Common variation in FAM155A is associated with diverticulitis but not diverticulosis.
Matthias C Reichert, Juozas Kupcinskas, Antje Schulz, Christoph Schramm, Susanne N Weber, Marcin Krawczyk, Christoph Jüngst, Markus Casper, Frank Grünhage, Beate Appenrodt, Vincent Zimmer, Algimantas Tamelis, Jaune I Lukosiene, Neringa Pauziene, Gediminas Kiudelis, Laimas Jonaitis, Tobias Goeser, Maciej Malinowski, Matthias Glanemann, Limas Kupcinskas, Frank Lammert
Scientific reports 2020 Feb 03Colonic diverticulosis is a very common condition. Many patients develop diverticulitis or other complications of diverticular disease. Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) consistently identified three major genetic susceptibility factors for both conditions, but did not discriminate diverticulititis and diverticulosis in particular due the limitations of registry-based approaches. Here, we aimed to confirm the role of the identified variants for diverticulosis and diverticulitis, respectively, within a well-phenotyped cohort of patients who underwent colonoscopy. Risk variants rs4662344 in Rho GTPase-activating protein 15 (ARHGAP15), rs7609897 in collagen-like tail subunit of asymmetric acetylcholinesterase (COLQ) and rs67153654 in family with sequence similarity 155 A (FAM155A) were genotyped in 1,332 patients. Diverticulosis was assessed by colonoscopy, and diverticulitis by imaging, clinical symptoms and inflammatory markers. Risk of diverticulosis and diverticulitis was analyzed in regression models adjusted for cofactors. Overall, the variant in FAM155A was associated with diverticulitis, but not diverticulosis, when controlling for age, BMI, alcohol consumption, and smoking status (ORadjusted 0.49 [95% CI 0.27-0.89], p = 0.002). Our results contribute to the assessment specific genetic variants identified in GWAS in the predisposition to the development of diverticulitis in patients with diverticulosis.
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Matthias C Reichert, Juozas Kupcinskas, Antje Schulz, Christoph Schramm, Susanne N Weber, Marcin Krawczyk, Christoph Jüngst, Markus Casper, Frank Grünhage, Beate Appenrodt, Vincent Zimmer, Algimantas Tamelis, Jaune I Lukosiene, Neringa Pauziene, Gediminas Kiudelis, Laimas Jonaitis, Tobias Goeser, Maciej Malinowski, Matthias Glanemann, Limas Kupcinskas, Frank Lammert. Common variation in FAM155A is associated with diverticulitis but not diverticulosis. Scientific reports. 2020 Feb 03;10(1):1658
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