Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Genome-wide association study of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis reveals genomic loci stratified by ANCA status

  • Paul A Lyons,
  • James E Peters,
  • Federico Alberici,
  • James Liley,
  • Richard M. R. Coulson,
  • William Astle,
  • Chiara Baldini,
  • Francesco Bonatti,
  • Maria C Cid,
  • Heather Elding,
  • Giacomo Emmi,
  • Jörg Epplen,
  • Loïc Guillevin,
  • David R. W. Jayne,
  • Tao Jiang,
  • Iva Gunnarsson,
  • Peter Lamprecht,
  • Stephen Leslie,
  • Mark A. Little,
  • Davide Martorana,
  • Frank Moosig,
  • Thomas Neumann,
  • Sophie Ohlsson,
  • Stefanie Quickert,
  • Giuseppe A. Ramirez,
  • Barbara Rewerska,
  • Georg Schett,
  • Renato A. Sinico,
  • Wojciech Szczeklik,
  • Vladimir Tesar,
  • Damjan Vukcevic,
  • The European Vasculitis Genetics Consortium,
  • Benjamin Terrier,
  • Richard A Watts,
  • Augusto Vaglio,
  • Julia U Holle,
  • Chris Wallace,
  • Kenneth G. C. Smith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12515-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is a rare inflammatory disorder characterised by asthma, eosinophilia and vasculitis. Here, the authors describe a genome-wide association study of EGPA that reveals clinical and genetic differences between subgroups stratified by autoantibody status (ANCA).