Authors
Janina S Ried, Jin Li, Xian Bo Zuo, Xiao Dong Zheng, Xian Yong Yin, Liang Dan Sun, Maeve A McAleer, Grainne M O'Regan, Caoimhe MR Fahy, Linda E Campbell, Milan Macek, Michael Kurek, Donglei Hu, Celeste Eng, Dirkje S Postma, Bjarke Feenstra, Frank Geller, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Christel M Middeldorp, Pirro Hysi, Veronique Bataille, Tim Spector, Carla MT Tiesler, Elisabeth Thiering, Badri Pahukasahasram, James J Yang, Medea Imboden, Scott Huntsman, Natàlia Vilor-Tejedor, Caroline L Relton, Ronny Myhre, Wenche Nystad, Adnan Custovic, Scott T Weiss, Deborah A Meyers, Cilla Söderhäll, Erik Melén, Carole Ober, Benjamin A Raby, Angela Simpson, Bo Jacobsson, John W Holloway, Hans Bisgaard, Jordi Sunyer, Nicole M Probst-Hensch, L Keoki Williams, Keith M Godfrey, Carol A Wang, Dorret I Boomsma, Mads Melbye, Gerard H Koppelman, Deborah Jarvis, WH Irwin McLean, Alan D Irvine, Xue Jun Zhang, Hakon Hakonarson, Christian Gieger, Esteban G Burchard, Nicholas G Martin, Liesbeth Duijts, Allan Linneberg, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Markus M Nöthen, Susanne Lau, Norbert Hübner, Young-Ae Lee, Mayumi Tamari, David A Hinds, Daniel Glass, Sara J Brown, Joachim Heinrich, David M Evans, Stephan Weidinger
Publication date
2015/12
Journal
Nature genetics
Volume
47
Issue
12
Pages
1449-1456
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group US
Description
Genetic association studies have identified 21 loci associated with atopic dermatitis risk predominantly in populations of European ancestry. To identify further susceptibility loci for this common, complex skin disease, we performed a meta-analysis of >15 million genetic variants in 21,399 cases and 95,464 controls from populations of European, African, Japanese and Latino ancestry, followed by replication in 32,059 cases and 228,628 controls from 18 studies. We identified ten new risk loci, bringing the total number of known atopic dermatitis risk loci to 31 (with new secondary signals at four of these loci). Notably, the new loci include candidate genes with roles in the regulation of innate host defenses and T cell function, underscoring the important contribution of (auto)immune mechanisms to atopic dermatitis pathogenesis.
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