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OBJECTIVE: Genetic variants of PON1, rs70587, rs662, rs854560, GSTM1, and GSTT1 and two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) at 9p21.3 locus, rs1333049, and rs2383207; were evaluated in association with the risk for premature coronary artery disease (CAD) in a population of Yucatan, Mexico. These genes are involved in the inactivation of pro-oxidants and pro-inflammatory mediators, lipid and xenobiotic metabolism, detoxification of reactive oxygen species, and regulation of cellular proliferation playing key roles in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. METHODS: We conducted a matched case-control study with 98 CAD cases and 101 healthy controls. Genotyping of PON1 and 9p21.2 SNP was performed by real time-PCR and for GSTM1 and GSTT1 with multiplex-PCR. Odds ratios (OR) were calculated to estimate association and generalized multifactor dimensionality reduction (GMDR) algorithm to identify gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. RESULTS: The distribution of all allele/genotype frequencies in controls was within Hardy-Weinberg expectations (p > .05) except for GSTM1. The allele/genotype frequencies of the GSTT1 null were significantly higher in CAD cases than in controls, suggesting association with higher risk for developing CAD. The other SNPs did not show any significant independent association with premature CAD. GMDR revealed a significant interaction between GSTT1 and LL55 genotype. Likewise, the body mass index (BMI) and smoking also showed an interaction with GSTT1. CONCLUSION: The GSTT1 null allele/genotype is associated with an increased risk of developing premature CAD, the effect of which is not modified by cardiovascular risk factors in the population of Yucatan.
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Doença da Artéria Coronariana , Glutationa Transferase/genética , Arildialquilfosfatase/genética , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Cromossomos Humanos Par 9 , Doença da Artéria Coronariana/etiologia , Doença da Artéria Coronariana/genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Genótipo , Humanos , México/epidemiologia , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Fatores de RiscoRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Human milk microbiota plays a role in the bacterial colonization of the neonatal gut, which has important consequences in the health and development of the newborn. However, there are few studies about the vertical transfer of bacteria from mother to infant in Latin American populations. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional study characterizing the bacterial diversity of 67 human milk-neonatal stool pairs by high-throughput sequencing of V3-16S rDNA libraries, to assess the effect of the human milk microbiota on the bacterial composition of the neonate's gut at early days. RESULTS: Human milk showed higher microbial diversity as compared to the neonatal stool. Members of the Staphylococcaceae and Sphingomonadaceae families were more prevalent in human milk, whereas the Pseudomonadaceae family, Clostridium and Bifidobacterium genera were in the neonatal stool. The delivery mode showed association with the neonatal gut microbiota diversity, but not with the human milk microbiota diversity; for instance, neonates born by C-section showed greater richness and diversity in stool microbiota than those born vaginally. We found 25 bacterial taxa shared by both ecosystems and 67.7% of bacteria found in neonate stool were predicted to originate from human milk. This study contributes to the knowledge of human milk and neonatal stool microbiota in healthy Mexican population and supports the idea of vertical mother-neonate transmission through exclusive breastfeeding.
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OBJECTIVE: Epistasis is a type of genetic interaction that could explain much of the phenotypic variability of complex diseases. In this work, the effect of epistasis of metabolic genes and cardiovascular risk on the susceptibility to the development of ischemic heart disease in Yucatan was determined. METHODS: Case-control study in 79 Yucatecan patients with ischemic heart disease and 101 healthy controls matched by age and origin with cases. The polymorphisms -108CT, Q192R, L55M (paraoxonase 1; PON1), C677T, A1298C (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase; MTHFR), and the presence/absence of the glutathione S-transferase T1 (GSTT1) gene were genotyped. Epistasis analysis was performed using the multifactorial dimensional reduction method. The best risk prediction model was selected based on precision (%), statistical significance (P<0.05), and cross-validation consistency. RESULTS: We found an independent association of the null genotype GSTT1*0/0 (OR=3.39, CI: 1.29-8.87, P=0.017) and the null allele (OR=1.86, CI: 1.19-2.91, P=0.007) with ischemic heart disease. The GSTT1*0 deletion and the 677TT genotype (MTHFR) were identified as being at a high cardiovascular risk, whereas the GSTT1*1 wild type genotype and the CC677 variant were at low risk. The gene-environment interaction identified the GSTT1 gene, C677T polymorphism (MTHFR), and hypertension as the factors that best explain ischemic heart disease in the study population. CONCLUSIONS: The interaction of the MTHFR, GSTT1 and hypertension may constitute a predictive model of risk for early onset ischemic heart disease in the population of Yucatan.
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Epistasia Genética , Glutationa Transferase/genética , Hipertensão/complicações , Metilenotetra-Hidrofolato Redutase (NADPH2)/genética , Isquemia Miocárdica/genética , Adulto , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Feminino , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Genótipo , Humanos , Hipertensão/epidemiologia , Masculino , México/epidemiologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Modelos Teóricos , Isquemia Miocárdica/epidemiologia , Isquemia Miocárdica/etiologia , Polimorfismo Genético , Fatores de RiscoRESUMO
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Cardiovascular medicine is focused on the search for genetic risk markers with predictive and/or prognostic value. Among the genetic variants of interest are G894T endothelial nitric oxide synthase and G1958A methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase1 gene polymorphisms. The aim of this study was to determine the possible association between these polymorphisms and ischemic heart disease in patients from Southern of Mexico (Yucatán). METHODS: Case-control study matched by age, sex and origin was designed. We studied 98 patients with coronary disease and 101 controls. Participants were evaluated for the usual risk factors. The polymorphisms were identified using the polymerase chain reaction/restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. RESULTS: The G894T and G1958A polymorphisms were not associated with ischemic heart disease, however, the TT genotype (G894T) was associated with the angina (OR=10.2; 95%CI, 1.51-68.8; p=0.025). The genotype GT (G894T) was the most frequent in patients with family history of coronary artery disease. Multiple logistic regression analysis identified smoking (OR=5.21; 95%CI, 2.1-12.9; p=0.000), hypertension (OR=3.54; 95%CI, 1.47-8.56; p=0.005) and obesity (OR=1.16; 95%CI, 1.1-1.27; p=0.001) as risk factors predicting the ischemic heart disease. CONCLUSIONS: The G894T and G1958A polymorphisms showed not association with ischemic heart disease. However, homozygosis for the 894T allele (NOS3) confers at risk to develop angina on Yucatán.
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Aminoidrolases/genética , Angina Pectoris/genética , Formiato-Tetra-Hidrofolato Ligase/genética , Metilenotetra-Hidrofolato Desidrogenase (NADP)/genética , Complexos Multienzimáticos/genética , Isquemia Miocárdica/genética , Óxido Nítrico Sintase Tipo III/genética , Adulto , Alelos , Angina Pectoris/fisiopatologia , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Doença das Coronárias/genética , Doença das Coronárias/fisiopatologia , Feminino , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Genótipo , Humanos , Modelos Logísticos , Masculino , México/epidemiologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Isquemia Miocárdica/fisiopatologia , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Polimorfismo de Fragmento de Restrição , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Fatores de RiscoRESUMO
La enfermedad celíaca (EC) es autoinmune y se observa en individuos genéticamente predispuestos, se caracteriza por la intolerancia a determinadas proteínas llamadas gluten (gliadinas y gluteínas) que se encuentran en el trigo, el centeno y la cebada. Se sabe que existe una asociación del sistema HLA y la enfermedad celíaca (HLA-DQ2/HLA-DQ8), pero no existen estudios cubanos acerca de esa asociación por lo que nos propusimos analizar el comportamiento de los alelos DQB1*02 y DQB1*03 mediante un estudio analítico observacional en 65 pacientes con diagnóstico presuntivo de enfermedad celíaca con el objetivo de incluir la detección de estos alelos en el esquema diagnóstico de esta compleja enfermedad. Se halló que los individuos portadores del alelo DQB1*02 (OR: 2,26) fueron más susceptibles de padecer la enfermedad que los no portadores, que el 60 por ciento de los presuntos pacientes con enfermedad celíaca presentaron el alelo HLA-DQ2 y el 3 por ciento, el alelo HLA-DQ8. Se concluyóque el genotipaje HLA-DQ2/HLA-DQ8 es de gran utilidad para el diagnóstico de enfermedad celíaca
The celiac disease (CD) is autoimmune and it is present in genetically predisposed subjects, characterized by the intolerance to determined proteins present in wheat, rye and barley: called gluten and gliadin. It is known that there is an association between HLA-system and celiac disease (HLA-DQ2/HLA-DQ8), but there aren't Cuban studies on this association, thus we analyzed the behavior of DQB1*02 and DQB1*03 alleles by means of an observational and analytical study in 65 patients with a presumptive diagnosis of celiac disease to include its detection in the diagnostic scheme of this complex disease. There was found that subjects carriers of the DQB1*02 allele (OR: 2,26) were more susceptible to suffer this disease than those non-carriers, that the 60 percent of the supposed patients presenting with the celiac disease had the HLA-DQ2 allele and the 3 percent had the HLA-DQ8 allele. We conclude that the HLA-DQ2/HLA-DQ8 genotyping is very useful for the diagnosis of the celiac disease