Lupus-related single nucleotide polymorphisms and risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Sasha Bernatsky, Héctor A Velásquez García, John J. Spinelli, Patrick Gaffney, Karin E. Smedby, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Sophia S Wang, Hans-Olov Adami, Demetrius Albanes, Emanuele Angelucci, Stephen M Ansell, Yan W Asmann, Nikolaus Becker, Yolanda Benavente, Sonja I Berndt, Kimberly A Bertrand, Brenda M Birmann, Heiner Boeing, Paolo Boffetta, Paige M. BracciPaul Brennan, Angela R Brooks-Wilson, James R. Cerhan, Stephen J. Chanock, Jacqueline Clavel, Lucia Conde, Karen H Cotenbader, David G Cox, Wendy Cozen, Simon Crouch, Anneclaire J. De Roos, Silvia de Sanjose, Simonetta Di Lollo, W Ryan Diver, Ahmet Dogan, Lenka Foretova, Hervé Ghesquières, Graham G. Giles, Bengt Glimelius, Thomas M Habermann, Corinne Haioun, Patricia Hartge, Henrik Hjalgrim, Theodore R. Holford, Elizabeth A. Holly, Rebecca D Jackson, Rudolph Kaaks, Eleanor Kane, Rachel S Kelly, Robert J Klein, Peter Kraft, Anne Kricker, Qing Lan, Charles Lawrence, Mark Liebow, Tracy Lightfoot, Brian K Link, Marc Maynadie, James D McKay, Mads Melbye, Thierry Jo Molina, Alain Monnereau, Lindsay M. Morton, Alexandra Nieters, Kari E North, Anne J. Novak, Kenneth Offit, Mark P Purdue, Marco Rais, Jacques Riby, Eve Roman, Nathaniel Rothman, Gilles Salles, Gianluca Severi, Richard K. Severson, Christine F. Skibola, Susan L. Slager, Martyn T Smith, Melissa C Southey, Anthony Staines, Lauren R Teras, Carrie A Thompson, Hervé Tilly, Lesley F Tinker, Anne Tjonneland, Jenny Turner, Claire M. Vajdic, Roel C H Vermeulen, Joseph Vijai, Paolo Vineis, Jarmo Virtamo, Zhaoming Wang, Stephanie Weinstein, Thomas E Witzig, Andrew Zelenetz, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Yawei Zhang, Tongzhang Zheng, Mariagrazia Zucca, Ann E Clarke, Alexandra Gwen Smith

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Abstract

Objective: Determinants of the increased risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in SLE are unclear. Using data from a recent lymphoma genome-wide association study (GWAS), we assessed whether certain lupus-related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were also associated with DLBCL.

Methods: GWAS data on European Caucasians from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph) provided a total of 3857 DLBCL cases and 7666 general-population controls. Data were pooled in a random-effects meta-analysis.

Results: Among the 28 SLE-related SNPs investigated, the two most convincingly associated with risk of DLBCL included the CD40 SLE risk allele rs4810485 on chromosome 20q13 (OR per risk allele=1.09, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.16, p=0.0134), and the HLA SLE risk allele rs1270942 on chromosome 6p21.33 (OR per risk allele=1.17, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.36, p=0.0362). Of additional possible interest were rs2205960 and rs12537284. The rs2205960 SNP, related to a cytokine of the tumour necrosis factor superfamily TNFSF4, was associated with an OR per risk allele of 1.07, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.16, p=0.0549. The OR for the rs12537284 (chromosome 7q32, IRF5 gene) risk allele was 1.08, 95% CI 0.99 to 1.18, p=0.0765.

Conclusions: These data suggest several plausible genetic links between DLBCL and SLE.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere000187
Number of pages6
JournalLupus science & medicine
Volume4
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2017

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