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Liubing Li1, Si Chen1,2, Qian Wang1
11 Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital , Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China .
Aim:
Racial differences and genetic overlap have been shown to be responsible for the difference in susceptibility to dermatomyositis (DM)/polymyositis (PM) in a variety of populations. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the GLI-similar 3 (GLIS3) and tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) genes have been associated with various autoimmune diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate whether SNPs in GLIS3 (rs7020673, rs10758593, and rs10814916) and TYK2 (rs280519, rs2304256, rs17000730, and rs280501) were associated with an increase in susceptibility to DM/PM in a Chinese Han population.
Materials And Methods:
SNPs in GLIS3 and TYK2 were analyzed in a cohort of 1017 patients with DM/PM and 1280 healthy controls using a Sequenom MassArray system. Association analyses were performed using the PLINK v1.07 software.
Results:
In our study, the GLIS3 polymorphisms rs7020673 and rs10758593 were initially found to be predisposing risk factors for PM and PM with interstitial lung disease (p < 0.05). Both rs7020673 and rs10758593 were associated with PM in both additive and dominant models (p < 0.05); however, these observed associations were not apparent after Bonferroni correction. Other SNPs examined in our study were not associated with susceptibility to DM/PM.
Conclusion:
GLIS3 and TYK2 polymorphisms are not associated with DM/PM in the Chinese Han population. As associations of SNPs in these genes in patients with DM/PM have been previously reported in other populations, we may conclude that the lack of association in our study may be the result of differences in genetic background. Further studies in other populations are needed to confirm our findings.
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