title: Genetic contribution of the BAT2 gene microsatellite polymorphism to the age-at-onset of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
abstract: The BAT2 gene lies within the class III region of the major histocompatibility complex. We investigated the frequency of the BAT2 microsatellite alleles (BAT2) in 74 young-onset insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients, 51 adult-onset IDDM patients, and 85 normal control subjects, and assessed the associations among these BAT2 alleles, TNFa microsatellite alleles (TNFa), and HLA-DRB1 alleles. The frequency of the BAT2.9 allele was significantly increased in the young-onset IDDM patients (12.8 vs 4.1%, Pc=0.04896), whereas the frequency of BAT2.12 allele was significantly decreased in young-onset IDDM patients (0.0 vs 11.8%, Pc=0.00002) compared with control subjects. The BAT2.9 allele was strongly associated with TNFa9 in the young-onset IDDM patients, although no association was found between the BAT2.9 and HLA-DRB1 alleles. The BAT2.12 allele was strongly associated with TNFa13, and with DRB1*1502 in control subjects. These results suggest that the BAT2 microsatellite polymorphism is associated with the age-at-onset of IDDM and possibly with the inflammatory process of pancreatic beta-cell destruction during the development of IDDM. However, this association is not independent of TNFa polymorphisms.
authors.affiliation: The First Department of Internal Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Obayashi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moriwaki
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shigeta
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kitagawa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishimura
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D000483:Alleles; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006684:HLA-DR Antigens / Q000235:genetics; D059811:HLA-DRB1 Chains; D006801:Humans; D015810:Linkage Disequilibrium; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D006684:HLA-DR Antigens; D059811:HLA-DRB1 Chains; D011506:Proteins; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; C092008:PRRC2A protein, human; D004247:DNA