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Lupus-related single nucleotide polymorphisms and risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
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Lupus-related single nucleotide polymorphisms and risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Sasha Bernatsky, Héctor A Velásquez García, John J Spinelli, Patrick Gaffney, Karin E Smedby, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Sophia S Wang, Hans-Olov Adami, Demetrius Albanes, Emanuele Angelucci, …
Lupus science & medicine, Vol.4(1), pp.e000187-e000187
10/2017
DOI: 10.1136/lupus-2016-000187
PMCID: PMC5715504
PMID: 29214033
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https://doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2016-000187View
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Abstract

ObjectiveDeterminants of the increased risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in SLE are unclear. Using data from a recent lymphoma genome-wide association study (GWAS), we assessed whether certain lupus-related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were also associated with DLBCL.MethodsGWAS data on European Caucasians from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph) provided a total of 3857 DLBCL cases and 7666 general-population controls. Data were pooled in a random-effects meta-analysis.ResultsAmong the 28 SLE-related SNPs investigated, the two most convincingly associated with risk of DLBCL included the CD40 SLE risk allele rs4810485 on chromosome 20q13 (OR per risk allele=1.09, 95% CI 1.02 to 1.16, p=0.0134), and the HLA SLE risk allele rs1270942 on chromosome 6p21.33 (OR per risk allele=1.17, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.36, p=0.0362). Of additional possible interest were rs2205960 and rs12537284. The rs2205960 SNP, related to a cytokine of the tumour necrosis factor superfamily TNFSF4, was associated with an OR per risk allele of 1.07, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.16, p=0.0549. The OR for the rs12537284 (chromosome 7q32, IRF5 gene) risk allele was 1.08, 95% CI 0.99 to 1.18, p=0.0765.ConclusionsThese data suggest several plausible genetic links between DLBCL and SLE.

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