Recruitment of inflammatory cells to the arterial wall is an important pathogenic mechanism of atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease (CAD). Functional variability in the genes encoding for chemokines that promote infiltration of atherosclerotic plaques by macrophages and lymphocytes may therefore contribute to the genetic susceptibility to CAD. We, therefore, investigated the association between myocardial infarction (MI) and polymorphisms in the promoter regions of the chemokine genes CCL19 and CCL21. Based on re-sequencing screening we selected and, using PCR-SSP, determined three polymorphisms of CCL19 gene (GenBank ID rs2233872) and CCL21 gene (GenBank ID rs11574914 and rs11574915) in 211 Czech patients with MI and 150 healthy control subjects. There was no difference in allelic frequencies of the investigated SNPs between patients and controls (p>0.05). However, the proportion of homozygotes for the minor G allele of the CCL21 promoter variant (rs11574915 GG) was lower among the MI patients (1%) in comparison with the control subjects (5%, nominal p=0.03). Though rare in the Czech population, CCL21 (rs11574915) GG genotype may confer protection from myocardial infarction. Our preliminary data have to be independently replicated.

Laboratory of Immunogenomics and Immunoproteomics Department of Immunology Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Palacky University Olomouc 1 P Pavlova Str 6 775 20 Olomouc Czech Republic

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