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ApaI polymorphism of vitamin D receptor gene is associated with susceptibility to HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis in HTLV-1 infected individuals.

HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) is one outcome of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) infection. It remains unknown why the majority of infected people remain healthy, whereas only approximately 2-3% of infected individuals develop the disease. The active form of vitamin D has immunomodulatory effects, and allelic variants of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) appear to be associated with differential susceptibility to several infectious diseases. To investigate whether VDR single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with the development of HAM/TSP, we studied four VDR SNPs in a group of 207 HAM/TSP patients and 224 asymptomatic HTLV-1 seropositive carriers (HCs) in Kagoshima, Japan, by using PCR-RFLP analysis. We found that ApaI polymorphism of VDR is associated with the risk of HAM/TSP, although this polymorphism did not affect the provirus load of HTLV-1 in either HAM/TSP patients or HCs.

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