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Genetically Predicted Body Mass Index and Breast Cancer Risk: Mendelian Randomization Analyses of Data from 145,000 Women of European Descent.
Document Type
article
Author
Yan GuoShaneda Warren AndersenXiao-Ou ShuKyriaki MichailidouManjeet K BollaQin WangMontserrat Garcia-ClosasRoger L MilneMarjanka K SchmidtJenny Chang-ClaudeAllison DunningStig E BojesenHabibul AhsanKristiina AittomäkiIrene L AndrulisHoda Anton-CulverVolker ArndtMatthias W BeckmannAlicia Beeghly-FadielJavier BenitezNatalia V BogdanovaBernardo BonanniAnne-Lise Børresen-DaleJudith BrandHiltrud BrauchHermann BrennerThomas BrüningBarbara BurwinkelGraham CaseyGeorgia Chenevix-TrenchFergus J CouchAngela CoxSimon S CrossKamila CzenePeter DevileeThilo DörkMartine DumontPeter A FaschingJonine FigueroaDieter Flesch-JanysOlivia FletcherHenrik FlygerFlorentia FostiraMarilie GammonGraham G GilesPascal GuénelChristopher A HaimanUte HamannMaartje J HooningJohn L HopperAnna JakubowskaFarzana JasmineMark JenkinsEsther M JohnNichola JohnsonMichael E JonesMaria KabischMuhammad KibriyaJulia A KnightLinetta B KoppertVeli-Matti KosmaVessela KristensenLoic Le MarchandEunjung LeeJingmei LiAnnika LindblomRobert LubenJan LubinskiKathi E MaloneArto MannermaaSara MargolinFrederik MarmeCatriona McLeanHanne Meijers-HeijboerAlfons MeindlSusan L NeuhausenHeli NevanlinnaPatrick NevenJanet E OlsonJose I A PerezBarbara PerkinsPaolo PeterlongoKelly-Anne PhillipsKatri PylkäsAnja RudolphRegina SantellaElinor J SawyerRita K SchmutzlerCaroline SeynaeveMitul ShahMartha J ShrubsoleMelissa C SoutheyAnthony J SwerdlowAmanda E TolandIan TomlinsonDiana TorresThérèse TruongGiske UrsinRob B Van Der LuijtSenno VerhoefAlice S WhittemoreRobert WinqvistHui ZhaoShilin ZhaoPer HallJacques SimardPeter KraftPaul PharoahDavid HunterDouglas F EastonWei Zheng
Source
PLoS Medicine, Vol 13, Iss 8, p e1002105 (2016)
Subject
Medicine
Language
English
ISSN
1549-1277
1549-1676
Abstract
BackgroundObservational epidemiological studies have shown that high body mass index (BMI) is associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women but an increased risk in postmenopausal women. It is unclear whether this association is mediated through shared genetic or environmental factors.MethodsWe applied Mendelian randomization to evaluate the association between BMI and risk of breast cancer occurrence using data from two large breast cancer consortia. We created a weighted BMI genetic score comprising 84 BMI-associated genetic variants to predicted BMI. We evaluated genetically predicted BMI in association with breast cancer risk using individual-level data from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) (cases = 46,325, controls = 42,482). We further evaluated the association between genetically predicted BMI and breast cancer risk using summary statistics from 16,003 cases and 41,335 controls from the Discovery, Biology, and Risk of Inherited Variants in Breast Cancer (DRIVE) Project. Because most studies measured BMI after cancer diagnosis, we could not conduct a parallel analysis to adequately evaluate the association of measured BMI with breast cancer risk prospectively.ResultsIn the BCAC data, genetically predicted BMI was found to be inversely associated with breast cancer risk (odds ratio [OR] = 0.65 per 5 kg/m2 increase, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.56-0.75, p = 3.32 × 10-10). The associations were similar for both premenopausal (OR = 0.44, 95% CI:0.31-0.62, p = 9.91 × 10-8) and postmenopausal breast cancer (OR = 0.57, 95% CI: 0.46-0.71, p = 1.88 × 10-8). This association was replicated in the data from the DRIVE consortium (OR = 0.72, 95% CI: 0.60-0.84, p = 1.64 × 10-7). Single marker analyses identified 17 of the 84 BMI-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in association with breast cancer risk at p ConclusionsBMI predicted by genome-wide association studies (GWAS)-identified variants is inversely associated with the risk of both pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer. The reduced risk of postmenopausal breast cancer associated with genetically predicted BMI observed in this study differs from the positive association reported from studies using measured adult BMI. Understanding the reasons for this discrepancy may reveal insights into the complex relationship of genetic determinants of body weight in the etiology of breast cancer.