Authors

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2015

Publication Title

Nature Genetics

Keywords

Case-Control Studies, Dermatitis, Atopic, Ethnic Groups, Genetic Loci, Genetic Markers, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Immunity, Innate, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, T-Lymphocytes

Abstract

Genetic association studies have identified 21 loci associated with atopic dermatitis risk predominantly in populations of European ancestry. To identify further susceptibility loci for this common, complex skin disease, we performed a meta-analysis of >15 million genetic variants in 21,399 cases and 95,464 controls from populations of European, African, Japanese and Latino ancestry, followed by replication in 32,059 cases and 228,628 controls from 18 studies. We identified ten new risk loci, bringing the total number of known atopic dermatitis risk loci to 31 (with new secondary signals at four of these loci). Notably, the new loci include candidate genes with roles in the regulation of innate host defenses and T cell function, underscoring the important contribution of (auto)immune mechanisms to atopic dermatitis pathogenesis.

Medical Subject Headings

Case-Control Studies; Dermatitis, Atopic; Ethnic Groups; Genetic Loci; Genetic Markers; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Genome-Wide Association Study; Humans; Immunity, Innate; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Risk Factors; T-Lymphocytes

PubMed ID

26482879

Volume

47

Issue

12

First Page

1449

Last Page

1456

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