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A disease haplotype for advanced nephropathy in type 2 diabetes at the ACE locus
Daniel P K Ng1, Grzegorz Placha, Serena Choo
1Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Abstract:
Previous investigations of the ACE gene as a susceptibility factor for diabetic nephropathy have primarily focused on its insertion/deletion (Ins/Del) polymorphism. In a departure from these earlier studies, we used three tagging markers (A-5466C, T-3892C, and Ins/Del) at the ACE locus to test for disease haplotype associations. A case-control study design was used where case subjects were type 2 diabetic patients with advanced diabetic nephropathy, as indicated by the presence of proteinuria or chronic renal failure/end-stage renal disease, while control subjects were normoalbuminuric, despite >6 years of diabetes. None of the individual markers showed significant disease association when considered on their own. However, haplotype analyses revealed a near doubling in the prevalence of the A.T.D risk haplotype in case subjects (0.136) compared with control subjects (0.075) (P = 0.009), thus providing first evidence for a disease haplotype for advanced diabetic nephropathy at the ACE locus.
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