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A scan of all coding region variants of the human genome, identifies 13q12.2-rs9579139 and 15q24.1-rs2277598 as novel risk loci for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Matteo GiaccheriniLeonardo GoriManuel GentiluomoRiccardo FarinellaKlara CervenaJurgita SkiecevicieneFrederike DijkGabriele CapursoAntonis VezakisLivia ArchibugiRoger ChammasTamás HusseinFrancesca TavanoPéter HegyiMartin LovecekJakob IzbickiHermann BrennerBeatrice Mohelnikova-DuchonovaGiuseppe Dell'AnnaJuozas KupcinskasStefano ErminiMateus Nóbrega AokiJohn P NeoptolemosMaria GazouliClaudio PasqualiRaffaele PezzilliRenata Talar-WojnarowskaMartin OliveriusMohammed Al-SaeediMaurizio LucchesiNiccolò FurbettaSilvia CarraraCasper H J van EijckAlmantas MaleckasAnna Caterina MilanettoRita T LawlorBen SchöttkerUgo BoggiLuca MorelliLaura GinocchiRuggero Ponz de LeonCosimo SpertiAlessandro ZerbiPaolo Giorgio ArcidiaconoFaik G UzunogluStefania BunducBernd HolleczekDomenica GioffredaEwa Małecka-WojcieskoMindaugas KiudelisAndrea SzentesiHanneke W M van LaarhovenPavel SoucekMara GötzBálint ErőssGiulia Martina CavestroDaniela BassoFrancesco PerriStefano LandiFrederico CanzianDaniele Campa
Published in: Carcinogenesis (2023)
Coding sequence variants comprise a small fraction of the germline genetic variability of the human genome. However, they often cause deleterious change in protein function and are therefore associated with pathogenic phenotypes. To identify novel pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) risk loci, we carried out a complete scan of all common missense and synonymous SNPs and analysed them in a case control study comprising four different populations, for a total of 14,538 PDAC cases and 190,657 controls. We observed a statistically significant association between 13q12.2-rs9581957-T and PDAC risk (P=2.46x10 -9), that is in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with a deleterious missense variant (rs9579139) of the URAD gene. Recent findings suggest that this gene is active in peroxisomes. Considering that peroxisomes have a key role as molecular scavengers, especially in eliminating reactive oxygen species, a malfunctioning URAD protein might expose the cell to a higher load of potentially DNA damaging molecules and therefore increase PDAC risk. The association was observed in individuals of European and Asian ethnicity. We also observed the association of the missense variant 15q24.1-rs2277598-T, that belongs to BBS4 gene, with increased PDAC risk (P=1.53x10 -6). rs2277598 is associated with body mass index and is in LD with diabetes susceptibility loci. In conclusion, we identified two missense variants associated with the risk of developing PDAC independently from the ethnicity highlighting the importance of conducting reanalysis of GWAS studies in light of functional data.
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