Pharmacogenetics of glatiramer acetate therapy for multiple sclerosis: The impact of genome-wide association studies identified disease risk loci

Olga Kulakova, Vitalina Bashinskaya, Ivan Kiselev, Natalia Baulina, Ekaterina Tsareva, Ruslan Nikolaev, Maxim Kozin, Sergey Shchur, Alexander Favorov, Alexey Boyko, Olga Favorova

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Abstract

Aim: Association analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified multiple sclerosis (MS) risk genetic variants with glatiramer acetate (GA) treatment efficacy. Patients & methods: SNPs in 17 GWAS-identified immune response loci were analyzed in 296 Russian MS patients as possible markers of optimal GA treatment response for at least 2 years. Results: Alleles/genotypes of EOMES, CLEC16A, IL22RA2, PVT1 and HLA-DRB1 were associated by themselves with event-free phenotype during GA treatment for at least 2 years (p f = 0.032-0.00092). The biallelic combinations including EOMES, CLEC16A, IL22RA2, PVT1, TYK2, CD6, IL7RA and IRF8 genes were associated with response to GA with increased significance level (p f = 0.0060-1.1 × 10- 5). The epistasic interactions or additive effects were observed between the components of the identified biallelic combinations. Conclusion: We pinpointed the involvement of several GWAS-identified MS risk loci in GA therapy efficacy. These findings may be aggregated to predict the optimal GA response in MS patients.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1563-1574
Number of pages12
JournalPharmacogenomics
Volume18
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2017

Keywords

  • GWAS
  • SNP
  • biomarker
  • copaxone
  • epistasis
  • glatiramer acetate
  • multiple sclerosis
  • pharmacogenomics
  • polymorphism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Medicine
  • Genetics
  • Pharmacology

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