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HEREDITAS ›› 2009, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 265-272.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2009.00265

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Mitochondrial D-Loop gene polymorphisms in the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

CHEN Fang-Jian;YU Hong;FAN Fan;LU Jian-Xin   

  1. Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325035, China
  • Received:2008-08-01 Revised:2008-12-26 Online:2009-03-10 Published:2009-03-10
  • Contact: LU Jian-Xin

Abstract: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and direct nucleotide sequencing were used to analyze the mitochondrial D-loop gene of 199 Zhejiang patients with T2DM and 102 controls and the relationship between D-Loop gene variations and the main clinical symptoms. The mitochondrial D-Loop gene was a hypervariable area and np73A-G, np263A-G, np16223C-T, and np16519T-C were four high variations, and 29 unreported new variations were found. np193A-G, np234A-G, and np16108C-T were related to diabetes mellitus with family history. These results showed that there are vari-ous forms of polymorphism in mitochondrial DNA D-Loop gene in a Zhejiang population, some of which are related to diabetes mellitus.