title: Potentially functional polymorphisms of the vascular endothelial growth factor gene and risk of gastric cancer.
abstract: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), the key mediator of angiogenesis, plays an important role in the development of different kind of tumors, including gastric cancer (GC). The aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that genetic variants of VEGF are associated with risk of GC. We genotyped four potentially functional polymorphisms (-2578C > A, -1498T > C, -634G > C, and +936C > T) of the VEGF gene in a population-based case-control study of 540 GC cases and 561 frequency-matched cancer-free controls in a high risk Chinese population. We found that none of the four polymorphisms or their haplotypes achieved significant difference in their distributions between GC cases and controls. Multiple logistic regression analyses revealed that GC risk was not significantly associated with the variant genotypes of the four VEGF polymorphisms as compared with their wild-type genotypes. In conclusion, our data did not support a significant association between VEGF SNPs and the risk of GC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Nanjing Medical University School of Public Health, Nanjing, China.
authors.forename: Qiao
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Ke
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Li-Na
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhi-Bin
authors.initials: ZB
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Guang-Fu
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Jian-Ming
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yong-Fei
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Zhao-Lai
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Hua
authors.forename: Yao-Chu
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Hong-Bing
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000483:Alleles; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D012306:Risk; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D042461:Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D042461:Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A