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Variants of ST8SIA1 Are Associated with Risk of Developing Multiple Sclerosis

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posted on 2023-06-23, 11:07 authored by S Husain, C Yildirim-Toruner, JP Rubio, J Field, TJ Kilpatrick, Simon James FooteSimon James Foote, H Butzkueven, Bruce TaylorBruce Taylor, N Tubridy, M Marriott, C Chapman, M Bahlo, T Speed, Jim Stankovich, M Shwalb, S Cook, M Devoto, E Vitale
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system of unknown etiology with both genetic and environmental factors playing a role in susceptibility. To date, the HLA DR15/DQ6 haplotype within the major histocompatibility complex on chromosome 6p, is the strongest genetic risk factor associated with MS susceptibility. Additional alleles of IL7 and IL2 have been identified as risk factors for MS with small effect. Here we present two independent studies supporting an allelic association of MS with polymorphisms in the ST8SIA1 gene, located on chromosome 12p12 and encoding ST8 alpha-N-acetyl-neuraminide alpha-2,8-sialyltransferase 1. The initial association was made in a single three-generation family where a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs4762896, was segregating together with HLA DR15/DQ6 in MS patients. A study of 274 family trios (affected child and both unaffected parents) from Australia validated the association of ST8SIA1 in individuals with MS, showing transmission disequilibrium of the paternal alleles for three additional SNPs, namely rs704219, rs2041906, and rs1558793, with p=0.001, p=0.01 and p=0.01 respectively. These findings implicate ST8SIA1 as a possible novel susceptibility gene for MS. © 2008 Husain et al.

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PLOS One

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3

Issue

7

Article number

7

Number

7

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e2653

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1932-6203

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Menzies Institute for Medical Research

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Public Library of Science

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  • Published

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Copyright: Copyright 2008 Husain et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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200199 Clinical health not elsewhere classified

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