TY - JOUR AU - Giaccherini, Matteo AU - Gori, Leonardo AU - Gentiluomo, Manuel AU - Farinella, Riccardo AU - Cervena, Klara AU - Skieceviciene, Jurgita AU - Dijk, Frederike AU - Capurso, Gabriele AU - Vezakis, Antonis AU - Archibugi, Livia AU - Chammas, Roger AU - Hussein, Tamás AU - Tavano, Francesca AU - Hegyi, Péter AU - Lovecek, Martin AU - Izbicki, Jakob AU - Brenner, Hermann AU - Mohelnikova-Duchonova, Beatrice AU - Dell'Anna, Giuseppe AU - Kupcinskas, Juozas AU - Ermini, Stefano AU - Aoki, Mateus Nóbrega AU - Neoptolemos, John P AU - Gazouli, Maria AU - Pasquali, Claudio AU - Pezzilli, Raffaele AU - Talar-Wojnarowska, Renata AU - Oliverius, Martin AU - Al-Saeedi, Mohammed AU - Lucchesi, Maurizio AU - Furbetta, Niccolò AU - Carrara, Silvia AU - van Eijck, Casper H J AU - Maleckas, Almantas AU - Milanetto, Anna Caterina AU - Lawlor, Rita T AU - Schöttker, Ben AU - Boggi, Ugo AU - Morelli, Luca AU - Ginocchi, Laura AU - Ponz de Leon, Ruggero AU - Sperti, Cosimo AU - Zerbi, Alessandro AU - Arcidiacono, Paolo Giorgio AU - Uzunoglu, Faik G AU - Bunduc, Stefania AU - Holleczek, Bernd AU - Gioffreda, Domenica AU - Małecka-Wojciesko, Ewa AU - Kiudelis, Mindaugas AU - Szentesi, Andrea AU - van Laarhoven, Hanneke W M AU - Soucek, Pavel AU - Götz, Mara AU - Erőss, Bálint AU - Cavestro, Giulia Martina AU - Basso, Daniela AU - Perri, Francesco AU - Landi, Stefano AU - Canzian, Federico AU - Campa, Daniele TI - A scan of all coding region variants of the human genome, identifies 13q12.2-rs9579139 and 15q24.1-rs2277598 as novel risk loci for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. JO - Carcinogenesis VL - 44 IS - 8-9 SN - 0143-3334 CY - Oxford PB - Oxford Univ. Press M1 - DKFZ-2023-01812 SP - 642-649 PY - 2023 N1 - 2023 Dec 2;44(8-9):642-649 AB - Coding sequence variants comprise a small fraction of the germline genetic variability of the human genome. However, they often cause deleterious change in protein function and are therefore associated with pathogenic phenotypes. To identify novel pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) risk loci, we carried out a complete scan of all common missense and synonymous SNPs and analysed them in a case control study comprising four different populations, for a total of 14,538 PDAC cases and 190,657 controls. We observed a statistically significant association between 13q12.2-rs9581957-T and PDAC risk (P=2.46x10 -9), that is in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with a deleterious missense variant (rs9579139) of the URAD gene. Recent findings suggest that this gene is active in peroxisomes. Considering that peroxisomes have a key role as molecular scavengers, especially in eliminating reactive oxygen species, a malfunctioning URAD protein might expose the cell to a higher load of potentially DNA damaging molecules and therefore increase PDAC risk. The association was observed in individuals of European and Asian ethnicity. We also observed the association of the missense variant 15q24.1-rs2277598-T, that belongs to BBS4 gene, with increased PDAC risk (P=1.53x10 -6). rs2277598 is associated with body mass index and is in LD with diabetes susceptibility loci. In conclusion, we identified two missense variants associated with the risk of developing PDAC independently from the ethnicity highlighting the importance of conducting reanalysis of GWAS studies in light of functional data. KW - Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (Other) KW - association study (Other) KW - genetic susceptibility (Other) KW - missense (Other) KW - single nucleotide polymorphisms (Other) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:37670727 DO - DOI:10.1093/carcin/bgad056 UR - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/282532 ER -