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Recent Advances in Defining the Genetic Basis of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

ABSTRACT: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory arthritis and exhibits genetic overlap with other autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. Although predominant associations with the HLA-DRB1 locus have been known for decades, recent data have revealed additional insight into the likely causative variants within HLA-DRB1 as well as within other HLA loci that contribute to disease risk. In addition, more than 100 common variants in non-HLA loci have been implicated in disease susceptibility. Genetic factors are involved not only in the development of RA, but also with various disease subphenotypes, including production and circulating levels of autoantibodies and joint destruction. The major current challenge is to integrate these new data into a precise understanding of disease pathogenesis, including the critical cell types and molecular networks involved as well as interactions with environmental factors. We predict that delineating the functional effects of genetic variants is likely to drive new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the disease.

SUBMITTER: Terao C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6727201 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Recent Advances in Defining the Genetic Basis of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Terao Chikashi C Raychaudhuri Soumya S Gregersen Peter K PK

Annual review of genomics and human genetics 20160523

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory arthritis and exhibits genetic overlap with other autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. Although predominant associations with the HLA-DRB1 locus have been known for decades, recent data have revealed additional insight into the likely causative variants within HLA-DRB1 as well as within other HLA loci that contribute to disease risk. In addition, more than 100 common variants in non-HLA loci have been implicated in disease susceptibilit ...[more]

PMID: 27216775

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Project description:IntroductionRheumatoid arthritis is a common autoimmune disease and schizophrenia is a relatively common and debilitating neurological disorder. There are several common features between rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia. The inverse relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia has been replicated in several studies. Despite evidence for an inverse epidemiological relationship and negative correlations for risk between rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia, there are no biological data that directly support this inverse relationship.Materials and methods'We meta-analyzed the genome-wide association studies to investigate the shared association loci between rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia at the genome-wide scale. Rheumatoid arthritis- and schizophrenia-associated loci in most recent genome-wide association studies of rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia were tested. Genetic risk score analysis was also conducted to investigate the collective contribution of schizophrenia risk loci to rheumatoid arthritis risk.ResultsRheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia meta-genome-wide association study showed a significant peak at the major histocompatibility complex locus on chromosome 6 in both rheumatoid arthritis-schizophrenia meta-genome-wide association study and inverted meta-genome-wide association study datasets. Testing rheumatoid arthritis- and schizophrenia-associated loci outside the human leukocyte antigen region showed no association with both rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia at a genome-wide level of significance. Weighted genetic risk scores showed no evidence for a statistically significant association between rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia.ConclusionThe finding of our study is consistent with the role of the major histocompatibility complex locus in the genetic correlation between rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia, and suggests that either schizophrenia has an autoimmune basis and/or rheumatoid arthritis has an active neurological component.

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Recent Advances in Defining the Genetic Basis of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

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Recent Advances in Defining the Genetic Basis of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

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