title: T300A polymorphism of ATG16L1 and susceptibility to inflammatory bowel diseases: a meta-analysis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the association of the autophagy-related 16-like 1 (ATG16L1) T300A polymorphism (rs2241880) with predisposition to inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) by means of meta-analysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Publications addressing the relationship between rs2241880/T300A polymorphism of ATG16L1 and Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) were selected from the MEDLINE and EMBASE databases. To make direct comparisons between the data collected in these studies, the individual authors were contacted when necessary to generate a standardized set of data from these studies. From these data, odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty-five studies of CD were analyzed, 14 of which involved cases of UC. The variant G allele of ATG16L1 was positively associated with CD (OR = 1.32, 95% CI: 1.26-1.39, P < 0.00001) and UC (OR = 1.06, 95% CI: 1.01-1.10, P = 0.02). For child-onset IBD, a higher G allele frequency was found for cases of CD (OR = 1.35, 95% CI: 1.16-1.57, P = 0.0001) than for cases of UC (OR = 0.98, 95% CI: 0.81-1.19, P = 0.84) relative to controls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The ATG16L1 T300A polymorphism contributes to susceptibility to CD and UC in adults, but different in children, which implicates a role for autophagy in the pathogenesis of IBD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, Jiangsu Province, China.
authors.forename: Jia-Fei
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Yue-Ji
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Ning
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zong-Hai
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000071183:Autophagy-Related Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000235:genetics*; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
chemical_list: C518959:ATG16L1 protein, human; D000071183:Autophagy-Related Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins