A Novel Genetic Variant in Long Non-coding RNA Gene NEXN-AS1 is Associated with Risk of Lung Cancer.
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Lung cancer etiology is multifactorial, and growing evidence has indicated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are important players in lung carcinogenesis. We performed a large-scale meta-analysis of 690,564 SNPs in 15,531 autosomal lncRNAs by using datasets from six previously published genome-wide association studies (GWASs) from the Transdisciplinary Research in Cancer of the Lung (TRICL) consortium in populations of European ancestry. Previously unreported significant SNPs (P value < 1 × 10-7) were further validated in two additional independent lung cancer GWAS datasets from Harvard University and deCODE. In the final meta-analysis of all eight GWAS datasets with 17,153 cases and 239,337 controls, a novel risk SNP rs114020893 in the lncRNA NEXN-AS1 region at 1p31.1 remained statistically significant (odds ratio = 1.17; 95% confidence interval = 1.11-1.24; P = 8.31 × 10-9). In further in silico analysis, rs114020893 was predicted to change the secondary structure of the lncRNA. Our finding indicates that SNP rs114020893 of NEXN-AS1 at 1p31.1 may contribute to lung cancer susceptibility.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Yuan, H; Liu, H; Liu, Z; Owzar, K; Han, Y; Su, L; Wei, Y; Hung, RJ; McLaughlin, J; Brhane, Y; Brennan, P; Bickeboeller, H; Rosenberger, A; Houlston, RS; Caporaso, N; Landi, MT; Heinrich, J; Risch, A; Christiani, DC; Gümüş, ZH; Klein, RJ; Amos, CI; Wei, Q
Published Date
- October 7, 2016
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 6 /
Start / End Page
- 34234 -
PubMed ID
- 27713484
Pubmed Central ID
- 27713484
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 2045-2322
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1038/srep34234
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England