TCERG1L hypermethylation is a risk factor of diabetic retinopathy in Chinese children with type 1 diabetes
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Pei-Yao Jin and Hai-Dong Zou. Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai General Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai First People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200080, China. peiyaojin@hotmail.com; zouhaidong@sjtu.edu.cn; Chen-Hao Yang. Department of Ophthalmology, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 201102, China. ychben@hotmail.com

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Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No.2016YFC0904800); National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.82101181); China Scholarship Council (No.201506230096); Shanghai Sailing Program (No.19YF1439700).

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    AIM: To identify the differential methylation sites (DMS) and their according genes associated with diabetic retinopathy (DR) development in type 1 diabetes (T1DM) children. METHODS: This study consists of two surveys. A total of 40 T1DM children was included in the first survey. Because no participant has DR, retina thinning was used as a surrogate indicator for DR. The lowest 25% participants with the thinnest macular retinal thickness were included into the case group, and the others were controls. The DNA methylation status was assessed by the Illumina methylation 850K array BeadChip assay, and compared between the case and control groups. Four DMS with a potential role in diabetes were identified. The second survey included 27 T1DM children, among which four had DR. The methylation patterns of the four DMS identified by 850K were compared between participants with and without DR by pyrosequencing. RESULTS: In the first survey, the 850K array revealed 751 sites significantly and differentially methylated in the case group comparing with the controls (|Δβ|>0.1 and Adj.P<0.05), and 328 of these were identified with a significance of Adj.P<0.01. Among these, 319 CpG sites were hypermethylated and 432 were hypometh­ylated in the case group relative to the controls. Pyrosequencing revealed that the transcription elongation regulator 1 like (TCERG1L, cg07684215) gene was hypermethylated in the four T1DM children with DR (P=0.018), which was consistent with the result from the first survey. The methylation status of the other three DMS (cg26389052, cg25192647, and cg05413694) showed no difference (all P>0.05) between participants with and without DR. CONCLUSION: The hypermethylation of the TCERG1L gene is a risk factor for DR development in Chinese children with T1DM.

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Yu Qian, Ying Xiao, Qiu-Rong Lin, et al. TCERG1L hypermethylation is a risk factor of diabetic retinopathy in Chinese children with type 1 diabetes. Int J Ophthalmol, 2024,17(3):537-544

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  • Received:May 19,2023
  • Revised:January 10,2024
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  • Online: February 27,2024
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