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| He,Jin; Yang,Haoyu; Xu,Zhonghua; Li,Jin; Chen,Gang; Jiang,Lifeng; Wu,Lidong; Zhou,Xindie. |
| Abstract Paired basic amino acid-cleaving enzyme 4 (PACE4), a proprotein convertase, is involved in the activation of aggrecanases (ADAMTS-4 and ADAMTS-5) in osteoarthritic and cytokine-stimulated cartilage. Activated aggrecanases cause aggrecan degradation and thus, contribute to osteoarthritis (OA). In this study, we investigated the association between PACE4 gene polymorphisms and OA risk. One single-nucleotide polymorphism (rs4965833) in the PACE4 gene was genotyped in 432 OA patients and 523 healthy controls using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) was used to determine the relative expression of PACE4 in blood samples from 90 OA patients (30 for each... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: ACE4; Osteoarthritis; Bioinformatics analysis; Single-nucleotide polymorphism. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572020000100104 |
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| Chen,Lin; Huang,Zhuochun; Liao,Yun; Yang,Bin; Zhang,Junlong. |
| Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) plays an important role in autoimmune diseases. Previous studies have investigated the association of TNF-α-238G/A (rs361525) and -308G/A (rs1800629) polymorphisms with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, no agreed conclusion had been made. Therefore, this meta-analysis was conducted to assess the associations of TNF-α-238G/A and -308G/A polymorphisms with RA and SLE risk. A systematic search was conducted in commonly used databases. Meta-analysis was performed by STATA12.0. A total of 43 studies were included. In the overall population, the TNF-α-238A allele was observed to be a protective factor for RA (A vs G: OR=0.75, 95%CI=0.57–0.99, P=0.040) and the TNF-α-308A allele was found... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Rheumatoid arthritis; Single-nucleotide polymorphism; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Tumor necrosis factor-alpha; Meta-analysis. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2019000300607 |
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| Yang,Haoyu; Li,Jin; Jiang,Lifeng; Jiang,Xijia; Zhou,Xindie; Xu,Nanwei. |
| The autoimmune regulator (AIRE), a transcriptional regulator expressed in medullary thymic epithelial cells, plays an important role in thymocyte education and negative selection. Several citations studying the association between the rs878081 exon polymorphism of the AIRE gene and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in different populations have yielded conflicting findings. Thus, this case-control study involving 300 RA cases and 300 controls was aimed to identify whether such association existed in a Chinese Han population from East China. The rs878081 polymorphism of the AIRE gene was genotyped. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated using the chi-squared test, genetic model analysis, and stratification analysis. Genetic... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: AIRE; Single-nucleotide polymorphism; Rheumatoid arthritis; Case-control study. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2018001200612 |
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