Polymorphisms within autophagy-related genes as susceptibility biomarkers for pancreatic cancer: A meta-analysis of three large European cohorts and functional characterization.

autophagy functional characterization genetic variants pancreatic cancer polymorphisms susceptibility

Journal

International journal of cancer
ISSN: 1097-0215
Titre abrégé: Int J Cancer
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0042124

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
25 Sep 2024
Historique:
revised: 17 07 2024
received: 04 04 2024
accepted: 26 08 2024
medline: 25 9 2024
pubmed: 25 9 2024
entrez: 25 9 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal cancers with patients having unresectable or metastatic disease at diagnosis, with poor prognosis and very short survival. Given that genetic variation within autophagy-related genes influences autophagic flux and susceptibility to solid cancers, we decided to investigate whether 55,583 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within 234 autophagy-related genes could influence the risk of developing PDAC in three large independent cohorts of European ancestry including 12,754 PDAC cases and 324,926 controls. The meta-analysis of these populations identified, for the first time, the association of the BID

Identifiants

pubmed: 39319538
doi: 10.1002/ijc.35196
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Subventions

Organisme : Czech Republic Ministry of Health
ID : GACR21-27902 and AZVNU21-03-00145
Organisme : "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza" Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo
Organisme : Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades and FEDER
ID : PY20/01282
Organisme : Instituto de Salud Carlos III
ID : PI17/02256
Organisme : Instituto de Salud Carlos III
ID : PI20/01845
Organisme : Associazione Italiana Ricerca Cancro
ID : 26343
Organisme : National Institute for Cancer Research (Programme EXCELES)
ID : LX22NPO5102
Organisme : Charles University, Project GA UK No. 120
ID : UNCE/MED/006

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© 2024 The Author(s). International Journal of Cancer published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of UICC.

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Auteurs

Fernando Gálvez-Montosa (F)

Department of Medical Oncology, Complejo Hospitalario de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.

Giulia Peduzzi (G)

Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

José Manuel Sanchez-Maldonado (JM)

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Genomic Oncology Area, GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research: Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, PTS, Granada, Spain.
Instituto de Investigación Biosanataria Ibs.Granada, Granada, Spain.
Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Rob Ter Horst (R)

Department of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

Antonio J Cabrera-Serrano (AJ)

Genomic Oncology Area, GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research: Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, PTS, Granada, Spain.
Instituto de Investigación Biosanataria Ibs.Granada, Granada, Spain.

Manuel Gentiluomo (M)

Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

Angelica Macauda (A)

Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Natalia Luque (N)

Department of Medical Oncology, Complejo Hospitalario de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.

Pelin Ünal (P)

Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Francisco Javier García-Verdejo (FJ)

Department of Medical Oncology, Complejo Hospitalario de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.

Yang Li (Y)

Department of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

José Antonio López López (JA)

Department of Medical Oncology, Complejo Hospitalario de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.

Angelika Stein (A)

Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita (HB)

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.

Paolo Giorgio Arcidiacono (PG)

Pancreatico/Biliary Endoscopy & Endosonography Division, Pancreas Translational & Clinical Research Center, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

Dalila Luciola Zanette (DL)

Laboratory for Applied Science and Technology in Health, Carlos Chagas Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Curitiba, Brazil.

Christoph Kahlert (C)

Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Francesco Perri (F)

Division of Gastroenterology and Research Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza" Hospital, Foggia, Italy.

Pavel Soucek (P)

Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic.

Renata Talar-Wojnarowska (R)

Department of Digestive Tract Diseases, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.

George E Theodoropoulos (GE)

Colorectal Unit, First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Hippocration General Hospital, Athens, Greece.

Jakob R Izbicki (JR)

Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

Hussein Tamás (H)

Center for Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
Division of Pancreatic Diseases, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

Hanneke Van Laarhoven (H)

Department of Medical Oncology, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Cancer Center Amsterdam, Imaging and Biomarkers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Gennaro Nappo (G)

Pancreatic Unit, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.

Maria Chiara Petrone (MC)

Pancreatico/Biliary Endoscopy & Endosonography Division, Pancreas Translational & Clinical Research Center, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

Martin Lovecek (M)

Department of Surgery I, University Hospital Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Roel C H Vermeulen (RCH)

University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Kestutis Adamonis (K)

Gastroenterology Department and Institute for Digestive Research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Fernando Jesus Reyes-Zurita (FJ)

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

Bernd Holleczek (B)

Saarland Cancer Registry, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Jolanta Sumskiene (J)

Gastroenterology Department and Institute for Digestive Research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Beatrice Mohelníková-Duchoňová (B)

Toxicogenomics Unit, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic.

Rita T Lawlor (RT)

ARC-Net Centre for Applied Research on Cancer University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, Section of Pathology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

Raffaele Pezzilli (R)

Potenza County Medical Association, Potenza, Italy.

Mateus Nobrega Aoki (MN)

Laboratory for Applied Science and Technology in Health, Carlos Chagas Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Curitiba, Brazil.

Claudio Pasquali (C)

Department of DISCOG, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Vitalija Petrenkiene (V)

Gastroenterology Department and Institute for Digestive Research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Daniela Basso (D)

Department of DIMED, Laboratory Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Stefania Bunduc (S)

Center for Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
Division of Pancreatic Diseases, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
Digestive Diseases and Liver Transplantation Center, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania.

Annalisa Comandatore (A)

General Surgery Unit, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

Hermann Brenner (H)

Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Stefano Ermini (S)

Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

Giuseppe Vanella (G)

Digestive and Liver Disease Unit, S Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Pancreas Translational and Clinical Research Center, Pancreato-Biliary Endoscopy and Endoscopic Ultrasound, San Raffaele Scientific Institute IRCCS, Milan, Italy.

Mara R Goetz (MR)

Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

Livia Archibugi (L)

Digestive and Liver Disease Unit, S Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Pancreas Translational and Clinical Research Center, Pancreato-Biliary Endoscopy and Endoscopic Ultrasound, San Raffaele Scientific Institute IRCCS, Milan, Italy.

Maurizio Lucchesi (M)

Oncologia Massa Carrara, Azienda USL Toscana Nord Ovest, Carrara, Italy.

Faik Guntac Uzunoglu (FG)

Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

Olivier Busch (O)

Cancer Center Amsterdam, Imaging and Biomarkers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Medical Oncology, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Anna Caterina Milanetto (AC)

Department of DISCOG, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Marta Puzzono (M)

Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

Juozas Kupcinskas (J)

Gastroenterology Department and Institute for Digestive Research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Luca Morelli (L)

General Surgery Unit, Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

Cosimo Sperti (C)

Department of DISCOG, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Silvia Carrara (S)

Department of Gastroenterology, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital - Endoscopic Unit, Milan, Italy.

Gabriele Capurso (G)

Digestive and Liver Disease Unit, S Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Pancreas Translational and Clinical Research Center, Pancreato-Biliary Endoscopy and Endoscopic Ultrasound, San Raffaele Scientific Institute IRCCS, Milan, Italy.

Casper H J van Eijck (CHJ)

Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Martin Oliverius (M)

Department of Surgery, University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Susanne Roth (S)

Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Francesca Tavano (F)

Division of Gastroenterology and Research Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza" Hospital, Foggia, Italy.

Rudolf Kaaks (R)

Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Andrea Szentesi (A)

Institute for Translational Medicine, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.

Ludmila Vodickova (L)

Department of Molecular Biology of Cancer, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic.

Claudio Luchini (C)

ARC-Net Centre for Applied Research on Cancer University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Department of Engineering for Innovation in Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.

Ben Schöttker (B)

Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Stefano Landi (S)

Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

Orsolya Dohan (O)

Division of Pancreatic Diseases, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

Matteo Tacelli (M)

Pancreatico/Biliary Endoscopy & Endosonography Division, Pancreas Translational & Clinical Research Center, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

William Greenhalf (W)

Institute for Health Research Liverpool Pancreas Biomedical Research Unit, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Maria Gazouli (M)

Department of Basic Medical Science, Laboratory of Biology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

John P Neoptolemos (JP)

Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Giulia Martina Cavestro (GM)

Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

Ugo Boggi (U)

Division of General and Transplant Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.

Anna Latiano (A)

Division of Gastroenterology and Research Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza" Hospital, Foggia, Italy.

Péter Hegyi (P)

Center for Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
Division of Pancreatic Diseases, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
Institute for Translational Medicine, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.
János Szentágothai Research Center, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.

Laura Ginocchi (L)

Oncologia Massa Carrara, Azienda USL Toscana Nord Ovest, Carrara, Italy.

Mihai G Netea (MG)

Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CiiM) & TWINCORE, joint Ventures Between the Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.
Department for Immunology & Metabolism, Life and Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

Pedro Sánchez-Rovira (P)

Department of Medical Oncology, Complejo Hospitalario de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.

Federico Canzian (F)

Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Daniele Campa (D)

Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.

Juan Sainz (J)

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Genomic Oncology Area, GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research: Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, PTS, Granada, Spain.
Instituto de Investigación Biosanataria Ibs.Granada, Granada, Spain.
Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain.

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