title: Mapping six new susceptibility to colon cancer (Scc) loci using a mouse interspecific backcross.
abstract: Colorectal cancer (CRC) has a complex etiology resulting from the combination of multiple genetic and environmental factors, each with small effects. Interactions among susceptibility modifier loci make many of the loci difficult to detect in human genome-wide association studies. Previous analyses in mice have used classical inbred strains, which share large portions of their genomes due to common ancestry. Herein, we used an interspecific backcross between the Mus musculus strain A/J and the Mus spretus strain SPRET/EiJ to map 6 additional CRC modifier loci (Scc16-21) and 2 suggestive loci. Three loci modify the location of tumors along the proximal-distal axis of the colon. Six CRC modifiers previously mapped in intraspecific crosses were also replicated. This work confirms genetic models suggesting that CRC is caused by many small effect alleles and brings the catalog of reported CRC modifier loci to 23 spread across 13 chromosomes. Furthermore, this work provides the foundation for large population-level epistatic interaction tests to identify combinations of low effect alleles that may have large effects on CRC susceptibility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, and Lineberger Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA.
authors.forename: Chevonne D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Eversley
authors.forename: Xie
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yuying
authors.forename: R Scott
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Pearsall
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Threadgill
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D016678:Genome; D005838:Genotype; D051379:Mice; D010641:Phenotype; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci
keywords: cancer modifier; colorectal cancer; spretus