Kyung Won Kim1, Dong Yun Kim2,3, Dankyu Yoon4, Ka-Kyung Kim5, Haerin Jang1, Nathan Schoettler6, Eun Gyul Kim1, Mi Na Kim1, Jung Yeon Hong1, Jeom-Kyu Lee4, Sangwoo Kim5, Carole Ober7, Heon Yung Gee2, Myung Hyun Sohn1. 1. Department of Pediatrics, Severance Hospital, Institute of Allergy, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. 2. Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Brain Korea 21 Project, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. 3. Department of Medicine, Physician-Scientist Program, Yonsei University Graduate School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. 4. Division of Allergy and Respiratory Disease Research, Department of Chronic Disease Convergence Research, National Institute of Health, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju, Korea. 5. Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. 6. Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. 7. Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of asthma have identified several risk alleles and loci, but most have been conducted in individuals with European-ancestry. Studies in Asians, especially children, are still lacking. We aimed to identify susceptibility loci by performing the first GWAS of asthma in Korean children with persistent asthma. METHODS: We used a discovery set of 741 children with persistent asthma as cases and 589 healthy children and 551 healthy adults as controls to perform a GWAS. We validated our GWAS findings using UK Biobank data. We then used the Genotype-Tissue Expression database to identify expression quantitative trait loci of candidate variants. Finally, we quantified proteins of genes associated with asthma. RESULTS: Variants at the 17q12-21 locus and SNPs in CYBRD1 and TNFSF15 genes were associated with persistent childhood asthma at genome-wide thresholds of significance. Four SNPs in the TNFSF15 gene were also associated with childhood-onset asthma in British white participants in the UK Biobank data. The asthma-associated rs7856856-C allele, the lead SNP, was associated with decreased TNFSF15 expression in whole blood and in arteries. Korean children with asthma had lower serum TNFSF15 levels than controls, and those with the asthma risk rs7856856-CC genotype exhibited the lowest serum TNFSF15 levels overall, especially asthmatic children. CONCLUSIONS: Our GWAS of persistent childhood asthma with allergic sensitization identified a new susceptibility gene, TNFSF15, and replicated associations at the 17q12-21 childhood-onset asthma locus. This novel association may be mediated by reduced expression of serum TNFSF15 and loss of suppression of angiogenesis.
BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of asthma have identified several risk alleles and loci, but most have been conducted in individuals with European-ancestry. Studies in Asians, especially children, are still lacking. We aimed to identify susceptibility loci by performing the first GWAS of asthma in Korean children with persistent asthma. METHODS: We used a discovery set of 741 children with persistent asthma as cases and 589 healthy children and 551 healthy adults as controls to perform a GWAS. We validated our GWAS findings using UK Biobank data. We then used the Genotype-Tissue Expression database to identify expression quantitative trait loci of candidate variants. Finally, we quantified proteins of genes associated with asthma. RESULTS: Variants at the 17q12-21 locus and SNPs in CYBRD1 and TNFSF15 genes were associated with persistent childhood asthma at genome-wide thresholds of significance. Four SNPs in the TNFSF15 gene were also associated with childhood-onset asthma in British white participants in the UK Biobank data. The asthma-associated rs7856856-C allele, the lead SNP, was associated with decreased TNFSF15 expression in whole blood and in arteries. Korean children with asthma had lower serum TNFSF15 levels than controls, and those with the asthma risk rs7856856-CC genotype exhibited the lowest serum TNFSF15 levels overall, especially asthmatic children. CONCLUSIONS: Our GWAS of persistent childhood asthma with allergic sensitization identified a new susceptibility gene, TNFSF15, and replicated associations at the 17q12-21 childhood-onset asthma locus. This novel association may be mediated by reduced expression of serum TNFSF15 and loss of suppression of angiogenesis.
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