Genome-wide association study identifies new loci associated with noise-induced tinnitus in Chinese populations,BMC Genetics

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Genome-wide association study identifies new loci associated with noise-induced tinnitus in Chinese populations
BMC Genetics Pub Date : 2021-09-06 , DOI: 10.1186/s12863-021-00987-y
Chengyong Xie ₁ , Yuguang Niu ₂ , Jie Ping ₃ , Yahui Wang ₃ , Chenning Yang ₃ , Yuanfeng Li ₃ , Gangqiao Zhou _{1,

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Tinnitus is an auditory phantom sensation in the absence of an acoustic stimulus, which affects nearly 15% of the population. Excessive noise exposure is one of the main causes of tinnitus. To now, the knowledge of the genetic determinants of susceptibility to tinnitus remains limited. We performed a two-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) and identified that two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), rs2846071 located in the intergenic region at 11q13.5 (odds ratio [OR] = 2.14, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.96–3.40, combined P = 4.89 × 10− 6) and rs4149577 located in the intron of TNFRSF1A gene at 12p13.31 (OR = 2.05, 95% CI = 1.89–2.51, combined P = 6.88 × 10− 6), are significantly associated with the susceptibility to noise-induced tinnitus. Furthermore, the expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analyses revealed that rs2846071 is significantly correlated with the expression of WNT11 gene, and rs4149577 with the expression of TNFRSF1A gene in multiple brain tissues (all P < 0.05). The newly identified candidate gene WNT11 is involved in Wnt pathway, and TNFRSF1A in the tumor necrosis factor pathway, respectively. Pathway enrichment analyses also showed that these two pathways are closely relevant to tinnitus. Our findings highlight two novel loci at 11q13.5 and 12p13.31 conferring susceptibility to noise-induced tinnitus. and suggest that the WNT11 and TNFRSF1A genes might be the candidate causal targets of 11q13.5 and 12p13.31 loci, respectively.

更新日期：2021-09-06

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