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ArticleThe open ophthalmology journal2018

Polymorphisms of Aldose Reductase (ALR2) Regulatory Gene are Risk Factors for Diabetic Retinopathy in Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Bali, Indonesia.

Desak Made Wihandani, Ketut Suastika, I Nyoman Agus Bagiada, Safarina G Malik

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Article in The open ophthalmology journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Desak Made WihandaniDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Jl. PB Sudirman, Denpasar 80232, Bali, Indonesia.
Ketut SuastikaDivision of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Jl. PB Sudirman, and Sanglah Hospital, Jl. Kesehatan, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
I Nyoman Agus BagiadaDepartment of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Jl. PB Sudirman, Denpasar 80232, Bali, Indonesia.
Safarina G MalikEijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jl. Diponegoro 69, Jakarta 10430, Indonesia.
Udayana University · IDEijkman Institute for Molecular Biology · ID

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aimThe study aimed to elucidate whether the polymorphisms of the aldose reductase regulatory gene were risk factors for Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) in type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in Bali.

methodsThis is a case-control study including 35 cases of T2DM patients with DR paired with 35 cases with non-DR as controls. PCR analysis and DNA-sequencing were carried out to detect the C(-106)T and C(-12)G polymorphisms at the regulatory region of Aldose Reductase (ALR2) gene. Genotype and allele distributions were analyzed by Chi-squared test and independent t-and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to analyze other data.

resultsAmong all subjects in both groups, the baseline characteristics were homogenous except for systolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose and 2-hours post-prandial blood glucose. This study found two polymorphisms, C(-104)T and C(-9)G, in the regulatory region of ALR2 gene. The result showed that the C(-104)T polymorphism was a risk factor for DR (OR=36; 95% CI = 4.43-292.85;

conclusionIt can be concluded that C(-104)T polymorphism in the regulatory region of Aldose Reductase (ALR2) gene was the risk factor for DR among T2DM patients in Bali, Indonesia. However, small sample size, systolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose and 2-hours post-prandial blood glucose could affect our finding.

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ALR2 geneC(-104)T polymorphismC(-9)G polymorphismDiabetic retinopathyPCRType-2 diabetes mellitus

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