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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors. There is a growing body of evidence of the involvement of sirtuins (SIRTs) in disease pathomechanism. SIRTs are NAD+-dependent histone deacetylases which take part in various cellular functions. However, available data of the relationship between SIRT gene polymorphisms and PD is limited. Our aim was to investigate the possible association of 10 SNPs identified within non-mitochondrial SIRTs,  SIRT1, -2  and  -6  with the risk of PD in Hungarian population, and to compare the expression level of these SIRTs between healthy controls and PD patients. Our results showed that rs3740051 and rs3818292 of  SIRT1  and rs350843, rs350844, rs107251, rs350845 and rs350846 of  SIRT6  show weak association with PD risk. On the contrary rs12778366 and rs3758391 of  SIRT1  and rs10410544 of  SIRT2  did not show association with PD. Moreover, we detected that mRNA level of  SIRT1  was down-regulated, and mRNA level of  SIRT6  was up-regulated, while  SIRT2  mRNA level was not altered in the peripheral blood of PD patients as compared to controls. The difference in both cases was more pronounced when comparing the early-onset PD group to the control cohort. Nevertheless, mRNA level changes did not show any association with the presence of any of the investigated SNPs either in the PD or in the control group. In conclusion, our findings suggest that non-mitochondrial sirtuins, SIRT1 and -6 but not SIRT2 might contribute to the pathogenesis of PD in the Hungarian population both via their altered mRNA levels and via gene alterations identified as specific SNPs.

Gene variants and expression changes of SIRT1 and SIRT6 in peripheral blood are associated with Parkinson’s disease