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Genetic susceptibility to lymphoma

From the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, 140 Warren Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA (CFS); Division of Immunology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA (JDC); Division of Clinical Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany (AN)

Correspondence: Christine Skibola, Ph.D., School of Public Health, 140 Earl Warren Hall University of California, Berkeley, Ca. 94720-7360, USA. E-mail: chrisfs{at}berkeley.edu

ABSTRACT

Genetic susceptibility studies of lymphoma may serve to identify at risk populations and clarify important disease mechanisms. This review considered all studies published through October 2006 on the contribution of genetic polymorphisms in the risk of lymphoma. Numerous studies implicate the role of genetic variants that promote B-cell survival and growth with increased risk of lymphoma. Several reports including a large pooled study by InterLymph, an international consortium of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) case-control studies, found positive associations between variant alleles in TNF -308G>A and IL10 -3575T>A genes and risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Four studies reported positive associations between a GSTT1 deletion and risk of Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Genetic studies of folate-metabolizing genes implicate folate in NHL risk, but further studies that include folate and alcohol intakes are needed. Links between NHL and genes involved in energy regulation and hormone production and metabolism may provide insights into novel mechanisms implicating neuro- and endocrine-immune cross-talk with lymphomagenesis. However, this links will need replication in larger populations. Numerous studies suggest that common genetic variants with low penetrance influence lymphoma risk, though replication studies will be needed to eliminate false positive associations.

Key words: lymphoma, genetic susceptibility, SNP, NHL, polymorphisms.

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