ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2025
HLA-A*01:01-B*08:01-C*07:01 is linked to early-onset immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced myositis and myocarditis.
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- Mapping the global landscape of research on immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated cardiotoxicity: A quantitative and visualized bibliometric study (2016-2025).Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
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- Immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced myasthenia gravis and myocarditis: a fatal immune-related adverse event.Immunologic research · 2026Article
- Immune-Checkpoint-Inhibitor-Related Cardiovascular Toxicities in Cancer: A Mechanistic Review of Molecular Pathways with AI-Assisted Literature Clustering.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Association between human leukocyte antigen-DQ2/DQ8 positivity and incident atrial fibrillation in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2026Article
- Immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated arrhythmias: clinical challenges, artificial intelligence-enhanced monitoring, and management strategies.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
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Abstract
backgroundImmune-related myotoxicity (irM), including irMyocarditis and irMyositis, is a severe complication of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Markers to identify patients at risk are missing. In this retrospective multicenter cohort study, we aimed to determine whether specific human leukocyte antigen (HLA) variants are associated with irM.
methodsTwenty patients with irMyocarditis and/or irMyositis (median age (IQR), 67 (60-73) years; 7/20 female) and 60 cancer controls (CC) without immune-related adverse events (median age (IQR), 68 (62-74) years; 26/60 female) presenting to Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, or Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland, between September 2017 and June 2024, were included. As a second control cohort, we used HLA data from a historic dataset of 5.1×10⁶ German healthy donors (G-HD). Allele frequencies (AF) of two-field HLA types were compared between patients with irM, CC, and G-HD using logistic regression and two-sided z-tests of odds ratios (OR).
resultsComparison of single HLA AF between patients with irM and G-HD revealed moderate associations for irM with B*07:02 (OR 2.29; 95% CI 1.12 to 4.69; p=0.023), B*40:01 (OR 2.75; 95% CI 1.08 to 7.02; p=0.035), C*03:04 (OR 2.46; 95% CI 1.09 to 5.56; p=0.031), DPB1*04:02 (OR 2.37; 95% CI 1.16 to 4.85; p=0.018), and DQB1*06:02 (OR 2.28; 95% CI 1.12 to 4.67; p=0.024). No statistically significant differences were observed between patients with irM and CC. By contrast, multi-allelic HLA analysis identified a strong association between HLA-A*01:01-B*08:01-C*07:01, a component of the 8.1 ancestral haplotype (8.1 AH), and
conclusionsOur results provide first evidence that early-onset irM with myocardial injury is linked to HLA-A*01:01-B*08:01-C*07:01, a component of the 8.1 AH, which is associated with various autoimmune diseases including idiopathic myopathies. If validated in larger cohorts, pretreatment screening for HLA-A*01:01-B*08:01-C*07:01 may help identify patients at risk of early-onset and severe irM.
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