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Common variants at 9p21 and 8q22 are associated with increased susceptibility to optic nerve degeneration in glaucoma.
- Author(s): Wiggs, Janey L
- Yaspan, Brian L
- Hauser, Michael A
- Kang, Jae H
- Allingham, R Rand
- Olson, Lana M
- Abdrabou, Wael
- Fan, Bao J
- Wang, Dan Y
- Brodeur, Wendy
- Budenz, Donald L
- Caprioli, Joseph
- Crenshaw, Andrew
- Crooks, Kristy
- Delbono, Elizabeth
- Doheny, Kimberly F
- Friedman, David S
- Gaasterland, Douglas
- Gaasterland, Terry
- Laurie, Cathy
- Lee, Richard K
- Lichter, Paul R
- Loomis, Stephanie
- Liu, Yutao
- Medeiros, Felipe A
- McCarty, Cathy
- Mirel, Daniel
- Moroi, Sayoko E
- Musch, David C
- Realini, Anthony
- Rozsa, Frank W
- Schuman, Joel S
- Scott, Kathleen
- Singh, Kuldev
- Stein, Joshua D
- Trager, Edward H
- Vanveldhuisen, Paul
- Vollrath, Douglas
- Wollstein, Gadi
- Yoneyama, Sachiko
- Zhang, Kang
- Weinreb, Robert N
- Ernst, Jason
- Kellis, Manolis
- Masuda, Tomohiro
- Zack, Don
- Richards, Julia E
- Pericak-Vance, Margaret
- Pasquale, Louis R
- Haines, Jonathan L
- et al.
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002654Abstract
Optic nerve degeneration caused by glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Patients affected by the normal-pressure form of glaucoma are more likely to harbor risk alleles for glaucoma-related optic nerve disease. We have performed a meta-analysis of two independent genome-wide association studies for primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) followed by a normal-pressure glaucoma (NPG, defined by intraocular pressure (IOP) less than 22 mmHg) subgroup analysis. The single-nucleotide polymorphisms that showed the most significant associations were tested for association with a second form of glaucoma, exfoliation-syndrome glaucoma. The overall meta-analysis of the GLAUGEN and NEIGHBOR dataset results (3,146 cases and 3,487 controls) identified significant associations between two loci and POAG: the CDKN2BAS region on 9p21 (rs2157719 [G], OR = 0.69 [95%CI 0.63-0.75], p = 1.86×10⁻¹⁸), and the SIX1/SIX6 region on chromosome 14q23 (rs10483727 [A], OR = 1.32 [95%CI 1.21-1.43], p = 3.87×10⁻¹¹). In sub-group analysis two loci were significantly associated with NPG: 9p21 containing the CDKN2BAS gene (rs2157719 [G], OR = 0.58 [95% CI 0.50-0.67], p = 1.17×10⁻¹²) and a probable regulatory region on 8q22 (rs284489 [G], OR = 0.62 [95% CI 0.53-0.72], p = 8.88×10⁻¹⁰). Both NPG loci were also nominally associated with a second type of glaucoma, exfoliation syndrome glaucoma (rs2157719 [G], OR = 0.59 [95% CI 0.41-0.87], p = 0.004 and rs284489 [G], OR = 0.76 [95% CI 0.54-1.06], p = 0.021), suggesting that these loci might contribute more generally to optic nerve degeneration in glaucoma. Because both loci influence transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) signaling, we performed a genomic pathway analysis that showed an association between the TGF-beta pathway and NPG (permuted p = 0.009). These results suggest that neuro-protective therapies targeting TGF-beta signaling could be effective for multiple forms of glaucoma.
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