The Heritability of Breast Cancer among women in the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer.

Sören Möller; Lorelei A Mucci; Jennifer R Harris; Thomas Scheike; Klaus Holst; Ulrich Halekoh; Hans-Olov Adami; Kamila Czene; Kaare Christensen; Niels V Holm; Eero Pukkala; Axel Skytthe; Jaakko Kaprio; Jacob B Hjelmborg

doi:10.1158/1055-9965.epi-15-0913

The Heritability of Breast Cancer among women in the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer.

Sören Möller, Lorelei A Mucci, Jennifer R Harris, Thomas Scheike, Klaus Holst, Ulrich Halekoh, Hans-Olov Adami, Kamila Czene, Kaare Christensen, Niels V Holm, Eero Pukkala, Axel Skytthe, Jaakko Kaprio, Jacob B Hjelmborg

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Background: Family history is an established risk factor for breast cancer. Although some important genetic factors have been identified, the extent to which familial risk can be attributed to genetic factors versus common environment remains unclear. Methods: We estimated the familial concordance and heritability of breast cancer among 21,054 monozygotic and 30,939 dizygotic female twin pairs from the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer, the largest twin study of cancer in the world. We accounted for left-censoring, right-censoring, as well as the competing risk of death. Results: From 1943 through 2010, 3,933 twins were diagnosed with breast cancer. The cumulative lifetime incidence of breast cancer taking competing risk of death into account was 8.1% for both zygosities, although the cumulative risk for twins whose co-twins had breast cancer was 28% among monozygotic and 20% among dizygotic twins. The heritability of liability to breast cancer was 31% [95% confidence interval (CI), 10%-51%] and the common environmental component was 16% (95% CI, 10%-32%). For premenopausal breast cancer these estimates were 27% and 12%, respectively, and for postmenopausal breast cancer 22% and 16%, respectively. The relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors were constant between ages 50 and 96. Our results are compatible with the Peto-Mack hypothesis. Conclusion: Our findings indicate that familial factors explain almost half of the variation in liability to develop breast cancer, and results were similar for pre- and postmenopausal breast cancer Impact: We estimate heritability of breast cancer, taking until now ignored sources of bias into account.

Original language	Danish
Journal	Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
Volume	25
Pages (from-to)	145-150
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1055-9965
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-15-0913
Publication status	Published - Jan 2016

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Möller, S., Mucci, L. A., Harris, J. R., Scheike, T., Holst, K., Halekoh, U., Adami, H-O., Czene, K., Christensen, K., Holm, N. V., Pukkala, E., Skytthe, A., Kaprio, J., & Hjelmborg, J. B. (2016). The Heritability of Breast Cancer among women in the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, 25, 145-150. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-15-0913

The Heritability of Breast Cancer among women in the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer. / Möller, Sören; Mucci, Lorelei A; Harris, Jennifer R et al.

In: Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, Vol. 25, 01.2016, p. 145-150.

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Möller, S, Mucci, LA, Harris, JR, Scheike, T, Holst, K, Halekoh, U, Adami, H-O, Czene, K, Christensen, K, Holm, NV, Pukkala, E, Skytthe, A, Kaprio, J & Hjelmborg, JB 2016, 'The Heritability of Breast Cancer among women in the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer.', Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, vol. 25, pp. 145-150. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-15-0913

Möller S, Mucci LA, Harris JR, Scheike T, Holst K, Halekoh U et al. The Heritability of Breast Cancer among women in the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2016 Jan;25:145-150. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-15-0913

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