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Single nucleotide polymorphisms at the TRAF1/C5 locus are associated with rheumatoid arthritis in a Han Chinese population

BMC Medical Genetics volume 12, Article number: 53 (2011) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Genetic variants in TRAF1C5 and PTPN22 genes have been shown to be significantly associated with arthritis rheumatoid in Caucasian populations. This study investigated the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in TRAF1/C5 and PTPN22 genes and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a Han Chinese population. We genotyped SNPs rs3761847 and rs7021206 at the TRAF1/C5 locus and rs2476601 SNP in the PTPN22 gene in a Han Chinese cohort composed of 576 patients with RA and 689 controls. The concentrations of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (CCP) and rheumatoid factor (RF) were determined for all affected patients. The difference between the cases and the controls was compared using χ 2 analysis.

Results

Significant differences in SNPs rs3761847 and rs7021206 at TRAF1/C5 were observed between the case and control groups in this cohort; the allelic p-value was 0.0018 with an odds ratio of 1.28 for rs3761847 and 0.005 with an odds ratio of 1.27 for rs7021206. This significant association between rs3761847 and RA was independent of the concentrations of anti-CCP and RF. No polymorphism of rs2476601 was observed in this cohort.

Conclusions

We first demonstrated that genetic variants at the TRAF1/C5 locus are significantly associated with RA in Han Chinese, suggesting that TRAF1/C5 may play a role in the development of RA in this population, which expands the pathogenesis role of TRAF1/C5 in a different ethnicity.

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Background

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects about 1% of the adult Caucasian population and 0.37% of the Chinese population. Women are affected three times more often than men [1–3]. This disease may affect many tissues and organs; it particularly destroys synovial joints involving autoimmune features [2]. The disease can cause severe disability and even early mortality.

Although the full etiology of RA remains unclear, it is considered a complex disease caused by the interaction of genetic variants, the environment, infectious and hormonal factors [4]. The genetic variants may contribute 50-60% of the etiology of RA [5]. At least 31 RA risk loci have been confirmed associated with RA in different populations [6–14]. At TRAF1/C5 locus, both TRAF1 and C5 are possible RA-causing genes due to their biological functions. TNF is a critical cytokine in the pathogenesis of RA [15]. TRAF1 and TRAF2 form a heterodimeric complex, which is required for TNF-alpha-mediated activation of MAPK8/JNK and NF-kappaB. The protein complex formed by this protein and TRAF2 also interacts with inhibitor-of-apoptosis proteins (IAPs), and thus mediates the anti-apoptotic signals from TNF receptors. TNF antagonists are an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis [15–17]. On the other hand, the clinical and biological data for C5 are equally compelling [15]. The complement pathway has been implicated in the pathogenesis of RA for a long time [18, 19]. Complement activation leading to significant depletion of complement components has been shown in synovial fluid of patients with RA [15]. rs7021206 is located at TRAF1 intron 3 and rs3761847 is located at the upstream of TRAF1 and the down stream of C5. These variants or other causative variants at this locus may affect the function or expression levels of TRAF1 and/or C5 to lead to RA.

In this study, we investigated the association between rs7021206 and rs3761847 at the TRAF1/C5 locus and rs2476601 in the PTPN22 gene and RA in a Han Chinese population.

Methods

Patients

The Institutional Review Boards of the Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Provincial People's Hospital, North Sichuan Medical College, China, approved this study. All subjects provided informed consent before participating in the study. RA patients and normal matched controls, including individuals with a normal joint examination, were recruited at the rheumatology and Immunology clinics at Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital and North Sichuan Medical College, China. All participants went through a standard examination protocol as noted in the previous description: (http://medcalc3000.com/RheumatoidArthritis.htm, Rheumatoid Arthritis Criteria 1987 revision, American Rheumatism Association), including morning stiffness, arthritis of three or more joints, including hand joints, symmetric arthritis, rheumatoid nodules, serum rheumatoid factor, and radiographic changes. In total, 576 patients with RA and 689 normal age-matched controls were recruited. All patients enrolled in this study at least two years after clinical diagnosis of RA and the patients had five years of mean disease duration. In the normal controls, no sign of joint or other autoimmune disease was detected. Clinical information about the cases and controls is listed in Table 1.

Table 1 Characteristics of RA cases and controls matched for ages and ethnicity
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CCP and RF measurement

Sera were obtained and tested for concentrations of RF and anti-CCP in all patients. The concentrations of anti-CCP antibodies were detected with an Anti-CCP-ELISA kit (EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG, Lübeck, Germany) on a Bio Rad Bench Mark machine (Rio Rad, Hercules, CA, USA). RF was determined with an endpoint nephelometry kit (Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH, Marburg, Germany) on a DADE BEHRING BNII machine (GMI, Minnesota, USA) according to the manufacturer's manual instructions. Results were corroborated by validation at the clinical laboratory of Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan, China. Cases with anti-CCP levels higher than 20units/ml were considered positive for anti-CCP antibodies; cases with RF levels higher than 5 units/ml were considered positive for RF.

Genotyping

Based on previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and replication studies in Asians [6–13, 20], we selected rs7021206 and rs3761847 at the TRAF1/C5 locus and rs2476601 in the PTPN22 gene to genotype in the Han Chinese population. Venous blood from each subject was withdrawn and collected in an EDTA tube. Genomic DNA was extracted from the blood by serial phenol/chloroform extraction and ethanol precipitation. SNP genotyping was performed with the dye terminator-based SNaPshot method (Applied Biosystems, CA, USA). The SNP reported in this manuscript has a genotyping success rate of 97% and accuracy as judged by random re-genotyping of 10% of the samples in the cohort. For rs3761847, the PCR forward primer 5'-CCTACCTGTTCCCTCCTTCC-3', PCR reverse primer 5'-GGGATGATGATGGCAATACC-3', and SNaPshot primer 5'- AGGTAGAGAGGGTGGTATTGAGGC-3' were used in genotyping. For rs7021206, the PCR forward primer 5'-GAGAAGCAGATGGGAGAGTG-3', PCR reverse primer 5'-TGCTTGGCTAGCAGCAATTC-3', and SNaPshot primer 5'-AAGGAGAAGGAGGTGTGGACACTCGCCTGCCTCTGGTCCA-3' were used in genotyping. For rs2476601, the PCR forward primer 5'- GGCCTCAATGAACTCCTCAA-3', PCR reverse primer 5'- GGATAGCAACTGCTCCAAGG-3'and SNaPshot primer 5'-CCTCAACCACAATAAATGATTCAGGTGTCC-3' were used in genotyping.

Statistical analysis

The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) for the SNP was tested with the χ2 test. All analyses were adjusted for matching factors of age and sex factors. Allele and genotype frequencies between cases and controls were compared with the χ2 analysis. Statistical significance was defined as p < 0.05. All statistical analyses were performed using the software SPSS version 10.0.

Results

Among the 576 patients with RA, 363 of them were anti-CCP positive and 496 of them were RF positive (Table 1). Linkage disequlibrium between rs3761847 and rs7021206 was 0.23 (r2) in the Chinese cohort studied. Allele distributions both of rs3761847 and rs7021206 were within the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in both the case and control groups (p > 0.05, Table 2). We found that both rs3761847 and rs7021206 were significantly associated with RA in the cohort studied (Allelic p = 0.0018, adjusted p = 0.054 for rs3761847; allelic p = 0.005, adjusted p = 0.015 for rs7021206, Table 2). For rs3761847, the risk allele frequency was 0.58 in the patients and 0.52 in the controls. The risk allele of this SNP conferred a 1.28-fold (95% CI: 1.10~1.50) increased likelihood of RA (Table 2). For rs7021206, the risk allele frequency was 0.34 in the patients and 0.29 in the controls. The risk allele of this SNP conferred a 1.27-fold (95% CI: 1.07~1.50) increased likelihood of RA (Table 2). rs3761847 showed significant association with RA in both the anti-CCP positive and anti-CCP negative groups. The p value is 0.0015 in the anti-CCP positive group with an odds ratio (OR) of 1.33 (95% CI: 1.11-1.60; Table 3); the p value is 0.043 in the anti-CCP negative group with an OR of 1.25 (95% CI: 1.0-1.56; Table 3). rs3761847 also showed a significant association with RA in both the RF positive and negative groups. The p value was 0.0015 in the RF positive group with an OR of 1.30 (95% CI: 1.10-1.53; Table 3); the p value was 0.03 in the RF negative group with an OR of 1.44 (95% CI: 1.03-2.01; Table 3). rs7021206 also showed significant association with RA in both the anti-CCP positive and RF positive groups, (p = 2.5 × 10-4 and 1.4 × 10-4, respectively, table 3), but not in anti-CCP or RF negative groups (p = 0.065, 0.29, respectively, table 3).

Table 2 Association between rs3761847 and rs7021206 in TRAF1/C5 and RA in a Han Chinese cohort
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Table 3 Association of rs3761847 and rs7021206 in TRAF1/C5 and subgroup RA in a Han Chinese cohort
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No polymorphism was observed for rs2476601 in the cohort.

Discussion

Although at least 31 susceptibility loci/genes responsible for RA have been identified [14]; including HLA-DRB1 ([7, 13], protein tyrosine phosphatase 22 (PTPN22) gene [13, 21], tumor necrosis factor, alpha-induced protein 3 (TNFAIP3) locus on chromosome 6q [8, 9, 13], TRAF1/C5 [10, 11], STAT4 [12], interferon regulatory factor 5 isoform a (IRF5) [22], peptidylarginine deiminase (PADI4) [23], CD244 natural killer cell receptor 2B4 (CD244) [24], CD40 antigen isoform 2 precursor (CD40) [25], small inducible cytokine A21 precursor (CCL21) [25], and solute carrier family 22 member 4 (SLC22A4) [26] and others [14], only 5 loci/genes (HLA, PTPN22, TRAF1/C5, TNFAIP3, and STAT4) have been successfully replicated in different ethnicities, whereas others have been observed less systematically or further replication studies in different ethnicities are needed. Among the five successfully replicated loci, HLA showed a significant association with RA in all different ethnicities. The association of STAT4 with RA has also been successfully replicated in Asians, including Japanese, Koreans and Chinese [27–29]; and the association of TRAF1/C5 with RA has also been replicated in Japanese and Korean populations [20, 30].

Although rs2476601 (R620W) in PTPN22 has been constantly associated with RA in populations of European descent, including US [31], UK [32], Finnish [33], Swedish [34], German [35], Dutch [36], Spanish [37], and Canadian [38] populations, this SNP did not show a significant association with RA in the Japanese population [39] studied because there is a very low minor allele frequency in this population. In addition, although tag SNPs covering the PTPN22 linkage disequilibrium block were polymorphic in the Korean population, Lee et al did not reveal any disease association, and the re-sequencing did not identify any new common coding region variants in this population [40]. Consistent with results in Japanese and Korean populations, we did not find even a single minor allele of rs2476601 in the studied Chinese cohort, suggesting that rs2476601 in PTPN22 is not associated with RA in Asians.

On the other hand, genetic variants in PADI4 have shown significant association with RA in Asian populations [24, 41, 42] but not in Caucasian populations [34, 43]. Therefore, we believe the genetics of RA shows obvious ethnic differences.

rs3761847 at the TRAF1/C5 locus has been significantly associated with RA in an initial genome-wide association study (GWAS) in a North American and Swedish cohort, composed of 1493 cases and 1831 controls [11]. This finding was replicated in the second cohort composed of 485 cases and 1282 controls in a North American population [11]. In addition, using a candidate gene approach, Kurreeman et al identified that rs10818488 in TRAF1/C5 is significantly associated with RA in patients of Dutch origin [10]. This finding was confirmed in a case-control study in the population of the island of Crete, Greece [44] and a meta-analysis [45]. Kurreeman et al also confirmed the TRAF1/C5 locus as a susceptibility locus for rheumatoid arthritis in a European family-based replication study using rs10818488 at this region [46]. However, this association could not be confirmed in a Swedish cohort composed of 568 cases and 516 controls. Chang et al [15], carried out a multi-tiered, case-controlled association study, genotyping 25,966 putative functional SNPs in an initial North America cohort, composed of 475 cases and 475 controls and two replication cohorts (661 cases/1322 controls from North America and 596 cases/705 controls from the Netherlands). The authors identified an SNP, rs1953126 at the TRAF1/C5 locus that was significantly associated with RA (OR = 1.28, trend p = 1.45 × 10-6). Through a comprehensive fine-scale-mapping study, they found a variety of analyses identified SNPs in a 70 kb region extending from the third intron of PHF19 across TRAF1 into the TRAF1-C5 intergenic region, excluding the C5 coding region. This study suggested that TRAF1 is the RA gene at the TRAF1-C5 locus, but further studies are needed to confirm this conclusion.

In recent studies, rs3761847 has been shown to be significantly associated with RA in Japanese [30]. Our results further confirmed that rs3761847 at the TRAF1/C5 was associated with RA in Han Chinese Asians, and this association might not depend on the concentrations of anti-CCP antibodies or RF. Thus, TRAF1/C5 is another locus playing a role in RA development in different ethnicities. We observed that rs3761847 A increased the risk for RA in the present study, which is consistent with the results observed in a Japanese population [30], however, this is the opposite of the original studies in Caucasian populations, in which rs3761847 A decreased the risk of RA. In addition, rs3761847 did not show a significant association with RA in the Korean population [20, 30]. On the other hand, we found that rs7021206 at intron 3 of TRAF1 was showed significant association with RA in the Han Chinese in this study, which is consistent with previous studies in Korean and Caucasian populations [20]. This indicated that rs7021206, but not rs376184, may be the true causative allele at the TRAF1-C5 locus [20, 47]; However, the true causative allele in this region needs to be further investigated.

The significant association between rs3761847 and RA was observed in both anti-CCP and RF positive groups and negative groups, suggesting that this significant association between TRAF1-C1 and RA was independent of the concentrations of anti-CCP and RF [20]. No significant association was observed between rs7021206 and RA in anti-CCP and RF negative groups; this may be because of small sample size in these groups in the current studies.

Other studies indicate genetic variants at the TRAF1/C5 locus are associated with autoimmune diseases affecting multiple organs, such as systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) [48, 49], and juvenile idiopathic arthritis [50–52]. Thus, the functional study of TRAF1/C5 with autoimmune disease may provide an insight into the pathogenesis and treatment of these diseases as well as RA.

Conclusions

We first demonstrated that genetic variants rs3761847 and rs7021206 in TRAF1/C5 locus are significantly associated with RA in the Han Chinese, suggesting that TRAF1/C5 may play a role in the development RA in this population, which expands the pathogenesis role of TRAF1/C5 in a different ethnicity. Unlike in Caucasian populations, rs2476601 in the PTPN22 gene did not show polymorphism in the Han Chinese population being studied, suggesting that either other genetic variants in this gene are associated with RA in the Han Chinese population or PTPN22 has nothing to do with RA the population.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the participating RA patients and their families. The authors acknowledge the following grant support: Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province grant 08ZC0479 ( to Z. Yang) and Department of Public Health of Sichuan Province grants 080326 (to J. Zhu) and 070062 (to Z. Yang).

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    1. Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

      Jing Zhu, Bin Zhou, Jian Liu, Wubin Long, Xiaodan Wu & Tong Wu

    2. Center for Human Molecular Biology & Genetics, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

      Jing Zhu, Dinging Zhang, Fei He, Xiaoqi Liu, Fang Lu, Ruijun Luo, Shi Ma, Yi Shi, Ying Lin, Jiyun Yang & Zhenglin Yang

    3. Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

      Dinging Zhang, Fei He, Xiaoqi Liu, Fang Lu, Shi Ma, Yi Shi, Ying Lin, Jiyun Yang & Zhenglin Yang

    4. Institute of Rheumatology and Immunology, Affiliated Hospital, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan, China

      Fengxia Wu, Jianping Liu, Minghui Yang & Guohua Yuan

    5. Department of Rheumatology, People's Hospital of Xin Jiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumchi, Xin Jiang, China

      Lijun Wu

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    Designed the study: ZY and JZ; collected samples and experiments: JZ, DZ, FW, LW, BZ, JL, FL, JL, RL, WL, MY, SM, XW, YS, TW, YL, JY, GY and ZY; performed the data analysis: XL and ZY; writing the manuscript: ZY. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

    Jing Zhu, Dinging Zhang, Fengxia Wu, Fei He contributed equally to this work.

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    Zhu, J., Zhang, D., Wu, F. et al. Single nucleotide polymorphisms at the TRAF1/C5 locus are associated with rheumatoid arthritis in a Han Chinese population. BMC Med Genet 12, 53 (2011). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/1471-2350-12-53

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