Risk of Ovarian Cancer and the NF-Kb Pathway: Genetic Association with IL1A and TNFSF10
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Published OnlineFirst November 22, 2013; DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-1051 Cancer Prevention and Epidemiology Research Risk of Ovarian Cancer and the NF-kB Pathway: Genetic Association with IL1A and TNFSF10 Bridget Charbonneau1, Matthew S. Block2, William R. Bamlet3, Robert A. Vierkant3, Kimberly R. Kalli2, Zachary Fogarty3, David N. Rider3, Thomas A. Sellers6, Shelley S. Tworoger7,9, Elizabeth Poole7,9, Harvey A. Risch10, Helga B. Salvesen11,12, Lambertus A. Kiemeney14,15,17, Laura Baglietto18,19, Graham G. Giles18,19,22, Gianluca Severi18,19, Britton Trabert26, Nicolas Wentzensen26, Georgia Chenevix-Trench25, for AOCS/ACS group23,25, Alice S. Whittemore27, Weiva Sieh27, Jenny Chang-Claude33, Elisa V. Bandera42, Irene Orlow43, Kathryn Terry9,8, Marc T. Goodman28, Pamela J. Thompson28, Linda S. Cook46, Mary Anne Rossing47,48, Roberta B. Ness49, Steven A. Narod53, Jolanta Kupryjanczyk59, Karen Lu50, Ralf Butzow63,64, Thilo Dork€ 34, Tanja Pejovic65,66, Ian Campbell20,21,24, Nhu D. Le54, Clareann H. Bunker67, Natalia Bogdanova34, Ingo B. Runne- baum35, Diana Eccles70, James Paul71, Anna H. Wu30, Simon A. Gayther30, Estrid Hogdall81,82, Florian Heitz36,38, Stanley B. Kaye72, Beth Y. Karlan29, Hoda Anton-Culver32, Jacek Gronwald61, Claus K. Hogdall83, Diether Lambrechts84,85, Peter A. Fasching31,39, Usha Menon74,75,76, Joellen Schildkraut87,89, Celeste Leigh Pearce30, Douglas A. Levine44, Susanne Kruger Kjaer81,83, Daniel Cramer8,9, James M. Flanagan77, Catherine M. Phelan6, Robert Brown77, Leon F.A.G. Massuger16, Honglin Song79, Jennifer A. Doherty90, Camilla Krakstad11,12, Dong Liang52, Kunle Odunsi45, Andrew Berchuck88, Allan Jensen81, Jan Lubinski 61, Heli Nevanlinna63, Yukie T. Bean65,66, Galina Lurie91, Argyrios Ziogas32, Christine Walsh29, Evelyn Despierre86, Louise Brinton26, Alexander Hein39, Anja Rudolph33, Agnieszka Dansonka-Mieszkowska59, Sara H. Olson43, Philipp Harter36,38, Jonathan Tyrer79, Allison F. Vitonis8, Angela Brooks-Wilson55,56, Katja K. Aben14,17, Malcolm C. Pike30,45, Susan J. Ramus30, Elisabeth Wik11,13, Cezary Cybulski61, Jie Lin51, Lara Sucheston45, Robert Edwards68,69, Valerie McGuire27, Jenny Lester29, Andreas du Bois36,38, Lene Lundvall83, Shan Wang- Gohrke41, Lukasz M. Szafron59, Sandrina Lambrechts86, Hannah Yang26, Matthias W. Beckmann39, Liisa M. Pelttari63, Anne M. Van Altena16, David van den Berg30, Mari K. Halle11,12, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj74,75,76, Ira Schwaab37, Urmila Chandran42, Janusz Menkiszak62, Arif B. Ekici40, Lynne R. Wilkens91, Arto Leminen63, Francesmary Modugno67,68,69, Grace Friel45, Joseph H. Rothstein27, Ignace Vergote86, Montserrat Garcia- Closas73,78, Michelle A.T. Hildebrandt51, Piotr Sobiczewski60, Linda E. Kelemen57,58, Paul D.P. Pharoah79,80, Kirsten Moysich45, Keith L. Knutson4, Julie M. Cunningham5, Brooke L. Fridley92, and Ellen L. Goode1 Abstract A missense single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the immune modulatory gene IL1A has been associated with ovarian cancer risk (rs17561). Although the exact mechanism through which this SNP alters risk of ovarian cancer is not clearly understood, rs17561 has also been associated with risk of endometriosis, an epidemiologic risk factor for ovarian cancer. Interleukin-1a (IL1A) is both regulated by and able to activate NF-kB, a transcription factor family that induces transcription of many proinflammatory genes and may be an important mediator in carcinogenesis. We therefore tagged SNPs in more than 200 genes in the NF-kB pathway for a total of 2,282 SNPs (including rs17561) for genotype analysis of 15,604 cases of ovarian cancer in patients of European descent, including 6,179 of high-grade serous (HGS), 2,100 endometrioid, 1,591 mucinous, 1,034 clear cell, and 1,016 low-grade serous, including 23,235 control cases spanning 40 studies in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. In this large population, we confirmed the association between rs17561 and clear cell ovarian cancer [OR, 0.84; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.76–0.93; P ¼ 0.00075], which remained intact even after excluding participants in the prior study (OR, 0.85; 95% CI, 0.75–0.95; P ¼ 0.006). Considering a multiple-testing–corrected À significance threshold of P < 2.5 Â 10 5, only one other variant, the TNFSF10 SNP rs6785617, was associated significantly with a risk of ovarian cancer (low malignant potential tumors OR, 0.85; 95% CI, 0.79–0.91; P ¼ 0.00002). Our results extend the evidence that borderline tumors may have a distinct genetic etiology. Further investigation of how these SNPs might modify ovarian cancer associations with other inflammation-related risk factors is warranted. Cancer Res; 74(3); 852–61. Ó2013 AACR. Authors' Affiliations: Departments of 1Health Sciences Research, Division Rochester, Minnesota; 6Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Division of of Epidemiology, 2Medical Oncology, 3Health Sciences Research, Division Population Sciences, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida; 7Channing of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, 4Immunology, and 5Laboratory Division of Network Medicine, 8Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Medicine and Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; 852 Cancer Res; 74(3) February 1, 2014 Downloaded from cancerres.aacrjournals.org on September 26, 2021. © 2014 American Association for Cancer Research. Published OnlineFirst November 22, 2013; DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-1051 NF-kB SNPs and Ovarian Cancer Risk Introduction cancer risk (12), presumably due to its proinflammatory prop- Inflammation is a known mediator of carcinogenesis and erties (13). Use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs several risk factors associated with ovarian cancer are also (NSAID) has also been linked to reduced risk of ovarian cancer, linked to inflammatory processes (1). The inverse relationship particularly aspirin use in invasive ovarian cancer risk (14, 15). between parity (2, 3) and oral contraceptive use (3–6) and In a previous study by our group, interrogation of single- ovarian cancer risk is thought to be due to increased ovulations nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in several inflammation- in women with fewer pregnancies or shorter duration of oral related genes revealed an association between ovarian cancer contraceptive use. The damage and repair cycle associated risk and SNPs in IL1A and ALOX5 (16), most notable was a with each ovulation recruits immune mediators with potential missense SNP in IL1A, rs17561, which had the strongest to promote ovarian cancer initiation and growth (1, 7). Evi- associations with the rarer histologic subtypes. Interleukin- dence for a relationship between pelvic inflammatory disease 1a (IL1A), the cytokine encoded by this gene, mediates a (PID) and ovarian cancer risk has also been observed in a few number of inflammatory and immune responses, including studies (8, 9). Furthermore, endometriosis, another condition response to tissue injury (17, 18). In the present study, we associated with elevated inflammatory markers (10), has been assessed this SNP for overall and histologic subtype associa- found to increase risk of clear-cell, invasive endometrioid, and tions in a much larger population of ovarian cancer cases and low-grade serous (LGS) tumors (11). Studies of perineal talcum controls to evaluate replication. We additionally investigated powder use additionally suggest an association with ovarian SNPs in other NF-kB pathway genes, as IL1A is not only 9Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, medical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Massachusetts; 10Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale British Columbia; 57Department of Population Health Research, Alberta School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut; 11Department of Clinical Health Services-Cancer Care; 58Department of Medical Genetics and Science, University of Bergen; Departments of 12Gynecology and Obstet- Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;Departments rics, and 13Pathology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; of 59Pathology and 60Gynecologic Oncology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Departments for 14Health Evidence, 15Urology, and 16Gynaecology, Rad- Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw; 61Department boud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen; 17Comprehensive Cancer of Genetics and Pathology, International Hereditary Cancer Center; 62Clinic Center The Netherlands, Utrecht, the Netherlands; 18Cancer Epidemiology of Gynaecological Surgery and Oncology, Pomeranian Medical University, Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria; 19Centre for Molecular, Environmen- Szczecin, Poland; Departments of 63Obstetrics and Gynecology and tal, Genetic and Analytical Epidemiology, 20Department of Pathology, and 64Pathology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, 21Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne; Helsinki, Finland; 65Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; 66Knight 22Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash Univer- Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon; sity; 23Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute; 24Research Division, Peter Mac- Departments of 67Epidemiology and 68Department of Obstetrics, Gyne- Callum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria; 25Cancer Division, Queens- cology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; 69Women's land Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Queensland, Australia; 26Divi- Cancer Research Program, Magee-Women's Research Institute