Genetic polymorphisms in IL-2, IL-10 and FOXP3 are associated with autoimmune neutropaenia in early childhood and autoantibody specificity in a Danish cohort

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  • Kirstine Kløve-Mogensen
  • Rudi Steffensen
  • Tania Nicole Masmas
  • Glenthøj, Andreas Birkedal
  • Christina Friis Jensen
  • Paul Ratcliffe
  • Petter Höglund
  • Henrik Hasle
  • Kaspar René Nielsen
  • Thure Mors Haunstrup

Autoimmune neutropaenia (AIN) in early childhood is characterized by chronic neutropaenia and positivity for human neutrophil antibodies (HNA), resulting in the excessive destruction of neutrophils. The association between regulatory T cells (Tregs) and AIN has been described, and in this study, we investigated three Treg-associated genes, IL-2, IL-10 and FOXP3. The frequencies of three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in IL-2 −330T>G (rs2069762), +114G>T (rs2069763) and IVS3-116 A>G (rs2069772), four SNPs in IL-10 −3575T>A (rs1800890), −1082G>A (rs1800896), −819 C>T (rs1800871) and −592 C>A (rs1800872) and three SNPs in FOXP3 –3499 A>G (rs3761547), −3279 C>A (rs3761548) and −924 A>G (rs2232365) were compared between 166 Danish AIN patients and 358 healthy controls. Disease association was observed for IL-2 IVS3-116 GG (p = 0.0081, OR = 0.35 [0.15–0.80]), IL-10 −3575 TT (p = 0.0078, OR = 1.71 [1.16–2.54]) and IL-10 −1082 AA (p = 0.014, OR = 1.76 [1.14–2.72]) in all patients and FOXP3 –924 (p = 0.0005, A OR = 0.41 [0.25–0.68] and G OR = 2.42 [1.46–4.01]) in male patients. None of the associations were linked to antibody specificity. Disease-associated haplotypes were observed in IL-2 and FOXP3. IL-2 −330T/+114 T/IVS3-116A was associated with anti-FcγRIIIb-positive patients (p = 0.012, OR = 2.07 [1.18–3.62]). FOXP3 –3499A/–3279C/−924A was associated with anti-HNA-1a-positive male patients (p = 0.016, OR = 0.41 [0.20–0.83]), and ACG was associated with female patients, both in the combined group (p = 0.006, OR = NA) and the anti-FcγRIIIb-positive group (p = 0.002, OR = NA). We conclude that our findings reveal a correlation between SNP in Treg-associated genes and AIN, indicating that AIN could be driven by dysfunction of immune homeostatic-evolving Tregs.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummere13374
TidsskriftScandinavian Journal of Immunology
Vol/bind100
Udgave nummer2
Antal sider16
ISSN0300-9475
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2024

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from the Beckett Foundation (21\u20102\u20107857), the Aalborg Voluntary Blood Donors Foundation (1000/21) and The North Denmark Region Health Science Research Foundation (2022\u20100007).

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© 2024 The Authors. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Scandinavian Foundation for Immunology.

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