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Protective effect of the HLA-DRB1*13:02 allele in Japanese rheumatoid arthritis patients.

ABSTRACT: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease. Certain HLA-DRB1 "shared-epitope" alleles are reported to be positively associated with increased RA susceptibility, whereas some of the other alleles may be negatively associated. However, studies on the latter are rare. Here, we focus on the protective effects of DRB1 alleles in Japanese RA patients in an association study. Relative predispositional effects (RPE) were analyzed by sequential elimination of carriers of each allele with the strongest association. The protective effects of DRB1 alleles were investigated in patients stratified according to whether they possessed anti-citrullinated peptide antibodies (ACPA). The DRB1*13:02 allele was found to be negatively associated with RA (P?=?4.59×10(-10), corrected P (Pc)?=?1.42×10(-8), odds ratio [OR] 0.42, 95% CI 0.32-0.55, P [RPE]?=?1.27×10(-6)); the genotypes DRB1*04:05/*13:02 and *09:01/*13:02 were also negatively associated with RA. The protective effect of *13:02 was also present in ACPA-positive patients (P?=?3.95×10(-8), Pc?=?1.22×10(-6), OR 0.42, 95%CI 0.31-0.58) whereas *15:02 was negatively associated only with ACPA-negative RA (P?=?8.87×10(-5), Pc?=?0.0026, OR 0.26, 95%CI 0.12-0.56). Thus, this study identified a negative association of DRB1*13:02 with Japanese RA; our findings support the protective role of DRB1*13:02 in the pathogenesis of ACPA-positive RA.

SUBMITTER: Oka S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4049831 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Protective effect of the HLA-DRB1*13:02 allele in Japanese rheumatoid arthritis patients.

Oka Shomi S Furukawa Hiroshi H Kawasaki Aya A Shimada Kota K Sugii Shoji S Hashimoto Atsushi A Komiya Akiko A Fukui Naoshi N Ito Satoshi S Nakamura Tadashi T Saisho Koichiro K Katayama Masao M Tsunoda Shinichiro S Sano Hajime H Migita Kiyoshi K Suda Akiko A Nagaoka Shouhei S Tsuchiya Naoyuki N Tohma Shigeto S

PloS one 20140609 6

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease. Certain HLA-DRB1 "shared-epitope" alleles are reported to be positively associated with increased RA susceptibility, whereas some of the other alleles may be negatively associated. However, studies on the latter are rare. Here, we focus on the protective effects of DRB1 alleles in Japanese RA patients in an association study. Relative predispositional effects (RPE) were analyzed by sequential elimination of carriers of each al ...[more]

PMID: 24911054

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Project description:Among antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAV), granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and proteinase 3-ANCA-positive AAV (PR3-AAV) are prevalent in European populations, while microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and myeloperoxidase-ANCA-positive AAV (MPO-AAV) are predominant in the Japanese. We previously demonstrated association of DRB1*09:01-DQB1*03:03 haplotype, a haplotype common in East Asians but rare in the European populations, with MPA/MPO-AAV, suggesting that a population difference in HLA-class II plays a role in the epidemiology of this disease. To gain further insights, we increased the sample size and performed an extended association study of DRB1 and DPB1 with AAV subsets in 468 Japanese patients with AAV classified according to the European Medicines Agency algorithm (MPA: 285, GPA: 92, eosinophilic GPA [EGPA]: 56, unclassifiable: 35) and 596 healthy controls. Among these patients, 377 were positive for MPO-ANCA and 62 for PR3-ANCA. The significance level was set at ? = 3.3x10-4 by applying Bonferroni correction. The association of DRB1*09:01 with MPO-AAV was confirmed (allele model, P = 2.1x10-4, odds ratio [OR] = 1.57). Protective association of DRB1*13:02 was detected against MPO-AAV (allele model, P = 2.3x10-5, OR = 0.42) and MPA (dominant model, P = 2.7x10-4, OR = 0.43). A trend toward increased frequency of DPB1*04:01, the risk allele for GPA in European populations, was observed among Japanese patients with PR3-AAV when conditioned on DRB1*13:02 (Padjusted = 0.0021, ORadjusted = 3.48). In contrast, the frequency of DPB1*04:01 was decreased among Japanese patients with MPO-AAV, and this effect lost significance when conditioned on DRB1*13:02 (Padjusted = 0.16), suggesting that DRB1*13:02 or other allele(s) in linkage disequilibrium may be responsible for the protection. The differential association of DPB1*04:01 with PR3-AAV and MPO-AAV and difference in DPB1*04:01 allele frequencies between populations supported the hypothesis that the HLA-class II population difference may account in part for these epidemiologic characteristics. Furthermore, taken together with our previous observations, the haplotype carrying DRB1*13:02 was suggested to be a shared protective factor against multiple autoimmune diseases.

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Protective effect of the HLA-DRB1*13:02 allele in Japanese rheumatoid arthritis patients.

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Protective effect of the HLA-DRB1*13:02 allele in Japanese rheumatoid arthritis patients.

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