Polymorphisms in innate immunity genes and lung cancer risk in Xuanwei, China.

M. Shen, R.C.H. Vermeulen, P. Rajaraman, I. Menashe, X. He, R.S. Chapman, M. Yeager, G. Thomas, L. Burdett, A. Hutchinson, J. Yuenger, S. Chanock, Q. Lan

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    Abstract

    The high incidence of lung cancer in Xuanwei County, China has been attributed to exposure to indoor smoky coal emissions that contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The inflammatory response induced by coal smoke components may promote lung tumor development. We studied the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes involved in innate immunity and lung cancer risk in a population-based case-control study (122 cases and 122 controls) in Xuanwei. A total of 1,360 tag SNPs in 149 gene regions were included in the analysis. FCER2 rs7249320 was the most significant SNP (OR: 0.30; 95% CI: 0.16-0.55; P: 0.0001; false discovery rate value, 0.13) for variant carriers. The gene regions ALOX12B/ALOX15B and KLK2 were associated with increased lung cancer risk globally (false discovery rate value
    Original languageUndefined/Unknown
    Pages (from-to)285-290
    Number of pages6
    JournalEnvironmental and Molecular Mutagenesis
    Volume50
    Issue number4
    Publication statusPublished - 2009

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