Glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPX1) single nucleotide polymorphism Pro198→Leu: Association with life span and coronary artery disease
Zheikova T.V., Golubenko M.V., Buikin S.V., Botkina O.Y., Makeeva O.A., Puzyrev V.P., Lezhnev A.A., Shipulin V.M., Kalyanov E.V., Tsimbalyuk I.V., Maksimov V.N., Voevoda M.I.
Molecular Biology. 2012. 46(3), 433-437.
DOI: 10.1134/S0026893312030144
In this study, we genotyped polymorphism in GPX1 Pro198→Leu (C→T) rs 1050450 in four groups, i.e., patients with coronary artery disease, people who lived a long time (over 90 years), people who died early (before 55 years) from cardiovascular disease, and the Russian population as a control group. We have found a significant higher T-allele frequency in men with coronary artery disease, i.e., 34.84% (χ2 = 5.228, p = 0.022; OR =1.46), and in men who died early from cardiovascular diseases, 38.16% (χ2 = 6.461, p = 0.011; OR = 1.69) compared to men in the control group, 26.8%. Moreover, a significantly higher genotype TT frequency has been shown in patients with coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction before age 50, which is 19.44% compared to the control group, which was 7.28% (χ2 = 9.55, p = 0.002). The TT frequency in individuals who lived a long time (4.39%) was the lowest and differed significantly from the group with coronary artery disease, which was 12.79% (χ2 = 8.07, p = 0.0045), and from the subgroup with coronary artery disease with myocardial infarction before age 50, which was 19.44% (χ2 = 14.49, p = 0.0001). Thus, our results indicate that the TT allele (Leu) of GPX1 Pro198→Leu (C > T) polymorphism is unfavorable for successful aging; it leads to predisposition to coronary artery disease, early myocardial infarction (before age 50), and early death (before age 55).