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Association between XPA gene rs1800975 polymorphism and susceptibility to lung cancer: a meta-analysis
Xin Liu1, Qunying Lin2, Cuiping Fu3,4
1Department of Respiratory Medicine, Fujian province geriatric Hospital, Fuzhou, 350000, People's Republic of China.
Background:
Xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group A (XPA) gene is a key member of nucleotide excision repair pathway. It was reported that XPA rs1800975 polymorphism was associated with susceptibility to lung cancer. However, the conclusions were controversial.
Methods:
We conducted a computer retrieval of PubMed, EMbase, CNKI, CBM, and WanFang infrastructure platform from 1980 to 2014. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated to estimate the association strength. Publication bias was detected by means of a funnel plot.
Results:
A total of 11 articles (12 studies) involving 4257 cases and 5294 controls were included. Significant associations could be found between rs1800975 and lung cancer risk in these three models (codominant model AG vs. AA, overdominant genetic model AG vs. AA + GG, dominant model AG + GG vs. AA) in overall. In the stratified analysis by ethnicity, we found similar results as above in the Asian population. In the smoking population, the G allele carriers were associated with a significantly reduced risk of lung cancer (AG + GG vs. AA) compared with the AA carriers.Stratified analysis showed the AG genotype and G allele carriers (AG + GG) might be a protective factor compared with the AA gene for squamous carcinoma (AG vs. AA, AG + GG vs. AA).
Conclusions:
This meta-analysis suggested that the XPA gene rs1800975 Polymorphism was associated with lung cancer susceptibility. By performing multiple separate pairwise comparisons, carriers with AG genotype under the codominant genetic model (AG vs. AA) might play actually the leading role in associating with lung cancer susceptibility in overall and in Asians.
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