Abstract:
Association Between MDR1 Gene Polymorphisms and Curative Effect ofTaxane-Anthracycline Chemotherapy in Breast CancerJian WANG1, Jinhai TAN2, Shanliang ZHONG3, Jianhua ZHAO3, Heqing SUN1, Fengxia ZHANG1, Jianping GONG1, MinghuaJI2Correspondence to: Jianhua ZHAO, E-mail: jhzhao2838@sina.com1Department of Breast Surgery, The First People's Hospital of Yangzhou City, Yangzhou 225000, China2Department of General Surgery, Jiangsu Tumor Hospital, Nanjing 210009, China3Center of Clinical Laboratory, Jiangsu Tumor Hospital, Nanjing 210009, ChinaThis work was supported by the grants from Social Development Project of Science Technology of Jiangsu Province (BS2007077)and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30840093)Abstract Objective: To assess the predictive value of MDR1 gene polymorphisms for curative effect of combinationchemotherapy with taxane and anthracycline (TA). Methods: A total of 142 Chinese breast cancer patients were genotyped forMDR1 exon 12 C1236T, exon 21 G2677T/A and exon 26 C3435T using PCR-RFLP to observe the distribution of polymorphisms.The correlation between the MDR1 gene polymorphisms and effect of chemotherapy was analyzed in the 63 patients whoreceived neoadjuvant chemotherapy consisting of a TA regimen and had a complete follow-up. Results: The mutation frequenciesof exon 12 C1236T, exon 21 G2677T/A and exon 26 C3435T were 70.7%, 55.0% and 46.5%, respectively, in 142 female Hanpatients with breast cancer. In 63 of the patients who underwent the neoadjuvant chemotherapy, there was an associationbetween the 3435T genotype and decreased therapeutic response to the TA regimen, with an effective rate of 23.1%, significantlylower than the patients harboring the C allele ( 73.5%; χ2= 9.125, P = 0.003 ). The 3 single nucleotide polymorphism ( SNP )sites were in linkage disequilibrium. The efffect of chemotherapy was better in the patients with 3435C-2677G haplotype ( 72.1% )than in those with the other haplotypes ( 40.0%; χ2= 9.125, P = 0.003 ). The response rate to the chemotherapy was lower inthe patients with a 3435T-2677T or 3435T-1236T haplotype (54.3% or 54.9%) than in those harboring the other haplotypes (82.4% or 91.7%, χ2= 4.128 or χ2= 4.118, P = 0.042 ). The response rate was 54.3% in the patients with the 3435T-2677T-1236Thaplotype, much lower than the rate of 82.4% in those with the other haplotypes ( χ2= 4.128, P = 0.042 ). Conclusion: Ourfindings suggest that the MDR1 C3435T polymorphism and the accompanying C1236T and/or G2677T polymorphisms maybe of important reference value for predicting the effect of TA chemotherapy in breast cancer patients.Keywords MDR1; Polymorphisms; Breast cancer; Effect of chemotherapy