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Relationship of the tumor necrosis factor-α -: 308 A/G promoter polymorphism with insulin sensitivity and abdominal fat distribution in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

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DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE
卷 56, 期 2, 页码 141-145

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ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8227(01)00358-8

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type 2 diabetes; TNF-alpha polymorphism; insulin resistance; abdominal fat distribution; Japanese

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We investigated the relationship of the A/G variant of the tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) gene promoter at position - 308 with insulin resistance and abdominal fat distribution in type 2 diabetic patients in the Japanese population. The TNF-alpha polymorphism was evaluated by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism in 142 healthy volunteers and 132 type 2 diabetic patients. Insulin sensitivity was assessed by homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) index in healthy subjects and hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp in type 2 diabetic patients. Abdominal fat distribution was evaluated by computed tomography (CT) scanning in diabetic patients. The TNF-alpha polymorphism was detected in three healthy volunteers and three type 2 diabetic patients, all of them being heterozygotes. There was no significant difference in allele frequencies of the - 308 polymorphism between healthy subjects (0.0106) and type 2 diabetic patients (0.0114). HOMA index was no significant difference between healthy subjects with and without polymorphism (1.09 +/- 0.03 vs. 1.02 +/- 0.05). Glucose infusion rate (GIR), an index of insulin sensitivity, was not significantly different between diabetic patients with and without TNF-alpha polymorphism (40.4 +/- 4.1 vs. 45.0 +/- 1.8 mumol/kg per min). Moreover, no remarkable effect of TNF-alpha polymorphism on abdominal fat distribution was observed in diabetic patients. These results suggest that A/G heterozygotes of the TNF-alpha gene promoter at position - 308 play no major role in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance or abdominal fat distribution in Japanese type 2 diabetic patients. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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