OBJECTIVETo investigate the association between intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) gene + 12959G/A and + 13848A/G polymorphism and myocardial infarction (MI).

METHODSPolymerase chain reaction-sequence specific primers (PCR-SSP) technology and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism(PCR-RFLP) were used for the detection of ICAM-1 genotypes in 165 patients with MI(including acute MI and old MI) and 199 healthy controls. Plasma lipid levels and hyper sensitive C reactive protein (quantitive ELISA method was used) levels were measured in all subjects.

RESULTS+ 12959G/A polymorphism was not detected in our study. The frequencies of AA,AG and GG Genotypes of + 13848A/G were 58.2% and 45.7%, 37.0% among patients and 45.2%, 4.8% and 9.0% among controls,respectively. There were statistically significant differences in the distributions of the genotype frequencies (P<0.05) between two groups, and the relative risk suffered from MI of AA genotype was 1.651 times of the GG and GA genotype (OR = 1.651, 95% CI: 1.089-2.504).

CONCLUSIONThere was no + 12959G/A polymorphism found in Chinese people. The coding single nucleotide polymorphism + 13848 A/G in the exon 6 of ICAM-1 gene was associated to MI and the allele A might serve as a risk factor for MI in Chinese.