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Table 1 GWAS analysis of response to ICS

From: Genetic associations of the response to inhaled corticosteroids in asthma: a systematic review

Referernces

Genotyping platform and number of SNPs after pruning

Discovery phase population

Study design and duration

Number of asthmatic patients

Medication in the discovery phase

Replication population

Definition of response

SNPs chosen for replication (gene, chromosome position)

Study outcome

Tantisira et al. [12]

Human Hap 550v3 Bead Chip (Illumina) 534 290 SNPs

Caucasian children (CAMP)

Clinical trial, 16 months

118 child parent trios

Budesonide 200 μg twice daily

Caucasian patients (n = 935)

Children: (CARE trial, n = 101, fluticasone propionate 100 μg twice daily)

Adults: (Adult study, n = 385, 1000 μg daily (increased up to 2000 μg if necessary)) (LOCCS, n = 185, fluticasone 100 μg twice daily)

(SOCS/SLIC, n = 264, triamcinolone 400 μg twice daily)

Changes in FEV1 from baseline

rs37972 (GLCCI1,7p21.3)

In two replication populations patients homozygous forthe wild-type allele (C) hadapproximately 12% improvements in FEV1% compared with the 4% increasein TT carriers after 4–8 weeks of treatment with ICS (combined p = 7×10−4)

Tantisira et al. [13]

Affymetrix (Santa Clara, CA) using a Human SNP array 6.0

444 088 SNPs

Caucasians children:

(CAMP and CARE trials) (n = 239)

Adults: (ACRN trial) (n = 179)

Clinical trial, 6–8 weeks

418

CAMP: budesonide 200 μg twice daily

CARE: fluticasone propionate 100 μg twice daily

ACRN: Triamcinolone 400 μg twice daily

Adults (n = 407)

Flunisolide 1000 μg once daily (increased to 2000 μg if necessary)

Changes in FEV1% pred from baseline

rs3099266, rs1134481 and rs2305089(T gene, 6q27)

Patients homozygous for the wild-type allele of all three SNPs had a two to threefold increase in FEV1%pred compared to homozygotes for the mutant allele

Combined p values of study populations for the rs1134481, rs2305089 and rs3099266 were 1.57 × 10−5, 2.3 × 10−4 and 1.1 × 10−4 respectively

Park et al. [14]

Human Hap 550v3 Bead Chip or Infinium HD Human610-Quad Bead Chip (Illumina, San Diego, CA) 440 862 SNPs

Caucasian children (CAMP)

Clinical trial, 8 weeks

124

Budesonide 200 μg twice daily

Caucasian Children: (CARE, n = 77, fluticasone propionate 1000 μg daily (increased up to 2000 μg if necessary)) Adults: (LOCCS, n = 110, fluticasone 100 μg twice daily) (ACRN, n = 110, Triamcinolone 400 μg twice daily)

Self-reported asthma symptoms based on diary cards. Scores ranged from 0 (absent) to 3 (severe)

rs1558726 (RMST,12q21), rs2388639 (LOC728792) and rs10044254 (FBXL7, 5p15.1)

The combined p values of rs2388639, rs10044254 and rs1558726 SNPs for the pediatric CAMP and CARE subjects were 8.56 × 10−9, 9.12x10−8 and 1.02x10−5 respectively. Homozygotes for the mutant allele for rs10044254 had significantly poorer responses to treatment compared to the patients homozygous or heterozygous for the wild-type allele (increase of 1.14 (as median score) in homozygotes for the mutant allele versus 0.28 in homozygotes for the reference allele)

Park et al. [15]

Illumina Human 660 W BeadChip (Illumina, San Diego, USA) 430 487 SNPs

Korean adults with moderate severe asthma

Clinical trial, 4 weeks

189

1000 µg of fluticasone propionate daily

Same population with the discovery phase

Changes in FEV1%

14 SNPs within ALLC (from GWAS) and 11 additional SNPs in ALLC (2q35)

rs17017879, rs7558370, rs11123610, rs6754459, rs17445240 and rs13418767 were significantly associated with change in FEV1% (p value < 1.0 × 10−5)

Wang et al. [16]

Affymetrix 6.0 arrays 909 622 SNPs

After pruning 266 944 SNPs were involved in the analysis

120 Mild-to-moderate adult asthmatics

Clinical trial, each dose of ICS was used for 1 week

120

Inhaled multiple different doses of glucocorticoids-budesonide (125, 250, 500, 1000 mcg), in which, each dose was used for 1 week and the dose was doubled for the subsequent week

The IMPACT trial (n: 225, mild, persistent adult asthma, open-label budesonide or prednisone as guided by the symptom-based action plan. The run-in and treatment phases both ended with a 14-day period of intense combined therapy) Salmeterol off corticosteroids (SOCS) and salmeterol ± inhaled corticosteroids (SLIC) trials include 79 and 106 adult asthma,respectively, at the end of the 6-week run-in period on ICS, the milder patients were allocated to SOCS and the more moderate patients allocated to SLIC

Changes in FEV1%

rs6924808 on chromosome 6

rs10481450 on chromosome 8

rs1353649 on chromosome 11

rs12438740 on chromosome 15

rs2230155 on chromosome 15

The following loci produce associations of genome-wide significancewith physiological response to glucocorticoid therapy;rs6924808 on chromosome 6 with wild-type allele C andmutant T (p = 5.315 × 10−7), rs10481450 on chromosome 8 withwild-type allele A and mutant T (p = 2.614 × 10− 8), rs1353649 on chromosome 11 with wild-type allele G and mutant A (p = 3.924 × 10−9), rs12438740 on chromosome 15 with wild-type allele C and mutant T (p = 4.499 × 10−8), and rs2230155 onchromosome15 with wild-type allele C and mutant T (p = 1.798 × 10− 7)

Dahlin et al. [17]

Illumina’sOmni2.5 Exome BeadChip (Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA) BioVU (731,390 SNPs) PMRP (662,256 SNPs) were firstmergedandprunedtoobtain 740,924 commonautosomalSNPs. In final dataset 237,726 common, independentSNPswereincluded

BioVU at VanderbiltUniversityMedical Center in Tennessee

Patients had initiated ICS treatment prior to the exacerbation event

806 Caucasian asthmatic

BioVU N = 369

PMRP N = 437

ICS (beclomethasone, budesonide, ciclesonide, flunisolide, mometasone, ortriamcinolone)

PersonalizedMedicineResearch Project (PMRP) at theMarshfieldClinic in Wisconsin

Asthmaexacerbations

CMTR1 rs2395672 rs4271056 rs279728

TRIM24 rs6467778,

MAGI2 rs2691529, rs9303988

Six novel SNPs associated with differential risk of asthma exacerbations (p < 10−5). Rs2395672 in CMTR1, was associated with an increased risk of exacerbations in both populations (OR = 1.07, 95% CI 1.03–1.11; joint p = 2.3X10−6). Two SNPs (rs2395672 and rs279728) were associated with increased risk of exacerbations, four SNPs (rs4271056 (CMTR1), rs6467778 (TRIM24), rs2691529, and rs9303988 MAGI2) were associated with decreased risk

Mosteller et al. [18]

2184 haplotypes from the 1000 Genomes Project > 9.8 million common genetic variants

2672 asthma patients (≥ 12 years)from 7 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group, multi-center clinical studies in 26 countries

“8–12 week” randomized double-blind placebo controlled parallel group multicenter clinical trial

2672 asthma patients (≥ 12 years)

Inhaled fluticasone furoate (FF)- or fluticasone propionate (FP) treatment

 

FEV1change at week 8 and 12 following FF- or FP treatment

 

No genetic variant met the prespecified threshold for statistical significance

Leusink et al. [67] (Exome array)

Infinium Human Exome chip (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA), version 1.1, which contains 242 902 variants

For common SNP analysis: MAF ≥ 1%, 36,519 SNPs

For rare SNP analysis: MAF < 1%. 24,944 SNPs

CATO study 110 children with asthma that was not well controlled despite ICS

2-year randomized clinical multicenter trial

Participants were followed up for 2 years, with the symptom-free days in the 2 weeks beforeeach visit, FEV1%, airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) to methacholine (MchPD20) every threemonths. Treatment dosage was adjusted according to the algorithm of the study

110 children with asthma

L1-100-μg Fluticasone

L2-200-μg Fluticasone

L3-200-μg Fluticasone and 100-μg salmeterol

L-4 500-μg Fluticasone and 100-μg salmeterol

L5-1000-μg Fluticasone and 100-μg salmeterol

 

FEV1%, AHR (Mch PD20) and ICS response outcomes measured by the increase or decrease of FEV1% and AHR

 

Strongest association for rs72821893 in KRT25 with FEV1% (p = 3.75x105), Mch PD20 (p = 0.00095) and MchPD20-based treatment outcome (p = 0.006)

The 17q12-21 region was found associated with FEV1%pred and AHR, and ICS treatment response

  1. Table adapted from Farzan et al. [10]