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Fine-mapping inflammatory bowel disease loci to single-variant resolution

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  • Hailiang Huang
  • Ming Fang
  • Luke Jostins
  • Maša Umićević Mirkov
  • Gabrielle Boucher
  • Carl A Anderson
  • Vibeke Andersen
  • Isabelle Cleynen
  • Adrian Cortes
  • François Crins
  • Mauro D'Amato
  • Valérie Deffontaine
  • Julia Dmitrieva
  • Elisa Docampo
  • Mahmoud Elansary
  • Kyle Kai-How Farh
  • Andre Franke
  • Ann-Stephan Gori
  • Philippe Goyette
  • Jonas Halfvarson
  • Talin Haritunians
  • Jo Knight
  • Ian C Lawrance
  • Charlie W Lees
  • Edouard Louis
  • Rob Mariman
  • Theo Meuwissen
  • Myriam Mni
  • Yukihide Momozawa
  • Miles Parkes
  • Sarah L Spain
  • Emilie Théâtre
  • Gosia Trynka
  • Jack Satsangi
  • Suzanne van Sommeren
  • Severine Vermeire
  • Ramnik J Xavier
  • Rinse K Weersma
  • Richard H Duerr
  • Christopher G Mathew
  • John D Rioux
  • Dermot P B McGovern
  • Judy H Cho
  • Michel Georges
  • Mark J Daly
  • Jeffrey C Barrett
  • International Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>13/07/2017
<mark>Journal</mark>Nature
Issue number7662
Volume547
Number of pages6
Pages (from-to)173-178
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date28/06/17
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel diseases are chronic gastrointestinal inflammatory disorders that affect millions of people worldwide. Genome-wide association studies have identified 200 inflammatory bowel disease-associated loci, but few have been conclusively resolved to specific functional variants. Here we report fine-mapping of 94 inflammatory bowel disease loci using high-density genotyping in 67,852 individuals. We pinpoint 18 associations to a single causal variant with greater than 95% certainty, and an additional 27 associations to a single variant with greater than 50% certainty. These 45 variants are significantly enriched for protein-coding changes (n = 13), direct disruption of transcription-factor binding sites (n = 3), and tissue-specific epigenetic marks (n = 10), with the last category showing enrichment in specific immune cells among associations stronger in Crohn's disease and in gut mucosa among associations stronger in ulcerative colitis. The results of this study suggest that high-resolution fine-mapping in large samples can convert many discoveries from genome-wide association studies into statistically convincing causal variants, providing a powerful substrate for experimental elucidation of disease mechanisms.