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Refined Murine Model of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Published on: June 17, 2025
Novel idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis susceptibility variants revealed by deep sequencing
Jose M Lorenzo-Salazar1,2, Shwu-Fan Ma3,2, Jonathan Jou4,2
1Genomics Division, Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
Background:
Specific common and rare single nucleotide variants (SNVs) increase the likelihood of developing sporadic idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). We performed target-enriched sequencing on three loci previously identified by a genome-wide association study to gain a deeper understanding of the full spectrum of IPF genetic risk and performed a two-stage case-control association study.
Methods:
A total of 1.7 Mb of DNA from 181 IPF patients was deep sequenced (>100×) across 11p15.5, 14q21.3 and 17q21.31 loci. Comparisons were performed against 501 unrelated controls and replication studies were assessed in 3968 subjects.
Results:
36 SNVs were associated with IPF susceptibility in the discovery stage (p<5.0×10-8). After meta-analysis, the strongest association corresponded to rs35705950 (p=9.27×10-57) located upstream from the mucin 5B gene (MUC5B). Additionally, a novel association was found for two co-inherited low-frequency SNVs (<5%) in MUC5AC, predicting a missense amino acid change in mucin 5AC (lowest p=2.27×10-22). Conditional and haplotype analyses in 11p15.5 supported the existence of an additional contribution of MUC5AC variants to IPF risk.
Conclusions:
This study reinforces the significant IPF associations of these loci and implicates MUC5AC as another key player in IPF susceptibility.
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