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. 2020 Mar 23;139(5):623–646. doi: 10.1007/s00439-020-02150-6

Table 2.

Population-specific frequencies of clinically important variants in genes of the ABCC subfamily

Variant Type Minor allele frequencies (in %) Clinical association of the minor allele Effect or statistic References Sample size
EUR AFR EAS SAS AMR AJ
ABCC1 (MRP1)
rs45511401 Missense (G671V) 5.6 1.2 < 0.1 1.6 1.7 3.3 Increased risk of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity OR = 3.6 Wojnowski et al. (2005) 42
rs4148350 Intron 7.3 10.4 4.0 N.A 8.4 6.6 Increased risk of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity OR = 3.4 Visscher et al. (2012) 156 and 188 and 96
Toxicity of induction chemotherapy (idarubicin plus cytarabine) in acute myeloid leukemia OR = 5.3 for grade 3–4 hepatic toxicity Megías-Vericat et al. (2017) 225
rs246221 Synonymous 30.5 65.2 42.5 20.3 35.2 32.1 Decreased risk of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity Increased LVFS of homozygous carriers (40.7%) compared to het and controls (38.4%) Semsei et al. (2012) 164
rs3743527 3′ UTR 22.6 14.3 45.7 N.A 27.0 23.8 Increased risk of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity Decreased LVFS of homozygous carriers (34%) compared to het and controls (39.3%) Semsei et al. (2012) 168
rs17501331 Intron 10.3 2.2 0 N.A 5.8 11.7 Increased risk of irinotecan-induced neutropenia β =  − 0.295 Li et al. (2018b) 78
rs212091 3′UTR 14.9 13.0 25.4 N.A 10.2 9.7 Virological failure of protease inhibitor regimens in HIV patients OR = 4.4 Coelho et al. (2013) 87
rs119774 Intron 6.8 1.6 0.3 N.A 4.4 6.9 Increased response to montelukast in asthma p = 0.004 when comparing hom vs het carriers Lima et al. (2006) 49
rs2074087 Intron 84.4 81.5 82.5 68.2 78.9 77.0 Increased risk of azathioprine-induced lymphopenia OR = 3.4 Lee et al. (2015) 131
ABCC2 (MRP2)
rs8187710 Missense (C1515Y) 5.6 15.7 < 0.1 1.9 4.1 12.9 Increased risk of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity OR = 2.3 Wojnowski et al. (2005) 44
rs3740065 Intron 9.7 21.6 34.1 N.A 14.0 17.2 Response of patients with invasive breast cancer to tamoxifen monotherapy HR = 10.6 Kiyotani et al. (2010) 282
rs3740066 Synonymous 37 25.9 23 32.6 34.9 34.5 Severe toxicity of irinotecan in NSCLC patients OR = 5.6 Han et al. (2009) 107
rs12762549 Intergenic 46.8 43.0 56.5 N.A 49.3 51.7 Leukopenia risk upon docetaxel therapy OR = 3.1 Kiyotani et al. (2008) 113
Response of NSCLC patients to second line docetaxel therapy OR = 7.3 Szczyrek et al. (2017) 52
rs717620 5′ UTR 19.9 5.8 21.4 11.3 13.0 20.0 Poor response and reduced OS of SCLC patients undergoing etoposide and/or platinum-based therapy HR = 2.1 and 1.9 for response and OS, respectively Campa et al. (2012) 167 and 127
rs17222723 Missense (V1188E) 5.6 6.0 < 0.1 1.8 3.6 12.8 Increased response of esophageal cancer patients to platinum-based therapy OR = 0.21 of carriers compared to controls Rumiato et al. (2016) 116
ABCC3 (MRP3, MOAT-D)
rs1051640 Synonymous 18.2 8.6 5.6 10.3 8.6 18.7 Increased risk of cisplatin-induced hearing loss OR = 1.8 Pussegoda et al. (2013) 247
rs4148416 Synonymous 5.4 19.6 15.0 8.8 14.4 5.8 Reduced OS of osteosarcoma patients after chemotherapy HR = 8.1 per allele Caronia et al. (2011) 91
Poor response to chemotherapy in osteosarcoma patients OR = 3.8 Yang et al. (2013) 45
rs4148405 Intron 14 43.7 21.7 N.A 21.8 21 Shorter disease-free survival in acute myeloid leukemia patients treated with cytarabine and etoposide HR = 3.2 Yee et al. (2013) 153
ABCC4 (MRP4, MOAT-B)
rs2274405 Synonymous 34.1 30.3 47.1 36.1 42.7 46.4 Increased response of esophageal cancer patients to platinum-based therapy OR = 0.56 and 0.15 of het and hom carriers, respectively, compared to controls Rumiato et al. (2016) 116
ABCC5 (MRP5, MOAT-C)
rs3749438 3′ UTR 36.1 26.2 40.6 N.A 28.4 39.7 Increased risk of irinotecan-induced severe toxicity in metastatic colorectal cancer patients OR = 1.9–2.1 Chen et al. (2015a) 452 and 322
rs10937158 Intron 54.4 74.7 86.0 N.A 51.0 53.3 Decreased risk of irinotecan-induced severe toxicity in metastatic colorectal cancer patients OR = 0.4–0.45 Chen et al. (2015a) 328 and 448
rs7627754 Promoter 11.4 36.0 34.9 N.A 18.5 7.6 Increased risk of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity 8–12% reduction of ejection and shortening fractions of hom carriers Krajinovic et al. (2016) 251
rs7636910 Synonymous 36.9 26.8 41.5 36.4 26.9 40.9 Increased response and OS in pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients treated with gemcitabine-based chemoradiotherapy OR = 1.7 Tanaka et al. (2011) 261
ABCC6 (MRP6, MOAT-E)
rs2238472 Missense (R1268Q) 28.2 10.1 12.3 18.2 31.3 17.0 Increased toxicity of docetaxel and thalidomide in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients p = 0.006 Deeken et al. (2009) 47
ABCC10 (MRP7)
rs2125739 Missense (I948T) 25.1 31.9 10.9 18.0 18.7 21.3 Associated with nausea of paclitaxel and carboplatin therapy in ovarian cancer patients in exploratory analysis p = 0.002 Bergmann et al. (2012) 92
Increased OS in CRC patients who received oxaliplatin- based chemotherapy OR = 0.56 Kap et al. (2016) 623
ABCC11 (MRP8)
rs17822931 Missense (G180R) 13 2.8 87 40.6 16.2 10.8 Reduced MRP8 expression and increased disease-free survival upon nucleoside-based chemotherapy p < 0.03 Guo et al. (2009) and Uemura et al. (2010) /

CRC colorectal cancer, OR odds ratio, LVFS left-ventricular fraction shortening, OS overall survival, NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer, EUR Europeans, AFR Africans, EAS East Asians, SAS South Asians, AMR Latinos, AJ Ashkenazi Jews, N.A. not available