rs12682374

This genome-wide association study of 2511 familial prostate cancer cases and 1382 controls identified significant associations in six regions previously linked to prostate cancer risk. Most notably, rs138042437 at 8q24.21 achieved an exceptionally large effect size (OR=13.3, p=1.7e-8) and demonstrated strong co-segregation with disease in 116 affected relatives (p=8.5e-11). The study identified a rare segregating haplotype at 8q24.21 containing three SNPs (rs183373024, rs188140481, rs138042437) that characterized a prostate cancer predisposition locus.

This comprehensive resequence analysis of a 136 kb region of chromosome 8q24 (chr8: 128,473,000-128,609,802) using 454 next-generation sequencing identified 442 novel SNPs and characterized the complete catalog of common variation across regions previously associated with prostate and colorectal cancer risk by GWAS. The study identified 780 common SNPs, with 454 having MAF ≥5%, and determined that 114 tag SNPs are necessary to comprehensively tag the region (r² > 0.8), providing important resources for fine-mapping association signals marked by rs6983267 and rs1447295.