Journal
ONCOTARGET
Volume 7, Issue 23, Pages 35199-35207Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.9298
Keywords
a functional variant; rs17716310; colorectal cancer; chromosome 5q31.1
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- National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals, National Natural Science Foundation of China NSFC [81001275, 81171878, 81222038, 81402744, 81502875]
- Fok Ying Tung Foundation for Young Teachers in the Higher Education Institutions of China [131038]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei [2012FFA011]
- Special Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2015T80806]
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Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have established chromosome 5q31.1 as a risk locus for colorectal cancer (CRC). We previously identified a potentially regulatory single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs17716310 within 5q31.1. Now, we extended our study with another independent Chinese population, functional assays and analyses of TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) data. Significant associations between rs17716310 and CRC risk were found in Present Study including 1075 CRC cases and 1999 controls (additive model: OR = 1.149, 95% CI = 1.027-1.286, P = 0.016), and in Combined Study including 1766 cases and 2708 controls (additive model: OR = 1.145, 95% CI = 1.045-1.254, P = 0.004). Dual luciferase reporter gene assays indicated that the variant C allele obviously increased transcriptional activity. Using TCGA datasets, we indicated rs17716310 as a cis expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) for the gene SMAD5, whose expression was significantly higher in CRC tissues. These findings suggested that the functional polymorphism rs17716310 A > C might be a genetic modifier for CRC, promoting the expression of SMAD5 that belonged to the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) signaling pathway.
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