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Genome Wide Association Analysis of Neutrophils Extracellular Traps

1Institut National pour la Santé et la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé (UMR_S) 1219, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 2UMR1034, Inserm, Biology of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 3Laboratoire d'Hématologie, CHU de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, 4Laboratory of Haematology, La Timone Hospital, Marseille, France, 5INSERM UMR_S 1062, Nutrition Obesity and Risk of Thrombosis, Center for CardioVascular and Nutrition research (C2VN), Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France, 6Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, Evry, France, 7Centre d’Etude du Polymorphisme Humain, Fondation Jean Dausset, Paris, France, 8Innovative Therapies in Hemostasis, Université de Paris, INSERM, Paris, France, 9Hematology Department and Biosurgical Research Lab (Carpentier Foundation), Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre-Université de Paris (APHP-CUP), Paris, France

Abstract Number: OC 39.4

Meeting: ISTH 2021 Congress

Theme: Diagnostics and OMICs » Biomarkers of Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Background: Neutrophils Extracellular Traps (NETs) are emerging biomarkers for their key role in immunothrombosis, including in the context of the recent COVID-19 epidemic.

Aims: With the aim of characterizing novel molecular determinants associated with the inter individual variability of NET plasma levels, NETs were measured using a MPO-DNA ELISA assay in 657 participants of the FARIVE study, a French case-control study (372-285) for venous thrombosis. FARIVE participants were typed for genome wide polymorphisms using an Illumina DNA array.

Methods: Using a compound poisson-gamma modeling of the NETs distribution characterized by a mixture of excess of 0 values and of positive values, a genome wide association analysis of 8,866,687 imputed polymorphisms was performed.

Results: The analysis revealed a significant association peak (p=1.7×10-8) on chromosome 21q21.3. Carriers of the A allele at the lead polymorphism (rs57502213) exhibited increased NETs levels (β=+0.97 ± 0.16) than non carriers, homogeneously in VTE cases (β=+1.20 ± 0.21, N=372) and in controls (β=+0.73 ± 0.25, N=285). This polymorphism explained ~2% of the variability of NETs plasma levels. Rs57502213 maps to microRNA MIR155HG but exhibits very strong linkage disequilibrium with several others polymorphisms covering the MRPL29, JAM2, GABPA and APP genes. Interestingly, GABPA codes for a transcription factor that has been demonstrated in vitro to play a role in the nuclear maturation of neutrophils from which NETs are derived, while APP has been demonstrated to control NET formation in mice.

Conclusions: To our knowledge, this work is the first genome-wide association study on NETs and provides the first epidemiologic evidence that the chr21q21.3 locus participates to the regulation of NETs in humans. The association that we observed deserves to be further validated in independent samples (a call will be launched during the ISTH presentation to encourage collaboration) and further investigations will be needed to fine map the genetic regulation of NETs at this locus.

To cite this abstract in AMA style:

Munsch G, Aïssi D, James C, Jacqmin-Gadda H, Morange P-, Deleuze J-, Trégouët D-, Smadja D. Genome Wide Association Analysis of Neutrophils Extracellular Traps [abstract]. Res Pract Thromb Haemost. 2021; 5 (Suppl 2). https://abstracts.isth.org/abstract/genome-wide-association-analysis-of-neutrophils-extracellular-traps/. Accessed September 22, 2023.

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