Abstract |
Previous studies have emphasized ethnically heterogeneous human leukocyte antigen (HLA) classical allele associations to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk. We fine-mapped RA risk alleles within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in 2782 seropositive RA cases and 4315 controls of Asian descent. We applied imputation to determine genotypes for eight class I and II HLA genes to Asian populations for the first time using a newly constructed pan-Asian reference panel. First, we empirically measured high imputation accuracy in Asian samples. Then we observed the most significant association in HLA-DRβ1 at amino acid position 13, located outside the classical shared epitope (Pomnibus = 6.9 × 10(-135)). The individual residues at position 13 have relative effects that are consistent with published effects in European populations ( His > Phe > Arg > Tyr ≅ Gly > Ser)--but the observed effects in Asians are generally smaller. Applying stepwise conditional analysis, we identified additional independent associations at positions 57 (conditional Pomnibus = 2.2 × 10(-33)) and 74 (conditional Pomnibus = 1.1 × 10(-8)). Outside of HLA-DRβ1, we observed independent effects for amino acid polymorphisms within HLA-B (Asp9, conditional P = 3.8 × 10(-6)) and HLA-DPβ1 (Phe9, conditional P = 3.0 × 10(-5)) concordant with European populations. Our trans-ethnic HLA fine-mapping study reveals that (i) a common set of amino acid residues confer shared effects in European and Asian populations and (ii) these same effects can explain ethnically heterogeneous classical allelic associations (e.g. HLA-DRB1*09:01) due to allele frequency differences between populations. Our study illustrates the value of high-resolution imputation for fine-mapping causal variants in the MHC.
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Authors | Yukinori Okada, Kwangwoo Kim, Buhm Han, Nisha E Pillai, Rick T-H Ong, Woei-Yuh Saw, Ma Luo, Lei Jiang, Jian Yin, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, Matthew A Brown, Sang-Cheol Bae, Huji Xu, Yik-Ying Teo, Paul I W de Bakker, Soumya Raychaudhuri |
Journal | Human molecular genetics
(Hum Mol Genet)
Vol. 23
Issue 25
Pg. 6916-26
(Dec 20 2014)
ISSN: 1460-2083 [Electronic] England |
PMID | 25070946
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Copyright | © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected]. |
Chemical References |
- Amino Acids
- Autoantibodies
- Epitopes
- HLA-B Antigens
- HLA-DP beta-Chains
- HLA-DPB1 antigen
- HLA-DRB1 Chains
- Citrulline
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Topics |
- Alleles
- Amino Acids
(genetics, immunology)
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid
(ethnology, genetics, immunology, pathology)
- Asian People
- Autoantibodies
(biosynthesis)
- Chromosome Mapping
- Citrulline
(immunology)
- Epitopes
(chemistry, immunology)
- Gene Expression
- Gene Frequency
- HLA-B Antigens
(genetics, immunology)
- HLA-DP beta-Chains
(genetics, immunology)
- HLA-DRB1 Chains
(genetics, immunology)
- Humans
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Risk
- White People
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