TY - JOUR
T1 - Genome-wide association study in frontal fibrosing alopecia identifies four susceptibility loci including HLA-B*07:02
AU - Tziotzios, Christos
AU - Petridis, Christos
AU - Dand, Nick
AU - Ainali, Chrysanthi
AU - Saklatvala, Jake R
AU - Pullabhatla, Venu
AU - Onoufriadis, Alexandros
AU - Pramanik, Rashida
AU - Baudry, David
AU - Lee, Sang Hyuck
AU - Wood, Kristie
AU - Liu, Lu
AU - Seegobin, Seth
AU - Michelotti, Gregory A
AU - Lwin, Su M
AU - Christou, Evangelos A A
AU - Curtis, Charles J
AU - de Rinaldis, Emanuele
AU - Saxena, Alka
AU - Holmes, Susan
AU - Harries, Matthew
AU - Palamaras, Ioulios
AU - Cunningham, Fiona
AU - Parkins, Gregory
AU - Kaur, Manjit
AU - Farrant, Paul
AU - McDonagh, Andrew
AU - Messenger, Andrew
AU - Jones, Jennifer
AU - Jolliffe, Victoria
AU - Ali, Iaisha
AU - Ardern-Jones, Michael
AU - Mitchell, Charles
AU - Burrows, Nigel
AU - Atkar, Ravinder
AU - Banfield, Cedric
AU - Alexandroff, Anton
AU - Champagne, Caroline
AU - Cooper, Hywel L
AU - Vañó-Galván, Sergio
AU - Molina-Ruiz, Ana Maria
AU - Perez, Nerea Ormaechea
AU - Patel, Girish K
AU - Macbeth, Abby
AU - Page, Melanie
AU - Bryden, Alyson
AU - Mowbray, Megan
AU - Wahie, Shyamal
AU - Armstrong, Keith
AU - Cooke, Nicola
AU - Goodfield, Mark
AU - Man, Irene
AU - de Berker, David
AU - Dunnill, Giles
AU - Takwale, Anita
AU - Rao, Archana
AU - Siah, Tee-Wei
AU - Sinclair, Rodney
AU - Wade, Martin S
AU - Dlova, Ncoza C
AU - Setterfield, Jane
AU - Lewis, Fiona
AU - Bhargava, Kapil
AU - Kirkpatrick, Niall
AU - Estivill, Xavier
AU - Stefanato, Catherine M
AU - Flohr, Carsten
AU - Spector, Timothy
AU - Watt, Fiona M
AU - Smith, Catherine H
AU - Barker, Jonathan N
AU - Fenton, David A
AU - Simpson, Michael A
AU - McGrath, John A
PY - 2019/3/8
Y1 - 2019/3/8
N2 - Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a recently described inflammatory and scarring type of hair loss affecting almost exclusively women. Despite a dramatic recent increase in incidence the aetiopathogenesis of FFA remains unknown. We undertake genome-wide association studies in females from a UK cohort, comprising 844 cases and 3,760 controls, a Spanish cohort of 172 cases and 385 controls, and perform statistical meta-analysis. We observe genome-wide significant association with FFA at four genomic loci: 2p22.2, 6p21.1, 8q24.22 and 15q2.1. Within the 6p21.1 locus, fine-mapping indicates that the association is driven by the HLA-B*07:02 allele. At 2p22.1, we implicate a putative causal missense variant in CYP1B1, encoding the homonymous xenobiotic- and hormone-processing enzyme. Transcriptomic analysis of affected scalp tissue highlights overrepresentation of transcripts encoding components of innate and adaptive immune response pathways. These findings provide insight into disease pathogenesis and characterise FFA as a genetically predisposed immuno-inflammatory disorder driven by HLA-B*07:02.
AB - Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a recently described inflammatory and scarring type of hair loss affecting almost exclusively women. Despite a dramatic recent increase in incidence the aetiopathogenesis of FFA remains unknown. We undertake genome-wide association studies in females from a UK cohort, comprising 844 cases and 3,760 controls, a Spanish cohort of 172 cases and 385 controls, and perform statistical meta-analysis. We observe genome-wide significant association with FFA at four genomic loci: 2p22.2, 6p21.1, 8q24.22 and 15q2.1. Within the 6p21.1 locus, fine-mapping indicates that the association is driven by the HLA-B*07:02 allele. At 2p22.1, we implicate a putative causal missense variant in CYP1B1, encoding the homonymous xenobiotic- and hormone-processing enzyme. Transcriptomic analysis of affected scalp tissue highlights overrepresentation of transcripts encoding components of innate and adaptive immune response pathways. These findings provide insight into disease pathogenesis and characterise FFA as a genetically predisposed immuno-inflammatory disorder driven by HLA-B*07:02.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-019-09117-w
DO - 10.1038/s41467-019-09117-w
M3 - Article
C2 - 30850646
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 10
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 1150
ER -