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1. Discovery of RXFP2 genetic association in resistant hypertensive men and RXFP2 antagonists for the treatment of resistant hypertension

Author: Shan-Shan Zhang, Lance Larrabee, Andrew H. Chang, Sapna Desai, Lisa Sloan, Xin Wang, Yixuan Wu, Nazia Parvez, Karen Amaratunga, Allison C. Hartman, Abby Whitnall, Joseph Mason, Nicholas P. Barton, Audrey Y. Chu, Jonathan M. Davitte, Adam J. Csakai, Caitlin Vestal Tibbetts, Audrey E. Tolbert, Heather O’Keefe, Jessie Polanco, Joseph Foley, Casey Kmett, Jonathan Kehler, Gabriela Kozejova, Feng Wang, Andrew P. Mayer, Patrick Koenig, Davide Foletti, Steven J. Pitts, and Christine G. Schnackenberg
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Abstract Hypertension remains a leading cause of cardiovascular and kidney diseases. Failure to control blood pressure with ≥ 3 medications or control requiring ≥ 4 medications is classified as resistant hypertension (rHTN) and new therapies are needed to reduce the resulting increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Here, we report genetic evidence that relaxin family peptide receptor 2 (RXFP2) is associated with rHTN in men, but not in women. This study shows that adrenal gland gene expression of RXFP2 is increased in men with hypertension and the RXFP2 natural ligand, INSL3, increases adrenal steroidogenesis and corticosteroid secretion in human adrenal cells. To address the hypothesis that RXFP2 activation is an important mechanism in rHTN, we discovered and characterized small molecule and monoclonal antibody (mAb) blockers of RXFP2. The novel chemical entities and mAbs show potent, selective inhibition of RXFP2 and reduce aldosterone and cortisol synthesis and release. The RXFP2 mAbs have suitable rat pharmacokinetic profiles to evaluate the role of RXFP2 in the development and maintenance of rHTN. Overall, we identified RXFP2 activity as a potential new mechanism in rHTN and discovered RXFP2 antagonists for the future interrogation of RXFP2 in cardiovascular and renal diseases.
Published: 2024
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2. X-chromosome and kidney function: evidence from a multi-trait genetic analysis of 908,697 individuals reveals sex-specific and sex-differential findings in genes regulated by androgen response elements

Author: Markus Scholz, Katrin Horn, Janne Pott, Matthias Wuttke, Andreas Kühnapfel, M. Kamal Nasr, Holger Kirsten, Yong Li, Anselm Hoppmann, Mathias Gorski, Sahar Ghasemi, Man Li, Adrienne Tin, Jin-Fang Chai, Massimiliano Cocca, Judy Wang, Teresa Nutile, Masato Akiyama, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Nisha Bansal, Mary L. Biggs, Thibaud Boutin, Hermann Brenner, Ben Brumpton, Ralph Burkhardt, Jianwen Cai, Archie Campbell, Harry Campbell, John Chalmers, Daniel I. Chasman, Miao Ling Chee, Miao Li Chee, Xu Chen, Ching-Yu Cheng, Renata Cifkova, Martha Daviglus, Graciela Delgado, Katalin Dittrich, Todd L. Edwards, Karlhans Endlich, J. Michael Gaziano, Ayush Giri, Franco Giulianini, Scott D. Gordon, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Stein Hallan, Pavel Hamet, Catharina A. Hartman, Caroline Hayward, Iris M. Heid, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Bernd Holleczek, Hilma Holm, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Kristian Hveem, Berend Isermann, Jost B. Jonas, Peter K. Joshi, Yoichiro Kamatani, Masahiro Kanai, Mika Kastarinen, Chiea Chuen Khor, Wieland Kiess, Marcus E. Kleber, Antje Körner, Peter Kovacs, Alena Krajcoviechova, Holly Kramer, Bernhard K. Krämer, Mikko Kuokkanen, Mika Kähönen, Leslie A. Lange, James P. Lash, Terho Lehtimäki, Hengtong Li, Bridget M. Lin, Jianjun Liu, Markus Loeffler, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Nicholas G. Martin, Koichi Matsuda, Yuri Milaneschi, Pashupati P. Mishra, Nina Mononen, Grant W. Montgomery, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Winfried März, Matthias Nauck, Kjell Nikus, Ilja M. Nolte, Raymond Noordam, Yukinori Okada, Isleifur Olafsson, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Markus Perola, Nicola Pirastu, Ozren Polasek, David J. Porteous, Tanja Poulain, Bruce M. Psaty, Ton J. Rabelink, Laura M. Raffield, Olli T. Raitakari, Humaira Rasheed, Dermot F. Reilly, Kenneth M. Rice, Anne Richmond, Paul M. Ridker, Jerome I. Rotter, Igor Rudan, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Veikko Salomaa, Neil Schneiderman, Ben Schöttker, Mario Sims, Harold Snieder, Klaus J. Stark, Kari Stefansson, Hannah Stocker, Michael Stumvoll, Patrick Sulem, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Per O. Svensson, E-Shyong Tai, Kent D. Taylor, Bamidele O. Tayo, Andrej Teren, Yih-Chung Tham, Joachim Thiery, Chris H. L. Thio, Laurent F. Thomas, Johanne Tremblay, Anke Tönjes, Peter J. van der Most, Veronique Vitart, Uwe Völker, Ya Xing Wang, Chaolong Wang, Wen Bin Wei, John B. Whitfield, Sarah H. Wild, James F. Wilson, Thomas W. Winkler, Tien-Yin Wong, Mark Woodward, Xueling Sim, Audrey Y. Chu, Mary F. Feitosa, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Adriana M. Hung, Alexander Teumer, Nora Franceschini, Afshin Parsa, Anna Köttgen, Pascal Schlosser, and Cristian Pattaro
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Abstract X-chromosomal genetic variants are understudied but can yield valuable insights into sexually dimorphic human traits and diseases. We performed a sex-stratified cross-ancestry X-chromosome-wide association meta-analysis of seven kidney-related traits (n = 908,697), identifying 23 loci genome-wide significantly associated with two of the traits: 7 for uric acid and 16 for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), including four novel eGFR loci containing the functionally plausible prioritized genes ACSL4, CLDN2, TSPAN6 and the female-specific DRP2. Further, we identified five novel sex-interactions, comprising male-specific effects at FAM9B and AR/EDA2R, and three sex-differential findings with larger genetic effect sizes in males at DCAF12L1 and MST4 and larger effect sizes in females at HPRT1. All prioritized genes in loci showing significant sex-interactions were located next to androgen response elements (ARE). Five ARE genes showed sex-differential expressions. This study contributes new insights into sex-dimorphisms of kidney traits along with new prioritized gene targets for further molecular research.
Published: 2024
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3. Large-scale exome array summary statistics resources for glycemic traits to aid effector gene prioritization [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Author: Natasha H. J. Ng, Sara M. Willems, Jian'an Luan, Rebecca S. Fine, Juan Fernandez, Jennifer Wessel, Eleanor Wheeler, Gaelle Marenne, Hidetoshi Kitajima, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Xueling Sim, Ian J. Deary, Sai Chen, Shuai Wang, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Caroline Hayward, Yuning Chen, Jennifer L. Asimit, Claudia Langenberg, Tibor V. Varga, Archie Campbell, Rona J. Strawbridge, Shuang Feng, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Erica L. Kleinbrink, Emil V. Appel, Ping An, Lawrence F. Bielak, Dan E. Arking, Jennifer A. Brody, Nathan A. Bihlmeyer, David Porteous, Ayse Demirkan, Audrey Y. Chu, Franco Giulianini, James S. Floyd, Stefan Gustafsson, Xiuqing Guo, Johanna Jakobsdottir, Anne U. Jackson, Stavroula Kanoni, Richard A. Jensen, Igor Rudan, Man Li, Sirkka Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Alisa K. Manning, Yingchang Lu, Karina Meidtner, Jonathan Marten, Giorgio Pistis, Taulant Muka, Kenneth M. Rice, Bram Prins, Albert Vernon Smith, Serena Sanna, Lorraine Southam, Jennifer A. Smith, Vinicius Tragante, Heather M. Stringham, Helen R. Warren, Sander W. van der Laan, Andrianos M. Yiorkas, Jie Yao, Wei Zhao, Weihua Zhang, Heather M. Highland, Mariaelisa Graff, Eirini Marouli, Anne E. Justice, Wesam A. Alhejily, Saima Afaq, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Najaf Amin, Michiel L. Bots, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Ji Chen, Ivan Brandslund, Abbas Dehghan, John Danesh, Tapani Ebeling, Jessica D. Faul, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Steve Franks, Paul W. Franks, Anette P. Gjesing, Andreas Fritsche, Göran Hallmans, Mark O. Goodarzi, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Tamara B. Harris, Min A Jhun, Marie-France Hivert, Marit E. Jørgensen, Torben Jørgensen, Eero Kajantie, Pekka Jousilahti, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Maria Karaleftheri, Heikki A. Koistinen, Leena Kinnunen, Peter Kovacs, Pirjo Komulainen, Markku Laakso, Johanna Kuusisto, Aaron Leong, Lenore J. Launer, Jocelyn E. Manning Fox, Jaana Lindström, Nisa M. Maruthur, Satu Männistö, Antonella Mulas, Leena Moilanen, Matthew Neville, Mike A. Nalls, Alison Pattie, James S. Pankow, Hannu Puolijoki, Eva R.B. Petersen, Paul Redmond, Asif Rasheed, Michael Roden, Frida Renström, Juha Saltevo, Danish Saleheen, Sylvain Sebert, Kai Savonen, Alena Stančáková, Kerrin S. Small, Konstantin Strauch, Jakob Stokholm, Betina H. Thuesen, Juha Auvinen, E-Shyong Tai, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Anke Tönjes, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Marja Vääräsmäki, Matti Uusitupa, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Ilonca Vaartjes, Beverley Balkau, Goncalo Abecasis, Alexandra I. Blakemore, Hans Bisgaard, Heiner Boeing, Ruth J.F. Loos, Matthias Blüher, Klaus Bønnelykke, Eric Boerwinkle, Mark J. Caulfield, Erwin P. Bottinger, Daniel I. Chasman, John C. Chambers, Francis S. Collins, Ching-Yu Cheng, Francesco Cucca, Josef Coresh, George Dedoussis, Gert J. de Borst, Hester M. den Ruijter, Panos Deloukas, Ele Ferrannini, Michele K. Evans, Harald Grallert, Oscar H. Franco, Arfan Ikram, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Fredrik Karpe, Erik Ingelsson, Wieland Kiess, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Kay-Tee Kaw, Antje Körner, Jaspal S. Kooner, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Timo Lakka, Ching-Ti Liu, Leonard Lipovich, Patrick E. MacDonald, Jun Liu, Andrew D. Morris, Karen L. Mohlke, Alison Murray, Patricia B. Munroe, Gerard Pasterkamp, Colin N. A . Palmer, Patricia A. Peyser, Oluf Pedersen, Paul M. Ridker, Rainer Rauramaa, Patrik Rorsman, Olov Rolandsson, Veikko Salomaa, Frits R. Rosendaal, Robert Sladek, Matthias B. Schulze, Michael Stumvoll, Timothy D. Spector, Mark Walker, Cornelia M. van Duijn, David R. Weir, Nick J. Wareham, Tien Yin Wong, James G. Wilson, Alan B. Zonderman, Eleftheria Zeggini, Andrew P. Morris, Jerome I. Rotter, Jose C. Florez, Michael Boehnke, James B. Meigs, Mark I. McCarthy, Robert A. Scott, Anubha Mahajan, Inês Barroso, Anna L. Gloyn, Michael A. Province, Niels Grarup, Ruifang Li-Gao, Jette Bork-Jensen, Yongmei Liu, Allan Linneberg, Leslie A. Lange, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Gail Davies, Lars Lind, Bruce M. Psaty, Tea Skaaby, Torben Hansen, Ozren Polasek, John M. Starr, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Vilmundur Gudnason, Kent D. Taylor, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Renée de Mutsert, Paul Elliott, Josée Dupuis, Blair H. Smith, and Andrew T. Hattersley
Subjects: exome chip, glycaemic traits, genetic discovery, effector genes, summary statistics resources, eng, Medicine, Science
Abstract: Background Genome-wide association studies for glycemic traits have identified hundreds of loci associated with these biomarkers of glucose homeostasis. Despite this success, the challenge remains to link variant associations to genes, and underlying biological pathways. Methods To identify coding variant associations which may pinpoint effector genes at both novel and previously established genome-wide association loci, we performed meta-analyses of exome-array studies for four glycemic traits: glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c, up to 144,060 participants), fasting glucose (FG, up to 129,665 participants), fasting insulin (FI, up to 104,140) and 2hr glucose post-oral glucose challenge (2hGlu, up to 57,878). In addition, we performed network and pathway analyses. Results Single-variant and gene-based association analyses identified coding variant associations at more than 60 genes, which when combined with other datasets may be useful to nominate effector genes. Network and pathway analyses identified pathways related to insulin secretion, zinc transport and fatty acid metabolism. HbA1c associations were strongly enriched in pathways related to blood cell biology. Conclusions Our results provided novel glycemic trait associations and highlighted pathways implicated in glycemic regulation. Exome-array summary statistic results are being made available to the scientific community to enable further discoveries.
Published: 2023
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4. Differential and shared genetic effects on kidney function between diabetic and non-diabetic individuals

Author: Thomas W. Winkler, Humaira Rasheed, Alexander Teumer, Mathias Gorski, Bryce X. Rowan, Kira J. Stanzick, Laurent F. Thomas, Adrienne Tin, Anselm Hoppmann, Audrey Y. Chu, Bamidele Tayo, Chris H. L. Thio, Daniele Cusi, Jin-Fang Chai, Karsten B. Sieber, Katrin Horn, Man Li, Markus Scholz, Massimiliano Cocca, Matthias Wuttke, Peter J. van der Most, Qiong Yang, Sahar Ghasemi, Teresa Nutile, Yong Li, Giulia Pontali, Felix Günther, Abbas Dehghan, Adolfo Correa, Afshin Parsa, Agnese Feresin, Aiko P. J. de Vries, Alan B. Zonderman, Albert V. Smith, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Alessandro De Grandi, Alexander R. Rosenkranz, Andre Franke, Andrej Teren, Andres Metspalu, Andrew A. Hicks, Andrew P. Morris, Anke Tönjes, Anna Morgan, Anna I. Podgornaia, Annette Peters, Antje Körner, Anubha Mahajan, Archie Campbell, Barry I. Freedman, Beatrice Spedicati, Belen Ponte, Ben Schöttker, Ben Brumpton, Bernhard Banas, Bernhard K. Krämer, Bettina Jung, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Blair H. Smith, Boting Ning, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Brett R. Vanderwerff, Bruce M. Psaty, Candace M. Kammerer, Carl D. Langefeld, Caroline Hayward, Cassandra N. Spracklen, Cassianne Robinson-Cohen, Catharina A. Hartman, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Chaolong Wang, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Chew-Kiat Heng, Chiara Lanzani, Chiea-Chuen Khor, Ching-Yu Cheng, Christian Fuchsberger, Christian Gieger, Christian M. Shaffer, Christina-Alexandra Schulz, Cristen J. Willer, Daniel I. Chasman, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Daniela Ruggiero, Daniela Toniolo, Darina Czamara, David J. Porteous, Dawn M. Waterworth, Deborah Mascalzoni, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Dermot F. Reilly, E. Warwick Daw, Edith Hofer, Eric Boerwinkle, Erika Salvi, Erwin P. Bottinger, E-Shyong Tai, Eulalia Catamo, Federica Rizzi, Feng Guo, Fernando Rivadeneira, Franco Guilianini, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Georg Ehret, Gerard Waeber, Ginevra Biino, Giorgia Girotto, Giorgio Pistis, Girish N. Nadkarni, Graciela E. Delgado, Grant W. Montgomery, Harold Snieder, Harry Campbell, Harvey D. White, He Gao, Heather M. Stringham, Helena Schmidt, Hengtong Li, Hermann Brenner, Hilma Holm, Holgen Kirsten, Holly Kramer, Igor Rudan, Ilja M. Nolte, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Isleifur Olafsson, Jade Martins, James P. Cook, James F. Wilson, Jan Halbritter, Janine F. Felix, Jasmin Divers, Jaspal S. Kooner, Jeannette Jen-Mai Lee, Jeffrey O’Connell, Jerome I. Rotter, Jianjun Liu, Jie Xu, Joachim Thiery, Johan Ärnlöv, Johanna Kuusisto, Johanna Jakobsdottir, Johanne Tremblay, John C. Chambers, John B. Whitfield, John M. Gaziano, Jonathan Marten, Josef Coresh, Jost B. Jonas, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Kaare Christensen, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Karen L. Mohlke, Karlhans Endlich, Katalin Dittrich, Kathleen A. Ryan, Kenneth M. Rice, Kent D. Taylor, Kevin Ho, Kjell Nikus, Koichi Matsuda, Konstantin Strauch, Kozeta Miliku, Kristian Hveem, Lars Lind, Lars Wallentin, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M. Raffield, Lawrence S. Phillips, Lenore J. Launer, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Leslie A. Lange, Lorena Citterio, Lucija Klaric, M. Arfan Ikram, Marcus Ising, Marcus E. Kleber, Margherita Francescatto, Maria Pina Concas, Marina Ciullo, Mario Piratsu, Marju Orho-Melander, Markku Laakso, Markus Loeffler, Markus Perola, Martin H. de Borst, Martin Gögele, Martina La Bianca, Mary Ann Lukas, Mary F. Feitosa, Mary L. Biggs, Mary K. Wojczynski, Maryam Kavousi, Masahiro Kanai, Masato Akiyama, Masayuki Yasuda, Matthias Nauck, Melanie Waldenberger, Miao-Li Chee, Miao-Ling Chee, Michael Boehnke, Michael H. Preuss, Michael Stumvoll, Michael A. Province, Michele K. Evans, Michelle L. O’Donoghue, Michiaki Kubo, Mika Kähönen, Mika Kastarinen, Mike A. Nalls, Mikko Kuokkanen, Mohsen Ghanbari, Murielle Bochud, Navya Shilpa Josyula, Nicholas G. Martin, Nicholas Y. Q. Tan, Nicholette D. Palmer, Nicola Pirastu, Nicole Schupf, Niek Verweij, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Nina Mononen, Nisha Bansal, Olivier Devuyst, Olle Melander, Olli T. Raitakari, Ozren Polasek, Paolo Manunta, Paolo Gasparini, Pashupati P. Mishra, Patrick Sulem, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Paul Elliott, Paul M. Ridker, Pavel Hamet, Per O. Svensson, Peter K. Joshi, Peter Kovacs, Peter P. Pramstaller, Peter Rossing, Peter Vollenweider, Pim van der Harst, Rajkumar Dorajoo, Ralene Z. H. Sim, Ralph Burkhardt, Ran Tao, Raymond Noordam, Reedik Mägi, Reinhold Schmidt, Renée de Mutsert, Rico Rueedi, Rob M. van Dam, Robert J. Carroll, Ron T. Gansevoort, Ruth J. F. Loos, Sala Cinzia Felicita, Sanaz Sedaghat, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Sandra Freitag-Wolf, Sarah A. Pendergrass, Sarah E. Graham, Scott D. Gordon, Shih-Jen Hwang, Shona M. Kerr, Simona Vaccargiu, Snehal B. Patil, Stein Hallan, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Su-Chi Lim, Susanne Lucae, Suzanne Vogelezang, Sven Bergmann, Tanguy Corre, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Terho Lehtimäki, Thibaud S. Boutin, Thomas Meitinger, Tien-Yin Wong, Tobias Bergler, Ton J. Rabelink, Tõnu Esko, Toomas Haller, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Uwe Völker, Valencia Hui Xian Foo, Veikko Salomaa, Veronique Vitart, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Vilmundur Gudnason, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Wei Huang, Weihua Zhang, Wen Bin Wei, Wieland Kiess, Winfried März, Wolfgang Koenig, Wolfgang Lieb, Xin Gao, Xueling Sim, Ya Xing Wang, Yechiel Friedlander, Yih-Chung Tham, Yoichiro Kamatani, Yukinori Okada, Yuri Milaneschi, Zhi Yu, Lifelines cohort study, DiscovEHR/MyCode study, VA Million Veteran Program, Klaus J. Stark, Kari Stefansson, Carsten A. Böger, Adriana M. Hung, Florian Kronenberg, Anna Köttgen, Cristian Pattaro, and Iris M. Heid
Subjects: Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract: A large-scale GWAS provides insight on diabetes-dependent genetic effects on the glomerular filtration rate, a common metric to monitor kidney health in disease.
Published: 2022
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5. Genome-wide association meta-analyses and fine-mapping elucidate pathways influencing albuminuria

Author: Alexander Teumer, Yong Li, Sahar Ghasemi, Bram P. Prins, Matthias Wuttke, Tobias Hermle, Ayush Giri, Karsten B. Sieber, Chengxiang Qiu, Holger Kirsten, Adrienne Tin, Audrey Y. Chu, Nisha Bansal, Mary F. Feitosa, Lihua Wang, Jin-Fang Chai, Massimiliano Cocca, Christian Fuchsberger, Mathias Gorski, Anselm Hoppmann, Katrin Horn, Man Li, Jonathan Marten, Damia Noce, Teresa Nutile, Sanaz Sedaghat, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Bamidele O. Tayo, Peter J. van der Most, Yizhe Xu, Zhi Yu, Lea Gerstner, Johan Ärnlöv, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Daniela Baptista, Mary L. Biggs, Eric Boerwinkle, Hermann Brenner, Ralph Burkhardt, Robert J. Carroll, Miao-Li Chee, Miao-Ling Chee, Mengmeng Chen, Ching-Yu Cheng, James P. Cook, Josef Coresh, Tanguy Corre, John Danesh, Martin H. de Borst, Alessandro De Grandi, Renée de Mutsert, Aiko P. J. de Vries, Frauke Degenhardt, Katalin Dittrich, Jasmin Divers, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Georg Ehret, Karlhans Endlich, Janine F. Felix, Oscar H. Franco, Andre Franke, Barry I. Freedman, Sandra Freitag-Wolf, Ron T. Gansevoort, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Martin Gögele, Franziska Grundner-Culemann, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Vilmundur Gudnason, Pavel Hamet, Tamara B. Harris, Andrew A. Hicks, Hilma Holm, Valencia Hui Xian Foo, Shih-Jen Hwang, M. Arfan Ikram, Erik Ingelsson, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Johanna Jakobsdottir, Navya Shilpa Josyula, Bettina Jung, Mika Kähönen, Chiea-Chuen Khor, Wieland Kiess, Wolfgang Koenig, Antje Körner, Peter Kovacs, Holly Kramer, Bernhard K. Krämer, Florian Kronenberg, Leslie A. Lange, Carl D. Langefeld, Jeannette Jen-Mai Lee, Terho Lehtimäki, Wolfgang Lieb, Su-Chi Lim, Lars Lind, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Jianjun Liu, Markus Loeffler, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Anubha Mahajan, Joseph C. Maranville, Deborah Mascalzoni, Barbara McMullen, Christa Meisinger, Thomas Meitinger, Kozeta Miliku, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Matthias Nauck, Kjell Nikus, Boting Ning, Raymond Noordam, Jeffrey O’ Connell, Isleifur Olafsson, Nicholette D. Palmer, Annette Peters, Anna I. Podgornaia, Belen Ponte, Tanja Poulain, Peter P. Pramstaller, Ton J. Rabelink, Laura M. Raffield, Dermot F. Reilly, Rainer Rettig, Myriam Rheinberger, Kenneth M. Rice, Fernando Rivadeneira, Heiko Runz, Kathleen A. Ryan, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Kai-Uwe Saum, Ben Schöttker, Christian M. Shaffer, Yuan Shi, Albert V. Smith, Konstantin Strauch, Michael Stumvoll, Benjamin B. Sun, Silke Szymczak, E-Shyong Tai, Nicholas Y. Q. Tan, Kent D. Taylor, Andrej Teren, Yih-Chung Tham, Joachim Thiery, Chris H. L. Thio, Hauke Thomsen, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Anke Tönjes, Johanne Tremblay, André G. Uitterlinden, Pim van der Harst, Niek Verweij, Suzanne Vogelezang, Uwe Völker, Melanie Waldenberger, Chaolong Wang, Otis D. Wilson, Charlene Wong, Tien-Yin Wong, Qiong Yang, Masayuki Yasuda, Shreeram Akilesh, Murielle Bochud, Carsten A. Böger, Olivier Devuyst, Todd L. Edwards, Kevin Ho, Andrew P. Morris, Afshin Parsa, Sarah A. Pendergrass, Bruce M. Psaty, Jerome I. Rotter, Kari Stefansson, James G. Wilson, Katalin Susztak, Harold Snieder, Iris M. Heid, Markus Scholz, Adam S. Butterworth, Adriana M. Hung, Cristian Pattaro, and Anna Köttgen
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UCAR) is associated with various clinical outcomes such as kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. Here, the authors report genome-wide meta-analysis in over 500,000 individuals and find 68 UACR loci, followed by statistical fine-mapping, gene prioritization and experimental validation in flies.
Published: 2019
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6. An integrative cross-omics analysis of DNA methylation sites of glucose and insulin homeostasis

Author: Jun Liu, Elena Carnero-Montoro, Jenny van Dongen, Samantha Lent, Ivana Nedeljkovic, Symen Ligthart, Pei-Chien Tsai, Tiphaine C. Martin, Pooja R. Mandaviya, Rick Jansen, Marjolein J. Peters, Liesbeth Duijts, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Henning Tiemeier, Janine F. Felix, Gonneke Willemsen, Eco J. C. de Geus, Audrey Y. Chu, Daniel Levy, Shih-Jen Hwang, Jan Bressler, Rahul Gondalia, Elias L. Salfati, Christian Herder, Bertha A. Hidalgo, Toshiko Tanaka, Ann Zenobia Moore, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Min A Jhun, Jennifer A. Smith, Nona Sotoodehnia, Stefania Bandinelli, Luigi Ferrucci, Donna K. Arnett, Harald Grallert, Themistocles L. Assimes, Lifang Hou, Andrea Baccarelli, Eric A. Whitsel, Ko Willems van Dijk, Najaf Amin, André G. Uitterlinden, Eric J. G. Sijbrands, Oscar H. Franco, Abbas Dehghan, Tim D. Spector, Josée Dupuis, Marie-France Hivert, Jerome I. Rotter, James B. Meigs, James S. Pankow, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Aaron Isaacs, Dorret I. Boomsma, Jordana T. Bell, Ayşe Demirkan, and Cornelia M. van Duijn
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Our understanding of the functional link between differential DNA methylation and type 2 diabetes and obesity remains limited. Here the authors present a blood-based EWAS of fasting glucose and insulin among 4808 non-diabetic Europeans and identify nine CpGs not previously implicated in glucose, insulin homeostasis and diabetes.
Published: 2019
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7. Large-scale whole-exome sequencing association studies identify rare functional variants influencing serum urate levels

Author: Adrienne Tin, Yong Li, Jennifer A. Brody, Teresa Nutile, Audrey Y. Chu, Jennifer E. Huffman, Qiong Yang, Ming-Huei Chen, Cassianne Robinson-Cohen, Aurélien Macé, Jun Liu, Ayşe Demirkan, Rossella Sorice, Sanaz Sedaghat, Melody Swen, Bing Yu, Sahar Ghasemi, Alexanda Teumer, Peter Vollenweider, Marina Ciullo, Meng Li, André G. Uitterlinden, Robert Kraaij, Najaf Amin, Jeroen van Rooij, Zoltán Kutalik, Abbas Dehghan, Barbara McKnight, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Alanna Morrison, Bruce M. Psaty, Eric Boerwinkle, Caroline S. Fox, Owen M. Woodward, and Anna Köttgen
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Elevated serum urate levels are a risk factor for gout. Here, Tin et al. perform whole-exome sequencing in 19,517 individuals and detect low-frequency genetic variants in urate transporter genes, SLC22A12 and SLC2A9, associated with serum urate levels and confirm their damaging nature in vitro and in silico.
Published: 2018
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8. Epigenome-wide association studies identify DNA methylation associated with kidney function

Author: Audrey Y. Chu, Adrienne Tin, Pascal Schlosser, Yi-An Ko, Chengxiang Qiu, Chen Yao, Roby Joehanes, Morgan E. Grams, Liming Liang, Caroline A. Gluck, Chunyu Liu, Josef Coresh, Shih-Jen Hwang, Daniel Levy, Eric Boerwinkle, James S. Pankow, Qiong Yang, Myriam Fornage, Caroline S. Fox, Katalin Susztak, and Anna Köttgen
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies of kidney function show enrichment of associated genetic variants in regulatory regions. Here, the authors perform epigenome-wide association studies of kidney function and disease, identifying 19 CpG sites significantly associated with these.
Published: 2017
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9. Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits

Author: Anne E. Justice, Thomas W. Winkler, Mary F. Feitosa, Misa Graff, Virginia A. Fisher, Kristin Young, Llilda Barata, Xuan Deng, Jacek Czajkowski, David Hadley, Julius S. Ngwa, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Audrey Y. Chu, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Elise Lim, Jeremiah Perez, John D. Eicher, Zoltán Kutalik, Luting Xue, Anubha Mahajan, Frida Renström, Joseph Wu, Qibin Qi, Shafqat Ahmad, Tamuno Alfred, Najaf Amin, Lawrence F. Bielak, Amelie Bonnefond, Jennifer Bragg, Gemma Cadby, Martina Chittani, Scott Coggeshall, Tanguy Corre, Nese Direk, Joel Eriksson, Krista Fischer, Mathias Gorski, Marie Neergaard Harder, Momoko Horikoshi, Tao Huang, Jennifer E. Huffman, Anne U. Jackson, Johanne Marie Justesen, Stavroula Kanoni, Leena Kinnunen, Marcus E. Kleber, Pirjo Komulainen, Meena Kumari, Unhee Lim, Jian'an Luan, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Massimo Mangino, Ani Manichaikul, Jonathan Marten, Rita P. S. Middelberg, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Pau Navarro, Louis Pérusse, Natalia Pervjakova, Cinzia Sarti, Albert Vernon Smith, Jennifer A. Smith, Alena Stančáková, Rona J. Strawbridge, Heather M. Stringham, Yun Ju Sung, Toshiko Tanaka, Alexander Teumer, Stella Trompet, Sander W. van der Laan, Peter J. van der Most, Jana V. Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Sailaja L. Vedantam, Niek Verweij, Jacqueline M. Vink, Veronique Vitart, Ying Wu, Loic Yengo, Weihua Zhang, Jing Hua Zhao, Martina E. Zimmermann, Niha Zubair, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Linda S. Adair, Saima Afaq, Uzma Afzal, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Traci M. Bartz, John Beilby, Richard N. Bergman, Sven Bergmann, Reiner Biffar, John Blangero, Eric Boerwinkle, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Erwin Bottinger, Daniele Braga, Brendan M. Buckley, Steve Buyske, Harry Campbell, John C. Chambers, Francis S. Collins, Joanne E. Curran, Gert J. de Borst, Anton J. M. de Craen, Eco J. C. de Geus, George Dedoussis, Graciela E. Delgado, Hester M. den Ruijter, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Anna L. Eriksson, Tõnu Esko, Jessica D. Faul, Ian Ford, Terrence Forrester, Karl Gertow, Bruna Gigante, Nicola Glorioso, Jian Gong, Harald Grallert, Tanja B. Grammer, Niels Grarup, Saskia Haitjema, Göran Hallmans, Anders Hamsten, Torben Hansen, Tamara B. Harris, Catharina A. Hartman, Maija Hassinen, Nicholas D. Hastie, Andrew C. Heath, Dena Hernandez, Lucia Hindorff, Lynne J. Hocking, Mette Hollensted, Oddgeir L. Holmen, Georg Homuth, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Jie Huang, Joseph Hung, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Erik Ingelsson, Alan L. James, John-Olov Jansson, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Min A. Jhun, Marit E. Jørgensen, Markus Juonala, Mika Kähönen, Magnus Karlsson, Heikki A. Koistinen, Ivana Kolcic, Genovefa Kolovou, Charles Kooperberg, Bernhard K. Krämer, Johanna Kuusisto, Kirsti Kvaløy, Timo A. Lakka, Claudia Langenberg, Lenore J. Launer, Karin Leander, Nanette R. Lee, Lars Lind, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Allan Linneberg, Stephane Lobbens, Marie Loh, Mattias Lorentzon, Robert Luben, Gitta Lubke, Anja Ludolph-Donislawski, Sara Lupoli, Pamela A. F. Madden, Reija Männikkö, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Nicholas G. Martin, Colin A. McKenzie, Barbara McKnight, Dan Mellström, Cristina Menni, Grant W. Montgomery, AW (Bill) Musk, Narisu Narisu, Matthias Nauck, Ilja M. Nolte, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Matthias Olden, Ken K. Ong, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Patricia A. Peyser, Charlotta Pisinger, David J. Porteous, Olli T. Raitakari, Tuomo Rankinen, D. C. Rao, Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, Rajesh Rawal, Treva Rice, Paul M. Ridker, Lynda M. Rose, Stephanie A. Bien, Igor Rudan, Serena Sanna, Mark A. Sarzynski, Naveed Sattar, Kai Savonen, David Schlessinger, Salome Scholtens, Claudia Schurmann, Robert A. Scott, Bengt Sennblad, Marten A. Siemelink, Günther Silbernagel, P Eline Slagboom, Harold Snieder, Jan A. Staessen, David J. Stott, Morris A. Swertz, Amy J. Swift, Kent D. Taylor, Bamidele O. Tayo, Barbara Thorand, Dorothee Thuillier, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Liesbeth Vandenput, Marie-Claude Vohl, Henry Völzke, Judith M. Vonk, Gérard Waeber, Melanie Waldenberger, R. G. J. Westendorp, Sarah Wild, Gonneke Willemsen, Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel, Andrew Wong, Alan F. Wright, Wei Zhao, M Carola Zillikens, Damiano Baldassarre, Beverley Balkau, Stefania Bandinelli, Carsten A. Böger, Dorret I. Boomsma, Claude Bouchard, Marcel Bruinenberg, Daniel I. Chasman, Yii-DerIda Chen, Peter S. Chines, Richard S. Cooper, Francesco Cucca, Daniele Cusi, Ulf de Faire, Luigi Ferrucci, Paul W. Franks, Philippe Froguel, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Hans- Jörgen Grabe, Vilmundur Gudnason, Christopher A. Haiman, Caroline Hayward, Kristian Hveem, Andrew D. Johnson, J Wouter Jukema, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Mika Kivimaki, Jaspal S. Kooner, Diana Kuh, Markku Laakso, Terho Lehtimäki, Loic Le Marchand, Winfried März, Mark I. McCarthy, Andres Metspalu, Andrew P. Morris, Claes Ohlsson, Lyle J. Palmer, Gerard Pasterkamp, Oluf Pedersen, Annette Peters, Ulrike Peters, Ozren Polasek, Bruce M. Psaty, Lu Qi, Rainer Rauramaa, Blair H. Smith, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Konstantin Strauch, Henning Tiemeier, Elena Tremoli, Pim van der Harst, Henrik Vestergaard, Peter Vollenweider, Nicholas J. Wareham, David R. Weir, John B. Whitfield, James F. Wilson, Jessica Tyrrell, Timothy M. Frayling, Inês Barroso, Michael Boehnke, Panagiotis Deloukas, Caroline S. Fox, Joel N. Hirschhorn, David J. Hunter, Tim D. Spector, David P. Strachan, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Iris M. Heid, Karen L. Mohlke, Jonathan Marchini, Ruth J. F. Loos, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Ching-Ti Liu, Ingrid B. Borecki, Kari E. North, and L Adrienne Cupples
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become a key tool to discover genetic markers for complex traits; however, environmental factors that interact with genes are rarely considered. Here, the authors conduct a GWAS of obesity traits, and find that smoking may alter genetic susceptibilities.
Published: 2017
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10. A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape

Author: Janina S. Ried, Janina Jeff M., Audrey Y. Chu, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Jenny van Dongen, Jennifer E. Huffman, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Gemma Cadby, Niina Eklund, Joel Eriksson, Tõnu Esko, Mary F. Feitosa, Anuj Goel, Mathias Gorski, Caroline Hayward, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Anne U. Jackson, Eero Jokinen, Stavroula Kanoni, Kati Kristiansson, Zoltán Kutalik, Jari Lahti, Jian'an Luan, Reedik Mägi, Anubha Mahajan, Massimo Mangino, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Keri L. Monda, Ilja M. Nolte, Louis Pérusse, Inga Prokopenko, Lu Qi, Lynda M. Rose, Erika Salvi, Megan T. Smith, Harold Snieder, Alena Stančáková, Yun Ju Sung, Ioanna Tachmazidou, Alexander Teumer, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Pim van der Harst, Ryan W. Walker, Sophie R. Wang, Sarah H. Wild, Sara M. Willems, Andrew Wong, Weihua Zhang, Eva Albrecht, Alexessander Couto Alves, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Cristina Barlassina, Traci M. Bartz, John Beilby, Claire Bellis, Richard N. Bergman, Sven Bergmann, John Blangero, Matthias Blüher, Eric Boerwinkle, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Stefan R. Bornstein, Marcel Bruinenberg, Harry Campbell, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Charleston W. K. Chiang, Peter S. Chines, Francis S Collins, Fracensco Cucca, L Adrienne Cupples, Francesca D’Avila, Eco J .C. de Geus, George Dedoussis, Maria Dimitriou, Angela Döring, Johan G. Eriksson, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Martin Farrall, Teresa Ferreira, Krista Fischer, Nita G. Forouhi, Nele Friedrich, Anette Prior Gjesing, Nicola Glorioso, Mariaelisa Graff, Harald Grallert, Niels Grarup, Jürgen Gräßler, Jagvir Grewal, Anders Hamsten, Marie Neergaard Harder, Catharina A. Hartman, Maija Hassinen, Nicholas Hastie, Andrew Tym Hattersley, Aki S. Havulinna, Markku Heliövaara, Hans Hillege, Albert Hofman, Oddgeir Holmen, Georg Homuth, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Jennie Hui, Lise Lotte Husemoen, Pirro G. Hysi, Aaron Isaacs, Till Ittermann, Shapour Jalilzadeh, Alan L. James, Torben Jørgensen, Pekka Jousilahti, Antti Jula, Johanne Marie Justesen, Anne E. Justice, Mika Kähönen, Maria Karaleftheri, Kay Tee Khaw, Sirkka M. Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Leena Kinnunen, Paul B. Knekt, Heikki A. Koistinen, Ivana Kolcic, Ishminder K. Kooner, Seppo Koskinen, Peter Kovacs, Theodosios Kyriakou, Tomi Laitinen, Claudia Langenberg, Alexandra M. Lewin, Peter Lichtner, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Jaana Lindström, Allan Linneberg, Roberto Lorbeer, Mattias Lorentzon, Robert Luben, Valeriya Lyssenko, Satu Männistö, Paolo Manunta, Irene Mateo Leach, Wendy L. McArdle, Barbara Mcknight, Karen L. Mohlke, Evelin Mihailov, Lili Milani, Rebecca Mills, May E. Montasser, Andrew P. Morris, Gabriele Müller, Arthur W. Musk, Narisu Narisu, Ken K. Ong, Ben A. Oostra, Clive Osmond, Aarno Palotie, James S. Pankow, Lavinia Paternoster, Brenda W. Penninx, Irene Pichler, Maria G. Pilia, Ozren Polašek, Peter P. Pramstaller, Olli T Raitakari, Tuomo Rankinen, D. C. Rao, Nigel W. Rayner, Rasmus Ribel-Madsen, Treva K. Rice, Marcus Richards, Paul M. Ridker, Fernando Rivadeneira, Kathy A. Ryan, Serena Sanna, Mark A. Sarzynski, Salome Scholtens, Robert A. Scott, Sylvain Sebert, Lorraine Southam, Thomas Hempel Sparsø, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Kathleen Stirrups, Ronald P. Stolk, Konstantin Strauch, Heather M. Stringham, Morris A. Swertz, Amy J. Swift, Anke Tönjes, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Peter J. van der Most, Jana V. Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Liesbeth Vandenput, Erkki Vartiainen, Cristina Venturini, Niek Verweij, Jorma S. Viikari, Veronique Vitart, Marie-Claude Vohl, Judith M. Vonk, Gérard Waeber, Elisabeth Widén, Gonneke Willemsen, Tom Wilsgaard, Thomas W. Winkler, Alan F. Wright, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Jing Hua Zhao, M. Carola Zillikens, Dorret I. Boomsma, Claude Bouchard, John C. Chambers, Daniel I. Chasman, Daniele Cusi, Ron T. Gansevoort, Christian Gieger, Torben Hansen, Andrew A. Hicks, Frank Hu, Kristian Hveem, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Eero Kajantie, Jaspal S. Kooner, Diana Kuh, Johanna Kuusisto, Markku Laakso, Timo A. Lakka, Terho Lehtimäki, Andres Metspalu, Inger Njølstad, Claes Ohlsson, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Lyle J. Palmer, Oluf Pedersen, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Bruce M. Psaty, Hannu Puolijoki, Rainer Rauramaa, Igor Rudan, Veikko Salomaa, Peter E. H. Schwarz, Alan R. Shudiner, Jan H. Smit, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Timothy D. Spector, Kari Stefansson, Michael Stumvoll, Angelo Tremblay, Jaakko Tuomilehto, André G. Uitterlinden, Matti Uusitupa, Uwe Völker, Peter Vollenweider, Nicholas J. Wareham, Hugh Watkins, James F. Wilson, Eleftheria Zeggini, Goncalo R. Abecasis, Michael Boehnke, Ingrid B. Borecki, Panos Deloukas, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Caroline Fox, Leif C. Groop, Iris M. Heid, David J. Hunter, Robert C. Kaplan, Mark I. McCarthy, Kari E. North, Jeffrey R. O'Connell, David Schlessinger, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, David P. Strachan, Timothy Frayling, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, and Ruth J. F. Loos
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Past genome-wide associate studies have identified hundreds of genetic loci that influence body size and shape when examined one trait at a time. Here, Jeff and colleagues develop an aggregate score of various body traits, and use meta-analysis to find new loci linked to body shape.
Published: 2016
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11. Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

Author: Cristian Pattaro, Alexander Teumer, Mathias Gorski, Audrey Y. Chu, Man Li, Vladan Mijatovic, Maija Garnaas, Adrienne Tin, Rossella Sorice, Yong Li, Daniel Taliun, Matthias Olden, Meredith Foster, Qiong Yang, Ming-Huei Chen, Tune H. Pers, Andrew D. Johnson, Yi-An Ko, Christian Fuchsberger, Bamidele Tayo, Michael Nalls, Mary F. Feitosa, Aaron Isaacs, Abbas Dehghan, Pio d’Adamo, Adebowale Adeyemo, Aida Karina Dieffenbach, Alan B. Zonderman, Ilja M. Nolte, Peter J. van der Most, Alan F. Wright, Alan R. Shuldiner, Alanna C. Morrison, Albert Hofman, Albert V. Smith, Albert W. Dreisbach, Andre Franke, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Andres Metspalu, Anke Tonjes, Antonio Lupo, Antonietta Robino, Åsa Johansson, Ayse Demirkan, Barbara Kollerits, Barry I. Freedman, Belen Ponte, Ben A. Oostra, Bernhard Paulweber, Bernhard K. Krämer, Braxton D. Mitchell, Brendan M. Buckley, Carmen A. Peralta, Caroline Hayward, Catherine Helmer, Charles N. Rotimi, Christian M. Shaffer, Christian Müller, Cinzia Sala, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Aude Saint-Pierre, Daniel Ackermann, Daniel Shriner, Daniela Ruggiero, Daniela Toniolo, Yingchang Lu, Daniele Cusi, Darina Czamara, David Ellinghaus, David S. Siscovick, Douglas Ruderfer, Christian Gieger, Harald Grallert, Elena Rochtchina, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Eric Boerwinkle, Erika Salvi, Erwin P. Bottinger, Federico Murgia, Fernando Rivadeneira, Florian Ernst, Florian Kronenberg, Frank B. Hu, Gerjan J. Navis, Gary C. Curhan, George B. Ehret, Georg Homuth, Stefan Coassin, Gian-Andri Thun, Giorgio Pistis, Giovanni Gambaro, Giovanni Malerba, Grant W. Montgomery, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Gunnar Jacobs, Guo Li, H-Erich Wichmann, Harry Campbell, Helena Schmidt, Henri Wallaschofski, Henry Völzke, Hermann Brenner, Heyo K. Kroemer, Holly Kramer, Honghuang Lin, I. Mateo Leach, Ian Ford, Idris Guessous, Igor Rudan, Inga Prokopenko, Ingrid Borecki, Iris M. Heid, Ivana Kolcic, Ivana Persico, J. Wouter Jukema, James F. Wilson, Janine F. Felix, Jasmin Divers, Jean-Charles Lambert, Jeanette M. Stafford, Jean-Michel Gaspoz, Jennifer A. Smith, Jessica D. Faul, Jie Jin Wang, Jingzhong Ding, Joel N. Hirschhorn, John Attia, John B. Whitfield, John Chalmers, Jorma Viikari, Josef Coresh, Joshua C. Denny, Juha Karjalainen, Jyotika K. Fernandes, Karlhans Endlich, Katja Butterbach, Keith L. Keene, Kurt Lohman, Laura Portas, Lenore J. Launer, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Loic Yengo, Lude Franke, Luigi Ferrucci, Lynda M. Rose, Lyudmyla Kedenko, Madhumathi Rao, Maksim Struchalin, Marcus E. Kleber, Margherita Cavalieri, Margot Haun, Marilyn C. Cornelis, Marina Ciullo, Mario Pirastu, Mariza de Andrade, Mark A. McEvoy, Mark Woodward, Martin Adam, Massimiliano Cocca, Matthias Nauck, Medea Imboden, Melanie Waldenberger, Menno Pruijm, Marie Metzger, Michael Stumvoll, Michele K. Evans, Michele M. Sale, Mika Kähönen, Mladen Boban, Murielle Bochud, Myriam Rheinberger, Niek Verweij, Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Nicholas G. Martin, Nick Hastie, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Nicole Soranzo, Olivier Devuyst, Olli Raitakari, Omri Gottesman, Oscar H. Franco, Ozren Polasek, Paolo Gasparini, Patricia B. Munroe, Paul M. Ridker, Paul Mitchell, Paul Muntner, Christa Meisinger, Johannes H. Smit, ICBP Consortium, AGEN Consortium, CARDIOGRAM, CHARGe-Heart Failure Group, ECHOGen Consortium, Peter Kovacs, Philipp S. Wild, Philippe Froguel, Rainer Rettig, Reedik Mägi, Reiner Biffar, Reinhold Schmidt, Rita P. S. Middelberg, Robert J. Carroll, Brenda W. Penninx, Rodney J. Scott, Ronit Katz, Sanaz Sedaghat, Sarah H. Wild, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Sheila Ulivi, Shih-Jen Hwang, Stefan Enroth, Stefan Kloiber, Stella Trompet, Benedicte Stengel, Stephen J. Hancock, Stephen T. Turner, Sylvia E. Rosas, Sylvia Stracke, Tamara B. Harris, Tanja Zeller, Tatijana Zemunik, Terho Lehtimäki, Thomas Illig, Thor Aspelund, Tiit Nikopensius, Tonu Esko, Toshiko Tanaka, Ulf Gyllensten, Uwe Völker, Valur Emilsson, Veronique Vitart, Ville Aalto, Vilmundur Gudnason, Vincent Chouraki, Wei-Min Chen, Wilmar Igl, Winfried März, Wolfgang Koenig, Wolfgang Lieb, Ruth J. F. Loos, Yongmei Liu, Harold Snieder, Peter P. Pramstaller, Afshin Parsa, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Katalin Susztak, Pavel Hamet, Johanne Tremblay, Ian H. de Boer, Carsten A. Böger, Wolfram Goessling, Daniel I. Chasman, Anna Köttgen, W. H. Linda Kao, and Caroline S. Fox
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Reduced glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a hallmark of chronic kidney disease. Here, Pattaro et al. conduct a meta-analysis to discover several new loci associated with variation in eGFR and find that genes associated with eGFR loci often encode proteins potentially related to kidney development.
Published: 2016
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12. Genetic loci associated with circulating levels of very long-chain saturated fatty acids[S]

Author: Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Irena B. King, Edmond K. Kabagambe, Jason H.Y. Wu, Barbara McKnight, Ani Manichaikul, Weihua Guan, Qi Sun, Daniel I. Chasman, Millennia Foy, Lu Wang, Jingwen Zhu, David S. Siscovick, Michael Y. Tsai, Donna K. Arnett, Bruce M. Psaty, Luc Djousse, Yii-Der I. Chen, Weihong Tang, Lu-Chen Weng, Hongyu Wu, Majken K. Jensen, Audrey Y. Chu, David R. Jacobs, Jr., Stephen S. Rich, Dariush Mozaffarian, Lyn Steffen, Eric B. Rimm, Frank B. Hu, Paul M. Ridker, Myriam Fornage, and Yechiel Friedlander
Subjects: arachidic acid, behenic acid, lignoceric acid, sphingolipids, Biochemistry, QD415-436
Abstract: Very long-chain saturated fatty acids (VLSFAs) are saturated fatty acids with 20 or more carbons. In contrast to the more abundant saturated fatty acids, such as palmitic acid, there is growing evidence that circulating VLSFAs may have beneficial biological properties. Whether genetic factors influence circulating levels of VLSFAs is not known. We investigated the association of common genetic variation with plasma phospholipid/erythrocyte levels of three VLSFAs by performing genome-wide association studies in seven population-based cohorts comprising 10,129 subjects of European ancestry. We observed associations of circulating VLSFA concentrations with common variants in two genes, serine palmitoyl-transferase long-chain base subunit 3 (SPTLC3), a gene involved in the rate-limiting step of de novo sphingolipid synthesis, and ceramide synthase 4 (CERS4). The SPTLC3 variant at rs680379 was associated with higher arachidic acid (20:0 , P = 5.81 × 10−13). The CERS4 variant at rs2100944 was associated with higher levels of 20:0 (P = 2.65 × 10−40) and in analyses that adjusted for 20:0, with lower levels of behenic acid (P = 4.22 × 10−26) and lignoceric acid (P = 3.20 × 10−21). These novel associations suggest an inter-relationship of circulating VLSFAs and sphingolipid synthesis.
Published: 2015
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13. Atherogenic Lipoprotein Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease and Residual Risk Among Individuals With Low Low‐Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol

Author: Patrick R. Lawler, Akintunde O. Akinkuolie, Audrey Y. Chu, Svati H. Shah, William E. Kraus, Damian Craig, Latha Padmanabhan, Robert J. Glynn, Paul M Ridker, Daniel I. Chasman, and Samia Mora
Subjects: atherosclerosis, lipids and lipoproteins, metabolomics, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, prevention, Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, RC666-701
Abstract: BackgroundLevels of LDL (low‐density lipoprotein) cholesterol in the population are declining, and increasing attention is being focused on residual lipid‐related pathways of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk beyond LDL cholesterol. Among individuals with low (
Published: 2017
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14. Identification and single-base gene-editing functional validation of a cis-EPO variant as a genetic predictor for EPO-increasing therapies

Author: Charli E. Harlow, Josan Gandawijaya, Rosemary A. Bamford, Emily-Rose Martin, Andrew R. Wood, Peter J. van der Most, Toshiko Tanaka, Hampton L. Leonard, Amy S. Etheridge, Federico Innocenti, Robin N. Beaumont, Jessica Tyrrell, Mike A. Nalls, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Pranav S. Garimella, Eric J. Shiroma, Niek Verweij, Peter van der Meer, Ron T. Gansevoort, Harold Snieder, Paul J. Gallins, Dereje D. Jima, Fred Wright, Yi-hui Zhou, Luigi Ferrucci, Stefania Bandinelli, Dena G. Hernandez, Pim van der Harst, Vickas V. Patel, Dawn M. Waterworth, Audrey Y. Chu, Asami Oguro-Ando, Timothy M. Frayling, Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Groningen Kidney Center (GKC), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), and Restoring Organ Function by Means of Regenerative Medicine (REGENERATE)
Subjects: anaemia in chronic kidney disease, genome-wide association study, gene editing, Myocardial Infarction, Anemia, population studies, Coronary Artery Disease, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, drug-target mendelian randomization, functional validation, cardiovascular disease risk, Genetics, Humans, mendelian randomization, statistical genetics, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, CRISPR-Cas9, functional genomics, Genetics (clinical)
Abstract: Hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors (HIF-PHIs) are currently under clinical development for treating anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD), but it is important to monitor their cardiovascular safety. Genetic variants can be used as predictors to help inform the potential risk of adverse effects associated with drug treatments. We therefore aimed to use human genetics to help assess the risk of adverse cardiovascular events associated with therapeutically altered EPO levels to help inform clinical trials studying the safety of HIF-PHIs. By performing a genome-wide association meta-analysis of EPO (n = 6,127), we identified a cis-EPO variant (rs1617640) lying in the EPO promoter region. We validated this variant as most likely causal in controlling EPO levels by using genetic and functional approaches, including single-base gene editing. Using this variant as a partial predictor for therapeutic modulation of EPO and large genome-wide association data in Mendelian randomization tests, we found no evidence (at p < 0.05) that genetically predicted long-term rises in endogenous EPO, equivalent to a 2.2-unit increase, increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD, OR [95% CI] = 1.01 [0.93, 1.07]), myocardial infarction (MI, OR [95% CI] = 0.99 [0.87, 1.15]), or stroke (OR [95% CI] = 0.97 [0.87, 1.07]). We could exclude increased odds of 1.15 for cardiovascular disease for a 2.2-unit EPO increase. A combination of genetic and functional studies provides a powerful approach to investigate the potential therapeutic profile of EPO-increasing therapies for treating anemia in CKD.
Published: 2022

15. The Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal: an open access genetic resource dedicated to type 2 diabetes and related traits

Author: Maria C. Costanzo, Marcin von Grotthuss, Jeffrey Massung, Dongkeun Jang, Lizz Caulkins, Ryan Koesterer, Clint Gilbert, Ryan P. Welch, Parul Kudtarkar, Quy Hoang, Andrew P. Boughton, Preeti Singh, Ying Sun, Marc Duby, Annie Moriondo, Trang Nguyen, Patrick Smadbeck, Benjamin R. Alexander, MacKenzie Brandes, Mary Carmichael, Peter Dornbos, Todd Green, Kenneth C. Huellas-Bruskiewicz, Yue Ji, Alexandria Kluge, Aoife C. McMahon, Josep M. Mercader, Oliver Ruebenacker, Sebanti Sengupta, Dylan Spalding, Daniel Taliun, Philip Smith, Melissa K. Thomas, Beena Akolkar, M. Julia Brosnan, Andriy Cherkas, Audrey Y. Chu, Eric B. Fauman, Caroline S. Fox, Tania Nayak Kamphaus, Melissa R. Miller, Lynette Nguyen, Afshin Parsa, Dermot F. Reilly, Hartmut Ruetten, David Wholley, Norann A. Zaghloul, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, David Altshuler, Thomas M. Keane, Mark I. McCarthy, Kyle J. Gaulton, Jose C. Florez, Michael Boehnke, Noël P. Burtt, Jason Flannick, Gonçalo Abecasis, Nicholette D. Allred, Jennifer E. Below, Richard Bergman, Joline W.J. Beulens, John Blangero, Krister Bokvist, Erwin Bottinger, Donald Bowden, Christopher Brown, Kenneth Bruskiewicz, Inês Cebola, John Chambers, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Christopher Clark, Melina Claussnitzer, Nancy J. Cox, Marcel den Hoed, Duc Dong, Ravindranath Duggirala, Josée Dupuis, Petra J.M. Elders, Jesse M. Engreitz, Eric Fauman, Jorge Ferrer, Paul Flicek, Matthew Flickinger, Timothy M. Frayling, Kelly A. Frazer, Anna L. Gloyn, Craig L. Hanis, Robert Hanson, Andrew T. Hattersley, Hae Kyung Im, Sidra Iqbal, Suzanne B.R. Jacobs, Dong-Keun Jang, Tad Jordan, Tania Kamphaus, Fredrik Karpe, Seung K. Kim, Kasper Lage, Leslie A. Lange, Mitchell Lazar, Donna Lehman, Ching-Ti Liu, Ruth J.F. Loos, Ronald Ching-wan Ma, Patrick MacDonald, Matthew T. Maurano, Gil McVean, James B. Meigs, Braxton Mitchell, Karen L. Mohlke, Samuel Morabito, Claire Morgan, Shannon Mullican, Sharvari Narendra, Maggie C.Y. Ng, Colin N.A. Palmer, Stephen C.J. Parker, Antonio Parrado, Aaron C. Pawlyk, Ewan R. Pearson, Andrew Plump, Michael Province, Thomas Quertermous, Susan Redline, Bing Ren, Stephen S. Rich, J. Brent Richards, Jerome I. Rotter, Rany M. Salem, Maike Sander, Michael Sanders, Dharambir Sanghera, Laura J. Scott, David Siedzik, Xueling Sim, Robert Sladek, Kerrin Small, Peter Stein, Heather M. Stringham, Katalin Susztak, Leen M. ’t Hart, Kent Taylor, Jennifer A. Todd, Miriam S. Udler, Benjamin Voight, Andre Wan, Kaan Yuksel, Epidemiology and Data Science, ACS - Diabetes & metabolism, ACS - Heart failure & arrhythmias, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, and General practice
Subjects: Physiology, data sharing, T2DKP, effector genes, Medical Biochemistry and Metabolomics, Article, Access to Information, Endocrinology & Metabolism, CMDKP, Diabetes Mellitus, genomics, Genetics, Humans, GWAS, Prospective Studies, Molecular Biology, Metabolic and endocrine, diabetes, Human Genome, Cell Biology, AMP-T2D Consortium, Phenotype, portal, Good Health and Well Being, genetic support, genetic associations, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Type 2
Abstract: Associations between human genetic variation and clinical phenotypes have become a foundation of biomedical research. Most repositories of these data seek to be disease-agnostic and therefore lack disease-focused views. The Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal (T2DKP) is a public resource of genetic datasets and genomic annotations dedicated to type 2 diabetes (T2D) and related traits. Here, we seek to make the T2DKP more accessible to prospective users and more useful to existing users. First, we evaluate the T2DKP's comprehensiveness by comparing its datasets with those of other repositories. Second, we describe how researchers unfamiliar with human genetic data can begin using and correctly interpreting them via the T2DKP. Third, we describe how existing users can extend their current workflows to use the full suite of tools offered by the T2DKP. We finally discuss the lessons offered by the T2DKP toward the goal of democratizing access to complex disease genetic results.
Published: 2023

16. Genetic analysis of dietary intake identifies new loci and functional links with metabolic traits

Author: Toshiko Tanaka, Audrey Y. Chu, Daniel I. Chasman, Martin K. Rutter, Miriam S. Udler, Josée Dupuis, John N. Campbell, Jordi Merino, Tune H. Pers, Jacqueline M. Lane, Chandler Tucker, Jose C. Florez, Petar Todorov, Chloé Sarnowski, Linus T.-Y. Tsai, Richa Saxena, Heming Wang, Jaegil Kim, Hassan S. Dashti, and Yanwei Song
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Genotype, Social Psychology, Genome-wide association study, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Type 2 diabetes, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genetic analysis, Article, Behavioral Neuroscience, Epidemiology, medicine, Humans, Obesity, Gene, Epigenomics, Genetic association, Genetics, Dietary intake, Neurogenesis, Dopaminergic, Nuclear Proteins, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Biobank, Diet, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Dietary intake is a major contributor to the global obesity epidemic and represents a complex behavioural phenotype that is partially affected by innate biological differences. Here, we present a multivariate genome-wide association analysis of overall variation in dietary intake to account for the correlation between dietary carbohydrate, fat and protein in 282,271 participants of European ancestry from the UK Biobank (n = 191,157) and Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology Consortium (n = 91,114), and identify 26 distinct genome-wide significant loci. Dietary intake signals map exclusively to specific brain regions and are enriched for genes expressed in specialized subtypes of GABAergic, dopaminergic and glutamatergic neurons. We identified two main clusters of genetic variants for overall variation in dietary intake that were differently associated with obesity and coronary artery disease. These results enhance the biological understanding of interindividual differences in dietary intake by highlighting neural mechanisms, supporting functional follow-up experiments and possibly providing new avenues for the prevention and treatment of prevalent complex metabolic diseases. In a multivariate genetic analysis including 282,271 adults, Merino et al. identified 26 genomic regions associated with carbohydrate, protein and fat intake. The identified loci implicate brain regions and neuronal subtypes in influencing eating behaviour.
Published: 2021

17. Genetically proxied therapeutic prolyl-hydroxylase inhibition and cardiovascular risk

Author: Charli E Harlow, Vickas V Patel, Dawn M Waterworth, Andrew R Wood, Robin N Beaumont, Katherine S Ruth, Jessica Tyrrell, Asami Oguro-Ando, Audrey Y Chu, and Timothy M Frayling
Subjects: Genetics, General Medicine, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical)
Abstract: Prolyl hydroxylase (PHD) inhibitors are in clinical development for anaemia in chronic kidney disease. Epidemiological studies have reported conflicting results regarding safety of long-term therapeutic haemoglobin (Hgb) rises through PHD inhibition on risk of cardiovascular disease. Genetic variation in genes encoding PHDs can be used as partial proxies to investigate the potential effects of long-term Hgb rises. We used Mendelian randomization to investigate the effect of long-term Hgb level rises through genetically proxied PHD inhibition on coronary artery disease (CAD: 60 801 cases; 123 504 controls), myocardial infarction (MI: 42 561 cases; 123 504 controls) or stroke (40 585 cases; 406 111 controls). To further characterize long-term effects of Hgb level rises, we performed a phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) in up to 451 099 UK Biobank individuals. Genetically proxied therapeutic PHD inhibition, equivalent to a 1.00 g/dl increase in Hgb levels, was not associated (at P
Published: 2022

18. Group IIA Secretory Phospholipase A 2 , Vascular Inflammation, and Incident Cardiovascular Disease

Author: Jianying Mu, Bo Ding, Akintunde O. Akinkuolie, Paul M. Ridker, Robert J. Glynn, Samia Mora, Michael P. Caulfield, Fredrik Nyberg, Eva Hurt-Camejo, Daniel I. Chasman, Patrick R. Lawler, and Audrey Y. Chu
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Secondary prevention, Vascular inflammation, business.industry, Inflammation, Disease, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Group IIA secretory phospholipase A2, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, 0302 clinical medicine, Primary prevention, Immunology, medicine, medicine.symptom, Risk factor, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract: Objective— Inflammation is a causal risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). sPLA 2 -IIA (group IIA secretory phospholipase A 2 ) plays an integral role in regulating vascular inflammation. Although studies investigated sPLA 2 -IIA in secondary prevention, we prospectively evaluated sPLA 2 -IIA mass and genetic variants with CVD events in a primary prevention population with chronic inflammation. Approach and Results— The JUPITER trial (Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention: An Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin) randomized participants with LDL (low-density lipoprotein) 2 -IIA mass was measured (N=11 269 baseline; N=9620 1 year). We also identified genetic variants influencing sPLA 2 -IIA using genome-wide association and examined them with CVD. Three hundred thirteen incident CVD events occurred during follow-up. Baseline sPLA 2 -IIA mass (median, 25th–75th percentile: 3.81, 2.49–6.03 ng/mL) was associated with increased risk of CVD: risk factor–adjusted hazard ratio (95% CI; P ) per SD increment: 1.22 (1.08–1.38; P =0.002). This remained significant (1.18; 1.04–1.35; P =0.01) after incrementally adjusting for hsCRP. Similar estimates were observed in rosuvastatin and placebo groups ( P treatment interaction>0.05). The rs11573156C variant in PLA2G2A (encoding sPLA 2 -IIA) had the strongest effect on sPLA 2 -II: median (25th–75th percentile, ng/mL) for CC and GG genotypes: 2.79 (1.97–4.01) and 7.38 (5.38–10.19), respectively; and had nonsignificant trend for higher CVD risk (hazard ratio, 1.11; 95% CI, 0.89–1.38; P =0.34). Conclusions— In the JUPITER population recruited on chronic inflammation, sPLA 2 -IIA mass was associated with CVD risk relating to vascular inflammation not fully reflected by hsCRP. Additional studies, including larger functional genetic and clinical studies, are needed to determine whether sPLA 2 -IIA may be a potential pharmacological target for primary prevention of CVD. Clinical Trial Registration— URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov . Unique identifier: NCT00239681.
Published: 2019

19. Genome-wide meta-analysis of macronutrient intake of 91,114 European ancestry participants from the cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology consortium

Author: Panos Deloukas, Christina-Alexandra Schulz, Caren E. Smith, Lu Qi, Mary F. Feitosa, Melissa E. Garcia, Natalia Pervjakova, Denise K. Houston, Michael A. Province, Stavroula Kanoni, Torben Hansen, Jean Shin, Lynda M. Rose, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Trudy Voortman, Marie-Claude Vohl, Luigi Ferrucci, Chloé Sarnowski, Paul S. de Vries, Jose C. Florez, John C. Lieske, Louis Pérusse, Misa Graff, Jian'an Luan, Nicola M. McKeown, Felix R. Day, L. Adrienne Cupples, Qibin Qi, Frank J. A. van Rooij, Robert A. Scott, Josée Dupuis, Stephen S. Rich, Jorma Viikari, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Paul M. Ridker, Tomáš Paus, Stephen Turner, Harri Rissanen, Audrey Y. Chu, Albert Hofman, Olli T. Raitakari, Paul Knekt, Daniel I. Chasman, Nita G. Forouhi, Vera Mikkilä, Toshiko Tanaka, Mika Kähönen, George Dedoussis, Minjung Kho, Yun J. Sung, Anne E. Justice, Julius S. Ngwa, Ani Manichaikul, M. Carola Zillikens, Jordi Merino, Dena G. Hernandez, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Tao Huang, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Jing Hua Zhao, Stefania Bandinelli, Veikko Salomaa, Arne Astrup, Wei Zhao, David S. Siscovick, John Blangero, Zdenka Pausova, Dabeeru C. Rao, Oluf Pedersen, Craig E. Pennell, Wendy H. Oddy, Jose M. Ordovas, Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jong, Marju Orho-Melander, Hassan S. Dashti, Satu Männistö, Tuomo Rankinen, Constantina Papoutsakis, Sherly X. Li, Antti Jula, Kari E. North, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, André G. Uitterlinden, Alexis C. Frazier-Wood, Nicholas J. Wareham, Ulrika Ericson, Markus Perola, Ioanna P. Kalafati, Renée de Mutsert, Jinyan Huang, Ruifang Li-Gao, Claudia Langenberg, Mike A. Nalls, Olivia Li, Joanne E. Curran, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Niina Eklund, Jerome I. Rotter, Angelo Tremblay, Claude Bouchard, Jennifer A. Smith, Terho Lehtimäki, Mary K. Wojczynski, Carol A. Wang, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Zhao, Jing Hua [0000-0003-4930-3582], Luan, Jian'an [0000-0003-3137-6337], Day, Felix [0000-0003-3789-7651], Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993], Forouhi, Nita [0000-0002-5041-248X], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Aging, Calorie, Genotype, Heart Diseases, Receptors, Retinoic Acid, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO, Locus (genetics), Genome-wide association study, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, White People, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetic variation, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Obesity, Molecular Biology, Aged, 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, Family aggregation, Membrane Proteins, Genomics, Nutrients, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Fibroblast Growth Factors, Psychiatry and Mental health, 030104 developmental biology, Genetic Loci, Meta-analysis, Medical genetics, Female, Energy Intake, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Macronutrient intake, the proportion of calories consumed from carbohydrate, fat, and protein, is an important risk factor for metabolic diseases with significant familial aggregation. Previous studies have identified two genetic loci for macronutrient intake, but incomplete coverage of genetic variation and modest sample sizes have hindered the discovery of additional loci. Here, we expanded the genetic landscape of macronutrient intake, identifying 12 suggestively significant loci (P < 1 × 10(−6)) associated with intake of any macronutrient in 91,114 European ancestry participants. Four loci replicated and reached genome-wide significance in a combined meta-analysis including 123,659 European descent participants, unraveling two novel loci; a common variant in RARB locus for carbohydrate intake and a rare variant in DRAM1 locus for protein intake, and corroborating earlier FGF21 and FTO findings. In additional analysis of 144,770 participants from the UK Biobank, all identified associations from the two-stage analysis were confirmed except for DRAM1. Identified loci might have implications in brain and adipose tissue biology and have clinical impact in obesity-related phenotypes. Our findings provide new insight into biological functions related to macronutrient intake.
Published: 2019

20. The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

Author: Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Wieland Kiess, Xueling Sim, Norihiro Kato, Philippe Froguel, Astrid van Hylckama Vlieg, Josée Dupuis, Nanette R. Lee, Symen Ligthart, Harry Campbell, Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme, P. Eline Slagboom, Massimo Mangino, Tian Xie, Niek Verweij, James B. Meigs, Chaolong Wang, Michael Y. Tsai, Erik Ingelsson, Colin N. A. Palmer, Erik B. van den Akker, Fumihiko Matsuda, Rainer Rauramaa, Yi-Cheng Chang, Lars Lind, Stefan R. Bornstein, Mandy Vogel, Sven Bergmann, Ya X. Wang, Ching-Ti Liu, Annette Schürmann, Michael Boehnke, David J. Porteous, Kazuya Setoh, Qibin Qi, Ayse Demirkan, Francesco Cucca, Allan Linneberg, Claire J. Steves, Jun Liu, Leslie A. Lange, Noël P. Burtt, Diana Kuh, Cassandra N. Spracklen, Ken K. Ong, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Jost B. Jonas, Ele Ferrannini, Lawrence J. Beilin, Qing Duan, Blair H. Smith, Isobel D. Stewart, Alexander P. Reiner, Simon P. Mooijaart, Tim D. Spector, Paul W. Franks, E. Shyong Tai, Mark I. McCarthy, Anna L. Gloyn, D.I. Boomsma, Dennis Raven, Nicholas J. Timpson, Rona J. Strawbridge, George Dedoussis, Susan Redline, Jaeyoung Hong, Harald Grallert, Jagadish Vangipurapu, Rico Rueedi, Diane M. Becker, Marian Beekman, Claudia P. Cabrera, Johannes Waage, Jin Fang Chai, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Graciela E. Delgado, Thibaud S. Boutin, Yang Hai, Yoriko Heianza, Wei Zhao, Andres Metspalu, Tien Yin Wong, Mila Desi Anasanti, Inger Njølstad, Hans Bisgaard, Valeriya Lyssenko, Denis Rybin, Wanqing Wen, Torben Hansen, James F. Wilson, Sameline Grimsgaard, Annette Peters, Michele K. Evans, Damia Noce, Sarah C. Nelson, May E. Montasser, Nan Wang, Geltrude Mingrone, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Nicholas J. Wareham, Fouad Kandeel, Linda S. Adair, Kelvin Lam, Jaana Lindström, Eco J. C. de Geus, Debbie A Lawlor, Sara M. Willems, Xu Lin, Harold Snieder, Matt J. Neville, Naveed Sattar, Chelsea K. Raulerson, Paul M. Ridker, Jer-Yuarn Wu, Weihua Zhang, H. Janaka de Silva, Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Elena Tremoli, Toru Nabika, Jing Hua Zhao, Vilmundur Gudnason, Tao Huang, Robert C. Kaplan, Sohee Han, Mohammad Hadi Zafarmand, Aaron Leong, Yen-Feng Chiu, Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, Ivana Kolcic, Franco Giulianini, Tao Wang, Lu Qi, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Laura J Corbin, Zoltán Kutalik, Bruna Gigante, Willa A. Hsueh, Peter J. van der Most, Tin Louie, Yujie Wang, Stella Trompet, Fernando Rivideneira, Yasumasa Ohyagi, Lynne E. Wagenknecht, Jerry L. Nadler, Michael Stumvoll, Mark O. Goodarzi, Sahoko Ichihara, Jeffrey R. O'Connell, Tomohiro Katsuya, Giorgio Pistis, Alice Stanton, Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi, Momoko Horikoshi, Honglan Li, Tanja G. M. Vrijkotte, Caroline Hayward, Karen L. Mohlke, Carola Marzi, Girish N. Nadkarni, Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, Alain G. Bertoni, Andrew R. Wood, Annique Claringbould, Mi Yeong Hwang, Hugh Watkins, Heikki A. Koistinen, Mattias Frånberg, Jani Heikkinen, Elizabeth Selvin, Donald W. Bowden, Abbas Dehghan, Christian Fuchsberger, Audrey Y. Chu, Kent D. Taylor, Katherine A. Kentistou, Johanna Kuusisto, Jingyi Tan, Huaixing Li, Eric Boerwinkle, Catharina A. Hartman, Archie Campbell, Kari E. North, Oluf Pedersen, Sölve Elmståhl, Emil V. R. Appel, Chang-Hsun Hsieh, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Rob M. van Dam, Pontiano Kaleebu, Corri Black, Jennifer A. Brody, Bengt Sennblad, Shaofeng Huo, M. Larissa Avilés-Santa, Ruth J. F. Loos, Patricia B. Munroe, Chien-Hsiun Chen, Liang Sun, Zorayr Arzumanyan, Rebecca Rohde, Yasuharu Tabara, Albert V. Smith, Betina H. Thuesen, Niels Grarup, Jorgen Engmann, Tatijana Zemunik, M. Arfan Ikram, Marit E. Jørgensen, Christian Herder, Ching-Yu Cheng, Serena Sanna, Damiano Baldassarre, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Mark J. Caulfield, Anne Ndungu, Carl D. Langefeld, Lisa R. Yanek, Luigi Ferrucci, Ananda R. Wickremasinghe, Raymond Noordam, Trevor A. Mori, Tom Wilsgaard, Mika Kivimäki, Rita R. Kalyani, Alan B. Zonderman, Veronique Vitart, Patricia A. Peyser, Shuiqing Lai, Richa Saxena, Li-Ching Chang, Karin Leander, Wei Huang, Peter Vollenweider, Tanya M. Teslovich, Ying Wu, Shufa Du, Brian E. Cade, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, John C. Chambers, Stephen C. J. Parker, Tamar Sofer, Winfried März, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Peter K. Joshi, Neil R. Robertson, Anny H. Xiang, Fumihiko Takeuchi, N. Amin, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Carol A. Wang, Stefan Gustafsson, Jung Ho Gong, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Yu-Tang Gao, Abhishek Nag, Gonneke Willemsen, Michael A. Province, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Segun Fatumo, Antje Körner, Pim van der Harst, Marie Loh, Kei Hang Katie Chan, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Nicholette D. Palmer, Simin Liu, Ishminder K. Kooner, Javier Gayán, Arne Astrup, Laura J. Scott, Erwin P. Bottinger, Andrew Wong, Inga Prokopenko, Ping An, Markku Laakso, Matthias Blüher, Susan R. Heckbert, Thomas A. Buchanan, Tatsuaki Matsubara, Andrew P. Morris, Brian H. Chen, Kristi Läll, Teresa Tusie, Timo A. Lakka, Jie Yao, Michael Preuss, Teemu Kuulasmaa, Carlos Lorenzo, Stephen S. Rich, Marie Lauzon, Laura M. Raffield, Pankow S. James, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Kathleen A. Ryan, Wei Zheng, Igor Rudan, Thomas Sparsø, Hugoline G. de Haan, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Richard M. Watanabe, Alicia Huerta-Chagoya, Anette P. Gjesing, Andrew A. Hicks, Richard N. Bergman, Mitsuhiro Yokota, Heather M. Stringham, Bruce M. Psaty, Jian'an Luan, Anuj Goel, Eleanor Wheeler, Masahiro Nakatochi, Young-Jin Kim, Xiao-Ou Shu, Mickaël Canouil, Robert A. Scott, Marika Kaakinen, Mari Nelis, Adolfo Correa, Jaspal S. Kooner, Michiya Igase, Anubha Mahajan, Peter E. H. Schwarz, Craig E. Pennell, Claudia Schurmann, Xiaoran Chai, Ji Chen, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Peter S. Sever, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, André G. Uitterlinden, Ilja M. Nolte, Gaëlle Marenne, Timothy M. Frayling, Bong-Jo Kim, Kerrin S. Small, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Bernhard O. Böhm, Shih-Yi Lin, Katharina E. Schraut, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Sanghoon Moon, Mark Walker, Chiea Chuen Khor, Ruifang Li-Gao, Qiuyin Cai, Neil Schneiderman, Ko Willems van Dijk, Ozren Polasek, W. Craig Johnson, Dermot F. Reilly, Inês Barroso, Anke Tönjes, Manjinder S. Sandhu, Wen B. Wei, Jose C. Florez, Lorraine Southam, Leif Groop, Lawrence F. Bielak, Peter Kovacs, Jianjun Liu, Jouko Saramies, Helen R. Warren, Man Li, Daniel I. Chasman, Eleftheria Zeggini, Xiaoshuai Zhang, Loic Yengo, Shi Jinxiu, Jirong Long, Xiuqing Guo, Meena Kumari, Leslie J. Raffel, Jill M. Norris, Henrik Vestergaard, Jing He, Peter P. Pramstaller, Diana van Heemst, Kevin Sandow, Marjo-Ritta Jarvelin, Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas, Peitao Wu, Hortensia Moreno-Macías, Jerome I. Rotter, Kathryn Roll, Frits R. Rosendaal, Bernardo L. Horta, Heming Wang, Fernando Pires Hartwig, Richard A. Jensen, Matti Uusitupa, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Paul R. H. J. Timmers, Timo Saaristo, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Reedik Mägi, Debashree Ray, J. Wouter Jukema, Claudia Langenberg, Marcus E. Kleber, Francis S. Collins, Klaus Bønnelykke, Lenore J. Launer, Arushi Varshney, Anders Hamsten, European Commission, Génétique, génomique fonctionnelle et biotechnologies (UMR 1078) (GGB), Institut Brestois Santé Agro Matière (IBSAM), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Brest (UBO)-EFS-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust, Marenne, Gaëlle [0000-0002-4363-7170], Varshney, Arushi [0000-0001-9177-9707], Corbin, Laura J [0000-0002-4032-9500], Parker, Stephen CJ [0000-0001-8122-0117], Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Wheeler, Eleanor [0000-0002-8616-6444], Morris, Andrew P [0000-0002-6805-6014], Barroso, Inês [0000-0001-5800-4520], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Lifelines Cohort Study, Meta-Analysis of Glucose and Insulin-related Traits Consortium (MAGIC), de Haan, H.G., van den Akker, E., van der Most, P.J., de Geus, EJC, van Dam, R.M., van Heemst, D., van Hylckama Vlieg, A., van Willems van Dijk, K., de Silva, H.J., van der Harst, P., van Duijn, C., Centre of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics, HUS Abdominal Center, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Leif Groop Research Group, HUS Internal Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Developmental Biology, Helsinki University Hospital Area, University of Helsinki, Clinicum, Department of Public Health, Biological Psychology, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, APH - Personalized Medicine, Physiology, AMS - Musculoskeletal Health, AMS - Tissue Function & Regeneration, APH - Mental Health, Nutrition and Health, APH - Methodology, Epidemiology and Data Science, ACS - Atherosclerosis & ischemic syndromes, APH - Aging & Later Life, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Public and occupational health, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT), Groningen Kidney Center (GKC), Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE), Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM), and Cardiovascular Centre (CVC)
Subjects: Blood Glucose, Disease risk, Multifactorial Inheritance, Glycated Hemoglobin A, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Meta-Analysis of Glucose and Insulin-related Traits Consortium (MAGIC), LOCI, Genome-wide association study, Type 2 diabetes, VARIANTS, GLUCOSE, Epigenesis, Genetic, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Mechanisms, WIDE ASSOCIATION, genetics, Gene-expression, HEMOGLOBIN, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, GENE-EXPRESSION, Genetics, Genetics & Heredity, 0303 health sciences, INSULIN-RESISTANCE, Genome, Loci, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, Variants, ALSPAC, Physical Chromosome Mapping, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Human, Quantitative Trait Loci, Wide association study, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, Article, White People, diseases, MECHANISMS, Quantitative Trait, 03 medical and health sciences, Insulin resistance, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Genetic, Lifelines Cohort Study, Diabetes mellitus, medicine, Humans, Hemoglobin, Heritable, METAANALYSIS, Alleles, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Glycemic, Glycated Hemoglobin, Science & Technology, Genome, Human, Whites, Gene Expression Profiling, DISEASE RISK, Settore MED/13 - ENDOCRINOLOGIA, Insulin-resistance, 06 Biological Sciences, medicine.disease, Glucose, chemistry, Blood Glucose/genetics, European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glycated Hemoglobin A/metabolism, Multifactorial Inheritance/genetics, Quantitative Trait Loci/genetics, Glycated hemoglobin, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Meta analysis, Epigenesis, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Glycemic traits are used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic health. To date, most genetic studies of glycemic traits have focused on individuals of European ancestry. Here we aggregated genome-wide association studies comprising up to 281,416 individuals without diabetes (30% non-European ancestry) for whom fasting glucose, 2-h glucose after an oral glucose challenge, glycated hemoglobin and fasting insulin data were available. Trans-ancestry and single-ancestry meta-analyses identified 242 loci (99 novel; P-8), 80% of which had no significant evidence of between-ancestry heterogeneity. Analyses restricted to individuals of European ancestry with equivalent sample size would have led to 24 fewer new loci. Compared with single-ancestry analyses, equivalent-sized trans-ancestry fine-mapping reduced the number of estimated variants in 99% credible sets by a median of 37.5%. Genomic-feature, gene-expression and gene-set analyses revealed distinct biological signatures for each trait, highlighting different underlying biological pathways. Our results increase our understanding of diabetes pathophysiology by using trans-ancestry studies for improved power and resolution.A trans-ancestry meta-analysis of GWAS of glycemic traits in up to 281,416 individuals identifies 99 novel loci, of which one quarter was found due to the multi-ancestry approach, which also improves fine-mapping of credible variant sets.
Published: 2021

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

Author: Lukas Habegger, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Michael Preuss, Laura M. Raffield, Mary F. Feitosa, Bamidele O. Tayo, Kevin Ho, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Florian Kronenberg, Valencia Hui Xian Foo, Adrienne Tin, Michael Cantor, Nisha Bansal, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Melanie Waldenberger, Sarah A. Pendergrass, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Wolfgang Koenig, Qiong Yang, Xiaodong Bai, Christoph Wanner, Ben Schöttker, Giovanni Coppola, A. R. Shuldiner, Leslie A. Lange, Piyush Gampawar, Markus Scholz, Tien Yin Wong, Mary L. Biggs, Morris Swertz, Alicia Hawes, Girish N. Nadkarni, Christina-Alexandra Schulz, Chiea Chuen Khor, Ricardo H. Ulloa, Jeffrey C. Staples, Miao-Li Chee, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Andrew Blumenfeld, Karlhans Endlich, Bernhard Banas, Bruce H.R. Wolffenbuttel, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Pavel Hamet, Carsten A. Böger, Harold Snieder, Marcus B. Jones, Judy Wang, Shih-Jen Hwang, Mathias Gorski, Anselm Hoppmann, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Bernd Holleczek, Pamela R. Matias-Garcia, Rainer Rettig, Karsten B. Sieber, Manasi Pradhan, Pashupati P. Mishra, Peter Rossing, Matthias Wuttke, Miao-Ling Chee, H. Marike Boezen, Yong Li, M. Arfan Ikram, Jeffrey G. Reid, Teresa Nutile, Maria Sotiropoulos Padilla, Lude Franke, Robert J. Carroll, Luca A. Lotta, Bernhard K. Krämer, Kjell Nikus, Jerome I. Rotter, Thomas Meitinger, Lars Wallentin, Cisca Wijmenga, Kent D. Taylor, Holly Kramer, Louis Widom, Olli T. Raitakari, Marcus E. Kleber, Man Li, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Massimiliano Cocca, Reinhold Schmidt, John D. Overton, Cristian Pattaro, Michael Lattari, Sarah E. Wolf, Jin-Fang Chai, Karina Toledo, Brigitte Kühnel, Zhenhua Gu, Peter Almgren, Caitlin Forsythe, Yuri Milaneschi, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Layal Chaker, Dawn M. Waterworth, Silke Szymczak, James G. Wilson, Peter J. van der Most, Michelle L. O'Donoghue, William Salerno, Masayuki Yasuda, Sahar Ghasemi, Eric Boerwinkle, Josef Coresh, Ilja M. Nolte, Kia Manoochehri, Konstantin Strauch, Thomas D. Schleicher, Myriam Rheinberger, Audrey Y. Chu, Sanaz Sedaghat, Sandra Freitag-Wolf, Boting Ning, Matthias Nauck, Christina Beechert, Helena Schmidt, Harvey D. White, Nina Mononen, Johanne Tremblay, Navya Shilpa Josyula, Mika Kähönen, Katrin Horn, Andre Franke, Marianne Rots, Bettina Jung, Alexander R. Rosenkranz, Christian M. Shaffer, Mary Ann Lukas, Gerjan Navis, Christian Gieger, John Chalmers, Shareef Khalid, Uwe Völker, Marju Orho-Melander, Iris M. Heid, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, A. Baras, Alexander Lopez, Evan Maxwell, Ruth J. F. Loos, Erin D. Fuller, Christa Meisinger, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Suganthi Balasubramanian, Chris H. L. Thio, Martin H. de Borst, Stefan Coassin, Ching-Yu Cheng, Wolfgang Lieb, Kenneth Rice, Alexander Teumer, Mark Woodward, Gisu Eom, Hermann Brenner, Thomas W. Winkler, Anna Köttgen, Edith Hofer, Aris Economides, Ron T. Gansevoort, Pim van der Harst, Lyndon J. Mitnaul, Bruce M. Psaty, Erwin P. Bottinger, Olle Melander, Niek Verweij, Frauke Degenhardt, Yan Zhang, Mohsen Ghanbari, Veronika Wanner, Terho Lehtimäki, Leland Barnard, Tampere University, Primary Health Care, Department of Paediatrics, Clinical Medicine, Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Department of Clinical Chemistry, TAYS Heart Centre, Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT), Groningen Kidney Center (GKC), Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Department of Marketing Management, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, APH - Mental Health, and APH - Digital Health
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Genome-wide association study, 030232 urology & nephrology, Protein Disulfide-Isomerases, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering GmbH, Renal function, Locus (genetics), Biology, AMP-Activated Protein Kinases, Kidney, 3121 Internal medicine, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, end-stage kidney disease, rapid eGFRcrea decline, Urologi och njurmedicin, medicine, Humans, Urology and Nephrology, ddc:610, Allele, Genetic association, Genetics, Creatinine, genome-wide association study, Acute kidney injury, acute kidney injury, medicine.disease, United Kingdom, ddc, 030104 developmental biology, chemistry, Nephrology, Medical genetics, 3111 Biomedicine, 610 Medizin und Gesundheit, Glomerular Filtration Rate
Abstract: Rapid decline of glomerular filtration rate estimated from creatinine (eGFRcrea) is associated with severe clinical endpoints. In contrast to cross-sectionally assessed eGFRcrea, the genetic basis for rapid eGFRcrea decline is largely unknown. To help define this, we meta-analyzed 42 genome-wide association studies from the Chronic Kidney Diseases Genetics Consortium and United Kingdom Biobank to identify genetic loci for rapid eGFRcrea decline. Two definitions of eGFRcrea decline were used: 3 mL/min/1.73m(2)/year or more ("Rapid3"; encompassing 34,874 cases, 107,090 controls) and eGFRcrea decline 25% or more and eGFRcrea under 60 mL/min/1.73m(2) at follow-up among those with eGFRcrea 60 mL/min/1.73m(2) or more at baseline ("CKDi25"; encompassing 19,901 cases, 175,244 controls). Seven independent variants were identified across six loci for Rapid3 and/or CKDi25: consisting of five variants at four loci with genome-wide significance (near UMOD-PDILT (2), PRKAG2, WDR72, OR2S2) and two variants among 265 known eGFRcrea variants (near GATM, LARP4B). All these loci were novel for Rapid3 and/or CKDi25 and our bioinformatic follow-up prioritized variants and genes underneath these loci. The OR2S2 locus is novel for any eGFRcrea trait including interesting candidates. For the five genome-wide significant lead variants, we found supporting effects for annual change in blood urea nitrogen or cystatin-based eGFR, but not for GATM or (LARP4B). Individuals at high compared to those at low genetic risk (8-14 vs. 0-5 adverse alleles) had a 1.20-fold increased risk of acute kidney injury (95% confidence interval 1.08-1.33). Thus, our identified loci for rapid kidney function decline may help prioritize therapeutic targets and identify mechanisms and individuals at risk for sustained deterioration of kidney function., Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Reihe der Digital Engineering Fakultät; 19
Published: 2021

22. The Trans-Ancestral Genomic Architecture of Glycaemic Traits

Author: Hugoline G. de Haan, Andrew A. Hicks, Achilleas Pitsilides, Fernando Pires Hartwig, Richard A. Jensen, Matti Uusitupa, Anders Hamsten, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Zorayr Arzumanyan, Betina H. Thuesen, Karin Leander, Fernando Rivideneira, Lynne E. Wagenknecht, Andrew R. Wood, Annique Claringbould, Ele Ferranni, Sölve Elmståhl, Eleanor Wheeler, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Richa Saxena, Tatijana Zemunik, Cassandra N. Spracklen, Ken K. Ong, Xiao-Ou Shu, Johannes Waage, Blair H. Smith, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Torben Hansen, Peter K. Joshi, Lisa R. Yanek, Neil R. Robertson, Sven Bergmann, Mila Desi Anasanti, Inger Njølstad, Ananda R. Wickremasinghe, Xu Lin, Harold Snieder, Wanqing Wen, Veronique Vitart, Paul R. H. J. Timmers, Timo Saaristo, James F. Wilson, Tian Xie, Tao Huang, Rainer Rauramaa, Kei Hang, Rebecca Rohde, Li-Ching Chang, Jing Hua Zhao, Kazuya Setoh, Yasuharu Tabara, Michael Stumvoll, Mark O. Goodarzi, Igor Rudan, James B. Meigs, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Richard M. Watanabe, Ruth J. F. Loos, Reedik Mägi, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Ozren Polasek, Michael Y. Tsai, Donald W. Bowden, Diana Kuh, Erik B. van den Akker, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Daniel I. Chasman, Weihua Zhang, Nicholette D. Palmer, Marcus E. Kleber, Anny H. Xiang, Chang-Hsun Hsieh, Alan B. Zonderman, Stefan Gustafsson, Timo A. Lakka, Brian H. Chen, Dermot F. Reilly, Francis S. Collins, Oluf Pedersen, Corri Black, Yang Hai, Zoltán Kutalik, Yoriko Heianza, Willa A. Hsueh, Vilmundur Gudnason, Robert C. Kaplan, Jun Liu, Michael A. Province, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Stephen S. Rich, Jian'an Luan, Erik Ingelsson, Marie Loh, Michael Preuss, Lars Lind, Stefan R. Bornstein, Mandy Vogel, Colin N. A. Palmer, Fumihiko Matsuda, Takahisa Kawaguchi, Sohee Han, Ching-Ti Liu, Young-Jin Kim, L. Southam, Sara M. Willems, Mickaël Canouil, Robert A. Scott, Marika Kaakinen, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Momoko Horikoshi, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Annette Schürmann, Graciela E. Delgado, Thibaud S. Boutin, Thomas Sparsø, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Fouad Kandeel, Eco J. C. de Geus, Anubha Mahajan, Claudia Schurmann, Klaus Bønnelykke, Leslie A. Lange, Qing Duan, Rona J. Strawbridge, Dennis Raven, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Mitsuhiro Yokota, Jani Heikkinen, Elizabeth Selvin, Audrey Y. Chu, Anke Tönjes, Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme, Hans Bisgaard, P. Eline Slagboom, Eric Boerwinkle, Massimo Mangino, Catharina A. Hartman, Geltrude Mingrone, Lenore J. Launer, Michael Boehnke, Emil V. R. Appel, Niels Grarup, Arushi Varshney, Archie Campbell, Kari E. North, W. Craig Johnson, Inês Barroso, Ya X. Wang, Carola Marzi, Anuj Goel, Eleftheria Zeggini, Lu Qi, Yasumasa Ohyagi, Tien Yin Wong, Tanja G. M. Vrijkotte, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Harald Grallert, Ishminder K. Kooner, Trevor A. Mori, Jagadish Vangipurapu, Laura J Corbin, Tomohiro Katsuya, Wen B. Wei, Segun Fatumo, Debashree Ray, Annette Peters, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Ilja M. Nolte, M. Arfan Ikram, Manjinder S. Sandhu, Marit E. Jørgensen, Christian Herder, Damia Noce, Sarah C. Nelson, Chien-Hsiun Chen, Heather M. Stringham, Yong-Bing Xiang, Bruce M. Psaty, Alain G. Bertoni, Gaëlle Marenne, Timothy M. Frayling, Jose C. Florez, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Yu-Tang Gao, Abhishek Nag, Damiano Baldassarre, J. Wouter Jukema, Wei Huang, Yi-Cheng Chang, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Xiaoshuai Zhang, Yujie Wang, Shaofeng Huo, Xueling Sim, Norihiro Kato, Bernhard O. Böhm, Lorraine Southam, Mari Nelis, Gonneke Willemsen, Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, Philippe Froguel, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Leif Groop, Loic Yengo, Shi Jinxiu, Adolfo Correa, Serena Sanna, Arne Astrup, Teemu Kuulasmaa, Symen Ligthart, Shih-Yi Lin, David J. Porteous, Harry Campbell, Peter Vollenweider, Mark J. Caulfield, Kristi Läll, Anne Ndungu, Carl D. Langefeld, Tanya M. Teslovich, Heikki A. Koistinen, Ying Wu, Mattias Frånberg, D.I. Boomsma, Lawrence F. Bielak, Diana van Heemst, Peter Kovacs, Markku Laakso, Leslie J. Raffel, Katharina E. Schraut, Noël P. Burtt, Michiya Igase, Craig E. Pennell, Claudia Langenberg, Huaixing Li, Teresa Tusie, Laura M. Raffield, Jorgen Engmann, Stephen C. J. Parker, Michele K. Evans, Chaolong Wang, Rico Rueedi, Jianjun Liu, Pankow S. James, Hortensia Moreno-Macías, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Sanghoon Moon, Susan R. Heckbert, Thomas A. Buchanan, Ko Willems van Dijk, Toru Nabika, May E. Montasser, Caroline Hayward, Jie Yao, Aaron Leong, Antje Körner, Jouko Saramies, Jost B. Jonas, Pim van der Harst, Naveed Sattar, Helen R. Warren, Alice Stanton, Yen-Feng Chiu, Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, Mi Yeong Hwang, Jin Fang Chai, Alicia Huerta-Chagoya, Anette P. Gjesing, Ching-Yu Cheng, Debbie A Lawlor, Simin Liu, Man Li, Ivana Kolcic, Erwin P. Bottinger, Andrew Wong, Stella Trompet, Heming Wang, Jirong Long, Xiuqing Guo, Jeffrey R. O'Connell, Meena Kumari, Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi, Rita R. Kalyani, Bengt Sennblad, Mohammad Hadi Zafarmand, Kent D. Taylor, Katherine A. Kentistou, Carol A. Wang, Shuiqing Lai, Patricia B. Munroe, Patricia A. Peyser, Lawrence J. Beilin, Niek Verweij, Inga Prokopenko, Brian E. Cade, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, John C. Chambers, Tamar Sofer, Ping An, Matthias Blüher, Isobel D. Stewart, Alexander P. Reiner, Anna L. Gloyn, Simon P. Mooijaart, Tim D. Spector, Paul W. Franks, Wei Zhao, Andres Metspalu, Wieland Kiess, Kathleen A. Ryan, Astrid van Hylckama Vlieg, Jaana Lindström, Wei Zheng, E. Shyong Tai, Josée Dupuis, Nanette R. Lee, Laura J. Scott, Nicholas J. Timpson, George Dedoussis, Mark I. McCarthy, Tatsuaki Matsubara, Carlos Lorenzo, Denis Rybin, Luigi Ferruci, Chelsea K. Raulerson, Mika Kivimäki, Paul M. Ridker, Jer-Yuarn Wu, Shufa Du, Jaeyoung Hong, Linda S. Adair, Tin Louie, Valeriya Lyssenko, Susan Redline, Kelvin Lam, Qibin Qi, H. Janaka de Silva, Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Peter J. van der Most, Sahoko Ichihara, Nicholas J. Wareham, Ayse Demirkan, Francesco Cucca, Allan Linneberg, Rob M. van Dam, Claire J. Steves, Liang Sun, Albert V. Smith, Raymond Noordam, Tom Wilsgaard, Winfried März, Jung Ho Gong, Matt J. Neville, Jerry L. Nadler, Giorgio Pistis, Karen L. Mohlke, Bruna Gigante, Jennifer A. Brody, Andrew P. Morris, Marie Lauzon, Peter E. H. Schwarz, Bernardo L. Horta, Xiaoran Chai, Ji Chen, Peter S. Sever, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, André G. Uitterlinden, Javier Gayán, Elena Tremoli, Girish N. Nadkarni, Najaf Amin, Hugh Watkins, Johanna Kuusisto, Jingyi Tan, Sameline Grimsgaard, Bong-Jo Kim, Kerrin S. Small, Jill M. Norris, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Richard N. Bergman, Mark Walker, Henrik Vestergaard, Larissa Aviles-Santa, Jing He, Masahiro Nakatochi, Peter P. Pramstaller, Chiea Chuen Khor, Ruifang Li-Gao, Qiuyin Cai, Neil Schneiderman, Kevin Sandow, Jaspal S. Kooner, Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas, Peitao Wu, Jerome I. Rotter, Kathryn Roll, Frits R. Rosendaal, Diane M. Becker, Marian Beekman, Claudia P. Cabrera, Nan Wang, Franco Giulianini, Tao Wang, Honglan Li, Abbas Dehghan, Christian Fuchsberger, and Pontiano Kaleebu
Subjects: 0303 health sciences, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Type 2 diabetes, medicine.disease, Fasting insulin, Fasting glucose, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Endocrinology, Internal medicine, Diabetes mellitus, medicine, Genomic architecture, business, Glycated haemoglobin, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association
Abstract: Glycaemic traits are used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes, and cardiometabolic health. To date, most genetic studies of glycaemic traits have focused on individuals of European ancestry. Here, we aggregated genome-wide association studies in up to 281,416 individuals without diabetes (30% non-European ancestry) with fasting glucose, 2h-glucose post-challenge, glycated haemoglobin, and fasting insulin data. Trans-ancestry and single-ancestry meta-analyses identified 242 loci (99 novel; P-8), 80% with no significant evidence of between-ancestry heterogeneity. Analyses restricted to European ancestry individuals with equivalent sample size would have led to 24 fewer new loci. Compared to single-ancestry, equivalent sized trans-ancestry fine-mapping reduced the number of estimated variants in 99% credible sets by a median of 37.5%. Genomic feature, gene-expression and gene-set analyses revealed distinct biological signatures for each trait, highlighting different underlying biological pathways. Our results increase understanding of diabetes pathophysiology by use of trans-ancestry studies for improved power and resolution.
Published: 2020

23. Epigenome-wide association studies identify DNA methylation associated with kidney function

Author: James S. Pankow, Chen Yao, Pascal Schlosser, Daniel Levy, Shih-Jen Hwang, Qiong Yang, Eric Boerwinkle, Caroline Gluck, Morgan E. Grams, Josef Coresh, Myriam Fornage, Anna Köttgen, Audrey Y. Chu, Yi-An Ko, Chengxiang Qiu, Roby Joehanes, Adrienne Tin, Chunyu Liu, Liming Liang, Caroline S. Fox, and Katalin Susztak
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Male, General Physics and Astronomy, urologic and male genital diseases, Kidney, Epigenesis, Genetic, 0302 clinical medicine, Prospective Studies, lcsh:Science, Genetics, Multidisciplinary, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6, Methylation, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, DNA methylation, Disease Progression, Female, Glomerular Filtration Rate, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, Renal function, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Prohibitins, medicine, Renal fibrosis, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Epigenetics, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, Aged, Binding Sites, business.industry, CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-beta, Kidney metabolism, General Chemistry, Epigenome, DNA Methylation, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Trans-Activators, CpG Islands, lcsh:Q, business, E1A-Associated p300 Protein, Kidney disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Transcription Factors
Abstract: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined by reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). Previous genetic studies have implicated regulatory mechanisms contributing to CKD. Here we present epigenome-wide association studies of eGFR and CKD using whole-blood DNA methylation of 2264 ARIC Study and 2595 Framingham Heart Study participants to identify epigenetic signatures of kidney function. Of 19 CpG sites significantly associated (P PTPN6/PHB2, ANKRD11, and TNRC18 map to active enhancers in kidney cortex. At PTPN6/PHB2 cg19942083, methylation in kidney cortex associates with lower renal PTPN6 expression, higher eGFR, and less renal fibrosis. The regions containing the 243 eGFR-associated (P P
Published: 2017

24. Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Incident Type 2 Diabetes in a British Population: EPIC-Norfolk Study

Author: Michael M. Mendelson, Nita G. Forouhi, Nicola D. Kerrison, Marie-France Hivert, Kay-Tee Khaw, Allan Vaag, Jaspal S. Kooner, Alexander Perfilyev, Felix R. Day, James B. Meigs, Jussi Pihlajamäki, John R. B. Perry, Ken K. Ong, Alexia Cardona, Daniel Levy, Isobel D. Stewart, Marie Loh, Nicholas J. Wareham, Chunyu Liu, Charlotte Ling, Luca A. Lotta, Audrey Y. Chu, Claudia Langenberg, R. David Leslie, Josée Dupuis, Stephan Beck, Dirk S. Paul, Robert A. Scott, Benjamin Lehne, John C. Chambers, Cardona, Alexia [0000-0002-7877-5565], Lotta, Luca A [0000-0002-2619-5956], Khaw, Kay-Tee [0000-0002-8802-2903], Forouhi, Nita G [0000-0002-5041-248X], Leslie, R David [0000-0002-1786-1531], Ling, Charlotte [0000-0003-0587-7154], Hivert, Marie-France [0000-0001-7752-2585], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Adult, Blood Glucose, Epigenomics, Male, endocrine system diseases, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Population, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Quantitative trait locus, Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Epigenome, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal Medicine, Humans, Epigenetics, education, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic association, Aged, Genetics, education.field_of_study, Incidence, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Genetics/Genomes/Proteomics/Metabolomics, DNA Methylation, Middle Aged, European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, 030104 developmental biology, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, England, DNA methylation, Female
Abstract: Epigenetic changes may contribute substantially to risks of diseases of aging. Previous studies reported seven methylation variable positions (MVPs) robustly associated with incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, their causal roles in T2DM are unclear. In an incident T2DM case-cohort study nested within the population-based European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Norfolk cohort, we used whole blood DNA collected at baseline, up to 11 years before T2DM onset, to investigate the role of methylation in the etiology of T2DM. We identified 15 novel MVPs with robust associations with incident T2DM and robustly confirmed three MVPs identified previously (near to TXNIP, ABCG1, and SREBF1). All 18 MVPs showed directionally consistent associations with incident and prevalent T2DM in independent studies. Further conditional analyses suggested that the identified epigenetic signals appear related to T2DM via glucose and obesity-related pathways acting before the collection of baseline samples. We integrated genome-wide genetic data to identify methylation-associated quantitative trait loci robustly associated with 16 of the 18 MVPs and found one MVP, cg00574958 at CPT1A, with a possible direct causal role in T2DM. None of the implicated genes were previously highlighted by genetic association studies, suggesting that DNA methylation studies may reveal novel biological mechanisms involved in tissue responses to glycemia.
Published: 2019
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25. Quality of dietary fat and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes:individual participant data meta-analysis

Author: Christina Ellervik, Toshiko Tanaka, Paul M. Ridker, Julie E. Buring, Yuvaraj Mahendran, Rebecca Rohde, Oscar H. Franco, Trudy Voortman, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Kristin L. Young, Kenneth J. Mukamal, K. Saaksjarvi, Peitao Wu, Jerome I. Rotter, Elizabeth Selvin, Audrey Y. Chu, Niels Grarup, Torben Hansen, Lydia A. Bazzano, Meir J. Stampfer, Kari E. North, George Hindy, Nita G. Forouhi, Peter Kraft, Kim Overvad, Camilla H. Sandholt, Paul W. Franks, Ulla Toft, Majken K. Jensen, Veikko Salomaa, Chloé Sarnowski, Bruce M. Psaty, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Satu Männistö, Jordi Merino, Anne Tjønneland, Alexis C. Frazier-Wood, James B. Meigs, Frank B. Hu, Anne E. Justice, Oluf Pedersen, Marta Guasch-Ferré, Christina-Alexandra Schulz, Caren E. Smith, Jose C. Florez, Dariush Mozaffarian, Claudia Langenberg, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Jaeyoung Hong, Ching-Ti Liu, Mikko Kuokkanen, Annamari Lundqvist, Nicholas J. Wareham, Jian'an Luan, Markus Perola, Josée Dupuis, Hassan S. Dashti, Marju Orho-Melander, Ulrika Ericson, Lu Qi, Stephen J. Sharp, Ming Ding, Jose M. Ordovas, Fumiaki Imamura, Daniel I. Chasman, Kim V.E. Braun, Dianjianyi Sun, Epidemiology, Merino, Jordi [0000-0001-8312-1438], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Male, PREDICTION, Type 2 diabetes, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Corrections, Polyunsaturated fat, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, 030212 general & internal medicine, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, 2. Zero hunger, ARCHITECTURE, Nutrition and Dietetics, Incidence, Hazard ratio, ASSOCIATION, General Medicine, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Näringslära, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE, Meta-analysis, NUTRITION, Female, Cohort study, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Lower risk, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Diet/adverse effects, Internal medicine, MANAGEMENT, medicine, Humans, CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE, Alleles, Proportional Hazards Models, business.industry, MORTALITY, Research, medicine.disease, Dietary Fats, PREVENTION, PREDISPOSITION, Confidence interval, Diet, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/epidemiology, Dietary Fats/adverse effects, business, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Objective To investigate whether the genetic burden of type 2 diabetes modifies the association between the quality of dietary fat and the incidence of type 2 diabetes. Design Individual participant data meta-analysis. Data sources Eligible prospective cohort studies were systematically sourced from studies published between January 1970 and February 2017 through electronic searches in major medical databases (Medline, Embase, and Scopus) and discussion with investigators. Review methods Data from cohort studies or multicohort consortia with available genome-wide genetic data and information about the quality of dietary fat and the incidence of type 2 diabetes in participants of European descent was sought. Prospective cohorts that had accrued five or more years of follow-up were included. The type 2 diabetes genetic risk profile was characterized by a 68-variant polygenic risk score weighted by published effect sizes. Diet was recorded by using validated cohort-specific dietary assessment tools. Outcome measures were summary adjusted hazard ratios of incident type 2 diabetes for polygenic risk score, isocaloric replacement of carbohydrate (refined starch and sugars) with types of fat, and the interaction of types of fat with polygenic risk score. Results Of 102 305 participants from 15 prospective cohort studies, 20 015 type 2 diabetes cases were documented after a median follow-up of 12 years (interquartile range 9.4-14.2). The hazard ratio of type 2 diabetes per increment of 10 risk alleles in the polygenic risk score was 1.64 (95% confidence interval 1.54 to 1.75, I 2 =7.1%, τ 2 =0.003). The increase of polyunsaturated fat and total omega 6 polyunsaturated fat intake in place of carbohydrate was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, with hazard ratios of 0.90 (0.82 to 0.98, I 2 =18.0%, τ 2 =0.006; per 5% of energy) and 0.99 (0.97 to 1.00, I 2 =58.8%, τ 2 =0.001; per increment of 1 g/d), respectively. Increasing monounsaturated fat in place of carbohydrate was associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes (hazard ratio 1.10, 95% confidence interval 1.01 to 1.19, I 2 =25.9%, τ 2 =0.006; per 5% of energy). Evidence of small study effects was detected for the overall association of polyunsaturated fat with the risk of type 2 diabetes, but not for the omega 6 polyunsaturated fat and monounsaturated fat associations. Significant interactions between dietary fat and polygenic risk score on the risk of type 2 diabetes (P>0.05 for interaction) were not observed. Conclusions These data indicate that genetic burden and the quality of dietary fat are each associated with the incidence of type 2 diabetes. The findings do not support tailoring recommendations on the quality of dietary fat to individual type 2 diabetes genetic risk profiles for the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes, and suggest that dietary fat is associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes across the spectrum of type 2 diabetes genetic risk.
Published: 2019

26. An integrative cross-omics analysis of DNA methylation sites of glucose and insulin homeostasis

Author: Jennifer A. Smith, Andrea A. Baccarelli, Jordana T. Bell, James B. Meigs, James S. Pankow, Jun Liu, Ayse Demirkan, Marjolein J. Peters, Jerome I. Rotter, Elias Salfati, Bertha Hidalgo, Audrey Y. Chu, André G. Uitterlinden, Luigi Ferrucci, Pooja R. Mandaviya, Nona Sotoodehnia, Eric A. Whitsel, Liesbeth Duijts, Marie-France Hivert, Elena Carnero-Montoro, Eric J.G. Sijbrands, Ann Zenobia Moore, Janine F. Felix, Jenny van Dongen, Najaf Amin, Tim D. Spector, Oscar H. Franco, Harald Grallert, Tiphaine Martin, Ivana Nedeljkovic, Josée Dupuis, Aaron Isaacs, Themistocles L. Assimes, Pei-Chien Tsai, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Lifang Hou, Daniel Levy, Ko Willems van Dijk, Rahul Gondalia, Samantha Lent, Abbas Dehghan, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Jan Bressler, Christian Herder, Min A. Jhun, Symen Ligthart, Dorret I. Boomsma, Gonneke Willemsen, Toshiko Tanaka, Rick Jansen, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Shih-Jen Hwang, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Donna K. Arnett, Eco J. C. de Geus, Henning Tiemeier, Stefania Bandinelli, Pediatric surgery, Epidemiology and Data Science, Biological Psychology, APH - Mental Health, APH - Personalized Medicine, APH - Methodology, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Erasmus MC other, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, RS: CARIM - R1 - Thrombosis and haemostasis, RS: FHML MaCSBio, Biochemie, and RS: Carim - B01 Blood proteins & engineering
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Epigenomics, Male, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), medicine.medical_treatment, General Physics and Astronomy, 02 engineering and technology, Type 2 diabetes, UP-REGULATION, Epigenesis, Genetic, Glucose homeostasis, Homeostasis, Insulin, lcsh:Science, Genetics, Aged, 80 and over, Multidisciplinary, Middle Aged, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 3. Good health, Multidisciplinary Sciences, DNA methylation, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Epigenetics, Female, 0210 nano-technology, WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Adult, EXPRESSION, Science, 610 Medicine & health, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, TYPE-2, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, 360 Social problems & social services, Diabetes mellitus, medicine, GLYCEMIC TRAITS, Humans, Computer Simulation, Obesity, Transcriptomics, Aged, EPIGENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, Science & Technology, Gene Expression Profiling, DIABETES-MELLITUS, General Chemistry, DNA Methylation, medicine.disease, GENE, IRS2, BODY-MASS INDEX, 030104 developmental biology, Glucose, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Gene Expression Regulation, lcsh:Q, CpG Islands, Genome-Wide Association Study, FASTING GLUCOSE
Abstract: Despite existing reports on differential DNA methylation in type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity, our understanding of its functional relevance remains limited. Here we show the effect of differential methylation in the early phases of T2D pathology by a blood-based epigenome-wide association study of 4808 non-diabetic Europeans in the discovery phase and 11,750 individuals in the replication. We identify CpGs in LETM1, RBM20, IRS2, MAN2A2 and the 1q25.3 region associated with fasting insulin, and in FCRL6, SLAMF1, APOBEC3H and the 15q26.1 region with fasting glucose. In silico cross-omics analyses highlight the role of differential methylation in the crosstalk between the adaptive immune system and glucose homeostasis. The differential methylation explains at least 16.9% of the association between obesity and insulin. Our study sheds light on the biological interactions between genetic variants driving differential methylation and gene expression in the early pathogenesis of T2D., Our understanding of the functional link between differential DNA methylation and type 2 diabetes and obesity remains limited. Here the authors present a blood-based EWAS of fasting glucose and insulin among 4808 non-diabetic Europeans and identify nine CpGs not previously implicated in glucose, insulin homeostasis and diabetes.
Published: 2019

27. Group IIA Secretory Phospholipase A

Author: Akintunde O, Akinkuolie, Patrick R, Lawler, Audrey Y, Chu, Michael, Caulfield, Jianying, Mu, Bo, Ding, Fredrik, Nyberg, Robert J, Glynn, Paul M, Ridker, Eva, Hurt-Camejo, Daniel I, Chasman, and Samia, Mora
Subjects: Inflammation, Male, Time Factors, Incidence, Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Middle Aged, Group II Phospholipases A2, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Assessment, Article, Primary Prevention, Treatment Outcome, Double-Blind Method, Cardiovascular Diseases, Risk Factors, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Prospective Studies, Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors, Rosuvastatin Calcium, Aged, Dyslipidemias
Abstract: OBJECTIVES: Inflammation is a causal risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Group IIA secretory phospholipase A(2) (sPLA(2)-IIA) plays an integral role in regulating vascular inflammation. While studies investigated sPLA(2)-IIA in secondary prevention, we prospectively evaluated sPLA(2)-IIA mass and genetic variants with CVD events in a primary prevention population with chronic inflammation. APPROACH AND RESULTS: The JUPITER trial (NCT00239681) randomized participants with LDLc 0.05). The rs11573156C variant in PLA2G2A (encoding sPLA(2)-IIA) had the strongest effect on sPLA(2)-II: median (25(th)-75(th) percentile, ng/mL) for CC and GG genotypes: 2.79 (1.97-4.01) and 7.38 (5.38-10.19), respectively; and had non-significant trend for higher CVD risk (HR: 1.11, 95% CI 0.89-1.38, p=0.34). CONCLUSIONS: In the JUPITER population recruited on chronic inflammation, sPLA(2)-IIA mass was associated with CVD risk relating to vascular inflammation not fully reflected by hsCRP. Additional studies, including larger functional genetic and clinical studies, are needed to determine whether sPLA(2)-IIA may be a potential pharmacological target for primary prevention of CVD.
Published: 2019

28. Multi-trait genome-wide association meta-analysis of dietary intake identifies new loci and genetic and functional links with metabolic traits

Author: Jacqueline M. Lane, Audrey Y. Chu, Petar Todorov, Jordi Merino, Martin K. Rutter, Tune H. Pers, Jeong Jun Kim, Daniel I. Chasman, Richa Saxena, Chandler Tucker, Miriam S. Udler, Takaaki Tanaka, Li-Huei Tsai, Hassan S. Dashti, Jose C. Florez, He Wang, Josée Dupuis, Yanwei Song, John N. Campbell, and Chloé Sarnowski
Subjects: Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Genome-wide association study, Type 2 diabetes, Biology, medicine.disease, Biobank, Obesity, Phenotype, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Gene, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, 030304 developmental biology, Epigenomics, Genetic association
Abstract: Dietary intake, a major contributor to the global obesity epidemic1–5, is a complex phenotype partially affected by innate physiological processes.6–11 However, previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have only implicated a few loci in variability of dietary composition.12–14 Here, we present a multi-trait genome-wide association meta-analysis of inter-individual variation in dietary intake in 283,119 European-ancestry participants from UK Biobank and CHARGE consortium, and identify 96 genome-wide significant loci. Dietary intake signals map to different brain tissues and are enriched for genes expressed in β1-tanycytes and serotonergic and GABAergic neurons. We also find enrichment of biological pathways related to neurogenesis. Integration of cell-line and brain-specific epigenomic annotations identify 15 additional loci. Clustering of genome-wide significant variants yields three main genetic clusters with distinct associations with obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Overall, these results enhance biological understanding of dietary composition, highlight neural mechanisms, and support functional follow-up experiments.
Published: 2019

29. Tissue-Specific Alteration of Metabolic Pathways Influences Glycemic Regulation

Author: Wieland Kiess, Josée Dupuis, Yingchang Lu, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Sara M. Willems, George Dedoussis, Frida Renström, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Tamara B. Harris, Cramer Christensen, Audrey Y. Chu, Nicola L. Beer, Emil V. R. Appel, Niels Grarup, Fredrik Karpe, Mark I. McCarthy, Yuning Chen, Veikko Salomaa, Sylvain Sebert, Richard A. Jensen, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Lars Lind, Jocelyn E. Manning Fox, Caroline Hayward, Patrick E. MacDonald, Matti Uusitupa, Stavroula Kanoni, Carola Marzi, Kenneth Rice, Leslie A. Lange, Ken Sin Lo, Jennifer L. Asimit, Nisa M. Maruthur, Leonard Lipovich, James S. Floyd, Rona J. Strawbridge, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Anne Raimondo, Robert Sladek, Alexandra I. F. Blakemore, Hugoline G. de Haan, Danish Saleheen, Ji Chen, Neil Robertson, Ching-Yu Cheng, Heiner Boeing, Min A. Jhun, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Anubha Mahajan, Rainer Rauramaa, Satu Männistö, Paul M. Ridker, Ivan Brandslund, Hester M. den Ruijter, Tien Yin Wong, Alison D. Murray, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Xueling Sim, Igor Rudan, Martijn van de Bunt, Jin Li, Marit E. Jørgensen, Marie-France Hivert, Archie Campbell, Salman M. Tajuddin, Pekka Jousilahti, Lawrence F. Bielak, Juan P. Fernandez, Eleanor Wheeler, Alan B. Zonderman, Anne Clark, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Kurt Lohman, Peter Kovacs, Jung-Jin Lee, Jennifer Wessel, Wesam A Alhejily, Gerard Pasterkamp, John M. Starr, Ping An, Matthias Blüher, Jian'an Luan, Hanieh Yeghootkar, Jakob Stokholm, Michael Roden, Blair H. Smith, Johanna Jakobsdottir, Franco Giulianini, Andrianos M. Yiorkas, Hidetoshi Kitajima, Michael A. Province, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Kerrin S. Small, Juha Saltevo, Robert A. Scott, Alena Stančáková, Gaëlle Marenne, Asif Rasheed, Ruth J. F. Loos, David J. Porteous, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Inês Barroso, Gail Davies, Anna L. Gloyn, Shuai Wang, Paul Redmond, Xiuqing Guo, Ele Ferrannini, Mariaelisa Graff, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Juha Auvinen, David R. Weir, Kay-Tee Kaw, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Olov Rolandsson, Wei Zhao, Paul Elliott, Torben Hansen, Abbas Dehghan, Bram P. Prins, Michiel L. Bots, Alison Pattie, Jun Liu, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Maria Karaleftheri, Claudia Langenberg, Jan-Håkan Jansson, Marja Vääräsmäki, James S. Pankow, Rebecca S. Fine, Jaana Lindström, Ozren Polasek, Vinicius Tragante, Soren K. Thomsen, Jana K. Rundle, Najaf Amin, Saima Afaq, Jennifer A. Smith, Anne U. Jackson, Eirini Marouli, Weihua Zhang, Tim D. Spector, Paul W. Franks, Serena Sanna, Mark J. Caulfield, Heikki A. Koistinen, Jaspal S. Kooner, Tea Skaaby, Francis S. Collins, Eva Rabing Brix Petersen, Arfan Ikram, Sander W. van der Laan, Johanna Kuusisto, Jette Bork-Jensen, Daniel I. Chasman, Michele K. Evans, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, A. I. Tarasov, Ian J. Deary, Hans Bisgaard, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Helen R. Warren, Kent D. Taylor, Andrew D. Morris, Eleftheria Zeggini, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Emma Ahlqvist, Gert J. de Borst, Torben Jørgensen, Antonella Mulas, Man Li, Betina H. Thuesen, Yuan Shi, Timo A. Lakka, Jie Yao, Tapani Ebeling, Natasha H. J. Ng, Sai Chen, Leena Kinnunen, Antje Körner, Klaus Bønnelykke, Lorraine Southam, Anette P. Gjesing, Ilonca Vaartjes, Heather M. Highland, Göran Hallmans, Anke Tönjes, Markku Laakso, Lenore J. Launer, Josef Coresh, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Beverley Balkau, Leena Moilanen, Karl-Heinz Herzig, James G. Wilson, Jennifer A. Brody, Renée de Mutsert, Alisa K. Manning, Anne E. Justice, Matthias B. Schulze, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Jose C. Florez, Shuang Feng, Heather M. Stringham, Bruce M. Psaty, Erwin P. Bottinger, Hannu Puolijoki, Vilmundur Gudnason, Leif Groop, Nicholas J. Wareham, Karina Meidtner, Andrew P. Morris, Taulant Muka, Benoit Hastoy, Panos Deloukas, Pirjo Komulainen, Ayse Demirkan, Francesco Cucca, Stefan Gustafsson, Eric Boerwinkle, Patrik Rorsman, Mike A. Nalls, Erik Ingelsson, Colin N. A. Palmer, Allan Linneberg, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Dan E. Arking, Steve Franks, Jonathan Marten, Mark Walker, Ruifang Li-Gao, Kai Savonen, Michael Stumvoll, Andreas Fritsche, E-Shyong Tai, Mark O. Goodarzi, Matt J. Neville, Oluf Pedersen, Eero Kajantie, Ching-Ti Liu, Michael Boehnke, Aaron Leong, Patricia B. Munroe, Patricia A. Peyser, Jessica D. Faul, John C. Chambers, John Danesh, Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi, Giorgio Pistis, Karen L. Mohlke, Folkert W. Asselbergs, James B. Meigs, Tibor V. Varga, Erica L. Kleinbrink, Andrew T. Hattersley, Nathan A. Bihlmeyer, Harald Grallert, Albert V. Smith, Konstantin Strauch, Jerome I. Rotter, and Frits R. Rosendaal
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, G6PC2, pathways, Adipose tissue, Type 2 diabetes, Biology, effector transcript, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Diabetes mellitus, Internal medicine, 0502 economics and business, medicine, Glucose homeostasis, genetics, 050207 economics, 030304 developmental biology, Glycemic, 0303 health sciences, 050208 finance, Pancreatic islets, 05 social sciences, tissue, Genomics, medicine.disease, Endocrinology, medicine.anatomical_structure, chemistry, glycemic traits, Glycated hemoglobin, type 2 diabetes, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: SummaryMetabolic dysregulation in multiple tissues alters glucose homeostasis and influences risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D). To identify pathways and tissues influencing T2D-relevant glycemic traits (fasting glucose [FG], fasting insulin [FI], two-hour glucose [2hGlu] and glycated hemoglobin [HbA1c]), we investigated associations of exome-array variants in up to 144,060 individuals without diabetes of multiple ancestries. Single-variant analyses identified novel associations at 21 coding variants in 18 novel loci, whilst gene-based tests revealed signals at two genes, TF (HbA1c) and G6PC (FG, FI). Pathway and tissue enrichment analyses of trait-associated transcripts confirmed the importance of liver and kidney for FI and pancreatic islets for FG regulation, implicated adipose tissue in FI and the gut in 2hGlu, and suggested a role for the non-endocrine pancreas in glucose homeostasis. Functional studies demonstrated that a novel FG/FI association at the liver-enriched G6PC transcript was driven by multiple rare loss-of-function variants. The FG/HbA1c-associated, islet-specific G6PC2 transcript also contained multiple rare functional variants, including two alleles within the same codon with divergent effects on glucose levels. Our findings highlight the value of integrating genomic and functional data to maximize biological inference.Highlights23 novel coding variant associations (single-point and gene-based) for glycemic traits51 effector transcripts highlighted different pathway/tissue signatures for each traitThe exocrine pancreas and gut influence fasting and 2h glucose, respectivelyMultiple variants in liver-enriched G6PC and islet-specific G6PC2 influence glycemia
Published: 2019

30. Genome-wide association meta-analyses and fine-mapping elucidate pathways influencing albuminuria

Author: Tobias Hermle, Holger Kirsten, Karsten B. Sieber, Aiko P. J. de Vries, Su Chi Lim, Peter Kovacs, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Carl D. Langefeld, Bernhard K. Krämer, Kent D. Taylor, Janine F. Felix, Belen Ponte, Markus Loeffler, Mary F. Feitosa, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Jianjun Liu, Katalin Dittrich, Charlene A. Wong, Uwe Völker, Adriana M. Hung, Thomas Meitinger, Anubha Mahajan, Anselm Hoppmann, Erik Ingelsson, Martin H. de Borst, Oscar H. Franco, Niek Verweij, Kai-Uwe Saum, Vilmundur Gudnason, Bram P. Prins, Carsten A. Böger, Terho Lehtimäki, Andrew A. Hicks, Todd L. Edwards, Olivier Devuyst, Peter P. Pramstaller, Katrin Horn, Leslie A. Lange, Johanne Tremblay, Jin-Fang Chai, Sahar Ghasemi, Kjell Nikus, Tanja Poulain, Massimiliano Cocca, Anna Köttgen, Eric Boerwinkle, Barry I. Freedman, Miao-Ling Chee, Man Li, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Tamara B. Harris, Albert V. Smith, Ton J. Rabelink, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Iris M. Heid, Jasmin Divers, Chaolong Wang, Kathleen A. Ryan, Pavel Hamet, Silke Szymczak, Shih-Jen Hwang, Hauke Thomsen, Rainer Rettig, Ayush Giri, Fernando Rivadeneira, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Cristian Pattaro, Andrej Teren, Valencia Hui Xian Foo, Myriam Rheinberger, Audrey Y. Chu, Barbara McMullen, Franziska Grundner-Culemann, Masayuki Yasuda, Murielle Bochud, Martin Gögele, Anke Tönjes, Jeannette Lee, Adrienne Tin, Kevin Ho, Konstantin Strauch, Josef Coresh, Renée de Mutsert, Sandra Freitag-Wolf, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Yizhe Xu, Katalin Susztak, Tien Yin Wong, Mary L. Biggs, Isleifur Olafsson, Qiong Yang, Antje Körner, Chengxiang Qiu, E-Shyong Tai, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Ben Schöttker, Jeffrey O' Connell, Mengmeng Chen, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Dermot F. Reilly, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Damia Noce, Pim van der Harst, Sanaz Sedaghat, Chiea Chuen Khor, Adam S. Butterworth, Mathias Gorski, Robert J. Carroll, James G. Wilson, Johan Ärnlöv, Christa Meisinger, Kenneth Rice, Bettina Jung, Christian M. Shaffer, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Matthias Nauck, Shreeram Akilesh, Mika Kähönen, Johanna Jakobsdottir, Melanie Waldenberger, Ralph Burkhardt, Daniela Baptista, John Danesh, Benjamin B. Sun, Karlhans Endlich, Holly Kramer, Frauke Degenhardt, Wolfgang Lieb, Kari Stefansson, Joachim Thiery, Lars Lind, Nicholette D. Palmer, Sarah A. Pendergrass, Suzanne Vogelezang, Peter J. van der Most, Afshin Parsa, Markus Scholz, Florian Kronenberg, Joseph C. Maranville, Laura M. Raffield, Hermann Brenner, Wieland Kiess, Anna I. Podgornaia, Yuan Shi, Tanguy Corre, Miao-Li Chee, Deborah Mascalzoni, Bamidele O. Tayo, Navya Shilpa Josyula, Ching-Yu Cheng, Lea Gerstner, Nisha Bansal, Jerome I. Rotter, Alexander Teumer, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Raymond Noordam, Ron T. Gansevoort, Lihua Wang, Andrew P. Morris, Bruce M. Psaty, Boting Ning, Zhi Yu, Christian Fuchsberger, Matthias Wuttke, Heiko Runz, Annette Peters, Yih Chung Tham, James P. Cook, Yong Li, Chris H. L. Thio, Hilma Holm, Alessandro De Grandi, Jonathan Marten, André G. Uitterlinden, Andre Franke, Nicholas Y. Q. Tan, Otis D. Wilson, Georg Ehret, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Wolfgang Koenig, Harold Snieder, Michael Stumvoll, Kozeta Miliku, M. Arfan Ikram, Teresa Nutile, Læknadeild (HÍ), Faculty of Medicine (UI), School of Health Sciences (UI), Heilbrigðisvísindasvið (HÍ), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland, Teumer, Alexander [0000-0002-8309-094X], Li, Yong [0000-0003-2651-8791], Wuttke, Matthias [0000-0003-3420-5082], Giri, Ayush [0000-0002-7786-4670], Qiu, Chengxiang [0000-0002-6346-8669], Kirsten, Holger [0000-0002-3126-7950], Tin, Adrienne [0000-0002-4207-5866], Feitosa, Mary F. [0000-0002-0933-2410], Chai, Jin-Fang [0000-0003-3770-1137], Cocca, Massimiliano [0000-0002-1127-7596], Gorski, Mathias [0000-0002-9103-5860], Horn, Katrin [0000-0002-5307-6936], Li, Man [0000-0002-3839-0281], Marten, Jonathan [0000-0001-6916-2014], van der Most, Peter J. [0000-0001-8450-3518], Burkhardt, Ralph [0000-0003-1924-1202], Coresh, Josef [0000-0002-4598-0669], de Borst, Martin H. [0000-0002-4127-8733], Ehret, Georg [0000-0002-5730-0675], Endlich, Karlhans [0000-0001-6052-6061], Felix, Janine F. [0000-0002-9801-5774], Franke, Andre [0000-0003-1530-5811], Freedman, Barry I. [0000-0003-0275-5530], Freitag-Wolf, Sandra [0000-0002-1069-7740], Giedraitis, Vilmantas [0000-0003-3423-2021], Grundner-Culemann, Franziska [0000-0001-9649-281X], Gudnason, Vilmundur [0000-0001-5696-0084], Hicks, Andrew A. [0000-0001-6320-0411], Ikram, M. Arfan [0000-0003-0372-8585], Ingelsson, Erik [0000-0003-2256-6972], Jaddoe, Vincent W. V. [0000-0003-2939-0041], Josyula, Navya Shilpa [0000-0003-2782-8812], Khor, Chiea-Chuen [0000-0002-1128-4729], Koenig, Wolfgang [0000-0002-2064-9603], Kovacs, Peter [0000-0002-0290-5423], Kronenberg, Florian [0000-0003-2229-1120], Lindgren, Cecilia M. [0000-0002-4903-9374], Liu, Jianjun [0000-0002-3255-3019], Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka [0000-0002-7200-5455], Mahajan, Anubha [0000-0001-5585-3420], Mascalzoni, Deborah [0000-0003-4156-1464], Miliku, Kozeta [0000-0002-9614-7191], Müller-Nurasyid, Martina [0000-0003-3793-5910], Mychaleckyj, Josyf C. [0000-0003-2595-0005], Palmer, Nicholette D. [0000-0001-8883-2511], Poulain, Tanja [0000-0003-3825-5829], Raffield, Laura M. [0000-0002-7892-193X], Rice, Kenneth M. [0000-0002-3071-7278], Rivadeneira, Fernando [0000-0001-9435-9441], Sabanayagam, Charumathi [0000-0002-4042-4719], Smith, Albert V. [0000-0003-1942-5845], Sun, Benjamin B. [0000-0001-6347-2281], Szymczak, Silke [0000-0002-8897-9035], Taylor, Kent D. [0000-0002-2756-4370], Thio, Chris H. L. [0000-0003-2623-7172], Uitterlinden, André G. [0000-0002-7276-3387], van der Harst, Pim [0000-0002-2713-686X], Verweij, Niek [0000-0002-4303-7685], Völker, Uwe [0000-0002-5689-3448], Wang, Chaolong [0000-0003-3945-1012], Yang, Qiong [0000-0002-3658-1375], Devuyst, Olivier [0000-0003-3744-4767], Edwards, Todd L. [0000-0003-4318-6119], Ho, Kevin [0000-0002-3054-8697], Morris, Andrew P. [0000-0002-6805-6014], Pendergrass, Sarah A. [0000-0002-0565-6522], Rotter, Jerome I. [0000-0001-7191-1723], Stefansson, Kari [0000-0003-1676-864X], Susztak, Katalin [0000-0002-1005-3726], Scholz, Markus [0000-0002-4059-1779], Butterworth, Adam S. [0000-0002-6915-9015], Hung, Adriana M. [0000-0002-3203-1608], Pattaro, Cristian [0000-0002-4119-0109], Köttgen, Anna [0000-0002-4671-3714], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT), Lifestyle Medicine (LM), Groningen Kidney Center (GKC), Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Epidemiology, Erasmus MC other, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Feitosa, Mary F [0000-0002-0933-2410], van der Most, Peter J [0000-0001-8450-3518], de Borst, Martin H [0000-0002-4127-8733], Felix, Janine F [0000-0002-9801-5774], Freedman, Barry I [0000-0003-0275-5530], Hicks, Andrew A [0000-0001-6320-0411], Ikram, M Arfan [0000-0003-0372-8585], Jaddoe, Vincent WV [0000-0003-2939-0041], Lindgren, Cecilia M [0000-0002-4903-9374], Mychaleckyj, Josyf C [0000-0003-2595-0005], Palmer, Nicholette D [0000-0001-8883-2511], Raffield, Laura M [0000-0002-7892-193X], Rice, Kenneth M [0000-0002-3071-7278], Smith, Albert V [0000-0003-1942-5845], Sun, Benjamin B [0000-0001-6347-2281], Taylor, Kent D [0000-0002-2756-4370], Thio, Chris HL [0000-0003-2623-7172], Uitterlinden, André G [0000-0002-7276-3387], Edwards, Todd L [0000-0003-4318-6119], Morris, Andrew P [0000-0002-6805-6014], Pendergrass, Sarah A [0000-0002-0565-6522], Rotter, Jerome I [0000-0001-7191-1723], Butterworth, Adam S [0000-0002-6915-9015], and Hung, Adriana M [0000-0002-3203-1608]
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Drosophila melanogaster/genetics, Diabetes Mellitus/genetics, LD SCORE REGRESSION, 030232 urology & nephrology, 45/43, General Physics and Astronomy, Genome-wide association study, BLOOD-PRESSURE, Bioinformatics, GLOMERULAR-FILTRATION-RATE, Genome-wide association studies, Diabetes mellitus genetics, 0302 clinical medicine, Creatinine/urine, Risk Factors, Genome-wide, Phenomics, lcsh:Science, ddc:616, Regulation of gene expression, RISK, Gene knockdown, Kidney diseases, Multidisciplinary, HERITABILITY, Albuminuria/genetics, article, Chromosome Mapping, Kidney disease, ddc, 3. Good health, Drosophila melanogaster, Creatinine, Nýrnasjúkdómar, 692/4022/1585, Slit diaphragm, Medical genetics, medicine.symptom, Erfðarannsóknir, Medical Genetics, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, 631/208/205/2138, 610 Medicine & health, Biology, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Meta-Analysis as Topic, 360 Social problems & social services, Diabetes Mellitus, medicine, Animals, Humans, Albuminuria, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, EXCRETION RATE, CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS, Genetic association, Medicinsk genetik, TRANS-EQTLS, KIDNEY-DISEASE, General Chemistry, 030104 developmental biology, Gene Expression Regulation, Genetic Loci, COLLABORATIVE METAANALYSIS, lcsh:Q, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Publisher's version (útgefin grein)., Increased levels of the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) are associated with higher risk of kidney disease progression and cardiovascular events, but underlying mechanisms are incompletely understood. Here, we conduct trans-ethnic (n = 564,257) and European-ancestry specific meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies of UACR, including ancestry- and diabetes-specific analyses, and identify 68 UACR-associated loci. Genetic correlation analyses and risk score associations in an independent electronic medical records database (n = 192,868) reveal connections with proteinuria, hyperlipidemia, gout, and hypertension. Fine-mapping and trans-Omics analyses with gene expression in 47 tissues and plasma protein levels implicate genes potentially operating through differential expression in kidney (including TGFB1, MUC1, PRKCI, and OAF), and allow coupling of UACR associations to altered plasma OAF concentrations. Knockdown of OAF and PRKCI orthologs in Drosophila nephrocytes reduces albumin endocytosis. Silencing fly PRKCI further impairs slit diaphragm formation. These results generate a priority list of genes and pathways for translational research to reduce albuminuria., Competing interests: Karsten B. Sieber is full-time employee of GlaxoSmithKline. Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Hilma Holm, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir and Kari Stefansson are full-time employees of deCODE genetics, Amgen Inc. John Danesh is member of the Novartis Cardiovascular and Metabolic Advisory Board, received grant support from Novartis. Oscar H. Franco works in ErasmusAGE, a center for aging research across the life course funded by Nestlé Nutrition (Nestec Ltd.), Metagenics Inc., and AXA. Wolfgang Koenig received modest consultation fees for advisory board meetings from Amgen, DalCor, Kowa, Novartis, Pfizer and Sanofi, and modest personal fees for lectures from Amgen, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Pfizer and Sanofi. Anna I. Podgornaia and Dermot F. Reilly are employees of Merck Sharp Dohme Corp., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA. Kevin Ho disclosed a research and financial relationship with Sanofi-Genzyme. Bruce M. Psaty serves on the DSMB of a clinical trial funded by the manufacturer (Zoll LifeCor) and on the Steering Committee of the Yale Open Data Access Project funded by Johnson & Johnson. Markus Scholz: Consultancy of and grant support from Merck Serono not related to this project. Adam S. Butterworth received grants from MSD, Pfizer, Novartis, Biogen and Bioverativ and personal fees from Novartis. Anna Köttgen received grant support from Gruenenthal not related to this project. The other authors declare no competing interests.
Published: 2019
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31. Large-scale whole-exome sequencing association studies identify rare functional variants influencing serum urate levels

Author: Robert Kraaij, Teresa Nutile, Peter Vollenweider, Cassianne Robinson-Cohen, Caroline S. Fox, André G. Uitterlinden, Sanaz Sedaghat, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Alanna C. Morrison, Meng Li, Bing Yu, Sahar Ghasemi, Zoltán Kutalik, Eric Boerwinkle, Alexanda Teumer, Jeroen van Rooij, Qiong Yang, Audrey Y. Chu, Jennifer E. Huffman, Bruce M. Psaty, Jun Liu, Najaf Amin, Jennifer A. Brody, Adrienne Tin, Rossella Sorice, Ming-Huei Chen, Marina Ciullo, Anna Köttgen, Yong Li, Ayse Demirkan, Owen M. Woodward, Melody Swen, Abbas Dehghan, Aurélien Macé, Barbara McKnight, Epidemiology, and Internal Medicine
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Organic Cation Transport Proteins, Science, Glucose Transport Proteins, Facilitative, General Physics and Astronomy, Organic Anion Transporters, Genome-wide association study, Disease, Bioinformatics, Kidney Function Tests, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, Protein Structure, Secondary, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, Exome/genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Glucose Transport Proteins, Facilitative/chemistry, Glucose Transport Proteins, Facilitative/genetics, Glucose Transport Proteins, Facilitative/metabolism, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Organic Anion Transporters/chemistry, Organic Anion Transporters/genetics, Organic Anion Transporters/metabolism, Organic Cation Transport Proteins/chemistry, Organic Cation Transport Proteins/genetics, Organic Cation Transport Proteins/metabolism, Uric Acid/blood, MD Multidisciplinary, medicine, Exome, lcsh:Science, Exome sequencing, Genetic association, Multidisciplinary, biology, business.industry, Lesinurad, serum urate levels, General Chemistry, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Gout, Uric Acid, 030104 developmental biology, chemistry, biology.protein, SLC22A12, lcsh:Q, business, SLC2A9
Abstract: Elevated serum urate levels can cause gout, an excruciating disease with suboptimal treatment. Previous GWAS identified common variants with modest effects on serum urate. Here we report large-scale whole-exome sequencing association studies of serum urate and kidney function among ≤19,517 European ancestry and African-American individuals. We identify aggregate associations of low-frequency damaging variants in the urate transporters SLC22A12 (URAT1; p = 1.3 × 10−56) and SLC2A9 (p = 4.5 × 10−7). Gout risk in rare SLC22A12 variant carriers is halved (OR = 0.5, p = 4.9 × 10−3). Selected rare variants in SLC22A12 are validated in transport studies, confirming three as loss-of-function (R325W, R405C, and T467M) and illustrating the therapeutic potential of the new URAT1-blocker lesinurad. In SLC2A9, mapping of rare variants of large effects onto the predicted protein structure reveals new residues that may affect urate binding. These findings provide new insights into the genetic architecture of serum urate, and highlight molecular targets in SLC22A12 and SLC2A9 for lowering serum urate and preventing gout., Elevated serum urate levels are a risk factor for gout. Here, Tin et al. perform whole-exome sequencing in 19,517 individuals and detect low-frequency genetic variants in urate transporter genes, SLC22A12 and SLC2A9, associated with serum urate levels and confirm their damaging nature in vitro and in silico.
Published: 2018

32. Identification of additional risk loci for stroke and small vessel disease

Author: Matthew Traylor, Vilmundur Gudnason, Kerri L. Wiggins, Christophe Tzourio, Reinhold E. Schmidt, Hugo J. Aparicio, Tamara B. Harris, Audrey Y. Chu, Oscar R. Benavente, Anton J. M. de Craen, Nancy L. Pedersen, Lars Lannfelt, Didier Leys, Erkki Vartiainen, Myriam Fornage, Marileen L.P. Portegies, Nicholas L. Smith, Daniel Woo, Martin Dichgans, John W. Cole, Christina Jern, Christopher R Levi, Kenneth Rice, André G. Uitterlinden, Rebecca F. Gottesman, M. Arfan Ikram, Ralph L. Sacco, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Samuli Ripatti, Anita L. DeStefano, Donna K. Arnett, Curtis R. French, Tobias Kurth, Tomi Pastinen, Raji P. Grewal, Susan R. Heckbert, Jordi Jimenez-Conde, Jemma C. Hopewell, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Azadeh Reyahi, Michèle M. Sale, Marcello Ricardo Paulista Markus, Albert Hofman, Seung Hoan Choi, Peter J. Koudstaal, Veikko Salomaa, Robert Clarke, Arne Lindgren, B. Gwen Windham, Farid Radmanesh, Peter M. Rothwell, Carsten Oliver Schmidt, Xueqiu Jian, David S. Knopman, Yongmei Liu, Joan Montaner, Jean-François Dartigues, Paul M. Ridker, Julie A. Johnson, Stefan Gustafsson, Jerome I. Rotter, Manja Kloss, Tatjana Rundek, David J. Stott, Ganesh Chauhan, Ordan J. Lehmann, Ali Moussavi Nik, Marcel den Hoed, Alessandro Pezzini, Jin-Moo Lee, Hans J. Grabe, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Anders Hamsten, Thomas H. Mosley, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Lenore J. Launer, Kathryn M. Rexrode, Quenna Wong, Jonathan Rosand, David A. Bennett, Philip L. De Jager, James F. Meschia, Alexa S. Beiser, J. Wouter Jukema, Traci M. Bartz, Mike A. Nalls, Cathie Sudlow, Erik Ingelsson, Yoichiro Kamatani, Ulf Schminke, Joris Deelen, Stéphanie Debette, Andrew P. Morris, Aki S. Havulinna, Sudha Seshadri, Bradford B. Worrall, Stephen S. Rich, Lars Lindgren, Hieab H.H. Adams, Ani Manichaikul, Jean-Sébastien Vidal, Bruce M. Psaty, Julie E. Buring, Jean Dallongeville, Oscar L. Lopez, Corey R. Arnold, Olle Melander, Olafur Kjartansson, Alexander Teumer, Sarah J. Childs, William T. Longstreth, Charles C. White, Stefan T. Engelter, Daniel I. Chasman, Norrina B. Allen, Rainer Malik, Vincent Thijs, Stella Trompet, Joshua C. Bis, Ian Ford, Peter Carlsson, Céline Bellenguez, Sara L. Pulit, Pankaj Sharma, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Flora Xue, Giorgio B. Boncoraglio, Mark Lathrop, Melissa E. Garcia, Andrew D. Johnson, Steve Bevan, Albert V. Smith, Claudia L. Satizabal, Agnieszka Slowik, Michael Griswold, Claudine Berr, and Hugh S. Markus
Subjects: Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Adolescent, Population, Genome-wide association study, Biology, Bioinformatics, Article, Brain ischemia, Mice, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, medicine, Animals, Humans, Child, education, Allele frequency, Stroke, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, education.field_of_study, Cerebral infarction, Forkhead Transcription Factors, Odds ratio, Middle Aged, 16. Peace & justice, medicine.disease, R1, 3. Good health, Minor allele frequency, 030104 developmental biology, Genetic Loci, Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases, Child, Preschool, Female, Neurology (clinical), 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Background Genetic determinants of stroke, the leading neurological cause of death and disability, are poorly understood and have seldom been explored in the general population. Our aim was to identify additional loci for stroke by doing a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. Methods For the discovery sample, we did a genome-wide analysis of common genetic variants associated with incident stroke risk in 18 population-based cohorts comprising 84â€ˆ961 participants, of whom 4348 had stroke. Stroke diagnosis was ascertained and validated by the study investigators. Mean age at stroke ranged from 45Â·8 years to 76Â·4 years, and data collection in the studies took place between 1948 and 2013. We did validation analyses for variants yielding a significant association (at pâˆ’6) with all-stroke, ischaemic stroke, cardioembolic ischaemic stroke, or non-cardioembolic ischaemic stroke in the largest available cross-sectional studies (70â€ˆ804 participants, of whom 19â€ˆ816 had stroke). Summary-level results of discovery and follow-up stages were combined using inverse-variance weighted fixed-effects meta-analysis, and in-silico lookups were done in stroke subtypes. For genome-wide significant findings (at pâˆ’8), we explored associations with additional cerebrovascular phenotypes and did functional experiments using conditional (inducible) deletion of the probable causal gene in mice. We also studied the expression of orthologs of this probable causal gene and its effects on cerebral vasculature in zebrafish mutants. Findings We replicated seven of eight known loci associated with risk for ischaemic stroke, and identified a novel locus at chromosome 6p25 (rs12204590, near FOXF2) associated with risk of all-stroke (odds ratio [OR] 1Â·08, 95% CI 1Â·05â€“1Â·12, p=1Â·48â€ˆÃ—â€ˆ10âˆ’8; minor allele frequency 21%). The rs12204590 stroke risk allele was also associated with increased MRI-defined burden of white matter hyperintensityâ€”a marker of cerebral small vessel diseaseâ€”in stroke-free adults (n=21â€ˆ079; p=0Â·0025). Consistently, young patients (aged 2â€“32 years) with segmental deletions of FOXF2 showed an extensive burden of white matter hyperintensity. Deletion of Foxf2 in adult mice resulted in cerebral infarction, reactive gliosis, and microhaemorrhage. The orthologs of FOXF2 in zebrafish (foxf2b and foxf2a) are expressed in brain pericytes and mutant foxf2bâˆ’/âˆ’ cerebral vessels show decreased smooth muscle cell and pericyte coverage. Interpretation We identified common variants near FOXF2 that are associated with increased stroke susceptibility. Epidemiological and experimental data suggest that FOXF2 mediates this association, potentially via differentiation defects of cerebral vascular mural cells. Further expression studies in appropriate human tissues, and further functional experiments with long follow-up periods are needed to fully understand the underlying mechanisms. Funding NIH, NINDS, NHMRC, CIHR, European national research institutions, Fondation Leducq.
Published: 2016

33. Meta-analysis identifies common and rare variants influencing blood pressure and overlapping with metabolic trait loci

Author: Paul M. Ridker, Han Chen, Nathan O. Stitziel, Joshua C. Bis, Charles Kooperberg, Stephan B. Felix, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Cristian Pattaro, Alanna C. Morrison, Praveen Surendran, Adolfo Correa, Nilesh J. Samani, Johanna Jakobsdottir, Gulum Kosova, Fotios Drenos, Heribert Schunkert, Li-An Lin, Bruce M. Psaty, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jerome I. Rotter, Panos Deloukas, Uwe Völker, Ayush Giri, George J. Papanicolaou, Todd L. Edwards, E. Warwick Daw, André G. Uitterlinden, Eric Boerwinkle, Elias Salfati, Chunyu Liu, Tianxiao Huan, Eric Kim, Daniel Levy, Krystal S Tsosie, Albert V. Smith, Martin G. Larson, Georg Ehret, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Stefan Weiss, Kiang Liu, Omri Gottesman, Wei Zhao, Claude Bouchard, Walter Palmas, Santhi K. Ganesh, Alexander P. Reiner, Kent D. Taylor, Mathias Gorski, Megan L. Grove, Wayne H-H Sheu, Wen-Jane Lee, Jennifer A. Brody, James P. Cook, Jacques E. Rossouw, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Erwin P. Bottinger, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Lisa W. Martin, Jie Yao, Paul L. Auer, Aldi T. Kraja, Kenneth Rice, Marcus Dörr, Hao Mei, Myriam Fornage, Najaf Amin, Lenore J. Launer, Jessica D. Faul, Arend Voorman, Shih-Jen Hwang, Nora Franceschini, Ingrid B. Borecki, Aravinda Chakravarti, Yingchang Lu, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Tamara B. Harris, Audrey Y. Chu, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Xiuqing Guo, David R. Weir, Rainer Rettig, Sekar Kathiresan, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Franco Giulianini, Leslie J. Raffel, Christian Fuchsberger, Daniel I. Chasman, Jeanette M. Stafford, Man Li, I-Te Lee, Henry Völzke, Ruth J. F. Loos, Jennifer A. Smith, Epidemiology, and Internal Medicine
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Blood Pressure/genetics, Genotype, Genome-wide association study, Blood Pressure, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetic variation, Genetics, Missense mutation, Humans, Exome, Polymorphism, Gene, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, ddc:616, Genome, Genome, Human, Genetic Variation, Single Nucleotide, 030104 developmental biology, Blood pressure, Hypertension, Human genome, Hypertension/genetics, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Meta-analyses of association results for blood pressure using exome-centric single-variant and gene-based tests identified 31 new loci in a discovery stage among 146,562 individuals, with follow-up and meta-analysis in 180,726 additional individuals (total n = 327,288). These blood pressure-associated loci are enriched for known variants for cardiometabolic traits. Associations were also observed for the aggregation of rare and low-frequency missense variants in three genes, NPR1, DBH, and PTPMT1. In addition, blood pressure associations at 39 previously reported loci were confirmed. The identified variants implicate biological pathways related to cardiometabolic traits, vascular function, and development. Several new variants are inferred to have roles in transcription or as hubs in protein-protein interaction networks. Genetic risk scores constructed from the identified variants were strongly associated with coronary disease and myocardial infarction. This large collection of blood pressure-associated loci suggests new therapeutic strategies for hypertension, emphasizing a link with cardiometabolic risk.
Published: 2016

34. Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes

Author: Ching-Ti Liu, Michael Boehnke, George Dedoussis, Sophie V. Eastwood, Ruth J. F. Loos, Keng-Hung Lin, Denis Rybin, Fredrik Karpe, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Michael A. Province, Alison D. Murray, Bo Isomaa, Eirini Marouli, Konstantin Strauch, Michael Preuss, Paul M. Ridker, Jette Bork-Jensen, Albert V. Smith, Hugoline G. de Haan, Wayne Huey-Herng Sheu, Barbara Thorand, Wolfgang Rathmann, Lawrence F. Bielak, Peter Kovacs, Marit E. Jørgensen, Jennifer Wessel, Danish Saleheen, Jung-Jin Lee, James B. Meigs, Veikko Salomaa, Alena Stančáková, Tibor V. Varga, Hidetoshi Kitajima, Inês Barroso, Kent D. Taylor, Claudia Langenberg, Yoon Shin Cho, Joanna M. M. Howson, Andrew T. Hattersley, Marie-France Hivert, Markku Laakso, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Bram P. Prins, Matthias B. Schulze, Andrew D. Morris, Susanne Jäger, Francis S. Collins, Kristi Läll, Xu Lin, Anette Varbo, Benjamin Lehne, Girish N. Nadkarni, Jonathan Marchini, Daniel I. Chasman, Michael Stumvoll, Mark O. Goodarzi, Cécile Lecoeur, Philippe M. Frossard, Noël P. Burtt, Frank Kee, Jasmina Kravic, Alain G. Bertoni, Ivan Brandslund, Najaf Amin, Lenore J. Launer, Oluf Pedersen, Johanna Kuusisto, Line Rode, Eleftheria Zeggini, Yingchang Lu, Markus Perola, Helen R. Warren, André G. Uitterlinden, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Torben Hansen, Harald Grallert, Annemari Käräjämäki, Abbas Dehghan, Gina M. Peloso, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Man Li, Shaofeng Huo, Lars Lind, Karen L. Mohlke, Adrienne Tin, Yang Hai, Renée de Mutsert, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Marie Moitry, Sune F. Nielsen, Sara M. Willems, Matthias Wuttke, Weihua Zhang, Young-Jin Kim, Giovanni Malerba, Richard A. Jensen, Loic Yengo, Mickaël Canouil, Kurt Lohman, Robert A. Scott, Tamara B. Harris, Ruifang Li-Gao, Florian Kronenberg, Anke Tönjes, Bok-Ghee Han, Krista Fischer, Thomas Meitinger, James S. Pankow, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Adam S. Butterworth, Jerome I. Rotter, Olov Rolandsson, Xiuqing Guo, Cramer Christensen, Marie Loh, Elizabeth Selvin, Bong-Jo Kim, Audrey Y. Chu, Reedik Mägi, Josée Dupuis, Anna Köttgen, Jean Ferrières, Jin Li, Robert Sladek, Leslie A. Lange, Niels Grarup, Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Cristen J. Willer, Jose C. Florez, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Karina Meidtner, Annette Peters, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Rajiv Chowdhury, Ioanna Ntalla, Emma Ahlqvist, Leif Groop, Nicholas J. Wareham, Kerrin S. Small, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Katharine R. Owen, Giovanni Gambaro, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Kenneth Rice, Erik Ingelsson, Colin N. A. Palmer, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Neil R. Robertson, Dajiang J. Liu, Sebastian Schönherr, Daniel Taliun, Sekar Kathiresan, James G. Wilson, Ping An, Patricia A. Peyser, Matthias Blüher, Frits R. Rosendaal, John C. Chambers, Caroline Hayward, Shoaib Afzal, Fernando Rivadineira, Marielisa Graff, Pranav Yajnik, Vasiliki Mamakou, Juan Fernandez Tajes, Stefan Gustafsson, Heather M. Highland, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Andrew R. Wood, Saima Afaq, Jaspal S. Kooner, Megan L. Grove, Jennifer A. Brody, Andrew P. Morris, James P. Cook, Praveen Surendran, Jennifer Kriebel, Heikki A. Koistinen, Kari Stefansson, Anders Rosengren, Rainer Rauramaa, Satu Männistö, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, N. William Rayner, Blair H. Smith, Erwin P. Bottinger, Ayse Demirkan, Allan Linneberg, Jonathan Marten, Huaixing Li, Sung Soo Kim, Sophie Hackinger, Cristina Bombieri, Lia B. Bang, Jun Liu, Asif Rasheed, Tim D. Spector, Paul W. Franks, Mark I. McCarthy, Heiner Boeing, Anne E. Justice, Vilmundur Gudnason, Sohee Han, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Panos Deloukas, Naveed Sattar, Eric Boerwinkle, Martin Ingelsson, John Danesh, Vassily Trubetskoy, Marco M Ferrario, Marju Orho-Melander, Wei Gan, Philippe Froguel, Symen Ligthart, Susan R. Heckbert, Jie Yao, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Robin Young, Daniel R. Witte, Anubha Mahajan, Peter Almgren, Timothy M. Frayling, Tanya M. Teslovich, Matt Neville, Philippe Amouyel, Wei Zhao, Andres Metspalu, Yao Hu, Olle Melander, Kari Kuulasmaa, Jason Flannick, Torben Jørgensen, Stephen S. Rich, Nicole Soranzo, Bruce M. Psaty, Rohit Varma, Epidemiology, and Internal Medicine
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Inference, Genome-wide association study, Whole Exome Sequencing, 0302 clinical medicine, type 2 diabetes, coding variant associations signals, mechanistic inference, fine mapping, Coding region, Chromosome Mapping/statistics & numerical data, European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics, CONFERS SUSCEPTIBILITY, Exome sequencing, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics, Genetics & Heredity, 0303 health sciences, MAGIC Consortium, Chromosome Mapping, Whole Exome Sequencing/statistics & numerical data, Identification (information), RARE VARIANTS, LOW-FREQUENCY, Female, ExomeBP Consortium, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, Posterior probability, European Continental Ancestry Group, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Context (language use), Computational biology, Biology, GENOTYPE IMPUTATION, Article, White People, GENETIC ARCHITECTURE, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, QUALITY-CONTROL, Exome Sequencing, Genome-Wide Association Study/statistics & numerical data, Journal Article, GIANT Consortium, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, Alleles, Genetic association, 030304 developmental biology, FATTY LIVER-DISEASE, Science & Technology, Genetic Variation, 06 Biological Sciences, Genetic architecture, Minor allele frequency, BODY-MASS INDEX, 030104 developmental biology, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/classification, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Coding (social sciences), Genome-Wide Association Study, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Identification of coding variant associations for complex diseases offers a direct route to biological insight, but is dependent on appropriate inference concerning the causal impact of those variants on disease risk. We aggregated coding variant data for 81,412 type 2 diabetes (T2D) cases and 370,832 controls of diverse ancestry, identifying 40 distinct coding variant association signals (at 38 loci) reaching significance (p−7). Of these, 16 represent novel associations mapping outside known genome-wide association study (GWAS) signals. We make two important observations. First, despite a threefold increase in sample size over previous efforts, only five of the 40 signals are driven by variants with minor allele frequency 1.29. Second, we used GWAS data from 50,160 T2D cases and 465,272 controls of European ancestry to fine-map these associated coding variants in their regional context, with and without additional weighting to account for the global enrichment of complex trait association signals in coding exons. At the 37 signals for which we attempted fine-mapping, we demonstrate convincing support (posterior probability >80% under the “annotation-weighted” model) that coding variants are causal for the association at 16 (including novel signals involving POC5 p.His36Arg, ANKH p.Arg187Gln, WSCD2 p.Thr113Ile, PLCB3 p.Ser778Leu, and PNPLA3 p.Ile148Met). However, at 13 of the 37 loci, the associated coding variants represent “false leads” and naïve analysis could have led to an erroneous inference regarding the effector transcript mediating the signal. Accurate identification of validated targets is dependent on correct specification of the contribution of coding and non-coding mediated mechanisms at associated loci.
Published: 2018

35. Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

Author: Alison Pattie, Ailith Pirie, Francis S. Collins, Charles Kooperberg, Nienke van Leeuwen, Carmel Moore, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Neil R. Robertson, Lisa Bastarache, Allan Linneberg, Peter T. Campbell, Helena Kuivaniemi, Struan F.A. Grant, Sascha Fauser, Sekar Kathiresan, Lars Lind, Erin B. Ware, Olli T. Raitakari, Dawn M. Waterworth, James G. Wilson, Markus Perola, Chris J. Packard, Michelle L. O'Donoghue, Fredrik Karpe, Roel A. Ophoff, Sailaja Vedantam, Artitaya Lophatananon, Uwe Völker, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Hakon Hakonarson, Dajiang J. Liu, Craig E. Pennell, Xueling Sim, Jennifer E. Huffman, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Michiel L. Bots, Ayush Giri, Renée de Mutsert, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Nicholas J. Wareham, Jin Li, Gail P. Jarvik, Evangelos Evangelou, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Patricia B. Munroe, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Lia E. Bang, Ivan Brandslund, Hester M. den Ruijter, Jussi Hernesniemi, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Angela L. Mazul, Jonathan Tyrer, Danish Saleheen, Mark J. Caulfield, John Andrew Pospisilik, Annette Peters, Caroline Hayward, Iris M. Heid, J. Wouter Jukema, Valérie Turcot, Matt Neville, Rudolf Uher, Patricia A. Peyser, Jessica D. Faul, Asif Rasheed, Shuai Wang, John C. Chambers, Jordi Corominas Galbany, Murray H. Brilliant, Yucheng Jia, Torben Hansen, Veikko Salomaa, Mary F. Feitosa, Mathias Gorski, Li-An Lin, George Dedoussis, Honghuang Lin, Ethan M. Lange, Veronique Vitart, Bratati Kahali, Alexander Teumer, Jerome I. Rotter, Wayne H-H Sheu, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Lorraine Southam, Ele Ferrannini, Anette P. Gjesing, Krina T. Zondervan, Stavroula Kanoni, David J. Roberts, Rebecca S. Fine, Svati H. Shah, Tugce Karaderi, Claudia Langenberg, Stefan Johansson, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Alexander P. Reiner, Ching-Ti Liu, Yiqin Wang, Pål R. Njølstad, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, Amanda J. Cox, Tim D. Spector, Paul W. Franks, Anke Tönjes, John D. Rioux, Jeffrey Haessler, Paul L. Auer, Ingrid B. Borecki, Deborah J. Thompson, Weihua Zhang, John R. B. Perry, Paul Elliott, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Myriam Fornage, Ken Sin Lo, Marie Moitry, Paul Mitchell, Martin den Heijer, Zoltán Kutalik, Tune H. Pers, Kari Stefansson, Kari Kuulasmaa, Robert E. Schoen, Mark C.H. De Groot, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Jing Hua Zhao, Beverley Balkau, Peggy L. Peissig, Michael Boehnke, Janie Corley, Katharine R. Owen, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Naveed Sattar, Sita H. Vermeulen, Thomas N. Person, Mark I. McCarthy, Paul I.W. de Bakker, David Lamparter, Poorva Mudgal, Nicholette D. Palmer, Maria Karaleftheri, Jan-Håkan Jansson, Ozren Polasek, Ruth J. F. Loos, Daniel R. Witte, Dermot F. Reilly, Anubha Mahajan, Stella Trompet, James A. Perry, Yingchang Lu, Claudia Schurmann, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Hidetoshi Kitajima, Dale R. Nyholt, John Danesh, Pamela J. Schreiner, Narisu Narisu, Jose C. Florez, Adelheid Lempradl, Gerome Breen, Torben Jørgensen, Anu Loukola, Joe Dennis, Hans-Jörgen Grabe, Vilmundur Gudnason, Timo A. Lakka, Heather M. Highland, Sven Bergmann, Marie-Pierre Dubé, Giovanni Veronesi, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Nele Friedrich, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Pia R. Kamstrup, Nilesh J. Samani, Josh C. Denny, Mika Kähönen, Massimiliano Cocca, Liang Sun, Karina Meidtner, Carsten A. Böger, Sara M. Willems, Marcelo P. Segura-Lepe, Johanna Kuusisto, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Konstantin Strauch, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Jane Gibson, Matti Uusitupa, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Heather M. Stringham, Rohit Varma, Grant W. Montgomery, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Stefania Cappellani, Paul L. Huang, Albert V. Smith, Eric Kim, Anke R. Hammerschlag, Katherine S. Ruth, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Gerard Pasterkamp, Cristen J. Willer, Alisa K. Manning, Frida Renström, René S. Kahn, Lili Milani, Feijie Wang, Tessel E. Galesloot, Fernando Rivadeneira, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Adam S. Butterworth, Tamara B. Harris, Matthew A. Allison, Paul M. Ridker, David J. Carey, Todd L. Edwards, Panos Deloukas, Xiuqing Guo, Lawrence F. Bielak, Leena Moilanen, Heiner Boeing, Peter Kovacs, Karen L. Mohlke, Myriam Rheinberger, Cramer Christensen, Betina H. Thuesen, Mike A. Nalls, Erik Ingelsson, Nicholas G. D. Masca, Colin N. A. Palmer, Audrey E. Hendricks, Linda Broer, Vanisha Mistry, Praveen Surendran, Audrey Y. Chu, Rainer Rauramaa, Angela D'Eustacchio, Helen Griffiths, Satu Männistö, Patrick T. Ellinor, Terho Lehtimäki, Katherine E. Tansey, I. Sadaf Farooqi, Gaëlle Marenne, Anneke I. den Hollander, Jessica van Setten, Hannu Puolijoki, Tinca J. C. Polderman, Timothy M. Frayling, Niels Grarup, Eric Boerwinkle, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Adam E. Locke, Mengmeng Du, Manuel A. Rivas, Philippe Amouyel, Jaakko Kaprio, Leslie A. Lange, Loes M. Olde Loohuis, Trevor A. Mori, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Wei Zhao, Eva Rb Petersen, Huaixing Li, Thomas W. Winkler, Tellervo Korhonen, Kathleen Stirrups, Jean Ferrières, Wei Zhou, Ian J. Deary, Guillaume Lettre, M. Arfan Ikram, Alex W. Hewitt, Marit E. Jørgensen, Ian Ford, Liang He, Mark Walker, Stefan Gustafsson, Andre Franke, Yao Hu, Jaana Lindström, Jonathan P. Bradfield, Anne E. Justice, Kristin L. Young, Sander W. van der Laan, Shuang Feng, Yadav Sapkota, Douglas F. Easton, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Amy J. Swift, Kjell Nikus, Helen R. Warren, Christian Theil Have, Wei Gan, Steven A. Lubitz, Harvey D. White, Pirjo Komulainen, John M. Starr, Jeffrey R. O'Connel, Anette Varbo, Daniel I. Chasman, Ruifang Li-Gao, Lynne E. Wagenknecht, Matthias Blüher, Xiaowei Zhan, Thomas F. Vogt, Eleftheria Zeggini, Tamuno Alfred, Katja K.H. Aben, Lars Wallentin, Joanna M. M. Howson, Jie Yao, Eulalia Catamo, Henrik Vestergaard, Gina M. Peloso, Markku Laakso, Matthias B. Schulze, Hayato Tada, Jennifer Wessel, Andrew R. Wood, Erwin P. Bottinger, Cora E. Lewis, Robin Young, Carol A. Wang, Oddgeir L. Holmen, Andrew J. Slater, Jean-Claude Tardif, Xu Lin, Inês Barroso, Gail Davies, Tibor V. Varga, Andrew J. Lotery, Igor Rudan, Andrew T. Hattersley, Michael Stumvoll, David Ellinghaus, Andrew C. Heath, Frank Kee, Christopher P. Nelson, Donald W. Bowden, Alison M. Dunning, Marianne Benn, Oluf Pedersen, Amber A. Burt, Aniruddh P. Patel, G. Kees Hovingh, David S. Crosslin, Gorm B. Jensen, Keng-Hung Lin, Dewan S. Alam, Jian'an Luan, Ying Wu, Tõnu Esko, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Antonietta Robino, Anne U. Jackson, Eirini Marouli, Robert A. Scott, Jette Bork-Jensen, Olov Rolandsson, Nanette R. Lee, Gerard Tromp, Megan L. Grove, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Sameer E. Al-Harthi, Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Paolo Gasparini, Ellen W. Demerath, Marco Brumat, Maggie C.Y. Ng, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Kari E. North, Rajiv Chowdhury, Mauno Vanhala, Andrew P. Morris, Sarah E. Medland, Sune F. Nielsen, Ilaria Gandin, Øyvind Helgeland, James P. Cook, Kent D. Taylor, Andrew D. Morris, Gudmar Thorleifsson, André G. Uitterlinden, Pang Yao, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Eric B. Larson, Kerrin S. Small, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Dragana Vuckovic, Mariaelisa Graff, Fotios Drenos, Jaspal S. 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D., Manning, Alisa K., Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Mudgal, Poorva, Ng, Maggie C. Y., Reiner, Alex P., Vedantam, Sailaja, Willems, Sara M., Winkler, Thomas W., Abecasis, Gonçalo, Aben, Katja K., Alam, Dewan S., Alharthi, Sameer E., Allison, Matthew, Amouyel, Philippe, Asselbergs, Folkert W., Auer, Paul L., Balkau, Beverley, Bang, Lia E., Barroso, Inê, Bastarache, Lisa, Benn, Marianne, Bergmann, Sven, Bielak, Lawrence F., Blüher, Matthia, Boehnke, Michael, Boeing, Heiner, Boerwinkle, Eric, Böger, Carsten A., Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bots, Michiel L., Bottinger, Erwin P., Bowden, Donald W., Brandslund, Ivan, Breen, Gerome, Brilliant, Murray H., Broer, Linda, Brumat, Marco, Burt, Amber A., Butterworth, Adam S., Campbell, Peter T., Cappellani, Stefania, Carey, David J., Catamo, Eulalia, Caulfield, Mark J., Chambers, John C., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Yii-Der I., Chowdhury, Rajiv, Christensen, Cramer, Chu, Audrey Y., Cocca, Massimiliano, Collins, Francis S., Cook, James P., Corley, Janie, Corominas Galbany, Jordi, Cox, Amanda J., Crosslin, David S., Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, D'Eustacchio, Angela, Danesh, John, Davies, Gail, Bakker, Paul I. W., Groot, Mark C. H., Mutsert, Renée, Deary, Ian J., Dedoussis, George, Demerath, Ellen W., Heijer, Martin, Hollander, Anneke I., Ruijter, Hester M., Dennis, Joe G., Denny, Josh C., Angelantonio, Emanuele, Drenos, Fotio, Du, Mengmeng, Dubé, Marie-Pierre, Dunning, Alison M., Easton, Douglas F., Edwards, Todd L., Ellinghaus, David, Ellinor, Patrick T., Elliott, Paul, Evangelou, Evangelo, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Farooqi, I. Sadaf, Faul, Jessica D., Fauser, Sascha, Feng, Shuang, Ferrannini, Ele, Ferrieres, Jean, Florez, Jose C., Ford, Ian, Fornage, Myriam, Franco, Oscar H., Franke, Andre, Franks, Paul W., Friedrich, Nele, Frikke-Schmidt, Ruth, Galesloot, Tessel E., Gan, Wei, Gandin, Ilaria, Gasparini, Paolo, Gibson, Jane, Giedraitis, Vilmanta, Gjesing, Anette P., Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Gorski, Mathia, Grabe, Hans-Jörgen, Grant, Struan F. A., Grarup, Niel, Griffiths, Helen L., Grove, Megan L., Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haessler, Jeff, Hakonarson, Hakon, Hammerschlag, Anke R., Hansen, Torben, Harris, Kathleen Mullan, Harris, Tamara B., Hattersley, Andrew T., Have, Christian T., Hayward, Caroline, He, Liang, Heard-Costa, Nancy L., Heath, Andrew C., Heid, Iris M., Helgeland, Øyvind, Hernesniemi, Jussi, Hewitt, Alex W., Holmen, Oddgeir L., Hovingh, G. Kee, Howson, Joanna M. M., Hu, Yao, Huang, Paul L., Huffman, Jennifer E., Ikram, M. Arfan, Ingelsson, Erik, Jackson, Anne U., Jansson, Jan-Håkan, Jarvik, Gail P., Jensen, Gorm B., Jia, Yucheng, Johansson, Stefan, Jørgensen, Marit E., Jørgensen, Torben, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kahali, Bratati, Kahn, René S., Kähönen, Mika, Kamstrup, Pia R., Kanoni, Stavroula, Kaprio, Jaakko, Karaleftheri, Maria, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Karpe, Fredrik, Kathiresan, Sekar, Kee, Frank, Kiemeney, Lambertus A., Kim, Eric, Kitajima, Hidetoshi, Komulainen, Pirjo, Kooner, Jaspal S., Kooperberg, Charle, Korhonen, Tellervo, Kovacs, Peter, Kuivaniemi, Helena, Kutalik, Zoltán, Kuulasmaa, Kari, Kuusisto, Johanna, Laakso, Markku, Lakka, Timo A., Lamparter, David, Lange, Ethan M., Lange, Leslie A., Langenberg, Claudia, Larson, Eric B., Lee, Nanette R., Lehtimäki, Terho, Lewis, Cora E., Li, Huaixing, Li, Jin, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lin, Honghuang, Lin, Keng-Hung, Lin, Li-An, Lin, Xu, Lind, Lar, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Ching-Ti, Liu, Dajiang J., Liu, Yongmei, Lo, Ken S., Lophatananon, Artitaya, Lotery, Andrew J., Loukola, Anu, Luan, Jian'An, Lubitz, Steven A., Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Männistö, Satu, Marenne, Gaëlle, Mazul, Angela L., Mccarthy, Mark I., McKean-Cowdin, Roberta, Medland, Sarah E., Meidtner, Karina, Milani, Lili, Mistry, Vanisha, Mitchell, Paul, Mohlke, Karen L., Moilanen, Leena, Moitry, Marie, Montgomery, Grant W., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Moore, Carmel, Mori, Trevor A., Morris, Andrew D., Morris, Andrew P., Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Munroe, Patricia B., Nalls, Mike A., Narisu, Narisu, Nelson, Christopher P., Neville, Matt, Nielsen, Sune F., Nikus, Kjell, Njølstad, Pål R., Nordestgaard, Børge G., Nyholt, Dale R., O'Connel, Jeffrey R., O'Donoghue, Michelle L., Olde Loohuis, Loes M., Ophoff, Roel A., Owen, Katharine R., Packard, Chris J., Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Palmer, Colin N. A., Palmer, Nicholette D., Pasterkamp, Gerard, Patel, Aniruddh P., Pattie, Alison, Pedersen, Oluf, Peissig, Peggy L., Peloso, Gina M., Pennell, Craig E., Perola, Marku, Perry, James A., Perry, John R. B., Pers, Tune H., Person, Thomas N., Peters, Annette, Petersen, Eva R. B., Peyser, Patricia A., Pirie, Ailith, Polasek, Ozren, Polderman, Tinca J., Puolijoki, Hannu, Raitakari, Olli T., Rasheed, Asif, Rauramaa, Rainer, Reilly, Dermot F., Renström, Frida, Rheinberger, Myriam, Ridker, Paul M., Rioux, John D., Rivas, Manuel A., Roberts, David J., Robertson, Neil R., Robino, Antonietta, Rolandsson, Olov, Rudan, Igor, Ruth, Katherine S., Saleheen, Danish, Salomaa, Veikko, Samani, Nilesh J., Sapkota, Yadav, Sattar, Naveed, Schoen, Robert E., Schreiner, Pamela J., Schulze, Matthias B., Scott, Robert A., Segura-Lepe, Marcelo P., Shah, Svati H., Sheu, Wayne H. -H., Sim, Xueling, Slater, Andrew J., Small, Kerrin S., Smith, Albert V., Southam, Lorraine, Spector, Timothy D., Speliotes, Elizabeth K., Starr, John M., Stefansson, Kari, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Stirrups, Kathleen E., Strauch, Konstantin, Stringham, Heather M., Stumvoll, Michael, Sun, Liang, Surendran, Praveen, Swift, Amy J., Tada, Hayato, Tansey, Katherine E., Tardif, Jean-Claude, Taylor, Kent D., Teumer, Alexander, Thompson, Deborah J., Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Thuesen, Betina H., Tönjes, Anke, Tromp, Gerard, Trompet, Stella, Tsafantakis, Emmanouil, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Tybjaerg-Hansen, Anne, Tyrer, Jonathan P., Uher, Rudolf, Uitterlinden, André G., Uusitupa, Matti, Laan, Sander W., Duijn, Cornelia M., Leeuwen, Nienke, Van Setten, Jessica, Vanhala, Mauno, Varbo, Anette, Varga, Tibor V., Varma, Rohit, Velez Edwards, Digna R., Vermeulen, Sita H., Veronesi, Giovanni, Vestergaard, Henrik, Vitart, Veronique, Vogt, Thomas F., Völker, Uwe, Vuckovic, Dragana, Wagenknecht, Lynne E., Walker, Mark, Wallentin, Lar, Wang, Feijie, Wang, Carol A., Wang, Shuai, Wang, Yiqin, Ware, Erin B., Wareham, Nicholas J., Warren, Helen R., Waterworth, Dawn M., Wessel, Jennifer, White, Harvey D., Willer, Cristen J., Wilson, James G., Witte, Daniel R., Wood, Andrew R., Wu, Ying, Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Yao, Jie, Yao, Pang, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Young, Robin, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Zhan, Xiaowei, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Zhao, Wei, Zhou, Wei, Zondervan, Krina T, Rotter, Jerome I., Pospisilik, John A., Rivadeneira, Fernando, Borecki, Ingrid B., Deloukas, Pano, Frayling, Timothy M., Lettre, Guillaume, North, Kari E., Lindgren, Cecilia M., Hirschhorn, Joel N., Loos, Ruth J. F., Internal medicine, AGEM - Endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition, Amsterdam Movement Sciences - Rehabilitation & Development, Amsterdam Movement Sciences - Restoration and Development, APH - Aging & Later Life, Physiology, and VU University medical center
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, ReproGen Consortium, MathematicsofComputing_GENERAL, Genome-wide association study, medicine.disease_cause, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], Body Mass Index, genetics [Obesity], 0302 clinical medicine, Gene Frequency, Glucose homeostasis, Adult, Animals, Drosophila/genetics, Energy Intake/genetics, Energy Metabolism/genetics, Female, Genetic Variation, Humans, Obesity/genetics, Proteins/genetics, Syndrome, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, Genetics & Heredity, Mutation, CHD Exome+ Consortium, body mass index, TheoryofComputation_GENERAL, T2D-Genes Consortium, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, MELANOCORTIN-4 RECEPTOR GENE, DONEPEZIL 23 MG, FRAMESHIFT MUTATION, GLUCOSE-HOMEOSTASIS, HYPOTHALAMIC AMPK, CODING VARIANTS, BLOOD-PRESSURE, RARE, LOCI, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], Drosophila, ExomeBP Consortium, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, INTERVAL Study, Understanding Society Scientific Group, EPIC InterAct Consortium, genetics [Energy Metabolism], Biology, EPIC-CVD Consortium, Frameshift mutation, 03 medical and health sciences, MAGIC Investigators, All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center, Genetic, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, ddc:570, genetics [Drosophila], medicine, Journal Article, Global Lipids Genetic Consortium, Obesity, Gene, Allele frequency, Genetic association, Science & Technology, Proteins, 06 Biological Sciences, genetics [Proteins], Minor allele frequency, 030104 developmental biology, GoT2D Genes Consortium, Energy Intake, Energy Metabolism, genetics [Energy Intake], 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >250 loci for body mass index (BMI), implicating pathways related to neuronal biology. Most GWAS loci represent clusters of common, noncoding variants from which pinpointing causal genes remains challenging. Here we combined data from 718,734 individuals to discover rare and low-frequency (minor allele frequency (MAF) < 5%) coding variants associated with BMI. We identified 14 coding variants in 13 genes, of which 8 variants were in genes (ZBTB7B, ACHE, RAPGEF3, RAB21, ZFHX3, ENTPD6, ZFR2 and ZNF169) newly implicated in human obesity, 2 variants were in genes (MC4R and KSR2) previously observed to be mutated in extreme obesity and 2 variants were in GIPR. The effect sizes of rare variants are ~10 times larger than those of common variants, with the largest effect observed in carriers of an MC4R mutation introducing a stop codon (p.Tyr35Ter, MAF = 0.01%), who weighed ~7 kg more than non-carriers. Pathway analyses based on the variants associated with BMI confirm enrichment of neuronal genes and provide new evidence for adipocyte and energy expenditure biology, widening the potential of genetically supported therapeutic targets in obesity.
Published: 2018

36. Integrating genetic, transcriptional, and biological information provides insights into obesity

Author: Ching-Ti Liu, L. Adrienne Cupples, Audrey Y. Chu, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Caroline S. Fox, Peter J. Munson, Lan Wang, Daniel Levy, Jeremiah Perez, and Roby Joehanes
Subjects: Adult, Male, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Adipose Tissue, White, Medicine (miscellaneous), Adipose tissue, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Genome-wide association study, Computational biology, Biology, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Framingham Heart Study, medicine, Humans, Body Weights and Measures, Gene Regulatory Networks, 030212 general & internal medicine, Longitudinal Studies, Obesity, KEGG, Gene, Genetic association, Nutrition and Dietetics, Gene Expression Profiling, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Female, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Transcriptome, Body mass index, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Objective: Indices of body fat distribution are heritable, but few genetic signals have been reported from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of computed tomography (CT) imaging measurements of body fat distribution. We aimed to identify genes associated with adiposity traits and the key drivers that are central to adipose regulatory networks. Subjects: We analyzed gene transcript expression data in blood from participants in the Framingham Heart Study, a large community-based cohort (n up to 4,303), as well as implemented an integrative analysis of these data and existing biological information. Results: Our association analyses identified unique and common gene expression signatures across several adiposity traits, including body mass index, waist-hip ratio, waist circumference, and CT-measured indices, including volume and quality of visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissues. We identified six enriched KEGG pathways and two co-expression modules for further exploration of adipose regulatory networks. The integrative analysis revealed four gene sets (Apoptosis, p53 signaling pathway, Proteasome, Ubiquitin mediated proteolysis) and two co-expression modules with significant genetic variants and 94 key drivers/genes whose local networks were enriched with adiposity-associated genes, suggesting that these enriched pathways or modules have genetic effects on adiposity. Most identified key driver genes are involved in essential biological processes such as controlling cell cycle, DNA repair and degradation of regulatory proteins and are cancer related. Conclusion: Our integrative analysis of genetic, transcriptional and biological information provides a list of compelling candidates for further follow-up functional studies to uncover the biological mechanisms underlying obesity. These candidates highlight the value of examining CT-derived and central adiposity traits.
Published: 2017

37. Genome-wide association meta-analysis of fish and EPA+DHA consumption in 17 US and European cohorts

Author: Panos Deloukas, Mia-Maria Perälä, Andres Metspalu, Frank J. A. van Rooij, Lyn M. Steffen, Antti Jula, Aarno Palotie, Julius S. Ngwa, Markus Perola, Paul F. Jacques, K. Harald, Denise K. Houston, Johan G. Eriksson, Daniel I. Chasman, Albert Hofman, Veikko Salomaa, Vera Mikkilä, Jorma Viikari, André G. Uitterlinden, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Lu Qi, Kati Kristiansson, George Dedoussis, Olli T. Raitakari, Paul Knekt, Loukianos S. Rallidis, Nike A. Nalls, Marcia C de Oliveira Otto, Dariush Mozaffarian, Luigi Ferrucci, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Jari Lahti, Terho Lehtimäki, Jennifer A. Nettleton, Paul M. Ridker, Dena G. Hernandez, Audrey Y. Chu, Luc Djoussé, David S. Siscovick, Lynda M. Rose, Mary K. Wojczynski, Mary F. Feitosa, Magi Reedik, Hassan S. Dashti, L. Adrienne Cupples, Stefania Bandinelli, Michael Y. Tsai, Toshiko Tanaka, Ingrid B. Borecki, Julie E. Buring, Jerome I. Rotter, Harri Rissanen, Marilyn C. Cornelis, Fischer Krista, Luting Xue, Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jong, Mika Kähönen, Maria Dimitriou, Evelin Mihailov, Ani Manichaikul, Satu Männistö, Stavroula Kanoni, Bruce M. Psaty, Epidemiology, Virology, Internal Medicine, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Medicum, Department of Food and Nutrition, University of Helsinki, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Research Programs Unit, Research Programme of Molecular Medicine, Aarno Palotie / Principal Investigator, Clinicum, Johan Eriksson / Principal Investigator, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Developmental Psychology Research Group, Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, and Koellinger, Philipp D
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Heredity, Physiology, lcsh:Medicine, Genome-wide association study, Cardiovascular, FTO gene, Oral and gastrointestinal, Geographical Locations, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, DIETARY-INTAKE, Medicine and Health Sciences, Public and Occupational Health, 030212 general & internal medicine, lcsh:Science, Cancer, RISK, 2. Zero hunger, Multidisciplinary, Genomics, Middle Aged, Eicosapentaenoic acid, Stroke, Europe, Eicosapentaenoic Acid, Docosahexaenoic acid, Physical Sciences, MACRONUTRIENT INTAKE, Female, Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health, Statistics (Mathematics), Research Article, Adult, Docosahexaenoic Acids, General Science & Technology, Fish Biology, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Population stratification, ta3111, Research and Analysis Methods, White People, EVENTS, 03 medical and health sciences, Fish physiology, Complementary and Integrative Health, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Genetics, Fish Physiology, Animal Physiology, Humans, Statistical Methods, Nutrition, Aged, Prevention, ta1184, Human Genome, lcsh:R, Food Consumption, Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Human Genetics, Heritability, Genome Analysis, Vertebrate Physiology, United States, 030104 developmental biology, Seafood, People and Places, lcsh:Q, 3111 Biomedicine, Physiological Processes, Zoology, Mathematics, OMEGA-3-FATTY-ACIDS, Demography, Meta-Analysis, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Background Regular fish and omega-3 consumption may have several health benefits and are recommended by major dietary guidelines. Yet, their intakes remain remarkably variable both within and across populations, which could partly owe to genetic influences. Objective To identify common genetic variants that influence fish and dietary eicosapentaenoic acid plus docosahexaenoic acid (EPA+DHA) consumption. Design We conducted genome-wide association (GWA) meta-analysis of fish (n = 86,467) and EPA+DHA (n = 62,265) consumption in 17 cohorts of European descent from the CHARGE (Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology) Consortium Nutrition Working Group. Results from cohort-specific GWA analyses (additive model) for fish and EPA+DHA consumption were adjusted for age, sex, energy intake, and population stratification, and meta-analyzed separately using fixed-effect meta-analysis with inverse variance weights (METAL software). Additionally, heritability was estimated in 2 cohorts. Results Heritability estimates for fish and EPA+DHA consumption ranged from 0.13-0.24 and 0.12-0.22, respectively. A significant GWA for fish intake was observed for rs9502823 on chromosome 6: each copy of the minor allele (Freq(A) = 0.015) was associated with 0.029 servings/day (similar to 1 serving/month) lower fish consumption (P = 1.96x10(-8)). No significant association was observed for EPA+DHA, although rs7206790 in the obesity-associated FTO gene was among top hits (P = 8.18x10(-7)). Post-hoc calculations demonstrated 95% statistical power to detect a genetic variant associated with effect size of 0.05% for fish and 0.08% for EPA+DHA. Conclusions These novel findings suggest that non-genetic personal and environmental factors are principal determinants of the remarkable variation in fish consumption, representing modifiable targets for increasing intakes among all individuals. Genes underlying the signal at rs72838923 and mechanisms for the association warrant further investigation.
Published: 2017

38. Dietary fatty acids modulate associations between genetic variants and circulating fatty acids in plasma and erythrocyte membranes: Meta-analysis of nine studies in the CHARGE consortium

Author: Michael Y. Tsai, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Jason H Y Wu, Audrey Y. Chu, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Jennifer A. Nettleton, Hongyu Wu, Caren E. Smith, Edmond K. Kabagambe, Qi Sun, Stefania Bandinelli, Paul M. Ridker, Stephanie E. Chiuve, Weihong Tang, Myriam Fornage, Donna K. Arnett, David S. Siscovick, Barbara McKnight, Lyn M. Steffen, Millennia Foy, Dariush Mozaffarian, Thomas Lumley, Jack L. Follis, Jose M. Ordovas, Jerome I. Rotter, Ani W. Manichakul, Lu Wang, Irena B. King, Stephen S. Rich, Bruce M. Psaty, Daniel I. Chasman, Luc Djoussé, Toshiko Tanaka, Luigi Ferruci, Yiyi Ma, and Frank B. Hu
Subjects: chemistry.chemical_classification, biology, FADS1, Linoleic acid, Fatty acid, chemistry.chemical_compound, Biochemistry, chemistry, Docosahexaenoic acid, biology.protein, Free fatty acid receptor, Docosapentaenoic acid, adipocyte protein 2, Fatty Acid Desaturase 1, Food Science, Biotechnology
Abstract: Scope Tissue concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids may reduce cardiovascular disease risk, and genetic variants are associated with circulating fatty acids concentrations. Whether dietary fatty acids interact with genetic variants to modify circulating omega-3 fatty acids is unclear. We evaluated interactions between genetic variants and fatty acid intakes for circulating alpha-linoleic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid, and docosapentaenoic acid. Methods and results We conducted meta-analyses (N = 11 668) evaluating interactions between dietary fatty acids and genetic variants (rs174538 and rs174548 in FADS1 (fatty acid desaturase 1), rs7435 in AGPAT3 (1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate), rs4985167 in PDXDC1 (pyridoxal-dependent decarboxylase domain-containing 1), rs780094 in GCKR (glucokinase regulatory protein), and rs3734398 in ELOVL2 (fatty acid elongase 2)). Stratification by measurement compartment (plasma versus erthyrocyte) revealed compartment-specific interactions between FADS1 rs174538 and rs174548 and dietary alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid for docosahexaenoic acid and docosapentaenoic acid. Conclusion Our findings reinforce earlier reports that genetically based differences in circulating fatty acids may be partially due to differences in the conversion of fatty acid precursors. Further, fatty acids measurement compartment may modify gene–diet relationships, and considering compartment may improve the detection of gene–fatty acids interactions for circulating fatty acid outcomes.
Published: 2015

39. Genetic loci associated with circulating phospholipid trans fatty acids: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies from the CHARGE Consortium

Author: Luc Djoussé, Howard W. Wiener, Frank B. Hu, Millennia Foy, Paul M. Ridker, Ida Y.D. Chen, Dariush Mozaffarian, Donna K. Arnett, Majken K. Jensen, David S. Siscovick, Jason H Y Wu, Stephen S. Rich, Michael Y. Tsai, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Eric B. Rimm, Bruce M. Psaty, Qi Sun, Daniel I. Chasman, Ani Manichaikul, Lyn M. Steffen, Marguerite R. Irvin, Hongyu Wu, Barbara McKnight, Lu Wang, Catherine O. Johnson, Edmond K. Kabagambe, Irena B. King, Audrey Y. Chu, and Myriam Fornage
Subjects: Genotyping Techniques, FADS1, FADS2, Gene-Nutrient Interactions, Population, Medicine (miscellaneous), Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, chemistry.chemical_compound, Delta-5 Fatty Acid Desaturase, Gene Frequency, Fatty Acids, Omega-6, Humans, education, Genetic Association Studies, Phospholipids, Genetics, education.field_of_study, Arachidonic Acid, Nutrition and Dietetics, Asian, Trans Fatty Acids, Eicosapentaenoic acid, Black or African American, Minor allele frequency, chemistry, Genetic Loci, Docosahexaenoic acid, lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins), Docosapentaenoic acid, Biomarkers
Abstract: Circulating trans fatty acids (TFAs), which cannot be synthesized by humans, are linked to adverse health outcomes. Although TFAs are obtained from diet, little is known about subsequent influences (e.g., relating to incorporation, metabolism, or intercompetition with other fatty acids) that could alter circulating concentrations and possibly modulate or mediate impacts on health.The objective was to elucidate novel biologic pathways that may influence circulating TFAs by evaluating associations between common genetic variation and TFA biomarkers.We performed meta-analyses using 7 cohorts of European-ancestry participants (n = 8013) having measured genome-wide variation in single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and circulating TFA biomarkers (erythrocyte or plasma phospholipids), including trans-16:1n-7, total trans-18:1, trans/cis-18:2, cis/trans-18:2, and trans/trans-18:2. We further evaluated SNPs with genome-wide significant associations among African Americans (n = 1082), Chinese Americans (n = 669), and Hispanic Americans (n = 657) from 2 of these cohorts.Among European-ancestry participants, 31 SNPs in or near the fatty acid desaturase (FADS) 1 and 2 cluster were associated with cis/trans-18:2; a top hit was rs174548 (β = 0.0035, P = 4.90 × 10(-15)), an SNP previously associated with circulating n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid concentrations. No significant association was identified for other TFAs. rs174548 in FADS1/2 was also associated with cis/trans-18:2 in Hispanic Americans (β = 0.0053, P = 1.05 × 10(-6)) and Chinese Americans (β = 0.0028, P = 0.002) but not African Americans (β = 0.0009, P = 0.34); however, in African Americans, fine mapping identified a top hit in FADS2 associated with cis/trans-18:2 (rs174579: β = 0.0118, P = 4.05 × 10(-5)). The association between rs174548 and cis/trans-18:2 remained significant after further adjustment for individual circulating n-3 and n-6 fatty acids, except arachidonic acid. After adjustment for arachidonic acid concentrations, the association between rs174548 and cis/trans-18:2 was nearly eliminated in European-ancestry participants (β-coefficient reduced by 86%), with similar reductions in Hispanic Americans and Chinese Americans.Our findings provide novel evidence for genetic regulation of cis/trans-18:2 by the FADS1/2 cluster and suggest that this regulation may be influenced/mediated by concentrations of arachidonic acid, an n-6 polyunsaturated fat.
Published: 2015

40. Genetic loci associated with circulating levels of very long-chain saturated fatty acids

Author: Jason H Y Wu, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Michael Y. Tsai, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Millennia Foy, Eric B. Rimm, Barbara McKnight, Luc Djoussé, Hongyu Wu, Lu-Chen Weng, Audrey Y. Chu, David R. Jacobs, Paul M. Ridker, Frank B. Hu, Edmond K. Kabagambe, Ani Manichaikul, Weihua Guan, Daniel I. Chasman, Yechiel Friedlander, Donna K. Arnett, Lyn M. Steffen, Jingwen Zhu, David S. Siscovick, Dariush Mozaffarian, Qi Sun, Weihong Tang, Myriam Fornage, Stephen S. Rich, Bruce M. Psaty, Irena B. King, Lu Wang, and Majken K. Jensen
Subjects: Population, Phospholipid, Lignoceric acid, QD415-436, Biology, Biochemistry, Cohort Studies, Palmitic acid, chemistry.chemical_compound, Endocrinology, Genetic variation, Humans, arachidic acid, education, Ceramide synthase, education.field_of_study, sphingolipids, Fatty Acids, Genetic Variation, behenic acid, Cell Biology, Sphingolipid, chemistry, Genetic Loci, Behenic acid, Patient-Oriented and Epidemiological Research, Genome-Wide Association Study, lignoceric acid
Abstract: Very long-chain saturated fatty acids (VLSFAs) are saturated fatty acids with 20 or more carbons. In contrast to the more abundant saturated fatty acids, such as palmitic acid, there is growing evidence that circulating VLSFAs may have beneficial biological properties. Whether genetic factors influence circulating levels of VLSFAs is not known. We investigated the association of common genetic variation with plasma phospholipid/erythrocyte levels of three VLSFAs by performing genome-wide association studies in seven population-based cohorts comprising 10,129 subjects of European ancestry. We observed associations of circulating VLSFA concentrations with common variants in two genes, serine palmitoyl-transferase long-chain base subunit 3 (SPTLC3), a gene involved in the rate-limiting step of de novo sphingolipid synthesis, and ceramide synthase 4 (CERS4). The SPTLC3 variant at rs680379 was associated with higher arachidic acid (20:0 , P = 5.81 × 10(-13)). The CERS4 variant at rs2100944 was associated with higher levels of 20:0 (P = 2.65 × 10(-40)) and in analyses that adjusted for 20:0, with lower levels of behenic acid (P = 4.22 × 10(-26)) and lignoceric acid (P = 3.20 × 10(-21)). These novel associations suggest an inter-relationship of circulating VLSFAs and sphingolipid synthesis.
Published: 2015

41. Dairy Consumption and Body Mass Index Among Adults: Mendelian Randomization Analysis of 184802 Individuals from 25 Studies

Author: Jorma Viikari, Caren E. Smith, Jose M. Ordovas, Allan Linneberg, Yoriko Heianza, Dariush Mozaffarian, Olli T. Raitakari, Chao-Qiang Lai, Paul M. Ridker, Frida Renström, Marju Orho-Melander, Christina-Alexandra Schulz, Lynda M. Rose, Mary F. Feitosa, Audrey Y. Chu, Ulrika Ericson, Paul W. Franks, Tuomas O. Kilpelainen, Ulla Toft, Craig E. Pennell, Kim Overvad, Anette Varbo, Daniel I. Chasman, M. Carola Zillikens, Lu Qi, Dena G. Hernandez, Luigi Ferrucci, Toshiko Tanaka, Frank B. Hu, David S. Siscovick, Dian-jianyi Sun, Stella Aslibekyan, José V. Sorlí, Frank J. A. van Rooij, Alexis C. Frazier-Wood, Donna K. Arnett, Oscar Coltell, Inês Barroso, Tiange Wang, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Fredric Fumeron, Vera Mikkilä, Christina Ellervik, Tao Huang, Helle K. M. Bergholdt, Ingegerd Johansson, Stefania Bandinelli, Oluf Pedersen, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Yujie Wang, Anne Tjønneland, Michael A. Province, Katherine L. Tucker, Albert Hofman, Camilla H. Sandholt, Ming Ding, Walter C. Willett, Oscar H. Franco, Trudy Voortman, Jerome I. Rotter, Mariaelisa Graff, M. Ester A. L. de Jonge, Peter R. Eastwood, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, André G. Uitterlinden, Mary K. Wojczynski, Kari E. North, Carol A. Wang, Terho Lehtimäki, Dolores Corella, Emily Sonestedt, Stephen S. Rich, Bruce M. Psaty, Tzu-An Chen, Torben Hansen, Mika Kähönen, Mathew Allison, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Department of Food and Nutrition, and University of Helsinki
Subjects: Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Milk intake, Genotype, Clinical Biochemistry, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Body Mass Index, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Environmental health, Epidemiology, Journal Article, medicine, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Humans, HETEROGENEITY, 030212 general & internal medicine, Prospective Studies, Dietary calcium, METAANALYSIS, RISK, 2. Zero hunger, Consumption (economics), Polymorphism, Genetic, DIETARY CALCIUM, business.industry, Biochemistry (medical), Body Weight, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, ASSOCIATION, ta3121, medicine.disease, MILK INTAKE, Obesity, CONTROLLED-TRIALS, WEIGHT-GAIN, Cross-Sectional Studies, OBESITY, Dairy Products, 3143 Nutrition, medicine.symptom, business, Weight gain, Body mass index
Abstract: BACKGROUND Associations between dairy intake and body mass index (BMI) have been inconsistently observed in epidemiological studies, and the causal relationship remains ill defined. METHODS We performed Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis using an established dairy intake-associated genetic polymorphism located upstream of the lactase gene (LCT-13910 C/T, rs4988235) as an instrumental variable (IV). Linear regression models were fitted to analyze associations between (a) dairy intake and BMI, (b) rs4988235 and dairy intake, and (c) rs4988235 and BMI in each study. The causal effect of dairy intake on BMI was quantified by IV estimators among 184802 participants from 25 studies. RESULTS Higher dairy intake was associated with higher BMI (β = 0.03 kg/m2 per serving/day; 95% CI, 0.00–0.06; P = 0.04), whereas the LCT genotype with 1 or 2 T allele was significantly associated with 0.20 (95% CI, 0.14–0.25) serving/day higher dairy intake (P = 3.15 × 10−12) and 0.12 (95% CI, 0.06–0.17) kg/m2 higher BMI (P = 2.11 × 10−5). MR analysis showed that the genetically determined higher dairy intake was significantly associated with higher BMI (β = 0.60 kg/m2 per serving/day; 95% CI, 0.27–0.92; P = 3.0 × 10−4). CONCLUSIONS The present study provides strong evidence to support a causal effect of higher dairy intake on increased BMI among adults.
Published: 2017

42. FTO genetic variants, dietary intake and body mass index: insights from 177 330 individuals

Author: Frida Renström, Audrey Y. Chu, Ruth J. F. Loos, Torben Hansen, George Dedoussis, Toshiko Tanaka, W M Monique Verschuren, Denise K. Houston, Albert Hofman, Frank J. A. van Rooij, David J. Hunter, Yu Mi Kim, Ingrid B. Borecki, Majken K. Jensen, M. Carola Zillikens, Lars H. Ängquist, Marju Orho-Melander, David S. Siscovick, Stavroula Kanoni, Denise H. M. Heppe, Panos Deloukas, Dariush Mozaffarian, Nanette R. Lee, Paul M. Ridker, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Nita G. Forouhi, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Vera Mikkilä, Caren E. Smith, Kurt Lohman, Julius S. Ngwa, Yanping Li, Qibin Qi, Kay-Tee Khaw, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Claude Bouchard, Lu Qi, Jacqueline C.M. Witteman, Maarit A. Laaksonen, Muhammad Asif Ali, Robert Luben, Lene Christiansen, Johan G. Eriksson, Yechiel Friedlander, Peter Vollenweider, Shigeru Karasawa, Emily Sonestedt, Louis R. Pasquale, Peng Chen, Jirong Long, Cyrus Cooper, Harri Rissanen, Mi Kyung Kim, Ani Manichaikul, Kari E. North, Yu-Tang Gao, Wanqing Wen, Xu Lin, Terho Lehtimäki, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Matti Uusitupa, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Zhonghua Liu, Tao Wang, Nicholas J. Wareham, Ingegerd Johansson, Olli T. Raitakari, John W. Holloway, Oluf Pedersen, Mary K. Wojczynski, L. Adrienne Cupples, Daniel I. Chasman, Huaixing Li, Torben Jørgensen, Satu Männistö, Jingwen Zhu, Tuomo Rankinen, Wei Zheng, Karen L. Mohlke, Jae H. Kang, Frank B. Hu, Louis Pérusse, Gary C. Curhan, Tiina Jääskeläinen, Xiaochen Lin, Keri L. Monda, Kati Kristiansson, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Ivonne Sluijs, Makoto Daimon, Xiao-Ou Shu, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, M. Perola, Min Xu, Paul W. Franks, Ulla Toft, E. Shyong Tai, Mary K. Downer, Jolanda M. A. Boer, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, André G. Uitterlinden, Luigi Ferrucci, Jennifer A. Nettleton, Wei Lu, Liming Liang, Yong-Bing Xiang, Jinyan Huang, Qiuyin Cai, Erasmus MC other, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, and Cardiology
Subjects: Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO, Biology, FTO gene, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, Body Mass Index, Asian People, Gene Frequency, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, Genetics, medicine, Genetic predisposition, Dietary Carbohydrates, Humans, Obesity, Allele, Molecular Biology, Allele frequency, Genetics (clinical), Alleles, Aged, ta1184, Association Studies Articles, Proteins, nutritional and metabolic diseases, General Medicine, ta3121, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Dietary Fats, Minor allele frequency, Black or African American, Endocrinology, Female, Dietary Proteins, Energy Intake, Body mass index
Abstract: FTO is the strongest known genetic susceptibility locus for obesity. Experimental studies in animals suggest the potential roles of FTO in regulating food intake. The interactive relation among FTO variants, dietary intake and body mass index (BMI) is complex and results from previous often small-scale studies in humans are highly inconsistent. We performed large-scale analyses based on data from 177 330 adults (154 439 Whites, 5776 African Americans and 17 115 Asians) from 40 studies to examine: (i) the association between the FTO-rs9939609 variant (or a proxy single-nucleotide polymorphism) and total energy and macronutrient intake and (ii) the interaction between the FTO variant and dietary intake on BMI. The minor allele (A-allele) of the FTO-rs9939609 variant was associated with higher BMI in Whites (effect per allele = 0.34 [0.31, 0.37] kg/m2, P = 1.9 × 10-105), and all participants (0.30 [0.30, 0.35] kg/m2, P = 3.6 × 10-107). The BMI-increasing allele of the FTO variant showed a significant association with higher dietary protein intake (effect per allele = 0.08 [0.06, 0.10] %, P = 2.4 × 10-16), and relative weak associations with lower total energy intake (-6.4 [-10.1, -2.6] kcal/day, P = 0.001) and lower dietary carbohydrate intake (-0.07 [-0.11, -0.02] %, P = 0.004). The associations with protein (P = 7.5 × 10-9) and total energy (P = 0.002) were attenuated but remained significant after adjustment for BMI. We did not find significant interactions between the FTO variant and dietary intake of total energy, protein, carbohydrate or fat on BMI. Our findings suggest a positive association between the BMI-increasing allele of FTO variant and higher dietary protein intake and offer insight into potential link between FTO, dietary protein intake and adiposity FTO is the strongest known genetic susceptibility locus for obesity. Experimental studies in animals suggest the potential roles of FTO in regulating food intake. The interactive relation among FTO variants, dietary intake and body mass index (BMI) is complex and results from previous often small-scale studies in humans are highly inconsistent. We performed large-scale analyses based on data from 177,330 adults (154 439 Whites, 5776 African Americans and 17 115 Asians) from 40 studies to examine: (i) the association between the FTO-rs9939609 variant (or a proxy single-nucleotide polymorphism) and total energy and macronutrient intake and (ii) the interaction between the FTO variant and dietary intake on BMI. The minor allele (A-allele) of the FTO-rs9939609 variant was associated with higher BMI in Whites (effect per allele = 0.34 [0.31, 0.37] kg/m(2), P = 1.9 × 10(-105)), and all participants (0.30 [0.30, 0.35] kg/m(2), P = 3.6 × 10(-107)). The BMI-increasing allele of the FTO variant showed a significant association with higher dietary protein intake (effect per allele = 0.08 [0.06, 0.10] %, P = 2.4 × 10(-16)), and relative weak associations with lower total energy intake (-6.4 [-10.1, -2.6] kcal/day, P = 0.001) and lower dietary carbohydrate intake (-0.07 [-0.11, -0.02] %, P = 0.004). The associations with protein (P = 7.5 × 10(-9)) and total energy (P = 0.002) were attenuated but remained significant after adjustment for BMI. We did not find significant interactions between the FTO variant and dietary intake of total energy, protein, carbohydrate or fat on BMI. Our findings suggest a positive association between the BMI-increasing allele of FTO variant and higher dietary protein intake and offer insight into potential link between FTO, dietary protein intake and adiposity.
Published: 2017

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

Author: Mariaelisa Graff, Robert A Scott, Anne E Justice, Kristin L Young, Mary F Feitosa, Llilda Barata, Thomas W Winkler, Audrey Y Chu, Anubha Mahajan, David Hadley, Luting Xue, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Marcel den Hoed, Tarunveer S Ahluwalia, Qibin Qi, Julius S Ngwa, Frida Renström, Lydia Quaye, John D Eicher, James E Hayes, Marilyn Cornelis, Zoltan Kutalik, Elise Lim, Jian'an Luan, Jennifer E Huffman, Weihua Zhang, Wei Zhao, Paula J Griffin, Toomas Haller, Shafqat Ahmad, Pedro M Marques-Vidal, Stephanie Bien, Loic Yengo, Alexander Teumer, Albert Vernon Smith, Meena Kumari, Marie Neergaard Harder, Johanne Marie Justesen, Marcus E Kleber, Mette Hollensted, Kurt Lohman, Natalia V Rivera, John B Whitfield, Jing Hua Zhao, Heather M Stringham, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Charlotte Huppertz, Gonneke Willemsen, Wouter J Peyrot, Ying Wu, Kati Kristiansson, Ayse Demirkan, Myriam Fornage, Maija Hassinen, Lawrence F Bielak, Gemma Cadby, Toshiko Tanaka, Reedik Mägi, Peter J van der Most, Anne U Jackson, Jennifer L Bragg-Gresham, Veronique Vitart, Jonathan Marten, Pau Navarro, Claire Bellis, Dorota Pasko, Åsa Johansson, Søren Snitker, Yu-Ching Cheng, Joel Eriksson, Unhee Lim, Mette Aadahl, Linda S Adair, Najaf Amin, Beverley Balkau, Juha Auvinen, John Beilby, Richard N Bergman, Sven Bergmann, Alain G Bertoni, John Blangero, Amélie Bonnefond, Lori L Bonnycastle, Judith B Borja, Søren Brage, Fabio Busonero, Steve Buyske, Harry Campbell, Peter S Chines, Francis S Collins, Tanguy Corre, George Davey Smith, Graciela E Delgado, Nicole Dueker, Marcus Dörr, Tapani Ebeling, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Tõnu Esko, Jessica D Faul, Mao Fu, Kristine Færch, Christian Gieger, Sven Gläser, Jian Gong, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Harald Grallert, Tanja B Grammer, Niels Grarup, Gerard van Grootheest, Kennet Harald, Nicholas D Hastie, Aki S Havulinna, Dena Hernandez, Lucia Hindorff, Lynne J Hocking, Oddgeir L Holmens, Christina Holzapfel, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Jie Huang, Tao Huang, Jennie Hui, Cornelia Huth, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Alan L James, John-Olov Jansson, Min A Jhun, Markus Juonala, Leena Kinnunen, Heikki A Koistinen, Ivana Kolcic, Pirjo Komulainen, Johanna Kuusisto, Kirsti Kvaløy, Mika Kähönen, Timo A Lakka, Lenore J Launer, Benjamin Lehne, Cecilia M Lindgren, Mattias Lorentzon, Robert Luben, Michel Marre, Yuri Milaneschi, Keri L Monda, Grant W Montgomery, Marleen H M De Moor, Antonella Mulas, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, A W Musk, Reija Männikkö, Satu Männistö, Narisu Narisu, Matthias Nauck, Jennifer A Nettleton, Ilja M Nolte, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Matthias Olden, Ken K Ong, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Lavinia Paternoster, Jeremiah Perez, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ulrike Peters, Patricia A Peyser, Inga Prokopenko, Hannu Puolijoki, Olli T Raitakari, Tuomo Rankinen, Laura J Rasmussen-Torvik, Rajesh Rawal, Paul M Ridker, Lynda M Rose, Igor Rudan, Cinzia Sarti, Mark A Sarzynski, Kai Savonen, William R Scott, Serena Sanna, Alan R Shuldiner, Steve Sidney, Günther Silbernagel, Blair H Smith, Jennifer A Smith, Harold Snieder, Alena Stančáková, Barbara Sternfeld, Amy J Swift, Tuija Tammelin, Sian-Tsung Tan, Barbara Thorand, Dorothée Thuillier, Liesbeth Vandenput, Henrik Vestergaard, Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Marie-Claude Vohl, Uwe Völker, Gérard Waeber, Mark Walker, Sarah Wild, Andrew Wong, Alan F Wright, M Carola Zillikens, Niha Zubair, Christopher A Haiman, Loic Lemarchand, Ulf Gyllensten, Claes Ohlsson, Albert Hofman, Fernando Rivadeneira, André G Uitterlinden, Louis Pérusse, James F Wilson, Caroline Hayward, Ozren Polasek, Francesco Cucca, Kristian Hveem, Catharina A Hartman, Anke Tönjes, Stefania Bandinelli, Lyle J Palmer, Sharon L R Kardia, Rainer Rauramaa, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Veikko Salomaa, Brenda W J H Penninx, Eco J C de Geus, Dorret I Boomsma, Terho Lehtimäki, Massimo Mangino, Markku Laakso, Claude Bouchard, Nicholas G Martin, Diana Kuh, Yongmei Liu, Allan Linneberg, Winfried März, Konstantin Strauch, Mika Kivimäki, Tamara B Harris, Vilmundur Gudnason, Henry Völzke, Lu Qi, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, John C Chambers, Jaspal S Kooner, Philippe Froguel, Charles Kooperberg, Peter Vollenweider, Göran Hallmans, Torben Hansen, Oluf Pedersen, Andres Metspalu, Nicholas J Wareham, Claudia Langenberg, David R Weir, David J Porteous, Eric Boerwinkle, Daniel I Chasman, CHARGE Consortium, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, PAGE Consortium, Gonçalo R Abecasis, Inês Barroso, Mark I McCarthy, Timothy M Frayling, Jeffrey R O'Connell, Cornelia M van Duijn, Michael Boehnke, Iris M Heid, Karen L Mohlke, David P Strachan, Caroline S Fox, Ching-Ti Liu, Joel N Hirschhorn, Robert J Klein, Andrew D Johnson, Ingrid B Borecki, Paul W Franks, Kari E North, L Adrienne Cupples, Ruth J F Loos, Tuomas O Kilpeläinen, Molecular Genetics, Epidemiology, Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC other, Internal Medicine, Erasmus School of Economics, and Department of Finance
Subjects: Epigenomics, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Cancer Research, Published Erratum, lcsh:QH426-470, Genotype, Physical activity, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO, Computational biology, Biology, Genome, Body Mass Index, PAGE Consortium, 03 medical and health sciences, Text mining, Genetics, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Obesity, Exercise, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Adiposity, 0604 Genetics, Waist-Hip Ratio, business.industry, Correction, lcsh:Genetics, 030104 developmental biology, Meta-analysis, CHARGE Consortium, Female, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, Waist Circumference, business, Developmental Biology, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference and waist-hip ratio from up to 200,452 adults of European (n = 180,423) or other ancestry (n = 20,029). We standardized PA by categorizing it into a dichotomous variable where, on average, 23% of participants were categorized as inactive and 77% as physically active. While we replicate the interaction with PA for the strongest known obesity-risk locus in the FTO gene, of which the effect is attenuated by ~30% in physically active individuals compared to inactive individuals, we do not identify additional loci that are sensitive to PA. In additional genome-wide meta-analyses adjusting for PA and interaction with PA, we identify 11 novel adiposity loci, suggesting that accounting for PA or other environmental factors that contribute to variation in adiposity may facilitate gene discovery.
Published: 2017

44. Atherogenic Lipoprotein Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease and Residual Risk Among Individuals With Low Low‐Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol

Author: Daniel I. Chasman, Patrick R. Lawler, Akintunde O. Akinkuolie, Svati H. Shah, Robert J. Glynn, Audrey Y. Chu, Paul M. Ridker, Latha Padmanabhan, Samia Mora, William E. Kraus, and Damian M. Craig
Subjects: Male, Very low-density lipoprotein, Time Factors, Apolipoprotein B, Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Cholesterol, VLDL, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, prevention, Risk Factors, Cardiovascular Disease, JUPITER trial, Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 030212 general & internal medicine, Rosuvastatin Calcium, Original Research, education.field_of_study, Lipids and Cholesterol, biology, Incidence, lipids and lipoproteins, Middle Aged, Prognosis, metabolomics, 3. Good health, Primary Prevention, Female, lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, medicine.drug, medicine.medical_specialty, Population, Down-Regulation, Risk Assessment, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Rosuvastatin, education, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Aged, Dyslipidemias, Proportional Hazards Models, business.industry, Cholesterol, Cholesterol, LDL, Atherosclerosis, Residual risk, Endocrinology, chemistry, biology.protein, Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors, business, Biomarkers, Lipoprotein
Abstract: Background Levels of LDL (low‐density lipoprotein) cholesterol in the population are declining, and increasing attention is being focused on residual lipid‐related pathways of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk beyond LDL cholesterol. Among individuals with low (LDL cholesterol, we undertook detailed profiling of circulating atherogenic lipoproteins in relation to incident cardiovascular disease in 2 populations. Methods and Results We performed proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to quantify concentrations of LDL and VLDL (very low‐density lipoprotein) particle subclasses in 11 984 JUPITER trial participants ( NCT 00239681). Adjusted Cox models examined cardiovascular disease risk associated with lipoprotein measures according to treatment allocation. Risk (adjusted hazard ratio [95% CI ] per SD increment) among placebo‐allocated participants was associated with total LDL particles (1.19 [1.02, 1.38]) and total VLDL particles (1.21 [1.04, 1.41]), as well as apolipoprotein B, non–high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides, but not LDL‐c. Rosuvastatin reduced LDL measures but had variable effects on triglyceride and VLDL measures. On‐statin levels of the smallest VLDL particle subclass were associated with a 68% per‐ SD (adjusted hazard ratio 1.68 [1.28, 2.22]) increase in residual risk—this risk was related to VLDL cholesterol and not triglyceride or larger VLDL particles. There was evidence that residual risk prediction during statin therapy could be significantly improved through the inclusion of key VLDL measures (Harrell C‐index 0.780 versus 0.712; P CATHGEN ), similar patterns of lipoprotein‐related risk were observed. Conclusions Atherogenic lipoprotein particle concentrations were associated with cardiovascular disease risk when LDL cholesterol was low. VLDL lipoproteins, particularly the smallest remnant subclass, may represent unused targets for risk prediction and potential therapeutic intervention for reducing residual risk. Clinical Trial Registration URL : http://www.clinicaltrials.gov . Unique identifier: NCT 00239681.
Published: 2017

45. Correction: Corrigendum: 1000 Genomes-based meta-analysis identifies 10 novel loci for kidney function

Author: Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Tõnu Esko, Antonietta Robino, Ingrid B. Borecki, Dragana Vuckovic, Zoltán Kutalik, Douglas M. Ruderfer, Daniel I. Chasman, Daniel Taliun, Henry Völzke, Daniela Ruggiero, Kurt Lohman, Adrienne Tin, Jorma Viikari, Qiong Yang, Martin H. de Borst, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Giorgia Girotto, Vladan Mijatovic, Nicole Probst-Hensch, John Attia, Adamo Pio d. Adamo, Peter P. Pramstaller, Iris M. Heid, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Jingzhong Ding, Caroline S. Fox, Edith Hofer, Man Li, Josef Coresh, Frank B. Hu, Abbas Dehghan, Christian Fuchsberger, Albert Hofman, Evelin Mihailov, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Gerjan Navis, Yingchang Lu, Christian Gieger, Murielle Bochud, Lenore J. Launer, Jean-Charles Lambert, Vilmundur Gudnason, Eric Boerwinkle, Paul M. Ridker, Peter Vollenweider, Anna Köttgen, Tamara B. Harris, Ilja M. Nolte, Medea Imboden, Mary F. Feitosa, Ruth J. F. Loos, Simon Höllerer, Massimiliano Cocca, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Audrey Y. Chu, Karlhans Endlich, Thomas Meitinger, Sylvia Stracke, Cornelia Huth, Reiner Biffar, Cristian Pattaro, Jie Jin Wang, Omri Gottesman, Morris A. Swertz, Shih-Jen Hwang, Marie Metzger, Albert V. Smith, Ming-Huei Chen, Yong Li, Christa Meisinger, Bernhard K. Krämer, Laura Dengler, Daniela Toniolo, Olli T. Raitakari, Rossella Sorice, Bénédicte Stengel, Åsa Johansson, Andres Metspalu, Gerard Tromp, Cinzia Sala, Konstantin Strauch, Stefan Enroth, Helena Schmidt, Sylvia E. Rosas, Vincent Chouraki, Alexander Teumer, Ulf Gyllensten, Mathias Gorski, Giorgio Pistis, Holly Kramer, Gary C. Curhan, Peter J. van der Most, Catherine Helmer, Bamidele O. Tayo, Matthias Olden, Mark McEvoy, André G. Uitterlinden, Rainer Rettig, Rodney J. Scott, Mika Kähönen, Wolfgang König, Georg Homuth, Paolo Gasparini, Sanaz Sedaghat, Matthias Nauck, Carsten A. Böger, Sheila Ulivi, Reinhold E. Schmidt, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Paul Mitchell, Thor Aspelund, Felicia Gomez, Fernando Rivadeneira, Marilyn C. Cornelis, Yasaman Saba, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Ashok Kumar, Erwin P. Bottinger, Marina Ciullo, Terho Lehtimäki, Harold Snieder, Melanie Waldenberger, Uwe Völker, and Stephen Hancock
Subjects: Genetics, Multidisciplinary, Meta-analysis, Published Erratum, MEDLINE, Genome-wide association study, Computational biology, 1000 Genomes Project, Biology, Typographical error, Spelling
Abstract: Scientific Reports 7: Article number: 45040; published online: 28 April 2017; updated: 26 May 2017 The original version of this Article contained a typographical error in the spelling of the author Martin H. de Borst, which was incorrectly given as Martin de Borst. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.
Published: 2017

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

Author: Amélie Bonnefond, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Julius S. Ngwa, Jennifer E. Huffman, Tanja B. Grammer, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Lu Qi, Nicholas G. Martin, Massimo Mangino, Henrik Vestergaard, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Reedik Mägi, Natalia V. Rivera, Charles Kooperberg, Alain G. Bertoni, Sarah H. Wild, Robert Luben, Veikko Salomaa, Claude Bouchard, Lynda M. Rose, Patricia A. Peyser, Graciela E. Delgado, Jessica D. Faul, Tuija Tammelin, John C. Chambers, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Kari E. North, David J. Porteous, Peter Vollenweider, Kennet Harald, Claire Bellis, Serena Sanna, Nicholas D. Hastie, Robert J. Klein, Marie-Claude Vohl, Ruth J. F. Loos, Jian Gong, Igor Rudan, Unhee Lim, Christopher A. Haiman, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Konstantin Strauch, Mark A. Sarzynski, Albert V. Smith, Mark Walker, Tapani Ebeling, Göran Hallmans, Nicole Dueker, Caroline S. Fox, Sven Bergmann, Keri L. Monda, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, André G. Uitterlinden, Johanne Marie Justesen, Aki S. Havulinna, Torben Hansen, Ivana Kolcic, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Marcel den Hoed, Richard N. Bergman, Mariaelisa Graff, Alan R. Shuldiner, Dorota Pasko, James F. Wilson, John Whitfield, Joel Eriksson, Jaspal S. Kooner, Mette Hollensted, Winfried März, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Weihua Zhang, Harold Snieder, Rajesh Rawal, Tao Huang, Åsa Johansson, Lydia Quaye, Ying Wu, Benjamin Lehne, Matthias Nauck, Caroline Hayward, Linda S. Adair, Michel Marre, Tanguy Corre, Alan James, Frida Renström, Jian'an Luan, Zoltán Kutalik, Kurt Lohman, Jennifer A. Smith, Mao Fu, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Tamara B. Harris, Claudia Langenberg, Tõnu Esko, Mattias Lorentzon, Ken K. Ong, Blair H. Smith, Fabio Busonero, Alan F. Wright, Gemma Cadby, Andrew D. Johnson, Steve Buyske, Anubha Mahajan, Antonella Mulas, Gérard Waeber, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Daniel I. Chasman, Jennie Hui, Audrey Y. Chu, Uwe Völker, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Jing Hua Zhao, Robert A. Scott, Ilja M. Nolte, Loic LeMarchand, Yu-Ching Cheng, David P. Strachan, Jie Huang, Gerard van Grootheest, John D. Eicher, Marcus E. Kleber, Francis S. Collins, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Timothy M. Frayling, Pau Navarro, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Cinzia Sarti, Paul M. Ridker, John-Olov Jansson, Shafqat Ahmad, Philippe Froguel, Albert Hofman, Inga Prokopenko, Vilmundur Gudnason, Anne U. Jackson, David R. Weir, Lyle J. Palmer, Alexander Teumer, Ulf Gyllensten, Mette Aadahl, Niels Grarup, Beverley Balkau, Oluf Pedersen, Cornelia Huth, Dorret I. Boomsma, Harry Campbell, Charlotte Huppertz, Ingrid B. Borecki, Juha Auvinen, Soren Snitker, Yuri Milaneschi, Iris M. Heid, Barbara Thorand, Wouter J. Peyrot, Lavinia Paternoster, Sian-Tsung Tan, Anne E. Justice, Dena G. Hernandez, Marcus Dörr, Nicholas J. Wareham, Marilyn C. Cornelis, Claes Ohlsson, Amy J. Swift, Ozren Polasek, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, James E. Hayes, Stephanie A. Bien, Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Eric Boerwinkle, Louis Pérusse, Peter J. van der Most, Ulrike Peters, Pirjo Komulainen, Lynne J. Hocking, Catharina A. Hartman, William R. Scott, Jeffrey R. O'Connell, Stefania Bandinelli, Tuomo Rankinen, Timo A. Lakka, Leena Kinnunen, Markus Perola, John Blangero, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Veronique Vitart, Mika Kähönen, Marie Neergaard Harder, Diana Kuh, Kai Savonen, Kristin L. Young, Jeremiah Perez, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, George Davey Smith, Toshiko Tanaka, Barbara Sternfeld, Jennifer A. Nettleton, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Christian Gieger, Gonneke Willemsen, Soren Brage, Mika Kivimäki, Lucia A. Hindorff, Steve Sidney, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Liesbeth Vandenput, Loic Yengo, Markku Laakso, Yongmei Liu, Arthur W. Musk, Harald Grallert, Kirsti Kvaløy, Rainer Rauramaa, Satu Männistö, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, M. Carola Zillikens, Hannu Puolijoki, Luting Xue, Oddgeir L. Holmens, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Inês Barroso, Ching-Ti Liu, L. Adrienne Cupples, Judith B. Borja, Karen L. Mohlke, Matthias Olden, Henry Völzke, Myriam Fornage, Michael Boehnke, Pedro Marques-Vidal, John Beilby, Fernando Rivadeneira, Maija Hassinen, Najaf Amin, Kristian Hveem, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Lenore J. Launer, Johanna Kuusisto, Dorothée Thuillier, Heather M. Stringham, Sven Gläser, Min A. Jhun, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Niha Zubair, Annette Peters, Llilda Barata, Paula J. Griffin, Markus Juonala, Wei Zhao, Andres Metspalu, Christina Holzapfel, Lawrence F. Bielak, Thomas W. Winkler, Alena Stančáková, Anke Tönjes, Narisu Narisu, David Hadley, Peter S. Chines, Andrew Wong, Günther Silbernagel, Kati Kristiansson, Eco J. C. de Geus, Grant W. Montgomery, Elise Lim, Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, Terho Lehtimäki, Heikki A. Koistinen, Meena Kumari, Qibin Qi, Ayse Demirkan, Francesco Cucca, Allan Linneberg, Reija Männikkö, Jonathan Marten, Olli T. Raitakari, Mary F. Feitosa, Paul W. Franks, Kristine Færch, Mark I. McCarthy, Marleen H.M. de Moor, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Toomas Haller, Graff, Mariaelisa [0000-0001-6380-1735], Young, Kristin L [0000-0003-0070-6145], Winkler, Thomas W [0000-0003-0292-5421], Heard-Costa, Nancy L [0000-0001-9730-0306], Renström, Frida [0000-0001-6053-298X], Barroso, Inês [0000-0001-5800-4520], Strachan, David P [0000-0001-7854-1366], Liu, Ching-Ti [0000-0002-0703-0742], Klein, Robert J [0000-0003-3539-5391], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, University of Helsinki, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Quantitative Genetics, Clinicum, Department of Medicine, Endokrinologian yksikkö, HUS Internal Medicine and Rehabilitation, Complex Disease Genetics, Læknadeild (HÍ), Faculty of Medicine (UI), Heilbrigðisvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Health Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland, CHARGE Consortium, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, PAGE Consortium, Edwards, Todd L., Biological Psychology, APH - Mental Health, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, APH - Personalized Medicine, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, Clinical Child and Family Studies, APH - Methodology, School of Medicine / Biomedicine, Public and occupational health, Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, APH - Digital Health, Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE), Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM), Epidemiology, Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC other, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, and Internal Medicine
Subjects: Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Epigenomics, Male, Genome-wide association study, genome, obesity, BMI, Body Mass Index, 0302 clinical medicine, Cell Signaling, Public and Occupational Health, GENE-EXPRESSION, Adiposity, Genetics & Heredity, ADIPOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, Genomics, Functional Genomics, 3. Good health, Meta-analysis, Physical Sciences, REACTIVE PROTEIN-LEVELS, Waist Circumference, Statistics (Mathematics), Waist, Genotype, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Locus (genetics), BINDING PROTEIN, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Genetics, Humans, Statistical Methods, Molecular Biology, Exercise, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 0604 Genetics, Science & Technology, ASSOCIATION METAANALYSIS, Physical activity, ta1184, Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Physical Activity, 030104 developmental biology, Genetic Loci, Body mass index, Mathematics, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Meta-Analysis, Developmental Biology, BODY-MASS INDEX, IDENTICAL-TWINS, ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRES, FAT DISTRIBUTION, FOOD-INTAKE, 0301 basic medicine, Cancer Research, Medicin och hälsovetenskap, Offita, Physiology, FTO gene, Genome-wide association studies, Medical and Health Sciences, Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, Waist–hip ratio, Medicine and Health Sciences, Genetics (clinical), Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Physiological Parameters, Female, Genomic Signal Processing, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Research Article, Signal Transduction, lcsh:QH426-470, Biology, Research and Analysis Methods, Hreyfing (heilsurækt), Journal Article, Erfðafræði, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Obesity, Waist-Hip Ratio, Body Weight, Human Genetics, Cell Biology, Rannsóknir, Genome Analysis, lcsh:Genetics, Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi, 3111 Biomedicine, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference and waist-hip ratio from up to 200,452 adults of European (n = 180,423) or other ancestry (n = 20,029). We standardized PA by categorizing it into a dichotomous variable where, on average, 23% of participants were categorized as inactive and 77% as physically active. While we replicate the interaction with PA for the strongest known obesity-risk locus in the FTO gene, of which the effect is attenuated by ~30% in physically active individuals compared to inactive individuals, we do not identify additional loci that are sensitive to PA. In additional genome-wide meta-analyses adjusting for PA and interaction with PA, we identify 11 novel adiposity loci, suggesting that accounting for PA or other environmental factors that contribute to variation in adiposity may facilitate gene discovery., The views expressed in this manuscript are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institutes of Health; or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Funding for this study was provided by the Aase and Ejner Danielsens Foundation; Academy of Finland (102318; 104781, 120315, 123885, 129619, 286284, 134309, 126925, 121584, 124282, 129378, 117787, 250207, 258753, 41071, 77299, 124243, 1114194, 24300796); Accare Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Action on Hearing Loss (G51); Agence Nationale de la Recherche; Agency for Health Care Policy Research (HS06516); Age UK Research into Ageing Fund; Åke Wiberg Foundation; ALF/LUA Research Grant in Gothenburg; ALFEDIAM; ALK-Abello´ A/S (Hørsholm, Denmark); American Heart Association (13POST16500011, 10SDG269004); Ardix Medical; Arthritis Research UK; Association Diabète Risque Vasculaire; AstraZeneca; Australian Associated Brewers; Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (241944, 339462, 389927, 389875, 389891, 389892, 389938, 442915, 442981, 496739, 552485, 552498); Avera Research Institute; Bayer Diagnostics; Becton Dickinson; Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI –NL, 184.021.007); Biocentrum Helsinki; Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center (DK46200); British Heart Foundation (RG/10/12/28456, SP/04/002); Canada Foundation for Innovation; Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FRN-CCT-83028); Cancer Research UK; Cardionics; Center for Medical Systems Biology; Center of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics and SALVECenter of Excellence in Genomics (EXCEGEN); Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government; City of Kuopio; Cohortes Santé TGIR; Contrat de Projets État-Région; Croatian Science Foundation (8875); Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation; Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF–1333-00124, DFF–1331-007308); Danish Diabetes Academy; Danish Medical Research Council; Department of Psychology and Education of the VU University Amsterdam; Diabetes Hilfs- und Forschungsfonds Deutschland; Dutch Brain Foundation; Dutch Ministry of Justice; Emil Aaltonen Foundation; Erasmus Medical Center; Erasmus University; Estonian Government (IUT20-60, IUT24-6); Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (3.2.0304.11-0312); European Commission (230374, 284167, 323195, 692145, FP7 EurHEALTHAgeing-277849, FP7 BBMRI-LPC 313010, nr 602633, HEALTH-F2-2008-201865-GEFOS, HEALTH-F4-2007-201413, FP6 LSHM-CT-2004-005272, FP5 QLG2-CT-2002-01254, FP6 LSHG-CT-2006-01947, FP7 HEALTH-F4-2007-201413, FP7 279143, FP7 201668, FP7 305739, FP6 LSHG-CT-2006-018947, HEALTH-F4-2007-201413, QLG1-CT-2001-01252); European Regional Development Fund; European Science Foundation (EuroSTRESS project FP-006, ESF, EU/QLRT-2001-01254); Faculty of Biology and Medicine of Lausanne; Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01ZZ9603, 01ZZ0103, 01ZZ0403, 03ZIK012, 03IS2061A); Federal State of Mecklenburg - West Pomerania; Fédération Française de Cardiologie; Finnish Cultural Foundation; Finnish Diabetes Association; Finnish Foundation of Cardiovascular Research; Finnish Heart Association; Food Standards Agency; Fondation de France; Fonds Santé; Genetic Association Information Network of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health; German Diabetes Association; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, 01ER1206, 01ER1507); German Research Council (SFB-1052, SPP 1629 TO 718/2-1); GlaxoSmithKline; Göran Gustafssons Foundation; Göteborg Medical Society; Health and Safety Executive; Heart Foundation of Northern Sweden; Icelandic Heart Association; Icelandic Parliament; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; INSERM, Réseaux en Santé Publique, Interactions entre les déterminants de la santé; Interreg IV Oberrhein Program (A28); Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance; Italian Ministry of Health (ICS110.1/RF97.71); John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation; Juho Vainio Foundation; King's College London; Kjell och Märta Beijers Foundation; Kuopio University Hospital; Kuopio, Tampere and Turku University Hospital Medical Funds (X51001); Leiden University Medical Center; Lilly; LMUinnovativ; Lundbeck Foundation; Lundberg Foundation; Medical Research Council of Canada; MEKOS Laboratories (Denmark); Merck Santé; 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The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Published: 2017

47. Genome-wide Trans-ethnic Meta-analysis Identifies Seven Genetic Loci Influencing Erythrocyte Traits and a Role for RBPMS in Erythropoiesis

Author: Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Rehan Qayyum, Lisa R. Yanek, Luigi Ferrucci, Min-Lee Yang, David J. Stott, P. Eline Slagboom, Jin Li, Santhi K. Ganesh, Vera Grossmann, Myriam Fornage, Edith Hofer, Lewis C. Becker, Lenore J. Launer, Albert V. Smith, Brendan J. Keating, Frank J. A. van Rooij, Albert Hofman, Jun Li, Michiaki Kubo, Christian Mueller, Stella Trompet, Qiong Yang, Andrew D. Johnson, Zhao Chen, Robert J. Klein, Luanne L. Peters, Amy J. Lambert, Reinhold Schmidt, Eirini Trompouki, Kenneth Rice, Josef Coresh, Naoyuki Kamatani, Vilmundur Gudnason, Leslie A. Lange, Brian J. Abraham, Ursula M. Schick, Eric Boerwinkle, Leonard I. Zon, Bruce M. Psaty, Diane M. Becker, David Ginsburg, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Bella Hu, Mohsen Ghanbari, Dan L. Longo, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Oscar H. Franco, Beverly M. Snively, Margaux F. Keller, L. Adrienne Cupples, Yukinori Okada, James E. Hayes, Ian Ford, Jack M. Guralnik, Koichi Matsuda, J. Wouter Jukema, André G. Uitterlinden, Yoichiro Kamatani, Helena Schmidt, James G. Wilson, Michelle K. Evans, Tanja Zeller, Alan B. Zonderman, Fuu Jen Tsai, Yasaman Saba, Daniel Levy, Philipp S. Wild, Paul M. Ridker, Jaden Yang, Jer-Yuarn Wu, Janine F. Felix, Mike A. Nalls, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Karl C. Desch, Caroline S. Fox, Jennifer A. Brody, Alexander P. Reiner, Avik Choudhuri, Ayse Bilge Ozel, Abbas Dehghan, Andrew P. Morris, Ruifang Li-Gao, Daniel I. Chasman, Tamara B. Harris, Audrey Y. Chu, Toshiko Tanaka, Charles Kooperberg, Hua Tang, Song Yang, Yi Zhou, Sun Ha Jee, Kushang V. Patel, James S. Floyd, Atsushi Takahashi, Yuan-Tsong Chen, Ming-Huei Chen, Jerome I. Rotter, Li Ching Chang, Chien-Hsiun Chen, Epidemiology, and Internal Medicine
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Linkage disequilibrium, Asia, Erythrocytes, Genome-wide association study, Locus (genetics), RBPMS, 030105 genetics & heredity, Biology, Eastern, Genome, Medical and Health Sciences, Article, Linkage Disequilibrium, 03 medical and health sciences, Genetics, Ethnicity, Animals, Humans, Erythropoiesis, Allele, Genetics (clinical), Loss function, Alleles, Zebrafish, Genetic association, Genetics & Heredity, Asia, Eastern, Human Genome, Racial Groups, RNA-Binding Proteins, BioBank Japan Project, Bayes Theorem, Hematology, Biological Sciences, R1, 3. Good health, Europe, 030104 developmental biology, Africa, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified loci for erythrocyte traits in primarily European ancestry populations. We conducted GWAS meta-analyses of six erythrocyte traits in 71,638 individuals from European, East Asian, and African ancestries using a Bayesian approach to account for heterogeneity in allelic effects and variation in the structure of linkage disequilibrium between ethnicities. We identified seven loci for erythrocyte traits including a locus (RBPMS/GTF2E2) associated with mean corpuscular hemoglobin and mean corpuscular volume. Statistical fine-mapping at this locus pointed to RBPMS at this locus and excluded nearby GTF2E2. Using zebrafish morpholino to evaluate loss of function, we observed a strong invivo erythropoietic effect for RBPMS but not for GTF2E2, supporting the statistical fine-mapping at this locus and demonstrating that RBPMS is a regulator of erythropoiesis. Our findings show the utility of trans-ethnic GWASs for discovery and characterization of genetic loci influencing hematologic traits.
Published: 2017

48. Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in >300,000 individuals

Author: Asif Rasheed, Mary F. Feitosa, Ian J. Deary, Melissa E. Garcia, Danish Saleheen, Christian Gieger, Andrea Maschio, Lia E. Bang, Cliona Molony, Ivan Brandslund, Dan M. Roden, Ian Ford, Paul M. Ridker, Alisa K. Manning, Giorgio Pistis, Anette Varbo, Alexander P. Reiner, Kathleen Stirrups, David C. Liewald, Tim D. Spector, Paul W. Franks, Cristen J. Willer, Daniel I. Chasman, Jean Ferrières, Vilmundur Gudnason, Tapani Ebeling, Neil Poulter, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Eleftheria Zeggini, Megan L. Grove, Hua Tang, Stavroula Kanoni, Peter Weeke, Panos Deloukas, Daniel J. Rader, Amit Khera, Serena Sanna, Dorota Pasko, Gina M. Peloso, Charles Kooperberg, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Natalie R. van Zuydam, Christian M. Shaffer, Fredrik Karpe, Naveed Sattar, Pieter Muntendam, Ruth J. F. Loos, Eric Boerwinkle, Wei Gao, Mark J. Caulfield, Matt Neville, Sangeetha Somayajula, Olle Melander, Hayato Tada, Jose M. Ordovas, He Zhang, John D. Rioux, Michael Boehnke, Erwin P. Bottinger, Franco Giulianini, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Stella Trompet, Connor A. Emdin, Andrew P. Morris, Johanne Marie Justesen, Alan R. Tall, Kari Kuulasmaa, Adam S. Butterworth, Marie-Pierre Dubé, Dajiang J. Liu, Paul L. Auer, Jennifer E. Huffman, Usman Baber, John Danesh, Xiao Wang, Anna F. Dominiczak, Jarmo Virtamo, John M. Starr, Ozren Polasek, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Timo A. Lakka, Stephen S. Rich, Marco M Ferrario, Marju Orho-Melander, Xueling Sim, Dominique Arveiler, Dermot F. Reilly, Torsten Lauritzen, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Marit E. Jørgensen, Anubha Mahajan, Colin N. A. Palmer, Veikko Salomaa, Nicholas J. Wareham, Dewan S. Alam, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Ellen M. Schmidt, Y. Eugene Chen, Heather M. Stringham, Bruce M. Psaty, Christie M. Ballantyne, Nan Wang, Joshua C. Bis, Myriam Fornage, Neil S Zheng, Kristian Hveem, Praveen Surendran, Yingchang Lu, Peter S. Sever, James B. Meigs, Heikki A. Koistinen, Charlotta Pisinger, Tibor V. Varga, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Konstantin Strauch, Timothy M. Frayling, Patricia B. Munroe, Albert V. Smith, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Lorraine Southam, Frida Renström, Philippe Amouyel, Nicholas G. D. Masca, Alexessander Couto Alves, Xiangfeng Lu, Andres Metspalu, Anne Langsted, Joanna M. M. Howson, Tamara B. Harris, Leif Groop, Chad A. Cowan, Cramer Christensen, Audrey Y. Chu, Markku Laakso, Torben Hansen, Li-An Lin, John C. Chambers, Jonas B. Nielsen, Niels Grarup, Neil R. Robertson, Kiran Musunuru, Joshua S. Weinstock, Morris J. Brown, Jean-Claude Tardif, Gorm B. Jensen, Jerome I. Rotter, Harald Grallert, Yan Zhang, Kerrin S. Small, Nathan O. Stitziel, Fabio Busonero, Jennifer Wessel, Themistocles L. Assimes, Lenore J. Launer, Lars G. Fritsche, Mark O. Goodarzi, Peter W.F. Wilson, Sekar Kathiresan, Philippe M. Frossard, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Yanhua Zhou, James G. Wilson, Frank Kee, Scott M. Damrauer, Weihua Zhang, Gail Davies, Oluf Pedersen, Sune F. Nielsen, Alanna C. Morrison, Raquel S. Sevilla, Helen R. Warren, Johanna Kuusisto, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Philip S. Tsao, Caroline Hayward, Tõnu Esko, Ming Xu, Anders Mälarstig, Anne U. Jackson, Eirini Marouli, Jette Bork-Jensen, Robin Young, C.J. O'Donnell, Yong Huo, Melanie Waldenberger, Jaspal S. Kooner, Pekka Mäntyselkä, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Santhi K. Ganesh, Annette Peters, L. Adrienne Cupples, Wei Zhou, Derek Klarin, Markus Perola, Francesco Cucca, Allan Linneberg, Mark I. McCarthy, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Pia R. Kamstrup, Nilesh J. Samani, J. Wouter Jukema, Valentin Fuster, Claudia Langenberg, Roxana Mehran, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Reedik Mägi, Blair H. Smith, Johanna Jakobsdottir, Marianne Benn, Kent D. Taylor, Ani Manichaikul, Igor Rudan, Aniruddh P. Patel, Joshua C. Denny, Oddgeir L. Holmen, John M. C. Connell, Robert A. Scott, Haojie Yu, Rajiv Chowdhury, Sehrish Jabeen, Antonella Mulas, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Rainer Rauramaa, George Dedoussis, Vascular Medicine, Nielsen, Jonas B [0000-0002-6654-2852], Kathiresan, Sekar [0000-0002-6724-032X], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, and Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Exome/genetics, Genome-wide association study, Type 2 diabetes, Coronary Artery Disease, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Bioinformatics, Charge Diabetes Working Group, Macular Degeneration, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Exome, Macular Degeneration/blood, Genetics & Heredity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, CLONAL HEMATOPOIESIS, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, CODING-SEQUENCE VARIANTS, Lipids, Phenotype, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE, VA Million Veteran Program, lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins), GOLD Consortium, LOW-FREQUENCY, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/blood, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Type 2, medicine.medical_specialty, Genotype, APOBEC-1 COMPLEMENTATION FACTOR, Biology, Lower risk, Article, EPIC-CVD Consortium, GENETIC ARCHITECTURE, 03 medical and health sciences, Coronary Artery Disease/blood, Diabetes mellitus, Internal medicine, Genetics, medicine, Diabetes Mellitus, Journal Article, Lipolysis, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Allele, TYROSINE KINASE JAK2, Genetic Association Studies, B MESSENGER-RNA, Science & Technology, MACULAR DEGENERATION, MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS, Cholesterol, Lipids/blood, Genetic Variation, 06 Biological Sciences, medicine.disease, cardiovascular diseases, genome wide association studies, Genetic Association Studies/methods, 030104 developmental biology, Endocrinology, chemistry, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, TM6SF2, Developmental Biology
Abstract: We screened DNA sequence variants on an exome-focused genotyping array in >300,000 participants with replication in >280,000 participants and identified 444 independent variants in 250 loci significantly associated with total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and/or triglycerides (TG). At two loci (JAK2 and A1CF), experimental analysis in mice revealed lipid changes consistent with the human data. We utilized mapped variants to address four clinically relevant questions and found the following: (1) beta-thalassemia trait carriers displayed lower TC and were protected from coronary artery disease; (2) outside of the CETP locus, there was not a predictable relationship between plasma HDL-C and risk for age-related macular degeneration; (3) only some mechanisms of lowering LDL-C seemed to increase risk for type 2 diabetes; and (4) TG-lowering alleles involved in hepatic production of TG-rich lipoproteins (e.g., TM6SF2, PNPLA3) tracked with higher liver fat, higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and lower risk for coronary artery disease whereas TG-lowering alleles involved in peripheral lipolysis (e.g., LPL, ANGPTL4) had no effect on liver fat but lowered risks for both type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease.
Published: 2017

49. Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits

Author: P. Eline Slagboom, Massimo Mangino, David J. Porteous, Karin Leander, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Jennifer Bragg, Ken K. Ong, Igor Rudan, Blair H. Smith, Mark A. Sarzynski, Torben Hansen, James F. Wilson, Weihua Zhang, Zoltán Kutalik, Karl Gertow, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Daniele Cusi, Lu Qi, Nicholas G. Martin, Peter Vollenweider, Thomas W. Winkler, Graciela E. Delgado, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, André G. Uitterlinden, J. Wouter Jukema, Rajesh Rawal, Dena G. Hernandez, Amy J. Swift, Naveed Sattar, Ruth J. F. Loos, George Dedoussis, Ani Manichaikul, Henrik Vestergaard, Jian'an Luan, Luting Xue, Charles Kooperberg, Rona J. Strawbridge, John-Olov Jansson, Jian Gong, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, L. Adrienne Cupples, Frida Renström, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Ivana Kolcic, Mathias Gorski, Tamara B. Harris, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Stephanie A. Bien, Arthur W. Musk, Cristina Menni, Steve Buyske, Anubha Mahajan, Claudia Schurmann, John Blangero, Natalia Pervjakova, Inês Barroso, Kristin L. Young, Momoko Horikoshi, Robert A. Scott, Ozren Polasek, Shafqat Ahmad, Jeremiah Perez, Stella Trompet, Claude Bouchard, Claudia Langenberg, Paul M. Ridker, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Oddgeir L. Holmen, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Alan F. Wright, Ulf de Faire, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Misa Graff, Jie Huang, Liesbeth Vandenput, Marcel Bruinenberg, Luigi Ferrucci, Johanne Marie Justesen, Audrey Y. Chu, Melanie Waldenberger, Karen L. Mohlke, Ching-Ti Liu, Barbara Thorand, Joseph Hung, Pim van der Harst, Colin A. McKenzie, Sailaja Vedantam, Gitta H. Lubke, Bruna Gigante, Göran Hallmans, Sara Lupoli, Anja Ludolph-Donislawski, Michael Boehnke, Treva Rice, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Daniele Braga, Mika Kähönen, Joel Eriksson, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Joseph M. Wu, Niels Grarup, Ilja M. Nolte, Jonathan Marchini, Georg Homuth, Pamela A. F. Madden, John Beilby, Andrew D. Johnson, Nanette R. Lee, Caroline Hayward, Unhee Lim, Bamidele O. Tayo, Peter S. Chines, Lynda M. Rose, Amélie Bonnefond, Elena Tremoli, Serena Sanna, David P. Strachan, Barbara McKnight, Narisu Narisu, Anton J. M. de Craen, David R. Weir, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Jessica Tyrrell, Beverley Balkau, Kirsti Kvaløy, Marie-Claude Vohl, Jennifer A. Smith, Rainer Rauramaa, Andrew C. Heath, Erwin P. Bottinger, Andrew Wong, Günther Silbernagel, Mattias Lorentzon, Philippe Froguel, Uzma Afzal, Tanja B. Grammer, Dabeeru C. Rao, Charlotta Pisinger, Nicola Glorioso, Najaf Amin, Andrew P. Morris, Tanguy Corre, Alan James, Julius S. Ngwa, Jennifer E. Huffman, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Maija Hassinen, Lenore J. Launer, Marit E. Jørgensen, Dorret I. Boomsma, Harry Campbell, Scott Coggeshall, Timothy M. Frayling, Konstantin Strauch, Johanna Kuusisto, David Hadley, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Xuan Deng, Dorothée Thuillier, Albert V. Smith, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Harald Grallert, Lynne J. Hocking, Dan Mellström, M. Carola Zillikens, Lars Lind, Hester M. den Ruijter, Gemma Cadby, Joanne E. Curran, Richard N. Bergman, David J. Stott, Matthias Olden, Veronique Vitart, Robert Luben, Cinzia Sarti, Gert J. de Borst, Lyle J. Palmer, Sven Bergmann, Alexander Teumer, John D. Eicher, Marcus E. Kleber, Marie Loh, Genovefa Kolovou, Iris M. Heid, Gonneke Willemsen, Marie Neergaard Harder, David J. Hunter, Stefania Bandinelli, Francis S. Collins, Hans J. Grabe, Virginia Fisher, John Whitfield, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Salome Scholtens, Tamuno Alfred, Richard S. Cooper, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Martina Chittani, Jan A. Staessen, Bernhard K. Krämer, Markku Laakso, Min A. Jhun, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Saima Afaq, Rita P. S. Middelberg, Jing Hua Zhao, Toshiko Tanaka, Kent D. Taylor, Rudi G. J. Westendorp, Panagiotis Deloukas, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Reiner Biffar, Krista Fischer, Leena Kinnunen, Diana Kuh, Jaspal S. Kooner, Caroline S. Fox, Harold Snieder, Pau Navarro, Stéphane Lobbens, Tao Huang, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jacqueline M. Vink, Terrence Forrester, Kari E. North, Annette Peters, Mika Kivimäki, David Schlessinger, Ian Ford, Kristian Hveem, Christopher A. Haiman, Lucia A. Hindorff, Oluf Pedersen, Ingrid B. Borecki, Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel, Nicholas J. Wareham, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Lawrence F. Bielak, Loic Le Marchand, Linda S. Adair, Tõnu Esko, Anne U. Jackson, Ying Wu, Eco J. C. de Geus, Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Louis Pérusse, Peter J. van der Most, Ulrike Peters, Magnus Karlsson, Anders Hamsten, Anne E. Justice, Alena Stančáková, Henning Tiemeier, Eric Boerwinkle, Catharina A. Hartman, Claes Ohlsson, Grant W. Montgomery, Elise Lim, Traci M. Bartz, Erik Ingelsson, Martina E. Zimmermann, Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, Terho Lehtimäki, Heikki A. Koistinen, Pirjo Komulainen, Damiano Baldassarre, Marten A. Siemelink, Niek Verweij, Gerard Pasterkamp, Markus Juonala, Wei Zhao, Andres Metspalu, Sander W. van der Laan, Tuomo Rankinen, Timo A. Lakka, Yun Ju Sung, Heather M. Stringham, Bruce M. Psaty, Niha Zubair, Stavroula Kanoni, Saskia Haitjema, Bengt Sennblad, Llilda Barata, Morris A. Swertz, Mary F. Feitosa, Tim D. Spector, Paul W. Franks, Qibin Qi, Francesco Cucca, Allan Linneberg, Reija Männikkö, Jonathan Marten, Olli T. Raitakari, Mark I. McCarthy, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Winfried März, Sarah H. Wild, Meena Kumari, Nese Direk, Patricia A. Peyser, Jessica D. Faul, John C. Chambers, Nicholas D. Hastie, Mette Hollensted, Jacek Czajkowski, Daniel I. Chasman, Matthias Nauck, Gérard Waeber, Brendan M. Buckley, Kai Savonen, Judith M. Vonk, Carsten A. Böger, Loic Yengo, Anna Eriksson, Henry Völzke, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM), Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT), Lifestyle Medicine (LM), Groningen Kidney Center (GKC), Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Clinicum, Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Endokrinologian yksikkö, HUS Internal Medicine and Rehabilitation, Luan, Jian'an [0000-0003-3137-6337], Marten, Jonathan [0000-0001-6916-2014], Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Luben, Robert [0000-0002-5088-6343], Ong, Kenneth [0000-0003-4689-7530], Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993], Barroso, Ines [0000-0001-5800-4520], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Læknadeild (HÍ), Faculty of Medicine (UI), Heilbrigðisvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Health Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland, Biological Psychology, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, APH - Mental Health, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, APH - Methodology, APH - Personalized Medicine, Epidemiology, Erasmus MC other, Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, and Psychiatry
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Medicin och hälsovetenskap, Offita, Chemistry(all), Epidemiology, General Physics and Astronomy, Genome-wide association study, methods [Genome-Wide Association Study], Biochemistry, Genome-wide association studies, Medical and Health Sciences, Body Mass Index, genetics [Obesity], Genetics research, IMPUTATION, Body Fat Distribution, genetics [Genetic Predisposition to Disease], OXIDATIVE STRESS, POPULATION, Adiposity, METABOLIC SYNDROME, Genetics, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, Smoking, Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, genetics [Smoking], ASSOCIATION, 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health, 3. Good health, Multidisciplinary Sciences, DEFICIENCY, Phenotype, ADDICTION, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Medical genetics, ddc:500, Waist Circumference, Reykingar, genetics [Adiposity], Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, Quantitative Trait Loci, Population, genetics [Waist Circumference], Accounting, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, Physics and Astronomy(all), Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, GWAS, obesity, smoking, MD Multidisciplinary, Genetic predisposition, medicine, Journal Article, Erfðafræði, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Obesity, education, Genetic association, Science & Technology, VITAMIN-C, genetics [Quantitative Trait Loci], Waist-Hip Ratio, business.industry, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Epistasis, Genetic, Rannsóknir, General Chemistry, ta3121, R1, GENE, Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi, MICE, 030104 developmental biology, 3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine, business, Body mass index, Developmental Psychopathology, Imputation (genetics), Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) account for environmental exposures, like smoking, potentially impacting the overall trait variance when investigating the genetic contribution to obesity-related traits. Here, we use GWAS data from 51,080 current smokers and 190,178 nonsmokers (87% European descent) to identify loci influencing BMI and central adiposity, measured as waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio both adjusted for BMI. We identify 23 novel genetic loci, and 9 loci with convincing evidence of gene-smoking interaction (GxSMK) on obesity-related traits. We show consistent direction of effect for all identified loci and significance for 18 novel and for 5 interaction loci in an independent study sample. These loci highlight novel biological functions, including response to oxidative stress, addictive behaviour, and regulatory functions emphasizing the importance of accounting for environment in genetic analyses. Our results suggest that tobacco smoking may alter the genetic susceptibility to overall adiposity and body fat distribution., A full list of acknowledgments appears in the Supplementary Note 4. Co-author A.J.M.d.C. recently passed away while this work was in process. This work was performed under the auspices of the Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits (GIANT) consortium. We acknowledge the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium for encouraging CHARGE studies to participate in this effort and for the contributions of CHARGE members to the analyses conducted for this research. Funding for this study was provided by the Aase and Ejner Danielsens Foundation; Academy of Finland (41071, 77299, 102318, 110413, 117787, 121584, 123885, 124243, 124282, 126925, 129378, 134309, 286284); Accare Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Action on Hearing Loss (G51); Agence Nationale de la 359 Recherche; Agency for Health Care Policy Research (HS06516); ALF/LUA research grant in Gothenburg; ALFEDIAM; ALK-Abelló A/S; Althingi; American Heart Association (13POST16500011); Amgen; Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies; Ardix Medical; Arthritis Research UK; Association Diabète Risque Vasculaire; Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (241944, 339462, 389875, 389891, 389892, 389927, 389938, 442915, 442981, 496739, 552485, 552498); Avera Institute; Bayer Diagnostics; Becton Dickinson; BHF (RG/14/5/30893); Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center (DK46200), Bristol-Myers Squibb; British Heart Foundation (RG/10/12/28456, RG2008/08, RG2008/014, SP/04/002); Medical Research Council of Canada; Canadian Institutes for Health Research (FRCN-CCT-83028); Cancer Research UK; Cardionics; Cavadis B.V., Center for Medical Systems Biology; Center of Excellence in Genomics; CFI; CIHR; City of Kuopio; CNAMTS; Cohortes Santé TGIR; Contrat de Projets État-Région; Croatian Science Foundation (8875); Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation; Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF-1333-00124, DFF-1331-00730B); County Council of Dalarna; Dalarna University; Danish Council for Strategic Research; Danish Diabetes Academy; Danish Medical Research Council; Department of Health, UK; Development Fund from the University of Tartu (SP1GVARENG); Diabetes Hilfs- und Forschungsfonds Deutschland; Diabetes UK; Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation Fellowship; Donald W. Reynolds Foundation; Dr Robert Pfleger-Stiftung; Dutch Brain Foundation; Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation; Dutch Inter University Cardiology Institute; Dutch Kidney Foundation (E033); Dutch Ministry of Justice; the DynaHEALTH action No. 633595, Economic Structure Enhancing Fund of the Dutch Government; Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (2012_A147, P48/08//A11/08); Emil Aaltonen Foundation; Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam; Erasmus MC and Erasmus University Rotterdam; the Municipality of Rotterdam; Estonian Government (IUT20-60, IUT24-6); Estonian Research Roadmap through the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (3.2.0304.11-0312); European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant and 323195:SZ-245 50371-GLUCOSEGENES-FP7-IDEAS-ERC); European Regional Development Fund; European Science Foundation (EU/QLRT-2001-01254); European Commission (018947, 018996, 201668, 223004, 230374, 279143, 284167, 305739, BBMRI-LPC-313010, HEALTH-2011.2.4.2-2-EU-MASCARA, HEALTH-2011-278913, HEALTH-2011-294713-EPLORE, HEALTH-F2-2008-201865-GEFOS, HEALTH-F2-2013-601456, HEALTH-F4-2007-201413, HEALTH-F4-2007-201550-HYPERGENES, HEALTH-F7-305507 HOMAGE, IMI/115006, LSHG-CT-2006-018947, LSHG-CT-2006-01947, LSHM-CT-2004-005272, LSHM-CT-2006-037697, LSHM-CT-2007-037273, QLG1-CT-2002-00896, QLG2-CT-2002-01254); 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Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN, 09.001); Italian Ministry of Health (ICS110.1/RF97.71); Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (FaReBio di Qualità); Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation; the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, the Netherlands; J.D.E. and Catherine T, MacArthur Foundation Research Networks on Successful Midlife Development and Socioeconomic Status and Health; Juho Vainio Foundation; Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International; KfH Stiftung Präventivmedizin e.V.; King's College London; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; Kuopio University Hospital; Kuopio, Tampere and Turku University Hospital Medical Funds (X51001); La Fondation de France; Leenaards Foundation; Lilly; LMUinnovativ; Lundberg Foundation; Magnus Bergvall Foundation; MDEIE; Medical Research Council UK (G0000934, G0601966, G0700931, MC_U106179471, MC_UU_12019/1); MEKOS Laboratories; Merck Santé; Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sports, The Netherlands; Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania; 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The views expressed in this manuscript are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI); the National Institutes of Health (NIH); or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Published: 2017

50. SOS2 and ACP1 loci identified through large-scale exome chip analysis regulate kidney development and function

Author: Jacques E. Rossouw, Aldi T. Kraja, Daniel I. Chasman, Jennifer Wessel, Paul Mitchell, Erika Salvi, Adrienne Tin, Paul M. Ridker, David J. Carey, Daniele Braga, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Wolfgang König, Medea Imboden, Antonio Lupo, Paolo Gasparini, Glenn S. Gerhard, David J. Porteous, Karlhans Endlich, Mathias Gorski, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Ivan Brandslund, Jinyan Huang, Min A. Jhun, Alexander P. Reiner, Christine Meisinger, Yong Li, Karen L. Mohlke, Anne U. Jackson, Janina M. Jeff, Iris M. Heid, Gary C. Curhan, Uwe Völker, Marju Orho-Melander, Allan Linneberg, Olli T. Raitakari, Caroline S. Fox, Vilmundur Gudnason, Charlotte Glümer, Ozren Polasek, Annette Kifley, David R. Weir, Konstantin Strauch, Albert V. Smith, Archie Campbell, Annette Peters, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Lu Qi, Rebecca D. Jackson, Eric Boerwinkle, Daniela Toniolo, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Ruifang Li-Gao, Ian H. De Boer, Qiong Yang, Mika Kähönen, Carsten A. Böger, Dan E. Arking, Albert W. Dreisbach, Man Li, Mary F. Feitosa, Stephen T. Turner, Afshin Parsa, Charles Kooperberg, Jennifer E. Huffman, Sanaz Sedaghat, Omri Gottesman, Fernando Rivadeneira, Marit E. Jørgensen, Joshua C. Denny, Olivier Devuyst, Giovanni Malerba, Frank Schmidt, Robert J. Carroll, Michela Traglia, Chunyu Liu, Ruth J. F. Loos, Franco Giulianini, Daniel Levy, Terho Lehtimäki, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Helena Kuivaniemi, Kurt Lohman, Vladan Mijatovic, Matthias Nauck, Henry Völzke, Aiko P. J. de Vries, Torben Hansen, Wolfram Goessling, Lenore J. Launer, Frank B. Hu, Tibor Fülöp, Nathan A. Bihlmeyer, Reedik Mägi, Gerard Tromp, Yingchang Lu, Jessica D. Faul, Nora Franceschini, Lise Lotte N. Husemoen, Leo Pekka Lyytikäinen, Markku Laakso, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Ronit Katz, Dinesh Velayutham, Jennifer A. Smith, Teresa Nutile, David S. Siscovick, Ulrike Peters, Jie Jin Wang, Tamara B. Harris, Christina-Alexandra Schulz, Douglas Ruderfer, Mark O. Goodarzi, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Cramer Christensen, Nicole Soranzo, Audrey Y. Chu, Melanie Waldenberger, Oluf Pedersen, Ingrid B. Borecki, Peter Nürnberg, D. Cusi, Abbas Dehghan, Daniel R. Witte, Niels Grarup, Christian Fuchsberger, Sheila Ulivi, Josef Coresh, Evelin Mihailov, Ashok Kumar, Jennifer Kriebel, Jennifer A. Brody, Erwin P. Bottinger, Marilyn C. Cornelis, Torsten Lauritzen, Albert Hofman, Olivia Weeks, Rainer Rettig, Lynne J. Hocking, Giovanni Gambaro, André G. Uitterlinden, Anna Köttgen, Caroline Hayward, Alexander Teumer, Tõnu Esko, Antonietta Robino, Torben Jørgensen, Bruce M. Psaty, Ursula M. Schick, Rossella Sorice, Wei Zhao, Andres Metspalu, Pamela Linksted, Olle Melander, Jette Bork-Jensen, Errol D. Crook, Li, Man, Li, Yong, Weeks, Olivia, Mijatovic, Vladan, Teumer, Alexander, Huffman, Jennifer E., Tromp, Gerard, Fuchsberger, Christian, Gorski, Mathia, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nutile, Teresa, Sedaghat, Sanaz, Sorice, Rossella, Tin, Adrienne, Yang, Qiong, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Arking, Dan E., Bihlmeyer, Nathan A., Böger, Carsten A., Carroll, Robert J., Chasman, Daniel I., Cornelis, Marilyn C., Dehghan, Abba, Faul, Jessica D., Feitosa, Mary F., Gambaro, Giovanni, Gasparini, Paolo, Giulianini, Franco, Heid, Iri, Huang, Jinyan, Imboden, Medea, Jackson, Anne U., Jeff, Janina, Jhun, Min A., Katz, Ronit, Kifley, Annette, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O., Kumar, Ashish, Laakso, Markku, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lohman, Kurt, Lu, Yingchang, Mägi, Reedik, Malerba, Giovanni, Mihailov, Evelin, Mohlke, Karen L., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Robino, Antonietta, Ruderfer, Dougla, Salvi, Erika, Schick, Ursula M., Schulz, Christina-Alexandra, Smith, Albert V., Smith, Jennifer A., Traglia, Michela, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Zhao, Wei, Goodarzi, Mark O., Kraja, Aldi T., Liu, Chunyu, Wessel, Jennifer, Boerwinkle, Eric, Borecki, Ingrid B., Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bottinger, Erwin P., Braga, Daniele, Brandslund, Ivan, Brody, Jennifer A., Campbell, Archie, Carey, David J., Christensen, Cramer, Coresh, Josef, Crook, Errol, Curhan, Gary C., Cusi, Daniele, De Boer, Ian H., De Vries, Aiko P. J., Denny, Joshua C., Devuyst, Olivier, Dreisbach, Albert W., Endlich, Karlhan, Esko, Tõnu, Franco, Oscar H., Fulop, Tibor, Gerhard, Glenn S., Glümer, Charlotte, Gottesman, Omri, Grarup, Niel, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Hansen, Torben, Harris, Tamara B., Hayward, Caroline, Hocking, Lynne, Hofman, Albert, Hu, Frank B., Husemoen, Lise Lotte N., Jackson, Rebecca D., Jørgensen, Torben, Jørgensen, Marit E., Kähönen, Mika, Kardia, Sharon L. R., König, Wolfgang, Kooperberg, Charle, Kriebel, Jennifer, Launer, Lenore J., Lauritzen, Torsten, Lehtimäki, Terho, Levy, Daniel, Linksted, Pamela, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Yongmei, Loos, Ruth J. F., Lupo, Antonio, Meisinger, Christine, Melander, Olle, Metspalu, Andre, Mitchell, Paul, Nauck, Matthia, Nürnberg, Peter, Orho-Melander, Marju, Parsa, Afshin, Pedersen, Oluf, Peters, Annette, Peters, Ulrike, Polasek, Ozren, Porteous, David, Probst-Hensch, Nicole M., Psaty, Bruce M., Qi, Lu, Raitakari, Olli T., Reiner, Alex P., Rettig, Rainer, Ridker, Paul M., Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rossouw, Jacques E., Schmidt, Frank, Siscovick, David, Soranzo, Nicole, Strauch, Konstantin, Toniolo, Daniela, Turner, Stephen T., Uitterlinden, André G., Ulivi, Sheila, Velayutham, Dinesh, Völker, Uwe, Völzke, Henry, Waldenberger, Melanie, Wang, Jie Jin, Weir, David R., Witte, Daniel, Kuivaniemi, Helena, Fox, Caroline S., Franceschini, Nora, Goessling, Wolfram, Köttgen, Anna, Chu, Audrey Y., Epidemiology, Erasmus MC other, and Internal Medicine
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Nonsynonymous substitution, Nephrology, medicine.medical_specialty, human genetics, Renal function, Genome-wide association study, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, Kidney, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, kidney development, renal function, Clinical Research, Proto-Oncogene Proteins, Internal medicine, Animals, Exome, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glomerular Filtration Rate, Humans, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Son of Sevenless Proteins, Zebrafish, Journal Article, medicine, Settore MED/14 - NEFROLOGIA, human genetic, Gene, Genetic association, Genetics, Proto-Oncogene Protein, Animal, Son of Sevenless Protein, General Medicine, ta3121, 030104 developmental biology, Human Genetics, Kidney Development, Renal Function, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, genome, nephron, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Meta-Analysis, Human
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies have identified >50 common variants associated with kidney function, but these variants do not fully explain the variation in eGFR. We performed a two-stage meta-analysis of associations between genotypes from the Illumina exome array and eGFR on the basis of serum creatinine (eGFRcrea) among participants of European ancestry from the CKDGen Consortium (nStage1: 111,666; nStage2: 48,343). In single-variant analyses, we identified single nucleotide polymorphisms at seven new loci associated with eGFRcrea (PPM1J, EDEM3, ACP1, SPEG, EYA4, CYP1A1, and ATXN2L; PStage1
Published: 2017

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