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. 2019 Oct 3;10:2237. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02237

Table 3.

Opportunities to use FCGR2/3 locus genotyping in personalized medicine: polymorphisms and copy number variation.

Domain Disease setting Clinical setting Association with FCGR2/3 genetic variation References
Autoimmune ITP Prognosis 2B.4 and FCGR2C-ORF correlate are associated with transient disease; CNR1 deletion is associated with chronic disease (65)
Autoimmune ITP Treatment 2B.4 and FCGR2C-ORF correlate with favorable IVIg response (65)
Autoimmune ITP Treatment FCGR3A-p.176Val/Val is associated with favorable response to rituximab (164)
Autoimmune Kawasaki disease Treatment 2B.4 correlates with favorable IVIg response (153)
Autoimmune SLE Prognosis 2B.4 shows lower rate of lupus nephritis (11)
Autoimmune SLE Prognosis CNR1 deletion is associated with lupus nephritis (158)
Autoimmune Rheumatoid arthritis Treatment FCGR3A-p.176Val allele confers improved response to rituximab treatment (meta-analysis, 3 studies) (165)
Autoimmune Rheumatoid arthritis Treatment FCGR2A-p.166Arg allele is associated with favorable response to adalimumab (166)
Cancer Breast cancer Treatment FCGR2A-p.166His/His and FCGR3A-p.176Val/Val have higher response and progression-free survival with trastuzumab in HER2-positive metastatic disease (167)
Cancer Breast cancer Treatment FCGR2A-p.166His/His shows better pathological response and progression-free survival after trastuzumab in HER2-positive disease (168)
Cancer Breast cancer Treatment FCGR3A-p.176Val/Val shows improved patient outcomes and benefit from trastuzumab (169)
Cancer Breast cancer Treatment No difference after trastuzumab observed with FCGR2A-p.166 and FCGR3A-p.176 variants (170)
Cancer Lymphoma Treatment FCGR3A-p.176Val/Val showed better response rates to rituximab (171)
Cancer Lymphoma Treatment FCGR3A-p.176Val/Val showed better response rates and progression-free survival to rituximab (172)
Cancer Lymphoma Treatment Carriers of FCGR3A-p.176Val allele showed better response rates (173)
Cancer Lymphoma Treatment Carriers of FCGR3A- p.176Val allele showed better response rates (174)
Cancer Lymphoma Treatment No difference in response to rituximab with FCGR2A-p.166 and FCGR3A-p.176 variants (175)
Cancer Lymphoma Treatment No difference in response to rituximab with FCGR2A- p.166 and FCGR3A-p.176 variants (176)
Cancer Lymphoma Treatment No difference in response to rituximab with FCGR2A- p.166 and FCGR3A-p.176 variants (177)
Cancer CLL Treatment No difference in response to rituximab with FCGR2A- p.166 and FCGR3A-p.176 variants (178)
Cancer Colorectal carcinoma Treatment FCGR2A-p.166His/His and FCGR3A-p.176Val/Val show longer progression-free survival after cetuximab (179)
Cancer Colorectal carcinoma Treatment FCGR2A-p.166His and FCGR3A-p.176Val alleles show increased response rates and stable disease after cetuximab (180)
Cancer Colorectal carcinoma Treatment FCGR2A-p.166His/His and FCGR3A-p.176Phe/Phe* showed higher progression-free surival rates after cetuximab (181)
Cancer Colorectal carcinoma Treatment FCGR3A-p.176Phe/Phe* showed higher survival rates after cetuximab (182)
Cancer Colorectal carcinoma Treatment FCGR3A-p.176Val/Val and p.176Val/Phe show higher progression-free survival than p.176Phe/Phe after cetuximab (183)
Cancer Colorectal carcinoma Treatment FCGR3A-p.176Val/Val showed shorter* progression-free survival compared to p.176Val/Phe or p.176Phe/Phe (184)
Cancer Head and neck carcinoma Treatment FCGR2A-p.166His/His and FCGR3A-p.176Val/Val have longer progression-free survival with cetuximab (185)
Transplant Liver transplant Treatment After rituximab, FCGR2A-p.166His/His shows stronger B cell suppression, bacterial infections, and poor prognosis (186)

CLL, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

*

Result is in contrary direction to other studies.