ACE2 Gene Polymorphisms Do Not Affect Outcome of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
| Autor: | Louis Yik-Si Chan, K.C. Allen Chan, David S.C. Hui, Grace Tin-Yun Chung, Wing Shan Lee, Y.M. Dennis Lo, Yu K. Tong, Paul K.S. Chan, Nelson L.S. Tang, Ying Man Sung, Rossa W.K. Chiu, Stephen S.C. Chim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Genotype Clinical Biochemistry Carboxypeptidases Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Polymerase Chain Reaction Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Internal medicine Intensive care Case fatality rate medicine Humans Genetic Predisposition to Disease skin and connective tissue diseases Alleles business.industry Mortality rate fungi Biochemistry (medical) Respiratory disease Case-control study Outbreak DNA Sequence Analysis DNA medicine.disease body regions Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus Case-Control Studies Relative risk Immunology Female Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 Viral disease business Technical Briefs Sequence Alignment |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Chemistry |
| ISSN: | 1530-8561 0009-9147 |
| DOI: | 10.1373/clinchem.2004.035436 |
| Popis: | Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the first pandemic of the 21st century (1). Since its recognition, 8437 individuals have been affected and 813 have died (2). Approximately 20–30% of patients required intensive care admission (1). Although there was a slight predominance of female SARS patients, possibly because of the overrepresentation of female healthcare workers (1), male SARS patients were more likely to suffer poor outcomes (3). In a major hospital outbreak in Hong Kong (4), 32% of male and 15% of female SARS patients required intensive care or died. Remarkably, similar demographic data were seen among SARS patients in the greater Toronto area, Canada, where 32% of males and 14% of females with SARS required intensive care or died (5). Karlberg et al. (3) studied the case fatality rates among all confirmed SARS patients documented in the Hong Kong SARS epidemic in 2003. The authors concluded that the mortality rates differed significantly between males and females, being 21.9% and 13.2%, respectively. The relative risk for death in males was 1.62 after adjustment for age. It is thus an intriguing coincidence that ACE2 , the gene for the newly identified functional receptor for the SARS coronavirus, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, maps to the X-chromosome (Xp22) (6). ACE2 was first identified as a homolog of angiotensin-converting enzyme with zinc metalloproteinase activity (7). Many of its activities differ from those of angiotensin-converting enzyme (8). ACE2 has been found … |
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