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GENES AND IMMUNITY
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages S54-S59Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/gene.2009.92
Keywords
polymorphism; transcription factor; Th1; type I diabetes
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)
- National Center for Research Resources [U54 RR020278]
- [U01 DK062418]
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The Type I Diabetes Genetics Consortium (T1DGC) has collected thousands of multiplex and simplex families with type I diabetes (T1D) with the goal of identifying genes involved in T1D susceptibility. These families have been genotyped for the HLA class I and class II loci and, recently, for a genome-wide panel of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). In addition, multiple SNPs in specific candidate genes have been genotyped in these families in an attempt to evaluate previously reported T1D associations, including the C883A (Pro-Thr) polymorphism in exon 2 of TCF7, a T-cell transcription factor. The TCF7 883A allele was associated with T1D in subjects with T1D not carrying the high-risk HLA genotype DR3/DR4. A panel of 11 SNPs in TCF7 was genotyped in 2092 families from 9 cohorts of the T1DGC. SNPs at two positions in TCF7 were associated with T1D. One associated SNP, C883A (rs5742913), was reported earlier to have a T1D association. A second SNP, rs17653687, represents a novel T1D susceptibility allele in TCF7. After stratification on the high T1D risk DR3/DR4 genotype, the variant (A) allele of C883A was significantly associated with T1D among non-DR3/DR4 cases (transmission = 55.8%, P = 0.004; OR = 1.26) but was not significantly associated in the DR3/DR4 patient subgroup, replicating the earlier report. The reference A allele of intronic SNP rs17653687 was modestly associated with T1D in both DR3/DR4 strata (transmission = 54.4% in DR3/DR4; P = 0.03; transmission = 52.9% in non-DR3/DR4; P = 0.03). These results support the previously reported association of the non-synonymous Pro-Thr SNP in TCF7 with T1D, and suggest that other alleles at this locus may also confer risk. Genes and Immunity (2009) 10, S54-S59; doi:10.1038/gene.2009.92
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