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  • Title: Study of the association of -667 aquaporin-2 (AQP-2) A/G promoter polymorphism with the incidence and clinical course of chronic kidney disease in Korea.
    Author: Kang SW, Kim YW, Kim YH, Sohn HS, Joo H, Kim E.
    Journal: Ren Fail; 2007; 29(6):693-8. PubMed ID: 17763164.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Impaired urinary concentration is uniformly present with advanced disease in chronic renal failure. Aquaporin-2 (AQP-2) is known to be expressed in the renal collecting duct cells and participates in urinary concentration in response to vasopressin. Recently, the study of AQP expression in various forms of chronic kidney disease (CKD) demonstrated a reduction in AQP-2 expression associated with a loss of nephrons and the presence of chronic interstitial fibrosis. No information on aquaporin genetic variations in CKD is available to date. The aim of our study was to evaluate the possible impact of aquaporin-2 genotype on the development and clinical course of CKD. METHODS: Blood samples from 259 patients with CKD and 106 ethnicity-, age-, and sex-matched healthy controls were collected, and genomic DNA was extracted. AQP-2 -667 genotype was assessed by PCR, followed by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in genotype and allele frequencies between the patients and healthy controls (p = 0.3936, p = 0.2941, respectively). In all, 79 (30.5%) patients had the AQP-2 -667 wild-type A/A, 123 (47.5%) were heterozygous for the G allele, and 57 (22.0%) patients showed homozygosity. After subclassification of CKD according to underlying disease, no significant differences were observed between those patients and controls (p = 0.72 for diabetic nephropathy, p = 0.52 for hypertensive nephropathy, p = 0.27 for chronic glomerulonephritis, and p = 0.80 for unknown etiology). Genotype and allele frequencies of the AQP-2 gene polymorphism (rs3759126) of hypertensive patients in pre-ESRD did not show a noticeable difference compared with normal blood pressure patients in pre-ESRD (p = 0.50). No correlation was found to exist between the AQP-2 gene polymorphism (rs3759126) and serum electrolyte levels in pre-ESRD patients (p = 0.38 for serum sodium level and p = 0.44 for serum potassium level). CONCLUSION: Our data indicate that no association exists between the -667 AQP-2 A/G polymorphism and susceptibility to CKD or its clinical course.
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