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. 2022 Sep;37(9):1929-1937.
doi: 10.1002/mds.29133. Epub 2022 Jul 10.

The Interaction between HLA-DRB1 and Smoking in Parkinson's Disease Revisited

Cloé Domenighetti  1 Venceslas Douillard  2 Pierre-Emmanuel Sugier  1 Ashwin Ashok Kumar Sreelatha  3 Claudia Schulte  4   5 Sandeep Grover  3 Patrick May  6 Dheeraj R Bobbili  6 Milena Radivojkov-Blagojevic  7 Peter Lichtner  7 Andrew B Singleton  8   9 Dena G Hernandez  8 Connor Edsall  8 Pierre-Antoine Gourraud  2 George D Mellick  10 Alexander Zimprich  11 Walter Pirker  12 Ekaterina Rogaeva  13 Anthony E Lang  13   14   15   16 Sulev Koks  17   18 Pille Taba  19   20 Suzanne Lesage  21 Alexis Brice  21 Jean-Christophe Corvol  21   22 Marie-Christine Chartier-Harlin  23 Eugénie Mutez  23 Kathrin Brockmann  4   5 Angela B Deutschländer  24   25   26 Georges M Hadjigeorgiou  27   28 Efthimos Dardiotis  27 Leonidas Stefanis  29   30 Athina Maria Simitsi  29 Enza Maria Valente  31   32 Simona Petrucci  33   34 Stefano Duga  35   36 Letizia Straniero  35 Anna Zecchinelli  37 Gianni Pezzoli  38 Laura Brighina  39   40 Carlo Ferrarese  39   40 Grazia Annesi  41 Andrea Quattrone  42 Monica Gagliardi  43 Hirotaka Matsuo  44 Akiyoshi Nakayama  44 Nobutaka Hattori  45 Kenya Nishioka  45 Sun Ju Chung  46 Yun Joong Kim  47 Pierre Kolber  48 Bart P C van de Warrenburg  49 Bastiaan R Bloem  49 Jan Aasly  50 Mathias Toft  51 Lasse Pihlstrøm  51 Leonor Correia Guedes  52   53 Joaquim J Ferreira  52   54 Soraya Bardien  55 Jonathan Carr  56 Eduardo Tolosa  57   58 Mario Ezquerra  59 Pau Pastor  60   61 Monica Diez-Fairen  60   61 Karin Wirdefeldt  62   63 Nancy L Pedersen  63 Caroline Ran  64 Andrea C Belin  64 Andreas Puschmann  65 Emil Ygland Rödström  65 Carl E Clarke  66 Karen E Morrison  67 Manuela Tan  68 Dimitri Krainc  69 Lena F Burbulla  69   70   71   72 Matt J Farrer  73 Rejko Krüger  6   48   74   75 Thomas Gasser  4   5 Manu Sharma  3 Nicolas Vince  2 Alexis Elbaz  1 Comprehensive Unbiased Risk Factor Assessment for Genetics and Environment in Parkinson's Disease (Courage-PD) Consortium
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The Interaction between HLA-DRB1 and Smoking in Parkinson's Disease Revisited

Cloé Domenighetti et al. Mov Disord. 2022 Sep.

Abstract

Background: Two studies that examined the interaction between HLA-DRB1 and smoking in Parkinson's disease (PD) yielded findings in opposite directions.

Objective: To perform a large-scale independent replication of the HLA-DRB1 × smoking interaction.

Methods: We genotyped 182 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) associated with smoking initiation in 12 424 cases and 9480 controls to perform a Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis in strata defined by HLA-DRB1.

Results: At the amino acid level, a valine at position 11 (V11) in HLA-DRB1 displayed the strongest association with PD. MR showed an inverse association between genetically predicted smoking initiation and PD only in absence of V11 (odds ratio, 0.74, 95% confidence interval, 0.59-0.93, PInteraction = 0.028). In silico predictions of the influence of V11 and smoking-induced modifications of α-synuclein on binding affinity showed findings consistent with this interaction pattern.

Conclusions: Despite being one of the most robust findings in PD research, the mechanisms underlying the inverse association between smoking and PD remain unknown. Our findings may help better understand this association. © 2022 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

Keywords: HLA; Parkinson's disease; gene-environment interaction; smoking.

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Figure 1.
Forest plot of the association between genetically-predicted smoking initiation (inverse variance weighted estimate) and Parkinson’s disease stratified by HLA-DRB1
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Prediction of binding affinity (nM) according to the presence of a valine at position 11 (V11) coded by HLA-DRB1 alleles and homocitrullination (HC) of alpha-synuclein derived peptides
* P-values for the comparison versus the reference group (V11−HC−).

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