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Lookup NU author(s): Jean Norden, Dr Kim Pearce, Professor Julie Irving, Professor Matthew CollinORCiD, Professor Anne Dickinson
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.
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Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) remains the only cure for most haematological malignancies, however, the mortality rate remains high. Complications after HSCT include relapse, graft versus host disease (GvHD), graft rejection and infection. Over the last few years several groups, have demonstrated that non-HLA gene polymorphisms can be predictive of outcome after HSCT. Since the glucocorticoid cortisol is pivotal in the regulation of the immune system, we decided to examine single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs6198, rs33388 and rs33389) within the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and correlate with HSCT outcome. The training set consisted of patients (n=458) who underwent HSCT for acute leukaemia between 1983 and 2005. In the recipients, the absence of the ACT haplotype and absence of the T allele of rs33388 were associated with decreased OS and the absence of the ACT haplotype, the absence of the T allele of rs33388 and the presence of the ATA haplotype were associated with increased risk of relapse. In addition, the presence of the ACT haplotype in the recipient showed a trend to be associated with increased risk of cGvHD. The patients in this cohort received mainly myeloablative conditioning (n=327). The SNPs in the glucocorticoid receptor were then investigated in a validation set (n=251) of HSCT patients transplanted for acute leukaemia from 2006. This cohort contained significantly more patients that had received reduced intensity conditioning (RIC). Some of the results could be validated in these patients. However, contrary to the training set, the absence of the haplotype ACT in the donor in this cohort was associated with increased risk of cGvHD. Differences in the conditioning were shown to influence the results. These results are the first to associate GR SNPs with HSCT outcome and demonstrate the inherent problems of replicating SNP association studies in HSCT, due to different pre-transplant regimens.
Author(s): Norden J, Pearce K, Irving J, Collin M, Wang X, Wolff D, Kolb HJ, Socie G, Kuzmina Z, Greinix H, Holler E, Rocha V, Gluckman E, Hromadnikova I, Dickinson AM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Immunogenetics
Year: 2018
Volume: 45
Issue: 5
Pages: 247-256
Print publication date: 01/10/2018
Online publication date: 25/07/2018
Acceptance date: 31/05/2018
Date deposited: 21/08/2018
ISSN (print): 1744-3121
ISSN (electronic): 1744-313X
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/iji.12380
DOI: 10.1111/iji.12380
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