Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee 38163, USA.
Mov Disord. 2011 Feb 15;26(3):549-52. doi: 10.1002/mds.23551. Epub 2011 Mar 2.
Sequence variants in coding and noncoding regions of THAP1 have been associated with primary dystonia.
In this study, 1,446 Caucasian subjects with mainly adult-onset primary dystonia and 1,520 controls were genotyped for a variant located in the 5'-untranslated region of THAP1 (c.-237_236GA>TT).
Minor allele frequencies were 62/2892 (2.14%) and 55/3040 (1.81%) in subjects with dystonia and controls, respectively (P=0.202). Subgroup analyses by gender and anatomical distribution also failed to attain statistical significance. In addition, there was no effect of the TT variant on expression levels of THAP1 transcript or protein.
Our findings indicate that the c.-237_236GA>TT THAP1 sequence variant does not increase risk for adult-onset primary dystonia in Caucasians.
编码区和非编码区的 THAP1 序列变异与原发性肌张力障碍有关。
在这项研究中,对 1446 名主要为成年起病的原发性肌张力障碍患者和 1520 名对照者进行了位于 THAP1 5'-非翻译区的变异(c.-237_236GA>TT)的基因分型。
在肌张力障碍患者和对照组中,等位基因频率分别为 62/2892(2.14%)和 55/3040(1.81%)(P=0.202)。按性别和解剖分布进行的亚组分析也未达到统计学意义。此外,TT 变异对 THAP1 转录本或蛋白的表达水平没有影响。
我们的研究结果表明,在高加索人群中,c.-237_236GA>TT THAP1 序列变异不会增加成年起病的原发性肌张力障碍的风险。