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Departments of Preventive Medicine [W-M. X., R. K. R., B. E. H., S. A. I.] and Urology [G. A. C., R. I.], Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, and Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 [L. K.]
We recently reported an association between prostate cancer risk and polymorphisms in the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and androgen receptor (AR) genes. The purpose of this study is to test whether these two polymorphisms, AR CAG and PSA ARE1, influence serum PSA levels in healthy men. Serum PSA and the two genotypes were assayed for 420 healthy men from a multiethnic cohort, and regression models were fit to estimate the effects of AR CAG genotype and PSA ARE1 genotype on serum PSA levels. Predicted serum PSA decreased 3.5% with each additional AR CAG repeat decile (P = 0.01). Serum PSA was also associated with PSA ARE1 genotype, with PSA levels higher among men with the PSA AA genotype compared with men with the AG or GG genotypes (P = 0.02). The relationship between serum PSA level and AR CAG length differed according to PSA genotype (P = 0.049): for genotype GG, the slope was not significantly different from zero (P = 0.74); for genotype AG, serum PSA increased 4.5% with each decrease of one CAG repeat decile (P = 0.03); for genotype AA, serum PSA increased 7% with each decrease of one CAG repeat decile (P = 0.02). These results indicate that in healthy men, genetic variants in the PSA and AR genes contribute to variation in serum PSA levels. Men with the PSA AA genotype and short AR CAG alleles have, on average, higher serum PSA levels.
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