SynthesisInternational journal of epidemiology2016
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies reveals genetic overlap between Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple sclerosis.
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- Genes, Gene Loci, and Their Impacts on the Immune System in the Development of Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Genome-wide association study implicates immune dysfunction in the development of Hodgkin lymphoma.Blood · 2018Pooled it
- Genome-wide association study of classical Hodgkin lymphoma identifies key regulators of disease susceptibility.Nature communications · 2017Pooled it
- Epidemiological evidence for the role of puberty and immune senescence in Hodgkin lymphoma aetiology from 1992 Danish cases.International journal of cancer · 2026Article
- Exploring a possible shared pathophysiology in co-occurrence of multiple sclerosis and Hodgkin lymphoma: a case report and review of literature.BMC neurology · 2026Review
- Time and space co-ordinates of Hodgkin's lymphoma in Sardinia, Italy.Journal of the National Cancer Center · 2025Article
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- Filling the Gap: The Immune Therapeutic Armamentarium for Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Interaction between ERAP Alleles and HLA Class I Types Support a Role of Antigen Presentation in Hodgkin Lymphoma Development.Cancers · 2021Article
- Novel Insights Into the Long-Term Immune Health of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Survivors.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2020Article
- Genetic overlap between autoimmune diseases and non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes.Genetic epidemiology · 2019Article
- DNA methylation patterns of adult survivors of adolescent/young adult Hodgkin lymphoma compared to their unaffected monozygotic twin.Leukemia & lymphoma · 2019Article
- The role of Epstein-Barr virus in multiple sclerosis: from molecular pathophysiology toNeural regeneration research · 2019Review
- Emerging small-molecule treatments for multiple sclerosis: focus on B cells.F1000Research · 2019Review
- HLA Class I and II Diversity Contributes to the Etiologic Heterogeneity of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Subtypes.Cancer research · 2018Article
- Viruses and endogenous retroviruses in multiple sclerosis: From correlation to causation.Acta neurologica Scandinavica · 2017Review
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Abstract
backgroundBased on epidemiological commonalities, multiple sclerosis (MS) and Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), two clinically distinct conditions, have long been suspected to be aetiologically related. MS and HL occur in roughly the same age groups, both are associated with Epstein-Barr virus infection and ultraviolet (UV) light exposure, and they cluster mutually in families (though not in individuals). We speculated if in addition to sharing environmental risk factors, MS and HL were also genetically related. Using data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 1816 HL patients, 9772 MS patients and 25 255 controls, we therefore investigated the genetic overlap between the two diseases.
methodsFrom among a common denominator of 404 K single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) studied, we identified SNPs and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles independently associated with both diseases. Next, we assessed the cumulative genome-wide effect of MS-associated SNPs on HL and of HL-associated SNPs on MS. To provide an interpretational frame of reference, we used data from published GWAS to create a genetic network of diseases within which we analysed proximity of HL and MS to autoimmune diseases and haematological and non-haematological malignancies.
resultsSNP analyses revealed genome-wide overlap between HL and MS, most prominently in the HLA region. Polygenic HL risk scores explained 4.44% of HL risk (Nagelkerke R(2)), but also 2.36% of MS risk. Conversely, polygenic MS risk scores explained 8.08% of MS risk and 1.94% of HL risk. In the genetic disease network, HL was closer to autoimmune diseases than to solid cancers.
conclusionsHL displays considerable genetic overlap with MS and other autoimmune diseases.
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