Background: Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) is a hypothalamic anorectic neuropeptide that controls feeding behaviour and body weight. The study objective was to investigate the association of the CART prepropeptide gene (CARTPT) rs2239670 variant with obesity and its related anthropometric indicators among patients of a Malaysian health clinic in Kampar, Perak, Malaysia.Methods: A total of 300 Malay/Peninsular Bumiputera, Chinese, and Indian subjects (115 males, 185 females; 163 non-obese, 137 obese) were recruited by convenience sampling, and anthropometric measurements, blood pressures, and pulse rate were taken. Genotyping was performed using AvaII polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism.Results: Genotyping revealed 203 (67.7%), 90 (30.0%), and 7 (2.3%) subjects with the GG, GA, and AA genotypes, respectively, with a minor allele (A) frequency of 0.17. No signifcant difference in the CARTPT rs2239670 genotype and allele distribution was found between obese and non-obese subjects, and logistic regression showed no association between the mutated genotypes (GA, AA) and allele (A) with obesity, even after adjusting for age, gender, and ethnicity. Furthermore, the measurements did not differ signifcantly between the genotypes and alleles. No signifcant difference in the genotype and allele distribution was found among genders, but they were signifcantly different among ethnicities (P = 0.030 and P = 0.019, respectively).Conclusion: CARTPT rs2239670 is not a predictor for obesity among the Malaysian subjects in this study. © Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Yeo, L., Fan, S. H., & Say, Y. H. (2012). Association of the cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript prepropeptide gene (CARTPT) rs2239670 variant with obesity among Kampar health clinic patrons, Malaysia. Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 19(1), 43–51.
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