Genome-Wide Association Study and Gene-Based Analysis of Participants With Hemophilia A and Inhibitors in the My Life, Our Future Research Repository

Copyright © 2022 Lessard, He, Rajpal, Klinger, Loh, Harris and Dumont..

Introduction: Up to 30% of individuals with hemophilia A develop inhibitors to replacement factor VIII (FVIII), rendering the treatment ineffective. The underlying mechanism of inhibitor development remains poorly understood. The My Life, Our Future Research Repository (MLOF RR) has gathered F8 and F9 mutational information, phenotypic data, and biological material from over 11,000 participants with hemophilia A (HA) and B as well as carriers enrolled across US hemophilia treatment centers, including over 5,000 whole-genome sequences. Identifying genes associated with inhibitors may contribute to our understanding of why certain patients develop those neutralizing antibodies.

Aim and Methods: Here, we performed a genome-wide association study and gene-based analyses to identify genes associated with inhibitors in participants with HA from the MLOF RR.

Results: We identify a genome-wide significant association within the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) locus in participants with HA with F8 intronic inversions. HLA typing revealed independent associations with the HLA alleles major histocompatibility complex, class II, DR beta 1 (HLA DRB1*15:01) and major histocompatibility complex, class II, DQ beta 1 (DQB1*03:03). Variant aggregation tests further identified low-frequency variants within GRID2IP (glutamate receptor, ionotropic, delta 2 [GRID2] interacting protein 1) significantly associated with inhibitors.

Conclusion: Overall, our study confirms the association of DRB1*15:01 with FVIII inhibitors and identifies a novel association of DQB1*03:03 in individuals with HA carrying intronic inversions of F8. In addition, our results implicate GRID2IP, encoding GRID2-interacting protein, with the development of inhibitors, and suggest an unrecognized role of this gene in autoimmunity.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in medicine - 9(2022) vom: 02., Seite 903838

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lessard, Samuel [VerfasserIn]
He, Chunla [VerfasserIn]
Rajpal, Deepak K [VerfasserIn]
Klinger, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
Loh, Christine [VerfasserIn]
Harris, Tim [VerfasserIn]
Dumont, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Genome-wide association study
Hemophilia A
Humans
Inhibitors
Journal Article
Major histocompatibility complex
Whole-genome sequencing

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Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fmed.2022.903838

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM343352583