A genome-wide association study for celiac disease identifies risk variants in the region harboring IL2 and IL21

David A. van Heel*, Lude Franke, Karen A. Hunt, Rhian Gwilliam, Alexandra Zhernakova, Mike Inouye, Martin C Wapenaar, Martin C. N. M. Barnardo, Graeme Bethel, Geoffrey K. T. Holmes, Con Feighery, Derek Jewell, Dermot Kelleher, Parveen Kumar, Simon Travis, Julian R. F. Walters, David S. Sanders, Peter Howdle, Jill Swift, Raymond J. PlayfordWilliam M. McLaren, M. Luisa Mearin, Chris J. Mulder, Ross McManus, Ralph McGinnis, Lon R. Cardon, Panos Deloukas, Cisca Wijmenga

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Abstract

We tested 310,605 SNPs for association in 778 individuals with celiac disease and 1,422 controls. Outside the HLA region, the most significant finding ( rs13119723; P = 2.0 x 10(-7)) was in the KIAA1109- TENR- IL2- IL21 linkage disequilibrium block. We independently confirmed association in two further collections ( strongest association at rs6822844, 24 kb 5' of IL21; meta-analysis P = 1.3 x 10(- 14), odds ratio 0.63), suggesting that genetic variation in this region predisposes to celiac disease.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)827-829
Number of pages3
JournalNature Genetics
Volume39
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul-2007

Keywords

  • INTERLEUKIN-2 GENE

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