Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2114520 Cancer Letters 2009 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

The TGF-β signaling pathway plays a very important role in the control of cell proliferation and differentiation that is involved in colorectal carcinogenesis. The associations between polymorphisms of TGF-β1 and its receptors genes and the colorectal cancer risk were assessed in a population-based case-control study (206 cases and 838 controls). We could not observe any variant in the G-800A, codon25 and codon263 of TGF-β1 and A-364G of TGFβR2 in Chinese population. However, the results revealed that -509CT and TT genotypes were significantly associated with decrease risk for colorectal cancer (adjusted OR = 0.58, 95% CI 0.40–0.84 and adjusted OR = 0.44, 95% CI 0.29–0.68, respectively). Moreover, the linkage disequilibrium analysis revealed that TGF-β1 C-509T and codon10 polymorphisms were in strong linkage disequilibrium, and the −509C/+29C was associated with a significantly increased risk of colorectal cancer (OR = 1.32, 95% CI = 1.05–1.66). Our findings indicate that the distributions of polymorphisms in TGF-β1 and its receptors genes vary greatly among different ethnic groups, and these polymorphisms might contribute to the colorectal cancer susceptibility.

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