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Title: | Association of colorectal cancer with genetic and epigenetic variation in PEAR1-A population-based cohort study | Authors: | Yang, Wen-Yi Izzi, Benedetta Bress, Adam P. Thijs, Lutgarde Citterio, Lorena Wei, Fang-Fei Salvi, Erika Delli Carpini, Simona Manunta, Paolo Cusi, Daniele Hoylaerts, Marc F. Luttun, Aernout Verhamme, Peter Hardikar, Sheetal NAWROT, Tim Staessen, Jan A. Zhang , Zhen-Yu |
Editors: | Mischak, Harald | Issue Date: | 2022 | Publisher: | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Source: | PLoS One, 17 (4) (Art N° e0266481) | Abstract: | Platelet Endothelial Aggregation Receptor 1 (PEAR1) modulates angiogenesis and platelet contact-induced activation, which play a role in the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer. We therefore tested the association of incident colorectal cancer and genetic and epigenetic variability in PEAR1 among 2532 randomly recruited participants enrolled in the family-based Flemish Study on Environment, Genes and Health Outcomes (51.2% women; mean age 44.8 years). All underwent genotyping of rs12566888 located in intron 1 of the PEAR1 gene; in 926 participants, methylation at 16 CpG sites in the PEAR1 promoter was also assessed. Over 18.1 years (median), 49 colorectal cancers occurred, all in different pedigrees. While accounting for clustering of risk factors within families and adjusting for sex, age, body mass index, the total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio, serum creatinine, plasma glucose, smoking and drinking, use of antiplatelet and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, the hazard ratio of colorectal cancer contrasting minor-allele (T) carriers vs. major-allele (GG) homozygotes was 2.17 (95% confidence interval, 1.18-3.99; P = 0.013). Bootstrapped analyses, from which we randomly excluded from two to nine cancer cases, provided confirmatory results. In participants with methylation data, we applied partial least square discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) and identified two methylation sites associated with higher colorectal cancer risk and two with lower risk. In-silico analysis suggested that methylation of the PEAR1 promoter at these four sites might affect binding of transcription factors p53, PAX5, and E2F-1, thereby modulating gene expression. In conclusion, our findings suggest that genetic and epigenetic variation in PEAR1 modulates the risk of colorectal cancer in white Flemish. To what extent, environmental factors as exemplified by our methylation data, interact with genetic predisposition and modulate penetrance of colorectal cancer risk is unknown. | Notes: | Staessen, JA (corresponding author), Univ Leuven, Biomed Sci Grp, Leuven, Belgium.; Staessen, JA (corresponding author), Res Inst Assoc Promot Prevent Med, Mechelen, Belgium. jan.staessen@appremed.org |
Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/37551 | ISSN: | 1932-6203 | e-ISSN: | 1932-6203 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0266481 | ISI #: | WOS:000795077200079 | Rights: | 2022 Yang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2023 |
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