Abstract
Background: COPD is a complex disease whose main risk factor is cigarette smoking, there is genetic component that predisposes to develop it; the objective of this study is to evaluate haplotypes associated with COPD and its severity in Mexican mestizo population.
Methods: We conducted a study with 299 patients with COPD (P-COPD) secondary to smoking and 531 smokers without COPD (SW-C), P-COPD were classified according to the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2010, in 2 groups, GOLD I+II and III+IV. It was designed a microarray (Illumina, CA, USA) with 1536 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs); 251 were ancestry informative markers (AIMs), the rest were distributed in 24 candidate genomic regions. To describe the study population used SPSS; population stratification was performed by EIGENSOFT software, the structure of linkage disequilibrium and haplotype generation was performed using the software Haploview 4.2.
Results: We find haplotypes associated with COPD in 3 genes: FAM69A, ZNF583 and SLC9A8.
Analysis according GOLD, shows an haplotype in IL6R gene (I+II vs III+IV) associated to protection (p = 8.00E-03) and other to susceptibility in ADAM19 (p = 7.40E-03), both genes encoding proteins involved in the inflammation process.
Conclusions: There are haplotypes associated with COPD and GOLD severity in Mexican mestizo population.
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