A genome-wide association study of atopic dermatitis identifies loci with overlapping effects on asthma and psoriasis.

ABSTRACT: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is the most common dermatological disease of childhood. Many children with AD have asthma and AD shares regions of genetic linkage with psoriasis, another chronic inflammatory skin disease. We present here a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of childhood-onset AD in 1563 European cases with known asthma status and 4054 European controls. Using Illumina genotyping followed by imputation, we generated 268 034 consensus genotypes and in excess of 2 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for analysis. Association signals were assessed for replication in a second panel of 2286 European cases and 3160 European controls. Four loci achieved genome-wide significance for AD and replicated consistently across all cohorts. These included the epidermal differentiation

SUBMITTER: Weidinger S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3820131 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature