DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.12915/v1
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with unclear etiology that has been correlated with abnormal plasma lipid metabolism and oxidative stress [1], and with a high incidence of cardiovascular diseases [2] Psoriasis is impacting 2% to 3% of the general population [3]. It is a lifelong disease that may have negative effect on quality of life [4]. The differences in prevalence and incidence show that psoriasis is related to ethnic and geographic variations, being generally more prevalent in the cold northern regions than in the tropical area with a lower prevalence in China and Japan compared to Europe, and is virtually absent in natives of the Andean region of South America [5]. It is a multifactorial disorder, impacted by both genetic and environmental factors and its genetic basis has been established among studies in twins and familial clustering [6]. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) is a zinc metallopeptidase encoded on chromosome 17q23. ACE is expressed by skin components like fibroblasts, keratinocytes, and vascular endothelial cells [7]. ACE polymorphisms include an insertion (I)/deletion (D) within the intron 16 able to incorporate the most genetic variables responsible for the variability of ACE activity in serum, which can be correlated with psoriasis susceptibility [8]. To date, the molecular mechanism of the association between ACE I/D polymorphism and psoriasis susceptibility has not fully elucidated [9]. Furthermore, it has been investigated that the use of ACE inhibitors can create or aggravate psoriasis in clinical practice [10]. Some studies suggest that ACE and its related products might have widespread effects on immune responses and skin inflammation [11]. Some meta-analyses have been previously published on this topic [12-14], unless they did not pay attention to genotypes/allele distribution, quality assessment of the included studies, and did not analyze subgroups of patients according to different factors (i.e. psoriasis variants and ethnicity).
Therefore, the aim of the present meta-analysis was to assess genotypes and alleles distribution in psoriasis based on five genetic models and through the evaluation of studies quality and also considering the association between ACE I/D polymorphism and psoriasis susceptibility in case-control studies.
The study was designed following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines [15].
Identification of eligible studies
A systematic search in PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library databases was conducted up to January 2019, without language restriction. The search terms or keywords were: “psoriasis”, “psoriatic” and “ACE”, “angiotensin-converting enzyme” and “polymorphism (s)”, “variant (s)”, “gene (s)”. One author (M.S) searched the databases for articles, checked the titles and abstracts of each article, and excluded the not relevant studies. Two authors (M.R and E.Z) reviewed the full-texts to select the studies that met the eligibility criteria. Inclusion criteria were represented by: (1) human case-control study; (2) any subtype of psoriasis (i.e. psoriasis vulgaris, psoriatic arthritis); (3) reporting ACE I/D polymorphism in psoriatic patients and controls; and (4) having sufficient data for calculating odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (95%CI). Exclusion criteria consisted of: (1) animal study; (2) review; (3) meta-analysis; and (4) case report and case series.
Data extraction
The data for each study were extracted by one author (M.S) and consisted of the first author, publication year, genotype frequencies in patients and controls, source of controls (i.e. hospital-based, population-based), psoriasis subtype, genotyping method, p-value for the Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) for controls, ethnicity, gender, family history for psoriasis, age at onset, subtypes of psoriasis, and quality score. Another author (M.R) rechecked the reached data.
Quality assessment
One author (M.R) assessed the quality of each retrieved article using the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale questionnaire with a maximum total score of 9 for case-control study [16].
Statistical analysis
A dichotomous analysis was carried out by Review Manager 5.3 (RevMan 5.3) using crude OR and 95% CI to indicate the association between ACE I/D polymorphisms and psoriasis susceptibility. The association was assessed using five genetic models (allelic, heterozygote, homozygote, dominant, and recessive models) [17]. In addition, within- and between-study variations and heterogeneities were evaluated using Cochran’s Q-statistic: such test considers the null hypothesis in which all studies assessed the same effect (significance level: P<0.05). The effect of heterogeneity was quantified using I2 statistic to measure the degree of inconsistency across studies, with a range between 0 and 100% that represents the proportion of between-study variability attributable to heterogeneity rather than chance [18]. A statistically significant heterogeneity was obtained with P-value <0.1 (I2>50%). In case no significant heterogeneity was obtained, fixed-effect model was applied in order to estimate the pooled ORs and CI values. Otherwise, we applied the random-effect model [19]. Chi-square test was used to calculate the HWE in the control groups whether observed genotype frequencies in controls conformed to HWE expectations.
Subgroup analysis was managed according to ethnicity, psoriasis subtype, source of controls and normal HWE. In addition, distributions of alleles and genotypes of ACE I/D polymorphism were calculated by IBM SPSS version 22 using binary logistic regression based on some characteristics of psoriatic patients. A funnel plot analysis was used by the Comprehensive Meta-Analysis software version 2.0 (CMA 2.0) using both Egger’s and Begg’s tests with P-value (two-tailed) <0.05 was estimated as significant existence of publication bias. To evaluate the consistency or stability of the results, the sensitivity analysis was used by removing one study, cumulative analysis, and excluding the studies without HWE in controls.
The schematic representation of the study selection process is shown in Figure 1. Out of 61 studies retrieved from the databases after excluding duplicate and not relevant studies, the full-texts of 16 studies were assessed for eligibility. While checking the references of meta-analyses related to this subject, one study had eligibility criteria and therefore its full-text was added. After checking the full-texts, three studies were recognized as meta-analyses and consequently they were excluded. Fourteen studies were included in the systematic-review. Checking the references of meta-analyses, two other studies [20,21] were added that we didn’t find their full-text; since they had previously included in other meta-analysis, and since all the required data were extracted from other meta-analyses. In conclusion, 16 studies were included in the meta-analysis.
Study characteristics
Some important characteristics of the studies involved in the present meta-analysis are shown in Table 1. The studies were published from 1999 to 2018. Twelve studies reported their research in Caucasian ethnicity [21-32] and four studies [9,20,33,34] in Asian ethnicity. Among Caucasian ethnicity, four studies [23,25,26,31] were conducted in Arab population, four studies [21,24,27,28] enrolled European population, while the remaining four studies [22,29,30,32] evaluated other populations (Pakistani, Iranian and Turkish populations). The meta-analysis included 3003 psoriatic patients and 3689 controls. With regard to the controls source, nine studies [9,20,23-26,32-34] enrolled hospital-based patients, two studies [28,29] were population-based, and five studies [21,22,27,30,31] enrolled controls of unknown origin. In most of the considered studies, the ratio of patients affected by different psoriasis subtypes was not reported [9,20,21,30,32-34], while only 5 and 4 studies were conducted in groups of patients affected predominantly by psoriasis vulgaris [22,24,25,27,31] and psoriatic arthritis [23,26,28,29], respectively. In all studies the used genotyping method was polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In two out of 16 studies, the genotype frequencies of controls [26,27] didn’t follow HWE.
Forest plot of the psoriasis susceptibility related to ACE I/D polymorphisms based on five genetic models is identified in Figure 2. The pooled OR for models of D versus I, DD versus. II, ID versus II, ID + DD versus. II, and DD versus II + ID was 0.96 [95%CI: 0.82, 1.12; P=0.58; I2=74% (Pheterogeneity (Ph)<0.00001)], 0.99 [95%CI: 0.73, 1.36; P=0.96; I2=71% (Ph<0.0001)], 0.78 [95%CI: 0.62, 0.91; P=0.0003; I2=42% (Ph=0.04)], 0.91 [95%CI: 0.73, 1.13; P=0.40; I2=64% (Ph=0.0003)], and 1.05 [95%CI: 0.85, 1.30; P=0.68; I2=61% (Ph=0.0007)], respectively. Therefore, the presence of ID genotype had a significant slight protective effect against psoriasis development.
Subgroup analysis
The results of psoriasis susceptibility related to ACE I/D polymorphisms on the basis of different considered variables are shown in Table 2. With regard to ethnicity, the analyses showed that there was no risk of psoriasis related to ACE I/D polymorphisms in East Asian populations, but the presence of ID genotype had a slight protective effect against the disease [OR = 0.82; 95%CI: 0.69, 0.97]. Based on three models of DD versus II, ID versus II, and ID + DD versus II the pooled OR was 0.69 (95%CI: 0.52, 0.91), 0.66 (95%CI: 0.50, 0.85), and 0.67 (95%CI: 0.52, 0.86), respectively. Such results showed that DD and ID genotypes had protective roles in psoriatic arthritis, unless this was not valid for psoriasis vulgaris type. The ID genotype had a significantly decreased susceptibility to psoriasis in studies conducted in hospital-based populations based on heterozygote model (OR=0.77, 95%CI: 0.67, 0.90). With regard to the Caucasian population, the ID genotype had a significant protective role in psoriasis if compared with other genotypes in non-Arab and non-European population (other) (OR= 0.73, 95%CI: 0.58, 0.92).
Sensitivity analysis
Out of 16 studies included in the meta-analysis, two studies [26,27] were excluded since P-value of HWE for controls was less than 0.05 (Table 3). Notwithstanding, the new analysis showed that the results were unchanged with just a decreased susceptibility to psoriasis among patients carrying ID genotype (OR=0.80, 95%CI: 0.71, 0.90). In addition, other analyses - one study removed and cumulative analysis- didn’t change the result of previous overall analysis and therefore they showed the stability of the previous overall result.
Genotype distribution
The alleles and genotypes distribution of ACE I/D polymorphism on the basis of the differences in patient’s characteristics are shown in Table 4. In detail, only three studies [20-22] considered gender, six studies [9,20,22,23,25,28] reported family history for psoriasis, eight studies [9,22-25,27-29,33] considered the age at the onset, two studies [6,10] reported type of psoriasis, and three studies [31,9,28] reported severity of the disease. The results showed significant difference between ACE polymorphisms in patients with family history (familial) versus those without family history (sporadic) for the disease [OR=1.44; 95%CI: 1.24, 1.67; P<0.001]. When considering psoriasis severity (grouped among severe or mild disease), a significant difference was obtained [OR=0.70; 95%CI: 0.55, 0.88; P=0.002]. Therefore, the II genotype was significantly more represented in familial patients than in sporadic patients and the DD genotype was more frequent in severe than in mild psoriasis. There was no significant difference in terms of gender, age at the onset, and type of psoriasis among groups of patients.
Quality assessment
The evaluation of quality for each study is shown in Table 1. Unfortunately, the full-text of two studies [20,21] was not available for the quality assessment. In detail, ten studies had high quality (score ≥7).
Publication bias
We checked publication bias for overall analysis using both Egger’s and Begg’s tests (Figure 3). The results showed that both tests didn’t reveal the existence of publication bias between the studies in each model analyses (P>0.05).
The present meta-analysis investigated the association between ACE I/D polymorphisms with psoriasis susceptibility and also the distribution of genotypes in psoriatic patients. The results indicated the ID genotype is significantly associated with decreased risk of psoriasis development. In addition, in a further subgroup analysis, such genotype resulted to be protective against psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in Caucasian patients versus non-Arab and non-European population. The same genotype showed to be less represented among patients in hospital-based studies. Out of all studies included in the meta-analysis, four studies [9,23,29,32] showed a significant decreased psoriasis susceptibility, while three studies [30,31,34] reported a significant increased risk to develop psoriasis in subjects carrying the D allele. Similarly, the DD genotype was associated to a significant decreased psoriasis susceptibility in four studies [9,24,29,32] and increased risk three studies [30,31,34], respectively. Moreover, the ID genotype showed a significant decreased risk of psoriasis in four studies [9,24,29,33] and a significant elevated susceptibility to the disease in one study [31].
Previously, a meta-analysis conducted in ten studies and checking for the association between ACE I/D polymorphisms and psoriasis susceptibility [12] suggested that the ID genotype was a predisposing factor for psoriasis in East Asian subjects. A further meta-analysis evaluated eight studies [13] showed that in Asian ethnicity, the II genotype and I allele were associated with increased susceptibility to psoriasis, whereas the ID genotype seemed to have a protective role. In addition, a meta-analysis enrolling only five studies [14] concluded that only the DD+ID genotype showed significant association with psoriasis (OR=0.75; P = 0.006).
The present meta-analysis included 16 studies, and described the different genotypes and alleles’ distribution in the groups and subgroups analysis had also been performed. Furthermore, a careful quality assessment of the involved studies had been conducted, in order to consider only the high-quality studies and to provide a further strength to our results.
A possible explanation for its role in psoriasis may be related to the fact that the ACE II genotype reduces ACE activity in skin and may prolong or augment activation of the kallikrein–kinin system, thereby increasing the risk for psoriasis [33]. The activation of the kallikrein–kinin system in plasma and tissue has also been associated with psoriasis [36,37]. Several studies indicated that ACE is a major and effective factor in creating angiotensin II (Ang II) and inactivating bradykinin [11,38]. Plasma and tissue ACE levels have been found to be related to the D allele of the ACE I/D polymorphism, with DD genotypes having the highest and II genotypes having the lowest ACE activity [39]. Increased levels of serum ACE, IL-6 and IL-8 in psoriasis patients were due to the important role of ACE in inflammation. ACE converts Ang I into Ang II and inactivates bradykinin [40], moreover Ang II activates cytokines like IL-6 and IL-8, thus exerting proinflammatory effects [11]. This shows an important role of ACE in the pathogenesis of psoriasis.
In the previously published data, one study [29] reported the ӀӀ genotype and I allele frequencies were significantly higher in male patients affected by psoriasis, whereas no association was observed in female patients. It might be supposed that such gender-based discrepancies may be due to differences in the renin-angiotensin system among men and women and the mechanism might involve the role of sex hormones. Another study [22] didn’t find any difference between gender and genotype frequencies of ACE I/D polymorphism. In addition, no significant difference was found between polymorphisms and age at onset, [9,22-25,28,33] type of psoriasis, [9,29,22] disease severity [9,28], and family history [23,28]. In contrast, the II genotype and I allele frequencies in patients with familial history of psoriasis and type I psoriasis were higher than patients with sporadic psoriasis and type II [22]. Another study [25] confirmed this result in familial psoriasis. Elneam et al. [31] showed that the DD genotype was more common in case of severe psoriasis vulgaris and the ID was more frequent in non-severe psoriasis vulgaris patients. The present meta-analysis failed to identify a significant difference between gender, age at the onset, and type of psoriasis with genotype frequencies, but the II genotype frequency was significantly higher in patients with positive family history for psoriasis than in sporadic patients; moreover the DD genotype was significantly more represented in subjects with severe than in those with non-severe disease.
The differences between our results and those with other previous studies may be due to diverse factors, thus including racial/geographical difference, number of male/female patients in the considered study and also to the genetic heterogeneity and multifactorial etiology of psoriasis [29]. Also, Ethnic factors and differences among genotyping assay techniques might contribute to the variability between reports evaluating the role of the ACE I/D polymorphisms [41]. In our meta-analysis, we have detected that ethnicity, psoriasis subtype, and source of controls can represent significant factors in terms of susceptibility to develop such disease.
Our study presents several important limitations: i) a high heterogeneity among the considered studies was identified; ii) the number of ethnic groups in the studies was limited; iii) in many studies the psoriasis subtypes and source of controls were not clearly specified. Notwithstanding, despite these limitations, there was no publication bias in the analyses.
Summing up, the results of the present meta-analysis showed that ACE I/D polymorphisms may be associated with psoriasis susceptibility and, in detail the ID genotype seemed to have a protective role, mainly in Caucasian patients, against psoriatic arthritis, and in the studies considering hospital-based controls. In addition, the DD genotype showed a protective role against psoriatic arthritis. In conclusion, the distributions of genotypes of ACE I/D polymorphism were different when the patients were compared in the terms of family history and severity of the disease.
ACE I/D: Angiotensin-converting enzyme gene insertion/deletion
OR: Odds ratio
CI: Confidence interval
PRISMA: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
HWE: Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium
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Availability of data and materials
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Funding
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Authors’ Contributions
M.R and M.S: study design, study concept, analysis of images, statistical analysis, data collection, data interpretation, coordination of the study, literature search. E.Z and M.S: critically revised and edited the manuscript before submission and coordination of the study. M.S: drafted the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgements
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Table 1: Characteristics of the studies included in the meta-analysis (n=16)
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|
|
Genotyping |
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|
|
|
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Study, year |
Ethnicity |
Psoriasis |
Control |
Source of controls |
Subtype of psoriasis |
Genotyping method |
P-value for HWE for controls |
Score*
|
||||
|
II |
ID |
DD |
II |
ID |
DD |
|||||||
|
Vasku, 1999 [21] |
Caucasian (European) |
40 |
111 |
49 |
45 |
104 |
59 |
Unknown |
Unknown |
PCR |
0.947 |
NA |
|
Ozkur, 2004 [22] |
Caucasian (Turkish) |
12 |
40 |
34 |
28 |
69 |
57 |
Unknown |
Vulgaris (94.2%) |
PCR |
0.378 |
7 |
|
Al-Awadhi, 2007 [23] |
Caucasian (Arab) |
7 |
19 |
25 |
14 |
45 |
41 |
Hospital- based |
Arthritis |
PCR |
0.770 |
8 |
|
Chang, 2007 [33] |
Asian |
172 |
108 |
32 |
287 |
265 |
63 |
Hospital- based |
Unknown |
PCR |
0.873 |
7 |
|
Liu, 2007 [20] |
Asian |
31 |
38 |
19 |
23 |
48 |
24 |
Hospital- based |
Unknown |
PCR |
0.917 |
NA |
|
Weger, 2007 [24] |
Caucasian (European) |
61 |
92 |
54 |
35 |
93 |
54 |
Hospital- based |
Vulgaris |
PCR |
0.653 |
7 |
|
Nagui, 2012 [25] |
Caucasian (Arab) |
9 |
13 |
8 |
6 |
8 |
6 |
Hospital- based |
Vulgaris |
PCR |
0.371 |
8 |
|
Shehab, 2008 [26] |
Caucasian (Arab) |
2 |
2 |
9 |
19 |
18 |
74 |
Hospital- based |
Arthritis |
PCR |
<0.001 |
6 |
|
Veletza, 2008 [27] |
Caucasian (European) |
2 |
11 |
14 |
5 |
7 |
15 |
Unknown |
Vulgaris |
PCR |
0.038 |
7 |
|
Coto-Segura, 2009 [28] |
Caucasian (European) |
38 |
124 |
106 |
34 |
145 |
93 |
Population- based |
Arthritis |
PCR |
0.050 |
6 |
|
Yang, 2014 [9] |
Asian |
350 |
269 |
49 |
304 |
299 |
65 |
Hospital- based |
Unknown |
PCR-RFLP |
0.491 |
7 |
|
Munir, 2016 [29] |
Caucasian (Pakistani) |
118 |
239 |
129 |
88 |
299 |
184 |
Population- based |
Arthritis (92%) |
PCR |
0.063 |
6 |
|
Huang, 2017 [34] |
Asian |
55 |
71 |
35 |
119 |
111 |
26 |
Hospital- based |
Unknown |
PCR |
0.987 |
6 |
|
Agha, 2018 [30] |
Caucasian (Pakistani) |
72 |
87 |
74 |
90 |
122 |
51 |
Unknown |
Unknown |
PCR |
0.405 |
6 |
|
Elneam, 2018 [31] |
Caucasian (Arab) |
18 |
33 |
22 |
22 |
17 |
8 |
Unknown |
Vulgaris |
PCR |
0.157 |
7 |
|
Tanhapour, 2018 [32] |
Caucasian (Iranian) |
16 |
57 |
27 |
8 |
50 |
42 |
Hospital- based |
Unknown |
PCR-RFLP |
0.191 |
6 |
Abbreviations: PCR, Polymerase chain reaction; RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism. *Based on the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale
Table 2: Analysis of psoriasis susceptibility related to angiotensin-converting enzyme insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism based on the studies with normal Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium when considering controls, ethnicity, psoriasis subtype, controls source, Caucasian population
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Variable (no. of study) |
D vs. I |
DD vs. II |
ID vs. II |
ID + DD vs. II |
DD vs. II + ID |
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OR (95%CI), I2 (%), Ph |
OR (95%CI), I2 (%), Ph |
OR (95%CI), I2 (%), Ph |
OR (95%CI), I2 (%), Ph |
OR (95%CI), I2 (%), Ph |
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Overall (16) |
0.96 (0.82, 1.12), 74, <0.00001 |
0.99 (0.73, 1.36), 71, <0.00001 |
0.81 (0.72, 0.91), 42, 0.04 |
0.91 (0.73, 1.13), 64, 0.0003 |
1.05 (0.85, 1.30), 61, 0.0007 |
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Ethnicity |
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East Asian (4) |
0.95 (0.68, 1.32),86, <0.0001 |
0.99 (0.51, 1.93), 84, 0.0004 |
0.82 (0.61, 1.10), 63, 0.05 |
0.86 (0.59, 1.25), 79, 0.003 |
1.09 (0.65, 1.84), 77, 0.005 |
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Caucasian (12)
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0.96 (0.79, 1.17), 70, 0.0001 |
0.99 (0.68, 1.45), 67, 0.0005 |
0.82 (0.69, 0.97), 39, 0.08 |
0.95 (0.71, 1.27), 59, 0.004 |
1.03 (0.81, 1.32), 57, 0.007 |
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Psoriasis subtype |
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Arthritis (4) |
0.83 (0.61, 1.12), 66, 0.03 |
0.69 (0.52, 0.91), 49, 0.12 |
0.66 (0.50, 0.85), 0, 0.78 |
0.67 (0.52, 0.86), 8, 0.35 |
1.04 (0.73, 1.48), 53, 0.09 |
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Vulgaris (5) |
1.12 (0.77, 1.65), 65, 0.02 |
1.29 (0.62, 2.68), 63, 0.03 |
1.19 (0.65, 2.21), 60, 0.04 |
1.29 (0.64, 2.63), 71, 0.009 |
1.02 (0.76, 1.37), 0, 0.48 |
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Source of controls |
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Hospital-based (9) |
0.84 (0.68, 1.04),72, 0.0004 |
0.84 (0.55, 1.29), 68, 0.002 |
0.77 (0.67, 0.90), 23, 0.24 |
0.80 (0.61, 1.04), 56, 0.02 |
0.97 (0.71, 1.32), 58, 0.01 |
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Others (7) |
1.12 (0.88, 1.42), 77, 0.0003 |
1.22 (0.74, 2.01), 77, 0.0002 |
1.00 (0.72, 1.40), 59, 0.02 |
1.11 (0.75, 1.64), 72, 0.001 |
1.14 (0.83, 1.56), 68, 0.005 |
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Caucasian population |
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Arab (4) |
1.04 (0.52, 2.06), 75, 0.008 |
1.65 (0.91, 3.00), 2, 0.38 |
1.43 (0.81, 2.53), 0, 0.47 |
1.56 (0.93, 2.62), 7, 0.36 |
1.41 (0.89, 2.23), 0, 0.68 |
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Europe (4) |
0.94 (0.81, 1.10), 21, 0.28 |
0.85 (0.62, 1.16), 18, 0.30 |
0.84 (0.63, 1.12), 47, 0.13 |
0.84 (0.64, 1.10), 48, 0.13 |
0.99 (0.79, 1.24), 4, 0.37 |
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Other (Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey) (4) |
0.93 (0.64, 1.34), 85, 0.0001 |
0.83 (0.38, 1.84), 86, <0.0001 |
0.73 (0.58, 0.92), 41, 0.17 |
0.82 (0.49, 1.36), 75, 0.007 |
0.97 (0.57, 1.66), 84, 0.0003 |
* Bold number means significant (P<0.05). Ph equals to Pheterogeneity
Table 3: Analysis of psoriasis susceptibility related to angiotensin-converting enzyme insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism after excluding the studies without normal Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium
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Variable (no. of study) |
D vs. I |
DD vs. II |
ID vs. II |
ID + DD vs. II |
DD vs. II + ID |
|
OR (95%CI), I2 (%), Ph |
OR (95%CI), I2 (%), Ph |
OR (95%CI), I2 (%), Ph |
OR (95%CI), I2 (%), Ph |
OR (95%CI), I2 (%), Ph |
|
|
Normal HWE (14) |
0.95 (0.80, 1.12), 78, <0.00001 |
0.97 (0.70, 1.34), 74, <0.00001 |
0.80 (0.71, 0.90), 47, 0.03 |
0.89 (0.72, 1.11), 67, 0.0002 |
1.05 (0.84, 1.32), 66, 0.0002 |
* Bold number means significant (P<0.05). Ph equals to Pheterogeneity
Table 4: Distribution of alleles and genotypes of angiotensin-converting enzyme insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism with respect to patient characteristics in psoriasis
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Variable (no. of study) |
II |
ID |
DD |
I |
D |
OR (95%CI), P-value |
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Sex (3) |
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Male (n=194) vs. Female (n=180) |
41 (21%) vs. 42 (23%) |
102 (53%) vs. 87 (49%) |
51 (26%) vs. 51 (28%) |
184 (47.4%) vs. 171 (47.5%) |
204 (52.6%) vs. 189 (52.5%) |
0.99 (0.74, 1.33), 0.983 |
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Family history (6) |
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Positive (n=506) vs. Negative (n=685) |
224 (44%) vs. 223 (32%) |
194 (38%) vs. 308 (45%) |
88 (18%) vs. 154 (22%) |
642 (63.4%) vs. 754 (55%) |
370 (36.6%) vs. 616 (45%) |
1.44 (1.24, 1.67), <0.001 |
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Age at onset (9) |
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Early-onset (n=1522) vs. Late-onset (n=715) |
516 (33.9%) vs. 265 (37.1%) |
666 (43.8%) vs. 298 (41.7%) |
340 (22.3%) vs. 152 (21.2%) |
1698 (55.8%) vs. 828 (57.9%) |
1346 (44.2%) vs. 602 (42.1%) |
0.93 (0.82, 1.04), 0.208 |
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Type of psoriasis (2) |
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Type Ӏ (n=256) vs. Type ӀӀ (n=204) |
151 (59%) vs. 109 (53.4%) |
90 (35.2%) vs. 71 (34.8%) |
15 (5.8%) vs. 24 (11.8%) |
392 (76.6%) vs. 289 (71%) |
120 (23.4%) vs. 119 (39%) |
1.31 (0.99, 1.74), 0.060 |
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Severity (3) |
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Mild (n=807) vs. Severe (n=202) |
332 (41.1%) vs. 74 (36.6%) |
355 (44%) vs. 71 (35.1%) |
120 (14.9%) vs. 57 (28.2%) |
1019 (63.1%) vs. 219 (54.2%) |
595 (36.9%) vs. 185 (45.8%) |
0.70 (0.55, 0.88), 0.002 |
* Bold number means significant (P<0.05); vs. = versus; Early-onset = age at onset ≤40 years; Late-onset = age at onset >40 years; Type Ӏ = having a positive family history and early-onset disease; Type ӀӀ = having a negative family history and late-onset disease; Mild severity = PASI <10; Severe psoriasis = PASI ≥ 10 [PASI = Psoriasis Area and Severity Index] [35].