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To: Walter Morton who wrote (2002)	3/7/1999 2:06:00 AM
From: Walter Morton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2742

POLYMORPHISMS OF HUMAN IL-1b AND IL-1 ANTAGONIST GENES AND THEIR INFORMATIVITY FOR THE ASSOCIATION STUDIES pp 379-388 H.W. WITAS, W. MLYNARSKI and R. SYCHOWSKI Molecular Biology Unit, 2nd Clinic of Children Diseases, Institute of Pediatrics, Medical University of Lódz, Sporna 36/50, 91-738 Lódz, Poland Abstract: Several genetic and immunological studies showed that interleukin-1 (IL-1) is involved in pathogenesis of immune-related disorders e.g. type 1 diabetes, autoimmune thyroiditis or inflammatory bowel disease. Association studies performed till now are rather inconclusive, possibly because investigated markers chosen were not enough informative. The aim of the present study is to elucidate how informative for association screening is the occurrence of known polymorphisms located within genes encoding IL 1b (IL-1B) and IL 1 antagonist (IL 1RN) in Polish population. The following substitutions were analyzed by PCR based techniques: TŽC within the promotor region, GŽA in intron 4 and CŽT in exon 5 of IL-1B gene as well as TŽC in exon 2, TŽC in exon 4 and the polymorphism of variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) of 86 base pairs within intron 2 of IL-1RN gene. Obtained results proved the occurrence of all studied polymorphisms in Polish population. Combination of haplotypes related to three novel IL 1B gene dimorphisms reveals that PIC value 0.77 (polymorphic information contents) is similar to that of microsatellite markers. Thus, it is possible that the combination of revealed polymorphisms makes together new marker applicable for the genetic association studies more sensitive then markers previously used.