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1 Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland; 2 Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland; 3 Cancer Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 4 Cancer Prevention Studies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland; 5 Center for Population Genomics, National Center for Toxicology Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas; and 6 Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland
Linxian, a rural county in North Central China, has among the highest rates of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma (GCA) in the world. Its inhabitants have documented chronic nutritional inadequacies, including folate and vitamin B12 deficiencies. Using a cohort we have been studying in Linxian since 1985, we examined the relationship between incident ESCC and GCA cancers and three polymorphisms in two genes that code for enzymes that require folate and B12 as cofactors: methionine synthase reductase (MTRR) A66G and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T and A1298C. We conducted a case-cohort study among 4005 individuals in our cohort who were alive and cancer free in 1991 and had blood samples adequate for DNA extraction. Polymorphisms were measured on all 219 incident cancers (129 ESCCs and 90 GCAs) that developed through May 1996 and on 398 controls. Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate relative risks (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Individuals with the MTHFR 677TT genotype had significantly higher combined ESCC/GCA risks (RR, 1.45; 95% CI, 1.02–2.05) than those with CC or CT genotypes. The only subjects to have MTHFR 1298CC were three ESCC cases (P = 0.03). Compared with subjects with the MTRR 66AA genotype, subjects with the AG or GG genotypes had significantly higher risk of ESCC (RR, 1.59; 95% CI, 1.04–2.42). No association was observed for GCA. Our results suggest that the MTHFR C677T and MTRR A66G polymorphisms influence the risk of ESCC and GCA in this population.
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