Superoxide dismutase is an antioxidant enzyme that is involved in defence mechanisms against oxidative stress. Cu/Zn SOD is a variant that is located in exon3/intron3 boundary. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the Cu/Zn SOD (+35A/C) gene polymorphism is associated with the susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus among south Indian population. The study included patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (n = 100) and healthy controls (n = 75). DNA was isolated from the blood and genotyping of Cu/Zn SOD gene polymorphism was done by polymerase chain reaction based restriction fragment length polymorphism method. Occurrence of different genotypes and normal (A) and mutant (C) allele frequencies were determined. The frequency of the three genotypes of the total subjects was as follows: homozygous wild-type A/A (95%), heterozygous genotype A/C (3%), and homozygous mutant C/C (2%). The mutant (C) allele and the mutant genotypes (AC/CC) were found to be completely absent among the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Absence of mutant genotype (CC) shows that the Cu/Zn SOD gene polymorphism may not be associated with the susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus among south Indian population.
Keyphrases
- wild type
- end stage renal disease
- oxidative stress
- ejection fraction
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- heavy metals
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- prognostic factors
- risk assessment
- peritoneal dialysis
- early onset
- genome wide
- dna damage
- metabolic syndrome
- patient reported outcomes
- metal organic framework
- ischemia reperfusion injury
- hydrogen peroxide
- induced apoptosis
- insulin resistance
- single cell
- anti inflammatory
- heat shock