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- Title
Insights from Studies with Oral Cleft Genes Suggest Associations between WNT-pathway Genes and Risk of Oral Cancer.
- Authors
Andrade Filho, P.A.; Letra, A.; Cramer, A.; Prasad, J.L.; Garlet, G.P.; Vieira, A.R.; Ferris, R.L.; Menezes, R.
- Abstract
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) accounts for more than 90% of the malignant neoplasms that arise in the mucosa of the upper aerodigestive tract. Recent studies of cleft lip/palate have shown the association of genes involved in cancer. WNT pathway genes have been associated with several types of cancer and recently with cleft lip/palate. To investigate if genes associated with cleft lip/palate were also associated with oral cancer, we genotyped 188 individuals with OSCC and 225 control individuals for markers in AXIN2, AXIN1, GSK3β, WNT3A, WNT5A, WNT8A, WNT11, WNT3, and WNT9B. Statistical analysis was performed with PLINK 1.06 software to test for differences in allele frequencies of each polymorphism between cases and controls. We found association of SNPs in GSK3B (p = 0.0008) and WNT11 (p = 0.03) with OSCC. We also found overtransmission of GSK3B haplotypes in OSCC cases. Expression analyses showed up-regulation of WNT3A, GSK3B, and AXIN1 and down-regulation of WNT11 in OSCC in comparison with control tissues (P < 0.001). Additional studies should focus on the identification of potentially functional variants in these genes as contributors to human clefting and oral cancer.
- Subjects
CLEFT palate; CLEFT lip; GENES; ORAL cancer; SQUAMOUS cell carcinoma; CHROMOSOME polymorphism; GENE frequency; POLYMERASE chain reaction; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY
- Publication
Journal of Dental Research, 2011, Vol 90, Issue 6, p740
- ISSN
0022-0345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0022034511401622