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CYP19A1 genetic variation in relation to prostate cancer risk and circulating sex hormone concentrations in men from the Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium.


ABSTRACT: Sex hormones, particularly the androgens, are important for the growth of the prostate gland and have been implicated in prostate cancer carcinogenesis, yet the determinants of endogenous steroid hormone levels remain poorly understood. Twin studies suggest a heritable component for circulating concentrations of sex hormones, although epidemiologic evidence linking steroid hormone gene variants to prostate cancer is limited. Here we report on findings from a comprehensive study of genetic variation at the CYP19A1 locus in relation to prostate cancer risk and to circulating steroid hormone concentrations in men by the Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3), a large collaborative prospective study. The BPC3 systematically characterized variation in CYP19A1 by targeted resequencing and dense genotyping; selected haplotype-tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (htSNP) that efficiently predict common variants in U.S. and European whites, Latinos, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians; and genotyped these htSNPs in 8,166 prostate cancer cases and 9,079 study-, age-, and ethnicity-matched controls. CYP19A1 htSNPs, two common missense variants and common haplotypes were not significantly associated with risk of prostate cancer. However, several htSNPs in linkage disequilibrium blocks 3 and 4 were significantly associated with a 5% to 10% difference in estradiol concentrations in men [association per copy of the two-SNP haplotype rs749292-rs727479 (A-A) versus noncarriers; P = 1 x 10(-5)], and with inverse, although less marked changes, in free testosterone concentrations. These results suggest that although germline variation in CYP19A1 characterized by the htSNPs produces measurable differences in sex hormone concentrations in men, they do not substantially influence risk of prostate cancer.

SUBMITTER: Travis RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2812905 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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CYP19A1 genetic variation in relation to prostate cancer risk and circulating sex hormone concentrations in men from the Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium.

Travis Ruth C RC   Schumacher Fredrick F   Hirschhorn Joel N JN   Kraft Peter P   Allen Naomi E NE   Albanes Demetrius D   Berglund Goran G   Berndt Sonja I SI   Boeing Heiner H   Bueno-de-Mesquita H Bas HB   Calle Eugenia E EE   Chanock Stephen S   Dunning Alison M AM   Hayes Richard R   Feigelson Heather Spencer HS   Gaziano J Michael JM   Giovannucci Edward E   Haiman Christopher A CA   Henderson Brian E BE   Kaaks Rudolf R   Kolonel Laurence N LN   Ma Jing J   Rodriguez Laudina L   Riboli Elio E   Stampfer Meir M   Stram Daniel O DO   Thun Michael J MJ   Tjønneland Anne A   Trichopoulos Dimitrios D   Vineis Paolo P   Virtamo Jarmo J   Le Marchand Loïc L   Hunter David J DJ  

Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20090929 10


Sex hormones, particularly the androgens, are important for the growth of the prostate gland and have been implicated in prostate cancer carcinogenesis, yet the determinants of endogenous steroid hormone levels remain poorly understood. Twin studies suggest a heritable component for circulating concentrations of sex hormones, although epidemiologic evidence linking steroid hormone gene variants to prostate cancer is limited. Here we report on findings from a comprehensive study of genetic variat  ...[more]

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