Ji-su MO, Soo-cheon CHAE

Department of Pathology, Wonkwang University, School of Medicine, Iksan, Chon-buk, South Korea

Keywords: Bone morphogenetic protein 6, haplotype, polymorphism, systematic lupus erythematosus

Abstract

Objectives: This study aims to investigate whether bone morphogenetic protein 6 (BMP6) single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is associated with susceptibility to systematic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
Patients and methods: We analyzed the genotype and allele frequencies of BMP6 SNPs using genomic deoxyribonucleic acid isolated from 119 SLE patients (9 males, 110 females; mean age 36.4 years; range 19 to 59 years) and 509 healthy controls (323 males, 186 females; mean age 42.1 years; range 19 to 61 years). Genomic deoxyribonucleic acid was extracted from peripheral blood leukocytes using a standard phenol-chloroform method or by using a genomic deoxyribonucleic acid extraction kit. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, and antinuclear antibody levels of SLE patients were recorded.
Results: Our results showed that the genotype frequencies of rs17557 and rs9505273 for BMP6 in SLE patients significantly differed from those of the control group (p=0.01 and p=0.04, respectively). The genotype frequencies of the rs17557 and rs9505273 for BMP6 in female SLE patients were also significantly different from those in female healthy controls (p=0.04 and p=0.03, respectively). We also revealed that the distribution of the main haplotypes of BMP6 SNPs in SLE patients was significantly different from their distribution in healthy controls.
Conclusion: These results suggested that SNPs in BMP6 might be associated with susceptibility to SLE and that haplotypes of BMP6 polymorphisms might represent useful genetic markers for SLE.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declared no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article.

Financial Disclosure

The genomic DNA used for this study was provided by the Biobank of Wonkwang University Hospital, a member of the National Biobank of Korea, which is supported by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. This research was supported by Wonkwang University in 2016.