Meta-analysis of 208370 East Asians identifies 113 susceptibility loci for systemic lupus erythematosus.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disorder, has been associated with nearly 100 susceptibility loci. Nevertheless, these loci only partially explain SLE heritability and their putative causal variants are rarely prioritised, which make challenging to elucidate disease biology. To detect new SLE loci and causal variants, we performed the largest genome-wide meta-analysis for SLE in East Asian populations.

Methods

We newly genotyped 10 029 SLE cases and 180 167 controls and subsequently meta-analysed them jointly with 3348 SLE cases and 14 826 controls from published studies in East Asians. We further applied a Bayesian statistical approach to localise the putative causal variants for SLE associations.

Results

We identified 113 genetic regions

SUBMITTER: Yin X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8053352 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature