Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15.33

• DOI: 10.1038/ng.254
• Publication Date: 2008-11-02T19:19:02Z
• Authors: James D McKay; Rayjean J Hung; Valerie Gaborieau; Paolo Boffetta; Amelie Chabrier; Graham Byrnes; David Zaridze; Anush Mukeria; Neonilia Szeszeni...; Jolanta Lissowska; Peter Rudnai; Eleonora Fabianova; Dana Mates; Vladimir Bencko; Lenka Foretova; Vladimir Janout; John McLaughlin; Frances Shepherd; Alexandre Montpetit; Steven Narod; Hans E Krokan; Frank Skorpen; Maiken Bratt Elve...; Lars Vatten; Inger Njølstad; Tomas Axelsson; Chu Chen; Gary Goodman; Matt Barnett; Melissa M Loomis; Jan Lubiñski; Joanna Matyjasik; Marcin Lener; Dorota Oszutowska; John Field; Triantafillos Lil...; George Xinarianos; Adrian Cassidy; Diana Zelenika; Anne Boland; Marc Delepine; Mario Foglio; Doris Lechner; Fumihiko Matsuda; Helene Blanche; Ivo Gut; Simon Heath; Mark Lathrop; Paul Brennan
• Keywords: Genome-wide Association Study; Lung cancer susceptibility

We carried out a genome-wide association study of lung cancer (3,259 cases and 4,159 controls), followed by replication in 2,899 cases and 5,573 controls. Two uncorrelated disease markers at 5p15.33, rs402710 and rs2736100 were detected by the genome-wide data (P = 2 x 10(-7) and P = 4 x 10(-6)) and replicated by the independent study series (P = 7 x 10(-5) and P = 0.016). The susceptibility region contains two genes, TERT and CLPTM1L, suggesting that one or both may have a role in lung cancer etiology.