ArticleHuman molecular genetics2018
Genetic fine mapping of systemic lupus erythematosus MHC associations in Europeans and African Americans.
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- Immunopathogenesis and Therapeutics of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: an Integrative Review.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2025Review
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- HLA DRB1* Allele Lupus Erythematosus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and other Autoimmune Disorders with Skin Involvement.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2025Review
- Improvement of high-density lipoprotein atheroprotective properties in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus after belimumab treatment.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- An overview on Sjögren's syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus' genetics.Toxicology research · 2025Review
- Systemic lupus erythematosus genetics: insights into pathogenesis and implications for therapy.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2024Review
- Addressing the research gap: access to care hinders genetic discovery in systemic lupus erythematosus patients throughout the African diaspora.Frontiers in genetics · 2024Review
- Genetic interrogation for sequence and copy number variants in systemic lupus erythematosus.Frontiers in genetics · 2024Review
- Platelet-Derived Microparticles and Autoimmune Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- A Summary on the Genetics of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Sclerosis, and Sjögren's Syndrome.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2023Review
- Genetic dissection ofRMD open · 2023Article
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- "HLA-C: evolution, epigenetics, and pathological implications in the major histocompatibility complex".Frontiers in genetics · 2023Review
- Distinct germline genetic susceptibility profiles identified for common non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes.Leukemia · 2022Article
- Human leucocyte antigens profiling in Malay female patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: are we the same or different?Lupus science & medicine · 2022Article
- Assessment of HLA-B genetic variation with an HLA-B leader tool and implications in clinical transplantation.Blood advances · 2022Article
- HLA imputation and its application to genetic and molecular fine-mapping of the MHC region in autoimmune diseases.Seminars in immunopathology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Genetic variation within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) contributes substantial risk for systemic lupus erythematosus, but high gene density, extreme polymorphism and extensive linkage disequilibrium (LD) have made fine mapping challenging. To address the problem, we compared two association techniques in two ancestrally diverse populations, African Americans (AAs) and Europeans (EURs). We observed a greater number of Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) alleles in AA consistent with the elevated level of recombination in this population. In EUR we observed 50 different A-C-B-DRB1-DQA-DQB multilocus haplotype sequences per hundred individuals; in the AA sample, these multilocus haplotypes were twice as common compared to Europeans. We also observed a strong narrow class II signal in AA as opposed to the long-range LD observed in EUR that includes class I alleles. We performed a Bayesian model choice of the classical HLA alleles and a frequentist analysis that combined both single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and classical HLA alleles. Both analyses converged on a similar subset of risk HLA alleles: in EUR HLA- B*08:01 + B*18:01 + (DRB1*15:01 frequentist only) + DQA*01:02 + DQB*02:01 + DRB3*02 and in AA HLA-C*17:01 + B*08:01 + DRB1*15:03 + (DQA*01:02 frequentist only) + DQA*02:01 + DQA*05:01+ DQA*05:05 + DQB*03:19 + DQB*02:02. We observed two additional independent SNP associations in both populations: EUR rs146903072 and rs501480; AA rs389883 and rs114118665. The DR2 serotype was best explained by DRB1*15:03 + DQA*01:02 in AA and by DRB1*15:01 + DQA*01:02 in EUR. The DR3 serotype was best explained by DQA*05:01 in AA and by DQB*02:01 in EUR. Despite some differences in underlying HLA allele risk models in EUR and AA, SNP signals across the extended MHC showed remarkable similarity and significant concordance in direction of effect for risk-associated variants.
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