Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the RB1 gene and association with breast cancer in the British population

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A substantial proportion of the familial risk of breast cancer may be attributable to genetic variants each contributing a small effect. pRb controls the cell cycle and polymorphisms within it are candidates for such low penetrance susceptibility alleles, since the gene has been implicated in several human tumours, particularly breast cancer. The purpose of this study was to determine whether common variants in the RB1 gene are associated with breast cancer risk. We assessed 15 tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using a case-control study design (n≤4474 cases and n≤4560 controls). A difference in genotype frequencies was found between cases and controls for rs2854344 in intron 17 (P-trend=0.007) and rs198580 in intron 19 (P-trend=0.018). Carrying the minor allele of these SNPs appears to confer a protective effect on breast cancer risk (odd ratio (OR)=0.86 (0.76-0.96) for rs2854344 and OR=0.80 (0.66-0.96) for rs198580). However, after adjusting for multiple testing these associations were borderline with an adjusted P-trend=0.068 for the most significant SNP (rs2854344). The RB1 gene is not known to contain any coding SNPs with allele frequencies ≥5% but several intronic variants are in perfect linkage disequilibrium with the associated SNPs. Replication studies are needed to confirm the associations with breast cancer. © 2006 Cancer Research UK.

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Lesueur, F., Song, H., Ahmed, S., Luccarini, C., Jordan, C., Luben, R., … Ponder, B. A. J. (2006). Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the RB1 gene and association with breast cancer in the British population. British Journal of Cancer, 94(12), 1921–1926. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6603160

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