TY - JOUR
T1 - Functional annotation of a novel NFKB1 promoter polymorphism that increases risk for ulcerative colitis
AU - Karban, Amir S.
AU - Okazaki, Toshihiko
AU - Panhuysen, Carolien I.M.
AU - Gallegos, Thomas
AU - Potter, James J.
AU - Bailey-Wilson, Joan E.
AU - Silverberg, Mark S.
AU - Duerr, Richard H.
AU - Cho, Judy H.
AU - Gregersen, Peter K.
AU - Wu, Yuqiong
AU - Achkar, Jean Paul
AU - Dassopoulos, Themistocles
AU - Mezey, Esteban
AU - Bayless, Theodore M.
AU - Nouvet, Franklin J.
AU - Brant, Steven R.
PY - 2004/1/1
Y1 - 2004/1/1
N2 - Nuclear Factor-κB (NF-κB) is a major transcription regulator of immune response, apoptosis and cell-growth control genes, and is upregulated in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), both ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease. The NFKB1 gene encodes the NF-κB p105/p50 isoforms. Genome-wide screens in IBD families show evidence for linkage on chromosome 4q where NFKB1 maps. We sequenced the NFKB1 promoter, exon 1 and all coding exons in 10 IBD probands and two controls, and identified six nucleotide variants, including a common insertion/deletion promoter polymorphism (-94ins/delATTG). Using pedigree-based transmission disequilibrium tests, we observed modest evidence for linkage disequilibrium (LD), independent of linkage, between the -94delATTG allele and UC in 131 out of 235 IBD pedigrees with UC offspring (P= 0.047-0.052). This allele was also more frequent in the 156 non-Jewish UC probands from the 235 IBD pedigrees than in 149 non-Jewish controls (P=0.015). The -94delATTG association with UC was replicated in a second set of 258 unrelated, non-Jewish UC cases and 653 new, non-Jewish controls (P=0.021). Nuclear proteins from normal human colon tissue and colonic cell lines, but not ileal tissue, showed significant binding to -94insATTG but not to -94delATTG containing oligonucleotides. NFKB1 promoter/exon 1 luciferase reporter plasmid constructs containing the -94delATTG allele and transfected into either HeLa or HT-29 call lines showed less promoter activity than comparable constructs containing the -94insATTG allele. Therefore, we have identified the first potentially functional polymorphism of NFKB1 and demonstrated its genetic association with a common human disease, ulcerative colitis.
AB - Nuclear Factor-κB (NF-κB) is a major transcription regulator of immune response, apoptosis and cell-growth control genes, and is upregulated in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), both ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease. The NFKB1 gene encodes the NF-κB p105/p50 isoforms. Genome-wide screens in IBD families show evidence for linkage on chromosome 4q where NFKB1 maps. We sequenced the NFKB1 promoter, exon 1 and all coding exons in 10 IBD probands and two controls, and identified six nucleotide variants, including a common insertion/deletion promoter polymorphism (-94ins/delATTG). Using pedigree-based transmission disequilibrium tests, we observed modest evidence for linkage disequilibrium (LD), independent of linkage, between the -94delATTG allele and UC in 131 out of 235 IBD pedigrees with UC offspring (P= 0.047-0.052). This allele was also more frequent in the 156 non-Jewish UC probands from the 235 IBD pedigrees than in 149 non-Jewish controls (P=0.015). The -94delATTG association with UC was replicated in a second set of 258 unrelated, non-Jewish UC cases and 653 new, non-Jewish controls (P=0.021). Nuclear proteins from normal human colon tissue and colonic cell lines, but not ileal tissue, showed significant binding to -94insATTG but not to -94delATTG containing oligonucleotides. NFKB1 promoter/exon 1 luciferase reporter plasmid constructs containing the -94delATTG allele and transfected into either HeLa or HT-29 call lines showed less promoter activity than comparable constructs containing the -94insATTG allele. Therefore, we have identified the first potentially functional polymorphism of NFKB1 and demonstrated its genetic association with a common human disease, ulcerative colitis.
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U2 - 10.1093/hmg/ddh008
DO - 10.1093/hmg/ddh008
M3 - Review article
C2 - 14613970
AN - SCOPUS:0347917295
SN - 0964-6906
VL - 13
SP - 35
EP - 45
JO - Human molecular genetics
JF - Human molecular genetics
IS - 1
ER -