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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 1, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep00020
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- Eleven-Fifth Mega-Scientific Project on prevention and treatment of AIDS, viral hepatitis and other infectious diseases [2008ZX10003-005, 2008ZX10003-012]
- National Science Foundation of China [30872258]
- Research Grants Council [778609M, N_HKU752/10]
- Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases of Hong Kong [10091262]
Recent studies showed that IL-22 plays a protective role in the host defense. However, the contribution of polymorphisms of the IL-22 gene to human TB susceptibility remains untested. We have designed a computational approach to select functional SNPs in the IL-22 gene and genotyped them in a two-stage case-control study in Chinese (479 cases and 358 controls). We found that rs2227473, an SNP in the promoter region of IL-22, is associated with TB susceptibility at both stages of our study. The SNP shows associations with p-values of 0.028 and 0.034 respectively, and a combined p-value of 0.0086, with odds ratio at 0.65 (95% confidence interval 0.45-0.90). We further validated the association with an independent cohort (413 cases and 241 controls in Chinese). Our functional studies showed that patients with A allele have significantly higher IL-22 expression than those without A allele under both non-specific and specific stimulations.
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