Hip osteoarthritis (HOA) is one of the most common types of osteoarthritis and affects nearly 10% of men and 18% of women who are >60 years of age worldwide. It has been demonstrated to be a genetic disease with a 50% heritability risk. Recently, the TLR-9 gene has been associated with knee OA in both Turkish and Chinese populations, but the relationship between the TLR-9 gene and HOA has not been evaluated. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the relationship between the common genetic variants in the TLR-9 gene and the predisposition of Han Chinese individuals to HOA.
Methods:
A total of 730 HOA patients and 1220 healthy controls were recruited in a hospital-based case-control study. Six common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the TLR-9 gene were selected for genotyping, and genetic association analyses were performed using both single-marker and haplotype-based methods.
Results:
The SNP rs187084 was found to be significantly associated with the risk of HOA after a Bonferroni correction (adjusted allelic p-values with age, gender, and body mass index [BMI] = 0.0008). The results indicated that the A allele of rs187084 is a risk allele for HOA and is likely to be a predisposing factor leading to an increased risk of HOA (adjusted odds ratio with age, gender, and BMI = 1.26, 95% confidence interval = 1.10-1.43). The results of the haplotype analyses confirmed a similar pattern to the SNP analyses.
Conclusions:
Our study provides strong evidence that variations in the TLR-9 gene are closely linked with genetic susceptibility to HOA in the Han Chinese population. This finding furthers the role of TLR-9 in the development and occurrence of OA in general.
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