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Meta-Analysis
. 2011 Mar;43(3):246-52.
doi: 10.1038/ng.764. Epub 2011 Feb 6.

Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47

Carl A Anderson  1 Gabrielle BoucherCharlie W LeesAndre FrankeMauro D'AmatoKent D TaylorJames C LeePhilippe GoyetteMarcin ImielinskiAnna LatianoCaroline LagacéRegan ScottLeila AmininejadSuzannah BumpsteadLeonard BaidooRobert N BaldassanoMurray BarclayTheodore M BaylessStephan BrandCarsten BüningJean-Frédéric ColombelLee A DensonMartine De VosMarla DubinskyCathryn EdwardsDavid EllinghausRudolf S N FehrmannJames A B FloydTimothy FlorinDenis FranchimontLude FrankeMichel GeorgesJürgen GlasNicole L GlazerStephen L GutheryTalin HarituniansNicholas K HaywardJean-Pierre HugotGilles JobinDebby LaukensIan LawranceMarc LémannArie LevineCecile LibioulleEdouard LouisDermot P McGovernMonica MillaGrant W MontgomeryKatherine I MorleyCraig MowatAylwin NgWilliam NewmanRoel A OphoffLaura PapiOrazio PalmieriLaurent Peyrin-BirouletJulián PanésAnne PhillipsNatalie J PrescottDeborah D ProctorRebecca RobertsRichard RussellPaul RutgeertsJeremy SandersonMiquel SansPhilip SchummFrank SeiboldYashoda SharmaLisa A SimmsMark SeielstadA Hillary SteinhartStephan R TarganLeonard H van den BergMorten VatnHein VerspagetThomas WaltersCisca WijmengaDavid C WilsonHarm-Jan WestraRamnik J XavierZhen Z ZhaoCyriel Y PonsioenVibeke AndersenLeif TorkvistMaria GazouliNicholas P AnagnouTom H KarlsenLimas KupcinskasJurgita SventoraityteJohn C MansfieldSubra KugathasanMark S SilverbergJonas HalfvarsonJerome I RotterChristopher G MathewAnne M GriffithsRichard GearryTariq AhmadSteven R BrantMathias ChamaillardJack SatsangiJudy H ChoStefan SchreiberMark J DalyJeffrey C BarrettMiles ParkesVito AnneseHakon HakonarsonGraham Radford-SmithRichard H DuerrSéverine VermeireRinse K WeersmaJohn D Rioux
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Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47

Carl A Anderson et al. Nat Genet. 2011 Mar.

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  • Nat Genet. 2011 Sep;43(9):919

Abstract

Genome-wide association studies and candidate gene studies in ulcerative colitis have identified 18 susceptibility loci. We conducted a meta-analysis of six ulcerative colitis genome-wide association study datasets, comprising 6,687 cases and 19,718 controls, and followed up the top association signals in 9,628 cases and 12,917 controls. We identified 29 additional risk loci (P < 5 × 10(-8)), increasing the number of ulcerative colitis-associated loci to 47. After annotating associated regions using GRAIL, expression quantitative trait loci data and correlations with non-synonymous SNPs, we identified many candidate genes that provide potentially important insights into disease pathogenesis, including IL1R2, IL8RA-IL8RB, IL7R, IL12B, DAP, PRDM1, JAK2, IRF5, GNA12 and LSP1. The total number of confirmed inflammatory bowel disease risk loci is now 99, including a minimum of 28 shared association signals between Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

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