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51. Genome-wide association for abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose reveals a novel locus for visceral fat in women

Author: Fox, CS, Liu, Y, White, CC, Feitosa, M, Smith, AV, Heard-Costa, N, Lohman, K, Johnson, AD, Foster, MC, Greenawalt, DM, Griffin, P, Ding, J, Newman, AB, Tylavsky, F, Miljkovic, I, Kritchevsky, SB, Launer, L, Garcia, M, Eiriksdottir, G, Carr, JJ, Gudnason, V, Harris, TB, Cupples, LA, Borecki, IB, Fox, CS, Liu, Y, White, CC, Feitosa, M, Smith, AV, Heard-Costa, N, Lohman, K, Johnson, AD, Foster, MC, Greenawalt, DM, Griffin, P, Ding, J, Newman, AB, Tylavsky, F, Miljkovic, I, Kritchevsky, SB, Launer, L, Garcia, M, Eiriksdottir, G, Carr, JJ, Gudnason, V, Harris, TB, Cupples, LA, and Borecki, IB
Abstract: Body fat distribution, particularly centralized obesity, is associated with metabolic risk above and beyond total adiposity. We performed genome-wide association of abdominal adipose depots quantified using computed tomography (CT) to uncover novel loci for body fat distribution among participants of European ancestry. Subcutaneous and visceral fat were quantified in 5,560 women and 4,997 men from 4 population-based studies. Genome-wide genotyping was performed using standard arrays and imputed to ~2.5 million Hapmap SNPs. Each study performed a genome-wide association analysis of subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), visceral adipose tissue (VAT), VAT adjusted for body mass index, and VAT/SAT ratio (a metric of the propensity to store fat viscerally as compared to subcutaneously) in the overall sample and in women and men separately. A weighted z-score meta-analysis was conducted. For the VAT/SAT ratio, our most significant p-value was rs11118316 at LYPLAL1 gene (p = 3.1×10E-09), previously identified in association with waist-hip ratio. For SAT, the most significant SNP was in the FTO gene (p = 5.9×10E-08). Given the known gender differences in body fat distribution, we performed sex-specific analyses. Our most significant finding was for VAT in women, rs1659258 near THNSL2 (p = 1.6×10-08), but not men (p = 0.75). Validation of this SNP in the GIANT consortium data demonstrated a similar sex-specific pattern, with observed significance in women (p = 0.006) but not men (p = 0.24) for BMI and waist circumference (p = 0.04 [women], p = 0.49 [men]). Finally, we interrogated our data for the 14 recently published loci for body fat distribution (measured by waist-hip ratio adjusted for BMI); associations were observed at 7 of these loci. In contrast, we observed associations at only 7/32 loci previously identified in association with BMI; the majority of overlap was observed with SAT. Genome-wide association for visceral and subcutaneous fat revealed a SNP for VAT in women
Published: 2012

52. Discovery and Fine Mapping of Serum Protein Loci through Transethnic Meta-analysis

Author: Franceschini, N, van Rooij, FJA, Prins, BP, Feitosa, MF, Karakas, M, Eckfeldt, JH, Folsom, AR, Kopp, J, Vaez, A, Andrews, JS, Baumert, J, Boraska, V, Broer, Linda, Hayward, C, Ngwa, JS, Okada, Y, Polasek, O, Westra, HJ, Wang, YA, Del Greco, F, Glazer, NL, Kapur, K, Id, P, Lopez, LM, Schillert, A, Smith, AV, Winkler, CA, Zgaga, L, Bandinelli, S, Bergmann, S, Boban, M, Bochud, M, Chen, YD, Davies, G, Dehghan, Abbas, Ding, JZ (Jing Zhong), Doering, A, Durda, JP, Ferrucci, L, Franco Duran, OH, Franke, L, Gunjaca, G, Hofman, Bert, Hsu, FC, Kolcic, I, Kraja, A, Kubo, M, Lackner, KJ, Launer, L, Loehr, LR, Li, G (Guo), Meisinger, C, Nakamura, Y, Schwienbacher, C, Starr, JM, Takahashi, A, Torlak, V, Uitterlinden, André, Vitart, V, Waldenberger, M, Wild, PS, Kirin, M, Zeller, T, Zemunik, T, Zhang, QY, Ziegler, A, Blankenberg, S, Boerwinkle, E, Borecki, IB, Campbell, H, Deary, IJ, Frayling, TM, Gieger, C, Harris, TB, Hicks, AA, Koenig, W, O'Donnell, CJ, Fox, CS, Pramstaller, PP, Psaty, BM, Reiner, AP, Rotter, JI, Rudan, I, Snieder, H, Tanaka, T, Duijn, Cornelia, Vollenweider, P, Waeber, G, Wilson, JF, Witteman, JCM, Wolffenbuttel, BHR, Wright, AF, Wu, QY, Liu, YM, Jenny, NS, North, KE, Felix, Janine, Alizadeh, BZ, Cupples, LA, Perry, JRB, Morris, AP, Franceschini, N, van Rooij, FJA, Prins, BP, Feitosa, MF, Karakas, M, Eckfeldt, JH, Folsom, AR, Kopp, J, Vaez, A, Andrews, JS, Baumert, J, Boraska, V, Broer, Linda, Hayward, C, Ngwa, JS, Okada, Y, Polasek, O, Westra, HJ, Wang, YA, Del Greco, F, Glazer, NL, Kapur, K, Id, P, Lopez, LM, Schillert, A, Smith, AV, Winkler, CA, Zgaga, L, Bandinelli, S, Bergmann, S, Boban, M, Bochud, M, Chen, YD, Davies, G, Dehghan, Abbas, Ding, JZ (Jing Zhong), Doering, A, Durda, JP, Ferrucci, L, Franco Duran, OH, Franke, L, Gunjaca, G, Hofman, Bert, Hsu, FC, Kolcic, I, Kraja, A, Kubo, M, Lackner, KJ, Launer, L, Loehr, LR, Li, G (Guo), Meisinger, C, Nakamura, Y, Schwienbacher, C, Starr, JM, Takahashi, A, Torlak, V, Uitterlinden, André, Vitart, V, Waldenberger, M, Wild, PS, Kirin, M, Zeller, T, Zemunik, T, Zhang, QY, Ziegler, A, Blankenberg, S, Boerwinkle, E, Borecki, IB, Campbell, H, Deary, IJ, Frayling, TM, Gieger, C, Harris, TB, Hicks, AA, Koenig, W, O'Donnell, CJ, Fox, CS, Pramstaller, PP, Psaty, BM, Reiner, AP, Rotter, JI, Rudan, I, Snieder, H, Tanaka, T, Duijn, Cornelia, Vollenweider, P, Waeber, G, Wilson, JF, Witteman, JCM, Wolffenbuttel, BHR, Wright, AF, Wu, QY, Liu, YM, Jenny, NS, North, KE, Felix, Janine, Alizadeh, BZ, Cupples, LA, Perry, JRB, and Morris, AP
Abstract: Many disorders are associated with altered serum protein concentrations, including malnutrition, cancer, and cardiovascular, kidney, and inflammatory diseases. Although these protein concentrations are highly heritable, relatively little is known about their underlying genetic determinants. Through transethnic meta-analysis of European-ancestry and Japanese genome-wide association studies, we identified six loci at genome-wide significance (p < 5 x 10(-8)) for serum albumin (HPN-SCN1B, GCKR-FNDC4, SERPINF2-WDR81, TNFRSF11A-ZCCHC2, FRMDS-WDR76, and RPS11-FCGRT, in up to 53,190 European-ancestry and 9,380 Japanese individuals) and three loci for total protein (TNFRS13B, 6q21.3, and ELL2, in up to 25,539 European-ancestry and 10,168 Japanese individuals). We observed little evidence of heterogeneity in allelic effects at these loci between groups of European and Japanese ancestry but obtained substantial improvements in the resolution of fine mapping of potential causal variants by leveraging transethnic differences in the distribution of linkage disequilibrium. We demonstrated a functional role for the most strongly associated serum albumin locus, HPN, for which Hpn knockout mice manifest low plasma albumin concentrations. Other loci associated with serum albumin harbor genes related to ribosome function, protein translation, and proteasomal degradation, whereas those associated with serum total protein include genes related to immune function. Our results highlight the advantages of transethnic meta-analysis for the discovery and fine mapping of complex trait loci and have provided initial insights into the underlying genetic architecture of serum protein concentrations and their association with human disease.
Published: 2012

53. A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance

Author: Manning, AK, Hivert, MF, Scott, RA, Grimsby, JL, Bouatia-Naji, N, Chen, H, Rybin, D, Liu, CT, Bielak, LF, Prokopenko, I, Amin, Najaf, Barnes, D, Cadby, G, Hottenga, JJ (Jouke Jan), Ingelsson, E, Jackson, AU, Johnson, T, Kanoni, S, Ladenvall, C, Lagou, V, Lahti, J, Lecoeur, C, Liu, YM, Martinez-Larrad, MT, Montasser, ME, Navarro, P, Perry, JRB, Rasmussen-Torvik, LJ, Salo, P, Sattar, N, Shungin, D, Strawbridge, RJ, Tanaka, T, Duijn, Cornelia, An, P, de Andrade, M, Andrews, JS, Aspelund, T, Atalay, M, Aulchenko, Yuriy, Balkau, B, Bandinelli, S, Beckmann, JS, Beilby, JP, Bellis, C, Bergman, RN, Blangero, J, Boban, M, Boehnke, M, Boerwinkle, E, Bonnycastle, LL, Boomsma, DI, Borecki, IB, Boettcher, Y, Bouchard, C, Brunner, E, Budimir, D, Campbell, H, Carlson, O, Chines, PS, Clarke, R, Collins, FS, Corbaton-Anchuelo, A, Couper, D, de Faire, U, Dedoussis, GV, Deloukas, P, Dimitriou, M, Egan, JM, Eiriksdottir, G, Erdos, MR, Eriksson, JG, Eury, E, Ferrucci, L, Ford, I, Forouhi, NG, Fox, CS, Franzosi, MG, Franks, PW, Frayling, TM, Froguel, P, Galan, P, de Geus, ED, Gigante, B, Glazer, NL, Goel, A, Groop, L, Gudnason, V, Hallmans, G, Hamsten, A, Hansson, O, Harris, TB, Hayward, C, Heath, S, Hercberg, S, Hicks, AA, Hingorani, A, Hofman, Bert, Hui, J, Hung, J, Jarvelin, MR, Jhun, MA, Johnson, PCD, Jukema, JW, Jula, A, Kao, WH, Kaprio, J, Kardia, SLR, Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, S, Kivimaki, M, Kolcic, I, Kovacs, P, Kumari, M, Kuusisto, J, Kyvik, KO, Laakso, M, Lakka, T, Lannfelt, L, Lathrop, GM, Launer, LJ (Lenore), Leander, K, Li, G (Guo), Lind, L, Lindstrom, J, Lobbens, S, Loos, RJF, Luan, JA, Lyssenko, V, Magi, R, Magnusson, PKE, Marmot, M, Meneton, P, Mohlke, KL, Mooser, V, Morken, MA, Miljkovic, I, Narisu, N, O'Connell, J, Ong, KK, Oostra, Ben, Palmer, LJ, Palotie, A, Pankow, JS, Peden, JF, Pedersen, NL, Pehlic, M, Peltonen, L, Penninx, B, Pericic, M, Perola, M, Perusse, L, Peyser, PA, Polasek, O, Pramstaller, PP, Province, MA, Raikkonen, K, Rauramaa, R, Rehnberg, E, Rice, K, Rotter, JI, Rudan, I, Ruokonen, A, Saaristo, T, Sabater-Lleal, M, Salomaa, V, Savage, DB, Saxena, R, Schwarz, P, Seedorf, U, Sennblad, B, Serrano-Rios, M, Shuldiner, AR, Sijbrands, E.J.G., Siscovick, DS, Smit, JH, Small, KS, Smith, NL, Smith, AV, Stancakova, A, Stirrups, K, Stumvoll, M, Sun, YV, Swift, AJ, Toenjes, A, Tuomilehto, J, Trompet, S, Uitterlinden, André, Uusitupa, M, Vikstrom, M, Vitart, V, Vohl, MC, Voight, BF, Vollenweider, P, Waeber, G, Waterworth, DM, Watkins, H, Wheeler, E, Widen, E, Wild, SH, Willems, SM, Willemsen, G, Wilson, JF, Witteman, JCM, Wright, AF, Yaghootkar, H, Zelenika, D, Zemunik, T, Zgaga, L, Wareham, NJ, McCarthy, MI, Barroso, I, Watanabe, RM, Florez, JC, Dupuis, J, Meigs, JB, Langenberg, C, Manning, AK, Hivert, MF, Scott, RA, Grimsby, JL, Bouatia-Naji, N, Chen, H, Rybin, D, Liu, CT, Bielak, LF, Prokopenko, I, Amin, Najaf, Barnes, D, Cadby, G, Hottenga, JJ (Jouke Jan), Ingelsson, E, Jackson, AU, Johnson, T, Kanoni, S, Ladenvall, C, Lagou, V, Lahti, J, Lecoeur, C, Liu, YM, Martinez-Larrad, MT, Montasser, ME, Navarro, P, Perry, JRB, Rasmussen-Torvik, LJ, Salo, P, Sattar, N, Shungin, D, Strawbridge, RJ, Tanaka, T, Duijn, Cornelia, An, P, de Andrade, M, Andrews, JS, Aspelund, T, Atalay, M, Aulchenko, Yuriy, Balkau, B, Bandinelli, S, Beckmann, JS, Beilby, JP, Bellis, C, Bergman, RN, Blangero, J, Boban, M, Boehnke, M, Boerwinkle, E, Bonnycastle, LL, Boomsma, DI, Borecki, IB, Boettcher, Y, Bouchard, C, Brunner, E, Budimir, D, Campbell, H, Carlson, O, Chines, PS, Clarke, R, Collins, FS, Corbaton-Anchuelo, A, Couper, D, de Faire, U, Dedoussis, GV, Deloukas, P, Dimitriou, M, Egan, JM, Eiriksdottir, G, Erdos, MR, Eriksson, JG, Eury, E, Ferrucci, L, Ford, I, Forouhi, NG, Fox, CS, Franzosi, MG, Franks, PW, Frayling, TM, Froguel, P, Galan, P, de Geus, ED, Gigante, B, Glazer, NL, Goel, A, Groop, L, Gudnason, V, Hallmans, G, Hamsten, A, Hansson, O, Harris, TB, Hayward, C, Heath, S, Hercberg, S, Hicks, AA, Hingorani, A, Hofman, Bert, Hui, J, Hung, J, Jarvelin, MR, Jhun, MA, Johnson, PCD, Jukema, JW, Jula, A, Kao, WH, Kaprio, J, Kardia, SLR, Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, S, Kivimaki, M, Kolcic, I, Kovacs, P, Kumari, M, Kuusisto, J, Kyvik, KO, Laakso, M, Lakka, T, Lannfelt, L, Lathrop, GM, Launer, LJ (Lenore), Leander, K, Li, G (Guo), Lind, L, Lindstrom, J, Lobbens, S, Loos, RJF, Luan, JA, Lyssenko, V, Magi, R, Magnusson, PKE, Marmot, M, Meneton, P, Mohlke, KL, Mooser, V, Morken, MA, Miljkovic, I, Narisu, N, O'Connell, J, Ong, KK, Oostra, Ben, Palmer, LJ, Palotie, A, Pankow, JS, Peden, JF, Pedersen, NL, Pehlic, M, Peltonen, L, Penninx, B, Pericic, M, Perola, M, Perusse, L, Peyser, PA, Polasek, O, Pramstaller, PP, Province, MA, Raikkonen, K, Rauramaa, R, Rehnberg, E, Rice, K, Rotter, JI, Rudan, I, Ruokonen, A, Saaristo, T, Sabater-Lleal, M, Salomaa, V, Savage, DB, Saxena, R, Schwarz, P, Seedorf, U, Sennblad, B, Serrano-Rios, M, Shuldiner, AR, Sijbrands, E.J.G., Siscovick, DS, Smit, JH, Small, KS, Smith, NL, Smith, AV, Stancakova, A, Stirrups, K, Stumvoll, M, Sun, YV, Swift, AJ, Toenjes, A, Tuomilehto, J, Trompet, S, Uitterlinden, André, Uusitupa, M, Vikstrom, M, Vitart, V, Vohl, MC, Voight, BF, Vollenweider, P, Waeber, G, Waterworth, DM, Watkins, H, Wheeler, E, Widen, E, Wild, SH, Willems, SM, Willemsen, G, Wilson, JF, Witteman, JCM, Wright, AF, Yaghootkar, H, Zelenika, D, Zemunik, T, Zgaga, L, Wareham, NJ, McCarthy, MI, Barroso, I, Watanabe, RM, Florez, JC, Dupuis, J, Meigs, JB, and Langenberg, C
Abstract: Recent genome-wide association studies have described many loci implicated in type 2 diabetes (T2D) pathophysiology and beta-cell dysfunction but have contributed little to the understanding of the genetic basis of insulin resistance. We hypothesized that genes implicated in insulin resistance pathways might be uncovered by accounting for differences in body mass index (BMI) and potential interactions between BMI and genetic variants. We applied a joint meta-analysis approach to test associations with fasting insulin and glucose on a genome-wide scale. We present six previously unknown loci associated with fasting insulin at P < 5 x 10(-8) in combined discovery and follow-up analyses of 52 studies comprising up to 96,496 non-diabetic individuals. Risk variants were associated with higher triglyceride and lower high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels, suggesting a role for these loci in insulin resistance pathways. The discovery of these loci will aid further characterization of the role of insulin resistance in T2D pathophysiology.
Published: 2012

54. Physical Activity Attenuates the Influence of FTO Variants on Obesity Risk: A Meta-Analysis of 218,166 Adults and 19,268 Children

Author: Kilpelainen, TO, Qi, L, Brage, S, Sharp, SJ, Sonestedt, E, Demerath, E, Ahmad, T, Mora, S, Kaakinen, M, Sandholt, CH, Holzapfel, C, Autenrieth, CS, Hypponen, E, Cauchi, S, He, MA, Kutalik, Z, Kumari, M, Stancakova, A, Meidtner, K, Balkau, B, Tan, JT, Mangino, M, Timpson, NJ, Song, YQ, Zillikens, M.C., Jablonski, KA, Garcia, ME, Johansson, S, Bragg-Gresham, JL, Wu, Fenny, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, JV, Onland-Moret, NC, Zimmermann, E, Rivera, NV, Tanaka, T, Stringham, HM, Silbernagel, G, Kanoni, S, Feitosa, MF, Snitker, S, Ruiz, JR, Metter, J, Larrad, MTM, Atalay, M, Hakanen, M, Amin, Najaf, Cavalcanti-Proenca, C, Grontved, A, Hallmans, G, Jansson, JO, Kuusisto, J, Kahonen, M, Lutsey, PL, Nolan, JJ, Palla, L, Pedersen, O, Perusse, L, Renstrom, F, Scott, RA, Shungin, D, Sovio, U, Tammelin, TH, Ronnemaa, T, Lakka, TA, Uusitupa, M, Rios, MS, Ferrucci, L, Bouchard, C, Meirhaeghe, A, Fu, M, Walker, M, Borecki, IB, Dedoussis, GV, Fritsche, A, Ohlsson, C, Boehnke, M, Bandinelli, S, Duijn, Cornelia, Ebrahim, S, Lawlor, DA, Gudnason, V, Harris, TB, Sorensen, TIA, Mohlke, KL, Hofman, Bert, Uitterlinden, André, Tuomilehto, J, Lehtimaki, T, Raitakari, O, Isomaa, B, Njolstad, PR, Florez, JC, Liu, SM (Simin), Ness, A, Spector, TD, Tai, ES, Froguel, P, Boeing, H, Laakso, M, Marmot, M, Bergmann, S, Power, C, Khaw, KT, Chasman, D, Ridker, P, Hansen, T, Monda, KL, Illig, T, Jarvelin, MR, Wareham, NJ, Hu, FB, Groop, LC, Orho-Melander, M, Ekelund, U, Franks, PW, Loos, RJF, Kilpelainen, TO, Qi, L, Brage, S, Sharp, SJ, Sonestedt, E, Demerath, E, Ahmad, T, Mora, S, Kaakinen, M, Sandholt, CH, Holzapfel, C, Autenrieth, CS, Hypponen, E, Cauchi, S, He, MA, Kutalik, Z, Kumari, M, Stancakova, A, Meidtner, K, Balkau, B, Tan, JT, Mangino, M, Timpson, NJ, Song, YQ, Zillikens, M.C., Jablonski, KA, Garcia, ME, Johansson, S, Bragg-Gresham, JL, Wu, Fenny, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, JV, Onland-Moret, NC, Zimmermann, E, Rivera, NV, Tanaka, T, Stringham, HM, Silbernagel, G, Kanoni, S, Feitosa, MF, Snitker, S, Ruiz, JR, Metter, J, Larrad, MTM, Atalay, M, Hakanen, M, Amin, Najaf, Cavalcanti-Proenca, C, Grontved, A, Hallmans, G, Jansson, JO, Kuusisto, J, Kahonen, M, Lutsey, PL, Nolan, JJ, Palla, L, Pedersen, O, Perusse, L, Renstrom, F, Scott, RA, Shungin, D, Sovio, U, Tammelin, TH, Ronnemaa, T, Lakka, TA, Uusitupa, M, Rios, MS, Ferrucci, L, Bouchard, C, Meirhaeghe, A, Fu, M, Walker, M, Borecki, IB, Dedoussis, GV, Fritsche, A, Ohlsson, C, Boehnke, M, Bandinelli, S, Duijn, Cornelia, Ebrahim, S, Lawlor, DA, Gudnason, V, Harris, TB, Sorensen, TIA, Mohlke, KL, Hofman, Bert, Uitterlinden, André, Tuomilehto, J, Lehtimaki, T, Raitakari, O, Isomaa, B, Njolstad, PR, Florez, JC, Liu, SM (Simin), Ness, A, Spector, TD, Tai, ES, Froguel, P, Boeing, H, Laakso, M, Marmot, M, Bergmann, S, Power, C, Khaw, KT, Chasman, D, Ridker, P, Hansen, T, Monda, KL, Illig, T, Jarvelin, MR, Wareham, NJ, Hu, FB, Groop, LC, Orho-Melander, M, Ekelund, U, Franks, PW, and Loos, RJF
Abstract: Background: The FTO gene harbors the strongest known susceptibility locus for obesity. While many individual studies have suggested that physical activity (PA) may attenuate the effect of FTO on obesity risk, other studies have not been able to confirm this interaction. To confirm or refute unambiguously whether PA attenuates the association of FTO with obesity risk, we meta-analyzed data from 45 studies of adults (n=218,166) and nine studies of children and adolescents (n=19,268). Methods and Findings: All studies identified to have data on the FTO rs9939609 variant (or any proxy [r(2)>0.8]) and PA were invited to participate, regardless of ethnicity or age of the participants. PA was standardized by categorizing it into a dichotomous variable (physically inactive versus active) in each study. Overall, 25% of adults and 13% of children were categorized as inactive. Interaction analyses were performed within each study by including the FTOxPA interaction term in an additive model, adjusting for age and sex. Subsequently, random effects meta-analysis was used to pool the interaction terms. In adults, the minor (A-) allele of rs9939609 increased the odds of obesity by 1.23-fold/allele (95% CI 1.20-1.26), but PA attenuated this effect (p(interaction) = 0.001). More specifically, the minor allele of rs9939609 increased the odds of obesity less in the physically active group (odds ratio = 1.22/allele, 95% CI 1.19-1.25) than in the inactive group (odds ratio = 1.30/allele, 95% CI 1.24-1.36). No such interaction was found in children and adolescents. Conclusions: The association of the FTO risk allele with the odds of obesity is attenuated by 27% in physically active adults, highlighting the importance of PA in particular in those genetically predisposed to obesity.
Published: 2011

55. Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

Author: Teslovich, TM, Musunuru, K, Smith, AV, Edmondson, AC, Stylianou, IM, Koseki, M, Pirruccello, JP, Ripatti, S, Chasman, DI, Willer, CJ, Johansen, CT, Fouchier, SW, Isaacs, A, Peloso, GM, Barbalic, M, Ricketts, SL, Bis, JC, Aulchenko, YS, Thorleifsson, G, Feitosa, MF, Chambers, J, Orho-Melander, M, Melander, O, Johnson, T, Li, X, Guo, X, Li, M, Cho, YS, Go, MJ, Kim, YJ, Lee, J-Y, Park, T, Kim, K, Sim, X, Ong, RT-H, Croteau-Chonka, DC, Lange, LA, Smith, JD, Song, K, Zhao, JH, Yuan, X, Luan, J, Lamina, C, Ziegler, A, Zhang, W, Zee, RYL, Wright, AF, Witteman, JCM, Wilson, JF, Willemsen, G, Wichmann, H-E, Whitfield, JB, Waterworth, DM, Wareham, NJ, Waeber, G, Vollenweider, P, Voight, BF, Vitart, V, Uitterlinden, AG, Uda, M, Tuomilehto, J, Thompson, JR, Tanaka, T, Surakka, I, Stringham, HM, Spector, TD, Soranzo, N, Smit, JH, Sinisalo, J, Silander, K, Sijbrands, EJG, Scuteri, A, Scott, J, Schlessinger, D, Sanna, S, Salomaa, V, Saharinen, J, Sabatti, C, Ruokonen, A, Rudan, I, Rose, LM, Roberts, R, Rieder, M, Psaty, BM, Pramstaller, PP, Pichler, I, Perola, M, Penninx, BWJH, Pedersen, NL, Pattaro, C, Parker, AN, Pare, G, Oostra, BA, O'Donnell, CJ, Nieminen, MS, Nickerson, DA, Montgomery, GW, Meitinger, T, McPherson, R, McCarthy, MI, McArdle, W, Masson, D, Martin, NG, Marroni, F, Mangino, M, Magnusson, PKE, Lucas, G, Luben, R, Loos, RJF, Lokki, M-L, Lettre, G, Langenberg, C, Launer, LJ, Lakatta, EG, Laaksonen, R, Kyvik, KO, Kronenberg, F, Koenig, IR, Khaw, K-T, Kaprio, J, Kaplan, LM, Johansson, A, Jarvelin, M-R, Janssens, ACJW, Ingelsson, E, Igi, W, Hovingh, GK, Hottenga, J-J, Hofman, A, Hicks, AA, Hengstenberg, C, Heid, IM, Hayward, C, Havulinna, AS, Hastie, ND, Harris, TB, Haritunians, T, Hall, AS, Gyllensten, U, Guiducci, C, Groop, LC, Gonzalez, E, Gieger, C, Freimer, NB, Ferrucci, L, Erdmann, J, Elliott, P, Ejebe, KG, Doering, A, Dominiczak, AF, Demissie, S, Deloukas, P, de Geus, EJC, de Faire, U, Crawford, G, Collins, FS, Chen, Y-DI, Caulfield, MJ, Campbell, H, Burtt, NP, Bonnycastle, LL, Boomsma, DI, Boekholdt, SM, Bergman, RN, Barroso, I, Bandinelli, S, Ballantyne, CM, Assimes, TL, Quertermous, T, Altshuler, D, Seielstad, M, Wong, TY, Tai, E-S, Feranil, AB, Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, Taylor, HA, Borecki, IB, Gabriel, SB, Wilson, JG, Holm, H, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Gudnason, V, Krauss, RM, Mohlke, KL, Ordovas, JM, Munroe, PB, Kooner, JS, Tall, AR, Hegele, RA, Kastelein, JJP, Schadt, EE, Rotter, JI, Boerwinkle, E, Strachan, DP, Mooser, V, Stefansson, K, Reilly, MP, Samani, NJ, Schunkert, H, Cupples, LA, Sandhu, MS, Ridker, PM, Rader, DJ, van Duijn, CM, Peltonen, L, Abecasis, GR, Boehnke, M, Kathiresan, S, Teslovich, TM, Musunuru, K, Smith, AV, Edmondson, AC, Stylianou, IM, Koseki, M, Pirruccello, JP, Ripatti, S, Chasman, DI, Willer, CJ, Johansen, CT, Fouchier, SW, Isaacs, A, Peloso, GM, Barbalic, M, Ricketts, SL, Bis, JC, Aulchenko, YS, Thorleifsson, G, Feitosa, MF, Chambers, J, Orho-Melander, M, Melander, O, Johnson, T, Li, X, Guo, X, Li, M, Cho, YS, Go, MJ, Kim, YJ, Lee, J-Y, Park, T, Kim, K, Sim, X, Ong, RT-H, Croteau-Chonka, DC, Lange, LA, Smith, JD, Song, K, Zhao, JH, Yuan, X, Luan, J, Lamina, C, Ziegler, A, Zhang, W, Zee, RYL, Wright, AF, Witteman, JCM, Wilson, JF, Willemsen, G, Wichmann, H-E, Whitfield, JB, Waterworth, DM, Wareham, NJ, Waeber, G, Vollenweider, P, Voight, BF, Vitart, V, Uitterlinden, AG, Uda, M, Tuomilehto, J, Thompson, JR, Tanaka, T, Surakka, I, Stringham, HM, Spector, TD, Soranzo, N, Smit, JH, Sinisalo, J, Silander, K, Sijbrands, EJG, Scuteri, A, Scott, J, Schlessinger, D, Sanna, S, Salomaa, V, Saharinen, J, Sabatti, C, Ruokonen, A, Rudan, I, Rose, LM, Roberts, R, Rieder, M, Psaty, BM, Pramstaller, PP, Pichler, I, Perola, M, Penninx, BWJH, Pedersen, NL, Pattaro, C, Parker, AN, Pare, G, Oostra, BA, O'Donnell, CJ, Nieminen, MS, Nickerson, DA, Montgomery, GW, Meitinger, T, McPherson, R, McCarthy, MI, McArdle, W, Masson, D, Martin, NG, Marroni, F, Mangino, M, Magnusson, PKE, Lucas, G, Luben, R, Loos, RJF, Lokki, M-L, Lettre, G, Langenberg, C, Launer, LJ, Lakatta, EG, Laaksonen, R, Kyvik, KO, Kronenberg, F, Koenig, IR, Khaw, K-T, Kaprio, J, Kaplan, LM, Johansson, A, Jarvelin, M-R, Janssens, ACJW, Ingelsson, E, Igi, W, Hovingh, GK, Hottenga, J-J, Hofman, A, Hicks, AA, Hengstenberg, C, Heid, IM, Hayward, C, Havulinna, AS, Hastie, ND, Harris, TB, Haritunians, T, Hall, AS, Gyllensten, U, Guiducci, C, Groop, LC, Gonzalez, E, Gieger, C, Freimer, NB, Ferrucci, L, Erdmann, J, Elliott, P, Ejebe, KG, Doering, A, Dominiczak, AF, Demissie, S, Deloukas, P, de Geus, EJC, de Faire, U, Crawford, G, Collins, FS, Chen, Y-DI, Caulfield, MJ, Campbell, H, Burtt, NP, Bonnycastle, LL, Boomsma, DI, Boekholdt, SM, Bergman, RN, Barroso, I, Bandinelli, S, Ballantyne, CM, Assimes, TL, Quertermous, T, Altshuler, D, Seielstad, M, Wong, TY, Tai, E-S, Feranil, AB, Kuzawa, CW, Adair, LS, Taylor, HA, Borecki, IB, Gabriel, SB, Wilson, JG, Holm, H, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Gudnason, V, Krauss, RM, Mohlke, KL, Ordovas, JM, Munroe, PB, Kooner, JS, Tall, AR, Hegele, RA, Kastelein, JJP, Schadt, EE, Rotter, JI, Boerwinkle, E, Strachan, DP, Mooser, V, Stefansson, K, Reilly, MP, Samani, NJ, Schunkert, H, Cupples, LA, Sandhu, MS, Ridker, PM, Rader, DJ, van Duijn, CM, Peltonen, L, Abecasis, GR, Boehnke, M, and Kathiresan, S
Abstract: Plasma concentrations of total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides are among the most important risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) and are targets for therapeutic intervention. We screened the genome for common variants associated with plasma lipids in >100,000 individuals of European ancestry. Here we report 95 significantly associated loci (P < 5 x 10(-8)), with 59 showing genome-wide significant association with lipid traits for the first time. The newly reported associations include single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) near known lipid regulators (for example, CYP7A1, NPC1L1 and SCARB1) as well as in scores of loci not previously implicated in lipoprotein metabolism. The 95 loci contribute not only to normal variation in lipid traits but also to extreme lipid phenotypes and have an impact on lipid traits in three non-European populations (East Asians, South Asians and African Americans). Our results identify several novel loci associated with plasma lipids that are also associated with CAD. Finally, we validated three of the novel genes-GALNT2, PPP1R3B and TTC39B-with experiments in mouse models. Taken together, our findings provide the foundation to develop a broader biological understanding of lipoprotein metabolism and to identify new therapeutic opportunities for the prevention of CAD.
Published: 2010

56. Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

Author: Speliotes, EK, Willer, CJ, Berndt, SI, Monda, KL, Thorleifsson, G, Jackson, AU, Allen, HL, Lindgren, CM, Luan, J, Maegi, R, Randall, JC, Vedantam, S, Winkler, TW, Qi, L, Workalemahu, T, Heid, IM, Steinthorsdottir, V, Stringham, HM, Weedon, MN, Wheeler, E, Wood, AR, Ferreira, T, Weyant, RJ, Segre, AV, Estrada, K, Liang, L, Nemesh, J, Park, J-H, Gustafsson, S, Kilpelaenen, TO, Yang, J, Bouatia-Naji, N, Esko, T, Feitosa, MF, Kutalik, Z, Mangino, M, Raychaudhuri, S, Scherag, A, Smith, AV, Welch, R, Zhao, JH, Aben, KK, Absher, DM, Amin, N, Dixon, AL, Fisher, E, Glazer, NL, Goddard, ME, Heard-Costa, NL, Hoesel, V, Hottenga, J-J, Johansson, A, Johnson, T, Ketkar, S, Lamina, C, Li, S, Moffatt, MF, Myers, RH, Narisu, N, Perry, JRB, Peters, MJ, Preuss, M, Ripatti, S, Rivadeneira, F, Sandholt, C, Scott, LJ, Timpson, NJ, Tyrer, JP, van Wingerden, S, Watanabe, RM, White, CC, Wiklund, F, Barlassina, C, Chasman, DI, Cooper, MN, Jansson, J-O, Lawrence, RW, Pellikka, N, Prokopenko, I, Shi, J, Thiering, E, Alavere, H, Alibrandi, MTS, Almgren, P, Arnold, AM, Aspelund, T, Atwood, LD, Balkau, B, Balmforth, AJ, Bennett, AJ, Ben-Shlomo, Y, Bergman, RN, Bergmann, S, Biebermann, H, Blakemore, AIF, Boes, T, Bonnycastle, LL, Bornstein, SR, Brown, MJ, Buchanan, TA, Busonero, F, Campbell, H, Cappuccio, FP, Cavalcanti-Proenca, C, Chen, Y-DI, Chen, C-M, Chines, PS, Clarke, R, Coin, L, Connell, J, Day, INM, den Heijer, M, Duan, J, Ebrahim, S, Elliott, P, Elosua, R, Eiriksdottir, G, Erdos, MR, Eriksson, JG, Facheris, MF, Felix, SB, Fischer-Posovszky, P, Folsom, AR, Friedrich, N, Freimer, NB, Fu, M, Gaget, S, Gejman, PV, Geus, EJC, Gieger, C, Gjesing, AP, Goel, A, Goyette, P, Grallert, H, Graessler, J, Greenawalt, DM, Groves, CJ, Gudnason, V, Guiducci, C, Hartikainen, A-L, Hassanali, N, Hall, AS, Havulinna, AS, Hayward, C, Heath, AC, Hengstenberg, C, Hicks, AA, Hinney, A, Hofman, A, Homuth, G, Hui, J, Igl, W, Iribarren, C, Isomaa, B, Jacobs, KB, Jarick, I, Jewell, E, John, U, Jorgensen, T, Jousilahti, P, Jula, A, Kaakinen, M, Kajantie, E, Kaplan, LM, Kathiresan, S, Kettunen, J, Kinnunen, L, Knowles, JW, Kolcic, I, Koenig, IR, Koskinen, S, Kovacs, P, Kuusisto, J, Kraft, P, Kvaloy, K, Laitinen, J, Lantieri, O, Lanzani, C, Launer, LJ, Lecoeur, C, Lehtimaeki, T, Lettre, G, Liu, J, Lokki, M-L, Lorentzon, M, Luben, RN, Ludwig, B, Manunta, P, Marek, D, Marre, M, Martin, NG, McArdle, WL, McCarthy, A, McKnight, B, Meitinger, T, Melander, O, Meyre, D, Midthjell, K, Montgomery, GW, Morken, MA, Morris, AP, Mulic, R, Ngwa, JS, Nelis, M, Neville, MJ, Nyholt, DR, O'Donnell, CJ, O'Rahilly, S, Ong, KK, Oostra, B, Pare, G, Parker, AN, Perola, M, Pichler, I, Pietilaeinen, KH, Platou, CGP, Polasek, O, Pouta, A, Rafelt, S, Raitakari, O, Rayner, NW, Ridderstrale, M, Rief, W, Ruokonen, A, Robertson, NR, Rzehak, P, Salomaa, V, Sanders, AR, Sandhu, MS, Sanna, S, Saramies, J, Savolainen, MJ, Scherag, S, Schipf, S, Schreiber, S, Schunkert, H, Silander, K, Sinisalo, J, Siscovick, DS, Smit, JH, Soranzo, N, Sovio, U, Stephens, J, Surakka, I, Swift, AJ, Tammesoo, M-L, Tardif, J-C, Teder-Laving, M, Teslovich, TM, Thompson, JR, Thomson, B, Toenjes, A, Tuomi, T, van Meurs, JBJ, van Ommen, G-J, Vatin, V, Viikari, J, Visvikis-Siest, S, Vitart, V, Vogel, CIG, Voight, BF, Waite, LL, Wallaschofski, H, Walters, GB, Widen, E, Wiegand, S, Wild, SH, Willemsen, G, Witte, DR, Witteman, JC, Xu, J, Zhang, Q, Zgaga, L, Ziegler, A, Zitting, P, Beilby, JP, Farooqi, IS, Hebebrand, J, Huikuri, HV, James, AL, Kaehoenen, M, Levinson, DF, Macciardi, F, Nieminen, MS, Ohlsson, C, Palmer, LJ, Ridker, PM, Stumvoll, M, Beckmann, JS, Boeing, H, Boerwinkle, E, Boomsma, DI, Caulfield, MJ, Chanock, SJ, Collins, FS, Cupples, LA, Smith, GD, Erdmann, J, Froguel, P, Greonberg, H, Gyllensten, U, Hall, P, Hansen, T, Harris, TB, Hattersley, AT, Hayes, RB, Heinrich, J, Hu, FB, Hveem, K, Illig, T, Jarvelin, M-R, Kaprio, J, Karpe, F, Khaw, K-T, Kiemeney, LA, Krude, H, Laakso, M, Lawlor, DA, Metspalu, A, Munroe, PB, Ouwehand, WH, Pedersen, O, Penninx, BW, Peters, A, Pramstaller, PP, Quertermous, T, Reinehr, T, Rissanen, A, Rudan, I, Samani, NJ, Schwarz, PEH, Shuldiner, AR, Spector, TD, Tuomilehto, J, Uda, M, Uitterlinden, A, Valle, TT, Wabitsch, M, Waeber, G, Wareham, NJ, Watkins, H, Wilson, JF, Wright, AF, Zillikens, MC, Chatterjee, N, McCarroll, SA, Purcell, S, Schadt, EE, Visscher, PM, Assimes, TL, Borecki, IB, Deloukas, P, Fox, CS, Groop, LC, Haritunians, T, Hunter, DJ, Kaplan, RC, Mohlke, KL, O'Connell, JR, Peltonen, L, Schlessinger, D, Strachan, DP, van Duijn, CM, Wichmann, H-E, Frayling, TM, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Abecasis, GR, Barroso, I, Boehnke, M, Stefansson, K, North, KE, McCarthy, MI, Hirschhorn, JN, Ingelsson, E, Loos, RJF, Speliotes, EK, Willer, CJ, Berndt, SI, Monda, KL, Thorleifsson, G, Jackson, AU, Allen, HL, Lindgren, CM, Luan, J, Maegi, R, Randall, JC, Vedantam, S, Winkler, TW, Qi, L, Workalemahu, T, Heid, IM, Steinthorsdottir, V, Stringham, HM, Weedon, MN, Wheeler, E, Wood, AR, Ferreira, T, Weyant, RJ, Segre, AV, Estrada, K, Liang, L, Nemesh, J, Park, J-H, Gustafsson, S, Kilpelaenen, TO, Yang, J, Bouatia-Naji, N, Esko, T, Feitosa, MF, Kutalik, Z, Mangino, M, Raychaudhuri, S, Scherag, A, Smith, AV, Welch, R, Zhao, JH, Aben, KK, Absher, DM, Amin, N, Dixon, AL, Fisher, E, Glazer, NL, Goddard, ME, Heard-Costa, NL, Hoesel, V, Hottenga, J-J, Johansson, A, Johnson, T, Ketkar, S, Lamina, C, Li, S, Moffatt, MF, Myers, RH, Narisu, N, Perry, JRB, Peters, MJ, Preuss, M, Ripatti, S, Rivadeneira, F, Sandholt, C, Scott, LJ, Timpson, NJ, Tyrer, JP, van Wingerden, S, Watanabe, RM, White, CC, Wiklund, F, Barlassina, C, Chasman, DI, Cooper, MN, Jansson, J-O, Lawrence, RW, Pellikka, N, Prokopenko, I, Shi, J, Thiering, E, Alavere, H, Alibrandi, MTS, Almgren, P, Arnold, AM, Aspelund, T, Atwood, LD, Balkau, B, Balmforth, AJ, Bennett, AJ, Ben-Shlomo, Y, Bergman, RN, Bergmann, S, Biebermann, H, Blakemore, AIF, Boes, T, Bonnycastle, LL, Bornstein, SR, Brown, MJ, Buchanan, TA, Busonero, F, Campbell, H, Cappuccio, FP, Cavalcanti-Proenca, C, Chen, Y-DI, Chen, C-M, Chines, PS, Clarke, R, Coin, L, Connell, J, Day, INM, den Heijer, M, Duan, J, Ebrahim, S, Elliott, P, Elosua, R, Eiriksdottir, G, Erdos, MR, Eriksson, JG, Facheris, MF, Felix, SB, Fischer-Posovszky, P, Folsom, AR, Friedrich, N, Freimer, NB, Fu, M, Gaget, S, Gejman, PV, Geus, EJC, Gieger, C, Gjesing, AP, Goel, A, Goyette, P, Grallert, H, Graessler, J, Greenawalt, DM, Groves, CJ, Gudnason, V, Guiducci, C, Hartikainen, A-L, Hassanali, N, Hall, AS, Havulinna, AS, Hayward, C, Heath, AC, Hengstenberg, C, Hicks, AA, Hinney, A, Hofman, A, Homuth, G, Hui, J, Igl, W, Iribarren, C, Isomaa, B, Jacobs, KB, Jarick, I, Jewell, E, John, U, Jorgensen, T, Jousilahti, P, Jula, A, Kaakinen, M, Kajantie, E, Kaplan, LM, Kathiresan, S, Kettunen, J, Kinnunen, L, Knowles, JW, Kolcic, I, Koenig, IR, Koskinen, S, Kovacs, P, Kuusisto, J, Kraft, P, Kvaloy, K, Laitinen, J, Lantieri, O, Lanzani, C, Launer, LJ, Lecoeur, C, Lehtimaeki, T, Lettre, G, Liu, J, Lokki, M-L, Lorentzon, M, Luben, RN, Ludwig, B, Manunta, P, Marek, D, Marre, M, Martin, NG, McArdle, WL, McCarthy, A, McKnight, B, Meitinger, T, Melander, O, Meyre, D, Midthjell, K, Montgomery, GW, Morken, MA, Morris, AP, Mulic, R, Ngwa, JS, Nelis, M, Neville, MJ, Nyholt, DR, O'Donnell, CJ, O'Rahilly, S, Ong, KK, Oostra, B, Pare, G, Parker, AN, Perola, M, Pichler, I, Pietilaeinen, KH, Platou, CGP, Polasek, O, Pouta, A, Rafelt, S, Raitakari, O, Rayner, NW, Ridderstrale, M, Rief, W, Ruokonen, A, Robertson, NR, Rzehak, P, Salomaa, V, Sanders, AR, Sandhu, MS, Sanna, S, Saramies, J, Savolainen, MJ, Scherag, S, Schipf, S, Schreiber, S, Schunkert, H, Silander, K, Sinisalo, J, Siscovick, DS, Smit, JH, Soranzo, N, Sovio, U, Stephens, J, Surakka, I, Swift, AJ, Tammesoo, M-L, Tardif, J-C, Teder-Laving, M, Teslovich, TM, Thompson, JR, Thomson, B, Toenjes, A, Tuomi, T, van Meurs, JBJ, van Ommen, G-J, Vatin, V, Viikari, J, Visvikis-Siest, S, Vitart, V, Vogel, CIG, Voight, BF, Waite, LL, Wallaschofski, H, Walters, GB, Widen, E, Wiegand, S, Wild, SH, Willemsen, G, Witte, DR, Witteman, JC, Xu, J, Zhang, Q, Zgaga, L, Ziegler, A, Zitting, P, Beilby, JP, Farooqi, IS, Hebebrand, J, Huikuri, HV, James, AL, Kaehoenen, M, Levinson, DF, Macciardi, F, Nieminen, MS, Ohlsson, C, Palmer, LJ, Ridker, PM, Stumvoll, M, Beckmann, JS, Boeing, H, Boerwinkle, E, Boomsma, DI, Caulfield, MJ, Chanock, SJ, Collins, FS, Cupples, LA, Smith, GD, Erdmann, J, Froguel, P, Greonberg, H, Gyllensten, U, Hall, P, Hansen, T, Harris, TB, Hattersley, AT, Hayes, RB, Heinrich, J, Hu, FB, Hveem, K, Illig, T, Jarvelin, M-R, Kaprio, J, Karpe, F, Khaw, K-T, Kiemeney, LA, Krude, H, Laakso, M, Lawlor, DA, Metspalu, A, Munroe, PB, Ouwehand, WH, Pedersen, O, Penninx, BW, Peters, A, Pramstaller, PP, Quertermous, T, Reinehr, T, Rissanen, A, Rudan, I, Samani, NJ, Schwarz, PEH, Shuldiner, AR, Spector, TD, Tuomilehto, J, Uda, M, Uitterlinden, A, Valle, TT, Wabitsch, M, Waeber, G, Wareham, NJ, Watkins, H, Wilson, JF, Wright, AF, Zillikens, MC, Chatterjee, N, McCarroll, SA, Purcell, S, Schadt, EE, Visscher, PM, Assimes, TL, Borecki, IB, Deloukas, P, Fox, CS, Groop, LC, Haritunians, T, Hunter, DJ, Kaplan, RC, Mohlke, KL, O'Connell, JR, Peltonen, L, Schlessinger, D, Strachan, DP, van Duijn, CM, Wichmann, H-E, Frayling, TM, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Abecasis, GR, Barroso, I, Boehnke, M, Stefansson, K, North, KE, McCarthy, MI, Hirschhorn, JN, Ingelsson, E, and Loos, RJF
Abstract: Obesity is globally prevalent and highly heritable, but its underlying genetic factors remain largely elusive. To identify genetic loci for obesity susceptibility, we examined associations between body mass index and ∼ 2.8 million SNPs in up to 123,865 individuals with targeted follow up of 42 SNPs in up to 125,931 additional individuals. We confirmed 14 known obesity susceptibility loci and identified 18 new loci associated with body mass index (P < 5 × 10⁻⁸), one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B. Some loci (at MC4R, POMC, SH2B1 and BDNF) map near key hypothalamic regulators of energy balance, and one of these loci is near GIPR, an incretin receptor. Furthermore, genes in other newly associated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
Published: 2010

57. NRXN3 Is a Novel Locus for Waist Circumference: A Genome-Wide Association Study from the CHARGE Consortium

Author: Heard-Costa, NL, Zillikens, M.C., Monda, KL, Johansson, A, Harris, TB, Fu, M, Haritunians, T, Feitosa, MF, Aspelund, T, Eiriksdottir, G, Garcia, M, Launer, LJ (Lenore), Smith, AV, Mitchell, BD, McArdle, PF, Shuldiner, AR, Bielinski, SJ, Boerwinkle, E, Brancati, F, Demerath, EW, Pankow, JS, Arnold, AM, Chen, YDI, Glazer, NL, McKnight, B, Psaty, BM, Rotter, JI, Amin, Najaf, Campbell, H, Gyllensten, U, Pattaro, C, Pramstaller, PP, Rudan, I, Struchalin, Maksim, Vitart, V, Gao, XY, Kraja, A, Province, MA, Zhang, QY, Atwood, LD, Dupuis, J, Hirschhorn, JN, Jaquish, CE, O'Donnell, CJ, Vasan, RS, White, CC, Aulchenko, YS, Estrada Gil, Karol, Hofman, Bert, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Uitterlinden, André, Witteman, JCM, Oostra, Ben, Kaplan, RC, Gudnason, V, O'Connell, JR, Borecki, IB, Duijn, Cornelia, Cupples, LA, Fox, CS, North, KE, Heard-Costa, NL, Zillikens, M.C., Monda, KL, Johansson, A, Harris, TB, Fu, M, Haritunians, T, Feitosa, MF, Aspelund, T, Eiriksdottir, G, Garcia, M, Launer, LJ (Lenore), Smith, AV, Mitchell, BD, McArdle, PF, Shuldiner, AR, Bielinski, SJ, Boerwinkle, E, Brancati, F, Demerath, EW, Pankow, JS, Arnold, AM, Chen, YDI, Glazer, NL, McKnight, B, Psaty, BM, Rotter, JI, Amin, Najaf, Campbell, H, Gyllensten, U, Pattaro, C, Pramstaller, PP, Rudan, I, Struchalin, Maksim, Vitart, V, Gao, XY, Kraja, A, Province, MA, Zhang, QY, Atwood, LD, Dupuis, J, Hirschhorn, JN, Jaquish, CE, O'Donnell, CJ, Vasan, RS, White, CC, Aulchenko, YS, Estrada Gil, Karol, Hofman, Bert, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Uitterlinden, André, Witteman, JCM, Oostra, Ben, Kaplan, RC, Gudnason, V, O'Connell, JR, Borecki, IB, Duijn, Cornelia, Cupples, LA, Fox, CS, and North, KE
Abstract: Central abdominal fat is a strong risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. To identify common variants influencing central abdominal fat, we conducted a two-stage genome-wide association analysis for waist circumference (WC). In total, three loci reached genome-wide significance. In stage 1, 31,373 individuals of Caucasian descent from eight cohort studies confirmed the role of FTO and MC4R and identified one novel locus associated with WC in the neurexin 3 gene [NRXN3 (rs10146997, p = 6.4x10(-7))]. The association with NRXN3 was confirmed in stage 2 by combining stage 1 results with those from 38,641 participants in the GIANT consortium (p = 0.009 in GIANT only, p = 5.3x10(-8) for combined analysis, n = 70,014). Mean WC increase per copy of the G allele was 0.0498 z-score units (0.65 cm). This SNP was also associated with body mass index (BMI) [p = 7.4x10(-6), 0.024 z-score units (0.10 kg/m(2)) per copy of the G allele] and the risk of obesity (odds ratio 1.13, 95% CI 1.07-1.19; p = 3.2x10(-5) per copy of the G allele). The NRXN3 gene has been previously implicated in addiction and reward behavior, lending further evidence that common forms of obesity may be a central nervous system-mediated disorder. Our findings establish that common variants in NRXN3 are associated with WC, BMI, and obesity.
Published: 2009

58. DGAT1promoter polymorphism associated with alterations in body mass index, high density lipoprotein levels and blood pressure in Turkish women

Author: Ludwig, EH, primary, Mahley, RW, additional, Palaoglu, E, additional, Özbayrakçı, S, additional, Balestra, ME, additional, Borecki, IB, additional, Innerarity, TL, additional, and Farese, RV, additional
Published: 2002
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59. The hormone-sensitive lipase gene and body composition: the HERITAGE Family Study

Author: Garenc, C, primary, Pérusse, L, additional, Chagnon, YC, additional, Rankinen, T, additional, Gagnon, J, additional, Borecki, IB, additional, Leon, AS, additional, Skinner, JS, additional, Wilmore, JH, additional, Rao, DC, additional, and Bouchard, C, additional
Published: 2002
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60. Familial resemblance for abdominal visceral fat: the HERITAGE family study

Author: Rice, T, primary, Després, JP, additional, Daw, EW, additional, Gagnon, J, additional, Borecki, IB, additional, Pérusse, L, additional, Leon, AS, additional, Skinner, JS, additional, Wilmore, JH, additional, Rao, DC, additional, and Bouchard, C, additional
Published: 1997
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61. Sex and race differences in the prevalence of fatty liver disease as measured by computed tomography liver attenuation in European American and African American participants of the NHLBI family heart study.

Author: North KE, Graff M, Franceschini N, Reiner AP, Feitosa MF, Carr JJ, Gordon-Larsen P, Wojczynski MK, Borecki IB, North, Kari E, Graff, Mariaelisa, Franceschini, Nora, Reiner, Alexander P, Feitosa, Mary F, Carr, John Jeffrey, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Wojczynski, Mary K, and Borecki, Ingrid B
Published: 2012
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62. Multiple genes influence BMI on chromosome 7q31-34: the NHLBI Family Heart Study.

Author: Laramie JM, Wilk JB, Williamson SL, Nagle MW, Latourelle JC, Tobin JE, Province MA, Borecki IB, Myers RH, Laramie, Jason M, Wilk, Jemma B, Williamson, Sally L, Nagle, Michael W, Latourelle, Jeanne C, Tobin, Jennifer E, Province, Michael A, Borecki, Ingrid B, and Myers, Richard H
Abstract: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study (FHS) genome-wide linkage scan identified a region of chromosome 7q31-34 with a lod score of 4.9 for BMI at D7S1804 (131.9 Mb). We report the results of linkage and association to BMI in this region for two independent FHS samples. The first sample includes 225 FHS pedigrees with evidence of linkage to 7q31-34, using 1,132 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 7 microsatellites. The second represents a case-control sample (318 cases; BMI >25 and 325 controls; BMI <25) derived from unrelated FHS participants who were not part of the genome scan. The latter set was genotyped for 606 SNPs, including 37 SNPs with prior evidence for association in the linked families. Although variance components linkage analysis using only SNPs generated a peak lod score that coincided with the original linkage scan at 131.9 Mb, a conditional linkage analysis showed evidence of a second quantitative trait locus (QTL) near 143 cM influencing BMI. Three SNPs (rs161339, rs12673281, and rs1993068) located near the three genes pleiotrophin (PTN), diacylglycerol (DAG) kinase iota (DGK iota), and cholinergic receptor, muscarinic 2 (CHRM2) demonstrated significant association in both linked families (P = 0.0005, 0.002, and 0.03, respectively) and the case-control sample (P = 0.01, 0.0003, and 0.03, respectively), regardless of the genetic model tested. These findings suggest that several genes may be associated with BMI in the 7q31-34 region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2009
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63. Genetic and genomic discovery using family studies.

Author: Borecki IB, Province MA, Borecki, Ingrid B, and Province, Michael A
Published: 2008
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64. Genotype-by-sex interaction on fasting insulin concentration: the HyperGEN study.

Author: North KE, Franceschini N, Borecki IB, Gu CC, Heiss G, Province MA, Arnett DK, Lewis CE, Miller MB, Myers RH, Hunt SC, and Freedman BI
Abstract: Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of sex effects on the underlying genetic architecture of insulin-related traits. To explore sex-specific genetic effects on fasting insulin, we tested for genotype-by-sex interaction and conducted linkage analysis of fasting insulin in Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network families. Hypertensive siblings and their first-degree relatives were recruited from five field centers. We performed a genome scan for quantitative trait loci influencing fasting insulin among 1,505 European Americans and 1,616 African Americans without diabetes. Sex-stratified linear regression models, adjusted for race, center, and age, were explored. The Mammalian Genotyping Service typed 391 microsatellite markers, spaced roughly 9 cM. Variance component linkage analysis was performed in SOLAR using ethnic-specific marker allele frequencies and multipoint IBDs calculated in MERLIN. We detected a quantitative trait locus influencing fasting insulin in female subjects (logarithm of odds [LOD] = 3.4) on chromosome 2 at 95 cM (between GATA69E12 and GATA71G04) but not in male subjects (LOD = 0.0, P for interaction = 0.007). This sex-specific signal at 2p13.2 was detected in both European-American (LOD = 2.1) and African-American (LOD = 1.2) female subjects. Our findings overlap with several other linkage reports of insulin-related traits and demonstrate the importance of considering complex context-dependent interactions in the search for insulin-related genes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2007
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65. Relationship between tracheostomy timing and duration of mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients.

Author: Freeman BD, Borecki IB, Coopersmith CM, Buchman TG, Freeman, Bradley D, Borecki, Ingrid B, Coopersmith, Craig M, and Buchman, Timothy G
Abstract: Objective: Tracheostomy practice in the setting of critical illness is controversial because evidence demonstrating unequivocal benefit is lacking. We undertook this study to determine the relationship between tracheostomy timing and duration of mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit length of stay, and hospital length of stay and to evaluate the relative influence of clinical and nonclinical factors on tracheostomy practice.Design: Analysis of Project Impact, a multi-institutional critical care administrative database.Setting: Medical school.Patients: Data from 43,916 patients were reviewed.Interventions: None.Measurements and Main Results: Tracheostomy was performed in 2,473 (5.6%) of 43,916 patients analyzed. Tracheostomy patients had a higher survival rate than nontracheostomy patients (78.1 vs. 71.7%, p < .001) and underwent this procedure following a median (25th-75th percentile) of 9.0 (5.0-14.0) days of ventilatory support. Tracheostomy frequency and timing varied significantly comparing patient, intensive care unit, and hospital characteristics (p < .05 for all). Tracheostomy timing correlated significantly with duration of mechanical ventilation (r = .690), intensive care unit (r = .610), and hospital length of stay (r = .341, p < .001 for all). At most, 22% of patients were supported via tracheostomy at any given time. Although a minority, tracheostomy patients accounted for 26.2%, 21.0%, and 13.5% of all ventilator, intensive care unit, and hospital days, respectively.Conclusions: Although practice varies substantially, tracheostomy timing appears significantly associated with duration of mechanical ventilation, intensive care unit length of stay, and hospital length of stay. These findings emphasize the need for an adequately supported multiple-center trial to better define patient selection for tracheostomy and to test the hypothesis that timing of this procedure influences clinically important outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2005
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66. Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits

Author: Justice, AE, Winkler, TW, Feitosa, MF, Graff, M, Fisher, VA, Young, K, Barata, L, Deng, X, Czajkowski, J, Hadley, D, Ngwa, JS, Ahluwalia, TS, Chu, AY, Heard-Costa, NL, Lim, E, Perez, J, Eicher, JD, Kutalik, Z, Xue, L, Mahajan, A, Renström, F, Wu, J, Qi, Q, Ahmad, S, Alfred, T, Amin, N, Bielak, LF, Bonnefond, A, Bragg, J, Cadby, G, Chittani, M, Coggeshall, S, Corre, T, Direk, N, Eriksson, J, Fischer, K, Gorski, M, Neergaard Harder, M, Horikoshi, M, Huang, T, Huffman, JE, Jackson, AU, Justesen, JM, Kanoni, S, Kinnunen, L, Kleber, ME, Komulainen, P, Kumari, M, Lim, U, Luan, J, Lyytikäinen, L-P, Mangino, M, Manichaikul, A, Marten, J, Middelberg, RPS, Müller-Nurasyid, M, Navarro, P, Pérusse, L, Pervjakova, N, Sarti, C, Smith, AV, Smith, JA, Stančáková, A, Strawbridge, RJ, Stringham, HM, Sung, YJ, Tanaka, T, Teumer, A, Trompet, S, Van Der Laan, SW, Van Der Most, PJ, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, JV, Vedantam, SL, Verweij, N, Vink, JM, Vitart, V, Wu, Y, Yengo, L, Zhang, W, Hua Zhao, J, Zimmermann, ME, Zubair, N, Abecasis, GR, Adair, LS, Afaq, S, Afzal, U, Bakker, SJL, Bartz, TM, Beilby, J, Bergman, RN, Bergmann, S, Biffar, R, Blangero, J, Boerwinkle, E, Bonnycastle, LL, Bottinger, E, Braga, D, Buckley, BM, Buyske, S, Campbell, H, Chambers, JC, Collins, FS, Curran, JE, De Borst, GJ, De Craen, AJM, De Geus, EJC, Dedoussis, G, Delgado, GE, Den Ruijter, HM, Eiriksdottir, G, Eriksson, AL, Esko, T, Faul, JD, Ford, I, Forrester, T, Gertow, K, Gigante, B, Glorioso, N, Gong, J, Grallert, H, Grammer, TB, Grarup, N, Haitjema, S, Hallmans, G, Hamsten, A, Hansen, T, Harris, TB, Hartman, CA, Hassinen, M, Hastie, ND, Heath, AC, Hernandez, D, Hindorff, L, Hocking, LJ, Hollensted, M, Holmen, OL, Homuth, G, Jan Hottenga, J, Huang, J, Hung, J, Hutri-Kähönen, N, Ingelsson, E, James, AL, Jansson, J-O, Jarvelin, M-R, Jhun, MA, Jørgensen, ME, Juonala, M, Kähönen, M, Karlsson, M, Koistinen, HA, Kolcic, I, Kolovou, G, Kooperberg, C, Krämer, BK, Kuusisto, J, Kvaløy, K, Lakka, TA, Langenberg, C, Launer, LJ, Leander, K, Lee, NR, Lind, L, Lindgren, CM, Linneberg, A, Lobbens, S, Loh, M, Lorentzon, M, Luben, R, Lubke, G, Ludolph-Donislawski, A, Lupoli, S, Madden, PAF, Männikkö, R, Marques-Vidal, P, Martin, NG, McKenzie, CA, McKnight, B, Mellström, D, Menni, C, Montgomery, GW, Musk, AB, Narisu, N, Nauck, M, Nolte, IM, Oldehinkel, AJ, Olden, M, Ong, KK, Padmanabhan, S, Peyser, PA, Pisinger, C, Porteous, DJ, Raitakari, OT, Rankinen, T, Rao, DC, Rasmussen-Torvik, LJ, Rawal, R, Rice, T, Ridker, PM, Rose, LM, Bien, SA, Rudan, I, Sanna, S, Sarzynski, MA, Sattar, N, Savonen, K, Schlessinger, D, Scholtens, S, Schurmann, C, Scott, RA, Sennblad, B, Siemelink, MA, Silbernagel, G, Slagboom, PE, Snieder, H, Staessen, JA, Stott, DJ, Swertz, MA, Swift, AJ, Taylor, KD, Tayo, BO, Thorand, B, Thuillier, D, Tuomilehto, J, Uitterlinden, AG, Vandenput, L, Vohl, M-C, Völzke, H, Vonk, JM, Waeber, G, Waldenberger, M, Westendorp, RGJ, Wild, S, Willemsen, G, Wolffenbuttel, BHR, Wong, A, Wright, AF, Zhao, W, Zillikens, MC, Baldassarre, D, Balkau, B, Bandinelli, S, Böger, CA, Boomsma, DI, Bouchard, C, Bruinenberg, M, Chasman, DI, Chen, Y-D, Chines, PS, Cooper, RS, Cucca, F, Cusi, D, Faire, UD, Ferrucci, L, Franks, PW, Froguel, P, Gordon-Larsen, P, Grabe, H-J, Gudnason, V, Haiman, CA, Hayward, C, Hveem, K, Johnson, AD, Wouter Jukema, J, Kardia, SLR, Kivimaki, M, Kooner, JS, Kuh, D, Laakso, M, Lehtimäki, T, Marchand, LL, März, W, McCarthy, MI, Metspalu, A, Morris, AP, Ohlsson, C, Palmer, LJ, Pasterkamp, G, Pedersen, O, Peters, A, Peters, U, Polasek, O, Psaty, BM, Qi, L, Rauramaa, R, Smith, BH, Sørensen, TIA, Strauch, K, Tiemeier, H, Tremoli, E, Van Der Harst, P, Vestergaard, H, Vollenweider, P, Wareham, NJ, Weir, DR, Whitfield, JB, Wilson, JF, Tyrrell, J, Frayling, TM, Barroso, I, Boehnke, M, Deloukas, P, Fox, CS, Hirschhorn, JN, Hunter, DJ, Spector, TD, Strachan, DP, Van Duijn, CM, Heid, IM, Mohlke, KL, Marchini, J, Loos, RJF, Kilpeläinen, TO, Liu, C-T, Borecki, IB, North, KE, and Cupples, LA
Subjects: Adult, Waist-Hip Ratio, Quantitative Trait Loci, Smoking, Epistasis, Genetic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, Body Mass Index, Phenotype, Body Fat Distribution, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Obesity, Waist Circumference, Adiposity, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) account for environmental exposures, like smoking, potentially impacting the overall trait variance when investigating the genetic contribution to obesity-related traits. Here, we use GWAS data from 51,080 current smokers and 190,178 nonsmokers (87% European descent) to identify loci influencing BMI and central adiposity, measured as waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio both adjusted for BMI. We identify 23 novel genetic loci, and 9 loci with convincing evidence of gene-smoking interaction (GxSMK) on obesity-related traits. We show consistent direction of effect for all identified loci and significance for 18 novel and for 5 interaction loci in an independent study sample. These loci highlight novel biological functions, including response to oxidative stress, addictive behaviour, and regulatory functions emphasizing the importance of accounting for environment in genetic analyses. Our results suggest that tobacco smoking may alter the genetic susceptibility to overall adiposity and body fat distribution.

67. Response to 'athletes genotyping: ethical and legal issues'.

Author: Borecki IB, An P, Rankinen T, Pérusse L, Leon AS, Skinner JS, Wilmore JH, Bouchard C, and Rao DC
Published: 2004
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68. Genetic variants linked to education predict longevity

Author: Chris Power, Gail Davies, Ilaria Gandin, Panagiotis Deloukas, Jennifer E. Huffman, Pascal Timshel, Albert V. Smith, A. Kong, Paul Lichtenstein, Joseph K. Pickrell, Philipp Koellinger, P. L. De Jager, Reedik Mägi, G. B. Chen, Neil Pendleton, B. V. Halldórsson, George Dedoussis, Antti-Pekka Sarin, Natalia Pervjakova, Veikko Salomaa, Simona Vaccargiu, Ozren Polasek, K. H. Jöckel, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Y. Milaneschi, Jessica D. Faul, Patricia A. Boyle, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Igor Rudan, Christopher P. Nelson, Vilmundur Gudnason, John Attia, Jürgen Wellmann, Kristi Läll, Konstantin Strauch, Stuart J. Ritchie, Markus Perola, Nicola Pirastu, Klaus Bønnelykke, Robert Karlsson, R. de Vlaming, Liisa Keltigangas-Jarvinen, Thomas Meitinger, Riccardo E. Marioni, Anu Loukola, Barbera Franke, Reinhold Schmidt, Maël Lebreton, Sven Oskarsson, E. Mihailov, Harm-Jan Westra, David R. Weir, Aldi T. Kraja, Niek Verweij, Peter M. Visscher, Hans-Jörgen Grabe, Johannes H. Brandsma, Mark Adams, R. J. Scott, G. Thorleifsson, Tõnu Esko, Mika Kähönen, Saskia P. Hagenaars, Patrick Turley, Johannes Waage, Peter Lichtner, Dragana Vuckovic, Antonietta Robino, Henry Völzke, Lydia Quaye, C. de Leeuw, Marika Kaakinen, Wei Zhao, Abdel Abdellaoui, Reka Nagy, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Johan G. Eriksson, Alan F. Wright, Andres Metspalu, Lavinia Paternoster, Momoko Horikoshi, Jan A. Staessen, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Tian Liu, Martin Kroh, Aldo Rustichini, Giorgia Girotto, Cristina Venturini, Lili Milani, Jennifer A. Smith, Ginevra Biino, Tessel E. Galesloot, Michael A. Horan, Gerardus A. Meddens, James F. Wilson, Francesco Cucca, Peter Vollenweider, Erika Salvi, P. J. van der Most, Jari Lahti, Campbell A, David Laibson, Andrew Bakshi, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Tomi Mäki-Opas, Andreas J. Forstner, C M van Duijn, Nicholas G. Martin, Jonathan Marten, Ute Bültmann, Olli T. Raitakari, David A. Bennett, A.G. Uitterlinden, J. E. De Neve, Ingrid B. Borecki, WD Hill, Bo Jacobsson, Antti Latvala, Katri Räikkönen, Michael B. Miller, Jonathan P. Beauchamp, S. J. van der Lee, Ilja Demuth, Stavroula Kanoni, Veronique Vitart, Elina Hyppönen, N. Eklund, Francesco P. Cappuccio, Robert F. Krueger, Maria Pina Concas, Jaime Derringer, F. J.A. Van Rooij, Helena Schmidt, Patrick J. F. Groenen, Valur Emilsson, Rico Rueedi, Aysu Okbay, Georg Homuth, Edith Hofer, W. E. R. Ollier, Hannah Campbell, Paolo Gasparini, Mark Alan Fontana, Magnus Johannesson, Seppo Koskinen, Christopher F. Chabris, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Christine Meisinger, Kari Stefansson, Jun Ding, Tia Sorensen, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Michelle N. Meyer, James J. Lee, Diego Vozzi, Gonneke Willemsen, K. Petrovic, Sarah E. Medland, Mary F. Feitosa, Henning Tiemeier, L. J. Launer, William G. Iacono, Massimo Mangino, Tune H. Pers, S. E. Baumeister, Christopher Oldmeadow, Grant W. Montgomery, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Jaakko Kaprio, Catharine R. Gale, S.F.W. Meddens, Kevin Thom, Klaus Berger, Pablo V. Gejman, Lude Franke, Gyda Bjornsdottir, Daniel J. Benjamin, Steven F. Lehrer, Krista Fischer, Alan R. Sanders, S. Ulivi, Katharina E. Schraut, Tim D. Spector, Amy Hofman, Matt McGue, Terho Lehtimäki, D. C. Liewald, Hans Bisgaard, L. Eisele, Astanand Jugessur, George Davey Smith, T.B. Harris, A.R. Thurik, Cornelius A. Rietveld, David Schlessinger, Z. Kutalik, David J. Porteous, Lynne J. Hocking, N J Timpson, A. Palotie, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Ian J. Deary, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Peter K. Joshi, Nilesh J. Samani, Michael A. Province, Börge Schmidt, Richa Gupta, Carmen Amador, Erin B. Ware, Joyce Y. Tung, Ioanna-Panagiota Kalafati, Lars Bertram, Caroline Hayward, P. van der Harst, Penelope A. Lind, Kadri Kaasik, N.A. Furlotte, Sarah E. Harris, B. St Pourcain, Susan M. Ring, Zhihong Zhu, Alexander Teumer, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Judith M. Vonk, Blair H. Smith, A Payton, Wouter J. Peyrot, Jacob Gratten, Douglas F. Levinson, C Gieger, Leanne M. Hall, Andrew Heath, Mario Pirastu, Peter Eibich, Nancy L. Pedersen, Ronny Myhre, Antonio Terracciano, David M. Evans, Raymond A. Poot, Uwe Völker, Dorret I. Boomsma, Clemens Baumbach, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Ivana Kolcic, Jia-Shu Yang, Dalton Conley, A. A. Vinkhuyzen, Danielle Posthuma, Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Olga Rostapshova, Jonas Bacelis, Daniele Cusi, Yong Qian, Bjarni Gunnarsson, George McMahon, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Pamela A. F. Madden, David A. Hinds, David Cesarini, Jianxin Shi, Najaf Amin, Dale R. Nyholt, Applied Economics, Epidemiology, Real World Studies in PharmacoEpidemiology, -Genetics, -Economics and -Therapy (PEGET), Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health, Public Health Research (PHR), Stem Cell Aging Leukemia and Lymphoma (SALL), Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, EMGO - Mental health, Complex Trait Genetics, Biological Psychology, Marioni, RE, Ritchie, SJ, Joshi, PK, Hagenaars, SP, Hypponen, E, Benjamin, DJ, Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, Marioni, Re, Ritchie, Sj, Joshi, Pk, Hagenaars, Sp, Okbay, A, Fischer, K, Adams, Mj, Hill, Wd, Davies, G, Nagy, R, Amador, C, Läll, K, Metspalu, A, Liewald, Dc, Campbell, A, Wilson, Jf, Hayward, C, Esko, T, Porteous, Dj, Gale, Cr, Deary, Ij, Beauchamp, Jp, Fontana, Ma, Lee, Jj, Pers, Th, Rietveld, Ca, Turley, P, Chen, Gb, Emilsson, V, Meddens, Sf, Oskarsson, S, Pickrell, Jk, Thom, K, Timshel, P, de Vlaming, R, Abdellaoui, A, Ahluwalia, T, Bacelis, J, Baumbach, C, Bjornsdottir, G, Brandsma, Jh, Concas, MARIA PINA, Derringer, J, Furlotte, Na, Galesloot, Te, Girotto, Giorgia, Gupta, R, Hall, Lm, Harris, Se, Hofer, E, Horikoshi, M, Huffman, Je, Kaasik, K, Kalafati, Ip, Karlsson, R, Kong, A, Lahti, J, van der Lee, Sj, de Leeuw, C, Lind, Pa, Lindgren, Ko, Liu, T, Mangino, M, Marten, J, Mihailov, E, Miller, Mb, van der Most, Pj, Oldmeadow, C, Payton, A, Pervjakova, N, Peyrot, Wj, Qian, Y, Raitakari, O, Rueedi, R, Salvi, E, Schmidt, B, Schraut, Ke, Shi, J, Smith, Av, Poot, Ra, St Pourcain, B, Teumer, A, Thorleifsson, G, Verweij, N, Vuckovic, Dragana, Wellmann, J, Westra, Hj, Yang, J, Zhao, W, Zhu, Z, Alizadeh, Bz, Amin, N, Bakshi, A, Baumeister, Se, Biino, G, Bønnelykke, K, Boyle, Pa, Campbell, H, Cappuccio, Fp, De Neve, Je, Deloukas, P, Demuth, I, Ding, J, Eibich, P, Eisele, L, Eklund, N, Evans, Dm, Faul, Jd, Feitosa, Mf, Forstner, Aj, Gandin, Ilaria, Gunnarsson, B, Halldórsson, Bv, Harris, Tb, Heath, Ac, Hocking, Lj, Holliday, Eg, Homuth, G, Horan, Ma, Hottenga, Jj, de Jager, Pl, Jugessur, A, Kaakinen, Ma, Kähönen, M, Kanoni, S, Keltigangas Järvinen, L, Kiemeney, La, Kolcic, I, Koskinen, S, Kraja, At, Kroh, M, Kutalik, Z, Latvala, A, Launer, Lj, Lebreton, Mp, Levinson, Df, Lichtenstein, P, Lichtner, P, Loukola, A, Madden, Pa, Mägi, R, Mäki Opas, T, Marques Vidal, P, Meddens, Ga, Mcmahon, G, Meisinger, C, Meitinger, T, Milaneschi, Y, Milani, L, Montgomery, Gw, Myhre, R, Nelson, Cp, Nyholt, Dr, Ollier, We, Palotie, A, Paternoster, L, Pedersen, Nl, Petrovic, Ke, Räikkönen, K, Ring, Sm, Robino, Antonietta, Rostapshova, O, Rudan, I, Rustichini, A, Salomaa, V, Sanders, Ar, Sarin, Ap, Schmidt, H, Scott, Rj, Smith, Bh, Smith, Ja, Staessen, Ja, Steinhagen Thiessen, E, Strauch, K, Terracciano, A, Tobin, Md, Ulivi, Sheila, Vaccargiu, S, Quaye, L, van Rooij, Fj, Venturini, C, Vinkhuyzen, Aa, Völker, U, Völzke, H, Vonk, Jm, Vozzi, Diego, Waage, J, Ware, Eb, Willemsen, G, Attia, Jr, Bennett, Da, Berger, K, Bertram, L, Bisgaard, H, Boomsma, Di, Borecki, Ib, Bultmann, U, Chabris, Cf, Cucca, F, Cusi, D, Dedoussis, Gv, van Duijn, Cm, Eriksson, Jg, Franke, B, Franke, L, Gasparini, Paolo, Gejman, Pv, Gieger, C, Grabe, Hj, Gratten, J, Groenen, Pj, Gudnason, V, van der Harst, P, Hinds, Da, Hoffmann, W, Iacono, Wg, Jacobsson, B, Järvelin, Mr, Jöckel, Kh, Kaprio, J, Kardia, Sl, Lehtimäki, T, Lehrer, Sf, Magnusson, Pk, Martin, Ng, Mcgue, M, Pendleton, N, Penninx, Bw, Perola, M, Pirastu, Nicola, Pirastu, M, Polasek, O, Posthuma, D, Power, C, Province, Ma, Samani, Nj, Schlessinger, D, Schmidt, R, Sørensen, Ti, Spector, Td, Stefansson, K, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Thurik, Ar, Timpson, Nj, Tiemeier, H, Tung, Jy, Uitterlinden, Ag, Vitart, V, Vollenweider, P, Weir, Dr, Wright, Af, Conley, Dc, Krueger, Rf, Smith, Gd, Hofman, A, Laibson, Di, Medland, Se, Meyer, Mn, Johannesson, M, Visscher, Pm, Koellinger, Pd, Cesarini, D, and Benjamin, Dj
Subjects: Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), 0301 basic medicine, Male, Parents, education: longevity: prediction: polygenic score [genetics], Multifactorial Inheritance, polygenic, Lebenserwartung, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Databases, Genetic, Medicine, genetics, polygenic score, longevity, education, gene, Soziales und Gesundheit, media_common, Aged, 80 and over, education, Multidisciplinary, Longevity, Middle Aged, Biobank, humanities, 3. Good health, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], Cohort, Educational Status, Female, Cohort study, Estonia, education, longevity, polygenic, Offspring, media_common.quotation_subject, Kultursektor, Prognose, Lernen, Lower risk, Education, 03 medical and health sciences, longevity, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Commentaries, Polygenic score, Journal Article, Genetics, Humans, Non-Profit-Sektor, Genetic Association Studies, Aged, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], business.industry, ta1184, Genetic Variation, prediction, Educational attainment, United Kingdom, Gesundheitsstatistik, 030104 developmental biology, Genetic epidemiology, Scotland, Gesundheitszustand, Genetische Forschung, business, Prediction, Bildung, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Demography
Abstract: Educational attainment is associated with many health outcomes, including longevity. It is also known to be substantially heritable. Here, we used data from three large genetic epidemiology cohort studies (Generation Scotland, n = ∼17,000; UK Biobank, n = ∼115,000; and the Estonian Biobank, n = ∼6,000) to test whether education-linked genetic variants can predict lifespan length. We did so by using cohort members' polygenic profile score for education to predict their parents' longevity. Across the three cohorts, meta-analysis showed that a 1 SD higher polygenic education score was associated with ∼2.7% lower mortality risk for both mothers (total n deaths = 79,702) and ∼2.4% lower risk for fathers (total n deaths = 97,630). On average, the parents of offspring in the upper third of the polygenic score distribution lived 0.55 y longer compared with those of offspring in the lower third. Overall, these results indicate that the genetic contributions to educational attainment are useful in the prediction of human longevity. Marioni RE, Ritchie SJ, Joshi PK, Hagenaars SP, Okbay A, Fischer K, Adams MJ, Hill WD, Davies G, Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, Nagy R, Amador C, Läll K, Metspalu A, Liewald DC, Campbell A, Wilson JF, Hayward C, Esko T, Porteous DJ, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016, vol. 113, no. 47, pp. 13366-13371, 2016 Refereed/Peer-reviewed
Published: 2016

69. Integration of genome-wide association studies with biological knowledge identifies six novel genes related to kidney function

Author: W. H. Linda Kao, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Florian Ernst, Paul Mitchell, Christa Meisinger, Florian Kronenberg, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Paul M. Ridker, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jeanette S. Andrews, Ming-Huei Chen, Frank B. Hu, Jean-Charles Lambert, Mario Pirastu, Ozren Polasek, Xiaoyi Gao, Sven Bergmann, Catherine Helmer, Wilmar Igl, Jie Jin Wang, Barry I. Freedman, Anke Tönjes, Jacqueline C. M. Witteman, Sheila Ulivi, Conall M. O'Seaghdha, Mika Kähönen, Mariza de Andrade, Daniel I. Chasman, Meredith C. Foster, Rossella Sorice, Mathias Gorski, Eric Boerwinkle, Karlhans Endlich, Maksim Struchalin, Bernhard K. Krämer, Bénédicte Stengel, Caroline Hayward, Giorgio Pistis, Andres Metspalu, Peter Kovacs, Jorma Viikari, Guo Li, Cristian Pattaro, Adrienne Tin, Igor Rudan, Christian Gieger, Mary F. Feitosa, Stephen T. Turner, Gary C. Curhan, Shamika Ketkar, Ian Ford, Peter Vollenweider, Wolfgang Koenig, Madhumathi Rao, Iris M. Heid, Stuart K. Kim, Heather E. Wheeler, Matthias Olden, Hinco J. Gierman, Alex S. F. Doney, Lenore J. Launer, Mladen Boban, Georg Homuth, Paolo Gasparini, Harshal Deshmukh, Henry Völzke, Daniela Ruggiero, Medea Imboden, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Ben A. Oostra, Stefan Coassin, Ute Nöthlings, Marilyn C. Cornelis, David S. Siscovick, Yongmei Liu, Gian Andri Thun, Gunnar Jacobs, Franco Giulianini, Uwe Völker, Tõnu Esko, Alexander Teumer, Jeffrey R. O'Connell, Brendan M. Buckley, Heyo K. Kroemer, Albert V. Smith, Ulf Gyllensten, Federico Murgia, Man Li, Harry Campbell, Antonietta Robino, Abbas Dehghan, Inga Prokopenko, Shih-Jen Hwang, Sylvia Stracke, Michael Stumvoll, Alan R. Shuldiner, Christian Fuchsberger, Claudia Hundertmark, Luigi Ferrucci, David Ellinghaus, Laura Portas, Caroline S. Fox, Afshin Parsa, Carsten A. Böger, Toshiko Tanaka, Terho Lehtimäki, Ayse Demirkan, James F. Wilson, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Yurii S. Aulchenko, Murielle Bochud, Helen M. Colhoun, Jingzhong Ding, Nicole L. Glazer, Rainer Rettig, Bernhard Paulweber, Margherita Cavalieri, Andre Franke, Ingrid B. Borecki, Olli T. Raitakari, Josef Coresh, Tamara B. Harris, Sarah H. Wild, Reinhold Schmidt, Ching-Ti Liu, Zoltán Kutalik, André G. Uitterlinden, J. Wouter Jukema, Helena Schmidt, Martin Adam, Audrey Y. Chu, Fernando Rivadeneira, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Braxton D. Mitchell, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Tatijana Zemunik, Andrew D. Johnson, Ghazal Zaboli, Reiner Biffar, Thor Aspelund, Cinzia Sala, Peter P. Pramstaller, Veronique Vitart, Michael A. Province, Anna Köttgen, Nicholas D. Hastie, Daniel Taliun, Marina Ciullo, Cosetta Minelli, Kurt Lohman, Matthias Nauck, Thomas Illig, Alan F. Wright, Albert Hofman, Colin N. A. Palmer, Daniela Toniolo, Qiong Yang, Lina Zgaga, Åsa Johansson, Margot Haun, Stella Trompet, Aaron Isaacs, Reedik Mägi, Tiit Nikopensius, Epidemiology, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Clinical Genetics, Internal Medicine, Chasman, Di, Fuchsberger, C, Pattaro, C, Teumer, A, Böger, Ca, Endlich, K, Olden, M, Chen, Mh, Tin, A, Taliun, D, Li, M, Gao, X, Gorski, M, Yang, Q, Hundertmark, C, Foster, Mc, O'Seaghdha, Cm, Glazer, N, Isaacs, A, Liu, Ct, Smith, Av, O'Connell, Jr, Struchalin, M, Tanaka, T, Li, G, Johnson, Ad, Gierman, Hj, Feitosa, Mf, Hwang, Sj, Atkinson, Ej, Lohman, K, Cornelis, Mc, Johansson, A, Tönjes, A, Dehghan, A, Lambert, Jc, Holliday, Eg, Sorice, R, Kutalik, Z, Lehtimäki, T, Esko, T, Deshmukh, H, Ulivi, S, Chu, Ay, Murgia, F, Trompet, S, Imboden, M, Coassin, S, Pistis, G, Cardiogram, Consortium, Icbp, Consortium, the CARe, Consortium, Wtccc2, Harris, Tb, Launer, Lj, Aspelund, T, Eiriksdottir, G, Mitchell, Bd, Boerwinkle, E, Schmidt, H, Cavalieri, M, Rao, M, Hu, F, Demirkan, A, Oostra, Ba, de Andrade, M, Turner, St, Ding, J, Andrews, J, Freedman, Bi, Giulianini, F, Koenig, W, Illig, T, Meisinger, C, Gieger, C, Zgaga, L, Zemunik, T, Boban, M, Minelli, C, Wheeler, He, Igl, W, Zaboli, G, Wild, Sh, Wright, Af, Campbell, H, Ellinghaus, D, Nöthlings, U, Jacobs, G, Biffar, R, Ernst, F, Homuth, G, Kroemer, Hk, Nauck, M, Stracke, S, Völker, U, Völzke, H, Kovacs, P, Stumvoll, M, Mägi, R, Hofman, A, Uitterlinden, Ag, Rivadeneira, F, Aulchenko, Y, Polasek, O, Hastie, N, Vitart, V, Helmer, C, Wang, Jj, Stengel, B, Ruggiero, D, Bergmann, S, Kähönen, M, Viikari, J, Nikopensius, T, Province, M, Ketkar, S, Colhoun, H, Doney, A, Robino, Antonietta, Krämer, Bk, Portas, L, Ford, I, Buckley, Bm, Adam, M, Thun, Ga, Paulweber, B, Haun, M, Sala, C, Mitchell, P, Ciullo, M, Kim, Sk, Vollenweider, P, Raitakari, O, Metspalu, A, Palmer, C, Gasparini, Paolo, Pirastu, M, Jukema, Jw, Probst Hensch, Nm, Kronenberg, F, Toniolo, D, Gudnason, V, Shuldiner, Ar, Coresh, J, Schmidt, R, Ferrucci, L, Siscovick, D, van Duijn, Cm, Borecki, Ib, Kardia, Sl, Liu, Y, Curhan, Gc, Rudan, I, Gyllensten, U, Wilson, Jf, Franke, A, Pramstaller, Pp, Rettig, R, Prokopenko, I, Witteman, J, Hayward, C, Ridker, Pm, Parsa, A, Bochud, M, Heid, Im, Kao, Wl, Fox, C, and Köttgen, A.
Subjects: Candidate gene, Amino Acid Transport Systems, Basic/genetics, Genome-wide association study, Gene, Genome, Inhibin-beta Subunits/genetics, GWAS, kidney, eGFR, Genetics (clinical), Inhibin-beta Subunits, Glomerular Filtration Rate/genetics, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, Association Studies Articles, 030305 genetics & heredity, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, General Medicine, Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein-2/genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, LRP2, 3. Good health, Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein-2, Genome-Wide Association Study/methods, Single Nucleotide/genetics, Glomerular Filtration Rate, Fusion Regulatory Protein 1, Heavy Chain, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Humans, SNP, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, Membrane Proteins/genetics, Polymorphism, Molecular Biology, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Fusion Regulatory Protein 1, Heavy Chain/genetics, Fusion Regulatory Protein 1, Genes, Kidney Function, Membrane Proteins, ta3121, Amino Acid Transport Systems, Basic, Amino Acid Transport Systems, Basic/genetics, Heavy Chain/genetics, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics, Candidate Disease Gene, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: In conducting genome-wide association studies (GWAS), analytical approaches leveraging biological information may further understanding of the pathophysiology of clinical traits. To discover novel associations with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), a measure of kidney function, we developed a strategy for integrating prior biological knowledge into the existing GWAS data for eGFR from the CKDGen Consortium. Our strategy focuses on single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) in genes that are connected by functional evidence, determined by literature mining and gene ontology (GO) hierarchies, to genes near previously validated eGFR associations. It then requires association thresholds consistent with multiple testing, and finally evaluates novel candidates by independent replication. Among the samples of European ancestry, we identified a genome-wide significant SNP in FBXL20 (P = 5.6 × 10(-9)) in meta-analysis of all available data, and additional SNPs at the INHBC, LRP2, PLEKHA1, SLC3A2 and SLC7A6 genes meeting multiple-testing corrected significance for replication and overall P-values of 4.5 × 10(-4)-2.2 × 10(-7). Neither the novel PLEKHA1 nor FBXL20 associations, both further supported by association with eGFR among African Americans and with transcript abundance, would have been implicated by eGFR candidate gene approaches. LRP2, encoding the megalin receptor, was identified through connection with the previously known eGFR gene DAB2 and extends understanding of the megalin system in kidney function. These findings highlight integration of existing genome-wide association data with independent biological knowledge to uncover novel candidate eGFR associations, including candidates lacking known connections to kidney-specific pathways. The strategy may also be applicable to other clinical phenotypes, although more testing will be needed to assess its potential for discovery in general.
Published: 2012

70. Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

Author: Locke, Adam E, Kahali, Bratati, Croteau-Chonka, Damien C, Doney, Alex S F, He, Bing, Heikkilä, Outi, Hietala, Kustaa, Kytö, Janne, Lahermo, Päivi, Lehto, Markku, Österholm, Anne-May, Parkkonen, Maija, Pitkäniemi, Janne, Rosengård-Bärlund, Milla, Eklund, Niina, Saraheimo, Markku, Sarti, Cinzia, Söderlund, Jenny, Soro-Paavonen, Aino, Syreeni, Anna, Thorn, Lena M, Tikkanen, Heikki, Tolonen, Nina, Tryggvason, Karl, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Estrada, Karol, Wadén, Johan, Gill, Geoffrey V, Prior, Sarah, Guiducci, Candace, Mirel, Daniel B, Taylor, Andrew, Hosseini, Mohsen, Parving, Hans-Henrik, Rossing, Peter, Tarnow, Lise, Eury, Elodie, Ladenvall, Claes, Alhenc-Gelas, François, Lefebvre, Pierre, Rigalleau, Vincent, Roussel, Ronan, Tregouet, David-Alexandre, Maestroni, Anna, Maestroni, Silvia, Falhammar, Henrik, Gu, Tianwei, Folkersen, Lasse, Möllsten, Anna, Cimponeriu, Dan, Mihai, Ioana, Mota, Maria, Mota, Eugen, Serafinceanu, Cristian, Stavarachi, Monica, Hanson, Robert L, Nelson, Robert G, Kretzler, Matthias, Fraser, Ross M, Colhoun, Helen M, Panduru, Nicolae Mircea, Gu, Harvest F, Brismar, Kerstin, Zerbini, Gianpaolo, Hadjadj, Samy, Marre, Michel, Groop, Leif, Lajer, Maria, Bull, Shelley B, Garcia, Melissa E, Waggott, Daryl, Paterson, Andrew D, Savage, David A, Bain, Stephen C, Martin, Finian, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Godson, Catherine, Florez, Jose C, Groop, Per-Henrik, Maxwell, Alexander P, Geller, Frank, Willer, Cristen J, Schmidt, Ellen M, Sengupta, Sebanti, Peloso, Gina M, Gustafsson, Stefan, Kanoni, Stavroula, Ganna, Andrea, Chen, Jin, Buchkovich, Martin L, Mora, Samia, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Beckmann, Jacques S, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, Chang, Hsing-Y, Demirkan, Ayşe, Den Hertog, Heleen M, Do, Ron, Donnelly, Louise A, Ehret, Georg B, Esko, Tõnu, Feitosa, Mary F, Gigante, Bruna, Ferreira, Teresa, Fischer, Krista, Fontanillas, Pierre, Freitag, Daniel F, Gurdasani, Deepti, Heikkilä, Kauko, Hyppönen, Elina, Isaacs, Aaron, Jackson, Anne U, Esko, Tonu, Go, Alan S, Johansson, Åsa, Johnson, Toby, Kaakinen, Marika, Kettunen, Johannes, Kleber, Marcus E, Li, Xiaohui, Luan, Jian'an, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Magnusson, Patrik K E, Mangino, Massimo, Golay, Alain, Mihailov, Evelin, Montasser, May E, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nolte, Ilja M, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Palmer, Cameron D, Perola, Markus, Petersen, Ann-Kristin, Sanna, Serena, Saxena, Richa, Goodall, Alison H, Service, Susan K, Shah, Sonia, Shungin, Dmitry, Sidore, Carlo, Song, Ci, Strawbridge, Rona J, Surakka, Ida, Tanaka, Toshiko, Teslovich, Tanya M, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Gordon, Scott D, Van den Herik, Evita G, Voight, Benjamin F, Volcik, Kelly A, Waite, Lindsay L, Wong, Andrew, Wu, Ying, Zhang, Weihua, Absher, Devin, Asiki, Gershim, Barroso, Inês, Gorski, Mathias, Been, Latonya F, Bolton, Jennifer L, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Brambilla, Paolo, Burnett, Mary S, Cesana, Giancarlo, Dimitriou, Maria, Doring, Angela, Elliott, Paul, Grabe, Hans-Jörgen, Epstein, Stephen E, Eyjolfsson, Gudmundur Ingi, Goodarzi, Mark O, Grallert, Harald, Gravito, Martha L, Groves, Christopher J, Hallmans, Göran, Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa, Hayward, Caroline, Hernandez, Dena, Hicks, Andrew A, Holm, Hilma, Hung, Yi-Jen, Illig, Thomas, Jones, Michelle R, Kaleebu, Pontiano, Kastelein, John J P, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kim, Eric, Grammer, Tanja B, Klopp, Norman, Komulainen, Pirjo, Kumari, Meena, Langenberg, Claudia, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lin, Shih-Yi, Lindstrom, Jaana, Loos, Ruth J F, Mach, François, McArdle, Wendy L, Gräßler, Jürgen, Meisinger, Christa, Mitchell, Braxton D, Muller, Gabrielle, Nagaraja, Ramaiah, Narisu, Narisu, Nieminen, Tuomo V M, Nsubuga, Rebecca N, Olafsson, Isleifur, Ong, Ken K, Palotie, Aarno, Grönberg, Henrik, Papamarkou, Theodore, Pomilla, Cristina, Pouta, Anneli, Rader, Daniel J, Reilly, Muredach P, Ridker, Paul M, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rudan, Igor, Ruokonen, Aimo, Samani, Nilesh, Fall, Tove, Scharnagl, Hubert, Seeley, Janet, Silander, Kaisa, Stančáková, Alena, Stirrups, Kathleen, Swift, Amy J, 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Subjects: Male, LOCI, Genome-wide association study, Continental Population Groups/genetics, VARIANTS, Body Mass Index, Insulin Secretion, Insulin, Age Factor, Adiposity, ddc:616, Adipogenesis, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, Synapse, 3. Good health, Continental Population Group, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATIONPROVIDES INSIGHTSGLYCEMIC TRAITSLOCIMETAANALYSISVARIANTSINDIVIDUALSHIPPOCAMPALARCHITECTURETOPIRAMATE, ddc:500, Adipogenesis/genetics, Single Nucleotide/genetics, Age Factors, Continental Population Groups, Energy Metabolism, Europe, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Glutamic Acid, Humans, Obesity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Synapses, Genome-Wide Association Study, Multidisciplinary, genetics [Adiposity], Human, Socio-culturale, genetics [Energy Metabolism], ta3111, genetic, body mass index, obesity, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, GLYCEMIC TRAITS, genetics [Continental Population Groups], Genetic variability, Polymorphism, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, genetics [Adipogenesis], METAANALYSIS, Genetic association, Adipogenesi, genetics [Quantitative Trait Loci], ta1184, metabolism [Glutamic Acid], ta1182, PATHWAYS, metabolism [Synapses], ta3121, medicine.disease, metabolism [Insulin], Adiposity/genetics, Clinical Medicine, Quantitative Trait Loci/genetics, Body mass index, HUMAN HEIGHT, BIO/12 - BIOCHIMICA CLINICA E BIOLOGIA MOLECOLARE CLINICA, Synapses/metabolism, Medizin, Obesity/genetics, Bioinformatics, genetic basis, Obesity/metabolism, genetics [Obesity], body mass index (BMI), genetics [Genetic Predisposition to Disease], ethnology [Europe], 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, ARCHITECTURE, Genetics of obesity, Medicine (all), Single Nucleotide, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, Insulin/metabolism/secretion, Glutamic Acid/metabolism, genetics [Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide], EXPRESSION, Insulin/metabolism, PROVIDES INSIGHTS, genetics [Racial Groups], Biology, Obesity/genetics/metabolism, Europe/ethnology, metabolism [Obesity], Mendelian randomization, medicine, Energy Metabolism/genetics, body mass, genetic analysis, obesity, Klinisk medicin
Abstract: Item does not contain fulltext Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals. This analysis identifies 97 BMI-associated loci (P < 5 x 10(-8)), 56 of which are novel. Five loci demonstrate clear evidence of several independent association signals, and many loci have significant effects on other metabolic phenotypes. The 97 loci account for approximately 2.7% of BMI variation, and genome-wide estimates suggest that common variation accounts for >20% of BMI variation. Pathway analyses provide strong support for a role of the central nervous system in obesity susceptibility and implicate new genes and pathways, including those related to synaptic function, glutamate signalling, insulin secretion/action, energy metabolism, lipid biology and adipogenesis.
Published: 2015

71. New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

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Abstract: Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distribution and its molecular links to cardiometabolic traits, here we conduct genome-wide association meta-analyses of traits related to waist and hip circumferences in up to 224,459 individuals. We identify 49 loci (33 new) associated with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index (BMI), and an additional 19 loci newly associated with related waist and hip circumference measures (P
Published: 2015

72. Novel Approach Identifies SNPs in SLC2A10 and KCNK9 with Evidence for Parent-of-Origin Effect on Body Mass Index

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Subjects: Epigenomics, Male, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), body mass index, gene, SNP, Cancer Research, BIO/12 - BIOCHIMICA CLINICA E BIOLOGIA MOLECOLARE CLINICA, Potassium Channels, Glucose Transport Proteins, Facilitative, Medizin, Genome-wide association study, CHILDREN, ddc:616.07, FAMILIES, Body Mass Index, 0302 clinical medicine, Polymorphism (computer science), Genotype, LifeLines Cohort study, GENETICS & HEREDITY, Tandem Pore Domain, Genetics (clinical), ASSOCIATIONS, ddc:616, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI, Ecology, Genomics, Single Nucleotide, Generation Scotland Consortium, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], OBESITY, Physical Sciences, KCNK9 protein, Epigenetics, Female, ALCOHOLISM, Glucose Transport Proteins, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Statistics (Mathematics), Human, Research Article, VARIANCES, Adult, PENETRANCE, GENES, lcsh:QH426-470, Evolution, European Continental Ancestry Group, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biostatistics, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, 03 medical and health sciences, Genomic Imprinting, Potassium Channels, Tandem Pore Domain, Genetic, Behavior and Systematics, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Genetic linkage, GIANT Consortium, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Statistical Methods, Allele, Polymorphism, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Gene Expression Regulation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Obesity, 030304 developmental biology, 0604 Genetics, Science & Technology, LINKAGE ANALYSIS, SLC2A10 protein, Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Facilitative, Genome Analysis, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematic, lcsh:Genetics, Inflammatory diseases Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 5], 3111 Biomedicine, Genomic imprinting, Mathematics, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology
Abstract: The phenotypic effect of some single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) depends on their parental origin. We present a novel approach to detect parent-of-origin effects (POEs) in genome-wide genotype data of unrelated individuals. The method exploits increased phenotypic variance in the heterozygous genotype group relative to the homozygous groups. We applied the method to >56,000 unrelated individuals to search for POEs influencing body mass index (BMI). Six lead SNPs were carried forward for replication in five family-based studies (of ∼4,000 trios). Two SNPs replicated: the paternal rs2471083-C allele (located near the imprinted KCNK9 gene) and the paternal rs3091869-T allele (located near the SLC2A10 gene) increased BMI equally (beta = 0.11 (SD), P, Author Summary Large genetic association studies have revealed many genetic factors influencing common traits, such as body mass index (BMI). These studies assume that the effect of genetic variants is the same regardless of whether they are inherited from the mother or the father. In our study, we have developed a new approach that allows us to investigate variants whose impact depends on their parental origin (parent-of-origin effects), in unrelated samples when the parental origin cannot be inferred. This is feasible because at genetic markers at which such effects occur there is increased variability of the trait among individuals who inherited different genetic codes from their mother and their father compared to individuals who inherited the same genetic code from both parents. We applied this methodology to discover genetic markers with parent-of-origin effects (POEs) on BMI. This resulted in six candidate markers showing strong POE association. We then attempted to replicate the POE effects of these markers in family studies (where one can infer the parental origin of the inherited variants). Two of our candidates showed significant association in the family studies, the paternal and maternal effects of these markers were in the opposite direction.
Published: 2014

73. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

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Munroe, Marcel Bruinenberg, Gonneke Willemsen, Ulf de Faire, Markku Laakso, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Andrew C. Heath, Jing Hua Zhao, Lavinia Paternoster, Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Sailaja Vedantam, Danyu Lin, Eric E. Schadt, Stefano Signorini, Harald Grallert, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Jonathan Tyrer, Albert Hofman, George Nicholson, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Arthur W. Musk, Jian Yang, Vilmundur Gudnason, Robert C. Kaplan, Panos Deloukas, Nilesh J. Samani, Inke R. König, Frank B. Hu, Paul M. Ridker, Tamara B. Harris, Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel, Ellen A. Nohr, Sarah Edkins, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Anke Hinney, Eric Boerwinkle, Klaus Stark, Ben A. Oostra, Barbara Thorand, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Meena Kumari, Evelin Mihailov, Caroline S. Fox, Michael Boehnke, Aroon D. Hingorani, Jonathan Stephens, Kathleen Stirrups, Inga Prokopenko, Anke Tönjes, Lili Milani, John Beilby, Carlos Iribarren, Kari E. 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Montgomery, Gw, Mühleisen, Tw, Munroe, Pb, Musk, Aw, Nohr, Ea, Ong, Kk, Oostra, Ba, Palmer, Cn, Peden, Jf, Pramstaller, Pp, Saaristo, Te, Sambrook, Jg, Sanders, Ar, Shin, Sy, Stephens, Jc, Stolk, Rp, Swift, Aj, Theodoraki, Ev, Tregouet, Da, VAN DER KLAUW, Mm, VAN MEURS, Jb, Vermeulen, Sh, Wild, Sh, Winkelmann, Br, Witteman, Jc, Wolffenbuttel, Bh, Wright, Af, Zillikens, Mc, Boehm, Bo, Boomsma, Di, Caulfield, Mj, Chanock, Sj, Cupples, La, Dedoussis, Gv, Eriksson, Jg, Franks, Pw, Harris, Tb, Hicks, Aa, Hovingh, Kg, Jarvelin, Mr, Jöckel, Kh, KEINANEN KIUKAANNIEMI, Sm, Kiemeney, La, Levinson, Df, Martin, Ng, Morris, Ad, Oldehinkel, Aj, Ouwehand, Wh, Palmer, Lj, Province, Ma, Psaty, Bm, Ridker, Pm, Samani, Nj, Sørensen, Ti, Spector, Td, Uitterlinden, Ag, VAN DER HARST, P, Wareham, Nj, Wichmann, He, Wilson, Jf, Abecasis, Gr, Assimes, Tl, Borecki, Ib, Groop, Lc, Heid, Im, Kaplan, Rc, Moffatt, Mf, Mohlke, Kl, O'Connell, Jr, Schadt, Ee, Strachan, Dp, VAN DUIJN, Cm, Visscher, Pm, DI BLASIO, Am, Hirschhorn, Jn, Lindgren, Cm, Morris, Ap, Mccarthy, Mi, Speliotes, Ek, North, Ke, Loos, Rj, and Ingelsson, E.
Subjects: Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Linkage disequilibrium, SORTILIN, BIO/12 - BIOCHIMICA CLINICA E BIOLOGIA MOLECOLARE CLINICA, Medizin, Genome-wide association study, Aetiology, screening and detection [ONCOL 5], polymorphism, Body Mass Index, 0302 clinical medicine, Missing heritability problem, MISSING HERITABILITY, EXTREME OBESITY, CONFER RISK, POPULATION, Genetics & Heredity, 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, Medical And Health Sciences, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, Anthropometry, COMMON VARIANTS, Single Nucleotide, ASSOCIATION, Biological Sciences, Anthropometry, Body Height, genetics, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, European Continental Ancestry Group, genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Obesity, genetics, Phenotype, Polymorphism, genetics, Quantitative Trait Loci, Waist-Hip Ratio, Phenotype, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, EXPRESSION, Genotype, Missing heritabillity, Population, European Continental Ancestry Group, Quantitative Trait Loci, EARLY-ONSET, Genomics, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, White People, Molecular epidemiology [NCEBP 1], 03 medical and health sciences, Meta-Analysis as Topic, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Obesity, body height/genetics, Polymorphism, Allele, Genetik, education, Molecular epidemiology Aetiology, screening and detection [NCEBP 1], 030304 developmental biology, Science & Technology, Waist-Hip Ratio, BMI, height, WHR, obesity, GWS, ta3121, Genetic architecture, Body Height, BODY-MASS INDEX, Case-Control Studies, gene, stature, height, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Approaches exploiting trait distribution extremes may be used to identify loci associated with common traits, but it is unknown whether these loci are generalizable to the broader population. In a genome-wide search for loci associated with the upper versus the lower 5th percentiles of body mass index, height and waist-to-hip ratio, as well as clinical classes of obesity, including up to 263,407 individuals of European ancestry, we identified 4 new loci (IGFBP4, H6PD, RSRC1 and PPP2R2A) influencing height detected in the distribution tails and 7 new loci (HNF4G, RPTOR, GNAT2, MRPS33P4, ADCY9, HS6ST3 and ZZZ3) for clinical classes of obesity. Further, we find a large overlap in genetic structure and the distribution of variants between traits based on extremes and the general population and little etiological heterogeneity between obesity subgroups. © 2013 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.
Published: 2013

74. Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations

Author: Jacqueline C.M. Witteman, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Gail Davies, Anna Köttgen, Qunyuan Zhang, Pio D'Adamo, Nicholas G. Martin, Silvia Tore, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Gian Andri Thun, Cinzia Sala, Peter P. Pramstaller, Tamara B. Harris, Aaron Isaacs, Sheila Ulivi, Rossella Sorice, Xuan Liu, Andrew A. Hicks, Henry Völzke, Daniela Ruggiero, Arnold von Eckardstein, Yukinori Okada, Andres Metspalu, Jeffrey Metter, Serena Sanna, Jennifer E. Huffman, Philipp S. Wild, Florian Ernst, Eva Albrecht, Mary F. Feitosa, Claudia Schurmann, Kathrin Budde, Veikko Salomaa, Darina Czamara, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Marcel Bruinenberg, Laura Portas, Maris Laan, Alan J. Gow, Caroline Hayward, Tim D. Spector, Ozren Polasek, Ilja M. Nolte, Rodney J. Scott, Massimo Mangino, David S. Siscovick, Nilesh J. Samani, Toomas Haller, Laura Frogheri, A. Jula, Mika Kähönen, Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel, Caroline S. Fox, David R. Jacobs, Julia Shi, Yusuke Nakamura, Daniel I. Chasman, Fabian J. Theis, Alan F. Wright, Ayse Demirkan, Francesco Cucca, Paolo Gasparini, Paul M. Ridker, Olli T. Raitakari, Daniela Toniolo, Maristella Steri, Mario Pirastu, Susan Campbell, Maksim Struchalin, So-Youn Shin, Mark J. Caulfield, H.-Erich Wichmann, Grant W. Montgomery, Åsa Johansson, Alexander Teumer, Ulf Gyllensten, Robert M. Plenge, Michel Burnier, Michael Schallert, Jan Krumsiek, Jing Hua Zhao, Andres Salumets, Poorva Mudgal, Anke Tönjes, James F. Meschia, Gauti Kjartan Gislason, Perttu Salo, Angela Döring, Afshin Parsa, Vilmundur Gudnason, Patrick F. McArdle, Rita P. S. Middelberg, W. H. Linda Kao, Aldi Kraja, Christopher Oldmeadow, Adrienne Tin, Loic Yengo, Murielle Bochud, Gerjan Navis, Christian Gieger, Toshiko Tanaka, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Samuli Ripatti, Terho Lehtimäki, Claudia Langenberg, Bernhard O. Boehm, Conall M. O'Seaghdha, Eric Boerwinkle, Nicole Soranzo, Tõnu Esko, Susan M. Farrington, Mike A. Nalls, John F. Peden, Hyon K. Choi, Anuj Goel, Andrew D. Johnson, Norman Klopp, Anne Grotevendt, Halit Ongen, Marcus E. Kleber, Myriam Fornage, Malcolm G. Dunlop, Igor Rudan, Federico Murgia, Beverley Balkau, Jorma Viikari, Christopher P. Nelson, Gérard Waeber, Lenore J. Launer, Ivana Persico, Inga Prokopenko, Guo Li, Tatijana Zemunik, Elisabetta Trabetti, Tanja Zeller, Hugh Watkins, Qiong Yang, James F. Wilson, Peter Vollenweider, Veronique Vitart, Markus Perola, Nicola Pirastu, Olivier Devuyst, Irene Mateo Leach, John Attia, Bruce M. Psaty, Nicholas J. Wareham, Susanne Lucae, Josef Coresh, Ingrid B. Borecki, Claudia Hundertmark, Weihua Zhang, Luigi Ferrucci, Jaspal S. Kooner, Stefan Kloiber, Lynda M. Rose, Naoyuki Kamatani, Zoltán Kutalik, Giovanni Malerba, Ian J. Deary, Albert V. Smith, Helena Schmidt, Eva Lattka, Philippe Froguel, Harry Campbell, Medea Imboden, Antonio Lupo, Angelo L. Gaffo, Vasiliki Lagou, Alan R. Shuldiner, John Whitfield, Abbas Dehghan, Winfried März, Elin Org, Albert Hofman, Margus Viigimaa, Konstantin Strauch, Toshihiro Tanaka, Andrew B. Singleton, Stefania Bandinelli, Christian Hengstenberg, Xinzhong Li, Wiek H. van Gilst, Pim van der Harst, Giorgio Pistis, Jerome I. Rotter, Maria Grazia Piras, Gary C. Curhan, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Christian Müller, Ronald P. Stolk, Pau Navarro, Lorna M. Lopez, Ruth J. F. Loos, Albert Tenesa, Johannes H. Smit, Peter Kraft, Giovanni Gambaro, Sarah H. Wild, Patricia B. Munroe, André G. Uitterlinden, Ivana Kolcic, Bernhard R. Winkelmann, Pankaj Sharma, John C. Chambers, Nicholas D. Hastie, Matthias Nauck, Harold Snieder, Michael Stumvoll, Reinhold Schmidt, Hans L. Hillege, Kiang Liu, Fernando Rivadeneira, Owen M. Woodward, Morris J. Brown, Margus Putku, Sabine Schipf, Mirna Kirin, Kay-Tee Khaw, Melanie Waldenberger, Evropi Theodoratou, Marina Ciullo, Michiaki Kubo, Köttgen, A, Albrecht, E, Teumer, A, Vitart, V, Krumsiek, J, Hundertmark, C, Pistis, G, Ruggiero, D, O'Seaghdha, Cm, Haller, T, Yang, Q, Tanaka, T, Johnson, Ad, Kutalik, Z, Smith, Av, Shi, J, Struchalin, M, Middelberg, Rp, Brown, Mj, Gaffo, Al, Pirastu, Nicola, Li, G, Hayward, C, Zemunik, T, Huffman, J, Yengo, L, Zhao, Jh, Demirkan, A, Feitosa, Mf, Liu, X, Malerba, G, Lopez, Lm, van der Harst, P, Li, X, Kleber, Me, Hicks, Aa, Nolte, Im, Johansson, A, Murgia, F, Wild, Sh, Bakker, Sj, Peden, Jf, Dehghan, A, Steri, M, Tenesa, A, Lagou, V, Salo, P, Mangino, M, Rose, Lm, Lehtimäki, T, Woodward, Om, Okada, Y, Tin, A, Müller, C, Oldmeadow, C, Putku, M, Czamara, D, Kraft, P, Frogheri, L, Thun, Ga, Grotevendt, A, Gislason, Gk, Harris, Tb, Launer, Lj, Mcardle, P, Shuldiner, Ar, Boerwinkle, E, Coresh, J, Schmidt, H, Schallert, M, Martin, Ng, Montgomery, Gw, Kubo, M, Nakamura, Y, Munroe, Pb, Samani, Nj, Jacobs DR, Jr, Liu, K, D'Adamo, ADAMO PIO, Ulivi, S, Rotter, Ji, Psaty, Bm, Vollenweider, P, Waeber, G, Campbell, S, Devuyst, O, Navarro, P, Kolcic, I, Hastie, N, Balkau, B, Froguel, P, Esko, T, Salumets, A, Khaw, Kt, Langenberg, C, Wareham, Nj, Isaacs, A, Kraja, A, Zhang, Q, Wild, P, Scott, Rj, Holliday, Eg, Org, E, Viigimaa, M, Bandinelli, S, Metter, Je, Lupo, A, Trabetti, E, Sorice, R, Döring, A, Lattka, E, Strauch, K, Theis, F, Waldenberger, M, Wichmann, He, Davies, G, Gow, Aj, Bruinenberg, M, Stolk, Rp, Kooner, J, Zhang, W, Winkelmann, Br, Boehm, Bo, Lucae, S, Penninx, Bw, Smit, Jh, Curhan, G, Mudgal, P, Plenge, Rm, Portas, L, Persico, I, Kirin, M, Wilson, Jf, Leach, Im, van Gilst, Wh, Goel, A, Ongen, H, Hofman, A, Rivadeneira, F, Uitterlinden, Ag, Imboden, M, von Eckardstein, A, Cucca, F, Nagaraja, R, Piras, Mg, Nauck, M, Schurmann, C, Budde, K, Ernst, F, Farrington, Sm, Theodoratou, E, Prokopenko, I, Stumvoll, M, Jula, A, Perola, M, Salomaa, V, Shin, Sy, Spector, Td, Sala, C, Ridker, Pm, Kähönen, M, Viikari, J, Hengstenberg, C, Nelson, Cp, Meschia, Jf, Nalls, Ma, Sharma, P, Singleton, Ab, Kamatani, N, Zeller, T, Burnier, M, Attia, J, Laan, M, Klopp, N, Hillege, Hl, Kloiber, S, Choi, H, Pirastu, M, Tore, S, Probst Hensch, Nm, Völzke, H, Gudnason, V, Parsa, A, Schmidt, R, Whitfield, Jb, Fornage, M, Gasparini, Paolo, Siscovick, D, Polašek, O, Campbell, H, Rudan, I, Bouatia Naji, N, Metspalu, A, Loos, Rj, van Duijn, Cm, Borecki, Ib, Ferrucci, L, Gambaro, G, Deary, Ij, Wolffenbuttel, Bh, Chambers, Jc, März, W, Pramstaller, Pp, Snieder, H, Gyllensten, U, Wright, Af, Navis, G, Watkins, H, Witteman, Jc, Sanna, S, Schipf, S, Dunlop, Mg, Tönjes, A, Ripatti, S, Soranzo, N, Toniolo, D, Chasman, Di, Raitakari, O, Kao, Wh, Ciullo, M, Fox, C, Caulfield, M, Bochud, M, Gieger, C, LifeLines Cohort, Study, Cardiogram, Consortium, Diagram, Consortium, Icbp, Consortium, Magic, Consortium, Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT), Lifestyle Medicine (LM), Groningen Kidney Center (GKC), Vascular Ageing Programme (VAP), Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM), Psychiatry, EMGO - Mental health, EMGO+ - Mental Health, LifeLines Cohort Study, CARDIoGRAM Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, ICBP Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, Epidemiology, Public Health, and Internal Medicine
Subjects: Candidate gene, Inhibins/genetics, Genome-wide association study, GENETIC-LOCI, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, serum urate, Gene Frequency, Gout/blood, association analysis, serum urate, Glucose/metabolism, Settore MED/14 - NEFROLOGIA, Hyperuricemia, serum, urate, gene, POPULATION, METABOLIC SYNDROME, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, 3. Good health, HYPERURICEMIA, Genetic Loci/genetics, SLC22A12, Single Nucleotide/genetics, SNPs, Signal Transduction, MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY, serum urate concentrations, gout, genome-wide meta-analysis, European Continental Ancestry Group, Population, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, Uric Acid/blood, serum urate concentrations, genome-wide meta-analysis, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, uric acid, medicine, Humans, Inhibins, Polymorphism, education, 030304 developmental biology, 030203 arthritis & rheumatology, Analysis of Variance, GOUT, IDENTIFICATION, TRANSPORTER, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE RISK, ta3121, medicine.disease, association analysis, Gout, meta-analysis, Glucose, chemistry, Genetic Loci, genome-wide association studies, biology.protein, Signal Transduction/genetics, Uric acid, URIC-ACID LEVELS, Genome-Wide Association Study, SLC2A9
Abstract: Elevated serum urate concentrations can cause gout, a prevalent and painful inflammatory arthritis. By combining data from >140,000 individuals of European ancestry within the Global Urate Genetics Consortium (GUGC), we identified and replicated 28 genome-wide significant loci in association with serum urate concentrations (18 new regions in or near TRIM46, INHBB, SFMBT1, TMEM171, VEGFA, BAZ1B, PRKAG2, STC1, HNF4G, A1CF, ATXN2, UBE2Q2, IGF1R, NFAT5, MAF, HLF, ACVR1B-ACVRL1 and B3GNT4). Associations for many of the loci were of similar magnitude in individuals of non-European ancestry. We further characterized these loci for associations with gout, transcript expression and the fractional excretion of urate. Network analyses implicate the inhibins-activins signaling pathways and glucose metabolism in systemic urate control. New candidate genes for serum urate concentration highlight the importance of metabolic control of urate production and excretion, which may have implications for the treatment and prevention of gout. © 2013 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.
Published: 2013

75. A Genome-Wide Association Search for Type 2 Diabetes Genes in African Americans

Author: Palmer, Nicholette D, McDonough, Caitrin W, Hicks, Pamela J, Roh, Bong H, Wing, Maria R, An, S Sandy, Hester, Jessica M, Cooke, Jessica N, Bostrom, Meredith A, Rudock, Megan E, Talbert, Matthew E, Lewis, Joshua P, DIAGRAM Consortium, MAGIC Investigators, Ferrara, Assiamira, Lu, Lingyi, Ziegler, Julie T, Sale, Michele M, Divers, Jasmin, Shriner, Daniel, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Rotimi, Charles N, Ng, Maggie CY, Langefeld, Carl D, Freedman, Barry I, Bowden, Donald W, Voight, Benjamin F, Scott, Laura J, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Morris, Andrew P, Dina, Christian, Welch, Ryan P, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Huth, Cornelia, Aulchenko, Yurii S, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, McCulloch, Laura J, Ferreira, Teresa, Grallert, Harald, Amin, Najaf, Wu, Guanming, Willer, Cristen J, Raychaudhuri, Soumya, McCarroll, Steve A, Langenberg, Claudia, Hofmann, Oliver M, Dupuis, Josée, Qi, Lu, Segrè, Ayellet V, Van Hoek, Mandy, Navarro, Pau, Ardlie, Kristin, Balkau, Beverley, Benediktsson, Rafn, Bennett, Amanda J, Blagieva, Roza, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boström, Kristina Bengtsson, Bravenboer, Bert, Bumpstead, Suzannah, Burtt, Noël P, Charpentier, Guillaume, Chines, Peter S, Cornelis, Marilyn, Couper, David J, Crawford, Gabe, Doney, Alex SF, Elliott, Katherine S, Elliott, Amanda L, Erdos, Michael R, Fox, Caroline S, Franklin, Christopher S, Ganser, Martha, Gieger, Christian, Grarup, Niels, Green, Todd, Griffin, Simon, Groves, Christopher J, Guiducci, Candace, Hadjadj, Samy, Hassanali, Neelam, Herder, Christian, Isomaa, Bo, Jackson, Anne U, Johnson, Paul RV, Jørgensen, Torben, Kao, Wen HL, Klopp, Norman, Kong, Augustine, Kraft, Peter, Kuusisto, Johanna, Lauritzen, Torsten, Li, Man, Lieverse, Aloysius, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Marre, Michel, Meitinger, Thomas, Midthjell, Kristian, Morken, Mario A, Narisu, Narisu, Nilsson, Peter, Owen, Katharine R, Payne, Felicity, Perry, John RB, Petersen, Ann-Kristin, Platou, Carl, Proença, Christine, Prokopenko, Inga, Rathmann, Wolfgang, Rayner, N William, Robertson, Neil R, Rocheleau, Ghislain, Roden, Michael, Sampson, Michael J, Saxena, Richa, Shields, Beverley M, Shrader, Peter, Sigurdsson, Gunnar, Sparsø, Thomas, Strassburger, Klaus, Stringham, Heather M, Sun, Qi, Swift, Amy J, Thorand, Barbara, Tichet, Jean, Tuomi, Tiinamaija, Van Dam, Rob M, Van Haeften, Timon W, Van Herpt, Thijs, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Walters, G Bragi, Weedon, Michael N, Wijmenga, Cisca, Witteman, Jacqueline, Bergman, Richard N, Cauchi, Stephane, Collins, Francis S, Gloyn, Anna L, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hansen, Torben, Hide, Winston A, Hitman, Graham A, Hofman, Albert, Hunter, David J, Hveem, Kristian, Laakso, Markku, Mohlke, Karen L, Morris, Andrew D, Palmer, Colin NA, Pramstaller, Peter P, Rudan, Igor, Sijbrands, Eric, Stein, Lincoln D, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Uitterlinden, Andre, Walker, Mark, Wareham, Nicholas J, Watanabe, Richard M, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Boehm, Bernhard O, Campbell, Harry, Daly, Mark J, Hattersley, Andrew T, Hu, Frank B, Meigs, James B, Pankow, James S, Pedersen, Oluf, Wichmann, H-Erich, Barroso, Inês, Florez, Jose C, Frayling, Timothy M, Groop, Leif, Sladek, Rob, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Wilson, James F, Illig, Thomas, Froguel, Philippe, Van Duijn, Cornelia M, Stefansson, Kari, Altshuler, David, Boehnke, Michael, McCarthy, Mark I, Soranzo, Nicole, Wheeler, Eleanor, Glazer, Nicole L, Bouatia-Naji, Nabila, Mägi, Reedik, Randall, Joshua, Johnson, Toby, Elliott, Paul, Rybin, Denis, Henneman, Peter, Dehghan, Abbas, Hottenga, Jouke Jan, Song, Kijoung, Goel, Anuj, Egan, Josephine M, Lajunen, Taina, Doney, Alex, Kanoni, Stavroula, Cavalcanti-Proença, Christine, Kumari, Meena, Timpson, Nicholas J, Zabena, Carina, Ingelsson, Erik, An, Ping, O'Connell, Jeffrey, Luan, Jian'an, Elliott, Amanda, McCarroll, Steven A, Roccasecca, Rosa Maria, Pattou, François, Sethupathy, Praveen, Ariyurek, Yavuz, Barter, Philip, Beilby, John P, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Bergmann, Sven, Bochud, Murielle, Bonnefond, Amélie, Borch-Johnsen, Knut, Böttcher, Yvonne, Brunner, Eric, Bumpstead, Suzannah J, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chines, Peter, Clarke, Robert, Coin, Lachlan JM, Cooper, Matthew N, Crisponi, Laura, Day, Ian NM, De Geus, Eco JC, Delplanque, Jerome, Fedson, Annette C, Fischer-Rosinsky, Antje, Forouhi, Nita G, Frants, Rune, Franzosi, Maria Grazia, Galan, Pilar, Goodarzi, Mark O, Graessler, Jürgen, Grundy, Scott, Gwilliam, Rhian, Hallmans, Göran, Hammond, Naomi, Han, Xijing, Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa, Hayward, Caroline, Heath, Simon C, Hercberg, Serge, Hicks, Andrew A, Hillman, David R, Hingorani, Aroon D, Hui, Jennie, Hung, Joe, Jula, Antti, Kaakinen, Marika, Kaprio, Jaakko, Kesaniemi, Y Antero, Kivimaki, Mika, Knight, Beatrice, Koskinen, Seppo, Kovacs, Peter, Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm, Lathrop, G Mark, Lawlor, Debbie A, Le Bacquer, Olivier, Lecoeur, Cécile, Li, Yun, Mahley, Robert, Mangino, Massimo, Manning, Alisa K, Martínez-Larrad, María Teresa, McAteer, Jarred B, McPherson, Ruth, Meisinger, Christa, Melzer, David, Meyre, David, Mitchell, Braxton D, Mukherjee, Sutapa, Naitza, Silvia, Neville, Matthew J, Oostra, Ben A, Orrù, Marco, Pakyz, Ruth, Paolisso, Giuseppe, Pattaro, Cristian, Pearson, Daniel, Peden, John F, Pedersen, Nancy L, Perola, Markus, Pfeiffer, Andreas FH, Pichler, Irene, Polasek, Ozren, Posthuma, Danielle, Potter, Simon C, Pouta, Anneli, Province, Michael A, Psaty, Bruce M, Rayner, Nigel W, Rice, Kenneth, Ripatti, Samuli, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rolandsson, Olov, Sandbaek, Annelli, Sandhu, Manjinder, Sanna, Serena, Sayer, Avan Aihie, Scheet, Paul, Seedorf, Udo, Sharp, Stephen J, Shields, Beverley, Sijbrands, Eric JG, Silveira, Angela, Simpson, Laila, Singleton, Andrew, Smith, Nicholas L, Sovio, Ulla, Swift, Amy, Syddall, Holly, Syvänen, Ann-Christine, Tanaka, Toshiko, Tönjes, Anke, Uitterlinden, André G, Van Dijk, Ko Willems, Varma, Dhiraj, Visvikis-Siest, Sophie, Vitart, Veronique, Vogelzangs, Nicole, Waeber, Gérard, Wagner, Peter J, Walley, Andrew, Ward, Kim L, Watkins, Hugh, Wild, Sarah H, Willemsen, Gonneke, Witteman, Jaqueline CM, Yarnell, John WG, Zelenika, Diana, Zethelius, Björn, Zhai, Guangju, Zhao, Jing Hua, Zillikens, M Carola, Borecki, Ingrid B, Loos, Ruth JF, Meneton, Pierre, Magnusson, Patrik KE, Nathan, David M, Williams, Gordon H, Silander, Kaisa, Salomaa, Veikko, Smith, George Davey, Bornstein, Stefan R, Schwarz, Peter, Spranger, Joachim, Karpe, Fredrik, Shuldiner, Alan R, Cooper, Cyrus, Dedoussis, George V, Serrano-Ríos, Manuel, Lind, Lars, Palmer, Lyle J, Franks, Paul W, Ebrahim, Shah, Marmot, Michael, Kao, WH Linda, Pramstaller, Peter Paul, Wright, Alan F, Stumvoll, Michael, Hamsten, Anders, Buchanan, Thomas A, Valle, Timo T, Rotter, Jerome I, Siscovick, David S, Penninx, Brenda WJH, Boomsma, Dorret I, Deloukas, Panos, Spector, Timothy D, Ferrucci, Luigi, Cao, Antonio, Scuteri, Angelo, Schlessinger, David, Uda, Manuela, Ruokonen, Aimo, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Waterworth, Dawn M, Vollenweider, Peter, Peltonen, Leena, Mooser, Vincent, Sladek, Robert, Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM), Palmer, Nd, Mcdonough, Cw, Hicks, Pj, Roh, Bh, Wing, Mr, An, S, Hester, Jm, Cooke, Jn, Bostrom, Ma, Rudock, Me, Talbert, Me, Lewis, Jp, Diagram, Consortium, Magic, Investigator, Ferrara, A, Lu, L, Ziegler, Jt, Sale, Mm, Divers, J, Shriner, D, Adeyemo, A, Rotimi, Cn, Ng, Mc, Langefeld, Cd, Freedman, Bi, Bowden, Dw, Voight, Bf, Scott, Lj, Steinthorsdottir, V, Morris, Ap, Dina, C, Welch, Rp, Zeggini, E, Huth, C, Aulchenko, Y, Thorleifsson, G, Mcculloch, Lj, Ferreira, T, Grallert, H, Amin, N, Wu, G, Willer, Cj, Raychaudhuri, S, Mccarroll, Sa, Langenberg, C, Hofmann, Om, Dupuis, J, Qi, L, Segrè, Av, van Hoek, M, Navarro, P, Ardlie, K, Balkau, B, Benediktsson, R, Bennett, Aj, Blagieva, R, Boerwinkle, E, Bonnycastle, Ll, Boström, Kb, Bravenboer, B, Bumpstead, S, Burtt, Np, Charpentier, G, Chines, P, Cornelis, M, Couper, Dj, Crawford, G, Doney, A, Elliott, K, Elliott, Al, Erdos, Mr, Fox, C, Franklin, C, Ganser, M, Gieger, C, Grarup, N, Green, T, Griffin, S, Groves, Cj, Guiducci, C, Hadjadj, S, Hassanali, N, Herder, C, Isomaa, B, Jackson, Au, Johnson, Pr, Jørgensen, T, Kao, Wh, Klopp, N, Kong, A, Kraft, P, Kuusisto, J, Lauritzen, T, Li, M, Lieverse, A, Lindgren, Cm, Lyssenko, V, Marre, M, Meitinger, T, Midthjell, K, Morken, Ma, Narisu, N, Nilsson, P, Owen, Kr, Payne, F, Perry, Jr, Petersen, Ak, Platou, C, Proença, C, Prokopenko, I, Rathmann, W, Rayner, Nw, Robertson, Nr, Rocheleau, G, Roden, M, Sampson, Mj, Saxena, R, Shields, Bm, Shrader, P, Sigurdsson, G, Sparsø, T, Strassburger, K, Stringham, Hm, Sun, Q, Swift, Aj, Thorand, B, Tichet, J, Tuomi, T, van Dam, Rm, van Haeften, Tw, van Herpt, T, van Vliet Ostaptchouk, Jv, Walters, Gb, Weedon, Mn, Wijmenga, C, Witteman, J, Bergman, Rn, Cauchi, S, Collins, F, Gloyn, Al, Gyllensten, U, Hansen, T, Hide, Wa, Hitman, Ga, Hofman, A, Hunter, Dj, Hveem, K, Laakso, M, Mohlke, Kl, Morris, Ad, Palmer, Cn, Pramstaller, Pp, Rudan, I, Sijbrands, E, Stein, Ld, Tuomilehto, J, Uitterlinden, A, Walker, M, Wareham, Nj, Watanabe, Rm, Abecasis, Gr, Boehm, Bo, Campbell, H, Daly, Mj, Hattersley, At, Hu, Fb, Meigs, Jb, Pankow, J, Pedersen, O, Wichmann, He, Barroso, I, Florez, Jc, Frayling, Tm, Groop, L, Sladek, R, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Wilson, Jf, Illig, T, Froguel, P, van Duijn, Cm, Stefansson, K, Altshuler, D, Boehnke, M, Mccarthy, Mi, Soranzo, N, Wheeler, E, Glazer, Nl, Bouatia Naji, N, Mägi, R, Randall, J, Johnson, T, Elliott, P, Rybin, D, Henneman, P, Dehghan, A, Hottenga, Jj, Song, K, Goel, A, Egan, Jm, Lajunen, T, Kanoni, S, Cavalcanti Proença, C, Kumari, M, Timpson, Nj, Zabena, C, Ingelsson, E, An, P, O'Connell, J, Luan, J, Elliott, A, Roccasecca, Rm, Pattou, F, Sethupathy, P, Ariyurek, Y, Barter, P, Beilby, Jp, Ben Shlomo, Y, Bergmann, S, Bochud, M, Bonnefond, A, Borch Johnsen, K, Böttcher, Y, Brunner, E, Bumpstead, Sj, Chen, Yd, Clarke, R, Coin, Lj, Cooper, Mn, Crisponi, L, Day, In, de Geus, Ej, Delplanque, J, Fedson, Ac, Fischer Rosinsky, A, Forouhi, Ng, Frants, R, Franzosi, Mg, Galan, P, Goodarzi, Mo, Graessler, J, Grundy, S, Gwilliam, R, Hallmans, G, Hammond, N, Han, X, Hartikainen, Al, Hayward, C, Heath, Sc, Hercberg, S, Hicks, Aa, Hillman, Dr, Hingorani, Ad, Hui, J, Hung, J, Jula, A, Kaakinen, M, Kaprio, J, Kesaniemi, Ya, Kivimaki, M, Knight, B, Koskinen, S, Kovacs, P, Kyvik, Ko, Lathrop, Gm, Lawlor, Da, Le Bacquer, O, Lecoeur, C, Li, Y, Mahley, R, Mangino, M, Manning, Ak, Martínez Larrad, Mt, Mcateer, Jb, Mcpherson, R, Meisinger, C, Melzer, D, Meyre, D, Mitchell, Bd, Mukherjee, S, Naitza, S, Neville, Mj, Oostra, Ba, Orrù, M, Pakyz, R, Paolisso, Giuseppe, Pattaro, C, Pearson, D, Peden, Jf, Pedersen, Nl, Perola, M, Pfeiffer, Af, Pichler, I, Polasek, O, Posthuma, D, Potter, Sc, Pouta, A, Province, Ma, Psaty, Bm, Rice, K, Ripatti, S, Rivadeneira, F, Rolandsson, O, Sandbaek, A, Sandhu, M, Sanna, S, Sayer, Aa, Scheet, P, Seedorf, U, Sharp, Sj, Shields, B, Sijbrands, Ej, Silveira, A, Simpson, L, Singleton, A, Smith, Nl, Sovio, U, Swift, A, Syddall, H, Syvänen, Ac, Tanaka, T, Tönjes, A, Uitterlinden, Ag, van Dijk, Kw, Varma, D, Visvikis Siest, S, Vitart, V, Vogelzangs, N, Waeber, G, Wagner, Pj, Walley, A, Ward, Kl, Watkins, H, Wild, Sh, Willemsen, G, Witteman, Jc, Yarnell, Jw, Zelenika, D, Zethelius, B, Zhai, G, Zhao, Jh, Zillikens, Mc, Borecki, Ib, Loos, Rj, Meneton, P, Magnusson, Pk, Nathan, Dm, Williams, Gh, Silander, K, Salomaa, V, Smith, Gd, Bornstein, Sr, Schwarz, P, Spranger, J, Karpe, F, Shuldiner, Ar, Cooper, C, Dedoussis, Gv, Serrano Ríos, M, Lind, L, Palmer, Lj, Franks, Pw, Ebrahim, S, Marmot, M, Wright, Af, Stumvoll, M, Hamsten, A, Buchanan, Ta, Valle, Tt, Rotter, Ji, Siscovick, D, Penninx, Bw, Boomsma, Di, Deloukas, P, Spector, Td, Ferrucci, L, Cao, A, Scuteri, A, Schlessinger, D, Uda, M, Ruokonen, A, Jarvelin, Mr, Waterworth, Dm, Vollenweider, P, Peltonen, L, Mooser, V, Sladek, R., Medical Research Council (MRC), Human genetics, Psychiatry, NCA - Attention & Cognition, EMGO - Lifestyle, overweight and diabetes, Biological Psychology, Functional Genomics, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Attention & Cognition, EMGO+ - Lifestyle, Overweight and Diabetes, Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Griffin, Simon [0000-0002-2157-4797], Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993], Soranzo, Nicole [0000-0003-1095-3852], Wheeler, Eleanor [0000-0002-8616-6444], Luan, Jian'an [0000-0003-3137-6337], Forouhi, Nita [0000-0002-5041-248X], Sharp, Stephen [0000-0003-2375-1440], Sovio, Ulla [0000-0002-0799-1105], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, DIAGRAM Consortium, MAGIC Investigators, Johnson, T., Bergman, S., Bochud, M., Waeber, G., and Vollenweider, P.
Subjects: Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Male, Adult, African Americans/genetics, Aged, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/ethnology, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/genetics, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Validation Studies as Topic, Medicin och hälsovetenskap, Linkage disequilibrium, Genetic Screens, endocrine system diseases, lcsh:Medicine, Genome-wide association study, Medical and Health Sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Endocrinology, Genome Sequencing, lcsh:Science, Medicine(all), Genetics, African Americans, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, INSULIN-RESISTANCE, Multidisciplinary, Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), LARGE-SCALE ASSOCIATION, STAGE RENAL-DISEASE, COMMON VARIANTS, Genomics, Medicine, Research Article, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, General Science & Technology, Population, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, DIAGRAM Consortium, 03 medical and health sciences, MAGIC Investigators, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Genetic linkage, MD Multidisciplinary, Genome-Wide Association Studies, SNP, ddc:610, education, Genotyping, 030304 developmental biology, Diabetic Endocrinology, LINKAGE ANALYSIS, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), lcsh:R, TCF7L2 GENE, Case-control study, Computational Biology, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Human Genetics, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Stage renal-disease, large-scale association, Susceptibility loci, Insulin-resistance, Fasting glucose, Tissue factor, Homeodomain protein, Linkage analysis, Common variants, TCF7L2 gene, Black or African American, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, TISSUE FACTOR, Genetics of Disease, HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN, Genetic Polymorphism, lcsh:Q, Genome Expression Analysis, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Population Genetics, FASTING GLUCOSE
Abstract: African Americans are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes (T2DM) yet few studies have examined T2DM using genome-wide association approaches in this ethnicity. The aim of this study was to identify genes associated with T2DM in the African American population. We performed a Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) using the Affymetrix 6.0 array in 965 African-American cases with T2DM and end-stage renal disease (T2DM-ESRD) and 1029 population-based controls. The most significant SNPs (n = 550 independent loci) were genotyped in a replication cohort and 122 SNPs (n = 98 independent loci) were further tested through genotyping three additional validation cohorts followed by meta-analysis in all five cohorts totaling 3,132 cases and 3,317 controls. Twelve SNPs had evidence of association in the GWAS (P
Published: 2012

76. Genome-wide association for abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose reveals a novel locus for visceral fat in women

Author: Amelie Bonnefond, Nancy Heard-Costa, Eleftheria Zeggini, Anna Gloyn, LAURA CRISPONI, Eco De Geus, Michael Weedon, Torben Jørgensen, Jaakko Kaprio, Iva Miljkovic, Amanda Bennett, Yurii Aulchenko, Michael Stumvoll, Andrew Hattersley, Christian Dina, Sophie Visvikis-Siest, Udo Seedorf, Vilmundur Gudnason, Michael Marmot, Mika Kivimaki, Mary Feitosa, Danielle Posthuma, Claudia Langenberg, Stavroula Kanoni, Cyrus Cooper, Meena Kumari, Peter Kovacs, Debbie A Lawlor, Inga Prokopenko, Rafn Benediktsson, Stephen Kritchevsky, Philippe Froguel, Cornelia Van Duijn, Nita Forouhi, Anne B. Newman, Ko Willems van Dijk, John Carr, Reedik Mägi, Sutapa Mukherjee, Lyle John Palmer, Francois Pattou, L. Adrienne Cupples, Paul Franks, Paul Elliott, Albert Vernon Smith, MANUELA UDA, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Manuel Serrano Ríos, Richard Bergman, Gonneke Willemsen, Cecilia Lindgren, Igor Rudan, Human genetics, NCA - Attention & Cognition, EMGO - Lifestyle, overweight and diabetes, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Research Group Ripatti Samuli, Hjelt Institute (-2014), Department of Public Health, Biostatistics Helsinki, Complex Disease Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Biological Psychology, Functional Genomics, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Attention & Cognition, EMGO+ - Lifestyle, Overweight and Diabetes, GIANT Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Dupuis, J., Langenberg, C., Prokopenko, I., Saxena, R., Soranzo, N., Jackson, AU., Wheeler, E., Glazer, NL., Bouatia-Naji, N., Gloyn, AL., Lindgren, CM., Mägi, R., Morris, AP., Randall, J., Johnson, T., Elliott, P., Rybin, D., Thorleifsson, G., Steinthorsdottir, V., Henneman, P., Grallert, H., Dehghan, A., Hottenga, JJ., Franklin, CS., Navarro, P., Song, K., Goel, A., Perry, JR., Egan, JM., Lajunen, T., Grarup, N., Sparsø, T., Doney, A., Voight, BF., Stringham, HM., Li, M., Kanoni, S., Shrader, P., Cavalcanti-Proença, C., Kumari, M., Qi, L., Timpson, NJ., Gieger, C., Zabena, C., Rocheleau, G., Ingelsson, E., An, P., O'Connell, J., Luan£££Jian'an£££ J., Elliott, A., McCarroll, SA., Payne, F., Roccasecca, RM., Pattou, F., Sethupathy, P., Ardlie, K., Ariyurek, Y., Balkau, B., Barter, P., Beilby, JP., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Benediktsson, R., Bennett, AJ., Bergmann, S., Bochud, M., Boerwinkle, E., Bonnefond, A., Bonnycastle, LL., Borch-Johnsen, K., Böttcher, Y., Brunner, E., Bumpstead, SJ., Charpentier, G., Chen, YD., Chines, P., Clarke, R., Coin, LJ., Cooper, MN., Cornelis, M., Crawford, G., Crisponi, L., Day, IN., de Geus EJ., Delplanque, J., Dina, C., Erdos, MR., Fedson, AC., Fischer-Rosinsky, A., Forouhi, NG., Fox, CS., Frants, R., Franzosi, MG., Galan, P., Goodarzi, MO., Graessler, J., Groves, CJ., Grundy, S., Gwilliam, R., Gyllensten, U., Hadjadj, S., Hallmans, G., Hammond, N., Han, X., Hartikainen, AL., Hassanali, N., Hayward, C., Heath, SC., Hercberg, S., Herder, C., Hicks, AA., Hillman, DR., Hingorani, AD., Hofman, A., Hui, J., Hung, J., Isomaa, B., Johnson, PR., Jørgensen, T., Jula, A., Kaakinen, M., Kaprio, J., Kesaniemi, YA., Kivimaki, M., Knight, B., Koskinen, S., Kovacs, P., Kyvik, KO., Lathrop, GM., Lawlor, DA., Le Bacquer, O., Lecoeur, C., Li, Y., Lyssenko, V., Mahley, R., Mangino, M., Manning, AK., Martínez-Larrad£££María Teresa£££ MT., McAteer, JB., McCulloch, LJ., McPherson, R., Meisinger, C., Melzer, D., Meyre, D., Mitchell, BD., Morken, MA., Mukherjee, S., Naitza, S., Narisu, N., Neville, MJ., Oostra, BA., Orrù, M., Pakyz, R., Palmer, CN., Paolisso, G., Pattaro, C., Pearson, D., Peden, JF., Pedersen, NL., Perola, M., Pfeiffer, AF., Pichler, I., Polasek, O., Posthuma, D., Potter, SC., Pouta, A., Province, MA., Psaty, BM., Rathmann, W., Rayner, NW., Rice, K., Ripatti, S., Rivadeneira, F., Roden, M., Rolandsson, O., Sandbaek, A., Sandhu, M., Sanna, S., Sayer, AA., Scheet, P., Scott, LJ., Seedorf, U., Sharp, SJ., Shields, B., Sigurðsson, G., Sijbrands, EJ., Silveira, A., Simpson, L., Singleton, A., Smith, NL., Sovio, U., Swift, A., Syddall, H., Syvänen, AC., Tanaka, T., Thorand, B., Tichet, J., Tönjes, A., Tuomi, T., Uitterlinden, AG., van Dijk KW., van Hoek, M., Varma, D., Visvikis-Siest, S., Vitart, V., Vogelzangs, N., Waeber, G., Wagner, PJ., Walley, A., Walters, GB., Ward, KL., Watkins, H., Weedon, MN., Wild, SH., Willemsen, G., Witteman, JC., Yarnell, JW., Zeggini, E., Zelenika, D., Zethelius, B., Zhai, G., Zhao, JH., Zillikens, MC., Borecki, IB., Loos, RJ., Meneton, P., Magnusson, PK., Nathan, DM., Williams, GH., Hattersley, AT., Silander, K., Salomaa, V., Smith, GD., Bornstein, SR., Schwarz, P., Spranger, J., Karpe, F., Shuldiner, AR., Cooper, C., Dedoussis, GV., Serrano-Ríos, M., Morris, AD., Lind, L., Palmer, LJ., Hu, FB., Franks, PW., Ebrahim, S., Marmot, M., Kao, WH., Pankow, JS., Sampson, MJ., Kuusisto, J., Laakso, M., Hansen, T., Pedersen, O., Pramstaller, PP., Wichmann, HE., Illig, T., Rudan, I., Wright, AF., Stumvoll, M., Campbell, H., Wilson, JF., Hamsten, A., Bergman, RN., Buchanan, TA., Collins, FS., Mohlke, KL., Tuomilehto, J., Valle, TT., Altshuler, D., Rotter, JI., Siscovick, DS., Penninx, BW., Boomsma, ID., Deloukas, P., Spector, TD., Frayling, TM., Ferrucci, L., Kong, A., Thorsteinsdottir, U., Stefansson, K., van Duijn CM., Aulchenko, YS., Cao, A., Scuteri, A., Schlessinger, D., Uda, M., Ruokonen, A., Jarvelin, MR., Waterworth, DM., Vollenweider, P., Peltonen, L., Mooser, V., Abecasis, RG., Wareham, NJ., Sladek, R., Froguel, P., Watanabe, RM., Meigs, JB., Groop, L., Boehnke, M., McCarthy, MI., Florez, JC., Barroso£££Inês£££ I., Feitosa, Mary [0000-0002-0933-2410], Heard-Costa, Nancy [0000-0001-9730-0306], Newman, Anne B [0000-0002-0106-1150], Miljkovic, Iva [0000-0002-3155-9777], Kritchevsky, Stephen B [0000-0003-3336-6781], Carr, J Jeffrey [0000-0002-4398-8237], Gudnason, Vilmunder [0000-0001-5696-0084], Cupples, L Adrienne [0000-0003-0273-7965], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, and Medical Research Council (MRC)
Subjects: Male, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Cancer Research, Adipose tissue, Genome-wide association study, QH426-470, FTO gene, Body Mass Index, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetics (clinical), TISSUE DISTRIBUTION, GENE-EXPRESSION, 2. Zero hunger, ATHEROSCLEROSIS MESA, 0303 health sciences, INSULIN-RESISTANCE, Sex Characteristics, MAGIC Consortium, Adult, Aged, Cytokines/genetics, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, HapMap Project, Humans, Intra-Abdominal Fat, Lysophospholipase/genetics, Middle Aged, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Proteins/genetics, Subcutaneous Fat, Abdominal, 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE, OBESITY, Cytokines, Medicine, Lysophospholipase, Research Article, medicine.medical_specialty, Waist, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, HIP RATIO, Biology, White People, GLGC Consortium, 03 medical and health sciences, Insulin resistance, Internal medicine, GIANT Consortium, medicine, Genetics, CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE, ddc:610, Molecular Biology, PERICARDIAL FAT, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 030304 developmental biology, 0604 Genetics, Proteins, nutritional and metabolic diseases, medicine.disease, Obesity, Endocrinology, RISK-FACTORS, Body mass index, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Body fat distribution, particularly centralized obesity, is associated with metabolic risk above and beyond total adiposity. We performed genome-wide association of abdominal adipose depots quantified using computed tomography (CT) to uncover novel loci for body fat distribution among participants of European ancestry. Subcutaneous and visceral fat were quantified in 5,560 women and 4,997 men from 4 population-based studies. Genome-wide genotyping was performed using standard arrays and imputed to ∼2.5 million Hapmap SNPs. Each study performed a genome-wide association analysis of subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), visceral adipose tissue (VAT), VAT adjusted for body mass index, and VAT/SAT ratio (a metric of the propensity to store fat viscerally as compared to subcutaneously) in the overall sample and in women and men separately. A weighted z-score meta-analysis was conducted. For the VAT/SAT ratio, our most significant p-value was rs11118316 at LYPLAL1 gene (p = 3.1×10E-09), previously identified in association with waist–hip ratio. For SAT, the most significant SNP was in the FTO gene (p = 5.9×10E-08). Given the known gender differences in body fat distribution, we performed sex-specific analyses. Our most significant finding was for VAT in women, rs1659258 near THNSL2 (p = 1.6×10-08), but not men (p = 0.75). Validation of this SNP in the GIANT consortium data demonstrated a similar sex-specific pattern, with observed significance in women (p = 0.006) but not men (p = 0.24) for BMI and waist circumference (p = 0.04 [women], p = 0.49 [men]). Finally, we interrogated our data for the 14 recently published loci for body fat distribution (measured by waist–hip ratio adjusted for BMI); associations were observed at 7 of these loci. In contrast, we observed associations at only 7/32 loci previously identified in association with BMI; the majority of overlap was observed with SAT. Genome-wide association for visceral and subcutaneous fat revealed a SNP for VAT in women. More refined phenotypes for body composition and fat distribution can detect new loci not previously uncovered in large-scale GWAS of anthropometric traits., Author Summary Body fat distribution, particularly centralized obesity, is associated with metabolic risk above and beyond total adiposity. We performed genome-wide association of abdominal adipose depots quantified using computed tomography (CT) to uncover novel loci for body fat distribution among participants of European ancestry. We quantified subcutaneous and visceral fat in more than 10,000 women and men who also had genome-wide association data available. Given the known gender differences in body fat distribution, we performed sex-specific analyses. Our most significant finding was for VAT in women, near the THNSL2 gene. These findings were not observed in men. We also interrogated our data for the 14 recently published loci for body fat distribution (measured by waist–hip ratio adjusted for BMI); associations were observed for 7 of these loci, most notably for VAT/SAT ratio. We conclude that genome-wide association for visceral and subcutaneous fat revealed a SNP for VAT in women. More refined phenotypes for body composition and fat distribution can detect new loci not uncovered in large-scale GWAS of anthropometric traits.
Published: 2012

77. Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies Variants Associated with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease That Have Distinct Effects on Metabolic Traits

Author: Benjamin Voight, Amelie Bonnefond, Mark Caulfield, Guillaume Pare, Manal Abdelmalek, Eleftheria Zeggini, Jeffrey Schwimmer, Anna Gloyn, Michael Preuss, Åsa Johansson, LAURA CRISPONI, Eco De Geus, Michael Weedon, Jeanne Clark, Joyce Van Meurs, Torben Jørgensen, Kirsi Pietiläinen, Nicole Glazer, Jaakko Kaprio, Alan Shuldiner, Braxton Mitchell, Patricia Munroe, Ozren Polasek, Elisabeth Thiering, Carla Vogel, Jennie Hui, ROBERTO ELOSUA, Amanda Bennett, Yurii Aulchenko, Michael Stumvoll, Andrew Hattersley, Alexander Doney, Peter P Pramstaller, Christian Dina, Lambertus Kiemeney, Sophie Visvikis-Siest, ANGELO SCUTERI, Udo Seedorf, Vilmundur Gudnason, Peter Kraft, Aroon Hingorani, Michael Marmot, Dale Nyholt, Mika Kivimaki, Mary Feitosa, Danielle Posthuma, Claudia Langenberg, Stavroula Kanoni, Mika Kähönen, David Hillman, Lachlan Coin, Eric Brunner, Terho Lehtimäki, Man Li, John Beilby, Peter Visscher, Anette P Gjesing, James Pankow, Ruben Hernaez, Taina Lajunen, Katja Aben, Daniel Witte, Willem Ouwehand, Eleanor Wheeler, Peter Kovacs, Debbie A Lawlor, Kevin Jacobs, Jianjun Liu, Joseph Massaro, Hana Lango Allen, Inga Prokopenko, Rafn Benediktsson, Philippe Froguel, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Cornelia Van Duijn, Annette Peters, Nita Forouhi, Chiara Lanzani, Tonu Esko, Ko Willems van Dijk, Sadaf Farooqi, John Carr, Reedik Mägi, David Melzer, Gerard Waeber, Sutapa Mukherjee, Lyle John Palmer, Francois Pattou, Claes Ohlsson, Perry Elliott, André Scherag, Inke König, Stephen O'rahilly, Thomas Meitinger, Michael Goddard, Lina Zgaga, Robert Weyant, Paul Elliott, Robert Luben, Albert Vernon Smith, MANUELA UDA, Avan Aihie Sayer, Richard Bergman, Gonneke Willemsen, Cecilia Lindgren, Olle Melander, Igor Rudan, Maris Teder-Laving, Hugh Watkins, Ulrich John, Epidemiology, Scherag, Andre (Beitragende*r), Hinney, Anke (Beitragende*r), Scherag, S. (Beitragende*r), Vogel, C. I. (Beitragende*r), Hebebrand, Johannes (Beitragende*r), Functional Genomics, Biological Psychology, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - integrative Analysis & Modeling, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Attention & Cognition, EMGO+ - Mental Health, McCarthy, Mark I, Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Medical Research Council (MRC), Speliotes, Ek, YERGES ARMSTRONG, Lm, Wu, J, Hernaez, R, Kim, Lj, Palmer, Cd, Gudnason, V, Eiriksdottir, G, Garcia, Me, Launer, Lj, Nalls, Ma, Clark, Jm, Mitchell, Bd, Shuldiner, Ar, Butler, Jl, Tomas, M, Hoffmann, U, Hwang, Sj, Massaro, Jm, O'Donnell, Cj, Sahani, Dv, Salomaa, V, Schadt, Ee, Schwartz, Sm, Siscovick, D, Nash, Crn, Manunta, Paolo, Giant, Consortium, Magic, Investigator, Voight, Bf, Carr, Jj, Feitosa, Mf, Harris, Tb, Fox, C, Smith, Av, Kao, Wh, Hirschhorn, Jn, Borecki, Ib, Gold, Consortium, Hjelt Institute (-2014), Department of Public Health, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Haartman Institute (-2014), Transplantation Laboratory, Genetic Epidemiology, O', Donnell, Cj, Giant, and Paolisso, Giuseppe
Subjects: Blood Glucose, Male, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Cancer Research, Medizin, Genome-wide association study, Hepatitis, Diabetes and Endocrinology/Obesity, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Lectins, Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, 80 and over, Insulin, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Tomography, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Blood Glucose/analysis Case-Control Studies Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans/genetics Cohort Studies Fatty Liver/*genetics/metabolism/radiography Genome-Wide Association Study Humans Insulin/blood Lectins, C-Type/genetics Lipase/genetics Male Membrane Proteins/genetics Middle Aged Mutation, Missense Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide Quantitative Trait Loci Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Genetics (clinical), Aged, 80 and over, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, Framingham Risk Score, C-Type, Liver Disease, Fatty liver, Adaptor Proteins, Single Nucleotide, Middle Aged, X-Ray Computed, 3. Good health, GOLD Consortium, 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology, Research Article, Adult, lcsh:QH426-470, Quantitative Trait Loci, Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis, Mutation, Missense, genome-wide, fatty liver, metabolic, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Genetics and Genomics/Complex Traits, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Gastroenterology and Hepatology/Hepatology, MAGIC Investigators, 03 medical and health sciences, Clinical Research, GIANT Consortium, medicine, Humans, Lectins, C-Type, Adiponutrin, NASH CRN, ddc:610, Polymorphism, education, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Aged, 030304 developmental biology, 0604 Genetics, Genetic heterogeneity, Prevention, Human Genome, Signal Transducing, Membrane Proteins, Lipase, medicine.disease, 3141 Health care science, Fatty Liver, lcsh:Genetics, Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, Missense, Steatosis, Steatohepatitis, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Digestive Diseases, Neurocan, Genome-Wide Association Study, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) clusters in families, but the only known common genetic variants influencing risk are near PNPLA3. We sought to identify additional genetic variants influencing NAFLD using genome-wide association (GWA) analysis of computed tomography (CT) measured hepatic steatosis, a non-invasive measure of NAFLD, in large population based samples. Using variance components methods, we show that CT hepatic steatosis is heritable (∼26%–27%) in family-based Amish, Family Heart, and Framingham Heart Studies (n = 880 to 3,070). By carrying out a fixed-effects meta-analysis of genome-wide association (GWA) results between CT hepatic steatosis and ∼2.4 million imputed or genotyped SNPs in 7,176 individuals from the Old Order Amish, Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik study (AGES), Family Heart, and Framingham Heart Studies, we identify variants associated at genome-wide significant levels (p, Author Summary NAFLD is a spectrum of disease that ranges from steatosis to steatohepatitis (nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH: inflammation around the fat) to fibrosis/cirrhosis. Hepatic steatosis can be measured non-invasively using computed tomography (CT) whereas NASH/fibrosis is assessed histologically. The genetic underpinnings of NAFLD remain to be determined. Here we estimate that 26%–27% of the variation in CT measured hepatic steatosis is heritable or genetic. We identify three variants near PNPLAL3, NCAN, and PPP1R3B that associate with CT hepatic steatosis and show that variants in or near NCAN, GCKR, LYPLAL1, and PNPLA3, but not PPP1R3B, associate with histologic lobular inflammation/fibrosis. Variants in or near NCAN, GCKR, and PPP1R3B associate with altered serum lipid levels, whereas those in or near LYPLAL1 and PNPLA3 do not. Variants near GCKR and PPP1R3B also affect glycemic traits. Thus, we show that NAFLD is genetically influenced and expand the number of common genetic variants that associate with this trait. Our findings suggest that development of hepatic steatosis, NASH/fibrosis, or abnormalities in metabolic traits are probably influenced by different metabolic pathways that may represent distinct therapeutic targets.
Published: 2011

78. Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

Author: Fredrik Karpe, Ivonne Jarick, Julius S. Ngwa, Alan F. Wright, Robert Luben, Aaron R. Folsom, Sailaja Vedantam, Veikko Salomaa, Markku J. Savolainen, Robert Clarke, Shah Ebrahim, Thomas A. Buchanan, Mao Fu, Albert Hofman, Philippe Goyette, Camilla H. Sandholt, Fabio Macciardi, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Barbara McKnight, Anne McCarthy, Mika Kaehoenen, Christian Gieger, Jorma S. A. Viikari, Nicholas J. Timpson, Kirsti Kvaløy, Douglas F. Levinson, Toby Johnson, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Samuli Ripatti, Andrew A. Hicks, Niina Pellikka, Charles C. White, Leena Peltonen, Reedik Maegi, John-Olov Jansson, Qunyuan Zhang, Claudia Lamina, Robert C. Kaplan, Peter M. Visscher, Laura J. Scott, Claes Ohlsson, Brian Thomson, Jubao Duan, Heikki V. Huikuri, Stephen O'Rahilly, Anette P. Gjesing, David P. Strachan, Caroline S. Fox, Sekar Kathiresan, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Johannes Kettunen, Maris Teder-Laving, Erik Ingelsson, Mario A. Morken, Peter Kovacs, Elisabeth Widen, Caroline Hayward, Eleanor Wheeler, Jing Hua Zhao, Vilmundur Gudnason, Panos Deloukas, Jacqueline C. M. Witteman, Gert-Jan B. van Ommen, Eric Boerwinkle, Martin Wabitsch, Christian Hengstenberg, Beverley Balkau, Thor Aspelund, Neelam Hassanali, Paul M. Ridker, Nicole L. Glazer, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Michel Marre, Alan James, Ben A. Oostra, David Meyre, Ida Surakka, Stefan Schreiber, Nigel W. Rayner, Heribert Schunkert, Thomas Quertermous, Stefan Gustafsson, Peter Kraft, Benjamin F. Voight, Irene Pichler, Olle Melander, Ozren Polasek, Antti Jula, Alan R. Sanders, Andrew R. Wood, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Thomas Illig, Jianjun Liu, Gerard Waeber, André G. Uitterlinden, Torben Hansen, Helene Alavere, André Scherag, Paolo Manunta, Johannes Hebebrand, Themistocles L. Assimes, Stefan R. Bornstein, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Morris Brown, Jianfeng Xu, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Cristen J. Willer, Henrik Greonberg, Guillaume Lettre, John R. Thompson, Inês Barroso, John R. B. Perry, Andreas Ziegler, James F. Wilson, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Maurizio F. Facheris, Robert Lawrence, Jan Smit, Lyle J. Palmer, Ulf Gyllensten, Richard B. Hayes, Shengxu Li, Barbara Ludwig, Larry D. Atwood, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Sabine Schipf, Jouko Saramies, Tanja Boes, Martin Ridderstråle, Jennie Hui, Lina Zgaga, Susann Scherag, Alexandra I. F. Blakemore, Marjolein Peters, Timo T. Valle, Nelson B. Freimer, Kay-Tee Khaw, Amy J. Swift, Michael Stumvoll, Miriam F. Moffatt, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Ayellet V. Segrè, Neil Robertson, Richard N. Bergman, Francis S. Collins, Ryan P. Welch, Mari-Liis Tammesoo, Devin Absher, Tamara B. Harris, Kari E. North, Manuela Uda, Karen L. Mohlke, Inga Prokopenko, Per Hall, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Guillaume Paré, Stefan Gaget, G. Bragi Walters, Michael N. Weedon, Jean-Claude Tardif, Mary F. Feitosa, Anke Toenjes, Ken K. Ong, Cécile Lecoeur, Paavo Zitting, David S. Siscovick, Chih-Mei Chen, Peter Almgren, Anneli Pouta, Philippe Froguel, Pekka Jousilahti, Jaakko Kaprio, Maria Teresa Sciarrone Alibrandi, Sophie van Wingerden, Steven A. McCarroll, Oluf Pedersen, Shaun Purcell, Veronique Vitart, Leena Kinnunen, Markus Perola, Jacques S. Beckmann, Vincent Vatin, Christopher J. Groves, Zoltán Kutalik, Lu Qi, Volker Hoesel, Seppo Koskinen, Suzanne Rafelt, Anke Hinney, Annette Peters, David Schlessinger, Eero Kajantie, Jian Yang, Nicholas G. Martin, Joshua W. Knowles, Kristian Midthjell, Olivier Lantieri, Dorret I. Boomsma, Harry Campbell, Ulrich John, Kirsi H. Pietilaeinen, George Davey Smith, Carl G. P. Platou, Sarah H. Wild, Patricia B. Munroe, Iris M. Heid, Diana Marek, Michael Boehnke, Andres Metspalu, Hana Lango Allen, Peter Rzehak, Christine Cavalcanti-Proença, M. Carola Zillikens, Åsa Johansson, Anuj Goel, Andrew T. Hattersley, Massimo Mangino, Michael E. Goddard, Tim D. Spector, Winfried Rief, Jonathan Tyrer, Lachlan J. M. Coin, Peter P. Pramstaller, Narisu Narisu, John Beilby, Jonathan Stephens, Christina Barlassina, Pamela Fischer-Posovszky, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Kaisa Silander, Richard H. Myers, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Eric E. Schadt, Francesco P. Cappuccio, Martin den Heijer, Fernando Rivadeneira, Lindsay L. Waite, Wilmar Igl, Igor Rudan, Manjinder S. Sandhu, Debbie A Lawlor, Kristian Hveem, Susanna Wiegand, Mari Nelis, Thomas Reinehr, Elisabeth Thiering, Inke R. Koenig, Stephan B. Felix, Fredrik Wiklund, Ian N. M. Day, Willem H. Ouwehand, Peter Schwarz, Richard M. Watanabe, Keri L. Monda, Kari Stefansson, Gudny Eiriksdottir, H-Erich Wichmann, Jianxin Shi, Najaf Amin, Carlos Iribarren, Heiko Krude, Dale R. Nyholt, Lenore J. Launer, Stephen J. Chanock, Harald Grallert, Hugh Watkins, Juergen Graessler, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Jeanette Erdmann, Mattias Lorentzon, Leif Groop, Teresa Ferreira, Chiara Lanzani, Johanna Kuusisto, Johan G. Eriksson, Tõnu Esko, Torben Jørgensen, Robert J. Weyant, Michael Preuss, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Daniel I. Chasman, Daniel R. Witte, Kevin B. Jacobs, Nicole Soranzo, John M. C. Connell, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Jian'an Luan, Joshua C. Randall, Joachim Heinrich, Anthony J. Balmforth, Eva Fisher, Elizabeth S. Jewell, Alice M. Arnold, Nele Friedrich, Olli T. Raitakari, Henri Wallaschofski, Jeffrey R. O'Connell, Terho Lehtimaeki, Marika Kaakinen, Heather M. Stringham, Bo Isomaa, I. Sadaf Farooqi, Anna L. Dixon, Anne U. Jackson, Mark I. McCarthy, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Aila Rissanen, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Nilesh J. Samani, Aimo Ruokonen, Frank B. Hu, L. Adrienne Cupples, Amanda J. Bennett, Shamika Ketkar, Ruth J. F. Loos, Nicholas J. Wareham, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Timothy M. Frayling, Ulla Sovio, Georg Homuth, Liming Liang, Heiner Boeing, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Ingrid B. Borecki, Danielle M. Greenawalt, Rosanda Mulić, Ivana Kolcic, Talin Haritunians, Mark J. Caulfield, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Tanya M. Teslovich, Paul Elliott, Matt Neville, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Albert V. Smith, Andrew P. Morris, Fabio Busonero, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Jaana Laitinen, Michael R. Erdos, Candace Guiducci, Lee M. Kaplan, Aki S. Havulinna, Pablo V. Gejman, Alan R. Shuldiner, Serena Sanna, David J. Hunter, Sonja I. Berndt, Carla I. G. Vogel, Alistair S. Hall, Karol Estrada, Sven Bergmann, Thomas Meitinger, Gonneke Willemsen, Andrew C. Heath, Katja K.H. Aben, Markku Laakso, Juha Sinisalo, Tuomas O. Kilpelaenen, Mark E. Cooper, Heike Biebermann, Eco J. C. de Geus, Grant W. Montgomery, Sophie Visvikis-Siest, Thomas W. Winkler, Ju-Hyun Park, Alex N. Parker, Peter S. Chines, James Nemesh, Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Wendy L. McArdle, Roberto Elosua, Markku S. Nieminen, Psychiatry, NCA - Anxiety & Depression, EMGO - Mental health, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Clinical Genetics, Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC other, Public Health, Biological Psychology, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Anxiety & Depression, EMGO+ - Mental Health, MAGIC, Procardis Consortium, Medical Research Council (MRC), Speliotes, Ek, Willer, Cj, Berndt, Si, Monda, Kl, Thorleifsson, G, Jackson, Au, Allen, Hl, Lindgren, Cm, Luan, J, Mägi, R, Randall, Jc, Vedantam, S, Winkler, Tw, Qi, L, Workalemahu, T, Heid, Im, Steinthorsdottir, V, Stringham, Hm, Weedon, Mn, Wheeler, E, Wood, Ar, Ferreira, T, Weyant, Rj, Segrè, Av, Estrada, K, Liang, L, Nemesh, J, Park, Jh, Gustafsson, S, Kilpeläinen, To, Yang, J, BOUATIA NAJI, N, Esko, T, Feitosa, Mf, Kutalik, Z, Mangino, M, Raychaudhuri, S, Scherag, A, Smith, Av, Welch, R, Zhao, Jh, Aben, Kk, Absher, Dm, Amin, N, Dixon, Al, Fisher, E, Glazer, Nl, Goddard, Me, HEARD COSTA, Nl, Hoesel, V, Hottenga, Jj, Johansson, A, Johnson, T, Ketkar, S, Lamina, C, Li, S, Moffatt, Mf, Myers, Rh, Narisu, N, Perry, Jr, Peters, Mj, Preuss, M, Ripatti, S, Rivadeneira, F, Sandholt, C, Scott, Lj, Timpson, Nj, Tyrer, Jp, VAN WINGERDEN, S, Watanabe, Rm, White, Cc, Wiklund, F, Barlassina, C, Chasman, Di, Cooper, Mn, Jansson, Jo, Lawrence, Rw, Pellikka, N, Prokopenko, I, Shi, J, Thiering, E, Alavere, H, Alibrandi, Mt, Almgren, P, Arnold, Am, Aspelund, T, Atwood, Ld, Balkau, B, Balmforth, Aj, Bennett, Aj, BEN SHLOMO, Y, Bergman, Rn, Bergmann, S, Biebermann, H, Blakemore, Ai, Boes, T, Bonnycastle, Ll, Bornstein, Sr, Brown, Mj, Buchanan, Ta, Busonero, F, Campbell, H, Cappuccio, Fp, CAVALCANTI PROENÇA, C, Chen, Yd, Chen, Cm, Chines, P, Clarke, R, Coin, L, Connell, J, Day, In, DEN HEIJER, M, Duan, J, Ebrahim, S, Elliott, P, Elosua, R, Eiriksdottir, G, Erdos, Mr, Eriksson, Jg, Facheris, Mf, Felix, Sb, FISCHER POSOVSZKY, P, Folsom, Ar, Friedrich, N, Freimer, Nb, Fu, M, Gaget, S, Gejman, Pv, Geus, Ej, Gieger, C, Gjesing, Ap, Goel, A, Goyette, P, Grallert, H, Grässler, J, Greenawalt, Dm, Groves, Cj, Gudnason, V, Guiducci, C, Hartikainen, Al, Hassanali, N, Hall, A, Havulinna, A, Hayward, C, Heath, Ac, Hengstenberg, C, Hicks, Aa, Hinney, A, Hofman, A, Homuth, G, Hui, J, Igl, W, Iribarren, C, Isomaa, B, Jacobs, Kb, Jarick, I, Jewell, E, John, U, Jørgensen, T, Jousilahti, P, Jula, A, Kaakinen, M, Kajantie, E, Kaplan, Lm, Kathiresan, S, Kettunen, J, Kinnunen, L, Knowles, Jw, Kolcic, I, König, Ir, Koskinen, S, Kovacs, P, Kuusisto, J, Kraft, P, Kvaløy, K, Laitinen, J, Lantieri, O, Lanzani, C, Launer, Lj, Lecoeur, C, Lehtimäki, T, Lettre, G, Liu, J, Lokki, Ml, Lorentzon, M, Luben, Rn, Ludwig, B, Magic, Manunta, Paolo, Marek, D, Marre, M, Martin, Ng, Mcardle, Wl, Mccarthy, A, Mcknight, B, Meitinger, T, Melander, O, Meyre, D, Midthjell, K, Montgomery, Gw, Morken, Ma, Morris, Ap, Mulic, R, Ngwa, J, Nelis, M, Neville, Mj, Nyholt, Dr, O'Donnell, Cj, O'Rahilly, S, Ong, Kk, Oostra, B, Paré, G, Parker, An, Perola, M, Pichler, I, Pietiläinen, Kh, Platou, Cg, Polasek, O, Pouta, A, Rafelt, S, Raitakari, O, Rayner, Nw, Ridderstråle, M, Rief, W, Ruokonen, A, Robertson, Nr, Rzehak, P, Salomaa, V, Sanders, Ar, Sandhu, M, Sanna, S, Saramies, J, Savolainen, Mj, Scherag, S, Schipf, S, Schreiber, S, Schunkert, H, Silander, K, Sinisalo, J, Siscovick, D, Smit, Jh, Soranzo, N, Sovio, U, Stephens, J, Surakka, I, Swift, Aj, Tammesoo, Ml, Tardif, Jc, TEDER LAVING, M, Teslovich, Tm, Thompson, Jr, Thomson, B, Tönjes, A, Tuomi, T, VAN MEURS, Jb, VAN OMMEN, Gj, Vatin, V, Viikari, J, VISVIKIS SIEST, S, Vitart, V, Vogel, Ci, Voight, Bf, Waite, Ll, Wallaschofski, H, Walters, Gb, Widen, E, Wiegand, S, Wild, Sh, Willemsen, G, Witte, Dr, Witteman, Jc, Xu, J, Zhang, Q, Zgaga, L, Ziegler, A, Zitting, P, Beilby, Jp, Farooqi, I, Hebebrand, J, Huikuri, Hv, James, Al, Kähönen, M, Levinson, Df, Macciardi, F, Nieminen, M, Ohlsson, C, Palmer, Lj, Ridker, Pm, Stumvoll, M, Beckmann, J, Boeing, H, Boerwinkle, E, Boomsma, Di, Caulfield, Mj, Chanock, Sj, Collins, F, Cupples, La, Smith, Gd, Erdmann, J, Froguel, P, Grönberg, H, Gyllensten, U, Hall, P, Hansen, T, Harris, Tb, Hattersley, At, Hayes, Rb, Heinrich, J, Hu, Fb, Hveem, K, Illig, T, Jarvelin, Mr, Kaprio, J, Karpe, F, Khaw, Kt, Kiemeney, La, Krude, H, Laakso, M, Lawlor, Da, Metspalu, A, Munroe, Pb, Ouwehand, Wh, Pedersen, O, Penninx, Bw, Peters, A, Pramstaller, Pp, Quertermous, T, Reinehr, T, Rissanen, A, Rudan, I, Samani, Nj, Schwarz, Pe, Shuldiner, Ar, Spector, Td, Tuomilehto, J, Uda, M, Uitterlinden, A, Valle, Tt, Wabitsch, M, Waeber, G, Wareham, Nj, Watkins, H, Procardis, Consortium, Wilson, Jf, Wright, Af, Zillikens, Mc, Chatterjee, N, Mccarroll, Sa, Purcell, S, Schadt, Ee, Visscher, Pm, Assimes, Tl, Borecki, Ib, Deloukas, P, Fox, C, Groop, Lc, Haritunians, T, Hunter, Dj, Kaplan, Rc, Mohlke, Kl, O'Connell, Jr, Peltonen, L, Schlessinger, D, Strachan, Dp, VAN DUIJN, Cm, Wichmann, He, Frayling, Tm, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Abecasis, Gr, Barroso, I, Boehnke, M, Stefansson, K, North, Ke, Mccarthy, Mi, Hirschhorn, Jn, Ingelsson, E, and Loos, Rj
Subjects: Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Medizin, Genome-wide association study, Aetiology, screening and detection [ONCOL 5], FTO gene, Body Mass Index, 0302 clinical medicine, SH2B1, GASTRIC-INHIBITORY POLYPEPTIDE, ADULT OBESITY, Glucose homeostasis, Body Size, GENETICS & HEREDITY, 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, Genetics & Heredity, RISK, 0303 health sciences, Neuronal growth regulator 1, Genetics of obesity, COMMON VARIANTS, Chromosome Mapping, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, Body Height/genetics, Body Size/genetics, Body Weight/genetics, European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Obesity/genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, FAT MASS, Body Height/*genetics *Body Mass Index Body Size/genetics Body Weight/*genetics *Chromosome Mapping European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics Genome-Wide Association Study Humans Obesity/genetics Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, MELANOCORTIN-4 RECEPTOR GENE, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, European Continental Ancestry Group, EARLY-ONSET, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Locus (genetics), Biology, Article, White People, Molecular epidemiology [NCEBP 1], 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, body mass index, genome-wide association, meta-analysis, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Obesity, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, FTO GENE, 030304 developmental biology, Science & Technology, genome-wide association gastric-inhibitory polypeptide melanocortin-4 receptor gene glucose-homeostasis common variants adult obesity early-onset fat mass risk metaanalysis, Body Weight, 06 Biological Sciences, MAGIC, Body Height, GLUCOSE-HOMEOSTASIS, Procardis Consortium, Body mass index, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Obesity is globaLy prevalent and highly heritable, but its underlying genetic factors remain largely elusive. To identify genetic loci for obesity susceptibility, we examined aSociations betwEn body maS index and ĝ̂1/42.8 miLion SNPs in up to 123,865 individuals with targeted foLow up of 42 SNPs in up to 125,931 aDitional individuals. We confirmed 14 known obesity susceptibility loci and identified 18 new loci aSociated with body maS index (P < 5-10-8), one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B. Some loci (at MC4R, POMC, SH2B1 and BDNF) map near key hypothalamic regulators of energy balance, and one of these loci is near GIPR, an incretin receptor. Furthermore, genes in other newly aSociated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation. © 2010 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.
Published: 2010

79. Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

Author: Seppo Koskinen, Christian Herder, Daniel I. Chasman, Andrew R. Wood, Jonna L. Grimsby, J.F. Wilson, Day Inm., Massimo Mangino, Gonneke Willemsen, Robert W. Mahley, Cristian Pattaro, Nicole L. Glazer, T.B. Harris, Irene Pichler, M S Sandhu, D. van Heemst, Christine Proença, Martha Ganser, Robert A. Hegele, Richa Saxena, Eleftheria Zeggini, Markku Laakso, Peter Kraft, Judith B. Borja, Karen L. Mohlke, J B Richards, de Geus Ejc., Robert Sladek, Cristen J. Willer, Samy Hadjadj, S.M. Boekholdt, Gina M. Peloso, Kijoung Song, Sutapa Mukherjee, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Winston Hide, Mark I. McCarthy, Ruth E. Pakyz, Marian Beekman, Ayellet V. Segrè, Inga Prokopenko, Ping An, George Dedoussis, Danielle Posthuma, Jeanette Erdmann, Simon J. Griffin, Nilesh J. Samani, Inke R. König, Frank B. Hu, Lokki M-L., David M. Evans, Xiaohui Li, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Aimo Ruokonen, A Pouta, Kerrin S. Small, Cecilia M. 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Subjects: Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Male, Insulin Resistance/genetics, VARIANTS, 0302 clinical medicine, POPULATION, African Americans, blood/genetics, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, Adiponectin/blood, Adiponectin/genetics, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Cholesterol, HDL/genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/genetics, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Gene Expression, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glucose Tolerance Test, Humans, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Waist-Hip Ratio, Global B Pgen Consortium, MAGIC investigators, 3. Good health, Cholesterol, Medicine, Adiponectin, Type 2, medicine.medical_specialty, HDL, Biolääketieteet - Biomedicine, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, DIAGRAM Consortium, White People, Molecular Genetics, GLGC Consortium, 03 medical and health sciences, Asian People, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, GIANT Consortium, Diabetes Mellitus, Genetics, DIAGRAM+ Consortium, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, Polymorphism, education, Biology, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 0604 Genetics, Science & Technology, GLGC Investigators, nutritional and metabolic diseases, ta3121, medicine.disease, Obesity, Black or African American, blood/genetics, African Americans, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Cholesterol, genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, genetics, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Gene Expression, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glucose Tolerance Test, Humans, Insulin Resistance, genetics, Male, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Waist-Hip Ratio, Endocrinology, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Developmental Biology, Type 2/genetics, Cancer Research, Type 2 diabetes, QH426-470, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, LIPID CONCENTRATIONS, GENETICS & HEREDITY, Genetics (clinical), RISK, 2. Zero hunger, INSULIN-RESISTANCE, Glucose tolerance test, medicine.diagnostic_test, MAGIC Consortium, Single Nucleotide, ADIPOSE-TISSUE, CORONARY-ARTERY-DISEASE, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Research Article, Clinical Research Design, GENETIC-BASIS, Population, Insulin resistance, Internal medicine, Diabetes mellitus, medicine, ddc:610, 030304 developmental biology, RECEPTOR, Cholesterol, HDL, Human Genetics, HDL/genetics, 3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine, MuTHER Consortium, 3111 Biomedicine, Procardis Consortium, Insulin Resistance
Abstract: Circulating levels of adiponectin, a hormone produced predominantly by adipocytes, are highly heritable and are inversely associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and other metabolic traits. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in 39,883 individuals of European ancestry to identify genes associated with metabolic disease. We identified 8 novel loci associated with adiponectin levels and confirmed 2 previously reported loci (P = 4.5×10−8–1.2×10−43). Using a novel method to combine data across ethnicities (N = 4,232 African Americans, N = 1,776 Asians, and N = 29,347 Europeans), we identified two additional novel loci. Expression analyses of 436 human adipocyte samples revealed that mRNA levels of 18 genes at candidate regions were associated with adiponectin concentrations after accounting for multiple testing (p, Author Summary Serum adiponectin levels are highly heritable and are inversely correlated with the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), coronary artery disease, stroke, and several metabolic traits. To identify common genetic variants associated with adiponectin levels and risk of T2D and metabolic traits, we conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of 45,891 multi-ethnic individuals. In addition to confirming that variants at the ADIPOQ and CDH13 loci influence adiponectin levels, our analyses revealed that 10 new loci also affecting circulating adiponectin levels. We demonstrated that expression levels of several genes in these candidate regions are associated with serum adiponectin levels. Using a powerful novel method to assess the contribution of the identified variants with other traits using summary-level results from large-scale GWAS consortia, we provide evidence that the risk alleles for adiponectin are associated with deleterious changes in T2D risk and metabolic syndrome traits (triglycerides, HDL, post-prandial glucose, insulin, and waist-to-hip ratio), demonstrating that the identified loci, taken together, impact upon metabolic disease.
Published: 2012

80. Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry.

Author: Graff M, Justice AE, Young KL, Marouli E, Zhang X, Fine RS, Lim E, Buchanan V, Rand K, Feitosa MF, Wojczynski MK, Yanek LR, Shao Y, Rohde R, Adeyemo AA, Aldrich MC, Allison MA, Ambrosone CB, Ambs S, Amos C, Arnett DK, Atwood L, Bandera EV, Bartz T, Becker DM, Berndt SI, Bernstein L, Bielak LF, Blot WJ, Bottinger EP, Bowden DW, Bradfield JP, Brody JA, Broeckel U, Burke G, Cade BE, Cai Q, Caporaso N, Carlson C, Carpten J, Casey G, Chanock SJ, Chen G, Chen M, Chen YI, Chen WM, Chesi A, Chiang CWK, Chu L, Coetzee GA, Conti DV, Cooper RS, Cushman M, Demerath E, Deming SL, Dimitrov L, Ding J, Diver WR, Duan Q, Evans MK, Falusi AG, Faul JD, Fornage M, Fox C, Freedman BI, Garcia M, Gillanders EM, Goodman P, Gottesman O, Grant SFA, Guo X, Hakonarson H, Haritunians T, Harris TB, Harris CC, Henderson BE, Hennis A, Hernandez DG, Hirschhorn JN, McNeill LH, Howard TD, Howard B, Hsing AW, Hsu YH, Hu JJ, Huff CD, Huo D, Ingles SA, Irvin MR, John EM, Johnson KC, Jordan JM, Kabagambe EK, Kang SJ, Kardia SL, Keating BJ, Kittles RA, Klein EA, Kolb S, Kolonel LN, Kooperberg C, Kuller L, Kutlar A, Lange L, Langefeld CD, Le Marchand L, Leonard H, Lettre G, Levin AM, Li Y, Li J, Liu Y, Liu Y, Liu S, Lohman K, Lotay V, Lu Y, Maixner W, Manson JE, McKnight B, Meng Y, Monda KL, Monroe K, Moore JH, Mosley TH, Mudgal P, Murphy AB, Nadukuru R, Nalls MA, Nathanson KL, Nayak U, N'Diaye A, Nemesure B, Neslund-Dudas C, Neuhouser ML, Nyante S, Ochs-Balcom H, Ogundiran TO, Ogunniyi A, Ojengbede O, Okut H, Olopade OI, Olshan A, Padhukasahasram B, Palmer J, Palmer CD, Palmer ND, Papanicolaou G, Patel SR, Pettaway CA, Peyser PA, Press MF, Rao DC, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Redline S, Reiner AP, Rhie SK, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Rotimi CN, Rotter JI, Ruiz-Narvaez EA, Rybicki BA, Salako B, Sale MM, Sanderson M, Schadt E, Schreiner PJ, Schurmann C, Schwartz AG, Shriner DA, Signorello LB, Singleton AB, Siscovick DS, Smith JA, Smith S, Speliotes E, Spitz M, Stanford JL, Stevens VL, Stram A, Strom SS, Sucheston L, Sun YV, Tajuddin SM, Taylor H, Taylor K, Tayo BO, Thun MJ, Tucker MA, Vaidya D, Van Den Berg DJ, Vedantam S, Vitolins M, Wang Z, Ware EB, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Weir DR, Wiencke JK, Williams SM, Williams LK, Wilson JG, Witte JS, Wrensch M, Wu X, Yao J, Zakai N, Zanetti K, Zemel BS, Zhao W, Zhao JH, Zheng W, Zhi D, Zhou J, Zhu X, Ziegler RG, Zmuda J, Zonderman AB, Psaty BM, Borecki IB, Cupples LA, Liu CT, Haiman CA, Loos R, Ng MCY, and North KE
Subjects: Africa ethnology, Black or African American genetics, Europe ethnology, Female, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Black People genetics, Body Height genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Although many loci have been associated with height in European ancestry populations, very few have been identified in African ancestry individuals. Furthermore, many of the known loci have yet to be generalized to and fine-mapped within a large-scale African ancestry sample. We performed sex-combined and sex-stratified meta-analyses in up to 52,764 individuals with height and genome-wide genotyping data from the African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium (AAAGC). We additionally combined our African ancestry meta-analysis results with published European genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. In the African ancestry analyses, we identified three novel loci (SLC4A3, NCOA2, ECD/FAM149B1) in sex-combined results and two loci (CRB1, KLF6) in women only. In the African plus European sex-combined GWAS, we identified an additional three novel loci (RCCD1, G6PC3, CEP95) which were equally driven by AAAGC and European results. Among 39 genome-wide significant signals at known loci, conditioning index SNPs from European studies identified 20 secondary signals. Two of the 20 new secondary signals and none of the 8 novel loci had minor allele frequencies (MAF) < 5%. Of 802 known European height signals, 643 displayed directionally consistent associations with height, of which 205 were nominally significant (p < 0.05) in the African ancestry sex-combined sample. Furthermore, 148 of 241 loci contained ≤20 variants in the credible sets that jointly account for 99% of the posterior probability of driving the associations. In summary, trans-ethnic meta-analyses revealed novel signals and further improved fine-mapping of putative causal variants in loci shared between African and European ancestry populations., (Copyright © 2021 American Society of Human Genetics. All rights reserved.)
Published: 2021
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81. Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity.

Author: Turcot V, Lu Y, Highland HM, Schurmann C, Justice AE, Fine RS, Bradfield JP, Esko T, Giri A, Graff M, Guo X, Hendricks AE, Karaderi T, Lempradl A, Locke AE, Mahajan A, Marouli E, Sivapalaratnam S, Young KL, Alfred T, Feitosa MF, Masca NGD, Manning AK, Medina-Gomez C, Mudgal P, Ng MCY, Reiner AP, Vedantam S, Willems SM, Winkler TW, Abecasis G, Aben KK, Alam DS, Alharthi SE, Allison M, Amouyel P, Asselbergs FW, Auer PL, Balkau B, Bang LE, Barroso I, Bastarache L, Benn M, Bergmann S, Bielak LF, Blüher M, Boehnke M, Boeing H, Boerwinkle E, Böger CA, Bork-Jensen J, Bots ML, Bottinger EP, Bowden DW, Brandslund I, Breen G, Brilliant MH, Broer L, Brumat M, Burt AA, Butterworth AS, Campbell PT, Cappellani S, Carey DJ, Catamo E, Caulfield MJ, Chambers JC, Chasman DI, Chen YI, Chowdhury R, Christensen C, Chu AY, Cocca M, Collins FS, Cook JP, Corley J, Galbany JC, Cox AJ, Crosslin DS, Cuellar-Partida G, D'Eustacchio A, Danesh J, Davies G, Bakker PIW, Groot MCH, Mutsert R, Deary IJ, Dedoussis G, Demerath EW, Heijer M, Hollander AI, Ruijter HM, Dennis JG, Denny JC, Di Angelantonio E, Drenos F, Du M, Dubé MP, Dunning AM, Easton DF, Edwards TL, Ellinghaus D, Ellinor PT, Elliott P, Evangelou E, Farmaki AE, Farooqi IS, Faul JD, Fauser S, Feng S, Ferrannini E, Ferrieres J, Florez JC, Ford I, Fornage M, Franco OH, Franke A, Franks PW, Friedrich N, Frikke-Schmidt R, Galesloot TE, Gan W, Gandin I, Gasparini P, Gibson J, Giedraitis V, Gjesing AP, Gordon-Larsen P, Gorski M, Grabe HJ, Grant SFA, Grarup N, Griffiths HL, Grove ML, Gudnason V, Gustafsson S, Haessler J, Hakonarson H, Hammerschlag AR, Hansen T, Harris KM, Harris TB, Hattersley AT, Have CT, Hayward C, He L, Heard-Costa NL, Heath AC, Heid IM, Helgeland Ø, Hernesniemi J, Hewitt AW, Holmen OL, Hovingh GK, Howson JMM, Hu Y, Huang PL, Huffman JE, Ikram MA, Ingelsson E, Jackson AU, Jansson JH, Jarvik GP, Jensen GB, Jia Y, Johansson S, Jørgensen ME, Jørgensen T, Jukema JW, Kahali B, Kahn RS, Kähönen M, Kamstrup PR, Kanoni S, Kaprio J, Karaleftheri M, Kardia SLR, Karpe F, Kathiresan S, Kee F, Kiemeney LA, Kim E, Kitajima H, Komulainen P, Kooner JS, Kooperberg C, Korhonen T, Kovacs P, Kuivaniemi H, Kutalik Z, Kuulasmaa K, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lakka TA, Lamparter D, Lange EM, Lange LA, Langenberg C, Larson EB, Lee NR, Lehtimäki T, Lewis CE, Li H, Li J, Li-Gao R, Lin H, Lin KH, Lin LA, Lin X, Lind L, Lindström J, Linneberg A, Liu CT, Liu DJ, Liu Y, Lo KS, Lophatananon A, Lotery AJ, Loukola A, Luan J, Lubitz SA, Lyytikäinen LP, Männistö S, Marenne G, Mazul AL, McCarthy MI, McKean-Cowdin R, Medland SE, Meidtner K, Milani L, Mistry V, Mitchell P, Mohlke KL, Moilanen L, Moitry M, Montgomery GW, Mook-Kanamori DO, Moore C, Mori TA, Morris AD, Morris AP, Müller-Nurasyid M, Munroe PB, Nalls MA, Narisu N, Nelson CP, Neville M, Nielsen SF, Nikus K, Njølstad PR, Nordestgaard BG, Nyholt DR, O'Connel JR, O'Donoghue ML, Loohuis LMO, Ophoff RA, Owen KR, Packard CJ, Padmanabhan S, Palmer CNA, Palmer ND, Pasterkamp G, Patel AP, Pattie A, Pedersen O, Peissig PL, Peloso GM, Pennell CE, Perola M, Perry JA, Perry JRB, Pers TH, Person TN, Peters A, Petersen ERB, Peyser PA, Pirie A, Polasek O, Polderman TJ, Puolijoki H, Raitakari OT, Rasheed A, Rauramaa R, Reilly DF, Renström F, Rheinberger M, Ridker PM, Rioux JD, Rivas MA, Roberts DJ, Robertson NR, Robino A, Rolandsson O, Rudan I, Ruth KS, Saleheen D, Salomaa V, Samani NJ, Sapkota Y, Sattar N, Schoen RE, Schreiner PJ, Schulze MB, Scott RA, Segura-Lepe MP, Shah SH, Sheu WH, Sim X, Slater AJ, Small KS, Smith AV, Southam L, Spector TD, Speliotes EK, Starr JM, Stefansson K, Steinthorsdottir V, Stirrups KE, Strauch K, Stringham HM, Stumvoll M, Sun L, Surendran P, Swift AJ, Tada H, Tansey KE, Tardif JC, Taylor KD, Teumer A, Thompson DJ, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Thuesen BH, Tönjes A, Tromp G, Trompet S, Tsafantakis E, Tuomilehto J, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Tyrer JP, Uher R, Uitterlinden AG, Uusitupa M, Laan SW, Duijn CM, Leeuwen N, van Setten J, Vanhala M, Varbo A, Varga TV, Varma R, Edwards DRV, Vermeulen SH, Veronesi G, Vestergaard H, Vitart V, Vogt TF, Völker U, Vuckovic D, Wagenknecht LE, Walker M, Wallentin L, Wang F, Wang CA, Wang S, Wang Y, Ware EB, Wareham NJ, Warren HR, Waterworth DM, Wessel J, White HD, Willer CJ, Wilson JG, Witte DR, Wood AR, Wu Y, Yaghootkar H, Yao J, Yao P, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Young R, Zeggini E, Zhan X, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Zhao W, Zhao W, Zhou W, Zondervan KT, Rotter JI, Pospisilik JA, Rivadeneira F, Borecki IB, Deloukas P, Frayling TM, Lettre G, North KE, Lindgren CM, Hirschhorn JN, and Loos RJF
Abstract: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
Published: 2019
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82. Insulin Resistance Exacerbates Genetic Predisposition to Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Individuals Without Diabetes.

Author: Barata L, Feitosa MF, Bielak LF, Halligan B, Baldridge AS, Guo X, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Smith AV, Yao J, Palmer ND, VanWagner LB, Carr JJ, Chen YI, Allison M, Budoff MJ, Handelman SK, Kardia SLR, Mosley TH Jr, Ryan K, Harris TB, Launer LJ, Gudnason V, Rotter JI, Fornage M, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Borecki IB, O'Connell JR, Peyser PA, Speliotes EK, and Province MA
Abstract: The accumulation of excess fat in the liver (hepatic steatosis) in the absence of heavy alcohol consumption causes nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which has become a global epidemic. Identifying metabolic risk factors that interact with the genetic risk of NAFLD is important for reducing disease burden. We tested whether serum glucose, insulin, insulin resistance, triglyceride (TG), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, body mass index (BMI), and waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI interact with genetic variants in or near the patatin-like phospholipase domain containing 3 ( PNPLA3 ) gene, the glucokinase regulatory protein ( GCKR ) gene, the neurocan/transmembrane 6 superfamily member 2 ( NCAN/TM6SF2 ) gene , and the lysophospholipase-like 1 ( LYPLAL1 ) gene to exacerbate hepatic steatosis, estimated by liver attenuation. We performed association analyses in 10 population-based cohorts separately and then meta-analyzed results in up to 14,751 individuals (11,870 of European ancestry and 2,881 of African ancestry). We found that PNPLA3- rs738409 significantly interacted with insulin, insulin resistance, BMI, glucose, and TG to increase hepatic steatosis in nondiabetic individuals carrying the G allele. Additionally, GCKR- rs780094 significantly interacted with insulin, insulin resistance, and TG. Conditional analyses using the two largest European ancestry cohorts in the study showed that insulin levels accounted for most of the interaction of PNPLA3- rs738409 with BMI, glucose, and TG in nondiabetic individuals. Insulin, PNPLA3 -rs738409, and their interaction accounted for at least 8% of the variance in hepatic steatosis in these two cohorts. Conclusion: Insulin resistance, either directly or through the resultant elevated insulin levels, more than other metabolic traits, appears to amplify the PNPLA3 -rs738409-G genetic risk for hepatic steatosis. Improving insulin resistance in nondiabetic individuals carrying PNPLA3- rs738409-G may preferentially decrease hepatic steatosis.
Published: 2019
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83. Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution.

Author: Justice AE, Karaderi T, Highland HM, Young KL, Graff M, Lu Y, Turcot V, Auer PL, Fine RS, Guo X, Schurmann C, Lempradl A, Marouli E, Mahajan A, Winkler TW, Locke AE, Medina-Gomez C, Esko T, Vedantam S, Giri A, Lo KS, Alfred T, Mudgal P, Ng MCY, Heard-Costa NL, Feitosa MF, Manning AK, Willems SM, Sivapalaratnam S, Abecasis G, Alam DS, Allison M, Amouyel P, Arzumanyan Z, Balkau B, Bastarache L, Bergmann S, Bielak LF, Blüher M, Boehnke M, Boeing H, Boerwinkle E, Böger CA, Bork-Jensen J, Bottinger EP, Bowden DW, Brandslund I, Broer L, Burt AA, Butterworth AS, Caulfield MJ, Cesana G, Chambers JC, Chasman DI, Chen YI, Chowdhury R, Christensen C, Chu AY, Collins FS, Cook JP, Cox AJ, Crosslin DS, Danesh J, de Bakker PIW, Denus S, Mutsert R, Dedoussis G, Demerath EW, Dennis JG, Denny JC, Di Angelantonio E, Dörr M, Drenos F, Dubé MP, Dunning AM, Easton DF, Elliott P, Evangelou E, Farmaki AE, Feng S, Ferrannini E, Ferrieres J, Florez JC, Fornage M, Fox CS, Franks PW, Friedrich N, Gan W, Gandin I, Gasparini P, Giedraitis V, Girotto G, Gorski M, Grallert H, Grarup N, Grove ML, Gustafsson S, Haessler J, Hansen T, Hattersley AT, Hayward C, Heid IM, Holmen OL, Hovingh GK, Howson JMM, Hu Y, Hung YJ, Hveem K, Ikram MA, Ingelsson E, Jackson AU, Jarvik GP, Jia Y, Jørgensen T, Jousilahti P, Justesen JM, Kahali B, Karaleftheri M, Kardia SLR, Karpe F, Kee F, Kitajima H, Komulainen P, Kooner JS, Kovacs P, Krämer BK, Kuulasmaa K, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lakka TA, Lamparter D, Lange LA, Langenberg C, Larson EB, Lee NR, Lee WJ, Lehtimäki T, Lewis CE, Li H, Li J, Li-Gao R, Lin LA, Lin X, Lind L, Lindström J, Linneberg A, Liu CT, Liu DJ, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, MacGregor S, Mägi R, Männistö S, Marenne G, Marten J, Masca NGD, McCarthy MI, Meidtner K, Mihailov E, Moilanen L, Moitry M, Mook-Kanamori DO, Morgan A, Morris AP, Müller-Nurasyid M, Munroe PB, Narisu N, Nelson CP, Neville M, Ntalla I, O'Connell JR, Owen KR, Pedersen O, Peloso GM, Pennell CE, Perola M, Perry JA, Perry JRB, Pers TH, Ewing A, Polasek O, Raitakari OT, Rasheed A, Raulerson CK, Rauramaa R, Reilly DF, Reiner AP, Ridker PM, Rivas MA, Robertson NR, Robino A, Rudan I, Ruth KS, Saleheen D, Salomaa V, Samani NJ, Schreiner PJ, Schulze MB, Scott RA, Segura-Lepe M, Sim X, Slater AJ, Small KS, Smith BH, Smith JA, Southam L, Spector TD, Speliotes EK, Stefansson K, Steinthorsdottir V, Stirrups KE, Strauch K, Stringham HM, Stumvoll M, Sun L, Surendran P, Swart KMA, Tardif JC, Taylor KD, Teumer A, Thompson DJ, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Thuesen BH, Tönjes A, Torres M, Tsafantakis E, Tuomilehto J, Uitterlinden AG, Uusitupa M, van Duijn CM, Vanhala M, Varma R, Vermeulen SH, Vestergaard H, Vitart V, Vogt TF, Vuckovic D, Wagenknecht LE, Walker M, Wallentin L, Wang F, Wang CA, Wang S, Wareham NJ, Warren HR, Waterworth DM, Wessel J, White HD, Willer CJ, Wilson JG, Wood AR, Wu Y, Yaghootkar H, Yao J, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Young R, Zeggini E, Zhan X, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Zhao W, Zheng H, Zhou W, Zillikens MC, Rivadeneira F, Borecki IB, Pospisilik JA, Deloukas P, Frayling TM, Lettre G, Mohlke KL, Rotter JI, Kutalik Z, Hirschhorn JN, Cupples LA, Loos RJF, North KE, and Lindgren CM
Subjects: Animals, Body Fat Distribution methods, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, Drosophila genetics, Exome genetics, Female, Gene Frequency genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Humans, Male, Risk Factors, Waist-Hip Ratio methods, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genetic Variation genetics, Homeostasis genetics, Lipids genetics, Proteins genetics
Abstract: Body-fat distribution is a risk factor for adverse cardiovascular health consequences. We analyzed the association of body-fat distribution, assessed by waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index, with 228,985 predicted coding and splice site variants available on exome arrays in up to 344,369 individuals from five major ancestries (discovery) and 132,177 European-ancestry individuals (validation). We identified 15 common (minor allele frequency, MAF ≥5%) and nine low-frequency or rare (MAF <5%) coding novel variants. Pathway/gene set enrichment analyses identified lipid particle, adiponectin, abnormal white adipose tissue physiology and bone development and morphology as important contributors to fat distribution, while cross-trait associations highlight cardiometabolic traits. In functional follow-up analyses, specifically in Drosophila RNAi-knockdowns, we observed a significant increase in the total body triglyceride levels for two genes (DNAH10 and PLXND1). We implicate novel genes in fat distribution, stressing the importance of interrogating low-frequency and protein-coding variants.
Published: 2019
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84. Efficient Variant Set Mixed Model Association Tests for Continuous and Binary Traits in Large-Scale Whole-Genome Sequencing Studies.

Author: Chen H, Huffman JE, Brody JA, Wang C, Lee S, Li Z, Gogarten SM, Sofer T, Bielak LF, Bis JC, Blangero J, Bowler RP, Cade BE, Cho MH, Correa A, Curran JE, de Vries PS, Glahn DC, Guo X, Johnson AD, Kardia S, Kooperberg C, Lewis JP, Liu X, Mathias RA, Mitchell BD, O'Connell JR, Peyser PA, Post WS, Reiner AP, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Silverman EK, Smith JA, Vasan RS, Wilson JG, Yanek LR, Redline S, Smith NL, Boerwinkle E, Borecki IB, Cupples LA, Laurie CC, Morrison AC, Rice KM, and Lin X
Subjects: Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4 genetics, Cloud Computing, Female, Fibrinogen analysis, Fibrinogen genetics, Genetics, Population, Humans, Male, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.), Precision Medicine, Research Design, Time Factors, United States, Genetic Association Studies, Models, Genetic, Whole Genome Sequencing
Abstract: With advances in whole-genome sequencing (WGS) technology, more advanced statistical methods for testing genetic association with rare variants are being developed. Methods in which variants are grouped for analysis are also known as variant-set, gene-based, and aggregate unit tests. The burden test and sequence kernel association test (SKAT) are two widely used variant-set tests, which were originally developed for samples of unrelated individuals and later have been extended to family data with known pedigree structures. However, computationally efficient and powerful variant-set tests are needed to make analyses tractable in large-scale WGS studies with complex study samples. In this paper, we propose the variant-set mixed model association tests (SMMAT) for continuous and binary traits using the generalized linear mixed model framework. These tests can be applied to large-scale WGS studies involving samples with population structure and relatedness, such as in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program. SMMATs share the same null model for different variant sets, and a virtue of this null model, which includes covariates only, is that it needs to be fit only once for all tests in each genome-wide analysis. Simulation studies show that all the proposed SMMATs correctly control type I error rates for both continuous and binary traits in the presence of population structure and relatedness. We also illustrate our tests in a real data example of analysis of plasma fibrinogen levels in the TOPMed program (n = 23,763), using the Analysis Commons, a cloud-based computing platform., (Copyright © 2018 American Society of Human Genetics. All rights reserved.)
Published: 2019
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85. Disentangling the genetics of lean mass.

Author: Karasik D, Zillikens MC, Hsu YH, Aghdassi A, Akesson K, Amin N, Barroso I, Bennett DA, Bertram L, Bochud M, Borecki IB, Broer L, Buchman AS, Byberg L, Campbell H, Campos-Obando N, Cauley JA, Cawthon PM, Chambers JC, Chen Z, Cho NH, Choi HJ, Chou WC, Cummings SR, de Groot LCPGM, De Jager PL, Demuth I, Diatchenko L, Econs MJ, Eiriksdottir G, Enneman AW, Eriksson J, Eriksson JG, Estrada K, Evans DS, Feitosa MF, Fu M, Gieger C, Grallert H, Gudnason V, Lenore LJ, Hayward C, Hofman A, Homuth G, Huffman KM, Husted LB, Illig T, Ingelsson E, Ittermann T, Jansson JO, Johnson T, Biffar R, Jordan JM, Jula A, Karlsson M, Khaw KT, Kilpeläinen TO, Klopp N, Kloth JSL, Koller DL, Kooner JS, Kraus WE, Kritchevsky S, Kutalik Z, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lahti J, Lang T, Langdahl BL, Lerch MM, Lewis JR, Lill C, Lind L, Lindgren C, Liu Y, Livshits G, Ljunggren Ö, Loos RJF, Lorentzon M, Luan J, Luben RN, Malkin I, McGuigan FE, Medina-Gomez C, Meitinger T, Melhus H, Mellström D, Michaëlsson K, Mitchell BD, Morris AP, Mosekilde L, Nethander M, Newman AB, O'Connell JR, Oostra BA, Orwoll ES, Palotie A, Peacock M, Perola M, Peters A, Prince RL, Psaty BM, Räikkönen K, Ralston SH, Ripatti S, Rivadeneira F, Robbins JA, Rotter JI, Rudan I, Salomaa V, Satterfield S, Schipf S, Shin CS, Smith AV, Smith SB, Soranzo N, Spector TD, Stancáková A, Stefansson K, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Stolk L, Streeten EA, Styrkarsdottir U, Swart KMA, Thompson P, Thomson CA, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Tikkanen E, Tranah GJ, Uitterlinden AG, van Duijn CM, van Schoor NM, Vandenput L, Vollenweider P, Völzke H, Wactawski-Wende J, Walker M, J Wareham N, Waterworth D, Weedon MN, Wichmann HE, Widen E, Williams FMK, Wilson JF, Wright NC, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Yu L, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Zhou Y, Nielson CM, Harris TB, Demissie S, Kiel DP, and Ohlsson C
Subjects: ADAMTS Proteins genetics, Absorptiometry, Photon, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO genetics, Electric Impedance, Extracellular Matrix Proteins genetics, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, RNA-Binding Proteins genetics, Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 4 genetics, Versicans genetics, White People genetics, Young Adult, Adipose Tissue metabolism, Body Composition genetics, Body Fluid Compartments metabolism, Muscle, Skeletal metabolism, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: Background: Lean body mass (LM) plays an important role in mobility and metabolic function. We previously identified five loci associated with LM adjusted for fat mass in kilograms. Such an adjustment may reduce the power to identify genetic signals having an association with both lean mass and fat mass., Objectives: To determine the impact of different fat mass adjustments on genetic architecture of LM and identify additional LM loci., Methods: We performed genome-wide association analyses for whole-body LM (20 cohorts of European ancestry with n = 38,292) measured using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) or bioelectrical impedance analysis, adjusted for sex, age, age2, and height with or without fat mass adjustments (Model 1 no fat adjustment; Model 2 adjustment for fat mass as a percentage of body mass; Model 3 adjustment for fat mass in kilograms)., Results: Seven single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in separate loci, including one novel LM locus (TNRC6B), were successfully replicated in an additional 47,227 individuals from 29 cohorts. Based on the strengths of the associations in Model 1 vs Model 3, we divided the LM loci into those with an effect on both lean mass and fat mass in the same direction and refer to those as "sumo wrestler" loci (FTO and MC4R). In contrast, loci with an impact specifically on LM were termed "body builder" loci (VCAN and ADAMTSL3). Using existing available genome-wide association study databases, LM increasing alleles of SNPs in sumo wrestler loci were associated with an adverse metabolic profile, whereas LM increasing alleles of SNPs in "body builder" loci were associated with metabolic protection., Conclusions: In conclusion, we identified one novel LM locus (TNRC6B). Our results suggest that a genetically determined increase in lean mass might exert either harmful or protective effects on metabolic traits, depending on its relation to fat mass.
Published: 2019
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86. Genome Analyses of >200,000 Individuals Identify 58 Loci for Chronic Inflammation and Highlight Pathways that Link Inflammation and Complex Disorders.

Author: Ligthart S, Vaez A, Võsa U, Stathopoulou MG, de Vries PS, Prins BP, Van der Most PJ, Tanaka T, Naderi E, Rose LM, Wu Y, Karlsson R, Barbalic M, Lin H, Pool R, Zhu G, Macé A, Sidore C, Trompet S, Mangino M, Sabater-Lleal M, Kemp JP, Abbasi A, Kacprowski T, Verweij N, Smith AV, Huang T, Marzi C, Feitosa MF, Lohman KK, Kleber ME, Milaneschi Y, Mueller C, Huq M, Vlachopoulou E, Lyytikäinen LP, Oldmeadow C, Deelen J, Perola M, Zhao JH, Feenstra B, Amini M, Lahti J, Schraut KE, Fornage M, Suktitipat B, Chen WM, Li X, Nutile T, Malerba G, Luan J, Bak T, Schork N, Del Greco M F, Thiering E, Mahajan A, Marioni RE, Mihailov E, Eriksson J, Ozel AB, Zhang W, Nethander M, Cheng YC, Aslibekyan S, Ang W, Gandin I, Yengo L, Portas L, Kooperberg C, Hofer E, Rajan KB, Schurmann C, den Hollander W, Ahluwalia TS, Zhao J, Draisma HHM, Ford I, Timpson N, Teumer A, Huang H, Wahl S, Liu Y, Huang J, Uh HW, Geller F, Joshi PK, Yanek LR, Trabetti E, Lehne B, Vozzi D, Verbanck M, Biino G, Saba Y, Meulenbelt I, O'Connell JR, Laakso M, Giulianini F, Magnusson PKE, Ballantyne CM, Hottenga JJ, Montgomery GW, Rivadineira F, Rueedi R, Steri M, Herzig KH, Stott DJ, Menni C, Frånberg M, St Pourcain B, Felix SB, Pers TH, Bakker SJL, Kraft P, Peters A, Vaidya D, Delgado G, Smit JH, Großmann V, Sinisalo J, Seppälä I, Williams SR, Holliday EG, Moed M, Langenberg C, Räikkönen K, Ding J, Campbell H, Sale MM, Chen YI, James AL, Ruggiero D, Soranzo N, Hartman CA, Smith EN, Berenson GS, Fuchsberger C, Hernandez D, Tiesler CMT, Giedraitis V, Liewald D, Fischer K, Mellström D, Larsson A, Wang Y, Scott WR, Lorentzon M, Beilby J, Ryan KA, Pennell CE, Vuckovic D, Balkau B, Concas MP, Schmidt R, Mendes de Leon CF, Bottinger EP, Kloppenburg M, Paternoster L, Boehnke M, Musk AW, Willemsen G, Evans DM, Madden PAF, Kähönen M, Kutalik Z, Zoledziewska M, Karhunen V, Kritchevsky SB, Sattar N, Lachance G, Clarke R, Harris TB, Raitakari OT, Attia JR, van Heemst D, Kajantie E, Sorice R, Gambaro G, Scott RA, Hicks AA, Ferrucci L, Standl M, Lindgren CM, Starr JM, Karlsson M, Lind L, Li JZ, Chambers JC, Mori TA, de Geus EJCN, Heath AC, Martin NG, Auvinen J, Buckley BM, de Craen AJM, Waldenberger M, Strauch K, Meitinger T, Scott RJ, McEvoy M, Beekman M, Bombieri C, Ridker PM, Mohlke KL, Pedersen NL, Morrison AC, Boomsma DI, Whitfield JB, Strachan DP, Hofman A, Vollenweider P, Cucca F, Jarvelin MR, Jukema JW, Spector TD, Hamsten A, Zeller T, Uitterlinden AG, Nauck M, Gudnason V, Qi L, Grallert H, Borecki IB, Rotter JI, März W, Wild PS, Lokki ML, Boyle M, Salomaa V, Melbye M, Eriksson JG, Wilson JF, Penninx BWJH, Becker DM, Worrall BB, Gibson G, Krauss RM, Ciullo M, Zaza G, Wareham NJ, Oldehinkel AJ, Palmer LJ, Murray SS, Pramstaller PP, Bandinelli S, Heinrich J, Ingelsson E, Deary IJ, Mägi R, Vandenput L, van der Harst P, Desch KC, Kooner JS, Ohlsson C, Hayward C, Lehtimäki T, Shuldiner AR, Arnett DK, Beilin LJ, Robino A, Froguel P, Pirastu M, Jess T, Koenig W, Loos RJF, Evans DA, Schmidt H, Smith GD, Slagboom PE, Eiriksdottir G, Morris AP, Psaty BM, Tracy RP, Nolte IM, Boerwinkle E, Visvikis-Siest S, Reiner AP, Gross M, Bis JC, Franke L, Franco OH, Benjamin EJ, Chasman DI, Dupuis J, Snieder H, Dehghan A, and Alizadeh BZ
Subjects: Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Biomarkers metabolism, Bipolar Disorder genetics, Bipolar Disorder metabolism, Body Mass Index, C-Reactive Protein genetics, Child, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Humans, Inflammation metabolism, Liver metabolism, Liver pathology, Male, Mendelian Randomization Analysis methods, Middle Aged, Schizophrenia genetics, Schizophrenia metabolism, Young Adult, Genetic Loci genetics, Inflammation genetics, Metabolic Networks and Pathways genetics
Abstract: C-reactive protein (CRP) is a sensitive biomarker of chronic low-grade inflammation and is associated with multiple complex diseases. The genetic determinants of chronic inflammation remain largely unknown, and the causal role of CRP in several clinical outcomes is debated. We performed two genome-wide association studies (GWASs), on HapMap and 1000 Genomes imputed data, of circulating amounts of CRP by using data from 88 studies comprising 204,402 European individuals. Additionally, we performed in silico functional analyses and Mendelian randomization analyses with several clinical outcomes. The GWAS meta-analyses of CRP revealed 58 distinct genetic loci (p < 5 × 10 -8 ). After adjustment for body mass index in the regression analysis, the associations at all except three loci remained. The lead variants at the distinct loci explained up to 7.0% of the variance in circulating amounts of CRP. We identified 66 gene sets that were organized in two substantially correlated clusters, one mainly composed of immune pathways and the other characterized by metabolic pathways in the liver. Mendelian randomization analyses revealed a causal protective effect of CRP on schizophrenia and a risk-increasing effect on bipolar disorder. Our findings provide further insights into the biology of inflammation and could lead to interventions for treating inflammation and its clinical consequences., (Copyright © 2018 American Society of Human Genetics. All rights reserved.)
Published: 2018
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87. Genetic inactivation of ANGPTL4 improves glucose homeostasis and is associated with reduced risk of diabetes.

Author: Gusarova V, O'Dushlaine C, Teslovich TM, Benotti PN, Mirshahi T, Gottesman O, Van Hout CV, Murray MF, Mahajan A, Nielsen JB, Fritsche L, Wulff AB, Gudbjartsson DF, Sjögren M, Emdin CA, Scott RA, Lee WJ, Small A, Kwee LC, Dwivedi OP, Prasad RB, Bruse S, Lopez AE, Penn J, Marcketta A, Leader JB, Still CD, Kirchner HL, Mirshahi UL, Wardeh AH, Hartle CM, Habegger L, Fetterolf SN, Tusie-Luna T, Morris AP, Holm H, Steinthorsdottir V, Sulem P, Thorsteinsdottir U, Rotter JI, Chuang LM, Damrauer S, Birtwell D, Brummett CM, Khera AV, Natarajan P, Orho-Melander M, Flannick J, Lotta LA, Willer CJ, Holmen OL, Ritchie MD, Ledbetter DH, Murphy AJ, Borecki IB, Reid JG, Overton JD, Hansson O, Groop L, Shah SH, Kraus WE, Rader DJ, Chen YI, Hveem K, Wareham NJ, Kathiresan S, Melander O, Stefansson K, Nordestgaard BG, Tybjærg-Hansen A, Abecasis GR, Altshuler D, Florez JC, Boehnke M, McCarthy MI, Yancopoulos GD, Carey DJ, Shuldiner AR, Baras A, Dewey FE, and Gromada J
Subjects: Amino Acid Substitution, Angiopoietin-Like Protein 4 metabolism, Animals, Blood Glucose metabolism, Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 etiology, Female, Gene Silencing, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Variation, Heterozygote, Homeostasis, Humans, Insulin Resistance genetics, Lipoprotein Lipase metabolism, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, Risk Factors, Exome Sequencing, Angiopoietin-Like Protein 4 deficiency, Angiopoietin-Like Protein 4 genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 metabolism
Abstract: Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) is an endogenous inhibitor of lipoprotein lipase that modulates lipid levels, coronary atherosclerosis risk, and nutrient partitioning. We hypothesize that loss of ANGPTL4 function might improve glucose homeostasis and decrease risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). We investigate protein-altering variants in ANGPTL4 among 58,124 participants in the DiscovEHR human genetics study, with follow-up studies in 82,766 T2D cases and 498,761 controls. Carriers of p.E40K, a variant that abolishes ANGPTL4 ability to inhibit lipoprotein lipase, have lower odds of T2D (odds ratio 0.89, 95% confidence interval 0.85-0.92, p = 6.3 × 10 -10 ), lower fasting glucose, and greater insulin sensitivity. Predicted loss-of-function variants are associated with lower odds of T2D among 32,015 cases and 84,006 controls (odds ratio 0.71, 95% confidence interval 0.49-0.99, p = 0.041). Functional studies in Angptl4-deficient mice confirm improved insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis. In conclusion, genetic inactivation of ANGPTL4 is associated with improved glucose homeostasis and reduced risk of T2D.
Published: 2018
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88. Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity.

Author: Turcot V, Lu Y, Highland HM, Schurmann C, Justice AE, Fine RS, Bradfield JP, Esko T, Giri A, Graff M, Guo X, Hendricks AE, Karaderi T, Lempradl A, Locke AE, Mahajan A, Marouli E, Sivapalaratnam S, Young KL, Alfred T, Feitosa MF, Masca NGD, Manning AK, Medina-Gomez C, Mudgal P, Ng MCY, Reiner AP, Vedantam S, Willems SM, Winkler TW, Abecasis G, Aben KK, Alam DS, Alharthi SE, Allison M, Amouyel P, Asselbergs FW, Auer PL, Balkau B, Bang LE, Barroso I, Bastarache L, Benn M, Bergmann S, Bielak LF, Blüher M, Boehnke M, Boeing H, Boerwinkle E, Böger CA, Bork-Jensen J, Bots ML, Bottinger EP, Bowden DW, Brandslund I, Breen G, Brilliant MH, Broer L, Brumat M, Burt AA, Butterworth AS, Campbell PT, Cappellani S, Carey DJ, Catamo E, Caulfield MJ, Chambers JC, Chasman DI, Chen YI, Chowdhury R, Christensen C, Chu AY, Cocca M, Collins FS, Cook JP, Corley J, Corominas Galbany J, Cox AJ, Crosslin DS, Cuellar-Partida G, D'Eustacchio A, Danesh J, Davies G, Bakker PIW, Groot MCH, Mutsert R, Deary IJ, Dedoussis G, Demerath EW, Heijer M, Hollander AI, Ruijter HM, Dennis JG, Denny JC, Angelantonio E, Drenos F, Du M, Dubé MP, Dunning AM, Easton DF, Edwards TL, Ellinghaus D, Ellinor PT, Elliott P, Evangelou E, Farmaki AE, Farooqi IS, Faul JD, Fauser S, Feng S, Ferrannini E, Ferrieres J, Florez JC, Ford I, Fornage M, Franco OH, Franke A, Franks PW, Friedrich N, Frikke-Schmidt R, Galesloot TE, Gan W, Gandin I, Gasparini P, Gibson J, Giedraitis V, Gjesing AP, Gordon-Larsen P, Gorski M, Grabe HJ, Grant SFA, Grarup N, Griffiths HL, Grove ML, Gudnason V, Gustafsson S, Haessler J, Hakonarson H, Hammerschlag AR, Hansen T, Harris KM, Harris TB, Hattersley AT, Have CT, Hayward C, He L, Heard-Costa NL, Heath AC, Heid IM, Helgeland Ø, Hernesniemi J, Hewitt AW, Holmen OL, Hovingh GK, Howson JMM, Hu Y, Huang PL, Huffman JE, Ikram MA, Ingelsson E, Jackson AU, Jansson JH, Jarvik GP, Jensen GB, Jia Y, Johansson S, Jørgensen ME, Jørgensen T, Jukema JW, Kahali B, Kahn RS, Kähönen M, Kamstrup PR, Kanoni S, Kaprio J, Karaleftheri M, Kardia SLR, Karpe F, Kathiresan S, Kee F, Kiemeney LA, Kim E, Kitajima H, Komulainen P, Kooner JS, Kooperberg C, Korhonen T, Kovacs P, Kuivaniemi H, Kutalik Z, Kuulasmaa K, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lakka TA, Lamparter D, Lange EM, Lange LA, Langenberg C, Larson EB, Lee NR, Lehtimäki T, Lewis CE, Li H, Li J, Li-Gao R, Lin H, Lin KH, Lin LA, Lin X, Lind L, Lindström J, Linneberg A, Liu CT, Liu DJ, Liu Y, Lo KS, Lophatananon A, Lotery AJ, Loukola A, Luan J, Lubitz SA, Lyytikäinen LP, Männistö S, Marenne G, Mazul AL, McCarthy MI, McKean-Cowdin R, Medland SE, Meidtner K, Milani L, Mistry V, Mitchell P, Mohlke KL, Moilanen L, Moitry M, Montgomery GW, Mook-Kanamori DO, Moore C, Mori TA, Morris AD, Morris AP, Müller-Nurasyid M, Munroe PB, Nalls MA, Narisu N, Nelson CP, Neville M, Nielsen SF, Nikus K, Njølstad PR, Nordestgaard BG, Nyholt DR, O'Connel JR, O'Donoghue ML, Olde Loohuis LM, Ophoff RA, Owen KR, Packard CJ, Padmanabhan S, Palmer CNA, Palmer ND, Pasterkamp G, Patel AP, Pattie A, Pedersen O, Peissig PL, Peloso GM, Pennell CE, Perola M, Perry JA, Perry JRB, Pers TH, Person TN, Peters A, Petersen ERB, Peyser PA, Pirie A, Polasek O, Polderman TJ, Puolijoki H, Raitakari OT, Rasheed A, Rauramaa R, Reilly DF, Renström F, Rheinberger M, Ridker PM, Rioux JD, Rivas MA, Roberts DJ, Robertson NR, Robino A, Rolandsson O, Rudan I, Ruth KS, Saleheen D, Salomaa V, Samani NJ, Sapkota Y, Sattar N, Schoen RE, Schreiner PJ, Schulze MB, Scott RA, Segura-Lepe MP, Shah SH, Sheu WH, Sim X, Slater AJ, Small KS, Smith AV, Southam L, Spector TD, Speliotes EK, Starr JM, Stefansson K, Steinthorsdottir V, Stirrups KE, Strauch K, Stringham HM, Stumvoll M, Sun L, Surendran P, Swift AJ, Tada H, Tansey KE, Tardif JC, Taylor KD, Teumer A, Thompson DJ, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Thuesen BH, Tönjes A, Tromp G, Trompet S, Tsafantakis E, Tuomilehto J, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Tyrer JP, Uher R, Uitterlinden AG, Uusitupa M, Laan SW, Duijn CM, Leeuwen N, van Setten J, Vanhala M, Varbo A, Varga TV, Varma R, Velez Edwards DR, Vermeulen SH, Veronesi G, Vestergaard H, Vitart V, Vogt TF, Völker U, Vuckovic D, Wagenknecht LE, Walker M, Wallentin L, Wang F, Wang CA, Wang S, Wang Y, Ware EB, Wareham NJ, Warren HR, Waterworth DM, Wessel J, White HD, Willer CJ, Wilson JG, Witte DR, Wood AR, Wu Y, Yaghootkar H, Yao J, Yao P, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Young R, Zeggini E, Zhan X, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Zhao W, Zhou W, Zondervan KT, Rotter JI, Pospisilik JA, Rivadeneira F, Borecki IB, Deloukas P, Frayling TM, Lettre G, North KE, Lindgren CM, Hirschhorn JN, and Loos RJF
Abstract: In the published version of this paper, the name of author Emanuele Di Angelantonio was misspelled. This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
Published: 2018
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89. A high throughput, functional screen of human Body Mass Index GWAS loci using tissue-specific RNAi Drosophila melanogaster crosses.

Author: Baranski TJ, Kraja AT, Fink JL, Feitosa M, Lenzini PA, Borecki IB, Liu CT, Cupples LA, North KE, and Province MA
Subjects: Adipose Tissue, Animals, Humans, Mice, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Body Mass Index, Crosses, Genetic, Drosophila melanogaster genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Obesity genetics, RNA Interference
Abstract: Human GWAS of obesity have been successful in identifying loci associated with adiposity, but for the most part, these are non-coding SNPs whose function, or even whose gene of action, is unknown. To help identify the genes on which these human BMI loci may be operating, we conducted a high throughput screen in Drosophila melanogaster. Starting with 78 BMI loci from two recently published GWAS meta-analyses, we identified fly orthologs of all nearby genes (± 250KB). We crossed RNAi knockdown lines of each gene with flies containing tissue-specific drivers to knock down (KD) the expression of the genes only in the brain and the fat body. We then raised the flies on a control diet and compared the amount of fat/triglyceride in the tissue-specific KD group compared to the driver-only control flies. 16 of the 78 BMI GWAS loci could not be screened with this approach, as no gene in the 500-kb region had a fly ortholog. Of the remaining 62 GWAS loci testable in the fly, we found a significant fat phenotype in the KD flies for at least one gene for 26 loci (42%) even after correcting for multiple comparisons. By contrast, the rate of significant fat phenotypes in RNAi KD found in a recent genome-wide Drosophila screen (Pospisilik et al. (2010) is ~5%. More interestingly, for 10 of the 26 positive regions, we found that the nearest gene was not the one that showed a significant phenotype in the fly. Specifically, our screen suggests that for the 10 human BMI SNPs rs11057405, rs205262, rs9925964, rs9914578, rs2287019, rs11688816, rs13107325, rs7164727, rs17724992, and rs299412, the functional genes may NOT be the nearest ones (CLIP1, C6orf106, KAT8, SMG6, QPCTL, EHBP1, SLC39A8, ADPGK /ADPGK-AS1, PGPEP1, KCTD15, respectively), but instead, the specific nearby cis genes are the functional target (namely: ZCCHC8, VPS33A, RSRC2; SPDEF, NUDT3; PAGR1; SETD1, VKORC1; SGSM2, SRR; VASP, SIX5; OTX1; BANK1; ARIH1; ELL; CHST8, respectively). The study also suggests further functional experiments to elucidate mechanism of action for genes evolutionarily conserved for fat storage.
Published: 2018
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90. A Protein-Truncating HSD17B13 Variant and Protection from Chronic Liver Disease.

Author: Abul-Husn NS, Cheng X, Li AH, Xin Y, Schurmann C, Stevis P, Liu Y, Kozlitina J, Stender S, Wood GC, Stepanchick AN, Still MD, McCarthy S, O'Dushlaine C, Packer JS, Balasubramanian S, Gosalia N, Esopi D, Kim SY, Mukherjee S, Lopez AE, Fuller ED, Penn J, Chu X, Luo JZ, Mirshahi UL, Carey DJ, Still CD, Feldman MD, Small A, Damrauer SM, Rader DJ, Zambrowicz B, Olson W, Murphy AJ, Borecki IB, Shuldiner AR, Reid JG, Overton JD, Yancopoulos GD, Hobbs HH, Cohen JC, Gottesman O, Teslovich TM, Baras A, Mirshahi T, Gromada J, and Dewey FE
Subjects: 17-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases metabolism, Alanine Transaminase blood, Aspartate Aminotransferases blood, Biomarkers blood, Chronic Disease, Disease Progression, Female, Genetic Variation, Genotype, Humans, Linear Models, Liver pathology, Liver Diseases pathology, Male, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Exome Sequencing, 17-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases genetics, Fatty Liver genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Liver Diseases genetics, Loss of Function Mutation
Abstract: Background: Elucidation of the genetic factors underlying chronic liver disease may reveal new therapeutic targets., Methods: We used exome sequence data and electronic health records from 46,544 participants in the DiscovEHR human genetics study to identify genetic variants associated with serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST). Variants that were replicated in three additional cohorts (12,527 persons) were evaluated for association with clinical diagnoses of chronic liver disease in DiscovEHR study participants and two independent cohorts (total of 37,173 persons) and with histopathological severity of liver disease in 2391 human liver samples., Results: A splice variant (rs72613567:TA) in HSD17B13, encoding the hepatic lipid droplet protein hydroxysteroid 17-beta dehydrogenase 13, was associated with reduced levels of ALT (P=4.2×10 -12 ) and AST (P=6.2×10 -10 ). Among DiscovEHR study participants, this variant was associated with a reduced risk of alcoholic liver disease (by 42% [95% confidence interval {CI}, 20 to 58] among heterozygotes and by 53% [95% CI, 3 to 77] among homozygotes), nonalcoholic liver disease (by 17% [95% CI, 8 to 25] among heterozygotes and by 30% [95% CI, 13 to 43] among homozygotes), alcoholic cirrhosis (by 42% [95% CI, 14 to 61] among heterozygotes and by 73% [95% CI, 15 to 91] among homozygotes), and nonalcoholic cirrhosis (by 26% [95% CI, 7 to 40] among heterozygotes and by 49% [95% CI, 15 to 69] among homozygotes). Associations were confirmed in two independent cohorts. The rs72613567:TA variant was associated with a reduced risk of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, but not steatosis, in human liver samples. The rs72613567:TA variant mitigated liver injury associated with the risk-increasing PNPLA3 p.I148M allele and resulted in an unstable and truncated protein with reduced enzymatic activity., Conclusions: A loss-of-function variant in HSD17B13 was associated with a reduced risk of chronic liver disease and of progression from steatosis to steatohepatitis. (Funded by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and others.).
Published: 2018
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91. Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity.

Author: Turcot V, Lu Y, Highland HM, Schurmann C, Justice AE, Fine RS, Bradfield JP, Esko T, Giri A, Graff M, Guo X, Hendricks AE, Karaderi T, Lempradl A, Locke AE, Mahajan A, Marouli E, Sivapalaratnam S, Young KL, Alfred T, Feitosa MF, Masca NGD, Manning AK, Medina-Gomez C, Mudgal P, Ng MCY, Reiner AP, Vedantam S, Willems SM, Winkler TW, Abecasis G, Aben KK, Alam DS, Alharthi SE, Allison M, Amouyel P, Asselbergs FW, Auer PL, Balkau B, Bang LE, Barroso I, Bastarache L, Benn M, Bergmann S, Bielak LF, Blüher M, Boehnke M, Boeing H, Boerwinkle E, Böger CA, Bork-Jensen J, Bots ML, Bottinger EP, Bowden DW, Brandslund I, Breen G, Brilliant MH, Broer L, Brumat M, Burt AA, Butterworth AS, Campbell PT, Cappellani S, Carey DJ, Catamo E, Caulfield MJ, Chambers JC, Chasman DI, Chen YI, Chowdhury R, Christensen C, Chu AY, Cocca M, Collins FS, Cook JP, Corley J, Corominas Galbany J, Cox AJ, Crosslin DS, Cuellar-Partida G, D'Eustacchio A, Danesh J, Davies G, Bakker PIW, Groot MCH, Mutsert R, Deary IJ, Dedoussis G, Demerath EW, Heijer M, Hollander AI, Ruijter HM, Dennis JG, Denny JC, Di Angelantonio E, Drenos F, Du M, Dubé MP, Dunning AM, Easton DF, Edwards TL, Ellinghaus D, Ellinor PT, Elliott P, Evangelou E, Farmaki AE, Farooqi IS, Faul JD, Fauser S, Feng S, Ferrannini E, Ferrieres J, Florez JC, Ford I, Fornage M, Franco OH, Franke A, Franks PW, Friedrich N, Frikke-Schmidt R, Galesloot TE, Gan W, Gandin I, Gasparini P, Gibson J, Giedraitis V, Gjesing AP, Gordon-Larsen P, Gorski M, Grabe HJ, Grant SFA, Grarup N, Griffiths HL, Grove ML, Gudnason V, Gustafsson S, Haessler J, Hakonarson H, Hammerschlag AR, Hansen T, Harris KM, Harris TB, Hattersley AT, Have CT, Hayward C, He L, Heard-Costa NL, Heath AC, Heid IM, Helgeland Ø, Hernesniemi J, Hewitt AW, Holmen OL, Hovingh GK, Howson JMM, Hu Y, Huang PL, Huffman JE, Ikram MA, Ingelsson E, Jackson AU, Jansson JH, Jarvik GP, Jensen GB, Jia Y, Johansson S, Jørgensen ME, Jørgensen T, Jukema JW, Kahali B, Kahn RS, Kähönen M, Kamstrup PR, Kanoni S, Kaprio J, Karaleftheri M, Kardia SLR, Karpe F, Kathiresan S, Kee F, Kiemeney LA, Kim E, Kitajima H, Komulainen P, Kooner JS, Kooperberg C, Korhonen T, Kovacs P, Kuivaniemi H, Kutalik Z, Kuulasmaa K, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lakka TA, Lamparter D, Lange EM, Lange LA, Langenberg C, Larson EB, Lee NR, Lehtimäki T, Lewis CE, Li H, Li J, Li-Gao R, Lin H, Lin KH, Lin LA, Lin X, Lind L, Lindström J, Linneberg A, Liu CT, Liu DJ, Liu Y, Lo KS, Lophatananon A, Lotery AJ, Loukola A, Luan J, Lubitz SA, Lyytikäinen LP, Männistö S, Marenne G, Mazul AL, McCarthy MI, McKean-Cowdin R, Medland SE, Meidtner K, Milani L, Mistry V, Mitchell P, Mohlke KL, Moilanen L, Moitry M, Montgomery GW, Mook-Kanamori DO, Moore C, Mori TA, Morris AD, Morris AP, Müller-Nurasyid M, Munroe PB, Nalls MA, Narisu N, Nelson CP, Neville M, Nielsen SF, Nikus K, Njølstad PR, Nordestgaard BG, Nyholt DR, O'Connel JR, O'Donoghue ML, Olde Loohuis LM, Ophoff RA, Owen KR, Packard CJ, Padmanabhan S, Palmer CNA, Palmer ND, Pasterkamp G, Patel AP, Pattie A, Pedersen O, Peissig PL, Peloso GM, Pennell CE, Perola M, Perry JA, Perry JRB, Pers TH, Person TN, Peters A, Petersen ERB, Peyser PA, Pirie A, Polasek O, Polderman TJ, Puolijoki H, Raitakari OT, Rasheed A, Rauramaa R, Reilly DF, Renström F, Rheinberger M, Ridker PM, Rioux JD, Rivas MA, Roberts DJ, Robertson NR, Robino A, Rolandsson O, Rudan I, Ruth KS, Saleheen D, Salomaa V, Samani NJ, Sapkota Y, Sattar N, Schoen RE, Schreiner PJ, Schulze MB, Scott RA, Segura-Lepe MP, Shah SH, Sheu WH, Sim X, Slater AJ, Small KS, Smith AV, Southam L, Spector TD, Speliotes EK, Starr JM, Stefansson K, Steinthorsdottir V, Stirrups KE, Strauch K, Stringham HM, Stumvoll M, Sun L, Surendran P, Swift AJ, Tada H, Tansey KE, Tardif JC, Taylor KD, Teumer A, Thompson DJ, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Thuesen BH, Tönjes A, Tromp G, Trompet S, Tsafantakis E, Tuomilehto J, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Tyrer JP, Uher R, Uitterlinden AG, Uusitupa M, Laan SW, Duijn CM, Leeuwen N, van Setten J, Vanhala M, Varbo A, Varga TV, Varma R, Velez Edwards DR, Vermeulen SH, Veronesi G, Vestergaard H, Vitart V, Vogt TF, Völker U, Vuckovic D, Wagenknecht LE, Walker M, Wallentin L, Wang F, Wang CA, Wang S, Wang Y, Ware EB, Wareham NJ, Warren HR, Waterworth DM, Wessel J, White HD, Willer CJ, Wilson JG, Witte DR, Wood AR, Wu Y, Yaghootkar H, Yao J, Yao P, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Young R, Zeggini E, Zhan X, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Zhao W, Zhao W, Zhou W, Zondervan KT, Rotter JI, Pospisilik JA, Rivadeneira F, Borecki IB, Deloukas P, Frayling TM, Lettre G, North KE, Lindgren CM, Hirschhorn JN, and Loos RJF
Subjects: Adult, Animals, Drosophila genetics, Female, Gene Frequency, Humans, Male, Proteins genetics, Syndrome, Body Mass Index, Energy Intake genetics, Energy Metabolism genetics, Genetic Variation, Obesity genetics
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >250 loci for body mass index (BMI), implicating pathways related to neuronal biology. Most GWAS loci represent clusters of common, noncoding variants from which pinpointing causal genes remains challenging. Here we combined data from 718,734 individuals to discover rare and low-frequency (minor allele frequency (MAF) < 5%) coding variants associated with BMI. We identified 14 coding variants in 13 genes, of which 8 variants were in genes (ZBTB7B, ACHE, RAPGEF3, RAB21, ZFHX3, ENTPD6, ZFR2 and ZNF169) newly implicated in human obesity, 2 variants were in genes (MC4R and KSR2) previously observed to be mutated in extreme obesity and 2 variants were in GIPR. The effect sizes of rare variants are ~10 times larger than those of common variants, with the largest effect observed in carriers of an MC4R mutation introducing a stop codon (p.Tyr35Ter, MAF = 0.01%), who weighed ~7 kg more than non-carriers. Pathway analyses based on the variants associated with BMI confirm enrichment of neuronal genes and provide new evidence for adipocyte and energy expenditure biology, widening the potential of genetically supported therapeutic targets in obesity.
Published: 2018
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92. Genome-wide association meta-analysis of fish and EPA+DHA consumption in 17 US and European cohorts.

Author: Mozaffarian D, Dashti HS, Wojczynski MK, Chu AY, Nettleton JA, Männistö S, Kristiansson K, Reedik M, Lahti J, Houston DK, Cornelis MC, van Rooij FJA, Dimitriou M, Kanoni S, Mikkilä V, Steffen LM, de Oliveira Otto MC, Qi L, Psaty B, Djousse L, Rotter JI, Harald K, Perola M, Rissanen H, Jula A, Krista F, Mihailov E, Feitosa MF, Ngwa JS, Xue L, Jacques PF, Perälä MM, Palotie A, Liu Y, Nalls NA, Ferrucci L, Hernandez D, Manichaikul A, Tsai MY, Kiefte-de Jong JC, Hofman A, Uitterlinden AG, Rallidis L, Ridker PM, Rose LM, Buring JE, Lehtimäki T, Kähönen M, Viikari J, Lemaitre R, Salomaa V, Knekt P, Metspalu A, Borecki IB, Cupples LA, Eriksson JG, Kritchevsky SB, Bandinelli S, Siscovick D, Franco OH, Deloukas P, Dedoussis G, Chasman DI, Raitakari O, and Tanaka T
Subjects: Adult, Aged, Cohort Studies, Europe, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, United States, White People, Docosahexaenoic Acids administration & dosage, Eicosapentaenoic Acid administration & dosage, Genome-Wide Association Study, Seafood
Abstract: Background: Regular fish and omega-3 consumption may have several health benefits and are recommended by major dietary guidelines. Yet, their intakes remain remarkably variable both within and across populations, which could partly owe to genetic influences., Objective: To identify common genetic variants that influence fish and dietary eicosapentaenoic acid plus docosahexaenoic acid (EPA+DHA) consumption., Design: We conducted genome-wide association (GWA) meta-analysis of fish (n = 86,467) and EPA+DHA (n = 62,265) consumption in 17 cohorts of European descent from the CHARGE (Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology) Consortium Nutrition Working Group. Results from cohort-specific GWA analyses (additive model) for fish and EPA+DHA consumption were adjusted for age, sex, energy intake, and population stratification, and meta-analyzed separately using fixed-effect meta-analysis with inverse variance weights (METAL software). Additionally, heritability was estimated in 2 cohorts., Results: Heritability estimates for fish and EPA+DHA consumption ranged from 0.13-0.24 and 0.12-0.22, respectively. A significant GWA for fish intake was observed for rs9502823 on chromosome 6: each copy of the minor allele (FreqA = 0.015) was associated with 0.029 servings/day (~1 serving/month) lower fish consumption (P = 1.96x10-8). No significant association was observed for EPA+DHA, although rs7206790 in the obesity-associated FTO gene was among top hits (P = 8.18x10-7). Post-hoc calculations demonstrated 95% statistical power to detect a genetic variant associated with effect size of 0.05% for fish and 0.08% for EPA+DHA., Conclusions: These novel findings suggest that non-genetic personal and environmental factors are principal determinants of the remarkable variation in fish consumption, representing modifiable targets for increasing intakes among all individuals. Genes underlying the signal at rs72838923 and mechanisms for the association warrant further investigation.
Published: 2017
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93. Erratum: Large meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies five loci for lean body mass.

Author: Zillikens MC, Demissie S, Hsu YH, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Chou WC, Stolk L, Livshits G, Broer L, Johnson T, Koller DL, Kutalik Z, Luan J, Malkin I, Ried JS, Smith AV, Thorleifsson G, Vandenput L, Hua Zhao J, Zhang W, Aghdassi A, Åkesson K, Amin N, Baier LJ, Barroso I, Bennett DA, Bertram L, Biffar R, Bochud M, Boehnke M, Borecki IB, Buchman AS, Byberg L, Campbell H, Campos Obanda N, Cauley JA, Cawthon PM, Cederberg H, Chen Z, Cho NH, Jin Choi H, Claussnitzer M, Collins F, Cummings SR, De Jager PL, Demuth I, Dhonukshe-Rutten RAM, Diatchenko L, Eiriksdottir G, Enneman AW, Erdos M, Eriksson JG, Eriksson J, Estrada K, Evans DS, Feitosa MF, Fu M, Garcia M, Gieger C, Girke T, Glazer NL, Grallert H, Grewal J, Han BG, Hanson RL, Hayward C, Hofman A, Hoffman EP, Homuth G, Hsueh WC, Hubal MJ, Hubbard A, Huffman KM, Husted LB, Illig T, Ingelsson E, Ittermann T, Jansson JO, Jordan JM, Jula A, Karlsson M, Khaw KT, Kilpeläinen TO, Klopp N, Kloth JSL, Koistinen HA, Kraus WE, Kritchevsky S, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lahti J, Lang T, Langdahl BL, Launer LJ, Lee JY, Lerch MM, Lewis JR, Lind L, Lindgren C, Liu Y, Liu T, Liu Y, Ljunggren Ö, Lorentzon M, Luben RN, Maixner W, McGuigan FE, Medina-Gomez C, Meitinger T, Melhus H, Mellström D, Melov S, Michaëlsson K, Mitchell BD, Morris AP, Mosekilde L, Newman A, Nielson CM, O'Connell JR, Oostra BA, Orwoll ES, Palotie A, Parker SCJ, Peacock M, Perola M, Peters A, Polasek O, Prince RL, Räikkönen K, Ralston SH, Ripatti S, Robbins JA, Rotter JI, Rudan I, Salomaa V, Satterfield S, Schadt EE, Schipf S, Scott L, Sehmi J, Shen J, Soo Shin C, Sigurdsson G, Smith S, Soranzo N, Stančáková A, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Streeten EA, Styrkarsdottir U, Swart KMA, Tan ST, Tarnopolsky MA, Thompson P, Thomson CA, Thorsteinsdottir U, Tikkanen E, Tranah GJ, Tuomilehto J, van Schoor NM, Verma A, Vollenweider P, Völzke H, Wactawski-Wende J, Walker M, Weedon MN, Welch R, Wichmann HE, Widen E, Williams FMK, Wilson JF, Wright NC, Xie W, Yu L, Zhou Y, Chambers JC, Döring A, van Duijn CM, Econs MJ, Gudnason V, Kooner JS, Psaty BM, Spector TD, Stefansson K, Rivadeneira F, Uitterlinden AG, Wareham NJ, Ossowski V, Waterworth D, Loos RJF, Karasik D, Harris TB, Ohlsson C, and Kiel DP
Abstract: A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML version of this article.
Published: 2017
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94. Correction: Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity - A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults.

Author: Graff M, Scott RA, Justice AE, Young KL, Feitosa MF, Barata L, Winkler TW, Chu AY, Mahajan A, Hadley D, Xue L, Workalemahu T, Heard-Costa NL, den Hoed M, Ahluwalia TS, Qi Q, Ngwa JS, Renström F, Quaye L, Eicher JD, Hayes JE, Cornelis M, Kutalik Z, Lim E, Luan J, Huffman JE, Zhang W, Zhao W, Griffin PJ, Haller T, Ahmad S, Marques-Vidal PM, Bien S, Yengo L, Teumer A, Smith AV, Kumari M, Harder MN, Justesen JM, Kleber ME, Hollensted M, Lohman K, Rivera NV, Whitfield JB, Zhao JH, Stringham HM, Lyytikäinen LP, Huppertz C, Willemsen G, Peyrot WJ, Wu Y, Kristiansson K, Demirkan A, Fornage M, Hassinen M, Bielak LF, Cadby G, Tanaka T, Mägi R, van der Most PJ, Jackson AU, Bragg-Gresham JL, Vitart V, Marten J, Navarro P, Bellis C, Pasko D, Johansson Å, Snitker S, Cheng YC, Eriksson J, Lim U, Aadahl M, Adair LS, Amin N, Balkau B, Auvinen J, Beilby J, Bergman RN, Bergmann S, Bertoni AG, Blangero J, Bonnefond A, Bonnycastle LL, Borja JB, Brage S, Busonero F, Buyske S, Campbell H, Chines PS, Collins FS, Corre T, Smith GD, Delgado GE, Dueker N, Dörr M, Ebeling T, Eiriksdottir G, Esko T, Faul JD, Fu M, Færch K, Gieger C, Gläser S, Gong J, Gordon-Larsen P, Grallert H, Grammer TB, Grarup N, van Grootheest G, Harald K, Hastie ND, Havulinna AS, Hernandez D, Hindorff L, Hocking LJ, Holmens OL, Holzapfel C, Hottenga JJ, Huang J, Huang T, Hui J, Huth C, Hutri-Kähönen N, James AL, Jansson JO, Jhun MA, Juonala M, Kinnunen L, Koistinen HA, Kolcic I, Komulainen P, Kuusisto J, Kvaløy K, Kähönen M, Lakka TA, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lindgren CM, Lorentzon M, Luben R, Marre M, Milaneschi Y, Monda KL, Montgomery GW, De Moor MHM, Mulas A, Müller-Nurasyid M, Musk AW, Männikkö R, Männistö S, Narisu N, Nauck M, Nettleton JA, Nolte IM, Oldehinkel AJ, Olden M, Ong KK, Padmanabhan S, Paternoster L, Perez J, Perola M, Peters A, Peters U, Peyser PA, Prokopenko I, Puolijoki H, Raitakari OT, Rankinen T, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Rawal R, Ridker PM, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sarti C, Sarzynski MA, Savonen K, Scott WR, Sanna S, Shuldiner AR, Sidney S, Silbernagel G, Smith BH, Smith JA, Snieder H, Stančáková A, Sternfeld B, Swift AJ, Tammelin T, Tan ST, Thorand B, Thuillier D, Vandenput L, Vestergaard H, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Vohl MC, Völker U, Waeber G, Walker M, Wild S, Wong A, Wright AF, Zillikens MC, Zubair N, Haiman CA, Lemarchand L, Gyllensten U, Ohlsson C, Hofman A, Rivadeneira F, Uitterlinden AG, Pérusse L, Wilson JF, Hayward C, Polasek O, Cucca F, Hveem K, Hartman CA, Tönjes A, Bandinelli S, Palmer LJ, Kardia SLR, Rauramaa R, Sørensen TIA, Tuomilehto J, Salomaa V, Penninx BWJH, de Geus EJC, Boomsma DI, Lehtimäki T, Mangino M, Laakso M, Bouchard C, Martin NG, Kuh D, Liu Y, Linneberg A, März W, Strauch K, Kivimäki M, Harris TB, Gudnason V, Völzke H, Qi L, Järvelin MR, Chambers JC, Kooner JS, Froguel P, Kooperberg C, Vollenweider P, Hallmans G, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Metspalu A, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Weir DR, Porteous DJ, Boerwinkle E, Chasman DI, Abecasis GR, Barroso I, McCarthy MI, Frayling TM, O'Connell JR, van Duijn CM, Boehnke M, Heid IM, Mohlke KL, Strachan DP, Fox CS, Liu CT, Hirschhorn JN, Klein RJ, Johnson AD, Borecki IB, Franks PW, North KE, Cupples LA, Loos RJF, and Kilpeläinen TO
Abstract: [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006528.].
Published: 2017
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95. Genetic and Pharmacologic Inactivation of ANGPTL3 and Cardiovascular Disease.

Author: Dewey FE, Gusarova V, Dunbar RL, O'Dushlaine C, Schurmann C, Gottesman O, McCarthy S, Van Hout CV, Bruse S, Dansky HM, Leader JB, Murray MF, Ritchie MD, Kirchner HL, Habegger L, Lopez A, Penn J, Zhao A, Shao W, Stahl N, Murphy AJ, Hamon S, Bouzelmat A, Zhang R, Shumel B, Pordy R, Gipe D, Herman GA, Sheu WHH, Lee IT, Liang KW, Guo X, Rotter JI, Chen YI, Kraus WE, Shah SH, Damrauer S, Small A, Rader DJ, Wulff AB, Nordestgaard BG, Tybjærg-Hansen A, van den Hoek AM, Princen HMG, Ledbetter DH, Carey DJ, Overton JD, Reid JG, Sasiela WJ, Banerjee P, Shuldiner AR, Borecki IB, Teslovich TM, Yancopoulos GD, Mellis SJ, Gromada J, and Baras A
Subjects: Aged, Angiopoietin-Like Protein 3, Angiopoietin-like Proteins, Angiopoietins genetics, Animals, Antibodies, Monoclonal adverse effects, Antibodies, Monoclonal pharmacology, Atherosclerosis metabolism, Cardiovascular Diseases prevention & control, Coronary Artery Disease metabolism, Disease Models, Animal, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Double-Blind Method, Dyslipidemias blood, Female, Humans, Lipid Metabolism drug effects, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred Strains, Middle Aged, Angiopoietins antagonists & inhibitors, Antibodies, Monoclonal administration & dosage, Atherosclerosis drug therapy, Coronary Artery Disease genetics, Dyslipidemias drug therapy, Lipids blood, Mutation
Abstract: Background: Loss-of-function variants in the angiopoietin-like 3 gene (ANGPTL3) have been associated with decreased plasma levels of triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. It is not known whether such variants or therapeutic antagonism of ANGPTL3 are associated with a reduced risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease., Methods: We sequenced the exons of ANGPTL3 in 58,335 participants in the DiscovEHR human genetics study. We performed tests of association for loss-of-function variants in ANGPTL3 with lipid levels and with coronary artery disease in 13,102 case patients and 40,430 controls from the DiscovEHR study, with follow-up studies involving 23,317 case patients and 107,166 controls from four population studies. We also tested the effects of a human monoclonal antibody, evinacumab, against Angptl3 in dyslipidemic mice and against ANGPTL3 in healthy human volunteers with elevated levels of triglycerides or LDL cholesterol., Results: In the DiscovEHR study, participants with heterozygous loss-of-function variants in ANGPTL3 had significantly lower serum levels of triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol than participants without these variants. Loss-of-function variants were found in 0.33% of case patients with coronary artery disease and in 0.45% of controls (adjusted odds ratio, 0.59; 95% confidence interval, 0.41 to 0.85; P=0.004). These results were confirmed in the follow-up studies. In dyslipidemic mice, inhibition of Angptl3 with evinacumab resulted in a greater decrease in atherosclerotic lesion area and necrotic content than a control antibody. In humans, evinacumab caused a dose-dependent placebo-adjusted reduction in fasting triglyceride levels of up to 76% and LDL cholesterol levels of up to 23%., Conclusions: Genetic and therapeutic antagonism of ANGPTL3 in humans and of Angptl3 in mice was associated with decreased levels of all three major lipid fractions and decreased odds of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. (Funded by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01749878 .).
Published: 2017
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96. Large meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies five loci for lean body mass.

Author: Zillikens MC, Demissie S, Hsu YH, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Chou WC, Stolk L, Livshits G, Broer L, Johnson T, Koller DL, Kutalik Z, Luan J, Malkin I, Ried JS, Smith AV, Thorleifsson G, Vandenput L, Hua Zhao J, Zhang W, Aghdassi A, Åkesson K, Amin N, Baier LJ, Barroso I, Bennett DA, Bertram L, Biffar R, Bochud M, Boehnke M, Borecki IB, Buchman AS, Byberg L, Campbell H, Campos Obanda N, Cauley JA, Cawthon PM, Cederberg H, Chen Z, Cho NH, Jin Choi H, Claussnitzer M, Collins F, Cummings SR, De Jager PL, Demuth I, Dhonukshe-Rutten RAM, Diatchenko L, Eiriksdottir G, Enneman AW, Erdos M, Eriksson JG, Eriksson J, Estrada K, Evans DS, Feitosa MF, Fu M, Garcia M, Gieger C, Girke T, Glazer NL, Grallert H, Grewal J, Han BG, Hanson RL, Hayward C, Hofman A, Hoffman EP, Homuth G, Hsueh WC, Hubal MJ, Hubbard A, Huffman KM, Husted LB, Illig T, Ingelsson E, Ittermann T, Jansson JO, Jordan JM, Jula A, Karlsson M, Khaw KT, Kilpeläinen TO, Klopp N, Kloth JSL, Koistinen HA, Kraus WE, Kritchevsky S, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lahti J, Lang T, Langdahl BL, Launer LJ, Lee JY, Lerch MM, Lewis JR, Lind L, Lindgren C, Liu Y, Liu T, Liu Y, Ljunggren Ö, Lorentzon M, Luben RN, Maixner W, McGuigan FE, Medina-Gomez C, Meitinger T, Melhus H, Mellström D, Melov S, Michaëlsson K, Mitchell BD, Morris AP, Mosekilde L, Newman A, Nielson CM, O'Connell JR, Oostra BA, Orwoll ES, Palotie A, Parker SCJ, Peacock M, Perola M, Peters A, Polasek O, Prince RL, Räikkönen K, Ralston SH, Ripatti S, Robbins JA, Rotter JI, Rudan I, Salomaa V, Satterfield S, Schadt EE, Schipf S, Scott L, Sehmi J, Shen J, Soo Shin C, Sigurdsson G, Smith S, Soranzo N, Stančáková A, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Streeten EA, Styrkarsdottir U, Swart KMA, Tan ST, Tarnopolsky MA, Thompson P, Thomson CA, Thorsteinsdottir U, Tikkanen E, Tranah GJ, Tuomilehto J, van Schoor NM, Verma A, Vollenweider P, Völzke H, Wactawski-Wende J, Walker M, Weedon MN, Welch R, Wichmann HE, Widen E, Williams FMK, Wilson JF, Wright NC, Xie W, Yu L, Zhou Y, Chambers JC, Döring A, van Duijn CM, Econs MJ, Gudnason V, Kooner JS, Psaty BM, Spector TD, Stefansson K, Rivadeneira F, Uitterlinden AG, Wareham NJ, Ossowski V, Waterworth D, Loos RJF, Karasik D, Harris TB, Ohlsson C, and Kiel DP
Subjects: 17-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases genetics, ADAMTS Proteins genetics, Aldehyde Oxidoreductases genetics, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO genetics, Body Composition, Extracellular Matrix Proteins genetics, Humans, Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins genetics, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional, Versicans genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Thinness genetics
Abstract: Lean body mass, consisting mostly of skeletal muscle, is important for healthy aging. We performed a genome-wide association study for whole body (20 cohorts of European ancestry with n = 38,292) and appendicular (arms and legs) lean body mass (n = 28,330) measured using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry or bioelectrical impedance analysis, adjusted for sex, age, height, and fat mass. Twenty-one single-nucleotide polymorphisms were significantly associated with lean body mass either genome wide (p < 5 × 10 -8 ) or suggestively genome wide (p < 2.3 × 10 -6 ). Replication in 63,475 (47,227 of European ancestry) individuals from 33 cohorts for whole body lean body mass and in 45,090 (42,360 of European ancestry) subjects from 25 cohorts for appendicular lean body mass was successful for five single-nucleotide polymorphisms in/near HSD17B11, VCAN, ADAMTSL3, IRS1, and FTO for total lean body mass and for three single-nucleotide polymorphisms in/near VCAN, ADAMTSL3, and IRS1 for appendicular lean body mass. Our findings provide new insight into the genetics of lean body mass.Lean body mass is a highly heritable trait and is associated with various health conditions. Here, Kiel and colleagues perform a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for whole body lean body mass and find five novel genetic loci to be significantly associated.
Published: 2017
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97. Protein-Truncating Variants at the Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Gene and Risk for Coronary Heart Disease.

Author: Nomura A, Won HH, Khera AV, Takeuchi F, Ito K, McCarthy S, Emdin CA, Klarin D, Natarajan P, Zekavat SM, Gupta N, Peloso GM, Borecki IB, Teslovich TM, Asselta R, Duga S, Merlini PA, Correa A, Kessler T, Wilson JG, Bown MJ, Hall AS, Braund PS, Carey DJ, Murray MF, Kirchner HL, Leader JB, Lavage DR, Manus JN, Hartze DN, Samani NJ, Schunkert H, Marrugat J, Elosua R, McPherson R, Farrall M, Watkins H, Juang JJ, Hsiung CA, Lin SY, Wang JS, Tada H, Kawashiri MA, Inazu A, Yamagishi M, Katsuya T, Nakashima E, Nakatochi M, Yamamoto K, Yokota M, Momozawa Y, Rotter JI, Lander ES, Rader DJ, Danesh J, Ardissino D, Gabriel S, Willer CJ, Abecasis GR, Saleheen D, Kubo M, Kato N, Ida Chen YD, Dewey FE, and Kathiresan S
Subjects: Adult, Aged, Case-Control Studies, Cholesterol Ester Transfer Proteins blood, Coronary Disease blood, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Cholesterol Ester Transfer Proteins genetics, Coronary Disease diagnosis, Coronary Disease genetics, Genetic Variation genetics
Abstract: Rationale: Therapies that inhibit CETP (cholesteryl ester transfer protein) have failed to demonstrate a reduction in risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). Human DNA sequence variants that truncate the CETP gene may provide insight into the efficacy of CETP inhibition., Objective: To test whether protein-truncating variants (PTVs) at the CETP gene were associated with plasma lipid levels and CHD., Methods and Results: We sequenced the exons of the CETP gene in 58 469 participants from 12 case-control studies (18 817 CHD cases, 39 652 CHD-free controls). We defined PTV as those that lead to a premature stop, disrupt canonical splice sites, or lead to insertions/deletions that shift frame. We also genotyped 1 Japanese-specific PTV in 27561 participants from 3 case-control studies (14 286 CHD cases, 13 275 CHD-free controls). We tested association of CETP PTV carrier status with both plasma lipids and CHD. Among 58 469 participants with CETP gene-sequencing data available, average age was 51.5 years and 43% were women; 1 in 975 participants carried a PTV at the CETP gene. Compared with noncarriers, carriers of PTV at CETP had higher high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (effect size, 22.6 mg/dL; 95% confidence interval, 18-27; P <1.0×10 -4 ), lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (-12.2 mg/dL; 95% confidence interval, -23 to -0.98; P =0.033), and lower triglycerides (-6.3%; 95% confidence interval, -12 to -0.22; P =0.043). CETP PTV carrier status was associated with reduced risk for CHD (summary odds ratio, 0.70; 95% confidence interval, 0.54-0.90; P =5.1×10 -3 )., Conclusions: Compared with noncarriers, carriers of PTV at CETP displayed higher high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, lower triglycerides, and lower risk for CHD., (© 2017 American Heart Association, Inc.)
Published: 2017
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98. Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity - A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults.

Author: Graff M, Scott RA, Justice AE, Young KL, Feitosa MF, Barata L, Winkler TW, Chu AY, Mahajan A, Hadley D, Xue L, Workalemahu T, Heard-Costa NL, den Hoed M, Ahluwalia TS, Qi Q, Ngwa JS, Renström F, Quaye L, Eicher JD, Hayes JE, Cornelis M, Kutalik Z, Lim E, Luan J, Huffman JE, Zhang W, Zhao W, Griffin PJ, Haller T, Ahmad S, Marques-Vidal PM, Bien S, Yengo L, Teumer A, Smith AV, Kumari M, Harder MN, Justesen JM, Kleber ME, Hollensted M, Lohman K, Rivera NV, Whitfield JB, Zhao JH, Stringham HM, Lyytikäinen LP, Huppertz C, Willemsen G, Peyrot WJ, Wu Y, Kristiansson K, Demirkan A, Fornage M, Hassinen M, Bielak LF, Cadby G, Tanaka T, Mägi R, van der Most PJ, Jackson AU, Bragg-Gresham JL, Vitart V, Marten J, Navarro P, Bellis C, Pasko D, Johansson Å, Snitker S, Cheng YC, Eriksson J, Lim U, Aadahl M, Adair LS, Amin N, Balkau B, Auvinen J, Beilby J, Bergman RN, Bergmann S, Bertoni AG, Blangero J, Bonnefond A, Bonnycastle LL, Borja JB, Brage S, Busonero F, Buyske S, Campbell H, Chines PS, Collins FS, Corre T, Smith GD, Delgado GE, Dueker N, Dörr M, Ebeling T, Eiriksdottir G, Esko T, Faul JD, Fu M, Færch K, Gieger C, Gläser S, Gong J, Gordon-Larsen P, Grallert H, Grammer TB, Grarup N, van Grootheest G, Harald K, Hastie ND, Havulinna AS, Hernandez D, Hindorff L, Hocking LJ, Holmens OL, Holzapfel C, Hottenga JJ, Huang J, Huang T, Hui J, Huth C, Hutri-Kähönen N, James AL, Jansson JO, Jhun MA, Juonala M, Kinnunen L, Koistinen HA, Kolcic I, Komulainen P, Kuusisto J, Kvaløy K, Kähönen M, Lakka TA, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lindgren CM, Lorentzon M, Luben R, Marre M, Milaneschi Y, Monda KL, Montgomery GW, De Moor MHM, Mulas A, Müller-Nurasyid M, Musk AW, Männikkö R, Männistö S, Narisu N, Nauck M, Nettleton JA, Nolte IM, Oldehinkel AJ, Olden M, Ong KK, Padmanabhan S, Paternoster L, Perez J, Perola M, Peters A, Peters U, Peyser PA, Prokopenko I, Puolijoki H, Raitakari OT, Rankinen T, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Rawal R, Ridker PM, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sarti C, Sarzynski MA, Savonen K, Scott WR, Sanna S, Shuldiner AR, Sidney S, Silbernagel G, Smith BH, Smith JA, Snieder H, Stančáková A, Sternfeld B, Swift AJ, Tammelin T, Tan ST, Thorand B, Thuillier D, Vandenput L, Vestergaard H, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Vohl MC, Völker U, Waeber G, Walker M, Wild S, Wong A, Wright AF, Zillikens MC, Zubair N, Haiman CA, Lemarchand L, Gyllensten U, Ohlsson C, Hofman A, Rivadeneira F, Uitterlinden AG, Pérusse L, Wilson JF, Hayward C, Polasek O, Cucca F, Hveem K, Hartman CA, Tönjes A, Bandinelli S, Palmer LJ, Kardia SLR, Rauramaa R, Sørensen TIA, Tuomilehto J, Salomaa V, Penninx BWJH, de Geus EJC, Boomsma DI, Lehtimäki T, Mangino M, Laakso M, Bouchard C, Martin NG, Kuh D, Liu Y, Linneberg A, März W, Strauch K, Kivimäki M, Harris TB, Gudnason V, Völzke H, Qi L, Järvelin MR, Chambers JC, Kooner JS, Froguel P, Kooperberg C, Vollenweider P, Hallmans G, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Metspalu A, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Weir DR, Porteous DJ, Boerwinkle E, Chasman DI, Abecasis GR, Barroso I, McCarthy MI, Frayling TM, O'Connell JR, van Duijn CM, Boehnke M, Heid IM, Mohlke KL, Strachan DP, Fox CS, Liu CT, Hirschhorn JN, Klein RJ, Johnson AD, Borecki IB, Franks PW, North KE, Cupples LA, Loos RJF, and Kilpeläinen TO
Subjects: Adiposity physiology, Body Mass Index, Epigenomics, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Obesity physiopathology, Waist Circumference, Waist-Hip Ratio, Adiposity genetics, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO genetics, Exercise, Obesity genetics
Abstract: Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference and waist-hip ratio from up to 200,452 adults of European (n = 180,423) or other ancestry (n = 20,029). We standardized PA by categorizing it into a dichotomous variable where, on average, 23% of participants were categorized as inactive and 77% as physically active. While we replicate the interaction with PA for the strongest known obesity-risk locus in the FTO gene, of which the effect is attenuated by ~30% in physically active individuals compared to inactive individuals, we do not identify additional loci that are sensitive to PA. In additional genome-wide meta-analyses adjusting for PA and interaction with PA, we identify 11 novel adiposity loci, suggesting that accounting for PA or other environmental factors that contribute to variation in adiposity may facilitate gene discovery.
Published: 2017
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99. Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits.

Author: Justice AE, Winkler TW, Feitosa MF, Graff M, Fisher VA, Young K, Barata L, Deng X, Czajkowski J, Hadley D, Ngwa JS, Ahluwalia TS, Chu AY, Heard-Costa NL, Lim E, Perez J, Eicher JD, Kutalik Z, Xue L, Mahajan A, Renström F, Wu J, Qi Q, Ahmad S, Alfred T, Amin N, Bielak LF, Bonnefond A, Bragg J, Cadby G, Chittani M, Coggeshall S, Corre T, Direk N, Eriksson J, Fischer K, Gorski M, Neergaard Harder M, Horikoshi M, Huang T, Huffman JE, Jackson AU, Justesen JM, Kanoni S, Kinnunen L, Kleber ME, Komulainen P, Kumari M, Lim U, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, Mangino M, Manichaikul A, Marten J, Middelberg RPS, Müller-Nurasyid M, Navarro P, Pérusse L, Pervjakova N, Sarti C, Smith AV, Smith JA, Stančáková A, Strawbridge RJ, Stringham HM, Sung YJ, Tanaka T, Teumer A, Trompet S, van der Laan SW, van der Most PJ, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Vedantam SL, Verweij N, Vink JM, Vitart V, Wu Y, Yengo L, Zhang W, Hua Zhao J, Zimmermann ME, Zubair N, Abecasis GR, Adair LS, Afaq S, Afzal U, Bakker SJL, Bartz TM, Beilby J, Bergman RN, Bergmann S, Biffar R, Blangero J, Boerwinkle E, Bonnycastle LL, Bottinger E, Braga D, Buckley BM, Buyske S, Campbell H, Chambers JC, Collins FS, Curran JE, de Borst GJ, de Craen AJM, de Geus EJC, Dedoussis G, Delgado GE, den Ruijter HM, Eiriksdottir G, Eriksson AL, Esko T, Faul JD, Ford I, Forrester T, Gertow K, Gigante B, Glorioso N, Gong J, Grallert H, Grammer TB, Grarup N, Haitjema S, Hallmans G, Hamsten A, Hansen T, Harris TB, Hartman CA, Hassinen M, Hastie ND, Heath AC, Hernandez D, Hindorff L, Hocking LJ, Hollensted M, Holmen OL, Homuth G, Jan Hottenga J, Huang J, Hung J, Hutri-Kähönen N, Ingelsson E, James AL, Jansson JO, Jarvelin MR, Jhun MA, Jørgensen ME, Juonala M, Kähönen M, Karlsson M, Koistinen HA, Kolcic I, Kolovou G, Kooperberg C, Krämer BK, Kuusisto J, Kvaløy K, Lakka TA, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Leander K, Lee NR, Lind L, Lindgren CM, Linneberg A, Lobbens S, Loh M, Lorentzon M, Luben R, Lubke G, Ludolph-Donislawski A, Lupoli S, Madden PAF, Männikkö R, Marques-Vidal P, Martin NG, McKenzie CA, McKnight B, Mellström D, Menni C, Montgomery GW, Musk AB, Narisu N, Nauck M, Nolte IM, Oldehinkel AJ, Olden M, Ong KK, Padmanabhan S, Peyser PA, Pisinger C, Porteous DJ, Raitakari OT, Rankinen T, Rao DC, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Rawal R, Rice T, Ridker PM, Rose LM, Bien SA, Rudan I, Sanna S, Sarzynski MA, Sattar N, Savonen K, Schlessinger D, Scholtens S, Schurmann C, Scott RA, Sennblad B, Siemelink MA, Silbernagel G, Slagboom PE, Snieder H, Staessen JA, Stott DJ, Swertz MA, Swift AJ, Taylor KD, Tayo BO, Thorand B, Thuillier D, Tuomilehto J, Uitterlinden AG, Vandenput L, Vohl MC, Völzke H, Vonk JM, Waeber G, Waldenberger M, Westendorp RGJ, Wild S, Willemsen G, Wolffenbuttel BHR, Wong A, Wright AF, Zhao W, Zillikens MC, Baldassarre D, Balkau B, Bandinelli S, Böger CA, Boomsma DI, Bouchard C, Bruinenberg M, Chasman DI, Chen YD, Chines PS, Cooper RS, Cucca F, Cusi D, Faire U, Ferrucci L, Franks PW, Froguel P, Gordon-Larsen P, Grabe HJ, Gudnason V, Haiman CA, Hayward C, Hveem K, Johnson AD, Wouter Jukema J, Kardia SLR, Kivimaki M, Kooner JS, Kuh D, Laakso M, Lehtimäki T, Marchand LL, März W, McCarthy MI, Metspalu A, Morris AP, Ohlsson C, Palmer LJ, Pasterkamp G, Pedersen O, Peters A, Peters U, Polasek O, Psaty BM, Qi L, Rauramaa R, Smith BH, Sørensen TIA, Strauch K, Tiemeier H, Tremoli E, van der Harst P, Vestergaard H, Vollenweider P, Wareham NJ, Weir DR, Whitfield JB, Wilson JF, Tyrrell J, Frayling TM, Barroso I, Boehnke M, Deloukas P, Fox CS, Hirschhorn JN, Hunter DJ, Spector TD, Strachan DP, van Duijn CM, Heid IM, Mohlke KL, Marchini J, Loos RJF, Kilpeläinen TO, Liu CT, Borecki IB, North KE, and Cupples LA
Subjects: Adiposity genetics, Adult, Body Fat Distribution, Body Mass Index, Epistasis, Genetic, Humans, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Waist Circumference genetics, Waist-Hip Ratio, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Obesity genetics, Quantitative Trait Loci genetics, Smoking genetics
Abstract: Few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) account for environmental exposures, like smoking, potentially impacting the overall trait variance when investigating the genetic contribution to obesity-related traits. Here, we use GWAS data from 51,080 current smokers and 190,178 nonsmokers (87% European descent) to identify loci influencing BMI and central adiposity, measured as waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio both adjusted for BMI. We identify 23 novel genetic loci, and 9 loci with convincing evidence of gene-smoking interaction (GxSMK) on obesity-related traits. We show consistent direction of effect for all identified loci and significance for 18 novel and for 5 interaction loci in an independent study sample. These loci highlight novel biological functions, including response to oxidative stress, addictive behaviour, and regulatory functions emphasizing the importance of accounting for environment in genetic analyses. Our results suggest that tobacco smoking may alter the genetic susceptibility to overall adiposity and body fat distribution.
Published: 2017
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100. Discovery and fine-mapping of adiposity loci using high density imputation of genome-wide association studies in individuals of African ancestry: African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium.

Author: Ng MCY, Graff M, Lu Y, Justice AE, Mudgal P, Liu CT, Young K, Yanek LR, Feitosa MF, Wojczynski MK, Rand K, Brody JA, Cade BE, Dimitrov L, Duan Q, Guo X, Lange LA, Nalls MA, Okut H, Tajuddin SM, Tayo BO, Vedantam S, Bradfield JP, Chen G, Chen WM, Chesi A, Irvin MR, Padhukasahasram B, Smith JA, Zheng W, Allison MA, Ambrosone CB, Bandera EV, Bartz TM, Berndt SI, Bernstein L, Blot WJ, Bottinger EP, Carpten J, Chanock SJ, Chen YI, Conti DV, Cooper RS, Fornage M, Freedman BI, Garcia M, Goodman PJ, Hsu YH, Hu J, Huff CD, Ingles SA, John EM, Kittles R, Klein E, Li J, McKnight B, Nayak U, Nemesure B, Ogunniyi A, Olshan A, Press MF, Rohde R, Rybicki BA, Salako B, Sanderson M, Shao Y, Siscovick DS, Stanford JL, Stevens VL, Stram A, Strom SS, Vaidya D, Witte JS, Yao J, Zhu X, Ziegler RG, Zonderman AB, Adeyemo A, Ambs S, Cushman M, Faul JD, Hakonarson H, Levin AM, Nathanson KL, Ware EB, Weir DR, Zhao W, Zhi D, Arnett DK, Grant SFA, Kardia SLR, Oloapde OI, Rao DC, Rotimi CN, Sale MM, Williams LK, Zemel BS, Becker DM, Borecki IB, Evans MK, Harris TB, Hirschhorn JN, Li Y, Patel SR, Psaty BM, Rotter JI, Wilson JG, Bowden DW, Cupples LA, Haiman CA, Loos RJF, and North KE
Subjects: Anthropometry, Black People genetics, Body Mass Index, Chromosome Mapping, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Male, Obesity pathology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Waist-Hip Ratio, White People genetics, Adiposity genetics, Obesity genetics, Serine Endopeptidases genetics, Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Protein genetics
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >300 loci associated with measures of adiposity including body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), but few have been identified through screening of the African ancestry genomes. We performed large scale meta-analyses and replications in up to 52,895 individuals for BMI and up to 23,095 individuals for WHRadjBMI from the African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium (AAAGC) using 1000 Genomes phase 1 imputed GWAS to improve coverage of both common and low frequency variants in the low linkage disequilibrium African ancestry genomes. In the sex-combined analyses, we identified one novel locus (TCF7L2/HABP2) for WHRadjBMI and eight previously established loci at P < 5×10-8: seven for BMI, and one for WHRadjBMI in African ancestry individuals. An additional novel locus (SPRYD7/DLEU2) was identified for WHRadjBMI when combined with European GWAS. In the sex-stratified analyses, we identified three novel loci for BMI (INTS10/LPL and MLC1 in men, IRX4/IRX2 in women) and four for WHRadjBMI (SSX2IP, CASC8, PDE3B and ZDHHC1/HSD11B2 in women) in individuals of African ancestry or both African and European ancestry. For four of the novel variants, the minor allele frequency was low (<5%). In the trans-ethnic fine mapping of 47 BMI loci and 27 WHRadjBMI loci that were locus-wide significant (P < 0.05 adjusted for effective number of variants per locus) from the African ancestry sex-combined and sex-stratified analyses, 26 BMI loci and 17 WHRadjBMI loci contained ≤ 20 variants in the credible sets that jointly account for 99% posterior probability of driving the associations. The lead variants in 13 of these loci had a high probability of being causal. As compared to our previous HapMap imputed GWAS for BMI and WHRadjBMI including up to 71,412 and 27,350 African ancestry individuals, respectively, our results suggest that 1000 Genomes imputation showed modest improvement in identifying GWAS loci including low frequency variants. Trans-ethnic meta-analyses further improved fine mapping of putative causal variants in loci shared between the African and European ancestry populations.
Published: 2017
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