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No Association between the DNA Repair Gene XRCC3 T241M Polymorphism and Risk of Skin Cancer and Breast Cancer¹

National Institute of Occupational Health, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [N. R. J., H. W., U. V.]; Institute of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark [B. A. N.]; Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, The Danish Cancer Society, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [A. O., A. T.]; and Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aalborg Hospital and Aarhus University Hospital, and Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark [K. O.]

	Introduction

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Skin cancer is the most frequent type of cancer in the Western world, whereas breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Whereas skin cancer is predominantly induced by UV light, less is known about the pathways leading toward sporadic breast cancer. Evidence links DNA double-strand breaks to development of breast cancer. XRCC3 participates in the repair of this DNA damage. The XRCC3 T241M polymorphism has previously been associated with risk of breast cancer (1) , whereas its association with malignant melanoma has been contradictory (2 , 3) . Malignant melanoma and basal cell carcinoma share some genetic and environmental risk factors, which makes it likely that polymorphisms found to be genetic risk factors for malignant melanoma may also be associated with basal cell carcinoma.

	Materials and Methods

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We have analyzed DNA samples from one nested case control study regarding basal cell carcinoma development and one nested case control study regarding breast cancer development. Both are based on the Danish prospective cohort "Diet, Cancer and Health" (4) . Our basal cell carcinoma study group consisted of 319 incident basal cell carcinoma cases and 321 controls matched on age at inclusion into the cohort (half-year intervals) and sex. The breast cancer study group consisted of 426 breast cancer cases and 424 controls matched on certainty of postmenopausal status (known/probably postmenopausal), use of hormone replacement therapy (current/former/never), and age at inclusion into the cohort (half-year intervals; Ref. 5 ). In both studies, the controls were cancer free at the age at diagnosis of the case.

XRCC3 T241M (T/C, position 18067, AF037222) was determined on DNA isolated from lymphocytes using real-time PCR on a SDS ABI-Prism 7700 (Applied Biosystems, Nærum, Denmark). Ten-µl reactions contained 1x MasterMix, 100 nM of each probe, 800 nM primers, and 50 ng of genomic DNA. Cycling conditions were as follows: 50°C for 2 min; 95°C for 10 min; and 45 cycles of 95°C for 15 s and 60°C for 1 min. Primers were as follows: forward, 5'-GTGCTCACCTGGTTGATGCA-3'; and reverse, 5'-CCAGGGCCAGGCATCTG-3'.³ Probes were as follows: T probe (Thr allele), 5'-Vic-TGGGGGCCATGCT-NFQ-MGB-3'; and C probe (Met allele), 5'-Fam-CTCACGCAGCGTGG-NFQ-MGB-3' (Applied Biosystems, Denmark). Genotyping 100 samples with PCR-RFLP verified the quantitative assay. The PCR fragments were cut using NlaIII and achieved 100% identical genotyping. Repeated quantitative PCR analysis of 10% of all samples yielded identical results.

Due to the sampling design, the odds ratio for the basal cell carcinoma and the breast cancer study group was estimated using matched logistic regression, thus, only known discordant pairs contribute to this analysis. The procedure PHREG in SAS, release 6.12 (SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC) on Unix platform was used for statistical analyses.

	Results and Discussion

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The T allele frequency varied from 0.34 to 0.39. The frequencies were consistent with previous studies. There was no association between XRCC3²⁴¹ genotypes and risk of basal cell carcinoma or breast cancer (Table 1) . In the basal cell carcinoma study group, the odds ratio was higher for heterozygotes. We believe this was a chance finding because no effect was observed for the variant homozygotes. There was no effect of age at diagnosis of cancer or sex (data not shown). The design of our study is relatively strong because the study groups were fairly large, and cases and controls were recruited from the same cohort and carefully matched. Given the sample size and the allele frequencies of the controls, we had a 96% and 99% chance of detecting a doubling of the rate between the wild-type homozygote and the variant heterozygote and homozygote combined ( = 0.01, two-sided) for the basal cell carcinoma and the breast cancer group, respectively, if we assume Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. However, we did not have sufficient power to detect the odds ratio of 1.3 reported for breast cancer by Kuschel et al. (1) .

	Footnotes

 
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¹ Supported by Danish Cancer Society Grant DP00027 and Grant "Cemik" from the Danish Ministry of Health’s Research Centre for Environmental Health.

² To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at National Institute of Occupational Health, Lersø Parkallé 105, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Phone: 45-39165227; Fax: 45-39165201; E-mail: ubv{at}ami.dk

³ www.tagc.com.

Received 2/ 7/03; accepted 3/13/03.

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