Genome-wide association study reveals ethnicity-specific SNPs associated with ankylosing spondylitis in the Taiwanese population

Autor: Ching-Lung Ko, Wei-Zhi Lin, Meng-Ting Lee, Yu-Tien Chang, Hung-Che Lin, Yi-Syuan Wu, Jun-Fu Lin, Ke-Ting Pan, Yu-Chuan Chang, Ko-Han Lee, Yi-Lun Lee, Tsung-Ting Hsieh, Jia-Hsin Huang, Chih-Hung Wang, Sung-Sen Yang, Hsiang-Cheng Chen, Chi-Ming Chu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Translational Medicine, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1479-5876
DOI: 10.1186/s12967-022-03701-3
Popis: Abstract Background Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an autoimmune disease affecting mainly spine and sacroiliac joints and adjacent soft tissues. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are used to evaluate genetic associations and to predict genetic risk factors that determine the biological basis of disease susceptibility. We aimed to explore the race-specific SNP susceptibility of AS in Taiwanese individuals and to investigate the association between HLA-B27 and AS susceptibility SNPs in Taiwan. Methods Genotyping data were collected from a medical center participating in the Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI) in the northern district of Taiwan. We designed a case–control study to identify AS susceptibility SNPs through GWAS. We searched the genome browser to find the corresponding susceptibility genes and used the GTEx database to confirm the regulation of gene expression. A polygenic risk score approach was also applied to evaluate the genetic variants in the prediction of developing AS. Results The results showed that the SNPs located on the sixth chromosome were related to higher susceptibility in the AS group. There was no overlap between our results and the susceptibility SNPs found in other races. The 12 tag SNPs located in the MHC region that were found through the linkage disequilibrium method had higher gene expression. Furthermore, Taiwanese people with HLA-B27 positivity had a higher proportion of minor alleles. This might be the reason that the AS prevalence is higher in Taiwan than in other countries. We developed AS polygenic risk score models with six different methods in which those with the top 10% polygenic risk had a fivefold increased risk of developing AS compared to the remaining group with low risk. Conclusion A total of 147 SNPs in the Taiwanese population were found to be statistically significantly associated with AS on the sixth pair of chromosomes and did not overlap with previously published sites in the GWAS Catalog. Whether those genes mapped by AS-associated SNPs are involved in AS and what the pathogenic mechanism of the mapped genes is remain to be further studied.
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