Journal article
Assessment of a Polygenic Risk Score for Colorectal Cancer to Predict Risk of Lynch Syndrome Colorectal Cancer
MA Jenkins, DD Buchanan, J Lai, E Makalic, GS Dite, AK Win, M Clendenning, IM Winship, RB Hayes, JR Huyghe, U Peters, S Gallinger, LL Marchand, JC Figueiredo, RK Pai, PA Newcomb, JM Church, G Casey, JL Hopper
Jnci Cancer Spectrum | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2021
Abstract
It was not known whether the polygenic risk scores (PRSs) that predict colorectal cancer could predict colorectal cancer for people with inherited pathogenic variants in DNA mismatch repair genes - people with Lynch syndrome. We tested a PRS comprising 107 established single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with colorectal cancer in European populations for 826 European-descent carriers of pathogenic variants in DNA mismatch repair genes (293 MLH1, 314 MSH2, 126 MSH6, 71 PMS2, and 22 EPCAM) from the Colon Cancer Family Registry, of whom 504 had colorectal cancer. There was no evidence of an association between the PRS and colorectal cancer risk, irrespective of which DNA mismatch repair g..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Colon Cancer Family Registry (CCFR, www.coloncfr.org) is supported in part by funding from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (U01 CA167551). Support for case ascertainment was provided in part from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program and the following US state cancer registries: AZ, CO, MN, NC, NH; and by the Victoria Cancer Registry (Australia) and Ontario Cancer Registry (Canada). SNP genotyping was supported by funding from the Canadian Cancer Society, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and funding from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (U01 CA122839 and R01 CA143247), and by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia.