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Genetic variation in the familial Mediterranean fever gene (MEFV) and risk for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Villani, Alexandra-Chloé; Lemire, Mathieu; Louis, Edouard et al.
2009In PLoS ONE, 4 (9), p. 7154
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[en] BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) gene (MEFV) encodes pyrin, a major regulator of the inflammasome platform controlling caspase-1 activation and IL-1beta processing. Pyrin has been shown to interact with the gene product of NLRP3, NALP3/cryopyrin, also an important active member of the inflammasome. The NLRP3 region was recently reported to be associated with Crohn's disease (CD) susceptibility. We therefore sought to evaluate MEFV as an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) susceptibility gene. METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS: MEFV colonic mucosal gene expression was significantly increased in experimental colitis mice models (TNBS p<0.0003; DSS p<0.006), in biopsies from CD (p<0.02) and severe ulcerative colitis (UC) patients (p<0.008). Comprehensive genetic screening of the MEFV region in the Belgian exploratory sample set (440 CD trios, 137 UC trios, 239 CD cases, 96 UC cases, and 107 healthy controls) identified SNPs located in the MEFV 5' haplotype block that were significantly associated with UC (rs224217; p = 0.003; A allele frequency: 56% cases, 45% controls), while no CD associations were observed. Sequencing and subsequent genotyping of variants located in this associated haplotype block identified three synonymous variants (D102D/rs224225, G138G/rs224224, A165A/rs224223) and one non-synonymous variant (R202Q/rs224222) located in MEFV exon 2 that were significantly associated with UC (rs224222: p = 0.0005; A allele frequency: 32% in cases, 23% in controls). No consistent associations were observed in additional Canadian (256 CD trios, 91 UC trios) and Scottish (495 UC, 370 controls) sample sets. We note that rs224222 showed marginal association (p = 0.012; G allele frequency: 82% in cases, 70% in controls) in the Canadian sample, but with a different risk allele. None of the NLRP3 common variants were associated with UC in the Belgian-Canadian UC samples and no significant interactions were observed between NLRP3 and MEFV that could explain the observed flip-flop of the rs224222 risk allele. CONCLUSION: The differences in association levels observed between the sample sets may be a consequence of distinct founder effects or of the relative small sample size of the cohorts evaluated in this study. However, the results suggest that common variants in the MEFV region do not contribute to CD and UC susceptibility.
Disciplines :
Gastroenterology & hepatology
Author, co-author :
Villani, Alexandra-Chloé
Lemire, Mathieu
Louis, Edouard  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Hépato-gastroentérologie - Relations académiques et scientifiques (Médecine)
Silverberg, Mark S.
Collette, Catherine
Fortin, Geneviève
Nimmo, Elaine R.
Renaud, Yannick
Brunet, Sébastien;  McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre
Libioulle, Cécile  ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Génétique
Belaiche, Jacques ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Gastro-Entérologie-Hépatologie
Bitton, Alain
Gaudet, Daniel
Cohen, Albert
Langelier, Diane
Rioux, John D
Arnott, Ian D R
Wild, Gary E
Rutgeerts, Paul
Satsangi, Jack
Vermeire, Severine
Hudson, Thomas J
Franchimont, Denis
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Language :
English
Title :
Genetic variation in the familial Mediterranean fever gene (MEFV) and risk for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Publication date :
2009
Journal title :
PLoS ONE
eISSN :
1932-6203
Publisher :
Public Library of Science, San Franscisco, United States - California
Volume :
4
Issue :
9
Pages :
e7154
Peer reviewed :
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