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【medical-news】The Boston Puerto Rican Health Study：PGC-
Objective: Individuals with type 2 diabetes exhibit higher DNA damage and increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, mechanisms underlying the association between DNA damage and development of type 2 diabetes and CVD are not understood. We sought to link peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor- coactivator-1 alpha (PPARGC1A), a master transcriptional regulator of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and cellular energy metabolism, with DNA damage, type 2 diabetes and CVD.
Research Design and Methods: We measured DNA damage as urinary 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) concentration and examined the relationship between nine PPARGC1A genetic variants, DNA damage, type 2 diabetes, and self-reported CVD in 959 participants of the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study.
Results: With respect to urinary 8-OHdG, PPARGC1A variants showed significant association, whereas PPARGC1A haplotypes exhibited significant association after correction for multiple testing. Two independent PPARGC1A variants associated significantly with type 2 diabetes (OR=1.35 and 2.46, P=0.045 and <0.001). Carriers of minor alleles of two other PPARGC1A variants, both in strong LD and associated with lower DNA damage, showed lower prevalence of CVD (OR=0.53 and 0.65, P=0.030 and 0.175). Moreover, we found that physical activity correlated negatively with DNA damage.
Conclusions: Low physical activity combined with risk haplotyes plausibly forms the basis for the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes in this population. We propose that PPARGC1A influences development of type 2 diabetes and CVD via DNA damage. Increasing physical activity, which induces PPARGC1A expression, is a potential strategy to slow DNA damage, thereby decreasing the risk of CVD for individuals with type 2 diabetes.
http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/db07-1238v2
作者单位：
1Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory
2Dietary Assessment and Epidemiology Research; Program
3Biostatistics Research Center at Tufts New England Medical Center
4Vascular Biology Laboratory JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston MA [标签:content1][标签:content2]
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