Risk Loci in Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria
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ABSTRACT: Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is a common autoimmune skin disease severely impairing quality of life, but its genetic basis is unknown. we employed a two-stage genomewide association study to identify susceptibility loci for CSU in Han Chinese populations. A genomewide association study was performed in a discovery cohort of 443 CSU cases and 1043 controls and was replicated in 828 CSU patients and 1018 controls. The utility of susceptible single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in predicting refractory CSU patients was assessed in an independent cohort of 169 CSU cases. We found that SNP rs72862937 in the second intron of RUNX2 at chromosome 6p21.1 and SNP rs434124 near the LILRA3 gene at chromosome 19q13.4 were significantly associated with CSU according to genomewide association analysis. These results provide a preliminary genetic basis for CSU and shed light on the pathogenesis of CSU.
TISSUE(S): Blood
SUBMITTER: Liming,Zhang
PROVIDER: OEX003828 | NODE |
REPOSITORIES: NODE
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