International genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new primary biliary cirrhosis risk loci and targetable pathogenic pathways

Heather J. Cordell*, Younghun Han, George F. Mells, Y Li, Gideon M. Hirschfield, Casey S. Greene, Gang Xie, Brian D. Juran, Dakai Zhu, David C. Qian, James A.B. Floyd, Katherine I. Morley, Daniele Prati, Ana Lleo, Daniele Cusi, Erik M. Schlicht, Craig Lammert, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, LL Chan, Andrade M deTobias Balschun, Andrew L. Mason, Robert P. Myers, Jinyi Zhang, Piotr Milkiewicz, Jia Qu, Joseph A. Odin, Velimir A. Luketic, Bruce R. Bacon, Henry C. Bodenheimer, Valentina Liakina, Catherine Vincent, Cynthia Levy, Peter K. Gregersen, Piero L. Almasio, Domenico Alvaro, Pietro Andreone, Angelo Andriulli, Cristina Barlassina, Pier Maria Battezzati, Antonio Benedetti, Francesca Bernuzzi, Ilaria Bianchi, Maria Consiglia Bragazzi, Maurizia Brunetto, Savino Bruno, Giovanni Casella, Barbara Coco, Agostino Colli, M Colombo, S Colombo, Carmela Cursaro, Lory Saveria Crocè, Andrea Crosignani, Maria Francesca Donato, Gianfranco Elia, Luca Fabris, Carlo Ferrari, Annarosa Floreani, Barbara Foglieni, Rosanna Fontana, Andrea Galli, Roberta Lazzari, Fabio Macaluso, Federica Malinverno, Fabio Marra, Marco Marzioni, Alberto Mattalia, Renzo Montanari, Lorenzo Morini, Filomena Morisco, S M Hani, L Muratori, P Muratori, Grazia A. Niro, Vincenzo O. Palmieri, Antonio Picciotto, Mauro Podda, Piero Portincasa, Vincenzo Ronca, Floriano Rosina, Sonia Rossi, Ilaria Sogno, Giancarlo Spinzi, Marta Spreafico, Mario Strazzabosco, Sonia Tarallo, Mirko Tarocchi, Claudio Tiribelli, Pierluigi Toniutto, Maria Vinci, Matthew Cramp

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

9 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a classical autoimmune liver disease for which effective immunomodulatory therapy is lacking. Here we perform meta-analyses of discovery data sets from genome-wide association studies of European subjects (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic>=2,764 cases and 10,475 controls) followed by validation genotyping in an independent cohort (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic>=3,716 cases and 4,261 controls). We discover and validate six previously unknown risk loci for PBC (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic><jats:sub>combined</jats:sub>&lt;5 × 10<jats:sup>−8</jats:sup>) and used pathway analysis to identify JAK-STAT/IL12/IL27 signalling and cytokine–cytokine pathways, for which relevant therapies exist.</jats:p>
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages0
JournalNature Communications
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 22 Sept 2015

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'International genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new primary biliary cirrhosis risk loci and targetable pathogenic pathways'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this