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PLOS GENETICS
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003880
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- National Science Foundation of China [81070 069]
- Sino-German Center for Research Promotion [GZ538]
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences
- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- [NIH-NS23724]
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Previous studies in narcolepsy, an autoimmune disorder affecting hypocretin (orexin) neurons and recently associated with H1N1 influenza, have demonstrated significant associations with five loci. Using a well-characterized Chinese cohort, we refined known associations in TRA@ and P2RY11-DNMT1 and identified new associations in the TCR beta (TRB@; rs9648789 max P = 3.7x10(-9) OR 0.77), ZNF365 (rs10995245 max P = 1.2x10(-11) OR 1.23), and IL10RB-IFNAR1 loci (rs2252931 max P = 2.2x10(-9) OR 0.75). Variants in the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-DQ region were associated with age of onset (rs7744020 P = 7.9x10(-9) beta -1.9 years) and varied significantly among cases with onset after the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic compared to previous years (rs9271117 P = 7.8x10(-10) OR 0.57). These reflected an association of DQB1*03:01 with earlier onset and decreased DQB1*06:02 homozygosity following 2009. Our results illustrate how genetic association can change in the presence of new environmental challenges and suggest that the monitoring of genetic architecture over time may help reveal the appearance of novel triggers for autoimmune diseases.
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