• J Affect Disord · May 2013

    A one year longitudinal study of cytokine genes and depression in breast cancer.

    • Jae-Min Kim, Robert Stewart, Seon-Young Kim, Hee-Ju Kang, Ji-Eun Jang, Sung-Wan Kim, Il-Seon Shin, Min-Ho Park, Jung-Han Yoon, Sung-Woo Park, Young-Hoon Kim, and Jin-Sang Yoon.
    • Department of Psychiatry, Chonnam National University Medical School, and Depression Clinical Research Center, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. jmkim@chonnam.ac.kr
    • J Affect Disord. 2013 May 15;148(1):57-65.

    BackgroundSince inflammatory cytokines have been implicated in the pathophysiology of both cancer and depression, genes that contribute to determining cytokine functional activity are reasonable candidate risk factors for depression related to cancer. This study aimed to investigate whether alleles related to higher pro-inflammatory and/or lower anti-inflammatory cytokine production would associate with depression in a cohort with breast cancer.MethodsA total of 309 women with breast cancer were evaluated one week after surgery, and 244 (79%) were followed one year later. Depression (major+minor depressive disorders) was diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview on both occasions. Six pro-(TNF-α-850C/T and -308G/A, IL-1β-511C/T and +3953C/T, IL-6-174G/C, IL-8-251T/A) and two anti-inflammatory (IL-4 +33T/C, IL-10-1082G/A) cytokine polymorphisms were assayed, and total numbers of potential risk alleles were calculated for pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine genes. Adjustments were made for demographic and clinical characteristics.ResultsAt baseline, 74 (24%) patients were classified with prevalent depression; and at follow-up, 19 (8%) and 25 (10%) patients were classified with persistent and incident depression, respectively. A higher number of pro-inflammatory cytokine risk alleles, and IL-1β-511T/T genotype individually, were independently associated with both prevalent depression at baseline and persistent depression at one year follow-up.LimitationsSample size was relatively small.ConclusionsOur findings support the role of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the etiology of depression related to breast cancer, and provide novel evidence of a potential genetic basis for this.Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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