Whole-exome sequencing analysis identifies novel variants associated with Kawasaki disease susceptibility

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BACKGROUND: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute pediatric vasculitis affecting genetically susceptible infants and children. Although the pathogenesis of KD remains unclear, growing evidence links genetic susceptibility to the disease.

METHODS: To explore the genes associated with susceptibility in KD, we applied whole-exome sequencing to KD and control subjects from Yunnan province, China. We conducted association study analysis on the two groups.

RESULTS: In this study, we successfully identified 11 significant rare variants in two genes (MYH14 and RBP3) through the genotype/allele frequency analysis. A heterozygous variant (c.2650G > A, p.V884M) of the RBP3 gene was identified in 12 KD cases, while eight heterozygous variants (c.566G > A, p.R189H; c.1109 C > T, p.S370L; c.3917T > G, p.L1306R; c.4301G > A, p.R1434Q; c.5026 C > T, p.R1676W; c.5329 C > T, p.R1777C; c.5393 C > A, p.A1798D and c.5476 C > T, p.R1826C) of the MYH14 gene were identified in 8 KD cases respectively.

CONCLUSION: This study suggested that nine variants in MYH14 and RBP3 gene may be associated with KD susceptibility in the population from Yunnan province.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

Pediatric rheumatology online journal - 21(2023), 1 vom: 07. Aug., Seite 78

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Xing [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Lijuan [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Caixia [VerfasserIn]
Han, Huifeng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Tiesong [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Yue [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jianxiao [VerfasserIn]
Duan, Lifen [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yanfei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Association study
Journal Article
Kawasaki disease
Susceptibility
Whole-exome sequencing

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Date Completed 09.08.2023

Date Revised 21.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12969-023-00857-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360504000