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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Association of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Wnt Signaling Pathway Genes with Breast Cancer in Saudi Patients
PLoS ONE, Volume 8, No. 3, Article e59555, Year 2013
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Breast cancer is a complex heterogeneous disease involving genetic and epigenetic alterations in genes encoding proteins that are components of various signaling pathways. Candidate gene approach have identified association of genetic variants in the Wnt signaling pathway genes and increased susceptibility to several diseases including breast cancer. Due to the rarity of somatic mutations in key genes of Wnt pathway, we investigated the association of genetic variants in these genes with predisposition to breast cancers. We performed a case-control study to identify risk variants by examining 15 SNPs located in 8 genes associated with Wnt signaling. Genotypic analysis of individual locus showed statistically significant association of five SNPs located in β-catenin, AXIN2, DKK3, SFRP3 and TCF7L2 with breast cancers. Increased risk was observed only with the SNP in β-catenin while the other four SNPs conferred protection against breast cancers. Majority of these associations persisted after stratification of the cases based on estrogen receptor status and age of on-set of breast cancer. The rs7775 SNP in exon 6 of SFRP3 gene that codes for either arginine or glycine exhibited very strong association with breast cancer, even after Bonferroni's correction. Apart from these five variants, rs3923086 in AXIN2 and rs3763511 in DKK4 that did not show any association in the overall population were significantly associated with early on-set and estrogen receptor negative breast cancers, respectively. This is the first study to utilize pathway based approach to identify association of risk variants in the Wnt signaling pathway genes with breast cancers. Confirmation of our findings in larger populations of different ethnicities would provide evidence for the role of Wnt pathway as well as screening markers for early detection of breast carcinomas. © 2013 Alanazi et al.
Authors & Co-Authors
Alanazi, Mohammad Saud
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
College of Sciences
Parine, Narasimha Reddy
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
College of Sciences
Shaik, Jilani Purusottapatnam
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
College of Sciences
Alabdulkarim, Huda Abdullah
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
King Fahad Medical City
Ajaj, Sana Abdulla
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
College of Medicine
Khan, Zahid A.T.
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
College of Sciences
Statistics
Citations: 51
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0059555
e-ISSN:
19326203
Research Areas
Cancer
Genetics And Genomics
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Case-Control Study