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. 2014 Nov 28:4:7239.
doi: 10.1038/srep07239.

Are polymorphisms of the immunoregulatory factor CD40LG implicated in acute transfusion reactions?

Chaker Aloui  1 , Caroline Sut  2 , Antoine Prigent  1 , Jocelyne Fagan  3 , Fabrice Cognasse  1 , Viviana Granados-Herbepin  4 , Renaud Touraine  4 , Bruno Pozzetto  2 , Mahjoub Aouni  5 , Chedlia Fendri  5 , Mohsen Hassine  6 , Tahar Chakroun  7 , Saloua Jemni-Yacoub  7 , Olivier Garraud  1 , Sandrine Laradi  1
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Are polymorphisms of the immunoregulatory factor CD40LG implicated in acute transfusion reactions?

Chaker Aloui et al. Sci Rep. .

Abstract

The CD40 ligand (CD40L/CD154), a member of TNF superfamily, is notably expressed on activated CD4+ T-cells and stimulated platelets. CD40L is linked to a variety of pathologies and to acute transfusion reactions (ATR). Mutations in this gene (CD40LG) lead to X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome. Some CD40LG polymorphisms are associated with variable protein expression. The rationale behind this study is that CD40L protein has been observed to be involved in ATR. We wondered whether genetic polymorphisms are implicated. We investigated genetic diversity in the CD40LG using DHPLC and capillary electrophoresis for screening and genotyping (n = 485 French and Tunisian blood donors). We identified significant difference in the CD40LG linkage pattern between the two populations. Variant minor alleles were significantly over-represented in Tunisian donors (P<0.0001 to 0.0270). We found higher heterogeneity in the Tunisian, including three novel low frequency variants. As there was not a particular pattern of CD40LG in single apheresis donors whose platelet components induced an ATR, we discuss how this information may be useful for future disease association studies on CD40LG.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Derived allele frequencies for six variants with minor allele frequencies in the CD40LG from French (FR) and Tunisian (TN) donors and those extracted from the 1000 genomes database.
African Ancestry in Southwest US (ASW), Han Chinese in Beijing (CHB), Han Chinese South (CHS), Japanese individuals in Tokyo (JPT), Iberian populations in Spain (IBS), British from England and Scotland (GBR), Finnish from Finland (FIN), Utah residents with Northern and Western European ancestry (CEU), Tuscan in Italy (TSI), Colombian in Medellin (CLM), Puerto Rican in Puerto Rico (PUR), Mexican Ancestry in Los Angeles, CA (MXL), African Ancestry in Southwest US (ASW), Luhya in Webuye, Kenya (LWK), Africans “Yoruban in Ibadan”, Nigeria (YRI) taken from the 1000 genomes project. *Present study.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Genomic structure of the CD40LG and the haplotype blocks of the French (FR) and Tunisian (TN) populations (this study) compared with those of JPT, CEU, YRI and TSI (HapMap data).
(a) Genomic structure of the CD40LG gene and the position of the identified polymorphisms. Exons are represented by boxes, with filled boxes denoting translated regions. Upward facing lines indicate amplified fragments, and polymorphisms are shown as red stars for SNPs and purple lozenges for microsatellites. (b) CD40LG LD and haplotype diversity in French and Tunisian populations. (c) CD40LG LD and haplotype diversity in JPT, CEU, YRI and TSI populations. The numbers in boxes represent the pairwise D’ value between adjacent SNPs. For (b) and (c), haplotype frequencies are shown below the LD diagrams. Triangular pointers highlight SNPs which could be tagged for future association analysis.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Frequency distribution of the number of (CA)n repeats in the CD40LG in the French (FR) and Tunisian (TN) populations.
Allele frequencies correspond to the number of the group of test alleles divided by the total number of alleles.
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