实验性自身免疫性脑脊髓炎
髓鞘少突胶质细胞糖蛋白
生物
免疫学
多发性硬化
数量性状位点
单倍型
单核苷酸多态性
候选基因
细胞因子
遗传学
等位基因
基因
基因型
作者
Rita Nohra,Amennai Daniel Beyeen,Jian Guo,Mohsen Khademi,Emilie Sundqvist,Mélanie Thessén Hedreul,Finn Sellebjerg,C. Smestad,Annette Bang Oturai,Hanne F. Harbo,Erik Wallström,Jan Hillert,Lars Alfredsson,Ingrid Kockum,Maja Jagodic,Johnny C. Lorentzen,Tomas Olsson
标识
DOI:10.1038/gene.2009.111
摘要
Rat chromosome 1 harbors overlapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) for cytokine production and experimental models of inflammatory diseases. We fine-dissected this region that regulated cytokine production, myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG)-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), anti-MOG antibodies and pristane-induced arthritis (PIA) in advanced intercross lines (AILs). Analysis in the tenth and twelfth generation of AILs resolved the region in two narrow QTL, Eae30 and Eae31. Eae30 showed linkage to MOG-EAE, anti-MOG antibodies and levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6). Eae31 showed linkage to EAE, PIA, anti-MOG antibodies and levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and IL-6. Confidence intervals defined a limited set of potential candidate genes, with the most interesting being RGMA, IL21R and IL4R. We tested the association with multiple sclerosis (MS) in a Nordic case-control material. A single nucleotide polymorphism in RGMA associated with MS in males (odds ratio (OR)=1.33). Polymorphisms of RGMA also correlated with changes in the expression of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and TNF in cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients. In IL21R, there was one positively associated (OR=1.14) and two protective (OR=0.87 and 0.68) haplotypes. One of the protective haplotypes correlated to lower IFN-gamma expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of MS patients. We conclude that RGMA and IL21R and their pathways are crucial in MS pathogenesis and warrant further studies as potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
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