title: Association between interleukin 6 promoter variants and chronic hepatitis B progression.
abstract: Interleukin 6 (IL6) plays an essential role in the regulation of immune response to chronic disease. In this study, the three known single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the IL6 promoter region were genotyped in a large chronic hepatitis B cohort to evaluate the effects of IL6 promoter variants. The single base extension method was used for this genotyping. Haplotypes were constructed by the three SNPs in IL6. Allele frequencies were compared for; i) patients with chronic hepatitis (CH) and chronic carriers vs. chronic hepatis patients with clinical evidence of liver cirrhosis (LC) (i.e., portal hypertension), ii) cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) vs. without HCC by logistic regression, and iii) with respect to the time intervals from the onset of infection to HCC. Results were analyzed by Cox relative hazard analysis on the assumption that all the patients were infected during early infancy. The frequencies of each SNP were 0.002 (IL6-597 G>A), 0.25 (IL6-572 C>G) and 0.002 (IL6-174 G>C), respectively, in the Korean population (n = 1,046). No significant associations were detected between IL6-572 C>G and chronic hepatitis B outcome in this study; i.e., LC occurrence on CH (OR = 0.16-1.27, P = 0.13- 0.71) and HCC occurrence on LC (OR = 1.04-1.23, P = 0.89-0.60) of heterozygotes and homozygotes for G allele in referent comparison to homozygotes for common allele (C/C genotype), and time interval to HCC (RH = 0.67-1.00; P = 0.14-0.99). In conclusion, there appeared to be no significant associations between IL6 promoter variants and disease outcome in chronic hepatitis B.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetic Epidemiology SNP Genetics, Inc., 11th Floor, Maehun B/D 13 Chongro 4 ga, Chongro-gu, Seoul 110-834, Korea.
authors.forename: Byung Lae
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Hyo-Suk
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Yoon Jun
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jun Yeon
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Ji Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Lyoung Hyo
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hyoung Doo
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Shin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000483:Alleles; D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics*; D006239:Haplotypes / Q000235:genetics; D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000235:genetics*; D007723:Korea; D015810:Linkage Disequilibrium; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Q000235:genetics; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D015850:Interleukin-6