Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Genetic determinants of risk in autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

  • Saori Sakaue,
  • Etsuro Yamaguchi,
  • Yoshikazu Inoue,
  • Meiko Takahashi,
  • Jun Hirata,
  • Ken Suzuki,
  • Satoru Ito,
  • Toru Arai,
  • Masaki Hirose,
  • Yoshinori Tanino,
  • Takefumi Nikaido,
  • Toshio Ichiwata,
  • Shinya Ohkouchi,
  • Taizou Hirano,
  • Toshinori Takada,
  • Satoru Miyawaki,
  • Shogo Dofuku,
  • Yuichi Maeda,
  • Takuro Nii,
  • Toshihiro Kishikawa,
  • Kotaro Ogawa,
  • Tatsuo Masuda,
  • Kenichi Yamamoto,
  • Kyuto Sonehara,
  • Ryushi Tazawa,
  • Konosuke Morimoto,
  • Masahiro Takaki,
  • Satoshi Konno,
  • Masaru Suzuki,
  • Keisuke Tomii,
  • Atsushi Nakagawa,
  • Tomohiro Handa,
  • Kiminobu Tanizawa,
  • Haruyuki Ishii,
  • Manabu Ishida,
  • Toshiyuki Kato,
  • Naoya Takeda,
  • Koshi Yokomura,
  • Takashi Matsui,
  • Masaki Watanabe,
  • Hiromasa Inoue,
  • Kazuyoshi Imaizumi,
  • Yasuhiro Goto,
  • Hiroshi Kida,
  • Tomoyuki Fujisawa,
  • Takafumi Suda,
  • Takashi Yamada,
  • Yasuomi Satake,
  • Hidenori Ibata,
  • Nobuyuki Hizawa,
  • Hideki Mochizuki,
  • Atsushi Kumanogoh,
  • Fumihiko Matsuda,
  • Koh Nakata,
  • Tomomitsu Hirota,
  • Mayumi Tamari,
  • Yukinori Okada

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21011-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (aPAP) is a complex lung disease caused by abnormal surfactant homeostasis. Here, the authors carry out a genome-wide association study of aPAP in a Japanese cohort, finding variants in the MHC and suggesting predisposition to abnormal antibody production.