Gastric cancer in a Caucasian population: Role of pepsinogen C genetic variants
Gastric cancer in a Caucasian population: Role of pepsinogen C genetic variants作者机构：Molecular Oncology GroupPortuguese Institute of Oncology of PortoPortugal Oncology DepartmentPortuguese Institute of Oncology of PortoPortugal Gastroenterology DepartmentPortuguese Institute of Oncology of PortoPortugal and ICBASAbel Salazar Institute for the Biomedical SciencesPortoPortugal and CINTESIS/Faculty of Medicine University of PortoPortoPortugal
出 版 物：《World Journal of Gastroenterology》 (世界胃肠病学杂志（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2006年第12卷第31期
页 面：5033-5036页
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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题：Gastric adenocarcinoma Pepsinogen C Polymorphism
摘 要：AIM： To study the role of an insertion/deletion polymorphism in the pepsinogen C （PGC） gene, an effective marker for terminal differentiation of the stomach mucosa, in the susceptibility to the development of gastric lesions. METHODS： The study was performed with 99 samples of known gastric lesions and 127 samples without evidence of neoplastic disease. PCR was employed and the 6 polymorphic alleles were amplified： Allele 1 （510 bp）, Allele 2 （480 bp）, Allele 3/4 （450/460 bp）, Allele 5 （400 bp） and Allele 6 （310 bp）. RESULTS： Our results revealed that Allele 6 carriers seemed to have protection against the development of any gastric lesion （OR = 0.34; P 〈 0.001）, non-dysplastic lesions associated with gastric adenocarcinoma such as atrophy or intestinal metaplasia （OR = 0.28; P 〈 0.001） or invasive GC （OR = 0.39; P = 0.004）. CONCLUSION： Our study reveals that the Allele 6 carrier status has a protective role in the development of gastric lesions, probably due to its association with higher expression of PGC. Moreover, the frequency of Allele 6 carriers in the control group is far higher than that obtained in Asian populations, which might represent a genetic gap between Caucasian and Asian populations.
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