PMID- 29947174 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20191120 IS - 2093-596X (Print) IS - 2093-5978 (Electronic) IS - 2093-596X (Linking) VI - 33 IP - 2 DP - 2018 Jun TI - Genome-Wide Association Studies of Autoimmune Thyroid Diseases, Thyroid Function, and Thyroid Cancer. PG - 175-184 LID - 10.3803/EnM.2018.33.2.175 [doi] AB - Thyroid diseases, including autoimmune thyroid diseases and thyroid cancer, are known to have high heritability. Family and twin studies have indicated that genetics plays a major role in the development of thyroid diseases. Thyroid function, represented by thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and free thyroxine (T4), is also known to be partly genetically determined. Before the era of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), the ability to identify genes responsible for susceptibility to thyroid disease was limited. Over the past decade, GWAS have been used to identify genes involved in many complex diseases, including various phenotypes of the thyroid gland. In GWAS of autoimmune thyroid diseases, many susceptibility loci associated with autoimmunity (human leukocyte antigen [HLA], protein tyrosine phosphatase, non-receptor type 22 [PTPN22], cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 [CTLA4], and interleukin 2 receptor subunit alpha [IL2RA]) or thyroid-specific genes (thyroid stimulating hormone receptor [TSHR] and forkhead box E1 [FOXE1]) have been identified. Regarding thyroid function, many susceptibility loci for levels of TSH and free T4 have been identified through genome-wide analyses. In GWAS of differentiated thyroid cancer, associations at FOXE1, MAP3K12 binding inhibitory protein 1 (MBIP)-NK2 homeobox 1 (NKX2-1), disrupted in renal carcinoma 3 (DIRC3), neuregulin 1 (NRG1), and pecanex-like 2 (PCNXL2) have been commonly identified in people of European and Korean ancestry, and many other susceptibility loci have been found in specific populations. Through GWAS of various thyroid-related phenotypes, many susceptibility loci have been found, providing insights into the pathogenesis of thyroid diseases and disease co-clustering within families and individuals. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 Korean Endocrine Society. FAU - Hwangbo, Yul AU - Hwangbo Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7129-2133 AD - Center for Thyroid Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea. FAU - Park, Young Joo AU - Park YJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3671-6364 AD - Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. yjparkmd@snu.ac.kr. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review PL - Korea (South) TA - Endocrinol Metab (Seoul) JT - Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) JID - 101554139 PMC - PMC6021314 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Genome-wide association study OT - Graves disease OT - Hashimoto disease OT - Thyroid function OT - Thyroid neoplasms COIS- No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported. EDAT- 2018/06/28 06:00 MHDA- 2018/06/28 06:01 PMCR- 2018/06/01 CRDT- 2018/06/28 06:00 PHST- 2018/05/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/05/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/05/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/06/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/06/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/06/28 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/06/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 33.175 [pii] AID - 10.3803/EnM.2018.33.2.175 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Endocrinol Metab (Seoul). 2018 Jun;33(2):175-184. doi: 10.3803/EnM.2018.33.2.175.