Genome-wide Association Study for Alcohol-related Cirrhosis Identifies Risk Loci in MARC1 and HNRNPUL1

Hamish Innes; Stephan Buch; Sharon Hutchinson; Indra Neil Guha; Joanne R. Morling; Elleanor Barnes; Will Irving; Ewan Forrest; Vincent Pedergnan; David Goldberg; Esther Aspinall; Stephan Barclay; Peter Hayes; John Dillon; Hans Dieter Nischalke; Philipp Lutz; Ulrich Spengler; Janett Fischer; Thomas Berg; Mario Brosch; Florian Eyer; Christian Datz; Sebastian Mueller; Teresa Peccerella; Pierre Deltenre; Astrid Marot; Michael Soyka; Andrew McQuillin; Marsha Y. Morgan; Jochen Hampe; Felix Stickel

doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2020.06.014

Genome-wide Association Study for Alcohol-related Cirrhosis Identifies Risk Loci in MARC1 and HNRNPUL1

Hamish Innes (Lead / Corresponding author)
, Stephan Buch
, Sharon Hutchinson
, Indra Neil Guha
, Joanne R. Morling
, Elleanor Barnes
, Will Irving
, Ewan Forrest
, Vincent Pedergnan
, David Goldberg
, Esther Aspinall
, Stephan Barclay
, Peter Hayes
, John Dillon
, Hans Dieter Nischalke
, Philipp Lutz
, Ulrich Spengler
, Janett Fischer
, Thomas Berg
, Mario Brosch

Florian Eyer, Christian Datz, Sebastian Mueller, Teresa Peccerella, Pierre Deltenre, Astrid Marot, Michael Soyka, Andrew McQuillin, Marsha Y. Morgan, Jochen Hampe, Felix Stickel

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Background & Aims: Little is known about genetic factors that affect development of alcohol-related cirrhosis. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of samples from the United Kingdom Biobank (UKB) to identify polymorphisms associated with risk of alcohol-related liver disease.

Methods: We performed a GWAS of 35,839 participants in the UKB with high intake of alcohol against markers of hepatic fibrosis (FIB-4, APRI and Forns index scores) and hepatocellular injury (levels of aminotransferases). Loci identified in the discovery analysis were tested for their association with alcohol-related cirrhosis in 3 separate European cohorts (phase 1 validation cohort; n=2545). Variants associated with alcohol-related cirrhosis in the validation at a false-discovery rate of less than 20% were then directly genotyped in 2 additional European validation cohorts (phase 2 validation, n=2068).

Results: In the GWAS of the discovery cohort, we identified 50 independent risk loci with genome-wide significance (P<5 x 10-8). Nine of these loci were significantly associated with alcohol-related cirrhosis in the phase 1 validation cohort; 6 of these 9 loci were significantly associated with alcohol-related cirrhosis in phase 2 validation cohort, at a false discovery rate below 5%. The loci included variants in the mitochondrial amidoxime reducing component 1 gene (MARC1) and the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein U like 1 gene (HNRNPUL1). After we adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, and type-2 diabetes in the phase 2 validation cohort, the minor A allele of MARC1:rs2642438 was associated with reduced risk of alcohol-related cirrhosis (adjusted odds ratio, 0.76; P=.0027); conversely the minor C allele of HNRNPUL1:rs15052 was associated with an increased risk of alcohol-related cirrhosis (adjusted odds ratio, 1.30; P=.020).

Conclusions: In a GWAS of samples from the UKB, we identified and validated (in 5 European cohorts) single-nucleotide polymorphisms that affect risk of alcohol-related cirrhosis in opposite directions: the minor A allele in MARC1:rs2642438 decreases risk whereas the minor C allele in HNRNPUL1:rs15052 increases risk.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1276-1298.e7
Number of pages	21
Journal	Gastroenterology
Volume	159
Issue number	4
Early online date	16 Jun 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2020.06.014
Publication status	Published - Oct 2020

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Keywords

SNP
biomarker
hepatic fibrogenesis
prognostic factor

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Hepatology
Gastroenterology

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Innes, H., Buch, S., Hutchinson, S., Guha, I. N., Morling, J. R., Barnes, E., Irving, W., Forrest, E., Pedergnan, V., Goldberg, D., Aspinall, E., Barclay, S., Hayes, P., Dillon, J., Nischalke, H. D., Lutz, P., Spengler, U., Fischer, J., Berg, T., ... Stickel, F. (2020). Genome-wide Association Study for Alcohol-related Cirrhosis Identifies Risk Loci in MARC1 and HNRNPUL1. Gastroenterology, 159(4), 1276-1298.e7. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2020.06.014

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Innes, H, Buch, S, Hutchinson, S, Guha, IN, Morling, JR, Barnes, E, Irving, W, Forrest, E, Pedergnan, V, Goldberg, D, Aspinall, E, Barclay, S, Hayes, P, Dillon, J, Nischalke, HD, Lutz, P, Spengler, U, Fischer, J, Berg, T, Brosch, M, Eyer, F, Datz, C, Mueller, S, Peccerella, T, Deltenre, P, Marot, A, Soyka, M, McQuillin, A, Morgan, MY, Hampe, J & Stickel, F 2020, 'Genome-wide Association Study for Alcohol-related Cirrhosis Identifies Risk Loci in MARC1 and HNRNPUL1', Gastroenterology, vol. 159, no. 4, pp. 1276-1298.e7. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2020.06.014

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Genome-wide Association Study for Alcohol-related Cirrhosis Identifies Risk Loci in MARC1 and HNRNPUL1

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