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Defining genetic risk factors for scleroderma-associated interstitial lung disease

Stock, CJW; De Lauretis, A; Visca, D; Daccord, C; Kokosi, M; Kouranos, V; Margaritopoulos, G; ... Renzoni, EA; + view all (2020) Defining genetic risk factors for scleroderma-associated interstitial lung disease. Clinical Rheumatology 10.1007/s10067-019-04922-6. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Although several genetic associations with scleroderma (SSc) are defined, very little is known on genetic susceptibility to SSc-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD). A number of common polymorphisms have been associated with SSc-ILD, but most have not been replicated in separate populations. Four SNPs in IRF5, and one in each of STAT4, CD226 and IRAK1, selected as having been previously the most consistently associated with SSc-ILD, were genotyped in 612 SSc patients, of European descent, of whom 394 had ILD. The control population (n = 503) comprised individuals of European descent from the 1000 Genomes Project. After Bonferroni correction, two of the IRF5 SNPs, rs2004640 (OR (95% CI)1.30 (1.10–1.54), p^{corr} = 0.015) and rs10488631 (OR 1.48 (1.14–1.92), p^{corr} = 0.022), and the STAT4 SNP rs7574865 (OR 1.43 (1.18–1.73), p^{corr} = 0.0015) were significantly associated with SSc compared with controls. However, none of the SNPs were significantly different between patients with SSc-ILD and controls. Two SNPs in IRF5, rs10488631 (OR 1.72 (1.24–2.39), p^{corr} = 0.0098), and rs2004640 (OR 1.39 (1.11–1.75), p^{corr} = 0.03), showed a significant difference in allele frequency between controls and patients without ILD, as did STAT4 rs7574865 (OR 1.86 (1.45–2.38), p^{corr} = 6.6 × 10^{-6}). A significant difference between SSc with and without ILD was only observed for STAT4 rs7574865, being less frequent in patients with ILD (OR 0.66 (0.51–0.85), p^{corr} = 0.0084). In conclusion, IRF5 rs2004640 and rs10488631, and STAT4 rs7574865 were significantly associated with SSc as a whole. Only STAT4 rs7574865 showed a significant difference in allele frequency in SSc-ILD, with the T allele being protective against ILD.

Type: Article
Title: Defining genetic risk factors for scleroderma-associated interstitial lung disease
Location: Germany
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-019-04922-6
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-019-04922-6
Language: English
Additional information: © 2019 Springer Nature. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: CD226, Genetic association, Genetics, IRAK1, IRF5, SSc-ILD, STAT4
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Inflammation
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089425
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