TY - JOUR
T1 - Primary biliary cirrhosis associated with HLA, IL12A, and IL12RB2 variants
AU - Hirschfield, Gideon M.
AU - Liu, Xiangdong
AU - Xu, Chun
AU - Lu, Yue
AU - Xie, Gang
AU - Lu, Yan
AU - Gu, Xiangjun
AU - Walker, Erin J.
AU - Jing, Kaiyan
AU - Juran, Brian D.
AU - Mason, Andrew L.
AU - Myers, Robert P.
AU - Peltekian, Kevork M.
AU - Ghent, Cameron N.
AU - Coltescu, Catalina
AU - Atkinson, Elizabeth J.
AU - Heathcote, E. Jenny
AU - Lazaridis, Konstantinos N.
AU - Amos, Christopher I.
AU - Siminovitch, Katherine A.
PY - 2009/6/11
Y1 - 2009/6/11
N2 - BACKGROUND: Primary biliary cirrhosis is a chronic granulomatous cholangitis, characteristically associated with antimitochondrial antibodies. Twin and family aggregation data suggest that there is a significant genetic predisposition to primary biliary cirrhosis, but the susceptibility loci are unknown. METHODS: To identify genetic loci conferring a risk for primary biliary cirrhosis, we carried out a genomewide association analysis in which DNA samples from 2072 Canadian and U.S. subjects (536 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and 1536 controls) were genotyped for more than 300,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Sixteen of the SNPs most strongly associated with primary biliary cirrhosis were genotyped in two independent replication sets. We carried out fine-mapping studies across three loci associated with primary biliary cirrhosis. RESULTS: We found significant associations between primary biliary cirrhosis and 13 loci across the HLA class II region; the HLA-DQB1 locus (encoding the major histocompatibility complex class II, DQ β chain 1) had the strongest association (P=1.78×10 -19; odds ratio for patients vs. controls, 1.75). Primary biliary cirrhosis was also significantly and reproducibly associated with two SNPs at the IL12A locus (encoding interleukin-12α), rs6441286 (P=2. 42×10-14; odds ratio, 1.54) and rs574808 (P=1.88×10 -13; odds ratio, 1.54), and one SNP at the IL12RB2 locus (encoding interleukin-12 receptor β2), rs3790567 (P=2.76×10-11; odds ratio, 1.51). Fine-mapping analysis showed that a five-allele haplotype in the 3′ flank of IL12A was significantly associated with primary biliary cirrhosis (P=1.15×10-34). We found a modest genomewide association (P<5.0×10-5) with the risk of disease for SNPs at the STAT4 locus (encoding signal transducer and activator of transcription 4) and the CTLA4 locus (encoding cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4) and 10 other loci. CONCLUSIONS: Our data show significant associations between primary biliary cirrhosis and common genetic variants at the HLA class II, IL12A, and IL12RB2 loci and suggest that the interleukin-12 immunoregulatory signaling axis is relevant to the pathophysiology of primary biliary cirrhosis. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00242125.)
AB - BACKGROUND: Primary biliary cirrhosis is a chronic granulomatous cholangitis, characteristically associated with antimitochondrial antibodies. Twin and family aggregation data suggest that there is a significant genetic predisposition to primary biliary cirrhosis, but the susceptibility loci are unknown. METHODS: To identify genetic loci conferring a risk for primary biliary cirrhosis, we carried out a genomewide association analysis in which DNA samples from 2072 Canadian and U.S. subjects (536 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and 1536 controls) were genotyped for more than 300,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Sixteen of the SNPs most strongly associated with primary biliary cirrhosis were genotyped in two independent replication sets. We carried out fine-mapping studies across three loci associated with primary biliary cirrhosis. RESULTS: We found significant associations between primary biliary cirrhosis and 13 loci across the HLA class II region; the HLA-DQB1 locus (encoding the major histocompatibility complex class II, DQ β chain 1) had the strongest association (P=1.78×10 -19; odds ratio for patients vs. controls, 1.75). Primary biliary cirrhosis was also significantly and reproducibly associated with two SNPs at the IL12A locus (encoding interleukin-12α), rs6441286 (P=2. 42×10-14; odds ratio, 1.54) and rs574808 (P=1.88×10 -13; odds ratio, 1.54), and one SNP at the IL12RB2 locus (encoding interleukin-12 receptor β2), rs3790567 (P=2.76×10-11; odds ratio, 1.51). Fine-mapping analysis showed that a five-allele haplotype in the 3′ flank of IL12A was significantly associated with primary biliary cirrhosis (P=1.15×10-34). We found a modest genomewide association (P<5.0×10-5) with the risk of disease for SNPs at the STAT4 locus (encoding signal transducer and activator of transcription 4) and the CTLA4 locus (encoding cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4) and 10 other loci. CONCLUSIONS: Our data show significant associations between primary biliary cirrhosis and common genetic variants at the HLA class II, IL12A, and IL12RB2 loci and suggest that the interleukin-12 immunoregulatory signaling axis is relevant to the pathophysiology of primary biliary cirrhosis. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00242125.)
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJMoa0810440
DO - 10.1056/NEJMoa0810440
M3 - Article
C2 - 19458352
AN - SCOPUS:67149095289
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 360
SP - 2544
EP - 2555
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 24
ER -