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Estudo de potenciais marcadores moleculares de suscetibilidade ao câncer de pulmão
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-08-27) SILVA, Francisco Anderson; SORTICA, Vinicius de Albuquerque; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2046482071071824
Lung cancer is a major public health problem, currently occupying the tenth position among the leading causes of death worldwide and the leading cause of death among cancer. The individual predisposition to developing lung cancer could be associated with genetic polymorphisms related to the inflammatory response, activation mechanisms and detoxification or carcinogens, as well as defects in the mechanisms of the DNA repair. This study aimed to investigate the influence of 13 polymorphisms of the type insertion / deletion in genes of the metabolism and biotransformation (CYP2E1, CYP19A1 and UGT1A1), control genes of the immune system and inflammatory response (IL1A and IL4), genes that regulate control of gene function of the cell cycle and immune system (MDM2 and NFKB1), DNA repair genes (TYMS and XRCC1), regulator of apoptosis gene (CASP 8), regulator of hemostasis gene (PAR1) and control gene cell cycle (TP53) as susceptibility to lung cancer. Polymorphisms were genotyped by a multiplex PCR reaction of patients with a confirmed diagnosis for lung cancer and individuals from the same population without the disease. The genetic ancestry of all individuals were estimated by a panel of ancestry informative markers. A logistic regression analysis controlling for age, gender and smoking was performed to determine the influence of polymorphisms in susceptibility to cancer. No statistically significant differences between the groups with cancer and without cancer were founded. Polymorphisms studied are not associated with susceptibility to lung cancer in the Pará population.
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Investigação de polimorfismos no gene TNF em pacientes com hepatotoxicidade induzida por medicações antituberculosas no norte do Brasil
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-08-27) VALENTE, Sonia Lopes; SANTOS, Ney Pereira Carneiro dos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1290427033107137; SORTICA, Vinicius de Albuquerque; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2046482071071824
Tuberculosis still remains a serious public health problem worldwide. The hepatotoxicity induced by anti-tuberculosis drugs causes a large number of hospitalizations and may be fatal if treatment is not interrupted. The hepatitis induced by anti-tuberculosis drugs are not yet fully understood and clinical studies suggests that immunological mechanisms are involved in its pathogenesis. The cytokine TNF-α is a major mediator of inflammatory and immune changes in the levels of this cytokine may be related to pathogenesis of drug-induced hepatitis. These changes observed may be related to polymorphisms in the TNF gene. The knowledge of which polymorphisms in the TNF gene are involved in the risk of developing hepatotoxicity anti-tuberculosis drugs will permit the use of these molecular markers to improve the therapeutic management of these patients. This study investigated the influence of polymorphisms -308C>T (rs1800629), -1031C>T (rs1799964), -238A>G (rs361525) and -857C>T (rs1799724) in the TNF gene with drug-induced hepatotoxicity. The study included 68 patients with tuberculosis who had hepatotoxicity of the basic regimen consisting of rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide and ethambutol (2RHZE/4R) and 191 patients without adverse therapy effects. The polymorphisms were determined by real-time PCR with TaqMan probes. Comparing the frequency of genotypes between cases and controls, a significant difference in the distribution of genotypes of the SNP -1031C>T was identified (p = 0.003). The frequency of homozygous -1031CC was higher in the case group (8.8%) than in the control group (1.6%). The -1031CC homozygous patients had an increased risk for the development of hepatotoxicity when compared to homozygous -1031TT or the T allele carriers (OR = 8.632, p = 0.014, OR = 11.355, p = 0.004). We concluded that -1031C>T SNP was significantly associated with susceptibility to induced hepatitis anti-tuberculosis drugs in the north population of Brazil.