Abstract
Abstract
Background
Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the heart structural malformations present at birth. Septal defects account for 40% of CHD, including atrial, ventricular and atrioventricular septal defects. In Pakistan, the prevalence of CHD is 3.4 in 1000, and a study estimated that 60,000 babies are born with CHD annually. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), a chief enzyme, involved in the folate metabolism. The missense mutation, C677T (rs1801133), exists in MTHFR gene, results in a MTHFR thermolabile variant having low enzymatic activity. The study is aim to identify the MTHFR C677T variant association with septal defects.
Methods
Samples of 194 CHD patients (age $$\overline{X }\hspace{0.17em}$$
X
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= 5.8 ± 5.1) and 50 normal echo controls (age $$\overline{X }\hspace{0.17em}$$
X
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= 6.0 ± 4.9), confirmed by pediatric consultant, were collected. Extracted DNA, quantified by agarose gel electrophoresis and nanodrop, was screened for SNP by high-resolution melting (HRM). Further, HRM results were confirmed using restriction analysis and sequencing. HRM was simply and precisely genotyped the samples within 3 h at low cost.
Results
Genotypic data suggested that heterozygous mutant (CT) was frequent in congenital septal defect patients (0.26) which was higher than controls (0.143), p > 0.05. Mutant (TT) genotype was not found in this study.
Conclusions
rs1801133 has lack of significant association with congenital septal defects. The absence of TT genotype in this study suggesting the role of natural selection in targeted population. HRM is an easy, fast and next generation of PCR, which may be used for applied genomics.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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