PMID- 34186156 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220128 LR - 20220128 IS - 1879-0542 (Electronic) IS - 0165-2478 (Linking) VI - 237 DP - 2021 Sep TI - Relevance of autoantibody profile with HLA-DRB1 and -DQB1 alleles in a group of Iranian systemic lupus erythematosus patients. PG - 11-16 LID - S0165-2478(21)00098-5 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.imlet.2021.06.004 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: One of the most relevant genetic components in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene complex which plays a central role in autoimmune responses. This study aimed to explore the associations of HLA-DRB1/-DQB1 alleles and haplotypes with SLE risk and the appearance of autoantibodies in SLE disease. METHODS: A total of 127 SLE patients and 153 ethnically matched healthy controls were enrolled. HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQB1 alleles were determined by PCR-SSP method and then HLA alleles and haplotypes frequencies were compared between two groups and among the patients in terms of autoantibodies spectrum. RESULTS: We found that HLA-DRB1*03 and HLA-DRB1*16 alleles were significantly associated with increased risk (P = 0.008, P(C)=0.05 and P = 0.002, P(C)=0.02 respectively) and DRB1*01 conferred a potential protective role for disease (P = 0.03, P(C)=0.13). Similar associations were observed at haplotype level; DRB1*03~DQB1*02 (OR1.91,P = 0.01, P(C)=0.08), DRB1*16~DQB1*05 (OR3.65,P = 0.004,P(C)=0.06) and DRB1*01~DQB1*05 (OR0.36,P = 0.04, P(C)=0.22). Remarkably, we observed significantly associations of DRB1*03 with the appearance of anti-SSA/Ro (P(C)=0.02), anti-SSB/La (P(C)=0.002) and anti-coagulant (P = 0.007), DRB1*15 with anti-SSA/Ro (P(C)=0.04), DRB1*16 with anti-Sm (P(C)=0.02), DRB1*04 with anti-beta2gpI (P(C)=3 * 10(-5)), anti-cardiolipin (P = 0.002) and rheumatoid factor (P = 0.004) and DRB1*13 with anti-Sm (P(C)=0.02) and anti-beta2gpI (P(C)=0.01) antibodies. Also, negative associations of DRB1*04 with anti-Sm, anti-SSA/Ro, DQB1*03 with anti-Sm and DRB1*11 with anti-Sm and anti-beta2gpI were observed. CONCLUSIONS: We identified DRB1*03 and DRB1*16 as risk alleles and DRB1*01 as a potential protective allele for SLE disease. More importantly, we found a close link between genetic susceptibility for SLE and autoantibodies status that was more evident for DRB1*03 allele. CI - Copyright (c) 2021 European Federation of Immunological Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Rasouli-Saravani, Ashkan AU - Rasouli-Saravani A AD - Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. FAU - Tahamoli-Roudsari, Ahmad AU - Tahamoli-Roudsari A AD - Department of Internal Diseases Medicine, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. FAU - Basiri, Zahra AU - Basiri Z AD - Department of Internal Diseases Medicine, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. FAU - Babaei, Mahboobeh AU - Babaei M AD - Department of Internal Diseases Medicine, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. FAU - Fazaeli, Alireza AU - Fazaeli A AD - Department of Internal Diseases Medicine, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. FAU - Roshanaei, Ghodratollah AU - Roshanaei G AD - Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. FAU - Hajilooi, Mehrdad AU - Hajilooi M AD - Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. FAU - Solgi, Ghasem AU - Solgi G AD - Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran; d. Psoriasis Research Center, Department of Dermatology, Farshchian Hospital, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.. Electronic address: gh.solgi@umsha.ac.ir. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20210626 PL - Netherlands TA - Immunol Lett JT - Immunology letters JID - 7910006 RN - 0 (Antibodies, Antinuclear) RN - 0 (Autoantibodies) RN - 0 (Autoantigens) RN - 0 (HLA-DQ beta-Chains) RN - 0 (HLA-DQB1 antigen) RN - 0 (HLA-DRB1 Chains) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Alleles MH - Antibodies, Antinuclear/immunology MH - Autoantibodies/*immunology MH - Autoantigens/immunology MH - Case-Control Studies MH - Female MH - *Genes, MHC Class II MH - Genetic Predisposition to Disease MH - Genotype MH - HLA-DQ beta-Chains/genetics/*immunology MH - HLA-DRB1 Chains/genetics/*immunology MH - Haplotypes/immunology MH - Humans MH - Iran MH - Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/ethnology/genetics/*immunology MH - Male MH - Middle Aged OTO - NOTNLM OT - Autoantibody OT - HLA-DQB1 OT - HLA-DRB1 OT - Systemic lupus erythematosus EDAT- 2021/06/30 06:00 MHDA- 2022/01/29 06:00 CRDT- 2021/06/29 20:12 PHST- 2020/09/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/06/20 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/06/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/06/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/01/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/06/29 20:12 [entrez] AID - S0165-2478(21)00098-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.imlet.2021.06.004 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Immunol Lett. 2021 Sep;237:11-16. doi: 10.1016/j.imlet.2021.06.004. Epub 2021 Jun 26.