Journal
NEURO-ONCOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages 1304-1314Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noab072
Keywords
allergies; autoimmune disease; genetic architecture; glioma; heritability
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- Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) [RP160097T]
- Sontag Foundation
- NIH, Bethesda, MD [R01CA139020]
- McNair Medical Institute
- Population Sciences Biorepository at Baylor College of Medicine [P30CA125123]
- CPRIT [RR170048]
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This study analyzed the genetic correlations between glioma and atopic/autoimmune diseases, finding some negative correlations and implicating T cells, NK cells, and myeloid cells in mediating glioma predisposition. The results suggest that increased activation of the acquired immune system may modify individual susceptibility to glioma.
Background. Epidemiological studies of adult glioma have identified genetic syndromes and 25 heritable risk loci that modify individual risk for glioma, as well increased risk in association with exposure to ionizing radiation and decreased risk in association with allergies. In this analysis, we assess whether there is a shared genome-wide genetic architecture between glioma and atopic/autoimmune diseases. Methods. Using summary statistics from a glioma genome-wide association studies (GWAS) meta-analysis, we identified significant enrichment for risk variants associated with gene expression changes in immune cell populations. We also estimated genetic correlations between glioma and autoimmune, atopic, and hematologic traits using linkage disequilibrium score regression (LDSC), which leverages genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associations and patterns of linkage disequilibrium. Results. Nominally significant negative correlations were observed for glioblastoma (GB) and primary biliary cirrhosis (r(g) = -0.26, P= .0228), and for non-GB gliomas and celiac disease (r(g) = -0.32, P= .0109). Our analyses implicate dendritic cells (GB p(HM) = 0.0306 and non-GB p(HM) = 0.0186) in mediating both GB and non-GB genetic predisposition, with GB-specific associations identified in natural killer (NK) cells (p(HM) = 0.0201) and stem cells (p(HM) = 0.0265). Conclusions. This analysis identifies putative new associations between glioma and autoimmune conditions with genomic architecture that is inversely correlated with that of glioma and that T cells, NK cells, and myeloid cells are involved in mediating glioma predisposition.This provides further evidence that increased activation of the acquired immune system may modify individual susceptibility to glioma.
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