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. 2015 Sep 22;6:8019. doi: 10.1038/ncomms9019

Table 1. PBC risk loci identified in the current study.

a. Confirmed risk loci (validation P<4.4 × 10−4 resulting in combined P<5 × 10−8)
Locus SNP Position (build 38) A1/A2 DiscoveryP ValidationP JointP OR (95% CI) Region (build 38) Nearby genes and functional annotation* Autoimmune overlap
2q12.1 rs12712133 102,249,813 A/G 1.62 × 105 7.94 × 105 5.19 × 109 1.14 (1.07–1.21) 102,118,975–102,438,307 IL1R1, IL1RL2, FAM183DP, IL1RL1, IL18R1, LOC100422339, IL18RAP, MIR4772 CD, CeD
2q36.3 rs4973341 227,795,646 C/T 6.48 × 107 7.73 × 105 2.34 × 1010 0.82 (0.74–0.90) 227,747,828–227,815,647 RNA5SP121, SNRPGP8, LOC100533842, CCL20,§  
4p16.3 rs11724804 971,991 A/G 3.67 × 107 4.25 × 106 9.01 × 1012 1.22 (1.12–1.33) 853,681–1,014,424 GAK, TMEM175, DGKQ, SLC26A1a, IDUA, FGFRL1  
5q21.1 rs526231 103,345,680 T/C 3.10 × 105 9.39 × 105 1.14 × 108 0.87 (0.81–0.93) 102,939,698–103,416,571 PAM§, EIF3KP1, GIN1, PPIP5K2, C5orf30,§ RA
5q33.3 rs2546890 159,332,892 G/A 1.20 × 106 1.89 × 105 1.06 × 1010 0.87 (0.82–0.93) 159,117,927–159,414,310 RNF145, UBLCP1, RNU4ATAC2P, IL12B, LOC285626 Pso, MS, CD
6q23.3 rs6933404 137,638,098 C/T 9.47 × 107 2.84 × 105 1.27 × 1010 1.18 (1.09–1.27) 137,571,557–137,803,754 LOC102723649, LOC442263, OLIG3, TNFAIP3 RA, SLE, SjS, CeD, UC, MS
b. Suggestive risk loci (validation P<1 × 10−3)
Locus SNP Position (build 38) A1/A2 DiscoveryP ValidationP JointP OR for A1 (95% CI) Region (build 38) Nearby genes and functional annotation* Autoimmune overlap
5q23.1 rs2434360 116,057,393 T/G 3.20 × 103 9.94 × 104 1.04 × 105 1.14 (1.05–1.23) 116,032,882–116,163,459 RPS25P6, ARL14EPL, COMMD10  
16p11 rs1859308 27,386,677 T/C 7.72 × 105 5.37 × 104 1.63 × 107 0.85 (0.77–0.93) 27,359,133–27,434,733 IL4R, IL21R  

A1, tested allele; CD, Crohn disease; CeD, coeliac disease; CI, confidence interval; MS, multiple sclerosis; OR, odds ratio in validation cohorts; Pso, psoriasis; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; SjS, Sjogren syndrome; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism; UC, ulcerative colitis.

PBC risk loci identified in the current study. SNPs were taken forward for validation based on having a discovery P value <2 × 105 (or, in the case of rs526231 and rs2434360, based on acting as a proxy for a SNP with a P value <2 × 105). Discovery P values were calculated using logistic regression of individual discovery data sets in ProbABEL followed by genomic control correction of individual discovery data sets in R and fixed-effects meta-analysis in META; validation P values were calculated using logistic regression of individual data sets in PLINK followed by fixed-effect meta-analysis in META; joint P values were calculated using fixed-effect meta-analysis of discovery and validation data sets in META; see Methods. Autoimmune overlap refers to overlap between risk loci for PBC and those of other autoimmune conditions.

*Functional annotation.

Regulatory variants: The index SNP or variants in strong linkage disequilibrium (LD, r2≥0.8) with the index SNP at this locus overlap regulatory elements that are related to the annotated gene (Supplementary Table 3).

mQTLs: The index SNP or variants in strong LD are correlated to methylation related to the annotated gene (Supplementary Data 4).

§eQTLs: The index SNP or variants in strong LD are correlated to expression of the annotated gene (see Supplementary Data 3).