Introduction: Hypospadias has a complex etiology with both genetic and environmental factors contributing to the condition. Urogenital abnormalities including hypospadias, are found in 22% of cases with Ellis van Creveld syndrome (EvC). Mutations in the EVC gene can cause major and minor anomalies, which form phenotypes that partially overlap with those present in EvC. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between nucleotide variants of the EVC gene and the risk of hypospadias.
Material And Methods: Four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the EVC gene (rs3774856, rs2302075, rs1383180, rs7680768) were taken under investigation in 96 patients with isolated hypospadias and 284 matched controls. Genotyping of all polymorphisms was carried out by PCR and followed by appropriate restriction enzyme digestion (PCR-RFLP).
Results: Individuals homozygous for the SNP rs2302075 (p.Thr449Lys) showed an elevated risk for hypospadias. Haplotypes containing the rs2302075 variant also revealed modest associations with hypospadias, which did not survive multiple testing corrections. None of the other tested EVC polymorphisms displayed significant association with the risk of hypospadias, either in dominant or recessive inheritance models.
Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that polymorphic variants of the EVC gene do not substantially contribute to the risk of hypospadias based on our study population. However, further studies should help to clarify the relationship between polymorphisms of EVC and hypospadias.
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