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Expression quantitative trait loci of genes predicting outcome are associated with survival of multiple myeloma patients.

ABSTRACT: Gene expression profiling can be used for predicting survival in multiple myeloma (MM) and identifying patients who will benefit from particular types of therapy. Some germline single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) act as expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) showing strong associations with gene expression levels. We performed an association study to test whether eQTLs of genes reported to be associated with prognosis of MM patients are directly associated with measures of adverse outcome. Using the genotype-tissue expression portal, we identified a total of 16 candidate genes with at least one eQTL SNP associated with their expression with P < 10^-7 either in EBV-transformed B-lymphocytes or whole blood. We genotyped the resulting 22 SNPs in 1327 MM cases from the International Multiple Myeloma rESEarch (IMMEnSE) consortium and examined their association with overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS), adjusting for age, sex, country of origin and disease stage. Three polymorphisms in two genes (TBRG4-rs1992292, TBRG4-rs2287535 and ENTPD1-rs2153913) showed associations with OS at P < .05, with the former two also associated with PFS. The associations of two polymorphisms in TBRG4 with OS were replicated in 1277 MM cases from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology (InterLymph) Consortium. A meta-analysis of the data from IMMEnSE and InterLymph (2579 cases) showed that TBRG4-rs1992292 is associated with OS (hazard ratio = 1.14, 95% confidence interval 1.04-1.26, P = .007). In conclusion, we found biologically a plausible association between a SNP in TBRG4 and OS of MM patients.

SUBMITTER: Macauda A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8770990 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Expression quantitative trait loci of genes predicting outcome are associated with survival of multiple myeloma patients.

Macauda Angelica A Piredda Chiara C Clay-Gilmour Alyssa I AI Sainz Juan J Buda Gabriele G Markiewicz Miroslaw M Barington Torben T Ziv Elad E Hildebrandt Michelle A T MAT Belachew Alem A AA Varkonyi Judit J Prejzner Witold W Druzd-Sitek Agnieszka A Spinelli John J Andersen Niels Frost NF Hofmann Jonathan N JN Dudziński Marek M Martinez-Lopez Joaquin J Iskierka-Jazdzewska Elzbieta E Milne Roger L RL Mazur Grzegorz G Giles Graham G GG Ebbesen Lene Hyldahl LH Rymko Marcin M Jamroziak Krzysztof K Subocz Edyta E Reis Rui Manuel RM Garcia-Sanz Ramon R Suska Anna A Haastrup Eva Kannik EK Zawirska Daria D Grzasko Norbert N Vangsted Annette Juul AJ Dumontet Charles C Kruszewski Marcin M Dutka Magdalena M Camp Nicola J NJ Waller Rosalie G RG Tomczak Waldemar W Pelosini Matteo M Raźny Małgorzata M Marques Herlander H Abildgaard Niels N Wątek Marzena M Jurczyszyn Artur A Brown Elizabeth E EE Berndt Sonja S Butrym Aleksandra A Vachon Celine M CM Norman Aaron D AD Slager Susan L SL Gemignani Federica F Canzian Federico F Campa Daniele D

International journal of cancer 20210330 2

Gene expression profiling can be used for predicting survival in multiple myeloma (MM) and identifying patients who will benefit from particular types of therapy. Some germline single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) act as expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) showing strong associations with gene expression levels. We performed an association study to test whether eQTLs of genes reported to be associated with prognosis of MM patients are directly associated with measures of adverse outcome ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundIn order to better understand complex diseases, it is important to understand how genetic variation in the regulatory regions affects gene expression. Genetic variants found in these regulatory regions have been shown to activate transcription in a tissue-specific manner. Therefore, it is important to map the aforementioned expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) using a statistically disciplined approach that jointly models all the tissues and makes use of all the information available to maximize the power of eQTL mapping. In this context, we are proposing a score test-based approach where we model tissue-specificity as a random effect and investigate an overall shift in the gene expression combined with tissue-specific effects due to genetic variants.ResultsOur approach has 1) a distinct computational edge, and 2) comparable performance in terms of statistical power over other currently existing joint modeling approaches such as MetaTissue eQTL and eQTL-BMA. Using simulations, we show that our method increases the power to detect eQTLs when compared to a tissue-by-tissue approach and can exceed the performance, in terms of computational speed, of MetaTissue eQTL and eQTL-BMA. We apply our method to two publicly available expression datasets from normal human brains, one comprised of four brain regions from 150 neuropathologically normal samples and another comprised of ten brain regions from 134 neuropathologically normal samples, and show that by using our method and jointly analyzing multiple brain regions, we identify eQTLs within more genes when compared to three often used existing methods.ConclusionsSince we employ a score test-based approach, there is no need for parameter estimation under the alternative hypothesis. As a result, model parameters only have to be estimated once per genome, significantly decreasing computation time. Our method also accommodates the analysis of next- generation sequencing data. As an example, by modeling gene transcripts in an analogous fashion to tissues in our current formulation one would be able to test for both a variant overall effect across all isoforms of a gene as well as transcript-specific effects. We implement our approach within the R package JAGUAR, which is now available at the Comprehensive R Archive Network repository.

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