PTPN22 genetic variation: evidence for multiple variants associated with rheumatoid arthritis - PubMed (original) (raw)

doi: 10.1086/468189. Epub 2005 Aug 10.

Xiaolan Hu, Anand P Chokkalingam, Steven J Schrodi, Rhonda Brandon, Heather C Alexander, Monica Chang, Joseph J Catanese, Diane U Leong, Kristin G Ardlie, Daniel L Kastner, Michael F Seldin, Lindsey A Criswell, Peter K Gregersen, Ellen Beasley, Glenys Thomson, Christopher I Amos, Ann B Begovich

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PTPN22 genetic variation: evidence for multiple variants associated with rheumatoid arthritis

Victoria E H Carlton et al. Am J Hum Genet. 2005 Oct.

Abstract

The minor allele of the R620W missense single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (rs2476601) in the hematopoietic-specific protein tyrosine phosphatase gene, PTPN22, has been associated with multiple autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA). These genetic data, combined with biochemical evidence that this SNP affects PTPN22 function, suggest that this phosphatase is a key regulator of autoimmunity. To determine whether other genetic variants in PTPN22 contribute to the development of RA, we sequenced the coding regions of this gene in 48 white North American patients with RA and identified 15 previously unreported SNPs, including 2 coding SNPs in the catalytic domain. We then genotyped 37 SNPs in or near PTPN22 in 475 patients with RA and 475 individually matched controls (sample set 1) and selected a subset of markers for replication in an additional 661 patients with RA and 1,322 individually matched controls (sample set 2). Analyses of these results predict 10 common (frequency >1%) PTPN22 haplotypes in white North Americans. The sole haplotype found to carry the previously identified W620 risk allele was strongly associated with disease in both sample sets, whereas another haplotype, identical at all other SNPs but carrying the R620 allele, showed no association. R620W, however, does not fully explain the association between PTPN22 and RA, since significant differences between cases and controls persisted in both sample sets after the haplotype data were stratified by R620W. Additional analyses identified two SNPs on a single common haplotype that are associated with RA independent of R620W, suggesting that R620W and at least one additional variant in the PTPN22 gene region influence RA susceptibility.

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Figure 1

Gene structure and LD of PTPN22. A, Location and functional domain types of the 37 SNPs genotyped in sample set 1. Missense variants are colored in red; the nonsense variant is colored in red and marked by an asterisk (*); putative TFBSs are colored in blue; and sites within the 5′ and 3′ UTRs are colored in green. B, Pairwise LD between 36 SNPs (excluding the rare nonsense SNP 9), as measured by _r_2 in 475 controls from sample set 1. The indexes of the SNPs (table 1) were arranged vertically from SNP 2 to SNP 37 and horizontally from SNP 1 to SNP 36.

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