BAT1, a putative anti-inflammatory gene, is associated with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy

The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Rajendranath RamasawmyAnna Carla Goldberg

Abstract

It is not understood why only a subset of individuals infected with Trypanosoma cruzi develop chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC). Patients with CCC display high levels of circulating proinflammatory cytokines. Heart-infiltrating lymphocytes from patients with CCC also express proinflammatory cytokines (tumor necrosis factor- alpha and interferon- gamma ) that are detectable in biopsy samples and surgical heart-tissue samples. BAT1, a putative anti-inflammatory gene, presents functional polymorphisms in its promoter region that influence its transcriptional level. We assessed, by polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment-length polymorphism analysis, BAT1 variants in the promoter region at positions -22C/G and -348C/T in 154 patients with CCC and in 76 T. cruzi-infected but asymptomatic (ASY) patients. Of the patients with CCC, 16% were homozygous for the -22C allele, compared with 4% of the ASY patients (P=.004; odds ratio [OR], 4.7 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 1.4-16]). A similar trend was observed for the -348C homozygotes (P=.01; OR, 1.9 [95% CI, 1.0-3.5]). Susceptibility to CCC was conferred by the C variants at nt -22 (P=.003; OR, 1.8 [95% CI, 1.2-2.8]) and at nt -348 (P=.02; OR, 1.7 [95% CI, 1.0-2.8]). BAT1 varian...Continue Reading

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