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LANCET NEUROLOGY
卷 9, 期 10, 页码 986-994出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70197-6
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- Motor Neurone Disease Association [3/3]
- Wellcome Trust [070122/A/02/Z, 068545/Z/02]
- Angel Fund
- ALS Therapy Alliance
- Motor Neurone Disease Association for genotyping [10/57]
- Medical Research Council [G0000934, G0701420]
- Prinses Beatrix Fonds
- VSB Fonda
- Kersten Foundation
- Netherlands ALS Foundation
- Adessium Foundation (LHvdB)
- Brain Foundation of the Netherlands
- University of Leuven (Methusalem)
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office [P6/43]
- Italian Ministry of Health [31]
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging [Z01-AG000949-02]
- Fondazione Vialli e Mauro per la SLA [3/2008]
- Federazione Italians Giuoco Calcio [2/2008]
- ALS Association
- ALS Society of Canada
- MNDA Iceland
- National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health
- MRC [G0000934, G0900688, G0701420, G0601943, G0600974, G0701075] Funding Source: UKRI
- Alzheimers Research UK [ART-PG2010-1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0000934, G0600974, G9817803B, G0701420, G0900688, G0701075, G0601943] Funding Source: researchfish
Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease of motor neurons that results in progressive weakness and death from respiratory failure, commonly within about 3 years. Previous studies have shown association of a locus on chromosome 9p with ALS and linkage with ALS-frontotemporal dementia. We aimed to test whether this genomic region is also associated with ALS in an independent set of UK samples, and to identify risk factors associated with ALS in a further genome-wide association study that combined data from the independent analysis with those from other countries. Methods We collected samples from patients with sporadic ALS from 20 UK hospitals and obtained UK control samples from the control groups of the Depression Case Control study, the Bipolar Affective Case Control Study, and the British 1958 birth cohort DNA collection. Genotyping of DNA in this independent analysis was done with Illumina HumanHap550 BeadChips. We then undertook a joint genome-wide analysis that combined data from the independent set with published data from the UK, USA, Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, France, Sweden, and Belgium. The threshold for significance was p=0.05 in the independent analysis, because we were interested in replicating a small number of previously reported associations, whereas the Bonferroni-corrected threshold for significance in the joint analysis was p=2.20x10(-7). Findings After quality control, samples were available from 599 patients and 4144 control individuals in the independent set. In this analysis, two single nucleotide polymorphisms in a locus on chromosome 9p21.2 were associated with ALS: rs3849942 (p=2.22x10(-6); odds ratio [OR] 1.39, 95% CI 1.21-1.59) and rs2814707 (p=3.32x10(-6); 1.38, 1.20-1.58). In the joint analysis, which included samples from 4312 patients with ALS and 8425 control individuals, rs3849942 (p=4. 64x10(-10); OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.15-1.30) and rs2814707 (p=4.72x10(-10); 1.22, 1.15-1.30) were associated with ALS. Interpretation We have found strong evidence of a genetic association of two single nucleotide polymorphisms on chromosome 9 with sporadic ALS, in line with findings from previous independent GWAS of ALS and linkage studies of ALS frontotemporal dementia. Our findings together with these earlier findings suggest that genetic variation at this locus on chromosome 9 causes sporadic ALS and familial ALS frontotemporal dementia. Resequencing studies and then functional analysis should be done to identify the defective gene. Funding ALS Therapy Alliance, the Angel Fund, the Medical Research Council, the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Wellcome Trust, and the National Institute for Health Research Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN).
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