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N Schoof1, F von Bonin, I R König
1Department of Hematology and Oncology, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Goettingen 37099, Germany.
Abstract:
Inherited promoter polymorphisms of the interleukin (IL)-10 gene resulting in altered IL-10 production may contribute to a genetic susceptibility for melanoma. We investigated the role of a haplotype from distal as well as proximal polymorphic sites [-7400InDel, -6752AT (rs6676671), -3538AT (rs1800890), -1087AG (rs1800896), -597AC (rs1800872)] of the IL-10 5'-flanking region in a hospital-based case-control study of 165 Caucasian patients with cutaneous melanoma from Germany in comparison with 162 healthy cancer-free Caucasian control participants from the same area matched by age. Using multivariate analysis for the number of nevi and skin type, the IL-10 'higher producing' haplotype ITAGC was found to be significantly associated with a reduced risk of developing melanoma (adjusted P=0.02). Although our findings need to be confirmed by independent and larger multicenter studies, we have described for the first time the association of distal gene variants of the IL-10 gene as an independent risk factor for melanoma.
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