Significant association of the cytokine variants with head and neck cancer risk: evidence from meta-analysis.

Significant association of the cytokine variants with head and neck cancer risk: evidence from meta-analysis.

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2017 Nov 28;:

Authors: Xiao TT, Li X, Xu Y, Li Y

Abstract
AIM: To evaluate the possible relevance of the IL-18-137 G>C (rs187238), IL-18-607 C>A (rs1946518) and IL-4-590 C>T (rs2243250) polymorphisms to the genetic susceptibility of head and neck cancer.
METHODS: Data were retrieved from PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science and CNKI databases, and the results were independently analysed by two reviewers using Stata 14.0 software.
RESULTS: After searching for and assessing the literature, a total of thirteen studies involving 2,959 patients newly diagnosed as head and neck cancer and 3,622 controls from healthy donors were analysed. The results suggested that a strong relationship between patients and healthy controls was observed in the IL-18-137 G>C polymorphism in consistence with the result (CC vs. GG + GC: OR = 1.63, P = 0.004; CC vs. GG: OR = 1.82, P = 0.001). When stratified by cancer type, ethnicity and the source of control samples, significant and elevated risks were obtained in the genetic susceptibility to Asian patients with NPC in all genetic models and in those studies using the PCR-RFLP test method. In addition, comparable results were obtained for the IL-18-607 C>A polymorphism, especially for Asian patients with NPC.
CONCLUSIONS: It should be a potential association between IL-18 variants and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Furthermore, IL-18 gene variants might be considered as a critical role in predicting the occurrence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Asian population. However, the IL-4-590 C>T polymorphism does not influence the development of head and neck cancer.

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