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Exome array analysis identifies ETFB as a novel susceptibility gene for anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity in cancer patients.

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Ruiz-Pinto, Sara 
Pita, Guillermo 
Martín, Miguel 
Alonso-Gordoa, Teresa 
Barnes, Daniel R 

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PURPOSE: Anthracyclines are widely used chemotherapeutic drugs that can cause progressive and irreversible cardiac damage and fatal heart failure. Several genetic variants associated with anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity (AIC) have been identified, but they explain only a small proportion of the interindividual differences in AIC susceptibility. METHODS: In this study, we evaluated the association of low-frequency variants with risk of chronic AIC using the Illumina HumanExome BeadChip array in a discovery cohort of 61 anthracycline-treated breast cancer patients with replication in a second independent cohort of 83 anthracycline-treated pediatric cancer patients, using gene-based tests (SKAT-O). RESULTS: The most significant associated gene in the discovery cohort was ETFB (electron transfer flavoprotein beta subunit) involved in mitochondrial β-oxidation and ATP production (P = 4.16 × 10-4) and this association was replicated in an independent set of anthracycline-treated cancer patients (P = 2.81 × 10-3). Within ETFB, we found that the missense variant rs79338777 (p.Pro52Leu; c.155C > T) made the greatest contribution to the observed gene association and it was associated with increased risk of chronic AIC in the two cohorts separately and when combined (OR 9.00, P = 1.95 × 10-4, 95% CI 2.83-28.6). CONCLUSIONS: We identified and replicated a novel gene, ETFB, strongly associated with chronic AIC independently of age at tumor onset and related to anthracycline-mediated mitochondrial dysfunction. Although experimental verification and further studies in larger patient cohorts are required to confirm our finding, we demonstrated that exome array data analysis represents a valuable strategy to identify novel genes contributing to the susceptibility to chronic AIC.

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Anthracyclines, Chronic cardiotoxicity, ETFB, Long-term cancer survivors, Low-frequency variants, Adult, Aged, Anthracyclines, Breast Neoplasms, Cancer Survivors, Cardiotoxicity, Electron-Transferring Flavoproteins, Exome, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Heart Failure, Humans, Middle Aged, Mitochondria

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Breast Cancer Res Treat

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0167-6806
1573-7217

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167

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC