ABCG2, ABCC2, ABCC1, ABCC3 and Multiple Myeloma Risk: a Case--Control Study in the Context of the International Multiple Myeloma Research (Immense) Consortium
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Polymorphisms in xenobiotic transporters ABCB1, ABCG2, ABCC2, ABCC1, ABCC3 and multiple myeloma risk: a case--control study in the context of the International Multiple Myeloma rESEarch (IMMEnSE) consortium Leukemia (2012) 26, 1419--1422; doi:10.1038/leu.2011.352; case--control studies supports the idea that genetic factors are 2 published online 20 December 2011 involved in MM pathogenesis. Therefore, several studies focusing on various genes and pathways have tried to identify single- nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with the suscept- 3,4 Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematological neoplasm that arises ibility to the disease. from a single clone of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow. The detoxification and elimination of xenobiotic compounds is In Europe, 4.6/100 000 males and 3.2/100 000 females every year one of the most investigated processes in cancer susceptibility, with 5 develop MM, with a median age at diagnosis around 60 years.1 several evidences of its association with cancer risk. ATP-binding The observation of a higher risk to develop MM among first- cassette (ABC) subfamily B, member 1 (ABCB1 or MDR1); subfamily degree relatives of MM patients in several population-based G, member 2 (ABCG2 or BCRP); subfamily C, member 2 (ABCC2 or & 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited Leukemia (2012) 1402 -- 1448 Letters to the Editor 1420 Table 1. Demographical characteristics of cases and controls Cases Controls Center Gender M/F Mean age Median age Gender M/F Mean age Median age (total) (±s.d.) (min-max) (total) (±s.d.) (min-max) First Study Population (IMMEnSE consortium) Pisa, Italya 115/108 (223) 62.60 (±9.90) 63 (35-87) 129/105 (234) 58.77 (±10.89) 58.5 (35-89) Lodz, Polandb 50/47 (97) 61.80 (±10.55) 62 (39-86) 66/80 (146) 69.53 (±6.71) 69 (55-98) Salamanca, Spainc 66/58 (124) 62.70 (±11.60) 62 (31-93) 137/125 (262) 65.56 (±12.85) 66 (24-92) Granada, Spaind 23/36 (59) 63.25 (±10.30) 63 (39-86) Lyon, Francee 43/32 (74) 55.60 (±8.97) 57 (34-75) 47/47 (94) 33.31 (±14.80) 30 (18-60) Braga, Portugalf 26/29 (55) 66.78 (±10.49) 68 (43-86) 54/45 (99) 60.76 (±7.72) 58 (51-85) Total 323/310 (633) 62.10 (±10.64) 62 (31-93) 433/402 (835) 60.15 (±15.18) 62 (18-98) Replication Study population (Heidelberg Myeloma Group) Heidelberg, Germanyg 323/241 (564) 54.58 (±7.82) 56 (25-66) 789/682 (1471) 56.31 (±9.89) 59 (18-68) Overall population Total 646/551 (1197) 58.43 (±10.10) 59 (25-93) 1222/1084 (2306) 56.78 (±12.73) 59 (18-98) aDeparment of Oncology, Transplants and Advanced Technologies, Section of Haematology, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy. bDeparment of Hematology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland. cHematology Division, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. dHematology and Hemotherapy Department, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain. eHospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France. fLife and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. gMedizinische Klinik V, Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Table 2. Significant associations of ABCB1 SNPs rs10264990 and rs17327442 with MM risk in the overall population SNP (rs) Cases N (%) Controls N (%) ORa 95%CI P-value P-trend P-perm ABCB1 rs10264990 C/C 549 (47.1) 958 (41.7) 1 Ref. --- 0.023 C/T 475 (40.7) 1059 (46.0) 0.77 0.66--0.90 0.001 T/T 142 (12.2) 283 (12.3) 0.85 0.68--1.07 0.171 0.869* C/T + T/T 617 (52.9) 1342 (58.3) 0.79 0.68--0.91 0.001 0.015** ABCB1 rs17327442 A/A 824 (69.7) 1600 (69.9) 1 Ref. --- 0.191 A/T 309 (26.1) 643 (28.1) 0.92 0.78--1.08 0.309 T/T 50 (4.2) 46 (2.0) 1.99 1.32--3.02 0.001 0.009* A/T + T/T 359 (30.3) 689 (30.1) 0.99 0.85--1.16 0.928 1** Genotype distribution among MM cases and controls in the overall population of the ABCB1 SNPs rs10264990 and rs17327442. aOdds Ratios (OR) are adjusted for age, gender and region of origin. Differences in sample numbers are due to failures in genotyping. Results in bold show Po0.05. *P-value obtained after 100 000 permutations following a co-dominant model. **P-value obtained after 100 000 permutations following a dominant model. MRP2); subfamily C, member 1 (ABCC1 or MRP1) and subfamily C, ABCC1 and ABCC3 to test their impact on MM susceptibility member 3 (ABCC3 or MRP3) are efflux pumps that have a key role in (a complete list of the selected SNPs is available in Supplementary determining the intracellular levels of xenobiotic and toxic Table I).