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Meta-Analysis
. 2017 Mar;26(3):420-424.
doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-16-0631. Epub 2016 Sep 27.

No Evidence That Genetic Variation in the Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Pathway Influences Ovarian Cancer Survival

Lara E Sucheston-Campbell  1 Rikki Cannioto  2 Alyssa I Clay  3 John Lewis Etter  2 Kevin H Eng  4 Song Liu  4 Sebastiano Battaglia  5 Qiang Hu  4 J Brian Szender  6 Albina Minlikeeva  2 Janine M Joseph  2 Paul Mayor  6 Scott I Abrams  7 Brahm H Segal  7   8 Paul K Wallace  9 Kah Teong Soh  9 Emese Zsiros  6 Hoda Anton-Culver  10 Elisa V Bandera  11 Matthias W Beckmann  12 Andrew Berchuck  13 Line Bjorge  14   15 Amanda Bruegl  16 Ian G Campbell  17   18 Shawn Patrice Campbell  16 Georgia Chenevix-TrenchDaniel W Cramer  19   20 Agnieszka Dansonka-Mieszkowska  21 Fanny Dao  22 Brenda Diergaarde  23 Thilo Doerk  24 Jennifer A Doherty  25 Andreas du Bois  26   27 Diana Eccles  28   29 Svend Aage Engelholm  30 Peter A Fasching  12 Simon A Gayther  31   32 Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj  33 Rosalind M Glasspool  34 Marc T Goodman  35   36 Jacek Gronwald  37 Philipp Harter  26 Alexander Hein  12 Florian Heitz  26   27 Peter Hillemmanns  24 Claus Høgdall  38 Estrid V S Høgdall  39   40 Tomasz Huzarski  37 Allan Jensen  39 Sharon E Johnatty  41 Audrey Jung  42   43 Beth Y Karlan  44 Reudiger Klapdor  24 Tomasz Kluz  45 Bożena Konopka  21 Susanne Krüger Kjær  38   39 Jolanta Kupryjanczyk  21 Diether Lambrechts  46 Jenny Lester  44 Jan Lubiński  37 Douglas A Levine  22 Lene Lundvall  47 Valerie McGuire  48 Iain A McNeish  49 Usha Menon  33 Francesmary Modugno  23   50   51 Roberta B Ness  52 Sandra Orsulic  44 James Paul  34 Celeste Leigh Pearce  53   54 Tanja Pejovic  16   55 Paul Pharoah  56   57 Susan J Ramus  58   59 Joseph Rothstein  48 Mary Anne Rossing  60   61 Matthias Rübner  12 Joellen M Schildkraut  62 Barbara Schmalfeldt  63 Ira Schwaab  64 Nadeem Siddiqui  65 Weiva Sieh  66   67 Piotr Sobiczewski  68 Honglin Song  56 Kathryn L Terry  19   20 Els Van Nieuwenhuysen  69 Adriaan Vanderstichele  69 Ignace Vergote  69 Christine S Walsh  44 Penelope M Webb  70 Nicolas Wentzensen  71 Alice S Whittemore  48 Anna H Wu  54 Argyrios Ziogas  72 Kunle Odunsi  6 Jenny Chang-Claude  42   43 Ellen L Goode  73 Kirsten B Moysich  74 Australian Ovarian Cancer Study
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Meta-Analysis

No Evidence That Genetic Variation in the Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Pathway Influences Ovarian Cancer Survival

Lara E Sucheston-Campbell et al. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2017 Mar.

Abstract

Background: The precise mechanism by which the immune system is adversely affected in cancer patients remains poorly understood, but the accumulation of immunosuppressive/protumorigenic myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) is thought to be a prominent mechanism contributing to immunologic tolerance of malignant cells in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). To this end, we hypothesized genetic variation in MDSC pathway genes would be associated with survival after EOC diagnoses.Methods: We measured the hazard of death due to EOC within 10 years of diagnosis, overall and by invasive subtype, attributable to SNPs in 24 genes relevant in the MDSC pathway in 10,751 women diagnosed with invasive EOC. Versatile Gene-based Association Study and the admixture likelihood method were used to test gene and pathway associations with survival.Results: We did not identify individual SNPs that were significantly associated with survival after correction for multiple testing (P < 3.5 × 10-5), nor did we identify significant associations between the MDSC pathway overall, or the 24 individual genes and EOC survival.Conclusions: In this well-powered analysis, we observed no evidence that inherited variations in MDSC-associated SNPs, individual genes, or the collective genetic pathway contributed to EOC survival outcomes.Impact: Common inherited variation in genes relevant to MDSCs was not associated with survival in women diagnosed with invasive EOC. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 26(3); 420-4. ©2016 AACR.

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M. Goodman was a consultant for Johnson and Johnson

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Figure 1
These five concentric circles are circular standard Manhattan plots. The chromosome is on the outer circle, −log10 p-values are on the (vertical) y-axis with each circle representing the p-value from single SNP tests of association with overall survival adjusted for age, stage and grade. The Manhattan plots are as follows: A) all ovarian cancer cases B) high grade serous C) mucinous cell D) endometrioid and E) clear cell. The red dashed line designates p=.01, −log10(p-value)=2, with all red-colored SNPs above that line reflecting SNPs p<.01.

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