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Phenotype of Atopic Dermatitis With Food Allergy Predicts Development of Childhood Asthma via Gut Wnt Signaling

Journal

ALLERGY ASTHMA & IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages 674-686

Publisher

KOREAN ACAD ASTHMA ALLERGY & CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
DOI: 10.4168/aair.2022.14.6.674

Keywords

Asthma; dermatitis; atopic; phenotype; food hypersensitivity; latent class analysis; Wnt signaling pathway; transcriptome

Funding

  1. National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea government (Ministry of Science and ICT
  2. MSIT) [NRF-2020R1A2C2012822]
  3. Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency [2008-E33030-00, 2009-E33033-00, 2011-E33021-00, 2012-E33012-00, 2013-E51003-00, 2014-E51004-00, 2014-E5 1004-01, 2014-E5 1004-02, 2017-E6 7002-00, 2017-E6 7002-01, 2017-E6 7002-02]

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This study investigated the relationship between the phenotype of AD in early childhood and childhood asthma and found that the presence of FA in various phenotypes of AD may be associated with gut Wnt signaling and the later development of asthma.
Purpose: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by a wide spectrum of clinical phenotype. However, specific description of phenotypes of AD depending on the comorbidities in early childhood is lacking. This study aimed to investigate whether the AD phenotype in early childhood is related to childhood asthma and to elucidate the mechanisms involved. Methods: Data on the first 3 years of life were collected prospectively from 1,699 children in the COhort for Childhood Origin of Asthma and allergic diseases (COCOA). We applied an unsupervised latent class analysis to the following five factors: food sensitization, inhalant sensitization, food allergy (FA), AD, and recurrent wheezing. The risks of developing FA, AD, allergic rhinitis (AR), and asthma in children aged 5-7 years were evaluated. Colonocyte transcriptome and ingenuity pathway analysis were performed.Results: Four phenotypes were identified; no allergic diseases (78.4%), AD without sensitization (16.4%), FA with AD (2.9%), and AD with sensitization (7.8%). The FA with AD had the highest risk for FA, AR, and asthma and the highest cord blood immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels. In AD without sensitization and with sensitization, scoring of AD (SCORAD) in early childhood was higher than in FA with AD. Canonical pathway analysis with the colonocyte transcriptome revealed that the key pathway in FA with AD was 'Wnt/beta-catenin Signaling.' The relative abundance of Wnt6mRNA was positively correlated with food-specific IgE levels at 1 and 3 years.Conclusions: When FA is present in various phenotypes of AD at early life, regardless of severity of eczema, it may be associated with gut Wnt signaling and later development of asthma.

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