Open AccessFine mapping and functional analysis of a common variant in MSMB on chromosome 10q11.2 associated with prostate cancer susceptibility
Author(s) -
Hong Li,
Meredith Yeager,
Hongchuan Li,
Jesús González Bosquet,
Richard B. Hayes,
Nick Orr,
Kai Yu,
Amy Hutchinson,
Kevin B. Jacobs,
Peter Kraft,
Sholom Wacholder,
Nilanjan Chatterjee,
Heather Spencer Feigelson,
Michael J. Thun,
W. Ryan Diver,
Demetrius Albanês,
Jarmo Virtamo,
Stephanie J. Weinstein,
Jing Ma,
J. Michael Gaziano,
Meir J. Stampfer,
Fredrick Schumacher,
Edward Giovannucci,
Géraldine CancelTassin,
Olivier Cussenot,
Antoine Valéri,
Gerald L. Andriole,
E. David Crawford,
Stephen Anderson,
Margaret A. Tucker,
Robert N. Hoover,
Joseph F. Fraumeni,
Gilles Thomas,
David J. Hunter,
Michael Dean,
Stephen J. Chanock
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.0902104106
Subject(s) - single nucleotide polymorphism , genotype , prostate cancer , biology , allele , genetics , locus (genetics) , snp , microbiology and biotechnology , cancer , gene
Two recent genome-wide association studies have independently identified a prostate cancer susceptibility locus on chromosome 10q11.2. The most significant single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker reported, rs10993994, is 57 bp centromeric of the first exon of the MSMB gene, which encodes β-microseminoprotein (prostatic secretory protein 94). In this study, a fine-mapping analysis using HapMap SNPs was conducted across a ≈65-kb region (chr10: 51168330–51234020) flanking rs10993994 with 13 tag SNPs in 6,118 prostate cancer cases and 6,105 controls of European origin from the Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS) project. rs10993994 remained the most strongly associated marker with prostate cancer risk [P = 8.8 × 10−18 ; heterozygous odds ratio (OR) = 1.20, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.11–1.30; homozygous OR = 1.64, 95% CI: 1.47–1.86 for the adjusted genotype test with 2 df]. In follow-up functional analyses, the T variant of rs10993994 significantly affected expression of in vitro luciferase reporter constructs. In electrophoretic mobility shift assays, the C allele of rs10993994 preferentially binds to the CREB transcription factor. Analysis of tumor cell lines with a CC or CT genotype revealed a high level ofMSMB gene expression compared with cell lines with a TT genotype. These findings were specific to the alleles of rs10993994 and were not observed for other SNPs determined by sequence analysis of the proximal promoter. Together, our mapping study and functional analyses implicate regulation of expression ofMSMB as a plausible mechanism accounting for the association identified at this locus. Further investigation is warranted to determine whether rs10993994 alone or in combination with additional variants contributes to prostate cancer susceptibility.