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Meta-Analysis
. 2023 Apr;38(4):604-615.
doi: 10.1002/mds.29337. Epub 2023 Feb 14.

Investigation of Shared Genetic Risk Factors Between Parkinson's Disease and Cancers

Pierre-Emmanuel Sugier  1   2 Elise A Lucotte  1 Cloé Domenighetti  1 Matthew H Law  3   4 Mark M Iles  5 Kevin Brown  6 Christopher Amos  7 James D McKay  8 Rayjean J Hung  9   10 Mojgan Karimi  1 Delphine Bacq-Daian  11 Anne Boland-Augé  11 Robert Olaso  11 Jean-François Deleuze  11 Fabienne Lesueur  12 Evgenia Ostroumova  8 Ausrele Kesminiene  8 Florent de Vathaire  13 Pascal Guénel  1 EPITHYR consortiumAshwin Ashok Kumar Sreelatha  14 Claudia Schulte  15   16 Sandeep Grover  14 Patrick May  17 Dheeraj R Bobbili  17 Milena Radivojkov-Blagojevic  18 Peter Lichtner  18 Andrew B Singleton  19   20 Dena G Hernandez  19 Connor Edsall  19 George D Mellick  21 Alexander Zimprich  22 Walter Pirker  23 Ekaterina Rogaeva  24 Anthony E Lang  25   26   27 Sulev Koks  28   29 Pille Taba  30   31 Suzanne Lesage  32 Alexis Brice  32 Jean-Christophe Corvol  32   33 Marie-Christine Chartier-Harlin  34 Eugénie Mutez  34 Kathrin Brockmann  15   16 Angela B Deutschländer  35   36 Georges M Hadjigeorgiou  37   38   39 Efthimios Dardiotis  38 Leonidas Stefanis  40   41 Athina Maria Simitsi  40 Enza Maria Valente  42   43 Simona Petrucci  44   45 Letizia Straniero  46 Anna Zecchinelli  47 Gianni Pezzoli  48 Laura Brighina  49   50 Carlo Ferrarese  49   50 Grazia Annesi  51 Andrea Quattrone  52   53 Monica Gagliardi  53 Hirotaka Matsuo  54 Akiyoshi Nakayama  54 Nobutaka Hattori  55 Kenya Nishioka  55 Sun Ju Chung  56 Yun Joong Kim  57 Pierre Kolber  58 Bart P C van de Warrenburg  59 Bastiaan R Bloem  59 Jan Aasly  60 Mathias Toft  61 Lasse Pihlstrøm  61 Leonor Correia Guedes  62   63 Joaquim J Ferreira  62   63   64 Soraya Bardien  65 Jonathan Carr  66 Eduardo Tolosa  67   68 Mario Ezquerra  69 Pau Pastor  70 Monica Diez-Fairen  71   72 Karin Wirdefeldt  73   74 Nancy Pedersen  74 Caroline Ran  75 Andrea C Belin  75 Andreas Puschmann  76 Emil Ygland Rödström  76 Carl E Clarke  77 Karen E Morrison  78 Manuela Tan  61 Dimitri Krainc  79 Lena F Burbulla  16   79   80   81 Matt J Farrer  82 Rejko Kruger  17   58   83   84 Thomas Gasser  15   16 Manu Sharma  14   15 Comprehensive Unbiased Risk Factor Assessment for Genetics and Environment in Parkinson's Disease (Courage-PD) consortiumThérèse Truong  1 Alexis Elbaz  1
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Meta-Analysis

Investigation of Shared Genetic Risk Factors Between Parkinson's Disease and Cancers

Pierre-Emmanuel Sugier et al. Mov Disord. 2023 Apr.

Abstract

Background: Epidemiological studies that examined the association between Parkinson's disease (PD) and cancers led to inconsistent results, but they face a number of methodological difficulties.

Objective: We used results from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) to study the genetic correlation between PD and different cancers to identify common genetic risk factors.

Methods: We used individual data for participants of European ancestry from the Courage-PD (Comprehensive Unbiased Risk Factor Assessment for Genetics and Environment in Parkinson's Disease; PD, N = 16,519) and EPITHYR (differentiated thyroid cancer, N = 3527) consortia and summary statistics of GWASs from iPDGC (International Parkinson Disease Genomics Consortium; PD, N = 482,730), Melanoma Meta-Analysis Consortium (MMAC), Breast Cancer Association Consortium (breast cancer), the Prostate Cancer Association Group to Investigate Cancer Associated Alterations in the Genome (prostate cancer), International Lung Cancer Consortium (lung cancer), and Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (ovarian cancer) (N comprised between 36,017 and 228,951 for cancer GWASs). We estimated the genetic correlation between PD and cancers using linkage disequilibrium score regression. We studied the association between PD and polymorphisms associated with cancers, and vice versa, using cross-phenotypes polygenic risk score (PRS) analyses.

Results: We confirmed a previously reported positive genetic correlation of PD with melanoma (Gcorr = 0.16 [0.04; 0.28]) and reported an additional significant positive correlation of PD with prostate cancer (Gcorr = 0.11 [0.03; 0.19]). There was a significant inverse association between the PRS for ovarian cancer and PD (odds ratio [OR] = 0.89 [0.84; 0.94]). Conversely, the PRS of PD was positively associated with breast cancer (OR = 1.08 [1.06; 1.10]) and inversely associated with ovarian cancer (OR = 0.95 [0.91; 0.99]). The association between PD and ovarian cancer was mostly driven by rs183211 located in an intron of the NSF gene (17q21.31).

Conclusions: We show evidence in favor of a contribution of pleiotropic genes to the association between PD and specific cancers. © 2023 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society. This article has been contributed to by U.S. Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA.

Keywords: Parkinson's disease; cancer; genetic correlation; pleiotropy; polygenic risk score.

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