Author:
Beesley Jonathan,Sivakumaran Haran,Marjaneh Mahdi Moradi,Lima Luize G.,Hillman Kristine M.,Kaufmann Susanne,Tuano Natasha,Hussein Nehal,Ham Sunyoung,Mukhopadhyay Pamela,Kazakoff Stephen,Lee Jason S.,Michailidou Kyriaki,Barnes Daniel R.,Antonio Antonis C.,Fachal Laura,Dunning Alison M.,Easton Douglas F.,Waddell Nicola,Rosenbluh Joseph,Möller Andreas,Chenevix-Trench Georgia,French Juliet D.,Edwards Stacey L.
Abstract
ABSTRACTGenome-wide association studies have identified 196 high confidence independent signals associated with breast cancer susceptibility. Variants within these signals frequently fall in distal regulatory DNA elements that control gene expression. We designed a Capture Hi-C array to enrich for chromatin interactions between the credible causal variants and target genes in six human mammary epithelial and breast cancer cell lines. We show that interacting regions are enriched for open chromatin, histone marks for active enhancers and transcription factors relevant to breast biology. We exploit this comprehensive resource to identify candidate target genes at 139 independent breast cancer risk signals, and explore the functional mechanism underlying altered risk at the 12q24 risk region. Our results demonstrate the power of combining genetics, computational genomics and molecular studies to rationalize the identification of key variants and candidate target genes at breast cancer GWAS signals.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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