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Author: Franceschi, Silvia ; Macfarlane, Gary J ; Canova, Cristina ; Healy, Claire M ; Eluf-Neto, José ; Thomas, Steve ; Cadoni, Gabriella ; Holcátová, Ivana ; Robinson, Max ; Boffetta, Paolo ; Kjaerheim, Kristina ; Boccia, Stefania ; Olshan, Andrew F ; Steffen, Annika ; Herrero, Rolando ; Ness, Andrew R ; Ahrens, Wolfgang ; Lesseur, Corina ; Znaor, Ariana ; Gaborieau, Valérie ; Mates, Dana ; Shangina, Oxana ; Conway, David I ; Menezes, Ana M ; Tajara, Eloiza H ; Amos, Christopher I ; Diergaarde, Brenda ; Chabrier, Amélie ; Curado, Maria Paula ; de Carvalho, Marcos B ; Brennan, Paul ; Xiao, Xiangjun ; Vilensky, Marta ; Lagiou, Pagona ; Nunes, Fabio D ; Grandis, Jennifer R ; Johansson, Mattias ; Hung, Rayjean J ; Szeszenia-Dąbrowska, Neonila ; McKay, James D ; Peters, Wilbert H M ; Liu, Geoffrey ; Castellsagué, Xavier ; Wünsch-Filho, Victor ; Anantharaman, Devasena ; Lacko, Martin ; Agudo, Antonio ; Polesel, Jerry ; Bueno-de-Mesquita, H Bas ; Zaridze, David ; Fabiánová, Eleonóra ; Richiardi, Lorenzo ; Weissler, Mark C ; Lissowska, Jolanta
We conducted a genome-wide association study of oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer in 6,034 cases and 6,585 controls from Europe, North America and South America. We detected eight significantly associated loci (P < 5 × 10-8), seven of which are new for these cancer sites. Oral and pharyngeal cancers combined were associated with loci at 6p21.32 (rs3828805, HLA-DQB1), 10q26.13 (rs201982221, LHPP) and 11p15.4 (rs1453414, OR52N2-TRIM5). Oral cancer was associated with two new regions, 2p23.3 (rs6547741, GPN1) and 9q34.12 (rs928674, LAMC3), and with known cancer-related loci-9p21.3 (rs8181047, CDKN2B-AS1) and 5p15.33 (rs10462706, CLPTM1L). Oropharyngeal cancer associations were limited to the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region, and classical HLA allele imputation showed a protective association with the class II haplotype HLA-DRB1*1301-HLA-DQA1*0103-HLA-DQB1*0603 (odds ratio (OR) = 0.59, P = 2.7 × 10-9). Stratified analyses on a subgroup of oropharyngeal cases with information available on human papillomavirus (HPV) status indicated that this association was considerably stronger in HPV-positive (OR = 0.23, P = 1.6 × 10-6) than in HPV-negative (OR = 0.75, P = 0.16) cancers.