In:
Circulation, Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), Vol. 131, No. suppl_2 ( 2015-04-28)
Abstract:
Kawasaki disease (KD; MIM611775) is a systemic vasculitis syndrome with unknown etiology which predominantly affects infants and children. Recent findings of susceptibility genes for KD have suggested up-regulation of Ca2+/NFAT pathway as one of the main pathophysiological processes in KD. In this study, we focused on ORAI1, a gene for a channel involved in store operated Ca2+ entry located on 12q24 where positive linkage signal was seen in our previous sib pair study of KD, and conducted a genetic association study. By re-sequencing 17.4kb of ORAI1 region for 94 subjects, we identified 37 variants with minor allele frequencies larger than 0.05. After selecting 9 tagging SNPs which represent 37 variants we performed an association study using 730 KD cases and 1315 controls. As a result, one tagging SNP located within exon2 showed nominal association (rs3741596; OR = 1.19, 95%CI 1.02~1.40, P = 0.028). The same trend of association was observed in an independent case control panel (1813 KD cases and 1097 controls, OR=1.22, 95% CI 1.06-1.40, P = 0.0056) and a significant P value was observed in a meta-analysis (OR = 1.21, 95%CI 1.09~1.34, P = 0.00041). Furthermore, we also found a rare 6 base-pair insertion polymorphism which cause elongation of proline repeat within N-terminal cytoplasmic domain of the ORAI1 protein was overrepresented in KD cases (rs78448924; OR = 3.91, 95%CI 1.30~11.80, P=0.010). These data indicate altered ORAI1 function confers susceptibility of KD and further highlight importance of the Ca2+/NFAT pathway in the disease pathogenesis.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0009-7322
,
1524-4539
DOI:
10.1161/circ.131.suppl_2.38
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Publication Date:
2015
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1466401-X
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