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TheCYP19gene encodes for aromatase (P450arom), a key steroidogenic enzyme that catalyzes the final step of estrogen biosynthesis. Apart from rare mutations inCYP19which result in severe phenotypes associated with estrogen insufficiency, little is known about whether common variation inCYP19is associated with risk of hormone-related diseases. In this study, we employed a haplotype-based approach to search for common disease-associated variants in this candidate breast cancer susceptibility gene among African-American, Hawaiian, Japanese, Latina and White women in the Multiethnic Cohort Study (MEC). We utilized 74 densely spaced single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (one every ∼2.6 kb) spanning 189.4 kb of theCYP19locus to characterize linkage disequilibrium (LD) and haplotype patterns among 69–70 individuals from each ethnic population. We detected four regions of strong LD (blocks 1–4) that were quite closely conserved across populations. Within each block there was a limited diversity of common haplotypes (5 to 10 with a frequency ≥5%) and most haplotypes were observed to be shared across populations. Twenty-five haplotype-tagging SNPs (htSNPs) were selected to predict the common haplotypes with high probability (averageR   h   2=0.92) and genotyped in a breast cancer case–control study in the MEC (cases,n=1355; controls,n=2580). We first performed global tests for differences in risk according to the common haplotypes and observed significant haplotype-effects in block 2 [P=0.01; haplotypes 2b (OR=1.23; 95% CI, 1.07–1.40), 2d (OR=1.28; 95% CI, 1.01–1.62)]. We also found a common long-range haplotype comprised of block-specific haplotypes 2b and 3c to be associated with increased risk of breast cancer (haplotype 2b–3c: OR=1.31; 95% CI, 1.11–1.54). Our findings suggest the hypothesis that women with the long-rangeCYP19haplotype 2b–3c may be carriers of a predisposing breast cancer susceptibility allele.

A comprehensive haplotype analysis of CYP19 and breast cancer risk: the Multiethnic Cohort