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101. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies common variants in CTNNA2 associated with excitement-seeking

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Grant W. Montgomery, Daniela Ruggiero, Katri Räikkönen, Luigi Ferrucci, Jüri Allik, M.H.M. de Moor, Jari Lahti, Dorret I. Boomsma, Alessandra Cannas, Nicholas G. Martin, Paul T. Costa, Dan Rujescu, J-J Hottenga, Manuela Uda, Osorio Meirelles, Anu Realo, Tõnu Esko, Serena Sanna, Aarno Palotie, Elisabeth Widen, Antonio Terracciano, Jordan W. Smoller, C M van Duijn, Robert F. Krueger, David Schlessinger, Gu Zhu, Michelle Luciano, Marion Friedl, Ina Giegling, Toshiko Tanaka, Teresa Nutile, Gonneke Willemsen, Marina Ciullo, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Margie Wright, Johan G. Eriksson, Francesco Cucca, Angelina R. Sutin, Narelle K. Hansell, Rossella Sorice, Andres Metspalu, Behavioural Sciences, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Developmental Psychology Research Group, Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Genomic Discoveries and Clinical Translation, Erasmus School of Economics, Epidemiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Biological Psychology, and EMGO+ - Lifestyle, Overweight and Diabetes

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Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Male, excitement-seeking, SENSATION SEEKING, Genome-wide association study, 3124 Neurology and psychiatry, Developmental psychology, Revised NEO Personality Inventory, 0302 clinical medicine, genome-wide association (GWA), Germany, SCHIZOPHRENIA, NETHERLANDS TWIN REGISTER, Longitudinal Studies, Big Five personality traits, Finland, Psychomotor Agitation, media_common, Netherlands, RISK, 0303 health sciences, BIPOLAR DISORDER, SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Psychiatry and Mental health, sensation-seeking, Italy, PERSONALITY-TRAITS, Original Article, Female, medicine.symptom, Psychology, Adult, Estonia, Adolescent, media_common.quotation_subject, education, impulsivity, Impulsivity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Young Adult, 5-FACTOR MODEL, medicine, Sensation seeking, Personality, Humans, Biological Psychiatry, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Extraversion and introversion, Australia, Genetic Variation, catenin cadherin-associated protein alpha 2 (CTNNA2), GENE, ALPHA-N-CATENIN, Meta-analysis of genome-wide, Baltimore, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, alpha Catenin, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

The tendency to seek stimulating activities and intense sensations define excitement-seeking, a personality trait akin to some aspects of sensation-seeking. This trait is a central feature of extraversion and is a component of the multifaceted impulsivity construct. Those who score high on measures of excitement-seeking are more likely to smoke, use other drugs, gamble, drive recklessly, have unsafe/unprotected sex and engage in other risky behaviors of clinical and social relevance. To identify common genetic variants associated with the Excitement-Seeking scale of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, we performed genome-wide association studies in six samples of European ancestry (N=7860), and combined the results in a meta-analysis. We identified a genome-wide significant association between the Excitement-Seeking scale and rs7600563 (P=2 × 10(-8)). This single-nucleotide polymorphism maps within the catenin cadherin-associated protein, alpha 2 (CTNNA2) gene, which encodes for a brain-expressed α-catenin critical for synaptic contact. The effect of rs7600563 was in the same direction in all six samples, but did not replicate in additional samples (N=5105). The results provide insight into the genetics of excitement-seeking and risk-taking, and are relevant to hyperactivity, substance use, antisocial and bipolar disorders.

Published
2011

102. Meta-Analysis of 28,141 Individuals Identifies Common Variants within Five New Loci That Influence Uric Acid Concentrations

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Angela Doering, Jacques S. Beckmann, Patricia B. Munroe, Alan F. Wright, Peter Vollenweider, Peter P. Pramstaller, M. Perola, Veikko Salomaa, Murielle Bochud, James F. Wilson, Sven Bergmann, Henry Völzke, Georg Homuth, Igor Rudan, Thomas Meitinger, Christian Gieger, Leena Peltonen, Martin Farrall, Jerzy Adamski, Anna F. Dominiczak, Mark J. Caulfield, H.-Erich Wichmann, Gérard Waeber, John Whitfield, Tim D. Spector, Uwe Völker, John M. C. Connell, Holger Prokisch, Åsa Johansson, Yurii S. Aulchenko, Harry Campbell, Veronique Vitart, Morris J. Brown, Rui Wang-Sattler, David Schlessinger, Mark I. McCarthy, Nilesh J. Samani, Massimo Mangino, Manuela Uda, John F. Peden, Serena Sanna, Chris Wallace, Perttu Salo, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Alexander Teumer, Ulf Gyllensten, Eva Albrecht, Dale R. Nyholt, Hugh Watkins, Matthias Nauck, Thomas Illig, Claudia Lamina, Dawn M. Waterworth, Melanie Kolz, Vincent Mooser, and Toby Johnson

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Male, genome-wide association, urate-anion exchanger, triglyceride levels, fasting glucose, serum urate, carnitine, gout, transport, protein, risk, Cancer Research, Gout, Urate transport, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Hyperuricemia, Genetics and Genomics/Genetics of Disease, Genetics (clinical), Genetics and Genomics/Medical Genetics, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Computational Biology/Systems Biology, biology, Genetics and Genomics/Functional Genomics, 3. Good health, Female, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Gout/etiology, Humans, Uric Acid/blood, Colaus Study, Genetics and Genomics/Gene Discovery, SLC22A12, Research Article, medicine.medical_specialty, lcsh:QH426-470, Public Health and Epidemiology, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Genetics and Genomics/Complex Traits, Computational Biology/Molecular Genetics, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Genetics and Genomics/Population Genetics, medicine, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 030304 developmental biology, 030203 arthritis & rheumatology, uric acid, genome-wide association study, quantitative traits, genetics, Genetics and Genomics, medicine.disease, Uric Acid, Minor allele frequency, lcsh:Genetics, Endocrinology, chemistry, biology.protein, Uric acid, Public Health and Epidemiology/Epidemiology, Computational Biology/Population Genetics, SLC2A9
Abstract

Elevated serum uric acid levels cause gout and are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. To investigate the polygenetic basis of serum uric acid levels, we conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association scans from 14 studies totalling 28,141 participants of European descent, resulting in identification of 954 SNPs distributed across nine loci that exceeded the threshold of genome-wide significance, five of which are novel. Overall, the common variants associated with serum uric acid levels fall in the following nine regions: SLC2A9 (p = 5.2×10−201), ABCG2 (p = 3.1×10−26), SLC17A1 (p = 3.0×10−14), SLC22A11 (p = 6.7×10−14), SLC22A12 (p = 2.0×10−9), SLC16A9 (p = 1.1×10−8), GCKR (p = 1.4×10−9), LRRC16A (p = 8.5×10−9), and near PDZK1 (p = 2.7×10−9). Identified variants were analyzed for gender differences. We found that the minor allele for rs734553 in SLC2A9 has greater influence in lowering uric acid levels in women and the minor allele of rs2231142 in ABCG2 elevates uric acid levels more strongly in men compared to women. To further characterize the identified variants, we analyzed their association with a panel of metabolites. rs12356193 within SLC16A9 was associated with DL-carnitine (p = 4.0×10−26) and propionyl-L-carnitine (p = 5.0×10−8) concentrations, which in turn were associated with serum UA levels (p = 1.4×10−57 and p = 8.1×10−54, respectively), forming a triangle between SNP, metabolites, and UA levels. Taken together, these associations highlight additional pathways that are important in the regulation of serum uric acid levels and point toward novel potential targets for pharmacological intervention to prevent or treat hyperuricemia. In addition, these findings strongly support the hypothesis that transport proteins are key in regulating serum uric acid levels., Author Summary Elevated serum uric acid levels cause gout and are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The regulation of serum uric acid levels is under a strong genetic control. This study describes the first meta-analysis of genome-wide association scans from 14 studies totalling 28,141 participants of European descent. We show that common DNA variants at nine different loci are associated with uric acid concentrations, five of which are novel. These variants are located within the genes coding for organic anion transporter 4 (SLC22A11), monocarboxylic acid transporter 9 (SLC16A9), glucokinase regulatory protein (GCKR), Carmil (LRRC16A), and near PDZ domain-containing 1 (PDZK1). Gender-specific effects are shown for variants within the recently identified genes coding for glucose transporter 9 (SLC2A9) and the ATP-binding cassette transporter (ABCG2). Based on screening of 163 metabolites, we show an association of one of the identified variants within SLC16A9 with DL-carnitine and propionyl-L-carnitine. Moreover, DL-carnitine and propionyl-L-carnitine were strongly correlated with serum UA levels, forming a triangle between SNP, metabolites and UA levels. Taken together, these associations highlight pathways that are important in the regulation of serum uric acid levels and point toward novel potential targets for pharmacological intervention to prevent or treat hyperuricemia.

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2009
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103. Genetic Modifiers of Homozygous Beta Zero Thalassemia

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Antonio Cao, Renzo Galanello, Maria Carla Sollaino, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Lucia Perseu, Serena Sanna, Gianluca Usala, Manuela Uda, Stefania Satta, and David Schlessinger

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Genetics, Thalassemia, Immunology, Beta thalassemia, Locus (genetics), Cell Biology, Hematology, Alpha-thalassemia, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, medicine.disease, Biochemistry, Genotype-phenotype distinction, Genetic marker, hemic and lymphatic diseases, medicine, Allele
Abstract

Introduction: Extensive studies over the last 50 years have derived two major modifiers of the clinical expression of beta-thalassemia: innate ability to produce fetal hemoglobin (Hb F) and co-inheritance of alpha-thalassemia. Recently genetic variants at the BCL11A locus and HBS1L-MYB intergenic region, that can modulate Hb F levels have been identified ( Thein et al 2007, Menzel et al 2007). Moreover, BCL11A variant has been shown to moderate the phenotype of homozygous beta-thalassemia (Uda et al 2008). In this study we evaluated the contribution of these Hb F modulating genetic markers and of alpha-thalassemia in ameliorating the severity of homozygous beta-thalassemia. Methods: We studied 50 patients with the mild non-tranfusion dependent thalassemia intermedia phenotype and 75 with the severe tranfusion dependent thalassemia major. All patients were homozygotes for the beta 39 non-sense C → T mutation and were negative for the Xmn I -158 Gγ polymorphism. Alpha thalassemia was detected by GAP-PCR technique (deletion defects) and restriction enzyme digestion (nondeletion defects).Genotyping of HbF modulating genetic variants was performed using TaqMan® SNP genotyping assay (Applied Biosystems, Warrington, UK) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Evaluation of the association, OR calculation and test for interaction were performed fitting a logistic regression. Results: We found that the frequency of the BCL11A and HBS1L-MYB Hb F modulating markers and of co-inherited alpha- thalassemia is significantly increased (p= 2.05 x 10−5, p= 8.1 x 10−4, and p= 9.9 x 10−5 respectively) in the group of patients with thalassemia intermedia. Interestingly, the contribution of BCL 11A gene appears to be greater than HBS 1L-MYB locus ( OR= 5.15 and 4.61 respectively) and both are striking larger than the effect attributable to the co-inheritance of alpha-thalassemia (OR= 3.32). Furthermore, to visualize the combined effects of all loci, we considered a score variable defined as the number of positive alleles (i.e. those associated with the amelioration of the phenotype) carried from each patient. When considered all together the three loci explain 79% of the variation, evaluated as the correlation between fitted and observed values in the logistic regression. All three analyzed loci act in an additive fashion, where each copy of the minor allele contributes to the amelioration of the phenotype expression. Conclusions: Molecular genetic analysis and particularly genome-wide association scans are producing rapid advances in defining the genetic variants for complex diseases and quantitative traits. The information reported are relevant in understanding the correlation between genotype and phenotype in thalassemia syndromes.

Published
2008

105. The GLUT9 Gene is Associated with Serum Uric Acid Levels in Sardinia and Chianti Cohorts

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Wei-Min Chen, Angelo Scuteri, Andrea Maschio, Jack M. Guralnik, Antonella Mulas, Serena Sanna, Laura Crisponi, Fabio Busonero, Edward G. Lakatta, Antonio Cao, Gianluca Usala, Silvia Naitza, Stefania Bandinelli, Manuela Uda, Mariano Dei, Samer S. Najjar, David Schlessinger, Luigi Ferrucci, Giuseppe Albai, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Siguang Li, Sandra Lai, Marco Orru, and Gonçalo R. Abecasis

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Male, Cancer Research, Glucose Transport Proteins, Facilitative, Urate transport, Linkage Disequilibrium, Cohort Studies, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Polymorphism (computer science), Homo (Human), Genetics (clinical), Genetics, Aged, 80 and over, 0303 health sciences, biology, Middle Aged, Italy, SLC22A12, Female, Research Article, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Genotype, lcsh:QH426-470, Molecular Sequence Data, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Allele, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Aged, 030304 developmental biology, Genome, Human, Genetics and Genomics, medicine.disease, Gout, Uric Acid, Minor allele frequency, lcsh:Genetics, Endocrinology, chemistry, biology.protein, Uric acid, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, SLC2A9
Abstract

High serum uric acid levels elevate pro-inflammatory–state gout crystal arthropathy and place individuals at high risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Genome-wide scans in the genetically isolated Sardinian population identified variants associated with serum uric acid levels as a quantitative trait. They mapped within GLUT9, a Chromosome 4 glucose transporter gene predominantly expressed in liver and kidney. SNP rs6855911 showed the strongest association (p = 1.84 × 10−16), along with eight others (p = 7.75 × 10−16 to 6.05 × 10−11). Individuals homozygous for the rare allele of rs6855911 (minor allele frequency = 0.26) had 0.6 mg/dl less uric acid than those homozygous for the common allele; the results were replicated in an unrelated cohort from Tuscany. Our results suggest that polymorphisms in GLUT9 could affect glucose metabolism and uric acid synthesis and/or renal reabsorption, influencing serum uric acid levels over a wide range of values., Author Summary High serum uric acid levels lead to gout and increase the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease. To determine what genetic factors might contribute to uric acid levels, we conducted genome-wide scans of single nucleotide variations in DNA in population samples from Sardinia and Chianti. We report here that variants in the GLUT9 gene are associated with altered uric acid levels in both populations. Unexpectedly, rather than being directly involved in uric acid synthesis or secretion, the GLUT9 gene encodes a glucose transporter. It is of interest that the gene is predominantly expressed in liver, a major site of uric acid synthesis, and in kidney, where uric acid is excreted and reabsorbed. However, it now remains to be determined how altered glucose uptake can indirectly affect synthesis or excretion/reabsorption of uric acid, and whether GLUT9 may provide a target for the therapeutic modification of uric acid levels.

Published
2005

106. Genome Wide Association Scan shows Genetic Variants in the FTO gene are Associated with Obesity Related Traits

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Angelo Scuteri, Serena Sanna, Wei-Min Chen, Manuela Uda, Giuseppe Albai, James Strait, Samer S. Najjar, Ramaiah Nagarajah, Marco Orru, Gianluca Usala, Mariano Dei, Sandra Lai, Andrea Maschio, Fabio Busonero, Antonella Mulas, George B Ehret, Ashley A Fink, Alan Weder, Richard Cooper, Pilar Galan, Aravinda Chakravarti, David Schlessinger, Antonio Cao, Edward Lakatta, and Gonçalo Abecasis

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Cancer Research, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Published
2005

107. Crisponi Syndrome Is Caused by Mutations in the CRLF1 Gene and Is Allelic to Cold-Induced Sweating Syndrome Type 1

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Alessandra Meloni, Gerd Kurlemann, Christian Becker, Mohammad R. Toliat, Marco Masala, Gudrun Nürnberg, Bernd Wollnik, Anita Rauch, Friedrich Strasser, Laura Crisponi, Robert Kleta, Manuela Uda, Mara Marongiu, Gianluca Usala, Antonio Cao, Giangiorgio Crisponi, Francesca Chiappe, Peter Nürnberg, Wolfgang Höhne, Cornelis Jakobs, Thomas Reese, and Frank Rutsch

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Male, Models, Molecular, Candidate gene, Adolescent, Molecular Sequence Data, Sweating, Biology, Crisponi syndrome, medicine.disease_cause, Sudden death, Report, Genotype, medicine, Genetics, Missense mutation, Humans, Genetics(clinical), Abnormalities, Multiple, Amino Acid Sequence, Receptors, Cytokine, Child, Genetics (clinical), Alleles, Mutation, Mutation Spectra, Base Sequence, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Infant, Newborn, Chromosome Mapping, Infant, DNA, Syndrome, Disease gene identification, Pedigree, Cold Temperature, Phenotype, Haplotypes, Child, Preschool, Female, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19, Muscle Contraction
Abstract

Crisponi syndrome is a severe autosomal recessive condition that is phenotypically characterized by abnormal, paroxysmal muscular contractions resembling neonatal tetanus, large face, broad nose, anteverted nares, camptodactyly, hyperthermia, and sudden death in most cases. We performed homozygosity mapping in five Sardinian and three Turkish families with Crisponi syndrome, using high-density single-nucleotide polymorphism arrays, and identified a critical region on chromosome 19p12-13.1. The most prominent candidate gene was CRLF1, recently found to be involved in the pathogenesis of cold-induced sweating syndrome type 1 (CISS1). CISS1 belongs to a group of conditions with overlapping phenotypes, also including cold-induced sweating syndrome type 2 and Stuve-Wiedemann syndrome. All these syndromes are caused by mutations of genes of the ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF)–receptor pathway. Here, we describe the identification of four different CRLF1 mutations in eight different Crisponi-affected families, including a missense mutation, a single-nucleotide insertion, and a nonsense and an insertion/deletion (indel) mutation, all segregating with the disease trait in the families. Comparison of the mutation spectra of Crisponi syndrome and CISS1 suggests that neither the type nor the location of the CRLF1 mutations points to a phenotype/genotype correlation that would account for the most severe phenotype in Crisponi syndrome. Other, still-unknown molecular factors may be responsible for the variable phenotypic expression of the CRLF1 mutations. We suggest that the syndromes can comprise a family of “CNTF-receptor–related disorders,” of which Crisponi syndrome would be the newest member and allelic to CISS1.

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108. Phosphodiesterase 8B Gene Variants Are Associated with Serum TSH Levels and Thyroid Function

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Giuseppe Albai, Graziano Ceresini, Natascia Sestu, Toshiko Tanaka, Alan R. Shuldiner, Sandra Lai, Silvia Naitza, Maria Grazia Piras, Maria Grazia Pilia, Lenuta Balaci, Mariano Dei, Jack M. Guralnik, Serena Sanna, Stefano Mariotti, Antonio Cao, Fabio Busonero, Laura Crisponi, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Antonella Mulas, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Angela Loi, Gianluca Usala, Braxton D. Mitchell, Andrea Maschio, David Schlessinger, Stefania Bandinelli, Gabriella Sole, Manuela Uda, Alessia Prinzis, and Lisette Arnaud-Lopez

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Linkage disequilibrium, endocrine system, Adolescent, endocrine system diseases, Thyroid Gland, Thyrotropin, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Linkage Disequilibrium, Article, Feedback, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Thyroid-stimulating hormone, Internal medicine, Cyclic AMP, medicine, Genetics, Humans, Genetics(clinical), Genetics (clinical), Aged, 030304 developmental biology, Aged, 80 and over, 0303 health sciences, Triiodothyronine, Thyroid, Chromosome Mapping, Genetic Variation, Phosphodiesterase, Middle Aged, Thyroid Diseases, Thyroxine, Endocrinology, medicine.anatomical_structure, 3',5'-Cyclic-AMP Phosphodiesterases, Pituitary Gland, Female, Thyroid function, Hormone
Abstract

Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) controls thyroid growth and hormone secretion through binding to its G protein-coupled receptor (TSHR) and production of cyclic AMP (cAMP). Serum TSH is a sensitive indicator of thyroid function, and overt abnormalities in thyroid function lead to common endocrine disorders affecting approximately 10% of individuals over a life span. By genotyping 362,129 SNPs in 4,300 Sardinians, we identified a strong association (p = 1.3 x 10(-11)) between alleles of rs4704397 and circulating TSH levels; each additional copy of the minor A allele was associated with an increase of 0.13 muIU/ml in TSH. The single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is located in intron 1 of PDE8B, encoding a high-affinity cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase. The association was replicated in 4,158 individuals, including additional Sardinians and two genetically distant cohorts from Tuscany and the Old Order Amish (overall p value = 1.9 x 10(-20)). In addition to association of TSH levels with SNPs in PDE8B, our genome scan provided evidence for association with PDE10A and several biologically interesting candidates in a focused analysis of 24 genes. In particular, we found evidence for association of TSH levels with SNPs in the THRB (rs1505287, p = 7.3 x 10(-5)), GNAQ (rs10512065, p = 2.0 x 10(-4)), TG (rs2252696, p = 2.2 x 10(-3)), POU1F1 (rs1976324, p = 3.9 x 10(-3)), PDE4D (rs27178, p = 8.3 x 10(-3)), and TSHR (rs4903957, p = 8.6 x 10(-3)) loci. Overall, the results suggest a primary effect of PDE8B variants on cAMP levels in the thyroid. This would affect production of T4 and T3 and feedback to alter TSH release by the pituitary. PDE8B may thus provide a candidate target for the treatment of thyroid dysfunction.

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109. Genome-wide Association Study of Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Folate, and Homocysteine Blood Concentrations

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Anna Vestrini, Maria Grazia Piras, Antonella Mulas, Stefania Bandinelli, Manuela Uda, Andrew B. Singleton, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Rosanna Abbate, Jack M. Guralnik, Anna Maria Corsi, Toshiko Tanaka, Paul Scheet, Betti Giusti, Francesco Sofi, Anna Maria Gori, Luigi Ferrucci, Sandra Lai, Gianluca Usala, and David Schlessinger

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Adult, Male, Vitamin, medicine.medical_specialty, Homocysteine, Receptors, Cell Surface, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, chemistry.chemical_compound, Folic Acid, Report, Internal medicine, medicine, Genetics, Humans, Genetics(clinical), Cyanocobalamin, Vitamin B12, Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (NADPH2), Genetics (clinical), Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Transcobalamins, ALPL, Middle Aged, Alkaline Phosphatase, Fucosyltransferases, Pyridoxine, Vitamin B 6, Neoplasm Proteins, Vitamin B 12, B vitamins, Endocrinology, chemistry, Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, biology.protein, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, medicine.drug
Abstract

The B vitamins are components of one-carbon metabolism (OCM) that contribute to DNA synthesis and methylation. Homocysteine, a by-product of OCM, has been associated with coronary heart disease, stroke and neurological disease. To investigate genetic factors that affect circulating vitamin B6, vitamin B12, folate and homocysteine, a genome-wide association analysis was conducted in the InCHIANTI (N = 1175), SardiNIA (N = 1115), and BLSA (N = 640) studies. The top loci were replicated in an independent sample of 687 participants in the Progetto Nutrizione study. Polymorphisms in the ALPL gene (rs4654748, p = 8.30 x 10(-18)) were associated with vitamin B6 and FUT2 (rs602662, [corrected] p = 2.83 x 10(-20)) with vitamin B12 serum levels. The association of MTHFR, a gene consistently associated with homocysteine, was confirmed in this meta-analysis. The ALPL gene likely influences the catabolism of vitamin B6 while FUT2 interferes with absorption of vitamin B12. These findings highlight mechanisms that affect vitamin B6, vitamin B12 and homocysteine serum levels.

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110. Genetic and lifestyle risk factors for MRI-defined brain infarcts in a population-based setting

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Chauhan, Ganesh, Adams, Hieab H H, Jian, Xueqiu, Sharma, Pankaj, Sudlow, Cathie L M, Rosand, Jonathan, Woo, Daniel, Cole, John W, Meschia, James F, Slowik, Agnieszka, Thijs, Vincent, Lindgren, Arne, Melander, Olle, Malik, Rainer, Grewal, Raji P, Rundek, Tatjana, Rexrode, Kathy, Rothwell, Peter M, Arnett, Donna K, Jern, Christina, Johnson, Julie A, Benavente, Oscar R, Wasssertheil-Smoller, Sylvia, Lee, Jin-Moo, Traylor, Matthew, Wong, Quenna, Mitchell, Braxton D, Rich, Stephen S, McArdle, Patrick F, Geerlings, Mirjam I, van der Graaf, Yolanda, de Bakker, Paul I W, Asselbergs, Folkert W, Srikanth, Velandai, Thomson, Russell, Pulit, Sara L, McWhirter, Rebekah, Moran, Chris, Callisaya, Michele, Phan, Thanh, Rutten-Jacobs, Loes C A, Bevan, Steve, Tzourio, Christophe, Mather, Karen A, Sachdev, Perminder S, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Amouyel, Philippe, Worrall, Bradford B, Dichgans, Martin, Kittner, Steven J, Markus, Hugh S, Ikram, Mohammad A, Fornage, Myriam, Launer, Lenore J, Seshadri, Sudha, Longstreth, W. T., Debette, Stéphanie, Mazoyer, Bernard, Network, Stroke Genetics, Almgren, Peter, Anderson, Christopher D, Attia, John, Ay, Hakan, Brown, Robert D, Bustamante, Mariana, Zhu, Yi-Cheng, Cheng, Yu-Ching, Cotlarciuc, Ioana, Cruchaga, Carlos, de Bakker, Paul Iw, Delavaran, Hossein, Engström, Gunnar, Kaffashian, Sara, Heitsch, Laura, Holliday, Elizabeth, Ibanez, Laure, Ilinca, Andreea, Irvin, Marguerite R, Jackson, Rebecca D, Jimenez-Conde, Jordi, Jood, Katarina, Schilling, Sabrina, Kissela, Brett M, Kleindorfer, Dawn O, Labovitz, Daniel, Laurie, Cathy C, Lemmens, Robin, Levi, Christopher, Li, Linxin, Lindgren, Arne G, Beecham, Gary W, Maguire, Jane, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Norrving, Bo, Peddareddygari, Leema Reddy, Pera, Joanna, Satizabal, Claudia L, Montine, Thomas J, Rexrode, Kathryn, Ribasés, Marta, Roquer, Jaume, Rost, Natalia S, Sacco, Ralph L, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schellenberg, Gerard D, Soriano-Tárraga, Carolina, Stanne, Tara, Stauch, Konstantin, Stine, O. C., Sudlow, Cathie Lm, Thijs, Vincent N S, Weir, David, Williams, Stephen R, Kjartansson, Olafur, Xu, Huichun, Hyacinth, Hyacinth I, Marini, Sandro, Nyquist, Paul, Lewis, Cathryn, Hansen, Bjorn, Guðnason, Vilmundur, Biffi, Alessandro, Kourkoulis, Christina, Anderson, Chris, Giese, Anne-Katrin, Sacco, Ralph, Chung, Jong-Won, Kim, Gyeong-Moon, Knopman, David S, Lubitz, Steven, Bourcier, Romain, Howson, Joanna, Granata, Alessandra, Drazyk, Anna, Markus, Hugh, Wardlaw, Joanna, Mitchell, Braxton, Cole, John, Hopewell, Jemma, Griswold, Michael E, Walters, Robin, Turnbull, Iain, Worrall, Bradford, Bis, Josh, Reiner, Alex, Dhar, Raj, Prasad, Kameshwar, Sarnowski, Chloé, Windham, B Gwen, Aparicio, Hugo Javier, Yang, Qiong, Chasman, Daniel, Phuah, Chia-Ling, Liu, Guiyou, Elkind, Mitchell, Lange, Leslie, Rost, Natalia, James, Michael, Gottesman, Rebecca F, Stewart, Jill, Vojinovic, Dina, Parati, Eugenio, Boncoraglio, Giorgio, Zand, Ramin, Bijlenga, Philippe, Selim, Magdy, Grond-Ginsbach, Caspar, Strbian, Daniel, Mosley, Thomas H, Tomppo, Liisa, Sallinen, Hanne, Pfeiffer, Dorothea, Torres, Nuria, Barboza, Miguel, Laarman, Melanie, Carriero, Roberta, Soriano, Carolina, Gill, Dipender, Debette, Stephanie, Mishra, Aniket, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Ko, Tai-Ming, Bione, Silvia, Tatlisumak, Turgut, Holmegaard, Lukas, Yue, Suo, Bis, Joshua C, Saba, Yasaman, Bersano, Anna, Schlicht, Kristina, Ninomiya, Toshiharu, Oberstein, Saskia Lesnik, Lee, Tsong-Hai, Schmidt, Helena, Wasselius, Johan, Drake, Mattias, Stenman, Martin, Crawford, Katherine, Lena, Umme, Mateen, Farrah, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Wu, Ona, Schirmer, Markus, Cramer, Steve, Golland, Polina, Brown, Robert, Meschia, James, Ross, Owen A, Pare, Guillaume, Chong, Mike, Yamaguchi, Shuhei, Gwinn, Katrina, Chen, Christopher, Koenig, Jim, Giralt, Eva, Saleheen, Danish, de Leeuw, Frank-Erik, Klijn, Karin, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kubo, Michiaki, Nabika, Toru, Okada, Yukinori, Pedersen, Annie, Olsson, Maja, Martín, Juan José, Tan, Eng King, Frid, Petrea, 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O’Donnell, MD, MPH, Læknadeild (HÍ), Faculty of Medicine (UI), Heilbrigðisvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Health Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland, and Berr, Claudine

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Neurology & Neurosurgery, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Heilaskaði, Clinical Neurology, Stroke Genetics Network (SiGN), the International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC), METASTROKE, Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), and the Neurology Working Group of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium, R1, Article, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], Taugasjúkdómar, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Meta-analyses, Brain infarcts, GWAS, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, ddc:610, Erfðarannsóknir, MRI
Abstract

Publisher's version (útgefin grein), Objective: To explore genetic and lifestyle risk factors of MRI-defined brain infarcts (BI) in large population-based cohorts. Methods We performed meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and examined associations of vascular risk factors and their genetic risk scores (GRS) with MRI-defined BI and a subset of BI, namely, small subcortical BI (SSBI), in 18 population-based cohorts (n=20,949) from 5 ethnicities (3,726 with BI, 2,021 with SSBI). Top loci were followed up in 7 population-based cohorts (n = 6,862; 1,483 with BI, 630 with SBBI), and we tested associations with related phenotypes including ischemic stroke and pathologically defined BI. Results: The mean prevalence was 17.7% for BI and 10.5% for SSBI, steeply rising after age 65. Two loci showed genome-wide significant association with BI: FBN2, p = 1.77 × 10-8; and LINC00539/ZDHHC20, p = 5.82 × 10-9. Both have been associated with blood pressure (BP)-related phenotypes, but did not replicate in the smaller follow-up sample or show associations with related phenotypes. Age- and sex-adjusted associations with BI and SSBI were observed for BP traits (p value for BI, p[BI] = 9.38 × 10-25; p [SSBI] = 5.23 × 10-14 for hypertension), smoking (p[BI]= 4.4 × 10-10; p [SSBI] = 1.2 × 10 -4), diabetes (p[BI] = 1.7 × 10 -8; p [SSBI] = 2.8 × 10 -3), previous cardiovascular disease (p [BI] = 1.0 × 10-18; p [SSBI] = 2.3 × 10-7), stroke (p [BI] = 3.9 × 10-69; p [SSBI] = 3.2 × 10 -24), and MRI-defined white matter hyperintensity burden (p [BI]=1.43 × 10-157; p [SSBI] = 3.16 × 10-106), but not with body mass index or cholesterol. GRS of BP traits were associated with BI and SSBI (p ≤ 0.0022), without indication of directional pleiotropy. Conclusion: In this multiethnic GWAS meta-analysis, including over 20,000 population-based participants, we identified genetic risk loci for BI requiring validation once additional large datasets become available. High BP, including genetically determined, was the most significant modifiable, causal risk factor for BI., CHAP: R01-AG-11101, R01-AG-030146, NIRP-14-302587. SMART: This study was supported by a grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research–Medical Sciences (project no. 904-65–095). LBC: The authors thank the LBC1936 participants and the members of the LBC1936 research team who collected and collated the phenotypic and genotypic data. The LBC1936 is supported by Age UK (Disconnected Mind Programme grant). The work was undertaken by The University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, part of the cross-council Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Initiative (MR/K026992/1). The brain imaging was performed in the Brain Research Imaging Centre (https://www.ed.ac.uk/clinical-sciences/edinburgh-imaging), a center in the SINAPSE Collaboration (sinapse.ac.uk) supported by the Scottish Funding Council and Chief Scientist Office. Funding from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the UK Medical Research Council is acknowledged. Genotyping was supported by a grant from the BBSRC (ref. BB/F019394/1). PROSPER: The PROSPER study was supported by an investigator-initiated grant obtained from Bristol-Myers Squibb. Prof. Dr. J.W. Jukema is an Established Clinical Investigator of the Netherlands Heart Foundation (grant 2001 D 032). Support for genotyping was provided by the seventh framework program of the European commission (grant 223004) and by the Netherlands Genomics Initiative (Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging grant 050-060-810). SCES and SiMES: National Medical Research Council Singapore Centre Grant NMRC/CG/013/2013. C.-Y.C. is supported by the National Medical Research Council, Singapore (CSA/033/2012), Singapore Translational Research Award (STaR) 2013. Dr. Kamran Ikram received additional funding from the Singapore Ministry of Health's National Medical Research Council (NMRC/CSA/038/2013). SHIP: SHIP is part of the Community Medicine Research net of the University of Greifswald, Germany, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grants no. 01ZZ9603, 01ZZ0103, and 01ZZ0403), the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, as well as the Social Ministry of the Federal State of Mecklenburg–West Pomerania, and the network “Greifswald Approach to Individualized Medicine (GANI_MED)” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant 03IS2061A). Genome-wide data have been supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant no. 03ZIK012) and a joint grant from Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany, and the Federal State of Mecklenburg–West Pomerania. Whole-body MRI was supported by a joint grant from Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany, and the Federal State of Mecklenburg–West Pomerania. The University of Greifswald is a member of the Caché Campus program of the InterSystems GmbH. OATS (Older Australian Twins Study): OATS was supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHRMC)/Australian Research Council (ARC) Strategic Award (ID401162) and by a NHMRC grant (ID1045325). OATS was facilitated via access to the Australian Twin Registry, which is supported by the NHMRC Enabling Grant 310667. The OATS genotyping was partly supported by a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Flagship Collaboration Fund Grant. NOMAS: The Northern Manhattan Study is funded by the NIH grant “Stroke Incidence and Risk Factors in a Tri-Ethnic Region” (NINDS R01NS 29993). TASCOG: NHMRC and Heart Foundation. AGES: The study was funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) (N01-AG-12100), Hjartavernd (the Icelandic Heart Association), and the Althingi (the Icelandic Parliament), with contributions from the Intramural Research Programs at the NIA, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) (Z01 HL004607-08 CE). ERF: The ERF study as a part of European Special Populations Research Network (EUROSPAN) was supported by European Commission FP6 STRP grant no. 018947 (LSHG-CT-2006-01947) and also received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/grant agreement HEALTH-F4-2007-201413 by the European Commission under the programme “Quality of Life and Management of the Living Resources” of 5th Framework Programme (no. QLG2-CT-2002-01254). High-throughput analysis of the ERF data was supported by a joint grant from Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (NWO-RFBR 047.017.043). Exome sequencing analysis in ERF was supported by the ZonMw grant (project 91111025). Najaf Amin is supported by the Netherlands Brain Foundation (project no. F2013[1]-28). ARIC: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study was performed as a collaborative study supported by NHLBI contracts (HHSN268201100005C, HSN268201100006C, HSN268201100007C, HHSN268201100008C, HHSN268201100009C, HHSN268201100010C, HHSN268201100011C, and HHSN268201100012C), R01HL70825, R01HL087641, R01HL59367, and R01HL086694; National Human Genome Research Institute contract U01HG004402; and NIH contract HHSN268200625226C. Infrastructure was partly supported by grant no. UL1RR025005, a component of the NIH and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. This project was also supported by NIH R01 grant NS087541 to M.F. FHS: This work was supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study (contracts no. N01-HC-25195 and no. HHSN268201500001I), and its contract with Affymetrix, Inc. for genotyping services (contract no. N02-HL-6-4278). A portion of this research utilized the Linux Cluster for Genetic Analysis (LinGA-II) funded by the Robert Dawson Evans Endowment of the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. This study was also supported by grants from the NIA (R01s AG033040, AG033193, AG054076, AG049607, AG008122, and U01-AG049505) and the NINDS (R01-NS017950, UH2 NS100605). Dr. DeCarli is supported by the Alzheimer's Disease Center (P30 AG 010129). ASPS: The research reported in this article was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant nos. P20545-P05, P13180, and P20545-B05, by the Austrian National Bank Anniversary Fund, P15435, and the Austrian Ministry of Science under the aegis of the EU Joint Programme–Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) (jpnd.eu). LLS: The Leiden Longevity Study has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2011) under grant agreement no. 259679. This study was supported by a grant from the Innovation-Oriented Research Program on Genomics (SenterNovem IGE05007), the Centre for Medical Systems Biology, and the Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing (grant 050-060-810), all in the framework of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), UnileverColworth, and by BBMRI-NL, a Research Infrastructure financed by the Dutch government (NWO 184.021.007). CHS: This CHS research was supported by contracts HHSN268201200036C, HHSN268200800007C, N01HC55222, N01HC85079, N01HC85080, N01HC85081, N01HC85082, N01HC85083, N01HC85086, N01HC15103, and HHSN268200960009C and grants U01HL080295, R01HL087652, R01HL105756, R01HL103612, R01HL120393, R01HL085251, and R01HL130114 from the NHLBI with additional contribution from NINDS. Additional support was provided through R01AG023629 from the NIA. A full list of principal CHS investigators and institutions can be found at CHS-NHLBI.org. The provision of genotyping data was supported in part by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, CTSI grant UL1TR001881, and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease Diabetes Research Center grant DK063491 to the Southern California Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Rotterdam Study: The generation and management of GWAS genotype data for the Rotterdam Study is supported by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) Investments (no. 175.010.2005.011, 911-03-012). This study is funded by the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (014-93-015; RIDE2), the Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)/NWO project no. 050-060-810. The Rotterdam Study is funded by Erasmus MC Medical Center and Erasmus MC University, Rotterdam, Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (RIDE), the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sports, the European Commission (DG XII), and the Municipality of Rotterdam. M.A.I. is supported by an NWO Veni grant (916.13.054). The 3-City Study: The 3-City Study is conducted under a partnership agreement among the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), the University of Bordeaux, and Sanofi-Aventis. The Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale funded the preparation and initiation of the study. The 3C Study is also supported by the Caisse Nationale Maladie des Travailleurs Salariés, Direction Générale de la Santé, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale (MGEN), Institut de la Longévité, Conseils Régionaux of Aquitaine and Bourgogne, Fondation de France, and Ministry of Research–INSERM Programme “Cohortes et collections de données biologiques.” C.T. and S.D. have received investigator-initiated research funding from the French National Research Agency (ANR) and from the Fondation Leducq. S.D. is supported by a starting grant from the European Research Council (SEGWAY), a grant from the Joint Programme of Neurodegenerative Disease research (BRIDGET), from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No 643417 & No 640643, and by the Initiative of Excellence of Bordeaux University. Part of the computations were performed at the Bordeaux Bioinformatics Center (CBiB), University of Bordeaux. This work was supported by the National Foundation for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, the Institut Pasteur de Lille, the Labex DISTALZ, and the Centre National de Génotypage. ADGC: The Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium is supported by NIH. NIH-NIA supported this work through the following grants: ADGC, U01 AG032984, RC2 AG036528; NACC, U01 AG016976; NCRAD, U24 AG021886; NIA LOAD, U24 AG026395, U24 AG026390; Banner Sun Health Research Institute, P30 AG019610; Boston University, P30 AG013846, U01 AG10483, R01 CA129769, R01 MH080295, R01 AG017173, R01 AG025259, R01AG33193; Columbia University, P50 AG008702, R37 AG015473; Duke University, P30 AG028377, AG05128; Emory University, AG025688; Group Health Research Institute, UO1 AG06781, UO1 HG004610; Indiana University, P30 AG10133; Johns Hopkins University, P50 AG005146, R01 AG020688; Massachusetts General Hospital, P50 AG005134; Mayo Clinic, P50 AG016574; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, P50 AG005138, P01 AG002219; New York University, P30 AG08051, MO1RR00096, UL1 RR029893, 5R01AG012101, 5R01AG022374, 5R01AG013616, 1RC2AG036502, 1R01AG035137; Northwestern University, P30 AG013854; Oregon Health & Science University, P30 AG008017, R01 AG026916; Rush University, P30 AG010161, R01 AG019085, R01 AG15819, R01 AG17917, R01 AG30146; TGen, R01 NS059873; University of Alabama at Birmingham, P50 AG016582, UL1RR02777; University of Arizona, R01 AG031581; University of California, Davis, P30 AG010129; University of California, Irvine, P50 AG016573, P50, P50 AG016575, P50 AG016576, P50 AG016577; University of California, Los Angeles, P50 AG016570; University of California, San Diego, P50 AG005131; University of California, San Francisco, P50 AG023501, P01 AG019724; University of Kentucky, P30 AG028383, AG05144; University of Michigan, P50 AG008671; University of Pennsylvania, P30 AG010124; University of Pittsburgh, P50 AG005133, AG030653; University of Southern California, P50 AG005142; University of Texas Southwestern, P30 AG012300; University of Miami, R01 AG027944, AG010491, AG027944, AG021547, AG019757; University of Washington, P50 AG005136; Vanderbilt University, R01 AG019085; and Washington University, P50 AG005681, P01 AG03991. The Kathleen Price Bryan Brain Bank at Duke University Medical Center is funded by NINDS grant NS39764, NIMH MH60451, and by GlaxoSmithKline. Genotyping of the TGEN2 cohort was supported by Kronos Science. The TGen series was also funded by NIA grant AG041232, the Banner Alzheimer's Foundation, The Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer's Institute, the Medical Research Council, and the state of Arizona and also includes samples from the following sites: Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource (funding via the Medical Research Council [MRC], local NHS trusts, and Newcastle University), MRC London Brain Bank for Neurodegenerative Diseases (funding via the Medical Research Council), South West Dementia Brain Bank (funding via numerous sources including the Higher Education Funding Council for England [HEFCE], Alzheimer's Research Trust [ART], BRACE, as well as North Bristol NHS Trust Research and Innovation Department and DeNDRoN), The Netherlands Brain Bank (funding via numerous sources including Stichting MS Research, Brain Net Europe, Hersenstichting Nederland Breinbrekend Werk, International Parkinson Fonds, Internationale Stiching Alzheimer Onderzoek), Institut de Neuropatologia, Servei Anatomia Patologica, and Universitat de Barcelona). ADNI: Funding for ADNI is through the Northern California Institute for Research and Education by grants from Abbott, AstraZeneca AB, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eisai Global Clinical Development, Elan Corporation, Genentech, GE Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, Innogenetics, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly and Co., Medpace, Inc., Merck and Co., Inc., Novartis AG, Pfizer Inc, F. Hoffman-La Roche, Schering-Plough, Synarc, Inc., Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, the Dana Foundation, and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and NIA grants U01 AG024904, RC2 AG036535, and K01 AG030514. Support was also provided by the Alzheimer's Association (LAF, IIRG-08-89720; MAP-V, IIRG-05-14147) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs Administration, Office of Research and Development, Biomedical Laboratory Research Program. SiGN: Stroke Genetic Network (SiGN) was supported in part by award nos. U01NS069208 and R01NS100178 from NINDS. Genetics of Early-Onset Stroke (GEOS) Study was supported by the NIH Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI) grant U01 HG004436, as part of the GENEVA consortium under GEI, with additional support provided by the Mid-Atlantic Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (P30 DK072488); and the Office of Research and Development, Medical Research Service, and the Baltimore Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Genotyping services were provided by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), which is fully funded through a federal contract from the NIH to Johns Hopkins University (contract no. HHSN268200782096C). Assistance with data cleaning was provided by the GENEVA Coordinating Center (U01 HG 004446; PI Bruce S. Weir). Study recruitment and assembly of datasets were supported by a Cooperative Agreement with the Division of Adult and Community Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and by grants from NINDS and the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (R01 NS45012, U01 NS069208-01). METASTROKE: ASGC: Australian population control data were derived from the Hunter Community Study. This research was funded by grants from the Australian National and Medical Health Research Council (NHMRC Project Grant ID: 569257), the Australian National Heart Foundation (NHF Project Grant ID: G 04S 1623), the University of Newcastle, the Gladys M Brawn Fellowship scheme, and the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation in Australia. E.G.H. was supported by a Fellowship from the NHF and National Stroke Foundation of Australia (ID: 100071). J.M. was supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award. BRAINS: Bio-Repository of DNA in Stroke (BRAINS) is partly funded by a Senior Fellowship from the Department of Health (UK) to P.S., the Henry Smith Charity, and the UK-India Education Research Institutive (UKIERI) from the British Council. GEOS: Genetics of Early Onset Stroke (GEOS) Study, Baltimore, was supported by GEI Grant U01 HG004436, as part of the GENEVA consortium under GEI, with additional support provided by the Mid-Atlantic Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (P30 DK072488), and the Office of Research and Development, Medical Research Service, and the Baltimore Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Genotyping services were provided by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), which is fully funded through a federal contract from the NIH to the Johns Hopkins University (contract no. HHSN268200782096C). Assistance with data cleaning was provided by the GENEVA Coordinating Center (U01 HG 004446; PI Bruce S. Weir). Study recruitment and assembly of datasets were supported by a Cooperative Agreement with the Division of Adult and Community Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and by grants from NINDS and the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (R01 NS45012, U01 NS069208-01). HPS: Heart Protection Study (HPS) (ISRCTN48489393) was supported by the UK MRC, British Heart Foundation, Merck and Co. (manufacturers of simvastatin), and Roche Vitamins Ltd. (manufacturers of vitamins). Genotyping was supported by a grant to Oxford University and CNG from Merck and Co. J.C.H. acknowledges support from the British Heart Foundation (FS/14/55/30806). ISGS: Ischemic Stroke Genetics Study (ISGS)/Siblings With Ischemic Stroke Study (SWISS) was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the NIA, NIH project Z01 AG-000954-06. ISGS/SWISS used samples and clinical data from the NIH-NINDS Human Genetics Resource Center DNA and Cell Line Repository (ccr.coriell.org/ninds), human subjects protocol nos. 2003-081 and 2004-147. ISGS/SWISS used stroke-free participants from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) as controls. The inclusion of BLSA samples was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the NIA, NIH project Z01 AG-000015-50, human subjects protocol no. 2003-078. The ISGS study was funded by NIH-NINDS Grant R01 NS-42733 (J.F.M.). The SWISS study was funded by NIH-NINDS Grant R01 NS-39987 (J.F.M.). This study used the high-performance computational capabilities of the Biowulf Linux cluster at the NIH (biowulf.nih.gov). MGH-GASROS: MGH Genes Affecting Stroke Risk and Outcome Study (MGH-GASROS) was supported by NINDS (U01 NS069208), the American Heart Association/Bugher Foundation Centers for Stroke Prevention Research 0775010N, the NIH and NHLBI's STAMPEED genomics research program (R01 HL087676), and a grant from the National Center for Research Resources. The Broad Institute Center for Genotyping and Analysis is supported by grant U54 RR020278 from the National Center for Research resources. Milan: Milano–Besta Stroke Register Collection and genotyping of the Milan cases within CEDIR were supported by the Italian Ministry of Health (grant nos.: RC 2007/LR6, RC 2008/LR6; RC 2009/LR8; RC 2010/LR8; GR-2011-02347041), FP6 LSHM-CT-2007-037273 for the PROCARDIS control samples. WTCCC2: Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium 2 (WTCCC2) was principally funded by the Wellcome Trust, as part of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 project (085475/B/08/Z and 085475/Z/08/Z and WT084724MA). The Stroke Association provided additional support for collection of some of the St George's, London cases. The Oxford cases were collected as part of the Oxford Vascular Study, which is funded by the MRC, Stroke Association, Dunhill Medical Trust, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford. The Edinburgh Stroke Study was supported by the Wellcome Trust (clinician scientist award to C.L.M.S.) and the Binks Trust. Sample processing occurred in the Genetics Core Laboratory of the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. Much of the neuroimaging occurred in the Scottish Funding Council Brain Imaging Research Centre (https://www.ed.ac.uk/clinical-sciences/edinburgh-imaging), Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, a core area of the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, and part of the SINAPSE (Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence) collaboration (sinapse.ac.uk), funded by the Scottish Funding Council and the Chief Scientist Office. Collection of the Munich cases and data analysis was supported by the Vascular Dementia Research Foundation. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements no. 666881, SVDs@target (to M.D.) and no. 667375, CoSTREAM (to M.D.); the DFG as part of the Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (EXC 1010 SyNergy) and the CRC 1123 (B3) (to M.D.); the Corona Foundation (to M.D.); the Fondation Leducq (Transatlantic Network of Excellence on the Pathogenesis of Small Vessel Disease of the Brain) (to M.D.); the e:Med program (e:AtheroSysMed) (to M.D.) and the FP7/2007-2103 European Union project CVgenes@target (grant agreement no. Health-F2-2013-601456) (to M.D.). M.F. and A.H. acknowledge support from the BHF Centre of Research Excellence in Oxford and the Wellcome Trust core award (090532/Z/09/Z). VISP: The GWAS component of the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) study was supported by the US National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), grant U01 HG005160 (PI Michèle Sale and Bradford Worrall), as part of the Genomics and Randomized Trials Network (GARNET). Genotyping services were provided by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), which is fully funded through a federal contract from the NIH to Johns Hopkins University. Assistance with data cleaning was provided by the GARNET Coordinating Center (U01 HG005157; PI Bruce S. Weir). Study recruitment and collection of datasets for the VISP clinical trial were supported by an investigator-initiated research grant (R01 NS34447; PI James Toole) from the US Public Health Service, NINDS, Bethesda, MD. Control data obtained through the database of genotypes and phenotypes (dbGAP) maintained and supported by the United States National Center for Biotechnology Information, US National Library of Medicine. WHI: Funding support for WHI-GARNET was provided through the NHGRI GARNET (grant no. U01 HG005152). Assistance with phenotype harmonization and genotype cleaning, as well as with general study coordination, was provided by the GARNET Coordinating Center (U01 HG005157). Funding support for genotyping, which was performed at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, was provided by the GEI (U01 HG004424). R.L. is a senior clinical investigator of FWO Flanders. F.W.A. is supported by a Dekker scholarship-Junior Staff Member 2014T001–Netherlands Heart Foundation and UCL Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.

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2019

111. Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure

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Wain, Louise V., Verwoert, Germaine C., O'Reilly, Paul F., Shi, Gang, Johnson, Toby, Johnson, Andrew D., Bochud, Murielle, Rice, Kenneth M., Henneman, Peter, Smith, Albert V., Ehret, Georg B., Amin, Najaf, Larson, Martin G., Mooser, Vincent, Hadley, David, Dörr, Marcus, Bis, Joshua C, Aspelund, Thor, Esko, Tõnu, Janssens, A Cecile J. W., Zhao, Jing Hua, Heath, Simon, Laan, Maris, Fu, Jingyuan, Pistis, Giorgio, Luan, Jian'An, Arora, Pankaj, Lucas, Gavin, Pirastu, Nicola, Pichler, Irene, Jackson, Anne U., Webster, Rebecca J., Zhang, Feng, Peden, John F., Schmidt, Helena, Tanaka, Toshiko, Campbell, Harry, Igl, Wilmar, Milaneschi, Yuri, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Vitart, Veronique, Chasman, Daniel I., Trompet, Stella, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L., Alizadeh, Behrooz Z., Chambers, John C., Guo, Xiuqing, Lehtimäki, Terho, Kühnel, Brigitte, Lopez, Lorna M., Polašek, Ozren, Boban, Mladen, Nelson, Christopher P., Morrison, Alanna C., Pihur, Vasyl, Ganesh, Santhi K., Hofman, Albert, Kundu, Suman, Mattace-Raso, Francesco U. S., Rivadeneira, Fernando, Sijbrands, Eric J. G., Uitterlinden, Andre G., Hwang, Shih-Jen, Vasan, Ramachandran S., Wang, Thomas J., Bergmann, Sven, Vollenweider, Peter, Waeber, Gérard, Laitinen, Jaana, Pouta, Anneli, Zitting, Paavo, McArdle, Wendy L., Kroemer, Heyo K., Völker, Uwe, Völzke, Henry, Glazer, Nicole L., Taylor, Kent D., Harris, Tamara B., Alavere, Helene, Haller, Toomas, Keis, Aime, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Aulchenko, Yurii, Barroso, In S., Khaw, Kay-Tee, Galan, Pilar, Hercberg, Serge, Lathrop, Mark, Eyheramendy, Susana, Org, Elin, Sõber, Siim, Lu, Xiaowen, Nolte, Ilja M., Penninx, Brenda W., Corre, Tanguy, Masciullo, Corrado, Sala, Cinzia, Groop, Leif, Voight, Benjamin F, Melander, Olle, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Salomaa, Veikko, D'Adamo, Adamo Pio, Fabretto, Antonella, Faletra, Flavio, Ulivi, Sheila, Del Greco M, Fabiola, Facheris, Maurizio, Collins, Francis S., Bergman, Richard N., Beilby, John P., Hung, Joseph, Musk, A William, Mangino, Massimo, Shin, So-Youn, Soranzo, Nicole, Watkins, Hugh, Goel, Anuj, Hamsten, Anders, Gider, Pierre, Loitfelder, Marisa, Zeginigg, Marion, Hernandez, Dena, Najjar, Samer S., Navarro, Pau, Wild, Sarah H., Corsi, Anna Maria, Singleton, Andrew, De Geus, Eco J. 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Snieder, H, Soranzo, N, Spector, Td, Stenvinkel, P, Sternberg, Mj, Swaminathan, R, Ubink-Veltmaat, Lj, Vollenweider, P, Waterworth, D, Zerres, K, Waeber, G, Wareham, Nj, Maxwell, Ph, Mccarthy, Mi, Jarvelin, Mr, Lightstone, L, Scott, J, Navis, G, Elliott, P, and Kooner, Js.

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Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Linkage disequilibrium, pulse pressure, mean arterial pressure, genome-wide, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Genome-wide association study, BLOOD-PRESSURE, Blood Pressure, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Linkage Disequilibrium, 0302 clinical medicine, RELEVANCE, CardioGram, Medicine and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, ddc:616, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Genome-wide association, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, Arteries, ADRENERGIC-RECEPTOR TRAFFICKING, Pulse pressure, EchoGen consortium, Hypertension, HEART-FAILURE, arterial pressure, Case-Control Studie, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Human, circulatory and respiratory physiology, medicine.medical_specialty, Mean arterial pressure, Arterie, AortaGen Consortium, Cardiogenics consortium, Locus (genetics), Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Follow-Up Studie, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, cardiovascular diseases, METAANALYSIS, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Science & Technology, HYPERTENSION, MORTALITY, Case-control study, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE RISK, 06 Biological Sciences, GENE, MICE, Endocrinology, Blood pressure, CKDGen consortium, Genetic Loci, Case-Control Studies, KidneyGen consortium, CHARGE Consortium Heart Failure Working Group, LifeLines Cohort Study, Developmental Biology, Follow-Up Studies, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Les affiliations des 100 premiers auteurs sont renseignées dans la notice. Les affiliations des autres auteurs sont disponibles à la fin de la publication.; International audience; Numerous genetic loci have been associated with systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in Europeans(1-3). We now report genome-wide association studies of pulse pressure (PP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP). In discovery (N = 74,064) and follow-up studies (N = 48,607), we identified at genome-wide significance (P = 2.7 x 10(-8) to P = 2.3 x 10(-13)) four new PP loci (at 4q12 near CHIC2, 7q22.3 near PIK3CG, 8q24.12 in NOV and 11q24.3 near ADAMTS8), two new MAP loci (3p21.31 in MAP4 and 10q25.3 near ADRB1) and one locus associated with both of these traits (2q24.3 near FIGN) that has also recently been associated with SBP in east Asians. For three of the new PP loci, the estimated effect for SBP was opposite of that for DBP, in contrast to the majority of common SBP- and DBP-associated variants, which show concordant effects on both traits. These findings suggest new genetic pathways underlying blood pressure variation, some of which may differentially influence SBP and DBP.

Published
2016

112. New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation

Author

Christian Gieger1, Aparna Radhakrishnan2, 3, Ana Cvejic2, Weihong Tang4, Eleonora Porcu5, Giorgio Pistis6, Jovana Serbanovic-Canic2, Ulrich Elling7, Alison H. Goodall8, 9, Yann Labrune10, Lorna M. Lopez11, Reedik Ma¨gi13, Stuart Meacham2, Yukinori Okada14, Nicola Pirastu16, 102, Rossella Sorice17, Alexander Teumer18, Katrin Voss2, Weihua Zhang19, Ramiro Ramirez-Solis3, Joshua C. Bis20, David Ellinghaus21, Martin Go¨ gele22, Jouke-Jan Hottenga23, Claudia Langenberg24, Peter Kovacs25, Paul F. O'Reilly26, So-Youn Shin3, To~nu Esko28, Jaana Hartiala31, Stavroula Kanoni3, Federico Murgia34, Afshin Parsa35, Jonathan Stephens2, Pim van der Harst36, C. Ellen van der Schoot37, Hooman Allayee31, Antony Attwood2, Beverley Balkau38, François Bastardot40, Saonli Basu41, Sebastian E. Baumeister42, Ginevra Biino34, Lorenzo Bomba45, Ame´lie Bonnefond10, François Cambien46, John C. Chambers19, Francesco Cucca5, Pio D'Adamo16, Gail Davies12, Rudolf A. de Boer36, Eco J. C. de Geus23, Angela Do¨ ring47, Paul Elliott19, Jeanette Erdmann50, 101, David M. Evans51, Mario Falchi52, Wei Feng41, Aaron R. Folsom4, Ian H. Frazer53, Quince D. Gibson35, Nicole L. Glazer54, Chris Hammond27, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen55, Susan R. Heckbert56, Christian Hengstenberg58, Micha Hersch59, Thomas Illig60, Ruth J. F. Loos24, Jennifer Jolley2, Kay Tee Khaw61, Brigitte Ku¨hnel1, Marie-Christine Kyrtsonis63, Vasiliki Lagou64, Heather Lloyd-Jones2, Thomas Lumley65, Massimo Mangino27, Andrea Maschio5, Irene Mateo Leach36, Barbara McKnight65, Yasin Memari3, Braxton D. Mitchell35, Grant W. Montgomery66, Yusuke Nakamura67, Matthias Nauck68, Gerjan Navis69, Ute No¨ thlings70, Ilja M. Nolte72, David J. Porteous11, Anneli Pouta55, Peter P. Pramstaller22, Janne Pullat28, Susan M. Ring51, Jerome I. Rotter75, Daniela Ruggiero17, Aimo Ruokonen76, Cinzia Sala6, Nilesh J. Samani8, Jennifer Sambrook2, David Schlessinger78, Stefan Schreiber21, Heribert Schunkert50, James Scott79, Nicholas L. Smith56, Harold Snieder72, John M. Starr11, Michael Stumvoll82, Atsushi Takahashi14, W. H. Wilson Tang83, Kent Taylor75, Albert Tenesa85, Swee Lay Thein87, Anke To¨njes82, Manuela Uda5, Sheila Ulivi16, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen36, Peter M. Visscher11, Uwe Vo¨lker18, H.-Erich Wichmann47, Kerri L. Wiggins20, Gonneke Willemsen23, Tsun-Po Yang3, Jing Hua Zhao24, Paavo Zitting89, John R. Bradley77, George V. Dedoussis33, Paolo Gasparini16, Stanley L. Hazen83, Andres Metspalu28, Mario Pirastu34, Alan R. Shuldiner35, L. Joost van Pelt91, Jaap-Jan Zwaginga92, Dorret I.Boomsma23, Ian J. Deary11, Andre Franke21, Philippe Froguel10, Santhi K. Ganesh93, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin26, Nicholas G. Martin66, Christa Meisinger48, Bruce M. Psaty57, Timothy D. Spector27, Nicholas J. Wareham24, Jan-Willem N. Akkerman97, Marina Ciullo17, Panos Deloukas3, Andreas Greinacher98, Steve Jupe99, Naoyuki Kamatani14, Jyoti Khadake99, Jaspal S. Kooner79, Josef Penninger7, Inga Prokopenko64, Derek Stemple3, Daniela Toniolo6, Lorenz Wernisch100, Serena Sanna5, Andrew A. Hicks22, Augusto Rendon2, 100, Manuel A. Ferreira 66, Willem H. Ouwehand 2, Nicole Soranzo3, Christian, Gieger, Aparna, Radhakrishnan, Ana, Cvejic, Weihong, Tang, Eleonora, Porcu, Giorgio, Pisti, Jovana Serbanovic, Canic, Ulrich, Elling, Alison H., Goodall, Yann, Labrune, Lorna M., Lopez, Reedik, Mägi, Stuart, Meacham, Yukinori, Okada, Pirastu, Nicola, Rossella, Sorice, Alexander, Teumer, Katrin, Vo, Weihua, Zhang, Ramiro Ramirez, Soli, Joshua C., Bi, David, Ellinghau, Martin, Gögele, Jouke Jan, Hottenga, Claudia, Langenberg, Peter, Kovac, Paul F., O’Reilly, So Youn, Shin, Tõnu, Esko, Jaana, Hartiala, Stavroula, Kanoni, Federico, Murgia, Afshin, Parsa, Jonathan, Stephen, Pim van der, Harst, C., Ellen van der Schoot, Hooman, Allayee, Antony, Attwood, Beverley, Balkau, François, Bastardot, Saonli, Basu, Sebastian E., Baumeister, Ginevra, Biino, Lorenzo, Bomba, Amélie, Bonnefond, François, Cambien, John C., Chamber, Francesco, Cucca, D'Adamo, ADAMO PIO, Gail, Davie, Rudolf A., de Boer, Eco J. C., de Geu, Angela, Döring, Paul, Elliott, Jeanette, Erdmann, David M., Evan, Mario, Falchi, Wei, Feng, Aaron R., Folsom, Ian H., Frazer, Quince D., Gibson, Nicole L., Glazer, Chris, Hammond, Anna Liisa, Hartikainen, Susan R., Heckbert, Christian, Hengstenberg, Micha, Hersch, Thomas, Illig, Ruth J. F., Loo, Jennifer, Jolley, Kay Tee, Khaw, Brigitte, Kühnel, Marie Christine, Kyrtsoni, Vasiliki, Lagou, Heather Lloyd, Jone, Thomas, Lumley, Massimo, Mangino, Andrea, Maschio, Irene Mateo, Leach, Barbara, Mcknight, Yasin, Memari, Braxton D., Mitchell, Grant W., Montgomery, Yusuke, Nakamura, Matthias, Nauck, Gerjan, Navi, Ute, Nöthling, Ilja M., Nolte, David J., Porteou, Anneli, Pouta, Peter P., Pramstaller, Janne, Pullat, Susan M., Ring, Jerome I., Rotter, Daniela, Ruggiero, Aimo, Ruokonen, Cinzia, Sala, Nilesh J., Samani, Jennifer, Sambrook, David, Schlessinger, Stefan, Schreiber, Heribert, Schunkert, James, Scott, Nicholas L., Smith, Harold, Snieder, John M., Starr, Michael, Stumvoll, Atsushi, Takahashi, W. H., Wilson Tang, Kent, Taylor, Albert, Tenesa, Swee Lay, Thein, Anke, Tönje, Manuela, Uda, Sheila, Ulivi, Dirk J., van Veldhuisen, Peter M., Visscher, Uwe, Völker, H., Erich Wichmann, Kerri L., Wiggin, Gonneke, Willemsen, Tsun Po, Yang, Jing Hua, Zhao, Paavo, Zitting, John R., Bradley, George V., Dedoussi, Gasparini, Paolo, Stanley L., Hazen, Andres, Metspalu, Mario, Pirastu, Alan R., Shuldiner, L., Joost van Pelt, Jaap Jan, Zwaginga, Dorret I., Boomsma, Ian J., Deary, Andre, Franke, Philippe, Froguel, Santhi K., Ganesh, Marjo Riitta, Jarvelin, Nicholas G., Martin, Christa, Meisinger, Bruce M., Psaty, Timothy D., Spector, Nicholas J., Wareham, Jan Willem N., Akkerman, Marina, Ciullo, Panos, Delouka, Andreas, Greinacher, Steve, Jupe, Naoyuki, Kamatani, Jyoti, Khadake, Jaspal S., Kooner, Josef, Penninger, Inga, Prokopenko, Derek, Stemple, Daniela, Toniolo, Lorenz, Wernisch, Serena, Sanna, Andrew A., Hick, Augusto, Rendon, Manuel A., Ferreira, Willem H., Ouwehand, Nicole, Soranzo, Faculteit Medische Wetenschappen/UMCG, Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Lifestyle Medicine (LM), Groningen Kidney Center (GKC), Vascular Ageing Programme (VAP), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Biological Psychology, EMGO+ - Mental Health, Landsteiner Laboratory, and Clinical Haematology

Subjects
Blood Platelets, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), BLOOD, Transcription, Genetic, Population, LOCI, Genome-wide association study, Genomics, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Biology, HEMATOPOIESIS, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Animals, Drosophila Proteins, Humans, Gene silencing, Gene Silencing, Protein Interaction Maps, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, education, Gene, Zebrafish, POPULATION, Cell Size, 030304 developmental biology, Megakaryopoiesis, Genetics, platelet, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, Genome, Human, Platelet Count, Gene Expression Profiling, Zebrafish Proteins, Europe, Gene expression profiling, DROSOPHILA, Drosophila melanogaster, Human genome, Megakaryocytes, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Platelets are the second most abundant cell type in blood and are essential for maintaining haemostasis. Their count and volume are tightly controlled within narrow physiological ranges, but there is only limited understanding of the molecular processes controlling both traits. Here we carried out a high-powered meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in up to 66,867 individuals of European ancestry, followed by extensive biological and functional assessment. We identified 68 genomic loci reliably associated with platelet count and volume mapping to established and putative novel regulators of megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation. These genes show megakaryocyte-specific gene expression patterns and extensive network connectivity. Using gene silencing in Danio rerio and Drosophila melanogaster, we identified 11 of the genes as novel regulators of blood cell formation. Taken together, our findings advance understanding of novel gene functions controlling fate-determining events during megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation, providing a new example of successful translation of GWAS to function. © 2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.

Published
2011
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