Journal
PHARMACOGENOMICS
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 333-345Publisher
FUTURE MEDICINE LTD
DOI: 10.2217/PGS.14.175
Keywords
adalimumab; biologics; biomarkers; etanercept; Fc receptor; FCGRT; genetics; infliximab; rheumatoid arthritis; TNF inhibitors
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- Fondo de Investigacion Sanitaria of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spain) - European Regional Development Fund of the EU [PI11/01048, PI12/01909, RD08/0075/0019, RD12/0009/0008]
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Objectives: Reproducible association of a functional polymorphism in FCGR2A with response to a TNF inhibitor (TNFi) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) led us to explore other Fc gamma R functional polymorphisms. Methods: Functional polymorphisms FCGR3A F158V, FCGR2B I223T and promoter VNTR in FCGRT were analyzed in up to 429 patients with RA. Response to TNFi was recorded during standard care at 3, 6 and 12 months of follow-up. Fixed effects meta-analysis of studies addressing FCGR3A F158V polymorphism, which is the most studied of these polymorphisms, was conducted with inverse variance weighting. Results: None of the functional polymorphisms were associated with change in DAS28. Meta-analysis of the seven studies (899 patients) with available data addressing association of FCGR3A F158V with response to TNFi in RA showed no association (OR: 1.11, 95% CI: 0.8-1.5; p = 0.5). Conclusion: None of the three functional polymorphisms in Fc gamma R genes showed association with response to TNFi in patients with RA. These negative results were obtained in spite of the larger size of this study relative to previous studies addressing the same polymorphisms. In addition, meta-analysis of FCGR3A F158V was also negative against the results provided by previous studies.
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