Ashraf Antar Elghzaly
Mansoura University, Egypt
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Mol Genet Med
Objective: To replicate a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of known genes for lupus (IRF5rs10488631, PTPN22rs2476601, BLKrs2736340 and TNFAIP3rs5029939) and other autoimmune diseases (CD28rs1980422, IL2RArs2104286 and KIF5Ars1678542) on a newly studied Egyptian cohort to investigate the genetic disparity with different studied ethnic groups in relation to lupus susceptibility. Methods: 170 Egyptian patients from Egypt Delta with SLE and 241 matched healthy controls were genotyped by Taqman real time PCR for the selected SNPs. Results: The results revealed significant association withIRF5 (p<0.0001) and PTPN22 (p=0.008) and insignificant association with KIF5A, CD28, IL2RA, BLK and TNFAIP3 genes. Conclusions: This study may provide an additional evidence for the association between IRF5 and PTPN22 and lupus susceptibility and may exclude it for CD28, IL2RA and KIF5A.
Email: drashrafantar@mans.edu.eg
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