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2. Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology.

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Suzuki, Ken, Hatzikotoulas, Konstantinos, Southam, Lorraine, Taylor, Henry, Yin, Xianyong, Lorenz, Kim, Mandla, Ravi, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Melloni, Giorgio, Kanoni, Stavroula, Rayner, Nigel, Bocher, Ozvan, Arruda, Ana, Sonehara, Kyuto, Namba, Shinichi, Lee, Simon, Preuss, Michael, Petty, Lauren, Schroeder, Philip, Vanderwerff, Brett, Kals, Mart, Bragg, Fiona, Lin, Kuang, Guo, Xiuqing, Zhang, Weihua, Yao, Jie, Kim, Young, Graff, Mariaelisa, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Nano, Jana, Lamri, Amel, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Moon, Sanghoon, Scott, Robert, Cook, James, Lee, Jung-Jin, Pan, Ian, Taliun, Daniel, Parra, Esteban, Chai, Jin-Fang, Bielak, Lawrence, Tabara, Yasuharu, Hai, Yang, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Grarup, Niels, Sofer, Tamar, Wuttke, Matthias, Sarnowski, Chloé, Gieger, Christian, Nousome, Darryl, Trompet, Stella, Kwak, Soo-Heon, Long, Jirong, Sun, Meng, Tong, Lin, Chen, Wei-Min, Nongmaithem, Suraj, Noordam, Raymond, Lim, Victor, Tam, Claudia, Joo, Yoonjung, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Raffield, Laura, Prins, Bram, Nicolas, Aude, Yanek, Lisa, Chen, Guanjie, Brody, Jennifer, Kabagambe, Edmond, An, Ping, Xiang, Anny, Choi, Hyeok, Cade, Brian, Tan, Jingyi, Broadaway, K, Williamson, Alice, Kamali, Zoha, Cui, Jinrui, Thangam, Manonanthini, Adair, Linda, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer, Anand, Sonia, Bertoni, Alain, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Brandslund, Ivan, Buchanan, Thomas, Burant, Charles, Butterworth, Adam, Canouil, Mickaël, Chan, Juliana, Chang, Li-Ching, Chee, Miao-Li, Chen, Ji, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Chen, Zhengming, Chuang, Lee-Ming, and Cushman, Mary

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Humans, Adipocytes, Chromatin, Coronary Artery Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Diabetic Nephropathies, Disease Progression, Endothelial Cells, Enteroendocrine Cells, Epigenomics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Islets of Langerhans, Multifactorial Inheritance, Peripheral Arterial Disease, Single-Cell Analysis
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Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease that develops through diverse pathophysiological processes1,2 and molecular mechanisms that are often specific to cell type3,4. Here, to characterize the genetic contribution to these processes across ancestry groups, we aggregate genome-wide association study data from 2,535,601 individuals (39.7% not of European ancestry), including 428,452 cases of T2D. We identify 1,289 independent association signals at genome-wide significance (P

Published
2024

3. Chinese Language Learners Evaluating Machine Translation Accuracy

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Chang, Li-Ching

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With increasingly rapid advances in machine translation (MT) technology, such as Google Translate, MT has become an indispensable learning resource for second or additional language learners. Many studies indicate that MT or postediting of MT (PEMT) can be an effective tool for L2 learning and teaching. Nevertheless, little research illustrates how language learners judge or evaluate the accuracy of MT output. The judgement of MT accuracy is essential because MT is not yet error-free. Therefore, the aim of this research is to explore how L2 learners attempt to judge the accuracy of MT output when using MT or PEMT. This study was undertaken through a teaching intervention in an online English-Chinese translation course. Student participants included L2 learners of Chinese studying at a university in Taiwan. Findings from observations of screen recordings and focus group discussions reveal that students use different MT tools and additional online-based resources as complementary strategies to better judge MT accuracy. These include: 1) using more than one MT tool to cross-check MT output; 2) using dictionaries to check word meaning and word usage by looking at example sentences; 3) using search engines to check word definitions, translations, and collocations.

Published
2022

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

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Yengo, Loïc, Vedantam, Sailaja, Marouli, Eirini, Sidorenko, Julia, Bartell, Eric, Sakaue, Saori, Graff, Marielisa, Eliasen, Anders U, Jiang, Yunxuan, Raghavan, Sridharan, Miao, Jenkai, Arias, Joshua D, Graham, Sarah E, Mukamel, Ronen E, Spracklen, Cassandra N, Yin, Xianyong, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Ferreira, Teresa, Highland, Heather H, Ji, Yingjie, Karaderi, Tugce, Lin, Kuang, Lüll, Kreete, Malden, Deborah E, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Machado, Moara, Moore, Amy, Rüeger, Sina, Sim, Xueling, Vrieze, Scott, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Akiyama, Masato, Allison, Matthew A, Alvarez, Marcus, Andersen, Mette K, Ani, Alireza, Appadurai, Vivek, Arbeeva, Liubov, Bhaskar, Seema, Bielak, Lawrence F, Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Bradford, Yuki, Braund, Peter S, Brody, Jennifer A, Burgdorf, Kristoffer S, Cade, Brian E, Cai, Hui, Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Archie, Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Catamo, Eulalia, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chai, Xiaoran, Chang, Li-Ching, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chesi, Alessandra, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chung, Ren-Hua, Cocca, Massimiliano, Concas, Maria Pina, Couture, Christian, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Danning, Rebecca, Daw, E Warwick, Degenhard, Frauke, Delgado, Graciela E, Delitala, Alessandro, Demirkan, Ayse, Deng, Xuan, Devineni, Poornima, Dietl, Alexander, Dimitriou, Maria, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Ekici, Arif B, Engmann, Jorgen E, Fairhurst-Hunter, Zammy, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Faul, Jessica D, Fernandez-Lopez, Juan-Carlos, Forer, Lukas, Francescatto, Margherita, Freitag-Wolf, Sandra, Fuchsberger, Christian, Galesloot, Tessel E, Gao, Yan, Gao, Zishan, Geller, Frank, Giannakopoulou, Olga, Giulianini, Franco, Gjesing, Anette P, Goel, Anuj, Gordon, Scott D, Gorski, Mathias, Grove, Jakob, and Guo, Xiuqing

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Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Humans, Body Height, Gene Frequency, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Haplotypes, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Europe, Sample Size, Phenotype, Chromosome Mapping, 23andMe Research Team, VA Million Veteran Program, DiscovEHR, eMERGE, Lifelines Cohort Study, PRACTICAL Consortium, Understanding Society Scientific Group, General Science & Technology
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Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40-50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes1. Here, using data from a genome-wide association study of 5.4 million individuals of diverse ancestries, we show that 12,111 independent SNPs that are significantly associated with height account for nearly all of the common SNP-based heritability. These SNPs are clustered within 7,209 non-overlapping genomic segments with a mean size of around 90 kb, covering about 21% of the genome. The density of independent associations varies across the genome and the regions of increased density are enriched for biologically relevant genes. In out-of-sample estimation and prediction, the 12,111 SNPs (or all SNPs in the HapMap 3 panel2) account for 40% (45%) of phenotypic variance in populations of European ancestry but only around 10-20% (14-24%) in populations of other ancestries. Effect sizes, associated regions and gene prioritization are similar across ancestries, indicating that reduced prediction accuracy is likely to be explained by linkage disequilibrium and differences in allele frequency within associated regions. Finally, we show that the relevant biological pathways are detectable with smaller sample sizes than are needed to implicate causal genes and variants. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive map of specific genomic regions that contain the vast majority of common height-associated variants. Although this map is saturated for populations of European ancestry, further research is needed to achieve equivalent saturation in other ancestries.

Published
2022

6. Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

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Mahajan, Anubha, Spracklen, Cassandra N, Zhang, Weihua, Ng, Maggie CY, Petty, Lauren E, Kitajima, Hidetoshi, Yu, Grace Z, Rüeger, Sina, Speidel, Leo, Kim, Young Jin, Horikoshi, Momoko, Mercader, Josep M, Taliun, Daniel, Moon, Sanghoon, Kwak, Soo-Heon, Robertson, Neil R, Rayner, Nigel W, Loh, Marie, Kim, Bong-Jo, Chiou, Joshua, Miguel-Escalada, Irene, della Briotta Parolo, Pietro, Lin, Kuang, Bragg, Fiona, Preuss, Michael H, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Nano, Jana, Guo, Xiuqing, Lamri, Amel, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Scott, Robert A, Lee, Jung-Jin, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Graff, Mariaelisa, Chai, Jin-Fang, Parra, Esteban J, Yao, Jie, Bielak, Lawrence F, Tabara, Yasuharu, Hai, Yang, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Cook, James P, Kals, Mart, Grarup, Niels, Schmidt, Ellen M, Pan, Ian, Sofer, Tamar, Wuttke, Matthias, Sarnowski, Chloe, Gieger, Christian, Nousome, Darryl, Trompet, Stella, Long, Jirong, Sun, Meng, Tong, Lin, Chen, Wei-Min, Ahmad, Meraj, Noordam, Raymond, Lim, Victor JY, Tam, Claudia HT, Joo, Yoonjung Yoonie, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Raffield, Laura M, Lecoeur, Cécile, Prins, Bram Peter, Nicolas, Aude, Yanek, Lisa R, Chen, Guanjie, Jensen, Richard A, Tajuddin, Salman, Kabagambe, Edmond K, An, Ping, Xiang, Anny H, Choi, Hyeok Sun, Cade, Brian E, Tan, Jingyi, Flanagan, Jack, Abaitua, Fernando, Adair, Linda S, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A, Akiyama, Masato, Anand, Sonia S, Bertoni, Alain, Bian, Zheng, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Brandslund, Ivan, Brody, Jennifer A, Brummett, Chad M, Buchanan, Thomas A, Canouil, Mickaël, Chan, Juliana CN, Chang, Li-Ching, Chee, Miao-Li, Chen, Ji, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Chen, Zhengming, Chuang, Lee-Ming, and Cushman, Mary

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Genetics, Diabetes, Human Genome, Metabolic and endocrine, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Ethnicity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, FinnGen, eMERGE Consortium, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology
Abstract

We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls (48.9% non-European descent) through the Diabetes Meta-Analysis of Trans-Ethnic association studies (DIAMANTE) Consortium. Multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis identified 237 loci attaining stringent genome-wide significance (P 50% posterior probability. This improved fine-mapping enabled systematic assessment of candidate causal genes and molecular mechanisms through which T2D associations are mediated, laying the foundations for functional investigations. Multi-ancestry genetic risk scores enhanced transferability of T2D prediction across diverse populations. Our study provides a step toward more effective clinical translation of T2D GWAS to improve global health for all, irrespective of genetic background.

Published
2022

7. Multilingualism, Translanguaging and Transknowledging: Translation Technology in EMI Higher Education

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Heugh, Kathleen, French, Mei, Arya, Vandana, Pham, Min, Tudini, Vincenza, Billinghurst, Necia, Tippett, Neil, Chang, Li-Ching, Nichols, Julie, and Viljoen, Jeanne-Marie

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Key findings, analysis and recommendations that have emerged from a research project, 'Using Human Language Technology to enhance academic integrity, inclusivity, knowledge exchange, student diversity and retention' at the University of South Australia conducted in 2019 are discussed in this article. The primary purpose of the project was to address some of the challenges and opportunities afforded by increasing student and teacher diversity at a predominantly English-medium Australian university through newly enhanced human language translation technology (HLT) also known as machine translation (MT). This technology is frequently used for the translation of human language, and it falls under the umbrella of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. From the institution's perspective, key aims of the project were to contribute to the university's Digital Learning Strategy priorities and core values embedded in a structural transformation of the university. These include integrity, accountability, diversity, social justice, engagement and collaboration. The researchers' objectives focussed on multilingual pedagogies using HLT to support knowledge exchange (transknowledging), and translanguaging for all students. These disrupt inequitable hierarchies, and position bi-/multilingual students as valuable resources for monolingual staff and students.

Published
2022
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8. Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals

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Spracklen, Cassandra N, Horikoshi, Momoko, Kim, Young Jin, Lin, Kuang, Bragg, Fiona, Moon, Sanghoon, Suzuki, Ken, Tam, Claudia HT, Tabara, Yasuharu, Kwak, Soo-Heon, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Long, Jirong, Lim, Victor JY, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Yao, Jie, Choi, Hyeok Sun, Iyengar, Apoorva K, Perrin, Hannah J, Brotman, Sarah M, van de Bunt, Martijn, Gloyn, Anna L, Below, Jennifer E, Boehnke, Michael, Bowden, Donald W, Chambers, John C, Mahajan, Anubha, McCarthy, Mark I, Ng, Maggie CY, Petty, Lauren E, Zhang, Weihua, Morris, Andrew P, Adair, Linda S, Akiyama, Masato, Bian, Zheng, Chan, Juliana CN, Chang, Li-Ching, Chee, Miao-Li, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Chen, Zhengming, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Du, Shufa, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Gross, Myron, Guo, Xiuqing, Guo, Yu, Han, Sohee, Howard, Annie-Green, Huang, Wei, Hung, Yi-Jen, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Hwu, Chii-Min, Ichihara, Sahoko, Isono, Masato, Jang, Hye-Mi, Jiang, Guozhi, Jonas, Jost B, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Kohara, Katsuhiko, Lee, Myung-Shik, Lee, Nanette R, Li, Liming, Liu, Jianjun, Luk, Andrea O, Lv, Jun, Okada, Yukinori, Pereira, Mark A, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Shi, Jinxiu, Shin, Dong Mun, So, Wing Yee, Takahashi, Atsushi, Tomlinson, Brian, Tsai, Fuu-Jen, van Dam, Rob M, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Yamamoto, Ken, Yamauchi, Toshimasa, Yoon, Kyungheon, Yu, Canqing, Yuan, Jian-Min, Zhang, Liang, Zheng, Wei, Igase, Michiya, Cho, Yoon Shin, Rotter, Jerome I, Wang, Ya-Xing, Sheu, Wayne HH, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Wong, Tien-Yin, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Kato, Norihiro, and Park, Kyong-Soo

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Human Genome, Diabetes, Biotechnology, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Metabolic and endocrine, Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, Mitochondrial, Alleles, Ankyrins, Asian People, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Europe, Eye Proteins, Asia, Eastern, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Homeodomain Proteins, Humans, Male, Nerve Tissue Proteins, RNA, Messenger, Transcription Factors, Transcription, Genetic, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 240 loci that are associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D)1,2; however, most of these loci have been identified in analyses of individuals with European ancestry. Here, to examine T2D risk in East Asian individuals, we carried out a meta-analysis of GWAS data from 77,418 individuals with T2D and 356,122 healthy control individuals. In the main analysis, we identified 301 distinct association signals at 183 loci, and across T2D association models with and without consideration of body mass index and sex, we identified 61 loci that are newly implicated in predisposition to T2D. Common variants associated with T2D in both East Asian and European populations exhibited strongly correlated effect sizes. Previously undescribed associations include signals in or near GDAP1, PTF1A, SIX3, ALDH2, a microRNA cluster, and genes that affect the differentiation of muscle and adipose cells3. At another locus, expression quantitative trait loci at two overlapping T2D signals affect two genes-NKX6-3 and ANK1-in different tissues4-6. Association studies in diverse populations identify additional loci and elucidate disease-associated genes, biology, and pathways.

Published
2020

9. Genetically Determined Plasma Lipid Levels and Risk of Diabetic Retinopathy: A Mendelian Randomization Study

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Sobrin, Lucia, Chong, Yong He, Fan, Qiao, Gan, Alfred, Stanwyck, Lynn K, Kaidonis, Georgia, Craig, Jamie E, Kim, Jihye, Liao, Wen-Ling, Huang, Yu-Chuen, Lee, Wen-Jane, Hung, Yi-Jen, Guo, Xiuqing, Hai, Yang, Ipp, Eli, Pollack, Samuela, Hancock, Heather, Price, Alkes, Penman, Alan, Mitchell, Paul, Liew, Gerald, Smith, Albert V, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Tan, Gavin, Klein, Barbara EK, Kuo, Jane, Li, Xiaohui, Christiansen, Mark W, Psaty, Bruce M, Sandow, Kevin, Jensen, Richard A, Klein, Ronald, Cotch, Mary Frances, Wang, Jie Jin, Jia, Yucheng, Chen, Ching J, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Rotter, Jerome I, Tsai, Fuu-Jen, Hanis, Craig L, Burdon, Kathryn P, Wong, Tien Yin, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Spracklen, Cassandra N, Chen, Peng, Kim, Young Jin, Wang, Xu, Cai, Hui, Li, Shengxu, Long, Jirong, Wu, Ying, Wang, Ya-Xing, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Jung, Keum-Ji, Hu, Cheng, Akiyama, Koichi, Zhang, Yonghong, Moon, Sanghoon, Johnson, Todd A, Li, Huaixing, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, He, Meian, Cannon, Maren E, Roman, Tamara S, Salfati, Elias, Lin, Keng-Hung, Sheu, Wayne HH, Absher, Devin, Adair, Linda S, Assimes, Themistocles L, Aung, Tin, Cai, Qiuyin, Chang, Li-Ching, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chien, Li-Hsin, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Chuang, Shu-Chun, Du, Shufa, Fann, Cathy SJ, Feranil, Alan B, Friedlander, Yechiel, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Gu, Dongfeng, Gui, Lixuan, Guo, Zhirong, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Hixson, James, Hou, Xuhong, Hsiung, Chao Agnes, Hu, Yao, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Hwu, Chii-Min, Isono, Masato, Juang, Jyh-Ming Jimmy, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Kim, Yun Kyoung, Koh, Woon-Puay, Kubo, Michiaki, and Lee, I-Te

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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Cancer, Prevention, Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Metabolic and endocrine, Aged, Diabetic Retinopathy, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Lipids, Male, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk, Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Abstract

Results from observational studies examining dyslipidemia as a risk factor for diabetic retinopathy (DR) have been inconsistent. We evaluated the causal relationship between plasma lipids and DR using a Mendelian randomization approach. We pooled genome-wide association studies summary statistics from 18 studies for two DR phenotypes: any DR (N = 2,969 case and 4,096 control subjects) and severe DR (N = 1,277 case and 3,980 control subjects). Previously identified lipid-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms served as instrumental variables. Meta-analysis to combine the Mendelian randomization estimates from different cohorts was conducted. There was no statistically significant change in odds ratios of having any DR or severe DR for any of the lipid fractions in the primary analysis that used single nucleotide polymorphisms that did not have a pleiotropic effect on another lipid fraction. Similarly, there was no significant association in the Caucasian and Chinese subgroup analyses. This study did not show evidence of a causal role of the four lipid fractions on DR. However, the study had limited power to detect odds ratios less than 1.23 per SD in genetically induced increase in plasma lipid levels, thus we cannot exclude that causal relationships with more modest effect sizes exist.

Published
2017

10. Genetic loci associated with an earlier age at onset in multiplex schizophrenia.

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Woolston, Annemarie L, Hsiao, Po-Chang, Kuo, Po-Hsiu, Wang, Shi-Heng, Lien, Yin-Ju, Liu, Chih-Min, Hwu, Hai-Gwo, Lu, Tzu-Pin, Chuang, Eric Y, Chang, Li-Ching, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Tsuang, Ming T, and Chen, Wei J

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Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Markers, Case-Control Studies, Siblings, Schizophrenia, Age of Onset, Genotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Adult, Aged, Middle Aged, Female, Male, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract

An earlier age at onset (AAO) has been associated with greater genetic loadings in schizophrenia. This study aimed to identify modifier loci associated with an earlier AAO of schizophrenia. A genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) was conducted in 94 schizophrenia probands with the earliest AAO and 91 with the latest AAO. Candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were then genotyped in the co-affected siblings and unrelated probands. Multi-SNP genetic risk scores (GRS) composed of the candidate loci were used to distinguish patients with an early or late AAO. The 14-SNP GRS could distinguish the co-affected siblings (n = 90) of the earliest probands from those (n = 91) of the latest probands. When 132 patients with an earlier AAO and 158 patients with a later AAO were included, a significant trend in the 14-SNP GRS was detected among those unrelated probands from 4 family groups with the earliest, earlier, later, and latest AAO. The overall effect of the 14 SNPs on an AAO in schizophrenia was verified using co-affected siblings of the GWAS probands and trend effect across unrelated patients. Preliminary network analysis of these loci revealed the involvement of PARK2, a gene intensively reported in Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia research.

Published
2017

11. Association analyses of East Asian individuals and trans-ancestry analyses with European individuals reveal new loci associated with cholesterol and triglyceride levels

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Spracklen, Cassandra N, Chen, Peng, Kim, Young Jin, Wang, Xu, Cai, Hui, Li, Shengxu, Long, Jirong, Wu, Ying, Wang, Ya Xing, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Jung, Keum-Ji, Hu, Cheng, Akiyama, Koichi, Zhang, Yonghong, Moon, Sanghoon, Johnson, Todd A, Li, Huaixing, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, He, Meian, Cannon, Maren E, Roman, Tamara S, Salfati, Elias, Lin, Keng-Hung, Guo, Xiuqing, Sheu, Wayne HH, Absher, Devin, Adair, Linda S, Assimes, Themistocles L, Aung, Tin, Cai, Qiuyin, Chang, Li-Ching, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chien, Li-Hsin, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Chuang, Shu-Chun, Du, Shufa, Fan, Qiao, Fann, Cathy SJ, Feranil, Alan B, Friedlander, Yechiel, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Gu, Dongfeng, Gui, Lixuan, Guo, Zhirong, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Hixson, James, Hou, Xuhong, Hsiung, Chao Agnes, Hu, Yao, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Hwu, Chii-Min, Isono, Masato, Juang, Jyh-Ming Jimmy, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Kim, Yun Kyoung, Koh, Woon-Puay, Kubo, Michiaki, Lee, I-Te, Lee, Sun-Ju, Lee, Wen-Jane, Liang, Kae-Woei, Lim, Blanche, Lim, Sing-Hui, Liu, Jianjun, Nabika, Toru, Pan, Wen-Harn, Peng, Hao, Quertermous, Thomas, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Sandow, Kevin, Shi, Jinxiu, Sun, Liang, Tan, Pok Chien, Tan, Shu-Pei, Taylor, Kent D, Teo, Yik-Ying, Toh, Sue-Anne, Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko, van Dam, Rob M, Wang, Aili, Wang, Feijie, Wang, Jie, Bin Wei, Wen, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Yao, Jie, Yuan, Jian-Min, Zhang, Rong, Zhao, Wanting, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Rich, Stephen S, Rotter, Jerome I, Wang, Tzung-Dau, Wu, Tangchun, Lin, Xu, Han, Bok-Ghee, Tanaka, Toshihiro, Cho, Yoon Shin, Katsuya, Tomohiro, and Jia, Weiping

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Genetics, Human Genome, Atherosclerosis, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Metabolic and endocrine, Adult, Alleles, Asian People, Cholesterol, Ethnicity, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Association Studies, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Lipids, Lipoproteins, HDL, Lipoproteins, LDL, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Triglycerides, White People, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Large-scale meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >175 loci associated with fasting cholesterol levels, including total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and triglycerides (TG). With differences in linkage disequilibrium (LD) structure and allele frequencies between ancestry groups, studies in additional large samples may detect new associations. We conducted staged GWAS meta-analyses in up to 69,414 East Asian individuals from 24 studies with participants from Japan, the Philippines, Korea, China, Singapore, and Taiwan. These meta-analyses identified (P

Published
2017

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

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van Rooij, Frank JA, Qayyum, Rehan, Smith, Albert V, Zhou, Yi, Trompet, Stella, Tanaka, Toshiko, Keller, Margaux F, Chang, Li-Ching, Schmidt, Helena, Yang, Min-Lee, Chen, Ming-Huei, Hayes, James, Johnson, Andrew D, Yanek, Lisa R, Mueller, Christian, Lange, Leslie, Floyd, James S, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Zonderman, Alan B, Jukema, J Wouter, Hofman, Albert, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Desch, Karl C, Saba, Yasaman, Ozel, Ayse B, Snively, Beverly M, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Schmidt, Reinhold, Fornage, Myriam, Klein, Robert J, Fox, Caroline S, Matsuda, Koichi, Kamatani, Naoyuki, Wild, Philipp S, Stott, David J, Ford, Ian, Slagboom, P Eline, Yang, Jaden, Chu, Audrey Y, Lambert, Amy J, Uitterlinden, André G, Franco, Oscar H, Hofer, Edith, Ginsburg, David, Hu, Bella, Keating, Brendan, Schick, Ursula M, Brody, Jennifer A, Li, Jun Z, Chen, Zhao, Zeller, Tanja, Guralnik, Jack M, Chasman, Daniel I, Peters, Luanne L, Kubo, Michiaki, Becker, Diane M, Li, Jin, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Rotter, Jerome I, Levy, Daniel, Grossmann, Vera, Patel, Kushang V, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Project, The BioBank Japan, Ridker, Paul M, Tang, Hua, Launer, Lenore J, Rice, Kenneth M, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Ferrucci, Luigi, Evans, Michelle K, Choudhuri, Avik, Trompouki, Eirini, Abraham, Brian J, Yang, Song, Takahashi, Atsushi, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kooperberg, Charles, Harris, Tamara B, Jee, Sun Ha, Coresh, Josef, Tsai, Fuu-Jen, Longo, Dan L, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Felix, Janine F, Yang, Qiong, Psaty, Bruce M, Boerwinkle, Eric, Becker, Lewis C, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Wilson, James G, Gudnason, Vilmundur, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Dehghan, Abbas, Cupples, L Adrienne, Nalls, Michael A, Morris, Andrew P, Okada, Yukinori, Reiner, Alexander P, and Zon, Leonard I

Subjects
Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Hematology, Africa, Alleles, Animals, Bayes Theorem, Erythrocytes, Erythropoiesis, Ethnicity, Europe, Asia, Eastern, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Male, RNA-Binding Proteins, Racial Groups, Zebrafish, BioBank Japan Project, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
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 in vivo 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

13. Genome-wide association studies in East Asians identify new loci for waist-hip ratio and waist circumference.

Author

Wen, Wanqing, Kato, Norihiro, Hwang, Joo-Yeon, Guo, Xingyi, Tabara, Yasuharu, Li, Huaixing, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Yang, Xiaobo, Tsai, Fuu-Jen, Li, Shengxu, Wu, Ying, Wu, Tangchun, Kim, Soriul, Guo, Xiuqing, Liang, Jun, Shungin, Dmitry, Adair, Linda S, Akiyama, Koichi, Allison, Matthew, Cai, Qiuyin, Chang, Li-Ching, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Cho, Yoon Shin, Choi, Bo Youl, Gao, Yutang, Go, Min Jin, Gu, Dongfeng, Han, Bok-Ghee, He, Meian, Hixson, James E, Hu, Yanling, Huang, Tao, Isono, Masato, Jung, Keum Ji, Kang, Daehee, Kim, Young Jin, Kita, Yoshikuni, Lee, Juyoung, Lee, Nanette R, Lee, Jeannette, Wang, Yiqin, Liu, Jian-Jun, Long, Jirong, Moon, Sanghoon, Nakamura, Yasuyuki, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Ohnaka, Keizo, Rao, Dabeeru, Shi, Jiajun, Sull, Jae Woong, Tan, Aihua, Ueshima, Hirotsugu, Wu, Chen, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Yamamoto, Ken, Yao, Jie, Ye, Xingwang, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Zhang, Xiaomin, Zheng, Yan, Qi, Lu, Rotter, Jerome I, Jee, Sun Ha, Lin, Dongxin, Mohlke, Karen L, He, Jiang, Mo, Zengnan, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Tai, E Shyong, Lin, Xu, Miki, Tetsuro, Kim, Bong-Jo, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Zheng, Wei, and Shu, Xiao-Ou

Subjects
Humans, Obesity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Waist-Hip Ratio, Sex Factors, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Asia, Female, Male, Waist Circumference, Genome-Wide Association Study, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Clinical Research, Genetics, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Cardiovascular, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Other Physical Sciences
Abstract

Sixty genetic loci associated with abdominal obesity, measured by waist circumference (WC) and waist-hip ratio (WHR), have been previously identified, primarily from studies conducted in European-ancestry populations. We conducted a meta-analysis of associations of abdominal obesity with approximately 2.5 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) among 53,052 (for WC) and 48,312 (for WHR) individuals of Asian descent, and replicated 33 selected SNPs among 3,762 to 17,110 additional individuals. We identified four novel loci near the EFEMP1, ADAMTSL3 , CNPY2, and GNAS genes that were associated with WC after adjustment for body mass index (BMI); two loci near the NID2 and HLA-DRB5 genes associated with WHR after adjustment for BMI, and three loci near the CEP120, TSC22D2, and SLC22A2 genes associated with WC without adjustment for BMI. Functional enrichment analyses revealed enrichment of corticotropin-releasing hormone signaling, GNRH signaling, and/or CDK5 signaling pathways for those newly-identified loci. Our study provides additional insight on genetic contribution to abdominal obesity.

Published
2016

16. SMIM1 absence is associated with reduced energy expenditure and excess weight

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Banasik, Karina, Bay, Jakob, Boldsen, Jens Kjærgaard, Brodersen, Thorsten, Brunak, Søren, Burgdorf, Kristoffer, Chalmer, Mona Ameri, Didriksen, Maria, Dinh, Khoa Manh, Dowsett, Joseph, Erikstrup, Christian, Feenstra, Bjarke, Geller, Frank, Gudbjartsson, Daniel, Hansen, Thomas Folkmann, Hindhede, Lotte, Hjalgrim, Henrik, Jacobsen, Rikke Louise, Jemec, Gregor, Jensen, Bitten Aagaard, Kaspersen, Katrine, Kjerulff, Bertram Dalskov, Kogelman, Lisette, Hørup Larsen, Margit Anita, Louloudis, Ioannis, Lundgaard, Agnete, Susan, Mikkelsen, Christina, Nissen, Ioanna, Nyegaard, Mette, Ostrowski, Sisse Rye, Pedersen, Ole Birger, Henriksen, Alexander Pil, Rohde, Palle Duun, Rostgaard, Klaus, Schwinn, Michael, Stefansson, Kari, Stefánsson, Hreinn, Sørensen, Erik, þorsteinsdóttir, Unnur, Thørner, Lise Wegner, Bruun, Mie Topholm, Ullum, Henrik, Werge, Thomas, Westergaard, David, Chen, Ji, Spracklen, Cassandra N., Marenne, Gaëlle, Varshney, Arushi, Corbin, Laura J., Luan, Jian’an, Willems, Sara M., Wu, Ying, Zhang, Xiaoshuai, Horikoshi, Momoko, Boutin, Thibaud S., Mägi, Reedik, Waage, Johannes, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Katie Chan, Kei Hang, Yao, Jie, Anasanti, Mila D., Chu, Audrey Y., Claringbould, Annique, Heikkinen, Jani, Hong, Jaeyoung, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huo, Shaofeng, Kaakinen, Marika A., Louie, Tin, März, Winfried, Moreno-Macias, Hortensia, Ndungu, Anne, Nelson, Sarah C., Nolte, Ilja M., North, Kari E., Raulerson, Chelsea K., Ray, Debashree, Rohde, Rebecca, Rybin, Denis, Schurmann, Claudia, Sim, Xueling, Southam, Loz, Stewart, Isobel D., Wang, Carol A., Wang, Yujie, Wu, Peitao, Zhang, Weihua, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Appel, Emil V.R., Bielak, Lawrence F., Brody, Jennifer A., Burtt, Noël P., Cabrera, Claudia P., Cade, Brian E., Chai, Jin Fang, Chai, Xiaoran, Chang, Li-Ching, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chen, Brian H., Chitrala, Kumaraswamy Naidu, Chiu, Yen-Feng, de Haan, Hugoline G., Delgado, Graciela E., Demirkan, Ayse, Duan, Qing, Engmann, Jorgen, Fatumo, Segun A., Gayán, Javier, Giulianini, Franco, Gong, Jung Ho, Gustafsson, Stefan, Hai, Yang, Hartwig, Fernando P., He, Jing, Heianza, Yoriko, Huang, Tao, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Jensen, Richard A., Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Kentistou, Katherine A., Kim, Young Jin, Kleber, Marcus E., Kooner, Ishminder K., Lai, Shuiqing, Lange, Leslie A., Langefeld, Carl D., Lauzon, Marie, Li, Man, Ligthart, Symen, Liu, Jun, Loh, Marie, Long, Jirong, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Mangino, Massimo, Marzi, Carola, Montasser, May E., Nag, Abhishek, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Noce, Damia, Noordam, Raymond, Pistis, Giorgio, Preuss, Michael, Raffield, Laura, Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J., Rich, Stephen S., Robertson, Neil R., Rueedi, Rico, Ryan, Kathleen, Sanna, Serena, Saxena, Richa, Schraut, Katharina E., Sennblad, Bengt, Setoh, Kazuya, Smith, Albert V., Southam, Lorraine, Sparsø, Thomas, Strawbridge, Rona J., Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Tan, Jingyi, Trompet, Stella, van den Akker, Erik, van der Most, Peter J., Verweij, Niek, Vogel, Mandy, Wang, Heming, Wang, Chaolong, Wang, Nan, Warren, Helen R., Wen, Wanqing, Wilsgaard, Tom, Wong, Andrew, Wood, Andrew R., Xie, Tian, Zafarmand, Mohammad Hadi, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Zhao, Wei, Amin, Najaf, Arzumanyan, Zorayr, Astrup, Arne, Bakker, Stephan J.L., Baldassarre, Damiano, Beekman, Marian, Bergman, Richard N., Bertoni, Alain, Blüher, Matthias, Bonnycastle, Lori L., Bornstein, Stefan R., Bowden, Donald W., Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Archie, Campbell, Harry, Chang, Yi Cheng, de Geus, Eco J.C., Dehghan, Abbas, Du, Shufa, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Farmaki, Aliki Eleni, Frånberg, Mattias, Fuchsberger, Christian, Gao, Yutang, Gjesing, Anette P., Goel, Anuj, Han, Sohee, Hartman, Catharina A., Herder, Christian, Hicks, Andrew A., Hsieh, Chang-Hsun, Hsueh, Willa A., Ichihara, Sahoko, Igase, Michiya, Ikram, M. Arfan, Johnson, W. Craig, Jørgensen, Marit E., Joshi, Peter K., Kalyani, Rita R., Kandeel, Fouad R., Katsuya, Tomohiro, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Kiess, Wieland, Kolcic, Ivana, Kuulasmaa, Teemu, Kuusisto, Johanna, Läll, Kristi, Lam, Kelvin, Lawlor, Deborah A., Lee, Nanette R., Lemaitre, Rozenn N., Li, Honglan, Lin, Shih-Yi, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Jianjun, Lorenzo, Carlos, Matsubara, Tatsuaki, Matsuda, Fumihiko, Mingrone, Geltrude, Mooijaart, Simon, Moon, Sanghoon, Nabika, Toru, Nadkarni, Girish N., Nadler, Jerry L., Nelis, Mari, Neville, Matt J., Norris, Jill M., Ohyagi, Yasumasa, Peters, Annette, Peyser, Patricia A., Polasek, Ozren, Qi, Qibin, Raven, Dennis, Reilly, Dermot F., Reiner, Alex, Rivideneira, Fernando, Roll, Kathryn, Rudan, Igor, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Sandow, Kevin, Sattar, Naveed, Schürmann, Annette, Shi, Jinxiu, Stringham, Heather M., Taylor, Kent D., Teslovich, Tanya M., Thuesen, Betina, Timmers, Paul R.H.J., Tremoli, Elena, Tsai, Michael Y., Uitterlinden, Andre, van Dam, Rob M., van Heemst, Diana, van Hylckama Vlieg, Astrid, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V., Vangipurapu, Jagadish, Vestergaard, Henrik, Wang, Tao, Willems van Dijk, Ko, Zemunik, Tatijana, Abecasis, Goncalo R., Adair, Linda S., Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos Alberto, Alarcón-Riquelme, Marta E., An, Ping, Aviles-Santa, Larissa, Becker, Diane M., Beilin, Lawrence J., Bergmann, Sven, Bisgaard, Hans, Black, Corri, Boehnke, Michael, Boerwinkle, Eric, Böhm, Bernhard O., Bønnelykke, Klaus, Boomsma, D.I., Bottinger, Erwin P., Buchanan, Thomas A., Canouil, Mickaël, Caulfield, Mark J., Chambers, John C., Chasman, Daniel I., Ida Chen, Yii-Der, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Collins, Francis S., Correa, Adolfo, Cucca, Francesco, Janaka de Silva, H., Dedoussis, George, Elmståhl, Sölve, Evans, Michele K., Ferrannini, Ele, Ferrucci, Luigi, Florez, Jose C., Franks, Paul W., Frayling, Timothy M., Froguel, Philippe, Gigante, Bruna, Goodarzi, Mark O., Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Grimsgaard, Sameline, Groop, Leif, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Guo, Xiuqing, Hamsten, Anders, Hansen, Torben, Hayward, Caroline, Heckbert, Susan R., Horta, Bernardo L., Huang, Wei, Ingelsson, Erik, James, Pankow S., Jarvelin, Marjo-Ritta, Jonas, Jost B., Jukema, J. Wouter, Kaleebu, Pontiano, Kaplan, Robert, Kardia, Sharon L.R., Kato, Norihiro, Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka M., Kim, Bong-Jo, Kivimaki, Mika, Koistinen, Heikki A., Kooner, Jaspal S., Körner, Antje, Kovacs, Peter, Kuh, Diana, Kumari, Meena, Kutalik, Zoltan, Laakso, Markku, Lakka, Timo A., Launer, Lenore J., Leander, Karin, Li, Huaixing, Lin, Xu, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia, Liu, Simin, Loos, Ruth J.F., Magnusson, Patrik K.E., Mahajan, Anubha, Metspalu, Andres, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Mori, Trevor A., Munroe, Patricia B., Njølstad, Inger, O'Connell, Jeffrey R., Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Ong, Ken K., Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Palmer, Colin N.A., Palmer, Nicholette D., Pedersen, Oluf, Pennell, Craig E., Porteous, David J., Pramstaller, Peter P., Province, Michael A., Psaty, Bruce M., Qi, Lu, Raffel, Leslie J., Rauramaa, Rainer, Redline, Susan, Ridker, Paul M., Rosendaal, Frits R., Saaristo, Timo E., Sandhu, Manjinder, Saramies, Jouko, Schneiderman, Neil, Schwarz, Peter, Scott, Laura J., Selvin, Elizabeth, Sever, Peter, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Slagboom, P. Eline, Small, Kerrin S., Smith, Blair H., Snieder, Harold, Sofer, Tamar, Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Spector, Tim D., Stanton, Alice, Steves, Claire J., Stumvoll, Michael, Sun, Liang, Tabara, Yasuharu, Tai, E. Shyong, Timpson, Nicholas J., Tönjes, Anke, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Tusie, Teresa, Uusitupa, Matti, van der Harst, Pim, van Duijn, Cornelia, Vitart, Veronique, Vollenweider, Peter, Vrijkotte, Tanja G.M., Wagenknecht, Lynne E., Walker, Mark, Wang, Ya X., Wareham, Nick J., Watanabe, Richard M., Watkins, Hugh, Wei, Wen B., Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilson, James F., Wong, Tien-Yin, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Xiang, Anny H., Yanek, Lisa R., Yengo, Loïc, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Zheng, Wei, Zonderman, Alan B., Rotter, Jerome I., Gloyn, Anna L., McCarthy, Mark I., Dupuis, Josée, Meigs, James B., Scott, Robert A., Prokopenko, Inga, Leong, Aaron, Liu, Ching-Ti, Parker, Stephen C.J., Mohlke, Karen L., Langenberg, Claudia, Wheeler, Eleanor, Morris, Andrew P., Barroso, Inês, Stefanucci, Luca, Moslemi, Camous, Tomé, Ana R., Virtue, Samuel, Bidault, Guillaume, Gleadall, Nicholas S., Watson, Laura P.E., Kwa, Jing E., Burden, Frances, Farrow, Samantha, Võsa, Urmo, Burling, Keith, Walker, Lindsay, Ord, John, Barker, Peter, Warner, James, Frary, Amy, Renhstrom, Karola, Ashford, Sofie E., Piper, Jo, Biggs, Gail, Erber, Wendy N., Hoffman, Gary J., Schoenmakers, Nadia, Rieneck, Klaus, Dziegiel, Morten H., Azzu, Vian, Vacca, Michele, Aparicio, Hugo Javier, Hui, Qin, Cho, Kelly, Sun, Yan V., Wilson, Peter W., Bayraktar, Omer A., Vidal-Puig, Antonio, Ostrowski, Sisse R., Astle, William J., Olsson, Martin L., Storry, Jill R., Pedersen, Ole B., Ouwehand, Willem H., Chatterjee, Krishna, Vuckovic, Dragana, and Frontini, Mattia

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17. Multiple nonglycemic genomic loci are newly associated with blood level of glycated hemoglobin in East Asians.

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Chen, Peng, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Lee, Jong-Young, Li, Huaixing, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Liang, Jun, Long, Jirong, Tabara, Yasuharu, Goodarzi, Mark, Pereira, Mark, Kim, Young, Go, Min, Stram, Daniel, Vithana, Eranga, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Liu, Jianjun, Liao, Jiemin, Ye, Xingwang, Wang, Yiqin, Lu, Ling, Young, Terri, Lee, Jeannette, Thai, Ah, Cheng, Ching-Yu, van Dam, Rob, Friedlander, Yechiel, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Koh, Woon-Puay, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chang, Li-Ching, Pan, Wen-Harn, Qi, Qibin, Isono, Masato, Zheng, Wei, Cai, Qiuyin, Gao, Yutang, Yamamoto, Ken, Ohnaka, Keizo, Takayanagi, Ryoichi, Kita, Yoshikuni, Ueshima, Hirotsugu, Hsiung, Chao, Cui, Jinrui, Sheu, Wayne, Chen, Yii-Der, Hsu, Chris, Okada, Yukinori, Kubo, Michiaki, Takahashi, Atsushi, Tanaka, Toshihiro, van Rooij, Frank, Ganesh, Santhi, Huang, Jinyan, Huang, Tao, Yuan, Jianmin, Hwang, Joo-Yeon, Gross, Myron, Assimes, Themistocles, Miki, Tetsuro, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Qi, Lu, Chen, Yuan-Tson, Lin, Xu, Aung, Tin, Wong, Tien-Yin, Teo, Yik-Ying, Kim, Bong-Jo, Kato, Norihiro, Tai, E-Shyong, and Rotter, Jerome

Subjects
Adult, Aged, Asian People, Blood Glucose, Cohort Studies, Asia, Eastern, Female, Genetic Heterogeneity, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glycated Hemoglobin, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract

Glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is used as a measure of glycemic control and also as a diagnostic criterion for diabetes. To discover novel loci harboring common variants associated with HbA1c in East Asians, we conducted a meta-analysis of 13 genome-wide association studies (GWAS; N = 21,026). We replicated our findings in three additional studies comprising 11,576 individuals of East Asian ancestry. Ten variants showed associations that reached genome-wide significance in the discovery data set, of which nine (four novel variants at TMEM79 [P value = 1.3 × 10(-23)], HBS1L/MYB [8.5 × 10(-15)], MYO9B [9.0 × 10(-12)], and CYBA [1.1 × 10(-8)] as well as five variants at loci that had been previously identified [CDKAL1, G6PC2/ABCB11, GCK, ANK1, and FN3KI]) showed consistent evidence of association in replication data sets. These variants explained 1.76% of the variance in HbA1c. Several of these variants (TMEM79, HBS1L/MYB, CYBA, MYO9B, ANK1, and FN3K) showed no association with either blood glucose or type 2 diabetes. Among individuals with nondiabetic levels of fasting glucose (

Published
2014

18. Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

Author

Mahajan, Anubha, Go, Min Jin, Zhang, Weihua, Below, Jennifer E, Gaulton, Kyle J, Ferreira, Teresa, Horikoshi, Momoko, Johnson, Andrew D, Ng, Maggie CY, Prokopenko, Inga, Saleheen, Danish, Wang, Xu, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Adair, Linda S, Almgren, Peter, Atalay, Mustafa, Aung, Tin, Baldassarre, Damiano, Balkau, Beverley, Bao, Yuqian, Barnett, Anthony H, Barroso, Ines, Basit, Abdul, Been, Latonya F, Beilby, John, Bell, Graeme I, Benediktsson, Rafn, Bergman, Richard N, Boehm, Bernhard O, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Burtt, Noël, Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Harry, Carey, Jason, Cauchi, Stephane, Caulfield, Mark, Chan, Juliana CN, Chang, Li-Ching, Chang, Tien-Jyun, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Charpentier, Guillaume, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chen, Han, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Chia, Kee-Seng, Chidambaram, Manickam, Chines, Peter S, Cho, Nam H, Cho, Young Min, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Collins, Francis S, Cornelis, Marilyn C, Couper, David J, Crenshaw, Andrew T, van Dam, Rob M, Danesh, John, Das, Debashish, de Faire, Ulf, Dedoussis, George, Deloukas, Panos, Dimas, Antigone S, Dina, Christian, Doney, Alex SF, Donnelly, Peter J, Dorkhan, Mozhgan, van Duijn, Cornelia, Dupuis, Josée, Edkins, Sarah, Elliott, Paul, Emilsson, Valur, Erbel, Raimund, Eriksson, Johan G, Escobedo, Jorge, Esko, Tonu, Eury, Elodie, Florez, Jose C, Fontanillas, Pierre, Forouhi, Nita G, Forsen, Tom, Fox, Caroline, Fraser, Ross M, Frayling, Timothy M, Froguel, Philippe, Frossard, Philippe, Gao, Yutang, Gertow, Karl, Gieger, Christian, Gigante, Bruna, Grallert, Harald, Grant, George B, Groop, Leif C, Groves, Christopher J, Grundberg, Elin, Guiducci, Candace, Hamsten, Anders, Han, Bok-Ghee, Hara, Kazuo, and Hassanali, Neelam

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Diabetes, Metabolic and endocrine, Alleles, Asian People, Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, White People, DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis (DIAGRAM) Consortium, Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network Type 2 Diabetes (AGEN-T2D) Consortium, South Asian Type 2 Diabetes (SAT2D) Consortium, Mexican American Type 2 Diabetes (MAT2D) Consortium, Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Nex-generation sequencing in muylti-Ethnic Samples (T2D-GENES) Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract

To further understanding of the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) susceptibility, we aggregated published meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), including 26,488 cases and 83,964 controls of European, east Asian, south Asian and Mexican and Mexican American ancestry. We observed a significant excess in the directional consistency of T2D risk alleles across ancestry groups, even at SNPs demonstrating only weak evidence of association. By following up the strongest signals of association from the trans-ethnic meta-analysis in an additional 21,491 cases and 55,647 controls of European ancestry, we identified seven new T2D susceptibility loci. Furthermore, we observed considerable improvements in the fine-mapping resolution of common variant association signals at several T2D susceptibility loci. These observations highlight the benefits of trans-ethnic GWAS for the discovery and characterization of complex trait loci and emphasize an exciting opportunity to extend insight into the genetic architecture and pathogenesis of human diseases across populations of diverse ancestry.

Published
2014

19. Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

Author

DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis (DIAGRAM) Consortium, Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network Type 2 Diabetes (AGEN-T2D) Consortium, South Asian Type 2 Diabetes (SAT2D) Consortium, Mexican American Type 2 Diabetes (MAT2D) Consortium, Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Nex-generation sequencing in muylti-Ethnic Samples (T2D-GENES) Consortium, Mahajan, Anubha, Go, Min Jin, Zhang, Weihua, Below, Jennifer E, Gaulton, Kyle J, Ferreira, Teresa, Horikoshi, Momoko, Johnson, Andrew D, Ng, Maggie CY, Prokopenko, Inga, Saleheen, Danish, Wang, Xu, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Adair, Linda S, Almgren, Peter, Atalay, Mustafa, Aung, Tin, Baldassarre, Damiano, Balkau, Beverley, Bao, Yuqian, Barnett, Anthony H, Barroso, Ines, Basit, Abdul, Been, Latonya F, Beilby, John, Bell, Graeme I, Benediktsson, Rafn, Bergman, Richard N, Boehm, Bernhard O, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Burtt, Noël, Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Harry, Carey, Jason, Cauchi, Stephane, Caulfield, Mark, Chan, Juliana CN, Chang, Li-Ching, Chang, Tien-Jyun, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Charpentier, Guillaume, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chen, Han, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Chia, Kee-Seng, Chidambaram, Manickam, Chines, Peter S, Cho, Nam H, Cho, Young Min, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Collins, Francis S, Cornelis, Marylin C, Couper, David J, Crenshaw, Andrew T, van Dam, Rob M, Danesh, John, Das, Debashish, de Faire, Ulf, Dedoussis, George, Deloukas, Panos, Dimas, Antigone S, Dina, Christian, Doney, Alex S, Donnelly, Peter J, Dorkhan, Mozhgan, van Duijn, Cornelia, Dupuis, Josée, Edkins, Sarah, Elliott, Paul, Emilsson, Valur, Erbel, Raimund, Eriksson, Johan G, Escobedo, Jorge, Esko, Tonu, Eury, Elodie, Florez, Jose C, Fontanillas, Pierre, Forouhi, Nita G, Forsen, Tom, Fox, Caroline, Fraser, Ross M, Frayling, Timothy M, Froguel, Philippe, Frossard, Philippe, Gao, Yutang, Gertow, Karl, Gieger, Christian, Gigante, Bruna, Grallert, Harald, Grant, George B, Grrop, Leif C, and Groves, Chrisropher J

Subjects
DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis (DIAGRAM) Consortium, Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network Type 2 Diabetes (AGEN-T2D) Consortium, South Asian Type 2 Diabetes (SAT2D) Consortium, Mexican American Type 2 Diabetes (MAT2D) Consortium, Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Nex-generation sequencing in muylti-Ethnic Samples (T2D-GENES) Consortium, Humans, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Risk Factors, Case-Control Studies, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Alleles, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, European Continental Ancestry Group, Hispanic Americans, Genome-Wide Association Study, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology
Abstract

To further understanding of the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) susceptibility, we aggregated published meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), including 26,488 cases and 83,964 controls of European, east Asian, south Asian and Mexican and Mexican American ancestry. We observed a significant excess in the directional consistency of T2D risk alleles across ancestry groups, even at SNPs demonstrating only weak evidence of association. By following up the strongest signals of association from the trans-ethnic meta-analysis in an additional 21,491 cases and 55,647 controls of European ancestry, we identified seven new T2D susceptibility loci. Furthermore, we observed considerable improvements in the fine-mapping resolution of common variant association signals at several T2D susceptibility loci. These observations highlight the benefits of trans-ethnic GWAS for the discovery and characterization of complex trait loci and emphasize an exciting opportunity to extend insight into the genetic architecture and pathogenesis of human diseases across populations of diverse ancestry.

Published
2014

20. Replication and meta-analysis of GWAS identified susceptibility loci in Kawasaki disease confirm the importance of B lymphoid tyrosine kinase (BLK) in disease susceptibility.

Author

Chang, Chia-Jung, Kuo, Ho-Chang, Chang, Jeng-Sheng, Lee, Jong-Keuk, Tsai, Fuu-Jen, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Chang, Li-Ching, Chen, Shih-Ping, Ko, Tai-Ming, Liu, Yi-Min, Chen, Ying-Ju, Hong, Young Mi, Jang, Gi Young, Hibberd, Martin L, Kuijpers, Taco, Burgner, David, Levin, Michael, Burns, Jane C, Davila, Sonia, International Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium, Korean Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium, Taiwan Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, and Lee, Yi-Ching

Subjects
International Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium, Korean Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium, Taiwan Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium, B-Lymphocytes, Cell Line, Transformed, Humans, Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, src-Family Kinases, Cohort Studies, Reproducibility of Results, Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, European Continental Ancestry Group, Taiwan, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Republic of Korea, General Science & Technology
Abstract

The BLK and CD40 loci have been associated with Kawasaki disease (KD) in two genome-wide association studies (GWAS) conducted in a Taiwanese population of Han Chinese ancestry (Taiwanese) and in Japanese cohorts. Here we build on these findings with replication studies of the BLK and CD40 loci in populations of Korean and European descent. The BLK region was significantly associated with KD susceptibility in both populations. Within the BLK gene the rs2736340-located linkage disequilibrium (LD ) comprising the promoter and first intron was strongly associated with KD, with the combined results of Asian studies including Taiwanese, Japanese, and Korean populations (2,539 KD patients and 7,021 controls) providing very compelling evidence of association (rs2736340, OR = 1.498, 1.354-1.657; P = 4.74×10(-31)). We determined the percentage of B cells present in the peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) population and the expression of BLK in the peripheral blood leukocytes (leukocytes) of KD patients during the acute and convalescent stages. The percentage of B cells in the PBMC population and the expression of BLK in leukocytes were induced in patients in the acute stage of KD. In B cell lines derived from KD patients, and in purified B cells from KD patients obtained during the acute stage, those with the risk allele of rs2736340 expressed significantly lower levels of BLK. These results suggest that peripheral B cells play a pathogenic role during the acute stage of KD. Decreased BLK expression in peripheral blood B cells may alter B cell function and predispose individuals to KD. These associative data suggest a role for B cells during acute KD. Understanding the functional implications may facilitate the development of B cell-mediated therapy for KD.

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2013

21. Meta-analysis identifies multiple loci associated with kidney function–related traits in east Asian populations

Author

Okada, Yukinori, Sim, Xueling, Go, Min Jin, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Gu, Dongfeng, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Takahashi, Atsushi, Maeda, Shiro, Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko, Chen, Peng, Lim, Su-Chi, Wong, Tien-Yin, Liu, Jianjun, Young, Terri L, Aung, Tin, Seielstad, Mark, Teo, Yik-Ying, Kim, Young Jin, Lee, Jong-Young, Han, Bok-Ghee, Kang, Daehee, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Tsai, Fuu-Jen, Chang, Li-Ching, Fann, S-J Cathy, Mei, Hao, Rao, Dabeeru C, Hixson, James E, Chen, Shufeng, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Isono, Masato, Ogihara, Toshio, Chambers, John C, Zhang, Weihua, Kooner, Jaspal S, Albrecht, Eva, Yamamoto, Kazuhiko, Kubo, Michiaki, Nakamura, Yusuke, Kamatani, Naoyuki, Kato, Norihiro, He, Jiang, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Cho, Yoon Shin, Tai, E-Shyong, and Tanaka, Toshihiro

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Kidney Disease, Human Genome, Renal and urogenital, Asian People, Blood Urea Nitrogen, Cohort Studies, Creatinine, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glomerular Filtration Rate, Humans, Kidney, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, Uric Acid, KidneyGen Consortium, CKDGen Consortium, GUGC consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract

Chronic kidney disease (CKD), impairment of kidney function, is a serious public health problem, and the assessment of genetic factors influencing kidney function has substantial clinical relevance. Here, we report a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for kidney function-related traits, including 71,149 east Asian individuals from 18 studies in 11 population-, hospital- or family-based cohorts, conducted as part of the Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network (AGEN). Our meta-analysis identified 17 loci newly associated with kidney function-related traits, including the concentrations of blood urea nitrogen, uric acid and serum creatinine and estimated glomerular filtration rate based on serum creatinine levels (eGFRcrea) (P < 5.0 × 10(-8)). We further examined these loci with in silico replication in individuals of European ancestry from the KidneyGen, CKDGen and GUGC consortia, including a combined total of ∼110,347 individuals. We identify pleiotropic associations among these loci with kidney function-related traits and risk of CKD. These findings provide new insights into the genetics of kidney function.

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2012

24. Multi-ancestry genome-wide study in >2.5 million individuals reveals heterogeneity in mechanistic pathways of type 2 diabetes and complications

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Suzuki, Ken, Hatzikotoulas, Konstantinos, Southam, Lorraine, Taylor, Henry J., Yin, Xianyong, Lorenz, Kim M., Mandla, Ravi, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Rayner, Nigel W., Bocher, Ozvan, Ana Luiza de, S. V. Arruda, Sonehara, Kyuto, Namba, Shinichi, Lee, Simon S. K., Preuss, Michael H., Petty, Lauren E., Schroeder, Philip, Vanderwerff, Brett, Kals, Mart, Bragg, Fiona, Lin, Kuang, Guo, Xiuqing, Zhang, Weihua, Yao, Jie, Kim, Young Jin, Graff, Mariaelisa, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Nano, Jana, Lamri, Amel, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Moon, Sanghoon, Scott, Robert A., Cook, James P., Lee, Jung-Jin, Pan, Ian, Taliun, Daniel, Parra, Esteban J., Chai, Jin-Fang, Bielak, Lawrence F., Tabara, Yasuharu, Hai, Yang, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Grarup, Niels, Sofer, Tamar, Wuttke, Matthias, Sarnowski, Chloé, Gieger, Christian, Nousome, Darryl, Trompet, Stella, Kwak, Soo-Heon, Long, Jirong, Sun, Meng, Tong, Lin, Chen, Wei-Min, Nongmaithem, Suraj S., Noordam, Raymond, Lim, Victor J. Y., Tam, Claudia H. T., Joo, Yoonjung Yoonie, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Raffield, Laura M., Prins, Bram Peter, Nicolas, Aude, Yanek, Lisa R., Chen, Guanjie, Brody, Jennifer A., Kabagambe, Edmond, An, Ping, Xiang, Anny H., Choi, Hyeok Sun, Cade, Brian E., Tan, Jingyi, Alaine Broadaway, K., Williamson, Alice, Kamali, Zoha, Cui, Jinrui, Adair, Linda S., Adeyemo, Adebowale, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A., Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Anand, Sonia S., Bertoni, Alain, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Brandslund, Ivan, Buchanan, Thomas A., Burant, Charles F., Butterworth, Adam S., Canouil, Mickaël, Chan, Juliana C. N., Chang, Li-Ching, Chee, Miao-Li, Chen, Ji, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Chen, Zhengming, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Cushman, Mary, Danesh, John, Das, Swapan K., Janaka de Silva, H., Dedoussis, George, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Doumatey, Ayo P., Du, Shufa, Duan, Qing, Eckardt, Kai-Uwe, Emery, Leslie S., Evans, Daniel S., Evans, Michele K., Fischer, Krista, Floyd, James S., Ford, Ian, Franco, Oscar H., Frayling, Timothy M., Freedman, Barry I., Genter, Pauline, Gerstein, Hertzel C., Giedraitis, Vilmantas, González-Villalpando, Clicerio, González-Villalpando, Maria Elena, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Gross, Myron, Guare, Lindsay A., Hackinger, Sophie, Han, Sohee, Hattersley, Andrew T., Herder, Christian, Horikoshi, Momoko, Howard, Annie-Green, Hsueh, Willa, Huang, Mengna, Huang, Wei, Hung, Yi-Jen, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Hwu, Chii-Min, Ichihara, Sahoko, Ikram, Mohammad Arfan, Ingelsson, Martin, Islam, Md. Tariqul, Isono, Masato, Jang, Hye-Mi, Jasmine, Farzana, Jiang, Guozhi, Jonas, Jost B., Jørgensen, Torben, Kandeel, Fouad R., Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Kaur, Varinderpal, Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Keaton, Jacob M., Kho, Abel N., Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Kibriya, Muhammad G., Kim, Duk-Hwan, Kronenberg, Florian, Kuusisto, Johanna, Läll, Kristi, Lange, Leslie A., Lee, Kyung Min, Lee, Myung-Shik, Lee, Nanette R., Leong, Aaron, Li, Liming, Li, Yun, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lithgart, Symen, Lindgren, Cecilia M., Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Ching-Ti, Liu, Jianjun, Locke, Adam E., Louie, Tin, Luan, Jian’an, Luk, Andrea O., Luo, Xi, Lv, Jun, Lynch, Julie A., Lyssenko, Valeriya, Maeda, Shiro, Mamakou, Vasiliki, Mansuri, Sohail Rafik, Matsuda, Koichi, Meitinger, Thomas, Metspalu, Andres, Mo, Huan, Morris, Andrew D., Nadler, Jerry L., Nalls, Michael A., Nayak, Uma, Ntalla, Ioanna, Okada, Yukinori, Orozco, Lorena, Patel, Sanjay R., Patil, Snehal, Pei, Pei, Pereira, Mark A, Peters, Annette, Pirie, Fraser J., Polikowsky, Hannah G., Porneala, Bianca, Prasad, Gauri, Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J., Reiner, Alexander P., Roden, Michael, Rohde, Rebecca, Roll, Katheryn, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Sandow, Kevin, Sankareswaran, Alagu, Sattar, Naveed, Schönherr, Sebastian, Shahriar, Mohammad, Shen, Botong, Shi, Jinxiu, Shin, Dong Mun, Shojima, Nobuhiro, Smith, Jennifer A., So, Wing Yee, Stančáková, Alena, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Stilp, Adrienne M., Strauch, Konstantin, Taylor, Kent D., Thorand, Barbara, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Tomlinson, Brian, Tran, Tam C., Tsai, Fuu-Jen, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Tusie-Luna, Teresa, Udler, Miriam S., Valladares-Salgado, Adan, van Dam, Rob M., van Klinken, Jan B., Varma, Rohit, Wacher-Rodarte, Niels, Wheeler, Eleanor, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., van Dijk, Ko Willems, Witte, Daniel R., Yajnik, Chittaranjan S., Yamamoto, Ken, Yamamoto, Kenichi, Yoon, Kyungheon, Yu, Canqing, Yuan, Jian-Min, Yusuf, Salim, Zawistowski, Matthew, Zhang, Liang, Zheng, Wei, Project, Biobank Japan, BioBank, Penn Medicine, Center, Regeneron Genetics, Consortium, eMERGE, Raffel, Leslie J, Igase, Michiya, Ipp, Eli, Redline, Susan, Cho, Yoon Shin, Lind, Lars, Province, Michael A., Fornage, Myriam, Hanis, Craig L., Ingelsson, Erik, Zonderman, Alan B., Psaty, Bruce M., Wang, Ya-Xing, Rotimi, Charles N., Becker, Diane M., Matsuda, Fumihiko, Liu, Yongmei, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Peyser, Patricia A., Pankow, James S., Engert, James C., Bonnefond, Amélie, Froguel, Philippe, Wilson, James G., Sheu, Wayne H. H., Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Geoffrey Hayes, M., Ma, Ronald C. W., Wong, Tien-Yin, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Tuomi, Tiinamaija, Chandak, Giriraj R., Collins, Francis S., Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan, Paré, Guillaume, Sale, Michèle M., Ahsan, Habibul, Motala, Ayesha A., Shu, Xiao-Ou, Park, Kyong-Soo, Jukema, J Wouter, Cruz, Miguel, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Rich, Stephen S., McKean-Cowdin, Roberta, Grallert, Harald, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Tai, E-Shyong, Dupuis, Josee, Kato, Norihiro, Laakso, Markku, Köttgen, Anna, Koh, Woon-Puay, Bowden, Donald W., Palmer, Colin N. A., Kooner, Jaspal S., Kooperberg, Charles, Liu, Simin, North, Kari E., Saleheen, Danish, Hansen, Torben, Pedersen, Oluf, Wareham, Nicholas J., Lee, Juyoung, Kim, Bong-Jo, Millwood, Iona Y., Walters, Robin G., Stefansson, Kari, Goodarzi, Mark O., Mohlke, Karen L., Langenberg, Claudia, Haiman, Christopher A., Loos, Ruth J. F., Florez, Jose C., Rader, Daniel J., Ritchie, Marylyn D., Zöllner, Sebastian, Mägi, Reedik, Denny, Joshua C., Yamauchi, Toshimasa, Kadowaki, Takashi, Chambers, John C., Ng, Maggie C. Y., Sim, Xueling, Below, Jennifer E., Tsao, Philip S., Chang, Kyong-Mi, McCarthy, Mark I., Meigs, James B., Mahajan, Anubha, Spracklen, Cassandra N., Mercader, Josep M., Boehnke, Michael, Rotter, Jerome I., Vujkovic, Marijana, Voight, Benjamin F., Morris, Andrew P., and Zeggini, Eleftheria

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Article
Abstract

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease that develops through diverse pathophysiological processes. To characterise the genetic contribution to these processes across ancestry groups, we aggregate genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from 2,535,601 individuals (39.7% non-European ancestry), including 428,452 T2D cases. We identify 1,289 independent association signals at genome-wide significance (P

Published
2023

25. Reciprocal multilingual awareness for linguistic citizenship.

Author

Windle, Joel, Heugh, Kathleen, French, Mei, Armitage, Janet, and Chang, Li-Ching

Subjects
TEACHER education, SOCIAL justice, MULTILINGUAL education, DECOLONIZATION, SOCIOLINGUISTICS
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Copyright of Language Awareness is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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2023
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26. Interethnic analyses of blood pressure loci in populations of East Asian and European descent

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Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Akiyama, Masato, Matoba, Nana, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Tabara, Yasuharu, Narita, Akira, Saw, Woei-Yuh, Moon, Sanghoon, Spracklen, Cassandra N., Chai, Jin-Fang, Kim, Young-Jin, Zhang, Liang, Wang, Chaolong, Li, Huaixing, Li, Honglan, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Nierenberg, Jovia L., Wang, Ya Xing, He, Jing, Bennett, Derrick A., Takahashi, Atsushi, Momozawa, Yukihide, Hirata, Makoto, Matsuda, Koichi, Rakugi, Hiromi, Nakashima, Eitaro, Isono, Masato, Shirota, Matsuyuki, Hozawa, Atsushi, Ichihara, Sahoko, Matsubara, Tatsuaki, Yamamoto, Ken, Kohara, Katsuhiko, Igase, Michiya, Han, Sohee, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Huang, Wei, Lee, Nanette R., Adair, Linda S., Hwang, Mi Yeong, Lee, Juyoung, Chee, Miao Li, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Zhao, Wanting, Liu, Jianjun, Reilly, Dermot F., Sun, Liang, Huo, Shaofeng, Edwards, Todd L., Long, Jirong, Chang, Li-Ching, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Yuan, Jian-Min, Koh, Woon-Puay, Friedlander, Yechiel, Kelly, Tanika N., Bin Wei, Wen, Xu, Liang, Cai, Hui, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Lin, Kuang, Clarke, Robert, Walters, Robin G., Millwood, Iona Y., Li, Liming, Chambers, John C., Kooner, Jaspal S., Elliott, Paul, van der Harst, Pim, The International Genomics of Blood Pressure (iGEN-BP) Consortium, Chen, Zhengming, Sasaki, Makoto, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Jonas, Jost B., He, Jiang, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Zheng, Wei, Lin, Xu, Teo, Yik-Ying, Tai, E-Shyong, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Wong, Tien Yin, Sim, Xueling, Mohlke, Karen L., Yamamoto, Masayuki, Kim, Bong-Jo, Miki, Tetsuro, Nabika, Toru, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kubo, Michiaki, and Kato, Norihiro

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2018
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29. Multilingualism, translanguaging and transknowledging

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Heugh, Kathleen, primary, French, Mei, additional, Arya, Vandana, additional, Pham, Min, additional, Tudini, Vincenza, additional, Billinghurst, Necia, additional, Tippett, Neil, additional, Chang, Li-Ching, additional, Nichols, Julie, additional, and Viljoen, Jeanne-Marie, additional

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2022
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38. Relationship between Safety Climate Factors and Safety Performance among the Workers in Cold Storage Industries

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Rusli Ahmad, Chang Li Ching, Nur Fatihah Abdullah Bandar, Hana Hamidi, Ahmad Sofian Shminan, and Heng Chin Siong

Subjects
021105 building & construction, 0211 other engineering and technologies, 020101 civil engineering, Pharmacology (medical), 02 engineering and technology, 0201 civil engineering
Abstract

This study aims to determine the relationship between the safety climate factors (positive workforce safety attitude, acceptance of safety rules and regulation and reasonable production schedule) towards safety performance among workers who work under the cold storage company at Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. A survey methodology was used in this study. This research involves the utilization of questionnaire which was administered among one-hundred and fifty workers. The relationship between the safety climate factors (Positive workforce safety attitude, acceptance of safety rules and regulation and reasonable production schedule) were analyzed using the Pearson’s Correlation analysis test. The results of this study revealed that there is a significant relationship between (positive workforce safety attitude and acceptance of safety rules and regulation) and safety performance. Meanwhile, result showed that there is no significant relationship between reasonable production schedule and safety performance. Hence, this study hoped to raise the awareness of organization about the importance of safety climate in the workplace.

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2018

42. The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

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

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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 < 5 × 10-8), 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.

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2021
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47. SMIM1absence is associated with reduced energy expenditure and excess weight

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Stefanucci, Luca, Moslemi, Camous, Tomé, Ana R., Virtue, Samuel, Bidault, Guillaume, Gleadall, Nicholas S., Watson, Laura P.E., Kwa, Jing E., Burden, Frances, Farrow, Samantha, Banasik, Karina, Bay, Jakob, Boldsen, Jens Kjærgaard, Brodersen, Thorsten, Brunak, Søren, Burgdorf, Kristoffer, Chalmer, Mona Ameri, Didriksen, Maria, Dinh, Khoa Manh, Dowsett, Joseph, Erikstrup, Christian, Feenstra, Bjarke, Geller, Frank, Gudbjartsson, Daniel, Hansen, Thomas Folkmann, Hindhede, Lotte, Hjalgrim, Henrik, Jacobsen, Rikke Louise, Jemec, Gregor, Jensen, Bitten Aagaard, Kaspersen, Katrine, Kjerulff, Bertram Dalskov, Kogelman, Lisette, Hørup Larsen, Margit Anita, Louloudis, Ioannis, Lundgaard, Agnete, Susan, Mikkelsen, Christina, Nissen, Ioanna, Nyegaard, Mette, Ostrowski, Sisse Rye, Pedersen, Ole Birger, Henriksen, Alexander Pil, Rohde, Palle Duun, Rostgaard, Klaus, Schwinn, Michael, Stefansson, Kari, Stefánsson, Hreinn, Sørensen, Erik, þorsteinsdóttir, Unnur, Thørner, Lise Wegner, Bruun, Mie Topholm, Ullum, Henrik, Werge, Thomas, Westergaard, David, Chen, Ji, Chen, Ji, Spracklen, Cassandra N., Marenne, Gaëlle, Varshney, Arushi, Corbin, Laura J., Luan, Jian’an, Willems, Sara M., Wu, Ying, Zhang, Xiaoshuai, Horikoshi, Momoko, Boutin, Thibaud S., Mägi, Reedik, Waage, Johannes, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Katie Chan, Kei Hang, Yao, Jie, Anasanti, Mila D., Chu, Audrey Y., Claringbould, Annique, Heikkinen, Jani, Hong, Jaeyoung, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huo, Shaofeng, Kaakinen, Marika A., Louie, Tin, März, Winfried, Moreno-Macias, Hortensia, Ndungu, Anne, Nelson, Sarah C., Nolte, Ilja M., North, Kari E., Raulerson, Chelsea K., Ray, Debashree, Rohde, Rebecca, Rybin, Denis, Schurmann, Claudia, Sim, Xueling, Southam, Loz, Stewart, Isobel D., Wang, Carol A., Wang, Yujie, Wu, Peitao, Zhang, Weihua, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Appel, Emil V.R., Bielak, Lawrence F., Brody, Jennifer A., Burtt, Noël P., Cabrera, Claudia P., Cade, Brian E., Chai, Jin Fang, Chai, Xiaoran, Chang, Li-Ching, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chen, Brian H., Chitrala, Kumaraswamy Naidu, Chiu, Yen-Feng, de Haan, Hugoline G., Delgado, Graciela E., Demirkan, Ayse, Duan, Qing, Engmann, Jorgen, Fatumo, Segun A., Gayán, Javier, Giulianini, Franco, Gong, Jung Ho, Gustafsson, Stefan, Hai, Yang, Hartwig, Fernando P., He, Jing, Heianza, Yoriko, Huang, Tao, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Jensen, Richard A., Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Kentistou, Katherine A., Kim, Young Jin, Kleber, Marcus E., Kooner, Ishminder K., Lai, Shuiqing, Lange, Leslie A., Langefeld, Carl D., Lauzon, Marie, Li, Man, Ligthart, Symen, Liu, Jun, Loh, Marie, Long, Jirong, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Mangino, Massimo, Marzi, Carola, Montasser, May E., Nag, Abhishek, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Noce, Damia, Noordam, Raymond, Pistis, Giorgio, Preuss, Michael, Raffield, Laura, Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J., Rich, Stephen S., Robertson, Neil R., Rueedi, Rico, Ryan, Kathleen, Sanna, Serena, Saxena, Richa, Schraut, Katharina E., Sennblad, Bengt, Setoh, Kazuya, Smith, Albert V., Southam, Lorraine, Sparsø, Thomas, Strawbridge, Rona J., Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Tan, Jingyi, Trompet, Stella, van den Akker, Erik, van der Most, Peter J., Verweij, Niek, Vogel, Mandy, Wang, Heming, Wang, Chaolong, Wang, Nan, Warren, Helen R., Wen, Wanqing, Wilsgaard, Tom, Wong, Andrew, Wood, Andrew R., Xie, Tian, Zafarmand, Mohammad Hadi, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Zhao, Wei, Amin, Najaf, Arzumanyan, Zorayr, Astrup, Arne, Bakker, Stephan J.L., Baldassarre, Damiano, Beekman, Marian, Bergman, Richard N., Bertoni, Alain, Blüher, Matthias, Bonnycastle, Lori L., Bornstein, Stefan R., Bowden, Donald W., Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Archie, Campbell, Harry, Chang, Yi Cheng, de Geus, Eco J.C., Dehghan, Abbas, Du, Shufa, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Farmaki, Aliki Eleni, Frånberg, Mattias, Fuchsberger, Christian, Gao, Yutang, Gjesing, Anette P., Goel, Anuj, Han, Sohee, Hartman, Catharina A., Herder, Christian, Hicks, Andrew A., Hsieh, Chang-Hsun, Hsueh, Willa A., Ichihara, Sahoko, Igase, Michiya, Ikram, M. Arfan, Johnson, W. Craig, Jørgensen, Marit E., Joshi, Peter K., Kalyani, Rita R., Kandeel, Fouad R., Katsuya, Tomohiro, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Kiess, Wieland, Kolcic, Ivana, Kuulasmaa, Teemu, Kuusisto, Johanna, Läll, Kristi, Lam, Kelvin, Lawlor, Deborah A., Lee, Nanette R., Lemaitre, Rozenn N., Li, Honglan, Lin, Shih-Yi, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Jianjun, Lorenzo, Carlos, Matsubara, Tatsuaki, Matsuda, Fumihiko, Mingrone, Geltrude, Mooijaart, Simon, Moon, Sanghoon, Nabika, Toru, Nadkarni, Girish N., Nadler, Jerry L., Nelis, Mari, Neville, Matt J., Norris, Jill M., Ohyagi, Yasumasa, Peters, Annette, Peyser, Patricia A., Polasek, Ozren, Qi, Qibin, Raven, Dennis, Reilly, Dermot F., Reiner, Alex, Rivideneira, Fernando, Roll, Kathryn, Rudan, Igor, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Sandow, Kevin, Sattar, Naveed, Schürmann, Annette, Shi, Jinxiu, Stringham, Heather M., Taylor, Kent D., Teslovich, Tanya M., Thuesen, Betina, Timmers, Paul R.H.J., Tremoli, Elena, Tsai, Michael Y., Uitterlinden, Andre, van Dam, Rob M., van Heemst, Diana, van Hylckama Vlieg, Astrid, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V., Vangipurapu, Jagadish, Vestergaard, Henrik, Wang, Tao, Willems van Dijk, Ko, Zemunik, Tatijana, Abecasis, Goncalo R., Adair, Linda S., Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos Alberto, Alarcón-Riquelme, Marta E., An, Ping, Aviles-Santa, Larissa, Becker, Diane M., Beilin, Lawrence J., Bergmann, Sven, Bisgaard, Hans, Black, Corri, Boehnke, Michael, Boerwinkle, Eric, Böhm, Bernhard O., Bønnelykke, Klaus, Boomsma, D.I., Bottinger, Erwin P., Buchanan, Thomas A., Canouil, Mickaël, Caulfield, Mark J., Chambers, John C., Chasman, Daniel I., Ida Chen, Yii-Der, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Collins, Francis S., Correa, Adolfo, Cucca, Francesco, Janaka de Silva, H., Dedoussis, George, Elmståhl, Sölve, Evans, Michele K., Ferrannini, Ele, Ferrucci, Luigi, Florez, Jose C., Franks, Paul W., Frayling, Timothy M., Froguel, Philippe, Gigante, Bruna, Goodarzi, Mark O., Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Grimsgaard, Sameline, Groop, Leif, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Guo, Xiuqing, Hamsten, Anders, Hansen, Torben, Hayward, Caroline, Heckbert, Susan R., Horta, Bernardo L., Huang, Wei, Ingelsson, Erik, James, Pankow S., Jarvelin, Marjo-Ritta, Jonas, Jost B., Jukema, J. Wouter, Kaleebu, Pontiano, Kaplan, Robert, Kardia, Sharon L.R., Kato, Norihiro, Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka M., Kim, Bong-Jo, Kivimaki, Mika, Koistinen, Heikki A., Kooner, Jaspal S., Körner, Antje, Kovacs, Peter, Kuh, Diana, Kumari, Meena, Kutalik, Zoltan, Laakso, Markku, Lakka, Timo A., Launer, Lenore J., Leander, Karin, Li, Huaixing, Lin, Xu, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia, Liu, Simin, Loos, Ruth J.F., Magnusson, Patrik K.E., Mahajan, Anubha, Metspalu, Andres, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Mori, Trevor A., Munroe, Patricia B., Njølstad, Inger, O'Connell, Jeffrey R., Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Ong, Ken K., Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Palmer, Colin N.A., Palmer, Nicholette D., Pedersen, Oluf, Pennell, Craig E., Porteous, David J., Pramstaller, Peter P., Province, Michael A., Psaty, Bruce M., Qi, Lu, Raffel, Leslie J., Rauramaa, Rainer, Redline, Susan, Ridker, Paul M., Rosendaal, Frits R., Saaristo, Timo E., Sandhu, Manjinder, Saramies, Jouko, Schneiderman, Neil, Schwarz, Peter, Scott, Laura J., Selvin, Elizabeth, Sever, Peter, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Slagboom, P. Eline, Small, Kerrin S., Smith, Blair H., Snieder, Harold, Sofer, Tamar, Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Spector, Tim D., Stanton, Alice, Steves, Claire J., Stumvoll, Michael, Sun, Liang, Tabara, Yasuharu, Tai, E. Shyong, Timpson, Nicholas J., Tönjes, Anke, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Tusie, Teresa, Uusitupa, Matti, van der Harst, Pim, van Duijn, Cornelia, Vitart, Veronique, Vollenweider, Peter, Vrijkotte, Tanja G.M., Wagenknecht, Lynne E., Walker, Mark, Wang, Ya X., Wareham, Nick J., Watanabe, Richard M., Watkins, Hugh, Wei, Wen B., Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilson, James F., Wong, Tien-Yin, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Xiang, Anny H., Yanek, Lisa R., Yengo, Loïc, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Zheng, Wei, Zonderman, Alan B., Rotter, Jerome I., Gloyn, Anna L., McCarthy, Mark I., Dupuis, Josée, Meigs, James B., Scott, Robert A., Prokopenko, Inga, Leong, Aaron, Liu, Ching-Ti, Parker, Stephen C.J., Mohlke, Karen L., Langenberg, Claudia, Wheeler, Eleanor, Morris, Andrew P., Barroso, Inês, Võsa, Urmo, Burling, Keith, Walker, Lindsay, Ord, John, Barker, Peter, Warner, James, Frary, Amy, Renhstrom, Karola, Ashford, Sofie E., Piper, Jo, Biggs, Gail, Erber, Wendy N., Hoffman, Gary J., Schoenmakers, Nadia, Erikstrup, Christian, Rieneck, Klaus, Dziegiel, Morten H., Ullum, Henrik, Azzu, Vian, Vacca, Michele, Aparicio, Hugo Javier, Hui, Qin, Cho, Kelly, Sun, Yan V., Wilson, Peter W., Bayraktar, Omer A., Vidal-Puig, Antonio, Ostrowski, Sisse R., Astle, William J., Olsson, Martin L., Storry, Jill R., Pedersen, Ole B., Ouwehand, Willem H., Chatterjee, Krishna, Vuckovic, Dragana, and Frontini, Mattia

Abstract

Obesity rates have nearly tripled in the past 50 years, and by 2030 more than 1 billion individuals worldwide are projected to be obese. This creates a significant economic strain due to the associated non-communicable diseases. The root cause is an energy expenditure imbalance, owing to an interplay of lifestyle, environmental, and genetic factors. Obesity has a polygenic genetic architecture; however, single genetic variants with large effect size are etiological in a minority of cases. These variants allowed the discovery of novel genes and biology relevant to weight regulation and ultimately led to the development of novel specific treatments.

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2024
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48. Substance P acts via the neurokinin receptor 1 to elicit bronchoconstriction, oxidative stress, and upregulated ICAM-1 expression after oil smoke exposure

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Li, Ping-Chia, Chen, Wen-Chung, Chang, Li-Ching, and Lin, Shao-Chieh

Subjects
Gene expression -- Research, Cell adhesion molecules -- Properties, Acute respiratory distress syndrome -- Physiological aspects, Oxidative stress -- Influence, Physiological research, Biological sciences
Abstract

This study aimed to 1) assess whether substance P (SP) acts via neurokinin (NK)-I and NK-2 receptors to stimulate neurogenic inflammation (indicated by formation of ICAM-1 expression and oxidative stress) following oil smoke exposure (OSE) in rats; and 2) determine if pretreatment with antioxidants ameliorates the deleterious effects of OSE. Rats were pretreated with NK-1 receptor antagonist CP-96345, NK-2 receptor antagonist SR-48968, vitamin C, or catechins. OSE was for 30-120 min. Rats were killed 0-8 h later. Total lung resistance ([R.sub.L), airway smooth muscle activity (ASMA), lung ICAM-1 expression, neurogenic plasma extravasation (via India ink and Evans blue dye), bronchoalveolar lavage fluid SP concentrations, and reactive oxygen species formation [via lucigenin- and luminalamplified chemiluminescence (CL)] were assessed. Lung histology was performed. SP concentrations increased significantly in nonpretreated rats following OSE in a close-dependent manner. [R.sub.L] and total ASMA increased over time after OSE. Vitamin C and catechin pretreatments were associated with significantly reduced lucigenin CL 2 and 4 h after OSE. Pretreatment with catechins significantly reduced luminal CL counts 4 and 8 h after OSE. Evans blue levels were significantly reduced following 60 and 120 min of OSE in catechinand CP-96345-pretreated rats. ICAM-1 protein expression was significantly decreased in all pretreatment groups after OSE. Thickening of the alveolar capillary membrane, focal hemorrhaging, interstitial pneumonitis, and peribronchiolar inflammation were apparent in OSE lungs. These findings suggest that SP acts via the NK-1 receptor to provoke neurogenic inflammation, oxidative stress, and ICAM-1 expression after OSE in rats. reactive oxygen species; intracellular adhesion molecule-1: acute lung injury

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2008

49. Impact of common genetic determinants of Hemoglobin A1c on type 2 diabetes risk and diagnosis in ancestrally diverse populations: A transethnic genome-wide meta-analysis

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Wheeler, Eleanor, Leong, Aaron, Liu, Ching-Ti, Hivert, Marie-France, Strawbridge, Rona J., Podmore, Clara, Li, Man, Yao, Jie, Sim, Xueling, Hong, Jaeyoung, Chu, Audrey Y., Zhang, Weihua, Wang, Xu, Chen, Peng, Maruthur, Nisa M., Porneala, Bianca C., Sharp, Stephen J., Jia, Yucheng, Kabagambe, Edmond K., Chang, Li-Ching, Chen, Wei-Min, Elks, Cathy E., Evans, Daniel S., Fan, Qiao, Giulianini, Franco, Go, Min Jin, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Hu, Yao, Jackson, Anne U., Kanoni, Stavroula, Kim, Young Jin, Kleber, Marcus E., Ladenvall, Claes, Lecoeur, Cecile, Lim, Sing-Hui, Lu, Yingchang, Mahajan, Anubha, Marzi, Carola, Nalls, Mike A., Navarro, Pau, Nolte, Ilja M., Rose, Lynda M., Rybin, Denis V., Sanna, Serena, Shi, Yuan, Stram, Daniel O., Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Tan, Shu Pei, van der Most, Peter J., Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V., Wong, Andrew, Yengo, Loic, Zhao, Wanting, Goel, Anuj, Martinez Larrad, Maria Teresa, Radke, Dörte, Salo, Perttu, Tanaka, Toshiko, van Iperen, Erik P. A., Abecasis, Goncalo, Afaq, Saima, Alizadeh, Behrooz Z., Bertoni, Alain G., Bonnefond, Amelie, Böttcher, Yvonne, Bottinger, Erwin P., Campbell, Harry, Carlson, Olga D., Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Cho, Yoon Shin, Garvey, W. Timothy, Gieger, Christian, Goodarzi, Mark O., Grallert, Harald, Hamsten, Anders, Hartman, Catharina A., Herder, Christian, Hsiung, Chao Agnes, Huang, Jie, Igase, Michiya, Isono, Masato, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Kiess, Wieland, Kohara, Katsuhiko, Kovacs, Peter, Lee, Juyoung, Lee, Wen-Jane, Lehne, Benjamin, Li, Huaixing, Liu, Jianjun, Lobbens, Stephane, Luan, Jian'an, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Meitinger, Thomas, Miki, Tetsuro, Miljkovic, Iva, Moon, Sanghoon, Mulas, Antonella, Müller, Gabriele, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nagaraja, Ramaiah, Nauck, Matthias, Pankow, James S., Polasek, Ozren, Prokopenko, Inga, Ramos, Paula S., Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura, Rathmann, Wolfgang, Rich, Stephen S., Robertson, Neil R., Roden, Michael, Roussel, Ronan, Rudan, Igor, Scott, Robert A., Scott, William R., Sennblad, Bengt, Siscovick, David S., Strauch, Konstantin, Sun, Liang, Swertz, Morris, Tajuddin, Salman M., Taylor, Kent D., Teo, Yik-Ying, Tham, Yih Chung, Tönjes, Anke, Wareham, Nicholas J., Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilsgaard, Tom, Hingorani, Aroon D., Egan, Josephine, Ferrucci, Luigi, Hovingh, G. Kees, Jula, Antti, Kivimaki, Mika, Kumari, Meena, Njølstad, Inger, Palmer, Colin N. A., Serrano Ríos, Manuel, Stumvoll, Michael, Watkins, Hugh, Aung, Tin, Blüher, Matthias, Boehnke, Michael, Boomsma, Dorret I., Bornstein, Stefan R., Chambers, John C., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chen, Yduan-Tsong, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Cucca, Francesco, de Geus, Eco J. C., Deloukas, Panos, Evans, Michele K., Fornage, Myriam, Friedlander, Yechiel, Froguel, Philippe, Groop, Leif, Gross, Myron D., Harris, Tamara B., Hayward, Caroline, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Ingelsson, Erik, Kato, Norihiro, Kim, Bong-Jo, Koh, Woon-Puay, Kooner, Jaspal S., Körner, Antje, Kuh, Diana, Kuusisto, Johanna, Laakso, Markku, Lin, Xu, Liu, Yongmei, Loos, Ruth J. F., Magnusson, Patrik K. E., März, Winfried, McCarthy, Mark I., Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Ong, Ken K., Pedersen, Nancy L., Pereira, Mark A., Peters, Annette, Ridker, Paul M., Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Sale, Michele, Saleheen, Danish, Saltevo, Juha, Schwarz, Peter EH., Sheu, Wayne H. H., Snieder, Harold, Spector, Timothy D., Tabara, Yasuharu, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, van Dam, Rob M., Wilson, James G., Wilson, James F., Wolffenbuttel, Bruce H. R., Wong, Tien Yin, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Yuan, Jian-Min, Zonderman, Alan B., Soranzo, Nicole, Guo, Xiuqing, Roberts, David J., Florez, Jose C., Sladek, Robert, Dupuis, Josée, Morris, Andrew P., Tai, E-Shyong, Selvin, Elizabeth, Rotter, Jerome I., Langenberg, Claudia, Barroso, Inês, and Meigs, James B.

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Genotypes -- Research, African Americans -- Analysis -- Health aspects, Type 2 diabetes -- Risk factors -- Diagnosis, Biological sciences
Abstract

Background Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is used to diagnose type 2 diabetes (T2D) and assess glycemic control in patients with diabetes. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 18 HbA1c-associated genetic variants. These variants proved to be classifiable by their likely biological action as erythrocytic (also associated with erythrocyte traits) or glycemic (associated with other glucose-related traits). In this study, we tested the hypotheses that, in a very large scale GWAS, we would identify more genetic variants associated with HbA1c and that HbA1c variants implicated in erythrocytic biology would affect the diagnostic accuracy of HbA1c. We therefore expanded the number of HbA1c-associated loci and tested the effect of genetic risk-scores comprised of erythrocytic or glycemic variants on incident diabetes prediction and on prevalent diabetes screening performance. Throughout this multiancestry study, we kept a focus on interancestry differences in HbA1c genetics performance that might influence race-ancestry differences in health outcomes. Methods & findings Using genome-wide association meta-analyses in up to 159,940 individuals from 82 cohorts of European, African, East Asian, and South Asian ancestry, we identified 60 common genetic variants associated with HbA1c. We classified variants as implicated in glycemic, erythrocytic, or unclassified biology and tested whether additive genetic scores of erythrocytic variants (GS-E) or glycemic variants (GS-G) were associated with higher T2D incidence in multiethnic longitudinal cohorts (N = 33,241). Nineteen glycemic and 22 erythrocytic variants were associated with HbA1c at genome-wide significance. GS-G was associated with higher T2D risk (incidence OR = 1.05, 95% CI 1.04-1.06, per HbA1c-raising allele, p = 3 x 10.sup.-29 ); whereas GS-E was not (OR = 1.00, 95% CI 0.99-1.01, p = 0.60). In Europeans and Asians, erythrocytic variants in aggregate had only modest effects on the diagnostic accuracy of HbA1c. Yet, in African Americans, the X-linked G6PD G202A variant (T-allele frequency 11%) was associated with an absolute decrease in HbA1c of 0.81%-units (95% CI 0.66-0.96) per allele in hemizygous men, and 0.68%-units (95% CI 0.38-0.97) in homozygous women. The G6PD variant may cause approximately 2% (N = 0.65 million, 95% CI 0.55-0.74) of African American adults with T2D to remain undiagnosed when screened with HbA1c. Limitations include the smaller sample sizes for non-European ancestries and the inability to classify approximately one-third of the variants. Further studies in large multiethnic cohorts with HbA1c, glycemic, and erythrocytic traits are required to better determine the biological action of the unclassified variants. Conclusions As G6PD deficiency can be clinically silent until illness strikes, we recommend investigation of the possible benefits of screening for the G6PD genotype along with using HbA1c to diagnose T2D in populations of African ancestry or groups where G6PD deficiency is common. Screening with direct glucose measurements, or genetically-informed HbA1c diagnostic thresholds in people with G6PD deficiency, may be required to avoid missed or delayed diagnoses., Author(s): Eleanor Wheeler 1, Aaron Leong 2,3, Ching-Ti Liu 4, Marie-France Hivert 5,6, Rona J. Strawbridge 7,8, Clara Podmore 9,10, Man Li 11,12,13, Jie Yao 14, Xueling Sim 15, Jaeyoung [...]

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2017
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