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NEPHROLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 175-181Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2011.01533.x
Keywords
ACE I; D; eNOS G894T; macroalbuminuria; microalbuminuria; type 2 diabetes mellitus
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- Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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Aim: The present study investigated the influence of insertion (I)/deletion (D) polymorphism of the angiotensin II-converting enzyme (ACE) gene in combination with endothelial nitric oxide (eNOS) G894T polymorphism on the predisposition to diabetic nephropathy (DN). Methods: Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method, the ACE and eNOS polymorphisms were genotyped in 72 microalbuminuric, 68 macroalbuminuric and 72 normoalbuinuric type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients from Western Iran. Results: The presence of eNOS T or ACE D allele was not associated with increased risk of macroalbuminuria (odds ratio (OR) = 1.36, P = 0.27 and OR = 1.6, P = 0.062, respectively). However, in the presence of both alleles there was a trend towards increased risk of macroalbuminuria (fivefold, P = 0.05). Conclusion: Our study indicates that the concomitant presence of both ACE D and eNOS T alleles tends to be associated with an elevation risk of macroalbuminuria compared with the presence of each polymorphism alone. This risk could be attributed to the increasing activity of ACE and angiotensin II level in the presence of D allele and decreasing NO production in the presence of T allele accelerating diabetic nephropathy.
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