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Amir H. Sabouri, Mineki Saito, Alun L. Lloyd, Alison M. Vine, Aviva W. Witkover, Yoshitaka Furukawa, Shuji Izumo, Kimiyoshi Arimura, Sara E. F. Marshall, Koichiro Usuku, Charles R. M. Bangham, Mitsuhiro Osame, Polymorphism in the Interleukin-10 Promoter Affects Both Provirus Load and the Risk of Human T Lymphotropic Virus Type I-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 190, Issue 7, 1 October 2004, Pages 1279–1285, https://doi.org/10.1086/423942
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Abstract
To investigate non-human leukocyte antigen candidate genes that influence the outcome of human T cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type I infection, we analyzed 6 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the interleukin (IL)-10 promoter region in 280 patients with HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis(HAM/ TSP) and 255 HTLV-I-seropositive asymptomatic carriers from an area where HTLV-I is endemic. The IL-10 −592 A allele, which shows lower HTLV-I Tax-induced transcriptional activity than the C allele in the Jurkat T cell line, was associated with a >2-fold reduction in the odds of developing HAM/TSP (P = .011; odds ratio [OR], 0.50 [95% confidence interval, 0.30–0.86]) by reducing the provirus load in the whole cohort (P = .009, analysis of variance). Given the OR and the observed frequency of IL-10 −592 A, we demonstrate that this allele prevents ∼44.7% (standard deviation, ±13.1%) of potential cases of HAM/TSP, which indicates that it defines one component of the genetic susceptibility to HAM/TSP in the cohort.
- alleles
- transcription, genetic
- polymorphism
- bone marrow diseases
- htlv-i infections
- human t-lymphotropic virus 1
- interleukin-10
- interleukins
- tropical spastic paraparesis
- single nucleotide polymorphism
- promoter regions (genetics)
- proviruses
- spinal cord diseases
- t-lymphocytes
- infections
- viruses
- t-cell leukemia viruses, human
- candidate disease gene