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Breast cancer is the most common cancer for women around the world. The presence of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) on or near the coding region of breast cancer susceptibility genes can affect the regulation of gene expression, which may increase or decrease the risk of breast cancer. BARX2 was showed to stimulate the expression of ERS1, which involved in the development of breast cancer. SNP rs7107217 on 152kb downstream of the BARX2 could affect the level of protein BARX2 and had been proved to associate with the breast cancer risk in populations similar to Vietnamese, including Chinese and Korean. In this study, rs7107217 was genotyped and initially detemined the association with the breast cancer risk in Vietnamese. Real-time PCR HRM was optimized and used to genotype rs7107217 in 117 breast cancer cases and 105 healthy controls. Thereafter, the correlation of this SNP with the risk of breast cancer was initially determined by analyzing the differences in allelic and genotypic frequencies between cases and control groups. The results showed the optimal rs7107217 genotyping condition was successfully developed with the high sensitivity, specificity, and consistency. SNP rs7107217 had high polymorphism with the frequency of minor allele C of 29.9% and 35.3% in case and control, respectively. SNP rs7107217 had been found no association with the breast cancer risk (C vs A: P = 0.23, OR (95% CI) = 0.79 (0.53 – 1.17)). However with the low reliability of the analysis (11.71%) and the high potential related to the formation of breast cancer, the association between rs7107217 and breast cancer risk in Vietnamese population should be further conducted on a larger sample size to get higher accuracy.

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among women and accounts for the highest mortality rates in the developing countries, including Vietnam. D-loop, is a non-coding region in mitochondrialcircular DNA molecules, related to control the replication and transcription of mitochondrial genes. D-loop mutations cause the dysfunction of the respiratory chain, which contributes to the process of BC. SNP rs3937033 (T/C) on D-loop was reported to have the association with BC in Europe America population (OR [95%CI]= 1.98 [1.25–3.12], P=0.036), and Caucasian (OR[95%CI]= 21 [2.15–204.6], P=0.003). In this study, the High Resolution Melting (HRM) method is optimized for genotyping 100/100 cases/controls samples, then to determine the association between the disease and this SNP. TT, TC and CC genotype frequencies in patient group (36 %, 3 % and 61 %) and control group (23 %, 1 % and 76 %) were calculated based on the results of genotyping by optimal HRM method with the annealing temperature is 66 0C. Association analysis result showed that T allele increases the risk of breast cancer patients up to 1.41 times (OR [95% CI] = 1.41 [1.3-1.92], Pallele = 0.03). Therefore, SNP rs3937033 could be a potential biomarker for early BC diagnosis in Vietnamese. However, this research needs to be conducted with a larger sample size to reach the greater confidence.

In this paper, SnO2 nano particles were loaded on TiO2 nanotubes (SnO2/TNTs) by onestep hydrothermal method with the purpose to enhance the photocatalytic ability of TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs). Structure and morphology of the material were characterized by X-ray diffraction measurement (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). SnO2 nano particles onto TNTs prevent the recombination of electronhole pairs at the interface area. This contribution increased the photocatalytic efficiency of the material. The effect of SnO2 contents on the photocatalytic activities of the composite materials was also investigated with methylene blue that is chosen as the pollutant in industry. The results showed that SnO2/TNTs composite materials had been successfully synthesized by one-step hydrothermal method and SnO2/TNTs composite material with 2 % SnO2 content loading possesses the highest photocatalytic efficiency with 70 % after 180 minutes illuminated under sunlight.