Published online Feb 7, 2018. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v24.i5.602
Peer-review started: November 9, 2017
First decision: November 21, 2017
Revised: December 5, 2017
Accepted: December 12, 2017
Article in press: December 12, 2017
Published online: February 7, 2018
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Previous studies suggested that the interactions between various inherited susceptibility genes may affect carcinogenesis in individuals. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are widely applied to the research of tumor incidence and prognostic evaluation.
We aimed to assess gene interactions amongst inherited polymorphisms between DNA repair gene excision repair cross complementing group 5 (ERCC5) SNPs and glutathione S-transferase pi1 (GSTP1) rs1695 to explore their possibility of predicting gastric cancer (GC) risk and identify combination biomarkers for precancerosis and GC.
The objective was to investigate the impact of interactions of the DNA repair gene ERCC5 with metabolic gene GSTP1 on atrophic gastritis (AG) and GC risk.
Seven ERCC5 SNPs (rs1047768, rs2094258, rs2228959, rs4150291, rs4150383, rs751402, and rs873601) and GSTP1 rs1695 SNP were detected using the Sequenom MassARRAY platform in 450 GC patients, 634 AG cases, and 621 healthy control subjects in a Chinese population.
Two pairwise combinations (ERCC5 rs2094258 and rs873601 with GSTP1 rs1695) influenced AG risk, and the ERCC5 rs2094258-GSTP1 rs1695 SNP pair demonstrated an antagonistic effect while ERCC5 rs873601-GSTP1 rs1695 shown a synergistic effect on AG risk. When the effect modification of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection was evaluated, the cumulative effect of one aforementioned pairs-way interaction (ERCC5 rs873601-GSTP1 rs1695) showed a risk in the case of negative status of H. pylori infection.
DNA repair gene ERCC5 SNPs (rs2094258 and rs873601) and metabolic gene GSTP1 rs1695 polymorphism combinations were related to an increased or reduced AG risk. Moreover, the results also demonstrated a significant difference in the cumulative effect on AG risk in the H. pylori-negative subgroup.
The interaction effects between genetic polymorphisms may be conductive to proposing further studies to discover gene-gene interactions between DNA repair genes and xenobiotic metabolic genes in gastric carcinogenesis.
