Carcinogenesis Advance Access published online on March 26, 2007
Carcinogenesis, doi:10.1093/carcin/bgm062
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Twenty-four non-synonymous polymorphisms in the one-carbon metabolic pathway and risk of colorectal adenoma in the Nurses' Health Study
1 Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
2 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
3 Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
4 Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
5 Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115
To whom correspondence should be addressed: Aditi Hazra, Channing Laboratory, 181 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, Phone: 617-525-2035; Fax: 617-525-2008, Email: ahazra{at}hsph.harvard.edu
Dietary folate and alcohol consumption as well as polymorphic variants in one-carbon metabolism genes may modulate risk of colorectal adenoma through aberrant DNA methylation and altered nucleotide synthesis and repair. We assessed the association of 24 non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) in 13 genes in the one-carbon metabolism pathway and risk of colorectal adenoma in 556 incident cases and 557 controls nested in the Nurses' Health Study. Most of the SNPs were not associated with risk of colorectal adenoma. We did, however, observe a modest increased risk among carriers of the transcobalamin (TCN) II 259 Pro/Arg+Arg/Arg variant (OR=1.48, 95% CI: 1.09 – 2.02) for colorectal adenoma. The TCN II Pro259Arg polymorphism may affect transcobalamin binding and transport of vitamin B12 and thus warrants further investigation of its biological function. In addition, the methionine synthase reductase (MTRR) Arg415Cys and MTRR Ser284Thr variant carriers, also in the vitamin B12 pathway, have suggestive associations with advanced colorectal adenoma (defined as being larger than 1cm, villous, tubular-villous, or carcinoma-in-situ histology). We observed significant evidence for departure from multiplicative interaction for the BHMT Arg239Gln with dietary methyl status (based on intake of dietary folate, methionine and alcohol intake) in relation to colorectal adenoma; no such interaction was observed for the other 23 SNPs. Further investigation is required to validate the association of the polymorphisms in the one-carbon metabolic genes and risk of colorectal adenoma.
Key Words: one-carbon metabolism • polymorphism • colorectal adenoma
Received December 5, 2006; revised March 6, 2007; accepted March 10, 2007.
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