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1. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

Author: Yengo, Loïc, Vedantam, Sailaja, Marouli, Eirini, Sidorenko, Julia, Bartell, Eric, Sakaue, Saori, Graff, Marielisa, Eliasen, Anders U., Jiang, Yunxuan, Raghavan, Sridharan, Miao, Jenkai, Arias, Joshua D., Graham, Sarah E., Mukamel, Ronen E., Spracklen, Cassandra N., Yin, Xianyong, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Ferreira, Teresa, Highland, Heather H., Ji, Yingjie, Karaderi, Tugce, Lin, Kuang, Lüll, Kreete, Malden, Deborah E., Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Machado, Moara, Moore, Amy, Rüeger, Sina, Sim, Xueling, Vrieze, Scott, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Akiyama, Masato, Allison, Matthew A., Alvarez, Marcus, Andersen, Mette K., Ani, Alireza, Appadurai, Vivek, Arbeeva, Liubov, Bhaskar, Seema, Bielak, Lawrence F., Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Bonnycastle, Lori L., Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bradfield, Jonathan P., Bradford, Yuki, Braund, Peter S., Brody, Jennifer A., Burgdorf, Kristoffer S., Cade, Brian E., Cai, Hui, Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Archie, Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Catamo, Eulalia, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chai, Xiaoran, Chang, Li-Ching, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chesi, Alessandra, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chung, Ren-Hua, Cocca, Massimiliano, Concas, Maria Pina, Couture, Christian, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Danning, Rebecca, Daw, E. Warwick, Degenhard, Frauke, Delgado, Graciela E., Delitala, Alessandro, Demirkan, Ayse, Deng, Xuan, Devineni, Poornima, Dietl, Alexander, Dimitriou, Maria, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Ekici, Arif B., Engmann, Jorgen E., Fairhurst-Hunter, Zammy, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Faul, Jessica D., Fernandez-Lopez, Juan-Carlos, Forer, Lukas, Francescatto, Margherita, Freitag-Wolf, Sandra, Fuchsberger, Christian, Galesloot, Tessel E., Gao, Yan, Gao, Zishan, Geller, Frank, Giannakopoulou, Olga, Giulianini, Franco, Gjesing, Anette P., Goel, Anuj, Gordon, Scott D., Gorski, Mathias, Grove, Jakob, Guo, Xiuqing, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haessler, Jeffrey, Hansen, Thomas F., Havulinna, Aki S., Haworth, Simon J., He, Jing, Heard-Costa, Nancy, Hebbar, Prashantha, Hindy, George, Ho, Yuk-Lam A., Hofer, Edith, Holliday, Elizabeth, Horn, Katrin, Hornsby, Whitney E., Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huang, Hongyan, Huang, Jie, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Huffman, Jennifer E., Hung, Yi-Jen, Huo, Shaofeng, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Iha, Hiroyuki, Ikeda, Daisuke D., Isono, Masato, Jackson, Anne U., Jäger, Susanne, Jansen, Iris E., Johansson, Ingegerd, Jonas, Jost B., Jonsson, Anna, Jørgensen, Torben, Kalafati, Ioanna-Panagiota, Kanai, Masahiro, Kanoni, Stavroula, Kårhus, Line L., Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Kember, Rachel L., Kentistou, Katherine A., Kim, Han-Na, Kim, Young Jin, Kleber, Marcus E., Knol, Maria J., Kurbasic, Azra, Lauzon, Marie, Le, Phuong, Lea, Rodney, Lee, Jong-Young, Leonard, Hampton L., Li, Shengchao A., Li, Xiaohui, Li, Xiaoyin, Liang, Jingjing, Lin, Honghuang, Lin, Shih-Yi, Liu, Jun, Liu, Xueping, Lo, Ken Sin, Long, Jirong, Lores-Motta, Laura, Luan, Jian’an, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mahajan, Anubha, Mamakou, Vasiliki, Mangino, Massimo, Manichaikul, Ani, Marten, Jonathan, Mattheisen, Manuel, Mavarani, Laven, McDaid, Aaron F., Meidtner, Karina, Melendez, Tori L., Mercader, Josep M., Milaneschi, Yuri, Miller, Jason E., Millwood, Iona Y., Mishra, Pashupati P., Mitchell, Ruth E., Møllehave, Line T., Morgan, Anna, Mucha, Soeren, Munz, Matthias, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Nelson, Christopher P., Nethander, Maria, Nho, Chu Won, Nielsen, Aneta A., Nolte, Ilja M., Nongmaithem, Suraj S., Noordam, Raymond, Ntalla, Ioanna, Nutile, Teresa, Pandit, Anita, Christofidou, Paraskevi, Pärna, Katri, Pauper, Marc, Petersen, Eva R. B., Petersen, Liselotte V., Pitkänen, Niina, Polašek, Ozren, Poveda, Alaitz, Preuss, Michael H., Pyarajan, Saiju, Raffield, Laura M., Rakugi, Hiromi, Ramirez, Julia, Rasheed, Asif, Raven, Dennis, Rayner, Nigel W., Riveros, Carlos, Rohde, Rebecca, Ruggiero, Daniela, Ruotsalainen, Sanni E., Ryan, Kathleen A., Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Saxena, Richa, Scholz, Markus, Sendamarai, Anoop, Shen, Botong, Shi, Jingchunzi, Shin, Jae Hun, Sidore, Carlo, Sitlani, Colleen M., Slieker, Roderick C., Smit, Roelof A. J., Smith, Albert V., Smith, Jennifer A., Smyth, Laura J., Southam, Lorraine, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Sun, Liang, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Tallapragada, Divya Sri Priyanka, Taylor, Kent D., Tayo, Bamidele O., Tcheandjieu, Catherine, Terzikhan, Natalie, Tesolin, Paola, Teumer, Alexander, Theusch, Elizabeth, Thompson, Deborah J., Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Timmers, Paul R. H. J., Trompet, Stella, Turman, Constance, Vaccargiu, Simona, van der Laan, Sander W., van der Most, Peter J., van Klinken, Jan B., van Setten, Jessica, Verma, Shefali S., Verweij, Niek, Veturi, Yogasudha, Wang, Carol A., Wang, Chaolong, Wang, Lihua, Wang, Zhe, Warren, Helen R., Bin Wei, Wen, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Wielscher, Matthias, Wiggins, Kerri L., Winsvold, Bendik S., Wong, Andrew, Wu, Yang, Wuttke, Matthias, Xia, Rui, Xie, Tian, Yamamoto, Ken, Yang, Jingyun, Yao, Jie, Young, Hannah, Yousri, Noha A., Yu, Lei, Zeng, Lingyao, Zhang, Weihua, Zhang, Xinyuan, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Zhao, Wei, Zhou, Wei, Zimmermann, Martina E., Zoledziewska, Magdalena, Adair, Linda S., Adams, Hieab H. H., Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A., Al-Mulla, Fahd, Arnett, Donna K., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Åsvold, Bjørn Olav, Attia, John, Banas, Bernhard, Bandinelli, Stefania, Bennett, David A., Bergler, Tobias, Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan, Biino, Ginevra, Bisgaard, Hans, Boerwinkle, Eric, Böger, Carsten A., Bønnelykke, Klaus, Boomsma, Dorret I., Børglum, Anders D., Borja, Judith B., Bouchard, Claude, Bowden, Donald W., Brandslund, Ivan, Brumpton, Ben, Buring, Julie E., Caulfield, Mark J., Chambers, John C., Chandak, Giriraj R., Chanock, Stephen J., Chaturvedi, Nish, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chen, Zhengming, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Christophersen, Ingrid E., Ciullo, Marina, Cole, John W., Collins, Francis S., Cooper, Richard S., Cruz, Miguel, Cucca, Francesco, Cupples, L. Adrienne, Cutler, Michael J., Damrauer, Scott M., Dantoft, Thomas M., de Borst, Gert J., de Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M., De Jager, Philip L., de Kleijn, Dominique P. V., Janaka de Silva, H., Dedoussis, George V., den Hollander, Anneke I., Du, Shufa, Easton, Douglas F., Elders, Petra J. M., Eliassen, A. Heather, Ellinor, Patrick T., Elmståhl, Sölve, Erdmann, Jeanette, Evans, Michele K., Fatkin, Diane, Feenstra, Bjarke, Feitosa, Mary F., Ferrucci, Luigi, Ford, Ian, Fornage, Myriam, Franke, Andre, Franks, Paul W., Freedman, Barry I., Gasparini, Paolo, Gieger, Christian, Girotto, Giorgia, Goddard, Michael E., Golightly, Yvonne M., Gonzalez-Villalpando, Clicerio, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Grallert, Harald, Grant, Struan F. A., Grarup, Niels, Griffiths, Lyn, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Haiman, Christopher, Hakonarson, Hakon, Hansen, Torben, Hartman, Catharina A., Hattersley, Andrew T., Hayward, Caroline, Heckbert, Susan R., Heng, Chew-Kiat, Hengstenberg, Christian, Hewitt, Alex W., Hishigaki, Haretsugu, Hoyng, Carel B., Huang, Paul L., Huang, Wei, Hunt, Steven C., Hveem, Kristian, Hyppönen, Elina, Iacono, William G., Ichihara, Sahoko, Ikram, M. Arfan, Isasi, Carmen R., Jackson, Rebecca D., Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Jin, Zi-Bing, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, Joshi, Peter K., Jousilahti, Pekka, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kähönen, Mika, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kang, Kui Dong, Kaprio, Jaakko, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Karpe, Fredrik, Kato, Norihiro, Kee, Frank, Kessler, Thorsten, Khera, Amit V., Khor, Chiea Chuen, Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M., Kim, Bong-Jo, Kim, Eung Kweon, Kim, Hyung-Lae, Kirchhof, Paulus, Kivimaki, Mika, Koh, Woon-Puay, Koistinen, Heikki A., Kolovou, Genovefa D., Kooner, Jaspal S., Kooperberg, Charles, Köttgen, Anna, Kovacs, Peter, Kraaijeveld, Adriaan, Kraft, Peter, Krauss, Ronald M., Kumari, Meena, Kutalik, Zoltan, Laakso, Markku, Lange, Leslie A., Langenberg, Claudia, Launer, Lenore J., Le Marchand, Loic, Lee, Hyejin, Lee, Nanette R., Lehtimäki, Terho, Li, Huaixing, Li, Liming, Lieb, Wolfgang, Lin, Xu, Lind, Lars, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Ching-Ti, Liu, Jianjun, Loeffler, Markus, London, Barry, Lubitz, Steven A., Lye, Stephen J., Mackey, David A., Mägi, Reedik, Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Marcus, Gregory M., Vidal, Pedro Marques, Martin, Nicholas G., März, Winfried, Matsuda, Fumihiko, McGarrah, Robert W., McGue, Matt, McKnight, Amy Jayne, Medland, Sarah E., Mellström, Dan, Metspalu, Andres, Mitchell, Braxton D., Mitchell, Paul, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Morris, Andrew D., Mucci, Lorelei A., Munroe, Patricia B., Nalls, Mike A., Nazarian, Saman, Nelson, Amanda E., Neville, Matt J., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Nielsen, Christopher S., Nöthen, Markus M., Ohlsson, Claes, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Orozco, Lorena, Pahkala, Katja, Pajukanta, Päivi, Palmer, Colin N. A., Parra, Esteban J., Pattaro, Cristian, Pedersen, Oluf, Pennell, Craig E., Penninx, Brenda W. J. H., Perusse, Louis, Peters, Annette, Peyser, Patricia A., Porteous, David J., Posthuma, Danielle, Power, Chris, Pramstaller, Peter P., Province, Michael A., Qi, Qibin, Qu, Jia, Rader, Daniel J., Raitakari, Olli T., Ralhan, Sarju, Rallidis, Loukianos S., Rao, Dabeeru C., Redline, Susan, Reilly, Dermot F., Reiner, Alexander P., Rhee, Sang Youl, Ridker, Paul M., Rienstra, Michiel, Ripatti, Samuli, Ritchie, Marylyn D., Roden, Dan M., Rosendaal, Frits R., Rotter, Jerome I., Rudan, Igor, Rutters, Femke, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Saleheen, Danish, Salomaa, Veikko, Samani, Nilesh J., Sanghera, Dharambir K., Sattar, Naveed, Schmidt, Börge, Schmidt, Helena, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schulze, Matthias B., Schunkert, Heribert, Scott, Laura J., Scott, Rodney J., Sever, Peter, Shiroma, Eric J., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Simonsick, Eleanor M., Sims, Mario, Singh, Jai Rup, Singleton, Andrew B., Sinner, Moritz F., Smith, J. Gustav, Snieder, Harold, Spector, Tim D., Stampfer, Meir J., Stark, Klaus J., Strachan, David P., ‘t Hart, Leen M., Tabara, Yasuharu, Tang, Hua, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Thanaraj, Thangavel A., Timpson, Nicholas J., Tönjes, Anke, Tremblay, Angelo, Tuomi, Tiinamaija, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Tusié-Luna, Maria-Teresa, Uitterlinden, Andre G., van Dam, Rob M., van der Harst, Pim, Van der Velde, Nathalie, van Duijn, Cornelia M., van Schoor, Natasja M., Vitart, Veronique, Völker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Völzke, Henry, Wacher-Rodarte, Niels H., Walker, Mark, Wang, Ya Xing, Wareham, Nicholas J., Watanabe, Richard M., Watkins, Hugh, Weir, David R., Werge, Thomas M., Widen, Elisabeth, Wilkens, Lynne R., Willemsen, Gonneke, Willett, Walter C., Wilson, James F., Wong, Tien-Yin, Woo, Jeong-Taek, Wright, Alan F., Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Xu, Huichun, Yajnik, Chittaranjan S., Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Yuan, Jian-Min, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Zemel, Babette S., Zheng, Wei, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Zmuda, Joseph M., Zonderman, Alan B., Zwart, John-Anker, Partida, Gabriel Cuellar, Sun, Yan, Croteau-Chonka, Damien, Vonk, Judith M., Chanock, Stephen, Chasman, Daniel I., Cho, Yoon Shin, Heid, Iris M., McCarthy, Mark I., Ng, Maggie C. Y., O’Donnell, Christopher J., Rivadeneira, Fernando, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Sun, Yan V., Tai, E. Shyong, Boehnke, Michael, Deloukas, Panos, Justice, Anne E., Lindgren, Cecilia M., Loos, Ruth J. F., Mohlke, Karen L., North, Kari E., Stefansson, Kari, Walters, Robin G., Winkler, Thomas W., Young, Kristin L., Loh, Po-Ru, Yang, Jian, Esko, Tõnu, Assimes, Themistocles L., Auton, Adam, Abecasis, Goncalo R., Willer, Cristen J., Locke, Adam E., Berndt, Sonja I., Lettre, Guillaume, Frayling, Timothy M., Okada, Yukinori, Wood, Andrew R., Visscher, Peter M., Hirschhorn, Joel N., Yengo, Loïc, Vedantam, Sailaja, Marouli, Eirini, Sidorenko, Julia, Bartell, Eric, Sakaue, Saori, Graff, Marielisa, Eliasen, Anders U., Jiang, Yunxuan, Raghavan, Sridharan, Miao, Jenkai, Arias, Joshua D., Graham, Sarah E., Mukamel, Ronen E., Spracklen, Cassandra N., Yin, Xianyong, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Ferreira, Teresa, Highland, Heather H., Ji, Yingjie, Karaderi, Tugce, Lin, Kuang, Lüll, Kreete, Malden, Deborah E., Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Machado, Moara, Moore, Amy, Rüeger, Sina, Sim, Xueling, Vrieze, Scott, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Akiyama, Masato, Allison, Matthew A., Alvarez, Marcus, Andersen, Mette K., Ani, Alireza, Appadurai, Vivek, Arbeeva, Liubov, Bhaskar, Seema, Bielak, Lawrence F., Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Bonnycastle, Lori L., Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bradfield, Jonathan P., Bradford, Yuki, Braund, Peter S., Brody, Jennifer A., Burgdorf, Kristoffer S., Cade, Brian E., Cai, Hui, Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Archie, Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Catamo, Eulalia, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chai, Xiaoran, Chang, Li-Ching, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chesi, Alessandra, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chung, Ren-Hua, Cocca, Massimiliano, Concas, Maria Pina, Couture, Christian, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Danning, Rebecca, Daw, E. Warwick, Degenhard, Frauke, Delgado, Graciela E., Delitala, Alessandro, Demirkan, Ayse, Deng, Xuan, Devineni, Poornima, Dietl, Alexander, Dimitriou, Maria, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Ekici, Arif B., Engmann, Jorgen E., Fairhurst-Hunter, Zammy, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Faul, Jessica D., Fernandez-Lopez, Juan-Carlos, Forer, Lukas, Francescatto, Margherita, Freitag-Wolf, Sandra, Fuchsberger, Christian, Galesloot, Tessel E., Gao, Yan, Gao, Zishan, Geller, Frank, Giannakopoulou, Olga, Giulianini, Franco, Gjesing, Anette P., Goel, Anuj, Gordon, Scott D., Gorski, Mathias, Grove, Jakob, Guo, Xiuqing, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haessler, Jeffrey, Hansen, Thomas F., Havulinna, Aki S., Haworth, Simon J., He, Jing, Heard-Costa, Nancy, Hebbar, Prashantha, Hindy, George, Ho, Yuk-Lam A., Hofer, Edith, Holliday, Elizabeth, Horn, Katrin, Hornsby, Whitney E., Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huang, Hongyan, Huang, Jie, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Huffman, Jennifer E., Hung, Yi-Jen, Huo, Shaofeng, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Iha, Hiroyuki, Ikeda, Daisuke D., Isono, Masato, Jackson, Anne U., Jäger, Susanne, Jansen, Iris E., Johansson, Ingegerd, Jonas, Jost B., Jonsson, Anna, Jørgensen, Torben, Kalafati, Ioanna-Panagiota, Kanai, Masahiro, Kanoni, Stavroula, Kårhus, Line L., Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Kember, Rachel L., Kentistou, Katherine A., Kim, Han-Na, Kim, Young Jin, Kleber, Marcus E., Knol, Maria J., Kurbasic, Azra, Lauzon, Marie, Le, Phuong, Lea, Rodney, Lee, Jong-Young, Leonard, Hampton L., Li, Shengchao A., Li, Xiaohui, Li, Xiaoyin, Liang, Jingjing, Lin, Honghuang, Lin, Shih-Yi, Liu, Jun, Liu, Xueping, Lo, Ken Sin, Long, Jirong, Lores-Motta, Laura, Luan, Jian’an, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mahajan, Anubha, Mamakou, Vasiliki, Mangino, Massimo, Manichaikul, Ani, Marten, Jonathan, Mattheisen, Manuel, Mavarani, Laven, McDaid, Aaron F., Meidtner, Karina, Melendez, Tori L., Mercader, Josep M., Milaneschi, Yuri, Miller, Jason E., Millwood, Iona Y., Mishra, Pashupati P., Mitchell, Ruth E., Møllehave, Line T., Morgan, Anna, Mucha, Soeren, Munz, Matthias, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Nelson, Christopher P., Nethander, Maria, Nho, Chu Won, Nielsen, Aneta A., Nolte, Ilja M., Nongmaithem, Suraj S., Noordam, Raymond, Ntalla, Ioanna, Nutile, Teresa, Pandit, Anita, Christofidou, Paraskevi, Pärna, Katri, Pauper, Marc, Petersen, Eva R. B., Petersen, Liselotte V., Pitkänen, Niina, Polašek, Ozren, Poveda, Alaitz, Preuss, Michael H., Pyarajan, Saiju, Raffield, Laura M., Rakugi, Hiromi, Ramirez, Julia, Rasheed, Asif, Raven, Dennis, Rayner, Nigel W., Riveros, Carlos, Rohde, Rebecca, Ruggiero, Daniela, Ruotsalainen, Sanni E., Ryan, Kathleen A., Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Saxena, Richa, Scholz, Markus, Sendamarai, Anoop, Shen, Botong, Shi, Jingchunzi, Shin, Jae Hun, Sidore, Carlo, Sitlani, Colleen M., Slieker, Roderick C., Smit, Roelof A. J., Smith, Albert V., Smith, Jennifer A., Smyth, Laura J., Southam, Lorraine, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Sun, Liang, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Tallapragada, Divya Sri Priyanka, Taylor, Kent D., Tayo, Bamidele O., Tcheandjieu, Catherine, Terzikhan, Natalie, Tesolin, Paola, Teumer, Alexander, Theusch, Elizabeth, Thompson, Deborah J., Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Timmers, Paul R. H. J., Trompet, Stella, Turman, Constance, Vaccargiu, Simona, van der Laan, Sander W., van der Most, Peter J., van Klinken, Jan B., van Setten, Jessica, Verma, Shefali S., Verweij, Niek, Veturi, Yogasudha, Wang, Carol A., Wang, Chaolong, Wang, Lihua, Wang, Zhe, Warren, Helen R., Bin Wei, Wen, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Wielscher, Matthias, Wiggins, Kerri L., Winsvold, Bendik S., Wong, Andrew, Wu, Yang, Wuttke, Matthias, Xia, Rui, Xie, Tian, Yamamoto, Ken, Yang, Jingyun, Yao, Jie, Young, Hannah, Yousri, Noha A., Yu, Lei, Zeng, Lingyao, Zhang, Weihua, Zhang, Xinyuan, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Zhao, Wei, Zhou, Wei, Zimmermann, Martina E., Zoledziewska, Magdalena, Adair, Linda S., Adams, Hieab H. H., Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A., Al-Mulla, Fahd, Arnett, Donna K., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Åsvold, Bjørn Olav, Attia, John, Banas, Bernhard, Bandinelli, Stefania, Bennett, David A., Bergler, Tobias, Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan, Biino, Ginevra, Bisgaard, Hans, Boerwinkle, Eric, Böger, Carsten A., Bønnelykke, Klaus, Boomsma, Dorret I., Børglum, Anders D., Borja, Judith B., Bouchard, Claude, Bowden, Donald W., Brandslund, Ivan, Brumpton, Ben, Buring, Julie E., Caulfield, Mark J., Chambers, John C., Chandak, Giriraj R., Chanock, Stephen J., Chaturvedi, Nish, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chen, Zhengming, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Christophersen, Ingrid E., Ciullo, Marina, Cole, John W., Collins, Francis S., Cooper, Richard S., Cruz, Miguel, Cucca, Francesco, Cupples, L. Adrienne, Cutler, Michael J., Damrauer, Scott M., Dantoft, Thomas M., de Borst, Gert J., de Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M., De Jager, Philip L., de Kleijn, Dominique P. V., Janaka de Silva, H., Dedoussis, George V., den Hollander, Anneke I., Du, Shufa, Easton, Douglas F., Elders, Petra J. M., Eliassen, A. Heather, Ellinor, Patrick T., Elmståhl, Sölve, Erdmann, Jeanette, Evans, Michele K., Fatkin, Diane, Feenstra, Bjarke, Feitosa, Mary F., Ferrucci, Luigi, Ford, Ian, Fornage, Myriam, Franke, Andre, Franks, Paul W., Freedman, Barry I., Gasparini, Paolo, Gieger, Christian, Girotto, Giorgia, Goddard, Michael E., Golightly, Yvonne M., Gonzalez-Villalpando, Clicerio, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Grallert, Harald, Grant, Struan F. A., Grarup, Niels, Griffiths, Lyn, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Haiman, Christopher, Hakonarson, Hakon, Hansen, Torben, Hartman, Catharina A., Hattersley, Andrew T., Hayward, Caroline, Heckbert, Susan R., Heng, Chew-Kiat, Hengstenberg, Christian, Hewitt, Alex W., Hishigaki, Haretsugu, Hoyng, Carel B., Huang, Paul L., Huang, Wei, Hunt, Steven C., Hveem, Kristian, Hyppönen, Elina, Iacono, William G., Ichihara, Sahoko, Ikram, M. Arfan, Isasi, Carmen R., Jackson, Rebecca D., Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Jin, Zi-Bing, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, Joshi, Peter K., Jousilahti, Pekka, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kähönen, Mika, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kang, Kui Dong, Kaprio, Jaakko, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Karpe, Fredrik, Kato, Norihiro, Kee, Frank, Kessler, Thorsten, Khera, Amit V., Khor, Chiea Chuen, Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M., Kim, Bong-Jo, Kim, Eung Kweon, Kim, Hyung-Lae, Kirchhof, Paulus, Kivimaki, Mika, Koh, Woon-Puay, Koistinen, Heikki A., Kolovou, Genovefa D., Kooner, Jaspal S., Kooperberg, Charles, Köttgen, Anna, Kovacs, Peter, Kraaijeveld, Adriaan, Kraft, Peter, Krauss, Ronald M., Kumari, Meena, Kutalik, Zoltan, Laakso, Markku, Lange, Leslie A., Langenberg, Claudia, Launer, Lenore J., Le Marchand, Loic, Lee, Hyejin, Lee, Nanette R., Lehtimäki, Terho, Li, Huaixing, Li, Liming, Lieb, Wolfgang, Lin, Xu, Lind, Lars, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Ching-Ti, Liu, Jianjun, Loeffler, Markus, London, Barry, Lubitz, Steven A., Lye, Stephen J., Mackey, David A., Mägi, Reedik, Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Marcus, Gregory M., Vidal, Pedro Marques, Martin, Nicholas G., März, Winfried, Matsuda, Fumihiko, McGarrah, Robert W., McGue, Matt, McKnight, Amy Jayne, Medland, Sarah E., Mellström, Dan, Metspalu, Andres, Mitchell, Braxton D., Mitchell, Paul, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Morris, Andrew D., Mucci, Lorelei A., Munroe, Patricia B., Nalls, Mike A., Nazarian, Saman, Nelson, Amanda E., Neville, Matt J., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Nielsen, Christopher S., Nöthen, Markus M., Ohlsson, Claes, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Orozco, Lorena, Pahkala, Katja, Pajukanta, Päivi, Palmer, Colin N. A., Parra, Esteban J., Pattaro, Cristian, Pedersen, Oluf, Pennell, Craig E., Penninx, Brenda W. J. 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Abstract: Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes1. Here, using data from a genome-wide association study of 5.4 million individuals of diverse ancestries, we show that 12,111 independent SNPs that are significantly associated with height account for nearly all of the common SNP-based heritability. These SNPs are clustered within 7,209 non-overlapping genomic segments with a mean size of around 90 kb, covering about 21% of the genome. The density of independent associations varies across the genome and the regions of increased density are enriched for biologically relevant genes. In out-of-sample estimation and prediction, the 12,111 SNPs (or all SNPs in the HapMap 3 panel2) account for 40% (45%) of phenotypic variance in populations of European ancestry but only around 10–20% (14–24%) in populations of other ancestries. Effect sizes, associated regions and gene prioritization are similar across ancestries, indicating that reduced prediction accuracy is likely to be explained by linkage disequilibrium and differences in allele frequency within associated regions. Finally, we show that the relevant biological pathways are detectable with smaller sample sizes than are needed to implicate causal genes and variants. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive map of specific genomic regions that contain the vast majority of common height-associated variants. Although this map is saturated for populations of European ancestry, further research is needed to achieve equivalent saturation in other ancestries.
Published: 2022
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2. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

Author: Yengo, Loïc, Vedantam, Sailaja, Marouli, Eirini, Sidorenko, Julia, Bartell, Eric, Sakaue, Saori, Graff, Marielisa, Eliasen, Anders U., Jiang, Yunxuan, Raghavan, Sridharan, Miao, Jenkai, Arias, Joshua D., Graham, Sarah E., Mukamel, Ronen E., Spracklen, Cassandra N., Yin, Xianyong, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Ferreira, Teresa, Highland, Heather H., Ji, Yingjie, Karaderi, Tugce, Lin, Kuang, Lüll, Kreete, Malden, Deborah E., Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Machado, Moara, Moore, Amy, Rüeger, Sina, Sim, Xueling, Vrieze, Scott, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Akiyama, Masato, Allison, Matthew A., Alvarez, Marcus, Andersen, Mette K., Ani, Alireza, Appadurai, Vivek, Arbeeva, Liubov, Bhaskar, Seema, Bielak, Lawrence F., Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Bonnycastle, Lori L., Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bradfield, Jonathan P., Bradford, Yuki, Braund, Peter S., Brody, Jennifer A., Burgdorf, Kristoffer S., Cade, Brian E., Cai, Hui, Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Archie, Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Catamo, Eulalia, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chai, Xiaoran, Chang, Li-Ching, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chesi, Alessandra, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chung, Ren-Hua, Cocca, Massimiliano, Concas, Maria Pina, Couture, Christian, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Danning, Rebecca, Daw, E. Warwick, Degenhard, Frauke, Delgado, Graciela E., Delitala, Alessandro, Demirkan, Ayse, Deng, Xuan, Devineni, Poornima, Dietl, Alexander, Dimitriou, Maria, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Ekici, Arif B., Engmann, Jorgen E., Fairhurst-Hunter, Zammy, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Faul, Jessica D., Fernandez-Lopez, Juan-Carlos, Forer, Lukas, Francescatto, Margherita, Freitag-Wolf, Sandra, Fuchsberger, Christian, Galesloot, Tessel E., Gao, Yan, Gao, Zishan, Geller, Frank, Giannakopoulou, Olga, Giulianini, Franco, Gjesing, Anette P., Goel, Anuj, Gordon, Scott D., Gorski, Mathias, Grove, Jakob, Guo, Xiuqing, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haessler, Jeffrey, Hansen, Thomas F., Havulinna, Aki S., Haworth, Simon J., He, Jing, Heard-Costa, Nancy, Hebbar, Prashantha, Hindy, George, Ho, Yuk-Lam A., Hofer, Edith, Holliday, Elizabeth, Horn, Katrin, Hornsby, Whitney E., Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huang, Hongyan, Huang, Jie, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Huffman, Jennifer E., Hung, Yi-Jen, Huo, Shaofeng, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Iha, Hiroyuki, Ikeda, Daisuke D., Isono, Masato, Jackson, Anne U., Jäger, Susanne, Jansen, Iris E., Johansson, Ingegerd, Jonas, Jost B., Jonsson, Anna, Jørgensen, Torben, Kalafati, Ioanna-Panagiota, Kanai, Masahiro, Kanoni, Stavroula, Kårhus, Line L., Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Kember, Rachel L., Kentistou, Katherine A., Kim, Han-Na, Kim, Young Jin, Kleber, Marcus E., Knol, Maria J., Kurbasic, Azra, Lauzon, Marie, Le, Phuong, Lea, Rodney, Lee, Jong-Young, Leonard, Hampton L., Li, Shengchao A., Li, Xiaohui, Li, Xiaoyin, Liang, Jingjing, Lin, Honghuang, Lin, Shih-Yi, Liu, Jun, Liu, Xueping, Lo, Ken Sin, Long, Jirong, Lores-Motta, Laura, Luan, Jian’an, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mahajan, Anubha, Mamakou, Vasiliki, Mangino, Massimo, Manichaikul, Ani, Marten, Jonathan, Mattheisen, Manuel, Mavarani, Laven, McDaid, Aaron F., Meidtner, Karina, Melendez, Tori L., Mercader, Josep M., Milaneschi, Yuri, Miller, Jason E., Millwood, Iona Y., Mishra, Pashupati P., Mitchell, Ruth E., Møllehave, Line T., Morgan, Anna, Mucha, Soeren, Munz, Matthias, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Nelson, Christopher P., Nethander, Maria, Nho, Chu Won, Nielsen, Aneta A., Nolte, Ilja M., Nongmaithem, Suraj S., Noordam, Raymond, Ntalla, Ioanna, Nutile, Teresa, Pandit, Anita, Christofidou, Paraskevi, Pärna, Katri, Pauper, Marc, Petersen, Eva R. 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B., Petersen, Liselotte V., Pitkänen, Niina, Polašek, Ozren, Poveda, Alaitz, Preuss, Michael H., Pyarajan, Saiju, Raffield, Laura M., Rakugi, Hiromi, Ramirez, Julia, Rasheed, Asif, Raven, Dennis, Rayner, Nigel W., Riveros, Carlos, Rohde, Rebecca, Ruggiero, Daniela, Ruotsalainen, Sanni E., Ryan, Kathleen A., Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Saxena, Richa, Scholz, Markus, Sendamarai, Anoop, Shen, Botong, Shi, Jingchunzi, Shin, Jae Hun, Sidore, Carlo, Sitlani, Colleen M., Slieker, Roderick C., Smit, Roelof A. J., Smith, Albert V., Smith, Jennifer A., Smyth, Laura J., Southam, Lorraine, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Sun, Liang, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Tallapragada, Divya Sri Priyanka, Taylor, Kent D., Tayo, Bamidele O., Tcheandjieu, Catherine, Terzikhan, Natalie, Tesolin, Paola, Teumer, Alexander, Theusch, Elizabeth, Thompson, Deborah J., Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Timmers, Paul R. H. 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Arfan, Isasi, Carmen R., Jackson, Rebecca D., Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Jin, Zi-Bing, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, Joshi, Peter K., Jousilahti, Pekka, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kähönen, Mika, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kang, Kui Dong, Kaprio, Jaakko, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Karpe, Fredrik, Kato, Norihiro, Kee, Frank, Kessler, Thorsten, Khera, Amit V., Khor, Chiea Chuen, Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. 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E., Marcus, Gregory M., Vidal, Pedro Marques, Martin, Nicholas G., März, Winfried, Matsuda, Fumihiko, McGarrah, Robert W., McGue, Matt, McKnight, Amy Jayne, Medland, Sarah E., Mellström, Dan, Metspalu, Andres, Mitchell, Braxton D., Mitchell, Paul, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Morris, Andrew D., Mucci, Lorelei A., Munroe, Patricia B., Nalls, Mike A., Nazarian, Saman, Nelson, Amanda E., Neville, Matt J., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Nielsen, Christopher S., Nöthen, Markus M., Ohlsson, Claes, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Orozco, Lorena, Pahkala, Katja, Pajukanta, Päivi, Palmer, Colin N. A., Parra, Esteban J., Pattaro, Cristian, Pedersen, Oluf, Pennell, Craig E., Penninx, Brenda W. J. 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Abstract: Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes1. Here, using data from a genome-wide association study of 5.4 million individuals of diverse ancestries, we show that 12,111 independent SNPs that are significantly associated with height account for nearly all of the common SNP-based heritability. These SNPs are clustered within 7,209 non-overlapping genomic segments with a mean size of around 90 kb, covering about 21% of the genome. The density of independent associations varies across the genome and the regions of increased density are enriched for biologically relevant genes. In out-of-sample estimation and prediction, the 12,111 SNPs (or all SNPs in the HapMap 3 panel2) account for 40% (45%) of phenotypic variance in populations of European ancestry but only around 10–20% (14–24%) in populations of other ancestries. Effect sizes, associated regions and gene prioritization are similar across ancestries, indicating that reduced prediction accuracy is likely to be explained by linkage disequilibrium and differences in allele frequency within associated regions. Finally, we show that the relevant biological pathways are detectable with smaller sample sizes than are needed to implicate causal genes and variants. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive map of specific genomic regions that contain the vast majority of common height-associated variants. Although this map is saturated for populations of European ancestry, further research is needed to achieve equivalent saturation in other ancestries.
Published: 2022
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3. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

Author: Yengo, Loïc, Vedantam, Sailaja, Marouli, Eirini, Sidorenko, Julia, Bartell, Eric, Sakaue, Saori, Graff, Marielisa, Eliasen, Anders U., Jiang, Yunxuan, Raghavan, Sridharan, Miao, Jenkai, Arias, Joshua D., Graham, Sarah E., Mukamel, Ronen E., Spracklen, Cassandra N., Yin, Xianyong, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Ferreira, Teresa, Highland, Heather H., Ji, Yingjie, Karaderi, Tugce, Lin, Kuang, Lüll, Kreete, Malden, Deborah E., Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Machado, Moara, Moore, Amy, Rüeger, Sina, Sim, Xueling, Vrieze, Scott, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Akiyama, Masato, Allison, Matthew A., Alvarez, Marcus, Andersen, Mette K., Ani, Alireza, Appadurai, Vivek, Arbeeva, Liubov, Bhaskar, Seema, Bielak, Lawrence F., Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Bonnycastle, Lori L., Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bradfield, Jonathan P., Bradford, Yuki, Braund, Peter S., Brody, Jennifer A., Burgdorf, Kristoffer S., Cade, Brian E., Cai, Hui, Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Archie, Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Catamo, Eulalia, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chai, Xiaoran, Chang, Li-Ching, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chesi, Alessandra, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chung, Ren-Hua, Cocca, Massimiliano, Concas, Maria Pina, Couture, Christian, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Danning, Rebecca, Daw, E. 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Abstract: Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes1. Here, using data from a genome-wide association study of 5.4 million individuals of diverse ancestries, we show that 12,111 independent SNPs that are significantly associated with height account for nearly all of the common SNP-based heritability. These SNPs are clustered within 7,209 non-overlapping genomic segments with a mean size of around 90 kb, covering about 21% of the genome. The density of independent associations varies across the genome and the regions of increased density are enriched for biologically relevant genes. In out-of-sample estimation and prediction, the 12,111 SNPs (or all SNPs in the HapMap 3 panel2) account for 40% (45%) of phenotypic variance in populations of European ancestry but only around 10–20% (14–24%) in populations of other ancestries. Effect sizes, associated regions and gene prioritization are similar across ancestries, indicating that reduced prediction accuracy is likely to be explained by linkage disequilibrium and differences in allele frequency within associated regions. Finally, we show that the relevant biological pathways are detectable with smaller sample sizes than are needed to implicate causal genes and variants. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive map of specific genomic regions that contain the vast majority of common height-associated variants. Although this map is saturated for populations of European ancestry, further research is needed to achieve equivalent saturation in other ancestries.
Published: 2022
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4. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

Author: Yengo, Loïc, Vedantam, Sailaja, Marouli, Eirini, Sidorenko, Julia, Bartell, Eric, Sakaue, Saori, Graff, Marielisa, Eliasen, Anders U., Jiang, Yunxuan, Raghavan, Sridharan, Miao, Jenkai, Arias, Joshua D., Graham, Sarah E., Mukamel, Ronen E., Spracklen, Cassandra N., Yin, Xianyong, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Ferreira, Teresa, Highland, Heather H., Ji, Yingjie, Karaderi, Tugce, Lin, Kuang, Lüll, Kreete, Malden, Deborah E., Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Machado, Moara, Moore, Amy, Rüeger, Sina, Sim, Xueling, Vrieze, Scott, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Akiyama, Masato, Allison, Matthew A., Alvarez, Marcus, Andersen, Mette K., Ani, Alireza, Appadurai, Vivek, Arbeeva, Liubov, Bhaskar, Seema, Bielak, Lawrence F., Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Bonnycastle, Lori L., Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bradfield, Jonathan P., Bradford, Yuki, Braund, Peter S., Brody, Jennifer A., Burgdorf, Kristoffer S., Cade, Brian E., Cai, Hui, Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Archie, Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Catamo, Eulalia, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chai, Xiaoran, Chang, Li-Ching, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chesi, Alessandra, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chung, Ren-Hua, Cocca, Massimiliano, Concas, Maria Pina, Couture, Christian, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Danning, Rebecca, Daw, E. 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Abstract: Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes1. Here, using data from a genome-wide association study of 5.4 million individuals of diverse ancestries, we show that 12,111 independent SNPs that are significantly associated with height account for nearly all of the common SNP-based heritability. These SNPs are clustered within 7,209 non-overlapping genomic segments with a mean size of around 90 kb, covering about 21% of the genome. The density of independent associations varies across the genome and the regions of increased density are enriched for biologically relevant genes. In out-of-sample estimation and prediction, the 12,111 SNPs (or all SNPs in the HapMap 3 panel2) account for 40% (45%) of phenotypic variance in populations of European ancestry but only around 10–20% (14–24%) in populations of other ancestries. Effect sizes, associated regions and gene prioritization are similar across ancestries, indicating that reduced prediction accuracy is likely to be explained by linkage disequilibrium and differences in allele frequency within associated regions. Finally, we show that the relevant biological pathways are detectable with smaller sample sizes than are needed to implicate causal genes and variants. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive map of specific genomic regions that contain the vast majority of common height-associated variants. Although this map is saturated for populations of European ancestry, further research is needed to achieve equivalent saturation in other ancestries.
Published: 2022
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5. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

Author: Yengo, Loïc, Vedantam, Sailaja, Marouli, Eirini, Sidorenko, Julia, Bartell, Eric, Sakaue, Saori, Graff, Marielisa, Eliasen, Anders U., Jiang, Yunxuan, Raghavan, Sridharan, Miao, Jenkai, Arias, Joshua D., Graham, Sarah E., Mukamel, Ronen E., Spracklen, Cassandra N., Yin, Xianyong, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Ferreira, Teresa, Highland, Heather H., Ji, Yingjie, Karaderi, Tugce, Lin, Kuang, Lüll, Kreete, Malden, Deborah E., Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Machado, Moara, Moore, Amy, Rüeger, Sina, Sim, Xueling, Vrieze, Scott, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Akiyama, Masato, Allison, Matthew A., Alvarez, Marcus, Andersen, Mette K., Ani, Alireza, Appadurai, Vivek, Arbeeva, Liubov, Bhaskar, Seema, Bielak, Lawrence F., Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Bonnycastle, Lori L., Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bradfield, Jonathan P., Bradford, Yuki, Braund, Peter S., Brody, Jennifer A., Burgdorf, Kristoffer S., Cade, Brian E., Cai, Hui, Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Archie, Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Catamo, Eulalia, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chai, Xiaoran, Chang, Li-Ching, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chesi, Alessandra, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chung, Ren-Hua, Cocca, Massimiliano, Concas, Maria Pina, Couture, Christian, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Danning, Rebecca, Daw, E. 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E., Marcus, Gregory M., Vidal, Pedro Marques, Martin, Nicholas G., März, Winfried, Matsuda, Fumihiko, McGarrah, Robert W., McGue, Matt, McKnight, Amy Jayne, Medland, Sarah E., Mellström, Dan, Metspalu, Andres, Mitchell, Braxton D., Mitchell, Paul, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Morris, Andrew D., Mucci, Lorelei A., Munroe, Patricia B., Nalls, Mike A., Nazarian, Saman, Nelson, Amanda E., Neville, Matt J., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Nielsen, Christopher S., Nöthen, Markus M., Ohlsson, Claes, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Orozco, Lorena, Pahkala, Katja, Pajukanta, Päivi, Palmer, Colin N. A., Parra, Esteban J., Pattaro, Cristian, Pedersen, Oluf, Pennell, Craig E., Penninx, Brenda W. J. H., Perusse, Louis, Peters, Annette, Peyser, Patricia A., Porteous, David J., Posthuma, Danielle, Power, Chris, Pramstaller, Peter P., Province, Michael A., Qi, Qibin, Qu, Jia, Rader, Daniel J., Raitakari, Olli T., Ralhan, Sarju, Rallidis, Loukianos S., Rao, Dabeeru C., Redline, Susan, Reilly, Dermot F., Reiner, Alexander P., Rhee, Sang Youl, Ridker, Paul M., Rienstra, Michiel, Ripatti, Samuli, Ritchie, Marylyn D., Roden, Dan M., Rosendaal, Frits R., Rotter, Jerome I., Rudan, Igor, Rutters, Femke, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Saleheen, Danish, Salomaa, Veikko, Samani, Nilesh J., Sanghera, Dharambir K., Sattar, Naveed, Schmidt, Börge, Schmidt, Helena, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schulze, Matthias B., Schunkert, Heribert, Scott, Laura J., Scott, Rodney J., Sever, Peter, Shiroma, Eric J., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Simonsick, Eleanor M., Sims, Mario, Singh, Jai Rup, Singleton, Andrew B., Sinner, Moritz F., Smith, J. Gustav, Snieder, Harold, Spector, Tim D., Stampfer, Meir J., Stark, Klaus J., Strachan, David P., ‘t Hart, Leen M., Tabara, Yasuharu, Tang, Hua, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Thanaraj, Thangavel A., Timpson, Nicholas J., Tönjes, Anke, Tremblay, Angelo, Tuomi, Tiinamaija, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Tusié-Luna, Maria-Teresa, Uitterlinden, Andre G., van Dam, Rob M., van der Harst, Pim, Van der Velde, Nathalie, van Duijn, Cornelia M., van Schoor, Natasja M., Vitart, Veronique, Völker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Völzke, Henry, Wacher-Rodarte, Niels H., Walker, Mark, Wang, Ya Xing, Wareham, Nicholas J., Watanabe, Richard M., Watkins, Hugh, Weir, David R., Werge, Thomas M., Widen, Elisabeth, Wilkens, Lynne R., Willemsen, Gonneke, Willett, Walter C., Wilson, James F., Wong, Tien-Yin, Woo, Jeong-Taek, Wright, Alan F., Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Xu, Huichun, Yajnik, Chittaranjan S., Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Yuan, Jian-Min, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Zemel, Babette S., Zheng, Wei, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Zmuda, Joseph M., Zonderman, Alan B., Zwart, John-Anker, Partida, Gabriel Cuellar, Sun, Yan, Croteau-Chonka, Damien, Vonk, Judith M., Chanock, Stephen, Chasman, Daniel I., Cho, Yoon Shin, Heid, Iris M., McCarthy, Mark I., Ng, Maggie C. Y., O’Donnell, Christopher J., Rivadeneira, Fernando, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Sun, Yan V., Tai, E. Shyong, Boehnke, Michael, Deloukas, Panos, Justice, Anne E., Lindgren, Cecilia M., Loos, Ruth J. F., Mohlke, Karen L., North, Kari E., Stefansson, Kari, Walters, Robin G., Winkler, Thomas W., Young, Kristin L., Loh, Po-Ru, Yang, Jian, Esko, Tõnu, Assimes, Themistocles L., Auton, Adam, Abecasis, Goncalo R., Willer, Cristen J., Locke, Adam E., Berndt, Sonja I., Lettre, Guillaume, Frayling, Timothy M., Okada, Yukinori, Wood, Andrew R., Visscher, Peter M., and Hirschhorn, Joel N.
Abstract: Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes1. Here, using data from a genome-wide association study of 5.4 million individuals of diverse ancestries, we show that 12,111 independent SNPs that are significantly associated with height account for nearly all of the common SNP-based heritability. These SNPs are clustered within 7,209 non-overlapping genomic segments with a mean size of around 90 kb, covering about 21% of the genome. The density of independent associations varies across the genome and the regions of increased density are enriched for biologically relevant genes. In out-of-sample estimation and prediction, the 12,111 SNPs (or all SNPs in the HapMap 3 panel2) account for 40% (45%) of phenotypic variance in populations of European ancestry but only around 10–20% (14–24%) in populations of other ancestries. Effect sizes, associated regions and gene prioritization are similar across ancestries, indicating that reduced prediction accuracy is likely to be explained by linkage disequilibrium and differences in allele frequency within associated regions. Finally, we show that the relevant biological pathways are detectable with smaller sample sizes than are needed to implicate causal genes and variants. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive map of specific genomic regions that contain the vast majority of common height-associated variants. Although this map is saturated for populations of European ancestry, further research is needed to achieve equivalent saturation in other ancestries.
Published: 2022
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6. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness in Medicine and Cardiology: Next Steps for JAHA.

Author: London, Barry, London, Barry, Ahmad, Ferhaan, Eitzman, Daniel T, Gupta, Ajay K, Jneid, Hani, Peterson, Pamela, Remme, Carol A, Rice, Kenneth, Schelbert, Erik B, Simon, Marc A, Sullivan, Lisa M, Weinberg, Janice M, London, Barry, London, Barry, Ahmad, Ferhaan, Eitzman, Daniel T, Gupta, Ajay K, Jneid, Hani, Peterson, Pamela, Remme, Carol A, Rice, Kenneth, Schelbert, Erik B, Simon, Marc A, Sullivan, Lisa M, and Weinberg, Janice M
Abstract: We, the Editors of the Journal of the American Heart Association, sincerely regret the publication of the article "Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity: Evolution of Race and Ethnicity Considerations for the Cardiology Workforce in the United States of America From 1969 to 2019".1 We are aware that the publication of this flawed and biased article has caused a great deal of unnecessary pain and anguish to a number of parties, and reflects extremely poorly on us. We fully support the retraction of this article.
Published: 2020

7. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness in Medicine and Cardiology: Next Steps for JAHA.

Author: London, Barry, London, Barry, Ahmad, Ferhaan, Eitzman, Daniel T, Gupta, Ajay K, Jneid, Hani, Peterson, Pamela, Remme, Carol A, Rice, Kenneth, Schelbert, Erik B, Simon, Marc A, Sullivan, Lisa M, Weinberg, Janice M, London, Barry, London, Barry, Ahmad, Ferhaan, Eitzman, Daniel T, Gupta, Ajay K, Jneid, Hani, Peterson, Pamela, Remme, Carol A, Rice, Kenneth, Schelbert, Erik B, Simon, Marc A, Sullivan, Lisa M, and Weinberg, Janice M
Abstract: We, the Editors of the Journal of the American Heart Association, sincerely regret the publication of the article "Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity: Evolution of Race and Ethnicity Considerations for the Cardiology Workforce in the United States of America From 1969 to 2019".1 We are aware that the publication of this flawed and biased article has caused a great deal of unnecessary pain and anguish to a number of parties, and reflects extremely poorly on us. We fully support the retraction of this article.
Published: 2020

8. 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., Munroe, Patricia B., 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., and Munroe, Patricia B.
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. On the electrocardiogram, the PR interval reflects conduction from the atria to ventricles and also serves as risk indicator of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Here, the authors perform genome-wide meta-analyses for PR interval in multiple ancestries and identify 141 previously unreported genetic loci.
Published: 2020
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9. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

Author: Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, Ye, Bin, Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, and Ye, Bin
Abstract: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded only limited insights, leaving the observed heritability of HF largely unexplained. We report results from a GWAS meta-analysis of HF comprising 47,309 cases and 930,014 controls. Twelve independent variants at 11 genomic loci are associated with HF, all of which demonstrate one or more associations with coronary artery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation, or reduced left ventricular function, suggesting shared genetic aetiology. Functional analysis of non-CAD-associated loci implicate genes involved in cardiac development (MYOZ1, SYNPO2L), protein homoeostasis (BAG3), and cellular senescence (CDKN1A). Mendelian randomisation analysis supports causal roles for several HF risk factors, and demonstrates CAD-independent effects for atrial fibrillation, body mass index, and hypertension. These findings extend our knowledge of the pathways underlying HF and may inform new therapeutic strategies.
Published: 2020
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10. 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., Munroe, Patricia B., 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., and Munroe, Patricia B.
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. On the electrocardiogram, the PR interval reflects conduction from the atria to ventricles and also serves as risk indicator of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Here, the authors perform genome-wide meta-analyses for PR interval in multiple ancestries and identify 141 previously unreported genetic loci.
Published: 2020
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11. 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., Munroe, Patricia B., 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., and Munroe, Patricia B.
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. On the electrocardiogram, the PR interval reflects conduction from the atria to ventricles and also serves as risk indicator of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Here, the authors perform genome-wide meta-analyses for PR interval in multiple ancestries and identify 141 previously unreported genetic loci.
Published: 2020
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12. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

Author: Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, Ye, Bin, Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, and Ye, Bin
Abstract: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded only limited insights, leaving the observed heritability of HF largely unexplained. We report results from a GWAS meta-analysis of HF comprising 47,309 cases and 930,014 controls. Twelve independent variants at 11 genomic loci are associated with HF, all of which demonstrate one or more associations with coronary artery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation, or reduced left ventricular function, suggesting shared genetic aetiology. Functional analysis of non-CAD-associated loci implicate genes involved in cardiac development (MYOZ1, SYNPO2L), protein homoeostasis (BAG3), and cellular senescence (CDKN1A). Mendelian randomisation analysis supports causal roles for several HF risk factors, and demonstrates CAD-independent effects for atrial fibrillation, body mass index, and hypertension. These findings extend our knowledge of the pathways underlying HF and may inform new therapeutic strategies.
Published: 2020
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13. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

Author: Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, Ye, Bin, Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, and Ye, Bin
Abstract: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded only limited insights, leaving the observed heritability of HF largely unexplained. We report results from a GWAS meta-analysis of HF comprising 47,309 cases and 930,014 controls. Twelve independent variants at 11 genomic loci are associated with HF, all of which demonstrate one or more associations with coronary artery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation, or reduced left ventricular function, suggesting shared genetic aetiology. Functional analysis of non-CAD-associated loci implicate genes involved in cardiac development (MYOZ1, SYNPO2L), protein homoeostasis (BAG3), and cellular senescence (CDKN1A). Mendelian randomisation analysis supports causal roles for several HF risk factors, and demonstrates CAD-independent effects for atrial fibrillation, body mass index, and hypertension. These findings extend our knowledge of the pathways underlying HF and may inform new therapeutic strategies.
Published: 2020
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14. Multi-ancestry GWAS of the electrocardiographic PR interval identifies 202 loci underlying cardiac conduction.

Author: Ntalla, Ioanna, 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, Roden, Dan M, Ntalla, Ioanna, 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
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. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure.

Author: Shah, Sonia, Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjörnsson, Garðar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Åsa K, Wilk, Jemma B, Morley, Michael P, Chaffin, Mark D, Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G, Ärnlöv, Johan, Backman, Joshua D, Biggs, Mary L, Bloom, Heather L, Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R, Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J, Chasman, Daniel I, Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P, Delgado, Graciela E, Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S, Dörr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C, Dunn, Michael E, Engström, Gunnar, Esko, Tõnu, Felix, Stephan B, Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S, Gross, Stefan, Guðbjartsson, Daníel F, Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M, van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L, Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E, Køber, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M, London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A, Lovering, Ruth C, Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B, März, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R, Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D, Morris, Andrew P, Morrison, Alanna C, Nagle, Michael W, Nelson, Christopher P, Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L, Owens, Anjali T, Palmer, Colin NA, Parry, Helen M, Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M, Regeneron Genetics Center, Rice, Kenneth M, Ridker, Paul M, Romaine, Simon PR, Rotter, Jerome I, Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A, Smelser, Diane T, Smith, Nicholas L, Stender, Steen, Stott, David J, Shah, Sonia, Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjörnsson, Garðar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Åsa K, Wilk, Jemma B, Morley, Michael P, Chaffin, Mark D, Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G, Ärnlöv, Johan, Backman, Joshua D, Biggs, Mary L, Bloom, Heather L, Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R, Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J, Chasman, Daniel I, Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P, Delgado, Graciela E, Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S, Dörr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C, Dunn, Michael E, Engström, Gunnar, Esko, Tõnu, Felix, Stephan B, Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S, Gross, Stefan, Guðbjartsson, Daníel F, Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M, van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L, Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E, Køber, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M, London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A, Lovering, Ruth C, Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B, März, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R, Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D, Morris, Andrew P, Morrison, Alanna C, Nagle, Michael W, Nelson, Christopher P, Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L, Owens, Anjali T, Palmer, Colin NA, Parry, Helen M, Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M, Regeneron Genetics Center, Rice, Kenneth M, Ridker, Paul M, Romaine, Simon PR, Rotter, Jerome I, Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A, Smelser, Diane T, Smith, Nicholas L, Stender, Steen, and Stott, David J
Abstract: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded only limited insights, leaving the observed heritability of HF largely unexplained. We report results from a GWAS meta-analysis of HF comprising 47,309 cases and 930,014 controls. Twelve independent variants at 11 genomic loci are associated with HF, all of which demonstrate one or more associations with coronary artery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation, or reduced left ventricular function, suggesting shared genetic aetiology. Functional analysis of non-CAD-associated loci implicate genes involved in cardiac development (MYOZ1, SYNPO2L), protein homoeostasis (BAG3), and cellular senescence (CDKN1A). Mendelian randomisation analysis supports causal roles for several HF risk factors, and demonstrates CAD-independent effects for atrial fibrillation, body mass index, and hypertension. These findings extend our knowledge of the pathways underlying HF and may inform new therapeutic strategies.
Published: 2020

16. Current Perspectives on Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Cardiovascular Disease: A White Paper by the JAHA Editors.

Author: Gupta, Ajay K, Gupta, Ajay K, Jneid, Hani, Addison, Daniel, Ardehali, Hossein, Boehme, Amelia K, Borgaonkar, Sanket, Boulestreau, Romain, Clerkin, Kevin, Delarche, Nicolas, DeVon, Holli A, Grumbach, Isabella M, Gutierrez, Jose, Jones, Daniel A, Kapil, Vikas, Maniero, Carmela, Mentias, Amgad, Miller, Pamela S, Ng, Sher May, Parekh, Jai D, Sanchez, Reynaldo H, Sawicki, Konrad Teodor, Te Riele, Anneline SJM, Remme, Carol Ann, London, Barry, Gupta, Ajay K, Gupta, Ajay K, Jneid, Hani, Addison, Daniel, Ardehali, Hossein, Boehme, Amelia K, Borgaonkar, Sanket, Boulestreau, Romain, Clerkin, Kevin, Delarche, Nicolas, DeVon, Holli A, Grumbach, Isabella M, Gutierrez, Jose, Jones, Daniel A, Kapil, Vikas, Maniero, Carmela, Mentias, Amgad, Miller, Pamela S, Ng, Sher May, Parekh, Jai D, Sanchez, Reynaldo H, Sawicki, Konrad Teodor, Te Riele, Anneline SJM, Remme, Carol Ann, and London, Barry
Abstract: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected more than 3.0 million people worldwide and killed more than 200,000 as of April 27, 2020. In this White Paper, we address the cardiovascular co-morbidities of COVID-19 infection; the diagnosis and treatment of standard cardiovascular conditions during the pandemic; and the diagnosis and treatment of the cardiovascular consequences of COVID-19 infection. In addition, we will also address various issues related to the safety of healthcare workers and the ethical issues related to patient care in this pandemic.
Published: 2020

17. 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., Munroe, Patricia B., 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., and Munroe, Patricia B.
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. On the electrocardiogram, the PR interval reflects conduction from the atria to ventricles and also serves as risk indicator of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Here, the authors perform genome-wide meta-analyses for PR interval in multiple ancestries and identify 141 previously unreported genetic loci.
Published: 2020
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18. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

Author: Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, Ye, Bin, Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, and Ye, Bin
Abstract: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded only limited insights, leaving the observed heritability of HF largely unexplained. We report results from a GWAS meta-analysis of HF comprising 47,309 cases and 930,014 controls. Twelve independent variants at 11 genomic loci are associated with HF, all of which demonstrate one or more associations with coronary artery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation, or reduced left ventricular function, suggesting shared genetic aetiology. Functional analysis of non-CAD-associated loci implicate genes involved in cardiac development (MYOZ1, SYNPO2L), protein homoeostasis (BAG3), and cellular senescence (CDKN1A). Mendelian randomisation analysis supports causal roles for several HF risk factors, and demonstrates CAD-independent effects for atrial fibrillation, body mass index, and hypertension. These findings extend our knowledge of the pathways underlying HF and may inform new therapeutic strategies.
Published: 2020
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19. Multi-ancestry GWAS of the electrocardiographic PR interval identifies 202 loci underlying cardiac conduction.

Author: Ntalla, Ioanna, 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, Roden, Dan M, Ntalla, Ioanna, 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
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

20. Current Perspectives on Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Cardiovascular Disease: A White Paper by the JAHA Editors.

Author: Gupta, Ajay K, Gupta, Ajay K, Jneid, Hani, Addison, Daniel, Ardehali, Hossein, Boehme, Amelia K, Borgaonkar, Sanket, Boulestreau, Romain, Clerkin, Kevin, Delarche, Nicolas, DeVon, Holli A, Grumbach, Isabella M, Gutierrez, Jose, Jones, Daniel A, Kapil, Vikas, Maniero, Carmela, Mentias, Amgad, Miller, Pamela S, Ng, Sher May, Parekh, Jai D, Sanchez, Reynaldo H, Sawicki, Konrad Teodor, Te Riele, Anneline SJM, Remme, Carol Ann, London, Barry, Gupta, Ajay K, Gupta, Ajay K, Jneid, Hani, Addison, Daniel, Ardehali, Hossein, Boehme, Amelia K, Borgaonkar, Sanket, Boulestreau, Romain, Clerkin, Kevin, Delarche, Nicolas, DeVon, Holli A, Grumbach, Isabella M, Gutierrez, Jose, Jones, Daniel A, Kapil, Vikas, Maniero, Carmela, Mentias, Amgad, Miller, Pamela S, Ng, Sher May, Parekh, Jai D, Sanchez, Reynaldo H, Sawicki, Konrad Teodor, Te Riele, Anneline SJM, Remme, Carol Ann, and London, Barry
Abstract: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected more than 3.0 million people worldwide and killed more than 200,000 as of April 27, 2020. In this White Paper, we address the cardiovascular co-morbidities of COVID-19 infection; the diagnosis and treatment of standard cardiovascular conditions during the pandemic; and the diagnosis and treatment of the cardiovascular consequences of COVID-19 infection. In addition, we will also address various issues related to the safety of healthcare workers and the ethical issues related to patient care in this pandemic.
Published: 2020

21. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure.

Author: Shah, Sonia, Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjörnsson, Garðar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Åsa K, Wilk, Jemma B, Morley, Michael P, Chaffin, Mark D, Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G, Ärnlöv, Johan, Backman, Joshua D, Biggs, Mary L, Bloom, Heather L, Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R, Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J, Chasman, Daniel I, Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P, Delgado, Graciela E, Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S, Dörr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C, Dunn, Michael E, Engström, Gunnar, Esko, Tõnu, Felix, Stephan B, Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S, Gross, Stefan, Guðbjartsson, Daníel F, Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M, van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L, Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E, Køber, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M, London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A, Lovering, Ruth C, Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B, März, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R, Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D, Morris, Andrew P, Morrison, Alanna C, Nagle, Michael W, Nelson, Christopher P, Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L, Owens, Anjali T, Palmer, Colin NA, Parry, Helen M, Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M, Regeneron Genetics Center, Rice, Kenneth M, Ridker, Paul M, Romaine, Simon PR, Rotter, Jerome I, Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A, Smelser, Diane T, Smith, Nicholas L, Stender, Steen, Stott, David J, Shah, Sonia, Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjörnsson, Garðar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Åsa K, Wilk, Jemma B, Morley, Michael P, Chaffin, Mark D, Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G, Ärnlöv, Johan, Backman, Joshua D, Biggs, Mary L, Bloom, Heather L, Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R, Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J, Chasman, Daniel I, Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P, Delgado, Graciela E, Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S, Dörr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C, Dunn, Michael E, Engström, Gunnar, Esko, Tõnu, Felix, Stephan B, Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S, Gross, Stefan, Guðbjartsson, Daníel F, Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M, van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L, Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E, Køber, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M, London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A, Lovering, Ruth C, Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B, März, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R, Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D, Morris, Andrew P, Morrison, Alanna C, Nagle, Michael W, Nelson, Christopher P, Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L, Owens, Anjali T, Palmer, Colin NA, Parry, Helen M, Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M, Regeneron Genetics Center, Rice, Kenneth M, Ridker, Paul M, Romaine, Simon PR, Rotter, Jerome I, Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A, Smelser, Diane T, Smith, Nicholas L, Stender, Steen, and Stott, David J
Abstract: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded only limited insights, leaving the observed heritability of HF largely unexplained. We report results from a GWAS meta-analysis of HF comprising 47,309 cases and 930,014 controls. Twelve independent variants at 11 genomic loci are associated with HF, all of which demonstrate one or more associations with coronary artery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation, or reduced left ventricular function, suggesting shared genetic aetiology. Functional analysis of non-CAD-associated loci implicate genes involved in cardiac development (MYOZ1, SYNPO2L), protein homoeostasis (BAG3), and cellular senescence (CDKN1A). Mendelian randomisation analysis supports causal roles for several HF risk factors, and demonstrates CAD-independent effects for atrial fibrillation, body mass index, and hypertension. These findings extend our knowledge of the pathways underlying HF and may inform new therapeutic strategies.
Published: 2020

22. 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., Munroe, Patricia B., 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., and Munroe, Patricia B.
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. On the electrocardiogram, the PR interval reflects conduction from the atria to ventricles and also serves as risk indicator of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Here, the authors perform genome-wide meta-analyses for PR interval in multiple ancestries and identify 141 previously unreported genetic loci.
Published: 2020
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23. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

Author: Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, Ye, Bin, Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, and Ye, Bin
Abstract: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded only limited insights, leaving the observed heritability of HF largely unexplained. We report results from a GWAS meta-analysis of HF comprising 47,309 cases and 930,014 controls. Twelve independent variants at 11 genomic loci are associated with HF, all of which demonstrate one or more associations with coronary artery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation, or reduced left ventricular function, suggesting shared genetic aetiology. Functional analysis of non-CAD-associated loci implicate genes involved in cardiac development (MYOZ1, SYNPO2L), protein homoeostasis (BAG3), and cellular senescence (CDKN1A). Mendelian randomisation analysis supports causal roles for several HF risk factors, and demonstrates CAD-independent effects for atrial fibrillation, body mass index, and hypertension. These findings extend our knowledge of the pathways underlying HF and may inform new therapeutic strategies.
Published: 2020
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24. 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 L.K., 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 J.F., 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, Roden, Dan M., Benjamin Shoemaker, M., Gustav Smith, J., Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Wouter Jukema, J., Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Dörr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Völker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Sääksjärvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome I., Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renée, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill V., Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, André, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Abdullah Said, M., Yldau van der Ende, M., Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., Munroe, Patricia B., 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 L.K., 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 J.F., 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, Roden, Dan M., Benjamin Shoemaker, M., Gustav Smith, J., Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Wouter Jukema, J., Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Dörr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Völker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Sääksjärvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome I., Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renée, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill V., Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, André, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Abdullah Said, M., Yldau van der Ende, M., Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., and Munroe, Patricia B.
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

25. 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., Munroe, Patricia B., 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, Fabiola M., Foco, Luisa, Gogele, 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, Kahonen, 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, Theriault, Sebastien, Hutri-Kahonen, Nina, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Raitakari, Olli T., Barnes, Catriona L. K., 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 J. F., Nadkarni, Girish N., Preuss, Michael H., Correa, Adolfo, Mei, Hao, Wilson, James, Meitinger, Thomas, Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Peters, Annette, Waldenberger, Melanie, Mangino, Massimo, Spector, Timothy D., Rienstra, Michiel, van de Vegte, Yordi J., van der Harst, Pim, Verweij, Niek, Kaab, Stefan, Schramm, Katharina, Sinner, Moritz F., Strauch, Konstantin, Cutler, Michael J., Fatkin, Diane, London, Barry, Olesen, Morten, Roden, Dan M., Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Smith, J. Gustav, Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Jukema, J. Wouter, Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Doerr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Voelker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Saaksjarvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome, I, Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renee, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill, V, Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, Andre, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Said, M. Abdullah, van der Ende, M. Yldau, Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., and Munroe, Patricia B.
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. On the electrocardiogram, the PR interval reflects conduction from the atria to ventricles and also serves as risk indicator of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Here, the authors perform genome-wide meta-analyses for PR interval in multiple ancestries and identify 141 previously unreported genetic loci.
Published: 2020
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26. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

Author: Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, Ye, Bin, Shah, Sonia, Henry, Albert, Roselli, Carolina, Lin, Honghuang, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Fatemifar, Ghazaleh, Hedman, Asa K., Wilk, Jemma B., Morley, Michael P., Chaffin, Mark D., Helgadottir, Anna, Verweij, Niek, Dehghan, Abbas, Almgren, Peter, Andersson, Charlotte, Aragam, Krishna G., Arnlov, Johan, Backman, Joshua D., Biggs, Mary L., Bloom, Heather L., Brandimarto, Jeffrey, Brown, Michael R., Buckbinder, Leonard, Carey, David J., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Xing, Chen, Xu, Chung, Jonathan, Chutkow, William, Cook, James P., Delgado, Graciela E., Denaxas, Spiros, Doney, Alexander S., Doerr, Marcus, Dudley, Samuel C., Dunn, Michael E., Engstrom, Gunnar, Esko, Tonu, Felix, Stephan B., Finan, Chris, Ford, Ian, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Ghasemi, Sahar, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Giulianini, Franco, Gottdiener, John S., Gross, Stefan, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Gutmann, Rebecca, Haggerty, Christopher M., van der Harst, Pim, Hyde, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kavousi, Maryam, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kleber, Marcus E., Kober, Lars, Koekemoer, Andrea, Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., London, Barry, Lotta, Luca A., Lovering, Ruth C., Luan, Jian'an, Magnusson, Patrik, Mahajan, Anubha, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, Melander, Olle, Mordi, Ify R., Morgan, Thomas, Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Nagle, Michael W., Nelson, Christopher P., Niessner, Alexander, Niiranen, Teemu, O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Owens, Anjali T., Palmer, Colin N. A., Parry, Helen M., Perola, Markus, Portilla-Fernandez, Eliana, Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth M., Ridker, Paul M., Romaine, Simon P. R., Rotter, Jerome I., Salo, Perttu, Salomaa, Veikko, van Setten, Jessica, Shalaby, Alaa A., Smelser, Diane T., Smith, Nicholas L., Stender, Steen, Stott, David J., Svensson, Per, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Trompet, Stella, Tyl, Benoit, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Veluchamy, Abirami, Voelker, Uwe, Voors, Adriaan A., Wang, Xiaosong, Wareham, Nicholas J., Waterworth, Dawn, Weeke, Peter E., Weiss, Raul, Wiggins, Kerri L., Xing, Heming, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Yu, Bing, Zannad, Faiez, Zhao, Jing Hua, Hemingway, Harry, Samani, Nilesh J., McMurray, John J. V., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Malarstig, Anders, Holm, Hilma, Lubitz, Steven A., Sattar, Naveed, Holmes, Michael V., Cappola, Thomas P., Asselbergs, Folkert W., Hingorani, Aroon D., Kuchenbaecker, Karoline, Ellinor, Patrick T., Lang, Chim C., Stefansson, Kari, Smith, J. Gustav, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Swerdlow, Daniel I., Lumbers, R. Thomas, Abecasis, Goncalo, Backman, Joshua, Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Banerjee, Nilanjana, Baras, Aris, Barnard, Leland, Beechert, Christina, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Cantor, Michael, Chai, Yating, Coppola, Giovanni, Damask, Amy, Dewey, Frederick, Economides, Aris, Eom, Gisu, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Gurski, Lauren, Guzzardo, Paloma M., Habegger, Lukas, Hahn, Young, Hawes, Alicia, van Hout, Cristopher, Jones, Marcus B., Khalid, Shareef, Lattari, Michael, Li, Alexander, Lin, Nan, Liu, Daren, Lopez, Alexander, Manoochehri, Kia, Marchini, Jonathan, Marcketta, Anthony, Maxwell, Evan K., McCarthy, Shane, Mitnaul, Lyndon J., O'Dushlaine, Colm, Overton, John D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Paulding, Charles, Penn, John, Pradhan, Manasi, Reid, Jeffrey G., Schleicher, Thomas D., Schurmann, Claudia, Shuldiner, Alan, Staples, Jeffrey C., Sun, Dylan, Toledo, Karina, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Yadav, Ashish, and Ye, Bin
Abstract: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have yielded only limited insights, leaving the observed heritability of HF largely unexplained. We report results from a GWAS meta-analysis of HF comprising 47,309 cases and 930,014 controls. Twelve independent variants at 11 genomic loci are associated with HF, all of which demonstrate one or more associations with coronary artery disease (CAD), atrial fibrillation, or reduced left ventricular function, suggesting shared genetic aetiology. Functional analysis of non-CAD-associated loci implicate genes involved in cardiac development (MYOZ1, SYNPO2L), protein homoeostasis (BAG3), and cellular senescence (CDKN1A). Mendelian randomisation analysis supports causal roles for several HF risk factors, and demonstrates CAD-independent effects for atrial fibrillation, body mass index, and hypertension. These findings extend our knowledge of the pathways underlying HF and may inform new therapeutic strategies.
Published: 2020
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27. 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 L.K., 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 J.F., 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, Roden, Dan M., Benjamin Shoemaker, M., Gustav Smith, J., Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Wouter Jukema, J., Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Dörr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Völker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Sääksjärvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome I., Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renée, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill V., Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, André, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Abdullah Said, M., Yldau van der Ende, M., Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., Munroe, Patricia B., 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 L.K., 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 J.F., 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, Roden, Dan M., Benjamin Shoemaker, M., Gustav Smith, J., Biggs, Mary L., Bis, Joshua C., Brody, Jennifer A., Psaty, Bruce M., Rice, Kenneth, Sotoodehnia, Nona, De Grandi, Alessandro, Fuchsberger, Christian, Pattaro, Cristian, Pramstaller, Peter P., Ford, Ian, Wouter Jukema, J., Macfarlane, Peter W., Trompet, Stella, Dörr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B., Völker, Uwe, Weiss, Stefan, Havulinna, Aki S., Jula, Antti, Sääksjärvi, Katri, Salomaa, Veikko, Guo, Xiuqing, Heckbert, Susan R., Lin, Henry J., Rotter, Jerome I., Taylor, Kent D., Yao, Jie, de Mutsert, Renée, Maan, Arie C., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Noordam, Raymond, Cucca, Francesco, Ding, Jun, Lakatta, Edward G., Qian, Yong, Tarasov, Kirill V., Levy, Daniel, Lin, Honghuang, Newton-Cheh, Christopher H., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Murray, Alison D., Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Stricker, Bruno H., Uitterlinden, André, van den Berg, Marten E., Haessler, Jeffrey, Jackson, Rebecca D., Kooperberg, Charles, Peters, Ulrike, Reiner, Alexander P., Whitsel, Eric A., Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Ehret, Georg B., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Avery, Christy L., Gogarten, Stephanie M., Kerr, Kathleen F., Laurie, Cathy C., Seyerle, Amanda A., Stilp, Adrienne, Assa, Solmaz, Abdullah Said, M., Yldau van der Ende, M., Lambiase, Pier D., Orini, Michele, Ramirez, Julia, Van Duijvenboden, Stefan, Arnar, David O., Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Sulem, Patrick, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B., Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Benjamin, Emelia J., Tinker, Andrew, Stefansson, Kari, Ellinor, Patrick T., Jamshidi, Yalda, Lubitz, Steven A., and Munroe, Patricia B.
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

28. Current perspectives on coronavirus disease 2019 and cardiovascular disease: A white paper by the jaha editors

Author: Arts Assistenten Cardiologie, Gupta, Ajay K., Jneid, Hani, Addison, Daniel, Ardehali, Hossein, Boehme, Amelia K., Borgaonkar, Sanket, Boulestreau, Romain, Clerkin, Kevin, Delarche, Nicolas, Devon, Holli A., Grumbach, Isabella M., Gutierrez, Jose, Jones, Daniel A., Kapil, Vikas, Maniero, Carmela, Mentias, Amgad, Miller, Pamela S., Ng, Sher May, Parekh, Jai D., Sanchez, Reynaldo H., Sawicki, Konrad Teodor, Te Riele, Anneline S.J.M., Remme, Carol Ann, London, Barry, Arts Assistenten Cardiologie, Gupta, Ajay K., Jneid, Hani, Addison, Daniel, Ardehali, Hossein, Boehme, Amelia K., Borgaonkar, Sanket, Boulestreau, Romain, Clerkin, Kevin, Delarche, Nicolas, Devon, Holli A., Grumbach, Isabella M., Gutierrez, Jose, Jones, Daniel A., Kapil, Vikas, Maniero, Carmela, Mentias, Amgad, Miller, Pamela S., Ng, Sher May, Parekh, Jai D., Sanchez, Reynaldo H., Sawicki, Konrad Teodor, Te Riele, Anneline S.J.M., Remme, Carol Ann, and London, Barry
Published: 2020

29. Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study for atrial fibrillation

Author: Roselli, Carolina, Chaffin, Mark D., Weng, Lu-Chen, Aeschbacher, Stefanie, Ahlberg, Gustav, Albert, Christine M., Almgren, Peter, Alonso, Alvaro, Anderson, Christopher D., Aragam, Krishna G., Arking, Dan E., Barnard, John, Bartz, Traci M., Benjamin, Emelia J., Bihlmeyer, Nathan A., Bis, Joshua C., Bloom, Heather L., Boerwinkle, Eric, Bottinger, Erwin B., Brody, Jennifer A., Calkins, Hugh, Campbell, Archie, Cappola, Thomas P., Carlquist, John, Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Lin Y., Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Choi, Eue-Keun, Choi, Seung Hoan, Christophersen, Ingrid E., Chung, Mina K., Cole, John W., Conen, David, Cook, James, Crijns, Harry J., Cutler, Michael J., Damrauer, Scott M., Daniels, Brian R., Darbar, Dawood, Delgado, Graciela, Denny, Joshua C., Dichgans, Martin, Doerr, Marcus, Dudink, Elton A., Dudley, Samuel C., Esa, Nada, Esko, Tonu, Eskola, Markku, Fatkin, Diane, Felix, Stephan B., Ford, Ian, Franco, Oscar H., Geelhoed, Bastiaan, Grewal, Raji P., Gudnason, Vilmundur, Guo, Xiuqing, Gupta, Namrata, Gustafsson, Stefan, Gutmann, Rebecca, Hamsten, Anders, Harris, Tamara B., Hayward, Caroline, Heckbert, Susan R., Hernesniemi, Jussi, Hocking, Lynne J., Hofman, Albert, Horimoto, Andrea R. V. R., Huang, Jie, Huang, Paul L., Huffman, Jennifer, Ingelsson, Erik, Ipek, Esra Gucuk, Ito, Kaoru, Jimenez-Conde, Jordi, Johnson, Renee, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kaeaeb, Stefan, Kahonen, Mika, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kane, John P., Kastrati, Adnan, Kathiresan, Sekar, Katschnig-Winter, Petra, Kavousi, Maryam, Kessler, Thorsten, Kietselaer, Bas L., Kirchhof, Paulus, Kleber, Marcus E., Knight, Stacey, Krieger, Jose E., Kubo, Michiaki, Launer, Lenore J., Laurikka, Jari, Lehtimaki, Terho, Leineweber, Kirsten, Lemaitre, Rozenn N., Li, Man, Lim, Hong Euy, Lin, Henry J., Lin, Honghuang, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., Lokki, Marja-Liisa, London, Barry, Loos, Ruth J. F., Low, Siew-Kee, Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Macfarlane, Peter W., Magnusson, Patrik K., Mahajan, Anubha, Malik, Rainer, Mansur, Alfredo J., Marcus, Gregory M., Margolin, Lauren, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, McManus, David D., Melander, Olle, Mohanty, Sanghamitra, Montgomery, Jay A., Morley, Michael P., Morris, Andrew P., Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Natale, Andrea, Nazarian, Saman, Neumann, Benjamin, Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Niemeijer, Maartje N., Nikus, Kjell, Nilsson, Peter, Noordam, Raymond, Oellers, Heidi, Olesen, Morten S., Orho-Melander, Marju, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Pak, Hui-Nam, Pare, Guillaume, Pedersen, Nancy L., Pera, Joanna, Pereira, Alexandre, Porteous, David, Psaty, Bruce M., Pulit, Sara L., Pullinger, Clive R., Rader, Daniel J., Refsgaard, Lena, Ribases, Marta, Ridker, Paul M., Rienstra, Michiel, Risch, Lorenz, Roden, Dan M., Rosand, Jonathan, Rosenberg, Michael A., Rost, Natalia, Rotter, Jerome I., Saba, Samir, Sandhu, Roopinder K., Schnabel, Renate B., Schramm, Katharina, Schunkert, Heribert, Schurman, Claudia, Scott, Stuart A., Seppala, Ilkka, Shaffer, Christian, Shah, Svati, Shalaby, Alaa A., Shim, Jaemin, Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Siland, Joylene E., Sinisalo, Juha, Sinner, Moritz F., Slowik, Agnieszka, Smith, Albert V., Smith, Blair H., Smith, J. Gustav, Smith, Jonathan D., Smith, Nicholas L., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Sotoodehnia, Nona, Stricker, Bruno H., Sun, Albert, Sun, Han, Svendsen, Jesper H., Tanaka, Toshihiro, Tanriverdi, Kahraman, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Theriault, Sebastien, Trompet, Stella, Tucker, Nathan R., Tveit, Arnljot, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Van Der Harst, Pim, Van Gelder, Isabelle C., Van Wagoner, David R., Verweij, Niek, Vlachopoulou, Efthymia, Voelker, Uwe, Wang, Biqi, Weeke, Peter E., Weijs, Bob, Weiss, Raul, Weiss, Stefan, Wells, Quinn S., Wiggins, Kerri L., Wong, Jorge A., Woo, Daniel, Worrall, Bradford B., Yang, Pil-Sung, Yao, Jie, Yoneda, Zachary T., Zeller, Tanja, Zeng, Lingyao, Lubitz, Steven A., Lunetta, Kathryn L., Ellinor, Patrick T., Roselli, Carolina, Chaffin, Mark D., Weng, Lu-Chen, Aeschbacher, Stefanie, Ahlberg, Gustav, Albert, Christine M., Almgren, Peter, Alonso, Alvaro, Anderson, Christopher D., Aragam, Krishna G., Arking, Dan E., Barnard, John, Bartz, Traci M., Benjamin, Emelia J., Bihlmeyer, Nathan A., Bis, Joshua C., Bloom, Heather L., Boerwinkle, Eric, Bottinger, Erwin B., Brody, Jennifer A., Calkins, Hugh, Campbell, Archie, Cappola, Thomas P., Carlquist, John, Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Lin Y., Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Choi, Eue-Keun, Choi, Seung Hoan, Christophersen, Ingrid E., Chung, Mina K., Cole, John W., Conen, David, Cook, James, Crijns, Harry J., Cutler, Michael J., Damrauer, Scott M., Daniels, Brian R., Darbar, Dawood, Delgado, Graciela, Denny, Joshua C., Dichgans, Martin, Doerr, Marcus, Dudink, Elton A., Dudley, Samuel C., Esa, Nada, Esko, Tonu, Eskola, Markku, Fatkin, Diane, Felix, Stephan B., Ford, Ian, Franco, Oscar H., Geelhoed, Bastiaan, Grewal, Raji P., Gudnason, Vilmundur, Guo, Xiuqing, Gupta, Namrata, Gustafsson, Stefan, Gutmann, Rebecca, Hamsten, Anders, Harris, Tamara B., Hayward, Caroline, Heckbert, Susan R., Hernesniemi, Jussi, Hocking, Lynne J., Hofman, Albert, Horimoto, Andrea R. V. R., Huang, Jie, Huang, Paul L., Huffman, Jennifer, Ingelsson, Erik, Ipek, Esra Gucuk, Ito, Kaoru, Jimenez-Conde, Jordi, Johnson, Renee, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kaeaeb, Stefan, Kahonen, Mika, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kane, John P., Kastrati, Adnan, Kathiresan, Sekar, Katschnig-Winter, Petra, Kavousi, Maryam, Kessler, Thorsten, Kietselaer, Bas L., Kirchhof, Paulus, Kleber, Marcus E., Knight, Stacey, Krieger, Jose E., Kubo, Michiaki, Launer, Lenore J., Laurikka, Jari, Lehtimaki, Terho, Leineweber, Kirsten, Lemaitre, Rozenn N., Li, Man, Lim, Hong Euy, Lin, Henry J., Lin, Honghuang, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., Lokki, Marja-Liisa, London, Barry, Loos, Ruth J. F., Low, Siew-Kee, Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Macfarlane, Peter W., Magnusson, Patrik K., Mahajan, Anubha, Malik, Rainer, Mansur, Alfredo J., Marcus, Gregory M., Margolin, Lauren, Margulies, Kenneth B., Maerz, Winfried, McManus, David D., Melander, Olle, Mohanty, Sanghamitra, Montgomery, Jay A., Morley, Michael P., Morris, Andrew P., Mueller-Nurasyid, Martina, Natale, Andrea, Nazarian, Saman, Neumann, Benjamin, Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Niemeijer, Maartje N., Nikus, Kjell, Nilsson, Peter, Noordam, Raymond, Oellers, Heidi, Olesen, Morten S., Orho-Melander, Marju, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Pak, Hui-Nam, Pare, Guillaume, Pedersen, Nancy L., Pera, Joanna, Pereira, Alexandre, Porteous, David, Psaty, Bruce M., Pulit, Sara L., Pullinger, Clive R., Rader, Daniel J., Refsgaard, Lena, Ribases, Marta, Ridker, Paul M., Rienstra, Michiel, Risch, Lorenz, Roden, Dan M., Rosand, Jonathan, Rosenberg, Michael A., Rost, Natalia, Rotter, Jerome I., Saba, Samir, Sandhu, Roopinder K., Schnabel, Renate B., Schramm, Katharina, Schunkert, Heribert, Schurman, Claudia, Scott, Stuart A., Seppala, Ilkka, Shaffer, Christian, Shah, Svati, Shalaby, Alaa A., Shim, Jaemin, Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Siland, Joylene E., Sinisalo, Juha, Sinner, Moritz F., Slowik, Agnieszka, Smith, Albert V., Smith, Blair H., Smith, J. Gustav, Smith, Jonathan D., Smith, Nicholas L., Soliman, Elsayed Z., Sotoodehnia, Nona, Stricker, Bruno H., Sun, Albert, Sun, Han, Svendsen, Jesper H., Tanaka, Toshihiro, Tanriverdi, Kahraman, Taylor, Kent D., Teder-Laving, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Theriault, Sebastien, Trompet, Stella, Tucker, Nathan R., Tveit, Arnljot, Uitterlinden, Andre G., Van Der Harst, Pim, Van Gelder, Isabelle C., Van Wagoner, David R., Verweij, Niek, Vlachopoulou, Efthymia, Voelker, Uwe, Wang, Biqi, Weeke, Peter E., Weijs, Bob, Weiss, Raul, Weiss, Stefan, Wells, Quinn S., Wiggins, Kerri L., Wong, Jorge A., Woo, Daniel, Worrall, Bradford B., Yang, Pil-Sung, Yao, Jie, Yoneda, Zachary T., Zeller, Tanja, Zeng, Lingyao, Lubitz, Steven A., Lunetta, Kathryn L., and Ellinor, Patrick T.
Abstract: Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million individuals worldwide(1) and has a complex heritability(2). We conducted the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for AF to date, consisting of more than half a million individuals, including 65,446 with AF. In total, we identified 97 loci significantly associated with AF, including 67 that were novel in a combined-ancestry analysis, and 3 that were novel in a European-specific analysis. We sought to identify AF-associated genes at the GWAS loci by performing RNA-sequencing and expression quantitative trait locus analyses in 101 left atrial samples, the most relevant tissue for AF. We also performed transcriptome-wide analyses that identified 57 AF-associated genes, 42 of which overlap with GWAS loci. The identified loci implicate genes enriched within cardiac developmental, electrophysiological, contractile and structural pathways. These results extend our understanding of the biological pathways underlying AF and may facilitate the development of therapeutics for AF.
Published: 2018
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30. Recovery in ERG gene expression with biventricular pacing in a rabbit model of myocardial infarction

Author: Saba,Samir, Mehdi,Haider, Barrington,William, Mehdi,Fardeen, Islam,Zahid, London,Barry, Saba,Samir, Mehdi,Haider, Barrington,William, Mehdi,Fardeen, Islam,Zahid, and London,Barry
Abstract: Samir Saba,* Haider Mehdi,* William Barrington, Fardeen Mehdi, Zahid Islam, Barry LondonCardiovascular Institute of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA*These authors contributed equally to this workBackground: Improved clinical and echocardiographic parameters have been documented with biventricular (BIV) pacing in patients after myocardial infarction (MI). We investigated the changes in gene expression in cardiac tissue with BIV pacing, using a rabbit model of MI.Method: New Zealand White rabbits were divided into four groups: sham-operated controls, MI with no pacing, MI with right ventricle (RV) pacing (MI + RV), and MI with BIV pacing (MI + BIV). Pacing was initiated 1–2 weeks after the coronary ligation. At 5 weeks, the hearts were excised. The tissue extracted from the left ventricle (LV) and RV underwent analysis for protein and messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) levels.Results: The ether-a-go-go-related gene (ERG) protein levels recovered from the base of the LV away from the MI area were two- to threefold lower in the MI and the MI + RV compared with the MI + BIV groups (P = 0.07). The ERG protein levels were similar between the MI + BIV and the control groups. However, the RNA levels were comparable between the four study groups, suggesting that a posttranscriptional mechanism accounted for the difference in protein levels.Conclusion: In this rabbit model of MI, we demonstrated a recovery in ERG protein levels with BIV pacing, after MI. This recovery may underlie some of the benefits seen with BIV pacing in ischemic cardiomyopathy.Keywords: heart failure, biventricular pacing, cardiac reverse remodeling, ether-a-go-go-related gene
Published: 2013

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1. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

2. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

3. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

4. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

5. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

6. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness in Medicine and Cardiology: Next Steps for JAHA.

7. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness in Medicine and Cardiology: Next Steps for JAHA.

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

9. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

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

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

12. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

13. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

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

15. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure.

16. Current Perspectives on Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Cardiovascular Disease: A White Paper by the JAHA Editors.

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

18. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

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

20. Current Perspectives on Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Cardiovascular Disease: A White Paper by the JAHA Editors.

21. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure.

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

23. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

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

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

26. Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

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

28. Current perspectives on coronavirus disease 2019 and cardiovascular disease: A white paper by the jaha editors

29. Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study for atrial fibrillation

30. Recovery in ERG gene expression with biventricular pacing in a rabbit model of myocardial infarction

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