Dissecting the genetic heterogeneity of gastric cancer

Timo Hess; Carlo Maj; Jan Gehlen; Oleg Borisov; Stephan L. Haas; Ines Gockel; Michael Vieth; Guillaume Piessen; Hakan Alakus; Yogesh Vashist; Carina Pereira; Michael Knapp; Vitalia Schueller; Alexander Quaas; Heike I. Grabsch; Jessica Trautmann; Ewa Malecka-Wojciesko; Anna Mokrowiecka; Jan Speller; Andreas Mayr; Julia Schroeder; Axel M. Hillmer; Dominik Heider; Florian Lordick; Angeles Perez-Aisa; Rafael Campo; Jesus Espinel; Fernando Geijo; Concha Thomson; Luis Bujanda; Federico Sopena; Angel Lanas; Maria Pellise; Claudia Pauligk; Thorsten Oliver Goetze; Carolin Zelck; Julian Reingruber; Emadeldin Hassanin; Peter Elbe; Sandra Alsabeah; Mats Lindblad; Magnus Nilsson; Nicole Kreuser; Rene Thieme; Francesca Tavano; Roberta Pastorino; Dario Arzani; Roberto Persiani; Jin-On Jung; Henrik Nienhueser; Katja Ott; Johannes Schumacher

doi:10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104616

Dissecting the genetic heterogeneity of gastric cancer

Timo Hess, Carlo Maj, Jan Gehlen, Oleg Borisov, Stephan L. Haas, Ines Gockel, Michael Vieth, Guillaume Piessen, Hakan Alakus, Yogesh Vashist, Carina Pereira, Michael Knapp, Vitalia Schueller, Alexander Quaas, Heike I. Grabsch, Jessica Trautmann, Ewa Malecka-Wojciesko, Anna Mokrowiecka, Jan Speller, Andreas MayrJulia Schroeder, Axel M. Hillmer, Dominik Heider, Florian Lordick, Angeles Perez-Aisa, Rafael Campo, Jesus Espinel, Fernando Geijo, Concha Thomson, Luis Bujanda, Federico Sopena, Angel Lanas, Maria Pellise, Claudia Pauligk, Thorsten Oliver Goetze, Carolin Zelck, Julian Reingruber, Emadeldin Hassanin, Peter Elbe, Sandra Alsabeah, Mats Lindblad, Magnus Nilsson, Nicole Kreuser, Rene Thieme, Francesca Tavano, Roberta Pastorino, Dario Arzani, Roberto Persiani, Jin-On Jung, Henrik Nienhueser, Katja Ott, Johannes Schumacher^*

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Background Gastric cancer (GC) is clinically heterogenous according to location (cardia/non-cardia) and histopa-thology (diffuse/intestinal). We aimed to characterize the genetic risk architecture of GC according to its subtypes. Another aim was to examine whether cardia GC and oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) and its precursor lesion Barrett's oesophagus (BO), which are all located at the gastro-oesophageal junction (GOJ), share polygenic risk architecture. Methods We did a meta-analysis of ten European genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of GC and its subtypes. All patients had a histopathologically confirmed diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma. For the identification of risk genes among GWAS loci we did a transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) and expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) study from gastric corpus and antrum mucosa. To test whether cardia GC and OAC/BO share genetic aetiology we also used a European GWAS sample with OAC/BO. Findings Our GWAS consisting of 5816 patients and 10,999 controls highlights the genetic heterogeneity of GC according to its subtypes. We newly identified two and replicated five GC risk loci, all of them with subtype-specific association. The gastric transcriptome data consisting of 361 corpus and 342 antrum mucosa samples revealed that an upregulated expression of MUC1, ANKRD50, PTGER4, and PSCA are plausible GC-pathomechanisms at four GWAS loci. At another risk locus, we found that the blood-group 0 exerts protective effects for non-cardia and diffuse GC, while blood-group A increases risk for both GC subtypes. Furthermore, our GWAS on cardia GC and OAC/BO (10,279 patients, 16,527 controls) showed that both cancer entities share genetic aetiology at the polygenic level and identified two new risk loci on the single-marker level. Interpretation Our findings show that the pathophysiology of GC is genetically heterogenous according to location and histopathology. Moreover, our findings point to common molecular mechanisms underlying cardia GC and OAC/BO. Funding German Research Foundation (DFG). Copyright & COPY; 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Original language	English
Article number	104616
Number of pages	13
Journal	EBioMedicine
Volume	92
Issue number	1
Early online date	1 May 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104616
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2023

Keywords

Gastric cancer
Oesophageal adenocarcinoma
Genome-wide association study (GWAS)
Transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS)
GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION
SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI
ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA
RISK
METAANALYSIS
VARIANTS
IDENTIFICATION

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Hess, T., Maj, C., Gehlen, J., Borisov, O., Haas, S. L., Gockel, I., Vieth, M., Piessen, G., Alakus, H., Vashist, Y., Pereira, C., Knapp, M., Schüller, V., Quaas, A., Grabsch, H. I., Trautmann, J., Malecka-Wojciesko, E., Mokrowiecka, A., Speller, J., Mayr, A., & 33 othersSchröder, J., Hillmer, A. M., Heider, D., Lordick, F., Pérez-Aísa, Á., Campo, R., Espinel, J., Geijo, F., Thomson, C., Bujanda, L., Sopeña, F., Lanas, Á., Pellisé, M., Pauligk, C., Goetze, T. O., Zelck, C., Reingruber, J., Hassanin, E., Elbe, P., Alsabeah, S., Lindblad, M., Nilsson, M., Kreuser, N., Thieme, R., Tavano, F., Pastorino, R., Arzani, D., Persiani, R., Jung, J. O., Nienhüser, H., Ott, K., Schumacher, J. & Et al., 1 Aug 2023, In: EBioMedicine. 94, 4 p., 104709.
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Hess, T., Maj, C., Gehlen, J., Borisov, O., Haas, S. L., Gockel, I., Vieth, M., Piessen, G., Alakus, H., Vashist, Y., Pereira, C., Knapp, M., Schueller, V., Quaas, A., Grabsch, H. I., Trautmann, J., Malecka-Wojciesko, E., Mokrowiecka, A., Speller, J., ... Schumacher, J. (2023). Dissecting the genetic heterogeneity of gastric cancer. EBioMedicine, 92(1), Article 104616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104616

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Dissecting the genetic heterogeneity of gastric cancer

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