Zhou Ji,Peng Rui,Luo Yongjun,Li Tianju,Sun Yan,Yin Pin,Peng Huimin,Zhang Zheng.Correlation of single nucleotide polymorphism of let-7a gene regulatory region with diabetic nephropathy in 108 cases of Chinese Han population[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2014,36(12):1312-1316.
Zhou Ji,Peng Rui,Luo Yongjun,Li Tianju,Sun Yan,Yin Pin,Peng Huimin,Zhang Zheng.Correlation of single nucleotide polymorphism of let-7a gene regulatory region with diabetic nephropathy in 108 cases of Chinese Han population[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2014,36(12):1312-1316.DOI:
Correlation of single nucleotide polymorphism of let-7a gene regulatory region with diabetic nephropathy in 108 cases of Chinese Han population
Objective To explore the relationship between the circulating miRNA let-7a and diabetic nephropathy (DN)
and to evaluate the susceptibility of the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of let-7a regulatory region to DN. Methods Real-time PCR was carried out to detect the expression level of let-7a in the patients and control groups. We used bioinformatics methods to predict and filter out 3 Tag SNPs in let-7a gene
promoter regulatory region. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP-PCR) was executed to genotype 108 DN patients (DN group)
104 patients with diabetes (DM group) and 62 cases of healthy controls (CON group). Results Real-time PCR results showed that the expression level of let-7a were significantly different among the DN
DM
CON groups (
P
0.05). A variant rs1143770 was found in let-7a-2 regulatory region and the distributions of CT genotypes were significantly different among the 3 groups (
P
0.05). The CT+TT genotype frequencies were significantly higher in the DM and DN groups than in the CON group (
P
=0.049
P
=0.001). Conclusion miRNA let-7a may participate in the regulation of DN occurrence
and rs1143770 in let-7a-2 regulatory region is significantly associated with the increased risk of DN in Chinese Han population and might be regarded as a potential functionol site.