title: Association of IL1B polymorphisms with gastric cancer in a Chinese population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the association between IL1B polymorphisms and risk of gastric cancer in a Chinese population, seven SNPs in the IL1B gene were selected for this study.
  
  
  METHODS
  A multiplex genotyping method, which is based on adapter ligation and allele-specific amplification, was established to type seven SNPs on the IL1B gene simultaneously. One hundred and forty-one non-cancer outpatients and 97 patients with gastric cancer were genotyped, and the relation between IL1B polymorphisms and gastric cancer was statistically analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The seven SNPs were successfully typed and the results were consistent with those obtained by both Sanger's sequencing and PCR-RFLP. Handling with statistical analysis, we observed significantly different genotype frequencies of 0794C>T (chi(2)=6.11, P=0.05), 1274C>T (chi(2)=6.86, P=0.03) and 2143T>C (chi(2)=6.86, P=0.03) between patients and controls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  ALM-ASA is a potential method for multiplex SNP typing with a low consumption of genomic DNA. SNPs 0794C>T, 1274C>T, and 2143T>C are associated with gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Huadong Research Institute for Medicine and Biotechnics, Nanjing 210002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Weipeng
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Kunyi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.forename: Guohua
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006801:Humans; D053583:Interleukin-1beta / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D012307:Risk Factors; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D053583:Interleukin-1beta