Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-22-2015
Publication Title
Nature Communications
Department
Geisel School of Medicine
Abstract
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a classical autoimmune liver disease for which effective immunomodulatory therapy is lacking. Here we perform meta-analyses of discovery data sets from genome-wide association studies of European subjects (n=2,764 cases and 10,475 controls) followed by validation genotyping in an independent cohort (n=3,716 cases and 4,261 controls). We discover and validate six previously unknown risk loci for PBC (Pcombined<5 × 10−8) and used pathway analysis to identify JAK-STAT/IL12/IL27 signalling and cytokine–cytokine pathways, for which relevant therapies exist.
DOI
10.1038/ncomms9019
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Cordell, Heather J.; Han, Younghun; Mells, George F.; Li, Yafang; Hirschfield, Gideon M.; Greene, Casey S.; Xie, Gang; Juran, Brian D.; Zhu, Dakai; Qian, David C.; Floyd, James A.B; Morley, Katherine I.; Prati, Daniele; Lleo, Ana; Cusi, Daniele; Canadian–US PBC Consortium; Italian PBC Genetics Study Group; UK-PBC Consortium; Gershwin, M. Eric; Anderson, Carl A.; Lazaridis, Konstantinos N.; Invernizzi, Pietro; Seldin, Michael F.; Sandford, Richard N.; Amos, Christopher I.; and Siminovitch, Katherine A., "International Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis Identifies New Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Risk Loci and Targetable Pathogenic Pathways" (2015). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2874.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2874