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JOINT BONE SPINE
卷 89, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2022.105419
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Spondyloarthritis; Ankylosing spondylitis; Genetics; Rare variant; Family-based study
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- Arthritis-Courtin Fondation
By re-sequencing a region linked to spondyloarthritis, a rare variant in the FREM2 gene was identified, suggesting its potential implication in the pathogenesis of spondyloarthritis.
Objectives: The strong heritability of spondyloarthritis remains poorly explained, despite several large-scale association studies. A recent linkage analysis identified a new region linked to SpA on 13q13. Here we searched for variants potentially explaining this linkage signal by deep-sequencing of the region. Methods: Re-sequencing of the 1.4 Mb target interval was performed in 92 subjects from the 43 best-linked multicases families (71 spondyloarthritis and 21 unaffected relatives), using hybridization capture-based protocol (Illumina Nextera (R)). Variants of interest were then genotyped by TaqMan and high resolution melting to check their co-segregation with disease in the same families and to test their association with spondyloarthritis in an independent cohort of 1,091 unrelated cases and 399 controls. Expression of FREM2 was assessed by immunostaining. Results: Of the 7,563 variants identified, 24 were non-synonymous coding single-nucleotide variants. Two of them were located in the FREM2 gene on a haplotype co-segregating with the disease, including one common variant (R1840 W, minor allele frequency = 0.11) and one rare variant (R727H, minor allele frequency = 0.0001). In the case-control analysis, there was no significant association between R1840 Wand spondyloarthritis (P-value = 0.21), whereas R727H was not detected in any of the genotyped individuals. Immunostaining experiments revealed that FREM2 is expressed in synovial membrane, cartilage and colon. Conclusions: Targeted re-sequencing of a spondyloarthritis-linked region allowed us to identify a rare non-synonymous coding variant in FREM2, co-segregating with spondyloarthritis in a large family. This gene is expressed in several tissues relevant to spondyloarthritis pathogenesis, supporting its putative implication in spondyloarthritis. (C) 2022 Societe francaise de rhumatologie. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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