Genetic variation in the GCKR gene is associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in Chinese people.

Molecular Biology Reports
Zhen YangRenming Hu

Abstract

Recent genome-wide association studies reported that GCKR rs780094 polymorphism is associated with elevated fasting serum triglyceride levels and elevated levels of C-reactive protein (CRP). There are a ample of data on the association between circulating triglyceride, CRP concentrations and risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD). To determine whether the GCKR rs780094 polymorphism contributes to the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver, a case-control study was performed in 903 Chinese subjects. Among study population, 436 patients with B-mode ultrasound-proven NAFLD (318 with steatosis hepatis I°, 90 with steatosis hepatis II° and 28 with steatosis hepatis III°) and 467 controls were genotyped by using TaqMan allelic discrimination assays. We confirmed the association of GCKR rs780094 with NAFLD in Chinese people (OR = 1.607, 95% CI 1.139-2.271, P[dom] = 7.2 × 10(-3)). In this study, polymorphism in GCKR rs780094 was not significantly associated with the degree of fatty infiltration of the liver. In addition, the T-allele of GCKR rs780094 was significantly associated with increasing fasting triglyceride (P[add] = 3.8 × 10(-4)) and CRP (P[add] = 2.9 × 10(-4)) concentrations after adjusting for age, gender, and BMI. The ...Continue Reading

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