PTPN22 is associated with susceptibility to psoriatic arthritis but not psoriasis: evidence for a further PsA-specific risk locus John Bowes, Sabine Loehr, Ashley Budu-Aggrey, Steffen Uebe, Ian N Bruce, Marie Feletar, Helena Marzo-Ortega, Philip Helliwell, Anthony W Ryan, David Kane, Eleanor Korendowych, Gerd-Marie Alenius, Emiliano Giardina, Jonathan Packham, Ross McManus, Oliver FitzGerald, M...

Under the heading of ‘Anti-CCP antibody-positive’, the first line should read ‘HLA-shared epitope-negative’, and the second line should read ‘HLA-shared epitope-positive’. Similarly, under the heading ‘Anti-CCP antibody-negative’, the first line should read ‘HLA-shared epitope-negative’ and the second line should read ‘HLA-shared epitope-positive’. The correct table is given here as Table 1 (a ...

The PTPN22 gene, encoding the lymphoid-specific protein tyrosine phosphatase, a negative regulator in the T-cell activation and development, has been associated with the susceptibility to several autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes. Based on combined case-control and family-based association studies, we replicated the finding of an association of the PTPN22 C1858T (R620W) functional ...

We conducted a large-scale genetic analysis on giant cell arteritis (GCA), a polygenic immune-mediated vasculitis. A case-control cohort, comprising 1,651 case subjects with GCA and 15,306 unrelated control subjects from six different countries of European ancestry, was genotyped by the Immunochip array. We also imputed HLA data with a previously validated imputation method to perform a more co...

Predisposition to psoriasis is known to be affected by genetic variation in HLA-C, IL12B, and IL23R, and although other psoriasis-associated variants have been identified, incontrovertible statistical evidence for these markers has not yet been obtained. To help resolve this issue, we tested 15 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 7 putative psoriasis-risk genes in 1,448 psoriasis patien...