title: Duration of non-Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and the TNF-beta NcoI genotype as predictive factors in proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
abstract: The object of the study was to investigate the share of the polymorphisms I/D ACE, endothelin 1 4127G/A and TNF-beta NcoI in the susceptibility to proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Genotypes were detected by polymerase chain reactions and determined in a set of 246 Caucasian NIDDM subjects with defined PDR status. The relevance of genotypes and clinical characteristics to the PDR occurrence was tested using multiple linear regression models and discrimination analysis. The best predictive value for PDR was given by a combination of two parameters - NIDDM duration and the TNF-beta genotype (p < 1.10(-6) and p = 1.10(-2), respectively) with a correct retrograde prediction of 82.6%. A comparison of the TNF-beta NcoI allele frequencies revealed no difference between NIDDM and nondiabetic subjects (n = 176), but a statistically significant difference was found between PDR and non-PDR NIDDM subjects (after a correction for the number of comparisons p = 0.03), allele beta2 being associated with PDR. Our results identified the allele variant TNF-beta2 being associated with PDR in NIDDM. Diabetes duration and the TNF-beta NcoI genotype were proven to significantly predict PDR occurrence. The TNF-beta2 allele could be regarded as a separate genetic risk factor that increases the relative incidence of PDR in patients with NIDDM.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. kankov@med.muni.cz
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kanková
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Muzík
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Karásková
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beránek
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hájek
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Znojil
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vlková
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vácha
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000737:chemistry; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000235:genetics*; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000235:genetics*; D019332:Endothelin-1 / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008233:Lymphotoxin-alpha / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D007703:Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A / Q000235:genetics; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D019332:Endothelin-1; D008233:Lymphotoxin-alpha; D007703:Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A