Allelic distribution of BDNF Val66Met polymorphism in healthy Romanian volunteers

Population stratification of functional gene polymorphisms is a potential confounding factor in genetic association studies. The Val66Met (rs6265) single-nucleotide polymorphism in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF) exhibits one of the highest variabilities in terms of allelic distrib...

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Autores principales: Vulturar, Romana, Chiş, Adina, Hambrich, Melinda, Kelemen, Beatrice, Ungureanu, Loredana, Miu, Andrei C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: De Gruyter 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5017592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28123819
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tnsci-2016-0006
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Sumario:Population stratification of functional gene polymorphisms is a potential confounding factor in genetic association studies. The Val66Met (rs6265) single-nucleotide polymorphism in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF) exhibits one of the highest variabilities in terms of allelic distribution between populations. The present study reports the distribution of BDNF Val66Met alleles in a sample of healthy volunteers (N = 1124) selected from the Romanian population. Frequencies were 80.74% for the Val allele and 19.26% for the Met allele. The data from this study extends efforts to map the allelic distribution of BDNF Val66Met in populations around the world and emphasizes that population stratification should be controlled for in future studies that report phenotypic associations in samples from different populations.

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