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American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. Vol. 31, pp. 317-321, 2004
© 2004 American Thoracic Society
DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2003-0128OC

Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 6 Haplotypes and Asthma in the Indian Population

Rana Nagarkatti, Chandrika B-Rao, Vannankandi Vijayan, Surendra K. Sharma and Balaram Ghosh

Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi; Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi University, Delhi; and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India

Address correspondence to: Balaram Ghosh, Ph.D., Molecular Immunogenetics Laboratory, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, New Delhi-110007, India. E-mail: bghosh{at}igib.res.in, bghosh_igib{at}yahoo.com

In this paper, we report for the first time the results of an investigation on the association of signal transducer and activator of transcription 6 (STAT6) with asthma in the Indian population. A novel polymorphic CA-repeat in the proximal promoter region [R1] and a previously identified CA-repeat in the 5'-untranslated region [R3] were genotyped, and haplotypes [R1_R3] were generated using PHASE software. The 16 repeat allele at the R1 locus was positively associated (P = 0.01) with asthma. The 15 and 16 repeat alleles at the R3 locus were positively (P < 10–4) and negatively (P < 10–5) associated with asthma, respectively. Further, the 17_15 (P = 0.0031) and 16_15 (P = 0.001) haplotypes were found to be positively associated with asthma, whereas 17_14, 24_16, and 23_16 were negatively associated (P < 10–5). It appears that the R3 and R1 loci together play a bigger role in asthma than either of them alone, and the R3 locus has a larger effect than the R1 locus. Although alleles at the R1 locus appeared to be associated with total serum immunoglobulin E level, the genotypes showed no association, and the R3 locus showed no effect. As no exonic variants of STAT6 are known as yet, repeat polymorphisms in the regulatory regions and their haplotypes could be important in deciphering the genetic role of STAT6 in asthma and atopy.

Abbreviations: confidence interval, CI • interleukin, IL • likelihood ratio, LR • odds ratio, OR • signal transducer and activator of transcription 6, STAT6 • T helper type 2, Th2 • untranslated region, UTR




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