Abstract
As a disease with high mortality and prevalence rates worldwide, colorectal cancer (CRC) has been thoroughly investigated. Mucins are involved in the induction of CRC and the regulation of intestinal homeostasis but a member of the mucin gene family MUC4 has a controversial role in CRC. MUC4 has been associated with either decreased susceptibility to or a worse prognosis of CRC. In our study, the multifunctional aspects of MUC4 were elucidated by genetic polymorphism analysis in a case-control study of 420 controls and 464 CRC patients. MUC4 rs1104760 A>G polymorphism had a protective effect on CRC risk (AG, AOR = 0.537; GG, AOR = 0.297; dominant model, AOR = 0.493; recessive model, AOR = 0.382) and MUC4 rs2688513 A>G was associated with an increased mortality rate of CRC (5 years, GG, adjusted HR = 6.496; recessive model, adjusted HR = 5.848). In addition, MUC4 rs1104760 A>G showed a high probability of being a potential biomarker for CRC patients with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in the risk range while showing a significant synergistic effect with the LDL-C level. This is the first study to indicate a significant association between MUC4 genetic polymorphisms and CRC prevalence, suggesting a functional genetic variant with the LDL-C level, for CRC prevention.
Funder
Korea Health Industry Development Institute
Ministry of Education
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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