Evaluation of the association between the PNPLA3 rs738409 variants with the incidence of atherosclerosis in patients with different fatty liver grades

IF 1 Q4 GENETICS & HEREDITY

Gene Reports Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI:10.1016/j.genrep.2025.102160

Shaimaa Mohamed , Ghada M. Salum , Reham Ibrahim Siddik , Sherif Hassan Elwan , Ahmed Ibrahim Saleh , Hamdi Sweilam , Reham M. Dawood

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Abstract

Background

The role of PNPLA3 gene is pivotal in lipid droplet remodeling, VLDL secretion, contributing to the development of NAFLD. The data obtained from GWAS approach reported the importance of PNPLA3 gene polymorphism as a key factor on influencing the NAFLD susceptibility among different ethnicities. PNPLA3 rs738409 risk allele G is hypothesized to be linked with high levels of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (sICAM-1) which promotes leukocyte adhesion ending with atherosclerosis. The current study aims to investigate the association between the PNPLA3 rs738409 variant in a cohort of NAFLD patients' concomitant with atherosclerosis.

One hundred NAFLD patients and fifty healthy individuals have been recruited. The atherosclerosis was assessed by Carotid Doppler. The PNPLA3 (rs738409 C > G) polymorphism is genotyped by using TaqMan probe assay.

Results

Despite the lack of statistical significance, the CG carriers of PNPLA3 had an increased risk of having NAFLD (1.8 folds) when compared to CC carriers. Additionally, by classifying patients based on atherosclerosis grades, a significant association was found between the GG risk genotype of PNPLA3 and advanced stages of atherosclerosis (p = 0.014).

Conclusions

This study highlights the link between risk allele (G) of PNPLA3 and the risk for having NAFLD, as well as the correlation with advanced atherosclerosis among Egyptian subjects. Also, our findings did not support a direct association between the histological severity of NAFLD and the progression of atherosclerosis stages.

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Gene Reports Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-Genetics

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3.30

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7.70%

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246

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49 days

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