Identification of genetic variants affecting vitamin D receptor binding and associations with autoimmune disease
Iniitally Preprint Server bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/080143
Now published in Human Molecular Genetics doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddx092
Giuseppe Gallone, Wilfried Haerty, Giulio Disanto, Sreeram Ramagopalan, Chris P Ponting, Antonio J Berlanga-Taylor
Vitamin D Life
Items in both categories VDR and Autoimmune are listed here:
- Autoimmune disease treated by Vitamin D, Zinc (and other activators of Vitamin D Receptor) – Oct 2019
- Vitamin D Receptor is associated in over 58 autoimmune studies
- Temporary hair loss (Telogen Effluvium) is 15X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – Oct 2019
- Autoimmunity problems often associated with poor Vitamin D Receptors – March 2019
- Many autoimmune diseases associated with low vitamin D or poor Vit D genes – July 2019
- Adaptive and innate immune system, vitamin D genes, and Rheumatoid Arthritis – June 2019
- Resveratrol Role in Autoimmune Disease-A Mini-Review. – Dec 2016
- Immunological effects of vitamin D and their relations to autoimmunity – March 2019
- Resveratrol improves health (Vitamin D receptor, etc.)
- Vitiligo (spotty skin coloring) is 4 X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis July 2018
- Vitamin D Receptor and autoimmune diseases – Jan 2017
- Inflammation and immune responses to Vitamin D (perhaps need to measure active vitamin D) – July 2017
- Familial Mediterranean Fever is 3X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptors (males) – Sept 2017
- Many autoimmune diseases associated with latitude and vitamin D receptor – March 2016
- Vitamin D Receptor role in Autoimmune Diseases and or cancers – Nov 2013
- Endometriosis treated, and perhaps prevented, by vitamin D
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This may be a chart of VDR activation vs autoimmune disease
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VDR binding motifs, yet most fell outside of these motifs, implying that genetic variation often affects binding affinity only indirectly. Finally, we compared 341 VDR-BVs replicating by position in multiple individuals against background sets of variants lying within VDR-binding regions that had been matched in allele frequency and were independent with respect to linkage disequilibrium. In this stringent test, these replicated VDR-BVs were significantly (q < 0.1) and substantially (> 2-fold) enriched in genomic intervals associated with autoimmune and other diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis. The approach's validity is underscored by RXR
VDR motif sequence being predictive of binding strength and being evolutionarily constrained. Our findings are consistent with altered RXR::VDR binding contributing to immunity-related diseases. Replicated VDR-BVs associated with these disorders could represent causal disease risk alleles whose effect may be modifiable by vitamin D levels.