ABSTRACT
This case control study investigated whether polymorphisms of estrogen metabolizing genes CYP1A1 MspI, CYP17 MspAI, COMT Val(158) Met, and SULT1A1 Arg(213) His have any role in familial breast cancer susceptibility risk. Logistic regression analysis adjusted to age was used to calculate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CIs). Familial breast cancer risk due to CYP1A1 wt/m1 and m1/m1 genotypes was 2.3 (1.51-3.61)-fold and 7.1 (3.69-13.7)-fold, respectively. In addition to the main effects, certain first-order interactions were also significantly associated with familial breast cancer. Our results favor a possible risk modification by estrogen metabolizing gene polymorphisms in familial breast cancer susceptibility.
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Breast Neoplasms/genetics , Catechol O-Methyltransferase/genetics , Estrogens/metabolism , Genetic Predisposition to Disease , Polymorphism, Genetic , Arylsulfotransferase/genetics , Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1/genetics , Female , Genotype , Humans , Middle Aged , Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide , Risk , Steroid 17-alpha-Hydroxylase/geneticsABSTRACT
The clinical and pathological characteristics and prognostic outcome of patients with hereditary breast/ovarian cancer and BRCA2 mutations are poorly known. Hence, the present study aimed to correlate the BRCA2 mutation status with clinical characteristics and overall survival of 102 breast/ovarian cancer patients in Kerala, South India. All the coding regions of BRCA2 genes were PCR amplified and analyzed for mutations employing Conformation Sensitive Gel Electrophoresis and characterized by sequencing. The ORs with 95% Cls was computed to assess the association between BRCA2 gene mutation status and clinicopathologic characteristics of breast cancer patients. Survival curves were generated according to Kaplan-Meier method using Log Rank test and Cox proportional hazards regression method. Out of the 102 breast/ovarian cancer patients with known BRCA2 status, 19 were BRCA2 mutation positive. In survival analysis, BRCA2 gene mutation status (P = 0.02) and clinicopathologic parameters such as tumour size (p = 0.01), metastasis (P = 0.01), disease stage (P = 0.03) and laterality (P = 0.02) were significantly associated with poor prognosis of breast cancer patients. Patients with hereditary breast/ovarian cancer resulting from a BRCA2 mutation have been conclusively shown to have a worse survival prognosis compared to the non mutated group of patients.
