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Association between the KRAS Gene Polymorphisms and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Chinese Han Population

Lifeng Ning1,2, Wenwang Rao1, Yaqin Yu1, Xiaoli Liu3, Yuchen Pan1, Yuan Ma1, Rui Liu1, Shangchao Zhang1, Hui Sun3, Qiong Yu1✉

1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China.
2. National Research Institute for Family Planning, Beijing, China.
3. Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Surgical Translational Medicine, Department of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China.

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Ning L, Rao W, Yu Y, Liu X, Pan Y, Ma Y, Liu R, Zhang S, Sun H, Yu Q. Association between the KRAS Gene Polymorphisms and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Chinese Han Population. J Cancer 2016; 7(15):2420-2426. doi:10.7150/jca.16507. https://www.jcancer.org/v07p2420.htm
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Abstract

Several studies have reported the association between MAPK signaling pathway gene polymorphisms and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). KRAS gene, an oncogene from the mammalian RAS gene family plays an important role in the MAPK pathway. This study aimed to identify the potential association of KRAS gene polymorphisms with susceptibility to PTC in a Han Chinese population.

A total of 861 patients with PTC, 562 disease controls with nodular goiter and 897 healthy controls were recruited. Four tagSNP polymorphisms (rs12427141, rs712, rs7315339 and rs7960917) of KRAS gene were genotyped by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS). Statistical analyses and haplotype estimations were conducted using Haploview and Unphased softwares.

Only significant differences were observed in genotypic frequencies of the rs7315339 polymorphism (χ2 =7.234, df=2, p=0.027) between PTC and disease controls. Statistically significant differences in both allelic and genotypic genotypes frequencies for rs712 (Genotype, χ2=8.258, p=0.016) and rs12427141 (Allele, χ2=3.992, p=0.046; Genotype, χ2=8.140, p=0.017) were observed between PTC patients and controls. Haplotype analyses revealed higher frequencies of GA and TA haplotypes (p=0.039 and p=0.003, respectively) from rs712- rs12427141 (two-SNP) or TGA and TTG haplotype containing the alleles from rs7960917, rs712 and rs12427141, as well as the GAT haplotype containing the alleles from rs712, rs12427141 and rs7315339 in PTC patients than in healthy controls (p=0.042, p=0.037, p=0.027, respectively). Inversely, the haplotype TTA from rs7960917, rs712 and rs12427141 or the haplotype TAC from rs712, rs12427141 and rs7315339 was significantly less frequent in the PTC patients than in normal control (p=0.003, p=0.003, respectively).

These findings suggest the role of these KRAS gene variants in susceptibility to PTC. Moreover, significant differences of the KRAS gene polymorphisms may occur between nodular goiter and PTC.

Keywords: KRAS, papillary thyroid carcinoma, polymorphisms, molecular epidemiology.


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Ning, L., Rao, W., Yu, Y., Liu, X., Pan, Y., Ma, Y., Liu, R., Zhang, S., Sun, H., Yu, Q. (2016). Association between the KRAS Gene Polymorphisms and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Chinese Han Population. Journal of Cancer, 7(15), 2420-2426. https://doi.org/10.7150/jca.16507.

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Ning, L.; Rao, W.; Yu, Y.; Liu, X.; Pan, Y.; Ma, Y.; Liu, R.; Zhang, S.; Sun, H.; Yu, Q. Association between the KRAS Gene Polymorphisms and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Chinese Han Population. J. Cancer 2016, 7 (15), 2420-2426. DOI: 10.7150/jca.16507.

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Ning L, Rao W, Yu Y, Liu X, Pan Y, Ma Y, Liu R, Zhang S, Sun H, Yu Q. Association between the KRAS Gene Polymorphisms and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Chinese Han Population. J Cancer 2016; 7(15):2420-2426. doi:10.7150/jca.16507. https://www.jcancer.org/v07p2420.htm

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Ning L, Rao W, Yu Y, Liu X, Pan Y, Ma Y, Liu R, Zhang S, Sun H, Yu Q. 2016. Association between the KRAS Gene Polymorphisms and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Chinese Han Population. J Cancer. 7(15):2420-2426.

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