In addition, common variants near the TERT affect susceptibility to a variety of cancer subtypes (23– 28), suggesting that more subtle variation in telomere maintenance increases cancer risk.
7 This raises the possibility that more subtle polymorphic variants contribute to genetic susceptibility of common complex traits, including OA. Being strictly maternally inherited, mtDNA undergoes negligible intermolecular recombination.
More subtle changes are inherited as variants in the DNA sequence, termed genetic polymorphisms.
Arguably, though, these interactions could be specific for the large phenotypic effects of mutations and knockdown by RNA interference, not the variants with more subtle effects that segregate in natural populations.
Based on this intersection, we propose that, although strong or inactivating mutations (rare variants) in these genes may cause severe disease (PIDs), their more subtle modulation potentially by common regulatory/coding variants may contribute to chronic inflammation.
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In D. melanogaster and A. gambiae, the change in apparent affinity is more subtle, e.g., the UCUG-like variant of the vertebrate UG-rich element is absent.
The data shown in Fig. 5 also suggest more subtle differences among these latter RyR2 variants, especially for RyR2-G1885E and -G1886D compared with RyR2-WT and -G1886S.
However, in more recent in vitro studies either the variant has shown more subtle increases in the binding affinity (Befort et al., 2001) or no differences have been observed between the variant and normal receptors (Beyer et al., 2004); some studies have even indicated that the 118G (allele allele would result in decreased mRNA and protein levels (Heinz et al., 2005; Zhang et al., 2005).
