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ArticleScientific reports2016

Exome Array Analysis of Susceptibility to Pneumococcal Meningitis.

Anne T Kloek, Jessica van Setten, Arie van der Ende, Michiel L Bots, Folkert W Asselbergs, Mercedes Valls Serón, Matthijs C Brouwer, Diederik van de Beek, Bart Ferwerda

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Anne T KloekDepartment of Neurology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Jessica van SettenDepartment of Cardiology, Division Heart &Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Arie van der EndeDepartment of Medical Microbiology, The Netherlands Reference Laboratory for Bacterial, Meningitis, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Michiel L BotsJulius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Folkert W AsselbergsDepartment of Cardiology, Division Heart &Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Mercedes Valls SerónDepartment of Neurology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Matthijs C BrouwerDepartment of Neurology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Diederik van de BeekDepartment of Neurology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Bart FerwerdaDepartment of Neurology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Academic Medical Center · NLUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NL

Funding

European Research Council 281156
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Host genetic variability may contribute to susceptibility of bacterial meningitis, but which genes contribute to the susceptibility to this complex disease remains undefined. We performed a genetic association study in 469 community-acquired pneumococcal meningitis cases and 2072 population-based controls from the Utrecht Health Project in order to find genetic variants associated with pneumococcal meningitis susceptibility. A HumanExome BeadChip was used to genotype 102,097 SNPs in the collected DNA samples. Associations were tested with the Fisher exact test. None of the genetic variants tested reached Bonferroni corrected significance (p-value <5 × 10(-7)). Our strongest signals associated with susceptibility to pneumococcal meningitis were rs139064549 on chromosome 1 in the COL11A1 gene (p = 1.51 × 10(-6); G allele OR 3.21 [95% CI 2.05-5.02]) and rs9309464 in the EXOC6B gene on chromosome 2 (p = 6.01 × 10(-5); G allele OR 0.66 [95% CI 0.54-0.81]). The sequence kernel association test (SKAT) tests for associations between multiple variants in a gene region and pneumococcal meningitis susceptibility yielded one significant associated gene namely COL11A1 (p = 1.03 × 10(-7)). Replication studies are needed to validate these results. If replicated, the functionality of these genetic variations should be further studied to identify by which means they influence the pathophysiology of pneumococcal meningitis.

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AgedCollagen Type XICommunity-Acquired InfectionsExome SequencingFemaleGenetic Association StudiesGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGTP-Binding ProteinsHumansMaleMeningitis, PneumococcalMiddle AgedOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisPolymorphism, Single NucleotideCOL11A1 protein, humanCollagen Type XIEXOC6B protein, humanGTP-Binding Proteins

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PMID27389768
PMCPMC4937363
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