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Sheibak N, Heidari Z, Mahmoudzadeh-Sagheb H. Immunoexpression of interferon-gamma in the interdental gingiva of chronic periodontitis patients with interferon-gamma (+874A/T) rs62559044 polymorphism. J Oral Biol Craniofac Res 2022; 12:727-732. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jobcr.2022.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Revised: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 08/20/2022] [Indexed: 10/15/2022] Open
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Cakmak Genc G, Karakas Celık S, Kocaaga A, Koca R, Dursun A. Association Between IL28B, IL29 Gene Polymorphisms and Clinical Manifestations of Behçet's Disease. Immunol Invest 2021; 50:906-913. [PMID: 32646311 DOI: 10.1080/08820139.2020.1791176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic, multisystemic, inflammatory disease characterized by relapsing episodes of a wide spectrum of clinical findings. The role and mechanism of IFN-λs in BD remain unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between IL29 and IL28B gene polymorphisms and BD or clinical manifestations. METHODS Using the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method, single-nucleotide polymorphisms of IL28B rs8099917 (IL28 G/T), rs12979860 (IL28 C/T) and IL29 rs30461 (IL29 T/C) were studied in 94 patients with BD and 90 healthy controls. RESULTS Our study did not show any relationship between Behçet Disease and genotype or allele frequencies of IL28B (rs8099917, rs12979860) and IL29 (rs30461) gene polymorphisms (p > .05). We found that the TT genotype of rs12979860 (IL28 C/T) polymorphism is higher in healthy controls and patients without central nervous system (CNS) involvement compared to patients with CNS involvement (p = .014 and p = .022). CONCLUSIONS As a result, although the relationship was found between IL28 and IL29 gene polymorphisms with some clinical manifestations of BD, it was not directly related to the predisposition of the disease. The relationship between IL-28 and IL-29 which act as regulators in inflammatory processes, with Behçet disease, needs to be investigated in further studies.
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- G Cakmak Genc
- Department of Medical Genetics, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Health Practice and Research Center, Zonguldak, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Health Practice and Research Center, Zonguldak, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Health Practice and Research Center, Zonguldak, Turkey
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- Department of Dermatology, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Health Practice and Research Center, Zonguldak, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Health Practice and Research Center, Zonguldak, Turkey
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Moudi B, Heidari Z, Asemi-Rad A, Mahmoudzadeh-Sagheb H, Sheibak N, Ghasemi M, Eslami S. Cannabinoid receptor type-1 and its correlation with CB1 gene polymorphism-1359G/A in ectopic pregnancy compared to the control group. J Obstet Gynaecol Res 2021; 47:1256-1264. [PMID: 33511667 DOI: 10.1111/jog.14688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2020] [Revised: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 01/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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AIM Ectopic pregnancy (EP) is one of the most important causes of maternal mortality. This study aimed to evaluate the immunohistochemical (IHC) expression of the cannabinoid receptor type-1 (CB1) and its association with CB1-1359G/A gene polymorphism (rs1049353) in the fallopian tubes in EP compared to controls. METHODS In this case-control study, 100 women with EP (cases) and 100 women that underwent abdominal surgery due to the hysterectomy or uterine tubal ligation (healthy controls) were included. Genotyping of CB1-1359G/A polymorphism, tissue expression of CB1 at the protein and mRNA levels were studied using restriction fragment length polymorphism, IHC method, and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analysis. RESULTS Genotyping showed that in EP, the frequency of AA, AA+AG genotypes, and A allele was significantly higher than healthy control subjects (p = 0.001). Also, patients with EP had significantly increased IHC expression of CB-1 compared to the control samples (p = 0.016). Patients with AA and AG genotypes had a significantly higher IHC expression of CB-1 compared to the GG genotype. qRT-PCR analysis showed that patients with EP had significantly increased expression of CB-1 compared to the control samples (p < 0.001). Patients with AA and AG genotypes had higher significant mRNA expression of CB-1 compared to the GG genotype. CONCLUSIONS CB1 is likely to be effective in creating innate immunity in humans and can affect the process of EP in the fallopian tube. CB1 is also a pathological valuable factor in identifying the pathway of inflammation during ectopic implantation.
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- Bita Moudi
- Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Resistant Tuberculosis Institute, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.,Department of Histology, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Resistant Tuberculosis Institute, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.,Department of Histology, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.,Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Resistant Tuberculosis Institute, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Resistant Tuberculosis Institute, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.,Department of Histology, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Department of Histology, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Moloud Infertility Center, Ali ibn Abitaleb Hospital, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.,Pregnancy Health Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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Chinnaswamy S, Kowalski ML. The Genetic Association of IFN-λs with Human Inflammatory Disorders Remains a Conundrum. J Interferon Cytokine Res 2019; 39:594-598. [PMID: 31161954 DOI: 10.1089/jir.2019.0009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Type III Interferons (IFNs) or lambda IFNs (IFN-λs or IFNLs) although are primarily antiviral cytokines, may have roles to play in shaping immune responses, including those during inflammation. Genetic variants within the IFNL locus have been shown to be associated with various inflammatory conditions in humans ranging from metabolic to autoimmune and allergic diseases. The mechanism behind these genetic associations is not clear. Appropriate data analysis methods and functional evidence should be complimentarily used to identify the causal variants and mechanisms.
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- Chair of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Lodz, Poland.,Department of Immunology and Allergy, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
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Bhushan A, Chinnaswamy S. Identifying causal variants at the interferon lambda locus in case-control studies: Utilizing non-synonymous variant rs117648444 to probe the role of IFN-λ4. Gene 2018; 664:168-180. [PMID: 29705128 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2018.04.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2018] [Revised: 04/19/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Genetic variants at the interferon lambda (IFNL) locus have been associated with several human phenotypes in both disease and health. In chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, where the IFNL variants were first identified to be associated with response to interferon-α-ribavirin therapy, the available data clearly suggests that the causal variant could be the dinucleotide polymorphism rs368234815 that causes an open reading frame-shift in the IFNL4 gene resulting in expression of a functional IFN-λ4, a new type III IFN. In other human diseases/phenotypes where IFNL variants have been recently associated with, the causal mechanism remains unclear. In vitro evidence has shown that other IFNL variants (rs28416813, rs4803217) may regulate expression of another type III IFN, IFN-λ3. Therefore, expression of a functional IFN-λ4 and quantitative differences in IFN-λ3 expression are two potential causal mechanisms behind the observed phenotypes. Since these two potential causal mechanisms involve features of mutual exclusivity and overlapping functions, it is difficult to differentiate one from the other, in vivo, in absence of other implicating evidences. In addition, the strong linkage disequilibrium (LD) observed in many populations at the IFNL locus makes it difficult to tease out the actual functional/causal variants responsible for the phenotypes. The non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphism rs117648444 that alters the activity of IFN-λ4 and the LD structure in the IFNL region which leads to a confounding effect of rs117648444 on other IFNL variants, provide us with additional tools in case-control studies to probe the role of IFN-λ4.
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- Anand Bhushan
- National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, P.O.:N.S.S., Kalyani, West Bengal 741251, India
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- National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, P.O.:N.S.S., Kalyani, West Bengal 741251, India.
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CCR5, MCP-1 and VDR Gene Polymorphisms Are Associated with the Susceptibility to HBV Infection. Indian J Clin Biochem 2018; 34:407-417. [PMID: 31686727 DOI: 10.1007/s12291-018-0772-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2018] [Accepted: 06/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Genetic variants of chemokine and regulatory cytokines play functional roles in chronic HBV infection. The objective of the study, was to evaluate the association between the CCR5D32, CCR5-2459A/G, MCP-1-2518A/G, VDR-APa1A/C, VDR-Taq1T/C SNPs and HBV susceptibility, in samples of Iranian populations. The CCR5D32, CCR5-2459A/G, MCP1-2518A/G, VDR-APa1A/C, VDR-Taq1T/C polymorphisms were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction and PCR-RFLP using 100 chronic HBV infected (HBV) patients, 40 spontaneously recovered HBV (SR) subjects and 100 healthy controls (C). Also, serum levels of protein were monitored. The study showed that the existence of CCR5-2459A, MCP1-2518G and VDR-CC alleles significantly increased risk of chronic HBV infection. In addition, WtAGCC haplotype had a higher frequency in HBV patients than C and SR groups and might relate to the natural history of the infection. Statistical analysis indicated positive correlations between CCR5-2459A/G, MCP1-2518A/G, VDR-APa1A/C, VDR-Taq1T/C genotypes and serum levels of the CCR5, MCP-1 and VDR in HBV patients. According to the statistical analysis, significant associations with susceptibility to chronic HBV infection was observed with CCR5-2459A/G, MCP1-2518A/G, VDR-APa1A/C, VDR-Taq1T/C polymorphisms. In addition, no association of the CCR5D32 SNP with the disease was found.
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