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  • Title: Association between TNFA polymorphism and the development of asthma in the Japanese population.
    Author: Noguchi E, Yokouchi Y, Shibasaki M, Inudou M, Nakahara S, Nogami T, Kamioka M, Yamakawa-Kobayashi K, Ichikawa K, Matsui A, Arinami T.
    Journal: Am J Respir Crit Care Med; 2002 Jul 01; 166(1):43-6. PubMed ID: 12091169.
    Abstract:
    Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is a proinflammatory cytokine that participates in the inflammatory reaction in patients with asthma. The TNFA and TNFB genes, which encode TNF-alpha and TNF-beta, respectively, are located within the region encoding the human major histocompatibility complex on chromosome 6p21.3, which showed linkage to atopic asthma in our genome-wide search. To determine whether polymorphisms in the 5' flanking region of the TNFA gene (-1031C/T, -863C/A, and -857C/T) and an NcoI polymorphism in the TNFB gene (LTA NcoI) are associated with the development of asthma, we performed transmission disequilibrium tests of families identified through children with atopic asthma. Genotypes of families were determined by polymerase chain reaction-based restriction fragment length polymorphism or SNaPshot analysis. Transmission disequilibrium tests of 144 asthmatic families revealed that transmission of the -857C allele and the -1031T-863C-857C haplotype in the TNFA gene to asthma-affected offspring occurred more frequently than expected (-857C allele, p = 0.0055; -1031T-863C-857C haplotype, p = 0.0002). Our results suggest that TNFA or nearby genes, including those in the major histocompatibility complex region, may contribute to the development of asthma in the Japanese population.
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