HLA Alleles Influence the Clinical Signature of Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Hepatotoxicity Stephens, Camilla López Nevot, Miguel Ángel Ruiz-Cabello, Francisco Ulzurrun, Eugenia Soriano, Germán Romero-Gómez, Manuel Moreno-Casares, Anonia Lucena, María Isabel Andrade, Raúl J. Alleles Amino acid analysis Arginine Bilirubin Damage mechanics Genotyping Phenotypes Spain [Background and Aim] The genotype-phenotype interaction in drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a subject of growing interest. Previous studies have linked amoxicillin-clavulanate (AC) hepatotoxicity susceptibility to specific HLA alleles. In this study we aimed to examine potential associations between HLA class I and II alleles and AC DILI with regards to phenotypic characteristics, severity and time to onset in Spanish AC hepatotoxicity cases. [Methods] High resolution genotyping of HLA loci A, B, C, DRB1 and DQB1 was performed in 75 AC DILI cases and 885 controls. [Results] The distributions of class I alleles A*3002 (P/Pc = 2.6E-6/5E-5, OR 6.7) and B*1801 (P/Pc = 0.008/0.22, OR 2.9) were more frequently found in hepatocellular injury cases compared to controls. In addition, the presence of the class II allele combination DRB1*1501-DQB1*0602 (P/Pc = 5.1E-4/0.014, OR 3.0) was significantly increased in cholestatic/mixed cases. The A*3002 and/or B*1801 carriers were found to be younger (54 vs 65 years, P = 0.019) and were more frequently hospitalized than the DRB1*1501-DQB1*0602 carriers. No additional alleles outside those associated with liver injury patterns were found to affect potential severity as measured by Hy’s Law criteria. The phenotype frequencies of B*1801 (P/Pc = 0.015/0.42, OR 5.2) and DRB1*0301-DQB1*0201 (P/Pc = 0.0026/0.07, OR 15) were increased in AC DILI cases with delayed onset compared to those corresponding to patients without delayed onset, while the opposite applied to DRB1*1302-DQB1*0604 (P/Pc = 0.005/0.13, OR 0.07). [Conclusions] HLA class I and II alleles influence the AC DILI signature with regards to phenotypic expression, latency presentation and severity in Spanish patients. 2014-03-28T10:57:29Z 2014-03-28T10:57:29Z 2013 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Stephens, C.; et al. HLA Alleles Influence the Clinical Signature of Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Hepatotoxicity. Plos One, 8(7): e68111 (2013). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31146] 1932-6203 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068111 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31146 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Public Library of Science (PLOS)