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Association of CELF2 polymorphism and the prognosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in southern Chinese population

2015; Impact Journals LLC; Volume: 6; Issue: 29 Linguagem: Inglês

10.18632/oncotarget.4870

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Yun-Miao Guo, Ming-Xia Sun, Jing Li, Tong-Tong Liu, Hang-Zhen Huang, Jie-Rong Chen, Wensheng Liu, Qi-Sheng Feng, Li-Zhen Chen, Jin‐Xin Bei, Yi-Xin Zeng,

Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research

// Yun-Miao Guo 1, 2, * , Ming-Xia Sun 1, 2, * , Jing Li 3, * , Tong-Tong Liu 1, 2 , Hang-Zhen Huang 1, 2 , Jie-Rong Chen 1, 2 , Wen-Sheng Liu 1, 2 , Qi-Sheng Feng 1, 2 , Li-Zhen Chen 1, 2 , Jin-Xin Bei 1, 2 , Yi-Xin Zeng 1, 2, 4, * 1 Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, P. R. China 2 Department of Experimental Research, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, P. R. China 3 Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, P. R. China 4 Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, P. R. China * These authors have contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Yi-Xin Zeng, e-mail: zengyx@sysucc.org.cn Keywords: nasopharyngeal carcinoma, SNP, CELF2, prognosis Received: March 27, 2015 Accepted: July 30, 2015 Published: August 11, 2015 ABSTRACT Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a malignancy with high metastatic potential and loco-regional recurrence. The overall survival of NPC has been limited from further improvement partly due to the lack of effective biomarker for accurate prognosis prediction and precise treatments. Here, in light of the implication of CELF gene family in cancer prognosis, we selected 112 tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in six members of the family and tested their associations with the clinical outcomes in a discovery cohort of 717 NPC patients. Survival analyses under multivariate cox proportional hazards model and Kaplan–Meier curve revealed five promising SNPs, which were further validated in another independent sample of 1,520 cases. Combined analysis revealed that SNP rs3740194 in CELF2 was significantly associated with the decreased risk of death with a Hazard ratio (HR) of 0.69 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.58–0.82, codominant model). Moreover, rs3740194 also showed a significant association with superior metastasis-free survival (HR = 0.69, 95% CI = 0.57–0.83, codominant model). Taken together, our findings suggested that genetic variant of rs3740194 in CELF2 gene might be a valuable predictor for NPC prognosis, and potentially useful in the personalized treatment of NPC.