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Salim, Elnaz
(2020)
Genetic polymorphisms of endothelial marker, connexin and acyl-CoA genes among ethnic Malay subjects with essential hypertension.
Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Abstract
Hypertension is a complex multifactorial disorder that is thought to result from an
interaction between an individual’s genetic background and various lifestyle also
environmental factors. Essential hypertension (EH) are majority of hypertensive cases and diagnosed
where there is no clear evidence of medical condition predisposing to the high blood pressure.
There have been variety of genetic studies is relation to hypertension and some of them
showed association with occurrence of hypertension. Family of Endotheline1 (EDN-1) and
Endothelin converting enzyme (ECE) vasoconstricting peptide produced by vascular endothelial.
Recent studies proposed that there was significant difference between EDN-1
lys198Asn(rs5370) and ECE (rs212526) with essential hypertension. As well as, Connexin
gene family (Cxs) belong to the large family of gap junction that are involved in many
physiological disorders like that hypertension. Cx37(C1019T) and Cx40+71 A/G were candidate gene
for this study. Moreover, Acyl-CoA synthetase medium-chain family member3(rs886433)
also another gene was determined in this study. The main objective of this study was to
determine the candidate gene polymorphism and gene expression involved in essential
hypertension among Malay subjects. Since, there have been variety of genetic association
studies of EDN1, ECE, Cx37-40 and ACMS3 conducted on different population, however no
study was done on Malaysia populations and in relation to hypertension. Genetic
polymorphism and gene expression are serve as molecular biomarkers for the detection of the
individual at risk of developing the disease. This association study included 177 of subjects
without EH as control and 97 of subjects with EH as case. Extraction genomic DNA was done all
subjects. Cx40 and Cx37 gene polymorphism was detected using Polymerase Chain reaction (PCR)
followed by Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (PCR- RFLP). The PCR products were
digested with EcorI and DrdI restriction enzyme at 65°c for 20 min. the RFLP products
were detected using 3% agarose gel electrophoresis. ACMS3, EDN1 and ECE gene were
detected by real time PCR (RT- qPCR) with Taq-Man probes. Genotype and allele frequencies in case and control
samples were compared by using Chi-Square test while clinical characteristic parameters
and social-demographic background was analyzed using descriptive static. Furthermore, in this
study, the expression profile of Acyl CoA enzyme (ACMS3) which involved in human fatty acid
biosynthesis was analyzed. Real time PCR was carried out using RNA extracted from 50 cases as well
as 50 control subjects. Relative analyzed was used to determined level of gene expression.
The demographic characteristic of the subjects including age, body mass index (BMI), systolic
blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP),low density lipoprotein(LDL),
triglyceride (TG) and Cholesterol level were shown to be differentially significant (p<0.05)
in the case subject when compared to control groups. HDL did not show any significance. The
results of this study were show that the genotypes and allele frequencies of C1019T Cx37,
+71Cx40 A/G, ET-1 rs5370 G/T and ACMS3 A/G gene were highly significant in hypertensive subjects as
compared to the healthy (p<0.05). while SNP of ECE gene C/T did not significantly (P>0.05) when
compared to control group. In gene expression demonstrated significant differences between
expression of ACMS3gene at the mRNA level in patients with hypertension compare with control group.
Hence, this candidate genes as possible genetic biomarker and risk factor for
EH in Malay subjects.
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