Our findings suggest that the polymorphic genotypes at MMP-1 promoter -1607 may play a major role in determining personal cancer susceptibility for prostate cancer in Taiwan.
The 2G allele of the MMP-1 promoter polymorphism might not modify the risk of prostate cancer development and might not be used as a putative marker to predict the potential of metastasis in this cancer type, at least in the Turkish population.
Whereas MMP-1 was overexpressed in NAP epithelial glands and progressively decreased from PIN to CaP, MMP-7, MMP-9 and MT1-MMP were more strongly expressed in CaP than in PIN and NAP tissue.