| Autor: |
Gomes-Silva, Isaura Isabelle Fonseca, Rushansky, Eliezer, Carvalho-Neto, Francisco Geraldo, Batista Vieira, Amanda Virginia, de Araujo Mariano, Maria Helena Queiroz, de Souza, Paulo Roberto Eleutério, Alejandro Montes, Martिn, Diniz Maia, Maria Mascena |
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Acta Medica Iranica; 2018, Vol. 56 Issue 7, p429-433, 5p |
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Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a complex disease with higher level of IL-6. In order to elucidate the alterations related to IL-6 gene in RA, we evaluated the -174 G/C IL-6 gene polymorphism and methylation pattern of its promoter. A total of 120 RA patients and 120 healthy controls were recruited for polymorphism analysis, and 30 individuals of both groups were randomly selected for methylation analysis. The IL-6 gene polymorphism was analyzed by PCR-RFLP and methylation pattern was analyzed by MSPPCR. Regarding IL-6 gene polymorphism, no significant difference was found between RA patients and controls (P>0.05). For DNA, two CpG regions of IL-6 promoter gene was analyzed. The first region (-1069, -1061, -1057 and -1001 CpG) did not show significant differences, whereas the second region (-628, -610, -574 and -491 CpG) showed a significant hypermethylated status (P=0.0004) in RA patients as compared with controls.These results, suggest a possible relationship between methylation pattern and the susceptibility to RA in our studied population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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