Immunoregulatory cytokines gene polymorphisms in Egyptian patients affected with acquired aplastic anemia
| Autor: | Shahira K. A. Botros, Rania Fawzy, Iman R. El Mahgoub, Reham A. Aleem Afify |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Adolescent Genotype T cell Single-nucleotide polymorphism Biology Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Severity of Illness Index Sampling Studies Young Adult Immune system Interferon medicine Humans Progenitor cell Aplastic anemia Interleukin 6 Child Alleles Polymorphism Genetic Anemia Aplastic Infant Hematology General Medicine medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Case-Control Studies Child Preschool Immunology biology.protein Cytokines Egypt Female Polymorphism Restriction Fragment Length medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Annals of hematology. 93(6) |
| ISSN: | 1432-0584 |
| Popis: | The immune system is thought to play an important role in aplastic anemia (AA) in light of recent findings of hematologic reconstitution after immunosuppressive therapy. T cell activation, apoptosis, and the cytokines interferon- and TNF-α are suspected to play a role in the suppression of growth of progenitor cells and induced apoptosis in CD34 target cells, TGFβ is a multifunctional peptide, usually produced in latent form and requiring activation to produce a biological response. Also, TGF-β1 has been described as an important negative regulator of haemopoiesis. Over production of IL-6 is described in AA but is of unknown pathophysiological significance. To investigate the role of cytokine gene polymorphisms (IL-6/-174, TNF-α/-308, IFN-γ/+874, and TGFβ1/-509) in patients with acquired AA to assess if genotypes associated with higher or lower production were more prevalent than in established control population and to study the possible association of these genotypes with the disease severity. Fifty AA patients were included in this study. Polymerase chain reaction-amplification refractory mutation system (PCR-ARMS) technique was used to detect INF-γ single nucleotide polymorphism -874A/T, and polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) was used to assess IL-6-174 C/G, TNF-α-308G/A, and TGFb1-509C/T gene polymorphisms. Genotypes associated with high production of TNF-α, TGF-β and IFN-γ, and IL-6 were more frequent in patients than in control; no association was found between the presence of hypersecretory genotypes and the disease severity. |
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