Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha () rs1800629 (-308G>A) is a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) related to variable responses to anti- therapy. This therapy is efficient in severe and refractory manifestation of Behçet syndrome (BS), an auto-inflammatory systemic vasculitis. We investigated (1) the association between rs1800629 genotypes and responses to therapy and (2) the correlation between SNP and clinical patterns in a cohort of 74 BS Italian patients receiving anti- therapy with a follow-up of at least 12 months. The rs1800629 was genotyped through amplification, direct sequencing and bioinformatics analyses. The rs1800629 GG and GA genotypes were assessed as predictors of outcomes dividing the patients between therapy responders and non-responders. The rs1800629 GG and GA genotypes were found, respectively, in 59/74 (79.7%) and 15/74 BS patients (21.3%) ( < 0.05). We identified 16/74 (21.9%) non-responder patients, of which 9/16 (56.3%) showed the GG genotype and 7/16 (43.7%) the GA genotype. A total of 50/58 (86.2%) responder patients showed the GG genotype, and 8/58 (13.8%) the GA genotype ( < 0.05). The percentage of non-responder females (68.8%) was significantly higher than non-responder males (31.2%) ( < 0.05). No correlation between SNP and clinical patterns was observed. To successfully include rs1800629 as a predictive biomarker of inhibitor response, genome-wide association studies in larger, well-characterised cohorts are required.

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