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Abstract
Background and Objectives
Epidemiological evidence for the role of polyunsaturated fatty-acids (PUFA) in Crohn's disease (CD) is unclear, although the key metabolite leucotriene B4 (LTB4) is closely linked to the inflammatory process. We hypothesized that inherited variation in key PUFA metabolic enzymes may modify susceptibility for CD.
Methods and Principal Results
A case-control design was implemented at three pediatric gastroenterology clinics in Canada. Children ā¤20 yrs diagnosed with CD and controls were recruited. 19 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the ALOX5 (4) CYP4F3 (5) and CYP4F2 (10) genes, were genotyped. Associations between SNPs/haplotypes and CD were examined. A total of 431 cases and 507 controls were studied. The mean (Ā±SD) age of the cases was 12.4 (Ā±3.3) years. Most cases were male (56.4%), had ileo-colonic disease (L3Ā±L4, 52.7%) and inflammatory behavior (B1Ā±p, 87%) at diagnosis. One genotyped CYP4F3 SNP (rs2683037) not in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium was excluded. No associations with the remaining 4 CYP4F3 SNPs with CD were evident. However haplotype analysis revealed associations with a two-marker haplotype (TG) (rs3794987 & rs1290617) (pā=ā0.02; permuted pā=ā0.08). CYP4F2 SNPs, rs3093158 (OR (recessive)ā=ā0.56, 95% CIā=ā0.35ā0.89; pā=ā0.01), rs2074902 (OR (trend)ā=ā1.26, 95% CIā=ā1.00ā1.60; pā=ā0.05), and rs2108622 (OR (recessive)ā=ā1.6, 95% CIā=ā1.00ā2.57; pā=ā0.05) were significantly associated whereas rs1272 (OR (recessive)ā=ā0.58, 95% CIā=ā0.30ā1.13; pā=ā0.10) showed suggestions for associations with CD. A haplotype comprising these 4 SNPs was significantly associated (pā=ā0.007, permuted pā=ā0.02) with CD. Associations with SNP rs3780901 in the ALOX5 gene were borderline non-significant (OR (dominant)ā=ā1.29, 95% CIā=ā0.99ā1.67; pā=ā0.056). A haplotype comprising the 4 ALOX5 SNPs (TCAA, pā=ā0.036) was associated with CD, but did not withstand corrections for multiple comparisons (permuted pā=ā0.14).
Citation: Costea I, Mack DR, Israel D, Morgan K, Krupoves A, Seidman E, et al. (2010) Genes Involved in the Metabolism of Poly-Unsaturated Fatty-Acids (PUFA) and Risk for Crohn's Disease in Children & Young Adults. PLoS ONE 5(12): e15672. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015672
Editor: Antje Timmer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Received: August 15, 2010; Accepted: November 22, 2010; Published: December 20, 2010
Copyright: Ā© 2010 Costea et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: The study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP200603). Dr. Amre is supported by a research salary award from the Fonds de la RecherchƩ en SantƩ du QuƩbec (FRSQ), QuƩbec. Dr. Costea was supported by a doctoral award from the FRSQ. Dr. Krupoves is supported by a scholarship from the Sainte-Justine Hospital Foundation, Montreal and by a scholarship from the PhD Program of the University of Montreal, Montreal. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Introduction
Crohn's disease (CD) a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is common in children and appears to be on the rise in most developing countries including Canada [1], [2]. Children with CD phenotypically differ from adults with CD and present unique clinical challenges relative to their more aggressive disease [3]ā[5].
Recent genome-wide association (GWA) studies both in adults and children [6]ā[9] have provided valuable insights on the potential mechanisms that underlie the chronic inflammation that is characteristic of CD. Much however remains to be known as GWA studies have accounted for <20% of the inherited variation in CD [7]. CD may represent a group of heterogeneous diseases with unique and overlapping pathophysiologies and in this context, it remains to be explored how environmental factors modify the expression of CD among genetically susceptible individuals.
We have recently shown that in Canadian children an imbalance in consumption of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may be associated with risk for CD [10]. In particular the consumption ratio of Ļ6/Ļ3 PUFA was observed to be of relevance, as has been proposed by others [11], [12]. However, many epidemiological studies [13] and clinical trials [14] using sources of Ļ fatty acids have not provided consistent results. We hypothesized that inherited variation in the ability to metabolize dietary PUFA may mediate development of CD and may have contributed to the previously observed inconsistent results.
The PUFA metabolic pathway is a complex pathway involving interplay of various enzymes [15]. Key steps relate to the release of arachidonic acid, a Ļ-6 fatty acid from the cell walls and synthesis of inflammatory mediators known as eicosanoids. A key eicosanoid is leucotriene-B4 (LTB4), a well recognized mediator of inflammation. Indeed, various studies have shown that LTB4 levels are associated with CD inflammation [16], [17]. Interestingly, a recent study has shown that the levels and activities of various enzymes involved in the PUFA metabolic pathway that leads to production of LTB4 were related to inflammation in IBD [18]. Three key enzymes are the 5-LO (5-lipoxygenase) that metabolizes arachidonic acid and initiates the pathway and the cytochrome P450 enzymes, CYP4F3 and CYP4F2 that are known de-activators of LTB4 [19]. In this study we investigated whether DNA variations in these key genes were associated with CD in children.
Methods
Ethics statement
Ethical approval was acquired from the Ethics Review Board of the Ste-Justine Hospital Foundation (HSJ), Montreal; the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Ottawa; and the British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver. Informed written consent was obtained from all participants (directly from the subject if he/she was an adult or from the parent/guardian if otherwise).
A case-control study was carried out. Cases were children (ā¤20 yrs of age) diagnosed with CD and recruited from 3 pediatric gastroenterology clinics across Canada (Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver). Diagnosis of CD was based on established criteria that included clinical, radiological, endoscopic and histological confirmation [20], [21]. Disease location and behavior were classified according to the Montreal Classification [22]. Controls were recruited from various sources to parallel population representativeness. These included children visiting the orthopedic clinics for minor trauma (fractures mostly), population-based controls (children) identified using random digit dialing, a birth cohort and a cohort of healthy adults recruited for ongoing genetic epidemiology studies at the Montreal study center. Cases and controls were restricted to those with self-reported European ancestry. Most of these controls have been previously utilized to replicate/validate recent associations reported either in candidate gene or GWA studies [23]ā[28]. Blood and/or saliva were collected as a source for DNA.
Selection of markers, genotyping & statistical analysis
Three genes, ALOX5, CYP4F3 and CYP4F2 were selected for study as they regulate critical upstream and downstream events that lead to production/metabolism of LTB4. Relevant markers to genotype were identified using the tag-SNP approach [29]. The following parameters were employed: linkage disequilibrium (LD)>0.80, minor allele frequencies >10%. Genotyping data for populations of European origin housed at the Seattle SNPs data resources (http://gvs.gs.washington.edu/GVS) was utilized to select the tag-SNPs. SNPs were genotyped using the Sequenom platform at the McGill University & Genome Quebec Innovation Center in Montreal. Primers utilized for genotyping the SNP are listed in table S1. Prior to analysis, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) was examined in the controls. Allelic, genotype and haplotype analysis was carried out using PLINK http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink) and HAPLOVIEW (http://broad.mit.edu/mpg/HAPLOVIEW). Various models of inheritance (additive, dominant, and recessive) were investigated. Odds ratios (OR) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were estimated. P-values for the haplotype analysis were corrected using permutation (nā=ā10000).
Results
A total of 431 cases and 507 controls were investigated (table 1). There were more males and the most common location of disease was the ileo-colonic site (L3Ā±L4). Most children had inflammatory behavior at diagnosis (B1Ā±p).
Four SNPs in the ALOX5 gene, 5 in the CYP4F3 gene and 10 in the CYP4F2 gene were examined (table S1). SNP rs2683037 in the CYP4F3 gene was not in HWE in the controls and was excludedfrom further analysis. The average genotype rate was >95%. Single SNP analysis did not reveal associations with the CYP4F3 gene (table 2). An haplotype analysis however revealed that the 4 markers were distributed in two blocks (table 3) of LD. A two-marker haplotype (block 1) comprising SNPs rs394987 & rs1290617 was significantly associated with CD (pā=ā0.02). This association however was borderline non-significant on permutation testing (permuted pā=ā0.08).
For the ALOX5 gene, there were suggestions for associations with one SNP rs3780901 (ORā=ā1.29, 95% CIā=ā0.99ā1.67; pā=ā0.056) under a dominant model (table 4). Haplotype analysis (table 5) comprising the 4 SNPs revealed 5 high frequency (>5%) haplotypes of which haplotype TCAA was significantly associated with CD (pā=ā0.036). The latter associations however did not withstand corrections for multiple comparisons (permuted pā=ā0.14).
Of the ten SNPs in the CYP4F2 gene investigated, three were significantly associated with CD (table S2) under various models of inheritance. SNP rs3093158 showed protective associations with CD under the recessive model (ORā=ā0.56, 95% CIā=ā0.35ā0.89; pā=ā0.01), SNP rs2074902 was risk conferring under the additive model (ORā=ā1.26, 95% CIā=ā1.00ā1.60; pā=ā0.05), and SNP rs2108622 was risk conferring under the recessive model (ORā=ā1.6, 95% CIā=ā1.00ā2.57; pā=ā0.05). There were suggestions for associations with a fourth SNP rs1272 under the recessive models (pā=ā0.10) but these did not achieve nominal statistical significance. Haplotype associations (table 6) using the 4 CYP4F2 SNPs (rs1272, rs3093158, rs2072902, and rs2108622) indicated significant associations with haplotype GGTC (pā=ā0.007) and marginally non-significant associations with haplotype GACT (pā=ā0.06). Associations with haplotype GGTC remained significant (permuted pā=ā0.02) after corrections for multiple comparisons.
Discussion
In this study we examined whether key enzymes within the fatty-acid metabolic pathway were associated with risk for CD. Although there were suggestions for associations with the ALOX5 gene at the single marker and haplotype level they did not withstand corrections for multiple comparisons. Similarly for the CYP4F3 gene associations were evident at the haplotype level that were borderline non-significant on correction for multiple comparisons. Associations were evident, both at the single marker and haplotype level, with the CYP4F2 gene, suggesting that variation in this gene may influence risk for CD in children.
PUFA have long been implicated in the pathogenesis of CD. Various epidemiological investigations have been undertaken to examine whether dietary consumption of PUFA was associated with CD [13]. While some studies suggest that Ļ-3 PUFA may be beneficial and that a higher ratio of Ļ-3/Ļ-6 may be associated with lower risks, evidence across studies has been inconsistent. Similarly, potential benefits from dietary supplementation of PUFA, have been equivocal. As individuals will differ in their capacities to metabolize dietary PUFA, we hypothesized that DNA variation in key genes that metabolize PUFA may be important and may modify any associations between dietary PUFA and CD. An important metabolite of PUFA metabolism is the generation of LTB4 a potent mediator of inflammation. It is generated via the metabolism of arachidonic acid, an Ļ-6 PUFA which is the first metabolite released from the cell membranes. It is a substrate of the 5-LO enzyme coded by the ALOX5 gene. LTB4 derived from the 5-LO metabolic pathway is deactivated mainly by the CYP4F3 (expressed mainly in neutrophils) and CYP4F2 (expressed largely in the liver and kidney) enzymes. We thus selected these three genes for study given their key roles in the metabolic pathway.
The CYP4F2 & CYP4F3 genes are located in a cluster on chromosome region 19p13.2. Three genome scans have reported significant linkages to this region in different populations. Rioux et al (2000) [30] using affected sib-pairs reported peak LOD scores of 4.6 for IBD and 3.0 for CD in a Canadian population. In their recent meta-analyses of 10 IBD genome scans among affected relatives, van Heel et al (2004) [31] reported significant linkage of CD to chromosome 19. Low et al (2004) [32] carried out a linkage scan among UK Caucasians (affected sib-pairs) and confirmed linkage of CD to the 19p13.2 region (peak multi-point linkage score of 1.59). The location of the CYP4F2 & CYP4F3 genes in the region of significant linkage adds further support to our observations that they may be important candidate genes for CD.
A number of previous studies have implicated LTB4 in the pathogenesis of IBD. The greatly enhanced mucosal synthesis of LTB4 in IBD [16], [17] or in rectal diasylate [33], [34] of IBD patients has been related, in part, to the increased infiltration of neutrophils into the intestinal tissues [35]. Of relevance to our findings are observations that the metabolism of LTB4 by omega-hydroxylase is altered in the colonic mucosa of IBD patients [36], [37]. In particular, the decreased activity of the omega-hydroxylases suggested that the increased, persistent and recurrent inflammation that is characteristic of IBD may be the consequence of an inherent defect in the metabolism of LTB4, leading to its enhanced accumulation and activity. It is to be noted however that the CYP4F3 enzyme is the major LTB4 omega-hydroxylase [19], [38] with higher detoxification potential as compared to CYP4F2. It would thus have been anticipated that variations in the CYP4F3 gene were more likely to influence CD susceptibility. Our findings however indicate that the CYP4F2 gene was more strongly associated with CD than CYP4F3. As the tag-SNPs we selected were of high frequency (>10%) it is possible that less frequent SNPs in the CYP4F3 may be implicated in CD. For example SNP rs28371536 is a non-synonymous CYP4F3 SNP of low frequency (2%) not investigated in our study. Certainly larger studies will be required to capture less frequent variation in the CYP4F3 gene and to assess its influence in CD. On the other hand however, it can be speculated that the stronger associations with the CYP4F2 gene may be related to observations that the enzyme is not only the major hepatic deactivator of LTB4 but is also expressed in the small intestine [39] (although at lower levels compared to the liver) and hence would be expected to contribute to LTB4 metabolism at the site of inflammation as well. This dual capacity may have contributed to the observed stronger associations. Certainly further studies are required to clarify the roles of both CYP4F2 and CYP4F3 genes in CD pathogenesis.
Based on reported observations of elevated levels of LTB4 in IBD and CD patients, some studies have examined the expression of the enzymes/proteins involved in LTB4 synthesis in IBD. In one study, Hendel et al (2002) [40] reported elevated trends in the levels of 5-LO mRNA when studying 21 CD patients and 12 healthy controls. More recently Jupp et al (2007) [18], in a comprehensive examination of LTB4 synthesis pathway enzymes reported a 3-fold higher number of cells staining for 5-LO, a 7-fold higher number of cells staining for FLAP and a 4-fold higher number of cells staining for LTA4H in colonic biopsies of patients with active IBD as compared to healthy controls. Although not withstanding corrections for multiple comparisons, nominal associations between the ALOX5 gene (that codes for the 5-LO enzyme) were evident in our study. These observations highlight that an abnormal prevalence of enzymes that co-ordinate to synthesize LTB4 may be intimately linked to tissue injury and inflammation in CD and that this pathway needs to be further investigated.
To our knowledge no previous candidate-gene study has examined associations between the CYP4F2 gene and CD. Recently, Tello-Ruiz et al (2006) [41] screened variation across the 19p IBD6 locus for associations with IBD. The SNP panel however did not comprise variants in the CYP4F2 gene. In the same study the authors examined 5 SNPs in the CYP4F3 gene (including SNP rs1290617 that was part of our panel) but did not find associations with them. Support for a potential role for the CYP4F2 and CYP4F3 genes in IBD pathogenesis comes from observations by Curley et al (2006) [42] who found associations between the genes and celiac disease, a disease that bears an inflammatory phenotype similar to CD. On the other hand associations with CD for the three genes examined in this study were not noted in earlier GWA studies, at the genome-wide significance level implemented. However, in the recent GWA study on ulcerative colitis (UC) [43], strong associations between SNPs within the PLA2G2E (phospholipase A2, group 2E) locus were noted in a North American Caucasian cohort. The PLA2G2E gene codes for a secretory phospholipase A2 that releases arachidonic acid from the cell membrane. The enzyme has been shown to be involved in the synthesis of leucotrienes and participate in the inflammatory process [44]. Considering that UC and CD share pathogenetic features, the gene would be a prime candidate gene for study in CD susceptibility and is currently being investigated in our cohort.
It is interesting to note that of the CYP4F2 associated SNPs, SNP rs2108622 is a non-synonymous coding SNP in exon 11 (M433V). eQTL analysis [45] indicated that the coding variation leads to significant alteration in mRNA expression (LOD scoreā=ā3.15, p-valueā=ā0.00014). Similarly, SNP rs2074902 an intronic SNP is in perfect LD with SNP rs3093105, a non-synonymous coding SNP (W12G). Although eQTL data for rs3093105 was not available, using rs2074902 as a proxy indicated that the variation could alter mRNA expression significantly (LOD scoreā=ā2.905, p-valueā=ā0.00025). Taken together these findings suggest that altered expression of the CYP4F2 gene may be related to de-regulation of LTB4 metabolism that in turn can modify the inflammatory responses.
In conclusion, our findings suggest that DNA variation in the metabolism of LTB4 is associated with risk for CD in children. Larger studies to replicate findings in independent cohorts and functional studies to determine biological mechanisms are required. Furthermore studies to investigate other potential candidate genes in the pathway (viz. FLAP, PLA2G2E, LTA4H, LTB4R1 etc.) need to be carried out. In addition, investigation of interactions between dietary consumption of fatty acids and PUFA pathway metabolic genes vis-Ć -vis risk for CD need to be pursued.
Supporting Information
Table S1.
Primers used for genotyping the ALOX5, CYP4F3 and CYP4F2 SNPs.
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Table S2.
Associations between the CYP4F2 gene and risk for CD in Canadian children.
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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Drs B. Willis and J. Jarvis for orthopaedic controls and A. Mack for facilitating the recruitment of these controls at the Ottawa (CHEO) study site. We also wish to thanks Dr's D. Sinnett, D. Labuda & M. Krajinovic for providing the adult DNA samples (controls).
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DKA IC. Performed the experiments: DKA IC AK. Analyzed the data: IC DKA. Wrote the paper: IC DKA. Participated in the recruitment of subjects: DRM DI EGS CD GG PL. Provided genetic epidemiology expertise: KM. Provided conceptual expertise in PUFA metabolism: EL.
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