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J E Calzada1, A Nieto, M A López-Nevot
1Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina "López Neyra", CSIC, Granada, Spain.
Abstract:
Genetic analysis in mice and humans have established the key role of the human natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 (NRAMP1) in resistance to intracellular infections. In the present study we investigated whether four NRAMP1 polymorphisms (5'(GT)n, -236 C-->T, D543N, and 3'UTR deletion) were important in determining the susceptibility to Trypanosoma cruzi infections as well as in the development of chagasic cardiac disease. Genotyping for these variants was assessed in 83 seropositive (asymptomatic, n=51, cardiomyopathic, n=32) and 85 seronegative individuals from a Peruvian population where T. cruzi is endemic. No statistically significant differences either between patients and controls or between asymptomatic and cardiomyopathic individuals were observed with respect to NRAMP1 variants. Our data suggest that the NRAMP1 genetic polymorphism analysed do not play a major role in the pathogenesis of T. cruzi infection in this Peruvian sample.
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