Investigating the HLA component in rheumatoid arthritis: An additive (dominant) mode of inheritance is rejected, a recessive mode is preferred
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Genetic Epidemiology
- Vol. 8 (3), 153-175
- https://doi.org/10.1002/gepi.1370080303
Abstract
We examined the mode of inheritance of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and estimated the genetic contribution of the HLA-linked locus to the development of RA using data from 111 multiplex families (54 London, 57 Cleveland), and 43 randomly ascertained patients (Seattle). HLA-DR4 was present in 78 multiplex probands (70%); a further 16 probands who were negative for DR4 were positive for DR1. Both DR4 and DR1 were significantly in excess when compared to control population frequencies (P < 0.001); an additional finding was an excess of DR7, although the numbers of probands with DR7 were small. Despite the well-established HLA association with RA, neither recessive nor additive (dominant) modes of inheritance, nor any intermediate models have been ruled out using affected sib-pair and antigen genotype frequency among patients (AGFAP) methods. However, in our study the AGFAP data for HLA-DR4 and DR1 were close to recessive expectations (P = ns) while an additive (dominant) mode of inheritance was rejected (P < 0.001). The same results were obtained by an independent method which considered HLA-DR transmission from affected parents to their affected children. The affected sib-pair haplotype sharing method showed deviation from random expectations but did not allow discrimination between recessive and additive (dominant) modes. The effect of the HLA-linked locus on familiarity accounted for only a 1.61-fold increased risk to sibs over the population prevalence, compared to an observed value of 3.90. This indicated that there could be at least one other non-HLA locus predisposing to RA with a weight that is slightly greater than that of HLA.Keywords
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