Assessment of association between lipoxygenase genes variants in elderly Greek population and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Xanthippi A TsekmekidouKalliopi D KotsaFotis S TsetsosTriantafyllos P DidangelosMarianthi A GeorgitsiAthanasios K RoumeliotisStylianos A PanagoutsosElias D ThodisMarios T TheodoridisNikolaos P PapanasDimitrios A PapazoglouPloumis S PasadakisMaltezos S EustratiosPeristera I PaschouJohn G YovosPublished in: Diabetes & vascular disease research (2018)
These results indicate a potential protective role of ALOX5AP and 5-arachidonate lipoxygenase gene in diabetes pathogenesis, indicating further the importance of the relationship between diabetes and inflammation. Larger population studies are required to replicate our findings.