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Functional variants in the B-cell gene BANK1 are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus

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Kozyrev, Sergey V, Abelson, Anna-Karin, Wojcik, Jerome, Zaghlool, Ammar, Linga Reddy, M V Prasad, Sanchez, Elena, Gunnarsson, Iva, Svenungsson, Elisabet, Sturfelt, Gunnar, Jönsen, Andreas, Truedsson, Lennart, Pons-Estel, Bernardo A, Witte, Torsten, D'Alfonso, Sandra, Barizzone, Nadia, Danieli, Maria Giovanna, Gutierrez, Carmen, Suarez, Ana, Junker, Peter, Laustrup, Helle, González-Escribano, Maria Francisca, Martin, Javier, Abderrahim, Hadi, Alarcón-Riquelme, Marta E·2008·Nature Genetics

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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypical autoimmune disease characterized by production of autoantibodies and complex genetic inheritance. In a genome-wide scan using 85,042 SNPs, we identified an association between SLE and a nonsynonymous substitution (rs10516487, R61H) in the B-cell scaffold protein with ankyrin repeats gene, BANK1. We replicated the association in four independent case-control sets (combined P = 3.7 × 10−10; OR = 1.38). We analyzed BANK1 cDNA and found two isoforms, one full-length and the other alternatively spliced and lacking exon 2 (Δ2), encoding a protein without a putative IP3R-binding domain. The transcripts were differentially expressed depending on a branch point–site SNP, rs17266594, in strong linkage disequilibrium (LD) with rs10516487. A third associated variant was found in the ankyrin domain (rs3733197, A383T). Our findings implicate BANK1 as a susceptibility gene for SLE, with variants affecting regulatory sites and key functional domains. The disease-associated variants could contribute to sustained B cell–receptor signaling and B-cell hyperactivity characteristic of this disease.

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Kozyrev, S. V., Abelson, A.-K., Wojcik, J., Zaghlool, A., Linga Reddy, M. V. P., Sanchez, E., Gunnarsson, I., Svenungsson, E., Sturfelt, G., Jönsen, A., Truedsson, L., Pons-Estel, B. A., Witte, T., D'Alfonso, S., Barizzone, N., Danieli, M. G., Gutierrez, C., Suarez, A., Junker, P., Laustrup, H., González-Escribano, M. F., Martin, J., Abderrahim, H., & Alarcón-Riquelme, M. E.
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Nature Genetics
Published
2008-01-20
Volume
40
Issue
2
Pages
211-216
ISSN
  • 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1718
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W2082829053
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477
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26
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journal article
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en
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Kozyrev, S. V., Abelson, A.-K., Wojcik, J., Zaghlool, A., Linga Reddy, M. V. P., Sanchez, E., Gunnarsson, I., Svenungsson, E., Sturfelt, G., Jönsen, A., Truedsson, L., Pons-Estel, B. A., Witte, T., D'Alfonso, S., Barizzone, N., Danieli, M. G., Gutierrez, C., Suarez, A., Junker, P., . . . Alarcón-Riquelme, M. E. (2008). Functional variants in the B-cell gene BANK1 are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. Nature Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.79

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