Tuberculosis infection and lung adenocarcinoma: Mendelian randomization and pathway analysis of genome-wide association study data from never-smoking Asian women

J.Y.Y. Wong, C.A. Hsiung, K. Matsuo, M.P. Wong, W.J. Seow, M. Song, I.-S. Chang, N. Chatterjee, W. Hu, C. Wu, T. Mitsudomi, W. Zheng, J.H. Kim, A. Seow, N.E. Caporaso, M.-H. Shin, L.P. Chung, S.-J. An, H. Zheng, Y. YatabeY.T. Kim, Q. Cai, Y.-C. Kim, B.A. Bassig, J.C.M. Ho, B.-T. Ji, Y. Daigo, H. Ito, Y. Momozawa, K. Ashikawa, Y. Kamatani, T. Honda, H.D. Hosgood, H. Sakamoto, H. Kunitoh, K. Tsuta, S.-I. Watanabe, M. Kubo, Y. Miyagi, H. Nakayama, S. Matsumoto, M. Tsuboi, K. Goto, L. Song, X. Hua, A. Takahashi, A. Goto, Y. Minamiya, K. Shimizu, K. Tanaka, F. Wei, F. Matsuda, Y.H. Kim, I.-J. Oh, F. Song, W.-C. Su, G.-C. Chang, K.-Y. Chen, L.-H. Chien, Y.-B. Xiang, S.-S. Kweon, K.-M. Lee, B. Blechter, B. Qian, D. Lu, H.-S. Jeon, C.-F. Hsiao, J.S. Sung, Y.-H. Tsai, Y.J. Jung, C.C. Chung, L. Burdett, M. Yeager, A. Hutchinson, S.I. Berndt, H. Pang, J.E. Choi, K.H. Park, S.W. Sung, M. Zhu, P. Guan, W. Tan, M. Hsin, K.-Y. Sit, J. Ho, Y.Y. Choi, J.S. Kim, H.I. Yoon, I.K. Park, P. Xu, Q. He, R.-P. Perng, R. Vermeulen, W.-Y. Lim, K.-C. Chen, L. Jin, S.-S. Jiang, T. Yamaji, B. Hicks, K. Wyatt, J. Dai, G. Jin, B. Song, S. Cheng, P. Cui, M. Iwasaki, T. Shimazu, S. Tsugane, K. Fei, G. Wu, H.-C. Lin, Y.-H. Fang, F.-Y. Tsai, W.-S. Hsieh, J. Yu, V.L. Stevens, I.A. Laird-Offringa, C.N. Marconett, L. Rieswijk, A. Chao, X.-O. Shu, D. Lin, K. Chen, B. Zhou, T. Kohno, H. Shen, S.J. Chanock, N. Rothman, Q. Lan

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Abstract

We investigated whether genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) influences lung adenocarcinoma development among never-smokers using TB genome-wide association study (GWAS) results within the Female Lung Cancer Consortium in Asia. Pathway analysis with the adaptive rank truncated product method was used to assess the association between a TB-related gene-set and lung adenocarcinoma using GWAS data from 5512 lung adenocarcinoma cases and 6277 controls. The gene-set consisted of 31 genes containing known/suggestive associations with genetic variants from previous TB-GWAS. Subsequently, we followed-up with Mendelian Randomization to evaluate the association between TB and lung adenocarcinoma using three genome-wide significant variants from previous TB-GWAS in East Asians. The TB-related gene-set was associated with lung adenocarcinoma (p = 0.016). Additionally, the Mendelian Randomization showed an association between TB and lung adenocarcinoma (OR = 1.31, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.66, p = 0.027). Our findings support TB as a causal risk factor for lung cancer development among never-smoking Asian women.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1223-1232
Number of pages10
JournalGenomics
Volume112
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2020

Keywords

  • Tuberculosis
  • Lung cancer
  • Lung adenocarcinoma
  • Mendelian randomization
  • Pathway analysis

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