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Published on: April 4, 2018
Association between Endothelial nitric oxide synthase G894T gene polymorphism and risk of ischemic stroke in North
Amit Kumar1, Shubham Misra1, Pradeep Kumar1
1a Department of Neurology , All India Institute of Medical Sciences , New Delhi , India.
Background And Purpose:
Stroke is a multi-factorial disease influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. The aim of this case-control study was to determine the association between Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase G894T (rs1799983) gene polymorphism and susceptibility to ischemic stroke (IS) in North Indian population.
Methods:
In this present case-control study, genotyping was performed by using Polymerase chain reaction - Restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method for 250 IS patients and 250 age and sex matched controls. PCR results were confirmed by DNA sequencing. Frequency distribution of genotypes and alleles were compared between cases and controls using conditional logistic regression.
Results:
Hypertension, Diabetes, Dyslipidemia, Low Socioeconomic Status and Family History of Stroke were found to be independent risk factors for IS. Mean age of cases and controls were 52.83 ± 12.59 and 50.97 ± 12.70 years. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed a significant association between eNOS G894T (rs1799983) polymorphism and risk of IS [OR = 1.57; 95%CI 1.05-2.37; p = 0.028] under dominant model. Based on Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment classification, an independent association of large vessel disease (LVD) was observed with the risk of IS under the dominant [OR = 2.09; 95% CI 1.17-3.75; p = 0.01] and recessive [4.09 95% CI 1.06-15.68; p = 0.04] models. All the observed genotype frequencies were in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) in both cases and controls.
Conclusion:
The findings of the present study suggest that polymorphism in G894T position of eNOS gene might be a risk factor for IS mainly for LVD stroke subtype in North Indian population. Further large prospective studies are required to confirm these findings.
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