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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 Aug 19;23(11):2568–2578. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0129

Table 3.

Meta-analysis of the significant associations (p<0.05) between risk variants for cancer and incident multiple primary cancer risk

SNP First GWAS
citation
First GWAS
site
Region Position Mapped
gene
Ca Co risk allele/
ref allele
RAFc metaORa (95% CI) P-
value
WHI MEC p-het for
study

Directionb
rs578776 Saccone, et al. 2009 nicotine dependence 15q25.1 76,675,455 CHRNA3 1377 9559 C/T 0.49 1.15 (1.05–1.26) 0.004 + + 0.26
rs11249433 Thomas, et al. 2009 breast cancer 1p11.2 120,982,136 EMBP1 1347 9406 C/T 0.26 1.16 (1.04–1.28) 0.005 + + 0.59
rs3803662 Thomas, et al. 2009 breast cancer 16q12.1 51,143,842 TOX3 1377 9577 T/C 0.40 1.13 (1.03–1.23) 0.006 + + 0.50
rs4975616 Broderick, et al. 2009 lung cancer 5p15.33 1,368,660 Intergenic 1378 9576 A/G 0.61 0.89 (0.82–0.98) 0.014 0.55
rs8042374 Wang, et al. 2008 lung cancer 15q25.1 76,695,087 CHRNA3 1368 9550 A/G 0.57 1.12 (1.02–1.24) 0.015 + + 0.28
rs4857841 Gudmundsson, et al. 2009 prostate cancer 3q21.3 129,529,333 EEFSEC 1376 9534 A/G 0.44 0.90 (0.82–0.98) 0.020 0.34
rs4785763 Bishop, et al. 2009 melanoma 16q24.3 88,594,437 AFG3L1P 1370 9551 A/C 0.28 1.11 (1.01–1.22) 0.023 + + 0.62
rs965513 Gudmundsson, et al. 2009 thyroid cancer 9q22.33 99,595,930 Intergenic 1377 9562 A/G 0.24 0.89 (0.80–0.99) 0.026 0.42
rs5945619 Eeles, et al. 2008 prostate cancer Xp11.22 51,258,412 Intergenic 1378 9566 C/T 0.27 1.09 (1.01–1.18) 0.035 + + 0.73
rs3790844 Petersen, et al. 2010 pancreatic cancer 1q32.1 198,274,055 NR5A2 420 2657 T/C 0.77 1.23 (1.01–1.49) 0.035 + x 1
rs10086908 Al Olama, et al. 2009 prostate cancer 8q24.21 128,081,119 Intergenic 957 6904 T/C 0.74 1.13 (1.01–1.27) 0.040 x + 1
rs4939827 Tenesa, et al. 2008 colorectal cancer 18q21.1 44,707,461 SMAD7 1374 9532 T/C 0.39 1.09 (1.00–1.19) 0.047 + + 0.18
a

Models were adjusted for age at diagnosis for the index cancer (continuous), sex (MEC only), study design (WHI only: CT vs OS), the most significant principal components

b

+=positive association, − =negative association, x=not tested

c

RAF=risk allele frequency