Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the leading cause of death from gynecological malignancy in the developed world, accounting for 4% of the deaths from cancer in women. We performed a three-phase genome-wide association study of EOC survival in 8,951 individuals with EOC (cases) with available survival time data and a parallel association analysis of EOC susceptibility. Two SNPs at 19p13.11, rs8170 and rs2363956, showed evidence of association with survival (overall P = 5×10-4 and P = 6×10-4, respectively), but they did not replicate in phase 3. However, the same two SNPs demonstrated genome-wide significance for risk of serous EOC (P = 3×10-9 and P = 4×10-11, respectively). Expression analysis of candidate genes at this locus in ovarian tumors supported a role for the BRCA1-interacting gene C19orf62, also known as MERIT40, which contains rs8170, in EOC development. © 2010 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Bolton, K. L., Tyrer, J., Song, H., Ramus, S. J., Notaridou, M., Jones, C., … Gayther, S. A. (2010). Common variants at 19p13 are associated with susceptibility to ovarian cancer. Nature Genetics, 42(10), 880–884. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.666
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