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Cytochrome P450 1A1 genetic polymorphisms as cancer biomarkers
1Department of Biochemistry, Government Medical College, Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India.
Abstract:
Phase I metabolic enzyme CYP1A1 plays an important role in xenobiotics metabolism and has been extensively studied as a cancer risk biomarker. CYP1A1 is polymorphic and its four variants, e.g., CYP1A1* 2 A, CYP1A1* 2C, CYP1A1* 3 and CYP1A1* 4 with trivial names m1, m2, m3, and m4 respectively, are most commonly studied for cancer link. Gene- gene interaction studies combining polymorphisms of this enzyme with those of phase II detoxifying enzymes, especially glutathione S- transferases (GSTs) revealed greater risk for cancer susceptibility. Variants of CYP1A1 have also been found to be associated with chemotherapeutic adverse- effects. Results of these studies, however, remained largely contradictory mainly because of lack of statistical power due to involvement of small sample size. Strongly powered experimental designs involving gene- gene, gene- environment interactions are required in order to validate CYP1A1 as reliable cancer- biomarker.
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