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Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is a form of chronic glomerulonephritis of unknown etiology and pathogenesis. Immunogenetic studies have not conclusively indicated that human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is involved. As a first step in investigating a possible relationship between HLA class II genes and IgAN, we analyzed the extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in this region of chromosome 6p21.3 in a Japanese test population and found extended LD blocks within the class II locus. We designed a case-control association study of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in each of those LD blocks, and determined that SNPs located in the HLA-DRA gene were significantly associated with an increased risk of IgAN (P = 0.000001, odds ratio = 1.91 [95% confidence interval 1.46–2.49]); SNPs in other LD blocks were not. Our data imply that some haplotype of the HLA-DRA locus has an important role in the development of IgAN in Japanese patients.
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Received: May 28, 2002 / Accepted: July 4, 2002
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Akiyama, F., Tanaka, T., Yamada, R. et al. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the class II region of the major histocompatibility complex in Japanese patients with immunoglobulin A nephropathy. J Hum Genet 47, 532–538 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100380200080
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