Journal
MOLECULAR CARCINOGENESIS
Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages 641-650Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mc.22522
Keywords
CD24; polymorphism; prostate cancer; tumor progression
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81272472, 31571342]
- National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute [CA179282, CA118948, CA199586, CA013148]
- National Institutes of Health/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences [UL1TR001417]
- Department of Defense [PC140308, PC130594]
- UAB Pittman Scholar Award
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CD24 plays an oncogenic role in the onset and progression of various human cancers, including prostate cancer. In the present study, we identified two linkage disequilibrium blocks with four recombination hotspot motifs in human CD24 locus. To elucidate whether genetic variants of CD24 are associated with susceptibility to prostate cancer and its disease status, we conducted a case-control association study with two P170C/T and P-534A/C polymorphisms of CD24 in 590 patients with prostate cancer and 590 healthy controls. A significant increased risk of prostate cancer was found in men with the P170(T/T) genotype over the P170(C/C) genotype (odd ratio=1.74, 95% confidence interval=1.16-2.63, P=0.008), and in men with the P-534(C/C) genotype over the P-534(A/A) genotype (odd ratio=1.47, 95% CI=1.18-2.26, P=0.003). Cochran-Armitage trend analysis showed that the P170(T) allele was significantly correlated with an increased risk of prostate cancer progression (P=0.029, trend between genotypes and stages) and this observation was also validated in an independent sample cohort. Next, we found that tumors with P170(T) or P-534(C) alleles had more twofold increased protein expressions of CD24 as compared to those with P170(C) or P-534(A) alleles, respectively. Likewise, tumors with a combination of P170(T/T) and P-534(C/C) genotypes were associated with a high mRNA level of CD24. Our data suggest a significant association of CD24 genetic variants with prostate cancer onset and progression, which provides new insight into molecular genetics of prostate cancer; however, these findings need to be validated in multiple independent cohorts. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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