scholarly journals Meta-analysis of genome-wide linkage studies of systemic lupus erythematosus

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 609-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Forabosco ◽  
J D Gorman ◽  
C Cleveland ◽  
J A Kelly ◽  
S A Fisher ◽  
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2020 ◽  
pp. annrheumdis-2020-219209
Author(s):  
Xianyong Yin ◽  
Kwangwoo Kim ◽  
Hiroyuki Suetsugu ◽  
So-Young Bang ◽  
Leilei Wen ◽  
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ObjectiveSystemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disorder, has been associated with nearly 100 susceptibility loci. Nevertheless, these loci only partially explain SLE heritability and their putative causal variants are rarely prioritised, which make challenging to elucidate disease biology. To detect new SLE loci and causal variants, we performed the largest genome-wide meta-analysis for SLE in East Asian populations.MethodsWe newly genotyped 10 029 SLE cases and 180 167 controls and subsequently meta-analysed them jointly with 3348 SLE cases and 14 826 controls from published studies in East Asians. We further applied a Bayesian statistical approach to localise the putative causal variants for SLE associations.ResultsWe identified 113 genetic regions including 46 novel loci at genome-wide significance (p<5×10−8). Conditional analysis detected 233 association signals within these loci, which suggest widespread allelic heterogeneity. We detected genome-wide associations at six new missense variants. Bayesian statistical fine-mapping analysis prioritised the putative causal variants to a small set of variants (95% credible set size ≤10) for 28 association signals. We identified 110 putative causal variants with posterior probabilities ≥0.1 for 57 SLE loci, among which we prioritised 10 most likely putative causal variants (posterior probability ≥0.8). Linkage disequilibrium score regression detected genetic correlations for SLE with albumin/globulin ratio (rg=−0.242) and non-albumin protein (rg=0.238).ConclusionThis study reiterates the power of large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis for novel genetic discovery. These findings shed light on genetic and biological understandings of SLE.


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Julià ◽  
Francisco Javier López-Longo ◽  
José J. Pérez Venegas ◽  
Silvia Bonàs-Guarch ◽  
Àlex Olivé ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 940-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L Morris ◽  
Yujun Sheng ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Yong-Fei Wang ◽  
Zhengwei Zhu ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisela Orozco ◽  
Steve Eyre ◽  
Anne Hinks ◽  
John Bowes ◽  
Ann W Morgan ◽  
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BackgroundEvidence is beginning to emerge that there may be susceptibility loci for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that are common to both diseases.ObjectiveTo investigate single nucleotide polymorphisms that have been reported to be associated with SLE in a UK cohort of patients with RA and controls.Methods3962 patients with RA and 9275 controls were included in the study. Eleven SNPs mapping to confirmed SLE loci were investigated. These mapped to the TNFSF4, BANK1, TNIP1, PTTG1, UHRF1BP1, ATG5, JAZF1, BLK, KIAA1542, ITGAM and UBE2L3 loci. Genotype frequencies were compared between patients with RA and controls using the trend test.ResultsThe SNPs mapping to the BLK and UBE2L3 loci showed significant evidence for association with RA. Two other SNPs, mapping to ATG5 and KIAA1542, showed nominal evidence for association with RA (p=0.02 and p=0.02, respectively) but these were not significant after applying a Bonferroni correction. Additionally, a significant global enrichment in carriage of SLE alleles in patients with RA compared with controls (p=9.1×10−7) was found. Meta-analysis of this and previous studies confirmed the association of the BLK and UBE2L3 gene with RA at genome-wide significance levels (p<5×10−8). Together, the authors estimate that the SLE and RA overlapping loci, excluding HLA-DRB1 alleles, identified so far explain ∼5.8% of the genetic susceptibility to RA as a whole.ConclusionThe findings confirm the association of the BLK and UBE2L3 loci with RA, thus adding to the list of loci showing overlap between RA and SLE.


2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 286-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Márquez ◽  
Laura Vidal-Bralo ◽  
Luis Rodríguez-Rodríguez ◽  
Miguel A González-Gay ◽  
Alejandro Balsa ◽  
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ObjectivesDuring the last years, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified a number of common genetic risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, the genetic overlap between these two immune-mediated diseases has not been thoroughly examined so far. The aim of the present study was to identify additional risk loci shared between RA and SLE.MethodsWe performed a large-scale meta-analysis of GWAS data from RA (3911 cases and 4083 controls) and SLE (2237 cases and 6315 controls). The top-associated polymorphisms in the discovery phase were selected for replication in additional datasets comprising 13 641 RA cases and 31 921 controls and 1957 patients with SLE and 4588 controls.ResultsThe rs9603612 genetic variant, located nearby the COG6 gene, an established susceptibility locus for RA, reached genome-wide significance in the combined analysis including both discovery and replication sets (p value=2.95E−13). In silico expression quantitative trait locus analysis revealed that the associated polymorphism acts as a regulatory variant influencing COG6 expression. Moreover, protein–protein interaction and gene ontology enrichment analyses suggested the existence of overlap with specific biological processes, specially the type I interferon signalling pathway. Finally, genetic correlation and polygenic risk score analyses showed cross-phenotype associations between RA and SLE.ConclusionsIn conclusion, we have identified a new risk locus shared between RA and SLE through a meta-analysis including GWAS datasets of both diseases. This study represents the first comprehensive large-scale analysis on the genetic overlap between these two complex disorders.


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