In 630 cases and 595 controls, three APOE promoter SNPs -491A/T, -219G/T (rs405509), and +113G/C (rs440446) were genotyped and tested for association with type 2 diabetes in Hong Kong Chinese.
We try to explore whether long-term consumption of two healthy dietary patterns (low-fat [LF] diet or Mediterranean diet [MedDiet]) interacts with the apolipoprotein E (APOE) single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs: rs439401, rs440446 and rs7412) modulating postprandial hypertriglyceridemia (ppHTG) in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients.
<b>Results</b>: Three out of 10 eligible SNPs were shown to be associated with risk of ischemic stroke. rs1800947 in <i>CRP</i> gene (additive model: OR = 2.08, 95% CI: 1.00-4.23) and rs1169288 in <i>HNF1A</i> gene (additive model: OR = 1.45, 95% CI: 1.03-2.06) were associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke. rs440446 in <i>APOE</i> gene (additive model: OR = 0.63, 95%CI: 0.44-0.88) was associated with a decreased risk of ischemic stroke.
We tested if the ε4 major isoform of the APOE gene and rs405509 and rs440446 promoter and intron-1 polymorphisms predicted risk of any dementia or Alzheimer's disease with diagnoses derived from the Hospital Discharge and Causes of Death Registers in 1453 participants of the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study.