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

Table 3.

Population-specific frequencies of clinically important variants in ABCG2 (BCRP)

Variant Type Minor allele frequencies (in %) Clinical association of the minor allele Effect or statistic Reference Sample size
EUR AFR EAS SAS AMR AJ
rs2231135 5′ UTR 7.0 2.0 0 N.A 4.3 4.0 Increased risk of mucositis in osteosarcoma patients treated with high-dose methotrexate OR = 2.5 for grade 2–3 mucositis in carriers compared to control Jabeen et al. (2015) 57
rs2231142 Missense (Q141K) 10.4 2.7 30.7 9.3 22.6 6.6 Increased diflomotecan exposure Plasma levels increased threefold in het carriers compared to controls Sparreboom et al. (2004) 22
Gefitinib toxicity in NSCLC patients OR = 5.7 for dose-limiting diarrhea Cusatis et al. (2006) 124
Higher rate of major molecular response to imatinib therapy (meta analysis) OR = 0.65 Jiang et al. (2017) 2184
Increased PFS of advanced stage ovarian cancer patients treated with platinum and taxane-based chemotherapy 22.7 months PFS in carriers versus 16.8 months in controls Tian et al. (2012) 506
Decreased response of allopurinol p = 3.4 × 10–7 Wen et al. (2015) 2027
rs2231137 Missense (V12M) 4.1 6.6 32.8 14.0 23.7 10.5 Severe toxicity of irinotecan in NSCLC patients OR = 5.1 Han et al. (2009) 107
Improved response to imatinib therapy in chronic myeloid leukemia patients OR = 0.64 for complete cytogenetic response in carriers compared to controls Kim et al. (2009a) 229
Longer OS in NSCLC patients receiving TKI therapy 31 months OS in carriers versus 18 months in controls Chen et al. (2015b) 70
Improved treatment outcomes in acute myeloid leukemia patients receiving cytarabine or anthracyclines HR = 0.44 for OS Hampras et al. (2010) 261
Increased toxicity in acute myeloid leukemia patients receiving cytarabine or anthracyclines OR = 8.4 Hampras et al. (2010) 261
rs7699188 Intron 15.6 44.1 7.6 N.A 13.2 23.1 Toxicity in in metastatic colorectal cancer patients receiving first-line FOLFIRI treatment OR = 7.3 De Mattia et al. (2013) 250
rs3109823 Intron 71.8 44 78.8 N.A 80.6 83.4 Improved response and OS of SCLC patients undergoing etoposide and/or platinum-based therapy OR = 0.3 and 0.6 for response and OS, respectively Campa et al. (2012) 171
rs13120400 Intron 30.5 6.2 0 N.A 14.7 17.4 Increased blood concentration of deferasirox OR = 4.1 Allegra et al. (2016) Not reported
rs2199936 Intron 89.4 87.6 67.1 N.A 80.9 92.8 Decreased Increased response to rosuvastatin Effect of + 5.2 mg/dl Chasman et al. (2012) 6989
rs4148155 Intron 10.5 2.3 32.8 N.A 18.6 6.6 Increased response to allopurinol p = 7.89 × 10–9 Brackman et al. (2019) 4446

PFS progression-free survival, OR odds ratio, NSCLC non-small cell lung cancer, SCLC small cell lung cancer, TKI tyrosine kinase inhibitor, OS overall survival, EUR Europeans, AFR Africans, EAS East Asians, SAS South Asians, AMR Latinos, AJ Ashkenazi Jews, N.A. not available