Análise de polimorfismos e de expressão do gene p16INK4a em neoplasias cervicais

• Autor(a) principal: Torres, Sandra Liliana Vargas
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12727
• topic: Cervical neoplasia; p16INK4a gene; p16 500C>G; p16 540C>T; p16INK4a expression; HPV infection; Neoplasia cervical; Gene p16INK4a; p16 500C>G; p16 540C>T; expressão de p16INK4a; Infecção por HPV; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::GENETICA::GENETICA HUMANA E MEDICA

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide and one of the most prevalent female cancers in Brazil. In premalignant and malignant lesions of the uterine cervix the p16INK4a protein, which participates in cell cycle control, exhibits a dramatic increase in its expression possibly due to the presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) oncoproteins. Two polymorphisms in the p16 gene, p16INK4a 540C>G and p16 580C> T, are located in the 3' untranslated region (3'UTR), which is involved in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. The aim of this study was to investigate possible associations between the p16 500C>G and p16 540C>T polymorphisms and the developing of cervical neoplasias and/or lesion severity, considering the expression levels of the p16INK4a protein in cervical lesions, and some classic risk factors for cervical cancer, including HPV infection. A total of 567 women residents in Rio de Janeiro was selected, 319 with abnormal cervical cytology results (case group), and 248 with no previous history of cervical cytological changes (comparison group). Peripheral blood samples from all participants were used for molecular analysis of the polymorphisms p16 500C>G and p16 540C>T, which was performed by PCR-RFLP (polymerase chain reaction - restriction fragment length polymorphism) using the restriction enzymes MspI and HaeIII, respectively. The expression of p16 in 137 biopsies of women belonging to the group of cases was assessed by immunohistochemistry. The detection of HPV DNA in cervical cells was performed in all samples of the comparison group and in 194 samples of the case group by a PCR-based method using two primers pairs, MY09/MY11 and GP05+/GP06+. TheINK4a two study groups are in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The genotype distributions for p16 500C>G and p16 540C>T and the distributions of haplotype combinations in the two groups were not statistically different. The analysis of the subgroup HSIL+cancer (cases with high-grade intraepithelial lesion or invasive carcinoma) compared to the subgroup HSIL (cases with low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions) revealed a significant difference in the distribution of haplotype combinations (p = 0.036) and marginal differences in the genotype distributions for p16 500C>G (p = 0.071) and p16 540C>T (p = 0.051). The p16 540G allele, in heterozygosis or homozygosis (OR = 1.91, 95% CI = 1.08-3.37), and the haplotype combination p16 500C-540C 500G-540C (OR = 2.34, 95% CI = 1.202-4.555) showed to be associated with the severity of cervical lesions. On the other hand the p16 580T/T genotype (OR = 0.25, 95% CI = 0.08-0.79), and the haplotype combination p16 500C-540T 500C-540T (OR=0.27, 95% CI = 0.088-0.827) exhibited a protective effect against the development of higher grade cervical lesions. Interaction analyses between the p16 polymorphisms and the p16 protein expression or the HPV infection were compromised by the reduced number of analyzed samples. No interaction was observed between the studied polymorphisms and the classical risk factor for cervical cancer. Our data point out the importance of the p16 gene polymorphisms as severity markers in cervical neoplasia. INK4aINK4aINK4a.