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NUTRITION AND CANCER-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Volume 64, Issue 7, Pages 919-928Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2012.711418
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health under RFA [CA-95-011]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [CTP-79845]
- Colon Cancer Familial Registry [U01 CA074783]
- University of Toronto
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Diet and lifestyle influence colorectal cancer (CRC) risk but the molecular events that mediate these effects are poorly characterized. Several dietary and lifestyle factors can modulate DNA methylation suggesting that they may influence CRC risk through epigenetic regulation of cancer-related genes. The Wnt regulatory genes DKK1 and Wnt5a are important contributors to colonic carcinogenesis and are often silenced by promoter hyper-methylation in CRC; however, the dietary contributions to these events have not been explored. To investigate the link between dietary/lifestyle factors and epigenetic regulation of these Wnt signaling genes, we assessed promoter methylation of these genes in a large cohort of Canadian CRC patients from Ontario (n = 549) and Newfoundland (n = 443) and examined associations to dietary/lifestyle factors implicated inCRCrisk and/orDNA methylation including intake of vitamins, fats, cholesterol, fiber, and alcohol as well as body mass index (BMI), and smoking status. Several factors were associated with methylation status including alcohol intake, BMI, and cigarette smoking. Most significantly, however, dietary vitamin D intake was strongly negatively associated with DKK1 methylation in Newfoundland (P = 0.001) and a similar trend was observed in Ontario. These results suggest that vitamin D and other dietary/lifestyle factors may alter CRC risk by mediating extracellular Wnt inhibition.
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