Monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1 -2518 A/G SNP in Chinese Han patients with VKH syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) syndrome is an autoimmune disease. The monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) gene has been implicated in the pathogenesis of certain autoimmune diseases. The aim of this study was to examine whether a MCP-1 polymorphism was associated with VKH syndrome.

Methods

A case-control analysis was performed using genomic DNA samples from 307 VKH patients and 319 age-, sex-, and ethnically-matched healthy controls. The MCP-1 polymorphism at the -2518 A/G locus was genotyped using polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) assay.

Results

The distribution of genotypic frequency of the MCP-1 -2518 A/G polymorphism in all subjects did not deviate from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE; p>0.05). Allelic and gen

SUBMITTER: Hou S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2722713 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature