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Affiliation
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory, Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK. Jason.Cooper@cimr.cam.ac.uk
Authors
Cooper JD, Downes K, Healy BC, Smyth DJ, Todd JA, Type I Diabetes Genetics Consortium, Walker NM
Studies
Citation
Cooper JD, Walker NM, Healy BC, Smyth DJ, Downes K, Todd JA, Type I Diabetes Genetics Consortium. Analysis of 55 autoimmune disease and type II diabetes loci: further confirmation of chromosomes 4q27, 12q13.2 and 12q24.13 as type I diabetes loci, and support for a new locus, 12q13.3-q14.1. Genes Immun 2009 Dec;10 Suppl 1:S95-120.Abstract
A candidate gene study was conducted on 10 established type II diabetes genes and 45 genes associated with autoimmune diseases, including type I diabetes (T1D), in a maximum of 1410 affected sib-pair families assembled by the Type I Diabetes Genetics Consortium. Associations at P values <10(-3) were found for three known T1D regions at chromosomes 4q27, 12q13.2 and 12q24.13 (http://www.T1DBase.org). Support was obtained for a newly identified T1D candidate locus on chromosome 12q13.3-12q14.1 (rs1678536/KIF5A: P=8.1 x 10(-3); relative risk (RR) for minor allele=0.89, 95% CI=0.82-0.97), which has a separate association from the previously reported T1D candidate locus ERBB3/12q13.2-q13.3. Our new evidence adds to that previously published for the same gene region in a T1D case-control study (rs1678542; P=3.0 x 10(-4); odds ratio (OR)=0.92, 95% CI=0.88-0.96). This region, which contains many genes, has also been associated with rheumatoid arthritis.