title: Association between MDM2-SNP309 and hepatocellular carcinoma in Taiwanese population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the risk association and compare the onset age of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients in Taiwan with different genotypes of MDM2-SNP309.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed MDM2-SNP309 genotypes from 58 patients with HCC and 138 cancer-free healthy controls consecutively. Genotyping of MDM2-SNP309 was conducted by restriction fragment length polymorphism assay.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The proportion of homozygous MDM2-SNP309 genotype (G/G) in cases and cancer-free healthy controls was similar (17.2% vs 16.7%). Multivariate analysis showed that the risk of G/G genotype of MDM2-SNP309 vs wild-type T/T genotype in patients with HCC was not significant (OR = 1.265, 95% CI = 0.074-21.77) after adjustment for sex, hepatitis B or C virus infection, age, and cardiovascular disease/diabetes. Nevertheless, there was a trend that GG genotype of MDM2-SNP309 might increase the risk in HCC patients infected with hepatitis virus (OR = 2.568, 95% CI = 0.054-121.69). Besides, the homozygous MDM2-SNP309 genotype did not exhibit a significantly earlier age of onset for HCC.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Current data suggest that the association between MDM2-SNP309 GG genotype and HCC is not significant, while the risk may be enhanced in patients infected by hepatitis virus in Taiwan.
authors: Division of Radiation Oncology, Taipei City Hospital Ren Ai Branch, Taiwan, China.
authors: Jyh-Der
authors: JD
authors: Leu
authors: I-Feng
authors: IF
authors: Lin
authors: Ying-Fang
authors: YF
authors: Sun
authors: Su-Mei
authors: SM
authors: Chen
authors: Chih-Chao
authors: CC
authors: Liu
authors: Yi-Jang
authors: YJ
authors: Lee
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000150:complications; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000379:methods; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D051736:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D013624:Taiwan
chemical_list: C497206:MDM2 protein, human; D051736:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2