HLA-DQB1*03 Confers Susceptibility to Chronic Hepatitis C in Japanese: A Genome-Wide Association Study

Daiki Miki, Hidenori Ochi, Atsushi Takahashi, C Nelson Hayes, Yuji Urabe, Hiromi Abe, Tomokazu Kawaoka, Masataka Tsuge, Nobuhiko Hiraga, Michio Imamura, Yoshiiku Kawakami, Hiroshi Aikata, Shoichi Takahashi, Norio Akuta, Fumitaka Suzuki, Kenji Ikeda, Hiromitsu Kumada, Yoshiyasu Karino, Joji Toyota, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Michiaki Kubo, Naoyuki Kamatani, Yusuke Nakamura and Kazuaki Chayama

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 12, 1-

Abstract: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) establishes a chronic infection in 70-80% of infected individuals. Many researchers have examined the effect of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) on viral persistence because of its critical role in the immune response against exposure to HCV, but almost all studies have proven to be inconclusive. To identify genetic risk factors for chronic HCV infection, we analyzed 458,207 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 481 chronic HCV patients and 2,963 controls in a Japanese cohort. Next, we performed a replication study with an independent panel of 4,358 cases and 1,114 controls. We further confirmed the association in 1,379 cases and 25,817 controls. In the GWAS phase, we found 17 SNPs that showed suggestive association (P

Date: 2013
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