Association between KLK3 rs2735839 G/A polymorphism and serum PSA levels in Japanese men
Syunsuke Nobata1, Asahi Hishida, Mariko Naito
1Seirei Preventive Health Care Center, Hamamatsu, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Objectives:
To clarify the association of kallikrein-related peptidase 3 (KLK3) rs2735839 G/A polymorphism with serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in Japanese men.
Methods:
Subjects were participants of the Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort (J-MICC) Study who visited the Seirei Preventive Health Care Center in Shizuoka, Japan. Among the 5,040 individuals aged 35-69 years who were enrolled in 2006-2007, serum PSA data were available for 2,323 male subjects without a past history of prostate cancer. The diagnostic criteria for PSA positivity was PSA ≥ 4.0 ng/ml. Genotyping of the KLK3 polymorphism was conducted by the polymerase chain reaction with the confronting two-pair primers (PCR-CTPP) method.
Results:
The mean ± SD of PSA levels (mg/dl) were 1.54 ± 1.73 for those with KLK3 rs2735839 G/G genotype, 1.34 ± 1.33 for G/A, and 1.20 ± 1.23 for A/A, which was significantly different (p < 0.0001). The age-adjusted odds ratios of PSA test positivity were 0.62 (95% confidence interval 0.41-0.94) for those with G/A + A/A relative to those with G/G.
Conclusions:
The present study revealed that the KLK3 rs2735839 G allele was significantly associated with higher serum PSA levels also in Japanese.
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