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Association between BRCA1 P871L polymorphism and cancer risk: evidence from a meta-analysis

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Limin Miao, Yang Yu, Yefeng Ji, Bo Zhang, Zhiyao Yuan, Yifei Du, Longbiao Zhu, Ruixia Wang, Ning Chen and Hua Yuan _

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Limin Miao1,*, Yang Yu1,*, Yefeng Ji1, Bo Zhang1, Zhiyao Yuan1, Yifei Du1, Longbiao Zhu1, Ruixia Wang1, Ning Chen1,2 and Hua Yuan1,2

1 Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

2 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

* These authors have contributed equally to this work

Correspondence to:

Hua Yuan, email:

Keywords: BRCA1, polymorphism, cancer risk, meta-analysis

Received: November 09, 2016 Accepted: February 13, 2017 Published: February 25, 2017

Abstract

Breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) gene makes great contributions to the repair of DNA. The association between BRCA1 P871L polymorphism and cancer risk has been investigated in a growing number of studies, but the conclusions are not conclusive. To obtain a comprehensive conclusion, we performed a meta-analysis of 24 studies with 13762 cases and 22388 controls. The pooled results indicated that BRCA1 gene P871L variant decreased risk of overall cancer (homozygous model: odds ratio (OR) = 0.89, 95%confidence interval (CI) = 0.79-1.00; recessive model: OR = 0.89, 95% CI = 0.80-0.99). The stratified analysis observed decreased risk associated with BRCA1 P871L in subgroups among Asians and high score studies, but not Caucasians or low score studies. In conclusion, despite several limitations, this meta-analysis suggested that BRCA1 P871L genetic variation may be associated with decreased susceptibility to cancer.


Introduction

Cancer is one of serious diseases severely endangering the human health and lives. In 2012, the world had 14.1 million new cases of cancer and 8.2 million patients died from cancer [1]. The balance between DNA damage and repair has long been recognized to be the main determinant of individual susceptibility to disease including cancer [2]. The damage of DNA often caused by environmental factors such as chemicals and certain types of radiation, which, is not repaired properly would wake the stability of the genome and lead to carcinogenesis [2]. Thus, the host DNA repair systems play pivotal roles in maintaining the stability of human genome.

DNA repair ability plays an important role in maintaining genomic stability via several pathways. The base excision repair (BER), nucleotide excision repair (NER) and DNA mismatch repair are responsible for single strand DNA damages [3]; Homologous recombination (HR) and non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) repair double-strand DNA breaks (DSBs) [4]. BRCA1, breast cancer 1, early onset, plays a key role in DSBs repair via HR pathway [5]. Interestingly, its involvement in other types of DNA repair has since come to light, including NER, BER, and NHEJ [5-8]. Therefore the loss or variant of BRCA1 may contribute to instability of gene and tumorigenesis.

The non-synonymous P871L polymorphism in BRCA1 gene lead to the amino acid substitution of leucine (Leu, L) for proline (Pro, P) at position 871, which is part of the interaction region for the recombinase RAD51, another critical protein in HR. Thus, P871L may confer cancer susceptibility. A growing number of studies have been performed to investigate its association and cancer risk; however, the conclusions are inconsistent. The discrepancies among these studies may due to the ethnic variation and relatively small sample size. To obtain a comprehensive conclusion, we conducted this meta-analysis to systematically evaluate the association between P871L and cancer risk.

Results

Characteristics of eligible studies

In total, 19 articles [9-27] were identified according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, which contain 24 studies with 13762 cases and 22388 controls. The study selection process was shown in Figure 1. A total of 1559 articles were retrieved from PubMed and EMBASE. We read the title and abstract and excluded articles that are not concern about BRCA1. Then we screened out 39 articles for further evaluation. The remaining 39 articles were reviewed carefully. 20 articles were further removed, among which 10 publications not about P871L polymorphism, 5 articles without detailed data, 3 articles concerned about prognosis or survival, 1 animal study, 1 meta-analysis. Finally, 24 studies with 13762 cases and 22388 controls from 19 articles were met the inclusion and exclusion criteria in this meta-analysis. One article [11] contains two populations and another article [25] contains four populations were divided into two studies and four studies, independently. The information of these studies, including first author, year of publication, ethnicity, cancer type, number of cases and controls, HWE and quality score for each study were presented in Table 1.The distribution of genotypes in the controls of the studies was all in agreement with HWE except one study [12] due to unavailable detailed data and then only included in the dominant model.

Table 1: Characteristics of studies included in this meta-analysis

First author

Year

Cancer type

Ethnicity

Source of control

case

control

method

HWE

Score

Wang

2015

gastric

Asian

HB

660

800

PCR-RFLP

0.204

9

Kim

2014

NHL

Asian

PB

687

1700

PCR-RFLP

0.882

13

Zhang

2013

ESCC

Asian

PB

540

550

PCR-RFLP

0.365

12

Zhang

2013

ESCC

Asian

PB

588

600

PCR-RFLP

0.358

12

Chen

2013

NHL

Caucasian

PB

459

532

TaqMan

\

11

Hasan

2013

breast

Caucasian

HB

100

100

TaqMan

0.005

4

Wu

2013

breast

Caucasian

FB

335

408

TaqMan

0.354

7

Xu

2012

thyroid

Mixed

HB

303

511

PCR-RFLP

0.110

8

Xu

2012

salivary gland

Caucasian

HB

156

511

PCR-RFLP

0.105

9

Nicoloso

2010

breast

Caucasian

NR

247

185

PCR

0.465

4

Abbas

2010

breast

Caucasian

PB

3136

5470

MALDI-TOF MS

0.168

12

Wang

2009

breast

Asian

PB

1004

1008

PCR-RFLP

0.626

13

Zhou

2009

cervical

Asian

PB

404

404

PCR-RFLP

0.410

12

Huo

2009

breast

Asian

PB

568

624

PCR-RFLP

0.757

12

Dombernowsky

2009

breast

Caucasian

PB

1201

4119

TaqMan

0.187

10

Jeffrey

2008

Glioblastomamultiforme

Caucasian

PB

112

112

ParAllele

0.010

9

Soucek

2006

breast

Caucasian

HB

305

311

PCR-RFLP

0.820

10

Auranen

2005

ovarian

Caucasian

PB

722

830

TaqMan

0.331

9

Auranen

2005

ovarian

Caucasian

FB

310

395

TaqMan

0.900

11

Auranen

2005

ovarian

Caucasian

PB

299

781

TaqMan

0.823

10

Auranen

2005

ovarian

Caucasian

PB

297

905

TaqMan

0.333

10

Robert

2005

ovarian

Mixed

PB

305

388

TaqMan

0.141

11

Dunning

1997

breast

Caucasian

PB

801

572

ASOs hybridisation

0.805

9

Dunning

1997

ovarian

Caucasian

PB

223

572

ASOs hybridisation

0.805

7

Abbreviations: HB, hospital-based; PB, population-based; CB, center-based; FB, family based; NR, no record; MAF, minor allele frequency; HWE, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium; ESCC, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; NHL, non-hodgkin’s lymphoma

Flow chat of the study screening process in this meta-analysis.

Figure 1: Flow chat of the study screening process in this meta-analysis.

Meta-analysis results

As shown in Table 2, significant association between P871L polymorphism and overall cancer risk was observed [homozygous model: OR = 0.89, 95%CI: 0.79-1.00 (Figure 2); recessive model: OR = 0.89, 95%CI: 0.80-0.99]. Stratified analysis by ethnicity identified significant association among Asians [homozygous model: OR = 0.70, 95%CI: 0.56-0.89 (Figure 3); recessive model: OR = 0.71, 95%CI: 0.58-0.86] and mixed group (dominant model: OR = 0.81, 95%CI: 0.70-0.94; heterozygous model: OR = 0.77, 95%CI: 0.63-0.94). We further conducted the stratified analysis by control source and quality score of studies. As a result, a statistically significant association was observed in HB group (dominant model: OR=0.84, 95%CI: 0.74-0.97) and the high score group (homozygous model: OR =0.86, 95%CI: 0.75-0.97; 0.76-0.97; recessive model: OR = 0.86, 95%CI: 0.76-0.97). (Positive results were also presented in Supplemental Figure 1-8)

Table 2: Meta-analysis of the association between BRCA1 polymorphism and cancer risk

Variable

No. of studies a

Sample size b

Homozygous

Heterozygous

Dominant

Recessive

OR(95%CI)

Phetc

OR(95%CI)

Phetc

OR(95%CI)

P hetc

OR(95%CI)

Phetc

All

24

13762/22388

0.89(0.79-1.00)

0.001

0.99(0.93-1.06)

0.054

0.97(0.91-1.03)

0.020

0.89(0.80-0.99)

0.003

Cancer type

Breast

9

7697/12797

1.03(0.93-1.13)

0.586

1.04(0.93-1.16)

0.032

1.04(0.95-1.15)

0.050

1.03(0.94-1.12)

0.710

Ovarian

6

2156/3871

1.00(0.84-1.19)

0.715

1.05(0.92-1.20)

0.256

1.04(0.92-1.18)

0.294

0.98(0.83-1.16)

0.832

Others d

9

3909/5720

0.63(0.54-0.73)

0.604

0.90(0.82-0.99)

0.617

0.84(0.77-0.91)

0.948

0.66(0.57-0.77)

0.273

Ethnicity

Asian

7

4451/5686

0.70(0.56-0.89)

0.006

0.98(0.90-1.07)

0.406

0.92(0.82-1.02)

0.107

0.71(0.58-0.86)

0.020

Caucasian

15

8703/15803

1.02(0.93-1.12)

0.579

1.05(0.95-1.15)

0.052

1.04(0.96-1.13)

0.106

1.02(0.94-1.11)

0.586

Mixed

2

608/899

0.80(0.62-1.04)

0.936

0.77(0.63-0.94)

0.993

0.81(0.70-0.94)

0.924

0.91(0.72-1.16)

0.933

Control source

PB

16

11345/19167

0.89(0.79-1.01)

0.033

0.99(0.94-1.04)

0.150

0.97(0.91-1.03)

0.204

0.89(0.79-1.01)

0.015

HB

5

1524/2233

0.74(0.55-1.01)

0.085

0.90(0.78-1.03)

0.478

0.84(0.74-0.97)

0.352

0.79(0.59-1.06)

0.071

Quality score

High

19

12554/20612

0.86(0.75-0.97)

0.002

1.00(0.93-1.07)

0.084

0.96(0.90-1.03)

0.050

0.86(0.76-0.97)

0.002

Low

5

1208/1776

1.06(0.79-1.43)

0.160

0.98(0.77-1.25)

0.093

1.01(0.78-1.30)

0.039

1.06(0.87-1.30)

0.546

aThe number of studies included in our analysis.

bThe number of cases and controls included in the studies.

cP value of the Q-test for heterogeneity test.

dIncluding gastric, NHL, ESCC, cervical cancer, thyroid cancer,salivary gland carcinoma and Glioblastoma multiform.

Forest plot of the association between rs799917 and overall cancer risk under homozygous model.

Figure 2: Forest plot of the association between rs799917 and overall cancer risk under homozygous model. For each study, the estimation of OR and its 95% CI are plotted with a box and a horizontal line. ◇, pooled ORs and its 95% CIs.

Forest plot of the association between rs799917 and cancer risk among ethnicity under homozygous model.For each study, the estimation of OR and its 95% CI are plotted with a box and a horizontal line.

Figure 3: Forest plot of the association between rs799917 and cancer risk among ethnicity under homozygous model.For each study, the estimation of OR and its 95% CI are plotted with a box and a horizontal line. ◇, pooled ORs and their 95% CIs.

Test of heterogeneity

Heterogeneities exist among all investigations for P871L polymorphism and overall cancer risk (homozygous: Phet= 0.001; heterozygous: Phet= 0.054; dominant: Phet= 0.020; recessive: Phet= 0.003). Thus, random-effect models were chosen to calculate the pooled ORs and corresponding 95% CIs for all genetic models. Then, a meta-regression was carried out to explore the possible source of heterogeneity by cancer type, ethnicity, control source and quality score of studies. As shown in Table 3, we found cancer type (homozygous model: P < 0.001; dominant model: P = 0.006; recessive model: P < 0.001) and ethnicity (recessive model: P = 0.017) contribute to the heterogeneity in the meta-analysis, but not the control source and quality score of studies.

Table 3: Meta-regression analysis of the main characteristics of the 24 studies

Study characteristics

Homozygous

Heterozygous

Dominant

Recessive

Coef.

95%CI

P

Coef.

95%CI

P

Coef

95%CI

P

Coef.

95%CI

P

Cancer type

-0.23

-0.32,-0.14

<0.001

-0.06

-0.14,-0.05

0.121

-0.10

-0.17,-0.03

0.006

-0.21

-0.30,-0.12

<0.001

Ethnicity

0.16

-0.03,0.36

0.094

-0.05

-0.16,-0.08

0.399

-0.02

-0.13,0.10

0.781

0.20

0.04,0.36

0.017

Control source

0.21

-0.02,0.44

0.074

0.06

-0.09,-0.20

0.444

0.95

-0.48,0.24

0.182

0.19

-0.02,0.39

0.075

Quality score

-0.22

-0.56,0.13

0.203

0.03

-0.18,-0.24

0.758

-0.03

0.24,0.19

0.787

-0.23

-0.53,0.08

0.133

Sensitivity analysis and publication bias

The influence of each individual data on the combined OR was estimated by sensitivity analysis and no significant difference was observed in all genetic models (data were not shown). The shape of the Begg’s funnel plot showed symmetric distribution in the present meta-analysis (Figure 4). The results of Egger’s test were as follows: (homozygous: P = 0.543; heterozygous: P = 0.378; dominant: P = 0.684; recessive: P = 0.332), which further provided no evidence of publication bias.

Funnel plot analysis to detect publication bias for rs799917 by homozygous model for overall analysis.

Figure 4: Funnel plot analysis to detect publication bias for rs799917 by homozygous model for overall analysis. Each point represents a separate study for the indicated association.

Discussion

In this study, significant association between P871L polymorphism and decreased risk of overall cancer was observed in homozygous, heterozygous and recessive model. Moreover, significant association was also found in subgroups of other cancers (a combination of gastric cancer, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, cervical cancer, thyroid cancer, salivary gland carcinoma and glioblastoma multiform), Asians, mixed group, as well as high quality studies. To our knowledge, this is the first time to systematically evaluate the relevance of BRCA1 P871L polymorphism to susceptibility of overall cancer.

The BRCA1 gene is located on chromosome17q21 and composed of 24 exons. The BRCA1 protein plays vital roles in homologous recombination [28]. Studies also support that BRCA1 exerts its tumor suppression function through its involvement in cell cycle checkpoint control [29, 30]. The P871L, a non-synonymous SNP is located in the coding region of BRCA1 leads to an amino acid change from proline to leucine, is a non-conservative change as proline conveys unique structural properties to the polypeptide. However, a number of studies have reported the conflicting roles of P871L for the risk of different types of cancer. For example, P871L was indicated to be associated with risk of several cancers, such as gastric cancer, ESCC and NHL [9,11,12], but not associated with cancers including thyroid carcinoma and ovarian cancer [15,26]. And even the same kind of cancer, the results were conflicting [18,27]. A meta-analysis conducted in 2014 including 7392 cases and 12486 controls observed no significant association between P871L and breast cancer risk [31]. Our meta-analysis with more subjects found no evidence of association between P871L and breast cancer risk either. Our work found marginal association between P871Land overall cancer risk. The discrepancy between overall cancer and stratified cancer types may due to sample size, study design, carcinogenic mechanism. In addition, relevance between P871L and overall cancer risk was found in Asians but not Caucasians in stratified analysis by ethnicity, this difference may be attributed to the different genetic background and environmental exposures.

In order to make the conclusion more credible, the publication bias analysis and sensitivity analysis was conducted. Funnel plots observed no evidence of obvious publication bias. The sensitivity analysis indicated that the results are strong and no single study yield obvious effects on the pooled ORs and the corresponding CIs.

However, several limitations in this meta-analysis should be noticed. Firstly, we could not perform further subgroup analyses for certain cancer types due to the relatively small sample size. Secondly, our results were based on unadjusted assessment of ORs, which might let our results suffer from potential confounding bias. Thirdly, even though there was no publication bias, we may miss some unpublished investigations due to studies with positive results were prone to be published. Last, the heterogeneity was existed and thus we performed the random-effects model to obtain the wider CIs, which might weaken the reliability of conclusions.

In conclusion, this comprehensive meta-analysis suggests that BRCA1 P871L polymorphism may be associated with decreased susceptibility to cancer. However, due to the limitations of the meta-analysis, well-designed, large-scale studies will be needed to confirm these findings.

materials and Methods

Search strategy

We searched the PubMed and Embase databases without language limitations for all related papers using the following terms: “BRCA1 or P871L”, “polymorphism or variant or variation”, “cancer or carcinoma or tumor or neoplasm” (up to May 20, 2015). In addition, the references of all retrieved articles were manually searched for other related articles.

Inclusion /exclusion criteria

Every study included in the meta-analysis is accorded with following inclusion criteria: (1) case-control studies; (2) evaluating the association between P871L polymorphism and cancer risk; (3) and sufficient information for calculating the pooled odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Exclusion criteria: (1) review articles; (2) case reports, or case-only studies; (3) studies that estimated the risk of prognosis.

Data extraction

All data were extracted from the included studies by two authors (Miao and Yu) independently. The following information was collected from each study: first author’s surname, year of publication, cancer type, ethnicity, control source, sample size, genotype methods and genetic distribution of cases and controls. Cancer types were classified as breast cancer, ovarian cancer and others (“others cancer type” group including cancer subgroups that contained less than three individual studies). All subjects were categorized as Caucasian, Asian and mixed. All eligible studies were categorized as population-based (PB), hospital-based (HB) and family-based (FB) according to control sources. We assessed the quality of each study according to assessment criteria (Supplemental Table 1) and defined as high (quality score≥ 9) and low (quality score < 9) [32]. Disagreements were solved by full discussion until consensuses were reached.

Statistical methods

Crude ORs with the corresponding 95% CIs were used to estimate the association between P871L polymorphism and cancer susceptibility. We used homozygous (TT vs. CC), heterozygous (CT vs. CC), dominant [(TT/CT) vs.CC] and recessive models [TT vs. (CC/CT)] as the models. The stratified analysis was performed by cancer type, ethnicity, control source and quality score of studies.

Z-test was used to determine the statistical significance of pooled ORs. Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) was examined by Chi-square test based on the genotype distribution among controls. Heterogeneity was analyzed using the Chi-square based Q-test. When no heterogeneity exist (P>0.10 for the Q-test), the fixed effect model was performed to estimate the combined OR [33]. Otherwise, a random effect model was used to calculate the pooled OR [34]. In addition, the heterogeneity was quantified by the I2 statistics and a larger I2 value indicating a greater heterogeneity [35]. Sensitivity analysis that used to evaluate the effect of data from each study on pooled ORs was performed by sequential deleting a single study each time. Publication bias among the literatures was evaluated by Begg’s funnel plot and Egger’s test [36]. STATA 11.0 software (Stata Corporation, College Station, TX) was used to perform all statistical tests, all the P values were two-sided test and P< 0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Acknowledgments and Funding

This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (81672678), Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD, 2014-37), Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20133234120013), and The Project of Invigorating Health Care through Science, Technology and Education (Jiangsu Provincial Medical Youth Talent).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.

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