Background: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a serious neuropsychiatric disorder. The clinical prominence of the OCD symptoms dimensions and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Val66Met polymorphism are of significant importance. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the symptom dimensions and BDNF val66Met polymorphism genotype in Iranian patients with OCD. Materia...

Association Between β-Defensin Gene Polymorphism and Clinical Mastitis in Holstein Dairy Cows: A Case-Control Study

Background: Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) is the key enzyme, regulates blood pressure which encoded by 21kb gene that consists of 26 exons and located on chromosome 17, contains a polymorphism in form either Insertion (I) or Deletion (D). The aim was to study effect antihypertensive drugs patients essential hypertension associated with ACE polymorphism. Methods: Hypertensive were recruite...

Background & Aims: Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is one of the key enzymes regulating the metabolism of triglycerides (TG) and HDL cholesterol. The lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene polymorphisms are possibly involved in the pathophysiology of dyslipidemia. Hind III polymorphism is one of the most common polymorphisms in LPL gene. In some studies, association of Hind III polymorphism with dyslipidemia h...

Background: One of the most important phenotypic modifying factors for thalassemia is the presence of Xmn1 polymorphism. This retrospective study was performed to investigate the overall prevalence of Xmn1 polymorphism among Iranian β-thalassemia patients with homozygote IVSII-1mutation and to assess the relationship between Xmn1 polymorphism with patients’ hemoglobin levels and the response to...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the role nephrotic syndrome 2 (NPHS2) gene polymorphism (R229Q) in chronic kidney disease which has unclear etiology. This conducted on 80 CKD patients compared with 40 age and sex matched normal volunteers acting as a control group. All them underwent renal function tests were assessed for presence NPHS2 polymorphism. We noticed that is common variant Egy...

in this report, β-tubulin gene polymorphism was investigated in haemonchus contortus  populations isolated from sheep flocks in different regions of khouzestan province, southwestern iran. the samples were chosen on the basis of regional variation in benzimidazole treatment background of sheep flocks. our objective was to study the relationship between treatment background andβ -tubulin gene po...

Association of rs1800624 Polymorphism in Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products Gene Promoter with the Risk Diabetic Nephropathy

background tuberculosis (tb) is one of the earliest human diseases which still is considered a public health problem. both genetic and environmental factors may contribute the susceptibility to tuberculosis. objectives akt is a serine/threonine kinase that has an important role in several cellular processes such as cell cycle control, cell survival, and cellular immigration. the akt signaling p...

background: this study was designed to investigate the eff ect of clopidogrel-related gene polymorphisms on platelet reactivity and clinical outcome in chinese han patients. materials and methods: th ree hundred and thirty-six percutaneous coronary intervention - treated patients were recruited and followed for 1 year. blood samples were collected from all patients for dna genotyping. th e plat...