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M Buysschaert1, J L Gala, A Bessomo
1Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Cliniques universitaires St Luc, université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. buysschaert@diab.ucl.ac.be
Objective:
The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of the C677T mutation in a cohort of type 2 diabetic patients with and without elevated total plasma homocysteine (tHcy).
Methods:
80 type 2 diabetic patients with hyperhomocysteinaemia (group 1, tHcy: 21.3 +/- 6.7 micromol/L) and 50 subjects with normal levels (group 2, tHcy 11.2 +/- 2.3 micromol/L) were studied. C677T mutation was assessed by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP).
Results:
Homozygosity was present in 23% of patients in group 1 and 8% in group 2 (P<0.02). No significant difference in heterozygosity frequency was observed between patients with and without hyperhomocysteinaemia. T allele frequency was 0.43 in group 1 and 0.35 in group 2.
Conclusion:
C677T mutation is frequent in diabetic patients with hyperhomocysteinaemia and could contribute, besides non genetic factors, to increased levels of tHcy.
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