title: Evaluating the association of common UBE2Z variants with coronary artery disease in an Iranian population.
abstract: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of cardiovascular mortality worldwide. Genome-wide association studies have discovered several variants associated with CAD. Notably, a recent study has identified UBE2Z rs46522 at 17q21.32 as a CAD-susceptibility variant in Europeans. However, association of this locus with CAD in non-Europeans has not been investigated. Herein, we evaluated the contribution of rs46522 and a variant in high linkage disequilibrium in UBE2Z 3'-UTR (rs1057897) to the CAD susceptibility by performing association study in an Iranian population. This study recruited 300 angiographically-confirmed CAD patients and 300 asymptomatic controls. Genotypes were determined by TaqMan genotyping assay. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that rs46522 was associated with the susceptibility to CAD assuming codominant [TT vs. CC: 2.68 (1.36-5.31), P: 1.1717e-2], dominant [CT+TT vs. CC: 1.74 (1.12-2.69), P: 1.2675e-2], recessive [TT vs. CC+CT: 2.12 (1.13-3.98), P: 1.9369e-2] and log-additive [1.61 (1.17-2.21), P: 2.967e-3] models. However, no association was observed for rs1057897 under any genetic models. In conclusion, we provide the first evidence for association of rs46522 with the susceptibility to CAD in an Iranian population and discussed about regulatory potential and functional role of the studied variants to provide clues for its association with CAD and promote further research.
authors.affiliation: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine Tehran Iran.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bastami
authors.affiliation: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine Tehran Iran sghaderian@yahoo.co.uk.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Ghaderian
authors.affiliation: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Urogenital Stem Cell Research Center Tehran Iran.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Omrani
authors.affiliation: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine Tehran Iran.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mirfakhraie
authors.affiliation: Tehran University of Medical Sciences Medical Genetics Department, School of Medicine Tehran Iran.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Nariman-Saleh-Fam
authors.affiliation: Fasa University of Medical Sciences Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center Fasa Iran.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mansoori
authors.affiliation: Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital&mdash;IRCCS Gene Expression&mdash;Microarrays Laboratory Rome Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Masotti
mesh_terms: D020413:3' Untranslated Regions; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008957:Models, Genetic; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D044763:Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D020413:3' Untranslated Regions; C525243:UBE2Z protein, human; D044763:Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes