Significant Association of Poly-A and Fok1 Polymorphic Alleles of the Vitamin D Receptor with Vitamin D Serum Levels and Incidence of Squamous Cutaneous Neoplasia.

J Invest Dermatol

Department of Dermatology, Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address:

Published: August 2023

Vitamin D3, a prohormone, is converted to circulating calcidiol and then to calcitriol, the hormone that binds to the vitamin D receptor (VDR) (a nuclear transcription factor). Polymorphic genetic sequence variants of the VDR are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and melanoma. However, the relationship between VDR allelic variants and the risk of squamous cell carcinoma and actinic keratosis remains unclear. We examined the associations between two VDR polymorphic sites, Fok1 and Poly-A, and serum calcidiol levels, actinic keratosis lesion incidence, and the history of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in 137 serially enrolled patients. By evaluating the Fok1 (F) and (f) alleles and the Poly-A long (L) and short (S) alleles together, a strong association between genotypes FFSS or FfSS and high calcidiol serum levels (50.0 ng/ml) was found; conversely, ffLL patients showed very low calcidiol levels (29.1 ng/ml). Interestingly, the FFSS and FfSS genotypes were also associated with reduced actinic keratosis incidence. For Poly-A, additive modeling showed that Poly-A (L) is a risk allele for squamous cell carcinoma, with an OR of 1.55 per copy of the L allele. We conclude that actinic keratosis and squamous cell carcinoma should be added to the list of squamous neoplasias that are differentially regulated by the VDR Poly-A allele.

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