Background：Idiopathic membranous nephropathy （IMN） is an autoimmune disease and the leading cause of adult nephritic syndrome.HLA-DQA1 had been identified to be associated with IMN in Europeans and the result was r...Background：Idiopathic membranous nephropathy （IMN） is an autoimmune disease and the leading cause of adult nephritic syndrome.HLA-DQA1 had been identified to be associated with IMN in Europeans and the result was replicated in Chinese Han population.In this study,six single nucleotide polymorphisms （SNPs） in the promoter ofHLA-DQA I and other two SNPs with IgA nephropathy were included for the association analysis.Methods：The SNPs were genotyped in 509 patients and 601 controls by the MassArray iPLEX.The quantification ofanti-phospholipase A2 receptor （PLA2R） antibodies in sera of IMN patients was performed by anti-PLA2R ELISA （lgG） kit.Results：After analysis,four SNPs were significantly associated with IMN,with rs2187668 and rs28383345 as the top two signals （P =8.42×10-4 and 2.48× 10-5,respectively）.Even under dominant model,the two SNPs were still significantly associated with IMN （P =3.50×10-3 for rs28383345 and P =6.55×10-5 for rs2187668）.After conditional study with rs2187668,rs28383345 was the only variant significantly correlated with IMN after Bonferroni correction （P =0.016）.The minor alleles of the two SNPs were also mutually exclusive in our cohort.This indicated that the two SNPs were independently associated with IMN in Chinese Han population.Levels of anti-PLA2R autoantibodies were correlated with the genotypes of the two SNPs,but not significantly （P〉0.05）.Conclusions：Our results revealed that a novel independent variant in the promoter of HLA-DQA I was associated with I MN in Chinese Han population.The locus possessed regulatory role according to the data of RegulomeDB.The exact role of the SNPs on the expression of HLAoDQA1 needs further investigation.展开更多
Using the truncated Painleve expansion, symbolic computation, and direct integration technique, we study analytic solutions of （2＋1）-dimensional Boussinesq equation. An auto-Backlund transformation and a number of ...Using the truncated Painleve expansion, symbolic computation, and direct integration technique, we study analytic solutions of （2＋1）-dimensional Boussinesq equation. An auto-Backlund transformation and a number of exact solutions of this equation have been found. The set of solutions include solitary wave solutions, solitoff solutions, and periodic solutions in terms of elliptic Jacobi functions and Weierstrass ＆ function. Some of them are novel.展开更多
文摘Background：Idiopathic membranous nephropathy （IMN） is an autoimmune disease and the leading cause of adult nephritic syndrome.HLA-DQA1 had been identified to be associated with IMN in Europeans and the result was replicated in Chinese Han population.In this study,six single nucleotide polymorphisms （SNPs） in the promoter ofHLA-DQA I and other two SNPs with IgA nephropathy were included for the association analysis.Methods：The SNPs were genotyped in 509 patients and 601 controls by the MassArray iPLEX.The quantification ofanti-phospholipase A2 receptor （PLA2R） antibodies in sera of IMN patients was performed by anti-PLA2R ELISA （lgG） kit.Results：After analysis,four SNPs were significantly associated with IMN,with rs2187668 and rs28383345 as the top two signals （P =8.42×10-4 and 2.48× 10-5,respectively）.Even under dominant model,the two SNPs were still significantly associated with IMN （P =3.50×10-3 for rs28383345 and P =6.55×10-5 for rs2187668）.After conditional study with rs2187668,rs28383345 was the only variant significantly correlated with IMN after Bonferroni correction （P =0.016）.The minor alleles of the two SNPs were also mutually exclusive in our cohort.This indicated that the two SNPs were independently associated with IMN in Chinese Han population.Levels of anti-PLA2R autoantibodies were correlated with the genotypes of the two SNPs,but not significantly （P〉0.05）.Conclusions：Our results revealed that a novel independent variant in the promoter of HLA-DQA I was associated with I MN in Chinese Han population.The locus possessed regulatory role according to the data of RegulomeDB.The exact role of the SNPs on the expression of HLAoDQA1 needs further investigation.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10761005the Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia under Grant No.200607010104
文摘Using the truncated Painleve expansion, symbolic computation, and direct integration technique, we study analytic solutions of （2＋1）-dimensional Boussinesq equation. An auto-Backlund transformation and a number of exact solutions of this equation have been found. The set of solutions include solitary wave solutions, solitoff solutions, and periodic solutions in terms of elliptic Jacobi functions and Weierstrass ＆ function. Some of them are novel.
