Susceptibility Loci for Pancreatic Cancer in the Brazilian Population [post]

Mateus Aoki, Angelika Stein, Jaqueline Carvalho de Oliveira, Roger Chammas, Miyuki Uno, Federico Canzian
2020 unpublished
Background: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PA) is a very aggressive cancer and has one of the poorest prognoses. Usually the diagnosis is late and resistant to conventional treatment. Environmental and genetic factors contribute to the etiology, such as tobacco and alcohol consumption, chronic pancreatitis, diabetes and obesity. Somatic mutation in pancreatic cancer cells are known and SNP profile by GWAS could access novel genetic risk factors for this disease in different population context. Here
more » ... we describe a SNP panel for Brazilian pancreatic cancer, together with clinical and epidemiological data. Methods: 78 pancreatic adenocarcinoma and 256 non-pancreatic cancer subjects had 25 somatic SNP genotyped by real-time PCR. Unconditional logistic regression methods were used to assess the main effects on PA risk, using allelic, co-dominant and dominant inheritance models. Results: 9 SNPs were nominally associated with pancreatic adenocarcinoma risk, with 5 of the minor allele conferring protective effect while 4 related as risk factor. In epidemiological and clinical data, tobacco, diabetes and pancreatitis history were significant related to pancreatic adenocarcinoma risk. Conclusion: We could assess for the first time some SNPs related with PA in Brazilian populations, a result that could be used for genetic screening in risk population such as familial pancreatic cancer, smokers, alcohol users and diabetes patients.
doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-50762/v1 fatcat:d3qqjmn6mzcwzg7qcbhfqkfdea