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BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
Volume 107, Issue 2, Pages 164-169Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114511002704
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Kashin-Beck disease; Glutathione peroxidase 4; Polymorphisms; mRNA
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- National Science Foundation of China [30671820]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China [SJ082T12-5]
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Kashin-Beck disease (KBD) is a chronic endemic osteoarthropathy, which mainly occurs in West and Northeast China. Epidemiological studies suggest that Se deficiency is an important environmental factor for the incidence of KBD. Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPx4) belongs to the glutathione peroxidase family, which is crucial for optimal antioxidant defences. Our purpose is to investigate the putative association between GPx4 polymorphisms and the risk of KBD. Restriction fragment length polymorphism-PCR was used to detect two SNP (rs713041, rs4807542) in 2:19 cases and 194 controls in Han Chinese subjects, and quantitative analysis for the GPx4 mRNA level was performed by the real-time PCR method. The results revealed that linkage disequilibrium existed in the two SNP. A significant difference was observed in the haplotype A-T (P=0.0066) of GPx4, which was obviously lower in the KBD cases (0.006 v. 0.032%). Correlation analysis based on a single locus showed no association between each SNP and KBD risk. Furthermore, the GPx4 mRNA level was dramatically lower in the blood of KBD patients. Overall, our finding indicated GPx4 polymorphisms and decreased mRNA level may be related to the development of KBD in the Chinese population, suggesting GPx4 as a possible candidate susceptibility gene for KBD.
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