Shared ancestral susceptibility to colorectal cancer and other nutrition related diseases

BMC Medical Genetics

Research Article

Melanie Bevier¹  Stefanie Huhn¹  Kari Hemminki²  Asta Försti²  Jan Novotny³  Anja Rudolph⁴  Jenny Chang-Claude⁴  Rebecca Hein⁵  Michael Hoffmeister⁶  Hermann Brenner⁶  Alessio Naccarati⁷  Barbara Pardini⁷  Pavel Vodicka⁸  Ludmila Vodickova⁸ 

[1] Department of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany;Department of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany;Center of Primary Health Care Research, Clinical Research Center, Lund University, 20502, Malmö, SE, Sweden;Department of Oncology, General Teaching Hospital, Prague 2, 12808, Czech Republic;Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany;Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany;PMV Forschungsgruppe, University of Cologne, 50931, Cologne, Germany;Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany;Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 14200, Prague, Czech Republic;Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 14200, Prague, Czech Republic;Institute of Biology and Medical Genetics, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 12000, Prague 2, Czech Republic;

关键词: Colorectal cancer;    Nutrition;    Complex diseases;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2350-13-94

 received in 2012-02-28, accepted in 2012-09-28,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe majority of non-syndromic colorectal cancers (CRCs) can be described as a complex disease. A two-stage case–control study on CRC susceptibility was conducted to assess the influence of the ancestral alleles in the polymorphisms previously associated with nutrition-related complex diseases.MethodsIn stage I, 28 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped in a hospital-based Czech population (1025 CRC cases, 787 controls) using an allele-specific PCR-based genotyping system (KASPar®). In stage II, replication was carried out for the five SNPs with the lowest p values. The replication set consisted of 1798 CRC cases and 1810 controls from a population-based German study (DACHS). Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for associations between genotypes and CRC risk were estimated using logistic regression. To identify signatures of selection, Fay-Wu’s H and Integrated Haplotype Score (iHS) were estimated.ResultsIn the Czech population, carriers of the ancestral alleles of AGT rs699 and CYP3A7 rs10211 showed an increased risk of CRC (OR 1.26 and 1.38, respectively; two-sided p≤0.05), whereas carriers of the ancestral allele of ENPP1 rs1044498 had a decreased risk (OR 0.79; p≤0.05). For rs1044498, the strongest association was detected in the Czech male subpopulation (OR 0.61; p=0.0015). The associations were not replicated in the German population. Signatures of selection were found for all three analyzed genes.ConclusionsOur study showed evidence of association for the ancestral alleles of polymorphisms in AGT and CYP3A7 and for the derived allele of a polymorphism in ENPP1 with an increased risk of CRC in Czechs, but not in Germans. The ancestral alleles of these SNPs have previously been associated with nutrition-related diseases hypertension (AGT and CYP3A7) and insulin resistance (ENPP1). Future studies may shed light on the complex genetic and environmental interactions between different types of nutrition-related diseases.

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