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Nutritional Epidemiology

Polymorphisms in the CYP19 Gene May Affect the Positive Correlations between Serum and Urine Phytoestrogen Metabolites and Plasma Androgen Concentrations in Men¹

Yen-Ling Low^*, James I. Taylor^*, Philip B. Grace^*,, Mitch Dowsett^**, Elizabeth Folkerd^**, Deborah Doody^**, Alison M. Dunning, Serena Scollen, Angela A. Mulligan, Ailsa A. Welch, Robert N. Luben, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nick E. Day, Nick J. Wareham and Sheila A. Bingham^*,,2

^* MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, UK; HFL, Newmarket Road, Fordham, UK; ^** Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK; CR-UK Department of Oncology, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK; and EPIC, Institute of Public Health and Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

²To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sab{at}mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk.

Phytoestrogens have been hypothesized to protect against prostate cancer via modulation of circulating androgen concentrations. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 267 men in the Norfolk arm of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort with 2 aims: first, to investigate the association between phytoestrogen exposure (measured from diet, urine, and serum) and plasma concentrations of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), androstanediol glucuronide, testosterone and Free Androgen Index (FAI); and second, whether the association may be modified by polymorphisms in CYP19 and SHBG genes. Dietary daidzein and genistein intakes were obtained from food diaries and computed using an in-house food composition database. Urinary and serum concentrations of 3 isoflavones (daidzein, genistein, glycitein), 2 daidzein metabolites O-desmethylangolensin (O-DMA) and 2 lignan metabolites (enterodiol and enterolactone) were measured using mass spectrometry. There was no association between dietary, urinary, and serum phytoestrogens and plasma SHBG concentrations. Enterolactone was positively associated with plasma androstanediol glucuronide concentrations (urinary enterolactone: r = 0.127, P = 0.043; serum enterolactone: r = 0.172, P = 0.006) and FAI (urinary enterolactone: r = 0.115, P = 0.067; serum enterolactone: r = 0.158, P = 0.011). Both urinary and serum equol were associated with plasma testosterone (urinary equol: r = 0.332, P = 0.013; serum equol: r = 0.318, P = 0.018) and FAI (urinary equol: r = 0.297, P = 0.027; serum equol: r = 0.380, P = 0.004) among men with the TT genotype but not the CC or CT genotypes (r = –0.029 to –0.134, P = 0.091–0.717) for the CYP19 3'untranslated region (UTR) T-C polymorphism. Urinary and serum enterolactone showed similar genotype-dependent associations with testosterone but not with FAI. In this first study on phytoestrogen-gene associations in men, we conclude that enterolactone and equol are positively associated with plasma androgen concentrations, and interactions with CYP19 gene may be involved.

KEY WORDS: • phytoestrogens • biomarkers • polymorphism • androgens

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