Background and aims: Genetic predisposition and environmental factors impact the development of lung cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the IL-17A and IL-17F genes with lung cancer risk in Chinese Han population.
Methods: A total of 678 subjects were enrolled, including 320 lung cancer patients and 358 healthy controls. Six SNPs of IL-17A (rs2275913, rs3748067 and rs3819025) and IL-17F (rs763780, rs1266828 and rs12203582) were genotyped using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and ligase detection reaction (LDR).
Results: The distribution of IL-17A alleles and A and AA genotype for rs2275913 had a significant association with lung cancer risk (OR: 1.26, 95% confidence interval = 1.01-1.56 and OR: 2.08, 95% confidence interval = 1.311-3.31, respectively). In the subgroup analysis, people carrying homozygous variants of rs2275913 and rs12203582 were more likely to develop lung cancer both in adenocarcinoma (OR: 2.33, 95% confidence interval = 1.34-4.05; OR: 1.84, 95% confidence interval = 1.04-3.25) and advanced (OR: 2.35, 95% confidence interval = 1.46-3.80; OR: 1.74, 95% confidence interval = 1.06-2.87) groups. Although no interaction was found between variants of rs2275913 and rs12203582 and tobacco smoking (P > 0.05), smokers carrying homozygous variants of rs2275913 and rs12203582 are at high risk of lung cancer, while no relationship were found among non-smokers. No significant associations between rs3748067, rs3819025, rs763780 and rs1266828 polymorphisms and lung cancer risk were observed.
Conclusions: Polymorphisms of both IL-17A and IL-17F may increase lung cancer risk in Chinese population, and are associated differently with subtypes of clinical-pathologic features and tobacco smoking history of lung cancer patients. SNPs of IL-17A and IL-17F predict lung cancer risk.
Keywords: Chinese population - IL-17A - IL-17F - Lung cancer - single-nucleotide polymorphisms.
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