Article
Expression of class mu glutathione-S-transferase in human liver and its association with hepatopathies.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 15 Dec 2003
Engracia V, Leite M M B S, Pagotto R C, Zucoloto S, Barbosa C A A, Mestriner M A
Abstract excerpt
We studied the distribution of GSTM1 phenotypes in 611 individuals from an ethnically mixed sample of the Brazilian population who died from various causes. No influence of age, gender, or ethnicity was detected on the phenotypic distribution. In a sub-sample of 66 alcoholic individuals compared with 399 non-alcoholics there was almost a doubling of the odds ratio for GSTM1(0) individuals in the alcoholic...
Topics
- Alcoholism
- Brazil
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Glutathione Transferase
- Humans
- Liver
- Liver Diseases
- Male
- Odds Ratio
- Phenotype
