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Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction.

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Gudbjartsson, DF; Bjornsdottir, US; Halapi, E; Helgadottir, A; Sulem, P; Jonsdottir, GM; Thorleifsson, G; Helgadottir, H; Steinthorsdottir, V ...
Published in: Nat Genet
March 2009

Eosinophils are pleiotropic multifunctional leukocytes involved in initiation and propagation of inflammatory responses and thus have important roles in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases. Here we describe a genome-wide association scan for sequence variants affecting eosinophil counts in blood of 9,392 Icelanders. The most significant SNPs were studied further in 12,118 Europeans and 5,212 East Asians. SNPs at 2q12 (rs1420101), 2q13 (rs12619285), 3q21 (rs4857855), 5q31 (rs4143832) and 12q24 (rs3184504) reached genome-wide significance (P = 5.3 x 10(-14), 5.4 x 10(-10), 8.6 x 10(-17), 1.2 x 10(-10) and 6.5 x 10(-19), respectively). A SNP at IL1RL1 associated with asthma (P = 5.5 x 10(-12)) in a collection of ten different populations (7,996 cases and 44,890 controls). SNPs at WDR36, IL33 and MYB that showed suggestive association with eosinophil counts were also associated with atopic asthma (P = 4.2 x 10(-6), 2.2 x 10(-5) and 2.4 x 10(-4), respectively). We also found that a nonsynonymous SNP at 12q24, in SH2B3, associated significantly (P = 8.6 x 10(-8)) with myocardial infarction in six different populations (6,650 cases and 40,621 controls).

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Nat Genet

DOI

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1546-1718

Publication Date

March 2009

Volume

41

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3

Start / End Page

342 / 347

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United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Receptors, Cell Surface
  • Proteins
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Myocardial Infarction
  • Leukocyte Count
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Interleukins
  • Interleukin-33
  • Interleukin-1 Receptor-Like 1 Protein
  • Iceland
 

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Gudbjartsson, D. F., Bjornsdottir, U. S., Halapi, E., Helgadottir, A., Sulem, P., Jonsdottir, G. M., … Stefansson, K. (2009). Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction. Nat Genet, 41(3), 342–347. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.323
Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Unnur S. Bjornsdottir, Eva Halapi, Anna Helgadottir, Patrick Sulem, Gudrun M. Jonsdottir, Gudmar Thorleifsson, et al. “Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction.Nat Genet 41, no. 3 (March 2009): 342–47. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.323.
Gudbjartsson DF, Bjornsdottir US, Halapi E, Helgadottir A, Sulem P, Jonsdottir GM, et al. Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction. Nat Genet. 2009 Mar;41(3):342–7.
Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., et al. “Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction.Nat Genet, vol. 41, no. 3, Mar. 2009, pp. 342–47. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/ng.323.
Gudbjartsson DF, Bjornsdottir US, Halapi E, Helgadottir A, Sulem P, Jonsdottir GM, Thorleifsson G, Helgadottir H, Steinthorsdottir V, Stefansson H, Williams C, Hui J, Beilby J, Warrington NM, James A, Palmer LJ, Koppelman GH, Heinzmann A, Krueger M, Boezen HM, Wheatley A, Altmuller J, Shin HD, Uh S-T, Cheong HS, Jonsdottir B, Gislason D, Park C-S, Rasmussen LM, Porsbjerg C, Hansen JW, Backer V, Werge T, Janson C, Jönsson U-B, Ng MCY, Chan J, So WY, Ma R, Shah SH, Granger CB, Quyyumi AA, Levey AI, Vaccarino V, Reilly MP, Rader DJ, Williams MJA, van Rij AM, Jones GT, Trabetti E, Malerba G, Pignatti PF, Boner A, Pescollderungg L, Girelli D, Olivieri O, Martinelli N, Ludviksson BR, Ludviksdottir D, Eyjolfsson GI, Arnar D, Thorgeirsson G, Deichmann K, Thompson PJ, Wjst M, Hall IP, Postma DS, Gislason T, Gulcher J, Kong A, Jonsdottir I, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K. Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction. Nat Genet. 2009 Mar;41(3):342–347.

Published In

Nat Genet

DOI

EISSN

1546-1718

Publication Date

March 2009

Volume

41

Issue

3

Start / End Page

342 / 347

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Receptors, Cell Surface
  • Proteins
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Myocardial Infarction
  • Leukocyte Count
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Interleukins
  • Interleukin-33
  • Interleukin-1 Receptor-Like 1 Protein
  • Iceland