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Year : 2013  |  Volume : 19  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 301-310

Inter and intra ethnic variation of vitamin K epoxide reductase complex and cytochrome P450 4F2 genetic polymorphisms and their prevalence in South Indian population


1 Department of Pharmacology, Indian Council of Medical Research Centre for Advance Research in Pharmacogenomics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India
2 Department of Pharmacology, M.R Medical College, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India
3 Department of Pharmacology, Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India
4 Department of Pharmacology, Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Correspondence Address:
Dhakchinamoorthi Krishna Kumar
Department of Pharmacology, Indian Council of Medical Research Centre for Advance Research in Pharmacogenomics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry - 605 006
India
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Source of Support: This research project was funded by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/0971-6866.120817

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Background: Genetic variation in the vitamin K epoxide reductase complex (VKORC1) and cytochrome P450 4F2 (CYP4F2) genes were found to be strongly associated with the oral anticoagulant (OA) dose requirement. The distribution of genetic variation in these two genes was found to show large inter- and intra-ethnic difference. Materials and Methods: A total of 470 unrelated, healthy volunteers of South Indians of either sex (age: 18-60 years) were enrolled for the study. A 5 ml of venous blood was collected and the genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was extracted by using phenol-chloroform extraction method. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method was used for genotyping. Results: The variant allele frequencies of VKORC1 rs2359612 (T), rs8050894 (C), rs9934438 (T) and rs9923231 (A) were found to be 11.0%, 11.8%, 11.7% and 12.0%, respectively. The variant allele VKORC1 rs7294 was (80.1%) more frequent and the variant allele CYP4F2 * 3 was found to be 41.8% in South Indians. The allele, genotype and haplotype frequencies of VKORC1 and CYP4F2 gene were distinct from other compared HapMap populations (P < 0.0001). Conclusion: The findings of our study provide the basic genetic information for further pharmacogenetic based investigation of OA therapy in the population.


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