Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/56479
Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: Exome-Wide Search for Genes Associated With Central Nervous System Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases Following CHIKV Infection: the Tip of the Iceberg
Authors: Soniza Vieira Alves Leon
Luiza Mendonça Higa
Ana Paula de Campos Guimarães
Mariane Talon de Menezes
Marcelo Calado de Paula Tôrres
Richard Araújo Maia
Bruno Miceli Gonzalez Nogueira
Laise Carolina França
Marcos Martins da Silva
Christian Naurath
Cristina dos Santos Ferreira
Aline Saraiva da Silva Correia
Claudia Cristina Ferreira Vasconcelos
Orlando Costa Ferreira
Cynthia Chester Cardoso
Renato Santana de Aguiar
Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos
Alice Laschuk Herlinger
Fabrícia Lima Fontes Dantas
Fernanda Rueda Lopes
Ronaldo da Silva Francisco
João Paulo da Costa Gonçalves
Amanda Dutra de Araújo
Cláudia Cecília da Silva Rêgo
Alexandra Lehmkuhl Gerber
Amilcar Tanuri
Abstract: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emergent arbovirus that causes a disease characterized primarily by fever, rash and severe persistent polyarthralgia, although <1% of cases develop severe neurological manifestations such as inflammatory demyelinatingdiseases(IDD)ofthecentralnervoussystem(CNS)likeacutedisseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and extensive transverse myelitis. Genetic factors associated with host response and disease severity are still poorly understood. In this study, we performed whole-exome sequencing (WES) to identify HLA alleles, genes and cellular pathways associated with CNS IDD clinical phenotype outcomes following CHIKV infection. The cohort includes 345 patients of which 160 were confirmed for CHIKV. Six cases presented neurological manifestation mimetizing CNS IDD. WES data analysis was performed for 12 patients, including the CNS IDD cases and 6 CHIKV patients without any neurological manifestation. We identified 29 candidate genes harboring rare, pathogenic, or probably pathogenic variants in all exomes analyzed. HLA alleles were also determined and patients who developed CNS IDD shared a common signature with diseases such as Multiple sclerosis (MS) and Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders (NMOSD). When these genes were included in Gene Ontology analyses, pathways associated with CNS IDD syndromes were retrieved, suggesting that CHIKV-induced CNSoutcomesmayshareageneticbackgroundwithotherneurologicaldisorders.Toour knowledge, this study was the first genome-wide investigation of genetic risk factors for CNS phenotypes in CHIKV infection. Our data suggest thatHLA-DRB1 allelesassociated with demyelinating diseases may also confer risk of CNS IDD outcomes in patients with CHIKV infection.
Subject: Chikungunya
Bacterias patogenicas
Doenças inflamatórias
Encefalomielite
language: por
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: ICB - INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLOGICAS
Rights: Acesso Aberto
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.639364
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/56479
Issue Date: 2021
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2021.639364/full
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Frontiers in Genetics
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