1. Genome-wide meta-analysis reveals shared new loci in systemic seropositive rheumatic diseases
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Acosta-Herrera, Marialbert, Kerick, Martin, González-Serna, David, Wijmenga, Cisca, Franke, Andre, Gregersen, Peter K., Padyukov, Leonid, Worthington, J., Vyse, T. J., Alarcón-Riquelme, M. E., Mayes, M. D., Martín, J., Miller, Frederick W., Chen, Wei, O'Hanlon, Terrance P., Cooper, Robert G., Vencovsky, Jiri, Rider, Lisa G, Danko, Katalin, Wedderburn, Lucy R., Lundberg, Ingrid E., Pachman, Lauren M., Reed, Ann M., Ytterberg, Steven R, Selva-O'Callaghan, Alber, Radstake, Timothy R., Isenberg, David A, Chinoy, Hector, Ollier, William E. R, Scheet, Paul, Peng, Bo, Lee, Annette, Lamb, Janine A., Amos, Christopher I., Denton, Christopher, Hilton-Jones, David, Plotz, Paul H., Varsani, Hemlata, Radstake, Timothy R. D. J., Gorlova, Olga, Rueda, B., Martín, J. E., Alizadeh, B. Z., Palomino-Morales, Rogelio, Coenen, Marieke J. H., Vonk, Madelon C., Voskuyl, Alexandre E., Scheurwegh, Annemie J., Broen, Jasper C., van Riel, Piet L. C. M., van 't Slot, Rubén, Italiaander, Annet, Ophoff, Roel A., Riemekasten, Gabriela, Hunzelmann, Nicolas, Simeon, Carmen P., Ortego-Centeno, N., González-Gay, M. A., González-Escribano, María Francisca, Airó, Paolo, van Laar, Jaap, Herrick, Ariane L., Hesselstrand, Roger, Smith, Vanessa, de Keyser, Filip, Houssiau, Fredric, Chee, Meng May, Madhok, Rajan, Shiels, Paul, Westhovens, Rene, Kreuter, A., Kiener, Hans, de Baere, Elfride, Witte, Torsten, Klareskog, Lars, Beretta, Lorenzo, Scorza, Rafaella, Lie, Benedicte A., Hoffman-Vold, A. M., Carreira, P., Varga, John, Hinchcliff, Monique, Lee, Annette T., Ying, Jun, Han, Younghun, Weng, Shih-Feng, Wigley, Fredrick M., Hummers, L. K., Nelson, J. Lee, Agarwal, Sandeep K., Assassi, S., Gourh, Pravitt, Tan, Filemon K., Koeleman, B. P., Arnett, Frank C., Myositis Genetics Consortium, Scleroderma Genetics Consortium., Innovative Medicines Initiative, Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (España), Junta de Andalucía, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (US), Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering, Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Real World Studies in PharmacoEpidemiology, -Genetics, -Economics and -Therapy (PEGET), Myositis Genetics Consortium, and Scleroderma Genetics Consortium
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Lydia Becker Institute ,PATHOGENESIS ,PROTEIN ,Arthritis ,VARIANTS ,medicine.disease_cause ,Myositis Genetics Consortium ,Autoimmunity ,Scleroderma ,Arthritis, Rheumatoid ,0302 clinical medicine ,Scleroderma Genetics Consortium ,Rheumatoid ,MULTIPLE ,Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,2.1 Biological and endogenous factors ,Aetiology ,Genetics ,autoimmunity ,Family aggregation ,Lim Kinases ,ASSOCIATION ,Single Nucleotide ,Public Health and Health Services ,Female ,ARTHRITIS ,Life Sciences & Biomedicine ,alpha Karyopherins ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,GENETICS ,gene polymorphism ,Quantitative Trait Loci ,Clinical Sciences ,Immunology ,Single-nucleotide polymorphism ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Autoimmune Disease ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,White People ,Healthcare improvement science Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 18] ,03 medical and health sciences ,Immune system ,Rheumatology ,Internal medicine ,Rheumatic Diseases ,ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/lydia_becker_institute_of_immunology_and_inflammation ,Humans ,Genetic Predisposition to Disease ,autoimmune diseases ,Polymorphism ,SCLEROSIS ,COMMON ,030203 arthritis & rheumatology ,Science & Technology ,Scleroderma, Systemic ,COMPLEX ,Myositis ,Lupus Erythematosus ,business.industry ,Inflammatory and immune system ,Systemic ,Human Genome ,Membrane Proteins ,medicine.disease ,Arthritis & Rheumatology ,Repressor Proteins ,030104 developmental biology ,Expression quantitative trait loci ,Inflammatory diseases Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 5] ,Human medicine ,Gene polymorphism ,business ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
ObjectiveImmune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) are heterogeneous and complex conditions with overlapping clinical symptoms and elevated familial aggregation, which suggests the existence of a shared genetic component. In order to identify this genetic background in a systematic fashion, we performed the first cross-disease genome-wide meta-analysis in systemic seropositive rheumatic diseases, namely, systemic sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.MethodsWe meta-analysed ~6.5 million single nucleotide polymorphisms in 11 678 cases and 19 704 non-affected controls of European descent populations. The functional roles of the associated variants were interrogated using publicly available databases.ResultsOur analysis revealed five shared genome-wide significant independent loci that had not been previously associated with these diseases: NAB1, KPNA4-ARL14, DGQK, LIMK1 and PRR12. All of these loci are related with immune processes such as interferon and epidermal growth factor signalling, response to methotrexate, cytoskeleton dynamics and coagulation cascade. Remarkably, several of the associated loci are known key players in autoimmunity, which supports the validity of our results. All the associated variants showed significant functional enrichment in DNase hypersensitivity sites, chromatin states and histone marks in relevant immune cells, including shared expression quantitative trait loci. Additionally, our results were significantly enriched in drugs that are being tested for the treatment of the diseases under study.ConclusionsWe have identified shared new risk loci with functional value across diseases and pinpoint new potential candidate loci that could be further investigated. Our results highlight the potential of drug repositioning among related systemic seropositive rheumatic IMIDs.
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- 2019