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Assessing the role of insulin-like growth factors and binding proteins in prostate cancer using Mendelian randomization: Genetic variants as instruments for circulating levels

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Bonilla, C and Lewis, SJ and Rowlands, MA and Gaunt, TR and Davey Smith, G and Gunnell, D and Palmer, T and Donovan, JL and Hamdy, FC and Neal, DE and Eeles, R and Easton, D and Kote-Jarai, Z and Al Olama, AA and Benlloch, S and Muir, K and Giles, GG and Wiklund, F and Gronberg, H and Haiman, CA and Schleutker, J and Nordestgaard, BG and Travis, RC and Pashayan, N and Khaw, KT and Stanford, JL and Blot, WJ and Thibodeau, S and Maier, C and Kibel, AS and Cybulski, C and Cannon-Albright, L and Brenner, H and Park, J and Kaneva, R and Batra, J and Teixeira, MR and Pandha, H and Lathrop, M and Martin, RM and Holly, JM and Fitzgerald, LM and The PRACTICAL consortium, Assessing the role of insulin-like growth factors and binding proteins in prostate cancer using Mendelian randomization: Genetic variants as instruments for circulating levels, International Journal of Cancer, 139, (7) pp. 1520-1533. ISSN 0020-7136 (2016) [Refereed Article]

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DOI: doi:10.1002/ijc.30206

Abstract

Circulating insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and their binding proteins (IGFBPs) are associated with prostate cancer. Using genetic variants as instruments for IGF peptides, we investigated whether these associations are likely to be causal. We identified from the literature 56 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the IGF axis previously associated with biomarker levels (8 from a genome-wide association study [GWAS] and 48 in reported candidate genes). In ∼700 men without prostate cancer and two replication cohorts (N ∼ 900 and ∼9,000), we examined the properties of these SNPS as instrumental variables (IVs) for IGF-I, IGF-II, IGFBP-2 and IGFBP-3. Those confirmed as strong IVs were tested for association with prostate cancer risk, low (< 7) vs. high (≥ 7) Gleason grade, localised vs. advanced stage, and mortality, in 22,936 controls and 22,992 cases. IV analysis was used in an attempt to estimate the causal effect of circulating IGF peptides on prostate cancer. Published SNPs in the IGFBP1/IGFBP3 gene region, particularly rs11977526, were strong instruments for IGF-II and IGFBP-3, less so for IGF-I. Rs11977526 was associated with high (vs. low) Gleason grade (OR per IGF-II/IGFBP-3 level-raising allele 1.05; 95% CI: 1.00, 1.10). Using rs11977526 as an IV we estimated the causal effect of a one SD increase in IGF-II (∼265 ng/mL) on risk of high vs. low grade disease as 1.14 (95% CI: 1.00, 1.31). Because of the potential for pleiotropy of the genetic instruments, these findings can only causally implicate the IGF pathway in general, not any one specific biomarker.

Item Details

Item Type:Refereed Article
Keywords:insulin-like growth factors, insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins, prostate cancer, Mendelian randomization, single nucleotide polymorphisms
Research Division:Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
Research Group:Oncology and carcinogenesis
Research Field:Cancer genetics
Objective Division:Health
Objective Group:Clinical health
Objective Field:Clinical health not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:Fitzgerald, LM (Dr Liesel FitzGerald)
ID Code:114206
Year Published:2016
Web of Science® Times Cited:18
Deposited By:Menzies Institute for Medical Research
Deposited On:2017-02-08
Last Modified:2022-08-29
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