Abstract
Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) plays an important role in the induction and regulation of the innate immune system or adaptive immune responses. Genetic variations within human TLR9 have been reported to be associated with a range of immune-related diseases, such as asthma, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and so on. Family-based association analysis was performed to further investigate whether a single nucleotide polymorphism (rs352140) in the exon 2 region of TLR9 gene is associated with susceptibility to SLE in a Chinese population. A total of 77 patients with SLE from 74 nuclear families, aged from 12 to 63 years, were enrolled according to 1997 criteria of American College of Rheumatology (ACR), 211 family members of these patients were also included. Genotyping was performed by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) assay. Among 77 patients with SLE, the CC, CT and TT genetype frequencies of the SNP (rs352140) were 20.8, 61.0 and 18.2%, respectively. Single loci analysis suggested that the T allele at position of rs352140 was significantly associated with the susceptibility to SLE (Z = 2.357, P = 0.018402) in dominant model, but not in additive or recessive model. Genetype analysis showed that individuals with CT genetype had greater susceptibility to SLE than those without (Z = 2.004, P = 0.045067). Our study suggests that a single nucleotide polymorphism (rs352140) in the exon 2 region of TLR9 gene may be a susceptibility factor for SLE in Chinese population.
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This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30571608, 30771848) and the key program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (30830089). We thank all families with SLE for their enthusiastic participation in this study.
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Xu, CJ., Zhang, WH., Pan, HF. et al. Association study of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the exon 2 region of toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) gene with susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus among Chinese. Mol Biol Rep 36, 2245–2248 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-008-9440-z
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