rs72698115
This is a regulatory region variant variant in the IL6R gene.
▶GWAS Catalog Trait Associations (1)
Genome-wide significant associations (p < 5×10⁻⁸) from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.
GWAS Catalog Trait Associations (1)
Genome-wide significant associations (p < 5×10⁻⁸) from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.
systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, rheumatoid factor negative, oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis
▶Research that mentions this SNP (1)
▶Disease‐Associated Single‐Nucleotide Polymorphisms From Noncoding Regions in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Are Located Within or Adjacent to Functional Genomic Elements of Human Neutrophils and CD4+ T CellsFunctionalKaiyu Jiang et al.(2015)· Arthritis & Rheumatology
This functional study investigates disease-associated SNPs from non-coding genomic regions in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) by mapping enhancer-associated histone marks (H3K4me1 and H3K27ac) in human neutrophils and CD4+ T cells. The authors identified H3K4me1 and/or H3K27ac marks in 15 of 22 JIA risk regions in neutrophils and 18 of 22 regions in CD4+ T cells, and confirmed non-coding RNA transcripts at rs4705862 and rs6894249 loci in neutrophils, demonstrating that JIA-associated genetic risk resides largely within functional, non-coding regulatory elements.
About IL6R
This gene encodes a subunit of the interleukin 6 (IL6) receptor complex. Interleukin 6 is a potent pleiotropic cytokine that regulates cell growth and differentiation and plays an important role in the immune response. The IL6 receptor is a protein complex consisting of this protein and interleukin 6 signal transducer (IL6ST/GP130/IL6-beta), a receptor subunit also shared by many other cytokines. Dysregulated production of IL6 and this receptor are implicated in the pathogenesis of many diseases, such as multiple myeloma, autoimmune diseases and prostate cancer. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been identified in this gene. A pseudogene of this gene is found on chromosome 9. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2020]
View all IL6R variants →Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.
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