Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified hundreds of susceptibility genes, including shared associations across clinically distinct autoimmune diseases. We performed an inverse χ(2) meta-analysis across ten pediatric-age-of-onset autoimmune diseases (pAIDs) in a case-control study including more than 6,035 cases and 10,718 shared population-based controls. We identified 27 genome-wide significant loci associated with one or more pAIDs, mapping to in silico-replicated autoimmune-associated genes (including IL2RA) and new candidate loci with established immunoregulatory functions such as ADGRL2, TENM3, ANKRD30A, ADCY7 and CD40LG. The pAID-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were functionally enriched for deoxyribonuclease (DNase)-hypersensitivity sites, expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), microRNA (miRNA)-binding sites and coding variants. We also identified biologically correlated, pAID-associated candidate gene sets on the basis of immune cell expression profiling and found evidence of genetic sharing. Network and protein-interaction analyses demonstrated converging roles for the signaling pathways of type 1, 2 and 17 helper T cells (TH1, TH2 and TH17), JAK-STAT, interferon and interleukin in multiple autoimmune diseases.

Meta-analysis of shared genetic architecture across ten pediatric autoimmune diseases / Li, Yun R.; Li, Jin; Zhao, Sihai D.; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Mentch, Frank D.; Maggadottir, S. Melkorka; Hou, Cuiping; Abrams, Debra J.; Chang, Diana; Gao, Feng; Guo, Yiran; Wei, Zhi; Connolly, John J.; Cardinale, Christopher J.; Bakay, Marina; Glessner, Joseph T.; Li, Dong; Kao, Charlly; Thomas, Kelly A.; Qiu, Haijun; Chiavacci, Rosetta M.; Kim, Cecilia E.; Wang, Fengxiang; Snyder, James; Richie, Marylyn D.; Flatø, Berit; Førre, Øystein; Denson, Lee A.; Thompson, Susan D.; Becker, Mara L.; Guthery, Stephen L.; Latiano, Anna; Perez, Elena; Resnick, Elena; Russell, Richard K.; Wilson, David C.; Silverberg, Mark S.; Annese, Vito; Lie, Benedicte A.; Punaro, Marilynn; Dubinsky, Marla C.; Monos, Dimitri S.; Strisciuglio, Caterina; Staiano, Annamaria; Miele, Erasmo; Kugathasan, Subra; Ellis, Justine A.; Munro, Jane E.; Sullivan, Kathleen E.; Wise, Carol A.; Chapel, Helen; Cunningham Rundles, Charlotte; Grant, Struan F. A.; Orange, Jordan S.; Sleiman, Patrick M. A.; Behrens, Edward M.; Griffiths, Anne M.; Satsangi, Jack; Finkel, Terri H.; Keinan, Alon; Prak, Eline T. Luning; Polychronakos, Constantin; Baldassano, Robert N.; Li, Hongzhe; Keating, Brendan J.; Hakonarson, Hakon. - In: NATURE MEDICINE. - ISSN 1078-8956. - 21:9(2015), pp. 1018-1027. [10.1038/nm.3933]

Meta-analysis of shared genetic architecture across ten pediatric autoimmune diseases

STRISCIUGLIO, CATERINA;STAIANO, ANNAMARIA;MIELE, ERASMO;
2015

Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified hundreds of susceptibility genes, including shared associations across clinically distinct autoimmune diseases. We performed an inverse χ(2) meta-analysis across ten pediatric-age-of-onset autoimmune diseases (pAIDs) in a case-control study including more than 6,035 cases and 10,718 shared population-based controls. We identified 27 genome-wide significant loci associated with one or more pAIDs, mapping to in silico-replicated autoimmune-associated genes (including IL2RA) and new candidate loci with established immunoregulatory functions such as ADGRL2, TENM3, ANKRD30A, ADCY7 and CD40LG. The pAID-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were functionally enriched for deoxyribonuclease (DNase)-hypersensitivity sites, expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), microRNA (miRNA)-binding sites and coding variants. We also identified biologically correlated, pAID-associated candidate gene sets on the basis of immune cell expression profiling and found evidence of genetic sharing. Network and protein-interaction analyses demonstrated converging roles for the signaling pathways of type 1, 2 and 17 helper T cells (TH1, TH2 and TH17), JAK-STAT, interferon and interleukin in multiple autoimmune diseases.
2015
Meta-analysis of shared genetic architecture across ten pediatric autoimmune diseases / Li, Yun R.; Li, Jin; Zhao, Sihai D.; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Mentch, Frank D.; Maggadottir, S. Melkorka; Hou, Cuiping; Abrams, Debra J.; Chang, Diana; Gao, Feng; Guo, Yiran; Wei, Zhi; Connolly, John J.; Cardinale, Christopher J.; Bakay, Marina; Glessner, Joseph T.; Li, Dong; Kao, Charlly; Thomas, Kelly A.; Qiu, Haijun; Chiavacci, Rosetta M.; Kim, Cecilia E.; Wang, Fengxiang; Snyder, James; Richie, Marylyn D.; Flatø, Berit; Førre, Øystein; Denson, Lee A.; Thompson, Susan D.; Becker, Mara L.; Guthery, Stephen L.; Latiano, Anna; Perez, Elena; Resnick, Elena; Russell, Richard K.; Wilson, David C.; Silverberg, Mark S.; Annese, Vito; Lie, Benedicte A.; Punaro, Marilynn; Dubinsky, Marla C.; Monos, Dimitri S.; Strisciuglio, Caterina; Staiano, Annamaria; Miele, Erasmo; Kugathasan, Subra; Ellis, Justine A.; Munro, Jane E.; Sullivan, Kathleen E.; Wise, Carol A.; Chapel, Helen; Cunningham Rundles, Charlotte; Grant, Struan F. A.; Orange, Jordan S.; Sleiman, Patrick M. A.; Behrens, Edward M.; Griffiths, Anne M.; Satsangi, Jack; Finkel, Terri H.; Keinan, Alon; Prak, Eline T. Luning; Polychronakos, Constantin; Baldassano, Robert N.; Li, Hongzhe; Keating, Brendan J.; Hakonarson, Hakon. - In: NATURE MEDICINE. - ISSN 1078-8956. - 21:9(2015), pp. 1018-1027. [10.1038/nm.3933]
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