A genome-wide association study of marginal zone lymphoma shows association to the HLA region

Joseph Vijai, Zhaoming Wang, Sonja I Berndt, Christine F Skibola, Susan L Slager, Silvia de Sanjose, Mads Melbye, Bengt Glimelius, Paige M Bracci, Lucia Conde, Brenda M Birmann, Sophia S Wang, Angela R Brooks-Wilson, Qing Lan, Paul I W de Bakker, Roel C H Vermeulen, Carol Portlock, Stephen M Ansell, Brian K Link, Jacques RibyKari E North, Jian Gu, Henrik Hjalgrim, Wendy Cozen, Nikolaus Becker, Lauren R Teras, John J Spinelli, Jenny Turner, Yawei Zhang, Mark P Purdue, Graham G Giles, Rachel S Kelly, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Maria Grazia Ennas, Alain Monnereau, Kimberly A Bertrand, Demetrius Albanes, Tracy Lightfoot, Meredith Yeager, Charles C Chung, Laurie Burdett, Amy Hutchinson, Charles Lawrence, Rebecca Montalvan, Liming Liang, Jinyan Huang, Baoshan Ma, Danylo J Villano, Ann Maria, Marina Corines, Tinu Thomas, Anne J Novak, Ahmet Dogan, Mark Liebow, Carrie A Thompson, Thomas E Witzig, Thomas M Habermann, George J Weiner, Martyn T Smith, Elizabeth A Holly, Rebecca D Jackson, Lesley F Tinker, Yuanqing Ye, Hans-Olov Adami, Karin E Smedby, Anneclaire J De Roos, Patricia Hartge, Lindsay M Morton, Richard K Severson, Yolanda Benavente, Paolo Boffetta, Paul Brennan, Lenka Foretova, Marc Maynadie, James McKay, Anthony Staines, W Ryan Diver, Claire M Vajdic, Bruce K Armstrong, Anne Kricker, Tongzhang Zheng, Theodore R Holford, Gianluca Severi, Paolo Vineis, Giovanni M Ferri, Rosalia Ricco, Lucia Miligi, Jacqueline Clavel, Edward Giovannucci, Peter Kraft, Jarmo Virtamo, Alex Smith, Eleanor Kane, Eve Roman, Brian C H Chiu, Joseph F Fraumeni, Xifeng Wu, James R Cerhan, Kenneth Offit, Stephen J Chanock, Nathaniel Rothman, Alexandra Nieters

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    Abstract

    Marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) is the third most common subtype of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Here we perform a two-stage GWAS of 1,281 MZL cases and 7,127 controls of European ancestry and identify two independent loci near BTNL2 (rs9461741, P=3.95 × 10(-15)) and HLA-B (rs2922994, P=2.43 × 10(-9)) in the HLA region significantly associated with MZL risk. This is the first evidence that genetic variation in the major histocompatibility complex influences MZL susceptibility.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)5751
    Number of pages7
    JournalNature Communications [E]
    Volume6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

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