You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 67, Issue 6
  • Allelic variation at the C-reactive protein gene associates to both hand osteoarthritis severity and serum high sensitive C-reactive protein levels in the GARP study

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Concise report
Allelic variation at the C-reactive protein gene associates to both hand osteoarthritis severity and serum high sensitive C-reactive protein levels in the GARP study
  1. S D Bos1,
  2. H E D Suchiman1,
  3. M Kloppenburg2,3,
  4. J J Houwing-Duistermaat4,
  5. M P Hellio le Graverand5,
  6. A B Seymour6,
  7. H M Kroon7,
  8. P E Slagboom1,
  9. I Meulenbelt1
  1. 1
    Department of Molecular Epidemiology, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
  2. 2
    Department of Rheumatology, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
  3. 3
    Department of Clinical Epidemiology, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
  4. 4
    Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
  5. 5
    Pfizer Global Research & Development, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  6. 6
    Biological Profiling, Pfizer Research Technology Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  7. 7
    Department of Radiology, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
  1. Steffan Bos, MSc, Leiden University Medical Centre, Section Molecular Epidemiology (S-05-P), PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands; s.bos{at}lumc.nl

Abstract

Objective: To gain more insight into the role of genetic variation of the C-reactive protein (CRP) gene in serum CRP levels and osteoarthritis (OA).

Methods: Serum high sensitive CRP (S-HsCRP) levels were measured in the Genetics of osteoARthritis and Progression (GARP) study. Furthermore, to assess genetic variation of the CRP gene, genotypes of five tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms were assessed in the GARP study and a random control sample.

Results: A significant and consistent relation between S-HsCRP levels and observed haplotypes was identified. Additionally, a CRP haplotype, which also associated to a significantly higher expected phenotypic mean S-HsCRP level, was associated to severe hand OA. This haplotype was tagged by a single nucleotide polymorphism (rs3091244). Carriers of this allele have an increased risk for the presence of severe hand OA with an OR of 2.3 (95% confidence interval 1.2 to 4.3, p = 0.009).

Conclusions: A haplotype of the CRP gene, associated to high basal S-HsCRP level, is also associated to severity of hand OA, indicating that innate high basal S-HsCRP levels may influence OA onset.

https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.2007.079228

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests: None.