Functional rare and low frequency variants in BLK and BANK1 contribute to human lupus
Jiang, Simon, Athanasopoulos, Vicki, Ellyard, Julia, Chuah, Aaron, Cappello, Jean, Cook, Amelia, Prabhu, Savit B., Cardenas, Jacob, Gu, Jinghua, Stanley, Maurice, Roco, Jonathan A., Papa, Ilenia, Yabas, Mehmet, Walters, Giles D., Burgio, Gaetan, McKeon, Kathryn, Byers, James M., Burrin, Charlotte, Enders, Anselm, Miosge, Lisa A., Canete, Pablo F., Jelusic, Marjia, Tasic, Velibor, Lungu, Adrian C., Alexander, Stephen I., Kitching, Arthur R., Fulcher, David, Shen, Nan, Arsov, Todor, Gatenby, Paul A., Babon, Jeff J., Mallon, Dominic F., de Lucas Collantes, Carmen, Stone, Eric A., Wu, Philip, Field, Matt, Andrews, Thomas D., Cho, Eun, Pascual, Virginia, Cook, Matthew, and Vinuesa, Carola G. (2019) Functional rare and low frequency variants in BLK and BANK1 contribute to human lupus. Nature Communications, 10. 2201.
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Abstract
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is the prototypic systemic autoimmune disease. It is thought that many common variant gene loci of weak effect act additively to predispose to common autoimmune diseases, while the contribution of rare variants remains unclear. Here we describe that rare coding variants in lupus-risk genes are present in most SLE patients and healthy controls. We demonstrate the functional consequences of rare and low frequency missense variants in the interacting proteins BLK and BANK1, which are present alone, or in combination, in a substantial proportion of lupus patients. The rare variants found in patients, but not those found exclusively in controls, impair suppression of IRF5 and type-I IFN in human B cell lines and increase pathogenic lymphocytes in lupus-prone mice. Thus, rare gene variants are common in SLE and likely contribute to genetic risk.
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
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| Funders: | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jul 2019 23:49 |
| FoR Codes: | 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3204 Immunology > 320406 Immunogenetics (incl. genetic immunology) @ 50% 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3102 Bioinformatics and computational biology > 310204 Genomics and transcriptomics @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 92 HEALTH > 9201 Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) > 920108 Immune System and Allergy @ 100% |
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