[<sup>18</sup> F]FDG and [<sup>68</sup> Ga]Citrate PET/CT were performed in 18 hip arthroplasty patients: 12 ARMD patients (with 16 MoM hips) and six arthroplasty controls without ARMD.
The presence of the T allele of the g.4235T>C polymorphism and the A allele of the c.-31A>G polymorphism of the SMUG1 gene (odds ratio, 2.17 and 2.18, respectively) was associated with an increased risk of AMD severity, expressed by the comparison of the frequencies of genotypes in the group of patients with wet AMD versus those with dry AMD.
We observed that the g.4235T>C (rs2337395) and c.-32A>G (rs3087404) polymorphisms in two genes encoding such glycosylases, UNG and SMUG1, respectively, could be associated with the occurrence of AMD.