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1. X-chromosome and kidney function: evidence from a multi-trait genetic analysis of 908,697 individuals reveals sex-specific and sex-differential findings in genes regulated by androgen response elements.

Author: Scholz, Markus, Horn, Katrin, Pott, Janne, Wuttke, Matthias, Kühnapfel, Andreas, Nasr, M, Kirsten, Holger, Li, Yong, Hoppmann, Anselm, Gorski, Mathias, Ghasemi, Sahar, Li, Man, Tin, Adrienne, Chai, Jin-Fang, Cocca, Massimiliano, Wang, Judy, Nutile, Teresa, Akiyama, Masato, Åsvold, Bjørn, Bansal, Nisha, Biggs, Mary, Boutin, Thibaud, Brenner, Hermann, Brumpton, Ben, Burkhardt, Ralph, Cai, Jianwen, Campbell, Archie, Campbell, Harry, Chalmers, John, Chasman, Daniel, Chee, Miao, Chen, Xu, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Cifkova, Renata, Daviglus, Martha, Delgado, Graciela, Dittrich, Katalin, Edwards, Todd, Endlich, Karlhans, Michael Gaziano, J, Giri, Ayush, Giulianini, Franco, Gordon, Scott, Gudbjartsson, Daniel, Hallan, Stein, Hamet, Pavel, Hartman, Catharina, Hayward, Caroline, Heid, Iris, Hellwege, Jacklyn, Holleczek, Bernd, Holm, Hilma, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hveem, Kristian, Isermann, Berend, Jonas, Jost, Joshi, Peter, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kanai, Masahiro, Kastarinen, Mika, Khor, Chiea, Kiess, Wieland, Kleber, Marcus, Körner, Antje, Kovacs, Peter, Krajcoviechova, Alena, Kramer, Holly, Krämer, Bernhard, Kuokkanen, Mikko, Kähönen, Mika, Lange, Leslie, Lash, James, Lehtimäki, Terho, Li, Hengtong, Lin, Bridget, Liu, Jianjun, Loeffler, Markus, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Magnusson, Patrik, Martin, Nicholas, Matsuda, Koichi, Milaneschi, Yuri, Mishra, Pashupati, Mononen, Nina, Montgomery, Grant, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis, Mychaleckyj, Josyf, März, Winfried, Nauck, Matthias, Nikus, Kjell, Nolte, Ilja, Noordam, Raymond, Okada, Yukinori, Olafsson, Isleifur, Oldehinkel, Albertine, Penninx, Brenda, Perola, Markus, Pirastu, Nicola, and Polasek, Ozren
Subjects: Humans, Male, Female, Androgens, Genome-Wide Association Study, Kidney, Chromosomes, Human, X, Response Elements, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Tetraspanins
Abstract: X-chromosomal genetic variants are understudied but can yield valuable insights into sexually dimorphic human traits and diseases. We performed a sex-stratified cross-ancestry X-chromosome-wide association meta-analysis of seven kidney-related traits (n = 908,697), identifying 23 loci genome-wide significantly associated with two of the traits: 7 for uric acid and 16 for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), including four novel eGFR loci containing the functionally plausible prioritized genes ACSL4, CLDN2, TSPAN6 and the female-specific DRP2. Further, we identified five novel sex-interactions, comprising male-specific effects at FAM9B and AR/EDA2R, and three sex-differential findings with larger genetic effect sizes in males at DCAF12L1 and MST4 and larger effect sizes in females at HPRT1. All prioritized genes in loci showing significant sex-interactions were located next to androgen response elements (ARE). Five ARE genes showed sex-differential expressions. This study contributes new insights into sex-dimorphisms of kidney traits along with new prioritized gene targets for further molecular research.
Published: 2024

2. Multi-ancestry genome-wide study identifies effector genes and druggable pathways for coronary artery calcification

Author: Kavousi, Maryam, Bos, Maxime M, Barnes, Hanna J, Lino Cardenas, Christian L, Wong, Doris, Lu, Haojie, Hodonsky, Chani J, Landsmeer, Lennart PL, Turner, Adam W, Kho, Minjung, Hasbani, Natalie R, de Vries, Paul S, Bowden, Donald W, Chopade, Sandesh, Deelen, Joris, Benavente, Ernest Diez, Guo, Xiuqing, Hofer, Edith, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Lutz, Sharon M, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Slenders, Lotte, Smith, Albert V, Stanislawski, Maggie A, van Setten, Jessica, Wong, Quenna, Yanek, Lisa R, Becker, Diane M, Beekman, Marian, Budoff, Matthew J, Feitosa, Mary F, Finan, Chris, Hilliard, Austin T, Kardia, Sharon LR, Kovacic, Jason C, Kral, Brian G, Langefeld, Carl D, Launer, Lenore J, Malik, Shaista, Hoesein, Firdaus AA Mohamed, Mokry, Michal, Schmidt, Reinhold, Smith, Jennifer A, Taylor, Kent D, Terry, James G, van der Grond, Jeroen, van Meurs, Joyce, Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn, Xu, Jianzhao, Young, Kendra A, Zilhão, Nuno R, Zweiker, Robert, Assimes, Themistocles L, Becker, Lewis C, Bos, Daniel, Carr, J Jeffrey, Cupples, L Adrienne, de Kleijn, Dominique PV, de Winther, Menno, den Ruijter, Hester M, Fornage, Myriam, Freedman, Barry I, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Hingorani, Aroon D, Hokanson, John E, Ikram, M Arfan, Išgum, Ivana, Jacobs, David R, Kähönen, Mika, Lange, Leslie A, Lehtimäki, Terho, Pasterkamp, Gerard, Raitakari, Olli T, Schmidt, Helena, Slagboom, P Eline, Uitterlinden, André G, Vernooij, Meike W, Bis, Joshua C, Franceschini, Nora, Psaty, Bruce M, Post, Wendy S, Rotter, Jerome I, Björkegren, Johan LM, O’Donnell, Christopher J, Bielak, Lawrence F, Peyser, Patricia A, Malhotra, Rajeev, van der Laan, Sander W, and Miller, Clint L
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Heart Disease - Coronary Heart Disease, Human Genome, Cardiovascular, Prevention, Heart Disease, Atherosclerosis, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Humans, Black People, Coronary Artery Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Risk Factors, European People, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract: Coronary artery calcification (CAC), a measure of subclinical atherosclerosis, predicts future symptomatic coronary artery disease (CAD). Identifying genetic risk factors for CAC may point to new therapeutic avenues for prevention. Currently, there are only four known risk loci for CAC identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in the general population. Here we conducted the largest multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis of CAC to date, which comprised 26,909 individuals of European ancestry and 8,867 individuals of African ancestry. We identified 11 independent risk loci, of which eight were new for CAC and five had not been reported for CAD. These new CAC loci are related to bone mineralization, phosphate catabolism and hormone metabolic pathways. Several new loci harbor candidate causal genes supported by multiple lines of functional evidence and are regulators of smooth muscle cell-mediated calcification ex vivo and in vitro. Together, these findings help refine the genetic architecture of CAC and extend our understanding of the biological and potential druggable pathways underlying CAC.
Published: 2023

3. Genetic insights into resting heart rate and its role in cardiovascular disease.

Author: van de Vegte, Yordi, Eppinga, Ruben, van der Ende, M, Hagemeijer, Yanick, Mahendran, Yuvaraj, Salfati, Elias, Smith, Albert, Tan, Vanessa, Arking, Dan, Ntalla, Ioanna, Appel, Emil, Schurmann, Claudia, Brody, Jennifer, Rueedi, Rico, Polasek, Ozren, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Lecoeur, Cecile, Ladenvall, Claes, Zhao, Jing, Isaacs, Aaron, Wang, Lihua, Luan, Jianan, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Mononen, Nina, Auro, Kirsi, Jackson, Anne, Bielak, Lawrence, Zeng, Linyao, Shah, Nabi, Nethander, Maria, Campbell, Archie, Rankinen, Tuomo, Pechlivanis, Sonali, Qi, Lu, Zhao, Wei, Rizzi, Federica, Tanaka, Toshiko, Robino, Antonietta, Cocca, Massimiliano, Lange, Leslie, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Roselli, Carolina, Zhang, Weihua, Kleber, Marcus, Guo, Xiuqing, Lin, Henry, Pavani, Francesca, Galesloot, Tessel, Noordam, Raymond, Milaneschi, Yuri, Schraut, Katharina, den Hoed, Marcel, Degenhardt, Frauke, Trompet, Stella, van den Berg, Marten, Pistis, Giorgio, Tham, Yih-Chung, Weiss, Stefan, Sim, Xueling, Li, Hengtong, van der Most, Peter, Nolte, Ilja, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Said, M, Witte, Daniel, Iribarren, Carlos, Launer, Lenore, Ring, Susan, de Vries, Paul, Sever, Peter, Linneberg, Allan, Bottinger, Erwin, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Psaty, Bruce, Sotoodehnia, Nona, Kolcic, Ivana, Arnar, David, Gudbjartsson, Daniel, Holm, Hilma, Balkau, Beverley, Silva, Claudia, Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Nikus, Kjell, Salo, Perttu, Mohlke, Karen, Peyser, Patricia, Schunkert, Heribert, Lorentzon, Mattias, Lahti, Jari, Rao, Dabeeru, Cornelis, Marilyn, Faul, Jessica, Smith, Jennifer, Stolarz-Skrzypek, Katarzyna, Bandinelli, Stefania, Concas, Maria, Sinagra, Gianfranco, Meitinger, Thomas, Waldenberger, Melanie, and Sinner, Moritz
Subjects: Humans, Cardiovascular Diseases, Risk Factors, Heart Rate, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Atrial Fibrillation, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Genome-Wide Association Study, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: Resting heart rate is associated with cardiovascular diseases and mortality in observational and Mendelian randomization studies. The aims of this study are to extend the number of resting heart rate associated genetic variants and to obtain further insights in resting heart rate biology and its clinical consequences. A genome-wide meta-analysis of 100 studies in up to 835,465 individuals reveals 493 independent genetic variants in 352 loci, including 68 genetic variants outside previously identified resting heart rate associated loci. We prioritize 670 genes and in silico annotations point to their enrichment in cardiomyocytes and provide insights in their ECG signature. Two-sample Mendelian randomization analyses indicate that higher genetically predicted resting heart rate increases risk of dilated cardiomyopathy, but decreases risk of developing atrial fibrillation, ischemic stroke, and cardio-embolic stroke. We do not find evidence for a linear or non-linear genetic association between resting heart rate and all-cause mortality in contrast to our previous Mendelian randomization study. Systematic alteration of key differences between the current and previous Mendelian randomization study indicates that the most likely cause of the discrepancy between these studies arises from false positive findings in previous one-sample MR analyses caused by weak-instrument bias at lower P-value thresholds. The results extend our understanding of resting heart rate biology and give additional insights in its role in cardiovascular disease development.
Published: 2023

4. Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention.

Author: Wang, Zhe, Emmerich, Andrew, Pillon, Nicolas, Moore, Tim, Hemerich, Daiane, Cornelis, Marilyn, Mazzaferro, Eugenia, Broos, Siacia, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer, Bartz, Traci, Bentley, Amy, Bielak, Lawrence, Chong, Mike, Chu, Audrey, Berry, Diane, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Dueker, Nicole, Kasbohm, Elisa, Feenstra, Bjarke, Feitosa, Mary, Gieger, Christian, Graff, Mariaelisa, Hall, Leanne, Haller, Toomas, Hartwig, Fernando, Hillis, David, Huikari, Ville, Heard-Costa, Nancy, Holzapfel, Christina, Jackson, Anne, Johansson, Åsa, Jørgensen, Anja, Kaakinen, Marika, Karlsson, Robert, Kerr, Kathleen, Kim, Boram, Koolhaas, Chantal, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lagou, Vasiliki, Lind, Penelope, Lorentzon, Mattias, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mangino, Massimo, Metzendorf, Christoph, Monroe, Kristine, Pacolet, Alexander, Pérusse, Louis, Pool, Rene, Richmond, Rebecca, Rivera, Natalia, Robiou-du-Pont, Sebastien, Schraut, Katharina, Schulz, Christina-Alexandra, Stringham, Heather, Tanaka, Toshiko, Teumer, Alexander, Turman, Constance, van der Most, Peter, Vanmunster, Mathias, van Rooij, Frank, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana, Zhang, Xiaoshuai, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Zhao, Wei, Balkhiyarova, Zhanna, Balslev-Harder, Marie, Baumeister, Sebastian, Beilby, John, Blangero, John, Boomsma, Dorret, Brage, Soren, Braund, Peter, Brody, Jennifer, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Ekelund, Ulf, Liu, Ching-Ti, Cole, John, Collins, Francis, Cupples, L, Esko, Tõnu, Enroth, Stefan, Faul, Jessica, Fernandez-Rhodes, Lindsay, Fohner, Alison, Franco, Oscar, Galesloot, Tessel, Gordon, Scott, Grarup, Niels, Hartman, Catharina, Heiss, Gerardo, Hui, Jennie, Illig, Thomas, Jago, Russell, James, Alan, Joshi, Peter, Jung, Taeyeong, Kähönen, Mika, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas, Koh, Woon-Puay, and Kolcic, Ivana
Subjects: Actinin, Cross-Sectional Studies, Exercise, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Leisure Activities, Sedentary Behavior
Abstract: Although physical activity and sedentary behavior are moderately heritable, little is known about the mechanisms that influence these traits. Combining data for up to 703,901 individuals from 51 studies in a multi-ancestry meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies yields 99 loci that associate with self-reported moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity during leisure time (MVPA), leisure screen time (LST) and/or sedentary behavior at work. Loci associated with LST are enriched for genes whose expression in skeletal muscle is altered by resistance training. A missense variant in ACTN3 makes the alpha-actinin-3 filaments more flexible, resulting in lower maximal force in isolated type IIA muscle fibers, and possibly protection from exercise-induced muscle damage. Finally, Mendelian randomization analyses show that beneficial effects of lower LST and higher MVPA on several risk factors and diseases are mediated or confounded by body mass index (BMI). Our results provide insights into physical activity mechanisms and its role in disease prevention.
Published: 2022

5. Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene–sleep interactions identify novel loci for blood pressure

Author: Wang, Heming, Noordam, Raymond, Cade, Brian E, Schwander, Karen, Winkler, Thomas W, Lee, Jiwon, Sung, Yun Ju, Bentley, Amy R, Manning, Alisa K, Aschard, Hugues, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Ilkov, Marjan, Brown, Michael R, Horimoto, Andrea R, Richard, Melissa, Bartz, Traci M, Vojinovic, Dina, Lim, Elise, Nierenberg, Jovia L, Liu, Yongmei, Chitrala, Kumaraswamynaidu, Rankinen, Tuomo, Musani, Solomon K, Franceschini, Nora, Rauramaa, Rainer, Alver, Maris, Zee, Phyllis C, Harris, Sarah E, van der Most, Peter J, Nolte, Ilja M, Munroe, Patricia B, Palmer, Nicholette D, Kühnel, Brigitte, Weiss, Stefan, Wen, Wanqing, Hall, Kelly A, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, O’Connell, Jeff, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Launer, Lenore J, de Vries, Paul S, Arking, Dan E, Chen, Han, Boerwinkle, Eric, Krieger, Jose E, Schreiner, Pamela J, Sidney, Stephen, Shikany, James M, Rice, Kenneth, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Gharib, Sina A, Bis, Joshua C, Luik, Annemarie I, Ikram, M Arfan, Uitterlinden, André G, Amin, Najaf, Xu, Hanfei, Levy, Daniel, He, Jiang, Lohman, Kurt K, Zonderman, Alan B, Rice, Treva K, Sims, Mario, Wilson, Gregory, Sofer, Tamar, Rich, Stephen S, Palmas, Walter, Yao, Jie, Guo, Xiuqing, Rotter, Jerome I, Biermasz, Nienke R, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Martin, Lisa W, Barac, Ana, Wallace, Robert B, Gottlieb, Daniel J, Komulainen, Pirjo, Heikkinen, Sami, Mägi, Reedik, Milani, Lili, Metspalu, Andres, Starr, John M, Milaneschi, Yuri, Waken, RJ, Gao, Chuan, Waldenberger, Melanie, Peters, Annette, Strauch, Konstantin, Meitinger, Thomas, Roenneberg, Till, Völker, Uwe, Dörr, Marcus, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Mukherjee, Sutapa, Hillman, David R, Kähönen, Mika, Wagenknecht, Lynne E, Gieger, Christian, Grabe, Hans J, and Zheng, Wei
Subjects: Human Genome, Sleep Research, Clinical Research, Biotechnology, Hypertension, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Cardiovascular, Blood Pressure, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Sleep, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Psychiatry
Abstract: Long and short sleep duration are associated with elevated blood pressure (BP), possibly through effects on molecular pathways that influence neuroendocrine and vascular systems. To gain new insights into the genetic basis of sleep-related BP variation, we performed genome-wide gene by short or long sleep duration interaction analyses on four BP traits (systolic BP, diastolic BP, mean arterial pressure, and pulse pressure) across five ancestry groups in two stages using 2 degree of freedom (df) joint test followed by 1df test of interaction effects. Primary multi-ancestry analysis in 62,969 individuals in stage 1 identified three novel gene by sleep interactions that were replicated in an additional 59,296 individuals in stage 2 (stage 1 + 2 Pjoint
Published: 2021

6. Gene-educational attainment interactions in a multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis identify novel blood pressure loci.

Author: de Las Fuentes, Lisa, Sung, Yun Ju, Noordam, Raymond, Winkler, Thomas, Feitosa, Mary F, Schwander, Karen, Bentley, Amy R, Brown, Michael R, Guo, Xiuqing, Manning, Alisa, Chasman, Daniel I, Aschard, Hugues, Bartz, Traci M, Bielak, Lawrence F, Campbell, Archie, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Hartwig, Fernando P, Horimoto, ARVR, Li, Changwei, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Liu, Yongmei, Marten, Jonathan, Musani, Solomon K, Ntalla, Ioanna, Rankinen, Tuomo, Richard, Melissa, Sim, Xueling, Smith, Albert V, Tajuddin, Salman M, Tayo, Bamidele O, Vojinovic, Dina, Warren, Helen R, Xuan, Deng, Alver, Maris, Boissel, Mathilde, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chen, Xu, Christensen, Kaare, Divers, Jasmin, Evangelou, Evangelos, Gao, Chuan, Girotto, Giorgia, Harris, Sarah E, He, Meian, Hsu, Fang-Chi, Kühnel, Brigitte, Laguzzi, Federica, Li, Xiaoyin, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nolte, Ilja M, Poveda, Alaitz, Rauramaa, Rainer, Riaz, Muhammad, Rueedi, Rico, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Snieder, Harold, Sofer, Tamar, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Verweij, Niek, Ware, Erin B, Weiss, Stefan, Yanek, Lisa R, Amin, Najaf, Arking, Dan E, Arnett, Donna K, Bergmann, Sven, Boerwinkle, Eric, Brody, Jennifer A, Broeckel, Ulrich, Brumat, Marco, Burke, Gregory, Cabrera, Claudia P, Canouil, Mickaël, Chee, Miao Li, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Cocca, Massimiliano, Connell, John, de Silva, H Janaka, de Vries, Paul S, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Faul, Jessica D, Fisher, Virginia, Forrester, Terrence, Fox, Ervin F, Friedlander, Yechiel, Gao, He, Gigante, Bruna, Giulianini, Franco, Gu, Chi Charles, Gu, Dongfeng, Harris, Tamara B, He, Jiang, Heikkinen, Sami, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Hunt, Steven, Ikram, M Arfan, Irvin, Marguerite R, Kähönen, Mika, and Kavousi, Maryam
Subjects: Lifelines Cohort Study, Psychiatry, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Abstract: Educational attainment is widely used as a surrogate for socioeconomic status (SES). Low SES is a risk factor for hypertension and high blood pressure (BP). To identify novel BP loci, we performed multi-ancestry meta-analyses accounting for gene-educational attainment interactions using two variables, "Some College" (yes/no) and "Graduated College" (yes/no). Interactions were evaluated using both a 1 degree of freedom (DF) interaction term and a 2DF joint test of genetic and interaction effects. Analyses were performed for systolic BP, diastolic BP, mean arterial pressure, and pulse pressure. We pursued genome-wide interrogation in Stage 1 studies (N = 117 438) and follow-up on promising variants in Stage 2 studies (N = 293 787) in five ancestry groups. Through combined meta-analyses of Stages 1 and 2, we identified 84 known and 18 novel BP loci at genome-wide significance level (P
Published: 2021

7. Gene-educational attainment interactions in a multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis identify novel blood pressure loci

Author: de las Fuentes, Lisa, Sung, Yun Ju, Noordam, Raymond, Winkler, Thomas, Feitosa, Mary F, Schwander, Karen, Bentley, Amy R, Brown, Michael R, Guo, Xiuqing, Manning, Alisa, Chasman, Daniel I, Aschard, Hugues, Bartz, Traci M, Bielak, Lawrence F, Campbell, Archie, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Hartwig, Fernando P, Horimoto, ARVR, Li, Changwei, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Liu, Yongmei, Marten, Jonathan, Musani, Solomon K, Ntalla, Ioanna, Rankinen, Tuomo, Richard, Melissa, Sim, Xueling, Smith, Albert V, Tajuddin, Salman M, Tayo, Bamidele O, Vojinovic, Dina, Warren, Helen R, Xuan, Deng, Alver, Maris, Boissel, Mathilde, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chen, Xu, Christensen, Kaare, Divers, Jasmin, Evangelou, Evangelos, Gao, Chuan, Girotto, Giorgia, Harris, Sarah E, He, Meian, Hsu, Fang-Chi, Kühnel, Brigitte, Laguzzi, Federica, Li, Xiaoyin, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nolte, Ilja M, Poveda, Alaitz, Rauramaa, Rainer, Riaz, Muhammad, Rueedi, Rico, Shu, Xiao-ou, Snieder, Harold, Sofer, Tamar, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Verweij, Niek, Ware, Erin B, Weiss, Stefan, Yanek, Lisa R, Amin, Najaf, Arking, Dan E, Arnett, Donna K, Bergmann, Sven, Boerwinkle, Eric, Brody, Jennifer A, Broeckel, Ulrich, Brumat, Marco, Burke, Gregory, Cabrera, Claudia P, Canouil, Mickaël, Chee, Miao Li, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Cocca, Massimiliano, Connell, John, de Silva, H Janaka, de Vries, Paul S, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Faul, Jessica D, Fisher, Virginia, Forrester, Terrence, Fox, Ervin F, Friedlander, Yechiel, Gao, He, Gigante, Bruna, Giulianini, Franco, Gu, Chi Charles, Gu, Dongfeng, Harris, Tamara B, He, Jiang, Heikkinen, Sami, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Hunt, Steven, Ikram, M Arfan, Irvin, Marguerite R, Kähönen, Mika, and Kavousi, Maryam
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Biological Psychology, Clinical and Health Psychology, Clinical Sciences, Psychology, Genetics, Cardiovascular, Hypertension, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Blood Pressure, Epistasis, Genetic, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Lifelines Cohort Study, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Psychiatry, Clinical sciences, Biological psychology, Clinical and health psychology
Abstract: Educational attainment is widely used as a surrogate for socioeconomic status (SES). Low SES is a risk factor for hypertension and high blood pressure (BP). To identify novel BP loci, we performed multi-ancestry meta-analyses accounting for gene-educational attainment interactions using two variables, "Some College" (yes/no) and "Graduated College" (yes/no). Interactions were evaluated using both a 1 degree of freedom (DF) interaction term and a 2DF joint test of genetic and interaction effects. Analyses were performed for systolic BP, diastolic BP, mean arterial pressure, and pulse pressure. We pursued genome-wide interrogation in Stage 1 studies (N = 117 438) and follow-up on promising variants in Stage 2 studies (N = 293 787) in five ancestry groups. Through combined meta-analyses of Stages 1 and 2, we identified 84 known and 18 novel BP loci at genome-wide significance level (P
Published: 2021

8. Meta-analysis uncovers genome-wide significant variants for rapid kidney function decline

Author: Gorski, Mathias, Jung, Bettina, Li, Yong, Matias-Garcia, Pamela R, Wuttke, Matthias, Coassin, Stefan, Thio, Chris HL, Kleber, Marcus E, Winkler, Thomas W, Wanner, Veronika, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chu, Audrey Y, Cocca, Massimiliano, Feitosa, Mary F, Ghasemi, Sahar, Hoppmann, Anselm, Horn, Katrin, Li, Man, Nutile, Teresa, Scholz, Markus, Sieber, Karsten B, Teumer, Alexander, Tin, Adrienne, Wang, Judy, Tayo, Bamidele O, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Almgren, Peter, Bakker, Stephan JL, Banas, Bernhard, Bansal, Nisha, Biggs, Mary L, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bottinger, Erwin P, Brenner, Hermann, Carroll, Robert J, Chalmers, John, Chee, Miao-Li, Chee, Miao-Ling, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Coresh, Josef, de Borst, Martin H, Degenhardt, Frauke, Eckardt, Kai-Uwe, Endlich, Karlhans, Franke, Andre, Freitag-Wolf, Sandra, Gampawar, Piyush, Gansevoort, Ron T, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Gieger, Christian, Hamet, Pavel, Ho, Kevin, Hofer, Edith, Holleczek, Bernd, Foo, Valencia Hui Xian, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Ikram, M Arfan, Josyula, Navya Shilpa, Kähönen, Mika, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Koenig, Wolfgang, Kramer, Holly, Krämer, Bernhard K, Kühnel, Brigitte, Lange, Leslie A, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lieb, Wolfgang, Loos, Ruth JF, Lukas, Mary Ann, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Meisinger, Christa, Meitinger, Thomas, Melander, Olle, Milaneschi, Yuri, Mishra, Pashupati P, Mononen, Nina, Mychaleckyj, Josyf C, Nadkarni, Girish N, Nauck, Matthias, Nikus, Kjell, Ning, Boting, Nolte, Ilja M, O’Donoghue, Michelle L, Orho-Melander, Marju, Pendergrass, Sarah A, Penninx, Brenda WJH, Preuss, Michael H, Psaty, Bruce M, Raffield, Laura M, Raitakari, Olli T, Rettig, Rainer, Rheinberger, Myriam, Rice, Kenneth M, Rosenkranz, Alexander R, Rossing, Peter, Rotter, Jerome I, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Schmidt, Helena, and Schmidt, Reinhold
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Prevention, Human Genome, Kidney Disease, Rare Diseases, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Renal and urogenital, AMP-Activated Protein Kinases, Creatinine, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glomerular Filtration Rate, Humans, Kidney, Protein Disulfide-Isomerases, United Kingdom, acute kidney injury, end-stage kidney disease, genome-wide association study, rapid eGFRcrea decline, Lifelines Cohort Study, Regeneron Genetics Center, Urology & Nephrology, Clinical sciences
Abstract: Rapid decline of glomerular filtration rate estimated from creatinine (eGFRcrea) is associated with severe clinical endpoints. In contrast to cross-sectionally assessed eGFRcrea, the genetic basis for rapid eGFRcrea decline is largely unknown. To help define this, we meta-analyzed 42 genome-wide association studies from the Chronic Kidney Diseases Genetics Consortium and United Kingdom Biobank to identify genetic loci for rapid eGFRcrea decline. Two definitions of eGFRcrea decline were used: 3 mL/min/1.73m2/year or more ("Rapid3"; encompassing 34,874 cases, 107,090 controls) and eGFRcrea decline 25% or more and eGFRcrea under 60 mL/min/1.73m2 at follow-up among those with eGFRcrea 60 mL/min/1.73m2 or more at baseline ("CKDi25"; encompassing 19,901 cases, 175,244 controls). Seven independent variants were identified across six loci for Rapid3 and/or CKDi25: consisting of five variants at four loci with genome-wide significance (near UMOD-PDILT (2), PRKAG2, WDR72, OR2S2) and two variants among 265 known eGFRcrea variants (near GATM, LARP4B). All these loci were novel for Rapid3 and/or CKDi25 and our bioinformatic follow-up prioritized variants and genes underneath these loci. The OR2S2 locus is novel for any eGFRcrea trait including interesting candidates. For the five genome-wide significant lead variants, we found supporting effects for annual change in blood urea nitrogen or cystatin-based eGFR, but not for GATM or LARP4B. Individuals at high compared to those at low genetic risk (8-14 vs. 0-5 adverse alleles) had a 1.20-fold increased risk of acute kidney injury (95% confidence interval 1.08-1.33). Thus, our identified loci for rapid kidney function decline may help prioritize therapeutic targets and identify mechanisms and individuals at risk for sustained deterioration of kidney function.
Published: 2021

9. Genome-wide analysis identifies novel susceptibility loci for myocardial infarction

Author: Hartiala, Jaana A, Han, Yi, Jia, Qiong, Hilser, James R, Huang, Pin, Gukasyan, Janet, Schwartzman, William S, Cai, Zhiheng, Biswas, Subarna, Trégouët, David-Alexandre, Smith, Nicholas L, Consortium, The INVENT, Group, The CHARGE Consortium Hemostasis Working, Consortium, The GENIUS-CHD, Seldin, Marcus, Pan, Calvin, Mehrabian, Margarete, Lusis, Aldons J, Bazeley, Peter, Sun, Yan V, Liu, Chang, Quyyumi, Arshed A, Scholz, Markus, Thiery, Joachim, Delgado, Graciela E, Kleber, Marcus E, März, Winfried, Howe, Laurence J, Asselbergs, Folkert W, van Vugt, Marion, Vlachojannis, Georgios J, Patel, Riyaz S, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Kähönen, Mika, Lehtimäki, Terho, Nieminen, Tuomo VM, Kuukasjärvi, Pekka, Laurikka, Jari O, Chang, Xuling, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Jiang, Rong, Kraus, William E, Hauser, Elizabeth R, Ferguson, Jane F, Reilly, Muredach P, Ito, Kaoru, Koyama, Satoshi, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Komuro, Issei, Japan, Biobank, Stolze, Lindsey K, Romanoski, Casey E, Khan, Mohammad Daud, Turner, Adam W, Miller, Clint L, Aherrahrou, Redouane, Civelek, Mete, Ma, Lijiang, Björkegren, Johan LM, Kumar, S Ram, Tang, WH Wilson, Hazen, Stanley L, and Allayee, Hooman
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology, Clinical Sciences, Cardiovascular, Heart Disease, Clinical Research, Heart Disease - Coronary Heart Disease, Human Genome, Genetics, Aging, Atherosclerosis, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Coronary Artery Disease, Endothelial Cells, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Japan, Myocardial Infarction, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, Myocardial infarction, Genetic factors, Genome-wide association study, Meta-analysis, SLC44A3, INVENT Consortium, CHARGE Consortium Hemostasis Working Group, GENIUS-CHD Consortium, Biobank Japan, Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, Cardiovascular System & Hematology, Cardiovascular medicine and haematology, Clinical sciences
Abstract: AimsWhile most patients with myocardial infarction (MI) have underlying coronary atherosclerosis, not all patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) develop MI. We sought to address the hypothesis that some of the genetic factors which establish atherosclerosis may be distinct from those that predispose to vulnerable plaques and thrombus formation.Methods and resultsWe carried out a genome-wide association study for MI in the UK Biobank (n∼472 000), followed by a meta-analysis with summary statistics from the CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium (n∼167 000). Multiple independent replication analyses and functional approaches were used to prioritize loci and evaluate positional candidate genes. Eight novel regions were identified for MI at the genome wide significance level, of which effect sizes at six loci were more robust for MI than for CAD without the presence of MI. Confirmatory evidence for association of a locus on chromosome 1p21.3 harbouring choline-like transporter 3 (SLC44A3) with MI in the context of CAD, but not with coronary atherosclerosis itself, was obtained in Biobank Japan (n∼165 000) and 16 independent angiography-based cohorts (n∼27 000). Follow-up analyses did not reveal association of the SLC44A3 locus with CAD risk factors, biomarkers of coagulation, other thrombotic diseases, or plasma levels of a broad array of metabolites, including choline, trimethylamine N-oxide, and betaine. However, aortic expression of SLC44A3 was increased in carriers of the MI risk allele at chromosome 1p21.3, increased in ischaemic (vs. non-diseased) coronary arteries, up-regulated in human aortic endothelial cells treated with interleukin-1β (vs. vehicle), and associated with smooth muscle cell migration in vitro.ConclusionsA large-scale analysis comprising ∼831 000 subjects revealed novel genetic determinants of MI and implicated SLC44A3 in the pathophysiology of vulnerable plaques.
Published: 2021

10. Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study accounting for gene-psychosocial factor interactions identifies novel loci for blood pressure traits

Author: Sun, Daokun, Richard, Melissa A, Musani, Solomon K, Sung, Yun Ju, Winkler, Thomas W, Schwander, Karen, Chai, Jin Fang, Guo, Xiuqing, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Vojinovic, Dina, Aschard, Hugues, Bartz, Traci M, Bielak, Lawrence F, Brown, Michael R, Chitrala, Kumaraswamy, Hartwig, Fernando P, Horimoto, Andrea RVR, Liu, Yongmei, Manning, Alisa K, Noordam, Raymond, Smith, Albert V, Harris, Sarah E, Kühnel, Brigitte, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nolte, Ilja M, Rauramaa, Rainer, van der Most, Peter J, Wang, Rujia, Ware, Erin B, Weiss, Stefan, Wen, Wanqing, Yanek, Lisa R, Arking, Dan E, Arnett, Donna K, Barac, Ana, Boerwinkle, Eric, Broeckel, Ulrich, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Cupples, L Adrienne, Davigulus, Martha L, de las Fuentes, Lisa, de Mutsert, Renée, de Vries, Paul S, Delaney, Joseph AC, Roux, Ana V Diez, Dörr, Marcus, Faul, Jessica D, Fretts, Amanda M, Gallo, Linda C, Grabe, Hans Jörgen, Gu, C Charles, Harris, Tamara B, Hartman, Catharina CA, Heikkinen, Sami, Ikram, M Arfan, Isasi, Carmen, Johnson, W Craig, Jonas, Jost Bruno, Kaplan, Robert C, Komulainen, Pirjo, Krieger, Jose E, Levy, Daniel, Study, Lifelines Cohort, Liu, Jianjun, Lohman, Kurt, Luik, Annemarie I, Martin, Lisa W, Meitinger, Thomas, Milaneschi, Yuri, O’Connell, Jeff R, Palmas, Walter R, Peters, Annette, Peyser, Patricia A, Pulkki-Råback, Laura, Raffel, Leslie J, Reiner, Alex P, Rice, Kenneth, Robinson, Jennifer G, Rosendaal, Frits R, Schmidt, Carsten Oliver, Schreiner, Pamela J, Schwettmann, Lars, Shikany, James M, Shu, Xiao-ou, Sidney, Stephen, Sims, Mario, Smith, Jennifer A, Sotoodehnia, Nona, Strauch, Konstantin, Tai, E Shyong, Taylor, Kent D, Uitterlinden, André G, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Waldenberger, Melanie, Wee, Hwee-Lin, Wei, Wen-Bin, Wilson, Gregory, Xuan, Deng, and Yao, Jie
Subjects: Hypertension, Mental Health, Genetics, Cardiovascular, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Good Health and Well Being, Lifelines Cohort Study
Abstract: Psychological and social factors are known to influence blood pressure (BP) and risk of hypertension and associated cardiovascular diseases. To identify novel BP loci, we carried out genome-wide association meta-analyses of systolic, diastolic, pulse, and mean arterial BP taking into account the interaction effects of genetic variants with three psychosocial factors: depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and social support. Analyses were performed using a two-stage design in a sample of up to 128,894 adults from 5 ancestry groups. In the combined meta-analyses of Stages 1 and 2, we identified 59 loci (p value
Published: 2021

11. Genetic Studies of Leptin Concentrations Implicate Leptin in the Regulation of Early Adiposity

Author: Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Zhang, Yiying, Spracklen, Cassandra N, Karaderi, Tugce, Huang, Lam Opal, Bradfield, Jonathan, Schurmann, Claudia, Fine, Rebecca S, Preuss, Michael H, Kutalik, Zoltan, Wittemans, Laura BL, Lu, Yingchang, Metz, Sophia, Willems, Sara M, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Grarup, Niels, Wang, Shuai, Molnos, Sophie, Sandoval-Zárate, América A, Nalls, Mike A, Lange, Leslie A, Haesser, Jeffrey, Guo, Xiuqing, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Feitosa, Mary F, Sitlani, Colleen M, Venturini, Cristina, Mahajan, Anubha, Kacprowski, Tim, Wang, Carol A, Chasman, Daniel I, Amin, Najaf, Broer, Linda, Robertson, Neil, Young, Kristin L, Allison, Matthew, Auer, Paul L, Blüher, Matthias, Borja, Judith B, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Carrasquilla, Germán D, Christofidou, Paraskevi, Demirkan, Ayse, Doege, Claudia A, Garcia, Melissa E, Graff, Mariaelisa, Guo, Kaiying, Hakonarson, Hakon, Hong, Jaeyoung, Ida Chen, Yii-Der, Jackson, Rebecca, Jakupović, Hermina, Jousilahti, Pekka, Justice, Anne E, Kähönen, Mika, Kizer, Jorge R, Kriebel, Jennifer, LeDuc, Charles A, Li, Jin, Lind, Lars, Luan, Jian'an, Mackey, David A, Mangino, Massimo, Männistö, Satu, Martin Carli, Jayne F, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Morris, Andrew P, de Mutsert, Renée, Nauck, Matthias, Prokic, Ivana, Pennell, Craig E, Pradhan, Arund D, Psaty, Bruce M, Raitakari, Olli T, Scott, Robert A, Skaaby, Tea, Strauch, Konstantin, Taylor, Kent D, Teumer, Alexander, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Wu, Ying, Yao, Jie, Walker, Mark, North, Kari E, Kovacs, Peter, Ikram, M Arfan, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Ridker, Paul M, Lye, Stephen, Homuth, Georg, Ingelsson, Erik, Spector, Tim D, McKnight, Barbara, Province, Michael A, Lehtimäki, Terho, Adair, Linda S, Rotter, Jerome I, Reiner, Alexander P, and Wilson, James G
Subjects: Genetics, Nutrition, Prevention, Obesity, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Oral and gastrointestinal, Metabolic and endocrine, Cardiovascular, Stroke, Cancer, Adiposity, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Genetic Variation, Genotype, Humans, Leptin, Models, Molecular, Protein Conformation, Racial Groups, Medical and Health Sciences, Endocrinology & Metabolism
Abstract: Leptin influences food intake by informing the brain about the status of body fat stores. Rare LEP mutations associated with congenital leptin deficiency cause severe early-onset obesity that can be mitigated by administering leptin. However, the role of genetic regulation of leptin in polygenic obesity remains poorly understood. We performed an exome-based analysis in up to 57,232 individuals of diverse ancestries to identify genetic variants that influence adiposity-adjusted leptin concentrations. We identify five novel variants, including four missense variants, in LEP, ZNF800, KLHL31, and ACTL9, and one intergenic variant near KLF14. The missense variant Val94Met (rs17151919) in LEP was common in individuals of African ancestry only, and its association with lower leptin concentrations was specific to this ancestry (P = 2 × 10-16, n = 3,901). Using in vitro analyses, we show that the Met94 allele decreases leptin secretion. We also show that the Met94 allele is associated with higher BMI in young African-ancestry children but not in adults, suggesting that leptin regulates early adiposity.
Published: 2020

12. Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations

Author: Chen, Ming-Huei, Raffield, Laura M, Mousas, Abdou, Sakaue, Saori, Huffman, Jennifer E, Moscati, Arden, Trivedi, Bhavi, Jiang, Tao, Akbari, Parsa, Vuckovic, Dragana, Bao, Erik L, Zhong, Xue, Manansala, Regina, Laplante, Véronique, Chen, Minhui, Lo, Ken Sin, Qian, Huijun, Lareau, Caleb A, Beaudoin, Mélissa, Hunt, Karen A, Akiyama, Masato, Bartz, Traci M, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Beswick, Andrew, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bottinger, Erwin P, Brody, Jennifer A, van Rooij, Frank JA, Chitrala, Kumaraswamynaidu, Cho, Kelly, Choquet, Hélène, Correa, Adolfo, Danesh, John, Di Angelantonio, Emanuele, Dimou, Niki, Ding, Jingzhong, Elliott, Paul, Esko, Tõnu, Evans, Michele K, Floyd, James S, Broer, Linda, Grarup, Niels, Guo, Michael H, Greinacher, Andreas, Haessler, Jeff, Hansen, Torben, Howson, Joanna MM, Huang, Qin Qin, Huang, Wei, Jorgenson, Eric, Kacprowski, Tim, Kähönen, Mika, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kanai, Masahiro, Karthikeyan, Savita, Koskeridis, Fotis, Lange, Leslie A, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lerch, Markus M, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Yongmei, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Manichaikul, Ani, Martin, Hilary C, Matsuda, Koichi, Mohlke, Karen L, Mononen, Nina, Murakami, Yoshinori, Nadkarni, Girish N, Nauck, Matthias, Nikus, Kjell, Ouwehand, Willem H, Pankratz, Nathan, Pedersen, Oluf, Preuss, Michael, Psaty, Bruce M, Raitakari, Olli T, Roberts, David J, Rich, Stephen S, Rodriguez, Benjamin AT, Rosen, Jonathan D, Rotter, Jerome I, Schubert, Petra, Spracklen, Cassandra N, Surendran, Praveen, Tang, Hua, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Trembath, Richard C, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Völker, Uwe, Völzke, Henry, Watkins, Nicholas A, Zonderman, Alan B, Program, VA Million Veteran, Wilson, Peter WF, Li, Yun, Butterworth, Adam S, Gauchat, Jean-François, Chiang, Charleston WK, and Li, Bingshan
Subjects: Genetics, Good Health and Well Being, Asian People, Genome-Wide Association Study, HEK293 Cells, Humans, Interleukin-7, Mutation, Missense, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, VA Million Veteran Program, interleukin-7, genetic architecture, fine-mapping, selective sweeps, polygenic trait score, phenome-wide association study, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Most loci identified by GWASs have been found in populations of European ancestry (EUR). In trans-ethnic meta-analyses for 15 hematological traits in 746,667 participants, including 184,535 non-EUR individuals, we identified 5,552 trait-variant associations at p < 5 × 10-9, including 71 novel associations not found in EUR populations. We also identified 28 additional novel variants in ancestry-specific, non-EUR meta-analyses, including an IL7 missense variant in South Asians associated with lymphocyte count in vivo and IL-7 secretion levels in vitro. Fine-mapping prioritized variants annotated as functional and generated 95% credible sets that were 30% smaller when using the trans-ethnic as opposed to the EUR-only results. We explored the clinical significance and predictive value of trans-ethnic variants in multiple populations and compared genetic architecture and the effect of natural selection on these blood phenotypes between populations. Altogether, our results for hematological traits highlight the value of a more global representation of populations in genetic studies.
Published: 2020

13. Multi-ancestry GWAS of the electrocardiographic PR interval identifies 202 loci underlying cardiac conduction.

Author: Ntalla, Ioanna, Weng, Lu-Chen, Cartwright, James H, Hall, Amelia Weber, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Tucker, Nathan R, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chaffin, Mark D, Roselli, Carolina, Barnes, Michael R, Mifsud, Borbala, Warren, Helen R, Hayward, Caroline, Marten, Jonathan, Cranley, James J, Concas, Maria Pina, Gasparini, Paolo, Boutin, Thibaud, Kolcic, Ivana, Polasek, Ozren, Rudan, Igor, Araujo, Nathalia M, Lima-Costa, Maria Fernanda, Ribeiro, Antonio Luiz P, Souza, Renan P, Tarazona-Santos, Eduardo, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Ingelsson, Erik, Mahajan, Anubha, Morris, Andrew P, Del Greco M, Fabiola, Foco, Luisa, Gögele, Martin, Hicks, Andrew A, Cook, James P, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Sundström, Johan, Nelson, Christopher P, Riaz, Muhammad B, Samani, Nilesh J, Sinagra, Gianfranco, Ulivi, Sheila, Kähönen, Mika, Mishra, Pashupati P, Mononen, Nina, Nikus, Kjell, Caulfield, Mark J, Dominiczak, Anna, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Montasser, May E, O'Connell, Jeff R, Ryan, Kathleen, Shuldiner, Alan R, Aeschbacher, Stefanie, Conen, David, Risch, Lorenz, Thériault, Sébastien, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T, Barnes, Catriona LK, Campbell, Harry, Joshi, Peter K, Wilson, James F, Isaacs, Aaron, Kors, Jan A, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Huang, Paul L, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Harris, Tamara B, Launer, Lenore J, Smith, Albert V, Bottinger, Erwin P, Loos, Ruth JF, Nadkarni, Girish N, Preuss, Michael H, Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D, Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J, van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kääb, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F, Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J, Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, and Roden, Dan M
Subjects: Humans, Cardiovascular Diseases, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Electrocardiography, Gene Expression, Multifactorial Inheritance, Quantitative Trait Loci, Female, Male, Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Endophenotypes, Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Abstract: The electrocardiographic PR interval reflects atrioventricular conduction, and is associated with conduction abnormalities, pacemaker implantation, atrial fibrillation (AF), and cardiovascular mortality. Here we report a multi-ancestry (N = 293,051) genome-wide association meta-analysis for the PR interval, discovering 202 loci of which 141 have not previously been reported. Variants at identified loci increase the percentage of heritability explained, from 33.5% to 62.6%. We observe enrichment for cardiac muscle developmental/contractile and cytoskeletal genes, highlighting key regulation processes for atrioventricular conduction. Additionally, 8 loci not previously reported harbor genes underlying inherited arrhythmic syndromes and/or cardiomyopathies suggesting a role for these genes in cardiovascular pathology in the general population. We show that polygenic predisposition to PR interval duration is an endophenotype for cardiovascular disease, including distal conduction disease, AF, and atrioventricular pre-excitation. These findings advance our understanding of the polygenic basis of cardiac conduction, and the genetic relationship between PR interval duration and cardiovascular disease.
Published: 2020

14. Multi-ancestry GWAS of the electrocardiographic PR interval identifies 202 loci underlying cardiac conduction

Author: Ntalla, Ioanna, Weng, Lu-Chen, Cartwright, James H, Hall, Amelia Weber, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Tucker, Nathan R, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chaffin, Mark D, Roselli, Carolina, Barnes, Michael R, Mifsud, Borbala, Warren, Helen R, Hayward, Caroline, Marten, Jonathan, Cranley, James J, Concas, Maria Pina, Gasparini, Paolo, Boutin, Thibaud, Kolcic, Ivana, Polasek, Ozren, Rudan, Igor, Araujo, Nathalia M, Lima-Costa, Maria Fernanda, Ribeiro, Antonio Luiz P, Souza, Renan P, Tarazona-Santos, Eduardo, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Ingelsson, Erik, Mahajan, Anubha, Morris, Andrew P, Del Greco M, Fabiola, Foco, Luisa, Gögele, Martin, Hicks, Andrew A, Cook, James P, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Sundström, Johan, Nelson, Christopher P, Riaz, Muhammad B, Samani, Nilesh J, Sinagra, Gianfranco, Ulivi, Sheila, Kähönen, Mika, Mishra, Pashupati P, Mononen, Nina, Nikus, Kjell, Caulfield, Mark J, Dominiczak, Anna, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Montasser, May E, O’Connell, Jeff R, Ryan, Kathleen, Shuldiner, Alan R, Aeschbacher, Stefanie, Conen, David, Risch, Lorenz, Thériault, Sébastien, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T, Barnes, Catriona LK, Campbell, Harry, Joshi, Peter K, Wilson, James F, Isaacs, Aaron, Kors, Jan A, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Huang, Paul L, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Harris, Tamara B, Launer, Lenore J, Smith, Albert V, Bottinger, Erwin P, Loos, Ruth JF, Nadkarni, Girish N, Preuss, Michael H, Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D, Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J, van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kääb, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F, Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J, Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, and Roden, Dan M
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Heart Disease, Cardiovascular, Biotechnology, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Good Health and Well Being, Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Cardiovascular Diseases, Electrocardiography, Endophenotypes, Female, Gene Expression, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Multifactorial Inheritance, Quantitative Trait Loci
Abstract: The electrocardiographic PR interval reflects atrioventricular conduction, and is associated with conduction abnormalities, pacemaker implantation, atrial fibrillation (AF), and cardiovascular mortality. Here we report a multi-ancestry (N = 293,051) genome-wide association meta-analysis for the PR interval, discovering 202 loci of which 141 have not previously been reported. Variants at identified loci increase the percentage of heritability explained, from 33.5% to 62.6%. We observe enrichment for cardiac muscle developmental/contractile and cytoskeletal genes, highlighting key regulation processes for atrioventricular conduction. Additionally, 8 loci not previously reported harbor genes underlying inherited arrhythmic syndromes and/or cardiomyopathies suggesting a role for these genes in cardiovascular pathology in the general population. We show that polygenic predisposition to PR interval duration is an endophenotype for cardiovascular disease, including distal conduction disease, AF, and atrioventricular pre-excitation. These findings advance our understanding of the polygenic basis of cardiac conduction, and the genetic relationship between PR interval duration and cardiovascular disease.
Published: 2020

15. Multi-ancestry sleep-by-SNP interaction analysis in 126,926 individuals reveals lipid loci stratified by sleep duration.

Author: Noordam, Raymond, Bos, Maxime M, Wang, Heming, Winkler, Thomas W, Bentley, Amy R, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, de Vries, Paul S, Sung, Yun Ju, Schwander, Karen, Cade, Brian E, Manning, Alisa, Aschard, Hugues, Brown, Michael R, Chen, Han, Franceschini, Nora, Musani, Solomon K, Richard, Melissa, Vojinovic, Dina, Aslibekyan, Stella, Bartz, Traci M, de Las Fuentes, Lisa, Feitosa, Mary, Horimoto, Andrea R, Ilkov, Marjan, Kho, Minjung, Kraja, Aldi, Li, Changwei, Lim, Elise, Liu, Yongmei, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Rankinen, Tuomo, Tajuddin, Salman M, van der Spek, Ashley, Wang, Zhe, Marten, Jonathan, Laville, Vincent, Alver, Maris, Evangelou, Evangelos, Graff, Maria E, He, Meian, Kühnel, Brigitte, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Nolte, Ilja M, Palmer, Nicholette D, Rauramaa, Rainer, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Snieder, Harold, Weiss, Stefan, Wen, Wanqing, Yanek, Lisa R, Adolfo, Correa, Ballantyne, Christie, Bielak, Larry, Biermasz, Nienke R, Boerwinkle, Eric, Dimou, Niki, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Gao, Chuan, Gharib, Sina A, Gottlieb, Daniel J, Haba-Rubio, José, Harris, Tamara B, Heikkinen, Sami, Heinzer, Raphaël, Hixson, James E, Homuth, Georg, Ikram, M Arfan, Komulainen, Pirjo, Krieger, Jose E, Lee, Jiwon, Liu, Jingmin, Lohman, Kurt K, Luik, Annemarie I, Mägi, Reedik, Martin, Lisa W, Meitinger, Thomas, Metspalu, Andres, Milaneschi, Yuri, Nalls, Mike A, O'Connell, Jeff, Peters, Annette, Peyser, Patricia, Raitakari, Olli T, Reiner, Alex P, Rensen, Patrick CN, Rice, Treva K, Rich, Stephen S, Roenneberg, Till, Rotter, Jerome I, Schreiner, Pamela J, Shikany, James, Sidney, Stephen S, Sims, Mario, Sitlani, Colleen M, Sofer, Tamar, Strauch, Konstantin, Swertz, Morris A, Taylor, Kent D, and Uitterlinden, André G
Subjects: Humans, Lipids, Chromosome Mapping, Sleep, Phylogeny, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Middle Aged, Female, Male, Young Adult, Genetic Loci, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, and over
Abstract: Both short and long sleep are associated with an adverse lipid profile, likely through different biological pathways. To elucidate the biology of sleep-associated adverse lipid profile, we conduct multi-ancestry genome-wide sleep-SNP interaction analyses on three lipid traits (HDL-c, LDL-c and triglycerides). In the total study sample (discovery + replication) of 126,926 individuals from 5 different ancestry groups, when considering either long or short total sleep time interactions in joint analyses, we identify 49 previously unreported lipid loci, and 10 additional previously unreported lipid loci in a restricted sample of European-ancestry cohorts. In addition, we identify new gene-sleep interactions for known lipid loci such as LPL and PCSK9. The previously unreported lipid loci have a modest explained variance in lipid levels: most notable, gene-short-sleep interactions explain 4.25% of the variance in triglyceride level. Collectively, these findings contribute to our understanding of the biological mechanisms involved in sleep-associated adverse lipid profiles.
Published: 2019

16. New alcohol-related genes suggest shared genetic mechanisms with neuropsychiatric disorders

Author: Evangelou, Evangelos, Gao, He, Chu, Congying, Ntritsos, Georgios, Blakeley, Paul, Butts, Andrew R, Pazoki, Raha, Suzuki, Hideaki, Koskeridis, Fotios, Yiorkas, Andrianos M, Karaman, Ibrahim, Elliott, Joshua, Luo, Qiang, Aeschbacher, Stefanie, Bartz, Traci M, Baumeister, Sebastian E, Braund, Peter S, Brown, Michael R, Brody, Jennifer A, Clarke, Toni-Kim, Dimou, Niki, Faul, Jessica D, Homuth, Georg, Jackson, Anne U, Kentistou, Katherine A, Joshi, Peter K, Lemaitre, Rozenn N, Lind, Penelope A, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mangino, Massimo, Milaneschi, Yuri, Nelson, Christopher P, Nolte, Ilja M, Perälä, Mia-Maria, Polasek, Ozren, Porteous, David, Ratliff, Scott M, Smith, Jennifer A, Stančáková, Alena, Teumer, Alexander, Tuominen, Samuli, Thériault, Sébastien, Vangipurapu, Jagadish, Whitfield, John B, Wood, Alexis, Yao, Jie, Yu, Bing, Zhao, Wei, Arking, Dan E, Auvinen, Juha, Liu, Chunyu, Männikkö, Minna, Risch, Lorenz, Rotter, Jerome I, Snieder, Harold, Veijola, Juha, Blakemore, Alexandra I, Boehnke, Michael, Campbell, Harry, Conen, David, Eriksson, Johan G, Grabe, Hans J, Guo, Xiuqing, van der Harst, Pim, Hartman, Catharina A, Hayward, Caroline, Heath, Andrew C, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Kähönen, Mika, Kardia, Sharon LR, Kühne, Michael, Kuusisto, Johanna, Laakso, Markku, Lahti, Jari, Lehtimäki, Terho, McIntosh, Andrew M, Mohlke, Karen L, Morrison, Alanna C, Martin, Nicholas G, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Penninx, Brenda WJH, Psaty, Bruce M, Raitakari, Olli T, Rudan, Igor, Samani, Nilesh J, Scott, Laura J, Spector, Tim D, Verweij, Niek, Weir, David R, Wilson, James F, Levy, Daniel, Tzoulaki, Ioanna, Bell, Jimmy D, Matthews, Paul M, Rothenfluh, Adrian, Desrivières, Sylvane, Schumann, Gunter, and Elliott, Paul
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Biological Psychology, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Psychology, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biotechnology, Substance Misuse, Brain Disorders, Mental Health, Neurosciences, Serious Mental Illness, Alcoholism, Alcohol Use and Health, Schizophrenia, Genetics, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Cardiovascular, Mental health, Stroke, Cancer, Oral and gastrointestinal, Good Health and Well Being, Adult, Aged, Alcohol Drinking, Alcoholism, Brain, Female, Genes, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Mental Disorders, Middle Aged, Neuroimaging, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, White People, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: Excessive alcohol consumption is one of the main causes of death and disability worldwide. Alcohol consumption is a heritable complex trait. Here we conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of alcohol consumption (g d-1) from the UK Biobank, the Alcohol Genome-Wide Consortium and the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology Plus consortia, collecting data from 480,842 people of European descent to decipher the genetic architecture of alcohol intake. We identified 46 new common loci and investigated their potential functional importance using magnetic resonance imaging data and gene expression studies. We identify genetic pathways associated with alcohol consumption and suggest genetic mechanisms that are shared with neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia.
Published: 2019

17. A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes.

Author: Deelen, Joris, Evans, Daniel S, Arking, Dan E, Tesi, Niccolò, Nygaard, Marianne, Liu, Xiaomin, Wojczynski, Mary K, Biggs, Mary L, van der Spek, Ashley, Atzmon, Gil, Ware, Erin B, Sarnowski, Chloé, Smith, Albert V, Seppälä, Ilkka, Cordell, Heather J, Dose, Janina, Amin, Najaf, Arnold, Alice M, Ayers, Kristin L, Barzilai, Nir, Becker, Elizabeth J, Beekman, Marian, Blanché, Hélène, Christensen, Kaare, Christiansen, Lene, Collerton, Joanna C, Cubaynes, Sarah, Cummings, Steven R, Davies, Karen, Debrabant, Birgit, Deleuze, Jean-François, Duncan, Rachel, Faul, Jessica D, Franceschi, Claudio, Galan, Pilar, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Harris, Tamara B, Huisman, Martijn, Hurme, Mikko A, Jagger, Carol, Jansen, Iris, Jylhä, Marja, Kähönen, Mika, Karasik, David, Kardia, Sharon LR, Kingston, Andrew, Kirkwood, Thomas BL, Launer, Lenore J, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lieb, Wolfgang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Martin-Ruiz, Carmen, Min, Junxia, Nebel, Almut, Newman, Anne B, Nie, Chao, Nohr, Ellen A, Orwoll, Eric S, Perls, Thomas T, Province, Michael A, Psaty, Bruce M, Raitakari, Olli T, Reinders, Marcel JT, Robine, Jean-Marie, Rotter, Jerome I, Sebastiani, Paola, Smith, Jennifer, Sørensen, Thorkild IA, Taylor, Kent D, Uitterlinden, André G, van der Flier, Wiesje, van der Lee, Sven J, van Duijn, Cornelia M, van Heemst, Diana, Vaupel, James W, Weir, David, Ye, Kenny, Zeng, Yi, Zheng, Wanlin, Holstege, Henne, Kiel, Douglas P, Lunetta, Kathryn L, Slagboom, P Eline, and Murabito, Joanne M
Subjects: Humans, Heat-Shock Proteins, Longevity, Apolipoprotein E2, Apolipoprotein E4, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Human longevity is heritable, but genome-wide association (GWA) studies have had limited success. Here, we perform two meta-analyses of GWA studies of a rigorous longevity phenotype definition including 11,262/3484 cases surviving at or beyond the age corresponding to the 90th/99th survival percentile, respectively, and 25,483 controls whose age at death or at last contact was at or below the age corresponding to the 60th survival percentile. Consistent with previous reports, rs429358 (apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4) is associated with lower odds of surviving to the 90th and 99th percentile age, while rs7412 (ApoE ε2) shows the opposite. Moreover, rs7676745, located near GPR78, associates with lower odds of surviving to the 90th percentile age. Gene-level association analysis reveals a role for tissue-specific expression of multiple genes in longevity. Finally, genetic correlation of the longevity GWA results with that of several disease-related phenotypes points to a shared genetic architecture between health and longevity.
Published: 2019

18. Exome-Derived Adiponectin-Associated Variants Implicate Obesity and Lipid Biology

Author: Spracklen, Cassandra N, Karaderi, Tugce, Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Schurmann, Claudia, Fine, Rebecca S, Kutalik, Zoltan, Preuss, Michael H, Lu, Yingchang, Wittemans, Laura BL, Adair, Linda S, Allison, Matthew, Amin, Najaf, Auer, Paul L, Bartz, Traci M, Blüher, Matthias, Boehnke, Michael, Borja, Judith B, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Broer, Linda, Chasman, Daniel I, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chirstofidou, Paraskevi, Demirkan, Ayse, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Feitosa, Mary F, Garcia, Melissa E, Graff, Mariaelisa, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Guo, Xiuqing, Haesser, Jeffrey, Hansen, Torben, Harris, Tamara B, Highland, Heather M, Hong, Jaeyoung, Ikram, M Arfan, Ingelsson, Erik, Jackson, Rebecca, Jousilahti, Pekka, Kähönen, Mika, Kizer, Jorge R, Kovacs, Peter, Kriebel, Jennifer, Laakso, Markku, Lange, Leslie A, Lehtimäki, Terho, Li, Jin, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lind, Lars, Luan, Jian'an, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, MacGregor, Stuart, Mackey, David A, Mahajan, Anubha, Mangino, Massimo, Männistö, Satu, McCarthy, Mark I, McKnight, Barbara, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Meigs, James B, Molnos, Sophie, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis, Morris, Andrew P, de Mutsert, Renee, Nalls, Mike A, Nedeljkovic, Ivana, North, Kari E, Pennell, Craig E, Pradhan, Aruna D, Province, Michael A, Raitakari, Olli T, Raulerson, Chelsea K, Reiner, Alex P, Ridker, Paul M, Ripatti, Samuli, Roberston, Neil, Rotter, Jerome I, Salomaa, Veikko, Sandoval-Zárate, America A, Sitlani, Colleen M, Spector, Tim D, Strauch, Konstantin, Stumvoll, Michael, Taylor, Kent D, Thuesen, Betina, Tönjes, Anke, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Venturini, Cristina, Walker, Mark, Wang, Carol A, Wang, Shuai, Wareham, Nicholas J, Willems, Sara M, Willems van Dijk, Ko, Wilson, James G, Wu, Ying, Yao, Jie, Young, Kristin L, Langenberg, Claudia, and Frayling, Timothy M
Subjects: Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Nutrition, Obesity, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Metabolic and endocrine, Cardiovascular, Adiponectin, Adipose Tissue, Adolescent, Adult, Black or African American, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Exome, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Lipids, Male, Middle Aged, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, White People, Young Adult, adiponectin, cardio metabolic traits, exome, genetics, genome-wide association study, lipids, obesity, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: Circulating levels of adiponectin, an adipocyte-secreted protein associated with cardiovascular and metabolic risk, are highly heritable. To gain insights into the biology that regulates adiponectin levels, we performed an exome array meta-analysis of 265,780 genetic variants in 67,739 individuals of European, Hispanic, African American, and East Asian ancestry. We identified 20 loci associated with adiponectin, including 11 that had been reported previously (p < 2 × 10-7). Comparison of exome array variants to regional linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns and prior genome-wide association study (GWAS) results detected candidate variants (r2 > .60) spanning as much as 900 kb. To identify potential genes and mechanisms through which the previously unreported association signals act to affect adiponectin levels, we assessed cross-trait associations, expression quantitative trait loci in subcutaneous adipose, and biological pathways of nearby genes. Eight of the nine loci were also associated (p < 1 × 10-4) with at least one obesity or lipid trait. Candidate genes include PRKAR2A, PTH1R, and HDAC9, which have been suggested to play roles in adipocyte differentiation or bone marrow adipose tissue. Taken together, these findings provide further insights into the processes that influence circulating adiponectin levels.
Published: 2019

19. Multiancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Lipid Levels Incorporating Gene-Alcohol Interactions

Author: de Vries, Paul S, Brown, Michael R, Bentley, Amy R, Sung, Yun J, Winkler, Thomas W, Ntalla, Ioanna, Schwander, Karen, Kraja, Aldi T, Guo, Xiuqing, Franceschini, Nora, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Sim, Xueling, Vojinovic, Dina, Huffman, Jennifer E, Musani, Solomon K, Li, Changwei, Feitosa, Mary F, Richard, Melissa A, Noordam, Raymond, Aschard, Hugues, Bartz, Traci M, Bielak, Lawrence F, Deng, Xuan, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Lohman, Kurt K, Manning, Alisa K, Rankinen, Tuomo, Smith, Albert V, Tajuddin, Salman M, Evangelou, Evangelos, Graff, Mariaelisa, Alver, Maris, Boissel, Mathilde, Chai, Jin Fang, Chen, Xu, Divers, Jasmin, Gandin, Ilaria, Gao, Chuan, Goel, Anuj, Hagemeijer, Yanick, Harris, Sarah E, Hartwig, Fernando P, He, Meian, Horimoto, Andrea RVR, Hsu, Fang-Chi, Jackson, Anne U, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Komulainen, Pirjo, Kühnel, Brigitte, Laguzzi, Federica, Lee, Joseph H, Luan, Jian'an, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Matoba, Nana, Nolte, Ilja M, Pietzner, Maik, Riaz, Muhammad, Said, M Abdullah, Scott, Robert A, Sofer, Tamar, Stančáková, Alena, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Tayo, Bamidele O, van der Most, Peter J, Varga, Tibor V, Wang, Yajuan, Ware, Erin B, Wen, Wanqing, Yanek, Lisa R, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Afaq, Saima, Amin, Najaf, Amini, Marzyeh, Arking, Dan E, Aung, Tin, Ballantyne, Christie, Boerwinkle, Eric, Broeckel, Ulrich, Campbell, Archie, Canouil, Mickaël, Charumathi, Sabanayagam, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Connell, John M, de Faire, Ulf, de las Fuentes, Lisa, de Mutsert, Renée, de Silva, H Janaka, Ding, Jingzhong, Dominiczak, Anna F, Duan, Qing, Eaton, Charles B, Eppinga, Ruben N, Faul, Jessica D, Fisher, Virginia, Forrester, Terrence, Franco, Oscar H, Friedlander, Yechiel, Ghanbari, Mohsen, and Giulianini, Franco
Subjects: Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Substance Misuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol Use and Health, Human Genome, Prevention, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Cardiovascular, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Alcohol Drinking, Cholesterol, HDL, Cholesterol, LDL, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Life Style, Lipids, Male, Middle Aged, Phenotype, Racial Groups, Triglycerides, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor B, Young Adult, alcohol consumption, cholesterol, gene-environment interactions, gene-lifestyle interactions, genome-wide association studies, lipids, triglycerides, InterAct Consortium, Lifelines Cohort, Groningen, The Netherlands, Mathematical Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences
Abstract: A person's lipid profile is influenced by genetic variants and alcohol consumption, but the contribution of interactions between these exposures has not been studied. We therefore incorporated gene-alcohol interactions into a multiancestry genome-wide association study of levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides. We included 45 studies in stage 1 (genome-wide discovery) and 66 studies in stage 2 (focused follow-up), for a total of 394,584 individuals from 5 ancestry groups. Analyses covered the period July 2014-November 2017. Genetic main effects and interaction effects were jointly assessed by means of a 2-degrees-of-freedom (df) test, and a 1-df test was used to assess the interaction effects alone. Variants at 495 loci were at least suggestively associated (P < 1 × 10-6) with lipid levels in stage 1 and were evaluated in stage 2, followed by combined analyses of stage 1 and stage 2. In the combined analysis of stages 1 and 2, a total of 147 independent loci were associated with lipid levels at P < 5 × 10-8 using 2-df tests, of which 18 were novel. No genome-wide-significant associations were found testing the interaction effect alone. The novel loci included several genes (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 5 (PCSK5), vascular endothelial growth factor B (VEGFB), and apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide 1 (APOBEC1) complementation factor (A1CF)) that have a putative role in lipid metabolism on the basis of existing evidence from cellular and experimental models.
Published: 2019

20. Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors

Author: Warrington, Nicole M, Beaumont, Robin N, Horikoshi, Momoko, Day, Felix R, Helgeland, Øyvind, Laurin, Charles, Bacelis, Jonas, Peng, Shouneng, Hao, Ke, Feenstra, Bjarke, Wood, Andrew R, Mahajan, Anubha, Tyrrell, Jessica, Robertson, Neil R, Rayner, N William, Qiao, Zhen, Moen, Gunn-Helen, Vaudel, Marc, Marsit, Carmen J, Chen, Jia, Nodzenski, Michael, Schnurr, Theresia M, Zafarmand, Mohammad H, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Grarup, Niels, Kooijman, Marjolein N, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Geller, Frank, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Paternoster, Lavinia, Rueedi, Rico, Huikari, Ville, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Cavadino, Alana, Metrustry, Sarah, Cousminer, Diana L, Wu, Ying, Thiering, Elisabeth, Wang, Carol A, Have, Christian T, Vilor-Tejedor, Natalia, Joshi, Peter K, Painter, Jodie N, Ntalla, Ioanna, Myhre, Ronny, Pitkänen, Niina, van Leeuwen, Elisabeth M, Joro, Raimo, Lagou, Vasiliki, Richmond, Rebecca C, Espinosa, Ana, Barton, Sheila J, Inskip, Hazel M, Holloway, John W, Santa-Marina, Loreto, Estivill, Xavier, Ang, Wei, Marsh, Julie A, Reichetzeder, Christoph, Marullo, Letizia, Hocher, Berthold, Lunetta, Kathryn L, Murabito, Joanne M, Relton, Caroline L, Kogevinas, Manolis, Chatzi, Leda, Allard, Catherine, Bouchard, Luigi, Hivert, Marie-France, Zhang, Ge, Muglia, Louis J, Heikkinen, Jani, Morgen, Camilla S, van Kampen, Antoine HC, van Schaik, Barbera DC, Mentch, Frank D, Langenberg, Claudia, Luan, Jian’an, Scott, Robert A, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemani, Gibran, Ring, Susan M, Bennett, Amanda J, Gaulton, Kyle J, Fernandez-Tajes, Juan, van Zuydam, Natalie R, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, de Haan, Hugoline G, Rosendaal, Frits R, Kutalik, Zoltán, Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Das, Shikta, Willemsen, Gonneke, Mbarek, Hamdi, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Standl, Marie, Appel, Emil VR, Fonvig, Cilius E, and Trier, Caecilie
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Cardiovascular, Perinatal Period - Conditions Originating in Perinatal Period, Nutrition, Prevention, Preterm, Low Birth Weight and Health of the Newborn, Pediatric, Obesity, Conditions Affecting the Embryonic and Fetal Periods, Infant Mortality, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Reproductive health and childbirth, Good Health and Well Being, Adult, Birth Weight, Blood Pressure, Body Height, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Female, Fetal Development, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Heart Diseases, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Male, Maternal Inheritance, Maternal-Fetal Exchange, Metabolic Diseases, Models, Genetic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Pregnancy, Risk Factors, EGG Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract: Birth weight variation is influenced by fetal and maternal genetic and non-genetic factors, and has been reproducibly associated with future cardio-metabolic health outcomes. In expanded genome-wide association analyses of own birth weight (n = 321,223) and offspring birth weight (n = 230,069 mothers), we identified 190 independent association signals (129 of which are novel). We used structural equation modeling to decompose the contributions of direct fetal and indirect maternal genetic effects, then applied Mendelian randomization to illuminate causal pathways. For example, both indirect maternal and direct fetal genetic effects drive the observational relationship between lower birth weight and higher later blood pressure: maternal blood pressure-raising alleles reduce offspring birth weight, but only direct fetal effects of these alleles, once inherited, increase later offspring blood pressure. Using maternal birth weight-lowering genotypes to proxy for an adverse intrauterine environment provided no evidence that it causally raises offspring blood pressure, indicating that the inverse birth weight-blood pressure association is attributable to genetic effects, and not to intrauterine programming.
Published: 2019

21. Multi-ancestry study of blood lipid levels identifies four loci interacting with physical activity.

Author: Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Bentley, Amy R, Noordam, Raymond, Sung, Yun Ju, Schwander, Karen, Winkler, Thomas W, Jakupović, Hermina, Chasman, Daniel I, Manning, Alisa, Ntalla, Ioanna, Aschard, Hugues, Brown, Michael R, de Las Fuentes, Lisa, Franceschini, Nora, Guo, Xiuqing, Vojinovic, Dina, Aslibekyan, Stella, Feitosa, Mary F, Kho, Minjung, Musani, Solomon K, Richard, Melissa, Wang, Heming, Wang, Zhe, Bartz, Traci M, Bielak, Lawrence F, Campbell, Archie, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Fisher, Virginia, Hartwig, Fernando P, Horimoto, Andrea RVR, Li, Changwei, Lohman, Kurt K, Marten, Jonathan, Sim, Xueling, Smith, Albert V, Tajuddin, Salman M, Alver, Maris, Amini, Marzyeh, Boissel, Mathilde, Chai, Jin Fang, Chen, Xu, Divers, Jasmin, Evangelou, Evangelos, Gao, Chuan, Graff, Mariaelisa, Harris, Sarah E, He, Meian, Hsu, Fang-Chi, Jackson, Anne U, Zhao, Jing Hua, Kraja, Aldi T, Kühnel, Brigitte, Laguzzi, Federica, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nolte, Ilja M, Rauramaa, Rainer, Riaz, Muhammad, Robino, Antonietta, Rueedi, Rico, Stringham, Heather M, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, van der Most, Peter J, Varga, Tibor V, Verweij, Niek, Ware, Erin B, Wen, Wanqing, Li, Xiaoyin, Yanek, Lisa R, Amin, Najaf, Arnett, Donna K, Boerwinkle, Eric, Brumat, Marco, Cade, Brian, Canouil, Mickaël, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Concas, Maria Pina, Connell, John, de Mutsert, Renée, de Silva, H Janaka, de Vries, Paul S, Demirkan, Ayşe, Ding, Jingzhong, Eaton, Charles B, Faul, Jessica D, Friedlander, Yechiel, Gabriel, Kelley P, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Giulianini, Franco, Gu, Chi Charles, Gu, Dongfeng, Harris, Tamara B, He, Jiang, Heikkinen, Sami, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Hunt, Steven C, Ikram, M Arfan, Jonas, Jost B, Koh, Woon-Puay, Komulainen, Pirjo, and Krieger, Jose E
Subjects: Lifelines Cohort Study, Humans, Cholesterol, Lipids, Triglycerides, Calcium-Binding Proteins, Muscle Proteins, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Membrane Proteins, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Transcription Factors, Exercise, Genotype, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Middle Aged, African Continental Ancestry Group, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, European Continental Ancestry Group, Hispanic Americans, Brazil, Female, Male, Lipid Metabolism, Cholesterol, LDL, Cholesterol, HDL, Genome-Wide Association Study, Young Adult, Genetic Loci, LIM-Homeodomain Proteins, and over, HDL, LDL
Abstract: Many genetic loci affect circulating lipid levels, but it remains unknown whether lifestyle factors, such as physical activity, modify these genetic effects. To identify lipid loci interacting with physical activity, we performed genome-wide analyses of circulating HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglyceride levels in up to 120,979 individuals of European, African, Asian, Hispanic, and Brazilian ancestry, with follow-up of suggestive associations in an additional 131,012 individuals. We find four loci, in/near CLASP1, LHX1, SNTA1, and CNTNAP2, that are associated with circulating lipid levels through interaction with physical activity; higher levels of physical activity enhance the HDL cholesterol-increasing effects of the CLASP1, LHX1, and SNTA1 loci and attenuate the LDL cholesterol-increasing effect of the CNTNAP2 locus. The CLASP1, LHX1, and SNTA1 regions harbor genes linked to muscle function and lipid metabolism. Our results elucidate the role of physical activity interactions in the genetic contribution to blood lipid levels.
Published: 2019

22. Multi-ancestry sleep-by-SNP interaction analysis in 126,926 individuals reveals lipid loci stratified by sleep duration

Author: Noordam, Raymond, Bos, Maxime M, Wang, Heming, Winkler, Thomas W, Bentley, Amy R, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, de Vries, Paul S, Sung, Yun Ju, Schwander, Karen, Cade, Brian E, Manning, Alisa, Aschard, Hugues, Brown, Michael R, Chen, Han, Franceschini, Nora, Musani, Solomon K, Richard, Melissa, Vojinovic, Dina, Aslibekyan, Stella, Bartz, Traci M, de las Fuentes, Lisa, Feitosa, Mary, Horimoto, Andrea R, Ilkov, Marjan, Kho, Minjung, Kraja, Aldi, Li, Changwei, Lim, Elise, Liu, Yongmei, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Rankinen, Tuomo, Tajuddin, Salman M, van der Spek, Ashley, Wang, Zhe, Marten, Jonathan, Laville, Vincent, Alver, Maris, Evangelou, Evangelos, Graff, Maria E, He, Meian, Kühnel, Brigitte, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Nolte, Ilja M, Palmer, Nicholette D, Rauramaa, Rainer, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Snieder, Harold, Weiss, Stefan, Wen, Wanqing, Yanek, Lisa R, Adolfo, Correa, Ballantyne, Christie, Bielak, Larry, Biermasz, Nienke R, Boerwinkle, Eric, Dimou, Niki, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Gao, Chuan, Gharib, Sina A, Gottlieb, Daniel J, Haba-Rubio, José, Harris, Tamara B, Heikkinen, Sami, Heinzer, Raphaël, Hixson, James E, Homuth, Georg, Ikram, M Arfan, Komulainen, Pirjo, Krieger, Jose E, Lee, Jiwon, Liu, Jingmin, Lohman, Kurt K, Luik, Annemarie I, Mägi, Reedik, Martin, Lisa W, Meitinger, Thomas, Metspalu, Andres, Milaneschi, Yuri, Nalls, Mike A, O’Connell, Jeff, Peters, Annette, Peyser, Patricia, Raitakari, Olli T, Reiner, Alex P, Rensen, Patrick CN, Rice, Treva K, Rich, Stephen S, Roenneberg, Till, Rotter, Jerome I, Schreiner, Pamela J, Shikany, James, Sidney, Stephen S, Sims, Mario, Sitlani, Colleen M, Sofer, Tamar, Strauch, Konstantin, Swertz, Morris A, Taylor, Kent D, and Uitterlinden, André G
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Sleep Research, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Chromosome Mapping, Female, Genetic Loci, Humans, Lipids, Male, Middle Aged, Phylogeny, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Sleep, Young Adult
Abstract: Both short and long sleep are associated with an adverse lipid profile, likely through different biological pathways. To elucidate the biology of sleep-associated adverse lipid profile, we conduct multi-ancestry genome-wide sleep-SNP interaction analyses on three lipid traits (HDL-c, LDL-c and triglycerides). In the total study sample (discovery + replication) of 126,926 individuals from 5 different ancestry groups, when considering either long or short total sleep time interactions in joint analyses, we identify 49 previously unreported lipid loci, and 10 additional previously unreported lipid loci in a restricted sample of European-ancestry cohorts. In addition, we identify new gene-sleep interactions for known lipid loci such as LPL and PCSK9. The previously unreported lipid loci have a modest explained variance in lipid levels: most notable, gene-short-sleep interactions explain 4.25% of the variance in triglyceride level. Collectively, these findings contribute to our understanding of the biological mechanisms involved in sleep-associated adverse lipid profiles.
Published: 2019

23. A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies multiple longevity genes

Author: Deelen, Joris, Evans, Daniel S, Arking, Dan E, Tesi, Niccolò, Nygaard, Marianne, Liu, Xiaomin, Wojczynski, Mary K, Biggs, Mary L, van der Spek, Ashley, Atzmon, Gil, Ware, Erin B, Sarnowski, Chloé, Smith, Albert V, Seppälä, Ilkka, Cordell, Heather J, Dose, Janina, Amin, Najaf, Arnold, Alice M, Ayers, Kristin L, Barzilai, Nir, Becker, Elizabeth J, Beekman, Marian, Blanché, Hélène, Christensen, Kaare, Christiansen, Lene, Collerton, Joanna C, Cubaynes, Sarah, Cummings, Steven R, Davies, Karen, Debrabant, Birgit, Deleuze, Jean-François, Duncan, Rachel, Faul, Jessica D, Franceschi, Claudio, Galan, Pilar, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Harris, Tamara B, Huisman, Martijn, Hurme, Mikko A, Jagger, Carol, Jansen, Iris, Jylhä, Marja, Kähönen, Mika, Karasik, David, Kardia, Sharon LR, Kingston, Andrew, Kirkwood, Thomas BL, Launer, Lenore J, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lieb, Wolfgang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Martin-Ruiz, Carmen, Min, Junxia, Nebel, Almut, Newman, Anne B, Nie, Chao, Nohr, Ellen A, Orwoll, Eric S, Perls, Thomas T, Province, Michael A, Psaty, Bruce M, Raitakari, Olli T, Reinders, Marcel JT, Robine, Jean-Marie, Rotter, Jerome I, Sebastiani, Paola, Smith, Jennifer, Sørensen, Thorkild IA, Taylor, Kent D, Uitterlinden, André G, van der Flier, Wiesje, van der Lee, Sven J, van Duijn, Cornelia M, van Heemst, Diana, Vaupel, James W, Weir, David, Ye, Kenny, Zeng, Yi, Zheng, Wanlin, Holstege, Henne, Kiel, Douglas P, Lunetta, Kathryn L, Slagboom, P Eline, and Murabito, Joanne M
Subjects: Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Aging, Human Genome, Apolipoprotein E2, Apolipoprotein E4, Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperone BiP, Genome-Wide Association Study, Heat-Shock Proteins, Humans, Longevity
Abstract: Human longevity is heritable, but genome-wide association (GWA) studies have had limited success. Here, we perform two meta-analyses of GWA studies of a rigorous longevity phenotype definition including 11,262/3484 cases surviving at or beyond the age corresponding to the 90th/99th survival percentile, respectively, and 25,483 controls whose age at death or at last contact was at or below the age corresponding to the 60th survival percentile. Consistent with previous reports, rs429358 (apolipoprotein E (ApoE) ε4) is associated with lower odds of surviving to the 90th and 99th percentile age, while rs7412 (ApoE ε2) shows the opposite. Moreover, rs7676745, located near GPR78, associates with lower odds of surviving to the 90th percentile age. Gene-level association analysis reveals a role for tissue-specific expression of multiple genes in longevity. Finally, genetic correlation of the longevity GWA results with that of several disease-related phenotypes points to a shared genetic architecture between health and longevity.
Published: 2019

24. Multi-ancestry study of blood lipid levels identifies four loci interacting with physical activity

Author: Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Bentley, Amy R, Noordam, Raymond, Sung, Yun Ju, Schwander, Karen, Winkler, Thomas W, Jakupović, Hermina, Chasman, Daniel I, Manning, Alisa, Ntalla, Ioanna, Aschard, Hugues, Brown, Michael R, de las Fuentes, Lisa, Franceschini, Nora, Guo, Xiuqing, Vojinovic, Dina, Aslibekyan, Stella, Feitosa, Mary F, Kho, Minjung, Musani, Solomon K, Richard, Melissa, Wang, Heming, Wang, Zhe, Bartz, Traci M, Bielak, Lawrence F, Campbell, Archie, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Fisher, Virginia, Hartwig, Fernando P, Horimoto, Andrea RVR, Li, Changwei, Lohman, Kurt K, Marten, Jonathan, Sim, Xueling, Smith, Albert V, Tajuddin, Salman M, Alver, Maris, Amini, Marzyeh, Boissel, Mathilde, Chai, Jin Fang, Chen, Xu, Divers, Jasmin, Evangelou, Evangelos, Gao, Chuan, Graff, Mariaelisa, Harris, Sarah E, He, Meian, Hsu, Fang-Chi, Jackson, Anne U, Zhao, Jing Hua, Kraja, Aldi T, Kühnel, Brigitte, Laguzzi, Federica, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nolte, Ilja M, Rauramaa, Rainer, Riaz, Muhammad, Robino, Antonietta, Rueedi, Rico, Stringham, Heather M, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, van der Most, Peter J, Varga, Tibor V, Verweij, Niek, Ware, Erin B, Wen, Wanqing, Li, Xiaoyin, Yanek, Lisa R, Amin, Najaf, Arnett, Donna K, Boerwinkle, Eric, Brumat, Marco, Cade, Brian, Canouil, Mickaël, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Concas, Maria Pina, Connell, John, de Mutsert, Renée, de Silva, H Janaka, de Vries, Paul S, Demirkan, Ayşe, Ding, Jingzhong, Eaton, Charles B, Faul, Jessica D, Friedlander, Yechiel, Gabriel, Kelley P, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Giulianini, Franco, Gu, Chi Charles, Gu, Dongfeng, Harris, Tamara B, He, Jiang, Heikkinen, Sami, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Hunt, Steven C, Ikram, M Arfan, Jonas, Jost B, Koh, Woon-Puay, Komulainen, Pirjo, and Krieger, Jose E
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Cardiovascular, Clinical Research, Prevention, Atherosclerosis, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Asian People, Black People, Brazil, Calcium-Binding Proteins, Cholesterol, Cholesterol, HDL, Cholesterol, LDL, Exercise, Female, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, LIM-Homeodomain Proteins, Lipid Metabolism, Lipids, Male, Membrane Proteins, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Middle Aged, Muscle Proteins, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Transcription Factors, Triglycerides, White People, Young Adult, Lifelines Cohort Study
Abstract: Many genetic loci affect circulating lipid levels, but it remains unknown whether lifestyle factors, such as physical activity, modify these genetic effects. To identify lipid loci interacting with physical activity, we performed genome-wide analyses of circulating HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglyceride levels in up to 120,979 individuals of European, African, Asian, Hispanic, and Brazilian ancestry, with follow-up of suggestive associations in an additional 131,012 individuals. We find four loci, in/near CLASP1, LHX1, SNTA1, and CNTNAP2, that are associated with circulating lipid levels through interaction with physical activity; higher levels of physical activity enhance the HDL cholesterol-increasing effects of the CLASP1, LHX1, and SNTA1 loci and attenuate the LDL cholesterol-increasing effect of the CNTNAP2 locus. The CLASP1, LHX1, and SNTA1 regions harbor genes linked to muscle function and lipid metabolism. Our results elucidate the role of physical activity interactions in the genetic contribution to blood lipid levels.
Published: 2019

25. Exome-chip meta-analysis identifies novel loci associated with cardiac conduction, including ADAMTS6

Author: Prins, Bram P, Mead, Timothy J, Brody, Jennifer A, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Ntalla, Ioanna, Bihlmeyer, Nathan A, van den Berg, Marten, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Cappellani, Stefania, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Klena, Nikolai T, Gabriel, George C, Liu, Xiaoqin, Gulec, Cagri, Grarup, Niels, Haessler, Jeffrey, Hall, Leanne M, Iorio, Annamaria, Isaacs, Aaron, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lin, Honghuang, Liu, Ching-Ti, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Marten, Jonathan, Mei, Hao, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Orini, Michele, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Radmanesh, Farid, Ramirez, Julia, Robino, Antonietta, Schwartz, Molly, van Setten, Jessica, Smith, Albert V, Verweij, Niek, Warren, Helen R, Weiss, Stefan, Alonso, Alvaro, Arnar, David O, Bots, Michiel L, de Boer, Rudolf A, Dominiczak, Anna F, Eijgelsheim, Mark, Ellinor, Patrick T, Guo, Xiuqing, Felix, Stephan B, Harris, Tamara B, Hayward, Caroline, Heckbert, Susan R, Huang, Paul L, Jukema, JW, Kähönen, Mika, Kors, Jan A, Lambiase, Pier D, Launer, Lenore J, Li, Man, Linneberg, Allan, Nelson, Christopher P, Pedersen, Oluf, Perez, Marco, Peters, Annette, Polasek, Ozren, Psaty, Bruce M, Raitakari, Olli T, Rice, Kenneth M, Rotter, Jerome I, Sinner, Moritz F, Soliman, Elsayed Z, Spector, Tim D, Strauch, Konstantin, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Tinker, Andrew, Trompet, Stella, Uitterlinden, André, Vaartjes, Ilonca, van der Meer, Peter, Völker, Uwe, Völzke, Henry, Waldenberger, Melanie, Wilson, James G, Xie, Zhijun, Asselbergs, Folkert W, Dörr, Marcus, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Gasparini, Paolo, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Hansen, Torben, Kääb, Stefan, Kanters, Jørgen K, Kooperberg, Charles, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lin, Henry J, Lubitz, Steven A, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Conti, Francesco J, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H, Rosand, Jonathan, Rudan, Igor, and Samani, Nilesh J
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Heart Disease, Cardiovascular, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, ADAMTS Proteins, Animals, Black People, Connexin 43, Electrocardiography, Exome, Female, Gene Expression, Gene Expression Profiling, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Heart Conduction System, Humans, Male, Mice, Middle Aged, Myocardium, Open Reading Frames, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, Exome Sequencing, Exome chip, Conduction, ADAMTS6, Meta-analysis, Environmental Sciences, Information and Computing Sciences, Bioinformatics
Abstract: BackgroundGenome-wide association studies conducted on QRS duration, an electrocardiographic measurement associated with heart failure and sudden cardiac death, have led to novel biological insights into cardiac function. However, the variants identified fall predominantly in non-coding regions and their underlying mechanisms remain unclear.ResultsHere, we identify putative functional coding variation associated with changes in the QRS interval duration by combining Illumina HumanExome BeadChip genotype data from 77,898 participants of European ancestry and 7695 of African descent in our discovery cohort, followed by replication in 111,874 individuals of European ancestry from the UK Biobank and deCODE cohorts. We identify ten novel loci, seven within coding regions, including ADAMTS6, significantly associated with QRS duration in gene-based analyses. ADAMTS6 encodes a secreted metalloprotease of currently unknown function. In vitro validation analysis shows that the QRS-associated variants lead to impaired ADAMTS6 secretion and loss-of function analysis in mice demonstrates a previously unappreciated role for ADAMTS6 in connexin 43 gap junction expression, which is essential for myocardial conduction.ConclusionsOur approach identifies novel coding and non-coding variants underlying ventricular depolarization and provides a possible mechanism for the ADAMTS6-associated conduction changes.
Published: 2018

26. Genome Analyses of >200,000 Individuals Identify 58 Loci for Chronic Inflammation and Highlight Pathways that Link Inflammation and Complex Disorders

Author: Ligthart, Symen, Vaez, Ahmad, Võsa, Urmo, Stathopoulou, Maria G, de Vries, Paul S, Prins, Bram P, Van der Most, Peter J, Tanaka, Toshiko, Naderi, Elnaz, Rose, Lynda M, Wu, Ying, Karlsson, Robert, Barbalic, Maja, Lin, Honghuang, Pool, René, Zhu, Gu, Macé, Aurélien, Sidore, Carlo, Trompet, Stella, Mangino, Massimo, Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Kemp, John P, Abbasi, Ali, Kacprowski, Tim, Verweij, Niek, Smith, Albert V, Huang, Tao, Marzi, Carola, Feitosa, Mary F, Lohman, Kurt K, Kleber, Marcus E, Milaneschi, Yuri, Mueller, Christian, Huq, Mahmudul, Vlachopoulou, Efthymia, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Oldmeadow, Christopher, Deelen, Joris, Perola, Markus, Zhao, Jing Hua, Feenstra, Bjarke, Amini, Marzyeh, Lahti, Jari, Schraut, Katharina E, Fornage, Myriam, Suktitipat, Bhoom, Chen, Wei-Min, Li, Xiaohui, Nutile, Teresa, Malerba, Giovanni, Luan, Jian’an, Bak, Tom, Schork, Nicholas, Del Greco M., Fabiola, Thiering, Elisabeth, Mahajan, Anubha, Marioni, Riccardo E, Mihailov, Evelin, Eriksson, Johan, Ozel, Ayse Bilge, Zhang, Weihua, Nethander, Maria, Cheng, Yu-Ching, Aslibekyan, Stella, Ang, Wei, Gandin, Ilaria, Yengo, Loïc, Portas, Laura, Kooperberg, Charles, Hofer, Edith, Rajan, Kumar B, Schurmann, Claudia, Hollander, Wouter den, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer Singh, Zhao, Jing, Draisma, Harmen HM, Ford, Ian, Timpson, Nicholas, Teumer, Alexander, Huang, Hongyan, Wahl, Simone, Liu, YongMei, Huang, Jie, Uh, Hae-Won, Geller, Frank, Joshi, Peter K, Yanek, Lisa R, Trabetti, Elisabetta, Lehne, Benjamin, Vozzi, Diego, Verbanck, Marie, Biino, Ginevra, Saba, Yasaman, Meulenbelt, Ingrid, O’Connell, Jeff R, Laakso, Markku, Giulianini, Franco, Magnusson, Patrik KE, Ballantyne, Christie M, and Hottenga, Jouke Jan
Subjects: Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Prevention, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Inflammatory and immune system, Good Health and Well Being, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Biomarkers, Bipolar Disorder, Body Mass Index, C-Reactive Protein, Child, Female, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Inflammation, Liver, Male, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Middle Aged, Schizophrenia, Young Adult, LifeLines Cohort Study, CHARGE Inflammation Working Group, C-reactive protein, DEPICT, Mendelian randomization, coronary artery disease, genome-wide association study, inflammation, inflammatory disorders, schizophrenia, system biology, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: C-reactive protein (CRP) is a sensitive biomarker of chronic low-grade inflammation and is associated with multiple complex diseases. The genetic determinants of chronic inflammation remain largely unknown, and the causal role of CRP in several clinical outcomes is debated. We performed two genome-wide association studies (GWASs), on HapMap and 1000 Genomes imputed data, of circulating amounts of CRP by using data from 88 studies comprising 204,402 European individuals. Additionally, we performed in silico functional analyses and Mendelian randomization analyses with several clinical outcomes. The GWAS meta-analyses of CRP revealed 58 distinct genetic loci (p < 5 × 10-8). After adjustment for body mass index in the regression analysis, the associations at all except three loci remained. The lead variants at the distinct loci explained up to 7.0% of the variance in circulating amounts of CRP. We identified 66 gene sets that were organized in two substantially correlated clusters, one mainly composed of immune pathways and the other characterized by metabolic pathways in the liver. Mendelian randomization analyses revealed a causal protective effect of CRP on schizophrenia and a risk-increasing effect on bipolar disorder. Our findings provide further insights into the biology of inflammation and could lead to interventions for treating inflammation and its clinical consequences.
Published: 2018

27. Genome-wide association study in 79,366 European-ancestry individuals informs the genetic architecture of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels

Author: Jiang, Xia, O’Reilly, Paul F, Aschard, Hugues, Hsu, Yi-Hsiang, Richards, J Brent, Dupuis, Josée, Ingelsson, Erik, Karasik, David, Pilz, Stefan, Berry, Diane, Kestenbaum, Bryan, Zheng, Jusheng, Luan, Jianan, Sofianopoulou, Eleni, Streeten, Elizabeth A, Albanes, Demetrius, Lutsey, Pamela L, Yao, Lu, Tang, Weihong, Econs, Michael J, Wallaschofski, Henri, Völzke, Henry, Zhou, Ang, Power, Chris, McCarthy, Mark I, Michos, Erin D, Boerwinkle, Eric, Weinstein, Stephanie J, Freedman, Neal D, Huang, Wen-Yi, Van Schoor, Natasja M, van der Velde, Nathalie, Groot, Lisette CPGM de, Enneman, Anke, Cupples, L Adrienne, Booth, Sarah L, Vasan, Ramachandran S, Liu, Ching-Ti, Zhou, Yanhua, Ripatti, Samuli, Ohlsson, Claes, Vandenput, Liesbeth, Lorentzon, Mattias, Eriksson, Johan G, Shea, M Kyla, Houston, Denise K, Kritchevsky, Stephen B, Liu, Yongmei, Lohman, Kurt K, Ferrucci, Luigi, Peacock, Munro, Gieger, Christian, Beekman, Marian, Slagboom, Eline, Deelen, Joris, Heemst, Diana van, Kleber, Marcus E, März, Winfried, de Boer, Ian H, Wood, Alexis C, Rotter, Jerome I, Rich, Stephen S, Robinson-Cohen, Cassianne, den Heijer, Martin, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Cavadino, Alana, Joshi, Peter K, Wilson, James F, Hayward, Caroline, Lind, Lars, Michaëlsson, Karl, Trompet, Stella, Zillikens, M Carola, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Broer, Linda, Zgaga, Lina, Campbell, Harry, Theodoratou, Evropi, Farrington, Susan M, Timofeeva, Maria, Dunlop, Malcolm G, Valdes, Ana M, Tikkanen, Emmi, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Kähönen, Mika, Raitakari, Olli T, Mikkilä, Vera, Ikram, M Arfan, Sattar, Naveed, Jukema, J Wouter, Wareham, Nicholas J, Langenberg, Claudia, Forouhi, Nita G, Gundersen, Thomas E, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Butterworth, Adam S, Danesh, John, and Spector, Timothy
Subjects: Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Clinical Research, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Inflammatory and immune system, Amidohydrolases, Autoimmune Diseases, Cohort Studies, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Vesicular Transport Proteins, Vitamin D, White People
Abstract: Vitamin D is a steroid hormone precursor that is associated with a range of human traits and diseases. Previous GWAS of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations have identified four genome-wide significant loci (GC, NADSYN1/DHCR7, CYP2R1, CYP24A1). In this study, we expand the previous SUNLIGHT Consortium GWAS discovery sample size from 16,125 to 79,366 (all European descent). This larger GWAS yields two additional loci harboring genome-wide significant variants (P = 4.7×10-9 at rs8018720 in SEC23A, and P = 1.9×10-14 at rs10745742 in AMDHD1). The overall estimate of heritability of 25-hydroxyvitamin D serum concentrations attributable to GWAS common SNPs is 7.5%, with statistically significant loci explaining 38% of this total. Further investigation identifies signal enrichment in immune and hematopoietic tissues, and clustering with autoimmune diseases in cell-type-specific analysis. Larger studies are required to identify additional common SNPs, and to explore the role of rare or structural variants and gene-gene interactions in the heritability of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels.
Published: 2018

28. ExomeChip-Wide Analysis of 95 626 Individuals Identifies 10 Novel Loci Associated With QT and JT Intervals

Author: Bihlmeyer, Nathan A, Brody, Jennifer A, Smith, Albert Vernon, Warren, Helen R, Lin, Honghuang, Isaacs, Aaron, Liu, Ching-Ti, Marten, Jonathan, Radmanesh, Farid, Hall, Leanne M, Grarup, Niels, Mei, Hao, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Huffman, Jennifer E, Verweij, Niek, Guo, Xiuqing, Yao, Jie, Li-Gao, Ruifang, van den Berg, Marten, Weiss, Stefan, Prins, Bram P, van Setten, Jessica, Haessler, Jeffrey, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Li, Man, Alonso, Alvaro, Soliman, Elsayed Z, Bis, Joshua C, Austin, Tom, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Psaty, Bruce M, Harrris, Tamara B, Launer, Lenore J, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Dominiczak, Anna, Huang, Paul L, Xie, Zhijun, Ellinor, Patrick T, Kors, Jan A, Campbell, Archie, Murray, Alison D, Nelson, Christopher P, Tobin, Martin D, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Hansen, Torben, Pedersen, Oluf, Linneberg, Allan, Sinner, Moritz F, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Meitinger, Thomas, Perz, Siegfried, Kolcic, Ivana, Rudan, Igor, de Boer, Rudolf A, van der Meer, Peter, Lin, Henry J, Taylor, Kent D, de Mutsert, Renée, Trompet, Stella, Jukema, J Wouter, Maan, Arie C, Stricker, Bruno HC, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Uitterlinden, André, Völker, Uwe, Homuth, Georg, Völzke, Henry, Felix, Stephan B, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D, Bots, Michiel L, Perez, Marco, Raitakari, Olli T, Kähönen, Mika, Mononen, Nina, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Munroe, Patricia B, Lubitz, Steven A, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H, Hayward, Caroline, Rosand, Jonathan, Samani, Nilesh J, Kanters, Jørgen K, Wilson, James G, Kääb, Stefan, Polasek, Ozren, van der Harst, Pim, Heckbert, Susan R, Rotter, Jerome I, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Eijgelsheim, Mark, Dörr, Marcus, Jamshidi, Yalda, Asselbergs, Folkert W, Kooperberg, Charles, Lehtimäki, Terho, Arking, Dan E, and Sotoodehnia, Nona
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology, Heart Disease, Prevention, Genetics, Cardiovascular, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Antiporters, DNA-Binding Proteins, Electrocardiography, Exome, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Long QT Syndrome, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Receptors, Calcium-Sensing, Transcription Factors, arrhythmias, cardiac, death, sudden, cardiac, genetics, genome, humans, Medical Biotechnology, Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, Cardiovascular System & Hematology, Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
Abstract: BackgroundQT interval, measured through a standard ECG, captures the time it takes for the cardiac ventricles to depolarize and repolarize. JT interval is the component of the QT interval that reflects ventricular repolarization alone. Prolonged QT interval has been linked to higher risk of sudden cardiac arrest.Methods and resultsWe performed an ExomeChip-wide analysis for both QT and JT intervals, including 209 449 variants, both common and rare, in 17 341 genes from the Illumina Infinium HumanExome BeadChip. We identified 10 loci that modulate QT and JT interval duration that have not been previously reported in the literature using single-variant statistical models in a meta-analysis of 95 626 individuals from 23 cohorts (comprised 83 884 European ancestry individuals, 9610 blacks, 1382 Hispanics, and 750 Asians). This brings the total number of ventricular repolarization associated loci to 45. In addition, our approach of using coding variants has highlighted the role of 17 specific genes for involvement in ventricular repolarization, 7 of which are in novel loci.ConclusionsOur analyses show a role for myocyte internal structure and interconnections in modulating QT interval duration, adding to previous known roles of potassium, sodium, and calcium ion regulation, as well as autonomic control. We anticipate that these discoveries will open new paths to the goal of making novel remedies for the prevention of lethal ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac arrest.
Published: 2018

29. PR interval genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 50 loci associated with atrial and atrioventricular electrical activity

Author: van Setten, Jessica, Brody, Jennifer A, Jamshidi, Yalda, Swenson, Brenton R, Butler, Anne M, Campbell, Harry, Del Greco, Fabiola M, Evans, Daniel S, Gibson, Quince, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F, Kerr, Kathleen F, Krijthe, Bouwe P, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Müller, Christian, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nolte, Ilja M, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Ritchie, Marylyn D, Robino, Antonietta, Smith, Albert V, Steri, Maristella, Tanaka, Toshiko, Teumer, Alexander, Trompet, Stella, Ulivi, Sheila, Verweij, Niek, Yin, Xiaoyan, Arnar, David O, Asselbergs, Folkert W, Bader, Joel S, Barnard, John, Bis, Josh, Blankenberg, Stefan, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bradford, Yuki, Buckley, Brendan M, Chung, Mina K, Crawford, Dana, den Hoed, Marcel, Denny, Josh C, Dominiczak, Anna F, Ehret, Georg B, Eijgelsheim, Mark, Ellinor, Patrick T, Felix, Stephan B, Franco, Oscar H, Franke, Lude, Harris, Tamara B, Holm, Hilma, Ilaria, Gandin, Iorio, Annamaria, Kähönen, Mika, Kolcic, Ivana, Kors, Jan A, Lakatta, Edward G, Launer, Lenore J, Lin, Honghuang, Lin, Henry J, Loos, Ruth JF, Lubitz, Steven A, Macfarlane, Peter W, Magnani, Jared W, Leach, Irene Mateo, Meitinger, Thomas, Mitchell, Braxton D, Munzel, Thomas, Papanicolaou, George J, Peters, Annette, Pfeufer, Arne, Pramstaller, Peter P, Raitakari, Olli T, Rotter, Jerome I, Rudan, Igor, Samani, Nilesh J, Schlessinger, David, Silva Aldana, Claudia T, Sinner, Moritz F, Smith, Jonathan D, Snieder, Harold, Soliman, Elsayed Z, Spector, Timothy D, Stott, David J, Strauch, Konstantin, Tarasov, Kirill V, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Van Wagoner, David R, Völker, Uwe, Völzke, Henry, Waldenberger, Melanie, Jan Westra, Harm, Wild, Philipp S, Zeller, Tanja, Alonso, Alvaro, Avery, Christy L, Bandinelli, Stefania, Benjamin, Emelia J, Cucca, Francesco, Dörr, Marcus, and Ferrucci, Luigi
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Heart Disease, Biotechnology, Cardiovascular, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Atrial Function, Atrioventricular Node, Electrocardiography, Electrophysiological Phenomena, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Male, Mutation, Missense, Risk Factors
Abstract: Electrocardiographic PR interval measures atrio-ventricular depolarization and conduction, and abnormal PR interval is a risk factor for atrial fibrillation and heart block. Our genome-wide association study of over 92,000 European-descent individuals identifies 44 PR interval loci (34 novel). Examination of these loci reveals known and previously not-yet-reported biological processes involved in cardiac atrial electrical activity. Genes in these loci are over-represented in cardiac disease processes including heart block and atrial fibrillation. Variants in over half of the 44 loci were associated with atrial or blood transcript expression levels, or were in high linkage disequilibrium with missense variants. Six additional loci were identified either by meta-analysis of ~105,000 African and European-descent individuals and/or by pleiotropic analyses combining PR interval with heart rate, QRS interval, and atrial fibrillation. These findings implicate developmental pathways, and identify transcription factors, ion-channel genes, and cell-junction/cell-signaling proteins in atrio-ventricular conduction, identifying potential targets for drug development.
Published: 2018

30. Erratum: Genetic loci associated with heart rate variability and their effects on cardiac disease risk.

Author: Nolte, Ilja, Munoz, M, Tragante, Vinicius, Amare, Azmeraw, Jansen, Rick, Vaez, Ahmad, von der Heyde, Benedikt, Avery, Christy, Bis, Joshua, Dierckx, Bram, van Dongen, Jenny, Gogarten, Stephanie, Goyette, Philippe, Hernesniemi, Jussi, Huikari, Ville, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Jaju, Deepali, Kerr, Kathleen, Kluttig, Alexander, Krijthe, Bouwe, Kumar, Jitender, van der Laan, Sander, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Maihofer, Adam, Minassian, Arpi, van der Most, Peter, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nivard, Michel, Salvi, Erika, Stewart, James, Thayer, Julian, Verweij, Niek, Wong, Andrew, Zabaneh, Delilah, Zafarmand, Mohammad, Abdellaoui, Abdel, Albarwani, Sulayma, Albert, Christine, Alonso, Alvaro, Ashar, Foram, Auvinen, Juha, Axelsson, Tomas, Baker, Dewleen, de Bakker, Paul, Barcella, Matteo, Bayoumi, Riad, Bieringa, Rob, Boomsma, Dorret, Boucher, Gabrielle, Britton, Annie, Christophersen, Ingrid, Dietrich, Andrea, Ehret, George, Ellinor, Patrick, Eskola, Markku, Felix, Janine, Floras, John, Franco, Oscar, Friberg, Peter, Gademan, Maaike, Geyer, Mark, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Hartman, Catharina, Hemerich, Daiane, Hofman, Albert, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huikuri, Heikki, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Jouven, Xavier, Junttila, Juhani, Juonala, Markus, Kiviniemi, Antti, Kors, Jan, Kumari, Meena, Kuznetsova, Tatiana, Laurie, Cathy, Lefrandt, Joop, Li, Yong, Li, Yun, Liao, Duanping, Limacher, Marian, Lin, Henry, Lindgren, Cecilia, Lubitz, Steven, Mahajan, Anubha, McKnight, Barbara, Zu Schwabedissen, Henriette, Milaneschi, Yuri, Mononen, Nina, Morris, Andrew, Nalls, Mike, Navis, Gerjan, Neijts, Melanie, Nikus, Kjell, North, Kari, OConnor, Daniel, Ormel, Johan, Perz, Siegfried, Peters, Annette, and Psaty, Bruce
Abstract: This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15805.
Published: 2017

31. Discovery of novel heart rate-associated loci using the Exome Chip

Author: van den Berg, Marten E, Warren, Helen R, Cabrera, Claudia P, Verweij, Niek, Mifsud, Borbala, Haessler, Jeffrey, Bihlmeyer, Nathan A, Fu, Yi-Ping, Weiss, Stefan, Lin, Henry J, Grarup, Niels, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Pistis, Giorgio, Shah, Nabi, Brody, Jennifer A, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Lin, Honghuang, Mei, Hao, Smith, Albert V, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Hall, Leanne M, van Setten, Jessica, Trompet, Stella, Prins, Bram P, Isaacs, Aaron, Radmanesh, Farid, Marten, Jonathan, Entwistle, Aiman, Kors, Jan A, Silva, Claudia T, Alonso, Alvaro, Bis, Joshua C, de Boer, Rudolf, de Haan, Hugoline G, de Mutsert, Renée, Dedoussis, George, Dominiczak, Anna F, Doney, Alex SF, Ellinor, Patrick T, Eppinga, Ruben N, Felix, Stephan B, Guo, Xiuqing, Hagemeijer, Yanick, Hansen, Torben, Harris, Tamara B, Heckbert, Susan R, Huang, Paul L, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Kähönen, Mika, Kanters, Jørgen K, Kolcic, Ivana, Launer, Lenore J, Li, Man, Yao, Jie, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Simin, Macfarlane, Peter W, Mangino, Massimo, Morris, Andrew D, Mulas, Antonella, Murray, Alison D, Nelson, Christopher P, Orrú, Marco, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Peters, Annette, Porteous, David J, Poulter, Neil, Psaty, Bruce M, Qi, Lihong, Raitakari, Olli T, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Roselli, Carolina, Rudan, Igor, Sattar, Naveed, Sever, Peter, Sinner, Moritz F, Soliman, Elsayed Z, Spector, Timothy D, Stanton, Alice V, Stirrups, Kathleen E, Taylor, Kent D, Tobin, Martin D, Uitterlinden, André, Vaartjes, Ilonca, Hoes, Arno W, van der Meer, Peter, Völker, Uwe, Waldenberger, Melanie, Xie, Zhijun, Zoledziewska, Magdalena, Tinker, Andrew, Polasek, Ozren, Rosand, Jonathan, Jamshidi, Yalda, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Jukema, J Wouter, Asselbergs, Folkert W, Samani, Nilesh J, and Lehtimäki, Terho
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Biotechnology, Heart Disease, Prevention, Cardiovascular, Stem Cell Research, Clinical Research, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Adult, Alleles, Exome, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, White People, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract: Resting heart rate is a heritable trait, and an increase in heart rate is associated with increased mortality risk. Genome-wide association study analyses have found loci associated with resting heart rate, at the time of our study these loci explained 0.9% of the variation. This study aims to discover new genetic loci associated with heart rate from Exome Chip meta-analyses.Heart rate was measured from either elecrtrocardiograms or pulse recordings. We meta-analysed heart rate association results from 104 452 European-ancestry individuals from 30 cohorts, genotyped using the Exome Chip. Twenty-four variants were selected for follow-up in an independent dataset (UK Biobank, N = 134 251). Conditional and gene-based testing was undertaken, and variants were investigated with bioinformatics methods.We discovered five novel heart rate loci, and one new independent low-frequency non-synonymous variant in an established heart rate locus (KIAA1755). Lead variants in four of the novel loci are non-synonymous variants in the genes C10orf71, DALDR3, TESK2 and SEC31B. The variant at SEC31B is significantly associated with SEC31B expression in heart and tibial nerve tissue. Further candidate genes were detected from long-range regulatory chromatin interactions in heart tissue (SCD, SLF2 and MAPK8). We observed significant enrichment in DNase I hypersensitive sites in fetal heart and lung. Moreover, enrichment was seen for the first time in human neuronal progenitor cells (derived from embryonic stem cells) and fetal muscle samples by including our novel variants.Our findings advance the knowledge of the genetic architecture of heart rate, and indicate new candidate genes for follow-up functional studies.
Published: 2017

32. Genetic loci associated with heart rate variability and their effects on cardiac disease risk.

Author: Nolte, Ilja M, Munoz, M Loretto, Tragante, Vinicius, Amare, Azmeraw T, Jansen, Rick, Vaez, Ahmad, von der Heyde, Benedikt, Avery, Christy L, Bis, Joshua C, Dierckx, Bram, van Dongen, Jenny, Gogarten, Stephanie M, Goyette, Philippe, Hernesniemi, Jussi, Huikari, Ville, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Jaju, Deepali, Kerr, Kathleen F, Kluttig, Alexander, Krijthe, Bouwe P, Kumar, Jitender, van der Laan, Sander W, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Maihofer, Adam X, Minassian, Arpi, van der Most, Peter J, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nivard, Michel, Salvi, Erika, Stewart, James D, Thayer, Julian F, Verweij, Niek, Wong, Andrew, Zabaneh, Delilah, Zafarmand, Mohammad H, Abdellaoui, Abdel, Albarwani, Sulayma, Albert, Christine, Alonso, Alvaro, Ashar, Foram, Auvinen, Juha, Axelsson, Tomas, Baker, Dewleen G, de Bakker, Paul IW, Barcella, Matteo, Bayoumi, Riad, Bieringa, Rob J, Boomsma, Dorret, Boucher, Gabrielle, Britton, Annie R, Christophersen, Ingrid, Dietrich, Andrea, Ehret, George B, Ellinor, Patrick T, Eskola, Markku, Felix, Janine F, Floras, John S, Franco, Oscar H, Friberg, Peter, Gademan, Maaike GJ, Geyer, Mark A, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Hartman, Catharina A, Hemerich, Daiane, Hofman, Albert, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huikuri, Heikki, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Jouven, Xavier, Junttila, Juhani, Juonala, Markus, Kiviniemi, Antti M, Kors, Jan A, Kumari, Meena, Kuznetsova, Tatiana, Laurie, Cathy C, Lefrandt, Joop D, Li, Yong, Li, Yun, Liao, Duanping, Limacher, Marian C, Lin, Henry J, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Lubitz, Steven A, Mahajan, Anubha, McKnight, Barbara, Zu Schwabedissen, Henriette Meyer, Milaneschi, Yuri, Mononen, Nina, Morris, Andrew P, Nalls, Mike A, Navis, Gerjan, Neijts, Melanie, Nikus, Kjell, North, Kari E, O'Connor, Daniel T, Ormel, Johan, Perz, Siegfried, Peters, Annette, and Psaty, Bruce M
Subjects: Humans, Heart Diseases, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, RGS Proteins, Potassium Channels, Muscle Proteins, Risk Factors, Cohort Studies, Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, European Continental Ancestry Group, Genome-Wide Association Study, Hyperpolarization-Activated Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channels, Cardiovascular, Genetics, Heart Disease
Abstract: Reduced cardiac vagal control reflected in low heart rate variability (HRV) is associated with greater risks for cardiac morbidity and mortality. In two-stage meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies for three HRV traits in up to 53,174 individuals of European ancestry, we detect 17 genome-wide significant SNPs in eight loci. HRV SNPs tag non-synonymous SNPs (in NDUFA11 and KIAA1755), expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) (influencing GNG11, RGS6 and NEO1), or are located in genes preferentially expressed in the sinoatrial node (GNG11, RGS6 and HCN4). Genetic risk scores account for 0.9 to 2.6% of the HRV variance. Significant genetic correlation is found for HRV with heart rate (-0.74g
Published: 2017

33. Discovery of novel heart rate-associated loci using the Exome Chip.

Author: van den Berg, Marten E, Warren, Helen R, Cabrera, Claudia P, Verweij, Niek, Mifsud, Borbala, Haessler, Jeffrey, Bihlmeyer, Nathan A, Fu, Yi-Ping, Weiss, Stefan, Lin, Henry J, Grarup, Niels, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Pistis, Giorgio, Shah, Nabi, Brody, Jennifer A, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Lin, Honghuang, Mei, Hao, Smith, Albert V, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Hall, Leanne M, van Setten, Jessica, Trompet, Stella, Prins, Bram P, Isaacs, Aaron, Radmanesh, Farid, Marten, Jonathan, Entwistle, Aiman, Kors, Jan A, Silva, Claudia T, Alonso, Alvaro, Bis, Joshua C, de Boer, Rudolf, de Haan, Hugoline G, de Mutsert, Renée, Dedoussis, George, Dominiczak, Anna F, Doney, Alex SF, Ellinor, Patrick T, Eppinga, Ruben N, Felix, Stephan B, Guo, Xiuqing, Hagemeijer, Yanick, Hansen, Torben, Harris, Tamara B, Heckbert, Susan R, Huang, Paul L, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Kähönen, Mika, Kanters, Jørgen K, Kolcic, Ivana, Launer, Lenore J, Li, Man, Yao, Jie, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Simin, Macfarlane, Peter W, Mangino, Massimo, Morris, Andrew D, Mulas, Antonella, Murray, Alison D, Nelson, Christopher P, Orrú, Marco, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Peters, Annette, Porteous, David J, Poulter, Neil, Psaty, Bruce M, Qi, Lihong, Raitakari, Olli T, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Roselli, Carolina, Rudan, Igor, Sattar, Naveed, Sever, Peter, Sinner, Moritz F, Soliman, Elsayed Z, Spector, Timothy D, Stanton, Alice V, Stirrups, Kathleen E, Taylor, Kent D, Tobin, Martin D, Uitterlinden, André, Vaartjes, Ilonca, Hoes, Arno W, van der Meer, Peter, Völker, Uwe, Waldenberger, Melanie, Xie, Zhijun, Zoledziewska, Magdalena, Tinker, Andrew, Polasek, Ozren, Rosand, Jonathan, Jamshidi, Yalda, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Jukema, J Wouter, Asselbergs, Folkert W, Samani, Nilesh J, and Lehtimäki, Terho
Subjects: Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Risk Factors, Heart Rate, Gene Frequency, Genotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Alleles, Adult, Middle Aged, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Male, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Exome, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genetics & Heredity, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences
Abstract: Resting heart rate is a heritable trait, and an increase in heart rate is associated with increased mortality risk. Genome-wide association study analyses have found loci associated with resting heart rate, at the time of our study these loci explained 0.9% of the variation. This study aims to discover new genetic loci associated with heart rate from Exome Chip meta-analyses.Heart rate was measured from either elecrtrocardiograms or pulse recordings. We meta-analysed heart rate association results from 104 452 European-ancestry individuals from 30 cohorts, genotyped using the Exome Chip. Twenty-four variants were selected for follow-up in an independent dataset (UK Biobank, N = 134 251). Conditional and gene-based testing was undertaken, and variants were investigated with bioinformatics methods.We discovered five novel heart rate loci, and one new independent low-frequency non-synonymous variant in an established heart rate locus (KIAA1755). Lead variants in four of the novel loci are non-synonymous variants in the genes C10orf71, DALDR3, TESK2 and SEC31B. The variant at SEC31B is significantly associated with SEC31B expression in heart and tibial nerve tissue. Further candidate genes were detected from long-range regulatory chromatin interactions in heart tissue (SCD, SLF2 and MAPK8). We observed significant enrichment in DNase I hypersensitive sites in fetal heart and lung. Moreover, enrichment was seen for the first time in human neuronal progenitor cells (derived from embryonic stem cells) and fetal muscle samples by including our novel variants.Our findings advance the knowledge of the genetic architecture of heart rate, and indicate new candidate genes for follow-up functional studies.
Published: 2017

34. Large-scale genome-wide analysis identifies genetic variants associated with cardiac structure and function

Author: Wild, Philipp S, Felix, Janine F, Schillert, Arne, Teumer, Alexander, Chen, Ming-Huei, Leening, Maarten JG, Völker, Uwe, Großmann, Vera, Brody, Jennifer A, Irvin, Marguerite R, Shah, Sanjiv J, Pramana, Setia, Lieb, Wolfgang, Schmidt, Reinhold, Stanton, Alice V, Malzahn, Dörthe, Smith, Albert Vernon, Sundström, Johan, Minelli, Cosetta, Ruggiero, Daniela, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Tiller, Daniel, Smith, J Gustav, Monnereau, Claire, Di Tullio, Marco R, Musani, Solomon K, Morrison, Alanna C, Pers, Tune H, Morley, Michael, Kleber, Marcus E, Aragam, Jayashri, Benjamin, Emelia J, Bis, Joshua C, Bisping, Egbert, Broeckel, Ulrich, Cheng, Susan, Deckers, Jaap W, Del Greco M, Fabiola, Edelmann, Frank, Fornage, Myriam, Franke, Lude, Friedrich, Nele, Harris, Tamara B, Hofer, Edith, Hofman, Albert, Huang, Jie, Hughes, Alun D, Kähönen, Mika, investigators, KNHI, Kruppa, Jochen, Lackner, Karl J, Lannfelt, Lars, Laskowski, Rafael, Launer, Lenore J, Leosdottir, Margrét, Lin, Honghuang, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Loley, Christina, MacRae, Calum A, Mascalzoni, Deborah, Mayet, Jamil, Medenwald, Daniel, Morris, Andrew P, Müller, Christian, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nappo, Stefania, Nilsson, Peter M, Nuding, Sebastian, Nutile, Teresa, Peters, Annette, Pfeufer, Arne, Pietzner, Diana, Pramstaller, Peter P, Raitakari, Olli T, Rice, Kenneth M, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rotter, Jerome I, Ruohonen, Saku T, Sacco, Ralph L, Samdarshi, Tandaw E, Schmidt, Helena, Sharp, Andrew SP, Shields, Denis C, Sorice, Rossella, Sotoodehnia, Nona, Stricker, Bruno H, Surendran, Praveen, Thom, Simon, Töglhofer, Anna M, Uitterlinden, André G, Wachter, Rolf, Völzke, Henry, Ziegler, Andreas, Münzel, Thomas, März, Winfried, Cappola, Thomas P, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Mitchell, Gary F, Smith, Nicholas L, and Fox, Ervin R
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Clinical Research, Prevention, Heart Disease, Cardiovascular, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Female, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Heart Diseases, Humans, Male, Myocardium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Medical and Health Sciences, Immunology, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: BackgroundUnderstanding the genetic architecture of cardiac structure and function may help to prevent and treat heart disease. This investigation sought to identify common genetic variations associated with inter-individual variability in cardiac structure and function.MethodsA GWAS meta-analysis of echocardiographic traits was performed, including 46,533 individuals from 30 studies (EchoGen consortium). The analysis included 16 traits of left ventricular (LV) structure, and systolic and diastolic function.ResultsThe discovery analysis included 21 cohorts for structural and systolic function traits (n = 32,212) and 17 cohorts for diastolic function traits (n = 21,852). Replication was performed in 5 cohorts (n = 14,321) and 6 cohorts (n = 16,308), respectively. Besides 5 previously reported loci, the combined meta-analysis identified 10 additional genome-wide significant SNPs: rs12541595 near MTSS1 and rs10774625 in ATXN2 for LV end-diastolic internal dimension; rs806322 near KCNRG, rs4765663 in CACNA1C, rs6702619 near PALMD, rs7127129 in TMEM16A, rs11207426 near FGGY, rs17608766 in GOSR2, and rs17696696 in CFDP1 for aortic root diameter; and rs12440869 in IQCH for Doppler transmitral A-wave peak velocity. Findings were in part validated in other cohorts and in GWAS of related disease traits. The genetic loci showed associations with putative signaling pathways, and with gene expression in whole blood, monocytes, and myocardial tissue.ConclusionThe additional genetic loci identified in this large meta-analysis of cardiac structure and function provide insights into the underlying genetic architecture of cardiac structure and warrant follow-up in future functional studies.FundingFor detailed information per study, see Acknowledgments.
Published: 2017

35. Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity - A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults.

Author: Graff, Mariaelisa, Scott, Robert A, Justice, Anne E, Young, Kristin L, Feitosa, Mary F, Barata, Llilda, Winkler, Thomas W, Chu, Audrey Y, Mahajan, Anubha, Hadley, David, Xue, Luting, Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, den Hoed, Marcel, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Qi, Qibin, Ngwa, Julius S, Renström, Frida, Quaye, Lydia, Eicher, John D, Hayes, James E, Cornelis, Marilyn, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lim, Elise, Luan, Jian'an, Huffman, Jennifer E, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Wei, Griffin, Paula J, Haller, Toomas, Ahmad, Shafqat, Marques-Vidal, Pedro M, Bien, Stephanie, Yengo, Loic, Teumer, Alexander, Smith, Albert Vernon, Kumari, Meena, Harder, Marie Neergaard, Justesen, Johanne Marie, Kleber, Marcus E, Hollensted, Mette, Lohman, Kurt, Rivera, Natalia V, Whitfield, John B, Zhao, Jing Hua, Stringham, Heather M, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Huppertz, Charlotte, Willemsen, Gonneke, Peyrot, Wouter J, Wu, Ying, Kristiansson, Kati, Demirkan, Ayse, Fornage, Myriam, Hassinen, Maija, Bielak, Lawrence F, Cadby, Gemma, Tanaka, Toshiko, Mägi, Reedik, van der Most, Peter J, Jackson, Anne U, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, Vitart, Veronique, Marten, Jonathan, Navarro, Pau, Bellis, Claire, Pasko, Dorota, Johansson, Åsa, Snitker, Søren, Cheng, Yu-Ching, Eriksson, Joel, Lim, Unhee, Aadahl, Mette, Adair, Linda S, Amin, Najaf, Balkau, Beverley, Auvinen, Juha, Beilby, John, Bergman, Richard N, Bergmann, Sven, Bertoni, Alain G, Blangero, John, Bonnefond, Amélie, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Borja, Judith B, Brage, Søren, Busonero, Fabio, Buyske, Steve, Campbell, Harry, Chines, Peter S, Collins, Francis S, Corre, Tanguy, Smith, George Davey, Delgado, Graciela E, Dueker, Nicole, Dörr, Marcus, Ebeling, Tapani, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Esko, Tõnu, and Faul, Jessica D
Subjects: CHARGE Consortium, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, PAGE Consortium, Humans, Obesity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Body Mass Index, Waist-Hip Ratio, Exercise, Genotype, Female, Male, Adiposity, Waist Circumference, Genome-Wide Association Study, Epigenomics, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO, Genetics, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference and waist-hip ratio from up to 200,452 adults of European (n = 180,423) or other ancestry (n = 20,029). We standardized PA by categorizing it into a dichotomous variable where, on average, 23% of participants were categorized as inactive and 77% as physically active. While we replicate the interaction with PA for the strongest known obesity-risk locus in the FTO gene, of which the effect is attenuated by ~30% in physically active individuals compared to inactive individuals, we do not identify additional loci that are sensitive to PA. In additional genome-wide meta-analyses adjusting for PA and interaction with PA, we identify 11 novel adiposity loci, suggesting that accounting for PA or other environmental factors that contribute to variation in adiposity may facilitate gene discovery.
Published: 2017

36. Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity ― A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults

Author: Graff, Mariaelisa, Scott, Robert A, Justice, Anne E, Young, Kristin L, Feitosa, Mary F, Barata, Llilda, Winkler, Thomas W, Chu, Audrey Y, Mahajan, Anubha, Hadley, David, Xue, Luting, Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, den Hoed, Marcel, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Qi, Qibin, Ngwa, Julius S, Renström, Frida, Quaye, Lydia, Eicher, John D, Hayes, James E, Cornelis, Marilyn, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lim, Elise, Luan, Jian’an, Huffman, Jennifer E, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Wei, Griffin, Paula J, Haller, Toomas, Ahmad, Shafqat, Marques-Vidal, Pedro M, Bien, Stephanie, Yengo, Loic, Teumer, Alexander, Smith, Albert Vernon, Kumari, Meena, Harder, Marie Neergaard, Justesen, Johanne Marie, Kleber, Marcus E, Hollensted, Mette, Lohman, Kurt, Rivera, Natalia V, Whitfield, John B, Zhao, Jing Hua, Stringham, Heather M, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Huppertz, Charlotte, Willemsen, Gonneke, Peyrot, Wouter J, Wu, Ying, Kristiansson, Kati, Demirkan, Ayse, Fornage, Myriam, Hassinen, Maija, Bielak, Lawrence F, Cadby, Gemma, Tanaka, Toshiko, Mägi, Reedik, van der Most, Peter J, Jackson, Anne U, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, Vitart, Veronique, Marten, Jonathan, Navarro, Pau, Bellis, Claire, Pasko, Dorota, Johansson, Åsa, Snitker, Søren, Cheng, Yu-Ching, Eriksson, Joel, Lim, Unhee, Aadahl, Mette, Adair, Linda S, Amin, Najaf, Balkau, Beverley, Auvinen, Juha, Beilby, John, Bergman, Richard N, Bergmann, Sven, Bertoni, Alain G, Blangero, John, Bonnefond, Amélie, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Borja, Judith B, Brage, Søren, Busonero, Fabio, Buyske, Steve, Campbell, Harry, Chines, Peter S, Collins, Francis S, Corre, Tanguy, Smith, George Davey, Delgado, Graciela E, Dueker, Nicole, Dörr, Marcus, Ebeling, Tapani, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Esko, Tõnu, and Faul, Jessica D
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Prevention, Human Genome, Nutrition, Obesity, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Cardiovascular, Metabolic and endocrine, Oral and gastrointestinal, Cancer, Stroke, Adiposity, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO, Body Mass Index, Epigenomics, Exercise, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Waist Circumference, Waist-Hip Ratio, CHARGE Consortium, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, PAGE Consortium, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference and waist-hip ratio from up to 200,452 adults of European (n = 180,423) or other ancestry (n = 20,029). We standardized PA by categorizing it into a dichotomous variable where, on average, 23% of participants were categorized as inactive and 77% as physically active. While we replicate the interaction with PA for the strongest known obesity-risk locus in the FTO gene, of which the effect is attenuated by ~30% in physically active individuals compared to inactive individuals, we do not identify additional loci that are sensitive to PA. In additional genome-wide meta-analyses adjusting for PA and interaction with PA, we identify 11 novel adiposity loci, suggesting that accounting for PA or other environmental factors that contribute to variation in adiposity may facilitate gene discovery.
Published: 2017

37. Genetic Interactions with Age, Sex, Body Mass Index, and Hypertension in Relation to Atrial Fibrillation: The AFGen Consortium

Author: Weng, Lu-Chen, Lunetta, Kathryn L, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Smith, Albert Vernon, Thériault, Sébastien, Weeke, Peter E, Barnard, John, Bis, Joshua C, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Kleber, Marcus E, Martinsson, Andreas, Lin, Henry J, Rienstra, Michiel, Trompet, Stella, Krijthe, Bouwe P, Dörr, Marcus, Klarin, Derek, Chasman, Daniel I, Sinner, Moritz F, Waldenberger, Melanie, Launer, Lenore J, Harris, Tamara B, Soliman, Elsayed Z, Alonso, Alvaro, Paré, Guillaume, Teixeira, Pedro L, Denny, Joshua C, Shoemaker, M Benjamin, Van Wagoner, David R, Smith, Jonathan D, Psaty, Bruce M, Sotoodehnia, Nona, Taylor, Kent D, Kähönen, Mika, Nikus, Kjell, Delgado, Graciela E, Melander, Olle, Engström, Gunnar, Yao, Jie, Guo, Xiuqing, Christophersen, Ingrid E, Ellinor, Patrick T, Geelhoed, Bastiaan, Verweij, Niek, Macfarlane, Peter, Ford, Ian, Heeringa, Jan, Franco, Oscar H, Uitterlinden, André G, Völker, Uwe, Teumer, Alexander, Rose, Lynda M, Kääb, Stefan, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Arking, Dan E, Conen, David, Roden, Dan M, Chung, Mina K, Heckbert, Susan R, Benjamin, Emelia J, Lehtimäki, Terho, März, Winfried, Smith, J Gustav, Rotter, Jerome I, van der Harst, Pim, Jukema, J Wouter, Stricker, Bruno H, Felix, Stephan B, Albert, Christine M, and Lubitz, Steven A
Subjects: Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Heart Disease, Cardiovascular, Prevention, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Age Factors, Aged, Atrial Fibrillation, Body Mass Index, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4, Epistasis, Genetic, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Hypertension, Male, Middle Aged, Odds Ratio, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Reproducibility of Results, Risk Factors, Sex Characteristics
Abstract: It is unclear whether genetic markers interact with risk factors to influence atrial fibrillation (AF) risk. We performed genome-wide interaction analyses between genetic variants and age, sex, hypertension, and body mass index in the AFGen Consortium. Study-specific results were combined using meta-analysis (88,383 individuals of European descent, including 7,292 with AF). Variants with nominal interaction associations in the discovery analysis were tested for association in four independent studies (131,441 individuals, including 5,722 with AF). In the discovery analysis, the AF risk associated with the minor rs6817105 allele (at the PITX2 locus) was greater among subjects ≤ 65 years of age than among those > 65 years (interaction p-value = 4.0 × 10-5). The interaction p-value exceeded genome-wide significance in combined discovery and replication analyses (interaction p-value = 1.7 × 10-8). We observed one genome-wide significant interaction with body mass index and several suggestive interactions with age, sex, and body mass index in the discovery analysis. However, none was replicated in the independent sample. Our findings suggest that the pathogenesis of AF may differ according to age in individuals of European descent, but we did not observe evidence of statistically significant genetic interactions with sex, body mass index, or hypertension on AF risk.
Published: 2017

38. Genetic loci associated with heart rate variability and their effects on cardiac disease risk

Author: Nolte, Ilja M, Munoz, M Loretto, Tragante, Vinicius, Amare, Azmeraw T, Jansen, Rick, Vaez, Ahmad, von der Heyde, Benedikt, Avery, Christy L, Bis, Joshua C, Dierckx, Bram, van Dongen, Jenny, Gogarten, Stephanie M, Goyette, Philippe, Hernesniemi, Jussi, Huikari, Ville, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Jaju, Deepali, Kerr, Kathleen F, Kluttig, Alexander, Krijthe, Bouwe P, Kumar, Jitender, van der Laan, Sander W, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Maihofer, Adam X, Minassian, Arpi, van der Most, Peter J, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nivard, Michel, Salvi, Erika, Stewart, James D, Thayer, Julian F, Verweij, Niek, Wong, Andrew, Zabaneh, Delilah, Zafarmand, Mohammad H, Abdellaoui, Abdel, Albarwani, Sulayma, Albert, Christine, Alonso, Alvaro, Ashar, Foram, Auvinen, Juha, Axelsson, Tomas, Baker, Dewleen G, de Bakker, Paul IW, Barcella, Matteo, Bayoumi, Riad, Bieringa, Rob J, Boomsma, Dorret, Boucher, Gabrielle, Britton, Annie R, Christophersen, Ingrid, Dietrich, Andrea, Ehret, George B, Ellinor, Patrick T, Eskola, Markku, Felix, Janine F, Floras, John S, Franco, Oscar H, Friberg, Peter, Gademan, Maaike GJ, Geyer, Mark A, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Hartman, Catharina A, Hemerich, Daiane, Hofman, Albert, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huikuri, Heikki, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Jouven, Xavier, Junttila, Juhani, Juonala, Markus, Kiviniemi, Antti M, Kors, Jan A, Kumari, Meena, Kuznetsova, Tatiana, Laurie, Cathy C, Lefrandt, Joop D, Li, Yong, Li, Yun, Liao, Duanping, Limacher, Marian C, Lin, Henry J, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Lubitz, Steven A, Mahajan, Anubha, McKnight, Barbara, zu Schwabedissen, Henriette Meyer, Milaneschi, Yuri, Mononen, Nina, Morris, Andrew P, Nalls, Mike A, Navis, Gerjan, Neijts, Melanie, Nikus, Kjell, North, Kari E, O'Connor, Daniel T, Ormel, Johan, Perz, Siegfried, Peters, Annette, and Psaty, Bruce M
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Heart Disease, Cardiovascular, Human Genome, Good Health and Well Being, Blood Pressure, Cohort Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Heart Diseases, Heart Rate, Humans, Hyperpolarization-Activated Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channels, Muscle Proteins, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Potassium Channels, Quantitative Trait Loci, RGS Proteins, Risk Factors, White People
Abstract: Reduced cardiac vagal control reflected in low heart rate variability (HRV) is associated with greater risks for cardiac morbidity and mortality. In two-stage meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies for three HRV traits in up to 53,174 individuals of European ancestry, we detect 17 genome-wide significant SNPs in eight loci. HRV SNPs tag non-synonymous SNPs (in NDUFA11 and KIAA1755), expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) (influencing GNG11, RGS6 and NEO1), or are located in genes preferentially expressed in the sinoatrial node (GNG11, RGS6 and HCN4). Genetic risk scores account for 0.9 to 2.6% of the HRV variance. Significant genetic correlation is found for HRV with heart rate (-0.74g
Published: 2017

39. KLB is associated with alcohol drinking, and its gene product β-Klotho is necessary for FGF21 regulation of alcohol preference

Author: Schumann, Gunter, Liu, Chunyu, O'Reilly, Paul, Gao, He, Song, Parkyong, Xu, Bing, Ruggeri, Barbara, Amin, Najaf, Jia, Tianye, Preis, Sarah, Segura Lepe, Marcelo, Akira, Shizuo, Barbieri, Caterina, Baumeister, Sebastian, Cauchi, Stephane, Clarke, Toni-Kim, Enroth, Stefan, Fischer, Krista, Hällfors, Jenni, Harris, Sarah E, Hieber, Saskia, Hofer, Edith, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Johansson, Åsa, Joshi, Peter K, Kaartinen, Niina, Laitinen, Jaana, Lemaitre, Rozenn, Loukola, Anu, Luan, Jian'an, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mangino, Massimo, Manichaikul, Ani, Mbarek, Hamdi, Milaneschi, Yuri, Moayyeri, Alireza, Mukamal, Kenneth, Nelson, Christopher, Nettleton, Jennifer, Partinen, Eemil, Rawal, Rajesh, Robino, Antonietta, Rose, Lynda, Sala, Cinzia, Satoh, Takashi, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schraut, Katharina, Scott, Robert, Smith, Albert Vernon, Starr, John M, Teumer, Alexander, Trompet, Stella, Uitterlinden, André G, Venturini, Cristina, Vergnaud, Anne-Claire, Verweij, Niek, Vitart, Veronique, Vuckovic, Dragana, Wedenoja, Juho, Yengo, Loic, Yu, Bing, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Boomsma, Dorret I, Chambers, John, Chasman, Daniel I, Daniela, Toniolo, de Geus, Eco, Deary, Ian, Eriksson, Johan G, Esko, Tõnu, Eulenburg, Volker, Franco, Oscar H, Froguel, Philippe, Gieger, Christian, Grabe, Hans J, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gyllensten, Ulf, Harris, Tamara B, Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa, Heath, Andrew C, Hocking, Lynne, Hofman, Albert, Huth, Cornelia, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Jukema, J Wouter, Kaprio, Jaakko, Kooner, Jaspal S, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lahti, Jari, Langenberg, Claudia, Lehtimäki, Terho, Liu, Yongmei, Madden, Pamela AF, Martin, Nicholas, Morrison, Alanna, Penninx, Brenda, Pirastu, Nicola, Psaty, Bruce, and Raitakari, Olli
Subjects: Underage Drinking, Genetics, Alcoholism, Alcohol Use and Health, Neurosciences, Substance Misuse, Pediatric, Underpinning research, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Stroke, Cardiovascular, Cancer, Oral and gastrointestinal, Good Health and Well Being, Alcohol Drinking, Animals, Behavior, Animal, Brain, Emotions, Female, Fibroblast Growth Factors, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Klotho Proteins, Liver, Male, Membrane Proteins, Mice, Mice, 129 Strain, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, alcohol consumption, human, beta-Klotho, FGF21, mouse model, β-Klotho
Abstract: Excessive alcohol consumption is a major public health problem worldwide. Although drinking habits are known to be inherited, few genes have been identified that are robustly linked to alcohol drinking. We conducted a genome-wide association metaanalysis and replication study among >105,000 individuals of European ancestry and identified β-Klotho (KLB) as a locus associated with alcohol consumption (rs11940694; P = 9.2 × 10-12). β-Klotho is an obligate coreceptor for the hormone FGF21, which is secreted from the liver and implicated in macronutrient preference in humans. We show that brain-specific β-Klotho KO mice have an increased alcohol preference and that FGF21 inhibits alcohol drinking by acting on the brain. These data suggest that a liver-brain endocrine axis may play an important role in the regulation of alcohol drinking behavior and provide a unique pharmacologic target for reducing alcohol consumption.
Published: 2016

40. Multiethnic Exome-Wide Association Study of Subclinical Atherosclerosis

Author: Natarajan, Pradeep, Bis, Joshua C, Bielak, Lawrence F, Cox, Amanda J, Dörr, Marcus, Feitosa, Mary F, Franceschini, Nora, Guo, Xiuqing, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Isaacs, Aaron, Jhun, Min A, Kavousi, Maryam, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Marioni, Riccardo E, Schminke, Ulf, Stitziel, Nathan O, Tada, Hayato, van Setten, Jessica, Smith, Albert V, Vojinovic, Dina, Yanek, Lisa R, Yao, Jie, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M, Amin, Najaf, Baber, Usman, Borecki, Ingrid B, Carr, J Jeffrey, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Cupples, L Adrienne, de Jong, Pim A, de Koning, Harry, de Vos, Bob D, Demirkan, Ayse, Fuster, Valentin, Franco, Oscar H, Goodarzi, Mark O, Harris, Tamara B, Heckbert, Susan R, Heiss, Gerardo, Hoffmann, Udo, Hofman, Albert, Išgum, Ivana, Jukema, J Wouter, Kähönen, Mika, Kardia, Sharon LR, Kral, Brian G, Launer, Lenore J, Massaro, Joe, Mehran, Roxana, Mitchell, Braxton D, Mosley, Thomas H, de Mutsert, Renée, Newman, Anne B, Nguyen, Khanh-Dung, North, Kari E, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Oudkerk, Matthijs, Pankow, James S, Peloso, Gina M, Post, Wendy, Province, Michael A, Raffield, Laura M, Raitakari, Olli T, Reilly, Dermot F, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rosendaal, Frits, Sartori, Samantha, Taylor, Kent D, Teumer, Alexander, Trompet, Stella, Turner, Stephen T, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Vaidya, Dhananjay, van der Lugt, Aad, Völker, Uwe, Wardlaw, Joanna M, Wassel, Christina L, Weiss, Stefan, Wojczynski, Mary K, Becker, Diane M, Becker, Lewis C, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bowden, Donald W, Deary, Ian J, Dehghan, Abbas, Felix, Stephan B, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Lehtimäki, Terho, Mathias, Rasika, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Psaty, Bruce M, Rader, Daniel J, Rotter, Jerome I, Wilson, James G, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Völzke, Henry, Kathiresan, Sekar, Peyser, Patricia A, and O'Donnell, Christopher J
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology, Heart Disease - Coronary Heart Disease, Aging, Human Genome, Atherosclerosis, Cardiovascular, Heart Disease, Clinical Research, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Good Health and Well Being, Apolipoprotein B-100, Apolipoprotein E2, Asymptomatic Diseases, Black People, Carotid Artery Diseases, Carotid Intima-Media Thickness, Cholesterol, LDL, Computed Tomography Angiography, Coronary Angiography, Coronary Artery Disease, Exome, Gene Frequency, Genetic Markers, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Odds Ratio, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Phenotype, Prognosis, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Vascular Calcification, White People, carotid intima-media thickness, coronary artery calcification, exome, genome-wide association study, genomics, CHARGE Consortium, carotid intima–media thickness, Medical Biotechnology, Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, Cardiovascular System & Hematology, Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
Abstract: BackgroundThe burden of subclinical atherosclerosis in asymptomatic individuals is heritable and associated with elevated risk of developing clinical coronary heart disease. We sought to identify genetic variants in protein-coding regions associated with subclinical atherosclerosis and the risk of subsequent coronary heart disease.Methods and resultsWe studied a total of 25 109 European ancestry and African ancestry participants with coronary artery calcification (CAC) measured by cardiac computed tomography and 52 869 participants with common carotid intima-media thickness measured by ultrasonography within the CHARGE Consortium (Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology). Participants were genotyped for 247 870 DNA sequence variants (231 539 in exons) across the genome. A meta-analysis of exome-wide association studies was performed across cohorts for CAC and carotid intima-media thickness. APOB p.Arg3527Gln was associated with 4-fold excess CAC (P=3×10-10). The APOE ε2 allele (p.Arg176Cys) was associated with both 22.3% reduced CAC (P=1×10-12) and 1.4% reduced carotid intima-media thickness (P=4×10-14) in carriers compared with noncarriers. In secondary analyses conditioning on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration, the ε2 protective association with CAC, although attenuated, remained strongly significant. Additionally, the presence of ε2 was associated with reduced risk for coronary heart disease (odds ratio 0.77; P=1×10-11).ConclusionsExome-wide association meta-analysis demonstrates that protein-coding variants in APOB and APOE associate with subclinical atherosclerosis. APOE ε2 represents the first significant association for multiple subclinical atherosclerosis traits across multiple ethnicities, as well as clinical coronary heart disease.
Published: 2016

41. KLB is associated with alcohol drinking, and its gene product β-Klotho is necessary for FGF21 regulation of alcohol preference.

Author: Schumann, Gunter, Liu, Chunyu, O'Reilly, Paul, Gao, He, Song, Parkyong, Xu, Bing, Ruggeri, Barbara, Amin, Najaf, Jia, Tianye, Preis, Sarah, Segura Lepe, Marcelo, Akira, Shizuo, Barbieri, Caterina, Baumeister, Sebastian, Cauchi, Stephane, Clarke, Toni-Kim, Enroth, Stefan, Fischer, Krista, Hällfors, Jenni, Harris, Sarah E, Hieber, Saskia, Hofer, Edith, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Johansson, Åsa, Joshi, Peter K, Kaartinen, Niina, Laitinen, Jaana, Lemaitre, Rozenn, Loukola, Anu, Luan, Jian'an, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mangino, Massimo, Manichaikul, Ani, Mbarek, Hamdi, Milaneschi, Yuri, Moayyeri, Alireza, Mukamal, Kenneth, Nelson, Christopher, Nettleton, Jennifer, Partinen, Eemil, Rawal, Rajesh, Robino, Antonietta, Rose, Lynda, Sala, Cinzia, Satoh, Takashi, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schraut, Katharina, Scott, Robert, Smith, Albert Vernon, Starr, John M, Teumer, Alexander, Trompet, Stella, Uitterlinden, André G, Venturini, Cristina, Vergnaud, Anne-Claire, Verweij, Niek, Vitart, Veronique, Vuckovic, Dragana, Wedenoja, Juho, Yengo, Loic, Yu, Bing, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Boomsma, Dorret I, Chambers, John, Chasman, Daniel I, Daniela, Toniolo, de Geus, Eco, Deary, Ian, Eriksson, Johan G, Esko, Tõnu, Eulenburg, Volker, Franco, Oscar H, Froguel, Philippe, Gieger, Christian, Grabe, Hans J, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gyllensten, Ulf, Harris, Tamara B, Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa, Heath, Andrew C, Hocking, Lynne, Hofman, Albert, Huth, Cornelia, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Jukema, J Wouter, Kaprio, Jaakko, Kooner, Jaspal S, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lahti, Jari, Langenberg, Claudia, Lehtimäki, Terho, Liu, Yongmei, Madden, Pamela AF, Martin, Nicholas, Morrison, Alanna, Penninx, Brenda, Pirastu, Nicola, Psaty, Bruce, and Raitakari, Olli
Subjects: Liver, Brain, Animals, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, Humans, Mice, Fibroblast Growth Factors, Membrane Proteins, Behavior, Animal, Alcohol Drinking, Emotions, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Female, Male, Genome-Wide Association Study, Mice, 129 Strain, FGF21, alcohol consumption, human, mouse model, β-Klotho, beta-Klotho, Inbred C57BL, Knockout, Behavior, Animal, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Strain
Abstract: Excessive alcohol consumption is a major public health problem worldwide. Although drinking habits are known to be inherited, few genes have been identified that are robustly linked to alcohol drinking. We conducted a genome-wide association metaanalysis and replication study among >105,000 individuals of European ancestry and identified β-Klotho (KLB) as a locus associated with alcohol consumption (rs11940694; P = 9.2 × 10-12). β-Klotho is an obligate coreceptor for the hormone FGF21, which is secreted from the liver and implicated in macronutrient preference in humans. We show that brain-specific β-Klotho KO mice have an increased alcohol preference and that FGF21 inhibits alcohol drinking by acting on the brain. These data suggest that a liver-brain endocrine axis may play an important role in the regulation of alcohol drinking behavior and provide a unique pharmacologic target for reducing alcohol consumption.
Published: 2016

42. Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease

Author: Horikoshi, Momoko, Beaumont, Robin N, Day, Felix R, Warrington, Nicole M, Kooijman, Marjolein N, Fernandez-Tajes, Juan, Feenstra, Bjarke, van Zuydam, Natalie R, Gaulton, Kyle J, Grarup, Niels, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Strachan, David P, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Kreiner, Eskil, Rueedi, Rico, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Cousminer, Diana L, Wu, Ying, Thiering, Elisabeth, Wang, Carol A, Have, Christian T, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Vilor-Tejedor, Natalia, Joshi, Peter K, Boh, Eileen Tai Hui, Ntalla, Ioanna, Pitkänen, Niina, Mahajan, Anubha, van Leeuwen, Elisabeth M, Joro, Raimo, Lagou, Vasiliki, Nodzenski, Michael, Diver, Louise A, Zondervan, Krina T, Bustamante, Mariona, Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Mercader, Josep M, Bennett, Amanda J, Rahmioglu, Nilufer, Nyholt, Dale R, Ma, Ronald CW, Tam, Claudia HT, Tam, Wing Hung, Ganesh, Santhi K, van Rooij, Frank JA, Jones, Samuel E, Loh, Po-Ru, Ruth, Katherine S, Tuke, Marcus A, Tyrrell, Jessica, Wood, Andrew R, Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Scholtens, Denise M, Paternoster, Lavinia, Prokopenko, Inga, Kovacs, Peter, Atalay, Mustafa, Willems, Sara M, Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope, Wang, Xu, Carstensen, Lisbeth, Geller, Frank, Schraut, Katharina E, Murcia, Mario, van Beijsterveldt, Catharina EM, Willemsen, Gonneke, Appel, Emil VR, Fonvig, Cilius E, Trier, Caecilie, Tiesler, Carla MT, Standl, Marie, Kutalik, Zoltán, Bonàs-Guarch, Sílvia, Hougaard, David M, Sánchez, Friman, Torrents, David, Waage, Johannes, Hollegaard, Mads V, de Haan, Hugoline G, Rosendaal, Frits R, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Ring, Susan M, Hemani, Gibran, McMahon, George, Robertson, Neil R, Groves, Christopher J, Langenberg, Claudia, Luan, Jian’an, Scott, Robert A, Zhao, Jing Hua, Mentch, Frank D, MacKenzie, Scott M, Reynolds, Rebecca M, Lowe, William L, Tönjes, Anke, Stumvoll, Michael, Lindi, Virpi, Lakka, Timo A, and van Duijn, Cornelia M
Subjects: Nutrition, Perinatal Period - Conditions Originating in Perinatal Period, Human Genome, Genetics, Clinical Research, Preterm, Low Birth Weight and Health of the Newborn, Obesity, Prevention, Pediatric, Infant Mortality, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Adult, Aging, Anthropometry, Birth Weight, Blood Pressure, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Cohort Studies, Coronary Artery Disease, Datasets as Topic, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Female, Fetus, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genomic Imprinting, Genotype, Glucose, Glycogen, Humans, Insulin, Male, Phenotype, Signal Transduction, CHARGE Consortium Hematology Working Group, Early Growth Genetics (EGG) Consortium, General Science & Technology
Abstract: Birth weight (BW) has been shown to be influenced by both fetal and maternal factors and in observational studies is reproducibly associated with future risk of adult metabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease. These life-course associations have often been attributed to the impact of an adverse early life environment. Here, we performed a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis of BW in 153,781 individuals, identifying 60 loci where fetal genotype was associated with BW (P
Published: 2016

43. The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals.

Author: Ehret, Georg B, Ferreira, Teresa, Chasman, Daniel I, Jackson, Anne U, Schmidt, Ellen M, Johnson, Toby, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Luan, Jian'an, Donnelly, Lousie A, Kanoni, Stavroula, Petersen, Ann-Kristin, Pihur, Vasyl, Strawbridge, Rona J, Shungin, Dmitry, Hughes, Maria F, Meirelles, Osorio, Kaakinen, Marika, Bouatia-Naji, Nabila, Kristiansson, Kati, Shah, Sonia, Kleber, Marcus E, Guo, Xiuqing, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Fava, Cristiano, Eriksson, Niclas, Nolte, Ilja M, Magnusson, Patrik K, Salfati, Elias L, Rallidis, Loukianos S, Theusch, Elizabeth, Smith, Andrew JP, Folkersen, Lasse, Witkowska, Kate, Pers, Tune H, Joehanes, Roby, Kim, Stuart K, Lataniotis, Lazaros, Jansen, Rick, Johnson, Andrew D, Warren, Helen, Kim, Young Jin, Zhao, Wei, Wu, Ying, Tayo, Bamidele O, Bochud, Murielle, CHARGE-EchoGen consortium, CHARGE-HF consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Absher, Devin, Adair, Linda S, Amin, Najaf, Arking, Dan E, Axelsson, Tomas, Baldassarre, Damiano, Balkau, Beverley, Bandinelli, Stefania, Barnes, Michael R, Barroso, Inês, Bevan, Stephen, Bis, Joshua C, Bjornsdottir, Gyda, Boehnke, Michael, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boomsma, Dorret I, Bornstein, Stefan R, Brown, Morris J, Burnier, Michel, Cabrera, Claudia P, Chambers, John C, Chang, I-Shou, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Chines, Peter S, Chung, Ren-Hua, Collins, Francis S, Connell, John M, Döring, Angela, Dallongeville, Jean, Danesh, John, de Faire, Ulf, Delgado, Graciela, Dominiczak, Anna F, Doney, Alex SF, Drenos, Fotios, Edkins, Sarah, Eicher, John D, Elosua, Roberto, Enroth, Stefan, Erdmann, Jeanette, Eriksson, Per, Esko, Tonu, Evangelou, Evangelos, Evans, Alun, Fall, Tove, Farrall, Martin, Felix, Janine F, Ferrières, Jean, Ferrucci, Luigi, Fornage, Myriam, and Forrester, Terrence
Subjects: CHARGE-EchoGen consortium, CHARGE-HF consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Cells, Cultured, Humans, Hypertension, Microarray Analysis, Blood Pressure, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African Continental Ancestry Group, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Genome-Wide Association Study, Cells, Cultured, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Developmental Biology, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences
Abstract: To dissect the genetic architecture of blood pressure and assess effects on target organ damage, we analyzed 128,272 SNPs from targeted and genome-wide arrays in 201,529 individuals of European ancestry, and genotypes from an additional 140,886 individuals were used for validation. We identified 66 blood pressure-associated loci, of which 17 were new; 15 harbored multiple distinct association signals. The 66 index SNPs were enriched for cis-regulatory elements, particularly in vascular endothelial cells, consistent with a primary role in blood pressure control through modulation of vascular tone across multiple tissues. The 66 index SNPs combined in a risk score showed comparable effects in 64,421 individuals of non-European descent. The 66-SNP blood pressure risk score was significantly associated with target organ damage in multiple tissues but with minor effects in the kidney. Our findings expand current knowledge of blood pressure-related pathways and highlight tissues beyond the classical renal system in blood pressure regulation.
Published: 2016

44. The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

Author: Ehret, Georg B, Ferreira, Teresa, Chasman, Daniel I, Jackson, Anne U, Schmidt, Ellen M, Johnson, Toby, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Luan, Jian'an, Donnelly, Louise A, Kanoni, Stavroula, Petersen, Ann-Kristin, Pihur, Vasyl, Strawbridge, Rona J, Shungin, Dmitry, Hughes, Maria F, Meirelles, Osorio, Kaakinen, Marika, Bouatia-Naji, Nabila, Kristiansson, Kati, Shah, Sonia, Kleber, Marcus E, Guo, Xiuqing, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Fava, Cristiano, Eriksson, Niclas, Nolte, Ilja M, Magnusson, Patrik K, Salfati, Elias L, Rallidis, Loukianos S, Theusch, Elizabeth, Smith, Andrew JP, Folkersen, Lasse, Witkowska, Kate, Pers, Tune H, Joehanes, Roby, Kim, Stuart K, Lataniotis, Lazaros, Jansen, Rick, Johnson, Andrew D, Warren, Helen, Kim, Young Jin, Zhao, Wei, Wu, Ying, Tayo, Bamidele O, Bochud, Murielle, Absher, Devin, Adair, Linda S, Amin, Najaf, Arking, Dan E, Axelsson, Tomas, Baldassarre, Damiano, Balkau, Beverley, Bandinelli, Stefania, Barnes, Michael R, Barroso, Inês, Bevan, Stephen, Bis, Joshua C, Bjornsdottir, Gyda, Boehnke, Michael, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boomsma, Dorret I, Bornstein, Stefan R, Brown, Morris J, Burnier, Michel, Cabrera, Claudia P, Chambers, John C, Chang, I-Shou, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Chines, Peter S, Chung, Ren-Hua, Collins, Francis S, Connell, John M, Döring, Angela, Dallongeville, Jean, Danesh, John, de Faire, Ulf, Delgado, Graciela, Dominiczak, Anna F, Doney, Alex SF, Drenos, Fotios, Edkins, Sarah, Eicher, John D, Elosua, Roberto, Enroth, Stefan, Erdmann, Jeanette, Eriksson, Per, Esko, Tonu, Evangelou, Evangelos, Evans, Alun, Fall, Tove, Farrall, Martin, Felix, Janine F, Ferrières, Jean, Ferrucci, Luigi, Fornage, Myriam, Forrester, Terrence, Franceschini, Nora, Franco, Oscar H, and Franco-Cereceda, Anders
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Biotechnology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Cardiovascular, Asian People, Black People, Blood Pressure, Cells, Cultured, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Hypertension, Microarray Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, CHARGE-EchoGen consortium, CHARGE-HF consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract: To dissect the genetic architecture of blood pressure and assess effects on target organ damage, we analyzed 128,272 SNPs from targeted and genome-wide arrays in 201,529 individuals of European ancestry, and genotypes from an additional 140,886 individuals were used for validation. We identified 66 blood pressure-associated loci, of which 17 were new; 15 harbored multiple distinct association signals. The 66 index SNPs were enriched for cis-regulatory elements, particularly in vascular endothelial cells, consistent with a primary role in blood pressure control through modulation of vascular tone across multiple tissues. The 66 index SNPs combined in a risk score showed comparable effects in 64,421 individuals of non-European descent. The 66-SNP blood pressure risk score was significantly associated with target organ damage in multiple tissues but with minor effects in the kidney. Our findings expand current knowledge of blood pressure-related pathways and highlight tissues beyond the classical renal system in blood pressure regulation.
Published: 2016

45. 52 Genetic Loci Influencing Myocardial Mass

Author: van der Harst, Pim, van Setten, Jessica, Verweij, Niek, Vogler, Georg, Franke, Lude, Maurano, Matthew T, Wang, Xinchen, Leach, Irene Mateo, Eijgelsheim, Mark, Sotoodehnia, Nona, Hayward, Caroline, Sorice, Rossella, Meirelles, Osorio, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Polašek, Ozren, Tanaka, Toshiko, Arking, Dan E, Ulivi, Sheila, Trompet, Stella, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Smith, Albert V, Dörr, Marcus, Kerr, Kathleen F, Magnani, Jared W, Del Greco M., Fabiola, Zhang, Weihua, Nolte, Ilja M, Silva, Claudia T, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Tragante, Vinicius, Esko, Tõnu, Abecasis, Gonçalo R, Adriaens, Michiel E, Andersen, Karl, Barnett, Phil, Bis, Joshua C, Bodmer, Rolf, Buckley, Brendan M, Campbell, Harry, Cannon, Megan V, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Chen, Lin Y, Delitala, Alessandro, Devereux, Richard B, Doevendans, Pieter A, Dominiczak, Anna F, Ferrucci, Luigi, Ford, Ian, Gieger, Christian, Harris, Tamara B, Haugen, Eric, Heinig, Matthias, Hernandez, Dena G, Hillege, Hans L, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Hofman, Albert, Hubner, Norbert, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Iorio, Annamaria, Kähönen, Mika, Kellis, Manolis, Kolcic, Ivana, Kooner, Ishminder K, Kooner, Jaspal S, Kors, Jan A, Lakatta, Edward G, Lage, Kasper, Launer, Lenore J, Levy, Daniel, Lundby, Alicia, Macfarlane, Peter W, May, Dalit, Meitinger, Thomas, Metspalu, Andres, Nappo, Stefania, Naitza, Silvia, Neph, Shane, Nord, Alex S, Nutile, Teresa, Okin, Peter M, Olsen, Jesper V, Oostra, Ben A, Penninger, Josef M, Pennacchio, Len A, Pers, Tune H, Perz, Siegfried, Peters, Annette, Pinto, Yigal M, Pfeufer, Arne, Pilia, Maria Grazia, Pramstaller, Peter P, Prins, Bram P, Raitakari, Olli T, Raychaudhuri, Soumya, Rice, Ken M, Rossin, Elizabeth J, Rotter, Jerome I, Schafer, Sebastian, Schlessinger, David, and Schmidt, Carsten O
Subjects: Medical Physiology, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Heart Disease - Coronary Heart Disease, Cardiovascular, Heart Disease, Biotechnology, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Animals, Cardiomegaly, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, electrocardiogram, genetic association study, heart failure, left ventricular hypertrophy, QRS, Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, Public Health and Health Services, Cardiovascular System & Hematology, Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
Abstract: BackgroundMyocardial mass is a key determinant of cardiac muscle function and hypertrophy. Myocardial depolarization leading to cardiac muscle contraction is reflected by the amplitude and duration of the QRS complex on the electrocardiogram (ECG). Abnormal QRS amplitude or duration reflect changes in myocardial mass and conduction, and are associated with increased risk of heart failure and death.ObjectivesThis meta-analysis sought to gain insights into the genetic determinants of myocardial mass.MethodsWe carried out a genome-wide association meta-analysis of 4 QRS traits in up to 73,518 individuals of European ancestry, followed by extensive biological and functional assessment.ResultsWe identified 52 genomic loci, of which 32 are novel, that are reliably associated with 1 or more QRS phenotypes at p < 1 × 10(-8). These loci are enriched in regions of open chromatin, histone modifications, and transcription factor binding, suggesting that they represent regions of the genome that are actively transcribed in the human heart. Pathway analyses provided evidence that these loci play a role in cardiac hypertrophy. We further highlighted 67 candidate genes at the identified loci that are preferentially expressed in cardiac tissue and associated with cardiac abnormalities in Drosophila melanogaster and Mus musculus. We validated the regulatory function of a novel variant in the SCN5A/SCN10A locus in vitro and in vivo.ConclusionsTaken together, our findings provide new insights into genes and biological pathways controlling myocardial mass and may help identify novel therapeutic targets.
Published: 2016

46. 52 Genetic Loci Influencing Myocardial Mass.

Author: van der Harst, Pim, van Setten, Jessica, Verweij, Niek, Vogler, Georg, Franke, Lude, Maurano, Matthew T, Wang, Xinchen, Mateo Leach, Irene, Eijgelsheim, Mark, Sotoodehnia, Nona, Hayward, Caroline, Sorice, Rossella, Meirelles, Osorio, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Polašek, Ozren, Tanaka, Toshiko, Arking, Dan E, Ulivi, Sheila, Trompet, Stella, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Smith, Albert V, Dörr, Marcus, Kerr, Kathleen F, Magnani, Jared W, Del Greco M, Fabiola, Zhang, Weihua, Nolte, Ilja M, Silva, Claudia T, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Tragante, Vinicius, Esko, Tõnu, Abecasis, Gonçalo R, Adriaens, Michiel E, Andersen, Karl, Barnett, Phil, Bis, Joshua C, Bodmer, Rolf, Buckley, Brendan M, Campbell, Harry, Cannon, Megan V, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Chen, Lin Y, Delitala, Alessandro, Devereux, Richard B, Doevendans, Pieter A, Dominiczak, Anna F, Ferrucci, Luigi, Ford, Ian, Gieger, Christian, Harris, Tamara B, Haugen, Eric, Heinig, Matthias, Hernandez, Dena G, Hillege, Hans L, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Hofman, Albert, Hubner, Norbert, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Iorio, Annamaria, Kähönen, Mika, Kellis, Manolis, Kolcic, Ivana, Kooner, Ishminder K, Kooner, Jaspal S, Kors, Jan A, Lakatta, Edward G, Lage, Kasper, Launer, Lenore J, Levy, Daniel, Lundby, Alicia, Macfarlane, Peter W, May, Dalit, Meitinger, Thomas, Metspalu, Andres, Nappo, Stefania, Naitza, Silvia, Neph, Shane, Nord, Alex S, Nutile, Teresa, Okin, Peter M, Olsen, Jesper V, Oostra, Ben A, Penninger, Josef M, Pennacchio, Len A, Pers, Tune H, Perz, Siegfried, Peters, Annette, Pinto, Yigal M, Pfeufer, Arne, Pilia, Maria Grazia, Pramstaller, Peter P, Prins, Bram P, Raitakari, Olli T, Raychaudhuri, Soumya, Rice, Ken M, Rossin, Elizabeth J, Rotter, Jerome I, Schafer, Sebastian, Schlessinger, David, and Schmidt, Carsten O
Subjects: Animals, Humans, Cardiomegaly, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, QRS, electrocardiogram, genetic association study, heart failure, left ventricular hypertrophy, Heart Disease - Coronary Heart Disease, Genetics, Heart Disease, Cardiovascular, Human Genome, Biotechnology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Cardiovascular System & Hematology, Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, Public Health and Health Services
Abstract: BackgroundMyocardial mass is a key determinant of cardiac muscle function and hypertrophy. Myocardial depolarization leading to cardiac muscle contraction is reflected by the amplitude and duration of the QRS complex on the electrocardiogram (ECG). Abnormal QRS amplitude or duration reflect changes in myocardial mass and conduction, and are associated with increased risk of heart failure and death.ObjectivesThis meta-analysis sought to gain insights into the genetic determinants of myocardial mass.MethodsWe carried out a genome-wide association meta-analysis of 4 QRS traits in up to 73,518 individuals of European ancestry, followed by extensive biological and functional assessment.ResultsWe identified 52 genomic loci, of which 32 are novel, that are reliably associated with 1 or more QRS phenotypes at p < 1 × 10(-8). These loci are enriched in regions of open chromatin, histone modifications, and transcription factor binding, suggesting that they represent regions of the genome that are actively transcribed in the human heart. Pathway analyses provided evidence that these loci play a role in cardiac hypertrophy. We further highlighted 67 candidate genes at the identified loci that are preferentially expressed in cardiac tissue and associated with cardiac abnormalities in Drosophila melanogaster and Mus musculus. We validated the regulatory function of a novel variant in the SCN5A/SCN10A locus in vitro and in vivo.ConclusionsTaken together, our findings provide new insights into genes and biological pathways controlling myocardial mass and may help identify novel therapeutic targets.
Published: 2016

47. Large-Scale Exome-wide Association Analysis Identifies Loci for White Blood Cell Traits and Pleiotropy with Immune-Mediated Diseases

Author: Tajuddin, Salman M, Schick, Ursula M, Eicher, John D, Chami, Nathalie, Giri, Ayush, Brody, Jennifer A, Hill, W David, Kacprowski, Tim, Li, Jin, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Manichaikul, Ani, Mihailov, Evelin, O’Donoghue, Michelle L, Pankratz, Nathan, Pazoki, Raha, Polfus, Linda M, Smith, Albert Vernon, Schurmann, Claudia, Vacchi-Suzzi, Caterina, Waterworth, Dawn M, Evangelou, Evangelos, Yanek, Lisa R, Burt, Amber, Chen, Ming-Huei, van Rooij, Frank JA, Floyd, James S, Greinacher, Andreas, Harris, Tamara B, Highland, Heather M, Lange, Leslie A, Liu, Yongmei, Mägi, Reedik, Nalls, Mike A, Mathias, Rasika A, Nickerson, Deborah A, Nikus, Kjell, Starr, John M, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Tzoulaki, Ioanna, Edwards, Digna R Velez, Wallentin, Lars, Bartz, Traci M, Becker, Lewis C, Denny, Joshua C, Raffield, Laura M, Rioux, John D, Friedrich, Nele, Fornage, Myriam, Gao, He, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Liewald, David CM, Rich, Stephen S, Uitterlinden, Andre, Bastarache, Lisa, Becker, Diane M, Boerwinkle, Eric, de Denus, Simon, Bottinger, Erwin P, Hayward, Caroline, Hofman, Albert, Homuth, Georg, Lange, Ethan, Launer, Lenore J, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lu, Yingchang, Metspalu, Andres, O’Donnell, Chris J, Quarells, Rakale C, Richard, Melissa, Torstenson, Eric S, Taylor, Kent D, Vergnaud, Anne-Claire, Zonderman, Alan B, Crosslin, David R, Deary, Ian J, Dörr, Marcus, Elliott, Paul, Evans, Michele K, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Kähönen, Mika, Psaty, Bruce M, Rotter, Jerome I, Slater, Andrew J, Dehghan, Abbas, White, Harvey D, Ganesh, Santhi K, Loos, Ruth JF, Esko, Tõnu, Faraday, Nauder, Wilson, James G, Cushman, Mary, Johnson, Andrew D, Edwards, Todd L, Zakai, Neil A, Lettre, Guillaume, Reiner, Alex P, and Auer, Paul L
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Immunology, Stem Cell Research, Human Genome, Stem Cell Research - Nonembryonic - Non-Human, Autoimmune Disease, Hematology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Underpinning research, Aetiology, Inflammatory and immune system, Blood Cell Count, Exome, Genetic Loci, Genetic Pleiotropy, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Immune System Diseases, Leukocytes, Quality Control, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: White blood cells play diverse roles in innate and adaptive immunity. Genetic association analyses of phenotypic variation in circulating white blood cell (WBC) counts from large samples of otherwise healthy individuals can provide insights into genes and biologic pathways involved in production, differentiation, or clearance of particular WBC lineages (myeloid, lymphoid) and also potentially inform the genetic basis of autoimmune, allergic, and blood diseases. We performed an exome array-based meta-analysis of total WBC and subtype counts (neutrophils, monocytes, lymphocytes, basophils, and eosinophils) in a multi-ancestry discovery and replication sample of ∼157,622 individuals from 25 studies. We identified 16 common variants (8 of which were coding variants) associated with one or more WBC traits, the majority of which are pleiotropically associated with autoimmune diseases. Based on functional annotation, these loci included genes encoding surface markers of myeloid, lymphoid, or hematopoietic stem cell differentiation (CD69, CD33, CD87), transcription factors regulating lineage specification during hematopoiesis (ASXL1, IRF8, IKZF1, JMJD1C, ETS2-PSMG1), and molecules involved in neutrophil clearance/apoptosis (C10orf54, LTA), adhesion (TNXB), or centrosome and microtubule structure/function (KIF9, TUBD1). Together with recent reports of somatic ASXL1 mutations among individuals with idiopathic cytopenias or clonal hematopoiesis of undetermined significance, the identification of a common regulatory 3' UTR variant of ASXL1 suggests that both germline and somatic ASXL1 mutations contribute to lower blood counts in otherwise asymptomatic individuals. These association results shed light on genetic mechanisms that regulate circulating WBC counts and suggest a prominent shared genetic architecture with inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
Published: 2016

48. Meta-analysis of 49 549 individuals imputed with the 1000 Genomes Project reveals an exonic damaging variant in ANGPTL4 determining fasting TG levels

Author: van Leeuwen, Elisabeth M, Sabo, Aniko, Bis, Joshua C, Huffman, Jennifer E, Manichaikul, Ani, Smith, Albert V, Feitosa, Mary F, Demissie, Serkalem, Joshi, Peter K, Duan, Qing, Marten, Jonathan, van Klinken, Jan B, Surakka, Ida, Nolte, Ilja M, Zhang, Weihua, Mbarek, Hamdi, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Trompet, Stella, Verweij, Niek, Evangelou, Evangelos, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Tayo, Bamidele O, Deelen, Joris, van der Most, Peter J, van der Laan, Sander W, Arking, Dan E, Morrison, Alanna, Dehghan, Abbas, Franco, Oscar H, Hofman, Albert, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Sijbrands, Eric J, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Mychaleckyj, Josyf C, Campbell, Archie, Hocking, Lynne J, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Brody, Jennifer A, Rice, Kenneth M, White, Charles C, Harris, Tamara, Isaacs, Aaron, Campbell, Harry, Lange, Leslie A, Rudan, Igor, Kolcic, Ivana, Navarro, Pau, Zemunik, Tatijana, Salomaa, Veikko, Study, The LifeLines Cohort, Kooner, Angad S, Kooner, Jaspal S, Lehne, Benjamin, Scott, William R, Tan, Sian-Tsung, de Geus, Eco J, Milaneschi, Yuri, Penninx, Brenda WJH, Willemsen, Gonneke, de Mutsert, Renée, Ford, Ian, Gansevoort, Ron T, Segura-Lepe, Marcelo P, Raitakari, Olli T, Viikari, Jorma S, Nikus, Kjell, Forrester, Terrence, McKenzie, Colin A, de Craen, Anton JM, de Ruijter, Hester M, Group, CHARGE Lipids Working, Pasterkamp, Gerard, Snieder, Harold, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Slagboom, P Eline, Cooper, Richard S, Kähönen, Mika, Lehtimäki, Terho, Elliott, Paul, van der Harst, Pim, Jukema, J Wouter, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Boomsma, Dorret I, Chambers, John C, Swertz, Morris, Ripatti, Samuli, van Dijk, Ko Willems, Vitart, Veronique, Polasek, Ozren, Hayward, Caroline, Wilson, James G, Wilson, James F, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Rich, Stephen S, Psaty, Bruce M, Borecki, Ingrid B, Boerwinkle, Eric, Rotter, Jerome I, Cupples, L Adrienne, and van Duijn, Cornelia M
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Biotechnology, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Angiopoietin-Like Protein 4, Angiopoietins, Exons, Fasting, Female, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, LifeLines Cohort Study, CHARGE Lipids Working Group, Complex traits, Epidemiology, Genome-wide, circulating lipid levels, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Clinical sciences
Abstract: BackgroundSo far, more than 170 loci have been associated with circulating lipid levels through genome-wide association studies (GWAS). These associations are largely driven by common variants, their function is often not known, and many are likely to be markers for the causal variants. In this study we aimed to identify more new rare and low-frequency functional variants associated with circulating lipid levels.MethodsWe used the 1000 Genomes Project as a reference panel for the imputations of GWAS data from ∼60 000 individuals in the discovery stage and ∼90 000 samples in the replication stage.ResultsOur study resulted in the identification of five new associations with circulating lipid levels at four loci. All four loci are within genes that can be linked biologically to lipid metabolism. One of the variants, rs116843064, is a damaging missense variant within the ANGPTL4 gene.ConclusionsThis study illustrates that GWAS with high-scale imputation may still help us unravel the biological mechanism behind circulating lipid levels.
Published: 2016

49. Platelet-Related Variants Identified by Exomechip Meta-analysis in 157,293 Individuals

Author: Eicher, John D, Chami, Nathalie, Kacprowski, Tim, Nomura, Akihiro, Chen, Ming-Huei, Yanek, Lisa R, Tajuddin, Salman M, Schick, Ursula M, Slater, Andrew J, Pankratz, Nathan, Polfus, Linda, Schurmann, Claudia, Giri, Ayush, Brody, Jennifer A, Lange, Leslie A, Manichaikul, Ani, Hill, W David, Pazoki, Raha, Elliot, Paul, Evangelou, Evangelos, Tzoulaki, Ioanna, Gao, He, Vergnaud, Anne-Claire, Mathias, Rasika A, Becker, Diane M, Becker, Lewis C, Burt, Amber, Crosslin, David R, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nikus, Kjell, Hernesniemi, Jussi, Kähönen, Mika, Raitoharju, Emma, Mononen, Nina, Raitakari, Olli T, Lehtimäki, Terho, Cushman, Mary, Zakai, Neil A, Nickerson, Deborah A, Raffield, Laura M, Quarells, Rakale, Willer, Cristen J, Peloso, Gina M, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Liu, Dajiang J, Consortium, Global Lipids Genetics, Deloukas, Panos, Samani, Nilesh J, Schunkert, Heribert, Erdmann, Jeanette, Consortium, CARDIoGRAM Exome, Consortium, Myocardial Infarction Genetics, Fornage, Myriam, Richard, Melissa, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Rioux, John D, Dube, Marie-Pierre, de Denus, Simon, Lu, Yingchang, Bottinger, Erwin P, Loos, Ruth JF, Smith, Albert Vernon, Harris, Tamara B, Launer, Lenore J, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Edwards, Digna R Velez, Torstenson, Eric S, Liu, Yongmei, Tracy, Russell P, Rotter, Jerome I, Rich, Stephen S, Highland, Heather M, Boerwinkle, Eric, Li, Jin, Lange, Ethan, Wilson, James G, Mihailov, Evelin, Mägi, Reedik, Hirschhorn, Joel, Metspalu, Andres, Esko, Tõnu, Vacchi-Suzzi, Caterina, Nalls, Mike A, Zonderman, Alan B, Evans, Michele K, Engström, Gunnar, Orho-Melander, Marju, Melander, Olle, O’Donoghue, Michelle L, Waterworth, Dawn M, Wallentin, Lars, White, Harvey D, Floyd, James S, Bartz, Traci M, Rice, Kenneth M, Psaty, Bruce M, Starr, JM, Liewald, David CM, Hayward, Caroline, and Deary, Ian J
Subjects: Genetics, Cardiovascular, Hematology, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Underpinning research, Blood, Blood Platelets, Exome, Female, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Mean Platelet Volume, Platelet Count, Global Lipids Genetics Consortium, CARDIoGRAM Exome Consortium, Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract: Platelet production, maintenance, and clearance are tightly controlled processes indicative of platelets' important roles in hemostasis and thrombosis. Platelets are common targets for primary and secondary prevention of several conditions. They are monitored clinically by complete blood counts, specifically with measurements of platelet count (PLT) and mean platelet volume (MPV). Identifying genetic effects on PLT and MPV can provide mechanistic insights into platelet biology and their role in disease. Therefore, we formed the Blood Cell Consortium (BCX) to perform a large-scale meta-analysis of Exomechip association results for PLT and MPV in 157,293 and 57,617 individuals, respectively. Using the low-frequency/rare coding variant-enriched Exomechip genotyping array, we sought to identify genetic variants associated with PLT and MPV. In addition to confirming 47 known PLT and 20 known MPV associations, we identified 32 PLT and 18 MPV associations not previously observed in the literature across the allele frequency spectrum, including rare large effect (FCER1A), low-frequency (IQGAP2, MAP1A, LY75), and common (ZMIZ2, SMG6, PEAR1, ARFGAP3/PACSIN2) variants. Several variants associated with PLT/MPV (PEAR1, MRVI1, PTGES3) were also associated with platelet reactivity. In concurrent BCX analyses, there was overlap of platelet-associated variants with red (MAP1A, TMPRSS6, ZMIZ2) and white (PEAR1, ZMIZ2, LY75) blood cell traits, suggesting common regulatory pathways with shared genetic architecture among these hematopoietic lineages. Our large-scale Exomechip analyses identified previously undocumented associations with platelet traits and further indicate that several complex quantitative hematological, lipid, and cardiovascular traits share genetic factors.
Published: 2016

50. Exome Genotyping Identifies Pleiotropic Variants Associated with Red Blood Cell Traits

Author: Chami, Nathalie, Chen, Ming-Huei, Slater, Andrew J, Eicher, John D, Evangelou, Evangelos, Tajuddin, Salman M, Love-Gregory, Latisha, Kacprowski, Tim, Schick, Ursula M, Nomura, Akihiro, Giri, Ayush, Lessard, Samuel, Brody, Jennifer A, Schurmann, Claudia, Pankratz, Nathan, Yanek, Lisa R, Manichaikul, Ani, Pazoki, Raha, Mihailov, Evelin, Hill, W David, Raffield, Laura M, Burt, Amber, Bartz, Traci M, Becker, Diane M, Becker, Lewis C, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bottinger, Erwin P, O’Donoghue, Michelle L, Crosslin, David R, de Denus, Simon, Dubé, Marie-Pierre, Elliott, Paul, Engström, Gunnar, Evans, Michele K, Floyd, James S, Fornage, Myriam, Gao, He, Greinacher, Andreas, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Hansen, Torben, Harris, Tamara B, Hayward, Caroline, Hernesniemi, Jussi, Highland, Heather M, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Hofman, Albert, Irvin, Marguerite R, Kähönen, Mika, Lange, Ethan, Launer, Lenore J, Lehtimäki, Terho, Li, Jin, Liewald, David CM, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Yongmei, Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mägi, Reedik, Mathias, Rasika A, Melander, Olle, Metspalu, Andres, Mononen, Nina, Nalls, Mike A, Nickerson, Deborah A, Nikus, Kjell, O’Donnell, Chris J, Orho-Melander, Marju, Pedersen, Oluf, Petersmann, Astrid, Polfus, Linda, Psaty, Bruce M, Raitakari, Olli T, Raitoharju, Emma, Richard, Melissa, Rice, Kenneth M, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rotter, Jerome I, Schmidt, Frank, Smith, Albert Vernon, Starr, John M, Taylor, Kent D, Teumer, Alexander, Thuesen, Betina H, Torstenson, Eric S, Tracy, Russell P, Tzoulaki, Ioanna, Zakai, Neil A, Vacchi-Suzzi, Caterina, van Duijn, Cornelia M, van Rooij, Frank JA, Cushman, Mary, Deary, Ian J, Edwards, Digna R Velez, Vergnaud, Anne-Claire, Wallentin, Lars, Waterworth, Dawn M, White, Harvey D, Wilson, James G, and Zonderman, Alan B
Subjects: Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Rare Diseases, Hematology, Human Genome, Clinical Research, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Black or African American, Allelic Imbalance, Erythrocyte Indices, Erythrocytes, Erythropoiesis, Exome, Gene Frequency, Genetic Pleiotropy, Genetic Variation, Genotype, Hematocrit, Hemoglobins, Humans, Quantitative Trait Loci, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: Red blood cell (RBC) traits are important heritable clinical biomarkers and modifiers of disease severity. To identify coding genetic variants associated with these traits, we conducted meta-analyses of seven RBC phenotypes in 130,273 multi-ethnic individuals from studies genotyped on an exome array. After conditional analyses and replication in 27,480 independent individuals, we identified 16 new RBC variants. We found low-frequency missense variants in MAP1A (rs55707100, minor allele frequency [MAF] = 3.3%, p = 2 × 10(-10) for hemoglobin [HGB]) and HNF4A (rs1800961, MAF = 2.4%, p < 3 × 10(-8) for hematocrit [HCT] and HGB). In African Americans, we identified a nonsense variant in CD36 associated with higher RBC distribution width (rs3211938, MAF = 8.7%, p = 7 × 10(-11)) and showed that it is associated with lower CD36 expression and strong allelic imbalance in ex vivo differentiated human erythroblasts. We also identified a rare missense variant in ALAS2 (rs201062903, MAF = 0.2%) associated with lower mean corpuscular volume and mean corpuscular hemoglobin (p < 8 × 10(-9)). Mendelian mutations in ALAS2 are a cause of sideroblastic anemia and erythropoietic protoporphyria. Gene-based testing highlighted three rare missense variants in PKLR, a gene mutated in Mendelian non-spherocytic hemolytic anemia, associated with HGB and HCT (SKAT p < 8 × 10(-7)). These rare, low-frequency, and common RBC variants showed pleiotropy, being also associated with platelet, white blood cell, and lipid traits. Our association results and functional annotation suggest the involvement of new genes in human erythropoiesis. We also confirm that rare and low-frequency variants play a role in the architecture of complex human traits, although their phenotypic effect is generally smaller than originally anticipated.
Published: 2016

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