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Genome-wide association (GWA) studies of testicular germ cell tumor (TGCT) have identified 18 susceptibility loci, some containing genes encoding proteins important in male germ cell development. Deletions of one of these genes,  DMRT1 , lead to male-to-female sex reversal and are associated with development of gonadoblastoma. To further explore genetic association with TGCT, we undertook a pathway-based analysis of SNP marker associations in the Penn GWAs (349 TGCT cases and 919 controls). We analyzed a custom-built sex determination gene set consisting of 32 genes using three different methods of pathway-based analysis. The sex determination gene set ranked highly compared with canonical gene sets, and it was associated with TGCT (FDR G  = 2.28 × 10 −5 , FDR M  = 0.014 and FDR I  = 0.008 for Gene Set Analysis-SNP (GSA-SNP), Meta-Analysis Gene Set Enrichment of Variant Associations (MAGENTA) and Improved Gene Set Enrichment Analysis for Genome-wide Association Study (i-GSEA4GWAS) analysis, respectively). The association remained after removal of  DMRT1  from the gene set (FDR G  = 0.0002, FDR M  = 0.055 and FDR I  = 0.009). Using data from the NCI GWA scan (582 TGCT cases and 1056 controls) and UK scan (986 TGCT cases and 4946 controls), we replicated these findings (NCI: FDR G  = 0.006, FDR M  = 0.014, FDR I  = 0.033, and UK: FDR G  = 1.04 × 10 −6 , FDR M  = 0.016, FDR I  = 0.025). After removal of  DMRT1  from the gene set, the sex determination gene set remains associated with TGCT in the NCI (FDR G  = 0.039, FDR M  = 0.050 and FDR I  = 0.055) and UK scans (FDR G  = 3.00 × 10 −5 , FDR M  = 0.056 and FDR I  = 0.044). With the exception of  DMRT1 , genes in the sex determination gene set have not previously been identified as TGCT susceptibility loci in these GWA scans, demonstrating the complementary nature of a pathway-based approach for genome-wide analysis of TGCT.

Pathway-based analysis of GWAs data identifies association of sex determination genes with susceptibility to testicular germ cell tumors