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Salva Sadat Mostafavi Dehraisi , Seyed Mehdi Sadat, Fatemeh Davari Tanha , Mohammad Reza Aghasadeghi Aghasadeghi, Mahdi Safarpour , Parinaz Abbasi Ranjbar, Ahmad Ebrahimi ,
Volume 72, Issue 8 (November 2014)
Abstract
Background: Uterine leiomyoma is one of the most common benign smooth muscle tumors occurring in 20-40% of women worldwide in their reproductive years. Recent studies revealed that estrogen plays an important role in the pathogenesis of this disease. Since glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene family are involved in the biosynthesis of estrogen, the prior probability that variants at this locus are associated with uterine leiomyoma is likely to be above the null. Therefore, this study was carried out to examine whether GSTP1 polymorphism (Ile105Val) is associated with increased risk of uterine leiomyoma in Iranian population.
Methods: In this case-control study, 50 women diagnosed with uterine leiomyoma and 50 healthy controls were recruited from subjects referred to the Pasteur Institute of Iran from November 2012 to September 2013. The genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral blood leucocytes using the standard phenol-chloroform method and subsequently the GSTP1 polymorphism was genotyped using amplification refractory mutation system-polymerase chain reaction (ARMS-PCR). Logistic regression analysis was applied to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals after age adjustment using the SPSS statistical software package, version 18.0.
Results: The results showed significant differences between case and control groups in terms of genotype frequency (P<0.0001). In addition, the results indicated that the presence of the valine allele significantly increased risk of uterine leiomyoma about three times more in individuals carrying the mutant allele compared to control group (Odds Ratio: 3.34 95%CI: 1.82-6.15 P<0.0001).
Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first study performed in Iranian population assessing the association between GSTP1 Ile105Val polymorphism and risk of uterine leiomyoma. However, further extensive studies with a large number of samples from different populations and ethnicities are required to validate the results obtained in this study.
Salva Sadat Mostafavi Dehraisi, Seyed Mehdi Sadat , Fatemeh Davari Tanha, Mohammad Reza Aghasadeghi, Golnaz Bahramali , Mahdi Safarpour , Ahmad Ebrahimi ,
Volume 72, Issue 10 (January 2015)
Abstract
Background: Uterine myomas are benign tumors of the uterus and the most common solid pelvic tumors causing symptoms in approximately 25% of women in their reproductive years. However, its etiology and pathogenesis remain obscure there is increasing evidence that endometriosis is inherited as a complex genetic trait. Recent studies indicated the involvement of glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) gene in the pathogenesis of this disease and current investigations are devoted to the other members of phase II detoxification system genes such as glutathione S-transferase T1 (GSTT1). Therefore, current study was carried out to investigate the distribution of GSTM1 and GSTT1polymorphisms in Iranian population in order to estimate possible impact of null-alleles of each gene in development of this disease.
Methods: In this study, 50 patients with endometriosis diagnosed by both pathology and laparoscopic findings according to the revised American Fertility Society classification of endometriosis were recruited from subjects referred to the Pasteur Institute of Iran between November 2012 to September 2013. Accordingly, controls (n=50) were subjects without any of aforementioned gynecologic conditions. The genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral blood leucocytes using the salting out method and GSTM1 and GSTT1 genotyping for gene deletions were carried out using Gap-polymerase chain re-action. Logistic regression analysis was applied to assess whether there was any significant risk increase between the case group with higher null genotypes compared to control group. The level of statistical significance was set at 0.05 and all analyses were conducted using the SPSS version 18.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL).
Results: There was significant evidence that the distribution of the GSTM1 and GSTT1 genotypes differed between the patients and the controls with an allelic odds ratio (OR) of 3.56 (95%CI: 1.35-9.37, P=0.01) and 3.92 (95%CI: 1.4-10 P=0.009) respectively. Data analysis also revealed that individuals with both GSTM1 and GSTT1 null genotypes (-/-) had higher risk to develop the disease in comparison to the people with the both present (+/+) genotype (OR:19.23, P=0.007).
Conclusion: The findings suggest that the GSTM1 and GSTT1 genetic polymorphisms are associated with the development of endometriosis in Iranian women which is in agreement with previous results obtained in other populations. However, the ethnic variations of polymorphisms should be evaluated in detail and differences should be incorporated into investigations of susceptibility variants for this disease.
