Proteogenomic analysis of 5,411 plasma proteins in sickle cell disease patients
Groza, C.; Chignon, A.; Lo, K. S.; Bellegarde, V.; Bartolucci, P.; Lettre, G.
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There are few therapeutic options to treat patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), a blood disorder caused by mutations in the {beta}-globin gene that affects >7M individuals worldwide. Combining human genetics and high-throughput proteomics can help identify new drug targets. Here, we present results from a proteogenomic analysis of the plasma proteome in SCD patients. We measured the levels of 5,411 plasma proteins and tested their associations with common genetic variation in 343 SCD patients. After conditional analyses, we identified 560 protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL), including 58 (10%) that are novel. Many of these pQTL are not specific to SCD patients and associate with clinically relevant traits in non-SCD African Americans from the Million Veteran Program (e.g. hemoglobin concentration, triglycerides). The effect sizes of the pQTL is largely concordant between SCD and non-SCD individuals, although we found examples (e.g. APOL1, haptoglobin) with evidence of heterogeneity that suggests an interaction between the plasma proteome and the SCD genotype. Finally, we combine pQTL and genome-wide association study results for fetal hemoglobin (HbF) in a Mendelian randomization analysis to prioritize five proteins that may increase HbF production (ENPP5, LBP, NAAA, PT3X, ZP3).
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