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Identifying novel high-impact rare disease-causing mutations, genes and pathways in exomes of Ashkenazi Jewish inflammatory bowel disease patients

By Yiming Wu, Kyle Gettler, Mamta Giri, Dalin Li, Cigdem Sevim Bayrak, Aayushee Jain, Patrick Maffucci, Ksenija Sabic, Tielman Van Vleck, Girish Nadkarni, Lee A. Denson, Harry Ostrer, Subra Kugathasan, Peter D. Stenson, David N. Cooper, L Philip Schumm, Scott Snapper, Mark J. Daly, Talin Haritunians, Richard H Duerr, Mark S Silverberg, John Rioux, Steven R Brant, Dermot McGovern, Judy Cho, Yuval Itan

Posted 02 Jul 2020
medRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.01.20143750

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic diseases, affecting different parts of the gastrointestinal tract, that mainly comprises Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC). Most IBD genomic research to date has involved genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of common genetic variants, mostly in Europeans, resulting in the identification of over 200 risk loci. The incidence of IBD in Ashkenazi Jews (AJ) is particularly high compared to other population groups and rare protein-coding variants are significantly enriched in AJ. These variants are expected to have a larger phenotypic effect and are hypothesized to complement the missing heritability that cannot be fully addressed by GWAS in IBD. Therefore, we genetically identified 4,974 AJs IBD cases and controls from whole exome sequencing (WES) data from the NIDDK IBD Genetics Consortium (IBDGC). We selected credible rare variants with high predicted impact, aggregated them into genes, and performed gene burden and pathway enrichment analyses to identify 7 novel plausible IBD-causing genesNCF1, CES1, ICAM1, INPP5D, ABCB1, IL33 and TLR4. We further perform bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing, demonstrating the likely relatedness of the novel genes to IBD. Importantly, we demonstrate that the rare and high impact genetic architecture of AJ adult IBD displays a significant overlap with very early onset IBD (VEOIBD) genetics. At the variant level, we performed Phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) in the UK Biobank to replicate risk sites in IBD and reveal shared risk sites with other diseases. Finally, we showed that a polygenic risk score (PRS) has high power to differentiate AJ IBD cases from controls when using rare and high impact variants.

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