Table 1 Characteristics of 51 informative risk loci in six cell lines

From: Capture Hi-C identifies putative target genes at 33 breast cancer risk loci

Cell line

T-47D

ZR-75-1

Bre80a

BT-20

MDA-MB-231

GM06990b

Origin

Breast

Breast

Breast

Breast

Breast

Lymphoblastoid

Cancer/normal

Cancer

Cancer

Normal

Cancer

Cancer

Normal

Receptor status

ER+

ER+

ER−

ER−

ER−

ER−

Breast cancer subtype

Luminal

Luminal

Normal

Basal A

Basal B

N/A

Informative loci (%)

34 (66.7)

38 (74.5)

41 (80.4)

21 (41.2)

27 (52.9)

23 (45.1)

Median peaks per locus (range)

7 (0–1,107)

9 (0–1,744)

10 (0–181)

0 (0–246)

1 (0–466)

0 (0–155)

Median distance between interacting fragmentsc (kb)

1392

1647

349

338

388

534

Number (%) of peaks >2000 kb

1453 (35.4)

1417 (36.4)

94 (7.3)

128 (9.7)

108 (8.0)

102 (12.5)

  1. a Bre80-Q-TERT (Bre80) are normal Bre80 TERT-immortalised mammary epithelial cells, kindly provided by Prof Georgia Chenevix-Trench (Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)
  2. b GM06990 are Epstein-Barr virus transformed B-lymphocytes from the Coriell Cell Repositories (Coriell Institute for Medical Research, New Jersey, USA)
  3. c Range is not given as it was pre-defined to be 10 kb to 5 Mb