Authors
Barbara Hrdlickova, Vinod Kumar, Kartiek Kanduri, Daria V Zhernakova, Subhash Tripathi, Juha Karjalainen, Riikka J Lund, Yang Li, Ubaid Ullah, Rutger Modderman, Wayel Abdulahad, Harri Lähdesmäki, Lude Franke, Riitta Lahesmaa, Cisca Wijmenga, Sebo Withoff
Publication date
2014/12
Journal
Genome medicine
Volume
6
Pages
1-14
Publisher
BioMed Central
Description
Background
Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of variants associated with a risk for autoimmune and immune-related disorders (AID), our understanding of the disease mechanisms is still limited. In particular, more than 90% of the risk variants lie in non-coding regions, and almost 10% of these map to long non-coding RNA transcripts (lncRNAs). lncRNAs are known to show more cell-type specificity than protein-coding genes.
Methods
We aimed to characterize lncRNAs and protein-coding genes located in loci associated with nine AIDs which have been well-defined by Immunochip analysis and by transcriptome analysis across seven populations of peripheral blood leukocytes (granulocytes, monocytes, natural killer (NK) cells, B cells, memory T cells, naive CD4+ and naive CD8+ T cells) and four populations …
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