Systemic lupus erythematosus in a multiethnic US Cohort (LUMINA). XXX: association between C-reactive protein (CRP) gene polymorphisms and vascular events

Objectives. To determine if a polymorphic GTn repeat in the intron of the C-reactive protein (CRP) gene associates with occurrence of vascular arterial events in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods. We performed a nested case–control study on the LUMINA cohort of 546 Hispanic, African-Americ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Rheumatology (Oxford, England) England), 2005-07, Vol.44 (7), p.864-868
Hauptverfasser: Szalai, A. J., Alarcón, G. S., Calvo-Alén, J., Toloza, S. M. A., McCrory, M. A., Edberg, J. C., McGwin, G., Bastian, H. M., Fessler, B. J., Vilá, L. M., Kimberly, R. P., Reveille, J. D.
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Zusammenfassung:Objectives. To determine if a polymorphic GTn repeat in the intron of the C-reactive protein (CRP) gene associates with occurrence of vascular arterial events in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods. We performed a nested case–control study on the LUMINA cohort of 546 Hispanic, African-American and Caucasian SLE patients. Twenty-five patients who developed vascular arterial events (i.e. myocardial infarction, angina, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, stroke, claudication, gangrene or significant tissue loss and/or arterial peripheral thrombosis) after enrolment were selected as cases and 32 ethnically matched patients with no previous vascular arterial events served as controls. Their CRP gene GTn polymorphism and plasma CRP was determined. Results. Patients with vascular events had more severe SLE and were more likely to have plasma CRP in the highest quintile of measured values. The overall distribution of GTn alleles for patients with vascular events had a greater number of the GT20 variant compared with controls [26.0% of alleles (13/50) vs 15.6% (10/64)]. This greater number of GT20 in patients with vascular events was observed for African-Americans [29.2% (7/24) vs 21.0% (8/38)] and Hispanics [33.0% (4/12) vs 0% (0/16)] but not for Caucasians [14.3% (2/14) vs 20.0% (2/10)]. For African-Americans and Hispanics combined (45 patients), the frequency of GT20 in those with vascular events (30.6%, 11/36) was significantly higher than in those without them (14.8%, 8/54) (P
ISSN:1462-0324
1462-0332
DOI:10.1093/rheumatology/keh613