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28502801
TITLE
Genome-Wide Association Shows that Pigmentation Genes Play a Role in Skin Aging.
ABSTRACT
Loss of fine skin patterning is a sign of both aging and photoaging. Studies investigating the genetic contribution to skin patterning offer an opportunity to better understand a trait that influences both physical appearance and risk of keratinocyte skin cancer. We undertook a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of a measure of skin pattern (microtopography score) damage in 1,671 twin pairs and 1,745 singletons (N = 5,087) drawn from three independent cohorts. We identified that rs185146 near SLC45A2 is associated with a skin aging trait at genome-wide significance (P = 4.1 × 10 ); to our knowledge this is previously unreported. We also confirm previously identified loci, rs12203592 near IRF4 (P = 8.8 × 10 ) and rs4268748 near MC1R (P = 1.2 × 10 ). At all three loci we highlight putative functionally relevant SNPs. There are a number of red hair/low pigmentation alleles of MC1R; we found that together these MC1R alleles explained 4.1% of variance in skin pattern damage. We also show that skin aging and reported experience of sunburns was proportional to the degree of penetrance for red hair of alleles of MC1R. Our work has uncovered genetic contributions to skin aging and confirmed previous findings, showing that pigmentation is a critical determinant of skin aging.
Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DATE PUBLISHED
2017 09
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2017/01/04
revised 2017/04/05
accepted 2017/04/24
pubmed 2017/05/16 06:00
medline 2017/10/05 06:00
entrez 2017/05/16 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Law MH Law Matthew H MH QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. Electronic address: matthew.law@qimrberghofer.edu.au.
Medland SE Medland Sarah E SE QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Zhu G Zhu Gu G QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Yazar S Yazar Seyhan S Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Viñuela A Viñuela Ana A Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK.
Wallace L Wallace Leanne L Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Program in Complex Trait Genomics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Shekar SN Shekar Sri Niranjan SN QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia; LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Duffy DL Duffy David L DL QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Bataille V Bataille Veronique V Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK; Dermatology, West Herts NHS Trust, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, UK.
Glass D Glass Dan D Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK; Department of Dermatology, Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK.
Spector TD Spector Tim D TD Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK.
Wood D Wood Diane D School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
MuTHER Consortium
Gordon SD Gordon Scott D SD QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Barbour JM Barbour Julie M JM The Launceston Eye Institute, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Henders AK Henders Anjali K AK QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Hewitt AW Hewitt Alex W AW Menzies Institute for Medical Research, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia; Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Montgomery GW Montgomery Grant W GW Molecular Biology, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Sturm RA Sturm Richard A RA Dermatology Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Mackey DA Mackey David A DA Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Green AC Green Adèle C AC QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia; CRUK Manchester Institute and Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
MacGregor S MacGregor Stuart S QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 137
ISSUE: 9
TITLE: The Journal of investigative dermatology
ISOABBREVIATION: J Invest Dermatol
YEAR: 2017
MONTH: 09
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1523-1747
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: J Invest Dermatol
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 0022-202X
NLMUNIQUEID: 0426720
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Review
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
KEYWORD
GWAS
Gene
Photoaging
Pigmentation
Skin aging
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Alleles
Case-Control Studies
Cohort Studies
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genome-Wide Association Study
Genotype
Humans
Interferon Regulatory Factors genetics
Male genetics
Middle Aged genetics
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics
Reference Values genetics
Role genetics
Skin Aging genetics
Skin Pigmentation genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
0 Interferon Regulatory Factors
0 interferon regulatory factor-4
OTHER ID's