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The CASP8 -652 6N del promoter polymorphism and breast cancer risk: A multicenter study

  • Bernd Frank
  • , Sushila H. Rigas
  • , Justo Lorenzo Bermejo
  • , Miriam Wiestler
  • , Kerstin Wagner
  • , Kari Hemminki
  • , Malcolm W. Reed
  • , Christian Sutter
  • , Barbara Wappenschmidt
  • , Sabapathy P. Balasubramanian
  • , Alfons Meindl
  • , Marion Kiechle
  • , Peter Bugert
  • , Rita K. Schmutzler
  • , Claus R. Bartram
  • , Christina Justenhoven
  • , Yon Dschun Ko
  • , Thomas Brüning
  • , Hiltrud Brauch
  • , Ute Hamann
  • Paul P.D. Pharoah, Alison M. Dunning, Karen A. Pooley, Douglas F. Easton, Angela Cox, Barbara Burwinkel
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • University of Sheffield
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • Heidelberg University
  • University of Cologne
  • University Hospital of Cologne
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Dr. Margarete Fischer Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology
  • Johanniter-Krankenhaus
  • Max-Planck-lnstitut für Kohlenforschung
  • University of Cambridge

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Abstract

A recent study on an Asian population reported a six-nucleotide insertion-deletion polymorphism (-652 6N del) in the CASP8 promoter region to be strongly associated with a decreased risk of multiple types of cancer, including breast cancer (BC). Here, we investigate the effect of this deletion in four independent large European BC case-control studies, including data from a total of 7,753 cases and 7,921 controls. The combined per allele odds ratio (OR) was 0.97 (95% confidence interval (CI), 95% CI = 0.93-1.02). The present result indicates that the CASP8 -652 6N del variant has no significant effect on BC risk in Europeans.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)139-144
Number of pages6
JournalBreast Cancer Research and Treatment
Volume111
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2008

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Apoptosis
  • Breast cancer risk
  • CASP8 -652 6N del
  • Deletion
  • Sp1 binding site

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