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© 2019 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Importance: Use of thiopurines may be limited by myelosuppression. TPMT pharmacogenetic testing identifies only 25% of at-risk patients of European ancestry. Among patients of East Asian ancestry, NUDT15 variants are associated with thiopurine-induced myelosuppression (TIM). Objective: To identify genetic variants associated with TIM among patients of European ancestry with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Design, Setting, and Participants: Case-control study of 491 patients affected by TIM and 679 thiopurine-tolerant unaffected patients who were recruited from 89 international sites between March 2012 and November 2015. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and exome-wide association studies (EWAS) were conducted in patients of European ancestry. The replication cohort comprised 73 patients affected by TIM and 840 thiopurine-tolerant unaffected patients. Exposures: Genetic variants associated with TIM. Main Outcomes and Measures: Thiopurine-induced myelosuppression, defined as a decline in absolute white blood cell count to 2.5 × 10 9 /L or less or a decline in absolute neutrophil cell count to 1.0 × 10 9 /L or less leading to a dose reduction or drug withdrawal. Results: Among 1077 patients (398 affected and 679 unaffected; median age at IBD diagnosis, 31.0 years [interquartile range, 21.2 to 44.1 years]; 540 [50%] women; 602 [56%] diagnosed as having Crohn disease), 919 (311 affected and 608 unaffected) were included in the GWAS analysis and 961 (328 affected and 633 unaffected) in the EWAS analysis. The GWAS analysis confirmed association of TPMT (chromosome 6, rs11969064) with TIM (30.5% [95/311] affected vs 16.4% [100/608] unaffected patients; odds ratio [OR], 2.3 [95% CI, 1.7 to 3.1], P = 5.2 × 10 -9 ). The EWAS analysis demonstrated an association with an in-frame deletion in NUDT15 (chromosome 13, rs746071566) and TIM (5.8% [19/328] affected vs 0.2% [1/633] unaffected patients; OR, 38.2 [95% CI, 5.1 to 286.1], P = 1.3 × 10 -8 ), which was replicated in a different cohort (2.7% [2/73] affected vs 0.2% [2/840] unaffected patients; OR, 11.8 [95% CI, 1.6 to 85.0], P =.03). Carriage of any of 3 coding NUDT15 variants was associated with an increased risk (OR, 27.3 [95% CI, 9.3 to 116.7], P = 1.1 × 10 -7 ) of TIM, independent of TPMT genotype and thiopurine dose. Conclusions and Relevance: Among patients of European ancestry with IBD, variants in NUDT15 were associated with increased risk of TIM. These findings suggest that NUDT15 genotyping may be considered prior to initiation of thiopurine therapy; however, further study including additional validation in independent cohorts is required.
Author(s): Walker GJ, Harrison JW, Heap GA, Voskuil MD, Andersen V, Anderson CA, Ananthakrishnan AN, Barrett JC, Beaugerie L, Bewshea CM, Cole AT, Cummings FR, Daly MJ, Ellul P, Fedorak RN, Festen EAM, Florin TH, Gaya DR, Halfvarson J, Hart AL, Heerasing NM, Hendy P, Irving PM, Jones SE, Koskela J, Lindsay JO, Mansfield JC, McGovern D, Parkes M, Pollok RCG, Ramakrishnan S, Rampton DS, Rivas MA, Russell RK, Schultz M, Sebastian S, Seksik P, Singh A, So K, Sokol H, Subramaniam K, Todd A, Annese V, Weersma RK, Xavier R, Ward R, Weedon MN, Goodhand JR, Kennedy NA, Ahmad T, Holden AL, Andrews J, Auth M, Babu S, Bampton P, Banim P, Barnes T, Basude D, Beckly J, Bell A, Bell S, Bhandari P, Bloom S, Border D, Bredin F, Brookes MJ, Brown M, Calvert C, Campbell D, Chanchlani N, Chaudhary B, Chaudhary R, Chung-Faye G, Colleypriest B, Connor S, Cooney R, Cooper S, Creed TJ, Croft N, Cullen S, D'Amato M, D'Inca R, Dalal H, Daneshmend TK, Das D, Delaney M, DeSilva S, Dhar A, Dharmasiri S, Direkze N, Dunckley P, Elphick D, Everett SM, Feeney M, Fell J, Foley S, Franke A, Gavin D, Gee I, Ghosh D, Goldsmith C, Gorard D, Gordon JN, Gore S, Green J, Grimes D, Hamill G, Harbord M, Hart J, Hawkey C, Iqbal T, Ireland A, Johnson M, Jones C, Kanegasundaram S, Karban A, Katsanos KH, Kiparissi F, Kirkham S, Lal S, Langlands S, Lawrance IC, Lees CW, Lev-Tzion R, Levison S, Lewis SJ, Li A, Limdi J, Lin S, Lobo A, Lockett M, Loehry J, MacDonald C, MacFaul G, Mahmood T, Mahmood Z, Mann S, Mawdsley J, Mazhar Z, McGovern JF, McNair A, Modi A, Monahan K, Moran A, Morris M-A, Mortimore M, Mowat C, Muhammed R, Murray CDR, Olivier H, Orchard TR, Panter S, Patel V, Phillips R, Prasad N, Preston C, Radford-Smith G, Rajasekhar P, Roy D, Saich R, Satsangi J, Schreiber S, Sen S, Shah N, Shenderay R, Shenoy A, Shutt J, Silverberg M, Simmons A, Simmons J, Singh S, Smith M, Smith M, Smith M, Snook JA, Sonwalker S, Stevens CR, Sturniolo G, Subramanian S, Thomas A, Tighe M, Torrente F, Tremelling M, Tsianos E, Vani D, Walsh A, Watermeyer G, Watts D, Watts G, Weaver S, Wesley E, Willmott A, Yearsley K, Zambar V, Zeissig S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
Year: 2019
Volume: 321
Issue: 8
Pages: 753-761
Online publication date: 26/02/2019
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
ISSN (print): 0098-7484
ISSN (electronic): 1538-3598
Publisher: American Medical Association
URL: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.0709
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.0709
PubMed id: 30806694
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