The Role of the Dopamine β-hydroxylase Functional Polymorphism in Patients with Early-Onset Parkinson’s Disease in the Turkish Population
Journal Title: Turkish Journal of Neurology - Year 2021, Vol 27, Issue 1
Abstract
Objective: A functional single nucleotide polymorphism, rs1611115, in the dopamine β-hydroxylase (DBH) gene, is reported to regulate plasma enzyme activity levels. Here, we report the first evaluation of this association in patients with early-onset Parkinson’s disease (EOPD) and healthy controls in the Turkish population. Materials and Methods: We evaluated the DBH rs1611115 polymorphism in 114 (64 male and 50 female) Turkish patients with EOPD and 58 sex- and agematched healthy controls from the Turkish population. A total of 27.2% (n=31) of our patients who had any variation including pathogenic or non-pathogenic missense, non-sense and/or intronic variation with unknown significance in EOPD genes were grouped as “variation-positive EOPD”. A total of 50.8% (n=58) of our patients were grouped as “variation and family history-negative EOPD” and the possible contribution of the DBH rs1611115 polymorphism to EOPD pathogenesis was evaluated in this group. Results: There was no significant difference in the genotypic and allelic frequencies of DBH rs1611115 between patients with EOPD and controls. To our knowledge, this is the first evaluation of the DBH rs1611115 polymorphism in patients with EOPD and ethnically matched controls in the Turkish population. Conclusion: Some previous studies have reported conflicting association results between DBH rs1611115 polymorphism and PD pathogenesis in different ethnic groups. Therefore, further studies are needed to evaluate dopamine metabolism-related genetic variants and to determine their possible roles in EOPD susceptibility in the Turkish population.
Authors and Affiliations
Sevda Erer, Işıl Ezgi Eryılmaz, Dilara Kamer Çolak, Ünal Egeli, Gülşah Çeçener, Berrin Tunca, Ece Karakuş, Beril Çolakoğlu, Ayşe Bora Tokçaer, Esen Saka, Meltem Demirkıran, Cenk Akbostancı, Mehmet Zarifoğlu, Okan Doğu, Hakan Kaleağası, Gülay Kenangil, Raif Çakmur, Bülent Elibol
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