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Association of early growth response‐1 gene polymorphisms with total IgE and atopy in asthmatic children
Author(s) -
Chan Iris H. S.,
Tang Nelson L. S.,
Leung Ting F.,
Huang W.,
Lam Yvonne Y. O.,
Wong Gary W. K.,
Chan Juliana C. N.,
Chan Michael H. M.,
Wong Chun K.,
Zhang Ya P.,
Lam Christopher W. K.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pediatric allergy and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1399-3038
pISSN - 0905-6157
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3038.2008.00757.x
Subject(s) - atopy , single nucleotide polymorphism , immunoglobulin e , medicine , genotype , asthma , immunology , snp , allele , antibody , gene , biology , genetics
Early growth response‐1 ( Egr‐1 ) is expressed in human airways and found to modulate tumor necrosis factor, immunoglobulin E (IgE), airway responsiveness, and interleukin‐13‐induced inflammation in mice. We investigated the effects of Chinese‐tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of Egr‐1 on asthma traits in 298 Chinese asthmatic children and 175 controls, and a replication community cohort of 191 controls. Tag SNP (−4071 A→G) and three additional SNPs (−1427 C→T, −151 C→T and IVS1 −42 C→T) were genotyped by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). Significant associations were found between plasma total IgE concentration and −4071 A→G (p = 0.008) and IVS1 −42 C→T (p = 0.027) in asthmatic patients. After Bonferroni correction, only −4071 A→G showed significant association. Multivariate regression analysis confirmed this significant association with a standardized coefficient β of 0.156 (95% CI: 0.046–0.317; p = 0.009) in asthmatics among the three SNPs with age and gender‐adjusted. In −4071 A→G, IgE log was significantly higher in patients with the GG genotype than the AA genotype (p = 0.009). In addition, −4071 A→G was significantly associated with atopy (p = 0.016) and high total IgE concentration (p = 0.030) among asthmatics. Patients with the G allele had a 3.5‐fold risk of having atopy and a 2.0‐fold risk of having high total IgE concentration than those homozygous for the A allele. This is the first report to show significant association of Egr‐1 polymorphisms with plasma total IgE and atopy in asthmatics. It may help to explore the pharmacogenetics of Egr‐1 inhibitors.