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Association between killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor 2DS5 gene with essential hypertension in the Chinese Han
A L Wang1, B Jiang2, X Y Qian1
1Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Abstract:
Hypertension has been suggested to be mediated by immunity and inflammation. As immune system genes, killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) genes play an important role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. We conducted a community population-based case-control study to analyse associations between KIR genes and hypertension. KIR genes were genotyped using sequence-specific primer polymerase chain reaction in 380 unrelated essential hypertensives and 527 normotensives. The frequencies of KIR2DS5 gene were significantly decreased in participants with high high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) compared with participants with low hsCRP (17.02% vs 34.08%, p = .016). The presence of KIR2DS5 gene was independently associated with decreased risk of hypertension (odds ratio = 0.62; 95% confidence interval: 0.43-0.89), after adjusted for conventional risk factors, hsCRP and other KIR genes. We found that participants with KIR2DS5 gene had a decreased risk of hypertension compared with participants without KIR2DS5 gene. Our findings suggested that KIR2DS5 gene may be protective against hypertension.
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