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Lupus nephritis
Lupus-related single nucleotide polymorphisms and risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
  1. Sasha Bernatsky1,
  2. Héctor A Velásquez García2,
  3. John J Spinelli2,
  4. Patrick Gaffney3,
  5. Karin E Smedby4,
  6. Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman5,
  7. Sophia S Wang6,
  8. Hans-Olov Adami7,8,
  9. Demetrius Albanes9,
  10. Emanuele Angelucci10,
  11. Stephen M Ansell11,
  12. Yan W Asmann12,
  13. Nikolaus Becker13,
  14. Yolanda Benavente14,
  15. Sonja I Berndt9,
  16. Kimberly A Bertrand15,
  17. Brenda M Birmann16,
  18. Heiner Boeing17,
  19. Paolo Boffetta18,
  20. Paige M Bracci19,
  21. Paul Brennan20,
  22. Angela R Brooks-Wilson21,
  23. James R Cerhan22,
  24. Stephen J Chanock9,
  25. Jacqueline Clavel23,
  26. Lucia Conde24,
  27. Karen H Cotenbader25,
  28. David G Cox26,
  29. Wendy Cozen27,
  30. Simon Crouch28,
  31. Anneclaire J De Roos29,
  32. Silvia de Sanjose14,30,
  33. Simonetta Di Lollo31,
  34. W Ryan Diver32,
  35. Ahmet Dogan33,
  36. Lenka Foretova34,
  37. Hervé Ghesquières35,
  38. Graham G Giles36,37,
  39. Bengt Glimelius38,
  40. Thomas M Habermann39,
  41. Corinne Haioun40,
  42. Patricia Hartge9,
  43. Henrik Hjalgrim41,
  44. Theodore R Holford42,
  45. Elizabeth A Holly19,
  46. Rebecca D Jackson43,
  47. Rudolph Kaaks13,
  48. Eleanor Kane28,
  49. Rachel S Kelly16,
  50. Robert J Klein44,
  51. Peter Kraft8,
  52. Anne Kricker45,
  53. Qing Lan9,
  54. Charles Lawrence46,
  55. Mark Liebow11,
  56. Tracy Lightfoot28,
  57. Brian K Link47,
  58. Marc Maynadie48,
  59. James McKay20,
  60. Mads Melbye41,
  61. Thierry J Molina49,
  62. Alain Monnereau23,
  63. Lindsay M Morton9,
  64. Alexandra Nieters50,
  65. Kari E North51,
  66. Anne J Novak11,
  67. Kenneth Offit52,
  68. Mark P Purdue53,
  69. Marco Rais54,
  70. Jacques Riby24,
  71. Eve Roman28,
  72. Nathaniel Rothman9,
  73. Gilles Salles55,
  74. Gianluca Severi56,
  75. Richard K Severson57,
  76. Christine F Skibola24,
  77. Susan L Slager22,
  78. Alex Smith28,
  79. Martyn T Smith58,
  80. Melissa C Southey59,
  81. Anthony Staines60,
  82. Lauren R Teras32,
  83. Carrie A Thompson11,
  84. Hervé Tilly61,
  85. Lesley F Tinker62,
  86. Anne Tjonneland63,
  87. Jenny Turner64,
  88. Claire M Vajdic65,
  89. Roel C H Vermeulen66,
  90. Joseph Vijai52,
  91. Paolo Vineis67,
  92. Jarmo Virtamo68,
  93. Zhaoming Wang69,
  94. Stephanie Weinstein9,
  95. Thomas E Witzig11,
  96. Andrew Zelenetz52,
  97. Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte70,
  98. Yawei Zhang71,
  99. Tongzhang Zheng72,
  100. Mariagrazia Zucca73 and
  101. Ann E Clarke74
  1. 1Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada
  2. 2BC Cancer Research Centre and School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  3. 3Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
  4. 4Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, and Hematology Center, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
  5. 5Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
  6. 6Division of Cancer Etiology, Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, USA
  7. 7Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  8. 8Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
  9. 9Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA
  10. 10Hematology Unit, Ospedale Oncologico di Riferimento Regionale ‘A. Businco’, Cagliari, Italy
  11. 11Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
  12. 12Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, USA
  13. 13Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
  14. 14Cancer Epidemiology Research Programme, Catalan Institute of Oncology-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
  15. 15Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, USA
  16. 16Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  17. 17Department of Epidemiology, German Institute for Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany
  18. 18The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
  19. 19Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
  20. 20International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
  21. 21Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
  22. 22Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
  23. 23Epidemiology of childhood and adolescent cancers Group, Inserm, Center of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité (CRESS), Paris, France
  24. 24Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
  25. 25Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
  26. 26INSERM U1052, Cancer Research Center of Lyon, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
  27. 27Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
  28. 28Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
  29. 29Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
  30. 30CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
  31. 31Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine, Section of Anatomo-Pathology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
  32. 32Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, USA
  33. 33Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
  34. 34Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute and MF MU, Brno, Czech Republic
  35. 35Department of Hematology, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
  36. 36Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  37. 37Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  38. 38Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  39. 39Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
  40. 40Lymphoid Malignancies Unit, Henri Mondor Hospital and University Paris Est, Créteil, France
  41. 41Division of Health Surveillance and Research, Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
  42. 42Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, USA
  43. 43Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
  44. 44Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
  45. 45Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  46. 46Westat Inc, Rockville, USA
  47. 47Department of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
  48. 48Registre des Hémopathies Malignes de Côte d'Or, EA 4184, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté and Dijon University Hospital, Dijon, France
  49. 49Department of Pathology, AP-HP, Necker Enfants malades, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
  50. 50Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
  51. 51Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
  52. 52Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
  53. 53Ontario Health Study, Toronto, Canada
  54. 54Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
  55. 55Department of Hematology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pierre benite Cedex, France
  56. 56Human Genetics Foundation, Turin, Italy
  57. 57Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
  58. 58Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, USA
  59. 59Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  60. 60School of Nursing and Human Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
  61. 61Centre Heni Becquerel, Université de Rouen, Rouen, France
  62. 62Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
  63. 63Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
  64. 64Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  65. 65Centre for Big Data Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  66. 66Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  67. 67MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
  68. 68Chronic Disease Prevention Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
  69. 69Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
  70. 70Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
  71. 71Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, USA
  72. 72Department of Epidemiology, Brown School of Public Health, Providence, USA
  73. 73Department of Biomedical Science, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
  74. 74Division of Rheumatology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sasha Bernatsky; Sasha.bernatsky{at}mcgill.ca

Abstract

Objective Determinants of the increased risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in SLE are unclear. Using data from a recent lymphoma genome-wide association study (GWAS), we assessed whether certain lupus-related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were also associated with DLBCL.

Methods GWAS data on European Caucasians from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph) provided a total of 3857 DLBCL cases and 7666 general-population controls. Data were pooled in a random-effects meta-analysis.

Results Among the 28 SLE-related SNPs investigated, the two most convincingly associated with risk of DLBCL included the CD40 SLE risk allele rs4810485 on chromosome 20q13 (OR per risk allele=1.09, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.16, p=0.0134), and the HLA SLE risk allele rs1270942 on chromosome 6p21.33 (OR per risk allele=1.17, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.36, p=0.0362). Of additional possible interest were rs2205960 and rs12537284. The rs2205960 SNP, related to a cytokine of the tumour necrosis factor superfamily TNFSF4, was associated with an OR per risk allele of 1.07, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.16, p=0.0549. The OR for the rs12537284 (chromosome 7q32, IRF5 gene) risk allele was 1.08, 95% CI 0.99 to 1.18, p=0.0765.

Conclusions These data suggest several plausible genetic links between DLBCL and SLE.

  • lymphoma
  • Systemic lupus
  • malignancy

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https://doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2016-000187

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    • Contributors All authors contributed to study design and/or data collection and/or analysis. All authors contributed to the manuscript and approve the final version.

    • Funding Support for the logistical needs of the InterLymph Consortium is provided by NCI's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), the Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program (EGRP) of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Leukaemia Research Fund.

    • Support for individual studies

    • ATBC: The α-Tocopherol, β-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study is supported by the Intramural Research Program of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health and by U.S. Public Health Service contract HHSN261201500005C from the National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services.

    • BC: Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR); Canadian Cancer Society; Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

    • CPS-II: The Cancer Prevention Study-II (CPS-II) Nutrition Cohort is supported by the American Cancer Society. Genotyping for all CPS-II samples were supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, NCI, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. The authors would also like to acknowledge the contribution to this study from central cancer registries supported through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Program of Cancer Registries and cancer registries supported by the National Cancer Institute Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results programme.

    • ELCCS: Bloodwise (formerly Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research); grant reference 0073.

    • ENGELA: Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer (ARC), Institut National du Cancer (INCa), Fondation de France, Fondation contre la Leucémie, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES).

    • EPIC: Coordinated Action (Contract #006438, SP23-CT-2005-006438); HuGeF (Human Genetics Foundation), Torino, Italy; Cancer Research UK; Danish Cancer Society.

    • EpiLymph: European Commission (grant references QLK4-CT-2000-00422 and FOOD-CT-2006-023103); the Spanish Ministry of Health (grant references CIBERESP, PI11/01810, PI14/01219, RCESP C03/09, RTICESP C03/10 and RTIC RD06/0020/0095), the Marató de TV3 Foundation (grant reference 051210), the Agència de Gestiód'AjutsUniversitarisi de Recerca—Generalitat de Catalunya (grant reference 2014SRG756) who had no role in the data collection, analysis or interpretation of the results; the NIH (contract NO1-CO-12400); the Compagnia di San Paolo—Programma Oncologia; the Federal Office for Radiation Protection grants StSch4261 and StSch4420, the José Carreras Leukemia Foundation grant DJCLS-R12/23, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF-01-EO-1303); the Health Research Board, Ireland and Cancer Research Ireland; Czech Republic supported by MH CZ—DRO (MMCI, 00209805) and by MEYS—NPS I—LO1413; Fondation de France and Association de Recherche Contre le Cancer.

    • GEC/Mayo GWAS: National Institutes of Health (CA118444, CA148690, CA92153). Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Cancer Institute. Veterans Affairs Research Service. Data collection for Duke University was supported by a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Career Development Award, the Bernstein Family Fund for Leukemia and Lymphoma Research and the National Institutes of Health (K08CA134919), National Center for Advancing Translational Science (UL1 TR000135).

    • HPFS: The HPFS was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants CA167552, CA149445, CA098122 and CA098566. We would like to thank the participants and staff of the Health Professionals Follow-up Study for their valuable contributions as well as the following state cancer registries for their help: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, NE, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WY. The authors assume full responsibility for analyses and interpretation of these data.

    • Iowa-Mayo SPORE: NCI Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Human Cancer (P50 CA97274); National Cancer Institute (P30 CA086862, P30 CA15083); Henry J. Predolin Foundation.

    • Italian GxE: Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC, Investigator Grant 11855) (PC); Fondazione Banco di Sardegna 2010–2012 and Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (LR7 CRP-59812/2012) (MGE).

    • Mayo Clinic Case-Control: National Institutes of Health (R01 CA92153); National Cancer Institute (P30 CA015083).

    • MCCS: The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study recruitment was funded by VicHealth and Cancer Council Victoria. The MCCS was further supported by Australian NHMRC grants 209057, 251553 and 504711 and by infrastructure provided by Cancer Council Victoria. Cases and their vital status were ascertained through the Victorian Cancer Registry (VCR) and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), including the National Death Index and the Australian Cancer Database.

    • MD Anderson: Institutional support to the Center for Translational and Public Health Genomics.

    • MSKCC: Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Grant, Lymphoma Foundation (LF5541); Barbara K. Lipman Lymphoma Research Fund (74419); Robert and Kate Niehaus Clinical Cancer Genetics Research Initiative (57470); U01 HG007033; ENCODE; U01 HG007033.

    • NCI-SEER: Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and Public Health Service (N01-PC-65064, N01-PC-67008, N01-PC-67009, N01-PC-67010, N02-PC-71105). NHS—The NHS was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants CA186107, CA87969, CA49449, CA149445, CA098122 and CA098566. We would like to thank the participants and staff of the Nurses' Health Study for their valuable contributions as well as the following state cancer registries for their help: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, NE, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WY. The authors assume full responsibility for analyses and interpretation of these data.

    • NSW: NSW was supported by grants from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (ID990920), the Cancer Council NSW, and the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine.

    • NYU-WHS: National Cancer Institute (UM1 CA182934, P30 CA016087); National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ES000260).

    • PLCO: This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Cancer Institute and by contracts from the Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS.

    • SCALE: Swedish Cancer Society (2009/659). Stockholm County Council (20110209) and the Strategic Research Program in Epidemiology at Karolinska Institute. Swedish Cancer Society grant (02 6661). National Institutes of Health (5R01 CA69669-02); Plan Denmark. UCSF—UCSF and the UCSF NHL study were supported by the following grants (including joint grants to University California Berkley (Skibola and M. Smith)): NIH grant R01-CA45614; NCI grant RO1 CA87014; NCI grant RO3 CA89745; NCI 263-MQ-701711; NCI grant R01 CA122663; NCI grant RO1 CA104682; NCI grant PO1-CA34233.

    • UCSF2: The UCSF studies were supported by the NCI, National Institutes of Health, CA1046282 and CA154643. The collection of cancer incidence data used in this study was supported by the California Department of Health Services as part of the state-wide cancer reporting programme mandated by California Health and Safety Code Section 103885; the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program under contract HHSN261201000140C awarded to the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, contract HHSN261201000035C awarded to the University of Southern California, and contract HHSN261201000034C awarded to the Public Health Institute; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Program of Cancer Registries, under agreement #1U58 DP000807-01 awarded to the Public Health Institute. The ideas and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors, and endorsement by the State of California, the California Department of Health Services, the National Cancer Institute, or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or their contractors and subcontractors is neither intended nor should be inferred.

    • UTAH/Sheffield: National Institutes of Health CA134674. Partial support for data collection at the Utah site was made possible by the Utah Population Database (UPDB) and the Utah Cancer Registry (UCR). Partial support for all datasets within the UPDB is provided by the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and the HCI Cancer Center Support grant, P30 CA42014. The UCR is supported in part by NIH contract HHSN261201000026C from the National Cancer Institute SEER Program with additional support from the Utah State Department of Health and the University of Utah. Partial support for data collection in Sheffield, UK was made possible by funds from Yorkshire Cancer Research and the Sheffield Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre. We thank the NCRI Haemato-Oncology Clinical Studies Group, colleagues in the North Trent Cancer Network the North Trent Haemato-Oncology Database.

    • WHI: WHI investigators are: Program Office—(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland) Jacques Rossouw, Shari Ludlam, Dale Burwen, Joan McGowan, Leslie Ford, and Nancy Geller; Clinical Coordinating Center—(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA) Garnet Anderson, Ross Prentice, Andrea LaCroix, and Charles Kooperberg; Investigators and Academic Centers—(Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) JoAnn E. Manson; (MedStar Health Research Institute/Howard University, Washington, DC) Barbara V. Howard; (Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford, CA) Marcia L. Stefanick; (The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH) Rebecca Jackson; (University of Arizona, Tucson/Phoenix, AZ) Cynthia A. Thomson; (University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY) Jean Wactawski-Wende; (University of Florida, Gainesville/Jacksonville, FL) Marian Limacher; (University of Iowa, Iowa City/Davenport, IA) Robert Wallace; (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA) Lewis Kuller; (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC) Sally Shumaker; Women's Health Initiative Memory Study—(Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC) Sally Shumaker. The WHI program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201100046C, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, HHSN268201100003C, HHSN268201100004C and HHSN271201100004C.

    • YALE: National Cancer Institute (CA62006); National Cancer Institute (CA165923).

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Ethics approval Each participating study's investigators obtained approval from human subjects review committees and informed consent from all participants.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    • Data sharing statement No additional data are available.