| Literature DB >> 19478819 |
Ching Ching Ng1, Poh Yin Yew, Suat Moi Puah, Gopala Krishnan, Lee Fah Yap, Soo Hwang Teo, Paul Vey Hong Lim, Selvaratnam Govindaraju, Kananathan Ratnavelu, Choon Kook Sam, Atsushi Takahashi, Michiaki Kubo, Naoyuki Kamatani, Yusuke Nakamura, Taisei Mushiroda.
Abstract
To identify a gene(s) susceptible to nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), we carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) through genotyping of more than 500,000 tag single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), using an initial sample set of 111 unrelated NPC patients and 260 controls of a Malaysian Chinese population. We further evaluated the top 200 SNPs showing the smallest P-values, using a replication sample set that consisted of 168 cases and 252 controls. The combined analysis of the two sets of samples found an SNP in intron 3 of the ITGA9 (integrin-alpha 9) gene, rs2212020, to be strongly associated with NPC (P=8.27 x 10(-7), odds ratio (OR)=2.24, 95% confidence intervals (CI)=1.59-3.15). The gene is located at 3p21 which is commonly deleted in NPC cells. We subsequently genotyped additional 19 tag SNPs within a 40-kb linkage disequilibrium (LD) block surrounding this landmark SNP. Among them, SNP rs189897 showed the strongest association with a P-value of 6.85 x 10(-8) (OR=3.18, 95% CI=1.94-5.21), suggesting that a genetic variation(s) in ITGA9 may influence susceptibility to NPC in the Malaysian Chinese population.Entities:
Mesh：
Substances：
Year: 2009 PMID： 19478819 DOI： 10.1038/jhg.2009.49
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Hum Genet ISSN： 1434-5161 Impact factor: 3.172