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CTLA-4 exon 1 +49 polymorphism alone and in a haplotype with −318 promoter polymorphism may confer susceptibility to chronic HBV infection in Chinese Han patients

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Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) plays a pivotal role in regulating T cell activation, which is believably critical for the outcome of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The expression and function of CTLA-4 may be affected by gene polymorphisms. This study investigated the influence of CTLA-4 polymorphisms on disease susceptibility in Chinese Han patients with chronic HBV infection. CTLA-4 +49A/G and −318C/T polymorphisms were evaluated by DNA amplification with polymerase chain reaction followed by the restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. The patients with chronic HBV infection had higher frequencies of genotype AA and allele A of CTLA-4 +49A/G polymorphism. The haplotype +49A−318C was significantly over-represented (P < 0.001) and haplotype +49G−318C under-represented (P = 0.006) in the patients. The +49GG genotype was more frequent (P = 0.009) and +49A allele was less frequent in patients with lower ALT levels (P = 0.012) in HBeAg positive chronic hepatitis B. It is indicated that CTLA-4 +49A/G polymorphism alone and in a haplotype with −318C allele may confer susceptibility to chronic HBV infection in Chinese Han patients.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 30972758). We thank Dr. Bofeng Zhu and Chunxia Yan from the Department of Forensic Science, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, for assistance in statistical analysis. We thank Dr. Ostabela Mutashaga for English editing of the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710061, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

    Shaoqiong Duan, Guoyu Zhang, Qunying Han, Zhu Li, Zhengwen Liu, Na Li, Yawen Wang, Man Li, Sai Lou, Mingbo Yang, Qianqian Zhu & Fanfan Xing

  2. Key Laboratory of Environment and Genes related to Diseases, Ministry of Education, Institute of Endemic Diseases, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710061, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

    Jinghong Chen

  3. Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710061, Shaanxi Province, People’s Republic of China

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Duan, S., Zhang, G., Han, Q. et al. CTLA-4 exon 1 +49 polymorphism alone and in a haplotype with −318 promoter polymorphism may confer susceptibility to chronic HBV infection in Chinese Han patients. Mol Biol Rep 38, 5125–5132 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-010-0660-7

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