Volume 144, Issue 9 pp. 2192-2205
Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics

A comprehensive gene–environment interaction analysis in Ovarian Cancer using genome-wide significant common variants

Sehee Kim

Sehee Kim

Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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Miao Wang

Miao Wang

Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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Jonathan P. Tyrer

Jonathan P. Tyrer

Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Allan Jensen

Allan Jensen

Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Ashley Wiensch

Ashley Wiensch

Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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Gang Liu

Gang Liu

Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

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Alice W. Lee

Alice W. Lee

Department of Public Health, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, USA

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Roberta B. Ness

Roberta B. Ness

University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA

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Maxwell Salvatore

Maxwell Salvatore

Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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Shelley S. Tworoger

Shelley S. Tworoger

Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

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Alice S. Whittemore

Alice S. Whittemore

Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

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Hoda Anton-Culver

Hoda Anton-Culver

Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

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Weiva Sieh

Weiva Sieh

Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

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Sara H. Olson

Sara H. Olson

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

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Andrew Berchuck

Andrew Berchuck

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

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Ellen L. Goode

Ellen L. Goode

Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

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Marc T. Goodman

Marc T. Goodman

Cancer Prevention and Control, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Community and Population Health Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Jennifer Anne Doherty

Jennifer Anne Doherty

Department of Population Health Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

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Georgia Chenevix-Trench

Georgia Chenevix-Trench

Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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Mary Anne Rossing

Mary Anne Rossing

Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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Penelope M. Webb

Penelope M. Webb

Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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Graham G. Giles

Graham G. Giles

Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Kathryn L. Terry

Kathryn L. Terry

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

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Argyrios Ziogas

Argyrios Ziogas

Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

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Renée T. Fortner

Renée T. Fortner

Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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Usha Menon

Usha Menon

Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, Women's Cancer, Institute for Women's Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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Simon A. Gayther

Simon A. Gayther

Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Center for Cancer Prevention and Translational Genomics, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Anna H. Wu

Anna H. Wu

Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Honglin Song

Honglin Song

Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Angela Brooks-Wilson

Angela Brooks-Wilson

Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

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Elisa V. Bandera

Elisa V. Bandera

Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

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Linda S. Cook

Linda S. Cook

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Division of Cancer Care, Department of Population Health Research, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada

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Daniel W. Cramer

Daniel W. Cramer

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

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Roger L. Milne

Roger L. Milne

Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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Stacey J. Winham

Stacey J. Winham

Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

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Susanne K. Kjaer

Susanne K. Kjaer

Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Department of Gynaecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Francesmary Modugno

Francesmary Modugno

Ovarian Cancer Center of Excellence, Womens Cancer Research Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute and Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Pamela J. Thompson

Pamela J. Thompson

Cancer Prevention and Control, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Jenny Chang-Claude

Jenny Chang-Claude

Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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Holly R. Harris

Holly R. Harris

Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

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Joellen M. Schildkraut

Joellen M. Schildkraut

Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

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Nhu D. Le

Nhu D. Le

Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Nico Wentzensen

Nico Wentzensen

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

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Britton Trabert

Britton Trabert

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

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Estrid Høgdall

Estrid Høgdall

Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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David Huntsman

David Huntsman

British Columbia's Ovarian Cancer Research (OVCARE) program, Vancouver General Hospital, BC Cancer and University of British Columbia

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Malcolm C. Pike

Malcolm C. Pike

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Paul D.P. Pharoah

Paul D.P. Pharoah

Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Celeste Leigh Pearce

Celeste Leigh Pearce

Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Center for Cancer Prevention and Translational Genomics, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Bhramar Mukherjee

Corresponding Author

Bhramar Mukherjee

Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Correspondence to: Bhramar Mukherjee, SPH Tower, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor MI 48109, USA, Tel.: 734-764-6544; Fax: 734-764-3192, E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author
First published: 29 November 2018
Citations: 12

Abstract

As a follow-up to genome-wide association analysis of common variants associated with ovarian carcinoma (cancer), our study considers seven well-known ovarian cancer risk factors and their interactions with 28 genome-wide significant common genetic variants. The interaction analyses were based on data from 9971 ovarian cancer cases and 15,566 controls from 17 case–control studies. Likelihood ratio and Wald tests for multiplicative interaction and for relative excess risk due to additive interaction were used. The top multiplicative interaction was noted between oral contraceptive pill (OCP) use (ever vs. never) and rs13255292 (p value = 3.48 × 10−4). Among women with the TT genotype for this variant, the odds ratio for OCP use was 0.53 (95% CI = 0.46–0.60) compared to 0.71 (95%CI = 0.66–0.77) for women with the CC genotype. When stratified by duration of OCP use, women with 1–5 years of OCP use exhibited differential protective benefit across genotypes. However, no interaction on either the multiplicative or additive scale was found to be statistically significant after multiple testing correction. The results suggest that OCP use may offer increased benefit for women who are carriers of the T allele in rs13255292. On the other hand, for women carrying the C allele in this variant, longer (5+ years) use of OCP may reduce the impact of carrying the risk allele of this SNP. Replication of this finding is needed. The study presents a comprehensive analytic framework for conducting gene–environment analysis in ovarian cancer.

Abstract

What's new?

Genetic and environmental risk factors for ovarian cancer have been identified separately but interactions between both remain largely unexplored. The authors identified a new gene x environment interaction between oral contraceptive pill (OCP) use and a single nucleotide polymorphism in the PVT1 gene, a long-noncoding RNA located on chromosome 8. The data suggest that the protective benefit of OCP use may be strongest in women with the T allele of PVT1 underscoring the need to tailor prevention strategies to individual genotypic profiles.

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