The IL12B gene is associated with asthma.
Publication/Presentation Date
10-1-2004
Abstract
The IL12B gene on chromosome 5q31-33 encodes the p40 subunit of interleukin 12, an immunomodulatory cytokine. To test the hypothesis that the IL12B gene contains polymorphisms associated with asthma, we genotyped six haplotype-tagging polymorphisms in the IL12B gene, both in 708 children enrolled in the Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) and in their parents. Using the family-based association test (FBAT) program and its haplotype (HBAT) and phenotype (PBAT) options, we tested each polymorphism and haplotype for association with asthma and asthma-related phenotypes. We tested positive associations for replication in a case-control study comparing 177 adult moderate-to-severe asthmatics with 177 nonasthmatic controls. In whites in the CAMP cohort, the A allele of the IL12B G4237A polymorphism was undertransmitted to asthmatic children (P=.0008, recessive model), the global test for haplotypes for affection status was positive (P=.009, multiallelic chi (2)), and two polymorphisms were associated with different atopy phenotypes. In addition, we found a strong association between the IL12B_4237 and IL12B_6402 polymorphisms and an asthma-severity phenotype in whites, which we also found in the independent population of white adult asthmatics. IL12B may be an important asthma gene.
Volume
75
Issue
4
First Page
709
Last Page
715
ISSN
0002-9297
Published In/Presented At
Randolph, A. G., Lange, C., Silverman, E. K., Lazarus, R., Silverman, E. S., Raby, B., Brown, A., Ozonoff, A., Richter, B., & Weiss, S. T. (2004). The IL12B gene is associated with asthma. American journal of human genetics, 75(4), 709–715. https://doi.org/10.1086/424886
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
15322986
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article