Type 1 diabetes is one of the most common chronic childhood illnesses. Interplay between genetic susceptibility and environmental factors is thought to provide the fundamental element for the disease. It has been shown that more than 40 genetic loci are associated with T1DM. Important one among these is the CTLA-4. This work aimed to detect Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) g...

Background: Polymorphisms in the immune related genes are important in the clinical outcome of Helicobacter pylori infection. Myeloperoxidase -463 G/A polymorphism has been shown to reduce enzyme expression and activity. Objective: the aim of the present study is to investigate the association of myeloperoxidase G-463A polymor-phism with clinical outcome of Helicobacter pylori infection. Method...

This study aimed to explore the associations of OPRM1 A118G gene polymorphism with pain sensitivity and opioid dosage patients postherpetic neuralgia (PHN). According 3-month follow-up results, 103 PNH were enrolled as a PHN group, 112 without after herpes zoster included non-PHN group. The factors affecting occurrence subjected one-way analysis variance multivariate logistic regression analysi...

Hereditary and environmental variables have a role in the development of breast cancer. This study aimed to examine links between genetic Variations GSTP1 gene Predisposition cancer an Iraqi population. The research included 40 female patients 20 healthy volunteers. GSTP1-1695 A/G polymorphisms were investigated using polymerase chain reaction Real-time (RT-PCR). results showed frequency wild G...

BACKGROUND Elevated plasma levels of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) has been reported to be associated with insulin resistance and micro/macrovascular diabetic complications, and may predict cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetic patients. Dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase 1 (DDAH1) is the major enzyme eliminating ADMA in humans, but the effect of genetic variations in DDAH1 on type...

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) and the IL-1 receptor (IL-1R) family play an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases. This study aimed to investigate the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of IL-1 and IL-1R family genes with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) and Behcet's disease (BD) in Han Chinese. The case-control study was divided into two stages and included 419 VKH...

We examined the association between the methionine synthase reductase (MTRR A66G), methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR C677T and A1298C), and methionine synthase (MS A2756G) genotypes and non-obstructive male infertility in a Chinese population. This case-control study included 162 infertile Chinese patients with azoospermia (N = 100) or oligoasthenozoospermia (N = 62) and 120 fertile me...

background: polymorphisms in the immune related genes are important in the clinical outcome of helicobacter pylori infection. myeloperoxidase -463 g/a polymorphism has been shown to reduce enzyme expression and activity. objective: the aim of the present study is to investigate the association of myeloperoxidase g-463a polymor-phism with clinical outcome of helicobacter pylori infection. method...

OBJECTIVE Glutathione S-transferases are involved in the conjugation of xenobiotics. To explore whether GSTs polymorphisms are involved in the development of occupational or non-occupational bladder cancer, polymorphism frequencies of GSTT1, M1 and P1 were investigated in a normal population, which had been settled in a rural area in Shanghai suburb for at least 5 generations as well as in a gr...