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ArticleInternational journal of trichology

Association of Leukotrichia in Vitiligo and Asp148Glu Polymorphism of Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease 1.

A Fatih Aydin, İkbal Esen Aydıngöz, Semra Doğru-Abbasoğlu, Pervin Vural, Müjdat Uysal

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A Fatih AydinDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
İkbal Esen AydıngözDepartment of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Acıbadem University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Semra Doğru-AbbasoğluDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Pervin VuralDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Müjdat UysalDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Istanbul University · TRAcıbadem University · TR

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Abstract

backgroundOxidative stress and increased DNA damage have been implicated in the etiopathogenesis of vitiligo. Oxidative DNA damage is mainly repaired by the base excision repair (BER) pathway.

aimWe sought to determine whether polymorphisms in DNA repair genes may have a role in the pathogenesis of vitiligo. MATERIALS AND

methodsWe conducted a study including 100 patients with vitiligo and age- and sex-matched 193 control subjects to examine the role of single-nucleotide polymorphisms of BER genes, human 8-oxoG DNA N-glycosylase 1 (codon 326), apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) (codon 148), and X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (codon 399) as risk factors for vitiligo. These polymorphisms were determined by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction and melting curve analysis.

resultsNo significant association was observed between the variant alleles of studied genes and vitiligo.

conclusionHowever, we showed that the presence of APE1 148Glu variant allele is associated with leukotrichia. This preliminary study suggests that APE1 (codon 148) polymorphism may play a role in vitiligo pathogenesis.

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Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1DNA repairgene polymorphismhuman 8-oxoguanine DNA N-glycosylase 1vitiligoX-ray repair cross-complementing group 1

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