Combining Asian and European genome-wide association studies of colorectal cancer improves risk prediction across racial and ethnic populations.

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Thomas, M
Su, Y-R
Rosenthal, EA
Sakoda, LC
Schmit, SL
Timofeeva, MN
Chen, Z
Fernandez-Rozadilla, C
Law, PJ
Murphy, N
Carreras-Torres, R
Diez-Obrero, V
van Duijnhoven, FJB
Jiang, S
Shin, A
Wolk, A
Phipps, AI
Burnett-Hartman, A
Gsur, A
Chan, AT
Zauber, AG
Wu, AH
Lindblom, A
Um, CY
Tangen, CM
Gignoux, C
Newton, C
Haiman, CA
Qu, C
Bishop, DT
Buchanan, DD
Crosslin, DR
Conti, DV
Kim, D-H
Hauser, E
White, E
Siegel, E
Schumacher, FR
Rennert, G
Giles, GG
Hampel, H
Brenner, H
Oze, I
Oh, JH
Lee, JK
Schneider, JL
Chang-Claude, J
Kim, J
Huyghe, JR
Zheng, J
Hampe, J
Greenson, J
Hopper, JL
Palmer, JR
Visvanathan, K
Matsuo, K
Matsuda, K
Jung, KJ
Li, L
Le Marchand, L
Vodickova, L
Bujanda, L
Gunter, MJ
Matejcic, M
Jenkins, MA
Slattery, ML
D'Amato, M
Wang, M
Hoffmeister, M
Woods, MO
Kim, M
Song, M
Iwasaki, M
Du, M
Udaltsova, N
Sawada, N
Vodicka, P
Campbell, PT
Newcomb, PA
Cai, Q
Pearlman, R
Pai, RK
Schoen, RE
Steinfelder, RS
Haile, RW
Vandenputtelaar, R
Prentice, RL
Küry, S
Castellví-Bel, S
Tsugane, S
Berndt, SI
Lee, SC
Brezina, S
Weinstein, SJ
Chanock, SJ
Jee, SH
Kweon, S-S
Vadaparampil, S
Harrison, TA
Yamaji, T
Keku, TO
Vymetalkova, V
Arndt, V
Jia, W-H
Shu, X-O
Lin, Y
Ahn, Y-O
Stadler, ZK
Van Guelpen, B
Ulrich, CM
Platz, EA
Potter, JD
Li, CI
Meester, R
Moreno, V
Figueiredo, JC
Casey, G
Lansdorp Vogelaar, I
Dunlop, MG
Gruber, SB
Hayes, RB
Pharoah, PDP
Houlston, RS
Jarvik, GP
Tomlinson, IP
Zheng, W
Corley, DA
Peters, U
Hsu, L

Document Type

Journal Article

Date

2023-10-02

Date Accepted

2023-09-19

Abstract

Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have great potential to guide precision colorectal cancer (CRC) prevention by identifying those at higher risk to undertake targeted screening. However, current PRS using European ancestry data have sub-optimal performance in non-European ancestry populations, limiting their utility among these populations. Towards addressing this deficiency, we expand PRS development for CRC by incorporating Asian ancestry data (21,731 cases; 47,444 controls) into European ancestry training datasets (78,473 cases; 107,143 controls). The AUC estimates (95% CI) of PRS are 0.63(0.62-0.64), 0.59(0.57-0.61), 0.62(0.60-0.63), and 0.65(0.63-0.66) in independent datasets including 1681-3651 cases and 8696-115,105 controls of Asian, Black/African American, Latinx/Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White, respectively. They are significantly better than the European-centric PRS in all four major US racial and ethnic groups (p-values < 0.05). Further inclusion of non-European ancestry populations, especially Black/African American and Latinx/Hispanic, is needed to improve the risk prediction and enhance equity in applying PRS in clinical practice.

Citation

Nature Communications, 2023, 14 (1), pp. 6147 -

Source Title

Nature Communications

Publisher

NATURE PORTFOLIO

ISSN

2041-1723

eISSN

2041-1723
2041-1723

Research Team

Cancer Genomics

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