Association study identifying polymorphisms in CD47 and other extracellular matrix pathway genes as putative prognostic markers for colorectal cancer.

Authors:
Jesús Lascorz, Melanie Bevier, Witigo V Schönfels, Holger Kalthoff, Heiko Aselmann, Jan Beckmann, Jan Egberts, Stephan Buch, Thomas Becker, Stefan Schreiber, Jochen Hampe, Kari Hemminki, Clemens Schafmayer, Asta Försti
Year of publication:
2013
Volume:
28
Issue:
2
Issn:
0179-1958
Journal title abbreviated:
INT J COLORECTAL DIS
Journal title long:
International journal of colorectal disease
Impact factor:
2.108
Abstract:
The eSNP (SNP associated with expression) rs12695175 in CD47 associated with CRC specific survival (HR = 2.18, 95 % CI 1.10-4.33, CC versus AA) and with overall survival (HR = 1.99, 95 % CI 1.04-3.81, CC versus AA). This association remained significant after adjustment for age at diagnosis, tumour stage (T) and lymph node status (N). Three polymorphisms in CD47 were associated with distant metastasis in a dominant model: rs9879947 and rs3206652 in the 3''-UTR (OR = 1.64, 95 % CI 1.01-2.64 and OR = 1.88, 95 % CI 1.27-2.80, respectively) and the eSNP rs3804639 (OR = 1.73, 95 % CI 1.17-2.57).The novel associations of eSNPs in CD47 with worse survival and distant metastasis should be confirmed by additional studies, since increased expression of this gene has recently been shown to be an indicator of poor prognosis in cancer patients.We identified recently the extracellular matrix (ECM) receptor interaction pathway as a consistently overrepresented category among gene expression profiling studies on colorectal cancer (CRC) prognosis.Putative regulatory single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes from the ECM pathway were genotyped in 613 CRC patients from Northern Germany (PopGen cohort) and tested for association with disease progression and survival.