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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-2-18
pubmed:abstractText
Gene expression variation is an important mechanism underlying susceptibility to complex disease. In comparison with tobacco-related lung carcinogenesis, lung cancer in nonsmokers may involve important and etiologically distinct causal pathways. In this study, we conducted a genome-wide association study on spontaneous lung tumor incidence in inbred mice and identified a major susceptibility locus on mouse chromosome 2 (rs27328255, P=6.68 x 10(-7)). We then evaluated the correlations of polymorphisms with the transcription of positional candidate genes in normal lungs. Single-nucleotide polymorphism rs27328255 was consistently and strongly associated (P=7.42 x 10(-9)) in cis with transcript levels of Xrn2. We further showed that Xrn2 promotes proliferation and inhibits squamous differentiation in human lung epithelial cells and polymorphisms in human homolog XRN2 are associated with human lung cancer (rs2025811, P=1.90 x 10(-3), OR=1.20). We conclude that genetic variants regulating Xrn2 expression in cis are determinants of spontaneous lung tumor susceptibility in mice and have genetic equivalents in lung cancer susceptibility in human beings. Identifying Xrn2 as a major candidate for spontaneous lung cancer has important implications for the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer as well as delineation of the mechanisms underlying the genesis of lung cancer in nonsmokers.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1476-5594
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
18
pubmed:volume
29
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1041-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Exoribonucleases, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Genetic Predisposition to Disease, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Genome-Wide Association Study, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Lung Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:19915612-RNA Interference
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Genetic variants cis-regulating Xrn2 expression contribute to the risk of spontaneous lung tumor.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery and the Alvin J Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural