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Mannose-binding lectin gene polymorphisms are not associated with susceptibility to hepatitis C virus infection in the Brazilian Amazon region

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 70; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.humimm.2009.06.014

1879-1166

Antônio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto, Renato Pinheiro-Silva, Renata Bezerra Hermes, Ivanete S.A. Amaral, Esther Castello Branco Mello Miranda, Maria Sílvia de Brito Barbosa, Lizomar de Jesus Pereira Móia, Simone Regina Souza da Silva Conde, Manoel do Carmo Pereira Soares, José Alexandre Rodrigues de Lemos, Luiz Fernando Almeida Machado, M.O.G. Ishak, Ricardo Ishak,

Mosquito-borne diseases and control

The present study compares the genotype frequencies between two population groups composed by 73 hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients and 92 seronegative controls and investigates the role of allele variants as a possible factor in the susceptibility to HCV infection and the influence on disease progression. The identification of MBL*B and MBL*C alleles was performed by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the 349-bp product using BanI and MboII restriction enzymes, respectively, and a polymerase chain reaction-sequence-specific polymorphism for discrimination of MBL*D. The analysis of allele and genotype frequencies between an HCV-infected group and seronegative controls did not indicate significant differences. The comparison of chronically infected subjects with and without liver cirrhosis was also not statistically significant. The odds ratio estimations were not significant, and the values obtained cannot suggest that the presence of allele variant MBL*B could have some influence in the risk of HCV infection progression to liver cirrhosis and that the presence of allele MBL*D could confer some protection against disease progression, but a larger sample size is necessary to confirm the present results.