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Variants within the immunoregulatory CBLB gene are associated with multiple sclerosis

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A genome-wide association scan of ∼6.6 million genotyped or imputed variants in 882 Sardinian individuals with multiple sclerosis (cases) and 872 controls suggested association of CBLB gene variants with disease, which was confirmed in 1,775 cases and 2,005 controls (rs9657904, overall P = 1.60 × 10−10, OR = 1.40). CBLB encodes a negative regulator of adaptive immune responses, and mice lacking the ortholog are prone to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, the animal model of multiple sclerosis.

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Figure 1: Association and linkage disequilibrium patterns at the CBLB locus.

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This study was supported by the Fondazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla (FISM) Cod. 2008/R/7 to F.C., by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research (MIUR grant 2007KXNKNP) and by US National Institutes of Health contract NO1-AG-1-2109 from National Institute of Aging (NIA) to the SardiNIA ('ProgeNIA') team. The contributions of G.R.A., Y.L. and L.L. were supported in part by NIH grants HG002651, HG005214 and MH084698.

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  1. Serena Sanna, Maristella Pitzalis and Magdalena Zoledziewska: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Monserrato, Italy

    Serena Sanna, Carlo Sidore, Fabio Busonero, Andrea Maschio, Mariano Dei, Sandra Lai, Antonella Mulas, Gianmauro Cuccuru, Eleonora Porcu, Manuela Uda & Francesco Cucca

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

    Maristella Pitzalis, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Francesca Deidda, Fausto Poddie, Laura Morelli, Elisa Deriu & Francesco Cucca

  3. Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Laboratorio di Bioinformatica, Parco tecnologico della Sardegna, Pula, Italy

    Ilenia Zara

  4. CRS4, Laboratorio di Genomica, Parco tecnologico della Sardegna, Pula, Italy

    Carlo Sidore, Michael B Whalen, M Francesca Urru & Andrea Angius

  5. Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e Cardiovascolari, Centro Sclerosi Multipla, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Raffaele Murru, Gianna Costa, Maria Cristina Melis, Loredana Moi, Eleonora Cocco & Maria Giovanna Marrosu

  6. Istituto di Neurologia Clinica, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

    Gabriele Farina, Stefano Sotgiu, Maura Pugliatti & Giulio Rosati

  7. Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Yun Li, Liming Liang & Gonçalo R Abecasis

  8. Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

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  9. Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

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  10. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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  11. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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  12. Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e biotecnologie, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

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  13. Azienda Ospedaliera Brotzu, Centro Trasfusionale, Cagliari, Italy

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    Paola Ferrigno & Maurizio Melis

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Sanna, S., Pitzalis, M., Zoledziewska, M. et al. Variants within the immunoregulatory CBLB gene are associated with multiple sclerosis. Nat Genet 42, 495–497 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.584

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