www.oncotarget.com Oncotarget, 2019, Vol. 10, (No. 7), pp: 738-748 Research Paper Contribution of MSMB promoter region gene polymorphism to early-onset prostate cancer risk in Mexican males Silvia Juliana Trujillo-Cáceres1, Luisa Torres-Sánchez1, Ana I. Burguete-García2, Yaneth Citlalli Orbe Orihuela2, Ruth Argelia Vázquez-Salas3, Esmeralda Álvarez- Topete4 and Rocío Gómez4 1Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP), Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 2Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, INSP, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 3Conacyt-Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional, INSP, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 4Departamento de Toxicología, Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico Correspondence to: Luisa Torres-Sánchez, email:
[email protected] Keywords: genetic polymorphisms; MSMB; prostate cancer; rs10993994; sexually transmitted diseases Received: July 13, 2018 Accepted: December 16, 2018 Published: January 22, 2019 Copyright: Trujillo-Cáceres et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ABSTRACT Sexually transmitted infections and its contribution to prostate cancer (PC) development have been relevant in different populations. MSMB gene polymorphism (rs10993994) has exhibited an association both with PC as well as the susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections. Hitherto, these conditions have been not studied in Mexico yet, neither if sexually transmitted infections could modify the MSMB and PC association. Herein, socio-demographic features, sexually transmitted infections records, the reproductive backgrounds, and the genetic characterisation were analysed in 322 incident PC cases and 628 population healthy controls from Mexico City.