Narcolepsy is strongly associated with the T-cell receptor alpha locus

Joachim Hallmayer, Juliette Faraco, Ling Lin, Stephanie Hesselson, Juliane Winkelmann, Minae Kawashima, Geert Mayer, Giuseppe Plazzi, Sona Nevsimalova, Patrice Bourgin, Sheng Seung Chul Hong, Yutaka Honda, Makoto Honda, Birgit Högl, William T. Longstreth, Jacques Montplaisir, David Kemlink, Mali Einen, Justin Chen, Stacy L. MusoneMatthew Akana, Taku Miyagawa, Jubao Duan, Alex Desautels, Christine Erhardt, Per Egil Hesla, Francesca Poli, Birgit Frauscher, Jong Hyun Jeong, Sung Pil Lee, Thanh G.N. Ton, Mark Kvale, Libor Kolesar, Marie Dobrovolná, Gerald T. Nepom, Dan Salomon, H. Erich Wichmann, Guy A. Rouleau, Christian Gieger, Douglas F. Levinson, Pablo V. Gejman, Thomas Meitinger, Terry Young, Paul Peppard, Katsushi Tokunaga, Pui Yan Kwok, Neil Risch, Emmanuel Mignot

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Abstract

Narcolepsy with cataplexy, characterized by sleepiness and rapid onset into REM sleep, affects 1 in 2,000 individuals. Narcolepsy was first shown to be tightly associated with HLA-DR2 (ref. 3) and later sublocalized to DQB1 0602 (ref. 4). Following studies in dogs and mice, a 95% loss of hypocretin-producing cells in postmortem hypothalami from narcoleptic individuals was reported. Using genome-wide association (GWA) in Caucasians with replication in three ethnic groups, we found association between narcolepsy and polymorphisms in the TRA@ (T-cell receptor alpha) locus, with highest significance at rs1154155 (average allelic odds ratio 1.69, genotypic odds ratios 1.94 and 2.55, P 10 21, 1,830 cases, 2,164 controls). This is the first documented genetic involvement of the TRA@ locus, encoding the major receptor for HLA-peptide presentation, in any disease. It is still unclear how specific HLA alleles confer susceptibility to over 100 HLA-associated disorders; thus, narcolepsy will provide new insights on how HLA-TCR interactions contribute to organ-specific autoimmune targeting and may serve as a model for over 100 other HLA-associated disorders.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)708-711
Seitenumfang4
FachzeitschriftNature Genetics
Jahrgang41
Ausgabenummer6
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Juni 2009

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