RT Journal Article T1 Common Genetic Polymorphisms within NFκB-Related Genes and the Risk of Developing Invasive Aspergillosis. A1 Lupiañez, Carmen B A1 Villaescusa, María T A1 Carvalho, Agostinho A1 Springer, Jan A1 Lackner, Michaela A1 Sánchez-Maldonado, José M A1 Canet, Luz M A1 Cunha, Cristina A1 Segura-Catena, Juana A1 Alcazar-Fuoli, Laura A1 Solano, Carlos A1 Fianchi, Luana A1 Pagano, Livio A1 Potenza, Leonardo A1 Aguado, José M A1 Luppi, Mario A1 Cuenca-Estrella, Manuel A1 Lass-Flörl, Cornelia A1 Einsele, Hermann A1 Vázquez, Lourdes A1 Ríos-Tamayo, Rafael A1 Loeffler, Jurgen A1 Jurado, Manuel A1 Sainz, Juan K1 Aspergilosis K1 Susceptibilidad a enfermedades K1 Marcadores genéticos K1 Genotipo K1 Haplotipos K1 Trasplante de células madre hematopoyéticas K1 Humanos K1 Nucleótidos K1 Infecciones oportunistas K1 Polimorfismo de nucleótido simple AB Invasive Aspergillosis (IA) is an opportunistic infection caused by Aspergillus, a ubiquitously present airborne pathogenic mold. A growing number of studies suggest a major host genetic component in disease susceptibility. Here, we evaluated whether 14 single-nucleotide polymorphisms within NFκB1, NFκB2, RelA, RelB, Rel, and IRF4 genes influence the risk of IA in a population of 834 high-risk patients (157 IA and 677 non-IA) recruited through a collaborative effort involving the aspBIOmics consortium and four European clinical institutions. No significant overall associations between selected SNPs and the risk of IA were found in this large cohort. Although a hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT)-stratified analysis revealed that carriers of the IRF4 rs12203592T/T genotype had a six-fold increased risk of developing the infection when compared with those carrying the C allele (ORREC = 6.24, 95%CI 1.25-31.2, P = 0.026), the association of this variant with IA risk did not reach significance at experiment-wide significant threshold. In addition, we found an association of the IRF4AATC and IRF4GGTC haplotypes (not including the IRF4 rs12203592T risk allele) with a decreased risk of IA but the magnitude of the association was similar to the one observed in the single-SNP analysis, which indicated that the haplotypic effect on IA risk was likely due to the IRF4 rs12203592 SNP. Finally, no evidence of significant interactions among the genetic markers tested and the risk of IA was found. These results suggest that the SNPs on the studied genes do not have a clinically relevant impact on the risk of developing IA. PB Frontiers Media YR 2016 FD 2016-08-12 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/2541 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/2541 LA en NO Lupiañez CB, Villaescusa MT, Carvalho A, Springer J, Lackner M, Sánchez-Maldonado JM, et al. Common Genetic Polymorphisms within NFκB-Related Genes and the Risk of Developing Invasive Aspergillosis. Front Microbiol. 2016; 7:1243 NO Journal Article; DS RISalud RD Apr 18, 2025