title: Genetic susceptibility to pre-eclampsia and chromosome 7q36.
abstract: Pre-eclampsia is the most common serious medical disorder of human pregnancy. The human endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene is a candidate for pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) susceptibility. A linkage study was performed on Australian PE/E families using 25 microsatellite markers from chromosome 7, one of which (eNOS-CA) resides within the eNOS gene. No significant linkage was found for the eNOS-CA marker using either parametric or non-parametric analysis. However, D7S 1805 from the eNOS gene region on 7q36, gave a suggestion of linkage using parametric analysis (maximum LOD score =2.143 at theta=0.14) and non-parametric APM analysis (T1/sqrt(p)=3.53; P=0.002). Further, an association study was performed on unrelated PE/E cases and controls from both Chinese and Australian populations to test for a relationship between the eNOS gene and PE/E. No association was found between the eNOS-CA marker and PE/E in either population. However, there was a significant difference in the allelic distribution of eNOS-CA between the two ethnic groups. The linkage results support the possibility that a susceptibility locus for pre-eclampsia resides in the 7q36 region, however, there is no definitive evidence to support the notion that the eNOS gene itself is responsible for susceptibility to pre-eclampsia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Perinatal Medicine, Royal Women's Hospital, Carlton, Victoria, Australia. g.guo@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lade
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Wilton
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Moses
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grehan
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Brennecke
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics; D001315:Australia; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002897:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7 / Q000235:genetics*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008126:Lod Score; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000235:genetics; D010375:Pedigree; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000201:enzymology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000235:genetics*; D011247:Pregnancy; D044465:White People / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase