The pre-mir-27a variant rs895819 may contribute to type 2 diabetes mellitus susceptibility in an Iranian cohort

Autor: Behnam Alipoor, Mirdavood Omrani, Maryam Tabasinezhad, Reza Mirfakhraie, Hamid Ghaedi, Andrea Masotti, Fazlollah Shokri, Abolfazl Movafagh
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Europe PubMed Central
ISSN: 1720-8386
Popis: The study was aimed at investigating the association between hsa-mir-27a polymorphism rs895819 (T/C) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) susceptibility in a large Iranian cohort. In this case–control study, the investigated population consisted of T2DM patients (n = 204) and sex- and age-matched controls (n = 209). We used the polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR–RFLP) for genotyping. We observed significant differences between T2DM patients and controls for weight (p = 0.002), BMI (p
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