Positional cloning of a novel gene influencing asthma from chromosome 2q14.
Asthma is a common disease in children and young adults. Four separate reports have linked asthma and related phenotypes to an ill-defined interval between 2q14 and 2q32 (refs. 1-4), and two mouse genome screens have linked bronchial hyper-responsiveness to the region homologous to 2q14 (refs. 5,6). We found and replicated association between asthma and the D2S308 microsatellite, 800 kb distal to the IL1 cluster on 2q14. We sequenced the surrounding region and constructed a comprehensive, high-density, single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) linkage disequilibrium (LD) map. SNP association was limited to the initial exons of a solitary gene of 3.6 kb (DPP10), which extends over 1 Mb of genomic DNA. DPP10 encodes a homolog of dipeptidyl peptidases (DPPs) that cleave terminal dipeptides from cytokines and chemokines, and it presents a potential new target for asthma therapy.
Allen
Maxine
M
Oxagen, Milton Park, Oxfordshire, UK.
Heinzmann
Andrea
A
Noguchi
Emiko
E
Abecasis
Gonçalo
G
Broxholme
John
J
Ponting
Chris P
CP
Bhattacharyya
Sumit
S
Tinsley
Jon
J
Zhang
Youming
Y
Holt
Richard
R
Jones
E Yvonne
EY
Lench
Nick
N
Carey
Alisoun
A
Jones
Helene
H
Dickens
Nicholas J
NJ
Dimon
Claire
C
Nicholls
Rosie
R
Baker
Crystal
C
Xue
Luzheng
L
Townsend
Elizabeth
E
Kabesch
Michael
M
Weiland
Stephan K
SK
Carr
David
D
von Mutius
Erika
E
Adcock
Ian M
IM
Barnes
Peter J
PJ
Lathrop
G Mark
GM
Edwards
Mark
M
Moffatt
Miriam F
MF
Cookson
William O C M
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001249:Asthma / Q000235:genetics*; D002889:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid