Mount Sinai researchers say they have found new measures to predict risk for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
The study published in the research journal Gastroenterology shows that the polygenic risk scores, constructed using association data from multiples in Mount Sinai’s multivariate BioMe Biobank, increased predictability. IBD for all biobank populations.
BioMe is a system-wide effort at Mount Sinai that reconstructs the diagnosis and classification of diseases according to the molecular image of the patient.
The study showed that risk scores calculated from data integration significantly improved prediction among people of European, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Hispanic ancestry in BioMe, as well as European individuals in Biobank UK, which contains biological and medical data of half a million people between the ages. 40 and 69 live in the UK.
Predictive power was lower for patients of African ancestry, possibly due to much smaller reference data sets and much greater genetic diversity within populations of African descent.
“The ability to accurately predict the risk of genetic disease in individuals over ancestry is an critical approach that can have a positive impact on patient outcomes, as early interventions are considered and developed and developed. even protective measures, ”said study lead author Judy H. Cho, MD, Dean of Translational Genetics and Director of the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personal Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
“These findings support the need for greater genetic diversity, including more data on African American populations, to predict increased disease risk and health differences for all populations. These polygenic risk scores – representing an estimate of the total risk based on the sum of a person ‘s most common genetic predisposition – have been calculated using IBD association data from contemporaries with European Jewish, African American and Ashkenazi Jewish backgrounds.
In addition, researchers evaluated rare mutations in early-onset IBD-related genes within each population and found that African American carriers of mutations abnormal LRBAs show less interpretation of both LRBA and CTLA-4 proteins.
LRBA deficiency increases susceptibility to IBD and leads to a lower CTLA-4 sensitivity, which can be reversed with the commonly prescribed antimalarial drug chloroquine. Future studies by Cho Laboratory will focus on predicting which subsets of patients might benefit from targeting this pathway.
“Given that depleted LRBA and CTLA-4 expression can induce IBD depression, it is encouraging that chloroquine is able to regain emotion,” said first study author Kyle Gettler, PhD, a graduate of the Icahn’s Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences. School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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