Research Paper Volume 10, Issue 6 pp 1402—1414

The role of microRNA-608 polymorphism on the susceptibility and survival of cancer: a meta-analysis

Zhi-Ming Dai1, *,, Jian-Rui Lv1, *,, Kang Liu2, *,, Xiao-Ming Lei1, , Wei Li1, , Gang Wu1, , Xing-Han Liu2, , Yu-Xiao Zhu2, , Qian Hao2, , Zhi-Jun Dai2, ,

  • 1 Department of Anesthesiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710004, China
  • 2 Department of Oncology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710004, China
* Equal contribution

Received: January 17, 2018       Accepted: June 10, 2018       Published: June 16, 2018      

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101476
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Abstract

The role of rs4919510 polymorphism in microRNA-608 (miR-608) and cancer susceptibility and prognosis remain controversial and debatable. We conducted a meta-analysis of twenty-four eligible publications on the association of rs4919510 polymorphism with cancer risk and/or prognosis. Odds ratios, hazard ratios, and 95% confidence interval were used to investigate the association between this polymorphism and susceptibility, overall survival, and recurrence-free survival of cancer. Overall, eighteen case-control studies and nine cohort studies evaluated the susceptibility and prognostic value of rs4919510 polymorphism in cancer, respectively. Pooled analysis showed that rs4919510 polymorphism was not associated with cancer risk in all five genetic models. When stratifying by different cancer sites, rs4919510 polymorphism was detected to have a significant association with a decreased risk of colorectal cancer in homozygous model (P = 0.006) and recessive model (P = 0.001), subgroup analysis also emerged a weakened correlation between rs4919510 polymorphism and an increased risk of papillary thyroid cancer in heterozygote model (P = 0.04). Furthermore, the prognosis of rs4919510 variant in cancer patients showed that rs4919510 GG genotype was significant association with poor recurrence-free survival in homozygous models (P = 0.04). The meta-analysis suggested that the microRNA-608 rs4919510 polymorphism maybe associate with a significantly decreased risk for colorectal cancer. Further investigations on larger populations are required to evaluate and confirm this relationship.

Abbreviations

OR: odds ratio; HR: hazard ratio, CI: confidence interva; RFS: recurrence-free surviva; HWE: Hardy-Weinberg equilibriu; PRISMA: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyse; CNKI: Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructur; MeSH: medical subject headin; NOS: Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.