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Identification of a novel susceptibility locus for juvenile idiopathic arthritis by genome-wide association analysis

Hinks, AM, Barton, A, Shephard, N, Eyre, S, Bowes, J, Cargill, M, Wang, E, Ke, X, BSPAR Study Group, Kennedy, G, John, S, Worthington, J, Thomson, W

Arthritis & Rheumatism. 2009;60(1):258.

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a chronic rheumatic disease of childhood. Two well-established genetic factors known to contribute to JIA susceptibility, HLA and PTPN22, account for less than half of the genetic susceptibility to disease; therefore, additional genetic factors have yet to be identified. The purpose of this study was to perform a systematic search of the genome to identify novel susceptibility loci for JIA. METHODS: A genome-wide association study using Affymetrix GeneChip 100K arrays was performed in a discovery cohort (279 cases and 184 controls). Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) showing the most significant differences between cases and controls were then genotyped in a validation sample of cases (n = 321) and controls, combined with control data from the 1958 UK birth cohort (n = 2,024). In one region in which association was confirmed, fine-mapping was performed (654 cases and 1,847 controls). RESULTS: Of the 112 SNPs that were significantly associated with JIA in the discovery cohort, 6 SNPs were associated with JIA in the independent validation cohort. The most strongly associated SNP mapped to the HLA region, while the second strongest association was with a SNP within the VTCN1 gene. Fine-mapping of that gene was performed, and 10 SNPs were found to be associated with JIA. CONCLUSION: This study is the first to successfully apply a SNP-based genome-wide association approach to the investigation of JIA. The replicated association with markers in the VTCN1 gene defined an additional susceptibility locus for JIA and implicates a novel pathway in the pathogenesis of this chronic disease of childhood.

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60
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258
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10.1002/art.24179
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Manchester eScholar ID:
uk-ac-man-scw:1d18276
Created:
30th August, 2009, 14:47:42
Last modified by:
Ingram, Mary
Last modified:
26th October, 2015, 14:44:12

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