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Variants at IRF5-TNPO3, 17q12-21 and MMEL1 are associated with primary biliary cirrhosis

  • Gideon M Hirschfield
  • , Xiangdong Liu
  • , Younghun Han
  • , Ivan P Gorlov
  • , Yan Lu
  • , Chun Xu
  • , Yue Lu
  • , Wei Chen
  • , Brian D Juran
  • , Catalina Coltescu
  • , Andrew L Mason
  • , Piotr Milkiewicz
  • , Robert P Myers
  • , Joseph A Odin
  • , Velimir A Luketic
  • , Danute Speiciene
  • , Catherine Vincent
  • , Cynthia Levy
  • , Peter K Gregersen
  • , Jinyi Zhang
  • E Jenny Heathcote, Konstantinos N Lazaridis, Christopher I Amos, Katherine A Siminovitch

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Abstract

We genotyped individuals with primary biliary cirrhosis and unaffected controls for suggestive risk loci (genome-wide association P <1 x 10(-4)) identified in a previous genome-wide association study. Combined analysis of the genome-wide association and replication datasets identified IRF5-TNPO3 (combined P = 8.66 x 10(-13)), 17q12-21 (combined P = 3.50 x 10(-13)) and MMEL1 (combined P = 3.15 x 10(-8)) as new primary biliary cirrhosis susceptibility loci. Fine-mapping studies showed that a single variant accounts for the IRF5-TNPO3 association. As these loci are implicated in other autoimmune conditions, these findings confirm genetic overlap among such diseases.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)655-7
Number of pages3
JournalNature Genetics
Volume42
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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