title: Genome-wide association study of African and European Americans implicates multiple shared and ethnic specific loci in sarcoidosis susceptibility.
abstract: Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of granulomas in affected organs. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of this disease have been conducted only in European population. We present the first sarcoidosis GWAS in African Americans (AAs, 818 cases and 1,088 related controls) followed by replication in independent sets of AAs (455 cases and 557 controls) and European Americans (EAs, 442 cases and 2,284 controls). We evaluated >6 million SNPs either genotyped using the Illumina Omni1-Quad array or imputed from the 1000 Genomes Project data. We identified a novel sarcoidosis-associated locus, NOTCH4, that reached genome-wide significance in the combined AA samples (rs715299, P(AA-meta) = 6.51 × 10(-10)) and demonstrated the independence of this locus from others in the MHC region in the same sample. We replicated previous European GWAS associations within HLA-DRA, HLA-DRB5, HLA-DRB1, BTNL2, and ANXA11 in both our AA and EA datasets. We also confirmed significant associations to the previously reported HLA-C and HLA-B regions in the EA but not AA samples. We further identified suggestive associations with several other genes previously reported in lung or inflammatory diseases.
authors.affiliation: Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America.
authors.forename: Indra
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Adrianto
authors.forename: Chee Paul
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Jessica J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Hale
authors.forename: Albert M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: Indrani
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Datta
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Adler
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Kenneth M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lessard
authors.forename: Kathy L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Moser
authors.forename: Robert P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Kimberly
authors.forename: John B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Harley
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Iannuzzi
authors.forename: Benjamin A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Rybicki
authors.forename: Courtney G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Montgomery
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000235:genetics*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005260:Female; D056426:Genetic Loci / Q000235:genetics*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000235:genetics*; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D008285:Major Histocompatibility Complex / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D010375:Pedigree; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000235:genetics*; D044465:White People / Q000235:genetics*