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. 2013 Nov;45(11):1361-5.
doi: 10.1038/ng.2779. Epub 2013 Oct 6.

A genome-wide association study in Han Chinese identifies a susceptibility locus for primary Sjögren's syndrome at 7q11.23

Yongzhe Li  1 , Kunlin Zhang, Hua Chen, Fei Sun, Juanjuan Xu, Ziyan Wu, Ping Li, Liuyan Zhang, Yang Du, Haixia Luan, Xi Li, Lijun Wu, Hongbin Li, Huaxiang Wu, Xiangpei Li, Xiaomei Li, Xiao Zhang, Lu Gong, Lie Dai, Lingyun Sun, Xiaoxia Zuo, Jianhua Xu, Huiping Gong, Zhijun Li, Shengquan Tong, Min Wu, Xiaofeng Li, Weiguo Xiao, Guochun Wang, Ping Zhu, Min Shen, Shengyun Liu, Dongbao Zhao, Wei Liu, Yi Wang, Cibo Huang, Quan Jiang, Guijian Liu, Bin Liu, Shaoxian Hu, Wen Zhang, Zhuoli Zhang, Xin You, Mengtao Li, Weixin Hao, Cheng Zhao, Xiaomei Leng, Liqi Bi, Yongfu Wang, Fengxiao Zhang, Qun Shi, Wencheng Qi, Xuewu Zhang, Yuan Jia, Jinmei Su, Qin Li, Yong Hou, Qingjun Wu, Dong Xu, Wenjie Zheng, Miaojia Zhang, Qian Wang, Yunyun Fei, Xuan Zhang, Jing Li, Ying Jiang, Xinping Tian, Lidan Zhao, Li Wang, Bin Zhou, Yang Li, Yan Zhao, Xiaofeng Zeng, Jurg Ott, Jing Wang, Fengchun Zhang
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A genome-wide association study in Han Chinese identifies a susceptibility locus for primary Sjögren's syndrome at 7q11.23

Yongzhe Li et al. Nat Genet. 2013 Nov.

Abstract

Primary Sjögren's syndrome is one of the most common autoimmune diseases. So far, genetic studies of Sjögren's syndrome have relied mostly on candidate gene approaches. To identify new genetic susceptibility loci for primary Sjögren's syndrome, we performed a three-stage genome-wide association study in Han Chinese. In the discovery stage, we analyzed 556,134 autosomal SNPs in 542 cases and 1,050 controls. We then validated promising associations in 2 replication stages comprising 1,303 cases and 2,727 controls. The combined analysis identified GTF2I at 7q11.23 (rs117026326: Pcombined = 1.31 × 10(-53), combined odds ratio (ORcombined) = 2.20) as a new susceptibility locus for primary Sjögren's syndrome. Our analysis also confirmed previously reported associations in Europeans in the regions of STAT4, TNFAIP3 and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Fine mapping of the region around GTF2I showed that rs117026326 in GTF2I had the most significant association, with associated SNPs extending from GTF2I to GTF2IRD1-GTF2I.

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