A family-based genome-wide association study reveals an association of spondyloarthritis with MAPK14

作者：Costantino Flicie; Talpin Alice; Said Nahal Roula; Leboime Ariane; Zinovieva Elena; Zelenika Diana; Gut Ivo; Charon Celine; Izac Brigitte; Weissman Michael; Chiocchia Gilles; Reveille John; Breban Maxime; Garchon Henri Jean^*

来源：Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 2017, 76(1): 310-+.

DOI：10.1136/annrheumdis-2016-209449

Objective More than 40 loci have been associated with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), but less is known about genetic associations in spondyloarthritis (SpA) as a whole. We conducted a family-based genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify new non-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genetic factors associated with SpA.
Methods 906 subjects from 156 French multiplex families, including 438 with SpA, were genotyped using Affymetrix 250K microarrays. Association was tested with Unphased. The best-associated non-MHC single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were then genotyped in two independent familial cohorts (including 215 French and 294 North American patients with SpA, respectively) to replicate associations.
Results 43 non-MHC SNPs yielded an association signal with SpA in the discovery cohort (p < 1x10(-4)). In the extension studies, association was replicated at a nominal p value of p < 0.05 for 16 SNPs in the second cohort and for three SNPs in the third cohort. Combined analysis identified an association close to genome-wide significance between rs7761118, an intronic SNP of MAPK14, and SpA (p = 3.5x10(-7)). Such association appeared to be independent of HLA-B27.
Conclusions We report here for the first time a family-based GWAS study on SpA and identified an associated polymorphism near MAPK14. Further analyses are needed to better understand the functional basis of this genetic association.

• 出版日期2017-1