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PLOS MEDICINE
卷 8, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001013
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资金
- NIH [R49772, 5 RO1 AI037618, F30HL103072, 5 T32 AI007172-30]
- NHLBI
- Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Resarch
- UK Medical Research Council [G0701325]
- Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris
- Program Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique [AOM 08198]
- Wellcome Trust [076113/C/04/Z]
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation [WT061858]
- National Institute of Health Research of England
- Medical Research Council [G0701325] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0701325] Funding Source: UKRI
Background: Pregnancy in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or antiphospholipid antibodies (APL Ab)-autoimmune conditions characterized by complement-mediated injury-is associated with increased risk of preeclampsia and miscarriage. Our previous studies in mice indicate that complement activation targeted to the placenta drives angiogenic imbalance and placental insufficiency. Methods and Findings: We use PROMISSE, a prospective study of 250 pregnant patients with SLE and/or APL Ab, to test the hypothesis in humans that impaired capacity to limit complement activation predisposes to preeclampsia. We sequenced genes encoding three complement regulatory proteins-membrane cofactor protein (MCP), complement factor I (CFI), and complement factor H (CFH)-in 40 patients who had preeclampsia and found heterozygous mutations in seven (18%). Five of these patients had risk variants in MCP or CFI that were previously identified in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, a disease characterized by endothelial damage. One had a novel mutation in MCP that impairs regulation of C4b. These findings constitute, to our knowledge, the first genetic defects associated with preeclampsia in SLE and/or APL Ab. We confirmed the association of hypomorphic variants of MCP and CFI in a cohort of non-autoimmune preeclampsia patients in which five of 59 were heterozygous for mutations. Conclusion: The presence of risk variants in complement regulatory proteins in patients with SLE and/or APL Ab who develop preeclampsia, as well as in preeclampsia patients lacking autoimmune disease, links complement activation to disease pathogenesis and suggests new targets for treatment of this important public health problem.
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