Patients with a High Polygenic Risk of Breast Cancer do not have An Increased Risk of Radiotherapy Toxicity.
Clin Cancer Res
; 22(6): 1413-20, 2016 Mar 15.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
It has been hypothesized that increased predisposition to breast cancer may correlate with radiosensitivity, and thus increased risk of toxicity following breast irradiation. This study investigated the relationship between common breast cancer risk variants and radiotherapy toxicity. EXPERIMENTALDESIGN:
SNP genotypes were determined in female breast cancer patients from the RAPPER (Radiogenomics Assessment of polymorphisms for predicting the effects of radiotherapy) study using the Illumina CytoSNP12 genome-wide array. A further 15,582,449 genotypes were imputed using the 1000 Genomes Project reference panel. Patient (n = 1,160) polygenic risk scores were generated by summing risk-allele dosages, both unweighted and weighted by published effect sizes for breast cancer risk. Regression models were used to test associations of individual variants and polygenic risk scores with acute and late toxicity phenotypes (telangiectasia, breast edema, photographically assessed shrinkage, induration, pigmentation, breast pain, breast sensitivity, and overall toxicity).RESULTS:
Genotypes of 90 confirmed breast cancer risk variants were accurately determined and polygenic risk scores were approximately normally distributed. Variant rs6964587 was associated with increased breast edema 5 years following radiotherapy (Beta, 0.22; 95% confidence interval, 0.09-0.34; P = 7 × 10(-4)). No other associations were found between individual variants or the unweighted (P > 0.17) or weighted (P > 0.13) polygenic risk score and radiotherapy toxicity. This study had >87% power to detect an association between the polygenic risk score (relative risk > 1.1) and toxicity.CONCLUSIONS:
Cancer patients with a high polygenic predisposition to breast cancer do not have an increased risk of radiotherapy toxicity up to 5 years following radiotherapy but individual variants may increase risk.
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Collection:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Radiation Tolerance
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Breast Neoplasms
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Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Clin Cancer Res
Journal subject:
NEOPLASIAS
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article
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