Variants of CD36 gene and their association with CD36 protein expression in platelets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The relationship between CD36 expression level in platelets and polymorphism of the CD36 gene still needs to be explored. Here, we investigated polymorphisms of the CD36 gene and CD36 expression level in platelets in the Chinese Han population.

Materials and methods

A total of 477 samples were sequenced for exons 2 to 14 of the CD36 gene using a polymerase chain reaction sequence-based typing method. In 192 of these individuals the expression levels of CD36 antigen were analysed by flow cytometry. The genotype-phenotype relationship in platelets was analysed.

Results

A total of 22 variants of the CD36 gene were identified, of which five variants (111 A>T, 681 C>A, 1172-1183 del12b, 1236 delT and 1395 A>C) were novel variations, and nine were also found in s

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4212037 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature