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Objective@#To investigate the association of ORMDL3 gene polymorphism with the risk of bronchial asthma of Uygur people in Urumqi region. @*Methods@#Ten single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci of ORMDL3 gene in 93 Uygur patients with bronchial asthma and 100 healthy controls were genotyped by the multiplex SNP (SNaPshot) technique, and the association of different genotypes and alleles with the risk of asthma of Uygur people was analyzed. @*Results@#There were significant differences in genotype and allele frequencies of rs7216389 and rs12603332 loci of ORMDL3 gene between asthma patients and healthy controls (P＜0.05). The detection data of SNP loci of ORMDL3 gene were all in accordance with Hardy-Weiberg law (P＞0.05). @*Conclusion@#The polymorphism of ORMDL3 gene is directly associated with the risk of asthma in Uygur people, and the rs7216389 and rs12603332 loci of ORMDL3 gene may be the susceptible sites of bronchial asthma in Uygur people.
ABSTRACT
Based on ancient literature of acupuncture in Canon of Chinese Medicine (4th edition), the articles regarding acupuncture for urinary incontinence were retrieved and collected to establish a database. By Weka data mining software, the multi-level association rules analysis method was applied to analyze the acupoints selection characteristics and rules of ancient acupuncture for treatment of urinary incontinence. Totally 356 articles of acupuncture for urinary incontinence were collected, involving 41 acupoints with a total frequency of 364. As a result, (1) the acupoints in the yin-meridian of hand and foot were highly valued, as the frequency of acupoints in yin-meridians was 2.6 times than that in yang-meridians, and the frequency of acupoints selected was the most in the liver meridian of foot-jueyin; (2) the acupoints in bladder meridian of foot-taiyang were also highly valued, and among three yang-meridians of foot, the frequency of acupoints in the bladder meridian of foot-taiyang was 54, accounting for 65.85% (54/82); (3) more acupoints selected were located in the lower limbs and abdomen; (4) specific acupoints in above meridians were mostly selected, presenting 73.2% (30/41) to the ratio of number and 79.4% (289/364) to the frequency, respectively; (5) Zhongji (CV 3), the front-mu point of bladder meridian, was seldom selected in the ancient acupuncture literature, which was different from modern literature reports. The results show that urinary incontinence belongs to external genitalia diseases, which should be treated from yin, indicating more yin-meridians be used and special acupoints be focused on. It is essential to focus inheritance and innovation in TCM clinical treatment, and applying data mining technology to ancient literature of acupuncture could provide classic theory basis for TCM clinical treatment.