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Investigation and Analysis of Allergy-related SNPs for Allergy Affected Students in a high school.

과학영재학교 학생들이 알러지 관련 SNP 탐색고 분석

  • Published : 2004.10.01
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Abstract

Allergy is a multi-factorial disease influenced by genetic and environmental factors. As the number of allergy-affected people is increasing in developed countries, there is an increasing interest in genetic predisposition to the allergy. A number of genes and chromosomal region have been identified to be linked to allergy including rhinitis, asthma and atopy. In order to understand the genetic background for the allergy-affected people, we investigated genetic predisposition among students enrolled in Busan Science Academy. Among 138 students, about 30% students had some allergy-related disorder including rhinitis, asthma and atopy. We analyzed several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within two genes, Inter-leukin-4(IL-4) and Interleukin-4 receptor(IL-4R), which are involved in the induction of allergy reaction with the Th2 immunity. For 96 samples obtained from students, we analyzed 9 SNPs including -590 C/T and -34 C/T in IL-4, and I75V, Q576R, E375A, e406R, 5411L, S761P and S727A in IL-4R. From the analysis, these SNPs showed slight differences among normal and allergy-affected students, but these differences was not enough to predict the predisposition to the allergy. In contrast to previous reports, we could not find SNP(s) related with allergy. These results suggest that genetic tests recently performed in Korea widely have to be reassessed for its validity of genetic predisposition. [Supported by grants from MOST]

알러지는 복합적인 유전적, 환경적 요인에 의해 발병하는 질환이다. 선진국에서 알러지 질환의 수가 증가함에 따라 알러지에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있으며 이에 대한 유전적인 원인에 대한 관심도 증가하고 있다. 알러지에는 천식, 아토피, 비염을 포함한 알러지에 관련된 유전자와 염색체 부위가 밝혀지고 있다. 하지만 이들에 대한 평가 및 확인이 제대로 진행되지 않는 상황이다. 본 연구팀은 알러지를 일으키는 유전적인 요인을 찾고자 하였다. 과학영재학교 138명을 대상으로 하였고 이들 중 약 30%가 천식, 아토피, 비염과 같은 알러지 질환을 앓고 있었다. 본 연구팀은 지금까지 보고된 연구 결과들을 토대로 알러지에 관련된 유전자를 찾았으며 그중 알러지를 일으키는데 관여하는 IL-4와 IL-4Ra를 후보 유전자로 선정하였다. 지금까지 발표된 보고들은 SNP의 발견과 그리고 하나 혹은 두개의 SNP에 초점을 맞추어 발표한 반면, 본 연구팀은 알러지와 관련하여 발표된 IL-4와 IL-4Ra의 SNP를 종합적으로 분석하고자 하였다 과학영재학교 학생들 96명을 머리카락 샘플을 확보하고 이 것으로 9개 의 SNP를 선정 하여 염기서열 분석 및 MALDI-TOF을 이용한 유전자 분석을 진행하였다. 각각의 SNP에 대해 알러지를 가지고 있는 그룹과 정상 그룹간의 약간의 차이들은 있었지만 이것이 알러지를 가지고 있는 사람과 정상인과의 구분을 시켜줄 수 있을 정도는 아니었다. 이러한 결과는 현재 한국에서 널리 행하여지고 있는 유전자 검사에 대한 재고가 필요함을 시사한다.

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