Variation and impact of polygenic hematologic traits in monogenic sickle cell disease

Several of the complications observed in sickle cell disease (SCD) are influenced by variation in hematologic traits (HT), such as fetal hemoglobin (HbF) level and neutrophil count. Previous large-scale genome-wide association studies carried out in largely healthy individuals have identified thousands of variants associated with HT, which have then been used to develop multi-ancestry polygenic trait scores (PTS). Here, we tested whether these PTS associate with HT in SCD patients and if they can improve statistical models associated with SCD-related complications. In 2,056 SCD patients, we found that the PTS predicted less HT variance than in non-SCD individuals of African ancestry. This was particularly striking at the Duffy/DARC locus, where we observed an epistatic interaction between the SCD genotype and the Duffy null variant (rs2814778) that led to a two-fold weaker effect on neutrophil count. PTS for these HT which are measured as part of routine practice were not associated with complications in SCD. In contrast, we found that a simple PTS for HbF that includes only six variants explained a large fraction of the phenotypic variation (20.5-27.1%), associated with acute chest syndrome and stroke risk, and improved the statistical modeling of the vaso-occlusive crisis rate. Using Mendelian randomization, we found that increasing HbF by 4.8% reduces stroke risk by 39% (P=0.0006). Taken together, our results highlight the importance of validating PTS in large diseased populations before proposing their implementation in the context of precision medicine initiatives.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:108

Enthalten in:

Haematologica - 108(2023), 3 vom: 01. März, Seite 870-881

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pincez, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Lo, Ken Sin [VerfasserIn]
D'Orengiani, Anne-Laure Pham Hung d'Alexandry [VerfasserIn]
Garrett, Melanie E [VerfasserIn]
Brugnara, Carlo [VerfasserIn]
Ashley-Koch, Allison E [VerfasserIn]
Telen, Marilyn J [VerfasserIn]
Galacteros, Frederic [VerfasserIn]
Joly, Philippe [VerfasserIn]
Bartolucci, Pablo [VerfasserIn]
Lettre, Guillaume [VerfasserIn]

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9034-63-3
Fetal Hemoglobin
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 02.03.2023

Date Revised 10.06.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3324/haematol.2022.281180

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM347416039