Genetic architecture of alcohol consumption identified by a genotype-stratified GWAS and impact on esophageal cancer risk in Japanese people.

Taiki Yamaji, Teruhide Koyama, Issei Imoto, Kozo Tanno, Atsushi Shimizu, Kengo Kinoshita, Norie Sawada, Makoto Sasaki, Atsushi Hozawa, Shoichiro Tsugane, Hidemi Ito, Motoki Iwasaki, Keitaro Matsuo, Kenji Wakai, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Meiko Takahashi, Yasuharu Tabara, Fumihiko Matsuda, Asahi Hishida, Akira Narita, Masahiro Nakatochi, Masayuki Yamamoto, Yukinori Okada, Yukino Kawakatsu, Etsuji Suzuki, Isao Oze, Yuriko N Koyanagi, Yukari Taniyama, Yasuyuki Hosono, Yumiko Kasugai, Hadrien Charvat, Megumi Hara, Kenji Takeuchi, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Masahiro Tajika, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Toshiro Takezaki, Sadao Suzuki, Kazuya Setoh, Yohko Nakamura, Sakurako Katsuura-Kamano, Hiroaki Ikezaki, Koichi Matsuda, Kiyonori Kuriki, Paul Brennan, Shinichi Namba, Atsushi Goto, Yoichi Sutoh, Shiori Nakano, Ryoko Katagiri

Journal: Science advances 2024;10(4):eade2780

PMID: 38277453

Abstract

An East Asian-specific variant on ( rs671, G>A) is the major genetic determinant of alcohol consumption. We performed an rs671 genotype-stratified genome-wide association study meta-analysis of alcohol consumption in 175,672 Japanese individuals to explore gene-gene interactions with rs671 behind drinking behavior. The analysis identified three genome-wide significant loci (, , and ) in wild-type homozygotes and six (, , , , , and ) in heterozygotes, with five showing genome-wide significant interaction with rs671. Genetic correlation analyses revealed ancestry-specific genetic architecture in heterozygotes. Of the discovered loci, four (, , , and ) were suggested to interact with rs671 in the risk of esophageal cancer, a representative alcohol-related disease. Our results identify the genotype-specific genetic architecture of alcohol consumption and reveal its potential impact on alcohol-related disease risk.

Address: Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Department of Preventive Medicine, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.; Public Health Informatics Unit, Department of Integrated Health Sciences, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.; Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.; Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan.; Division of International Health Policy Research, Institute for Cancer Control, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan.; Cancer Surveillance Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.; Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.; Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.; Department of General Internal Medicine, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.; Department of Comprehensive General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.; Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.; Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan.; Department of International Island and Community Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan.; Department of Epidemiology for Community Health and Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.; Cancer Prevention Center, Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute, Chiba, Japan.; Department of Public Health, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.; Department of Preventive Medicine, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan.; Laboratory of Public Health, Division of Nutritional Sciences, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan.; Department of Public Health, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.; Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.; Department of International and Community Oral Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan.; Division for Regional Community Development, Liaison Center for Innovative Dentistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan.; Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.; Division of Biomedical Information Analysis, Iwate Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan.; Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan.; Division of Clinical Research and Epidemiology, Iwate Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan.; Division of Biomedical Information Analysis, Iwate Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan.; Division of Biomedical Information Analysis, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan.; Division of Cancer Information and Control, Department of Preventive Medicine, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.; Department of Descriptive Cancer Epidemiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.; Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Department of Preventive Medicine, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.; Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.; Division of Cancer Information and Control, Department of Preventive Medicine, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.; Department of Endoscopy, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.; Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.; Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.; Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.; Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.; Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.; Graduate School of Public Health, Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health, Shizuoka, Japan.; Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.; Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.; Division of Epidemiology, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan.; Division of Epidemiology, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan.; Department of Health Data Science, Graduate School of Data Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan.; Division of Cohort Research, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan.; National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan.; Division of Cohort Research, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan.; Division of Ultrahigh Field MRI, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan.; Iwate Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan.; Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.; Department of Genome Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.; Laboratory for Systems Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.; Laboratory of Statistical Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center (WPI-IFReC), Osaka University, Suita, Japan.; Integrated Frontier Research for Medical Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.; Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), Osaka University, Suita, Japan.; Division of Epidemiology, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan.; Division of Cohort Research, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, Tokyo, Japan.; Genomic Epidemiology Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
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