Association between Four MMP-9 Polymorphisms and Breast Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis

作者：Zhang Xiaoli; Jin Guoyin; Li Jianfeng; Zhang Linxi^*

来源：MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR, 2015, 21: 1115-1123.

DOI：10.12659/msm.893890

• Breast Diseases
• Matrix Metalloproteinase 9
• Meta-Analysis
• Polymorphism, Genetic

Background: The role of matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) polymorphisms in breast cancer risk remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between MMP-9 variants and breast cancer susceptibility.
Material/Methods: Case-control studies were searched on electronic databases to retrieve related articles published between 2000 and 2014 concerning the role of MMP-9 variants in breast cancer risk. Pooled odds ratios (OR) with correlative 95% confidence intervals (CI) were employed to assess this association.
Results: Ten articles were screened out, including 6177 breast cancer patients and 6726 matched-controls. For rs3918242 (-1562 C/T), 6 studies contained 1435 patients and 1446 controls. Although the frequency of risk allele C was higher in breast cancer patients than in controls, only TT genotype in recessive model was significantly associated with increased risk of breast cancer (TT vs. CT+CC: OR=1.55, 95% CI=1.12-2.16, P=0.009) in a fixed-effects model. This significant relationship was not observed in other genetic models (P>0.05). No significant association was found between breast cancer risk and rs17576, rs2250889, and rs3787268 under any genetic models.
Conclusions: Our results show that TT genotype of MMP-9-1562 C/T polymorphism might be a risk factor for breast cancer. More studies are needed to further explore this association.

• 出版日期2015-4-19
• 单位河北北方学院