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T Illig1, F Bongardt, A Schöpfer-Wendels
1GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany. illig@gsf.de
Abstract:
The KORA studies serve as a powerful tool for the genetic analysis of complex diseases like type 2 diabetes or the metabolic syndrome. These studies include more than 2,000 prevalent and incident type 2 diabetes cases. DNA of these patients is available to be used in genetic studies. Up to now the analyses have focussed on genes coding for proteins being involved in the inflammatory response. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) as the key mediator of the acute phase reaction is of interest. Elevated protein concentrations of IL-6 in the blood have been shown to predict type 2 diabetes. We investigated the association of the IL-6 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) C-174G with type 2 diabetes in a case-control study of 704 elderly participants of the KORA Survey S4 (1999/2001). When BMI, HDL cholesterol, physical activity, hypertension, hormone replacement therapy and smoking were considered as covariables the SNP C-174G showed a trend for association with type 2 diabetes (- 174G: OR 1.20, 95 % CI 0.90 - 1.59, p = 0.21).
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