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Replication of Gout/Urate Concentrations GWAS Susceptibility Loci Associated with Gout in a Han Chinese Population.

ABSTRACT: Gout is a chronic disease resulting from elevated serum urate (SU). Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified dozens of susceptibility loci for SU/gout, but few have been conducted for Chinese descent. Here, we try to extensively investigate whether these loci contribute to gout risk in Han Chinese. A total of 2255 variants in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with GWAS identified SU/gout associated variants were analyzed in a Han Chinese cohort of 1255 gout patients and 1848 controls. Cumulative genetic risk score analysis was performed to assess the cumulative effect of multiple "risk" variants on gout incidence. 23 variants (41%) of LD pruned variants set (n?=?56) showed nominal association with gout in our sample (p?

SUBMITTER: Li Z

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5481433 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Replication of Gout/Urate Concentrations GWAS Susceptibility Loci Associated with Gout in a Han Chinese Population.

Li Zhiqiang Z Zhou Zhaowei Z Hou Xu X Lu Dajiang D Yuan Xuan X Lu Jie J Wang Can C Han Lin L Cui Lingling L Liu Zhen Z Chen Jianhua J Cheng Xiaoyu X Zhang Keke K Ji Jue J Jia Zhaotong Z Ma Lidan L Xin Ying Y Liu Tian T Yu Qing Q Ren Wei W Wang Xuefeng X Li Xinde X Mi Qing-Sheng QS Shi Yongyong Y Li Changgui C

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Gout is a chronic disease resulting from elevated serum urate (SU). Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified dozens of susceptibility loci for SU/gout, but few have been conducted for Chinese descent. Here, we try to extensively investigate whether these loci contribute to gout risk in Han Chinese. A total of 2255 variants in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with GWAS identified SU/gout associated variants were analyzed in a Han Chinese cohort of 1255 gout patients and 1848 con ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundGout is a common disease resulting from hyperuricemia which causes acute arthritis. A recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) of gout identified three new loci for gout in Han Chinese: regulatory factor X3 (RFX3), potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily Q member 1 (KCNQ1), and breast carcinoma amplified sequence 3 (BCAS3). The lack of any replication studies of these three loci using other population groups prompted us to perform a replication study with Japanese clinically defined gout cases and controls.MethodsWe genotyped the variants of RFX3 (rs12236871), KCNQ1 (rs179785) and BCAS3 (rs11653176) in 723 Japanese clinically defined gout cases and 913 controls by TaqMan method. rs179785 of KCNQ1 is also evaluated by direct sequencing because of difficulties of its genotyping by TaqMan method.ResultsAlthough the variants of RFX3 and BCAS3 were clearly genotyped by TaqMan method, rs179785 of KCNQ1 was not, because rs179785 (A/G) of KCNQ1 is located at the last nucleotide ("A") of the 12-bp deletion variant (rs200562977) of KCNQ1. Therefore, rs179785 and rs200562977 of KCNQ1 were genotyped by direct sequencing in all samples. Moreover, by direct sequencing with the same primers, we were able to evaluate the genotypes of rs179784 of KCNQ1 which shows strong linkage disequilibrium with rs179785 (D' = 1.0 and r 2 = 0.99). rs11653176, a common variant of BCAS3, showed a significant association with gout (P = 1.66 × 10- 3; odds ratio [OR] = 0.80); the direction of effect was the same as that seen in the previous Han Chinese GWAS. Two variants of KCNQ1 (rs179785 and rs179784) had a nominally significant association (P = 0.043 and 0.044; OR = 0.85 and 0.86, respectively), but did not pass the significance threshold for multiple hypothesis testing using the Bonferroni correction. On the other hand, rs200562977 of KCNQ1 and rs12236871 of RFX3 did not show any significant association with gout.ConclusionBCAS3 is a coactivator of estrogen receptor alpha, and the influence of estrogen to serum uric acid level is well known. Our present replication study, as did the previous gout GWAS, demonstrated the common variant of BCAS3 to be associated with gout susceptibility.

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Replication of Gout/Urate Concentrations GWAS Susceptibility Loci Associated with Gout in a Han Chinese Population.

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Replication of Gout/Urate Concentrations GWAS Susceptibility Loci Associated with Gout in a Han Chinese Population.

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