title: Prognostic assessment of apoptotic gene polymorphisms in non-small cell lung cancer in Chinese.
abstract: Apoptosis plays a key role in inhibiting tumor growth, progression and resistance to anti-tumor therapy. We hypothesized that genetic variants in apoptotic genes may affect the prognosis of lung cancer. To test this hypothesis, we selected 38 potentially functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 12 genes (BAX, BCL2, BID, CASP3, CASP6, CASP7, CASP8, CASP9, CASP10, FAS, FASLG and MCL1) involved in apoptosis to assess their prognostic significance in lung cancer in a Chinese case cohort with 568 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Thirty-five SNPs passing quality control underwent association analyses, 11 of which were shown to be significantly associated with NSCLC survival (P < 0.05). After Cox stepwise regression analyses, 3 SNPs were independently associated with the outcome of NSCLC (BID rs8190315: P = 0.003; CASP9 rs4645981: P = 0.007 and FAS rs1800682: P = 0.016). A favorable survival of NSCLC was significantly associated with the genotypes of BID rs8190315 AG/GG (adjusted HR = 0.65, 95% CI: 0.49-0.88), CASP9 rs4645981 AA (HR = 0.22, 95% CI: 0.07-0.69) and FAS rs1800682 GG (adjusted HR = 0.67, 95% CI: 0.46-0.97). Time-dependent receptor operation curve (ROC) analysis revealed that the area under curve (AUC) at year 5 was significantly increased from 0.762 to 0.819 after adding the risk score of these 3 SNPs to the clinical risk score. The remaining 32 SNPs were not significantly associated with NSCLC prognosis after adjustment for these 3 SNPs. These findings indicate that BID rs8190315, CASP9 rs4645981 and FAS rs1800682 polymorphisms in the apoptotic pathway may be involved in the prognosis of NSCLC in the Chinese population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Modern Toxicology Laboratory of Ministry of Education, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210009, China;
authors.forename: Songyu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Cheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xinen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Juncheng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Lingmin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jiaping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hongxia
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Guangfu
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Zhibin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Hongbing
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shen
keywords: apoptosis; non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); polymorphisms; prognosis