[Screening and analysis of coding SNPs of HLA-DQA1 gene involved in susceptibility for cervical cancer].

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Polymorphisms of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene play an important role in the development of cervical cancer. This study was to screen single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of HLA-DQA1 gene involved in susceptibility of cervical cancer by a bioinformatics approach, and analyze their correlations to abnormal gene functions. METHODS: SNPs of HLA-DQA1 were screened from a public database dbSNP by SNPper software, and relevant FASTA subsequences were also obtained from dbSNP. PARSESNP software was used to analyze cSNPs. RESULTS: Two SNPs, rs9272693 and rs9272703, which may induce mis-sense mutation, were identified in codon region of HLA-DQA1 gene. A PSSM difference>10 was used to predict deleterious mutation. CONCLUSIONS: SNPper software in combination with PARSESNP software could be used to analyze SNPs of HLA-DQA1 gene and select the variants in a conserved region, and it provides an evaluation criterion. But the results need to be verified in cervical cancer patients and control populations.