Qrafli Mounia, Amar Youssef, Bourkadi Jamaleddine, Ben Amor Jouda, Iraki Ghali, Bakri Youssef, Amzazi Saaîd, Lahlou Ouafae, Seghrouchni Fouad, El Aouad Rajae, Sadki Khalid
Laboratory of Human Genomic, National Institute of Hygiene, Rabat, Morocco ; Laboratory of Biochemistry and Immunology, Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.
Laboratory of Biochemistry and Immunology, Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.
Pan Afr Med J. 2014 May 1;18:1. doi: 10.11604/pamj.2014.18.1.3397. eCollection 2014.
Despite the medical progress in treatment. Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a serious global health problem. A genome-wide linkage study identified a major susceptibility locus on chromosomal region 8q12-q13 in Moroccan TB patients. The CYP7A1 gene is located in this region and codes for cholesterol 7a-hydroxylase, an enzyme involved in cholesterol catabolism.
We selected three SNPs (rs3808607, rs8192875 and rs8192879) and studied their genotype and allele frequencies distribution in patients with pulmonary (PTB) or pleural TB (pTB), and compared them to Healthy Controls (HC). Genotyping of rs8192875 and rs8192879 SNPs was carried out using the Taq Man SNP genotyping Assay while rs3808607 was investigated by PCR-RFLP.
We reported here for the first time a statistically significant increase in the AA homozygote genotype frequency of rs3808607 in PTB patients compared to HC (p=0.02, OR=1.93, 95% CI: 1.93 (1.07;3.49). The increased risk of developing TB was maintained when we combined the groups of patients (PTB-pTB) (p=0.01, OR=1.91, 95% CI=(1.07-3.42). In contrast, no genetic association was observed between the rs8192875 or rs8192879 polymorphisms and TB.
Our investigations suggest that rs3808607 may play a role in susceptibility to TB in a Moroccan population.
尽管在治疗方面取得了医学进展,但结核病(TB)仍然是一个严重的全球健康问题。一项全基因组连锁研究在摩洛哥结核病患者中确定了染色体区域8q12 - q13上的一个主要易感基因座。CYP7A1基因位于该区域,编码胆固醇7α - 羟化酶,这是一种参与胆固醇分解代谢的酶。
我们选择了三个单核苷酸多态性(SNP,rs3808607、rs8192875和rs8192879),研究它们在肺结核(PTB)或结核性胸膜炎(pTB)患者中的基因型和等位基因频率分布,并将其与健康对照(HC)进行比较。使用Taq Man SNP基因分型检测法对rs8192875和rs8192879 SNP进行基因分型,而rs3808607则通过PCR - RFLP进行研究。
我们首次报告,与HC相比,PTB患者中rs3808607的AA纯合子基因型频率有统计学意义的增加(p = 0.02,OR = 1.93,95% CI:1.93(1.07;3.49)。当我们合并患者组(PTB - pTB)时,患结核病风险增加的情况依然存在(p = 0.01,OR = 1.91,95% CI =(1.07 - 3.42)。相比之下,未观察到rs8192875或rs8192879多态性与结核病之间存在遗传关联。
我们的数据表明rs3808607可能在摩洛哥人群对结核病的易感性中起作用。