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Yang H, Zheng L, Zhang Y, Yang M, Wei S. Comments on 'Association of FcϵRIβ polymorphisms with risk of asthma and allergic rhinitis: evidence based on 29 case-control studies'. Biosci Rep 2020; 40:BSR20193424. [PMID: 32638994 DOI: 10.1042/BSR20193424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2019] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Guo et al. (Bioscience Reports (2018) 38, BSR20180177) published a meta-analysis concerning the association between five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the high-affinity IgE receptor β chain (FcεRIβ) gene, namely E237G, -109 C/T, RsaI_in2, RsaI_ex7, and I181L, and risk of asthma and allergic rhinitis based on available 29 case–control studies. Summary odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to assess the strength of association of SNPs in FcεRIβ gene with allergic diseases risk. They found that FcεRIβ E237G (237G vs. 237E: OR = 1.28, 95% CI = 1.06–1.53) and −109 C/T (TT vs. CT+CC: OR = 1.58, 95% CI = 1.26–1.98) were risk factors for allergic diseases. Guo et al.’s findings are interesting, but we found that several issues should be clarified after carefully reading the paper. Here, we intended to comment on these data clarifications.
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Yang HJ, Zheng L, Zhang XF, Yang M, Huang X. Association of the MS4A2 gene promoter C-109T or the 7th exon E237G polymorphisms with asthma risk: a meta-analysis. Clin Biochem 2014; 47:605-11. [PMID: 24495860 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2014.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2013] [Revised: 01/01/2014] [Accepted: 01/22/2014] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE A large number of studies have examined the association between the Membrane-spanning 4 domains, superfamily A, number 2 (MS4A2) gene C-109T (rs1441586) or E237G (rs569108) variants and asthma risk. However, the results are inconsistent and inconclusive. To derive a more precise estimation, a meta-analysis was performed. METHODS Meta-analyses were conducted with the data from case-control association studies (24 studies with 4496 asthmatics and 4571 controls for E237G variant and 9 studies including 2005 cases and 1868 control for C-109T polymorphisms, respectively). Random-effects model was used to calculate summary odds ratios (ORs). RESULTS For the MS4A2 gene E237G variant, no significant associations with asthma were found in overall population; we observed an elevated risk of atopic asthma among subjects with the 237G allele (OR=1.341, 95% CI: 1.039-1.732 for G versus E and OR=1.374, 95% CI: 1.032-1.828 for EG+GG versus EE) in the stratified meta-analysis. As for the MS4A2 gene C-109T polymorphism, no significant associations with asthma risk were observed in the total population; in subgroup analysis by ethnicity of subjects we found increased asthma risk among Asians carrying T allele (OR=1.140, 95% CI: 1.019-1.276 for T versus C and OR=1.359, 95% CI: 1.029-1.794 for TT versus CC). CONCLUSIONS Data indicated that the MS4A2 gene E237G variant may be a risk factor for developing atopic asthma and the promoter -109T allele is a potential risk factor of asthma in Asians.
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- Hai-Jun Yang
- Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430065, Hubei, PR China.
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hubei Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430061, Hubei, PR China
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430065, Hubei, PR China
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430065, Hubei, PR China
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Basic Medical Sciences, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430065, Hubei, PR China
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Bousquet J, Anto JM, Bachert C, Bousquet PJ, Colombo P, Crameri R, Daëron M, Fokkens W, Leynaert B, Lahoz C, Maurer M, Passalacqua G, Valenta R, van Hage M, Van Ree R. Factors responsible for differences between asymptomatic subjects and patients presenting an IgE sensitization to allergens. A GA2LEN project. Allergy 2006; 61:671-80. [PMID: 16677235 DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2006.01048.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The synthesis of allergen-specific IgE is required for the development of allergic diseases including allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma (patients), but many individuals with allergen-specific IgE do not develop symptoms (asymptomatic subjects). Differences may exist between asymptomatic subjects and patients. Whether the presence of allergen-specific IgE translates into clinical allergy most likely depends on a complex interplay of multiple factors. These include a family history of atopy, the levels of total serum IgE and, allergen-specific IgE or IgG, epitope-specificity of IgE and their degree of polyclonality (mono- vs polysensitized), as yet unidentified serum factors, the balance of T regulatory cells (Treg) and Th1/Th2 cells, the polymorphisms of the high affinity receptor for IgE (FcepsilonRI) and other factors regulating the activation of FcepsilonRI-bearing cells. Asymptomatic subjects may be more often monosensitized than patients who may be more often polysensitized. There are many unanswered important questions that need to be addressed in order to better understand how IgE sensitization translates into clinical allergy. The assessment of differences between the asymptomatic and symptomatic groups of subjects represent one of the scientific programs of Global Allergy and Asthma European Network funded by the European Union and the hypotheses underlying these differences are presented in this paper.
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MESH Headings
- Allergens/immunology
- Asthma/immunology
- Bacteria/immunology
- Down-Regulation
- Humans
- Hypersensitivity, Immediate/blood
- Hypersensitivity, Immediate/diagnosis
- Hypersensitivity, Immediate/genetics
- Hypersensitivity, Immediate/immunology
- Immunoglobulin E/blood
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Receptors, IgE/genetics
- Receptors, IgE/metabolism
- Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial/immunology
- Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal/immunology
- Superantigens/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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- J Bousquet
- Service des Maladies Respiratoires, University Hospital, Montpellier, France
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BACKGROUND The beta chain of high-affinity IgE receptor (FcepsilonRI beta) has been proposed as a candidate gene for asthma and atopic diseases. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of the E237G polymorphism of the FcepsilonRI beta gene and to investigate its association with asthma and total IgE levels in 3 Asian populations. METHODS A total of 291 asthmatic patients (141 Chinese, 68 Malay, and 82 Indian) and 355 asymptomatic blood donors (157 Chinese, 100 Malay, and 98 Indian) were recruited. The E237G genotype was determined by allele-specific polymerase chain reaction. Total serum IgE level was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. RESULTS The G allele was more common in Chinese controls (17.9%) than in Malay (11.5%) (P = .05) and Indian (9.2%) (P = .01) controls. Genotypes with the G allele were more prevalent in asthmatic patients in the Chinese population (odds ratio, 1.97; 95% confidence interval, 1.05-3.77; P = .04). CONCLUSIONS There were interethnic differences in the frequencies of the G variant among Chinese, Malay, and Indian populations. The E237G polymorphism of FcsRI beta may be a risk factor for asthma in the Chinese population.
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- Xiaozhu Zhang
- The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, University of British Columbia, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia
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Hoffjan S, Nicolae D, Ober C. Association studies for asthma and atopic diseases: a comprehensive review of the literature. Respir Res 2003; 4:14. [PMID: 14748924 PMCID: PMC314398 DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-4-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2003] [Accepted: 12/04/2003] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Hundreds of genetic association studies on asthma-related phenotypes have been conducted in different populations. To date, variants in 64 genes have been reported to be associated with asthma or related traits in at least one study. Of these, 33 associations were replicated in a second study, 9 associations were not replicated either in a second study or a second sample in the same study, and 22 associations were reported in just a single published study. These results suggest the potential for a great amount of heterogeneity underlying asthma. However, many of these studies are methodologically limited and their interpretation hampered by small sample sizes.
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- Sabine Hoffjan
- Departments of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Statistics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Traherne JA, Hill MR, Hysi P, D'Amato M, Broxholme J, Mott R, Moffatt MF, Cookson WOCM. LD mapping of maternally and non-maternally derived alleles and atopy in FcepsilonRI-beta. Hum Mol Genet 2003; 12:2577-85. [PMID: 12944417 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Polymorphisms in the beta chain of the high affinity receptor for IgE (Fc epsilon RI-beta, MS4A2) are consistently associated with traits underlying asthma and atopy (immunoglobulin E-mediated allergy). However, the causal variants and haplotypes underlying disease have not yet been identified. Maternal effects, with association confined to maternally derived alleles, have been shown in some studies but not in others. We have therefore extended the known sequence and systematically detected polymorphisms across an 18.1 Kb genomic region that includes Fc epsilon RI-beta. Association testing in two panels of subjects showed the presence of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) affecting prick skin tests and specific IgE responses in several clusters. Stepwise analyses indicated that the clusters represent independent effects. Interferon regulatory factor 2 (IRF-2) sites were altered by significantly associated SNPs in two regions. Strong association to maternally derived alleles was seen in one panel of subjects and not in the other. Maternal and non-maternally derived associations tended to share the same SNP clusters, but associations were stronger in the presence of maternal effects. Two regions of increased CpG concentration were identified in Fc epsilon RI-beta. One of these approximated a SNP cluster that showed strong association and maternal effects, providing a potential substrate for epigenetic effects.
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- James A Traherne
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Headington, UK
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Asthma is a complex genetic disorder with a heterogeneous phenotype, largely attributed to the interactions among many genes and between these genes and the environment. Numerous loci and candidate genes have been reported to show linkage and association of asthma and the asthma-associated phenotypes, atopy, elevated immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels, and bronchial hyper-responsiveness to alleles of microsatellite markers and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within specific cytokine/chemokine, and IgE regulating genes. While many studies reporting these observations are compelling, only one asthma gene conferring high risk has been mapped. In this review, we present studies that support linkage and/or associations to the various genetic loci and genes in asthma. The first genome-wide scan for linkage to quantitative traits underlying asthma identified linkage on chromosome 4q, 6, 7, 11q, 13q and 16. A genome scan in American families from three racial groups revealed linkage to chromosome 2q, 5q, 6p, 12q, 13q and 14q. A two-stage scan in Hutterite families from the US found linkage on chromosome 5q, 12q, 19q and 21q. A screen in German families identified linkage to asthma on chromosome 2q, 6p, 9 and 12q and a two-stage genome scan in French families found replicated linkage on chromosomes 1p, 12q and 17q. A study of asthma in Finland showed linkage to high IgE on 7q14. Apart from a European linkage study of 199 families with atopic dermatitis, which demonstrated significant linkage to chromosome 3q21, three other studies have reported linkage results of genome-wide significance, including a linkage study in 175 Icelandic asthma families (14q24), a study in 533 Chinese families with bronchial hyper-responsiveness (chromosome 2) and a study in 47 Japanese families with mite-sensitive atopic asthma (5q31), suggesting that these regions may harbor genes contributing to the development of asthma and allergies. While significant progress has been made in the field of asthma genetics in the past decade, the clinical implications of the genes and genetic variations within the numerous candidate asthma genes that have been found to associate with the expression of the asthmatic phenotype, remain undetermined.
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- Hakon Hakonarson
- Division of Respiratory and Pharmacogenomics Research, deCODE Genetics, Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
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Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in developed nations and is a complex disease that has high social and economic costs. Asthma and its associated intermediate phenotypes are under a substantial degree of genetic control. Identifying the genes underlying asthma offers a means of better understanding its pathogenesis, with the promise of improving preventive strategies, diagnostic tools, and therapies. A number of chromosomal regions containing genes influencing asthma and atopy have been identified consistently by different groups, and a role for several candidate genes has been established.
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Asthma is a complex genetic disorder with variable phenotype, largely attributed to the interactions of the environment and multiple genes, each potentially having small effects. Numerous asthma and atopy loci have been reported in studies demonstrating associations and/or linkage of the asthma-associated phenotypes, atopy, elevated IgE levels, and bronchial hyperresponsiveness to alleles of microsatellite markers and single nucleotide polymorphisms within specific cytokine/chemokine and IgE regulating genes. Although the studies reporting these observations are compelling, most of them lack statistical power. This review compiles the evidence that supports linkage and associations to the various genetic loci and candidate genes. Whereas significant progress has been made in the field of asthma genetics in the past decade, the roles of the genes and genetic variations within the numerous candidate asthma genes that have been found to associate with the expression of the asthmatic phenotype remain to be determined.
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Donnadieu E, Cookson WO, Jouvin MH, Kinet JP. Allergy-associated polymorphisms of the Fc epsilon RI beta subunit do not impact its two amplification functions. J Immunol 2000; 165:3917-22. [PMID: 11034399 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.7.3917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Two variants of the beta-chain of the high affinity IgE receptor Fc epsilon RI, I181L-V183L and E237G, have been found associated with allergy. We have previously shown that the beta-chain plays at least two distinct amplifier functions. It amplifies Fc epsilon RI surface expression and signaling, resulting in an estimated 12- to 30-fold amplification of downstream events. To test the hypothesis that the I181L-V183L and E237G beta variants may be functionally relevant and could directly contribute to an allergic phenotype, we have evaluated the functional impact of the beta variants on the two amplifier functions of beta. We found that these variants have no direct effect on the beta amplifier functions. However, the possibility remains that these variants are in linkage disequilibrium with other more relevant polymorphisms or are affecting unknown beta-chain functions.
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- E Donnadieu
- Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- K C Barnes
- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Zhu S, Chan-Yeung M, Becker AB, Dimich-Ward H, Ferguson AC, Manfreda J, Watson WT, Paré PD, Sandford AJ. Polymorphisms of the IL-4, TNF-alpha, and Fcepsilon RIbeta genes and the risk of allergic disorders in at-risk infants. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2000; 161:1655-9. [PMID: 10806171 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.161.5.9906086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Polymorphisms in the TNF-alpha (A-308G), IL-4 (C-589T), and Fcalpha RIbeta (E237G) genes have been associated with asthma and related phenotypes. To determine the predictive value of these polymorphisms we have assessed their relative risk (RR) for the development of atopy, asthma, and rhinitis in a high-risk infant population that is being followed longitudinally from birth. DNA was extracted and genotyped for 373 infants and 572 parents for each polymorphism. Phenotypic data were collected for atopy and allergic diseases in the infants at 12 mo of age. The prevalence of these phenotypes in the 281 white infants was compared in each genotypic group. There were no differences in the prevalence of any phenotype between genotypes of the TNF-alpha and Fcalpha RIbeta polymorphisms. However, we found that the IL4-589*T allele was associated with "probable" asthma (RR = 4.1) and that homozygotes for the IL4-589*T allele had an increased risk for the development of rhinitis (RR = 2.4). Using the transmission disequilibrium test, an association of IL4-589*T with atopy was found. We conclude that IL-4-589*T, but not TNF-alpha-308*2 or Fcalpha RIbeta*G, is a risk factor for the development of atopy, asthma, and rhinitis by 12 mo of age.
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- S Zhu
- Pulmonary Research Laboratory, St. Paul's Hospital, and Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
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