Genetic polymorphisms in paraoxonase 1 and G protein-coupled receptor 77, and the risk of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in a Saudi population

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the role of amino acid substitution variants Q192R and C698T in the development of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in a Saudi male population. METHODS: This case-control study was carried out in 200 Saudi male individuals: 100 patients with G6PD deficiency, and 100 control subjects collected between July and August 2011 in the Taif region of Saudi Arabia. A total of 2100 male Saudi individuals were screened by a fluorescence spot test, and 100 with G6PD deficiency were selected. Two common variants PON1 (rs662) and C5L2 (rs149572881) were genotyped using polymerase chain reaction followed by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. RESULTS: The results showed that the R allele and QR genotype were associated with the Q192R polymorphism in PON1 (R versus Q odds ratio [OR], 1.72; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 1.1-2.6; p=0.01; and QR versus QQ: OR, 1.98; 95% CI, 1.1-3.6; p=0.02). All the C698T genotypes and allele frequencies in C5L2 were almost similar in both the cases and controls (CT versus CC: OR, 2.04; 95% CI, 0.3-11.4; p=0.40; and T versus C: OR, 2.02; 95% CI, 0.3-11.1; p=0.41). CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest the association of PON1 with G6PD deficiency in the Saudi male population studied herein. Future studies, including correlation analyses between the clinical features and genotypes in populations of different ethnicities, are warranted to confirm the disease association with these genetic mutations.