Enrichment analysis of GWAS data in autoimmunity delineates the multiple sclerosis-Epstein Barr virus association
Mechelli, R.; Umeton, R.; Rinaldi, V.; Bellucci, G.; Bigi, R.; Angelini, D. F.; Guerrera, G.; Srinivasan, S.; Romano, S.; Buscarinu, M. C.; Pizzolato Umeton, F.; Anastasiadou, E.; Trivedi, P.; Fornasiero, A.; Ferraldeschi, M.; IMSGC and WTCCC2, ; Centonze, D.; Uccelli, A.; Di Silvestre, D.; Mauri, P.; de Candia, P.; Matarese, G.; D'Alfonso, S.; Battistini, L.; Farina, C.; Magliozzi, R.; Reynolds, R.; Salvetti, M.; Ristori, G.
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We exploited genetic information to assess non-genetic influences in autoimmunity. We isolated gene modules whose products physically interact with environmental exposures related to autoimmunity, and analyzed their nominal statistical evidence of association with autoimmune and non-autoimmune diseases in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) data. Epstein Barr virus (EBV) and other Herpesviruses interactomes emerged as specifically associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), possibly under common regulatory mechanisms. Analyses of MS blood and brain transcriptomes, cytofluorimetric studies of endogenous EBV-infected lymphoblastoid lines, and lesion immunohistochemistry, confirmed a dysregulation of MS-associated EBV interactors, suggesting their contribution to CD40 signaling alterations in MS. These interactors resulted enriched in modules from inherited axonopathies-causing genes, supporting a link between EBV and neurodegeneration in MS, in accord with the observed transcriptomic dysregulations in MS brains. They were also enriched with top-ranked pharmaceutical targets prioritized on a genetic basis. This study delineates a disease-specific influence of herpesviruses on MS biology.
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