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Lack of association of a functional -94ins/delATTG NFKB1 promoter polymorphism with susceptibility and clinical expression of biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis in northwest Spain.

Javier Martin, Cristina Perez-Armengol, Jose A Miranda-Filloy, Jose R Vilchez, Miguel A Lopez-Nevot, Carlos Garcia-Porrua and Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay
The Journal of Rheumatology February 2006, 33 (2) 285-288;
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OBJECTIVE: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a vasculitis preferentially involving large and middle-sized arteries in the elderly. The nuclear factor of k-light polypeptide gene enhancer in B cells (NF-kB) is a family of 5 proteins expressed in most cells that function to regulate gene transcription. NFKB1 gene plays a critical role in the coordination of the immune system by regulating the transcription of a broad variety of genes implicated in the immune response. A NFKB1 promoter polymorphism consisting of a common insertion/deletion (-94ins/delATTG) located between 2 putative key promoter regulatory elements and showing functional effects on the transcription of the NFKB1 gene has been described. Since GCA is a polygenic disease, we sought to assess the potential role of the -94ins/delATTG NFKB1 promoter polymorphism in susceptibility to GCA and to determine if this polymorphism is implicated in the clinical expression of this vasculitis. METHODS: Ninety-six patients with biopsy-proven GCA and 204 ethnically matched Caucasian controls from the Lugo region (Northwest Spain) were studied. Genotyping of the -94ins/delATTG NFKB1 promoter polymorphism was performed by fluorescent polymerase chain reaction (PCR). RESULTS: No significant differences in allele or genotype frequencies for this NFKB1 promoter polymorphism were observed between patients with GCA and controls even when patients were stratified according to gender, presence of polymyalgia rheumatica (n = 38), severe ischemic manifestations (n = 49), or other clinical manifestations of GCA. CONCLUSION: Our results do not support a role for -94ins/delATTG NFKB1 promoter polymorphism in susceptibility and clinical expression of GCA in a Northwestern Spanish population.

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Javier Martin, Cristina Perez-Armengol, Jose A Miranda-Filloy, Jose R Vilchez, Miguel A Lopez-Nevot, Carlos Garcia-Porrua, Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay
The Journal of Rheumatology Feb 2006, 33 (2) 285-288;

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Javier Martin, Cristina Perez-Armengol, Jose A Miranda-Filloy, Jose R Vilchez, Miguel A Lopez-Nevot, Carlos Garcia-Porrua, Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay
The Journal of Rheumatology Feb 2006, 33 (2) 285-288;
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