GST Alpha 4 (GSTA4) has an important role in the protection against oxidative stress induced by carcinogens such as tobacco smoke. However, few studies investigated the association between GSTA4 polymorphisms and lung cancer risk. We genotyped three selected GSTA4 SNPs (rs182623 - 1718:T > A, rs3798804 + 5034:G > A and rs316141 + 13984:C > T) in a case-control study of 500 lung cancer patients and 517 cancer-free controls and evaluated the association between these SNPs and risk of lung cancer in this Han Chinese population. We found that there was a significant difference in genotype and allele frequency distributions of GSTA4 -1718 between the cases and the controls (P = 0.006 and P = 0.003, respectively). Compared with the GSTA4 -1718TT genotype, individuals with the TA + AA genotypes had a significantly decreased risk of lung cancer (adjusted OR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.47-0.84; P = 0.006). Although there were no such statistical differences between the cases and controls at the loci +5034 and +13984, nor for histological types, individuals carrying the genotypes of -1718TA, +5034GG and +13984CT had a significantly decreased lung cancer risk (OR, 0.37; 95% CI, 0.23-0.61; P < 0.0001), especially for those smokers who smoked

The relationship between the tenth exon C825T of G-protein β3 subunit (GNB3) genetic polymorphism and hypertension in the Uygur population of China was investigated. A nested case-control study (n = 738) was carried out. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) technique was used to genotype GNB3 C825T polymorphism in 354 hypertensive (HT) and 384 normotensive (NT) Uygur subjects. The distributions of GNB3 C825T genotypes were CC (27.2%), TT (42.9%), and CT (29.9%) in the hypertensive subjects and CC (27.7%), TT (42.4%), CT (29.9%) in the normotensive subjects. There were no significant differences in the genotype distributions between the two groups (χ (2) = 0.0262 P = 0.99). The T allele was 51.4% in hypertensive subjects and 51.2% in normotensive subjects, which, between the two groups, was not a significant difference (χ (2) = 0.0016 P = 0.97). Further analysis shows that there is no association between C825T genotypes and age, body mass index (BMI), Glucose (GLU), Triglyceride (TG), Cholesterol (CHO), systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). No evidence was found to suggest an association between GNB3 C825T polymorphism and hypertension in the Uygur population of China.