New sequence variants in HLA Class II/III region associated with susceptibility to knee Osteoarthritis identified by genome-wide association study

  • Masahiro Nakajima
  • , Atsushi Takahashi
  • , Ikuyo Kou
  • , Cristina Rodriguez-Fontenla
  • , Juan J. Gomez-Reino
  • , Tatsuya Furuichi
  • , Jin Dai
  • , Akihiro Sudo
  • , Atsumasa Uchida
  • , Naoshi Fukui
  • , Michiaki Kubo
  • , Naoyuki Kamatani
  • , Tatsuhiko Tsunoda
  • , Konstantinos N. Malizos
  • , Aspasia Tsezou
  • , Antonio Gonzalez
  • , Yusuke Nakamura
  • , Shiro Ikegawa

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Abstract

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common disease that has a definite genetic component. Only a few OA susceptibility genes that have definite functional evidence and replication of association have been reported, however. Through a genome-wide association study and a replication using a total of ~4,800 Japanese subjects, we identified two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs7775228 and rs10947262) associated with susceptibility to knee OA. The two SNPs were in a region containing HLA class II/III genes and their association reached genome-wide significance (combined P = 2.43×10-8 for rs7775228 and 6.73×10-8 for rs10947262). Our results suggest that immunologic mechanism is implicated in the etiology of OA.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere9723
JournalPloS one
Volume5
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

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