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  • Title: Polymorphism of DNA methyltransferase 3B -149C/T and cancer risk: a meta-analysis.
    Author: Zhu J, Du S, Zhang J, Wang Y, Wu Q, Ni J.
    Journal: Med Oncol; 2015 Jan; 32(1):399. PubMed ID: 25433949.
    Abstract:
    Published data on the association between DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) 3B -149C/T polymorphism and cancer risk remain inconclusive. To derive a more precise estimation for this association, we performed a meta-analysis of 5,903 cancer cases and 8,132 controls from 22 published case-control studies. We used odds ratios (ORs) with 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) to assess the strength of the association. Our meta-analysis suggested that DNMT3B -149C/T polymorphism was associated with the risk of head and neck cancer under heterozygote comparison (OR 0.73, 95 % CI 0.59-0.90) and dominant model (OR 1.75, 95 % CI 0.62-0.92), although no evidence of association between DNMT3B -149C/T polymorphism and cancer risk was observed as we compared in the pooled analyses (homozygote comparison: OR 0.96, 95 % CI 0.86-1.09; heterozygote comparison: OR 1.07, 95 % CI 0.86-0.32; dominant model: OR 1.03, 95 % CI 0.85-1.25; recessive model: OR 0.93, 95 % CI 0.8-1.08). More studies are needed to detect DNMT3B -149C/T polymorphism and its association with cancer in different ethnic populations incorporated with environment exposures in the susceptibility of different kinds of cancer.
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