Background: Nitric oxide (NO) synthesized by endothelial cell NO synthase (ecNOS) is a potent regulator of intrarenal haemodynamics. A polymorphism in intron 4 of the ecNOS gene is a candidate gene in cardiovascular and renal diseases. We investigated a potential involvement of this polymorphism in chronic renal failure.
Methods: We performed a case-control study involving 706 patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and 321 healthy controls. All subjects were genotyped for the ecNOS4 polymorphism by the polymerase chain reaction followed by agarose gel electrophoresis.
Results: The analysis revealed that the frequencies of the ecNOS4 genotypes were significantly different in ESRD patients, both diabetic and non-diabetic, than in controls. In all dialysis patients for aa, ab and bb genotypes the frequencies were, respectively, 6.5, 35 and 58.5% in the patient group, and 1, 25 and 74% in control subjects. The a allele carriers (aa + ab) were more frequent among ESRD patients than in controls (OR 1.95; 95% CI 1.13-3.4; P = 0.0031). No significant association was found when hypertensive ESRD patients were compared with normotensive patients. The distribution of genotypes was similar in both subgroups (P = 0.21).
Conclusion: There was a significantly higher frequency of the ecNOS4a allele carriers among ESRD patients, both diabetic and non-diabetic, than in control subjects. This suggests that the ecNOS gene polymorphism may be associated with an increased risk of chronic renal failure.
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