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Association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk: evidence from 60 case-control studies

World Journal of Surgical Oncology volume 15, Article number: 144 (2017) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Though a number of studies have been conducted to explore the association between myeloperoxidase (MPO)-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk, the results remain inconsistent. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis to derive a more systematic estimation of this relationship.

Method

Relevant studies were searched by PubMed, EMBASE, CNKI, Google Scholar, Ovid, and Cochrane library prior to December 2015. The strength of the association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk was estimated by odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence interval (95%CI). Cumulative analysis was used to evaluate the stability of results through time.

Results

The current analysis consisted of 16,858 cases and 21,756 controls from 60 studies. Pooled results showed that MPO-463G > A polymorphism were associated with the overall decreased cancer susceptibility in all the genetic models included in this study (additive model: OR = 0.84, 95%CI = 0.76–0.94; allele genetic model: OR = 0.90, 95%CI = 0.840–0.954; recessive genetic model: OR = 0.89, 95%CI = 0.83–0.95). However, in the stratified analysis of cancer type, the significant results were only found in lung cancer (dominant model: OR = 0.93, 95%CI = 0.87–0.99) and digestive system cancer groups (dominant model: OR = 0.67 0.53–0.84; allele frequency model = 0.71, 95%CI = 0.57–0.87), but not in the blood system cancer or breast cancer group. When we further stratified the digestive system cancer group into digestive tract and digestive gland cancer groups, results showed a significant association between allele A of MPO-463G > A and digestive gland cancer in all the genetic models (allele frequency model: OR = 0.63, 95%CI = 0.40–0.99; additive model: OR = 0.41, 95%CI = 0.23–0.73; recessive model: OR = 0.51, 95%CI = 0.29–0.89; dominant model: OR = 0.58, 95%CI = 0.35–0.96), digestive tract cancers in allele frequency model (OR = 0.75, 95%CI = 0.59–0.95), and dominant model (OR = 0.72, 95%CI = 0.56–0.92). When stratified by ethnicity, results demonstrated that the genotype A might be a protect factor for both Caucasians and Asians. In group analysis according to source of controls, significant results were found in population from hospital in all the genetic models. In cumulative analysis, result of allele contrast showed a declining trend and increasingly narrower 95% overall, while the inclination toward non-significant association with lung cancer risk.

Conclusions

This meta-analysis suggested that MPO-463G > A polymorphism was associated with the overall reduced cancer susceptibility significantly. It might be a more reliable predictor of digestive system cancer instead of lung cancer, blood system cancer, and breast cancer. In cumulative analysis, the stable trend indicated that evidence was sufficient to show the association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk.

Background

Cancer is a multifactorial disease resulted from complex interactions between genetic and environmental and its worldwide burden is increasing [1]. Reactive oxidative stress (ROS) is showed to play a significant role in immunological defense, intracellular signaling, and intercellular communication [2]. An increased ROS is considered to be mutagenic and carcinogenic, and it may result in cell damage and alterations of the cell proliferation and apoptosis mechanism, thus contributing to cancer development [3].

Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is an endogenous metabolic/oxidative lysosomal enzyme secreted by reactive neutrophils and monocytes. MPO plays an important role in carcinogenesis through activating procarcinogens to genotoxic intermediates and potentiation of xenobiotic carcinogenicity [4]. The MPO-463G > A polymorphism is located in the promoter region of MPO gene and is most extensively studied. This polymorphism may influence the MPO transcription level through removing a binding region for transcription factor Sp1, which can decrease the metabolic activation of carcinogenic compounds. Studies suggested that the MPO A allele carriers were associated with lower mRNA expression and transcription activity than the 463 G common allele [5,6,7]. Abundant studies were conducted to investigate the role of this polymorphism in cancer development, including lung cancer, breast cancer, ovary cancer, gastric carcinoma and others, but results were inconsistent.

For instance, the association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and lung cancer risk has attracted the most attention since the first meta-analysis performed in 2002 and suggested a slight protective effect of the MPO 463 A variant [8]. But research results in the following years varied a lot. Whether MPO-463G > A polymorphism could be a good predictor of cancer remained controversial. Up to 2010, a meta-analysis gave a systematic review into the association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk, including breast cancer, leukemia, and lung cancer [9]. This analysis did not report a significant association between these cancers and MPO-463G > A polymorphism, but suggested a moderately protective effect on cancer risk in Europeans. After that, many new studies attempted to further describe this association emerged, but came up with different results [10, 11].

In consideration of the recently published studies and the absence of a new systematic and comprehensive evaluation for the association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk, we conducted this meta-analysis to shed a light on this relationship.

Methods

Search strategy

Eligible literatures published before December 2015 were identified by searching PubMed, Cochrane Clinical Trials Database, Medline, EMBASE Google Scholar, and the Ovid Library with the following keywords: “Myeloperoxidase”, “MPO”, “polymorphism,” or “variant” without any restriction on language. The scope of computerized literature search was expanded according to the reference lists of retrieved articles. The relevant original articles were also retrieved manually.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Any observational studies met the following criteria were included: (a) a study related to the MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk, (b) a case-control study, (c) the data of genotype frequency was available. Major reasons for exclusion of studies were as follows: (a) the use of only case-group data, (b) the duplication or overlap of previous publication, (c) the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) score is less than 5 stars, and (d) familial type of cancer.

Data extraction

After removing duplicate studies, two investigators extracted the data individually from the reserved studies, and a third investigator was involved when discrepancies were raised. From each study, the following information was extracted: first author, journal, year of publication, country, ethnicity (Caucasian, Asian, and others), cancer type, source of controls (hospital-based studies, population-based studies), identification of cancer cases, genotyping methods, and the number of cases and controls for MPO-463G > A polymorphism.

Quality assessment

The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) is a star rating system used to assess the study quality. The full score is defined as 9 stars, and 0 to 4 stars are usually considered to be a poor methodological quality while 5 to 9 stars are considered to be high quality. Any disagreements on the NOS score of these studies were solved by discussion and only studies with high quality were included.

Statistical analysis

The frequencies of the alleles and distributions of the genotypes of MPO-463G > A polymorphism in control groups were tested for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) using X 2 test. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) were used to assess the strength of associations between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk. The combined ORs were calculated for dominant model (AA/GA versus GG), recessive model (AA versus GA/GG), additive model (AA versus GG), and allele frequency model (A versus G) to assume the effects of the variant A allele, respectively. Stratified analyses were also conducted by cancer types, ethnicity, HWE, and source of controls.

The heterogeneity between studies was tested using the Q-statistic. I 2 metrics was used to determine the impact of heterogeneity and it was considered moderately when I 2 < 50%, and a fixed-effects model was utilized. Heterogeneity was considered statistically significant when I 2 > 50% and a random-effects model was employed to calculate the pooled ORs [12]. Sensitivity analysis was carried out to evaluate the influence of individual study by excluding each study at a time. Publication bias was investigated with funnel plots and Egger’s tests qualitatively. In addition, in order to evaluate the trend in OR over time, cumulative meta-analysis was performed. All statistical analyses were performed using STATA 11.2 statistical software.

Results

Literature search results and studies characteristics

After a comprehensive literature search, 1124 independent studies were preliminarily found. After excluding the uncorrelated and duplicate articles, 91 articles were included. Through reading the full texts, we further excluded 31 articles. Among them, 6 were not about MPO-463G > A polymorphisms, 11 had overlapping data, 4 did not report available data, 9 were meta-analyses, and 1 was not a case-control study. Therefore, the current meta-analysis included data from 60 articles that consisted of 38,614 subjects (16,858 cases and 21,756 controls). Figure 1 provides a summary of the selection process.

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Flow chart illustrating the identification, screening, eligibility, and inclusion of studies on MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk

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Table 1 shows a list of details of studies included in the current meta-analysis. The included articles comprised 25 lung cancer studies [8, 13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36], 5 breast cancer studies [37,38,39,40,41], 12 digestive system studies (gastrointestinal cancer: 3 esophagus studies, 3 stomach studies, and 2 colorectum studies; cancer of digestive organs: 3 liver studies, 1 pancreas studies) [42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53], 7 blood system studies (3 acute leukemia studies, 3 lymphoma studies, 1 multiple myeloma, and chronic granulocytic leukemia studies) [54,55,56,57,58,59,60] and 14 other studies ( 3 head and neck cancer studies, 3 gynecological tract cancer studies, 3 urological cancer studies, 2 musculoskeletal cancer studies, and 3 mix cancer studies) [14, 34, 61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71]. Cancers referred in the mix cancer studies included lung cancer, laryngeal cancer, and pharyngeal cancer [14]; lung cancer, prostate cancer [34]; multiple myeloma, and chronic granulocytic leukemia [58]. If the ethnicity was clearly described in the original studies, the studies would be categorized to the corresponding ethnicity group. If the original studies have not given a clear indication of ethnicity, the studies were categorized according to research region. If it has been specified in the original studies that the objects included were from different ethnicities, then studies should be categorized to the mix ethnicity group. Of the 60 studies, 24 were Asian background, 32 were Caucasian background, and 4 were mixed population background. Besides, the detailed description of hospital controls was addressed in Table 4.

Table 1 Overview of studies included in the current meta-analysis
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Quantitative synthesis

In total, significant association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk was observed under all the selected models when the eligible results were pooled together (Fig. 2). Results promoted that the mutant allele A and genotypes of AA as well as AA + GA might played protective roles in the development of cancer (AA versus GG: OR = 0.84, 95%CI = 0.76–0.94; A versus G: OR = 0.90, 95%CI = 0.84–0.95; AA versus AG/GG: OR = 0.87, 95%CI = 0.78–0.97; AA/AG versus GG: OR = 0.89, 95%CI = 0.83–0.95). The pooled results are summarized in Table 2.

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Forest plots of meta-analysis of MPO-463G > A polymorphism in association with cancer risk (AA vs. GG)

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Table 2 Stratified analyses of the MPO-463G > A polymorphism on cancer risk by cancer type
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Stratified by cancer type

According to the cancer type, when the minimum number of studies is greater than or equal to 5, we combined the studies and conducted stratified analysis. Considering that gastrointestinal and digestive organs all belong to digestive system and might be affected by similar factors such as dietary factors, we grouped them together as digestive system cancer group. In the digestive system cancer group, significant association was seen in the allele frequency model (OR = 0.71, 95%CI = 0.57–0.88) and the dominant model (OR = 0.67, 95%CI = 0.53–0.84). In order to further discuss the cancer risk of MPO-463G > A polymorphism, we divided digestive system cancer into digestive tract and digestive gland cancer. The results showed that allele A of MPO-463G > A was significant with a decreased risk of digestive gland cancer in all the genetic models (A versus G: OR = 0.63, 95%CI = 0.40–0.99; AA versus GG: OR = 0.41, 95%CI = 0.23–0.73; AA versus AG/GG: OR = 0.51, 95%CI = 0.29–0.89; AA/AG versus GG: OR = 0.58, 95%CI = 0.35–0.96) and digestive tract cancers (A versus G: OR = 0.75, 95%CI = 0.59-0.95; AA/AG versus GG:OR = 0.72, 95%CI = 0.56–0.92). Besides, in the lung cancer group, statistically significant finding was only observed in dominant model (OR = 0.93, 95%CI = 0.87–0.99). While, among studies of breast cancer and blood system cancer, no significant association was found in any genetic model.

Stratified by ethnicity

In terms of ethnicity, we divided the ethnicity into three groups: Caucasian group, Asian group, and mix ethnicity group. The current result demonstrated that the genotype A may be a protect factor for both Caucasians and Asians, but not for mix ethnicity group. The different result from previous meta-analyses is seen in Table 3.

Table 3 Stratified analyses of the MPO-463G > A polymorphism on cancer risk by ethnicity and source of control group
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When further stratified, the digestive system cancer subgroup by ethnicity, no significant association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and Caucasians was found in any genetic model. Conversely, for the lung cancer subgroup, there was no significant association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and Asians (Table 3).

Stratified by HWE

Not all the studies included in this current analysis conformed to HWE. When stratified, in the HWE balanced group, the MPO-463G > A polymorphism was significantly associated with cancer risk in all the genetic models, while in the HWE un-balanced group, this association was only found in the recessive model and additive model. Results were represented in Table 2.

Stratified by source of control group

When it was stratified according to the source of control group, a statistically significant finding was found among hospital controls (A versus G: OR = 0.892, 95%CI = 0.811–0.981; AA versus GG: OR = 0.79, 95%CI = 0.68–0.93; AA/AG versus GG : OR = 0.88, 95%CI = 0.80–0.97; AA versus AG/GG: OR = 0.83, 95%CI = 0.71–0.96), but no statistically significant evidence was found in controls based on population under most of the selected gene models except allele frequency model (OR = 0.91, 95%CI = 0.83–0.97) (Table 4).

Table 4 The hospital control’s details
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Cumulative meta-analysis

We performed cumulative meta-analyses for both overall cancer risk and lung cancer risk. For the former, as was shown in Fig. 3, the cumulative result of allele contrast showed a declining trend in the estimated protective effect in the vicinity of 0.890 during 2001 and 2014. And the relative change in the random-effects ORs was lower than 1.0 since 2001. Further, the increasingly narrower 95%CIs suggested the precision of the estimates was gradually improved by continually adding more samples. In the same gene model, the inclination toward a non-significant association with overall lung cancer risk except for adding data provided by Heike in 2002 and Isabelle in 2003.

Fig. 3
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Cumulative meta-analysis of MPO-463G > A polymorphism in association with cancers by published year (A vs. G)

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Sensitivity analyses and publication bias

Each included study was deleted one by one to reflect the influence of the individual data on the pooled ORs, and the corresponding results were not significantly changed. Moreover, there was no influence of publication bias in our study by using Begg’s test or Egger’s tests.

Discussion

The current analysis provided the most comprehensive investigation of MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk. Sixty studies consisted of 16,858 cases and 21,756 controls gave greater information to explore the association; however, the previous meta-analysis published in 2010 included only 43 studies with 14,171 cancer cases and 17,319 controls. The methodology used for this meta-analysis and the statistical evaluation of the results were well-developed. This meta-analysis demonstrated a new subgroup (digestive system cancer group) to discussed the association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk in depth. In addition, we further stratified the digestive system cancer and lung cancer group by ethnicity and found some interesting results that the protect effect of MPO-463G > A polymorphism was only found in Caucasians in lung cancer population and Asians in digestive system cancer population. Furthermore, the cumulative meta-analysis which had not been conducted in previous relevant meta-analysis provided more powerful evidence that the results were reliable. Moreover, NOS was used to evaluate the quality of the studies, and results suggested that all the studies included in the current meta-analysis were high quality.

Contrary to the earlier meta-analysis which indicated that no significant association was found in any genetic model, the current meta-analysis showed evidence that allele A was associated with a reduced cancer risk compared with G allele. Besides, in view of the cumulative analysis results, we intended to draw a conclusion that MPO-463G > A polymorphism had a protective significance of cancer risk. But when the studies were stratified by cancer type, ethnicity, HWE, and control resource, results differed.

Among all the cancers studied in our meta-analysis, lung cancer was mostly discussed. We were interested to find that the results of three related meta-analyses published in 2013, were not identical with each other. Zhou YY et al. found MPO-463G > A polymorphism was significantly associated with decreased risk of lung cancer risk in Asians under additive model and recessive model [72]. Zhou C et al. suggested that in allele frequency and dominant models, when stratified by ethnicity, evidence showed a protect effect in Caucasians, but not in Asians [73]. While, Yang et al. indicated there was no significant association of both overall and stratified analyses according to ethnicity, source of controls and smoking status [74]. What is more, another two meta-analyses published in 2014 by Li and Huang et al. [75, 76], respectively, also got different conclusions. The varied results may have relation with the different search strategies, selection criteria, quality of the original studies and so on. Considering the confusing outcome of the lung cancer, we further calculated the data and tried to come to a convincing conclusion. We considered our results more reliable, for all the studies included were of high quality and we removed the duplicated data provided by Li and Huang et al. [75, 76]. As described above, the cumulative result provided a more powerful evidence and we intended to draw a conclusion that MPO-463G > A polymorphism may not be a good predictor of lung cancer both in Caucasians or Asians.

We first conducted a digestive system cancer group in meta-analysis and found significant results in allele frequency and dominant models. When it was divided into digestive tract and digestive gland, results indicated that digestive gland was more closely linked with decreasing cancer risk. Similarly, Samart et al. [43] even found that A allele and G/A or A/A separately reduced the risk of hepatoblastoma of 50 and 56% in Caucasians. Our analysis demonstrated that A allele and AG/AA had a 0.71-fold cancer risk and 0.67-fold cancer risk separately.

As for breast cancer, though positive result had been published before [11], whether it had a relationship with high level of MPO-G463 > A polymorphism stayed confusing. Our result for breast cancer was in line with the result by Chu et al. [9], suggesting a non-significant association. In addition, giving to the fact the level of MPO-containing neutrophils were high in breast tissue with or without cancer [77, 78], we tend to believe that MPO-463G > A polymorphism could not predict breast cancer well. A similar situation was seen in the blood system group, and the current study suggested no significant association between it and MPO-463G > A polymorphism.

Regarding the source of controls, the results should also be concerned. Only in the hospital population, significant results could be observed. This might reflect influence of health status, gene-gene or gene–environment interactions. Well-matched controls should be included in the future studies. Ethnicity is often one of the sources of heterogeneity. Stratifying the ethnicity, strength was observed in Caucasians and Asians under almost all the genetic models instead of the mix ethnicity group. Meanwhile, no significant association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and digestive system cancer for Caucasians or lung cancer for Asians were found in any genetic model. Accordingly, we suggest the main source of heterogeneity is from the ethnicities, source of controls, and different cancer itself. And it may have something to do with age, sex, sample size, ethnic background, gene-gene interaction, environment background, and lifestyle. So it is meaningful to discuss this association more detailed. For example, analyses striated by age, sex, and accumulation of sample size are considerable.

Limited data of digestive system cancer and blood system cancer are one of the deficiencies of our meta-analysis. In addition, gene-gene interactions, environment background, and lifestyle were not well addressed in the meta-analysis for the lack of data. Taking it into consideration, more studies aimed to discuss the relationship of MPO-463G > A polymorphism and digestive system cancer, blood system cancer or the gene-gene or gene–environment interactions should be conducted to give a more deeper knowledge of this association. Besides, the lack of original information about age also limited our more in-depth research. We hope future researches can provide detailed information about age and then the stratified analysis by age could be done.

Conclusion

Overall, in cumulative analysis, the stable trend indicated that evidence was sufficient to show the association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk. MPO-463G > A polymorphism might have an effect in reducing the risk of digestive system cancer, but might not be a good predictor of lung cancer, breast cancer, and blood system cancers. It was significantly associated with cancer risk both in Caucasians and Asians. But no significant association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and Caucasians was found in any genetic model for digestive system cancer and no significant association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and Asians was found for lung cancer. More studies exploring the association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and digestive and blood system cancer are needed in the future.

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    Yang, Wj., Wang, My., Pan, Fz. et al. Association between MPO-463G > A polymorphism and cancer risk: evidence from 60 case-control studies. World J Surg Onc 15, 144 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12957-017-1183-7

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