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SUBMITTER: Sumi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5728066 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sumi Akiko A Nakamura Udai U Iwase Masanori M Fujii Hiroki H Ohkuma Toshiaki T Ide Hitoshi H Jodai-Kitamura Tamaki T Komorita Yuji Y Yoshinari Masahito M Hirakawa Yoichiro Y Hirano Atsushi A Kubo Michiaki M Kitazono Takanari T
BMC medical genetics 20171212 1
<h4>Background</h4>Although statins deteriorate glucose metabolism, their glucose-lowering effects have emerged in some situations. Here, we assessed whether these effects are a consequence of statins' interaction with paraoxonase (PON)1 enzyme polymorphism.<h4>Methods</h4>Adult Japanese type 2 diabetes patients (n = 3798) were enrolled in a cross-sectional study. We used Q192R polymorphism of the PON1 gene as a representative single-nucleotide polymorphism and focused on the effects of the wild ...[more]