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Association of early growth response-1 gene polymorphisms with total IgE and atopy in asthmatic children.

Authors: Chan, IH  Tang, NL  Leung, TF  Huang, W  Lam, YY  Wong, GW  Chan, JC  Chan, MH  Wong, CK  Zhang, YP  Lam, CW 
Citation: Chan IH, etal., Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2009 Mar;20(2):142-50. Epub 2008 May 28.
RGD ID: 5131993
Pubmed: PMID:18507785   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1111/j.1399-3038.2008.00757.x   (Journal Full-text)

Early growth response-1 (Egr-1) is expressed in human airways and found to modulate tumor necrosis factor, immunoglobulin E (IgE), airway responsiveness, and interleukin-13-induced inflammation in mice. We investigated the effects of Chinese-tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of Egr-1 on asthma traits in 298 Chinese asthmatic children and 175 controls, and a replication community cohort of 191 controls. Tag SNP (-4071 A-->G) and three additional SNPs (-1427 C-->T, -151 C-->T and IVS1 -42 C-->T) were genotyped by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). Significant associations were found between plasma total IgE concentration and -4071 A-->G (p = 0.008) and IVS1 -42 C-->T (p = 0.027) in asthmatic patients. After Bonferroni correction, only -4071 A-->G showed significant association. Multivariate regression analysis confirmed this significant association with a standardized coefficient beta of 0.156 (95% CI: 0.046-0.317; p = 0.009) in asthmatics among the three SNPs with age and gender-adjusted. In -4071 A-->G, IgE(log) was significantly higher in patients with the GG genotype than the AA genotype (p = 0.009). In addition, -4071 A-->G was significantly associated with atopy (p = 0.016) and high total IgE concentration (p = 0.030) among asthmatics. Patients with the G allele had a 3.5-fold risk of having atopy and a 2.0-fold risk of having high total IgE concentration than those homozygous for the A allele. This is the first report to show significant association of Egr-1 polymorphisms with plasma total IgE and atopy in asthmatics. It may help to explore the pharmacogenetics of Egr-1 inhibitors.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
asthma  IAGP 5131993DNA:snp:5' utr:g.-4071A>G rs7729723 (human)RGD 
asthma  ISOEGR1 (Homo sapiens)5131993; 5131993DNA:snp:5' utr:g.-4071A>G rs7729723 (human)RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Egr1  (early growth response 1)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Egr1  (early growth response 1)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
EGR1  (early growth response 1)


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