Advanced Biomedical Research
Distribution of cytokine gene single nucleotide polymorphisms among a multi-ethnic Iranian population
Authors
- Zana Karimi Kurdistani 1
- Samaneh Saberi 2
- Yeganeh Talebkhan 2
- Akbar Oghalaie 2
- Maryam Esmaeili 2
- Nazanin Mohajerani 2
- Maryam Bababeik 2
- Parisa Hassanpour 2
- Shaghik Barani 2
- Ameneh Farjaddoost 2
- Fatemeh Ebrahimzadeh 2
- Jean Trejaut 3
- Marjan Mohammadi 2
1 HPGC Group, Department of Medical Biotechnology, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran; Department of Molecular Genetics, Fars Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran
2 HPGC Group, Department of Medical Biotechnology, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
3 Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Iran
Abstract
Background: Cytokine gene single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are widely used to study susceptibility to complex diseases and as a tool for anthropological studies.
Materials and Methods: To investigate cytokine SNPs in an Iranian multi-ethnic population, we have investigated 10 interleukin (IL) SNPs (IL-1β (C-511T, T-31C), IL-2 (G-384T), IL-4 (C-590T), IL-6 (G-174C), IL-8 (T-251A), IL-10 (G-1082A, C-819T, C-592A) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) (G-308A) in 415 Iranian subjects comprising of 6 different ethnicities. Allelic and genotypic frequencies as well as Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) were calculated by PyPop software. Population genetic indices including observed heterozygosity (H o ), expected heterozygosity (H e ), fixation index (F IS ), the effective number of alleles (Ne ) and polymorphism information content (PIC) were derived using Popgene 32 software. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) was constructed using Reynold's genetic distance obtained from the frequencies of cytokine gene polymorphism.
Results: Genotypic distributions were consistent with the HWE assumptions, except for 3 loci (IL-4-590, IL-8-251 and IL-10-819) in Fars and 4 loci (IL-4-590, IL-6-174, IL-10-1082 and TNF-α-308) in Turks. Pairwise assessment of allelic frequencies, detected differences at the IL-4-590 locus in Gilakis versus Kurds (P = 0.028) and Lurs (P = 0.022). Mazanis and Gilakis displayed the highest (H o = 0.50 ± 0.24) and lowest (H o = 0.34 ± 0.16) mean observed heterozygosity, respectively.
Conclusions: MDS analysis of our study population, in comparison with others, revealed that Iranian ethnicities except Kurds and Mazanis were tightly located within a single cluster with closest genetic affinity to Europeans.
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