@article {48488,
	title = {Confirmation of five novel susceptibility loci for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and integrated network analysis of 82 SLE susceptibility loci.},
	journal = {Human Molecular Genetics},
	volume = {26},
	year = {2017},
	month = {2017 Mar 15},
	pages = {1205-1216},
	abstract = {<p>We recently identified ten novel SLE susceptibility loci in Asians and uncovered several additional suggestive loci requiring further validation. This study aimed to replicate five of these suggestive loci in a Han Chinese cohort from Hong Kong, followed by meta-analysis (11,656 cases and 23,968 controls) on previously reported Asian and European populations, and to perform bioinformatic analyses on all 82 reported SLE loci to identify shared regulatory signatures. We performed a battery of analyses for these five loci, as well as joint analyses on all 82 SLE loci. All five loci passed genome-wide significance: MYNN (rs10936599, Pmeta = 1.92 {\texttimes} 10-13, OR = 1.14), ATG16L2 (rs11235604, Pmeta = 8.87 {\texttimes} 10 -12, OR = 0.78), CCL22 (rs223881, Pmeta = 5.87 {\texttimes} 10-16, OR = 0.87), ANKS1A (rs2762340, Pmeta = 4.93 {\texttimes} 10-15, OR = 0.87) and RNASEH2C (rs1308020, Pmeta = 2.96 {\texttimes} 10-19, OR = 0.84) and co-located with annotated gene regulatory elements. The novel loci share genetic signatures with other reported SLE loci, including effects on gene expression, transcription factor binding, and epigenetic characteristics. Most (56\%) of the correlated (r2 \&gt; 0.8) SNPs from the 82 SLE loci were implicated in differential expression (9.81 {\texttimes} 10-198 \&lt; P \&lt; 5 {\texttimes} 10-3) of cis-genes. Transcription factor binding sites for p53, MEF2A and E2F1 were significantly (P \&lt; 0.05) over-represented in SLE loci, consistent with apoptosis playing a critical role in SLE. Enrichment analysis revealed common pathways, gene ontology, protein domains, and cell type-specific expression. In summary, we provide evidence of five novel SLE susceptibility loci. Integrated bioinformatics using all 82 loci revealed that SLE susceptibility loci share many gene regulatory features, suggestive of conserved mechanisms of SLE etiopathogenesis.</p>
},
	keywords = {Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Autophagy-Related Proteins, Chemokine CCL22, Gene Expression Regulation, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors, Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Ribonuclease H},
	issn = {1460-2083},
	doi = {10.1093/hmg/ddx026},
	author = {Molineros, Julio E and Yang, Wanling and Zhou, Xu-Jie and Sun, Celi and Okada, Yukinori and Zhang, Huoru and Heng Chua, Kek and Lau, Yu-Lung and Kochi, Yuta and Suzuki, Akari and Yamamoto, Kazuhiko and Ma, Jianyang and Bang, So-Young and Lee, Hye-Soon and Kim, Kwangwoo and Bae, Sang-Cheol and Zhang, Hong and Shen, Nan and Looger, Loren L and Nath, Swapan K}
}
