著者
Keiko MAEKAWA Masaya ITODA Kimie SAI Yoshiro SAITO Nahoko KANIWA Kuniaki SHIRAO Tetsuya HAMAGUCHI Hideo KUNITOH Noboru YAMAMOTO Tomohide TAMURA Hironobu MINAMI Kaoru KUBOTA Atsushi OHTSU Teruhiko YOSHIDA Nagahiro SAIJO Naoyuki KAMATANI Shogo OZAWA Jun-ichi SAWADA
出版者
The Japanese Society for the Study of Xenobiotics
雑誌
Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (ISSN:13474367)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.21, no.2, pp.109-121, 2006 (Released:2006-05-10)
参考文献数
35
被引用文献数
36

The ATP-binding cassette transporter, ABCG2, which is expressed at high levels in the intestine and liver, functions as an efflux transporter for many drugs, including clinically used anticancer agents such as topotecan and the active metabolite of irinotecan (SN-38). In this study, to elucidate the linkage disequilibrium (LD) profiles and haplotype structures of ABCG2, we have comprehensively searched for genetic variations in the putative promoter region, all the exons, and their flanking introns of ABCG2 from 177 Japanese cancer patients treated with irinotecan. Forty-three genetic variations, including 11 novel ones, were found: 5 in the 5′-flanking region, 13 in the coding exons, and 25 in the introns. In addition to 9 previously reported nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), 2 novel nonsynonymous SNPs, 38C>T (Ser13Leu) and 1060G>A (Gly354Arg), were found with minor allele frequencies of 0.3%. Based on the LD profiles between the SNPs and the estimated past recombination events, the region analyzed was divided into three blocks (Block -1, 1, and 2), each of which spans at least 0.2 kb, 46 kb, and 13 kb and contains 2, 24, and 17 variations, respectively. The two, eight, and five common haplotypes detected in 10 or more patients accounted for most (>90%) of the haplotypes inferred in Block -1, Block 1, and Block 2, respectively. The SNP and haplotype distributions in Japanese were different from those reported previously in Caucasians. This study provides fundamental information for the pharmacogenetic studies investigating the relationship between the genetic variations in ABCG2 and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic parameters.