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. 2020 Sep 28;107(5):815–836. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.08.025

Table 5.

Top PRSs for the 20 Most Common Cancer Traits in MGI

PRS Cancer Trait (PheCode) GWAS Source Method Tuning Parameter # SNPs Brier Score AAUC (95% CI) Odds Ratio Continuous PRS (95% CI)a Odds Ratio Top 1% (95% CI)b
Basal cell carcinoma (172.21) Large GWAS: Chahal et al.49 P&T: p ≤ 4 × 10−8 27 0.106 0.632 (0.616,0.647) 1.66 (1.57,1.76) 3.79 (2.68,5.35)
Melanomas of skin (172.1) UKB GWAS PHECODE P&T: p ≤ 2 × 10−7 15 0.0952 0.604 (0.587,0.62) 1.49 (1.4,1.57) 2.97 (2.04,4.34)
Breast cancer [female] (174.1) Large GWAS: Michailidou et al.11 Lassosum: s = 0.5, λ = 0.0043 118,388 0.134 0.641 (0.625,0.656) 1.70 (1.59,1.81) 2.48 (1.63,3.77)
Cancer of prostate (185) Large GWAS: Schumacher et al.12 Lassosum: s = 0.5, λ = 0.007 26,418 0.145 0.665 (0.647,0.684) 1.91 (1.77,2.05) 4.92 (3.21,7.55)
Squamous cell carcinoma (172.22) GWAS Catalog P&T: p ≤ 1 × 10−11 7 0.0977 0.593 (0.573,0.613) 1.45 (1.36,1.55) 3.74 (2.46,5.68)
Cancer of bladder (189.2) GWAS Catalog P&T: p ≤ 5 × 10−8 13 0.0917 0.572 (0.55,0.594) 1.29 (1.2,1.39) 1.47 (0.779,2.77)
Colorectal cancer (153) Large GWAS: Huyghe et al.15 P&T: p ≤ 4 × 10−7 81 0.0828 0.553 (0.525,0.577) 1.21 (1.12,1.32) 3.04 (1.79,5.17)
Colon cancer (153.2) UKB GWAS PHECODE Lassosum: s = 0.2, λ = 0.038 150 0.083 0.567 (0.54,0.594) 1.25 (1.13,1.37) 1.17 (0.477,2.87)
Cancer of bronchus/lung (165.1) GWAS Catalog P&T: p ≤ 1 × 10−10 14 0.0827 0.529 (0.503,0.558) 1.12 (1.01,1.24) 1.75 (0.796,3.85)
Thyroid cancer (193) GWAS Catalog P&T: p ≤ 3.2 × 10−10 8 0.0812 0.618 (0.587,0.647) 1.57 (1.41,1.74) 5.14 (2.94,8.99)
Nodular lymphoma (202.21) UKB GWAS FINNGEN Lassosum: s = 1, λ = 0.018 2,209,179 0.0825 0.538 (0.504,0.573) 1.15 (1.02,1.29) 1.48 (0.538,4.05)
Cancer of brain (191.11) UKB GWAS ICD10 Lassosum: s = 0.9, λ = 0.1 522 0.0824 0.546 (0.504,0.587) 1.20 (1.04,1.37) 1.42 (0.453,4.47)
Cancer of esophagus (150) UKB GWAS ICD10 Lassosum: s = 1, λ = 0.078 2,001 0.0826 0.551 (0.51,0.588) 1.20 (1.04,1.39) 1.81 (0.56,5.82)
Cancer of larynx (149.4) UKB GWAS ICD10 Lassosum: s = 0.9, λ = 0.1 25,920 0.0822 0.570 (0.522,0.618) 1.28 (1.09,1.51) 2.14 (0.649,7.06)
Cancer of other male genital organs (187) UKB GWAS FINNGEN P&T: p ≤ 4 × 10−6 97 0.083 0.558 (0.506,0.606) 1.23 (1.03,1.46) 1.04 (0.183,5.95)
Lymphoid leukemia (204.1) UKB GWAS FINNGEN P&T: p ≤ 1 × 10−6 6 0.0819 0.578 (0.517,0.642) 1.36 (1.11,1.66) 3.69 (1.01,13.4)
Multiple myeloma (204.4) UKB GWAS ICD10 P&T: p ≤ 7.9 × 10−6 27 0.0823 0.547 (0.479,0.613) 1.24 (1,1.53) 2.6 (0.593,11.4)
Cancer of testis (187.2) UKB GWAS PHESANT Lassosum: s = 0.9, λ = 0.078 771 0.084 0.656 (0.593,0.717) 1.67 (1.3,2.14) 2.72 (0.568,13.1)
Hodgkin’s disease (201) GWAS Catalog P&T: p ≤ 1 × 10−6 20 0.0821 0.620 (0.559,0.688) 1.48 (1.15,1.89) 2.64 (0.572,12.2)
Lymphoid leukemia, chronic (204.12) GWAS Catalog P&T: p ≤ 7 × 10−6 44 0.0776 0.696 (0.621,0.764) 2.12 (1.65,2.74) 12.9 (4.45,37.6)

Cancer traits are sorted by observed case counts in MGI; references of studies contributing to GWAS Catalog PRSs are listed in Table S4.

a

PRSs were scaled to mean = 0 and SD = 1.

b

Top 1% versus rest.