Journal
INNATE IMMUNITY
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages 174-183Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1753425912455675
Keywords
Austro-Asiatic; malaria; Tibeto-Burman; Toll-like receptors
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- Department of Biotechnology, India [BT/HRD/01/002/2007]
- Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India [F.14-616(ST)/2008(SA-III)]
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Infectious diseases have been postulated to play an important role in exerting pressure and in selection of TLR polymorphisms. Single nucelotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of TLR4 have been reported to show unique distributions in populations from Africa, Asia and Europe, and malaria is suggested to influence these patterns. In this context, we examined association of TLR polymorphisms with the risk of malaria in two ethnic groups-the Austro-Asiatics and Tibeto-Burmans-from malaria endemic districts of Assam to understand the influence of malaria in selection of TLRs in these genetically-distinct populations. TLR9 (T-1237C) mutation was positively associated with complicated (P = 0.001) and frequent (P = 0.035) malaria in Austro-Asiatics (relative risk = 0.595 95% CI: 0.479-0.836), but not in Tibeto-Burmans. Nonetheless, these alleles were not in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium in Tibeto-Burmans (P<0.001). In contrast, the TLR9 1486T/C genotype was favourable where it was negatively associated with complicated malaria (Fishers exact P = 0.014). Sequencing data revealed that the two populations differed in nucleotide diversity of the TLR9 promoter region. Enhanced expression of TLR4 (P = 0.05), but not of TLR9, was associated with complicated malaria. Austro-Asiatics appeared to have accumulated favourable genotypes of TLR9, perhaps because of their longer exposure to malaria.
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