Identification of genetic variants of the IL-22 gene in association with an altered risk of COPD susceptibility

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The incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is related to the interaction between environmental exposure and genetic factors. Far more than 15% of smokers eventually develop COPD. In addition to smoking, genetic susceptibility may be another factor in the development of COPD. IL-22 and its receptors are increased in human and experimental COPD and contribute to pathogenesis. Here, we conducted a case-control study to evaluate the association between IL-22 tag-single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and COPD risk. Four tag-SNPs (rs2227478, rs2227481, rs2227484 and rs2227485) were identified according to linkage disequilibrium (LD) analysis in 30 healthy controls. A total of 513 COPD cases and 504 controls were recruited to perform an association study between these four tag-SNPs and COPD risk. We found that the "C" allele of rs2227478T>C and the "T" allele of rs2227481C>T were obviously related to decreased COPD susceptibility. Genetic model analysis showed that rs2227478T>C and rs2227481C>T were significantly associated with a decreased risk of COPD under dominant models after adjusting for the above factors. In the recessive model, rs2227485T>C was obviously associated with decreased COPD risk. Our data showed that only rs2227485T>C was associated with a decreased COPD risk after Bonferroni correction. The eQTL analysis showed that rs2227485T>C was significantly associated with IL-22 expression. The pGL4-rs2227485-C gene reporter had a higher promoter activity than pGL4-rs2227485-T. In our study, rs2227485T>C, located in the promoter region of IL-22, was associated with a decreased risk of COPD and increased IL-22 promoter activity, suggesting that this variant might modulate COPD susceptibility.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

The clinical respiratory journal - 16(2022), 8 vom: 02. Aug., Seite 537-545

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Qipeng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Lingzhu [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Lian [VerfasserIn]
Xiong, Mingmei [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Xiaohui [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Li [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Jingyi [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Zeguang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Wenju [VerfasserIn]

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COPD
IL22
Interleukins
Journal Article
Promoter region activity
SNP

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Date Completed 16.08.2022

Date Revised 13.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/crj.13517

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM343294877