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J Med Virol ; 87(7): 1207-17, 2015 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25908236

RESUMO

HCV is a major cause of liver disease worldwide. IL-12 plays an essential role in the balance of T helper 1 (Th1) differentiation versus a T helper 2 (Th2) driven response from its naïve precursor. Linkage disequilibrium measures the degree to which alleles at two loci are associated and the non-random associations between alleles at two loci. Haplotypes of the three IL-12B loci studied were determined in the patient cases and the normal healthy control subjects. The frequency of the 12 possible IL-12B haplotypes on the 3 loci was determined in subjects heterozygous at only one of the loci within the studied haplotype. Haplotype frequencies were compared between the patient groups and controls (n = 49) to determine if any preferential combination of markers occurred using chi-squared and applying the Bonferroni correction. 45 HCV RNA negative patients; 88 HCV RNA positive patients; and 15 uninfected cases at high risk of HCV infection (EU) were studied. The haplotype "C" SNP of the 3'UTR with the "E" 4 bp deletion of the intron 4 region was in linkage disequilibrium (χ(2) = 45.15, P < 0.001, 95% CL). The haplotype analysis of the insertion allele of the promoter with the deletion allele of the intron 4("E") IL-12B polymorphism showed linkage disequilibrium (χ(2) = 5.64, P = 0.02). Linkage disequilibrium of polymorphisms is reported in the IL-12 gene in patients with HCV infection and contributes to the understanding of patient genotype and expected production of IL-12, responding to infection.


Assuntos
Haplótipos , Hepatite C/genética , Interleucina-12/genética , Desequilíbrio de Ligação , Polimorfismo Genético , Regiões 3' não Traduzidas , Sequência de Bases , Feminino , Frequência do Gene , Hepacivirus/genética , Hepacivirus/imunologia , Hepatite C/imunologia , Hepatite C/virologia , Humanos , Subunidade p40 da Interleucina-12/genética , Íntrons , Masculino , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas
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Gene ; 569(1): 41-5, 2015 Sep 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25858271

RESUMO

UNLABELLED: The effective treatment of diabetes and the prevention of diabetic complications may be improved by a better understanding of the antioxidant function of intracellular defences against oxidative stress. Polymorphisms in antioxidant genes may determine cellular oxidative stress levels as a primary pathogenic role in diabetes and/or in its complications. SOD-2 was investigated in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) to ascertain if specific genotypes have any protective influences in the pathogenic mechanisms in diabetes and/or in several different complications, including retinopathy, nephropathy and diabetic controls compared to normal healthy controls. METHOD: 278 (136M:142F) T1DM patients and 135 (72M:63F) normal, healthy controls were investigated for SOD-2 polymorphism in the mitochondrial targeting sequence with Ala/Val (C-9T) substitution. RESULTS: A significant difference in the C-9-T genotype was observed between patients and normal controls but not between diabetic controls and patients with complications. There were significantly more of the diabetic control (DC, n=62) group (11.3%) than the patients with diabetic nephropathy (DN, n=73) (1.4%) with the CC genotype (p=0.03 and χ(2)=4.27, OR=9.16 (1.08

Assuntos
Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/genética , Nefropatias Diabéticas/genética , Estresse Oxidativo/genética , Superóxido Dismutase/genética , Adulto , Antioxidantes/metabolismo , Complicações do Diabetes/genética , Complicações do Diabetes/patologia , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/patologia , Nefropatias Diabéticas/patologia , Feminino , Frequência do Gene , Estudos de Associação Genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Superóxido Dismutase/metabolismo
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J Med Virol ; 86(6): 941-7, 2014 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24610415

RESUMO

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a pathogen causing chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer occurring in about 3% of the world's population. Most individuals infected with HCV develop persistent viremia. Oxidative stress may play an important role in the pathogenesis of a number of diseases including HCV infection and diabetes mellitus. Polymorphisms in the antioxidant genes may determine cellular oxidative stress levels as a primary pathogenic role in HCV and/or in its complications. Patients with HCV and normal, healthy controls were investigated for a superoxide dismutase (SOD-2) polymorphism in the mitochondrial targeting sequence with Ala/Val (C-9T) substitution. Polymorphisms in antioxidant gene SOD-2 were carried out by PCR, restriction fragment length polymorphism assays and by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. For the SOD-2 polymorphism, the RNA positive group showed a higher percentage of "CT" genotype than the RNA negative group (89.3% vs. 66.1%, P = 0.001, χ(2) = 11.9). The RNA negative group had more TT genotypes than the RNA positive group (27.4% vs. 6.80%, P = 0.01, χ(2) = 11.6). The exposed uninfected group had an increased frequency of the "CT" genotype (86.2% vs. 66.1%, P = 0.02, χ(2) = 5.5). The RNA positives had a higher frequency of the "CT" from the normal controls (72.1% vs. 89.2%, P = 0.005, χ(2) = 7.8).


Assuntos
Predisposição Genética para Doença , Hepacivirus/imunologia , Hepatite C/imunologia , Superóxido Dismutase/genética , Superóxido Dismutase/metabolismo , Adulto , Eletroforese em Gel de Poliacrilamida , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Polimorfismo de Fragmento de Restrição , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Estudos Retrospectivos
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J Interferon Cytokine Res ; 25(5): 271-6, 2005 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15871664

RESUMO

Most people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) develop chronic infection with persistent viremia. Resolution of infection is associated with antiviral cellular immune responses of T helper 1 (Th1) type. Interleukin-12 (IL-12) is a key cytokine in the generation of Th1 responses, and functionally relevant polymorphisms of the IL12B gene and its promoter have been described recently. We sought an association between three IL12B polymorphisms and outcome of HCV infection in 195 HCV antibody-positive patients; 123 were chronically infected with detectable HCV RNA, and 72 had spontaneously resolved infection testing repeatedly negative for HCV RNA. Genotyping was performed for a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the 3'-UTR (1188A/C) of the IL12B gene and for 4-bp insertion/deletion polymorphisms in the IL12B promoter region and in the intron 4 region of the IL12B gene. We found chronically infected patients were significantly more likely than those with resolved HCV infection to be homozygous for the 3'-UTR A allele (66% vs. 50%; chi-square = 4.12, p = 0.04 with Yates correction), which has been associated with lower IL-12 production. No other significant association was found. Our findings support the concept that an individual's genetically determined ability to produce IL-12 is another factor that can influence the outcome of HCV infection.


Assuntos
Hepatite C/genética , Hepatite C/imunologia , Interleucina-12/genética , Polimorfismo Genético , Subunidades Proteicas/genética , Regiões 3' não Traduzidas , Adulto , Alelos , Sequência de Bases , Estudos de Casos e Controles , DNA/genética , Feminino , Haplótipos , Hepatite C/virologia , Hepatite C Crônica/genética , Hepatite C Crônica/imunologia , Hepatite C Crônica/virologia , Homozigoto , Humanos , Interleucina-12/biossíntese , Subunidade p40 da Interleucina-12 , Íntrons , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Prognóstico , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Subunidades Proteicas/biossíntese , Deleção de Sequência
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