Innate immunity in ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection: contribution of IL8 and CSF2 gene variants to risk of trachomatous scarring in Gambians.

Angels Natividad 1, 2, * Jeremy Hull 3 Gaia Luoni 3 Martin Holland 1, 4 Kirk Rockett 3 Hassan Joof 4 Matthew Burton 1 David Mabey 1 Dominic Kwiatkowski 3 Robin Bailey 1
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1 LSHTM - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
2 Inserm U980 - Génétique Humaine des Maladies Infectieuses
3 Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
4 Medical Research Council Laboratories
Abstract : BACKGROUND: Trachoma, a chronic keratoconjunctivitis caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, is the world's commonest infectious cause of blindness. Blindness is due to progressive scarring of the conjunctiva (trachomatous scarring) leading to in-turning of eyelashes (trichiasis) and corneal opacification. We evaluated the contribution of genetic variation across the chemokine and cytokine clusters in chromosomes 4q and 5q31 respectively to risk of scarring trachoma and trichiasis in a large case-control association study in a Gambian population. METHODS: Linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping was used to investigate risk effects across the 4q and 5q31 cytokine clusters in relation to the risk of scarring sequelae of ocular Ct infection. Disease association and epistatic effects were assessed in a population based study of 651 case-control pairs by conditional logistic regression (CLR) analyses. RESULTS: LD mapping suggested that genetic effects on risk within these regions mapped to the pro-inflammatory innate immune genes interleukin 8 (IL8) and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulatory factor (CSF2) loci. The IL8-251 rare allele (IL8-251 TT) was associated with protection from scarring trachoma (OR = 0.29 p = 0.027). The intronic CSF2_27348 A allele in chromosome 5q31 was associated with dose dependent protection from trichiasis, with each copy of the allele reducing risk by 37% (p = 0.005). There was evidence of epistasis, with effects at IL8 and CSF2 loci interacting with those previously reported at the MMP9 locus, a gene acting downstream to IL8 and CSF2 in the inflammatory cascade. CONCLUSION: innate immune response SNP-haplotypes are linked to ocular Ct sequelae. This work illustrates the first example of epistatic effects of two genes on trachoma.
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BMC Medical Genetics, BioMed Central, 2009, 10 (1), pp.138. 〈10.1186/1471-2350-10-138〉
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Angels Natividad, Jeremy Hull, Gaia Luoni, Martin Holland, Kirk Rockett, et al.. Innate immunity in ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection: contribution of IL8 and CSF2 gene variants to risk of trachomatous scarring in Gambians.. BMC Medical Genetics, BioMed Central, 2009, 10 (1), pp.138. 〈10.1186/1471-2350-10-138〉. 〈inserm-00663548〉

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