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  • Title: Sensitivity to bee venom antigen phospholipase A2: association with specific HLA class I and class II alleles and haplotypes in beekeepers and allergic patients.
    Author: Sánchez-Velasco P, Antón E, Muñoz D, Martínez-Quesada J, Ruíz de Alegría C, López-Hoyos M, García-Martín A, Jiménez I, Alonso ST, Duque S, Suárez A, Jerez J, Leyva-Cobián F.
    Journal: Hum Immunol; 2005 Jul; 66(7):818-25. PubMed ID: 16112029.
    Abstract:
    Bee venom hypersensitivity is a clinical entity of outstanding importance because bee stings are a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Individuals with immediate-type bee venom hypersensitivity, beekeepers, and healthy controls were examined for HLA-DRB1, DQB1, and DQA1 alleles by sequence-specific oligonucleotide probe typing. Defined hypersensitivity to bee venom antigen phospholipase A2 (vbPLA2) is significantly associated with the presence of susceptible HLA class II alleles: DRB1*0101 (RR = 2.7, p < 3 x 10(-3)), DRB1*0103 (RR = 21.2, p < 7.5 x 10(-11)), DQA1*0101 (RR = 1.2, p < 38.52 x 10(-10)), and DQB1*0501 (RR = 4, p < 2.18 x 10(-10)). Some HLA class I alleles were also associated with risk to bee venom allergy: A*01 (RR = 2.4, p < 7.5 x 10(-4)), B*57 (RR = 35.1, p < 3.5 x 10(-7)), and B*5901 (p < 3.5 x 10(-5)), but they are probably of secondary significance. Three- (DRB1*0103-DQA1*0101-DQB1*0501) (RR = 21.24, p < 7.5 x 10(-11)) and five-loci (A*01-B*59-DRB1*0103-DQA1*0101-DQB1*0501) (p < 2.3 x 10(-6)) extended haplotypes are also significantly carried by vbPLA2 allergic patients. When HLA allele frequencies from patients are compared with those from beekeepers, only HLA-DRB1*0103 (RR = 11.7, p < 8.5 x 10(-5)) and HLA-DQA1*0101 (p < 0.02) were significantly increased in the former. These observations emphasize the importance of the DRB1*0103-DQA1*0101-DQB1*0501 haplotype as a strong candidate for susceptibility to vbPLA2 hypersensitivity, at least in our region.
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