High-density genotyping of immune-related loci identifies new SLE risk variants in individuals with Asian ancestry.
High-density genotyping of immune-related loci identifies new SLE risk variants in individuals with Asian ancestry.
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免疫相关位点的高密度基因分型识别出亚洲血统个体中新的 SLE 风险变异
DOI:
10.1038/ng.3496
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发表时间:
2016-03
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影响因子:
30.8
通讯作者:
Nath SK
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作者:
Sun C;Molineros JE;Looger LL;Zhou XJ;Kim K;Okada Y;Ma J;Qi YY;Kim-Howard X;Motghare P;Bhattarai K;Adler A;Bang SY;Lee HS;Kim TH;Kang YM;Suh CH;Chung WT;Park YB;Choe JY;Shim SC;Kochi Y;Suzuki A;Kubo M;Sumida T;Yamamoto K;Lee SS;Kim YJ;Han BG;Dozmorov M;Kaufman KM;Wren JD;Harley JB;Shen N;Chua KH;Zhang H;Bae SC;Nath SK
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has a strong but incompletely understood genetic architecture. We conducted an association study with replication in 4,478 SLE cases and 12,656 controls from six East Asian cohorts to identify new SLE susceptibility loci and better localize known loci. We identified ten new loci and confirmed 20 known loci with genome-wide significance. Among the new loci, the most significant locus wasGTF2IRD1-GTF2Iat 7q11.23 (rs73366469,Pmeta= 3.75 × 10−117, odds ratio (OR) = 2.38), followed byDEF6,IL12B,TCF7,TERT,CD226,PCNXL3,RASGRP1,SYNGR1andSIGLEC6. We identified the most likely functional variants at each locus by analyzing epigenetic marks and gene expression data. Ten candidate variants are known to alter gene expression incisor intrans. Enrichment analysis highlights the importance of these loci in B cell and T cell biology. The new loci, together with previously known loci, increase the explained heritability of SLE to 24%. The new loci share functional and ontological characteristics with previously reported loci and are possible drug targets for SLE therapeutics.