Interaction analysis of IL-12A and IL-12B gene variants with chronic hepatitis B infection in Tunisian patients.

Walid Ben Selma, Ahmed Baligh Laribi, Sana Alibi, Afef Saad, Jalel Boukadida

Immunology letters 2020 Sep

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Given the key role of interleukin-12 (IL-12) in the control of HBV, we investigated the possible correlation between IL-12A rs568408 and IL-12B rs3212227 polymorphisms and the risk of chronic HBV infection in Tunisian population. Two hundred patients with chronic HBV infection and two hundred healthy controls were genotyped using PCR-RFLP. A allele, AA and AG genotypes of IL-12A rs568408 were more represented in the chronic HBV infection group compared to the control group, and they were associated with 1.65-, 2.58- and 3.13-fold risks of developing this infection, respectively. Gene-gene interaction analysis showed that subjects carrying the IL-12A rs568408AA/AG and IL-12B rs3212227AA genotypes had a 3.16-fold increased risk of chronic HBV infection. This study suggested that IL-12A rs568408 and gene-gene interactions of IL-12A rs568408 and IL-12B rs3212227 contributed to the outcome of chronic HBV infection, meanwhile indicating their usefulness as a predictive and diagnostic biomarker of chronic HBV infection. Copyright © 2020 European Federation of Immunological Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Walid Ben Selma, Ahmed Baligh Laribi, Sana Alibi, Afef Saad, Jalel Boukadida. Interaction analysis of IL-12A and IL-12B gene variants with chronic hepatitis B infection in Tunisian patients. Immunology letters. 2020 Sep;225:50-56