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Interaction of Collagen-related Genes and Susceptibility to Betel Quid-induced Oral Submucous Fibrosis¹

Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health [C-J. Chiu, C-J. Chen], and School of Dentistry, College of Medicine [C-J. Chiu, C-P. C., L-J. H.], National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan; Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan [M-L. C.]; and Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, Chang-Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan [L-L. H.]

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a precancerous condition of the oral cavity.It is a collagen-related disorder induced by betel quid chewing, a habit that is common in Taiwan. However, the cumulative exposure to betel quids varies in OSF patients. It seems that there is individual susceptibility to betel quid-induced OSF. This study compared the association of OSF and polymorphisms of six collagen-related genes, collagen 1A1 and 1A2 (COL1A1 and COL1A2), collagenase-1 (COLase), transforming growth factor ß1 (TGF-ß1), lysyl oxidase (LYOXase), and cystatin C (CST3), between patients with low and high exposure to betel quids. A total of 166 patients with OSF from a medical center and 284 betel quid chewers who were free of OSF and oral cancer, from the same hospital and five townships, were recruited. PCR-based restriction fragment length polymorphism assays were used to determine the genotypes of the six collagen-related genes situated on different chromosomes. We found that the genotypes associated with the highest OSF risk for collagen 1A1, collagen 1A2, collagenase-1, transforming growth factor ß1, lysyl oxidase, and cystatin C were CC, AA, TT, CC, AA, and AA, respectively, for the low-exposure group, and TT, BB, AA, CC, GG, and AA, respectively, for the high-exposure group. A trend was noted for an increased risk of OSF with increasing number of high-risk alleles for those with both high and low exposures for betel quid. The cell selection mechanism of oral fibroblasts is proposed to explain the effect of the modification of cumulative betel quid exposure on the risk profiles of collagen-related genes. These results imply that susceptibility to OSF could involve multigenic mechanisms modified by the betel quid-exposure dose.

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