Abstract
Genetic factors have been identified that regulate the severity and the rapidity of onset of retinopathy in diabetic patients. Polymorphisms in (CA) n present upstream of the promoter of the aldose reductase ( ALR2 ) gene have been shown to be associated with retinopathy in different ethnic populations. We aimed to study the association between the (CA) n polymorphism and type 2 diabetic patients with and without retinopathy in the Asian Indian population. We screened 105 diabetic patients with retinopathy (DR) and 109 diabetic patients without retinopathy (DNR) for the (CA) n polymorphism and compared the results with those of an unrelated healthy control group (CT). We identified 13 alleles in our diabetic population. The Z–2 allele (136bp) showed an association with the DR group (13.81%) with a significant p value (p = 0.029) when compared with the DNR group (7.34%). The Z–2 allele also showed a significant association with those DR patients who had proliferative retinopathy (PDR) and maculopathy (MAC) (p = 0.004). The Z–2 allele is, therefore, a high-risk allele for diabetic retinopathy in the Asian Indian patients.
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