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Genome-wide association study of chronic hepatitis B virus infection reveals a novel candidate risk allele on 11q22.3.

AbstractBACKGROUND:
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) affects millions of people worldwide. While some people are able to clear the virus following the first encounter, those who develop chronic infection manifest remarkable clinical heterogeneity that ranges from asymptomatic carrier state to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Despite extensive studies, little is known about genetic host factors that influence the outcome of chronic HBV infection. Thus, we conducted this study to investigate the genetic risk of developing active liver disease among chronic carriers of HBV.
METHODS:
In this study, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on a cohort of patients with chronic HBV infection.
RESULTS:
One particular SNP that is 16 kb upstream of Ferredoxin 1 was found to have an association with complicated chronic HBV infection (cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma) that reached GWAS significance, and was successfully validated on an independent set of samples.
CONCLUSIONS:
This first GWAS in an Arab population further demonstrates the utility of this approach in elucidating the genetic risk of HBV infection-related complications and highlights the advantage of conducting GWAS in different ethnicities to achieve that goal.
AuthorsAhmed Al-Qahtani, Hanif G Khalak, Fowzan S Alkuraya, Waleed Al-hamoudi, Waleed Al-hamoudy, Khalid Alswat, Mohammed A Al Balwi, Ibrahim Al Abdulkareem, Faisal M Sanai, Ayman A Abdo
JournalJournal of medical genetics (J Med Genet) Vol. 50 Issue 11 Pg. 725-32 (Nov 2013) ISSN: 1468-6244 [Electronic] England
PMID24065354 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Topics
  • Adult
  • Alleles
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
  • Cohort Studies
  • Female
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Hepatitis B, Chronic (epidemiology, genetics)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Phenotype
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Prospective Studies
  • Saudi Arabia (epidemiology)
  • Young Adult

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