Crowdsourced assessment of common genetic contribution to predicting anti-TNF treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis

Solveig K Sieberts, Fan Zhu, Javier García-García, Eli A. Stahl, Abhishek Pratap, Gaurav Pandey, Dimitrios Pappas, Daniel Aguilar, Bernat Anton, Jaume Bonet, Ridvan Eksi, Oriol Fornés, Emre Guney, Hongdong Li, Manuel Alejandro Marín, Bharat Panwar, Joan Planas-Iglesias, Daniel Poglayen, Jing Cui, Andre O FalcaoChristine Suver, Bruce Hoff, Venkat S K Balagurusamy, Donna Dillenberger, Elias Chaibub Neto, Thea Norman, Tero Aittokallio, Muhammad Ammad-Ud-Din, Chloe-Agathe Azencott, Víctor Bellón, Valentina Boeva, Kerstin Bunte, Himanshu Chheda, Lu Cheng, Jukka Corander, Michel Dumontier, Anna Goldenberg, Peddinti Gopalacharyulu, Mohsen Hajiloo, Daniel Hidru, Alok Jaiswal, Samuel Kaski, Beyrem Khalfaoui, Suleiman Ali Khan, Eric R Kramer, Pekka Marttinen, Aziz M Mezlini, Bhuvan Molparia, Matti Pirinen, Janna Saarela, Matthias Samwald, Véronique Stoven, Hao Tang, Jing Tang, Ali Torkamani, Jean-Phillipe Vert, Bo Wang, Tao Wang, Krister Wennerberg, Nathan E Wineinger, Guanghua Xiao, Yang Xie, Rae Yeung, Xiaowei Zhan, Cheng Zhao, Jeff Greenberg, Joel Kremer, Kaleb Michaud, Anne Barton, Marieke Coenen, Xavier Mariette, Corinne Miceli, Nancy Shadick, Michael Weinblatt, Niek de Vries, Paul P Tak, Danielle Gerlag, Tom W J Huizinga, Fina Kurreeman, Cornelia F Allaart, S Louis Bridges, Lindsey Criswell, Larry Moreland, Lars Klareskog, Saedis Saevarsdottir, Peter K Gregersen, Stephen Friend, Robert Plenge, Gustavo Stolovitzky, Baldo Oliva, Yuanfang Guan, Lara M Mangravite*, Leonid Padyukov

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Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects millions world-wide. While anti-TNF treatment is widely used to reduce disease progression, treatment fails in ∼one-third of patients. No biomarker currently exists that identifies non-responders before treatment. A rigorous community-based assessment of the utility of SNP data for predicting anti-TNF treatment efficacy in RA patients was performed in the context of a DREAM Challenge (http://www.synapse.org/RA_Challenge). An open challenge framework enabled the comparative evaluation of predictions developed by 73 research groups using the most comprehensive available data and covering a wide range of state-of-the-art modelling methodologies. Despite a significant genetic heritability estimate of treatment non-response trait (h(2)=0.18, P value=0.02), no significant genetic contribution to prediction accuracy is observed. Results formally confirm the expectations of the rheumatology community that SNP information does not significantly improve predictive performance relative to standard clinical traits, thereby justifying a refocusing of future efforts on collection of other data.

Original languageEnglish
Article number12460
Number of pages9
JournalNature Communications
Volume7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Aug 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Journal Article
  • METAANALYSIS
  • DISEASE
  • MISSING HERITABILITY
  • RISK
  • NETWORK INFERENCE
  • INFLIXIMAB
  • CLINICAL-RESPONSE
  • COMPLEX TRAITS
  • STACKED GENERALIZATION
  • GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION
  • Erratum: Crowdsourced assessment of common genetic contribution to predicting anti-TNF treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis

    Sieberts, S. K., Zhu, F., García-García, J., Stahl, E. A., Pratap, A., Pandey, G., Pappas, D., Aguilar, D., Anton, B., Bonet, J., Eksi, R., Fornés, O., Guney, E., Li, H., Marín, M. A., Panwar, B., Planas-Iglesias, J., Poglayen, D., Cui, J., Falcao, A. O., & 31 othersSuver, C., Hoff, B., Balagurusamy, V. S. K., Dillenberger, D., Neto, E. C., Norman, T., Aittokallio, T., Ammad-Ud-Din, M., Azencott, C-A., Bellón, V., Boeva, V., Bunte, K., Chheda, H., Cheng, L., Corander, J., Dumontier, M., Goldenberg, A., Gopalacharyulu, P., Hajiloo, M., Hidru, D., Jaiswal, A., Kaski, S., Khalfaoui, B., Khan, S. A., Kramer, E. R., Marttinen, P., Mezlini, A. M., Molparia, B., Pirinen, M., Saarela, J. & Members of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Challenge Consortium, 10 Oct 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, 1 p., 13205.

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