SynthesisNature genetics2024
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of kidney cancer identifies 63 susceptibility regions.
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- Exploring genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies and polygenic risk scores in the admixed Brazilian population.Genetics and molecular biology · 2026Article
- Genetic insights revealed ADRB1 as potential target for clear cell renal cell carcinoma.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- Alcohol consumption and risk of cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis of four biobanks and consortium data.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Deciphering genetic susceptibility to clear cell renal cell carcinoma.Communications biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Here, in a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-analysis of kidney cancer (29,020 cases and 835,670 controls), we identified 63 susceptibility regions (50 novel) containing 108 independent risk loci. In analyses stratified by subtype, 52 regions (78 loci) were associated with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and 6 regions (7 loci) with papillary RCC. Notably, we report a variant common in African ancestry individuals ( rs7629500 ) in the 3' untranslated region of VHL, nearly tripling clear cell RCC risk (odds ratio 2.72, 95% confidence interval 2.23-3.30). In cis-expression quantitative trait locus analyses, 48 variants from 34 regions point toward 83 candidate genes. Enrichment of hypoxia-inducible factor-binding sites underscores the importance of hypoxia-related mechanisms in kidney cancer. Our results advance understanding of the genetic architecture of kidney cancer, provide clues for functional investigation and enable generation of a validated polygenic risk score with an estimated area under the curve of 0.65 (0.74 including risk factors) among European ancestry individuals.
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