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Polymorphisms within autophagy-related genes as susceptibility biomarkers for m...

Multiple myeloma (MM) arises following malignant proliferation of plasma cells in the bone marrow, that secrete high amounts of specific monoclonal immunoglobulins or light chains, resulting in the massive production of unfolded or misfolded proteins. Autophagy can have a dual role in tumorigenesis, by eliminating these abnormal proteins to avoid cancer development, but also ensuring MM cell survival and promot...

Polymorphisms within the TNFSF4 and MAPKAPK2 Loci influence the risk of develop...

Here, we assessed whether 36 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the <i>TNFSF4</i> and <i>MAPKAPK2</i> loci influence the risk of developing invasive aspergillosis (IA). We conducted a two-stage case control study including 911 high-risk patients diagnosed with hematological malignancies that were ascertained through the aspBIOmics consortium. The meta-analysis of the discovery and replication populat...

A common variant within the HNF1B gene is associated with overall survival of m...

Diabetogenic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have recently been associated with multiple myeloma (MM) risk but their impact on overall survival (OS) of MM patients has not been analysed yet. In order to investigate the impact of 58 GWAS-identified variants for type 2 diabetes (T2D) on OS of patients with MM, we analysed genotyping data of 936 MM patients collected by the International Multiple Myeloma rE...

Type 2 diabetes-related variants influence the risk of developing multiple myel...

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been suggested to be a risk factor for multiple myeloma (MM), but the relationship between the two traits is still not well understood. The aims of this study were to evaluate whether 58 genome-wide-association-studies (GWAS)-identified common variants for T2D influence the risk of developing MM and to determine whether predictive models built with these variants might help to predict ...

Corrigendum: Genome-wide association study identifies variants at 16p13 associa...

[Excerpt] In this Article, members of the UCSF cohort who had been alive for longer than two years were inadvertently included in the data presented in Table 3. USCF/old treatments should have 109 patients with a hazard ratio of 3.35 and a P value of 0.00028 instead of the 124 patients with a hazard ratio of 3.37 and a P value of 0.00026. The USCF/new patients should have 187 patients with a hazard ratio of 3.5...

Risk of multiple myeloma is associated with polymorphisms within telomerase gen...

Compelling biological and epidemiological evidences point to a key role of genetic variants of the TERT and TERC genes in cancer development. We analyzed the genetic variability of these two gene regions using samples of 2,267 multiple myeloma (MM) cases and 2,796 healthy controls. We found that a TERT variant, rs2242652, is associated with reduced MM susceptibility (OR?=?0.81; 95% CI: 0.72-0.92; p?=?0.001). In...

Genome-wide association study identifies variants at 16p13 associated with surv...

Here we perform the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of multiple myeloma (MM) survival. In a meta-analysis of 306 MM patients treated at UCSF and 239 patients treated at the Mayo clinic, we find a significant association between SNPs near the gene FOPNL on chromosome 16p13 and survival (rs72773978; P=6 × 10(-10)). Patients with the minor allele are at increased risk for mortality (HR: 2.65; 95% CI: 1....

Genetic variants and multiple myeloma risk : IMMEnSE validation of the best rep...

BACKGROUND: Genetic background plays a role in multiple myeloma susceptibility. Several single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) associated with genetic susceptibility to multiple myeloma were identified in the last years, but only a few of them were validated in independent studies. METHODS: With the aim to conclusively validate the strongest associations so far reported, we selected the polymorphisms rs2227667 (...

Polymorphisms in regulators of xenobiotic transport and metabolism genes PXR an...

The exposure to pesticides and toxic compounds in xenobiotic transport and metabolism genes has been shown to affect risk of developing multiple myeloma (MM). Therefore, we hypothesized that genetic variations in xenobiotic transport and metabolism regulator genes PXR (NR1I2) and CAR (NR1I3) could determine a difference in MM susceptibility. Ten tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for PXR and seven f...

Impact of polymorphic variation at 7p15.3, 3p22.1 and 2p23.3 loci on risk of mu...