Abstract
Abstract In Mexico, cancer represents the second leading cause of death in the pediatric population. The identification of susceptibility genes associated with cancer has been one of the main challenges of human genomics. Several studies have proposed that genetic variation in immune-related genes could be a determinant of susceptibility in different types of cancer. In the present study we evaluated the possible association between 10 polymorphisms in genes that participate in innate immunity and the risk of pediatric cancer. We analyzed genotyping data from 101 patients from Hospital Infantil de México “Federico Gómez” (HIM) with confirmed diagnosis of pediatric cancer. The genotypes were compared with 274 healthy adults without a medical history of pediatric cancer. For each polymorphism we calculated allelic and genotypic frequencies and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE). The association between cancer and pediatric cancer was analyzed using Pearson chi-square and odds ratio (OR); survival analyses were performed by the log rank test and Kaplan-Meier curves. Our results show that risk of pediatric cancer in our sample is significantly associated with the genetic variants IL8-251 (p= 0.04327, OR= 0.701, IC 95% = 0.496-0.990), IL6-174 (p= 0.0037, OR= 2.413, IC 95% = 1.310-4.445), and IL10-592 (p= 0.0062, OR= 0.670, IC 95% = 0.502-0.894). However, we did not find any significant association between selected polymorphisms and overall or disease-free survival. Citation Format: Gabriela E. Mercado, Gabriela A. Rosales-Bravo, David Velazquez-Fernandez, Marta Zapata-Tarres, Luis E. Juarez-Villegas. Innate immunity polymorphisms and risk of pediatric cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 2083.
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