Polymorphisms in the Angiogenesis-Related Genes EFNB2, MMP2 and JAG1 Are Associated with Survival of Colorectal Cancer Patients

An individual's inherited genetic variation may contribute to the 'angiogenic switch', which is essential for blood supply and tumor growth of microscopic and macroscopic tumors. Polymorphisms in angiogenesis-related genes potentially predispose to colorectal cancer (CRC) or affect the survival of CRC patients. We investigated the association of 392 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 33 angiogenesis-related genes with CRC risk and survival of CRC patients in 1754 CRC cases and 1781 healthy controls within DACHS (Darmkrebs: Chancen der Verhütung durch Screening), a German population-based case-control study. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were estimated from unconditional logistic regression to test for genetic associations with CRC risk. The Cox proportional hazard model was used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% CIs for survival. Multiple testing was adjusted for by a false discovery rate. No variant was associated with CRC risk. Variants in EFNB2, MMP2 and JAG1 were significantly associated with overall survival. The association of the EFNB2 tagging SNP rs9520090 (p < 0.0001) was confirmed in two validation datasets (p-values: 0.01 and 0.05). The associations of the tagging SNPs rs6040062 in JAG1 (p-value 0.0003) and rs2241145 in MMP2 (p-value 0.0005) showed the same direction of association with overall survival in the first and second validation sets, respectively, although they did not reach significance (p-values: 0.09 and 0.25, respectively). EFNB2, MMP2 and JAG1 are known for their functional role in angiogenesis and the present study points to novel evidence for the impact of angiogenesis-related genetic variants on the CRC outcome.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

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International journal of molecular sciences - 21(2020), 15 vom: 29. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Scherer, Dominique [VerfasserIn]
Deutelmoser, Heike [VerfasserIn]
Balavarca, Yesilda [VerfasserIn]
Toth, Reka [VerfasserIn]
Habermann, Nina [VerfasserIn]
Buck, Katharina [VerfasserIn]
Kap, Elisabeth Johanna [VerfasserIn]
Botma, Akke [VerfasserIn]
Seibold, Petra [VerfasserIn]
Jansen, Lina [VerfasserIn]
Lorenzo Bermejo, Justo [VerfasserIn]
Weigl, Korbinian [VerfasserIn]
Benner, Axel [VerfasserIn]
Hoffmeister, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Ulrich, Alexis [VerfasserIn]
Brenner, Hermann [VerfasserIn]
Burwinkel, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Chang-Claude, Jenny [VerfasserIn]
Ulrich, Cornelia M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Angiogenesis
Colorectal cancer
EC 3.4.24.24
EFNB2 protein, human
Ephrin-B2
JAG1 protein, human
Jagged-1 Protein
Journal Article
MMP2 protein, human
Matrix Metalloproteinase 2
Single nucleotide polymorphism
Survival

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Date Completed 19.02.2021

Date Revised 19.02.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijms21155395

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313265763