Objective: An important strategy in cancer prevention is to identify individual susceptibilities for cancer development through the genomic profile. Developing countries such as Argentina have no data on genetic composition. The aim of this study was to evaluate the single nucleotide polymorphisms of genes related to DNA repair (XCCR3, XPD), cell cycle arrest/apoptosis (TP53), and inflammation (NFKβ) of patients with precancer and oral cancer and to contribute to recognizing potential risk of developing these pathologies, and incorporate the risk patients into a clinical follow-up program in Córdoba, Argentina.
Study Design: A cross-sectional study was performed on 140 patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs), and controls. Genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms was performed using allele-specific polymerase chain reaction or restriction fragment length polymorphism techniques. The variables were evaluated by bivariate and multivariate statistical methods, with P < .05 statistically significant.
Results: The multiple correspondence analyses showed that patients with OSCC are clustered with the T allele of XRCC3 T241 M and the C allele of TP53 R72 P, and patients with OPMDs are clustered with the T allele of NFKβ-519.
Conclusion: Our preliminary results showed that the C allele of the Pro72 variant of TP53 was related to OSSC and OPMD, and the T allele of NFKβ-519 is related to OPMDs in Argentine patients.
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