TY - JOUR AU - Hess, Timo AU - Maj, Carlo AU - Gehlen, Jan AU - Borisov, Oleg AU - Haas, Stephan L AU - Gockel, Ines AU - Vieth, Michael AU - Piessen, Guillaume AU - Alakus, Hakan AU - Vashist, Yogesh AU - Pereira, Carina AU - Knapp, Michael AU - Schüller, Vitalia AU - Quaas, Alexander AU - Grabsch, Heike I AU - Trautmann, Jessica AU - Malecka-Wojciesko, Ewa AU - Mokrowiecka, Anna AU - Speller, Jan AU - Mayr, Andreas AU - Schröder, Julia AU - Hillmer, Axel M AU - Heider, Dominik AU - Lordick, Florian AU - Pérez-Aísa, Ángeles AU - Campo, Rafael AU - Espinel, Jesús AU - Geijo, Fernando AU - Thomson, Concha AU - Bujanda, Luis AU - Sopeña, Federico AU - Lanas, Ángel AU - Pellisé, María AU - Pauligk, Claudia AU - Goetze, Thorsten Oliver AU - Zelck, Carolin AU - Reingruber, Julian AU - Hassanin, Emadeldin AU - Elbe, Peter AU - Alsabeah, Sandra AU - Lindblad, Mats AU - Nilsson, Magnus AU - Kreuser, Nicole AU - Thieme, René AU - Tavano, Francesca AU - Pastorino, Roberta AU - Arzani, Dario AU - Persiani, Roberto AU - Jung, Jin-On AU - Nienhüser, Henrik AU - Ott, Katja AU - Schumann, Ralf R AU - Kumpf, Oliver AU - Burock, Susen AU - Arndt, Volker AU - Jakubowska, Anna AU - Ławniczak, Małgorzta AU - Moreno, Victor AU - Martín, Vicente AU - Kogevinas, Manolis AU - Pollán, Marina AU - Dąbrowska, Justyna AU - Salas, Antonio AU - Cussenot, Olivier AU - Boland-Auge, Anne AU - Daian, Delphine AU - Deleuze, Jean-Francois AU - Salvi, Erika AU - Teder-Laving, Maris AU - Tomasello, Gianluca AU - Ratti, Margherita AU - Senti, Chiara AU - De Re, Valli AU - Steffan, Agostino AU - Hölscher, Arnulf H AU - Messerle, Katharina AU - Bruns, Christiane Josephine AU - Sīviņš, Armands AU - Bogdanova, Inga AU - Skieceviciene, Jurgita AU - Arstikyte, Justina AU - Moehler, Markus AU - Lang, Hauke AU - Grimminger, Peter P AU - Kruschewski, Martin AU - Vassos, Nikolaos AU - Schildberg, Claus AU - Lingohr, Philipp AU - Ridwelski, Karsten AU - Lippert, Hans AU - Fricker, Nadine AU - Krawitz, Peter AU - Hoffmann, Per AU - Nöthen, Markus M AU - Veits, Lothar AU - Izbicki, Jakob R AU - Mostowska, Adrianna AU - Martinón-Torres, Federico AU - Cusi, Daniele AU - Adolfsson, Rolf AU - Cancel-Tassin, Geraldine AU - Höblinger, Aksana AU - Rodermann, Ernst AU - Ludwig, Monika AU - Keller, Gisela AU - Metspalu, Andres AU - Brenner, Hermann AU - Heller, Joerg AU - Neef, Markus AU - Schepke, Michael AU - Dumoulin, Franz Ludwig AU - Hamann, Lutz AU - Cannizzaro, Renato AU - Ghidini, Michele AU - Plaßmann, Dominik AU - Geppert, Michael AU - Malfertheiner, Peter AU - Gehlen, Olivier AU - Skoczylas, Tomasz AU - Majewski, Marek AU - Lubiński, Jan AU - Palmieri, Orazio AU - Boccia, Stefania AU - Latiano, Anna AU - Aragones, Nuria AU - Schmidt, Thomas AU - Dinis-Ribeiro, Mário AU - Medeiros, Rui AU - Al-Batran, Salah-Eddin AU - Leja, Mārcis AU - Kupcinskas, Juozas AU - García-González, María A AU - Venerito, Marino AU - Schumacher, Johannes TI - Dissecting the genetic heterogeneity of gastric cancer. JO - EBioMedicine VL - 92 SN - 2352-3964 CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] PB - Elsevier M1 - DKFZ-2023-01016 SP - 104616 PY - 2023 AB - Gastric cancer (GC) is clinically heterogenous according to location (cardia/non-cardia) and histopathology (diffuse/intestinal). We aimed to characterize the genetic risk architecture of GC according to its subtypes. Another aim was to examine whether cardia GC and oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) and its precursor lesion Barrett's oesophagus (BO), which are all located at the gastro-oesophageal junction (GOJ), share polygenic risk architecture.We did a meta-analysis of ten European genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of GC and its subtypes. All patients had a histopathologically confirmed diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma. For the identification of risk genes among GWAS loci we did a transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) and expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) study from gastric corpus and antrum mucosa. To test whether cardia GC and OAC/BO share genetic aetiology we also used a European GWAS sample with OAC/BO.Our GWAS consisting of 5816 patients and 10,999 controls highlights the genetic heterogeneity of GC according to its subtypes. We newly identified two and replicated five GC risk loci, all of them with subtype-specific association. The gastric transcriptome data consisting of 361 corpus and 342 antrum mucosa samples revealed that an upregulated expression of MUC1, ANKRD50, PTGER4, and PSCA are plausible GC-pathomechanisms at four GWAS loci. At another risk locus, we found that the blood-group 0 exerts protective effects for non-cardia and diffuse GC, while blood-group A increases risk for both GC subtypes. Furthermore, our GWAS on cardia GC and OAC/BO (10,279 patients, 16,527 controls) showed that both cancer entities share genetic aetiology at the polygenic level and identified two new risk loci on the single-marker level.Our findings show that the pathophysiology of GC is genetically heterogenous according to location and histopathology. Moreover, our findings point to common molecular mechanisms underlying cardia GC and OAC/BO.German Research Foundation (DFG). KW - Gastric cancer (Other) KW - Genome-wide association study (GWAS) (Other) KW - Oesophageal adenocarcinoma (Other) KW - Transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) (Other) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:37209533 DO - DOI:10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104616 UR - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/276194 ER -