Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers.

Abstract

Quantifying the genetic correlation between cancers can provide important insights into the mechanisms driving cancer etiology. Using genome-wide association study summary statistics across six cancer types based on a total of 296,215 cases and 301,319 controls of European ancestry, here we estimate the pair-wise genetic correlations between breast, colorectal, head/neck, lung, ovary and prostate cancer, and between cancers and 38 other diseases. We observed statistically significant genetic correlations between lung and head/neck cancer (rg = 0.57, p = 4.6 × 10-8), breast and ovarian cancer (rg = 0.24, p = 7 × 10-5), breast and lung cancer (rg = 0.18, p =1.5 × 10-6) and breast and colorectal cancer (rg = 0.15, p = 1.1 × 10-4). We also found that multiple cancers are genetically correlated with non-cancer traits including smoking, psychiatric diseases and metabolic characteristics. Functional enrichment analysis revealed a significant excess contribution of conserved and regulatory regions to cancer heritability. Our comprehensive analysis of cross-cancer heritability suggests that solid tumors arising across tissues share in part a common germline genetic basis.

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Dates:	Accepted: 10 December 2018 Published (online): 25 January 2019 Published: 25 January 2019
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number BREAST CANCER NOW UNSPECIFIED CANCER RESEARCH UK C9267/A25152
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2019 16:13
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2020 13:51
Published Version:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08054-4
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Nature Research
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1038/s41467-018-08054-4
Related URLs:	PubMed URL Erratum/Corrigendum
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:142007

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