A Genetic Polymorphism in TOX3 Is Associated with Survival of Gastric Cancer in a Chinese Population

Xiaojing Zhang, Haixia Zhu, Xiaomin Wu, Meilin Wang, Dongying Gu, Weida Gong, Zhi Xu, Yongfei Tan, Yongling Gong, Jianwei Zhou, Cuiju Tang, Na Tong, Jinfei Chen and Zhengdong Zhang

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 9, 1-6

Abstract: Purpose: Recently, genetic polymorphism (rs3803662C>T) in TOX3 was reported to induce the risk of breast cancer. In this study, we hypothesized that rs3803662 could influence gastric cancer survival outcomes. Methods: With multiplex SNaPshot method, we genotyped TOX3 rs3803662 in 880 gastric patients with surgical resection. The association between genotype and survival outcomes was performed by the Kaplan-Meier method, Cox regression analysis models and the log-rank test. Results: There was no association in the analyses of rs3803662 and survival of gastric cancer. However, the stratified analysis by histology showed that rs3803662 CT/TT genotype was associated with a significantly better survival for diffuse-type gastric cancer (log-rank p = 0.030, hazard ratio [HR] = 0.67, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.46–0.96), than the CC genotype. In addition, this favorable effect was especially obvious among gastric cancer patients with tumor size >5 cm, T3 and T4 depth of invasion, lymph node metastasis, no drinking, no distant metastasis, no chemotherapy and gastric cardia cancer. Conclusions: TOX3 rs3803662 might play an important role in the prognostic outcome and treatment of gastric cancer, especially perhaps further help in explaining the reduced risk of death associated with diffuse-type gastric cancer.

Date: 2013
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