RGD Reference Report - Association of SLC11A1 with tuberculosis and interactions with NOS2A and TLR2 in African-Americans and Caucasians. - Rat Genome Database

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Association of SLC11A1 with tuberculosis and interactions with NOS2A and TLR2 in African-Americans and Caucasians.

Authors: Velez, DR  Hulme, WF  Myers, JL  Stryjewski, ME  Abbate, E  Estevan, R  Patillo, SG  Gilbert, JR  Hamilton, CD  Scott, WK 
Citation: Velez DR, etal., Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2009 Sep;13(9):1068-76.
RGD ID: 4145323
Pubmed: PMID:19723394   (View Abstract at PubMed)
PMCID: PMC2902362   (View Article at PubMed Central)

SETTING: Host defense factors may influence the development of active tuberculosis (TB). OBJECTIVE: To test variants in solute carrier family 11A, member 1 (SLC11A1), for an association with TB. METHODS: A mixed case-control study of TB cases, relatives or close contact controls, consisting of 474 African-Americans (243 families) and 381 Caucasians (192 families), examined 13 SLC11A1 polymorphisms for association with pulmonary TB using generalized estimating equations adjusting for age and sex. RESULTS: Two associations were observed in Caucasians (rs3731863, P = 0.03, and rs17221959, P = 0.04) and one in African-Americans (rs3731865, P = 0.05). Multilocus analyses between polymorphisms in SLC11A1 and 11 TB candidate genes detected interactions between SLC11A1 and inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS2A) in Caucasians (rs3731863 [SLC11A1] x rs8073782 [NOS2A], P = 0.009; rs3731863 [SLC11A1] x rs17722851 [NOS2A], P = 0.007) and toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) in African-Americans (rs3731865 [SLC11A1] x rs1816702, P = 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: No association was detected with 5'(GT)(n) promoter polymorphism previously associated with lower SLC11A1 expression, rs17235409 (D543N), or rs17235416 (3' TGTG insertion/deletion polymorphism). SLC11A1 polymorphism rs3731865 was associated with TB in African-Americans, consistent with previous findings in West Africans. These results suggest that variants in SLC11A1 increase susceptibility to pulmonary TB and interact with other variants that differ by race.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
pulmonary tuberculosis susceptibilityIAGP 4145323DNA:SNP: :rs1816702 (human)RGD 
pulmonary tuberculosis susceptibilityISOTLR2 (Homo sapiens)4145323; 4145323DNA:SNP: :rs1816702 (human)RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Tlr2  (toll-like receptor 2)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Tlr2  (toll-like receptor 2)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
TLR2  (toll like receptor 2)


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