A genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for Wilms tumor

Nature Genetics

(2012)

doi:10.1038/ng.2251

Received: 18 November 2011
Accepted: 19 March 2012
Published online: 29 April 2012

Wilms tumor is the most common renal malignancy of childhood. To identify common variants that confer susceptibility to Wilms tumor, we conducted a genome-wide association study in 757 individuals with Wilms tumor (cases) and 1,879 controls. We evaluated ten SNPs in regions significantly associated at P < 5 × 10⁻⁵ in two independent replication series from the UK (769 cases and 2,814 controls) and the United States (719 cases and 1,037 controls). We identified clear significant associations at 2p24 (rs3755132, P = 1.03 × 10⁻¹⁴; rs807624, P = 1.32 × 10⁻¹⁴) and 11q14 (rs790356, P = 4.25 × 10⁻¹⁵). Both regions contain genes that are plausibly related to Wilms tumorigenesis. We also identified candidate association signals at 5q14, 22q12 and Xp22.

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