Association study between haplotypes of WNT signaling pathway genes and nonsyndromic oral clefts among Chinese Han populations

  • Meng-ying WANG ,
  • Wen-yong LI ,
  • Ren ZHOU ,
  • Si-yue WANG ,
  • Dong-jing LIU ,
  • Hong-chen ZHENG ,
  • Zhi-bo ZHOU ,
  • Hong-ping ZHU ,
  • Tao WU ,
  • Yong-hua HU
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  • 1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing 100191, China
    2. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology & National Center of Stomatology & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases & National Engineering Research Center of Oral Biomaterials and Digital Medical Devices & Beijing Key Laboratory of Digital Stomatology & NHC Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Computerized Dentistry & NMPA Key Laboratory for Dental Materials, Beijing 100081, China

Received date: 2020-10-28

  Online published: 2022-06-14

Supported by

the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81102178);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81573225);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(7172115)

Abstract

Objective: To explore whether WNT signaling pathway genes were associated with non-syndromic oral clefts (NSOC) based on haplotypes analyses among 1 008 Chinese NSOC case-parent trios. Methods: The genome-wide association study (GWAS) data of 806 Chinese non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NSCL/P) trios and 202 Chinese non-syndromic cleft palate (NSCP) case-parent trios were drawn from the International Consortium to Identify Genes and Interactions Controlling Oral Clefts (ICOCs) study GWAS data set, whose Chinese study population were recruited from four provinces in China, namely Taiwan, Shandong, Hubei, and Sichuan provinces. The process of DNA genotyping was conducted by the Center for Inherited Disease Research in the Johns Hopkins University, using Illumina Human610-Quad v.1_B Bead Chip. The method of sliding windows was used to determine the haplotypes for analyses, including 2 SNPs haplotypes and 3 SNPs haplotypes. Haplotypes with a frequency lower than 1% were excluded for further analyses. To further assess the association between haplotypes and NSOC risks, and the transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) was performed. The Bonferroni method was adopted to correct multiple tests in the study, with which the threshold of statistical significance level was set as P < 0.05 divided by the number of tests, e.g P < 3.47×10-4 in the current stu-dy. All the statistical analyses were performed by using plink (v1.07). Results: After quality control, a total of 144 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) mapped in seven genes in WNT signaling pathway were included for the analyses among the 806 Chinese NSCL/P trios and 202 Chinese NSCP trios. A total of 1 042 haplotypes with frequency higher than 1% were included for NSCL/P analyses and another 1 057 haplotypes with frequency higher than 1% were included for NSCP analyses. Results from the TDT analyses showed that a total of 69 haplotypes were nominally associated with the NSCL/P risk among Chinese (P < 0.05). Another 34 haplotypes showed nominal significant association with the NSCP risk among Chinese (P < 0.05). However, none of these haplotypes reached pre-defined statistical significance level after Bonferroni correction (P>3.47×10-4). Conclusion: This study failed to observe any statistically significant associations between haplotypes of seven WNT signaling pathway genes and the risk of NSOC among Chinese. Further studies are warranted to replicate the findings here.

Cite this article

Meng-ying WANG , Wen-yong LI , Ren ZHOU , Si-yue WANG , Dong-jing LIU , Hong-chen ZHENG , Zhi-bo ZHOU , Hong-ping ZHU , Tao WU , Yong-hua HU . Association study between haplotypes of WNT signaling pathway genes and nonsyndromic oral clefts among Chinese Han populations[J]. Journal of Peking University(Health Sciences), 2022 , 54(3) : 394 -399 . DOI: 10.19723/j.issn.1671-167X.2022.03.002

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