Middle East Journal of Cancer

CCR4 1014C/T and CCL22 16C/A Genetic Variations in Iranian Patients with Thyroid Cancer

Document Type : Original Article(s)

Authors

Mohammad Hossein Dabbaghmanesh 1
Bahare Rezaei 2
Mohammad Reza Haghshenas 2
Nima Montazeri-Najafabady 1
Rajeeh Mohammadian Amiri 1
Nasrollah Erfani 2, 3

1 Shiraz Endocrine and Metabolism Research Center, Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

2 Cancer Immunology Group, Shiraz Institute for Cancer Research, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

3 Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30476/mejc.2021.87469.1421
Abstract
Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between thyroid cancer and 16C/A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in C-C motif chemokine 22 (CCL22) as well as 1014C/T SNP in C-C chemokine receptor type 4 (CCR4).
Method: In this case-control study, polymerase chain reaction restriction-fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) was performed for 113 thyroid cancer patients and 112 age-sex matched healthy controls to investigate the genotype distribution.
Results: At position 16C/A in CCL22, 95 patients (84.3%) were found to have CC genotype, while 17 individuals (14.8%) inherited CA genotype and 1 (0.9%) had AA genotype. In the control group, 92 volunteers (82.1%) inherited CC genotype, 18 individuals (16.1%) had CA genotype, and 2 (1.8%) had AA genotype. The frequency of CC, CT, and TT genotypes of 1014C/T SNP in CCR4 gene was 60 (53.1%), 43 (38.1%), and 10 (8.8%) in the patients, and 57 (53.3%), 43 (40.2%), and 7 (6.5%) in the control group, respectively. There were no statistically significant differences between the patients and controls in terms of 16C/A polymorphism in CCL22 (P = 0.816) and 1014C/T SNP in CCR4 1014C/T gene position (P = 0.801). Nevertheless, the study of their association indicated that inheriting the CC genotype of CCR4 was significantly associated with higher stages (stages 3 and 4) in thyroid cancer.
Conclusion: 1014C/T genetic variation in CCR4 and 16C/A polymorphism in CCL22 were not found to have a role in genetic susceptibility to thyroid cancer. Inheriting CC genotype at 1014 locus in CCR4 may; however, affect cancer progression in patients with thyroid cancer.

Keywords

CC chemokine receptor 4
CCL22 chemokine
Genetic variations
Single nucleotide polymorphism
Thyroid cancer
Cancer progression

How to cite this article:

Dabbaghmanesh MH, Rezaei B, Haghshenas MR, Montazeri-Najafabady N, Mohammadian Amiri R, Erfani N. CCR4 1014C/T and CCL22 16C/A genetic variations in Iranian patients with thyroid cancer. Middle East J Cancer. 2022;13(3):404-10. doi: 10.30476/mejc.2021.87469.1421.

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