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. 2007 Dec;81(6):1284-8.
doi: 10.1086/522037. Epub 2007 Oct 24.

Novel association in chromosome 4q27 region with rheumatoid arthritis and confirmation of type 1 diabetes point to a general risk locus for autoimmune diseases

Alexandra Zhernakova  1 , Behrooz Z Alizadeh, Marianna Bevova, Miek A van Leeuwen, Marieke J H Coenen, Barbara Franke, Lude Franke, Marcel D Posthumus, David A van Heel, Gerrit van der Steege, Timothy R D J Radstake, Pilar Barrera, Bart O Roep, Bobby P C Koeleman, Cisca Wijmenga
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Novel association in chromosome 4q27 region with rheumatoid arthritis and confirmation of type 1 diabetes point to a general risk locus for autoimmune diseases

Alexandra Zhernakova et al. Am J Hum Genet. 2007 Dec.

Abstract

Recently, association of celiac disease with common single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variants in an extensive linkage-disequilibrium block of 480 kb containing the KIAA1109, Tenr, IL2, and IL21 genes has been demonstrated in three independent populations (rs6822844P combined=1.3 x 10(-14)). The KIAA1109/Tenr/IL2/IL21 block corresponds to the Idd3 locus in the nonobese diabetic mouse model of type 1 diabetes (T1D). This block was recently found to be associated with T1D in a genomewide association study, although this finding lacks unequivocal confirmation. We therefore aimed to investigate whether the KIAA1109/Tenr/IL2/IL21 region is involved in susceptibility to multiple autoimmune diseases. We tested SNP rs6822844 for association with disease in 350 T1D-affected and 1,047 rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-affected Dutch patients and in 929 controls. We replicated the association with T1D (P=.0006; OR 0.64 [95% CI 0.50-0.83]), and revealed a similar novel association with RA (P=.0002; OR 0.72 [95% CI 0.61-0.86]). Our results replicate and extend the association found in the KIAA1109/Tenr/IL2/IL21 gene region with autoimmune diseases, implying that this locus is a general risk factor for multiple autoimmune diseases.

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Figure 1.
The frequency of rs6822844 and rs4505848 alleles in Dutch AIDs cohorts and controls and in a meta-analysis of Dutch, U.K., and Irish AIDs cohorts. Dutch AIDs cohorts include T1D (n=670), CD (n=1,012), and RA (n=2,024). Data for the U.K. and Irish cohorts were extracted from the work of van Heel et al. n = Number of chromosomes. ORs and the corresponding 95% CIs were estimated using a random-effect model. Vertical lines represent no effect (i.e., disease risk = 1).
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Web Resources

    1. HapMap, http://www.hapmap.org/ (for information about SNPs and LD in population controls)
    1. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/ (for T1D, RA, CD, PTPN22, CTLA4, IL2, IL21, and CD25)

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