Our study has identified a rare VDR haplotype that is protective against DN in patients with type 1 diabetes. Replication in a large, independent cohort is required to confirm this finding.
It is unlikely that common polymorphisms of thePAI1 gene strongly influence susceptibility to diabetic nephropathy in the White Type 1 diabetic population.
Interleukin 18 (IL18) is a proinflammatory cytokine whose levels are increased in the subclinical stage of insulin-dependent (type I) diabetes mellitus. Previous case-control studies have reported associations between IL18 À607C4A and À137G4C promoter polymorphisms and type I diabetes. We performed case-control and family-based association studies employing Pyrosequencing to assess if these IL18 polymorphisms are also associated with the development of type I diabetes in the Northern Ireland population. The w 2 analysis of genotype and allele frequencies for the IL18 polymorphisms in cases (n ¼ 433) vs controls (n ¼ 426) revealed no significant differences (P40.05). Assessment of allele transmission distortion from informative parents to affected offspring also failed to confirm previously reported associations. Stratification of these analyses for age-at-onset and HLA-DR type did not reveal any significance associations. In conclusion, our data do not support the strong positive associations of IL18 promoter polymorphisms with type I diabetes reported in previous smaller studies.
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