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25 July 2020 An association study of polymorphisms in the H19 imprinted gene in an Iranian population with the risk of polycystic ovary syndrome
Marzieh Ghasemi, Milad Heidari Nia, Mohammad Hashemi, Narjes Keikha, Kimia Fazeli, Omid Taji, Anoosh Naghavi
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Abstract

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrinopathies that causes problems in female fertility at the reproductive age. PCOS is a multifactorial disease, with genetic factors playing a crucial role in its development. H19 is a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) expressed from the maternal chromosome, which is correlated with PCOS. In this study, 115 women suffering from PCOS and 130 healthy women with regular menstrual cycles were recruited as case and control groups, respectively. After the extraction of genomic DNA, the restriction fragment length polymorphism polymerase chain reaction was employed for genotyping of rs2067051G>A and rs3741219T>C. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS package V.22 for Windows. In silico analysis was recruited to determine the effects of SNPs on the secondary structure of gene transcript as well as miRNA binding sites. The obtained data showed that the A allele of rs2067051G>A was associated with the high risk of PCOS (OR = 2.00, 95%CI = 1.38–2.91, P = 0.00). AG and AA genotypes led to a 3.64- and (about) a five-fold increase in the risk of PCOS, respectively (95%CI = 2.02–6.54, P = 0.00, and 95%CI = 1.51–16.52, P = 0.00, respectively). These variants caused a significant increase in the risk of this disorder in all genotype models except in the recessive model. However, no association was found between rs3741219T>C and the increased risk of PCOS, either in the allele or in the genotype models. According to the findings, rs2067051G>A is associated with an increased risk of PCOS in the Iranian population.

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Marzieh Ghasemi, Milad Heidari Nia, Mohammad Hashemi, Narjes Keikha, Kimia Fazeli, Omid Taji, and Anoosh Naghavi "An association study of polymorphisms in the H19 imprinted gene in an Iranian population with the risk of polycystic ovary syndrome," Biology of Reproduction 103(5), 978-985, (25 July 2020). https://doi.org/10.1093/biolre/ioaa131
Received: 23 March 2020; Accepted: 22 July 2020; Published: 25 July 2020
KEYWORDS
H19
lncRNA
polycystic ovary syndrome
single nucleotide polymorphism
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