A genomic association study revealing subphenotypes of childhood steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome in a larger genomic sequencing cohort

© 2023 The Authors. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd..

Dissecting the genetic components that contribute to the two main subphenotypes of steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (SSNS) using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) strategy is important for understanding the disease. We conducted a multicenter cohort study (360 patients and 1835 controls) combined with a GWAS strategy to identify susceptibility variants associated with the following two subphenotypes of SSNS: steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome without relapse (SSNSWR, 181 patients) and steroid-dependent/frequent relapse nephrotic syndrome (SDNS/FRNS, 179 patients). The distribution of two single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ANKRD36 and ALPG was significant between SSNSWR and healthy controls, and that of two SNPs in GAD1 and HLA-DQA1 was significant between SDNS/FRNS and healthy controls. Interestingly, rs1047989 in HLA-DQA1 was a candidate locus for SDNS/FRNS but not for SSNSWR. No significant SNPs were observed between SSNSWR and SDNS/FRNS. Meanwhile, chromosome 2:171713702 in GAD1 was associated with a greater steroid dose (>0.75 mg/kg/d) upon relapse to first remission in patients with SDNS/FRNS (odds ratio = 3.14; 95% confidence interval, 0.97-9.87; P = 0.034). rs117014418 in APOL4 was significantly associated with a decrease in eGFR of greater than 20% compared with the baseline in SDNS/FRNS patients (P = 0.0001). Protein-protein intersection network construction suggested that HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DQB1 function together through GSDMA. Thus, SSNSWR belongs to non-HLA region-dependent nephropathy, and the HLA-DQA/DQB region is likely strongly associated with disease relapse, especially in SDNS/FRNS. The study provides a novel approach for the GWAS strategy of SSNS and contributes to our understanding of the pathological mechanisms of SSNSWR and SDNS/FRNS.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Genes & diseases - 11(2024), 4 vom: 27. Apr., Seite 101126

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chan, Han [VerfasserIn]
Ni, Fenfen [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Huimin [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Juanjuan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xiaowen [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Jingjing [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Shipin [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Xiaojie [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xueying [VerfasserIn]
Chi, Huan [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xuelan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xiaoqin [VerfasserIn]
Jiao, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Daoqi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Gaofu [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Mo [VerfasserIn]
Cun, Yupeng [VerfasserIn]
Ruan, Xiongzhong [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Haiping [VerfasserIn]
Li, Qiu [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Frequent relapse
Genome-wide association study
Human leukocyte antigen region
Journal Article
Steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 03.04.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.gendis.2023.101126

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370500008