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1. Multimodal classification of molecular subtypes in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Author: Olga Krali, Yanara Marincevic-Zuniga, Gustav Arvidsson, Anna Pia Enblad, Anders Lundmark, Shumaila Sayyab, Vasilios Zachariadis, Merja Heinäniemi, Janne Suhonen, Laura Oksa, Kaisa Vepsäläinen, Ingegerd Öfverholm, Gisela Barbany, Ann Nordgren, Henrik Lilljebjörn, Thoas Fioretos, Hans O. Madsen, Hanne Vibeke Marquart, Trond Flaegstad, Erik Forestier, Ólafur G. Jónsson, Jukka Kanerva, Olli Lohi, Ulrika Norén-Nyström, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Arja Harila, Mats Heyman, Gudmar Lönnerholm, Ann-Christine Syvänen, and Jessica Nordlund
Subjects: Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: Abstract Genomic analyses have redefined the molecular subgrouping of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Molecular subgroups guide risk-stratification and targeted therapies, but outcomes of recently identified subtypes are often unclear, owing to limited cases with comprehensive profiling and cross-protocol studies. We developed a machine learning tool (ALLIUM) for the molecular subclassification of ALL in retrospective cohorts as well as for up-front diagnostics. ALLIUM uses DNA methylation and gene expression data from 1131 Nordic ALL patients to predict 17 ALL subtypes with high accuracy. ALLIUM was used to revise and verify the molecular subtype of 281 B-cell precursor ALL (BCP-ALL) cases with previously undefined molecular phenotype, resulting in a single revised subtype for 81.5% of these cases. Our study shows the power of combining DNA methylation and gene expression data for resolving ALL subtypes and provides a comprehensive population-based retrospective cohort study of molecular subtype frequencies in the Nordic countries.
Published: 2023
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2. O10 Ischemic stroke subtypes in SLE-associations with a STAT4 risk genotype

Author: Elisabet Svenungsson, Iva Gunnarsson, Johanna T Gustafsson, Agneta Zickert, Lars Rönnblom, Andreas Jönsen, Dag Leonard, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Johanna K Sandling, Gunnel Nordmark, Anders A Bengtsson, Magnus Andersson, Kerstin Elvin, Liisa Hopia, and Anna Laveskog
Subjects: Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
Published: 2024
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3. Distinct HLA associations with autoantibody-defined subgroups in idiopathic inflammatory myopathiesResearch in context

Author: Valérie Leclair, Angeles S. Galindo-Feria, Simon Rothwell, Olga Kryštůfková, Sepehr Sarrafzadeh Zargar, Herman Mann, Louise Pyndt Diederichsen, Helena Andersson, Martin Klein, Sarah Tansley, Lars Rönnblom, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Johanna K. Sandling, Neil McHugh, Janine A. Lamb, Jiri Vencovský, Hector Chinoy, Marie Holmqvist, Matteo Bianchi, Leonid Padyukov, Ingrid E. Lundberg, Lina-Marcela Diaz-Gallo, Sergey V. Kozyrev, Maija-Leena Eloranta, Dag Leonard, Johanna Dahlqvist, Maria Lidén, Argyri Mathioudaki, Jennifer RS. Meadows, Jessika Nordin, Gunnel Nordmark, Antonella Notarnicola, Anna Tjärnlund, Maryam Dastmalchi, Daniel Eriksson, Øyvind Molberg, Fabiana H.G. Farias, Awat Jalal, Balsam Hanna, Helena Hellström, Tomas Husmark, Åsa Häggström, Anna Svärd, Thomas Skogh, Robert G. Cooper, Gerli Rosengren Pielberg, Anna Lobell, Åsa Karlsson, Eva Murén, Kerstin M. Ahlgren, Göran Andersson, Nils Landegren, Olle Kämpe, and Peter Söderkvis
Subjects: Autoantibody, HLA, Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy, Myositis, Medicine, Medicine (General), R5-920
Abstract: Summary: Background: In patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), autoantibodies are associated with specific clinical phenotypes suggesting a pathogenic role of adaptive immunity. We explored if autoantibody profiles are associated with specific HLA genetic variants and clinical manifestations in IIM. Methods: We included 1348 IIM patients and determined the occurrence of 14 myositis-specific or –associated autoantibodies. We used unsupervised cluster analysis to identify autoantibody-defined subgroups and logistic regression to estimate associations with clinical manifestations, HLA-DRB1, HLA-DQA1, HLA-DQB1 alleles, and amino acids imputed from genetic information of HLA class II and I molecules. Findings: We identified eight subgroups with the following dominant autoantibodies: anti-Ro52, -U1RNP, -PM/Scl, -Mi2, -Jo1, -Jo1/Ro52, -TIF1γ or negative for all analysed autoantibodies. Associations with HLA-DRB1∗11, HLA-DRB1∗15, HLA-DQA1∗03, and HLA-DQB1∗03 were present in the anti-U1RNP-dominated subgroup. HLA-DRB1∗03, HLA-DQA1∗05, and HLA-DQB1∗02 alleles were overrepresented in the anti-PM/Scl and anti-Jo1/Ro52-dominated subgroups. HLA-DRB1∗16, HLA-DRB1∗07 alleles were most frequent in anti-Mi2 and HLA-DRB1∗01 and HLA-DRB1∗07 alleles in the anti-TIF1γ subgroup. The HLA-DRB1∗13, HLA-DQA1∗01 and HLA-DQB1∗06 alleles were overrepresented in the negative subgroup. Significant signals from variations in class I molecules were detected in the subgroups dominated by anti-Mi2, anti-Jo1/Ro52, anti-TIF1γ, and the negative subgroup. Interpretation: Distinct HLA class II and I associations were observed for almost all autoantibody-defined subgroups. The associations support autoantibody profiles use for classifying IIM which would likely reflect underlying pathogenic mechanisms better than classifications based on clinical symptoms and/or histopathological features. Funding: See a detailed list of funding bodies in the Acknowledgements section at the end of the manuscript.
Published: 2023
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4. Mutational patterns and clonal evolution from diagnosis to relapse in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Author: Shumaila Sayyab, Anders Lundmark, Malin Larsson, Markus Ringnér, Sara Nystedt, Yanara Marincevic-Zuniga, Katja Pokrovskaja Tamm, Jonas Abrahamsson, Linda Fogelstrand, Mats Heyman, Ulrika Norén-Nyström, Gudmar Lönnerholm, Arja Harila-Saari, Eva C. Berglund, Jessica Nordlund, and Ann-Christine Syvänen
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Abstract The mechanisms driving clonal heterogeneity and evolution in relapsed pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are not fully understood. We performed whole genome sequencing of samples collected at diagnosis, relapse(s) and remission from 29 Nordic patients. Somatic point mutations and large-scale structural variants were called using individually matched remission samples as controls, and allelic expression of the mutations was assessed in ALL cells using RNA-sequencing. We observed an increased burden of somatic mutations at relapse, compared to diagnosis, and at second relapse compared to first relapse. In addition to 29 known ALL driver genes, of which nine genes carried recurrent protein-coding mutations in our sample set, we identified putative non-protein coding mutations in regulatory regions of seven additional genes that have not previously been described in ALL. Cluster analysis of hundreds of somatic mutations per sample revealed three distinct evolutionary trajectories during ALL progression from diagnosis to relapse. The evolutionary trajectories provide insight into the mutational mechanisms leading relapse in ALL and could offer biomarkers for improved risk prediction in individual patients.
Published: 2021
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5. DNA Methylation-Based Interferon Scores Associate With Sub-Phenotypes in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome

Author: Juliana Imgenberg-Kreuz, Johanna K. Sandling, Katrine Brække Norheim, Svein Joar Auglænd Johnsen, Roald Omdal, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Elisabet Svenungsson, Lars Rönnblom, Maija-Leena Eloranta, and Gunnel Nordmark
Subjects: primary Sjögren’s syndrome, interferon, DNA methylation, autoimmunity, interferonopathies, precision medicine, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
Abstract: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease with profound clinical heterogeneity, where excessive activation of the type I interferon (IFN) system is considered one of the key mechanisms in disease pathogenesis. Here we present a DNA methylation-based IFN system activation score (DNAm IFN score) and investigate its potential associations with sub-phenotypes of pSS. The study comprised 100 Swedish patients with pSS and 587 Swedish controls. For replication, 48 patients with pSS from Stavanger, Norway, were included. IFN scores were calculated from DNA methylation levels at the IFN-induced genes RSAD2, IFIT1 and IFI44L. A high DNAm IFN score, defined as > meancontrols +2SDcontrols (IFN score >4.4), was observed in 59% of pSS patients and in 4% of controls (p=1.3x10-35). Patients with a high DNAm IFN score were on average seven years younger at symptom onset (p=0.017) and at diagnosis (p=3x10-3). The DNAm IFN score levels were significantly higher in pSS positive for both SSA and SSB antibodies compared to SSA/SSB negative patients (pdiscovery=1.9x10-8, preplication=7.8x10-4). In patients positive for both SSA subtypes Ro52 and Ro60, an increased score was identified compared to single positive patients (p=0.022). Analyzing the discovery and replication cohorts together, elevated DNAm IFN scores were observed in pSS with hypergammaglobulinemia (p=2x10-8) and low C4 (p=1.5x10-3) compared to patients without these manifestations. Patients < 70 years with ongoing lymphoma at DNA sampling or lymphoma at follow-up (n=7), presented an increased DNAm IFN score compared to pSS without lymphoma (p=0.025). In conclusion, the DNAm-based IFN score is a promising alternative to mRNA-based scores for identification of patients with activation of the IFN system and may be applied for patient stratification guiding treatment decisions, monitoring and inclusion in clinical trials.
Published: 2021
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6. Function of multiple sclerosis-protective HLA class I alleles revealed by genome-wide protein-quantitative trait loci mapping of interferon signalling.

Author: Christian Lundtoft, Pascal Pucholt, Juliana Imgenberg-Kreuz, Jonas Carlsson-Almlöf, Maija-Leena Eloranta, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Gunnel Nordmark, Johanna K Sandling, Ingrid Kockum, Tomas Olsson, Lars Rönnblom, and Niklas Hagberg
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Interferons (IFNs) are cytokines that are central to the host defence against viruses and other microorganisms. If not properly regulated, IFNs may contribute to the pathogenesis of inflammatory autoimmune, or infectious diseases. To identify genetic polymorphisms regulating the IFN system we performed an unbiased genome-wide protein-quantitative trait loci (pQTL) mapping of cell-type specific type I and type II IFN receptor levels and their responses in immune cells from 303 healthy individuals. Seven genome-wide significant (p < 5.0E-8) pQTLs were identified. Two independent SNPs that tagged the multiple sclerosis (MS)-protective HLA class I alleles A*02/A*68 and B*44, respectively, were associated with increased levels of IFNAR2 in B and T cells, with the most prominent effect in IgD-CD27+ memory B cells. The increased IFNAR2 levels in B cells were replicated in cells from an independent set of healthy individuals and in MS patients. Despite increased IFNAR2 levels, B and T cells carrying the MS-protective alleles displayed a reduced response to type I IFN stimulation. Expression and methylation-QTL analysis demonstrated increased mRNA expression of the pseudogene HLA-J in B cells carrying the MS-protective class I alleles, possibly driven via methylation-dependent transcriptional regulation. Together these data suggest that the MS-protective effects of HLA class I alleles are unrelated to their antigen-presenting function, and propose a previously unappreciated function of type I IFN signalling in B and T cells in MS immune-pathogenesis.
Published: 2020
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7. Protein and DNA methylation-based scores as surrogate markers for interferon system activation in patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome

Author: Marika Kvarnström, Johannes Mofors, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Gunnel Nordmark, Albin Björk, Gudny Ella Thorlacius, Elina Richardsdotter Andersson, and Juliana Imgenberg-Kreuz
Subjects: Medicine
Abstract: Objective Standard assessment of interferon (IFN) system activity in systemic rheumatic diseases depends on the availability of RNA samples. In this study, we describe and evaluate alternative methods using plasma, serum and DNA samples, exemplified in the IFN-driven disease primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS).Methods Patients with pSS seropositive or negative for anti-SSA/SSB and controls were included. Protein-based IFN (pIFN) scores were calculated from levels of PD-1, CXCL9 and CXCL10. DNA methylation-based (DNAm) IFN scores were calculated from DNAm levels at RSAD2, IFIT1 and IFI44L. Scores were compared with mRNA-based IFN scores measured by quantitative PCR (qPCR), Nanostring or RNA sequencing (RNAseq).Results mRNA-based IFN scores displayed strong correlations between B cells and monocytes (r=0.93 and 0.95, p
Published: 2020
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8. Transcriptome sequencing in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia identifies fusion genes associated with distinct DNA methylation profiles

Author: Yanara Marincevic-Zuniga, Johan Dahlberg, Sara Nilsson, Amanda Raine, Sara Nystedt, Carl Mårten Lindqvist, Eva C. Berglund, Jonas Abrahamsson, Lucia Cavelier, Erik Forestier, Mats Heyman, Gudmar Lönnerholm, Jessica Nordlund, and Ann-Christine Syvänen
Subjects: Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia, RNA sequencing, Fusion genes, BCP-ALL, T-ALL, Translocation, Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs, RC633-647.5, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
Abstract: Abstract Background Structural chromosomal rearrangements that lead to expressed fusion genes are a hallmark of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). In this study, we performed transcriptome sequencing of 134 primary ALL patient samples to comprehensively detect fusion transcripts. Methods We combined fusion gene detection with genome-wide DNA methylation analysis, gene expression profiling, and targeted sequencing to determine molecular signatures of emerging ALL subtypes. Results We identified 64 unique fusion events distributed among 80 individual patients, of which over 50% have not previously been reported in ALL. Although the majority of the fusion genes were found only in a single patient, we identified several recurrent fusion gene families defined by promiscuous fusion gene partners, such as ETV6, RUNX1, PAX5, and ZNF384, or recurrent fusion genes, such as DUX4-IGH. Our data show that patients harboring these fusion genes displayed characteristic genome-wide DNA methylation and gene expression signatures in addition to distinct patterns in single nucleotide variants and recurrent copy number alterations. Conclusion Our study delineates the fusion gene landscape in pediatric ALL, including both known and novel fusion genes, and highlights fusion gene families with shared molecular etiologies, which may provide additional information for prognosis and therapeutic options in the future.
Published: 2017
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9. Novel risk genes for systemic lupus erythematosus predicted by random forest classification

Author: Jonas Carlsson Almlöf, Andrei Alexsson, Juliana Imgenberg-Kreuz, Lina Sylwan, Christofer Bäcklin, Dag Leonard, Gunnel Nordmark, Karolina Tandre, Maija-Leena Eloranta, Leonid Padyukov, Christine Bengtsson, Andreas Jönsen, Solbritt Rantapää Dahlqvist, Christopher Sjöwall, Anders A. Bengtsson, Iva Gunnarsson, Elisabet Svenungsson, Lars Rönnblom, Johanna K. Sandling, and Ann-Christine Syvänen
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Abstract Genome-wide association studies have identified risk loci for SLE, but a large proportion of the genetic contribution to SLE still remains unexplained. To detect novel risk genes, and to predict an individual’s SLE risk we designed a random forest classifier using SNP genotype data generated on the “Immunochip” from 1,160 patients with SLE and 2,711 controls. Using gene importance scores defined by the random forest classifier, we identified 15 potential novel risk genes for SLE. Of them 12 are associated with other autoimmune diseases than SLE, whereas three genes (ZNF804A, CDK1, and MANF) have not previously been associated with autoimmunity. Random forest classification also allowed prediction of patients at risk for lupus nephritis with an area under the curve of 0.94. By allele-specific gene expression analysis we detected cis-regulatory SNPs that affect the expression levels of six of the top 40 genes designed by the random forest analysis, indicating a regulatory role for the identified risk variants. The 40 top genes from the prediction were overrepresented for differential expression in B and T cells according to RNA-sequencing of samples from five healthy donors, with more frequent over-expression in B cells compared to T cells.
Published: 2017
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10. Transancestral mapping and genetic load in systemic lupus erythematosus

Author: Carl D. Langefeld, Hannah C. Ainsworth, Deborah S. Cunninghame Graham, Jennifer A. Kelly, Mary E. Comeau, Miranda C. Marion, Timothy D. Howard, Paula S. Ramos, Jennifer A. Croker, David L. Morris, Johanna K. Sandling, Jonas Carlsson Almlöf, Eduardo M. Acevedo-Vásquez, Graciela S. Alarcón, Alejandra M. Babini, Vicente Baca, Anders A. Bengtsson, Guillermo A. Berbotto, Marc Bijl, Elizabeth E. Brown, Hermine I. Brunner, Mario H. Cardiel, Luis Catoggio, Ricard Cervera, Jorge M. Cucho-Venegas, Solbritt Rantapää Dahlqvist, Sandra D’Alfonso, Berta Martins Da Silva, Iñigo de la Rúa Figueroa, Andrea Doria, Jeffrey C. Edberg, Emőke Endreffy, Jorge A. Esquivel-Valerio, Paul R. Fortin, Barry I. Freedman, Johan Frostegård, Mercedes A. García, Ignacio García de la Torre, Gary S. Gilkeson, Dafna D. Gladman, Iva Gunnarsson, Joel M. Guthridge, Jennifer L. Huggins, Judith A. James, Cees G. M. Kallenberg, Diane L. Kamen, David R. Karp, Kenneth M. Kaufman, Leah C. Kottyan, László Kovács, Helle Laustrup, Bernard R. Lauwerys, Quan-Zhen Li, Marco A. Maradiaga-Ceceña, Javier Martín, Joseph M. McCune, David R. McWilliams, Joan T. Merrill, Pedro Miranda, José F. Moctezuma, Swapan K. Nath, Timothy B. Niewold, Lorena Orozco, Norberto Ortego-Centeno, Michelle Petri, Christian A. Pineau, Bernardo A. Pons-Estel, Janet Pope, Prithvi Raj, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, John D. Reveille, Laurie P. Russell, José M. Sabio, Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas, Hugo R. Scherbarth, Raffaella Scorza, Michael F. Seldin, Christopher Sjöwall, Elisabet Svenungsson, Susan D. Thompson, Sergio M. A. Toloza, Lennart Truedsson, Teresa Tusié-Luna, Carlos Vasconcelos, Luis M. Vilá, Daniel J. Wallace, Michael H. Weisman, Joan E. Wither, Tushar Bhangale, Jorge R. Oksenberg, John D. Rioux, Peter K. Gregersen, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Lars Rönnblom, Lindsey A. Criswell, Chaim O. Jacob, Kathy L. Sivils, Betty P. Tsao, Laura E. Schanberg, Timothy W. Behrens, Earl D. Silverman, Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme, Robert P. Kimberly, John B. Harley, Edward K. Wakeland, Robert R. Graham, Patrick M. Gaffney, and Timothy J. Vyse
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with a strong ethnic and gender bias. In a transancestral genetic association study, Langefeldet al. identify 24 novel regions associated with risk to lupus and propose a cumulative hits hypothesis for loci conferring risk to SLE.
Published: 2017
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11. Genetic loci associated with heart rate variability and their effects on cardiac disease risk

Author: Ilja M. Nolte, M. Loretto Munoz, Vinicius Tragante, Azmeraw T. Amare, Rick Jansen, Ahmad Vaez, Benedikt von der Heyde, Christy L. Avery, Joshua C. Bis, Bram Dierckx, Jenny van Dongen, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Philippe Goyette, Jussi Hernesniemi, Ville Huikari, Shih-Jen Hwang, Deepali Jaju, Kathleen F. Kerr, Alexander Kluttig, Bouwe P. Krijthe, Jitender Kumar, Sander W. van der Laan, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Adam X. Maihofer, Arpi Minassian, Peter J. van der Most, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Michel Nivard, Erika Salvi, James D. Stewart, Julian F. Thayer, Niek Verweij, Andrew Wong, Delilah Zabaneh, Mohammad H. Zafarmand, Abdel Abdellaoui, Sulayma Albarwani, Christine Albert, Alvaro Alonso, Foram Ashar, Juha Auvinen, Tomas Axelsson, Dewleen G. Baker, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Matteo Barcella, Riad Bayoumi, Rob J. Bieringa, Dorret Boomsma, Gabrielle Boucher, Annie R. Britton, Ingrid Christophersen, Andrea Dietrich, George B. Ehret, Patrick T. Ellinor, Markku Eskola, Janine F. Felix, John S. Floras, Oscar H. Franco, Peter Friberg, Maaike G. J. Gademan, Mark A. Geyer, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Catharina A. Hartman, Daiane Hemerich, Albert Hofman, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Heikki Huikuri, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Xavier Jouven, Juhani Junttila, Markus Juonala, Antti M. Kiviniemi, Jan A. Kors, Meena Kumari, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Cathy C. Laurie, Joop D. Lefrandt, Yong Li, Yun Li, Duanping Liao, Marian C. Limacher, Henry J. Lin, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Steven A. Lubitz, Anubha Mahajan, Barbara McKnight, Henriette Meyer zu Schwabedissen, Yuri Milaneschi, Nina Mononen, Andrew P. Morris, Mike A. Nalls, Gerjan Navis, Melanie Neijts, Kjell Nikus, Kari E. North, Daniel T. O'Connor, Johan Ormel, Siegfried Perz, Annette Peters, Bruce M. Psaty, Olli T. Raitakari, Victoria B. Risbrough, Moritz F. Sinner, David Siscovick, Johannes H. Smit, Nicholas L. Smith, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Nona Sotoodehnia, Jan A. Staessen, Phyllis K. Stein, Adrienne M. Stilp, Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, Konstantin Strauch, Johan Sundström, Cees A. Swenne, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Jean-Claude Tardif, Kent D. Taylor, Alexander Teumer, Timothy A. Thornton, Lesley E. Tinker, André G. Uitterlinden, Jessica van Setten, Andreas Voss, Melanie Waldenberger, Kirk C. Wilhelmsen, Gonneke Willemsen, Quenna Wong, Zhu-Ming Zhang, Alan B. Zonderman, Daniele Cusi, Michele K. Evans, Halina K. Greiser, Pim van der Harst, Mohammad Hassan, Erik Ingelsson, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Stefan Kääb, Mika Kähönen, Mika Kivimaki, Charles Kooperberg, Diana Kuh, Terho Lehtimäki, Lars Lind, Caroline M. Nievergelt, Chris J. O'Donnell, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Brenda Penninx, Alexander P. Reiner, Harriëtte Riese, Arie M. van Roon, John D. Rioux, Jerome I. Rotter, Tamar Sofer, Bruno H. Stricker, Henning Tiemeier, Tanja G. M. Vrijkotte, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Bianca J. J. M. Brundel, Susan R. Heckbert, Eric A. Whitsel, Marcel den Hoed, Harold Snieder, and Eco J. C. de Geus
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Heart rate variability (HRV) describes the individual variation in cardiac cycle duration and is a measure of vagal control of heart rate. Here, the authors identify seventeen single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with HRV, lending new insight into the vagal regulation of heart rhythm.
Published: 2017
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12. Shared and Unique Patterns of DNA Methylation in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Primary Sjögren's Syndrome

Author: Juliana Imgenberg-Kreuz, Jonas Carlsson Almlöf, Dag Leonard, Christopher Sjöwall, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Lars Rönnblom, Johanna K. Sandling, and Gunnel Nordmark
Subjects: systemic lupus erythematosus, primary Sjögren's syndrome, DNA methylation, EWAS, epigenetics, autoimmunity, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
Abstract: Objectives: To perform a cross-comparative analysis of DNA methylation in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS), and healthy controls addressing the question of epigenetic sharing and aiming to detect disease-specific alterations.Methods: DNA extracted from peripheral blood from 347 cases with SLE, 100 cases with pSS, and 400 healthy controls were analyzed on the Human Methylation 450k array, targeting 485,000 CpG sites across the genome. A linear regression model including age, sex, and blood cell type distribution as covariates was fitted, and association p-values were Bonferroni corrected. A random forest machine learning classifier was designed for prediction of disease status based on DNA methylation data.Results: We established a combined set of 4,945 shared differentially methylated CpG sites (DMCs) in SLE and pSS compared to controls. In pSS, hypomethylation at type I interferon induced genes was mainly driven by patients who were positive for Ro/SSA and/or La/SSB autoantibodies. Analysis of differential methylation between SLE and pSS identified 2,244 DMCs with a majority of sites showing decreased methylation in SLE compared to pSS. The random forest classifier demonstrated good performance in discerning between disease status with an area under the curve (AUC) between 0.83 and 0.96.Conclusions: The majority of differential DNA methylation is shared between SLE and pSS, however, important quantitative differences exist. Our data highlight neutrophil dysregulation as a shared mechanism, emphasizing the role of neutrophils in the pathogenesis of systemic autoimmune diseases. The current study provides evidence for genes and molecular pathways driving common and disease-specific pathogenic mechanisms.
Published: 2019
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13. Circulating Levels of Interferon Regulatory Factor-5 Associates With Subgroups of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients

Author: Helena Idborg, Arash Zandian, Elena Ossipova, Edvard Wigren, Charlotta Preger, Fariborz Mobarrez, Antonio Checa, Azita Sohrabian, Pascal Pucholt, Johanna K. Sandling, Cátia Fernandes-Cerqueira, Johan Rönnelid, Vilija Oke, Giorgia Grosso, Marika Kvarnström, Anders Larsson, Craig E. Wheelock, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Lars Rönnblom, Kim Kultima, Helena Persson, Susanne Gräslund, Iva Gunnarsson, Peter Nilsson, Elisabet Svenungsson, and Per-Johan Jakobsson
Subjects: Interferon regulating factor 5 (IRF5), antibody suspension bead arrays, subgroups, biomarker discovery, plasma proteomics, unsupervised clustering, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
Abstract: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease, which currently lacks specific diagnostic biomarkers. The diversity within the patients obstructs clinical trials but may also reflect differences in underlying pathogenesis. Our objective was to obtain protein profiles to identify potential general biomarkers of SLE and to determine molecular subgroups within SLE for patient stratification. Plasma samples from a cross-sectional study of well-characterized SLE patients (n = 379) and matched population controls (n = 316) were analyzed by antibody suspension bead array targeting 281 proteins. To investigate the differences between SLE and controls, Mann–Whitney U-test with Bonferroni correction, generalized linear modeling and receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis were performed. K-means clustering was used to identify molecular SLE subgroups. We identified Interferon regulating factor 5 (IRF5), solute carrier family 22 member 2 (SLC22A2) and S100 calcium binding protein A12 (S100A12) as the three proteins with the largest fold change between SLE patients and controls (SLE/Control = 1.4, 1.4, and 1.2 respectively). The lowest p-values comparing SLE patients and controls were obtained for S100A12, Matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP1) and SLC22A2 (padjusted = 3 × 10−9, 3 × 10−6, and 5 × 10−6 respectively). In a set of 15 potential biomarkers differentiating SLE patients and controls, two of the proteins were transcription factors, i.e., IRF5 and SAM pointed domain containing ETS transcription factor (SPDEF). IRF5 was up-regulated while SPDEF was found to be down-regulated in SLE patients. Unsupervised clustering of all investigated proteins identified three molecular subgroups among SLE patients, characterized by (1) high levels of rheumatoid factor-IgM, (2) low IRF5, and (3) high IRF5. IRF5 expressing microparticles were analyzed by flow cytometry in a subset of patients to confirm the presence of IRF5 in plasma and detection of extracellular IRF5 was further confirmed by immunoprecipitation-mass spectrometry (IP-MS). Interestingly IRF5, a known genetic risk factor for SLE, was detected extracellularly and suggested by unsupervised clustering analysis to differentiate between SLE subgroups. Our results imply a set of circulating molecules as markers of possible pathogenic importance in SLE. We believe that these findings could be of relevance for understanding the pathogenesis and diversity of SLE, as well as for selection of patients in clinical trials.
Published: 2019
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14. Allelic expression mapping across cellular lineages to establish impact of non‐coding SNPs

Author: Veronique Adoue, Alicia Schiavi, Nicholas Light, Jonas Carlsson Almlöf, Per Lundmark, Bing Ge, Tony Kwan, Maxime Caron, Lars Rönnblom, Chuan Wang, Shu‐Huang Chen, Alison H Goodall, Francois Cambien, Panos Deloukas, Willem H Ouwehand, Ann‐Christine Syvänen, and Tomi Pastinen
Subjects: allelic expression, cis‐rSNPs, complex disease, NFκB, repressor, Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Medicine (General), R5-920
Abstract: Abstract Most complex disease‐associated genetic variants are located in non‐coding regions and are therefore thought to be regulatory in nature. Association mapping of differential allelic expression (AE) is a powerful method to identify SNPs with direct cis‐regulatory impact (cis‐rSNPs). We used AE mapping to identify cis‐rSNPs regulating gene expression in 55 and 63 HapMap lymphoblastoid cell lines from a Caucasian and an African population, respectively, 70 fibroblast cell lines, and 188 purified monocyte samples and found 40–60% of these cis‐rSNPs to be shared across cell types. We uncover a new class of cis‐rSNPs, which disrupt footprint‐derived de novo motifs that are predominantly bound by repressive factors and are implicated in disease susceptibility through overlaps with GWAS SNPs. Finally, we provide the proof‐of‐principle for a new approach for genome‐wide functional validation of transcription factor–SNP interactions. By perturbing NFκB action in lymphoblasts, we identified 489 cis‐regulated transcripts with altered AE after NFκB perturbation. Altogether, we perform a comprehensive analysis of cis‐variation in four cell populations and provide new tools for the identification of functional variants associated to complex diseases.
Published: 2014
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15. Correction: The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study.

Author: Thomas W Winkler, Anne E Justice, Mariaelisa Graff, Llilda Barata, Mary F Feitosa, Su Chu, Jacek Czajkowski, Tõnu Esko, Tove Fall, Tuomas O Kilpeläinen, Yingchang Lu, Reedik Mägi, Evelin Mihailov, Tune H Pers, Sina Rüeger, Alexander Teumer, Georg B Ehret, Teresa Ferreira, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Juha Karjalainen, Vasiliki Lagou, Anubha Mahajan, Michael D Neinast, Inga Prokopenko, Jeannette Simino, Tanya M Teslovich, Rick Jansen, Harm-Jan Westra, Charles C White, Devin Absher, Tarunveer S Ahluwalia, Shafqat Ahmad, Eva Albrecht, Alexessander Couto Alves, Jennifer L Bragg-Gresham, Anton J M de Craen, Joshua C Bis, Amélie Bonnefond, Gabrielle Boucher, Gemma Cadby, Yu-Ching Cheng, Charleston W K Chiang, Graciela Delgado, Ayse Demirkan, Nicole Dueker, Niina Eklund, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Joel Eriksson, Bjarke Feenstra, Krista Fischer, Francesca Frau, Tessel E Galesloot, Frank Geller, Anuj Goel, Mathias Gorski, Tanja B Grammer, Stefan Gustafsson, Saskia Haitjema, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Jennifer E Huffman, Anne U Jackson, Kevin B Jacobs, Åsa Johansson, Marika Kaakinen, Marcus E Kleber, Jari Lahti, Irene Mateo Leach, Benjamin Lehne, Youfang Liu, Ken Sin Lo, Mattias Lorentzon, Jian'an Luan, Pamela A F Madden, Massimo Mangino, Barbara McKnight, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Keri L Monda, May E Montasser, Gabriele Müller, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Ilja M Nolte, Kalliope Panoutsopoulou, Laura Pascoe, Lavinia Paternoster, Nigel W Rayner, Frida Renström, Federica Rizzi, Lynda M Rose, Kathy A Ryan, Perttu Salo, Serena Sanna, Hubert Scharnagl, Jianxin Shi, Albert Vernon Smith, Lorraine Southam, Alena Stančáková, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Rona J Strawbridge, Yun Ju Sung, Ioanna Tachmazidou, Toshiko Tanaka, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Stella Trompet, Natalia Pervjakova, Jonathan P Tyrer, Liesbeth Vandenput, Sander W van der Laan, Nathalie van der Velde, Jessica van Setten, Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Niek Verweij, Efthymia Vlachopoulou, Lindsay L Waite, Sophie R Wang, Zhaoming Wang, Sarah H Wild, Christina Willenborg, James F Wilson, Andrew Wong, Jian Yang, Loïc Yengo, Laura M Yerges-Armstrong, Lei Yu, Weihua Zhang, Jing Hua Zhao, Ehm A Andersson, Stephan J L Bakker, Damiano Baldassarre, Karina Banasik, Matteo Barcella, Cristina Barlassina, Claire Bellis, Paola Benaglio, John Blangero, Matthias Blüher, Fabrice Bonnet, Lori L Bonnycastle, Heather A Boyd, Marcel Bruinenberg, Aron S Buchman, Harry Campbell, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Peter S Chines, Simone Claudi-Boehm, John Cole, Francis S Collins, Eco J C de Geus, Lisette C P G M de Groot, Maria Dimitriou, Jubao Duan, Stefan Enroth, Elodie Eury, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Nita G Forouhi, Nele Friedrich, Pablo V Gejman, Bruna Gigante, Nicola Glorioso, Alan S Go, Omri Gottesman, Jürgen Gräßler, Harald Grallert, Niels Grarup, Yu-Mei Gu, Linda Broer, Annelies C Ham, Torben Hansen, Tamara B Harris, Catharina A Hartman, Maija Hassinen, Nicholas Hastie, Andrew T Hattersley, Andrew C Heath, Anjali K Henders, Dena Hernandez, Hans Hillege, Oddgeir Holmen, Kees G Hovingh, Jennie Hui, Lise L Husemoen, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Pirro G Hysi, Thomas Illig, Philip L De Jager, Shapour Jalilzadeh, Torben Jørgensen, J Wouter Jukema, Markus Juonala, Stavroula Kanoni, Maria Karaleftheri, Kay Tee Khaw, Leena Kinnunen, Steven J Kittner, Wolfgang Koenig, Ivana Kolcic, Peter Kovacs, Nikolaj T Krarup, Wolfgang Kratzer, Janine Krüger, Diana Kuh, Meena Kumari, Theodosios Kyriakou, Claudia Langenberg, Lars Lannfelt, Chiara Lanzani, Vaneet Lotay, Lenore J Launer, Karin Leander, Jaana Lindström, Allan Linneberg, Yan-Ping Liu, Stéphane Lobbens, Robert Luben, Valeriya Lyssenko, Satu Männistö, Patrik K Magnusson, Wendy L McArdle, Cristina Menni, Sigrun Merger, Lili Milani, Grant W Montgomery, Andrew P Morris, Narisu Narisu, Mari Nelis, Ken K Ong, Aarno Palotie, Louis Pérusse, Irene Pichler, Maria G Pilia, Anneli Pouta, Myriam Rheinberger, Rasmus Ribel-Madsen, Marcus Richards, Kenneth M Rice, Treva K Rice, Carlo Rivolta, Veikko Salomaa, Alan R Sanders, Mark A Sarzynski, Salome Scholtens, Robert A Scott, William R Scott, Sylvain Sebert, Sebanti Sengupta, Bengt Sennblad, Thomas Seufferlein, Angela Silveira, P Eline Slagboom, Jan H Smit, Thomas H Sparsø, Kathleen Stirrups, Ronald P Stolk, Heather M Stringham, Morris A Swertz, Amy J Swift, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Sian-Tsung Tan, Barbara Thorand, Anke Tönjes, Angelo Tremblay, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Peter J van der Most, Uwe Völker, Marie-Claude Vohl, Judith M Vonk, Melanie Waldenberger, Ryan W Walker, Roman Wennauer, Elisabeth Widén, Gonneke Willemsen, Tom Wilsgaard, Alan F Wright, M Carola Zillikens, Suzanne C van Dijk, Natasja M van Schoor, Folkert W Asselbergs, Paul I W de Bakker, Jacques S Beckmann, John Beilby, David A Bennett, Richard N Bergman, Sven Bergmann, Carsten A Böger, Bernhard O Boehm, Eric Boerwinkle, Dorret I Boomsma, Stefan R Bornstein, Erwin P Bottinger, Claude Bouchard, John C Chambers, Stephen J Chanock, Daniel I Chasman, Francesco Cucca, Daniele Cusi, George Dedoussis, Jeanette Erdmann, Johan G Eriksson, Denis A Evans, Ulf de Faire, Martin Farrall, Luigi Ferrucci, Ian Ford, Lude Franke, Paul W Franks, Philippe Froguel, Ron T Gansevoort, Christian Gieger, Henrik Grönberg, Vilmundur Gudnason, Ulf Gyllensten, Per Hall, Anders Hamsten, Pim van der Harst, Caroline Hayward, Markku Heliövaara, Christian Hengstenberg, Andrew A Hicks, Aroon Hingorani, Albert Hofman, Frank Hu, Heikki V Huikuri, Kristian Hveem, Alan L James, Joanne M Jordan, Antti Jula, Mika Kähönen, Eero Kajantie, Sekar Kathiresan, Lambertus A L M Kiemeney, Mika Kivimaki, Paul B Knekt, Heikki A Koistinen, Jaspal S Kooner, Seppo Koskinen, Johanna Kuusisto, Winfried Maerz, Nicholas G Martin, Markku Laakso, Timo A Lakka, Terho Lehtimäki, Guillaume Lettre, Douglas F Levinson, Lars Lind, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Pekka Mäntyselkä, Mads Melbye, Andres Metspalu, Braxton D Mitchell, Frans L Moll, Jeffrey C Murray, Arthur W Musk, Markku S Nieminen, Inger Njølstad, Claes Ohlsson, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Ben A Oostra, Lyle J Palmer, James S Pankow, Gerard Pasterkamp, Nancy L Pedersen, Oluf Pedersen, Brenda W Penninx, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polašek, Peter P Pramstaller, Bruce M Psaty, Lu Qi, Thomas Quertermous, Olli T Raitakari, Tuomo Rankinen, Rainer Rauramaa, Paul M Ridker, John D Rioux, Fernando Rivadeneira, Jerome I Rotter, Igor Rudan, Hester M den Ruijter, Juha Saltevo, Naveed Sattar, Heribert Schunkert, Peter E H Schwarz, Alan R Shuldiner, Juha Sinisalo, Harold Snieder, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Tim D Spector, Jan A Staessen, Bandinelli Stefania, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Michael Stumvoll, Jean-Claude Tardif, Elena Tremoli, Jaakko Tuomilehto, André G Uitterlinden, Matti Uusitupa, André L M Verbeek, Sita H Vermeulen, Jorma S Viikari, Veronique Vitart, Henry Völzke, Peter Vollenweider, Gérard Waeber, Mark Walker, Henri Wallaschofski, Nicholas J Wareham, Hugh Watkins, Eleftheria Zeggini, arcOGEN Consortium, CHARGE Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Global-BPGen Consortium, ICBP Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, Aravinda Chakravarti, Deborah J Clegg, L Adrienne Cupples, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Cashell E Jaquish, D C Rao, Goncalo R Abecasis, Themistocles L Assimes, Inês Barroso, Sonja I Berndt, Michael Boehnke, Panos Deloukas, Caroline S Fox, Leif C Groop, David J Hunter, Erik Ingelsson, Robert C Kaplan, Mark I McCarthy, Karen L Mohlke, Jeffrey R O'Connell, David Schlessinger, David P Strachan, Kari Stefansson, Cornelia M van Duijn, Joel N Hirschhorn, Cecilia M Lindgren, Iris M Heid, Kari E North, Ingrid B Borecki, Zoltán Kutalik, and Ruth J F Loos
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005378.].
Published: 2016
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16. PAX5-ESRRB is a recurrent fusion gene in B-cell precursor pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Author: Yanara Marincevic-Zuniga, Vasilios Zachariadis, Lucia Cavelier, Anders Castor, Gisela Barbany, Erik Forestier, Linda Fogelstrand, Mats Heyman, Jonas Abrahamsson, Gudmar Lönnerholm, Ann Nordgren, Ann-Christine Syvänen, and Jessica Nordlund
Subjects: Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs, RC633-647.5
Published: 2016
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17. Erratum: Genetic loci associated with heart rate variability and their effects on cardiac disease risk

Author: Ilja M. Nolte, M. Loretto Munoz, Vinicius Tragante, Azmeraw T. Amare, Rick Jansen, Ahmad Vaez, Benedikt von der Heyde, Christy L. Avery, Joshua C. Bis, Bram Dierckx, Jenny van Dongen, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Philippe Goyette, Jussi Hernesniemi, Ville Huikari, Shih-Jen Hwang, Deepali Jaju, Kathleen F. Kerr, Alexander Kluttig, Bouwe P. Krijthe, Jitender Kumar, Sander W. van der Laan, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Adam X. Maihofer, Arpi Minassian, Peter J. van der Most, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Michel Nivard, Erika Salvi, James D. Stewart, Julian F. Thayer, Niek Verweij, Andrew Wong, Delilah Zabaneh, Mohammad H. Zafarmand, Abdel Abdellaoui, Sulayma Albarwani, Christine Albert, Alvaro Alonso, Foram Ashar, Juha Auvinen, Tomas Axelsson, Dewleen G. Baker, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Matteo Barcella, Riad Bayoumi, Rob J. Bieringa, Dorret Boomsma, Gabrielle Boucher, Annie R. Britton, Ingrid Christophersen, Andrea Dietrich, George B. Ehret, Patrick T. Ellinor, Markku Eskola, Janine F. Felix, John S. Floras, Oscar H. Franco, Peter Friberg, Maaike G. J. Gademan, Mark A. Geyer, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Catharina A. Hartman, Daiane Hemerich, Albert Hofman, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Heikki Huikuri, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Xavier Jouven, Juhani Junttila, Markus Juonala, Antti M. Kiviniemi, Jan A. Kors, Meena Kumari, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Cathy C. Laurie, Joop D. Lefrandt, Yong Li, Yun Li, Duanping Liao, Marian C. Limacher, Henry J. Lin, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Steven A. Lubitz, Anubha Mahajan, Barbara McKnight, Henriette Meyer zu Schwabedissen, Yuri Milaneschi, Nina Mononen, Andrew P. Morris, Mike A. Nalls, Gerjan Navis, Melanie Neijts, Kjell Nikus, Kari E. North, Daniel T. O'Connor, Johan Ormel, Siegfried Perz, Annette Peters, Bruce M. Psaty, Olli T. Raitakari, Victoria B. Risbrough, Moritz F. Sinner, David Siscovick, Johannes H. Smit, Nicholas L. Smith, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Nona Sotoodehnia, Jan A. Staessen, Phyllis K. Stein, Adrienne M. Stilp, Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, Konstantin Strauch, Johan Sundström, Cees A. Swenne, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Jean-Claude Tardif, Kent D. Taylor, Alexander Teumer, Timothy A. Thornton, Lesley E. Tinker, André G. Uitterlinden, Jessica van Setten, Andreas Voss, Melanie Waldenberger, Kirk C. Wilhelmsen, Gonneke Willemsen, Quenna Wong, Zhu-Ming Zhang, Alan B Zonderman, Daniele Cusi, Michele K. Evans, Halina K. Greiser, Pim van der Harst, Mohammad Hassan, Erik Ingelsson, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Stefan Kääb, Mika Kähönen, Mika Kivimaki, Charles Kooperberg, Diana Kuh, Terho Lehtimäki, Lars Lind, Caroline M. Nievergelt, Chris J. O'Donnell, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Brenda Penninx, Alexander P. Reiner, Harriëtte Riese, Arie M. van Roon, John D. Rioux, Jerome I. Rotter, Tamar Sofer, Bruno H. Stricker, Henning Tiemeier, Tanja G. M. Vrijkotte, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Bianca J. J.M Brundel, Susan R. Heckbert, Eric A. Whitsel, Marcel den Hoed, Harold Snieder, and Eco J. C. de Geus
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Nature Communications 8: Article number: 15805 (2017); Published: 14 June 2017; Updated: 2 August 2017 In Supplementary Fig. 10 of this Article, images for panels a and b were inadvertently omitted. The correct version of Supplementary Fig. 10 is provided as Supplementary Information associated withthis Erratum.
Published: 2017
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18. The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study.

Author: Thomas W Winkler, Anne E Justice, Mariaelisa Graff, Llilda Barata, Mary F Feitosa, Su Chu, Jacek Czajkowski, Tõnu Esko, Tove Fall, Tuomas O Kilpeläinen, Yingchang Lu, Reedik Mägi, Evelin Mihailov, Tune H Pers, Sina Rüeger, Alexander Teumer, Georg B Ehret, Teresa Ferreira, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Juha Karjalainen, Vasiliki Lagou, Anubha Mahajan, Michael D Neinast, Inga Prokopenko, Jeannette Simino, Tanya M Teslovich, Rick Jansen, Harm-Jan Westra, Charles C White, Devin Absher, Tarunveer S Ahluwalia, Shafqat Ahmad, Eva Albrecht, Alexessander Couto Alves, Jennifer L Bragg-Gresham, Anton J M de Craen, Joshua C Bis, Amélie Bonnefond, Gabrielle Boucher, Gemma Cadby, Yu-Ching Cheng, Charleston W K Chiang, Graciela Delgado, Ayse Demirkan, Nicole Dueker, Niina Eklund, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Joel Eriksson, Bjarke Feenstra, Krista Fischer, Francesca Frau, Tessel E Galesloot, Frank Geller, Anuj Goel, Mathias Gorski, Tanja B Grammer, Stefan Gustafsson, Saskia Haitjema, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Jennifer E Huffman, Anne U Jackson, Kevin B Jacobs, Åsa Johansson, Marika Kaakinen, Marcus E Kleber, Jari Lahti, Irene Mateo Leach, Benjamin Lehne, Youfang Liu, Ken Sin Lo, Mattias Lorentzon, Jian'an Luan, Pamela A F Madden, Massimo Mangino, Barbara McKnight, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Keri L Monda, May E Montasser, Gabriele Müller, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Ilja M Nolte, Kalliope Panoutsopoulou, Laura Pascoe, Lavinia Paternoster, Nigel W Rayner, Frida Renström, Federica Rizzi, Lynda M Rose, Kathy A Ryan, Perttu Salo, Serena Sanna, Hubert Scharnagl, Jianxin Shi, Albert Vernon Smith, Lorraine Southam, Alena Stančáková, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Rona J Strawbridge, Yun Ju Sung, Ioanna Tachmazidou, Toshiko Tanaka, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Stella Trompet, Natalia Pervjakova, Jonathan P Tyrer, Liesbeth Vandenput, Sander W van der Laan, Nathalie van der Velde, Jessica van Setten, Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Niek Verweij, Efthymia Vlachopoulou, Lindsay L Waite, Sophie R Wang, Zhaoming Wang, Sarah H Wild, Christina Willenborg, James F Wilson, Andrew Wong, Jian Yang, Loïc Yengo, Laura M Yerges-Armstrong, Lei Yu, Weihua Zhang, Jing Hua Zhao, Ehm A Andersson, Stephan J L Bakker, Damiano Baldassarre, Karina Banasik, Matteo Barcella, Cristina Barlassina, Claire Bellis, Paola Benaglio, John Blangero, Matthias Blüher, Fabrice Bonnet, Lori L Bonnycastle, Heather A Boyd, Marcel Bruinenberg, Aron S Buchman, Harry Campbell, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Peter S Chines, Simone Claudi-Boehm, John Cole, Francis S Collins, Eco J C de Geus, Lisette C P G M de Groot, Maria Dimitriou, Jubao Duan, Stefan Enroth, Elodie Eury, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Nita G Forouhi, Nele Friedrich, Pablo V Gejman, Bruna Gigante, Nicola Glorioso, Alan S Go, Omri Gottesman, Jürgen Gräßler, Harald Grallert, Niels Grarup, Yu-Mei Gu, Linda Broer, Annelies C Ham, Torben Hansen, Tamara B Harris, Catharina A Hartman, Maija Hassinen, Nicholas Hastie, Andrew T Hattersley, Andrew C Heath, Anjali K Henders, Dena Hernandez, Hans Hillege, Oddgeir Holmen, Kees G Hovingh, Jennie Hui, Lise L Husemoen, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Pirro G Hysi, Thomas Illig, Philip L De Jager, Shapour Jalilzadeh, Torben Jørgensen, J Wouter Jukema, Markus Juonala, Stavroula Kanoni, Maria Karaleftheri, Kay Tee Khaw, Leena Kinnunen, Steven J Kittner, Wolfgang Koenig, Ivana Kolcic, Peter Kovacs, Nikolaj T Krarup, Wolfgang Kratzer, Janine Krüger, Diana Kuh, Meena Kumari, Theodosios Kyriakou, Claudia Langenberg, Lars Lannfelt, Chiara Lanzani, Vaneet Lotay, Lenore J Launer, Karin Leander, Jaana Lindström, Allan Linneberg, Yan-Ping Liu, Stéphane Lobbens, Robert Luben, Valeriya Lyssenko, Satu Männistö, Patrik K Magnusson, Wendy L McArdle, Cristina Menni, Sigrun Merger, Lili Milani, Grant W Montgomery, Andrew P Morris, Narisu Narisu, Mari Nelis, Ken K Ong, Aarno Palotie, Louis Pérusse, Irene Pichler, Maria G Pilia, Anneli Pouta, Myriam Rheinberger, Rasmus Ribel-Madsen, Marcus Richards, Kenneth M Rice, Treva K Rice, Carlo Rivolta, Veikko Salomaa, Alan R Sanders, Mark A Sarzynski, Salome Scholtens, Robert A Scott, William R Scott, Sylvain Sebert, Sebanti Sengupta, Bengt Sennblad, Thomas Seufferlein, Angela Silveira, P Eline Slagboom, Jan H Smit, Thomas H Sparsø, Kathleen Stirrups, Ronald P Stolk, Heather M Stringham, Morris A Swertz, Amy J Swift, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Sian-Tsung Tan, Barbara Thorand, Anke Tönjes, Angelo Tremblay, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Peter J van der Most, Uwe Völker, Marie-Claude Vohl, Judith M Vonk, Melanie Waldenberger, Ryan W Walker, Roman Wennauer, Elisabeth Widén, Gonneke Willemsen, Tom Wilsgaard, Alan F Wright, M Carola Zillikens, Suzanne C van Dijk, Natasja M van Schoor, Folkert W Asselbergs, Paul I W de Bakker, Jacques S Beckmann, John Beilby, David A Bennett, Richard N Bergman, Sven Bergmann, Carsten A Böger, Bernhard O Boehm, Eric Boerwinkle, Dorret I Boomsma, Stefan R Bornstein, Erwin P Bottinger, Claude Bouchard, John C Chambers, Stephen J Chanock, Daniel I Chasman, Francesco Cucca, Daniele Cusi, George Dedoussis, Jeanette Erdmann, Johan G Eriksson, Denis A Evans, Ulf de Faire, Martin Farrall, Luigi Ferrucci, Ian Ford, Lude Franke, Paul W Franks, Philippe Froguel, Ron T Gansevoort, Christian Gieger, Henrik Grönberg, Vilmundur Gudnason, Ulf Gyllensten, Per Hall, Anders Hamsten, Pim van der Harst, Caroline Hayward, Markku Heliövaara, Christian Hengstenberg, Andrew A Hicks, Aroon Hingorani, Albert Hofman, Frank Hu, Heikki V Huikuri, Kristian Hveem, Alan L James, Joanne M Jordan, Antti Jula, Mika Kähönen, Eero Kajantie, Sekar Kathiresan, Lambertus A L M Kiemeney, Mika Kivimaki, Paul B Knekt, Heikki A Koistinen, Jaspal S Kooner, Seppo Koskinen, Johanna Kuusisto, Winfried Maerz, Nicholas G Martin, Markku Laakso, Timo A Lakka, Terho Lehtimäki, Guillaume Lettre, Douglas F Levinson, Lars Lind, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Pekka Mäntyselkä, Mads Melbye, Andres Metspalu, Braxton D Mitchell, Frans L Moll, Jeffrey C Murray, Arthur W Musk, Markku S Nieminen, Inger Njølstad, Claes Ohlsson, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Ben A Oostra, Lyle J Palmer, James S Pankow, Gerard Pasterkamp, Nancy L Pedersen, Oluf Pedersen, Brenda W Penninx, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polašek, Peter P Pramstaller, Bruce M Psaty, Lu Qi, Thomas Quertermous, Olli T Raitakari, Tuomo Rankinen, Rainer Rauramaa, Paul M Ridker, John D Rioux, Fernando Rivadeneira, Jerome I Rotter, Igor Rudan, Hester M den Ruijter, Juha Saltevo, Naveed Sattar, Heribert Schunkert, Peter E H Schwarz, Alan R Shuldiner, Juha Sinisalo, Harold Snieder, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Tim D Spector, Jan A Staessen, Bandinelli Stefania, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Michael Stumvoll, Jean-Claude Tardif, Elena Tremoli, Jaakko Tuomilehto, André G Uitterlinden, Matti Uusitupa, André L M Verbeek, Sita H Vermeulen, Jorma S Viikari, Veronique Vitart, Henry Völzke, Peter Vollenweider, Gérard Waeber, Mark Walker, Henri Wallaschofski, Nicholas J Wareham, Hugh Watkins, Eleftheria Zeggini, CHARGE Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Global-BPGen Consortium, ICBP Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, Aravinda Chakravarti, Deborah J Clegg, L Adrienne Cupples, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Cashell E Jaquish, D C Rao, Goncalo R Abecasis, Themistocles L Assimes, Inês Barroso, Sonja I Berndt, Michael Boehnke, Panos Deloukas, Caroline S Fox, Leif C Groop, David J Hunter, Erik Ingelsson, Robert C Kaplan, Mark I McCarthy, Karen L Mohlke, Jeffrey R O'Connell, David Schlessinger, David P Strachan, Kari Stefansson, Cornelia M van Duijn, Joel N Hirschhorn, Cecilia M Lindgren, Iris M Heid, Kari E North, Ingrid B Borecki, Zoltán Kutalik, and Ruth J F Loos
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 genetic variants contributing to BMI, a measure of body size, or waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), a measure of body shape. Body size and shape change as people grow older and these changes differ substantially between men and women. To systematically screen for age- and/or sex-specific effects of genetic variants on BMI and WHRadjBMI, we performed meta-analyses of 114 studies (up to 320,485 individuals of European descent) with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium. Each study tested the association of up to ~2.8M SNPs with BMI and WHRadjBMI in four strata (men ≤50y, men >50y, women ≤50y, women >50y) and summary statistics were combined in stratum-specific meta-analyses. We then screened for variants that showed age-specific effects (G x AGE), sex-specific effects (G x SEX) or age-specific effects that differed between men and women (G x AGE x SEX). For BMI, we identified 15 loci (11 previously established for main effects, four novel) that showed significant (FDR
Published: 2015
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19. Identification and functional characterization of G6PC2 coding variants influencing glycemic traits define an effector transcript at the G6PC2-ABCB11 locus.

Author: Anubha Mahajan, Xueling Sim, Hui Jin Ng, Alisa Manning, Manuel A Rivas, Heather M Highland, Adam E Locke, Niels Grarup, Hae Kyung Im, Pablo Cingolani, Jason Flannick, Pierre Fontanillas, Christian Fuchsberger, Kyle J Gaulton, Tanya M Teslovich, N William Rayner, Neil R Robertson, Nicola L Beer, Jana K Rundle, Jette Bork-Jensen, Claes Ladenvall, Christine Blancher, David Buck, Gemma Buck, Noël P Burtt, Stacey Gabriel, Anette P Gjesing, Christopher J Groves, Mette Hollensted, Jeroen R Huyghe, Anne U Jackson, Goo Jun, Johanne Marie Justesen, Massimo Mangino, Jacquelyn Murphy, Matt Neville, Robert Onofrio, Kerrin S Small, Heather M Stringham, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Joseph Trakalo, Goncalo Abecasis, Graeme I Bell, John Blangero, Nancy J Cox, Ravindranath Duggirala, Craig L Hanis, Mark Seielstad, James G Wilson, Cramer Christensen, Ivan Brandslund, Rainer Rauramaa, Gabriela L Surdulescu, Alex S F Doney, Lars Lannfelt, Allan Linneberg, Bo Isomaa, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Marit E Jørgensen, Torben Jørgensen, Johanna Kuusisto, Matti Uusitupa, Veikko Salomaa, Timothy D Spector, Andrew D Morris, Colin N A Palmer, Francis S Collins, Karen L Mohlke, Richard N Bergman, Erik Ingelsson, Lars Lind, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Torben Hansen, Richard M Watanabe, Inga Prokopenko, Josee Dupuis, Fredrik Karpe, Leif Groop, Markku Laakso, Oluf Pedersen, Jose C Florez, Andrew P Morris, David Altshuler, James B Meigs, Michael Boehnke, Mark I McCarthy, Cecilia M Lindgren, Anna L Gloyn, and T2D-GENES consortium and GoT2D consortium
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Genome wide association studies (GWAS) for fasting glucose (FG) and insulin (FI) have identified common variant signals which explain 4.8% and 1.2% of trait variance, respectively. It is hypothesized that low-frequency and rare variants could contribute substantially to unexplained genetic variance. To test this, we analyzed exome-array data from up to 33,231 non-diabetic individuals of European ancestry. We found exome-wide significant (P
Published: 2015
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20. A central role for GRB10 in regulation of islet function in man.

Author: Inga Prokopenko, Wenny Poon, Reedik Mägi, Rashmi Prasad B, S Albert Salehi, Peter Almgren, Peter Osmark, Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Nils Wierup, Tove Fall, Alena Stančáková, Adam Barker, Vasiliki Lagou, Clive Osmond, Weijia Xie, Jari Lahti, Anne U Jackson, Yu-Ching Cheng, Jie Liu, Jeffrey R O'Connell, Paul A Blomstedt, Joao Fadista, Sami Alkayyali, Tasnim Dayeh, Emma Ahlqvist, Jalal Taneera, Cecile Lecoeur, Ashish Kumar, Ola Hansson, Karin Hansson, Benjamin F Voight, Hyun Min Kang, Claire Levy-Marchal, Vincent Vatin, Aarno Palotie, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Andrea Mari, Michael N Weedon, Ruth J F Loos, Ken K Ong, Peter Nilsson, Bo Isomaa, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Nicholas J Wareham, Michael Stumvoll, Elisabeth Widen, Timo A Lakka, Claudia Langenberg, Anke Tönjes, Rainer Rauramaa, Johanna Kuusisto, Timothy M Frayling, Philippe Froguel, Mark Walker, Johan G Eriksson, Charlotte Ling, Peter Kovacs, Erik Ingelsson, Mark I McCarthy, Alan R Shuldiner, Kristi D Silver, Markku Laakso, Leif Groop, and Valeriya Lyssenko
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Variants in the growth factor receptor-bound protein 10 (GRB10) gene were in a GWAS meta-analysis associated with reduced glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and increased risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) if inherited from the father, but inexplicably reduced fasting glucose when inherited from the mother. GRB10 is a negative regulator of insulin signaling and imprinted in a parent-of-origin fashion in different tissues. GRB10 knock-down in human pancreatic islets showed reduced insulin and glucagon secretion, which together with changes in insulin sensitivity may explain the paradoxical reduction of glucose despite a decrease in insulin secretion. Together, these findings suggest that tissue-specific methylation and possibly imprinting of GRB10 can influence glucose metabolism and contribute to T2D pathogenesis. The data also emphasize the need in genetic studies to consider whether risk alleles are inherited from the mother or the father.
Published: 2014
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21. Single nucleotide polymorphisms with cis-regulatory effects on long non-coding transcripts in human primary monocytes.

Author: Jonas Carlsson Almlöf, Per Lundmark, Anders Lundmark, Bing Ge, Tomi Pastinen, Cardiogenics Consortium, Alison H Goodall, François Cambien, Panos Deloukas, Willem H Ouwehand, and Ann-Christine Syvänen
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: We applied genome-wide allele-specific expression analysis of monocytes from 188 samples. Monocytes were purified from white blood cells of healthy blood donors to detect cis-acting genetic variation that regulates the expression of long non-coding RNAs. We analysed 8929 regions harboring genes for potential long non-coding RNA that were retrieved from data from the ENCODE project. Of these regions, 60% were annotated as intergenic, which implies that they do not overlap with protein-coding genes. Focusing on the intergenic regions, and using stringent analysis of the allele-specific expression data, we detected robust cis-regulatory SNPs in 258 out of 489 informative intergenic regions included in the analysis. The cis-regulatory SNPs that were significantly associated with allele-specific expression of long non-coding RNAs were enriched to enhancer regions marked for active or bivalent, poised chromatin by histone modifications. Out of the lncRNA regions regulated by cis-acting regulatory SNPs, 20% (n = 52) were co-regulated with the closest protein coding gene. We compared the identified cis-regulatory SNPs with those in the catalog of SNPs identified by genome-wide association studies of human diseases and traits. This comparison identified 32 SNPs in loci from genome-wide association studies that displayed a strong association signal with allele-specific expression of non-coding RNAs in monocytes, with p-values ranging from 6.7×10(-7) to 9.5×10(-89). The identified cis-regulatory SNPs are associated with diseases of the immune system, like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Published: 2014
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22. Association of STAT4 polymorphism with severe renal insufficiency in lupus nephritis.

Author: Karin Bolin, Johanna K Sandling, Agneta Zickert, Andreas Jönsen, Christopher Sjöwall, Elisabet Svenungsson, Anders A Bengtsson, Maija-Leena Eloranta, Lars Rönnblom, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Iva Gunnarsson, and Gunnel Nordmark
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Lupus nephritis is a cause of significant morbidity in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and its genetic background has not been completely clarified. The aim of this investigation was to analyze single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for association with lupus nephritis, its severe form proliferative nephritis and renal outcome, in two Swedish cohorts. Cohort I (n = 567 SLE cases, n = 512 controls) was previously genotyped for 5676 SNPs and cohort II (n = 145 SLE cases, n = 619 controls) was genotyped for SNPs in STAT4, IRF5, TNIP1 and BLK. Case-control and case-only association analyses for patients with lupus nephritis, proliferative nephritis and severe renal insufficiency were performed. In the case-control analysis of cohort I, four highly linked SNPs in STAT4 were associated with lupus nephritis with genome wide significance with p = 3.7 × 10(-9), OR 2.20 for the best SNP rs11889341. Strong signals of association between IRF5 and an HLA-DR3 SNP marker were also detected in the lupus nephritis case versus healthy control analysis (p
Published: 2013
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23. The role of adiposity in cardiometabolic traits: a Mendelian randomization analysis.

Author: Tove Fall, Sara Hägg, Reedik Mägi, Alexander Ploner, Krista Fischer, Momoko Horikoshi, Antti-Pekka Sarin, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Claes Ladenvall, Mart Kals, Maris Kuningas, Harmen H M Draisma, Janina S Ried, Natalie R van Zuydam, Ville Huikari, Massimo Mangino, Emily Sonestedt, Beben Benyamin, Christopher P Nelson, Natalia V Rivera, Kati Kristiansson, Huei-Yi Shen, Aki S Havulinna, Abbas Dehghan, Louise A Donnelly, Marika Kaakinen, Marja-Liisa Nuotio, Neil Robertson, Renée F A G de Bruijn, M Arfan Ikram, Najaf Amin, Anthony J Balmforth, Peter S Braund, Alexander S F Doney, Angela Döring, Paul Elliott, Tõnu Esko, Oscar H Franco, Solveig Gretarsdottir, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Kauko Heikkilä, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Hilma Holm, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Elina Hyppönen, Thomas Illig, Aaron Isaacs, Bo Isomaa, Lennart C Karssen, Johannes Kettunen, Wolfgang Koenig, Kari Kuulasmaa, Tiina Laatikainen, Jaana Laitinen, Cecilia Lindgren, Valeriya Lyssenko, Esa Läärä, Nigel W Rayner, Satu Männistö, Anneli Pouta, Wolfgang Rathmann, Fernando Rivadeneira, Aimo Ruokonen, Markku J Savolainen, Eric J G Sijbrands, Kerrin S Small, Jan H Smit, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Anja Taanila, Martin D Tobin, Andre G Uitterlinden, Sara M Willems, Gonneke Willemsen, Jacqueline Witteman, Markus Perola, Alun Evans, Jean Ferrières, Jarmo Virtamo, Frank Kee, David-Alexandre Tregouet, Dominique Arveiler, Philippe Amouyel, Marco M Ferrario, Paolo Brambilla, Alistair S Hall, Andrew C Heath, Pamela A F Madden, Nicholas G Martin, Grant W Montgomery, John B Whitfield, Antti Jula, Paul Knekt, Ben Oostra, Cornelia M van Duijn, Brenda W J H Penninx, George Davey Smith, Jaakko Kaprio, Nilesh J Samani, Christian Gieger, Annette Peters, H Erich Wichmann, Dorret I Boomsma, Eco J C de Geus, TiinaMaija Tuomi, Chris Power, Christopher J Hammond, Tim D Spector, Lars Lind, Marju Orho-Melander, Colin Neil Alexander Palmer, Andrew D Morris, Leif Groop, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Veikko Salomaa, Erkki Vartiainen, Albert Hofman, Samuli Ripatti, Andres Metspalu, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Kari Stefansson, Nancy L Pedersen, Mark I McCarthy, Erik Ingelsson, Inga Prokopenko, and European Network for Genetic and Genomic Epidemiology (ENGAGE) consortium
Subjects: Medicine
Abstract: BackgroundThe association between adiposity and cardiometabolic traits is well known from epidemiological studies. Whilst the causal relationship is clear for some of these traits, for others it is not. We aimed to determine whether adiposity is causally related to various cardiometabolic traits using the Mendelian randomization approach.Methods and findingsWe used the adiposity-associated variant rs9939609 at the FTO locus as an instrumental variable (IV) for body mass index (BMI) in a Mendelian randomization design. Thirty-six population-based studies of individuals of European descent contributed to the analyses. Age- and sex-adjusted regression models were fitted to test for association between (i) rs9939609 and BMI (n = 198,502), (ii) rs9939609 and 24 traits, and (iii) BMI and 24 traits. The causal effect of BMI on the outcome measures was quantified by IV estimators. The estimators were compared to the BMI-trait associations derived from the same individuals. In the IV analysis, we demonstrated novel evidence for a causal relationship between adiposity and incident heart failure (hazard ratio, 1.19 per BMI-unit increase; 95% CI, 1.03-1.39) and replicated earlier reports of a causal association with type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, and hypertension (odds ratio for IV estimator, 1.1-1.4; all p < 0.05). For quantitative traits, our results provide novel evidence for a causal effect of adiposity on the liver enzymes alanine aminotransferase and gamma-glutamyl transferase and confirm previous reports of a causal effect of adiposity on systolic and diastolic blood pressure, fasting insulin, 2-h post-load glucose from the oral glucose tolerance test, C-reactive protein, triglycerides, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels (all p < 0.05). The estimated causal effects were in agreement with traditional observational measures in all instances except for type 2 diabetes, where the causal estimate was larger than the observational estimate (p = 0.001).ConclusionsWe provide novel evidence for a causal relationship between adiposity and heart failure as well as between adiposity and increased liver enzymes.
Published: 2013
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24. Genetic variants from lipid-related pathways and risk for incident myocardial infarction.

Author: Ci Song, Nancy L Pedersen, Chandra A Reynolds, Maria Sabater-Lleal, Stavroula Kanoni, Christina Willenborg, CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Hugh Watkins, Anders Hamsten, Jonathan A Prince, and Erik Ingelsson
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Circulating lipids levels, as well as several familial lipid metabolism disorders, are strongly associated with initiation and progression of atherosclerosis and incidence of myocardial infarction (MI).We hypothesized that genetic variants associated with circulating lipid levels would also be associated with MI incidence, and have tested this in three independent samples.Using age- and sex-adjusted additive genetic models, we analyzed 554 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 41 candidate gene regions proposed to be involved in lipid-related pathways potentially predisposing to incidence of MI in 2,602 participants of the Swedish Twin Register (STR; 57% women). All associations with nominal P
Published: 2013
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25. 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: Zari Dastani, Marie-France Hivert, Nicholas Timpson, John R B Perry, Xin Yuan, Robert A Scott, Peter Henneman, Iris M Heid, Jorge R Kizer, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Christian Fuchsberger, Toshiko Tanaka, Andrew P Morris, Kerrin Small, Aaron Isaacs, Marian Beekman, Stefan Coassin, Kurt Lohman, Lu Qi, Stavroula Kanoni, James S Pankow, Hae-Won Uh, Ying Wu, Aurelian Bidulescu, Laura J Rasmussen-Torvik, Celia M T Greenwood, Martin Ladouceur, Jonna Grimsby, Alisa K Manning, Ching-Ti Liu, Jaspal Kooner, Vincent E Mooser, Peter Vollenweider, Karen A Kapur, John Chambers, Nicholas J Wareham, Claudia Langenberg, Rune Frants, Ko Willems-Vandijk, Ben A Oostra, Sara M Willems, Claudia Lamina, Thomas W Winkler, Bruce M Psaty, Russell P Tracy, Jennifer Brody, Ida Chen, Jorma Viikari, Mika Kähönen, Peter P Pramstaller, David M Evans, Beate St Pourcain, Naveed Sattar, Andrew R Wood, Stefania Bandinelli, Olga D Carlson, Josephine M Egan, Stefan Böhringer, Diana van Heemst, Lyudmyla Kedenko, Kati Kristiansson, Marja-Liisa Nuotio, Britt-Marie Loo, Tamara Harris, Melissa Garcia, Alka Kanaya, Margot Haun, Norman Klopp, H-Erich Wichmann, Panos Deloukas, Efi Katsareli, David J Couper, Bruce B Duncan, Margreet Kloppenburg, Linda S Adair, Judith B Borja, DIAGRAM+ Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, GLGC Investigators, MuTHER Consortium, James G Wilson, Solomon Musani, Xiuqing Guo, Toby Johnson, Robert Semple, Tanya M Teslovich, Matthew A Allison, Susan Redline, Sarah G Buxbaum, Karen L Mohlke, Ingrid Meulenbelt, Christie M Ballantyne, George V Dedoussis, Frank B Hu, Yongmei Liu, Bernhard Paulweber, Timothy D Spector, P Eline Slagboom, Luigi Ferrucci, Antti Jula, Markus Perola, Olli Raitakari, Jose C Florez, Veikko Salomaa, Johan G Eriksson, Timothy M Frayling, Andrew A Hicks, Terho Lehtimäki, George Davey Smith, David S Siscovick, Florian Kronenberg, Cornelia van Duijn, Ruth J F Loos, Dawn M Waterworth, James B Meigs, Josee Dupuis, J Brent Richards, Benjamin F Voight, Laura J Scott, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Christian Dina, Ryan P Welch, Eleftheria Zeggini, Cornelia Huth, Yurii S Aulchenko, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Laura J McCulloch, Teresa Ferreira, Harald Grallert, Najaf Amin, Guanming Wu, Cristen J Willer, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Steve A McCarroll, Oliver M Hofmann, Ayellet V Segrè, Mandy van Hoek, Pau Navarro, Kristin Ardlie, Beverley Balkau, Rafn Benediktsson, Amanda J Bennett, Roza Blagieva, Eric Boerwinkle, Lori L Bonnycastle, Kristina Bengtsson Boström, Bert Bravenboer, Suzannah Bumpstead, Noël P Burtt, Guillaume Charpentier, Peter S Chines, Marilyn Cornelis, Gabe Crawford, Alex S F Doney, Katherine S Elliott, Amanda L Elliott, Michael R Erdos, Caroline S Fox, Christopher S Franklin, Martha Ganser, Christian Gieger, Niels Grarup, Todd Green, Simon Griffin, Christopher J Groves, Candace Guiducci, Samy Hadjadj, Neelam Hassanali, Christian Herder, Bo Isomaa, Anne U Jackson, Paul R V Johnson, Torben Jørgensen, Wen H L Kao, Augustine Kong, Peter Kraft, Johanna Kuusisto, Torsten Lauritzen, Man Li, Aloysius Lieverse, Cecilia M Lindgren, Valeriya Lyssenko, Michel Marre, Thomas Meitinger, Kristian Midthjell, Mario A Morken, Narisu Narisu, Peter Nilsson, Katharine R Owen, Felicity Payne, Ann-Kristin Petersen, Carl Platou, Christine Proença, Inga Prokopenko, Wolfgang Rathmann, N William Rayner, Neil R Robertson, Ghislain Rocheleau, Michael Roden, Michael J Sampson, Richa Saxena, Beverley M Shields, Peter Shrader, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Thomas Sparsø, Klaus Strassburger, Heather M Stringham, Qi Sun, Amy J Swift, Barbara Thorand, Jean Tichet, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Rob M van Dam, Timon W van Haeften, Thijs van Herpt, Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, G Bragi Walters, Michael N Weedon, Cisca Wijmenga, Jacqueline Witteman, Richard N Bergman, Stephane Cauchi, Francis S Collins, Anna L Gloyn, Ulf Gyllensten, Torben Hansen, Winston A Hide, Graham A Hitman, Albert Hofman, David J Hunter, Kristian Hveem, Markku Laakso, Andrew D Morris, Colin N A Palmer, Igor Rudan, Eric Sijbrands, Lincoln D Stein, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Andre Uitterlinden, Mark Walker, Richard M Watanabe, Goncalo R Abecasis, Bernhard O Boehm, Harry Campbell, Mark J Daly, Andrew T Hattersley, Oluf Pedersen, Inês Barroso, Leif Groop, Rob Sladek, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, James F Wilson, Thomas Illig, Philippe Froguel, Cornelia M van Duijn, Kari Stefansson, David Altshuler, Michael Boehnke, Mark I McCarthy, Nicole Soranzo, Eleanor Wheeler, Nicole L Glazer, Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Reedik Mägi, Joshua Randall, Paul Elliott, Denis Rybin, Abbas Dehghan, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Kijoung Song, Anuj Goel, Taina Lajunen, Alex Doney, Christine Cavalcanti-Proença, Meena Kumari, Nicholas J Timpson, Carina Zabena, Erik Ingelsson, Ping An, Jeffrey O'Connell, Jian'an Luan, Amanda Elliott, Steven A McCarroll, Rosa Maria Roccasecca, François Pattou, Praveen Sethupathy, Yavuz Ariyurek, Philip Barter, John P Beilby, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Sven Bergmann, Murielle Bochud, Amélie Bonnefond, Knut Borch-Johnsen, Yvonne Böttcher, Eric Brunner, Suzannah J Bumpstead, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Peter Chines, Robert Clarke, Lachlan J M Coin, Matthew N Cooper, Laura Crisponi, Ian N M Day, Eco J C de Geus, Jerome Delplanque, Annette C Fedson, Antje Fischer-Rosinsky, Nita G Forouhi, Maria Grazia Franzosi, Pilar Galan, Mark O Goodarzi, Jürgen Graessler, Scott Grundy, Rhian Gwilliam, Göran Hallmans, Naomi Hammond, Xijing Han, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Caroline Hayward, Simon C Heath, Serge Hercberg, David R Hillman, Aroon D Hingorani, Jennie Hui, Joe Hung, Marika Kaakinen, Jaakko Kaprio, Y Antero Kesaniemi, Mika Kivimaki, Beatrice Knight, Seppo Koskinen, Peter Kovacs, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, G Mark Lathrop, Debbie A Lawlor, Olivier Le Bacquer, Cécile Lecoeur, Yun Li, Robert Mahley, Massimo Mangino, María Teresa Martínez-Larrad, Jarred B McAteer, Ruth McPherson, Christa Meisinger, David Melzer, David Meyre, Braxton D Mitchell, Sutapa Mukherjee, Silvia Naitza, Matthew J Neville, Marco Orrù, Ruth Pakyz, Giuseppe Paolisso, Cristian Pattaro, Daniel Pearson, John F Peden, Nancy L Pedersen, Andreas F H Pfeiffer, Irene Pichler, Ozren Polasek, Danielle Posthuma, Simon C Potter, Anneli Pouta, Michael A Province, Nigel W Rayner, Kenneth Rice, Samuli Ripatti, Fernando Rivadeneira, Olov Rolandsson, Annelli Sandbaek, Manjinder Sandhu, Serena Sanna, Avan Aihie Sayer, Paul Scheet, Udo Seedorf, Stephen J Sharp, Beverley Shields, Gunnar Sigurðsson, Eric J G Sijbrands, Angela Silveira, Laila Simpson, Andrew Singleton, Nicholas L Smith, Ulla Sovio, Amy Swift, Holly Syddall, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Anke Tönjes, André G Uitterlinden, Ko Willems van Dijk, Dhiraj Varma, Sophie Visvikis-Siest, Veronique Vitart, Nicole Vogelzangs, Gérard Waeber, Peter J Wagner, Andrew Walley, Kim L Ward, Hugh Watkins, Sarah H Wild, Gonneke Willemsen, Jaqueline C M Witteman, John W G Yarnell, Diana Zelenika, Björn Zethelius, Guangju Zhai, Jing Hua Zhao, M Carola Zillikens, DIAGRAM Consortium, GIANT Consortium, Global B Pgen Consortium, Ingrid B Borecki, Pierre Meneton, Patrik K E Magnusson, David M Nathan, Gordon H Williams, Kaisa Silander, Stefan R Bornstein, Peter Schwarz, Joachim Spranger, Fredrik Karpe, Alan R Shuldiner, Cyrus Cooper, Manuel Serrano-Ríos, Lars Lind, Lyle J Palmer, Paul W Franks, Shah Ebrahim, Michael Marmot, W H Linda Kao, Peter Paul Pramstaller, Alan F Wright, Michael Stumvoll, Anders Hamsten, Procardis Consortium, Thomas A Buchanan, Timo T Valle, Jerome I Rotter, Brenda W J H Penninx, Dorret I Boomsma, Antonio Cao, Angelo Scuteri, David Schlessinger, Manuela Uda, Aimo Ruokonen, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Leena Peltonen, Vincent Mooser, Robert Sladek, MAGIC investigators, GLGC Consortium, Kiran Musunuru, Albert V Smith, Andrew C Edmondson, Ioannis M Stylianou, Masahiro Koseki, James P Pirruccello, Daniel I Chasman, Christopher T Johansen, Sigrid W Fouchier, Gina M Peloso, Maja Barbalic, Sally L Ricketts, Joshua C Bis, Mary F Feitosa, Marju Orho-Melander, Olle Melander, Xiaohui Li, Mingyao Li, Yoon Shin Cho, Min Jin Go, Young Jin Kim, Jong-Young Lee, Taesung Park, Kyunga Kim, Xueling Sim, Rick Twee-Hee Ong, Damien C Croteau-Chonka, Leslie A Lange, Joshua D Smith, Andreas Ziegler, Weihua Zhang, Robert Y L Zee, John B Whitfield, John R Thompson, Ida Surakka, Tim D Spector, Johannes H Smit, Juha Sinisalo, James Scott, Juha Saharinen, Chiara Sabatti, Lynda M Rose, Robert Roberts, Mark Rieder, Alex N Parker, Guillaume Pare, Christopher J O'Donnell, Markku S Nieminen, Deborah A Nickerson, Grant W Montgomery, Wendy McArdle, David Masson, Nicholas G Martin, Fabio Marroni, Gavin Lucas, Robert Luben, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Guillaume Lettre, Lenore J Launer, Edward G Lakatta, Reijo Laaksonen, Kirsten O Kyvik, Inke R König, Kay-Tee Khaw, Lee M Kaplan, Åsa Johansson, A Cecile J W Janssens, Wilmar Igl, G Kees Hovingh, Christian Hengstenberg, Aki S Havulinna, Nicholas D Hastie, Tamara B Harris, Talin Haritunians, Alistair S Hall, Leif C Groop, Elena Gonzalez, Nelson B Freimer, Jeanette Erdmann, Kenechi G Ejebe, Angela Döring, Anna F Dominiczak, Serkalem Demissie, Panagiotis Deloukas, Ulf de Faire, Gabriel Crawford, Yii-der I Chen, Mark J Caulfield, S Matthijs Boekholdt, Themistocles L Assimes, Thomas Quertermous, Mark Seielstad, Tien Y Wong, E-Shyong Tai, Alan B Feranil, Christopher W Kuzawa, Herman A Taylor, Stacey B Gabriel, Hilma Holm, Vilmundur Gudnason, Ronald M Krauss, Jose M Ordovas, Patricia B Munroe, Jaspal S Kooner, Alan R Tall, Robert A Hegele, John J P Kastelein, Eric E Schadt, David P Strachan, Muredach P Reilly, Nilesh J Samani, Heribert Schunkert, L Adrienne Cupples, Manjinder S Sandhu, Paul M Ridker, Daniel J Rader, and Sekar Kathiresan
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
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
Published: 2012
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26. Powerful identification of cis-regulatory SNPs in human primary monocytes using allele-specific gene expression.

Author: Jonas Carlsson Almlöf, Per Lundmark, Anders Lundmark, Bing Ge, Seraya Maouche, Harald H H Göring, Ulrika Liljedahl, Camilla Enström, Jessy Brocheton, Carole Proust, Tiphaine Godefroy, Jennifer G Sambrook, Jennifer Jolley, Abigail Crisp-Hihn, Nicola Foad, Heather Lloyd-Jones, Jonathan Stephens, Rhian Gwilliam, Catherine M Rice, Christian Hengstenberg, Nilesh J Samani, Jeanette Erdmann, Heribert Schunkert, Tomi Pastinen, Panos Deloukas, Alison H Goodall, Willem H Ouwehand, François Cambien, and Ann-Christine Syvänen
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: A large number of genome-wide association studies have been performed during the past five years to identify associations between SNPs and human complex diseases and traits. The assignment of a functional role for the identified disease-associated SNP is not straight-forward. Genome-wide expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analysis is frequently used as the initial step to define a function while allele-specific gene expression (ASE) analysis has not yet gained a wide-spread use in disease mapping studies. We compared the power to identify cis-acting regulatory SNPs (cis-rSNPs) by genome-wide allele-specific gene expression (ASE) analysis with that of traditional expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) mapping. Our study included 395 healthy blood donors for whom global gene expression profiles in circulating monocytes were determined by Illumina BeadArrays. ASE was assessed in a subset of these monocytes from 188 donors by quantitative genotyping of mRNA using a genome-wide panel of SNP markers. The performance of the two methods for detecting cis-rSNPs was evaluated by comparing associations between SNP genotypes and gene expression levels in sample sets of varying size. We found that up to 8-fold more samples are required for eQTL mapping to reach the same statistical power as that obtained by ASE analysis for the same rSNPs. The performance of ASE is insensitive to SNPs with low minor allele frequencies and detects a larger number of significantly associated rSNPs using the same sample size as eQTL mapping. An unequivocal conclusion from our comparison is that ASE analysis is more sensitive for detecting cis-rSNPs than standard eQTL mapping. Our study shows the potential of ASE mapping in tissue samples and primary cells which are difficult to obtain in large numbers.
Published: 2012
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27. DNA methylation analysis of bone marrow cells at diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and at remission.

Author: Jessica Nordlund, Lili Milani, Anders Lundmark, Gudmar Lönnerholm, and Ann-Christine Syvänen
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: To detect genes with CpG sites that display methylation patterns that are characteristic of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells, we compared the methylation patterns of cells taken at diagnosis from 20 patients with pediatric ALL to the methylation patterns in mononuclear cells from bone marrow of the same patients during remission and in non-leukemic control cells from bone marrow or blood. Using a custom-designed assay, we measured the methylation levels of 1,320 CpG sites in regulatory regions of 413 genes that were analyzed because they display allele-specific gene expression (ASE) in ALL cells. The rationale for our selection of CpG sites was that ASE could be the result of allele-specific methylation in the promoter regions of the genes. We found that the ALL cells had methylation profiles that allowed distinction between ALL cells and control cells. Using stringent criteria for calling differential methylation, we identified 28 CpG sites in 24 genes with recurrent differences in their methylation levels between ALL cells and control cells. Twenty of the differentially methylated genes were hypermethylated in the ALL cells, and as many as nine of them (AMICA1, CPNE7, CR1, DBC1, EYA4, LGALS8, RYR3, UQCRFS1, WDR35) have functions in cell signaling and/or apoptosis. The methylation levels of a subset of the genes were consistent with an inverse relationship with the mRNA expression levels in a large number of ALL cells from published data sets, supporting a potential biological effect of the methylation signatures and their application for diagnostic purposes.
Published: 2012
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28. A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

Author: Nicholette D Palmer, Caitrin W McDonough, Pamela J Hicks, Bong H Roh, Maria R Wing, S Sandy An, Jessica M Hester, Jessica N Cooke, Meredith A Bostrom, Megan E Rudock, Matthew E Talbert, Joshua P Lewis, DIAGRAM Consortium, MAGIC Investigators, Assiamira Ferrara, Lingyi Lu, Julie T Ziegler, Michele M Sale, Jasmin Divers, Daniel Shriner, Adebowale Adeyemo, Charles N Rotimi, Maggie C Y Ng, Carl D Langefeld, Barry I Freedman, Donald W Bowden, Benjamin F Voight, Laura J Scott, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Andrew P Morris, Christian Dina, Ryan P Welch, Eleftheria Zeggini, Cornelia Huth, Yurii S Aulchenko, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Laura J McCulloch, Teresa Ferreira, Harald Grallert, Najaf Amin, Guanming Wu, Cristen J Willer, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Steve A McCarroll, Claudia Langenberg, Oliver M Hofmann, Josée Dupuis, Lu Qi, Ayellet V Segrè, Mandy van Hoek, Pau Navarro, Kristin Ardlie, Beverley Balkau, Rafn Benediktsson, Amanda J Bennett, Roza Blagieva, Eric Boerwinkle, Lori L Bonnycastle, Kristina Bengtsson Boström, Bert Bravenboer, Suzannah Bumpstead, Noël P Burtt, Guillaume Charpentier, Peter S Chines, Marilyn Cornelis, David J Couper, Gabe Crawford, Alex S F Doney, Katherine S Elliott, Amanda L Elliott, Michael R Erdos, Caroline S Fox, Christopher S Franklin, Martha Ganser, Christian Gieger, Niels Grarup, Todd Green, Simon Griffin, Christopher J Groves, Candace Guiducci, Samy Hadjadj, Neelam Hassanali, Christian Herder, Bo Isomaa, Anne U Jackson, Paul R V Johnson, Torben Jørgensen, Wen H L Kao, Norman Klopp, Augustine Kong, Peter Kraft, Johanna Kuusisto, Torsten Lauritzen, Man Li, Aloysius Lieverse, Cecilia M Lindgren, Valeriya Lyssenko, Michel Marre, Thomas Meitinger, Kristian Midthjell, Mario A Morken, Narisu Narisu, Peter Nilsson, Katharine R Owen, Felicity Payne, John R B Perry, Ann-Kristin Petersen, Carl Platou, Christine Proença, Inga Prokopenko, Wolfgang Rathmann, N William Rayner, Neil R Robertson, Ghislain Rocheleau, Michael Roden, Michael J Sampson, Richa Saxena, Beverley M Shields, Peter Shrader, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Thomas Sparsø, Klaus Strassburger, Heather M Stringham, Qi Sun, Amy J Swift, Barbara Thorand, Jean Tichet, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Rob M van Dam, Timon W van Haeften, Thijs van Herpt, Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, G Bragi Walters, Michael N Weedon, Cisca Wijmenga, Jacqueline Witteman, Richard N Bergman, Stephane Cauchi, Francis S Collins, Anna L Gloyn, Ulf Gyllensten, Torben Hansen, Winston A Hide, Graham A Hitman, Albert Hofman, David J Hunter, Kristian Hveem, Markku Laakso, Karen L Mohlke, Andrew D Morris, Colin N A Palmer, Peter P Pramstaller, Igor Rudan, Eric Sijbrands, Lincoln D Stein, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Andre Uitterlinden, Mark Walker, Nicholas J Wareham, Richard M Watanabe, Goncalo R Abecasis, Bernhard O Boehm, Harry Campbell, Mark J Daly, Andrew T Hattersley, Frank B Hu, James B Meigs, James S Pankow, Oluf Pedersen, H-Erich Wichmann, Inês Barroso, Jose C Florez, Timothy M Frayling, Leif Groop, Rob Sladek, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, James F Wilson, Thomas Illig, Philippe Froguel, Cornelia M van Duijn, Kari Stefansson, David Altshuler, Michael Boehnke, Mark I McCarthy, Nicole Soranzo, Eleanor Wheeler, Nicole L Glazer, Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Reedik Mägi, Joshua Randall, Toby Johnson, Paul Elliott, Denis Rybin, Peter Henneman, Abbas Dehghan, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Kijoung Song, Anuj Goel, Josephine M Egan, Taina Lajunen, Alex Doney, Stavroula Kanoni, Christine Cavalcanti-Proença, Meena Kumari, Nicholas J Timpson, Carina Zabena, Erik Ingelsson, Ping An, Jeffrey O'Connell, Jian'an Luan, Amanda Elliott, Steven A McCarroll, Rosa Maria Roccasecca, François Pattou, Praveen Sethupathy, Yavuz Ariyurek, Philip Barter, John P Beilby, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Sven Bergmann, Murielle Bochud, Amélie Bonnefond, Knut Borch-Johnsen, Yvonne Böttcher, Eric Brunner, Suzannah J Bumpstead, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Peter Chines, Robert Clarke, Lachlan J M Coin, Matthew N Cooper, Laura Crisponi, Ian N M Day, Eco J C de Geus, Jerome Delplanque, Annette C Fedson, Antje Fischer-Rosinsky, Nita G Forouhi, Rune Frants, Maria Grazia Franzosi, Pilar Galan, Mark O Goodarzi, Jürgen Graessler, Scott Grundy, Rhian Gwilliam, Göran Hallmans, Naomi Hammond, Xijing Han, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Caroline Hayward, Simon C Heath, Serge Hercberg, Andrew A Hicks, David R Hillman, Aroon D Hingorani, Jennie Hui, Joe Hung, Antti Jula, Marika Kaakinen, Jaakko Kaprio, Y Antero Kesaniemi, Mika Kivimaki, Beatrice Knight, Seppo Koskinen, Peter Kovacs, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, G Mark Lathrop, Debbie A Lawlor, Olivier Le Bacquer, Cécile Lecoeur, Yun Li, Robert Mahley, Massimo Mangino, Alisa K Manning, María Teresa Martínez-Larrad, Jarred B McAteer, Ruth McPherson, Christa Meisinger, David Melzer, David Meyre, Braxton D Mitchell, Sutapa Mukherjee, Silvia Naitza, Matthew J Neville, Ben A Oostra, Marco Orrù, Ruth Pakyz, Giuseppe Paolisso, Cristian Pattaro, Daniel Pearson, John F Peden, Nancy L Pedersen, Markus Perola, Andreas F H Pfeiffer, Irene Pichler, Ozren Polasek, Danielle Posthuma, Simon C Potter, Anneli Pouta, Michael A Province, Bruce M Psaty, Nigel W Rayner, Kenneth Rice, Samuli Ripatti, Fernando Rivadeneira, Olov Rolandsson, Annelli Sandbaek, Manjinder Sandhu, Serena Sanna, Avan Aihie Sayer, Paul Scheet, Udo Seedorf, Stephen J Sharp, Beverley Shields, Eric J G Sijbrands, Angela Silveira, Laila Simpson, Andrew Singleton, Nicholas L Smith, Ulla Sovio, Amy Swift, Holly Syddall, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Toshiko Tanaka, Anke Tönjes, André G Uitterlinden, Ko Willems van Dijk, Dhiraj Varma, Sophie Visvikis-Siest, Veronique Vitart, Nicole Vogelzangs, Gérard Waeber, Peter J Wagner, Andrew Walley, Kim L Ward, Hugh Watkins, Sarah H Wild, Gonneke Willemsen, Jaqueline C M Witteman, John W G Yarnell, Diana Zelenika, Björn Zethelius, Guangju Zhai, Jing Hua Zhao, M Carola Zillikens, Ingrid B Borecki, Ruth J F Loos, Pierre Meneton, Patrik K E Magnusson, David M Nathan, Gordon H Williams, Kaisa Silander, Veikko Salomaa, George Davey Smith, Stefan R Bornstein, Peter Schwarz, Joachim Spranger, Fredrik Karpe, Alan R Shuldiner, Cyrus Cooper, George V Dedoussis, Manuel Serrano-Ríos, Lars Lind, Lyle J Palmer, Paul W Franks, Shah Ebrahim, Michael Marmot, W H Linda Kao, Peter Paul Pramstaller, Alan F Wright, Michael Stumvoll, Anders Hamsten, Thomas A Buchanan, Timo T Valle, Jerome I Rotter, David S Siscovick, Brenda W J H Penninx, Dorret I Boomsma, Panos Deloukas, Timothy D Spector, Luigi Ferrucci, Antonio Cao, Angelo Scuteri, David Schlessinger, Manuela Uda, Aimo Ruokonen, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Dawn M Waterworth, Peter Vollenweider, Leena Peltonen, Vincent Mooser, and Robert Sladek
Subjects: Medicine, Science
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
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29. Association of NCF2, IKZF1, IRF8, IFIH1, and TYK2 with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Author: Deborah S Cunninghame Graham, David L Morris, Tushar R Bhangale, Lindsey A Criswell, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Lars Rönnblom, Timothy W Behrens, Robert R Graham, and Timothy J Vyse
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex trait characterised by the production of a range of auto-antibodies and a diverse set of clinical phenotypes. Currently, ~8% of the genetic contribution to SLE in Europeans is known, following publication of several moderate-sized genome-wide (GW) association studies, which identified loci with a strong effect (OR>1.3). In order to identify additional genes contributing to SLE susceptibility, we conducted a replication study in a UK dataset (870 cases, 5,551 controls) of 23 variants that showed moderate-risk for lupus in previous studies. Association analysis in the UK dataset and subsequent meta-analysis with the published data identified five SLE susceptibility genes reaching genome-wide levels of significance (P(comb)
Published: 2011
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30. Association between common variation at the FTO locus and changes in body mass index from infancy to late childhood: the complex nature of genetic association through growth and development.

Author: Ulla Sovio, Dennis O Mook-Kanamori, Nicole M Warrington, Robert Lawrence, Laurent Briollais, Colin N A Palmer, Joanne Cecil, Johanna K Sandling, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Marika Kaakinen, Lawrie J Beilin, Iona Y Millwood, Amanda J Bennett, Jaana Laitinen, Anneli Pouta, John Molitor, George Davey Smith, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Vincent W V Jaddoe, Lyle J Palmer, Craig E Pennell, Tim J Cole, Mark I McCarthy, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Nicholas J Timpson, and Early Growth Genetics Consortium
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: An age-dependent association between variation at the FTO locus and BMI in children has been suggested. We meta-analyzed associations between the FTO locus (rs9939609) and BMI in samples, aged from early infancy to 13 years, from 8 cohorts of European ancestry. We found a positive association between additional minor (A) alleles and BMI from 5.5 years onwards, but an inverse association below age 2.5 years. Modelling median BMI curves for each genotype using the LMS method, we found that carriers of minor alleles showed lower BMI in infancy, earlier adiposity rebound (AR), and higher BMI later in childhood. Differences by allele were consistent with two independent processes: earlier AR equivalent to accelerating developmental age by 2.37% (95% CI 1.87, 2.87, p = 10(-20)) per A allele and a positive age by genotype interaction such that BMI increased faster with age (p = 10(-23)). We also fitted a linear mixed effects model to relate genotype to the BMI curve inflection points adiposity peak (AP) in infancy and AR. Carriage of two minor alleles at rs9939609 was associated with lower BMI at AP (-0.40% (95% CI: -0.74, -0.06), p = 0.02), higher BMI at AR (0.93% (95% CI: 0.22, 1.64), p = 0.01), and earlier AR (-4.72% (-5.81, -3.63), p = 10(-17)), supporting cross-sectional results. Overall, we confirm the expected association between variation at rs9939609 and BMI in childhood, but only after an inverse association between the same variant and BMI in infancy. Patterns are consistent with a shift on the developmental scale, which is reflected in association with the timing of AR rather than just a global increase in BMI. Results provide important information about longitudinal gene effects and about the role of FTO in adiposity. The associated shifts in developmental timing have clinical importance with respect to known relationships between AR and both later-life BMI and metabolic disease risk.
Published: 2011
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31. Performance of microarray and liquid based capture methods for target enrichment for massively parallel sequencing and SNP discovery.

Author: Anna Kiialainen, Olof Karlberg, Annika Ahlford, Snaevar Sigurdsson, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, and Ann-Christine Syvänen
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Targeted sequencing is a cost-efficient way to obtain answers to biological questions in many projects, but the choice of the enrichment method to use can be difficult. In this study we compared two hybridization methods for target enrichment for massively parallel sequencing and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery, namely Nimblegen sequence capture arrays and the SureSelect liquid-based hybrid capture system. We prepared sequencing libraries from three HapMap samples using both methods, sequenced the libraries on the Illumina Genome Analyzer, mapped the sequencing reads back to the genome, and called variants in the sequences. 74-75% of the sequence reads originated from the targeted region in the SureSelect libraries and 41-67% in the Nimblegen libraries. We could sequence up to 99.9% and 99.5% of the regions targeted by capture probes from the SureSelect libraries and from the Nimblegen libraries, respectively. The Nimblegen probes covered 0.6 Mb more of the original 3.1 Mb target region than the SureSelect probes. In each sample, we called more SNPs and detected more novel SNPs from the libraries that were prepared using the Nimblegen method. Thus the Nimblegen method gave better results when judged by the number of SNPs called, but this came at the cost of more over-sampling.
Published: 2011
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32. Genetic risk factors in lupus nephritis and IgA nephropathy--no support of an overlap.

Author: Mai Tuyet Vuong, Iva Gunnarsson, Sigrid Lundberg, Elisabet Svenungsson, Lars Wramner, Anders Fernström, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Lieu Thi Do, Stefan H Jacobson, and Leonid Padyukov
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: BackgroundIgA nephropathy (IgAN) and nephritis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) are two common forms of glomerulonephritis in which genetic findings are of importance for disease development. We have recently reported an association of IgAN with variants of TGFB1. In several autoimmune diseases, particularly in SLE, IRF5, STAT4 genes and TRAF1-C5 locus have been shown to be important candidate genes. The aim of this study was to compare genetic variants from the TGFB1, IRF5, STAT4 genes and TRAF1-C5 locus with susceptibility to IgAN and lupus nephritis in two Swedish cohorts.Patients and methodsWe genotyped 13 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in four genetic loci in 1252 DNA samples from patients with biopsy proven IgAN or with SLE (with and without nephritis) and healthy age- and sex-matched controls from the same population in Sweden.ResultsGenotype and allelic frequencies for SNPs from selected genes did not differ significantly between lupus nephritis patients and SLE patients without nephritis. In addition, haplotype analysis for seven selected SNPs did not reveal a difference for the SLE patient groups with and without nephritis. Moreover, none of these SPNs showed a significant difference between IgAN patients and healthy controls. IRF5 and STAT4 variants remained significantly different between SLE cases and healthy controls. In addition, the data did not show an association of TRAF1-C5 polymorphism with susceptibility to SLE in this Swedish population.ConclusionOur data do not support an overlap in genetic susceptibility between patients with IgAN or SLE and reveal no specific importance of SLE associated SNPs for the presence of lupus nephritis.
Published: 2010
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33. Association of the estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) gene with body height in adult males from two Swedish population cohorts.

Author: Andreas Dahlgren, Per Lundmark, Tomas Axelsson, Lars Lind, and Ann-Christine Syvänen
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Human body height is a complex genetic trait with high heritability. We performed an association study of 17 candidate genes for height in the Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM) that consists of 1153 elderly men of age 70 born in the central region of Sweden. First we genotyped a panel of 137 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) evenly distributed across the candidate genes in the ULSAM cohort. We identified 4 SNPs in the estrogen receptor gene (ESR1) on chromosome 6q25.1 with suggestive signals of association (p
Published: 2008
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34. Distinct HLA Associations with Autoantibody-Defined Subgroups in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

Author: Valérie Leclair, Angeles S. Galindo-Feria, Simon Rothwell, Olga Krystufkova, Sepehr Sarrafzadeh Zargar, Herman Mann, Louise Pyndt Diederichsen, Helena Andersson, Martin Klein, Sarah Tansley, Lars Rönnblom, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Johanna K. Sandling, Neil McHugh, Janine Lamb, Jiri Vencovsky, Hector Chinoy, Marie Holmqvist, Matteo Bianchi, Leonid Padyukov, Ingrid E. Lundberg, and Lina-Marcela Diaz-Gallo
Published: 2023
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35. CopyNumber450kCancer: baseline correction for accurate copy number calling from the 450k methylation array.

Author: Nour-al-dain Marzouka, Jessica Nordlund, Christofer L. Bäcklin, Gudmar Lönnerholm, Ann-Christine Syvänen, and Jonas Carlsson Almlöf
Published: 2016
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36. DNA Methylation-Based Interferon Scores Associate With Sub-Phenotypes in Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome

Author: Roald Omdal, Juliana Imgenberg-Kreuz, Gunnel Nordmark, Lars Rönnblom, Johanna K. Sandling, Katrine Brække Norheim, Maija-Leena Eloranta, Svein Joar Auglænd Johnsen, Ann-Christine Syvänen, and Elisabet Svenungsson
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Lymphoma, precision medicine, Immunology, primary Sjögren’s syndrome, primary Sjogren's syndrome, medicine.disease_cause, Autoimmunity, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Interferon, medicine, Immunology and Allergy, Humans, RNA, Messenger, Original Research, Rheumatology and Autoimmunity, 030203 arthritis & rheumatology, Reumatologi och inflammation, DNA methylation, biology, business.industry, autoimmunity, Hypergammaglobulinemia, dNaM, Methylation, interferon, Middle Aged, RC581-607, medicine.disease, stomatognathic diseases, interferonopathies, 030104 developmental biology, Phenotype, Sjogren's Syndrome, Interferon Type I, biology.protein, Female, Antibody, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, business, medicine.drug
Abstract: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease with profound clinical heterogeneity, where excessive activation of the type I interferon (IFN) system is considered one of the key mechanisms in disease pathogenesis. Here we present a DNA methylation-based IFN system activation score (DNAm IFN score) and investigate its potential associations with sub-phenotypes of pSS. The study comprised 100 Swedish patients with pSS and 587 Swedish controls. For replication, 48 patients with pSS from Stavanger, Norway, were included. IFN scores were calculated from DNA methylation levels at the IFN-induced genes RSAD2, IFIT1 and IFI44L. A high DNAm IFN score, defined as > meancontrols +2SDcontrols (IFN score >4.4), was observed in 59% of pSS patients and in 4% of controls (p=1.3x10-35). Patients with a high DNAm IFN score were on average seven years younger at symptom onset (p=0.017) and at diagnosis (p=3x10-3). The DNAm IFN score levels were significantly higher in pSS positive for both SSA and SSB antibodies compared to SSA/SSB negative patients (pdiscovery=1.9x10-8, preplication=7.8x10-4). In patients positive for both SSA subtypes Ro52 and Ro60, an increased score was identified compared to single positive patients (p=0.022). Analyzing the discovery and replication cohorts together, elevated DNAm IFN scores were observed in pSS with hypergammaglobulinemia (p=2x10-8) and low C4 (p=1.5x10-3) compared to patients without these manifestations. Patients < 70 years with ongoing lymphoma at DNA sampling or lymphoma at follow-up (n=7), presented an increased DNAm IFN score compared to pSS without lymphoma (p=0.025). In conclusion, the DNAm-based IFN score is a promising alternative to mRNA-based scores for identification of patients with activation of the IFN system and may be applied for patient stratification guiding treatment decisions, monitoring and inclusion in clinical trials.
Published: 2021
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37. Interferon signature in patients with STAT1 gain‐of‐function mutation is epigenetically determined

Author: Sofie E. Jørgensen, Pärt Peterson, Lili Milani, E. Graham Davies, Vincent Bondet, Mario Saare, Darragh Duffy, Epp Kaleviste, Sascha Sauer, Timothy Ronan Leahy, Helke Nurm, Trine H. Mogensen, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Kai Kisand, Winnie Ip, University of Tartu, Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin (OLCHC), Immunobiologie des Cellules dendritiques, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Aarhus University [Aarhus], Aarhus University Hospital, Tallinn Children's Hospital [Tallinn, Estonia], Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children [London] (GOSH), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine [Berlin] (MDC), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, Uppsala University, The research was funded by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Project No 2014–2020.4.01.15‐0012), by Estonian Research Council (grants PUT1367 for KK, IUT 2‐2 for PP), and by [FP7/2007‐2013] under grant agreement number n° 262055 (ESGI). D. Duffy acknowledges support from the ANR (CE17001002) and Immunoqure for provision of mAbs for Simoa., European Project: 262055,EC:FP7:INFRA,FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1,ESGI(2011), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), ANR-16-CE17-0005,GENMSMD,Dissection génétique de la Susceptibilité Mendélienne aux infections mycobactériennes chez l'homme(2016), and ANR-16-CE17-0010,IFNX,Investigation des interferonopathies type I humaine(2016)
Subjects: STAT3 Transcription Factor, 0301 basic medicine, Immunology, chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, Biology, Epigenesis, Genetic, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Interferon, STAT1 gain-of-function mutation, medicine, Humans, Immunology and Allergy, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Epigenetics, Phosphorylation, epigenetics, Janus kinase 1, Chromatin binding, autoimmunity, Candidiasis, Chronic Mucocutaneous, 3. Good health, Chromatin, Intracellular signal transduction, STAT1 Transcription Factor, 030104 developmental biology, Gene Expression Regulation, Case-Control Studies, Gain of Function Mutation, Cancer research, type I interferon, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing, H3K4me3, Interferons, Chromatin immunoprecipitation, Protein Binding, Signal Transduction, 030215 immunology, medicine.drug
Abstract: International audience; STAT1 gain-of-function (GOF) variants lead to defective Th17 cell development and chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC), but frequently also to autoimmunity. Stimulation of cells with STAT1 inducing cytokines like interferons (IFN) result in hyperphosphorylation and delayed dephosphorylation of GOF STAT1. However, the mechanism how the delayed dephosphorylation exactly causes the increased expression of STAT1-dependent genes, and how the intracellular signal transduction from cytokine receptors is affected, remains unknown. In this study we show that the circulating levels of IFN-α were not persistently elevated in STAT1 GOF patients. Nevertheless, the expression of interferon signature genes was evident even in the patient with low or undetectable serum IFN-α levels. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments revealed that the active chromatin mark trimethylation of lysine 4 of histone 3 (H3K4me3), was significantly enriched in areas associated with interferon-stimulated genes in STAT1 GOF cells in comparison to cells from healthy donors. This suggests that the chromatin binding of GOF STAT1 variant promotes epigenetic changes compatible with higher gene expression and elevated reactivity to type I interferons, and possibly predisposes for interferon-related autoimmunity. The results also suggest that epigenetic rewiring may be responsible for treatment failure of Janus kinase 1/2 (JAK1/2) inhibitors in certain patients.
Published: 2019
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38. Allele-Specific Methylation of SPDEF: A Novel Moderator of Psychosocial Stress and Substance Abuse

Author: Congying Chu, Nicole Tay, Eric Artiges, Sarah Hohmann, Qiang Luo, Vincent Frouin, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Penny A. Gowland, Edward D. Barker, Juliane H. Fröhner, Luise Poustka, Christine Macare, Sylvane Desrivières, Erin Burke Quinlan, Joëlle Rüegg, Georgy Bakalkin, Francesca Biondo, Arun L.W. Bokde, Robert Whelan, Gunter Schumann, Tobias Banaschewski, Tianye Jia, Barbara Ruggeri, Tomáš Paus, Bernd Ittermann, Stefan Bleich, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Hugh Garavan, Helge Frieling, Herta Flor, Christian Büchel, Andreas Heinz, Uli Bromberg, Henrik Walter, Gareth J. Barker, Michael N. Smolka, Alex Ing, Tomas J. Ekström, Yun Liu, Jean-Luc Martinot, Daniil Sarkysian, and Frauke Nees
Subjects: Psychiatry, Allele specific methylation, business.industry, Moderation, medicine.disease, Psykiatri, 3. Good health, 030227 psychiatry, Substance abuse, 03 medical and health sciences, Psychiatry and Mental health, 0302 clinical medicine, DNA methylation, Psychosocial stress, Medicine, Epigenetics, Risk factor, Substance use, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Clinical psychology
Abstract: Objective: Psychosocial stress is a key risk factor for substance abuse among adolescents. Recently, epigenetic processes such as DNA methylation have emerged as potential mechanisms that could mediate this relationship. The authors conducted a genome-wide methylation analysis to investigate whether differentially methylated regions are associated with psychosocial stress in an adolescent population. Methods: A methylome-wide analysis of differentially methylated regions was used to examine a sample of 1,287 14-year-old adolescents (50.7% of them female) from the European IMAGEN study. The Illumina 450k array was used to assess DNA methylation, pyrosequencing was used for technical replication, and linear regression analyses were used to identify associations with psychosocial stress and substance use (alcohol and tobacco). Findings were replicated by pyrosequencing a test sample of 413 participants from the IMAGEN study. Results: Hypermethylation in the sterile alpha motif/pointed domain containing the ETS transcription factor (SPDEF) gene locus was associated with a greater number of stressful life events in an allele-dependent way. Among individuals with the minor G-allele, SPDEF methylation moderated the association between psychosocial stress and substance abuse. SPDEF methylation interacted with lifetime stress in gray matter volume in the right cuneus, which in turn was associated with the frequency of alcohol and tobacco use. SPDEF was involved in the regulation of trans-genes linked to substance use. Conclusions: Taken together, the study findings describe a novel epigenetic mechanism that helps explain how psychosocial stress exposure influences adolescent substance abuse.
Published: 2019
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39. Mutational patterns and clonal evolution from diagnosis to relapse in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Author: Linda Fogelstrand, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Malin Larsson, Arja Harila-Saari, Gudmar Lönnerholm, Sara Nystedt, Anders Lundmark, Mats Heyman, Shumaila Sayyab, Ulrika Norén-Nyström, Eva C. Berglund, Jessica Nordlund, Markus Ringnér, Katja Pokrovskaja Tamm, Yanara Marincevic-Zuniga, and Jonas Abrahamsson
Subjects: Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, Somatic cell, Science, Biology, Somatic evolution in cancer, Article, Clonal Evolution, Internal medicine, Biomarkers, Tumor, Cancer genomics, medicine, Humans, Clinical genetics, Allele, Child, Gene, Cancer, Medicinsk genetik, Whole genome sequencing, Cancer och onkologi, Acute lymphocytic leukaemia, Multidisciplinary, Whole Genome Sequencing, Sequence Analysis, RNA, Point mutation, RNA sequencing, Genomics, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Regulatory sequence, Cancer and Oncology, Mutation, Next-generation sequencing, Medical genetics, Medicine, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local, Medical Genetics
Abstract: The mechanisms driving clonal heterogeneity and evolution in relapsed pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are not fully understood. We performed whole genome sequencing of samples collected at diagnosis, relapse(s) and remission from 29 Nordic patients. Somatic point mutations and large-scale structural variants were called using individually matched remission samples as controls, and allelic expression of the mutations was assessed in ALL cells using RNA-sequencing. We observed an increased burden of somatic mutations at relapse, compared to diagnosis, and at second relapse compared to first relapse. In addition to 29 known ALL driver genes, of which nine genes carried recurrent protein-coding mutations in our sample set, we identified putative non-protein coding mutations in regulatory regions of seven additional genes that have not previously been described in ALL. Cluster analysis of hundreds of somatic mutations per sample revealed three distinct evolutionary trajectories during ALL progression from diagnosis to relapse. The evolutionary trajectories provide insight into the mutational mechanisms leading relapse in ALL and could offer biomarkers for improved risk prediction in individual patients. Funding Agencies|CancerfondenSwedish Cancer Society [CAN2018/623] Funding Source: Medline; Barncancerfonden [PR2017-0023, PR2019-0046] Funding Source: Medline
Published: 2021

40. Interaction between the STAT4 rs11889341(T) risk allele and smoking confers increased risk of myocardial infarction and nephritis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Author: Ann-Christine Syvänen, Anne Troldborg, Christopher Sjöwall, Dag Leonard, Sarah Reid, Anne Voss, Niklas Hagberg, Elisabet Svenungsson, Anders A. Bengtsson, Andreas Jönsen, Søren Jacobsen, Lars Rönnblom, Øyvind Molberg, Pascal Pucholt, Iva Gunnarsson, Karoline Lerang, Andrei Alexsson, and Johanna K. Sandling
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Lupus nephritis, Myocardial Infarction, Gastroenterology, polymorphism, 0302 clinical medicine, Polymorphism (computer science), IL12A, Immunology and Allergy, Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic, Myocardial infarction, skin and connective tissue diseases, Smoking, Middle Aged, STAT4 Transcription Factor, Cohort, Female, Nephritis, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Immunology, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Interleukin-12 Subunit p35, smoking, 03 medical and health sciences, Rheumatology, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Aged, Rheumatology and Autoimmunity, 030203 arthritis & rheumatology, lupus nephritis, Reumatologi och inflammation, Lupus erythematosus, business.industry, systemic, medicine.disease, cardiovascular diseases, 030104 developmental biology, Gene-Environment Interaction, genetic, business, lupus erythematosus
Abstract: ObjectiveTo investigate how genetics influence the risk of smoking-related systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) manifestations.MethodsPatients with SLE (ndiscovery cohort=776, nreplication cohort=836) were genotyped using the 200K Immunochip single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) Array (Illumina) and a custom array. Sixty SNPs with SLE association (p−8) were analysed. Signal transducer and activator of transcription 4 (STAT4) activation was assessed in in vitro stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy controls (n=45).ResultsIn the discovery cohort, smoking was associated with myocardial infarction (MI) (OR 1.96 (95% CI 1.09 to 3.55)), with a greater effect in patients carrying any rs11889341 STAT4 risk allele (OR 2.72 (95% CI 1.24 to 6.00)) or two risk alleles (OR 8.27 (95% CI 1.48 to 46.27)).Smokers carrying the risk allele also displayed an increased risk of nephritis (OR 1.47 (95% CI 1.06 to 2.03)). In the replication cohort, the high risk of MI in smokers carrying the risk allele and the association between the STAT4 risk allele and nephritis in smokers were confirmed (OR 6.19 (95% CI 1.29 to 29.79) and 1.84 (95% CI 1.05 to 3.29), respectively).The interaction between smoking and the STAT4 risk allele resulted in further increase in the risk of MI (OR 2.14 (95% CI 1.01 to 4.62)) and nephritis (OR 1.53 (95% CI 1.08 to 2.17)), with 54% (MI) and 34% (nephritis) of the risk attributable to the interaction. Levels of interleukin-12-induced phosphorylation of STAT4 in CD8+ T cells were higher in smokers than in non-smokers (mean geometric fluorescence intensity 1063 vs 565, p=0.0063).Lastly, the IL12A rs564799 risk allele displayed association with MI in both cohorts (OR 1.53 (95% CI 1.01 to 2.31) and 2.15 (95% CI 1.08 to 4.26), respectively).ConclusionsSmoking in the presence of the STAT4 risk gene variant appears to increase the risk of MI and nephritis in SLE. Our results also highlight the role of the IL12−STAT4 pathway in SLE-cardiovascular morbidity.
Published: 2021
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41. P91 The development and validation of a polygenic risk score for myocardial infarction in SLE

Author: Søren Jacobsen, Lars Rönnblom, Johanna K. Sandling, Anne Troldborg, Iva Gunnarsson, Sarah Reid, Anne Voss, Karoline Lerang, Øyvind Molberg, Christopher Sjöwall, Andreas Jönsen, Dag Leonard, Anders A. Bengtsson, Elisabet Svenungsson, Andrei Alexsson, Ann-Christine Syvänen, and Pascal Pucholt
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Disease, medicine.disease, PTPN22, Internal medicine, IL12A, Cohort, medicine, Myocardial infarction, skin and connective tissue diseases, Prospective cohort study, business, SNP array
Abstract: Background Patients with SLE have increased morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular disease. Here, we construct and validate a polygenic risk score (PRS) for myocardial infarction (MI) in SLE. Methods Patients with SLE (European decent, ≥4 ACR-criteria) were genotyped using a 200K Immunochip SNP array (discovery cohort, Sweden, n=776) and custom MassARRAY assays (replication cohort, Norway/Denmark, n=890). In the discovery cohort, 57 SNPs with previously established association with SLE development (p Results Four SLE-risk genes were found to be associated with a decreased time until the first MI; PTPN22 (OR 1.61, p=0.041), NCF2 (OR 2.47, p=2.1×10-3), STAT4 (OR 1.66, p=5.2×10-3) and IL12A (OR 1.45, p=0.047) and were included in a PRS. The PRS was associated with a higher cumulative prevalence of MI in both the discovery cohort (p=1.1×10-5, fig 1A) and replication cohort (p=7.7×10-3, fig 1B). Exploring the PRS further in the replication cohort, patients in the high, compared to the low, PRS-quartile were more often male (p=1.3×10-3), and displayed higher prevalence of the ACR-1982 nephritis and immunological criteria (p=4.1×10-4 and p=0.036) (fig1C). Analyzing combinations of the identified SNPs, we found the prevalence of MI to be further increased in patients homozygous for both NCF2+STAT4 (pdiscovery=1.6×10-3, preplication=0.015) or STAT4+IL12A (pdiscovery=3.0×10-5, preplication=0.036) (fig1D). Conclusion A high polygenic risk score for MI in SLE is associated with an increased prevalence of myocardial infarction. If confirmed in prospective studies, our results suggest that genetic profiling may be useful for predicting MI in patients with SLE.
Published: 2020
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42. O34 Variants in BANK1 are associated with lupus nephritis

Author: Elisabet Svenungsson, Malena Loberg Haarhaus, Iva Gunnarsson, Anne Troldborg, Anne Voss, Andreas Jönsen, Gunnel Nordmark, Søren Jacobsen, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Lars Rönnblom, Anders A. Bengtsson, Johanna K. Sandling, Joanne Nititham, Karoline Lerang, Christopher Sjöwall, Dag Leonard, Lindsey A. Criswell, Øyvind Molberg, Karin Bolin, Andrei Alexsson, Ann-Christine Syvänen, and Pascal Pucholt
Subjects: Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Lupus nephritis, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, medicine.disease, Pathogenesis, Internal medicine, Cohort, Intronic SNP, medicine, In patient, business, Allele frequency, Gene
Abstract: Background Lupus Nephritis (LN) is a cause of significant morbidity in SLE. While the genetic background to SLE has been well characterized, less is known about genes predisposing to LN. Methods The study consisted of 2886 SLE patients, including 947 (33%) with LN. The discovery cohort (Sweden, n=1091) and replication cohort 1 (US, n=962) were genotyped on the Immunochip and replication cohort 2 (Norway/Denmark, n=833) on a custom array chip. Allele frequencies were compared between patients with LN and LN-negative patients. SNPs with a p-value Results In the discovery cohort, strong association to LN was found with several highly linked SNPs in BANK1, with the top signal in the intronic SNP rs4699261 (p=9.9×10-5, OR 0.66). The association was also present in replication cohort 1 (p=9.5×10-4). In a meta-analysis of the discovery and replication cohort 1, a total of 20 SNPs in BANK1 were associated to LN with the highest signal in rs4699261 (p=3.3×10-7). There was a tendency towards association in replication cohort 2 (p=0.05) and in a meta-analysis of all cohorts, the association with BANK1 was strengthened (p=1.7×10-7). Conclusion BANK1 variations are associated with LN in patients with SLE. Upregulated BANK1 expression in renal biopsies from LN patients has previously been shown, however the exact role of BANK1 in LN pathogenesis remains to be elucidated.
Published: 2020
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43. Exome Sequencing Reveals Common and Rare Variants in F5 Associated With ACE Inhibitor and Angiotensin Receptor Blocker-Induced Angioedema

Author: Ekaterina V Baranova, Fiona Carr, Abirami Veluchamy, Anke H. Maitland-van der Zee, Ana Alfirevic, Moneeza K. Siddiqui, Anette Bygum, Pär Hallberg, Myra White, Eva Rye Rasmussen, Mia Wadelius, Cyrielle Maroteau, Colin N. A. Palmer, Nancy J. Brown, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Qun-Ying Yue, Christian von Buchwald, Andrew Cassidy, Malgorzata Karawajczyk, Niclas Eriksson, Katarzyna M Bloch, Pulmonology, Paediatric Pulmonology, and APH - Personalized Medicine
Subjects: Male, Angiotensin receptor, DNA Mutational Analysis, Mutation, Missense, Genome-wide association study, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors, Pharmacology, 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy, Risk Assessment, 03 medical and health sciences, Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists, 0302 clinical medicine, Mutation Rate, Risk Factors, Exome Sequencing, medicine, Missense mutation, Humans, Pharmacology (medical), Exome, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, cardiovascular diseases, Angioedema, Exome sequencing, Medicinsk genetik, Aged, business.industry, Case-control study, Factor V, Middle Aged, United States, 3. Good health, Europe, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Case-Control Studies, ACE inhibitor, Female, medicine.symptom, business, Medical Genetics, medicine.drug, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Angioedema occurring in the head and neck region is a rare and sometimes life-threatening adverse reaction to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs). Few studies have investigated the association of common variants with this extreme reaction, but none have explored the combined influence of rare variants yet. Adjudicated cases of ACEI-induced angioedema (ACEI-AE) or ARB-induced angioedema (ARB-AE) and controls were recruited at five different centers. Sequencing of 1,066 samples (408 ACEI-AE, ARB-AE, and 658 controls) was performed using exome-enriched sequence data. A common variant of the F5 gene that causes an increase in blood clotting (rs6025, p.Arg506Gln, also called factor V Leiden), was significantly associated with both ACEI-AE and ARB-AE (odds ratio: 2.85, 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.89–4.25). A burden test analysis of five rare missense variants in F5 was also found to be associated with ACEI-AE or ARB-AE, P = 2.09 × 10−3. A combined gene risk score of these variants, and the common variants rs6025 and rs6020, showed that individuals carrying at least one variant had 2.21 (95% CI, 1.49–3.27, P = 6.30 × 10−9) times the odds of having ACEI-AE or ARB-AE. The increased risk due to the common Leiden allele was confirmed in a genome-wide association study from the United States. A high risk of angioedema was also observed for the rs6020 variant that is the main coagulation defect-causing variant in black African and Asian populations. We found that deleterious missense variants in F5 are associated with an increased risk of ACEI-AE or ARB-AE.
Published: 2020
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44. Refined detection and phasing of structural aberrations in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia by linked-read whole-genome sequencing

Author: Amanda Raine, Yanara Marincevic-Zuniga, Jessica Nordlund, Lucia Cavelier, Gudmar Lönnerholm, Anders Lundmark, Jonas Abrahamsson, Ulrika Norén-Nyström, Ann-Christine Syvänen, and Tom Martin
Subjects: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Gene Dosage, lcsh:Medicine, Aneuploidy, Computational biology, Biology, Compound heterozygosity, Genome, Translocation, Genetic, Article, Fusion gene, Cancer genomics, medicine, Humans, Child, lcsh:Science, Medicinsk genetik, Chromosome Aberrations, Whole genome sequencing, Acute lymphocytic leukaemia, Multidisciplinary, Whole Genome Sequencing, Molecular medicine, lcsh:R, Haplotype, Karyotype, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, medicine.disease, Haplotypes, Child, Preschool, Karyotyping, Medical genetics, Female, lcsh:Q, Medical Genetics, Gene Deletion
Abstract: Structural chromosomal rearrangements that can lead to in-frame gene-fusions are a leading source of information for diagnosis, risk stratification, and prognosis in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Traditional methods such as karyotyping and FISH struggle to accurately identify and phase such large-scale chromosomal aberrations in ALL genomes. We therefore evaluated linked-read WGS for detecting chromosomal rearrangements in primary samples of from 12 patients diagnosed with ALL. We assessed the effect of input DNA quality on phased haplotype block size and the detectability of copy number aberrations and structural variants in the ALL genomes. We found that biobanked DNA isolated by standard column-based extraction methods was sufficient to detect chromosomal rearrangements even at low 10x sequencing coverage. Linked-read WGS enabled precise, allele-specific, digital karyotyping at a base-pair resolution for a wide range of structural variants including complex rearrangements and aneuploidy assessment. With use of haplotype information from the linked-reads, we also identified previously unknown structural variants, such as a compound heterozygous deletion of ERG in a patient with the DUX4-IGH fusion gene. We conclude that linked-read WGS allows detection of important pathogenic variants in ALL genomes at a resolution beyond that of traditional karyotyping and FISH.
Published: 2020
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45. Overexpression of chromatin remodeling and tyrosine kinase genes in iAMP21-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Author: Anh Nhi Tran, Vasilios Zachariadis, Mats Heyman, Jessica Nordlund, Daniel Nilsson, Magnus Nordenskjöld, Arja Harila-Saari, Fulya Taylan, Ingegerd Ivanov Öfverholm, Leonie Saft, Gudmar Lönnerholm, Yanara Marincevic-Zuniga, Gisela Barbany, Ann Nordgren, and Ann-Christine Syvänen
Subjects: Cancer Research, Poor prognosis, Lymphoblastic Leukemia, transcriptome sequencing, Biology, Article, Chromatin remodeling, Cytogenetics, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, hemic and lymphatic diseases, Gene expression, Humans, Hematologi, Child, Gene, Chromosome Aberrations, mp-wgs, iAMP21, Hematology, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Transcriptome Sequencing, Chromatin Assembly Factor-1, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, gene expression analysis, Cancer research, Chromosome 21, Tyrosine kinase, 030215 immunology
Abstract: Intrachromosomal amplification of chromosome 21 (iAMP21) is a cytogenetic subtype associated with relapse and poor prognosis in pediatric B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP ALL). The biology behind the high relapse risk is unknown and the aim of this study was to further characterize the genomic and transcriptional landscape of iAMP21. Using DNA arrays and sequencing, we could identify rearrangements and aberrations characteristic for iAMP21. RNA sequencing revealed that only half of the genes in the minimal region of amplification (20/45) were differentially expressed in iAMP21. Among them were the top overexpressed genes (p < 0.001) in iAMP21 vs. BCP ALL without iAMP21 and three candidate genes could be identified, the tyrosine kinase gene DYRK1A and chromatin remodeling genes CHAF1B and SON. While overexpression of DYRK1A and CHAF1B is associated with poor prognosis in malignant diseases including myeloid leukemia, this is the first study to show significant correlation with iAMP21-positive ALL.
Published: 2020

46. Neuronal Expression of Opioid Gene is Controlled by Dual Epigenetic and Transcriptional Mechanism in Human Brain

Author: Ann-Christine Syvänen, Igor Bazov, Lada Stålhandske, Jan Mulder, Grazyna Rajkowska, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Olga Kononenko, Mumtaz Malik Taqi, Xueguang Sun, Georgy Bakalkin, Donna Sheedy, Daniil Sarkisyan, Tatiana Yakovleva, Jillian J. Kril, Dineke S. Verbeek, Molecular Neuroscience and Ageing Research (MOLAR), and Movement Disorder (MD)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Adult, Male, cell type-specific expression, HUMAN PRODYNORPHIN GENE, Transcription, Genetic, Cognitive Neuroscience, USF2, Prefrontal Cortex, Dynorphin, Biology, Epigenesis, Genetic, 03 medical and health sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, USF PROTEINS, ATAXIA TYPE 23, Transcription (biology), mental disorders, medicine, Humans, UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTORS, Epigenetics, Protein Precursors, Opioid peptide, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Transcription factor, human brain, Aged, BARRIER-ELEMENT, Aged, 80 and over, Neurons, DNA methylation, DNA-BINDING FACTOR, neuropeptides, METHYLATION, Original Articles, Enkephalins, Middle Aged, DROPLET DIGITAL PCR, Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, nervous system, Gene Expression Regulation, SPINAL-CORD, transcription, Neuroscience, DORSAL-HORN
Abstract: Molecular mechanisms that define patterns of neuropeptide expression are essential for the formation and rewiring of neural circuits. The prodynorphin gene (PDYN) gives rise to dynorphin opioid peptides mediating depression and substance dependence. We here demonstrated that PDYN is expressed in neurons in human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), and identified neuronal differentially methylated region in PDYN locus framed by CCCTC-binding factor binding sites. A short, nucleosome size human-specific promoter CpG island (CGI), a core of this region may serve as a regulatory module, which is hypomethylated in neurons, enriched in 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, and targeted by USF2, a methylation-sensitive E-box transcription factor (TF). USF2 activates PDYN transcription in model systems, and binds to nonmethylated CGI in dlPFC. USF2 and PDYN expression is correlated, and USF2 and PDYN proteins are co-localized in dlPFC. Segregation of activatory TF and repressive CGI methylation may ensure contrasting PDYN expression in neurons and glia in human brain.
Published: 2018

47. Association of aberrant ASNS imprinting with asparaginase sensitivity and chromosomal abnormality in childhood BCP-ALL

Author: Hiroaki Goto, Koshi Akahane, Jessica Nordlund, Takeshi Inukai, Kanji Sugita, Atsushi Watanabe, Kevin Y. Urayama, Hiroaki Honda, Tomokatsu Ikawa, Norimasa Yamasaki, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Masako Abe, Masayoshi Minegishi, Louise van der Weyden, Nobutaka Kiyokawa, Kunio Miyake, Keiko Kagami, Kumiko Goi, Toshiya Inaba, Shunsuke Kimura, Yasuo Kubota, Tamao Shinohara, Akira Ohara, Kimiyoshi Sakaguchi, Shotaro Iwamoto, Akiko Nagamachi, and Junko Takita
Subjects: Asparaginase, Pharmacogenomic Variants, Immunology, Asparagine synthetase, Biology, Biochemistry, chemistry.chemical_compound, Genomic Imprinting, Mice, Precursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Gene silencing, Animals, Humans, Epigenetics, Child, Gene, Chromosome Aberrations, Lymphoid Neoplasia, Aspartate-Ammonia Ligase, Cell Biology, Hematology, Methylation, DNA Methylation, CpG site, chemistry, Cancer research, Genomic imprinting
Abstract: Karyotype is an important prognostic factor in childhood B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL), but the underlying pharmacogenomics remain unknown. Asparaginase is an integral component in current chemotherapy for childhood BCP-ALL. Asparaginase therapy depletes serum asparagine. Normal hematopoietic cells can produce asparagine by asparagine synthetase (ASNS) activity, but ALL cells are unable to synthesize adequate amounts of asparagine. The ASNS gene has a typical CpG island in its promoter. Thus, methylation of the ASNS CpG island could be one of the epigenetic mechanisms for ASNS gene silencing in BCP-ALL. To gain deep insights into the pharmacogenomics of asparaginase therapy, we investigated the association of ASNS methylation status with asparaginase sensitivity. The ASNS CpG island is largely unmethylated in normal hematopoietic cells, but it is allele-specifically methylated in BCP-ALL cells. The ASNS gene is located at 7q21, an evolutionally conserved imprinted gene cluster. ASNS methylation in childhood BCP-ALL is associated with an aberrant methylation of the imprinted gene cluster at 7q21. Aberrant methylation of mouse Asns and a syntenic imprinted gene cluster is also confirmed in leukemic spleen samples from ETV6-RUNX1 knockin mice. In 3 childhood BCP-ALL cohorts, ASNS is highly methylated in BCP-ALL patients with favorable karyotypes but is mostly unmethylated in BCP-ALL patients with poor prognostic karyotypes. Higher ASNS methylation is associated with higher L-asparaginase sensitivity in BCP-ALL through lower ASNS gene and protein expression levels. These observations demonstrate that silencing of the ASNS gene as a result of aberrant imprinting is a pharmacogenetic mechanism for the leukemia-specific activity of asparaginase therapy in BCP-ALL.
Published: 2019

48. 207 A high genetic risk score is associated with early disease onset, organ damage and decreased survival in systemic lupus erythematosus

Author: Karin Bolin, Elisabet Svenungsson, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Andrei Alexsson, Martina Frodlund, Sarah Reid, Andreas Jönsen, Anders A. Bengtsson, Lars Rönnblom, Johanna K. Sandling, Iva Gunnarsson, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Maija-Leena Eloranta, Christine Bengtsson, Christopher Sjöwall, and Dag Leonard
Subjects: Autoimmune disease, medicine.medical_specialty, biology, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, medicine.disease, Gastroenterology, Quartile, Internal medicine, medicine, biology.protein, Renal biopsy, Genetic risk, Antibody, business, Nephritis, Kidney disease, SNP array
Abstract: Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, autoimmune disease with a complex genetic etiology. Over 100 risk genes for SLE have been identified at genome-wide significance, but their overall effect on disease severity has not previously been studied. We therefore assessed the relationship between a high genetic risk score and the development of organ damage in SLE. Methods Patients with SLE, who met 4 ACR criteria (n=1001), and healthy controls (n=2802) were genotyped using a 200K Immunochip SNP Array (Illumina). A genetic risk score (GRS) was assigned to each individual based on 57 SLE risk loci which have previously shown association (p Results SLE prevalence increased with increasing GRS (figure 1A) and was higher in the highest compared to the lowest GRS-quartile (OR 12.32 (9.5315.71) p=7.9×10–86). SLE onset occurred 5 years earlier in the high compared to the low quartile (figure 1B). The OR for organ damage increased with increasing GRS (figure 1C) and was significantly higher in the high compared to the low GRS-quartile (OR 1.47 (1.062.04) p=2.0×10–2). Moreover, patients in the high quartile had an increased prevalence of nephritis (OR 2.22 (1.503.27), p=5.9×10–5), end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) (OR 5.58 (1.5020.79), p=1.0×10–2) anti-dsDNA antibodies (OR 1.83 (1.192.81), p=6.1×10–03), anti-cardiolipin-IgG (OR 2.16 (1.303.59), p=2.8×10–03) and anti-2-glycoprotein-I (OR 1.69 (1.042.74), p=3.3×10–02). Analysis of renal biopsy data showed that the prevalence of proliferative nephritis was significantly higher in the high, compared to the low, quartile (OR 2.42 (1.304.49), p=5.1×10–03). Moreover, the patients in the high GRS-quartile displayed decreased survival until their first organ damage (HR 1.51 (1.042.25), p=3.7×10–02), first cardiovascular event (HR 1.65 (1.032.64), p=2.6×10–02), nephritis onset (HR 2.53 (1.723.71) p=9.6×10–7) and ESKD (6.78 (1.7826.86), p=6.5×10–3). Lastly, OR for mortality increased with increasing GRS (figure 1D), with a 5 year decrease in overall survival in the high compared to the low quartile (HR 1.82 (1.043.19), p=2.4×10–2). Conclusions A high genetic risk score is associated with earlier disease onset, increased risk of organ damage and impaired survival. Our results indicate that genetic profiling may be useful for predicting outcomes in patients with SLE. Funding Source(s): None
Published: 2019
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49. Author response for 'Interferon signature in patients with STAT1 gain-of-function mutation is epigenetically determined'

Author: Sofie E. Jørgensen, Sascha Sauer, Helke Nurm, Darragh Duffy, E. Graham Davies, Epp Kaleviste, Mario Saare, Pärt Peterson, Lili Milani, Timothy Ronan Leahy, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Vincent Bondet, Kai Kisand, Winnie Ip, and Trine H. Mogensen
Subjects: Interferon, medicine, Cancer research, biology.protein, Gain of function mutation, In patient, STAT1, Biology, Signature (topology), medicine.drug
Published: 2019
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50. Exploring rare and low-frequency variants in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean population identified genes associated with asthma and allergy traits

Author: Stephen Sawcer, Maria Ban, Tony Kwan, Jukka Partanen, Catherine Laprise, Tomi Pastinen, Lars Rönnblom, Anne-Marie Madore, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg, Mark Lathrop, Andréanne Morin, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Sawcer, Stephen [0000-0001-7685-0974], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Adult, Male, Ribosomal Proteins, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Demographic history, Population, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Mitochondrial Proteins, 03 medical and health sciences, Gene Frequency, Polymorphism (computer science), Serpin E2, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Child, education, Molecular Biology, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), Gene, Allele frequency, Genetics (clinical), Aged, Receptors, CXCR6, Medicinsk genetik, Aged, 80 and over, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, 030305 genetics & heredity, Quebec, Intron, Middle Aged, Asthma, Neuropilin-2, 3. Good health, DNA-Binding Proteins, Child, Preschool, Medical genetics, Female, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Medical Genetics, Transcription Factors, Founder effect
Abstract: The Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (SLSJ) region is located in northeastern Quebec and is known for its unique demographic history and founder effect. As founder populations are enriched with population-specific variants, we characterized the variants distribution in SLSJ and compared it with four European populations (Finnish, Sweden, United Kingdom and France), of which the Finnish population is another founder population. Targeted sequencing of the coding and non-coding immune regulatory regions of the SLSJ asthma familial cohort and the four European populations were performed. Rare and low-frequency coding and non-coding regulatory variants identified in the SLSJ population were then investigated for variant- and gene-level associations with asthma and allergy-related traits (eosinophil percentage, immunoglobulin (Ig) E levels and lung function). Our data showed that (1) rare or deleterious variants were not enriched in the two founder populations as compared with the three non-founder European populations; (2) a larger proportion of founder population-specific variants occurred with higher frequencies; and (3) low-frequency variants appeared to be more deleterious. Furthermore, a rare variant, rs1386931, located in the 3'-UTR of CXCR6 and intron of FYCO1 was found to be associated with eosinophil percentage. Gene-based analyses identified NRP2, MRPL44 and SERPINE2 to be associated with various asthma and allergy-related traits. Our study demonstrated the usefulness of using a founder population to identify new genes associated with asthma and allergy-related traits; thus better understand the genes and pathways implicated in pathophysiology.
Published: 2019

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