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An Orthotopic Murine Model of Human Prostate Cancer Metastasis
Published on: September 18, 2013
Effects of ACE I/D polymorphism on prostate cancer risk, tumor grade and metastatis
Bulent Yigit1, Nilüfer Bozkurt, Fehmi Narter
1Renal Transplantation Unit, Haydarpasa Numune Research and Educational Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
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The aim was to substantiate the putative significance of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) (insertion/deletion) I/D polymorphism on prostate cancer risk, BTPSA-A TPSA (before treatment-after treatment prostate-specific antigen) levels and tumor development.
Materials And Methods:
48 prostate cancer patients and 51 healthy volunteers were included. The ACE I/D genotypes were determined by PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) techniques.
Results:
The DD genotype may have detrimental and the II genotype may have protective effect on prostate cancer (p = 0.03). The highest before treatment PSA (BTPSA) values were found in the patient group having the DD genotype (p = 0.017). PSA-AT levels were higher in homozygous mutant DD than homozygous II and the decrease in PSA-AT level was found to be statistically significant in each genotype (p = 0.000). Patients with the D allele showed a higher prevalence of late stage prostate carcinoma when compared to the patients with II genotype (p = 0.022) and the detrimental effects of the D allele, both in lymph node metastases and distant metastasis were observed.
Conclusion:
The risk of prostate cancer development, the PSA level and tumor metastasis may be associated with genetic variation in the ACE I/D genotypes which may be used as an important biomarker for further studies.
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