For ERCC2 Lys751Gln, individuals who carried the variant heterozygote Lys/Gln or homozygote Gln/Gln had a significantly increased bladder cancer risk, compared with the wild genotype Lys/Lys (OR=1.10, 95 % CI=1.03-1.18).
These associations were: two SNPs rs1799793 and rs13181 in the ERCC2 gene and lung cancer (recessive model) and rs1805794 in the NBN gene and bladder cancer (dominant model).
In this work, we have conducted a case-control study in order to assess the effect of tobacco and three genetic polymorphisms in XPC, ERCC2 and ERCC5 genes (rs2228001, rs13181 and rs17655) in bladder cancer development in Tunisia.
Polymorphic variants of XPD, at codon 312 (rs1799793), 751 (rs13181) and promoter-114 (rs3810366), were chosen to be studied for their association with bladder cancer susceptibility in a central Taiwanese population.
We found that the A allele of XPD Arg156Arg (C22541A) and the C allele of XPD Lys751Gln (A35931C) is associated with increased risk of bladder cancer (adjusted odds ratio = 1.54 and 95% confidence interval = 1.19-2.01, 1.65, and 1.12-2.73, respectively).