Cytokine gene polymorphisms in preterm infants with necrotising enterocolitis: genetic association study
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Henderson, Ginny
Craig, S
Baier, RJ
Helps, N
Brocklehurst, P
McGuire, M
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2009
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Background: The inflammatory cytokine cascade is implicated in the pathogenesis of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). Genetic association studies of cytokine polymorphisms may help to detect molecular mechanisms that are causally related to the disease process.Aim: To examine associations between the common genetic variants in candidate inflammatory cytokine genes and NEC in preterm infants.Methods: Multi-centre case-control and genetic association study. We collected DNA samples from 50 preterm infants with NEC and 50 gestational age and ethnic group frequency-matched controls recruited to a multi-centre case-control study. ...
View more >Background: The inflammatory cytokine cascade is implicated in the pathogenesis of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). Genetic association studies of cytokine polymorphisms may help to detect molecular mechanisms that are causally related to the disease process.Aim: To examine associations between the common genetic variants in candidate inflammatory cytokine genes and NEC in preterm infants.Methods: Multi-centre case-control and genetic association study. We collected DNA samples from 50 preterm infants with NEC and 50 gestational age and ethnic group frequency-matched controls recruited to a multi-centre case-control study. We genotyped 10 candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in cytokines previously associated with infectious or inflammatory diseases in preterm infants. The findings were included in random effects meta-analyses with data from previous genetic association studies.Results: All allele distributions were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. None of the studied cytokine polymorphisms was significantly associated with NEC. We found four previous genetic association studies of cytokine polymorphisms and NEC in preterm infants. Meta-analyses were possible for several SNPs. These increased the precision of the estimates of effect size but did not reveal any significant associations.Conclusions: The available data are not consistent with more than modest associations between these candidate cytokine variant alleles and NEC in preterm infants. Data from future association studies of these polymorphisms may be added to the meta-analyses to obtain more precise estimates of effects sizes.
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View more >Background: The inflammatory cytokine cascade is implicated in the pathogenesis of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). Genetic association studies of cytokine polymorphisms may help to detect molecular mechanisms that are causally related to the disease process.Aim: To examine associations between the common genetic variants in candidate inflammatory cytokine genes and NEC in preterm infants.Methods: Multi-centre case-control and genetic association study. We collected DNA samples from 50 preterm infants with NEC and 50 gestational age and ethnic group frequency-matched controls recruited to a multi-centre case-control study. We genotyped 10 candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in cytokines previously associated with infectious or inflammatory diseases in preterm infants. The findings were included in random effects meta-analyses with data from previous genetic association studies.Results: All allele distributions were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. None of the studied cytokine polymorphisms was significantly associated with NEC. We found four previous genetic association studies of cytokine polymorphisms and NEC in preterm infants. Meta-analyses were possible for several SNPs. These increased the precision of the estimates of effect size but did not reveal any significant associations.Conclusions: The available data are not consistent with more than modest associations between these candidate cytokine variant alleles and NEC in preterm infants. Data from future association studies of these polymorphisms may be added to the meta-analyses to obtain more precise estimates of effects sizes.
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Journal Title
Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
Volume
94
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Subject
Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine