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  • Title: Genetic polymorphisms in the IGFBP3 gene: association with breast cancer risk and blood IGFBP-3 protein levels among Chinese women.
    Author: Ren Z, Cai Q, Shu XO, Cai H, Li C, Yu H, Gao YT, Zheng W.
    Journal: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 2004 Aug; 13(8):1290-5. PubMed ID: 15298948.
    Abstract:
    Cumulative evidence suggests that insulin-like growth factors (IGF) play an important role in the etiology of breast cancer. The IGF binding proteins regulate the action of IGFs, and >90% of circulating IGFs are bound to IGFBP-3. We evaluated the associations of five (A-202C, G227C, C3804G, 5606InsA, and C5827T) genetic polymorphisms in the IGFBP3 gene with breast cancer risk and the blood IGFBP-3 protein level in a population-based, case-control study conducted among Chinese women in Shanghai. Genomic DNA samples from 1,193 incident breast cancer patients and 1,310 community controls were genotyped for IGFBP3 polymorphisms. Blood IGFBP-3 levels were determined for 390 controls. A 30% to 60% elevated risk of breast cancer was found to be associated with homozygosity for the variant allele in polymorphisms A-202C, G227C, 5606InsA, and C5827T. Carrying the variant allele in C3804G was also associated with an increased risk. About 13.5% of cases and 9.7% of controls had one or more of the above risk genotypes, resulting in odds ratio [OR; 95% confidence interval (95% CI)] of 1.4 (1.0-1.9). The ORs (95% CIs) were 1.3 (1.0-1.8) and 1.7 (1.1-2.5) for women with one to two and three to five risk genotypes, respectively (P for trend < 0.01). Four common haplotypes for the IGFBP3 gene were identified. Compared with the haplotype containing only the wild-type allele in the five loci, the haplotype with the variant allele in all sites was associated with an elevated risk of breast cancer (OR 1.4, 95% CI 1.0-1.9), particularly among younger women (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.3-3.9). With the exception of C3804G, in which no homozygote was identified, the level of circulating IGFBP-3 was reduced in a dose-response manner with an increasing number of variant alleles in each of the other four polymorphic sites (P for trend < 0.05). These results indicated that IGFBP3 polymorphisms may be associated with the level of blood IGFBP-3 protein and an increased risk of breast cancer.
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