Genome-Wide Association Study of Ocular Sarcoidosis Confirms HLA Associations and Implicates Barrier Function and Autoimmunity in African Americans
- 6 March 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Ocular Immunology and Inflammation
- Vol. 29 (2), 244-249
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09273948.2019.1705985
Abstract
Purpose: Identify genes associated with ocular sarcoidosis (OS). Methods: We genotyped 1.1 million genetic variants to identify significant OS associations, defined as those that achieved p < 5 × 10−8 in a genome-wide comparison of OS cases to healthy controls in our European- or African-American cohorts (EA, AA). Potential functional roles of all associated variants were assessed. Results: Eight significant non-HLA variants were found in AA OS cases compared to healthy controls and confirmed as at least suggestive when comparing OS to non-OS cases. Seven of these were within MAGI1 and include transcription factor binding sites and expression quantitative trait loci. Our EA cohort, while showing similar effect sizes at variants within MAGI1, had no significant variants. Association analysis of HLA-DRB1 alleles confirmed association to OS in EA to *04:01. Conclusion: Our results support organ-specific genetic risk in OS in a compelling candidate, MAGI1, known to be associated with barrier function and autoimmunity.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institutes of Health (P30 GM110766-01, R01HL113326-05, U54GM104938-06)
- Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (n/a)
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