title: Genome-wide association study identifies COL2A1 locus involved in the hand development failure of Kashin-Beck disease.
abstract: Kashin-Beck disease (KBD) is a chronic osteochondropathy. The pathogenesis of growth and development failure of hand of KBD remains elusive now. In this study, we conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) of palmar length-width ratio (LWR) of KBD, totally including 493 study subjects. Affymetrix Genome Wide Human SNP Array 6.0 was applied for genome-wide SNP genotyping of 90 KBD patients. Association analysis was conducted by PLINK. Imputation analysis was performed by IMPUTE against the reference panel of the 1000 genome project. Two SNPs were selected for replication in an independent validation sample of 403 KBD patients. In the discovery GWAS, significant association was observed between palmar LWR and rs2071358 of COL2A1 gene (P value = 4.68 × 10-8). In addition, GWAS detected suggestive association signal at rs4760608 of COL2A1 gene (P value = 1.76 × 10-4). Imputation analysis of COL2A1 further identified 2 SNPs with association evidence for palmar LWR. Replication study observed significant association signals at both rs2071358 (P value = 0.017) and rs4760608 (P value = 0.002) of COL2A1 gene. Based on previous and our study results, we suggest that COL2A1 was a likely susceptibility gene involved in the hand development failure of KBD.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traece Elements and Endemic Diseases of National Health and Family Planning Commission, School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jingcan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traece Elements and Endemic Diseases of National Health and Family Planning Commission, School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Wenyu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traece Elements and Endemic Diseases of National Health and Family Planning Commission, School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traece Elements and Endemic Diseases of National Health and Family Planning Commission, School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traece Elements and Endemic Diseases of National Health and Family Planning Commission, School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Awen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traece Elements and Endemic Diseases of National Health and Family Planning Commission, School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Cuiyan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traece Elements and Endemic Diseases of National Health and Family Planning Commission, School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Sen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traece Elements and Endemic Diseases of National Health and Family Planning Commission, School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Xiong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traece Elements and Endemic Diseases of National Health and Family Planning Commission, School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D044466:Asian People; D024043:Collagen Type II / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D057767:Kashin-Beck Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
chemical_list: C499177:COL2A1 protein, human; D024043:Collagen Type II