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CRP Gene Polymorphism and Their Risk Association With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Hakim Bahlok Jebur1, Mirza Masroor2, Hafiz Ahmad3
1Deparment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, WAIST University, Iraq.
Background:
C-reactive protein (CRP) is an inflammatory marker associated with T2DM, obesity, insulin resistance, and cardiovascular disease.
Aim:
The present study evaluates the association of CRP +1059 G/C polymorphism of the CRP gene in 100 T2D cases and 100 healthy controls.
Methods:
Present study was done by allele specific PCR method to study the CRP gene polymorphism in study subjects.
Results:
Study found that CRP (+1059 G/C) genotype distribution among case and controls was found to be significant (p=0.001), Higher CRP C allele frequency (0.16) was observed compared to controls (0.04). CRP +1059 GC and CC had 2.72 (1.12-6.61), 20.56 (1.16-362.1) risk for T2D. It has been observed, HTN, Obesity, Smoking and alcoholism was found to be associated with increased risk of T2D, and a significant difference was observed in biochemical parameters.
Conclusion:
Study concluded that CRP gene polymorphism was found to be associated with risk of Type 2 Diabetes and risk was linked with heterozygosity and mutant homozygosity. Hypertension, Obesity, Smoking and alcoholism increases the risk of occurrence of Type 2 Diabetes.
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