These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Concordance between the deduced acetylation status generated by high-speed: real-time PCR based NAT2 genotyping of seven single nucleotide polymorphisms and human NAT2 phenotypes determined by a caffeine assay.
    Author: Rihs HP, John A, Scherenberg M, Seidel A, Brüning T.
    Journal: Clin Chim Acta; 2007 Feb; 376(1-2):240-3. PubMed ID: 17011540.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: The utility of typing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for the determination of the N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) acetylation status is a matter of debate. AIMS OF THE STUDY: Evaluation of the concordance between deduced genotype results of seven human NAT2 SNPs generated by Real-time PCR analysis and human NAT2 phenotypes. METHODS: NAT2 phenotypes of 38 Caucasian workers were determined using a suitable caffeine test method. Genomic DNA aliquots were used for the determination of seven human NAT2-specific SNPs (G191A, C282T, T341C, C481T, G590A, A803G, G857A). RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Phenotypic results based on the molar ratio of 5-acetylamino-6-formylamino-3-methyluracil (AFMU)/(AFMU+1-methlyuric acid (1U)+1-methylxanthine (1X)) calculated from excreted caffeine metabolite levels in urine samples with 0.3 as a cut-off point between slow (<0.3) and rapid acetylators (>or=0.3). Twenty-seven samples belonged to the slow (mean 0.13; range: 0.03-0.25), 11 to the rapid (mean: 0.41; range: 0.34-0.48) acetylators. LightCycler analyses revealed 11 different NAT2 variant combinations, whereby *5B/*5B and *5B/*6A or *5A/*6C (each 21%), were the most frequent. The deduced acetylation status of the seven NAT2 SNPs matched perfectly with the 38 results determined by phenotyping. This study showed a 100% concordance between NAT2 phenotypes and the deduced NAT2 genotypes and the suitability of the high-speed NAT2-specific LightCycler analysis in a Caucasian population.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]