title: TAP1 alleles in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: a newly defined centromeric boundary of disease susceptibility.
abstract: It has been previously demonstrated that individuals with certain DR alleles have an increased relative risk of developing insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). The disease association is even stronger with certain DQ alleles but there is little association with DP providing a boundary of disease association to the 430 kb between DQ and DP. The recently described TAP (transporter associated with antigen processing) genes have been mapped approximately midway between DP and DQ. Therefore, it was of interest to determine if any TAP alleles were associated with IDDM. In addition to the alleles of TAP1 that have been described, others were identified during this study. Diabetics and normal controls were screened for TAP1 using single-stranded conformational polymorphism and relative risk was determined. In the same population group we have studied extensively in the past, we found a higher association of a TAP1 allele with IDDM than with any single HLA-DP allele but the risk was lower than with HLA-DQB1*0302. These data provide new limits for IDDM susceptibility to the 190-kb interval between TAP1 and HLA-DQB1.
authors.affiliation: Center for Diabetes Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 75235-9048.
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Capra
mesh_terms: D000071181:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 2; D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; D000483:Alleles; D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D002503:Centromere; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000737:chemistry; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005802:Genes, MHC Class II; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D000949:Histocompatibility Antigens Class II / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D000071181:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 2; D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D017931:DNA Primers; D000949:Histocompatibility Antigens Class II; C073119:TAP1 protein, human