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Chan-Soon Park1, Jin-Hee Cho, Yong-Jin Park
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Objective:
To investigate the role of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the gene encoding Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 in Korean patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) and controls.
Study Design And Setting:
A case-control study.
Subjects And Methods:
Subjects (N = 214) were all adults (>20 years old) and were divided into patients with CRS (n = 106) and controls (n = 108). Five SNPs (rs1898830, rs3804099, rs3804100, R677W, and rs5743708) were selected and genotyped in a case-control study with the single-base-pair primer extension (SNaPshot) assay.
Results:
The case-control study revealed that 2 SNPs in TLR2, rs3804099 (odds ratio [OR] = 2.88; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.17-7.09; P = .022) and rs3804100 (OR = 3.76; 95% CI = 1.42-9.96; P = .008), showed significant differences in minor allele frequency between CRS patients and controls. These 2 SNPs were correlated with CRS risk in Korean patients.
Conclusions:
Two SNPs in TLR2 may be associated with increased risk of CRS in Korean subjects.
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