Current advances in the human lupus genetics

Current Rheumatology Reports
Nan Shen, Betty P Tsao

Abstract

Genetic predisposition has been firmly established as a key element in susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). During the past three decades, association studies have assessed many genes for potential roles in predisposing to SLE. These studies have identified a few risk factors including hereditary deficiency of complement components, major histocompatibility complex class II alleles, and allelic variants for the Fc portion of IgG (FCGR) genes. In recent years, a few groups have completed linkage analyses in data sets from families containing multiple members affected with SLE. Results from these initial genome scans are encouraging; approximately eight chromosomal regions have been identified exhibiting evidence for significant linkage to SLE and have been confirmed using independent cohorts (1q23, 1q25-31, 1q41-42, 2q35-37, 4p16-15.2, 6p11-21, 12q24, and 16q12), suggesting the high likelihood of the presence of one or multiple SLE susceptibility genes at each locus. Another approach of linkage analyses conditioned on pedigrees where one affected member manifesting a particular clinical condition has also identified many chromosomal regions linked to SLE. Within several established susceptibility loci, evidence ...Continue Reading

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