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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 58, Issue 7, Pages 920-926Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcph.1096
Keywords
MAO-B; COMT; dyskinesia; levodopa; polymorphisms
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- Brazilian funding agency FACEPE (Fundacao de Amparo a Ciencia e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco)
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The most commonly used Parkinson's disease (PD) treatment is the replacement of dopamine by its levodopa precursor (L-dopa). Monoamine oxidase-B (MAO-B) and catechol-o-methyl transferase (COMT) are enzymes involved in the metabolism and regulation of dopamine availability. In our study we investigated the possible relation among selected single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the MAO-B (rs1799836) and COMT (rs4680) genes and the therapeutic response to levodopa (L-dopa). A total of 162 Brazilian patients from the Pro-Parkinson service of Clinics Hospital of Pernambuco diagnosed with sporadic PD and treated with levodopa were enrolled. PD patients were stratified into 2 groups according to the daily levodopa dose. MAO-B and COMT SNP genotyping was conducted by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism. After multivariate analysis, we observed a significant difference between PD groups for the following variables: sex (P = .02), longer duration of disease (P = .02), longer levodopa therapy duration (P = .01), younger onset of PD (P = .01), and use of COMT inhibitor (P = .02). We observed that patients carrying MAO-B (rs1799836) A and AA genotypes and COMT (rs4680) LL genotype suffered more frequently from levodopa-induced-dyskinesia. In addition, we found an increased risk of 2.84-fold for male individuals carrying the MAO-B G allele to be treated with higher doses of levodopa (P = .04). We concluded that before beginning PD pharmacological treatment, it is important to consider the genetic variants of the MAO-B and COMT genes and the sex, reinforcing the evidence that sexual dimorphism in the genes related to dopamine metabolism might affect PD treatment.
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