The proportion of lung cancer in never smokers is rising, especially among Asian women, but there is no effective early detection tool. Here, we developed a polygenic risk score (PRS), which may help to identify the population with higher risk of lung cancer in never-smoking women. We first performed a large GWAS meta-analysis (8595 cases and 8275 controls) to systematically identify the susceptibility loci for lung cancer in never-smoking Asian women and then generated a PRS using GWAS datasets. Furthermore, we evaluated the utility and effectiveness of PRS in an independent Chinese prospective cohort comprising 55ā266 individuals. The GWAS meta-analysis identified eight known loci and a novel locus (5q11.2) at the genome-wide statistical significance level of Pā
Journal article
Int J Cancer
01/03/2024
154
807 - 815
lung cancer in never-smoking women, polygenic risk score, predictive markers, Humans, Female, Lung Neoplasms, Genetic Risk Score, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Cohort Studies, Prospective Studies, Genome-Wide Association Study, Risk Factors, Smoking, China