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Frequencies of CCR5-D32, CCR2-64I and SDF1-3'A mutations in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) seropositive subjects and seronegative individuals from the state of Pará in Brazilian Amazonia
(2005-12) CARVALHAES, Fernanda Andreza de Pinho Lott; CARDOSO, Greice de Lemos; VALLINOTO, Antonio Carlos Rosário; MACHADO, Luiz Fernando Almeida; ISHAK, Marluísa de Oliveira Guimarães; ISHAK, Ricardo; GUERREIRO, João Farias
The distribution of genetic polymorphisms of chemokine receptors CCR5-D32, CCR2-64I and chemokine (SDF1-3 A) mutations were studied in 110 Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) seropositive individuals (seropositive group) and 139 seronegative individuals (seronegative group) from the population of the northern Brazilian city of Belém which is the capital of the state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon. The CCR5-D32 mutation was found in the two groups at similar frequencies, i.e. 2.2% for the seronegative group and 2.7% for the seropositive group. The frequencies of the SDF1-3 A mutation were 21.0% for the seronegative group and 15.4% for the seropositive group, and the CCR2-64I allele was found at frequencies of 12.5% for the seronegative group and 5.4% for the seropositive group. Genotype distributions were consistent with Hardy-Weinberg expectations in both groups, suggesting that none of the three mutations has a detectable selective effect. Difference in the allelic and genotypic frequencies was statistically significant for the CCR2 locus, the frequency in the seronegative group being twice that found in the seropositive group. This finding may indicate a protective effect of the CCR2-64I mutation in relation to HIV transmission. However, considering that the CCR2-64I mutation has been more strongly associated with a decreased risk for progression for AIDS than to the resistance to the HIV infection, this could reflect an aspect of population structure or a Type I error.
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Importância da avaliação da hemoglobina fetal na clínica da anemia falciforme
(2008-04) RIBEIRO, Rita de Cassia Mousinho; CARDOSO, Greice de Lemos; SOUSA, Ítallo Esteves Lacerda de; MARTINS, Priscila Kelly Cavalcante
Sickle cell disease is one of the commonest and most studied genetic diseases in the world. Caused by a mutation of the β gene, it changes the molecular structure of hemoglobin. Abnormal Hb S molecules suffer polymerization physiologically provoked by a low oxygen tension, acidosis and dehydration. As a result, red blood cells take on a sickle cell form, which causes microvascular occlusion with varying consequences. The objective of this study was to review the importance of fetal hemoglobin in the clinical assessment of sickle cell disease patients. It has been shown that the association of high levels of fetal hemoglobin with sickle cell disease is favorable in hematological terms. In this interaction, F cells have low Hb S concentrations and thus inhibit Hb S polymerization and the morphological alteration of red blood cells. Treatment with hydroxyurea resulting in an increased fetal hemoglobin expression brings about a significant improvement in the patient's clinical state. Thus, fetal hemoglobin constitutes the greatest inhibitor of desoxi-Hb S polymerization and avoids the morphological alteration of red blood cells, chronic hemolytic anemia, painful microvascular occlusive crises, bone infarction and necrosis of several organs thereby improving the clinical outcome and the patients' life expectancy.
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Inherited hemoglobin disorders in an Afro-Amazonian community: Saracura
(2012-07) CARDOSO, Greice de Lemos; TAKANASHI, Silvania Yukiko Lins; GUERREIRO, João Farias
The most common hemoglobinopathies, viz, hemoglobins S and C, and α-and β-thalassemias, were investigated through the molecular screening of 116 subjects from the community of Saracura, comprising fugitive African slaves from farms of the municipality of Santarém, in the west of Pará State, Brazilian Amazon. The observed frequency of the HBB*S gene (0.9%) was significantly lower than that encountered in other Afro-derived communities in the region. Concomitantly, the absence of the HBB*C allele has been reported for most of the Afro-Amazonian communities thus far studied. As remnant populations of quilombos are generally small, the heterogeneous distribution of HBB*S and HBB*C alleles among them is probably due to genetic drift and/or founder effect. The observed frequency of 3.7 kb deletion in Saracura (8.5%) was consistent with the African origin of the population, with a certain degree of local differentiation and admixture with individuals of Caucasian ancestry, placed in evidence by the occurrence of - -(MED) deletion (1.2%), a common mutation in Mediterranean regions. As regards f-thalassemia, among the seven different mutations found in Saracura, three βºand two β+ mutations were of Mediterranean origin, and two β+ of African. Thus, only 28% of the local β-thalassemia mutations found in Saracura were of African origin.