title: Mapping of the HLA-linked genes controlling the susceptibility to Takayasu's arteritis.
abstract: To further define the HLA-linked genes controlling the susceptibility to Takayasu's arteritis, polymorphisms in five microsatellites around the HLA-B and MICA genes, C1-2-A, MIB, C1-4-1, C1-2-5, and C1-3-1, were investigated in 91 Japanese patients with Takayasu's arteritis and 248 healthy Japanese controls. It was found that allele 238 of C1-2-A [60.4% in patients vs. 29.8% in controls, odds ratio (OR)=3.59, P(c)<0.000004], allele 332 of MIB (22.0% vs. 6. 1%, OR=4.32, P(c)<0.0003), allele 208 of C1-2-5 (47.3% vs. 24.6%, OR=2.75, P(c)=0.001), and allele 291 of C1-3-1 (62.6% vs. 44.8%, OR=2.07, P(c)<0.02) were significantly associated with the disease. Combined analyses of polymorphisms in the HLA-B and MICA genes with those in the microsatellites suggest that there are two different disease-susceptible loci for Takayasu's arteritis; one is mapped near the C1-2-A locus and the other is more closely linked to the HLA-B gene than to the MICA gene, because there are at least two different disease-associated HLA-B haplotypes, HLA-B*52 and -B*39.2 haplotypes, in which the disease-associated C1-2-A allele is shared in common.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Pathogenesis, Division of Adult Diseases, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 2-3-10 Kandasurugadai, Chiyoda-ku, 101-0062, Tokyo, Japan. akitis@mri.tmd.ac.jp
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Katsuyama
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ohbuchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Inoko
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Numano
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000235:genetics*; D015235:HLA-B Antigens / Q000235:genetics; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D006680:HLA Antigens; D015235:HLA-B Antigens