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20 - 22 September 2012, Opatija, Croatia<br />
HIP AND KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS SUSCEPTIBILITY AND<br />
ASSOCIATION WITH IL1 GENE CLUSTER IN CROATIAN<br />
POPULATION<br />
Zdravko Jotanovic, Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery Lovran, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka,<br />
Croatia<br />
Marikken Heiland Kaarvatn, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Department of Oral Biology, University of<br />
Oslo, Norway<br />
Godfrey Essien Etokebe, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Department of Oral Biology, University of Oslo,<br />
Norway<br />
Radovan Mihelic, Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery Lovran, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia<br />
Biserka Mulac-Jericevic, Department of Physiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of<br />
Rijeka, Croatia<br />
Tamara Tijanic, Department of Physiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka,<br />
Croatia<br />
Sanja Balen, Clinical Institute for Transfusion Medicine, Universal Hospital Center Rijeka, School of<br />
Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia<br />
Branko Sestan, Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery Lovran, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia<br />
Zlatko Dembic, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Department of Oral Biology, University of Oslo, Norway<br />
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative, chronic, progressive and multifactorial disease of the joints that causes degenerative<br />
changes in articular cartilage, but also causes pathological changes in other parts of the joint. It is<br />
the most common chronic musculoskeletal disease with complex genetic risk, and represents a leading cause of<br />
disability in elderly population worldwide. The risk for primary OA is polygenic in nature, with risk differing among<br />
various human subpopulations. One of the factors involved in the genetic predisposition to both hip OA (HOA)<br />
and knee OA (KOA) is the interleukin-1 (IL-1) gene cluster located on chromosome 2. Using case-control study in<br />
a Croatian Caucasian population with 500 OA patients, of which 240 KOA patients with total knee replacement<br />
(TKR) or partial knee replacement (PKR) and 260 HOA patients with total hip replacement (THR), and 508 healthy<br />
blood donors as controls, we have mapped genetic polymorphisms at 4 loci, comprising three SNPs: IL1A -889<br />
(C>T), IL1B +3594 (C>T) and -511 (G>A), and a VNTR in the IL1RN gene. Further analyses were done by assembling<br />
haplotypes using our previous reports on markers for the same population (the IL1B -511C>T SNP and the IL1RN<br />
VNTR). Our results are consistent with a hypothesis that inflammatory factors like IL-1 are implicated in pathogenesis<br />
of primary OA.<br />
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