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Mod Rheumatol ; 22(1): 52-8, 2012 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21607711

RESUMO

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common systemic autoimmune disease and its onset and prognosis are controlled by genetic, immunological, and environmental factors. The HLA locus, particularly HLA-DRB1, is its strongest genetic risk determinant across ethnicities. Several other genes, including PTPN22 and PADI4, show modest association with RA. However, they cover only a part of its genetic components and their relative contribution is different between populations. To identify novel genetic determinants, we took a candidate gene approach in a trans-ethnic manner. After critical selection of 169 genes based on their immunological function, we performed SNP discovery of these genes by the resequencing of exons and surrounding areas using European and Japanese DNAs. We then generated a panel of 1,509 SNPs for case-control association study in both populations. The DerSimonian-Laird test for meta-analysis, using the combined results of the two populations, identified rs7551957 at the 5'-flanking region of the low-affinity Fc-gamma receptor IIa (FCGR2A) gene as the strongest candidate for the association (p = 8.6 × 10(-5), odds ratio = 1.58 with 95%CI 1.25-1.99). Suggestive signals were also obtained for three SNPs in the dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPYD) gene (rs6685859; p = 1.3 × 10(-4), rs7550959; p = 1.5 × 10(-4) and rs7531138; p = 1.7 × 10(-4)) and an intronic SNP, rs2269310, of the erythrocytic spectrin beta (SPTB) gene (p = 7.9 × 10(-4)).


Assuntos
Artrite Reumatoide/genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença/genética , Receptores de IgG/genética , Artrite Reumatoide/etnologia , Povo Asiático , Predisposição Genética para Doença/epidemiologia , Variação Genética , Genótipo , Humanos , Japão/epidemiologia , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Fatores de Risco , População Branca
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J Clin Endocrinol Metab ; 92(8): 3162-70, 2007 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17504905

RESUMO

CONTEXT: Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) polymorphisms have been widely examined for their associations with autoimmune thyroid diseases [Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT)], but their relative population effect remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to generate large-scale evidence on whether the CTLA-4 polymorphisms (A49G and CT60) and haplotypes thereof increase the susceptibility to GD and/or HT. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Meta-analyses of group-level data were reviewed from 32 (11,019 subjects) and 12 (4,479) published and unpublished studies for the association of the A49G polymorphism with GD and HT, respectively (PubMed and HuGeNet search until July 2006). There were 15 (n = 7246) and six (n = 3086) studies available for the CT60 polymorphism, respectively. Meta-analyses of individual-level data from 10 (4906 subjects) and five (2386) collaborating teams for GD and HT, respectively, were also reviewed. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Association of gene variants and haplotypes with GD and HT was measured. RESULTS: Group-level data suggested significant associations with GD and HT for both A49G [odds ratios 1.49 (P = 6 x 10(-14)) and 1.29 (P = 0.001) per G allele, respectively] and CT60 [1.45 (P = 2 x 10(-9)) and 1.64 (P = 0.003) per G allele, respectively]. Results were consistent between Asian and Caucasian descent subjects. Individual-level data showed that compared with the AA haplotype, the risk conferred by the GG haplotype was 1.49 (95% confidence interval 1.31,1.70) and 1.36 (95% confidence interval 1.16,1.59) for GD and HT, respectively. Data were consistent with a dose-response effect for the G allele of CT60. CONCLUSION: The CT60 polymorphism of CTLA-4 maps an important genetic determinant for the risk of both GD and HT across diverse populations.


Assuntos
Antígenos CD/genética , Antígenos de Diferenciação/genética , Polimorfismo Genético/genética , Tireoidite Autoimune/genética , Povo Asiático , Antígeno CTLA-4 , Mapeamento Cromossômico , Bases de Dados Genéticas , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Dosagem de Genes , Doença de Graves/genética , Haplótipos , Doença de Hashimoto/genética , Humanos , Razão de Chances , Fenótipo , População Branca
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J Clin Endocrinol Metab ; 90(5): 2898-903, 2005 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15741259

RESUMO

Our previous studies using microsatellite markers near or in the TSH receptor (TSHR) gene revealed significant association between autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) in Japanese patients and TSHR microsatellite alleles. In the present study, we performed a case-control analysis of AITD using single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spaced 3-50 kb apart spanning the TSHR gene. We observed significant associations between AITD/Graves' disease (GD)/Hashimoto's thyroiditis and multiple SNPs. Specifically, the SNP JST022302 and several adjacent SNPs in intron 7 of the TSHR gene were significantly associated with GD (P = 0.039-0.0004) but not Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Furthermore, we identified three haplotype blocks around intron 7 by linkage disequilibrium analysis. A single SNP haplotype [AATG(CT)6(TT)AG] in the haplotype block including JST022302 showed significant association with GD in haplotype case-control analysis (P = 0.0058). These findings suggest that alleles of intron 7 of the TSHR gene contribute to GD susceptibility.


Assuntos
Doença de Graves/genética , Íntrons , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Receptores da Tireotropina/genética , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Feminino , Frequência do Gene , Haplótipos , Humanos , Desequilíbrio de Ligação , Masculino
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Endocrinology ; 145(5): 2524-30, 2004 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14764636

RESUMO

The expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules on thyrocytes has been demonstrated in autoimmune thyroid diseases. However, the role of this aberrant MHC class II in disease development is controversial. In particular, it remains unknown whether MHC class II expression on thyrocytes, which are nonprofessional antigenpresenting cells, plays a role in inducing autoimmune processes. To clarify this issue, we have produced transgenic mice harboring an MHC class II gene ligated to the promoter of the rat TSH receptor. We obtained three lines of transgenic mice, and the expression of MHC class II by the thyrocytes was demonstrated by immunofluorescence staining and flow cytometry. Our examination revealed no obvious abnormalities in thyroid histology or in thyroid autoantibody production in these transgenic mice. Although serum-free T(4) levels were slightly lower than those of their nontransgenic littermates, no transgenic mouse suffered from clinical hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism. Furthermore, thyroid lymphocytic infiltration was absent, and MHC class II-expressing thyrocytes obtained from transgenic mice failed to stimulate the proliferation of autologous T cells in vitro. Taken together, these results show that transgenic mice with MHC class II molecules on their thyrocytes do not develop apparent autoimmune thyroid diseases, suggesting that aberrant MHC class II expression alone is not sufficient to induce thyroid autoimmunity.


Assuntos
Doenças Autoimunes/imunologia , Antígenos de Histocompatibilidade Classe II/biossíntese , Doenças da Glândula Tireoide/imunologia , Glândula Tireoide/imunologia , Animais , Autoanticorpos/biossíntese , Divisão Celular , Citometria de Fluxo , Imunofluorescência , Antígenos de Histocompatibilidade Classe II/genética , Ativação Linfocitária , Linfócitos/patologia , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C3H , Camundongos Transgênicos , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Receptores da Tireotropina/genética , Linfócitos T/imunologia , Glândula Tireoide/patologia , Tiroxina/sangue
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Hum Genet ; 120(1): 139-43, 2006 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16710702

RESUMO

Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly population not only Western but also Asian industrial countries. In Caucasian, a polymorphism of the complement factor H gene (CFH), the C allele of rs1061170 (Y402H), was established as the first strong genetic factor for excursively exudative type of ARMD. In this study, we performed an extensive sequencing of the 22 exons in the CFH gene by recruiting 146 exudative ARMD patients and 105 normal controls of Japanese origin and identified 61 polymorphisms. We found that the frequency of the C allele of rs1061170 (Y402H) is much lower (0.04) in Japanese controls than in Caucasians (0.45). No case disease susceptibility to exudative ARMD was noted for rs1061170 (Y402H) (chi (2) = 3.19, P (corr) = 0.423), or other 12 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) whose frequency is greater than 0.05. When haplotypes were inferred for 13 SNPs (these 12 SNPs with a frequency greater than 0.05 and rs1061170), three haplotypes whose pattern was similar to those in Caucasians were identified but with substantial difference in frequency. Again we failed to identify genetic association between Japanese exudative ARMD and any of the haplotypes including the J1 haplotype which was shown to be susceptible to ARMD in Caucasians (chi (2 )=( )3.92, P (corr) = 0.157). CFH does not appear to be a primary hereditary contributor to ARMD in Japanese. The absence of CFH contribution to ARMD in Japanese may correlate with the findings in ethnic differences of ARMD phenotypes.


Assuntos
Fator H do Complemento/genética , Degeneração Macular/genética , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Fatores Etários , Idoso , Povo Asiático/genética , Feminino , Frequência do Gene , Genótipo , Haplótipos , Humanos , Japão , Degeneração Macular/etnologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Fenótipo , População Branca/genética
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J Hum Genet ; 48(5): 236-242, 2003.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12768441

RESUMO

As part of a genome scan to locate familial Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) genes, an autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) susceptibility locus has recently been identified at 5q31-q33 in a Japanese population. We performed an association study using six microsatellite markers located at this locus in a set of 440 unrelated Japanese AITD patients and 218 Japanese controls. We found significant allelic association between AITD and three markers located in 5q23-q33. GD demonstrated significant associations with two of these markers, while HT did not show significant associations with any markers. Further, when patients with GD were stratified according to clinical manifestations, the association was significantly different from the other subgroup of each category. These findings suggest the presence of susceptible genes of AITD, especially distinct subgroups of GD, in or near 5q23-q33.


Assuntos
Doenças Autoimunes/genética , Cromossomos Humanos Par 5 , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Doença de Graves/genética , Tireoidite Autoimune/genética , Alelos , Feminino , Frequência do Gene , Ligação Genética , Marcadores Genéticos , Genótipo , Heterozigoto , Humanos , Japão , Masculino , Polimorfismo Genético , Risco
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J Hum Genet ; 49(3): 166-168, 2004.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14986169

RESUMO

Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) is caused by an immune response to self-thyroid antigen. The cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 ( CTLA4) gene, encoding a negative regulator of the T-lymphocyte immune response, had been reported to be associated and/or linked to AITD. Recently, AITD susceptibility in the Caucasians was mapped to the 6.1-kb 3'UTR of the CTLA4 gene, in which the three single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) CT60, JO31, and JO30 were strongly associated with AITD. In order to determine the association of the CTLA4 gene with AITD in the Japanese, case-control association analysis for the four SNPs of the CTLA4 gene using 380 AITD patients and 266 healthy controls was done. Among the SNPs examined, the SNP JO31 was most significantly associated with AITD in the Japanese, whereas the association of the JO30 with AITD was not observed. The frequency of the disease-susceptible G allele of the JO31 of the Japanese control was higher than that of the Caucasians (67.1% vs 50.2%); however, the G allele of the JO31 was associated with Graves' disease (GD) (67.1% vs 76.3%, P=0.0013) and AITD in the Japanese (67.1% vs 74.2%, P=0.0055). Furthermore, the G allele of the JO31 was associated with the increased risk for GD [ P=0.0051, odds ratio (OR)=1.7] and AITD ( P=0.016, OR=1.5) in a dominant model. These results suggested that the CTLA4 gene is involved in the susceptibility for GD and AITD in the Japanese.


Assuntos
Antígenos de Diferenciação/genética , Doença de Graves/genética , Tireoidite Autoimune/genética , Alelos , Antígenos CD , Antígenos de Diferenciação/biossíntese , Antígeno CTLA-4 , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Ligação Genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Humanos , Japão , Razão de Chances , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único
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Hum Mol Genet ; 13(19): 2221-31, 2004 Oct 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15294872

RESUMO

Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) is caused by an immune response to self-thyroid antigens and has a significant genetic component. Antisense RNA transcripts have been implicated in gene regulation. Here we have identified a novel zinc-finger gene, designated ZFAT (zinc-finger gene in AITD susceptibility region), as one of the susceptibility genes in 8q23-q24 through an initial association analysis using the probands in the previous linkage analysis and a subsequent association analysis of the samples from a total of 515 affected individuals and 526 controls. The T allele of the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), Ex9b-SNP10 located in the intron 9 of ZFAT, is associated with increased risk for AITD (dominant model: odds ratio = 1.7, P = 0.000091). The Ex9b-SNP10 falls into the 3'-UTR of truncated-ZFAT (TR-ZFAT) and the promoter region of the small antisense transcript of ZFAT (SAS-ZFAT). In peripheral blood lymphocytes, SAS-ZFAT is exclusively expressed in CD19+ B cells and expression levels of SAS-ZFAT and TR-ZFAT seemed to correlate with the Ex9b-SNP10-T-associated ZFAT-allele, inversely and positively, respectively. The Ex9b-SNP10 is critically involved in the regulation of SAS-ZFAT expression in vitro and this expression results in a decreased expression of TR-ZFAT. These results suggested that the SNP-associated ZFAT-allele plays a critical role in B cell function by affecting the expression level of TR-ZFAT through regulating SAS-ZFAT expression and that this novel regulatory mechanism of SNPs might be involved in controlling susceptibility or resistance to human disease.


Assuntos
Linfócitos B/metabolismo , DNA Antissenso/genética , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único/genética , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Tireoidite Autoimune/genética , Dedos de Zinco/genética , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Cromossomos Humanos Par 8/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença/genética , Humanos , Tireoidite Autoimune/diagnóstico
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