Targeted high-throughput sequencing of candidate genes for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Matsson H, Söderhäll C, Einarsdottir E, Lamontagne M, Gudmundsson S, Backman H, Lindberg A, Rönmark E, Kere J, Sin D, Postma DS, Bossé Y, Lundbäck B, Klar J
BMC Pulm Med 16 (1) 146 [2016-11-11; online 2016-11-11]
Reduced lung function in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is likely due to both environmental and genetic factors. We report here a targeted high-throughput DNA sequencing approach to identify new and previously known genetic variants in a set of candidate genes for COPD. Exons in 22 genes implicated in lung development as well as 61 genes and 10 genomic regions previously associated with COPD were sequenced using individual DNA samples from 68 cases with moderate or severe COPD and 66 controls matched for age, gender and smoking. Cases and controls were selected from the Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden (OLIN) studies. In total, 37 genetic variants showed association with COPD (p < 0.05, uncorrected). Several variants previously discovered to be associated with COPD from genetic genome-wide analysis studies were replicated using our sample. Two high-risk variants were followed-up for functional characterization in a large eQTL mapping study of 1,111 human lung specimens. The C allele of a synonymous variant, rs8040868, predicting a p.(S45=) in the gene for cholinergic receptor nicotinic alpha 3 (CHRNA3) was associated with COPD (p = 8.8 x 10 Our data replicate previous result suggesting CHRNA5 as a candidate gene for COPD and rs8040868 as a risk variant for the development of COPD in the Swedish population.
PubMed 27835950
DOI 10.1186/s12890-016-0309-y
Crossref 10.1186/s12890-016-0309-y
pii: 10.1186/s12890-016-0309-y
pmc: PMC5106844