TY - JOUR
T1 - Hypomethylation of smoking-related genes is associated with future lung cancer in four prospective cohorts
AU - Fasanelli, Francesca
AU - Baglietto, Laura
AU - Ponzi, Erica
AU - Guida, Florence
AU - Campanella, Gianluca
AU - Johansson, Mattias
AU - Grankvist, Kjell
AU - Johansson, Mikael
AU - Assumma, Manuela Bianca
AU - Naccarati, Alessio
AU - Chadeau-Hyam, Marc
AU - Ala, Ugo
AU - Faltus, Christian
AU - Kaaks, Rudolf
AU - Risch, Angela
AU - De Stavola, Bianca
AU - Hodge, Allison
AU - Giles, Graham G.
AU - Southey, Melissa C.
AU - Relton, Caroline L.
AU - Haycock, Philip C.
AU - Lund, Eiliv
AU - Polidoro, Silvia
AU - Sandanger, Torkjel M.
AU - Severi, Gianluca
AU - Vineis, Paolo
PY - 2015/12/15
Y1 - 2015/12/15
N2 - DNA hypomethylation in certain genes is associated with tobacco exposure but it is unknown whether these methylation changes translate into increased lung cancer risk. In an epigenome-wide study of DNA from pre-diagnostic blood samples from 132 case-control pairs in the NOWAC cohort, we observe that the most significant associations with lung cancer risk are for cg05575921 in AHRR (OR for 1 s.d.=0.37, 95% CI: 0.31-0.54, P-value=3.3 × 10 -11) and cg03636183 in F2RL3 (OR for 1 s.d.=0.40, 95% CI: 0.31-0.56, P-value=3.9 × 10 -10), previously shown to be strongly hypomethylated in smokers. These associations remain significant after adjustment for smoking and are confirmed in additional 664 case-control pairs tightly matched for smoking from the MCCS, NSHDS and EPIC HD cohorts. The replication and mediation analyses suggest that residual confounding is unlikely to explain the observed associations and that hypomethylation of these CpG sites may mediate the effect of tobacco on lung cancer risk.
AB - DNA hypomethylation in certain genes is associated with tobacco exposure but it is unknown whether these methylation changes translate into increased lung cancer risk. In an epigenome-wide study of DNA from pre-diagnostic blood samples from 132 case-control pairs in the NOWAC cohort, we observe that the most significant associations with lung cancer risk are for cg05575921 in AHRR (OR for 1 s.d.=0.37, 95% CI: 0.31-0.54, P-value=3.3 × 10 -11) and cg03636183 in F2RL3 (OR for 1 s.d.=0.40, 95% CI: 0.31-0.56, P-value=3.9 × 10 -10), previously shown to be strongly hypomethylated in smokers. These associations remain significant after adjustment for smoking and are confirmed in additional 664 case-control pairs tightly matched for smoking from the MCCS, NSHDS and EPIC HD cohorts. The replication and mediation analyses suggest that residual confounding is unlikely to explain the observed associations and that hypomethylation of these CpG sites may mediate the effect of tobacco on lung cancer risk.
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U2 - 10.1038/ncomms10192
DO - 10.1038/ncomms10192
M3 - Article
C2 - 26667048
AN - SCOPUS:84950107042
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 6
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
M1 - 10192
ER -