Abstract
Aims: Autophagic eradication of pathogenic microbes, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is an effective host immune process that protects hosts from developing diseases associated with intracellular pathogens. This study was designed to investigate the association between the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the autophagy-related genes VAMP8 and VTI1B, and the susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in a Chinese Han population. Materials and Methods: Two SNPs, rs1010 from the VAMP8 gene and rs15493 from the VTI1B gene, were examined in 202 PTB patients and 216 healthy controls using high-resolution melt-polymerase chain reaction. Results: The rs1010 SNP genotypes AG (p = 0.028) and GG (p = 0.016) were associated with increased susceptibility to PTB. However, the VTI1B rs15493 SNP had no impact on the susceptibility to PTB (p > 0.05). Conclusions: Our study demonstrated that the rs1010 SNP of VAMP8 gene was significantly associated with the susceptibility to PTB. This result suggests that rs1010 genotyping could be used as prognostic biomarker to predict the risk of Mtb infection and/or PTB disease development after Mtb infection in the Chinese Han population.
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