In:
Scientific Reports, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 8, No. 1 ( 2018-05-21)
Abstract:
We have performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) including 473 Japanese HBV (hepatitis B virus)-positive HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma) patients and 516 HBV carriers including chronic hepatitis and asymptomatic carrier individuals to identify new host genetic factors associated with HBV-derived HCC in Japanese and other East Asian populations. We identified 65 SNPs with P values 〈 10 −4 located within the HLA class I region and three SNPs were genotyped in three independent population-based replication sets. Meta-analysis confirmed the association of the three SNPs (rs2523961: OR = 1.73, P = 7.50 × 10 −12 ; rs1110446: OR = 1.79, P = 1.66 × 10 −13 ; and rs3094137: OR = 1.73, P = 7.09 × 10 −9 ). We then performed two-field HLA genotype imputation for six HLA loci using genotyping data to investigate the association between HLA alleles and HCC. HLA allele association testing revealed that HLA-A * 33:03 (OR = 1.97, P = 4.58 × 10 −4 ) was significantly associated with disease progression to HCC. Conditioning analysis of each of the three SNPs on the HLA class I region abolished the association of HLA-A * 33:03 with disease progression to HCC. However, conditioning the HLA allele could not eliminate the association of the three SNPs, suggesting that additional genetic factors may exist in the HLA class I region.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2045-2322
DOI:
10.1038/s41598-018-26217-7
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Date:
2018
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2615211-3