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1Kohwang Medical Research Institute, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Superoxide dismutase, one of the antioxidant enzymes, plays an important role in defense against reactive oxygen species. Many previous studies reported the association between SOD2 polymorphism and the cancer risk but the results were divergent. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis to investigate the association between SOD2 polymorphism and the cancer susceptibility. We searched in Electronic database including Pubmed, Embase, google of scholar, and Korean Studies Information Service System (KISS) for this meta-analysis. Odds ratio (OR), 95 confidence interval (CI), and p value were calculated to evaluate the relation between SOD2 polymorphism and risk of cancer using Comprehensive Meta-analysis software (Corporation, NJ, USA). The fifty-two studies including 26,865 cancer cases and 32,464 control subjects were analyzed for meta-analysis. Our meta-analysis revealed that SOD2 polymorphism statistically increased or decreased the susceptibility of cancer. In the present study, we could find that SOD2 polymorphism was related to the development of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, lung cancer, and colorectal cancer. It suggested that SOD2 polymorphism might be a candidate marker of cancer.
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