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Published on: June 21, 2018
Association between polymorphisms in interleukin-4Rα and interleukin-13 and glioma risk: a meta-analysis
Guan Sun1, Xiefeng Wang, Lei Shi
1Department of Neurosurgery, The First People's Hospital of Yancheng affiliated with Nantong University, Yancheng 224001, PR China. yc_sunguan@163.com
Introduction:
It has been suggested that allergies are inversely associated with glioma risk. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in two allergy-related genes [interleukin (IL)-4Rα, IL-13] have been implicated in susceptibility to glioma; however, results from the published studies remained inconclusive.
Methods:
To derive a more precise relationship, we conducted a meta-analysis including seven case-control studies that investigated the influence of IL-4Rα rs1801275 and IL13 rs20541 polymorphisms on glioma risk. Data were extracted from these studies and pooled odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were used to investigate the strength of the association.
Results:
Overall, the pooled analysis showed that there was no significant association between the IL-4Rα rs1801275 polymorphism and glioma risk (OR = 0.99, 95%CI: 0.79-1.25, AG/GG vs. AA). However, we found that the IL13 rs20541 variant genotypes (GA/AA) were significantly associated with reduced risk for glioma (OR = 0.85, 95%CI: 0.75-0.97, GA/AA vs. GG). In the stratified analyses by ethnicity, marginally significant association between the IL13 rs20541 polymorphism and decreased glioma risk was found among Asian populations in dominant models (OR = 0.84, 95%CI: 0.70-1.00, GA/AA vs. GG).
Conclusions:
This meta-analysis suggests that the IL13 rs20541 but not the IL-4Rα rs1801275 polymorphism may be a genetic predictor for glioma. More studies with larger sample size are warranted to further elucidate the impact of the IL13 rs20541 polymorphism on glioma risk.
