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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-12-12
pubmed:abstractText
Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra), a natural inhibitor of interleukin-1 (IL-1), completely inhibits the stimulatory effects of IL-1 on bone resorption. Bioactivity of IL-1 increases in the estrogen-deficient state with an increased IL-1:IL-1ra ratio and decreases after estrogen replacement therapy with a decreased IL-1:IL-1ra ratio. An association was found between an 86 basepair variable number tandem-repeat (VNTR) polymorphism of the IL-1ra gene and an increased production of IL-1ra in a cultured monocyte system. The IL-1ra VNTR polymorphism, therefore, is an attractive candidate gene for osteoporosis susceptibility as well as hormone responsiveness after estrogen replacement. We examined the association of this VNTR polymorphism with bone mass, bone turnover, and the change of bone mineral density (BMD) after 1 year of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The frequencies of the five alleles were as follows: A1, 90.8% (410 bp, four repeats); A2, 7.2% (240 bp, two repeats); A3, 1.6% (500 bp, five repeats); A4, 0.4% (326 bp, three repeats); and A5, 0% (595 bp, six repeats), in 714 healthy ethnically Korean postmenopausal women, aged 41-74 years (55.2 +/- 6.3 years mean +/- SD). Spine (L2-4) and femoral neck BMD were not significantly different among IL-1ra genotypes, and no significant genotypic differences were found in bone markers. There were no differences in genotypic proportions when we categorized the subjects into a high-loss group and a normal-loss group with regard to levels of bone marker. No significant genotypic differences were found in changes in lumbar and femoral neck BMD and those in bone markers before and after 1 year of HRT in 312 women. Our data suggest that these IL-1ra polymorphisms are not associated with BMD, bone turnover, or the change of BMD after 1 year of HRT in Korean women.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
8756-3282
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
612-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Bone Density, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Estrogen Replacement Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Estrogens, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Femur Neck, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Interleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist Protein, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Korea, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Lumbar Vertebrae, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Polymorphism, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Sialoglycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:12477576-Statistics, Nonparametric
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Nonassociation of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist genotypes with bone mineral density, bone turnover status, and estrogen responsiveness in Korean postmenopausal women.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Samsung Cheil Hospital and Women's Healthcare Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. hankiok@samsung.co.kr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study