{"title":"Vitamin D receptor gene rs4334089 polymorphism and Parkinson’s disease in Iranian population","authors":"Atena Fazeli , Marzieh Motallebi , Javad Jamshidi , Abolfazl Movafagh , Hamid Ghaedi , Babak Emamalizadeh , Kaveh Kashani , Hossein Darvish","doi":"10.1016/j.baga.2016.04.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Parkinson disease (PD) is a </span>neurodegenerative disorder<span><span> with both contributions of genetic and environmental factors. Protective functions of </span>vitamin D<span> and then vitamin D receptor (VDR) in PD have been declared recently. In this study we investigated the association of </span></span></span><em>VDR</em><span> rs4334089 gene polymorphism with PD in Iranian population.</span></p><p>A total of 1040 subjects including 520 PD patients and 520 unrelated control subjects were recruited in a case-control study. DNA was extracted from peripheral blood of all subjects and rs4334089 polymorphism of <em>VDR</em> was genotyped using PCR-RFLP method.</p><p><span>Genotype and allele frequency of rs4334089 were significantly different in PD and control groups and A allele was significantly more frequent in PD patients compared to control group. Our findings suggest that </span><em>VDR</em> rs4334089 A allele could be a risk factors for PD in Iranian population, although more replication studies are needed to confirm our findings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89327,"journal":{"name":"Basal ganglia","volume":"6 3","pages":"Pages 157-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.baga.2016.04.001","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Basal ganglia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210533616300016","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Parkinson disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with both contributions of genetic and environmental factors. Protective functions of vitamin D and then vitamin D receptor (VDR) in PD have been declared recently. In this study we investigated the association of VDR rs4334089 gene polymorphism with PD in Iranian population.
A total of 1040 subjects including 520 PD patients and 520 unrelated control subjects were recruited in a case-control study. DNA was extracted from peripheral blood of all subjects and rs4334089 polymorphism of VDR was genotyped using PCR-RFLP method.
Genotype and allele frequency of rs4334089 were significantly different in PD and control groups and A allele was significantly more frequent in PD patients compared to control group. Our findings suggest that VDR rs4334089 A allele could be a risk factors for PD in Iranian population, although more replication studies are needed to confirm our findings.