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. 2011 Dec;20(12):2603-9.
doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0749. Epub 2011 Oct 25.

A case-control study of a sex-specific association between a 15q25 variant and lung cancer risk

Chongjuan Wei  1 , Younghun Han, Margaret R Spitz, Xifeng Wu, Haidee Chancoco, Pinchas Akiva, Gideon Rechavi, Hadar Brand, Issac Wun, Marsha L Frazier, Christopher I Amos
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A case-control study of a sex-specific association between a 15q25 variant and lung cancer risk

Chongjuan Wei et al. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Dec.

Abstract

Background: Genetic variants located at 15q25, including those in the cholinergic receptor nicotinic cluster (CHRNA5) have been implicated in both lung cancer risk and nicotine dependence in recent genome-wide association studies. Among these variants, a 22-bp insertion/deletion, rs3841324 showed the strongest association with CHRNA5 mRNA expression levels. However the influence of rs3841324 on lung cancer risk has not been studied in depth.

Methods: We have, therefore, evaluated the association of rs3841324 genotypes with lung cancer risk in a case-control study of 624 Caucasian subjects with lung cancer and 766 age- and sex-matched cancer-free Caucasian controls. We also evaluated the joint effects of rs3841324 with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) rs16969968 and rs8034191 in the 15q25 region that have been consistently implicated in lung cancer risk.

Results: We found that the homozygous genotype with both short alleles (SS) of rs3841324 was associated with a decreased lung cancer risk in female ever smokers relative to the homozygous wild-type (LL) and heterozygous (LS) genotypes combined in a recessive model [OR(adjusted) = 0.55, 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.31-0.89, P = 0.0168]. There was no evidence for a sex difference in the association between this variant and cigarettes smoked per day (CPD). Diplotype analysis of rs3841324 with either rs16969968 or rs8034191 showed that these polymorphisms influenced the lung cancer risk independently.

Conclusions and impact: This study has shown a sex difference in the association between the 15q25 variant rs3841324 and lung cancers. Further research is warranted to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these observations.

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