Chiorean Alin-Dan, Nicula Gheorghe Zsolt, Bâlici Ștefana, Vică Mihaela Laura, Iancu Loga Luminita-Ioana, Dican Lucia, Matei Horea Vladi
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Emergency Clinical Hospital for Children, 400370 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Life (Basel). 2024 Mar 27;14(4):441. doi: 10.3390/life14040441.
Autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD), particularly Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) and Basedow-Graves disease (BGD) are diseases of global public health concern, characterized by autoimmune attacks on the thyroid gland, leading to hypothyroidism in HT and hyperthyroidism in BGD. We conducted a study between 2019 and 2021 in northwestern Transylvania (Romania) on patients with HT and with BGD compared to the control group. The aim of the study was to investigate the correlations of HLA class II alleles with AITD by identifying potential genetic susceptibility factors such as and genes in patients diagnosed with HT and BGD. Various molecular biology methods, including SSP-PCR low-resolution and PCR-SSO were employed to analyze DNA samples from patients and control subjects. Our study revealed the influence of the genotype as a genetic susceptibility factor for HT, a similar influence regarding BGD being observed for the allele group, genotype, and the haplotype. The only protective factor detected in our study was the allele group, for both HT and BGD. By elucidating any specific allele or genotype associations that might contribute to the development of AITD, our study can contribute to the prevention and early detection of these diseases.
自身免疫性甲状腺疾病(AITD),尤其是桥本甲状腺炎(HT)和巴塞多-格雷夫斯病(BGD),是全球公共卫生关注的疾病,其特征是甲状腺受到自身免疫攻击,导致HT患者出现甲状腺功能减退,BGD患者出现甲状腺功能亢进。我们在2019年至2021年期间,在特兰西瓦尼亚西北部(罗马尼亚)对HT患者和BGD患者与对照组进行了一项研究。该研究的目的是通过识别潜在的遗传易感性因素,如诊断为HT和BGD的患者中的 和 基因,来研究HLA II类等位基因与AITD的相关性。采用了多种分子生物学方法,包括SSP-PCR低分辨率法和PCR-SSO法,对患者和对照受试者的DNA样本进行分析。我们的研究揭示了 基因型作为HT的遗传易感性因素的影响,在BGD方面,观察到 等位基因组、 基因型和 单倍型有类似影响。在我们的研究中检测到的唯一保护因素是 等位基因组,对HT和BGD均如此。通过阐明任何可能导致AITD发生的特定等位基因或基因型关联,我们的研究有助于这些疾病的预防和早期检测。