Vaswani Meera, Prasad Pushplata, Kapur Suman
National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Hum Genomics. 2009 Apr;3(3):213-20. doi: 10.1186/1479-7364-3-3-213.
Functional polymorphism in the genes encoding alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) 1B and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) 2 are considered most important among several genetic determinants of alcohol dependence, a complex disorder. There is no report on the widely studied Arg47His and Glu487Lys polymorphisms from Indian alcohol-dependent populations. In this paper, we report, for the first time, allelic and genotypic frequencies of Arg47His and Glu487Lys single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in North Indian alcohol-dependent subjects. A total of 174 alcohol-dependent males, recruited using DSM IV criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), were genotyped using the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism method. The results obtained from genetic analysis were correlated with clinical parameters using Student's t-test or Mann Whitney's U test. The highlight of the study findings was the uniquely high frequency of the ALDH2*2/*2 genotype (among alcohol-dependent subjects) being a risk-conferring factor for alcohol dependence.
在酒精依赖这一复杂疾病的多个遗传决定因素中,编码乙醇脱氢酶(ADH)1B和乙醛脱氢酶(ALDH)2的基因中的功能多态性被认为是最为重要的。在印度酒精依赖人群中,关于被广泛研究的Arg47His和Glu487Lys多态性尚无报道。在本文中,我们首次报告了北印度酒精依赖受试者中Arg47His和Glu487Lys单核苷酸多态性(SNP)的等位基因和基因型频率。使用DSM-IV标准(美国精神病学协会,1994年)招募了总共174名酒精依赖男性,采用聚合酶链反应-限制性片段长度多态性方法对其进行基因分型。使用学生t检验或曼-惠特尼U检验将遗传分析获得的结果与临床参数进行关联。研究结果的亮点是ALDH2*2/*2基因型(在酒精依赖受试者中)作为酒精依赖风险因素的独特高频率。