka MichaelPaula PauloSofia MaiaAndrzej Kierzeknull nullDavid V ContiDemetrius AlbanesChristine BergSonja I BerndtDaniele CampaE David CrawfordW Ryan DiverSusan M GapsturJ Michael GazianoEdward GiovannucciRobert HooverDavid J HunterMattias JohanssonPeter KraftLoic Le MarchandSara LindströmCarmen NavarroKim OvervadElio RiboliAfshan SiddiqVictoria L StevensDimitrios TrichopoulosPaolo VineisMeredith YeagerGosia TrynkaSoumya RaychaudhuriFrederick R SchumacherAlkes L PriceMatthew L FreedmanChristopher A HaimanBogdan PasaniucPublished in: Nature communications (2016)
Although genome-wide association studies have identified over 100 risk loci that explain ∼33% of familial risk for prostate cancer (PrCa), their functional effects on risk remain largely unknown. Here we use genotype data from 59,089 men of European and African American ancestries combined with cell-type-specific epigenetic data to build a genomic atlas of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) heritability in PrCa. We find significant differences in heritability between variants in prostate-relevant epigenetic marks defined in normal versus tumour tissue as well as between tissue and cell lines. The majority of SNP heritability lies in regions marked by H3k27 acetylation in prostate adenoc7arcinoma cell line (LNCaP) or by DNaseI hypersensitive sites in cancer cell lines. We find a high degree of similarity between European and African American ancestries suggesting a similar genetic architecture from common variation underlying PrCa risk. Our findings showcase the power of integrating functional annotation with genetic data to understand the genetic basis of PrCa.