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Genome-wide comparative analysis of atopic dermatitis and psoriasis gives insight into opposing genetic mechanisms

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Title:Genome-wide comparative analysis of atopic dermatitis and psoriasis gives insight into opposing genetic mechanisms
Creators Name:Baurecht, H., Hotze, M., Brand, S., Büning, C., Cormican, P., Corvin, A., Ellinghaus, D., Ellinghaus, E., Esparza-Gordillo, J., Fölster-Holst, R., Franke, A., Gieger, C., Hubner, N., Illig, T., Irvine, A.D., Kabesch, M., Lee, Y.A.E., Lieb, W., Marenholz, I., McLean, W.H.I., Morris, D.W., Mrowietz, U., Nair, R., Nöthen, M.M., Novak, N., O'Regan, G.M., Schreiber, S., Smith, C., Strauch, K., Stuart, P.E., Trembath, R., Tsoi, L.C., Weichenthal, M., Barker, J., Elder, J.T., Weidinger, S., Cordell, H.J. and Brown, S.J.
Abstract:Atopic dermatitis and psoriasis are the two most common immune-mediated inflammatory disorders affecting the skin. Genome-wide studies demonstrate a high degree of genetic overlap, but these diseases have mutually exclusive clinical phenotypes and opposing immune mechanisms. Despite their prevalence, atopic dermatitis and psoriasis very rarely co-occur within one individual. By utilizing genome-wide association study and ImmunoChip data from >19,000 individuals and methodologies developed from meta-analysis, we have identified opposing risk alleles at shared loci as well as independent disease-specific loci within the epidermal differentiation complex (chromosome 1q21.3), the Th2 locus control region (chromosome 5q31.1), and the major histocompatibility complex (chromosome 6p21-22). We further identified previously unreported pleiotropic alleles with opposing effects on atopic dermatitis and psoriasis risk in PRKRA and ANXA6/TNIP1. In contrast, there was no evidence for shared loci with effects operating in the same direction on both diseases. Our results show that atopic dermatitis and psoriasis have distinct genetic mechanisms with opposing effects in shared pathways influencing epidermal differentiation and immune response. The statistical analysis methods developed in the conduct of this study have produced additional insight from previously published data sets. The approach is likely to be applicable to the investigation of the genetic basis of other complex traits with overlapping and distinct clinical features.
Keywords:Alleles, Atopic Dermatitis, Case-Control Studies, Human Pair 1 Chromosomes, Human Pair 5 Chromosomes, Human Pair 6 Chromosomes, Cohort Studies, Comparative Genomic Hybridization, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Logistic Models, Major Histocompatibility Complex, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Psoriasis, Quality Control, Reproducibility of Results
Source:American Journal of Human Genetics
ISSN:0002-9297
Publisher:Cell Press
Volume:96
Number:1
Page Range:104-120
Date:8 January 2015
Additional Information:Erratum in: Am J Hum Genet 97(6): 933.
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.12.004
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