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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in celiac disease and rheumatoid arthritis identifies fourteen non-HLA shared loci.

ABSTRACT: Epidemiology and candidate gene studies indicate a shared genetic basis for celiac disease (CD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but the extent of this sharing has not been systematically explored. Previous studies demonstrate that 6 of the established non-HLA CD and RA risk loci (out of 26 loci for each disease) are shared between both diseases. We hypothesized that there are additional shared risk alleles and that combining genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from each disease would increase power to identify these shared risk alleles. We performed a meta-analysis of two published GWAS on CD (4,533 cases and 10,750 controls) and RA (5,539 cases and 17,231 controls). After genotyping the top associated SNPs in 2,169 CD cases and 2,255 controls, and 2,845 RA cases and 4,944 controls, 8 additional SNPs demonstrated P<5 × 10(-8) in a combined analysis of all 50,266 samples, including four SNPs that have not been previously confirmed in either disease: rs10892279 near the DDX6 gene (P(combined)?=? 1.2 × 10(-12)), rs864537 near CD247 (P(combined)?=? 2.2 × 10(-11)), rs2298428 near UBE2L3 (P(combined)?=? 2.5 × 10(-10)), and rs11203203 near UBASH3A (P(combined)?=? 1.1 × 10(-8)). We also confirmed that 4 gene loci previously established in either CD or RA are associated with the other autoimmune disease at combined P<5 × 10(-8) (SH2B3, 8q24, STAT4, and TRAF1-C5). From the 14 shared gene loci, 7 SNPs showed a genome-wide significant effect on expression of one or more transcripts in the linkage disequilibrium (LD) block around the SNP. These associations implicate antigen presentation and T-cell activation as a shared mechanism of disease pathogenesis and underscore the utility of cross-disease meta-analysis for identification of genetic risk factors with pleiotropic effects between two clinically distinct diseases.

SUBMITTER: Zhernakova A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3044685 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in celiac disease and rheumatoid arthritis identifies fourteen non-HLA shared loci.

Zhernakova Alexandra A Stahl Eli A EA Trynka Gosia G Raychaudhuri Soumya S Festen Eleanora A EA Franke Lude L Westra Harm-Jan HJ Fehrmann Rudolf S N RS Kurreeman Fina A S FA Thomson Brian B Gupta Namrata N Romanos Jihane J McManus Ross R Ryan Anthony W AW Turner Graham G Brouwer Elisabeth E Posthumus Marcel D MD Remmers Elaine F EF Tucci Francesca F Toes Rene R Grandone Elvira E Mazzilli Maria Cristina MC Rybak Anna A Cukrowska Bozena B Coenen Marieke J H MJ Radstake Timothy R D J TR van Riel Piet L C M PL Li Yonghong Y de Bakker Paul I W PI Gregersen Peter K PK Worthington Jane J Siminovitch Katherine A KA Klareskog Lars L Huizinga Tom W J TW Wijmenga Cisca C Plenge Robert M RM

PLoS genetics 20110224 2

Epidemiology and candidate gene studies indicate a shared genetic basis for celiac disease (CD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but the extent of this sharing has not been systematically explored. Previous studies demonstrate that 6 of the established non-HLA CD and RA risk loci (out of 26 loci for each disease) are shared between both diseases. We hypothesized that there are additional shared risk alleles and that combining genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from each disease would increa ...[more]

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