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| Provedor de dados: |
BJMBR
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Effect of polymorphisms of the MTHFR and APOE genes on susceptibility to diabetes and severity of diabetic retinopathy in Brazilian patients
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| Autores: |
Errera,F.I.V.
Silva,M.E.R.
Yeh,E.
Maranduba,C.M.C.
Folco,B.
Takahashi,W.
Pereira,A.C.
Krieger,J.E.
Passos-Bueno,M.R.
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| Data: |
2006-07-01
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| Ano: |
2006
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| Palavras-chave: |
APOE
MTHFR
Polymorphisms
Diabetes
Diabetic retinopathy
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| Resumo: |
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a highly prevalent complex genetic disorder. There has been a worldwide effort in the identification of susceptibility genes for DM and its complications, and the 5-10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) and apolipoprotein-E (APOE) genes have been considered good candidate susceptibility genes to this condition. The objectives of the present study were to determine if the 677T MTHFR and epsilon2/epsilon3/epsilon4 APOE alleles are risk factors for DM and for severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR). A total of 248 individuals were studied: 107 healthy individuals and 141 diabetic patients (46 with type 1 diabetes and 95 with type 2 diabetes), who also had DR (81 with non-proliferative DR and 60 with proliferative DR). The polymorphisms were analyzed by PCR followed by digestion with restriction enzyme or the single-nucleotide primer extension method. No evidence of association between the 677TT genotype of MTHFR gene and DM [cases: TT = 10/95 (10.6%); controls: TT = 14/107 (13%)] or with severity of DR was observed [cases: TT = 5/60 (8.5%); controls: TT = 9/81 (11.1%); P > 0.05]. We also did not find evidence of an association between APOE alleles and proliferative DR (epsilon2, epsilon3 and epsilon4 in cases: 9, 76, and 15%, and in controls: 5, 88, and 12%, respectively) but the carriers of epsilon2 allele were more frequent among patients with type 2 DM and DR than in controls [cases: 15/95 (15.8%); controls: 7/107 (6.5%); P < 0.05]. Therefore, our results suggest that the epsilon2 allele/APOE might be a risk factor for diabetes in the Brazilian population.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2006000700005
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| Editor: |
Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S0100-879X2006000700005
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| Formato: |
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| Fonte: |
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research v.39 n.7 2006
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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