Nature Immunology ( IF 27.7 ) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 , DOI: 10.1038/s41590-023-01588-w Jing Hua Zhao 1, 2 , David Stacey 1, 2, 3, 4 , Niclas Eriksson 5 , Erin Macdonald-Dunlop 6 , Åsa K Hedman 7, 8 , Anette Kalnapenkis 1, 9 , Stefan Enroth 10 , Domenico Cozzetto 11 , Jonathan Digby-Bell 12 , Jonathan Marten 1 , Lasse Folkersen 13 , Christian Herder 14, 15, 16 , Lina Jonsson 17 , Sarah E Bergen 7 , Christian Gieger 18, 19 , Elise J Needham 1, 2 , Praveen Surendran 1, 20, 21 , , Dirk S Paul 1, 2, 20, 22 , Ozren Polasek 23 , Barbara Thorand 16, 18 , Harald Grallert 16, 18, 19 , Michael Roden 14, 15, 16 , Urmo Võsa 9 , Tonu Esko 9 , Caroline Hayward 24 , Åsa Johansson 10 , Ulf Gyllensten 10 , Nick Powell 11 , Oskar Hansson 25, 26 , Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren 27, 28, 29 , Peter K Joshi 6 , John Danesh 1, 2, 20, 21, 30, 31 , Leonid Padyukov 32, 33 , Lars Klareskog 32, 33 , Mikael Landén 7, 17 , James F Wilson 6, 24 , Agneta Siegbahn 34 , Lars Wallentin 34 , Anders Mälarstig 7, 8 , Adam S Butterworth 1, 2, 20, 21, 30 , James E Peters 1, 21, 35
Circulating proteins have important functions in inflammation and a broad range of diseases. To identify genetic influences on inflammation-related proteins, we conducted a genome-wide protein quantitative trait locus (pQTL) study of 91 plasma proteins measured using the Olink Target platform in 14,824 participants. We identified 180 pQTLs (59 cis, 121 trans). Integration of pQTL data with eQTL and disease genome-wide association studies provided insight into pathogenesis, implicating lymphotoxin-α in multiple sclerosis. Using Mendelian randomization (MR) to assess causality in disease etiology, we identified both shared and distinct effects of specific proteins across immune-mediated diseases, including directionally discordant effects of CD40 on risk of rheumatoid arthritis versus multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease. MR implicated CXCL5 in the etiology of ulcerative colitis (UC) and we show elevated gut CXCL5 transcript expression in patients with UC. These results identify targets of existing drugs and provide a powerful resource to facilitate future drug target prioritization.
中文翻译:
循环炎症蛋白的遗传学确定了免疫介导疾病风险的驱动因素和治疗靶点
循环蛋白在炎症和多种疾病中具有重要功能。为了确定遗传对炎症相关蛋白的影响,我们对 14,824 名参与者使用 Olink Target 平台测量的 91 种血浆蛋白进行了全基因组蛋白数量性状位点 (pQTL) 研究。我们鉴定了 180 个 pQTL(59 个顺式,121 个反式)。 pQTL 数据与 eQTL 和疾病全基因组关联研究的整合提供了对发病机制的深入了解,表明淋巴毒素-α 与多发性硬化症有关。使用孟德尔随机化 (MR) 来评估疾病病因学中的因果关系,我们确定了特定蛋白质在免疫介导疾病中的共同和独特影响,包括 CD40 对类风湿性关节炎与多发性硬化症和炎症性肠病风险的定向不一致影响。 MR 表明 CXCL5 与溃疡性结肠炎 (UC) 的病因有关,我们发现 UC 患者肠道CXCL5转录物表达升高。这些结果确定了现有药物的靶点,并为促进未来药物靶点的优先排序提供了强大的资源。