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Genetic variation in the IL7RA/IL7 pathway increases multiple sclerosis susceptibility.

Abstract：

:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized as an autoimmune demyelinating disease. Numerous family studies have confirmed a strong genetic component underlying its etiology. After several decades of frustrating research, the advent and application of affordable genotyping of dense SNP maps in large data sets has ushered in a new era in which rapid progress is being made in our understanding of the genetics underlying many complex traits. For MS, one of the first discoveries to emerge in this new era was the association with rs6897932[T244I] in the interleukin-7 receptor alpha chain (IL7RA) gene (Gregory et al. in Nat Genet 39(9):1083-1091, 2007; International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium in N Engl J Med 357(9):851-862, 2007; Lundmark in Nat Genet 39(9):1108-1113, 2007), a discovery that was accompanied by functional data that suggest this variant is likely to be causative rather than a surrogate proxy (Gregory et al. in Nat Genet 39(9):1083-1091, 2007). We hypothesized that variations in other genes functionally related to IL7RA might also influence MS. We investigated this hypothesis by examining genes in the extended biological pathway related to IL7RA to identify novel associations. We identified 73 genes with putative functional relationships to IL7RA and subsequently genotyped 7,865 SNPs in and around these genes using an Illumina Infinium BeadChip assay. Using 2,961 case-control data sets, two of the gene regions examined, IL7 and SOCS1, had significantly associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that further replicated in an independent case-control data set (4,831 samples) with joint p values as high as 8.29 x 10(-6) and 3.48 x 10(-7), respectively, exceeding the threshold for experiment-wise significance. Our results also implicate two additional novel gene regions that are likely to be associated with MS: PRKCE with p values reaching 3.47 x 10(-4), and BCL2 with p values reaching 4.32 x 10(-4). The TYK2 gene, which also emerged in our analysis, has recently been associated with MS (Ban et al. 2009). These results help to further delineate the genetic architecture of MS and validate our pathway approach as an effective method to identify novel associations in a complex disease.

journal_name

Hum Genet

journal_title

Human genetics

authors

Zuvich RL,McCauley JL,Oksenberg JR,Sawcer SJ,De Jager PL,International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium.,Aubin C,Cross AH,Piccio L,Aggarwal NT,Evans D,Hafler DA,Compston A,Hauser SL,Pericak-Vance MA,Haines JL

doi

10.1007/s00439-010-0789-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2010-03-01 00:00:00

pages

525-35

issue

eissn

0340-6717

issn

1432-1203

journal_volume

127

pub_type

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Genetic variation in the IL7RA/IL7 pathway increases multiple sclerosis susceptibility.