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Association of tumor necrosis factor alpha gene promoter polymorphism with the presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Authors: Sakao, S  Tatsumi, K  Igari, H  Shino, Y  Shirasawa, H  Kuriyama, T 
Citation: Sakao S, etal., Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2001 Feb;163(2):420-2.
RGD ID: 4143424
Pubmed: PMID:11179116   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1164/ajrccm.163.2.2006031   (Journal Full-text)

Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), a potent proinflammatory cytokine, may be involved in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The production of TNF-alpha is elevated in the airways of these patients. A polymorphism at position -308 of the TNF-alpha gene promoter (TNF-alpha-308*1/2) is known to be associated with alteration of TNF-alpha secretion in vitro. In this study we examined the differences in TNF-alpha-308*1/2 allele frequency to investigate the association of this polymorphism with the presence of smoking-related COPD. TNF-alpha-308*1/2 allele frequency in 106 patients (73 men and 33 women) was compared with 110 asymptomatic smoker/ex-smoker control subjects matched for sex and age and population control subjects consisting of 129 blood donors. Genotype was analyzed by the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism technique on genomic DNA isolated from peripheral blood lymphocytes. TNF-alpha-308*1/2 allele frequencies were significantly different among the groups: 0.835/0.165 in patients with COPD, 0.918/0.082 in smoker/ex-smoker control subjects, and 0.922/0.078 in population control subjects. These results indicate that TNF-alpha-308*1/2 alleles are significantly associated with the presence of smoking-related COPD.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease  IAGP 4143424DNA:polymorphism:promoterRGD 
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease  ISOTNF (Homo sapiens)4143424; 4143424DNA:polymorphism:promoterRGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Tnf  (tumor necrosis factor)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Tnf  (tumor necrosis factor)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
TNF  (tumor necrosis factor)


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