Genome-Wide Association Study for Serum Complement C3 and C4 Levels in Healthy Chinese Subjects

Xiaobo Yang, Jielin Sun, Yong Gao, Aihua Tan, Haiying Zhang, Yanling Hu, Junjie Feng, Xue Qin, Sha Tao, Zhuo Chen, Seong-Tae Kim, Tao Peng, Ming Liao, Xiaoling Lin, Zengfeng Zhang, Minzhong Tang, Li Li, Linjian Mo, Zhengjia Liang, Deyi Shi, Zhang Huang, Xianghua Huang, Ming Liu, Qian Liu, Shijun Zhang, Jeffrey M Trent, S Lilly Zheng, Jianfeng Xu and Zengnan Mo

PLOS Genetics, 2012, vol. 8, issue 9, 1-8

Abstract: Complement C3 and C4 play key roles in the main physiological activities of complement system, and their deficiencies or over-expression are associated with many clinical infectious or immunity diseases. A two-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) was performed for serum levels of C3 and C4. The first stage was conducted in 1,999 healthy Chinese men, and the second stage was performed in an additional 1,496 subjects. We identified two SNPs, rs3753394 in CFH gene and rs3745567 in C3 gene, that are significantly associated with serum C3 levels at a genome-wide significance level (P = 7.33×10−11 and P = 1.83×10−9, respectively). For C4, one large genomic region on chromosome 6p21.3 is significantly associated with serum C4 levels. Two SNPs (rs1052693 and rs11575839) were located in the MHC class I area that include HLA-A, HLA-C, and HLA-B genes. Two SNPs (rs2075799 and rs2857009) were located 5′ and 3′ of C4 gene. The other four SNPs, rs2071278, rs3763317, rs9276606, and rs241428, were located in the MHC class II region that includes HLA-DRA, HLA-DRB, and HLA-DQB genes. The combined P-values for those eight SNPs ranged from 3.19×10−22 to 5.62×10−97. HBsAg-positive subjects have significantly lower C3 and C4 protein concentrations compared with HBsAg-negative subjects (P

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