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Association of Rs610604 in TNFAIP3 and Rs17728338 in TNIP1 Gene Gong et al. BMC Medical Genetics (2020) 21:103 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12881-020-01041-x RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Association of rs610604 in TNFAIP3 and rs17728338 in TNIP1 gene polymorphisms with psoriasis susceptibility: a meta-analysis of case-control studies Hai-bo Gong1, Shu-tao Gao2, Xiong-ming Pu1* , Xiao-jing Kang1* and Xiu-juan Wu3* Abstract Background: To date, the fundamental pathophysiology underlying the occurrence and progression of psoriasis are still unanswered questions. Genome-wide association surveys have revealed that TNFAIP3 and TNIP1 were key biomarkers for psoriasis. Here, we intended to conduct a survey on the association between TNFAIP3 and TNIP1 gene polymorphisms and psoriasis risk. Methods: A comprehensive search of four online databases—China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library was undertaken up to August 25, 2019. We chose allele genetic model to deal with the original data. Newcastle–Ottawa scale (NOS) was used to evaluate the risk bias of each study. The RevMan 5.3 software was used to calculate the combined odds ratio and 95% confidence interval. Results: In total, we included 13 case-control studies consist of 13,908 psoriasis patients and 20,051 controls in this work. Our results demonstrated that rs610604 in TNFAIP3 polymorphism was significantly associated with psoriasis risk using random-effect model (G vs. T, OR = 1.19, 95% CI: 1.09–1.31, P = 0.0002), and a significant association between rs17728338 in TNIP1 polymorphism and psoriasis vulnerability using fixed-effect model (A vs. G, OR = 1.69, 95% CI:1.58–1.80, P < 0.00001). Conclusions: Our findings indicated that rs610604 in TNFAIP3 and rs17728338 in TNIP1 gene polymorphisms were associated with psoriasis susceptibility. Keywords: Psoriasis, TNFAIP3, TNIP1 single nucleotide polymorphism, Meta-analysis Background because of visible disfiguration. Considerable comorbid Psoriasis is currently regarded as a chronic, inflammatory diseases often occur in psoriasis patients, including psori- skin disease associated with systemic conditions [1–3]. As atic arthritis, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disor- with other dermatoses, the patients who suffered from it ders, gastrointestinal diseases, mood disorders as well as also have to face the enormous psychological burden other emerging comorbid diseases [4]. Psoriasis affects ap- proximately 2–3% of the population worldwide, and its prevalence is much higher in western countries [5, 6]. To * Correspondence: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] date, five types of psoriasis have been identified: psoriasis 1Department of Dermatology, People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur vulgaris, guttate or eruptive psoriasis, inverse psoriasis, Autonomous Region, 91 Tianchi Road, Tianshan District, Urumqi 830001, erythrodermic psoriasis and pustular psoriasis [3]. Xinjiang, China 3Department of Dermatology, Shanghai Xuhui Central Hospital, Shanghai As a complex inflammatory disorder, the aetiology and 200031, China pathogenesis of psoriasis are widely thought to be caused Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. 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BMC Medical Genetics (2020) 21:103 Page 2 of 11 by the interplay of intrinsic and environmental factors. of TNFAIP3 and TNIP1 with their nearest associated Numerous triggers and aggravations for psoriasis occur- functional protein partners were illustrated on Fig. 1.Over rence have been identified such as mild localized trauma, the years, accumulating evidence indicated that genetic drugs, HIV infection and streptococcal pharyngitis [7]. variations in the genes TNFAIP3 and TNIP1 are strongly However, intrinsic factors such as genetics may play a associated with vulnerability to numerous inflammatory more important role. Thanks to the powerful genome- diseases [12–14]. Considering that study sample sizes were wide association studies (GWAS) as well as other genetic small and the statistical effect was limited of an individual studies, more than 60 regions of the human genome study, this meta-analysis is meant to provide the most have now been identified to be correlated with psoriasis comprehensive and precise evaluation on the association [8]. Tumour Necrosis Factor Alpha-Induced Protein 3 of TNFAIP3 and TNIP1 polymorphisms with psoriasis (TNFAIP3) and TNFAIP3 Interacting Protein 1 (TNIP1) vulnerability. are among them, and they were first discovered to be as- sociated with psoriasis in 2009 [9]. After that, numerous Methods studies on the association of single nucleotide polymor- Search strategy phisms in TNFAIP3 and TNIP1 with the risk of psoriasis Two of our investigators (Hai-bo Gong and Shu-tao Gao) have conducted. However, the conclusions of these stud- independently did the literature searching among four ies may be incomprehensive and contradictory. Thus, we major databases—CNKI, PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane aimed was to undertake a meta-analysis to analyze these Library—for papers published before August 25, 2019. studies comprehensively. The retrieval strategy of PubMed was as follows: ((((Psor- TNFAIP3 gene is located on human chromosome iasis) OR “Psoriasis”[Mesh])) AND (((((((“Tumor Necrosis 6q23.3, another alias for TNFAIP3 is A20. While TNIP1 is Factor alpha-Induced Protein 3”[Mesh]) OR Tumor Ne- located on 5q33.1. They are all Protein-Coding genes en- crosis Factor alpha-Induced Protein 3) OR Zinc Finger code ubiquitin-editing enzyme A20 and A20-Binding In- Protein A20) OR A20) OR TNF Alpha-Induced Protein hibitor Of NF-Kappa-B Activation 1 (ABIN-1), which 3)) OR (((((((“TNIP1 protein, human” [Supplementary interact with each other to influence intracellular signaling Concept]) OR TNIP1) OR TNFAIP3 Interacting Protein [10, 11]. Polymorphisms of the two genes may alter their 1) OR A20-Binding Inhibitor Of NF-Kappa-B Activation protein-coding, and thus to have an impact on their clos- 1) OR VAN protein, human) OR TNFalpha-induced pro- est functional protein partners. The interrelation network tein 3-interacting protein 1, human) OR ABIN-1 protein, Fig. 1 Network of TNFAIP3, TNIP1 and their closest functional partners. These data were from the Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes (STRING) database (http://string-db.org/) Gong et al. BMC Medical Genetics (2020) 21:103 Page 3 of 11 human))) AND ((((((single nucleotide polymorphism) OR effect model was used when it was out of heterogeneity Polymorphism) OR Alleles) OR SNP) OR Variation) OR (P > 0.1, I2 < 50%) [17, 18]. The Hardy–Weinberg Equi- gene). librium results were either extracted from original stud- ies or calculated by initial data in included studies. Inclusion and exclusion criteria Sensitivity analysis was conducted using Stata 12.0 soft- The main contents of our inclusion criteria are given as ware (Stata Corp LP, U.S.A). Revman 5.3 software was follows: published case-control studies on humans; psor- used to generate Forest plots. Egger’s test was used to iasis should be diagnosed according to clinical diagnosis evaluate the publication bias by Stata version 12.0. criteria; studies related to the association of TNFAIP3 or TNIP1 polymorphisms with psoriasis susceptibility; con- Functional predictions tained sufficient original data to estimate odds ratios To dig deeper into the potentially functional role of (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs). Accord- these loci, we used in silico tool HaploReg 4.1 to explore ingly, Studies met the following criteria should be ex- the annotations in the human genome. cluded: reviews, conference abstracts, case reports; the exact number of alleles wasn’t able to be ascertained, Results and duplicated articles. Study characteristics Initial retrieval of the four databases harvested 206 re- Data extraction cords: 43 from China National Knowledge Infrastructure The following information was extracted from each candi- (CNKI), 72 from PubMed, 80 from Embase, and 11 from date study by two independent investigators (Hai-bo Gong Cochrane library. After removed duplicated and irrelevant and Shu-tao Gao) including: author’s names, year of publi- records. 13 articles ultimately went into the process of cation, Ethnicity of the study population, numbers of cases meta-analysis. The detailed process of the literature search and controls, and the allele frequencies of the TNFAIP3 and screen is shown in Fig. 2. Of the 13 articles, 11 articles or TNAP1 polymorphisms, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium containing original
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