1 Influence of SIGLEC9 polymorphisms on COPD phenotypes including exacerbation 2 frequency 3 4 Takeo Ishii, MD, PhD1,2, Takashi Angata, PhD3,4, Emily S Wan, MD, MPH5, 6, Michael H Cho, 5 MD, MPH5, 6, Takashi Motegi, MD, PhD1,2, Congxiao Gao MD, PhD4, Kazuaki Ohtsubo, PhD7, 6 Shinobu Kitazume, PhD4, Akihiko Gemma, MD, PhD2, Peter D. Pare, MD8, David A. Lomas, 7 MD, PhD9, Edwin K Silverman, MD, PhD5, 6, Naoyuki Taniguchi, MD, PhD4, and Kozui Kida, 8 MD, PhD1,2 9 10 1Respiratory Care Clinic, Nippon Medical School, 4-7-15-8F Kudan-Minami, Chiyoda, Tokyo 11 102-0074, Japan; 2Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Oncology, 12 Department of Internal Medicine, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113- 13 8602, Japan; 3Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, 128 Section 2, Academia 14 Road, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; 4Disease Glycomics Team, Systems Glycobiology 15 Research Group, Global Research Cluster, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, 16 Japan.; 5Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 181 17 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.; 6Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, 1 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 7Department of Analytical biochemistry, 2 Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University 4-24-1 Kuhonji, Chuo, Kumamoto, 862-0976, 3 Japan ;8 University of British Columibia Center for Heart Lung Innovation, University of St 4 Paul’s Hospital, British Columbia, Canada; 9UCL Respiratory, University College London, 5 Rayne Building, London, United Kingdom. 6 7 Correspondence should be addressed to: 8 Kozui Kida, M.D., Respiratory Care Clinic, Nippon Medical School, 4-7-15 Kudan-Minami, 9 Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 102-0074, Japan 10 Tel.: +81-3-5276-2325; Fax: +81-3-5276-2326; Email:
[email protected] 11 12 Summary at a Glance 13 A haplotype of SIGLEC9 gene was associated with exacerbation frequency and emphysema in 14 Japanese COPD patients (but not in ECLIPSE cohort).