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Published on: March 28, 2017
Polymorphisms and phenotypic analysis of cytochrome P450 3A4 in the Uygur population in northwest China
Tianbo Jin1, Hua Yang1, Jiayi Zhang1
1School of Life Sciences, Northwest University Xi'an, Shaanxi 710069, China ; National Engineering Research Center for Miniaturized Detection Systems Xi'an 710069, Shaanxi China.
Purpose:
Genetic polymorphisms in CYP3A4 can change its activity to a certain degree, thus leading to differences among different populations in drug efficacy or adverse drug reactions.
Methods:
The study was intended to validate the genetic polymorphisms in CYP3A4 in Uygur Chinese population, we sequenced and screened for genetic variants including 5'UTR, promoters, exons, introns, and 3'UTR region of the whole CYP3A4 gene in 100 unrelated, healthy.
Results:
Twenty-one genetic polymorphisms in CYP3A4, and nine of them were novel. We detected CYP3A4*8, a putative poor-metabolizer allele, with the frequency of 0.5% in Uygur population. Tfsitescan revealed that the density of transcription factor varied in the different promoter regions, among which some were key regions for transcription factor binding.
Conclusion:
our results provide basic information about CPY3A4 alleles in Uygur and suggest that the enzymatic activities of CPY3A4 may differ among the diverse ethnic populations of China.
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