Association of testis derived transcript gene variants and prostate cancer risk.
OBJECTIVE
The testis derived transcript gene has been suggested as a tumor suppressor gene for prostate cancer at 7q31. To investigate this concept we evaluated the effects of 7 tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms that comprehensively captured the common genetic variants in TES on aggressive prostate cancer in a case-control study.


METHODS
A total of 506 cases diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer, and an equal number of age, institute and ethnicity matched controls, were recruited from the major medical institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. A logistic regression model was used to evaluate the association between SNPs/multimarker haplotypes and prostate cancer.


RESULTS
When looking at all study subjects and white men only, no statistically significant associations were observed between any variants and more aggressive disease. However, 3 variants showed inverse associations with disease in black men (178), including 2 intronic SNPs (rs2402056, rs1004109) and 1 SNP close to the 3' untranslated region (rs4730721) with ORs of 0.57 (95% CI 0.36-0.90, under an additive mode of inheritance), 0.57 (95% CI 0.36-0.91, under an additive mode of inheritance) and 0.45 (95% CI 0.21-0.98, under a dominant mode of inheritance), respectively. Variants rs2402056 and rs1004109 are in tight linkage disequilibrium (r2=0.8) and the reconstructed haplotype did not provide any additional evidence for association than their genotype level results.


CONCLUSIONS
Our findings suggest that the variants in TES, or in a nearby gene, may be associated with prostate cancer in black men.
Liu
Xin
X
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0794, USA.
Cicek
Mine S
MS
Plummer
Sarah J
SJ
Jorgenson
Eric
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Casey
Graham
G
Witte
John S
JS
D001741:Black or African American / Q000235:genetics*; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D005838:Genotype; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D060588:LIM Domain Proteins; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Q000235:genetics*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D044465:White People / Q000235:genetics*
D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; D060588:LIM Domain Proteins; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; C429688:TES protein, human; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins